• anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    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

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.