Obviously orange man bad, but it would be awesome to see Trump do to DeSantis what he did to Jeb and Rubio.

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      Eugene Debs ran for President from prison, so yeah.

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
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          2 years ago

          This is the accelerationism we keep joking about here. This is what it looks like. Maybe we shouldn't have been joking about it?

            • SaniFlush [any, any]
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              2 years ago

              Some days it feels like I'm in an apocalypse cult, cheering on the end of days. It is easier, after all, to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

              • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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                2 years ago

                My options are laughing or crying, and neither will influence what actually happens. I already do enough crying, I’ll try to laugh when I can.

          • Nounverb [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            What did joking about accelerationism do to affect the acceleration? Seems like pearl clutching imo

    • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      If I understand correctly, there is nothing in the constitution that prevents him from running as a presidential candidate from jail.

      Yeah, but there is a federal statute against it, assuming he's convicted before January 2025. I found this article explaining:

      Federal statute 18 U.S. Code 2071 had long banned the removal, concealment or destruction of presidential records. It says “willfully and unlawfully” removing such records can result in a penalty of up to three years in prison and that the defendant “shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”

      Marc Elias, a lawyer who litigates election law cases on behalf of Democrats, highlighted that line about disqualification and tweeted: “The media is missing the really, really big reason why the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics.”

      But in a subsequent tweet, Elias wrote that there would undoubtedly be a “constitutional challenge to the application of this law to a president. One can speculate how it would turn out, but it is unprecedented and would be fully litigated.”

      Either way, it would be a mess... A very entertaining mess.