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.
So yeah, if Biden commits insurgency, then his should be off the ballot. But last time I checked he hasn’t come anywhere close.
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.
The logic of “We’re going to punish your guy for what our guy did” makes me laugh… until I cry.
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.”
Still waiting for Harris to become a secret trans woman like Obama.
You’re forgetting that for these people, “commit insurgency” means “supports things I don’t like”.
The real question is what Thomas’s dissenting opinion would be when the SC rules otherwise, and if he gets paid by the word.
Excuse me? Are you just going to ignore his wanton use of the word “malarkey”?
He committed an insurgency… against the road when he got into his Mustang and put it in gear back in the 70s.
Eventually, we will have no one on the ballot.
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.
Why would you give them what they want?
He means a crowbar to the knees.
*Tonya Harding enters the chat*
Some men you just can’t otherwise reach.
I mean, good luck, you’ll have to provide better justification than revenge to keep it from being overturned.
They don’t care. It’s all about the grandstanding.
I almost want to see them try though, just to get smacked down in court.
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.
Fully expected, and if smacked down, thoroughly entertaining.
Is that some of that librul virtue signalling I hear so much about?
Anytime Trump is held slightly accountable, You can count on Republicans to threaten some type of payback.
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.”
Animal Farm is one of their guidebooks. Unsurprising since they’re a bunch of swine.
The Republicans are using a book based on communism as their guidebook?
Based on a book about how to corrupt a gullible group by selling them a utopia but actually just enriching themselves.
Also, I’m not sure why you would be surprised that Republicans would use such a thing as a guidebook. Despite all their boogeymanning of Saul Alinsky, Republican strategists love Rules for Radicals. They used to distribute it before they decided to associate it with Obama.
I think you need to do a couple lessons on reading comprehension first then maybe try reading Animal Farm again
Animal Farm is about totalitarianism.
Well yes because that means they will be accountable too. And they don’t wanna take personal responsibility over anything.
Responsibility would mean that they acknowledge being dumbasses in an uniroinic sense
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.
I feel like Trump’s ideology has taken over so much of right-wingers even he is out of the way, it will continue.
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.
On fucking twatter
Yes if Joe Biden engages in insurrection then he should be excluded from the ballot. I just don’t think that’s particularly likely.
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.
With how stacked the Court is for righties, I wouldn’t be surprised.
It’s literally all the GOP really has been trying to accomplish since Nixon. They did it to our guy so we have to get them back somehow.
Didn’t know children could be Secretary of State. Missouri has low standards.
Missouri has low standards.
They always did. It’s the Florida of the Midwest.
All that comes to mind when I see this guy’s face is:
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Don’t you dare say that. Then Wisconsin will start feeling like they have to become the Alabama of the Midwest and everything will go to hell.
Every so often Missouri does the right thing, like elect a dead guy
I mean… America has low standards, Missouri is just a symptom of the disease.
The DOJ should investigate this guy for supporting insurrection, too.
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.
They’re not actually advocating for mob rule, mob rule is only acceptable if it’s the mob rule that accomplishes what they want.
You mean to tell me John Ashcroft’s son is a bit of a douche, too?!?
Why are you being so nice to Jay Ashcroft by calling him a bit of a douche?
My bad. Full douche. Just like his daddy. Feel free to come up with a more descriptive term if you’re feeling creative, too!
A douche bag full of Trumps excrement.
Neat, I didn’t know Biden also engaged in insurrection. This guy seems very wise!
You don’t, but they are certain of it. It’s clearly been an insurrection all these years, since when the democrats colluded with the lizard people to administer the vaccine and steal the elections. It’s obvious if you think about it.
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.
TL;DR: they’re fascist traitors committing sedition and need to be treated as such.
The fact that democrats don’t treat them as such shows that they’re complicit in the march to fascism.
Yeah so THAT wouldn’t hold up to a SCOTUS hearing. Rather if it does we may as well ignore SCTOUS forevermore.
Why are the comments here acting like the SCOTUS stands for anything but toeing Republican line? The court is more stacked than it has been for decades and these people will gladly sell-out the Constitution to score political power for Republicans.
Pretty sure three of them literally got their positions in return for their work on the Bush v. Gore case in 2000 that led to the first GW Bush Presidency.
John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett all worked for the Bush campaign on that case.
People have been lying to themselves about this one for a long time. Roberts is chief justice, and Bush elevated him there in 2005. It’s just become much more egregious and mask-off since then because they’re pretty damned sure the public can’t actually do anything about it so they’ve stopped giving a shit about pretending.
Because of their own self-interest and protecting judiciary power for themselves?
They didn’t let Trump argue his election lies. Sometimes they can surprise you.
My impression is they still know they must feign being apolitical and letting Trump argue election lies would be so far removed from reality that they know everything would change after that.
Whereas this case means all they need to say is, “let the voters decide” and the enlightened centrists, even some of the left, will nod their heads in agreement or just quietly bicker.
Kindergarten recess is more mature than US politics.
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.
Clearly you have never been in prison. Do you know what you can do with a spoon and a little bit of time…
What you really need is a rock hammer.
Is that so I can be a rock hound, at least on a limited basis?
