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[GenXer47]

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[inthewind21]

1. What's the meaning of life?

There's about the same odds of getting an answer to that as to "what will happen IF Trump... (fill in the blank here)

[edisdead]

2. He wasn't going to win those states anyway.

[Wednesdays]

17. It'll make a huge impact down the ticket, though. nt

[librechik]

3. I don't care it's the right thing to do, and ASAP

all the Johnny Rebs in the Congress too. Elect substitutes and even if conservative, they will shake things up. That will solve the whole Congress Constipation problem. (nothing passes)

[GenXer47]

11. i agree totally

it's completely absurd that he's allowed to run at all. In fact I can't believe he's not in Gitmo.
So yes, my question wasn't so much a sign of fear as it was, gaming out the response. It feels like this is where the crazy red states will choose to drive the car off the cliff - basically break the electoral college for good.

[Eyeball_Kid]

19. While Trump holds on to those who wish him to be dictator,

independents and anyone else are sprinting away from him at break-neck speed. While the 14th Amendment has merit, it may not matter. Trump will fail big time. It will be a worse loss for him than 2020. No one wants that fucker running anything, unless they're hell-bent on a Putin wannabe and they hate the Constitution.

[Botany]

4. It should be a nationwide disqualification

14th Amendment Article 3 nails it.

[sarisataka]

5. Are any states considering disqualifying him

Or is this speculation of unlikely events?

[FSogol]

6. What if Spartacus had a Piper Cub?

[Xavier Breath]

12. You really have to wonder what was being ingested

in the SNL writers' room when they came up with that skit

[Mike Nelson]

7. Well...

... it will make his vote total go down, but he can't win the vote, anyway. Hillary and Joe won the vote. Neither he nor the TV newsreaders talk much about that... so, if the state is one he needs to win in the Electoral College, he will raise holy Hell. But, he will raise Hell in any case...

[emulatorloo]

8. Try the "creative speculation" DU forum.

[GenXer47]

10. he's gonna be convicted for Jan 6th

and at that point there is no doubt he committed insurrection.

[sarisataka]

13. IF that were to happen

There is a virtually 0% chance of it happening before the 2024 election

[grantcart]

15. And 0% of conviction of sedition after

Possible conviction on false electors conspiracy but sedition is difficult to prove without an actual armed coup organization formed

[emulatorloo]

20. I agree. Fingers crossed. But I just don't see your scenario happening.

[FBaggins]

21. Doesn't matter

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Unless that conviction is for the federal crime of insurrection

[FBaggins]

9. When?

Has any state even proposed trying?

[Tom Rinaldo]

14. If a state tried to disqualify him based only on current accusations against him...

...it would be an incendiary provocation with unforeseeable national consequences. I doubt any would try, to and I hope that none do.

However all of that changes if he is convicted of charges stemming from the Justice Dept. investigation of his actions intended to overturn the Presidential election, leading up to, and on, January 6, 2001. Upon such a conviction he would be disqualified under the 14th amendment, and states should be constitutionally required to remove him from the ballot.

[onenote]

16. what happens when giant pigs with diarrhea start flying everywhere

About as likely.