In the modern era, surely, the state election commissions would only disqualify a candidate under the 14th Amendment if he had been convicted of insurrection or rebellion under 18 U.S. Code § 2383. It wouldn’t suffice to have a bunch of his political opponents shouting loudly that he was “guilty, open-and-shut, dead-to-rights” of insurrection, which is all we have so far.

The decisions by state election officials to disqualify (or not) would be subject to judicial review requested by one side or the other. Trump would surely argue that a Reconstruction-era amendment intended to keep Confederacy renegades from holding office in the reconstituted United States didn’t apply to cheap-ass little insurrections like his. My bet is that the Supreme Court would be unwilling to meddle in the political process, especially close to Election Day and would quash 14A disqualifications of candidates who had not bombarded Fort Sumter.

Trump running as third party and tearing apart the GOP is the Democrats wet dream. 🙂

If Trump is the nominee, don’t worry folks, the kids will vote in large numbers. Especially if Dems are able to tag him with “he ended abortion access for millions.” “He causes suffering.” “He thinks global warming is a hoax.” The abortion issue is especially important and won’t be lessening anytime soon…esp. not by 2024.

Trump’s recent unhinged speeches are an indictment in themselves and create their own commercials for Dems who should rightly portray him as the authoritarian asshole that he is. Same goes for DeSantis.

As always, if Trump gets the nomination, it’s a “slamdunk,” for the Dems, yet only the Dems can fuck it up.

Canada has gotten far closer to the NATO budget directives than most of the other member countries have. That old Trump taunt doesn’t hold any water any more. Canada is in the thick of it, contributing arms and training. In fact, 2 weeks ago Canada pledged to double its NATO-mandated deployment in Latvia to try to secure the vulnerable Baltic region against any Russian aggression.

As for ‘free-riding’, and calling Canadians ‘leftists’, you betray that rather nasty streak of arrogance, ignorance and jingoism that forced me leave the US 18 years ago. Saying the US will ‘just take’ our water (because we ‘won’t defend ourselves’ ) through the doctrine of Might Makes Right is precisely the one that Vladimir Putin followed in attacking Ukraine. I can see why Americans on the right side of the political spectrum are so enamoured with him.

As for the IPCC, they have had to revise their thinking, due to the fact that what they warned about 10 years ago has come 10 years earlier than was predicted. Their most recent report states:

“Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Human-caused climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. This has led to widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages to nature and people (high confidence). Vulnerable communities who have historically contributed the least to current climate change are disproportionately affected (high confidence).”

Climate Change 2023 – Synthesis Report
Summary for Policymakers

Many of the refugees making their way Northward from Africa and the Middle East are doing so because of famine and drought, so if you don’t think countries aren’t already dying, you are ignoring reports from throughout the globe as well as the IPCC.

Not sure how you are counting, but I count 52 prior to your comment.

Hell, #45 says he’d be happy to be voted in as a dictator, and his supporters don’t bat an eye. With everything Trump has done, if this country can’t figure out a legal way to keep a Trump from running, we don’t have a working government.

Trump would use any ploy to get out of serving time, so any physical or mental ailment could easily manifest itself.

Yes, but he’s looking pretty good to Democrats who are fed up with Biden being in bed with the TransActivists and gutting Title IX.

>I do not think Trump could get a female in a women’s prison if he had a hand full of pardons.

Doesn’t have to— Trump identifies as a female, and moves in with them. And why not? Trump only cares about himself, and to T’s supporters it would be a superb way to “own the libs.”