• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    The only hope America has is that Trump is convicted in one of his trials and receives jail time (hopefully a LOT of jail time). NAL but I’m pretty sure SCOTUS would back that scenario fully.

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      9 months ago

      That would be wonderful. But it isn’t the only hope. We can just defeat the fucker at the ballot box the old fashioned way. It isn’t sexy and it doesn’t stop conspiratorial thinking and it doesn’t give the satisfaction of slapping him with consequences he has never faced in his life, but a mic drop is a mic drop. I would love to defeat him by an irrefutable margin. Might just be a pipe dream, though.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      They would probably stay his sentence pending presidency, at which point he would self pardon and go full dictator, dooming the country

      The only hope for this country is either a senile genocide supporter winning in November, or a Big Mac induced heart attack

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        9 months ago

        He can’t pardon state crimes, only federal, and he can still run for president if he’s in jail.

        It would be interesting to have the sitting president do his term in jail though

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Not just winning, but winning decisively so the Court can’t give a victory to Trump anyway like they did for Bush. If there is any doubt, at all, about the election then Trump will probably be the next president.

        And rather than rallying his base to fight fascism, he’s browbeating them to vote blue no matter who. The president can’t fail, he can only be failed. 🙃