Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said that while he didn’t want to do it, he had to remind people of how “severe” the situation is.

A top Republican official in Missouri is threatening to remove President Joe Biden from appearing on the ballot as retaliation for the determination in two other states that Donald Trump doesn’t qualify because he “engaged in insurrection.”

“What has happened in Colorado & Maine is disgraceful & undermines our republic,” Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft wrote on the social media site X on Friday. “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!”

Ashcroft’s post came shortly after the Supreme Court agreed to review a decision by Colorado’s high court that found Trump could be barred from the state’s primary ballot because of his actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

326 points

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

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But, Republicans would have you believe “fair is fair.” Trump got impeached, so Biden should get impeached. Trump got kicked off the ballot, so Biden should get kicked off the ballot. This has nothing to do with pesky things like details and rule of law, it’s just about my side vs your side, unless my side is winning, then I’ll take the law into consideration again.

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The logic of “We’re going to punish your guy for what our guy did” makes me laugh… until I cry.

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it’s just about my side vs your side

That’s what authoritarians literally believe. It’s a tribal mentality. “Might makes right.” “The ends justify the means.”

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5 points

Still waiting for Harris to become a secret trans woman like Obama.

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56 points

You’re forgetting that for these people, “commit insurgency” means “supports things I don’t like”.

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29 points

The real question is what Thomas’s dissenting opinion would be when the SC rules otherwise, and if he gets paid by the word.

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22 points

Excuse me? Are you just going to ignore his wanton use of the word “malarkey”?

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5 points

He committed an insurgency… against the road when he got into his Mustang and put it in gear back in the 70s.

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Eventually, we will have no one on the ballot.

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186 points

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.

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14 points

Why would you give them what they want?

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26 points

Some men you just can’t otherwise reach.

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108 points

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

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56 points

They don’t care. It’s all about the grandstanding.

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I almost want to see them try though, just to get smacked down in court.

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As though having the rules applied to them won’t reenforce their victim complex.

If they lose - even thanks to a GOP judge (a wild concept) it’ll be because of the elites… You know - the Jews.

They’re somehow both moronic and evil.

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Is that some of that librul virtue signalling I hear so much about?

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

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37 points

It’s basically Animal Farm.

“We believe in democracy for all… but some are more democratic than others”

“We believe in free speech… but some speech is more free than others.”

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13 points

Animal Farm is one of their guidebooks. Unsurprising since they’re a bunch of swine.

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The Republicans are using a book based on communism as their guidebook?

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Well yes because that means they will be accountable too. And they don’t wanna take personal responsibility over anything.

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Responsibility would mean that they acknowledge being dumbasses in an uniroinic sense

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5 points

Honestly at this point someone just needs to end Trump for the sanity of us all. There stupid fucks won’t get over his dick in their ass otherwise.

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3 points

I feel like Trump’s ideology has taken over so much of right-wingers even he is out of the way, it will continue.

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Straight out of the Russian playbook. And for the same reason we can’t let Putin win, these people can’t be allowed to win.

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On fucking twatter

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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.
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And a partridge in a pear tree!

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