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[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

bruh this is stupid by the Republicans and going nowhere. Assassination attempts have never mattered for whether or not the 'election is valid,' and usually under a more competent candidate surviving an assassination attempt is an active boon for the campaign (ask Tedward Roosevelt, though he still lost to WIILLSOOOONN).

They should've gone with challenging the Kamala palace coup overriding the primary results for Biden without 25th amendmenting the prez first. There's surely some fuckery with that which could be exploited by their ghoulish megacorp lawyers (which will be fought by the Democrats' more different ghoulish megacorp lawyers

[-] edge@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

There's surely some fuckery with that which could be exploited by their ghoulish megacorp lawyers

Not really. All of that happened before the DNC and before state filing deadlines, so Biden was in no way the nominee. And a democratic primary has never been a requirement. The Democratic Party even successfully argued such in court in relation to the 2016 primaries.

They can try but they’d have absolutely no legal basis.

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

certainly more basis than "but my guy was shot at! " kitty-cri-screm

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Assassination attempts have never mattered for whether or not the 'election is valid,'

Nobody in the VP slot is named Johnson, so I don't see what the problem is.

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yeah but that was a normal ascension after their ticket had already won.

ngl it would be very funny to have a president Vance lmao. But honestly it might just be all the neocon ghouls around him doing whatever they want and be extra terrible and not as funny because he clearly has zero spine whatsoever in addition to no acumen or direction or competence. At least Trump is a bully and a self-aggrandizing manchild and so forcefully asserts himself in everything (often to the detriment of said 'thing') and fires people at the drop of a hat.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

and fires people at the drop of a hat

He's actually quite a known coward about directly firing people when it isn't some TV show. He delegated firing declarations to others throughout his regime.

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Did they even film the firing while the candidate was in the room? I thought I read somewhere that he does the "You're Fired" thing into the camera as B-roll and they just chop it in for effect.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

I heard that too but wasn't sure it was confirmed.

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