DeSantis Says He's Looking to Make 'Credible Case' to Remove Biden From Florida Ballot

But like...that's the thing. They have to look for a credible case to remove their political opponents. In contrast, the reason to remove Trump is self-evident, even to Republicans.

god this is going to be such a stupid year

Good ole fascism.

This is a play to delegitimize the courts. Fascists know that Trump deserves to be knocked off the ballot and that Biden does not. They don't care. It serves them well to have their case laughed out of court so they can campaign off removing the deep state from the courts.

Man I wish there was a way to penetrate fascist propaganda.

“This is just going to be a tit for tat and it’s just not gonna end well,”

I still can’t get over a political leader admitting to abusing the power of his office for personal spite, and not being removed from office

Sounds like giving comfort to an insurrectionist. We should remove him from office.

"Credible"... Can you define that Mr. DeSantis?

This clown will be quickly forgotten. Deservedly so. What a colossal embarrassment.

Hey hey guys wait maybe he's got a point....

...Let's remove ALL of them from the ballot and purge all the old money from politics to find candidates that actually represent the people of their nation. 🤔

If only we could then dump that campaign money into schools and a national train system...

I'm glad I will be canceling out one dumbass vote in Florida....there's literally dozens of us who aren't Nazis tired of this stupid short fuck.

This "we're gonna remove Biden from the ballot" thing is the most elaborate masturbating contest between the GOP, man.

If DeSantis were even remotely serious about his Presidential campaign this wouldn't be the play. Trump being removed from the ballot would not require retaliation and would be good for him. But let's be honest here. He's known he's not running a Presidental campaign for months now. He cratered. The best old puddin' fingers can hope for is somehow getting Trump to pick him for VP.

Honestly. Republicans are nothing but a bunch of children.

republicans don't run on credibility.

they're practically immune to credibility, let alone merely blind to it.

Do normal people openly and candidly characterize their own motivations as "tit for tat"? I thought that was typically pejorative.

He knows GOP voters don’t follow up on anything and their memories don’t extend beyond the last Fox News show they watched. That’s why he can say shit like this knowing full well he won’t come up with anything.

What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

— Hon. Billings Learned Hand

When we have devolved to "tit for tat" when we're no longer looking for liberty and justice. There is nothing our Constitution can do, there isn't some magic arrangement of words written by long dead men that saves us, that saves our notions of liberty and justice.

It will not be denied, that power is of an encroaching nature, and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.

— James Madison (Federalist 48)

James Madison is talking about power-grabs here. He's stating that, there's never going to be some magic law written down on paper that's going to stop power-grabs. People, the people we put into to power, the people who have the trust of the public. People That's it. That's all there is. That's the only thing that stops it. And when the people aren't there to stop it…

You cannot.

This is why this kind of talk is dangerous. This is why making it personal and not looking to protect the public is bad. Because, like it or not, people like DeSantis, if they're not defending this nation, if they are simply looking to "tit for tat" to make some sort of point. They hold a mighty amount of trust and they're using it to be on the look out for retribution rather justice.

There aren't any magic words in the Constitution, it's inside our heads that matters. This is the stuff that starts getting sobering.

whataboutism over 9000

Everyone keeps forgetting about the part of the constitution that bars you from holding office if you are a Democrat.

Do it, pussy.

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DeSantis can suck my left nut

"Looking for an excuse" is not the same as "Acknowledging undisputed facts."

Nobody on the right is even pretending Trump didn't try to prevent Congress from certifying the election by sending illegitimate electors and sending a mob to storm the the Capitol.

If Biden had engaged in insurrection, I'd want him out. If there was proof of an impeachable offense, I'd support that as well.

That's the thing. Most people on the left are arguing in good faith. It's just that it's the GOP committing the crimes right now.

What do these idiots have against immigrants ? they're immigrants themselves

Land of the "free" Home of the "brave"

Ideally, the case would come before the consequence. Imagine getting called into court and ordered to pay your neighbor 50k. "For what?!" you exclaim. "We're still building the case," they smugly respond.

That's hilariously desperate.

How many years do we have to keep hunter's laptop and Biden bad. Find the evidence or stfu.

Of course he's looking to make a case. The difference here is that he can't actually make a credible one, all he can do is just say "Because reasons" and hope nobody looks too closely at it.

Remember that pact that states have entered, where their electoral votes go to whoever gets the popular?

Have a few red states manage to leave the Dem candidate off the ballot and that backfires.

For a multitude of reasons, the law among them, this the DeSantis 0lan cannot be allowed to happen.

This is just going to be a tit for tat and it’s just not gonna end well

Okay then, let’s do that with every GOP presidential candidate.

this is why he's losing outside of florida and why he needed to purge thousands of voters in florida to win in florida

“you could make a case” = making shit up

Yes please, remove both Trump and Biden. Let the young people come and run the country.

Go on then. This should be good. 🍿

Whatever Biden wasn't going to win Florida anyway this is just political posturing for 2028 he knows he isn't winning this year and he's term limited in Florida so he's got to keep his name in the national news somehow

do it then. if you've got some way to do it, do it. otherwise shut up.

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You gonna bark all day, little doggy?

Europeans and generally the entire world is looking at the us and rolling their eyes.

We'd be pointing and laughing at you for how petty and pathetic your politicians are, if it wasn't for the fact that the US is still the biggest player, and you know, if these evil sad sacks win, it will be a christo racist state with nukes and an end of the world fantasy...

So seriously, can democrat voters finally do what they always fail to do, and just FUCKING VOTE ALREADY. and yes vote Biden. Yes, Biden sucks, big time, might be the worst democrat president in ages, but he's NOT TRUMP.

The logic, or lack there of, is astounding in these people.

Yeah, so two states drop trump for actual credible reasons, wtih which you can agree or disagree, but you can't deny that they're at least credible.

Now Florida (and which other state again?) are doing this for the same reason as a tantrum throwing child "wants the same toy as that other kid".

It just struck me who he reminds me of. Bizarre insecurity about an appendage, oddly repetitive and mundane conversationalist, trouble for kids. DeSantis is uncle jack.

Slander incoming in 5... 4... 3...

He just can’t stop fucking up, can he?

Good luck with that.