Several left wing supporters have focused efforts by shit posting on r/Helldivers
Edit: I get it guys not funny. We all know they protested in a way that let cops beat, arrest and corral them in a very comfortable way by doing the same thing the last 50 years of protesting has done. Police wrote the book already and it would waste trees having to make them adapt to new tactics like driving 100 cars into a city so they are overwhelmed immediately. Send in the severely under weight hormonal teenagers and adults with glandular issues to the front lines against the roided out armed and armored sociopath
They are but you can’t challenge it until they run and even then its not worth it to fight it until they’re elected at which point you ask for an injunction to prevent them being installed while you actually challenge their ability to be seated.
They are but you can’t challenge it until they run
It looks like all these people are already running though?
and even then its not worth it to fight it until they’re elected
Disagreed, just in general it is always worth fighting to keep anti-democractic insurrectionists out of government, plus I could see a court saying something like
“Well, we don’t like allowing insurrectionists in government, but we also don’t like going against the will of the people, and they did win. Maybe if this has been challenged far enough in advance that the Republicans had a reasonable opportunity to find a different candidate to run we’d be ok doing this, but now it just feels anti-democractic… Karl Popper? Never heard of him.”
You misunderstand, the legal battle isn’t worth it until they win because the battle will be expensive as fuck and if they lose it never needed to have money spent on it.
Politics are a marathon not a sprint and a big part of that is knowing when to fight and lose money for a pyrrhic victory and when the ends don’t justify the means.
Most of these hillbillies probably barely have the money to campaign, let alone hire a defense team to make a case of it in court. Just say, nah, You’re ineligible to run. And as if the courts don’t have ridiculous, frivolous cases all the time anyway
Indeed, so why spend money fighting a non issue when there are actual issues to spend on. Doesn’t matter if its frivolous or not it will cost money to pursue.
These courts no concerns ever burning taxpayer dollars on much less pressing issues all the time!
I guarantee that if they don’t stand up now, it has nothing to do with legal cost. It has absolutely everything to do with fear of backlash from ludicrous dipshits, and having to have the spine to tell them to fucking deal with it
You can do that without throwing money into bottomless holes.
And your solution is that its a waste but they’re already doing it so waste more time and money? Not reform but instead keep doing it but just do it the way you’d like.
That’s also an issue yes, but again throwing away time and money on a non issue only to get death threats from fuckwits is not at all worth it. Spend your time and money on it boss, no one is stopping you and to borrow a few words “I guarantee that if they you don’t stand up now, it has nothing to do with legal cost.”
Seeing as how there were numerous Trump supporters already in office and supporting the insurrectionists before and during Jan. 6, this isn’t all that surprising.
Given that we still don’t have enough people in Congress willing to go against Cheeto Mussolini’s wishes, it’s also unsurprising that nothing has been done about it yet. Disappointing, but unsurprising.
I mean maybe. I think you might not have a great read on what the typical Republican voter represents.
Rightwing media has done an excellent job disambiguating the “Republican” identity from the “Conservative”/ “MAGA” identities. They get to bring those identities with them and I think for the vast majority of current Republican voters, that might be more than enough. No need for the shitty Republican branding (in fact, the act of rejecting it could be a very powerful attractant).
Democrats have done a much better job at keeping their brand identity indistinguishable from the movements it supposes to represent, perhaps to the detriment of those movements. Unless you are a junky and really pay attention to this stuff (which lets be real, most people here are), a Democrat and a Progressive are indistinct. Which is like, actually fucking hilarious because for me, on the rare occasion that I get into it with a conservative, they CONSTANTLY assume I’m some kind of Pelosi or Schumer fanboy, when in reality, I’m like I’m probably more opposed to them then any Republican or conservative is.
If Trump went third party, the Republican party would disappear like a fart in the wind and be doing about as well as the Libertarian party, for at least the presidential seat. Obviously a new third party won’t have the state level infrastructure, but for the big seat, a conservative third parties success depends 100% on the person running. I also think that in either 2016, or 2020, a progressive third party/ independent candidate (like if Bernie had seen the writing on the walls), could have handily won. The biggest issue in American politics is that most voters actually fucking hate both republicans and democrats, but you need their infrastructure to win for pretty much anything but the big seat.
Perhaps. I don’t keep up with Republican politics that much. But I still get the sense the silent majority of Republican voters are more centrist that straight facist ticket.
I also think that in either 2016, or 2020, a progressive third party/ independent candidate (like if Bernie had seen the writing on the walls), could have handily won. The biggest issue in American politics is that most voters actually fucking hate both republicans and democrats, but you need their infrastructure to win for pretty much anything but the big seat.
So this argument relies on the fact that DNC deliberately would have torpedoed Bernie’s chances. That they worked to suppress his chances. While he wasn’t the DNC’s favorite son, this is a bit of a conspiracy theory. Bernie and progressives just aren’t that popular nationwide among Democrats in general. They are popular on the internet, but new and fringe movements tend to be (remember the early Libertarian movement and how Ron Paul blew up?). The DNC is certainly trending progressive, as most of the world has. But America has always been very centrist-minded, due to FPTP voting.
It just doesn’t apply to the president. Traitors aren’t allowed in office unless its the highest possible office. Just like judges can’t accept gifts unless they’re the highest possible judge. Rules don’t apply to the people at the top. It’s what the founding fathers wanted.
I agree they shouldn’t ever hold office, but the 14th amendment is about people who had previously held office. Assumably none of these idiots have held office.
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