edit: I have changed my title to match the new NYTimes headline. Sorry about the all caps, I guess they are really excited about this lol

Also shoutout to @[email protected] who shared a gift article link in the comments. I hope you don’t mind but I kinda stole it and updated the post

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      This is going to give a lot of GOP Senators a fig leaf.

      If someone puts a motion in Congress to make it illegal for him to run, a lot of them will vote for it.

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        I absolutely do not want a ban on felons running for President. In some countries, that is used as a political tool to eliminate political opponents. Putin used that against Navalny.

        https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42479909

        Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been formally barred from competing in next year’s presidential election.

        The Central Electoral Commission has said Mr Navalny was ineligible because of a corruption conviction which he says is politically motivated.

        He has urged his supporters to boycott the March vote.

        Mr Navalny, 41, was widely regarded as the only candidate with a chance of challenging President Vladimir Putin.

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          Not to mention, Trump won’t even be the first person in the USA who could be running for president from jail.

          edit: the first from a major party though, sorry Debs

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          His felonies are related to campaing financing, which could be used to narrow down without banning all felons. While I oppose anyone losing the right to vote, I don’t oppose people who are connvicted of treason, insurrection, or felonies related to campaign finance or abuse of elected positions being banned since they have been proven to have undermined democracy.

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          I get allowing former felons to run for office - they served time that society said was their punishment. They are done with it.

          But a law that bans a felon that has not completed their punishment is a different story.

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          We’ve banned them from voting for decades.

          Also, the USA isn’t Russia and Biden isn’t Putin.

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        bad law. I’d much rather a law where the candidate has to describe the nature of their past convictions in a written statement submitted with their filing paperwork to run and explain why each one doesn’t affect their ability to run the country.

        Aka reflecting on one’s crimes.

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          Except assholes like trump see themselves as victims of a witch-hunt and he would write that out , sorry: he will have a lawyer write that out for every one of them. I doubt he has the attention span for it.

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      It gives us something new to troll those miserable asshats over. “Interesting argument, but have you considered the fact that your candidate is a convicted felon?”

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      Before all this started, people did make claims that they wouldn’t vote for him if he was convicted.

      But then they also said they wouldn’t vote for him even if Nikki Haley conceded.

      So we’ll see, I guess. But I’m not optimistic.

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      Some, but they’ll never tell the others.

      Ladies you don’t have to tell your husband you voted for Biden.

    • Tucker Carlson responded to today’s verdict in what can only be described as an apocalyptic tone, stating on X that the jury’s decision marked “the end of the fairest justice system in the world.” The former Fox News host said that Trump would still win the election “if he’s not killed first,” and closed by saying that “anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family.”

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      Yes: To them this demonstrates that the justice system is corrupt and they think only Trump can fix it.

      They will believe this even though Trump isn’t running for any office in New York 🤣

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      It will most matter for undecided voters who required a guilty verdict to decide, althoigh I’m not sure that is a large number in swing states.

      It won’t matter for his base that already ignore reality.