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But like...that's the thing. They have to look for a credible case to remove their political opponents. In contrast, the reason to remove Trump is self-evident, even to Republicans.
Conservatives think any consequences they have is retaliation.
So they don't see the difference in this.
It's just the lack of empathy, if they do something illegal, they assume everyone else does it too so it's fine. If they get in trouble, it's obviously not fair because in their head they're being singled out.
Everything Republicans do is retaliation for things Trump has done to himself. There are 0 credible reasons to remove Biden from ANY state ballot, but they’ll try to find a way regardless.
Then they will be sued, and they will lose. Unlike the GOP, the Democrats have really good lawyers.
What's more, if they are going to remove Biden for failing to prevent illegal immigration (despite actually having significantly higher arrest and deportation numbers under Biden than Trump), then they should reasonable have to remove Trump as well... given, you know, the whole insurrection thing. To not do so would imply that the supposed failure of a president to sufficiently address one very complicated issue (even though he's better than Trump on this issue by their own metrics) is worse than attempting to coerce officials into "finding" votes for him, conspiring to produce fraudulent electors, lying and defaming for months about supposed fraud that had no basis in fact, and, of course, inciting an insurrection on the capital building.
And they won’t give Biden the money to fix a border crisis because they know it will help his approval numbers leading up to the election.
More importantly, the Democrats also have better arguments and facts (at least in this case).
god this is going to be such a stupid year
No, it’s gonna be a stupid decade or even longer. And it’s already been going on for a while. Thats what you get when for years you ignore a dysfunctional education system and promote idiotism. It doesn’t vanish over night and finds its way into public discord. Then it’s years of not strong enough responses to totalitarian practices and you get another fascist italy or nazi germany.
Trump tried to overthrow the government and he is still allowed to run for president. Im just hoping the title of a history book chapter describing this will not be “causes for 3rd world war”, but I’m not optimistic.
We're already in ww3
Nope, we’re still deep in proxy war territory. Why ruin your economy when you can turn a foreign country to rubble to project power?
Proxy Wars now, Climate Wars on deck.
again
Good ole fascism.
This is a play to delegitimize the courts. Fascists know that Trump deserves to be knocked off the ballot and that Biden does not. They don't care. It serves them well to have their case laughed out of court so they can campaign off removing the deep state from the courts.
Man I wish there was a way to penetrate fascist propaganda.
My grandfather says that .308 does a good job penetrating fascist propaganda.
“This is just going to be a tit for tat and it’s just not gonna end well,”
I still can’t get over a political leader admitting to abusing the power of his office for personal spite, and not being removed from office
Personal spite, hell try personal gain. Don't forget this asshole is running for president. Should hit him with election tampering.
"Credible"... Can you define that Mr. DeSantis?
Narrator: He couldn’t.
Sounds like giving comfort to an insurrectionist. We should remove him from office.
This clown will be quickly forgotten. Deservedly so. What a colossal embarrassment.
He's just such a little bitch, fucking lol.
Hey hey guys wait maybe he's got a point....
...Let's remove ALL of them from the ballot and purge all the old money from politics to find candidates that actually represent the people of their nation. 🤔
If only we could then dump that campaign money into schools and a national train system...
I get the sentiment, but using the Justice Department to illegally remove a political candidate who hasn't broken the law (talking about Biden here)!? Yeah, there's no way that gets abused...
I'm glad I will be canceling out one dumbass vote in Florida....there's literally dozens of us who aren't Nazis tired of this stupid short fuck.
If DeSantis were even remotely serious about his Presidential campaign this wouldn't be the play. Trump being removed from the ballot would not require retaliation and would be good for him. But let's be honest here. He's known he's not running a Presidental campaign for months now. He cratered. The best old puddin' fingers can hope for is somehow getting Trump to pick him for VP.
I still can't believe DeSantis eats pudding with his fingers like a total fucking psychopath.
This "we're gonna remove Biden from the ballot" thing is the most elaborate masturbating contest between the GOP, man.
republicans don't run on credibility.
they're practically immune to credibility, let alone merely blind to it.
Do normal people openly and candidly characterize their own motivations as "tit for tat"? I thought that was typically pejorative.
He knows GOP voters don’t follow up on anything and their memories don’t extend beyond the last Fox News show they watched. That’s why he can say shit like this knowing full well he won’t come up with anything.
whataboutism over 9000
Everyone keeps forgetting about the part of the constitution that bars you from holding office if you are a Democrat.
Do it, pussy.
Of course this was going to happen, at least in their speech. The difference of course is that there's absolutely no legally valid reason to remove Biden from anything, whereas there are plenty of legal, ethical, culinary and aesthetic reasons to remove Trump from this planet into the sun.
DeSantis can suck my left nut
Judging on how much he screams about gays, he just might be into that.
"Looking for an excuse" is not the same as "Acknowledging undisputed facts."
Nobody on the right is even pretending Trump didn't try to prevent Congress from certifying the election by sending illegitimate electors and sending a mob to storm the the Capitol.
If Biden had engaged in insurrection, I'd want him out. If there was proof of an impeachable offense, I'd support that as well.
That's the thing. Most people on the left are arguing in good faith. It's just that it's the GOP committing the crimes right now.
What do these idiots have against immigrants ? they're immigrants themselves
Land of the "free" Home of the "brave"
Ideally, the case would come before the consequence. Imagine getting called into court and ordered to pay your neighbor 50k. "For what?!" you exclaim. "We're still building the case," they smugly respond.
How many years do we have to keep hunter's laptop and Biden bad. Find the evidence or stfu.
They will never stfu. The lack of evidence is just further proof of a giant conspiracy to these folks.
I liked it a lot better when the conspiracy theory nutjobs treated the x-files as a documentary and were convinced the government was hiding evidence aliens were among us.
This is just going to be a tit for tat and it’s just not gonna end well
Okay then, let’s do that with every GOP presidential candidate.
Of course he's looking to make a case. The difference here is that he can't actually make a credible one, all he can do is just say "Because reasons" and hope nobody looks too closely at it.
this is why he's losing outside of florida and why he needed to purge thousands of voters in florida to win in florida