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[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 42 points 11 months ago

On the bright side, if the USA split up because of internal tensions it would probably be easier for individual states to turn socialist, and that would have a ripple effect around them each time

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

The US could never actually do that though. Libs love to compromise and to simp for the republicans.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago

Even if it didn’t, a balkanized US is better for the world regardless of the politics of those Balkanized states.

[-] Melina@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Won’t it just lead to nuclear war

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

USSR was Balkanized without nuclear war

Even if it did, it’s a band aid we have to rip off eventually

[-] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Real posadist hours over here.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

I don't think so. Post-Soviet Russia had a lot nasty internal struggles like the war in Chechnya and nuclear weapons never went off then.

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Chechnya had no access to nuclear weapons.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

The fucking state on state wars that would be fought over water rights is gonna be cccrraaayyyzzzeeee liz-society

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's one of the main things that keeps me in Wisconsin, tbh.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

truly the Switzerland of Amerikkka

[-] SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

and they're both known for their cheese 👀

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

literally the only thing that shithole has going for it

[-] P1d40n3@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago

I'd like to see donny wriggle, etc.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

morshupls

I think its worth noting that he's hardly unbeatable. This is far less "Donald wriggling his way out" and far more "institutions just kinda falling on their face and letting him saunter past". But when states are stripping him from the ballot? IDFK. Unless a higher court puts him back on the ballot again, this sets up a very sharp conflict between the national party leadership (which wants Hailey at the top of the ticket in 2024) and the schlub voters (who are ride-or-die for Trump).

It looks like some subset of the bureaucracy has found its spine and is actually using real governmental powers to put hurdles in front of President Cheeto that he can't flounder his way past. American wasn't much of a democracy before now, so who gives a shit if its even less of a democracy during the next primary season? If a few big states like California and New York and Pennsylvania and Michigan yank him, this sets up a possible contested convention and a bunch of extremely angry delegates.

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago

American wasn't much of a democracy before now

America was NEVER a democracy, it was an oligarchy from the very beginning. Only rich, white males had any say according to the constitution. The senate was created to make sure the oligarchs could veto any real challenge to the power structure. Window dressing has changed over the years, but the fundamentals remain.

i-voted

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

America was NEVER a democracy

Eh. It had a few moments.

Window dressing has changed over the years, but the fundamentals remain.

The fundamental structure of democracy still exists. I believe it is the people who are ultimately too alienated and terrified of one another to properly utilize it.

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

The fundamental structure of democracy still exists

Hmmm, what flavor kool-aid did you get?

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

The one that has the elections and the candidates running popular campaigns and the people lining up in droves to participate.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Your fired sir, etc. etc.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

Let's say that this works and Trump is prevented from running. Genocide Joe wins another term. Democracy has prevailed over darkness, norms and civility reigns supreme in the halls of government.

Then what happens?

You still have deteriorating material conditions for people as well as blatant militarism and nationalism, creating fertile soil for fascism. You have a regime made up of the alleged "good guys" who are unwilling and incapable of improving life for the masses, a regime that is adding insult to injury by telling people they're idiots for believing their own lying lived experience over government spreadsheets. And you have a large section of the people who are convinced fascists who have ample reason to believe the election was stolen and that the deep state will never play fair with them. Many of these fascists are in law enforcement and the military.

This can't end well.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

Nothing bad will happen out of this, no sir

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

Trump getting removed from a smattering of ballots and setting of a brawl on the RNC convention floor as "alternate delegates" from these states attempt to vote for Donald Trump in defiance of the party will actually be fucking hilarious and very cool.

When you're right you're right. Absolutely nothing will happen from this.

The US isn't gonna balkanize over this. Stop hyping yourself up over nothing.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah if anything what this will do is just briefly annoy capital. We can dream, but I can't see this causing a genuine national split. Maybe some states like Texas or Florida will threaten, but nothing will happen.

[-] spectre@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

The term definitely gets overused, but it is funny when states are perturbed into falling out of step with the federal government like this.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

These are all for the primary and not the general election. I doubt any of these will stick and if they do it will make every four years even more of a political theater.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Before I assumed the supreme court will rule for Trump. I think I was entirely wrong. Recently I've noted commentators saying it's likely the court will avoid the hot potato and kick it over to congress. And that seems highly likely to me now.

I didn't read any articles on the details about how congress will deal with it. But if the house is involved - all these efforts are already DOA.

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Ninja edit

Google is shity and the media is shittier. I scanned a couple articles on the theme of "Everything you need to know about Trump and the 14th Amendment". And they didn't answer my simple question: if the court sends it congress - what happens?

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

it wont go to congress. the highest court in the state made a ruling regarding a state law. for there to be a national disqualification, the justice department will have to file charges and he will be tried in a federal court. congress could spearhead this by investigating, but its up to the executive branch to file charges, and up to the judicial branch to reach a verdict. only if trump is a convicted insurrectionist can congress decide to disqualify him from running

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

it wont go to congress.

The NYT disagrees and says it could.

archive.today • How the Supreme Court May Rule on Trump's Presidential Run - The New York Times

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will doubtless seek consensus or, at least, try to avoid a partisan split of the six Republican appointees against the three Democratic ones. He may want to explore the many paths the court could take to keep Mr. Trump on state ballots without addressing whether he had engaged in insurrection or even assuming that he had.

Among them: The justices could rule that congressional action is needed before courts can intervene, that the constitutional provision at issue does not apply to the presidency or that Mr. Trump’s statements were protected by the First Amendment.

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They're just saying that the court could rule that the amendment by itself is inactionable until the legislature enacts laws to create a process to disqualify candidates. Similar to how Article III declared a judiciary branch, but it wasn't actually established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act, describing what kind of courts there would actually be, what their jurisdictions would be, how many justices would comprise the court, etc. etc.

But in this case, the amendment is clearly prohibiting an action. With a reasonable court, I can't imagine how they'd just allow somebody to continue violating the Constitution until Congress passed additional legislation to stop it. It's as ludicrous as saying that the executive branch can unreasonably search and seize anything they'd like until Congress explicitly spells out each and every action that's unreasonable and provides the exact remedy process to follow when the 4th amendment is violated.

I mean, it's a pretty moot point because the court has already shown that they're perfectly willing to create whatever calvinball rules they want. But of course good old liberal media has to get in there and grant an air of credibility to whatever flimsy justification they come up with that's even the slightest bit plausible sounding.

If the court wants to come out and say that they judge the President isn't an officer of the United States or that he wasn't personally engaged in an insurrection, then that's one thing. But kicking it over to Congress to legislate exactly what's prohibited by the Constitution and/or what the remedies are is just opening up a huge can of worms.

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

“congressional action is needed before courts can intervene” meaning that congress needs to investigate for insurrection in order to charge him for the crime. it would still eventually come back to the courts to decide on a verdict.

edit: my wording of “it wont go to congress” was clumsy. i meant that congress wont be the ultimate body making that decision. congress can decide to not disqualify even if hes found guilty, but thats if both houses pass a 2/3 vote

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

r/politics thread

Man - libs are in Fantasyland in this thread. r/politics thread subthreads...

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"1866 Colloquy on Phrasing of the 14th Amendment" - hahhhaahaha.

mochicrunch_ comments on Louisiana woman files suit to remove Trump from Louisiana ballot

Regardless, if this is being filed in Louisiana, and we are already writing out that it’s not gonna happen, the fact that it’s starting to have a domino effect that lawsuits are happening across the country because of this tells you that the Supreme Court is going to have to get involved and they’re gonna have to ultimately decide before the election.

A question that has never been answered - either Trump is disqualified nationally, they allow states to individually determine that for themselves, they try and set a definition for what insurrection means, or they say Congress has to make the determination because they don’t want to touch this with a 10 foot pole.

I'd argue it was answered in 1866.

1866 Colloquy on Phrasing of the 14th Amendment

Senator Reverdy Johnson worried that the final version of Section Three did not include the office of the Presidency.

He stated, “[T]his amendment does not go far enough” because past rebels “may be elected President or Vice President of the United States.”

So he asked, “why do you omit to exclude them? I do not understand them to be excluded from the privilege of holding the two highest offices in the gift of the nation.”

Senator Lot Merrill fielded this objection. He replied, “Let me call the Senator’s attention to the words ‘or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States.’”

This answer satisfied Senator Johnson, who stated, “Perhaps I am wrong to the exclusion from the Presidency; no doubt I am.”

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=073/llcg073.db&recNum=20

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Louisiana woman files suit to remove Trump from Louisiana ballot : politics

Removed in Colorado and Maine. Looking to be removed in Vermont, New York and now Louisiana. If he's actually removed Trump will have lost in 10% of States before the first ballot is even cast.

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Faux-Foe comments on Louisiana woman files suit to remove Trump from Louisiana ballot

Can anyone else get in on this action? I live in Missouri.

PA here. That’d be awesome.

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It starts with you.

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Me too. I'd like to know.

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Would be nice if this starts happening in red states.

Alaska is considering.

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

“Alaska is considering” i just talked with Alaska and they are totally gonna remove trump from the ballot. this is hilarious bc libs are gonna throw even more of a fit if trump wins and if trump doesnt win fascists are gonna be even more violent than jan 6. wait, that’s not hilarious. at least i can look forward to telling the libs in my life im not voting in next years election. ill vote for biden if we get $15 federal minimum wage, universal healthcare, and student loan forgiveness

[-] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

universal healthcare, and student loan forgiveness

Sorry, we can't afford any of those because we need the money to pay reparations to survivors of the Gaza Genocide

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

sorry abt the poverty and ridiculous medical and student debt, maintaining the torment nexus is expensive! someone has to maintain this torment nexus or we wont have treats and slaves!

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

"Reverdy" this country isn't real

[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

I always knew I was going to be a witness to the decline of the US empire. Over the past decade or so the US has seemingly done everything in its power to convince me that the word I'm looking for is "collapse".

[-] D61@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

saul-your-honor Please, you've gotta stop. I can't possibly get any harder!

[-] regul@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Did not expect it to be someone from Chalmette, that's for sure.

[-] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

St. Bernard Parish's idea of left is essentially George HW right. Absolutely shocking that this started there.

[-] robinn_IV@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

This is good

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