• Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    There has never been an explanation of how a person who is a known rapist, known liar, known fraudster, known thief of classified documents, known seller of information which got operatives killed, is allowed to run for office. It defies explanation.

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      7 months ago

      I have an explanation:

      Propaganda works really well.

      The things you listed are what someone on the left thinks of Trump.

      Someone who is: Tough on Crime™, Fights for Liberty™, Cares for Children™, a Successful Business Man™, Fights Wokeness™, Highly Intelligent™, Protects Democracy™, and Fights for Christianity™, is what those on the right are made to believe Trump is.

      Propagandists are why Trump will win again…

      I hate propagandists with every fiber of my being.

      Not only do they give cover to this piece of shit, they make the right feel as if WE are oppressing and attacking them! They literally put us all in danger by making the right feel threatened by our existence.

      This is NOT the same as us saying POLITICIANS on the right putting us in actual danger and actually oppressing us… One is saying Joe schmoe liberal is the danger, the other is saying Mitch Mcfuckbag in the Senate is a danger to us all.

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      7 months ago

      I mean…none of those things are disqualifying for running for office, even if he were convicted of any crimes related to them, which he hasn’t been. Trump is a piece of shit, but yes he has a right to run for office. Now why people would still vote for him despite all that, is much more mysterious.

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      7 months ago

      None of those are legally disqualifying. That’s the explanation.

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      7 months ago

      Republicans see whatever they want in their candidates. They even bend to them. I mean “who here has never paid for a prostitute?” Is now something they say to defend Trump. There are no values, their foundation is nothing but their own reflections, and there is no meeting them in the middle, they just move the goal post (which pretty much makes Democrats enablers).

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      7 months ago

      The judges he picked said the presidential office isn’t an office under the constitution so it is up to Republicans whether or not he runs

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      7 months ago

      I think the issue is, if we were to make laws saying you cant run for president if you are convicted of a crime or suspected or whatever, it would give incentives to politicians to try to frame or imprison their political rivals. Then there are things like our drug laws that disproportionately target certain groups. All those people would be barred from running too.

      It’s definitely an issue that needs to be resolved. One of so many…please help

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      7 months ago

      people have been screaming the answer at you, yet you ignore it. The American middle class was gutted by outsourcing labor and they’re not happy about it. It couldn’t get more simple.

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          It’s still an answer since most people base their vote on emotions and identity, not rational evaluation of policy.