Republican secretary of state threatens to kick Biden off the ballot as Trump payback

So yeah, if Biden commits insurgency, then his should be off the ballot. But last time I checked he hasn't come anywhere close.

I am really tired of Republicans threatening lawlessness in response to application of lawful consequences.

At this point, they deserve to have some lawless consequences applied to them, if that's what they crave so badly.

I mean, good luck, you’ll have to provide better justification than revenge to keep it from being overturned.

They'll sacrifice their lives for a person who is demonstrably the actual biggest loser in history, and he just gets more loser-y, folks, okay... If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here's a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri.

• 0 re-elections won
• 1 term president
• 2 times impeached
• 3 marriages
• 4 inch lifts in his shoes
• 5 kids, from 3 different mothers
• 6 bankruptcies
• 7 US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police
• 8 trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term
• 9 trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant's legal fees
• 10 years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc)
• 11 trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years
• 12 million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes.
• 13 of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop)
• 14 year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, "Wow! Just think - in a couple years I'll be dating you."
• 15 originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 1,000,000 Americans have since died of COVID and it continues to kill 4 years later.
• 16 years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted "miss teen" pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, "trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew."
• 17 known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors
• 18 gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin's infrastructure bill.
• 19 as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the "misinformation conversation" originated with trump
• 20 the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol.
• 21 gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members "losers" and "suckers" and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly "bone spurs" excuse.
• 22 date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after 700,000 Americans have died due mostly to his failure as president
• 23 as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off.
• 24 day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse.
• 25 plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.

Anytime Trump is held slightly accountable, You can count on Republicans to threaten some type of payback.

While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!

If it applies equally to both, Biden shouldn't be taken off since he hasn't been found guilty of sedition ya dipshit.

Yes if Joe Biden engages in insurrection then he should be excluded from the ballot. I just don't think that's particularly likely.

Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!"

It does. The legal standard does apply equally to everyone. And in fact the same standard has applied for 155 years.

Waaaahhhh my candidate got kicked off so I'm going to retaliate and try to kick the other guy off. Good luck at the Supreme Court.

The reason the government is called a republic is because it follows laws and established proceedures.

Now Team Trump is advocating pure mob rule.

And people think its cool.

The DOJ should investigate this guy for supporting insurrection, too.

Didn't know children could be Secretary of State. Missouri has low standards.

It's not new. It already applies equally. Biden wasn't part of an insurrection.

I'm voting Biden. But if the Democrats would suggest maybe someone else from the 150million rational thinking American population who are not Republican, I would vote for that person. Joe has done a good job. I just don't wanna be sitting here in my toilet writing about how terrible the situation is 2 years from now when we loose Joe to stress and need a new president. So obviously not Trump or any other rock-like object or non-human organic matter composition. But any human who loves this country and wants us to do even better would be nice.

Kindergarten recess is more mature than US politics.

Neat, I didn't know Biden also engaged in insurrection. This guy seems very wise!

Trump can do no wrong. Therefore, any action taken against him must be unjustified. So it can only ever be political, and therefore, it's only fair that we do the same to Biden.

The best part is, they recognize that this is terrible for democracy, that this being normalized would be a disaster, and then say they are going to do it anyway. They are admitting that rather than accept the outcome of the legal process for settling these kinds of situations, and respecting the rule of law, they would rather damage our society to get their victory by any means necessary.

Which is pretty much how we got here in the first place, when Trump couldn't accept an election or dozens of court cases all telling him he lost.

You mean to tell me John Ashcroft's son is a bit of a douche, too?!?

Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!

I swear these people shouldn't even be trusted with anything sharper than a spoon. This is how you fucking conduct work!? You respond to people's Twatter account about legal actions. Jesus tap dancing Christ.

Oh look, Republicans being less mature than Kindergartners... again

Just to fantasize a bit, it'd be hilarious if these "Duck season! Wabbit season!" Shenanigans resulted in both Democrats and Republicans mutually excluding each other from a majority of ballots, and third parties had to fill in the gaps.

Yeah so THAT wouldn't hold up to a SCOTUS hearing. Rather if it does we may as well ignore SCTOUS forevermore.

do it then, just like the impeachment. quit bitching and do something so we can put you down again you fucking cowards.

Just a friendly reminder that it is Republicans who are kicking, or attempting to, kick trump off the ballot. If they want to change The Constitution, there is an amendment process. Until then, The Constitution is very clear on the topic.

"While I expect the Supreme Court to overturn this, if not, Secretaries of State will step in & ensure the new legal standard for @realDonaldTrump applies equally to @JoeBiden!"

Sure. If Biden launches his own insurrection I think no one would hold it against you.

Sounds like Missouri should be taken off the ballot.

Most of the time I forget Missouri exists, it's nice. Then some asshole has to come along and ruin it.

• Trump: Does insurrection, disqualified from running
• Biden: Doesn't commit insurrection or any other crimes that might disqualify him from running.
• GOP: We'll step in & ensure the new legal standard for Trump applies equally to Biden

Whataboutism politics in action. They're not even defending him, it's just, "Well if you're going to do that we'll just do it back to you!"--

Don't you just love it how they all completely ignore and fly over the actual reason why trump is being dumped? They just claim it's a disgrace that trump is dropped, as if random people decided to do this on a whim, but will NEVER mention why they made that decision. Never mention that trump instigated an insurrection, we wouldn't want people to get the wrong idea now, would we?

At least they're honest that they are just being fascists and it's not because Biden did anything wrong. Wish that actually mattered here.

Fucking hell of course it’s Missouri… those of us in ST Louis are trying to be decent I swear. The fucking rednecks in the middle of the state drag us down so much though

Of course, because Biden is the one who directly violated the 4th Amendment by instigating a failed attempt to overthrow our democracy. So naturally he's the one who should be removed from ballots! /s

Whether they are just deliberately obtuse, utterly engulfed in tribalistic spite, or just so blinded by idiotic conspiracy theories (or some mix of all) doesn't really matter. The people arguing that Biden should be removed on this topic are unfit to be in any position of responsibility or power.

This man's dad lost an election to a fucking corpse, he was such a piece of shit. GWB went and made that piece of shit the country's AG. The shit apple clearly does not fall from the shit tree.

I thought Republicans support state's rights

Oh Jesus fucking Christ.

I fucking live in this shit hole state. What'll happen if he actually does this?

good luck moron

reactionaries run their mouth first and seek method as an afterthought

I'm acually surprised that they used "social media site X" and didn't add "formerly known as Twitter" First time I'm seeing this.

A sophisticated and formidable legal mind in a pleasant, debonaire package. Truly his cup overfloweth.

How did Missouri get so lucky?

They all have the thought process of a 12 year old and so that’s how democracy dies I guess.

They really think it was done for political reasons and is just a team sport

Undermines the dictatorship we want….

"What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic,"

What happened in the national capitol on Jan6 is disgraceful and undermines the republic.

The people trying to clean up after that mess are not the problem, you pandering old windbag.

Is there an equivalent of /r/JustFuckMyShitUp here? Yikes, this guy is rocking one atrocious haircut.

Go for it. It'll get overturned in court and we'll get more news coverage of why Trump getting removed from the ballot is valid, but Biden getting removed isn't.

The problem with this "oh, yeah! Just you wait, I'll get you back!" Is that the states that removed Trump had a legal justification. He on the other hand is just talking shit, and that doesn't hold up in court.

Good thing Missouri secretary of state isn't in any way shape or form a real job. Or him wasting taxpayers dollars with this political stunt would really piss off the overweight illiterate trailer park inhabitants of the state.

It's honestly better for them as it gives this writhing mass of cancerous maggots parading as a human and it's staff less time to research and decline to participate in federal aid programs that don't specifically give the money to corporations and police.

A 200lb sack of bleached all-purpose flour with a four-dollar Flowbee haircut

Pretty sure that is sedition

Ashcroft is a real piece of shit garbage. Even shittier than his father, which is saying something. The embodiment of the Mitchell and Webb "Are we the baddies?" Nazi bit.

A wild troglodite appeared.

Yeah, that’s not how this works.

Maybe we can collectively have all the states kick both Biden and Trump off the primary?

No u

Would someone take Jay Ashcroft off Trumps dick?

Biden shouldn't be thrown off it.

This is going to be a sonofabitch of an election year no matter what the numbers are, isn't it.

Honestly I'm surprised they didn't do this sooner

Attorney General J. Ashcroft? The last one wasn't embarrassing enough? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cover-up-at-justice-department/

Cry more

Called it.

Down the slippery slope we go…

Before long republicans won’t be on the ballots for democratic states and democrats won’t be on the ballot in republican states.

Guess what happens next?

Can we just have a civil war already, I'd rather get it over with now than when I'm in my forties and in even more pain than I am now.

Is payback Law And Order?

Congress should pass a resolution removing Trump's disqualification.

That would satisfy the 14th amendment without setting a nasty political precedent while at the same time serving as an official recognition that Trump committed acts that triggered the 14th amendment.

Let's go dictator! all hail dictator whoever the fuck!

Can't wait for tropico to play out in USA in my lifetime. We can finally bring more equality to the world by bringing down the last real bastion of democracy. I wonder what world power will step in to take over for us?

Yes please. Get Genocide Joe off the ballot so someone else can run.

Looking forward to all the people guilt tripping me for not voting when it's Biden running unopposed in half the states and Trump running unopposed in half the states.

I don’t like trump and agree he belongs in jail but how the democrats are doing it is wrong we are innocent until proven guilty in the court of law he is on trial right now but has yet to be convicted of a crime so he should not be removed until he is proven guilty in a court of law. The trail likely won’t be over until after the election so the are using dirty tactics to remove him before he is found guilty so I am not surprised if the start removing Biden from state ballots as well. We will see what the Supreme Court says but I would assume the would say the same but could very well be wrong nobody should vote for trump but we gotta do it correctly.