Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is threatening to remove Joe Biden from the ballot—but please don’t ask him why.
Can we sell Missouri or just give it away with a dishwasher or something?
Ya – he says that it is “alleged” (by Desantis and Dan Patrick no less) that Biden was involved in an insurrection. Give me a fucking break.
Republicans platform is vengeance. They are not qualified to govern, only ruin.
How incredibly pathetic
Of course, when asked to provide proof, he just completely folds. You can see it in his eyes, he knows he’s full of shit. And yet, he keeps it going. Wanna bet this guy secretly pays someone to tie him up and spank his ass?
Joe Biden should be winning by 40 points.
All Republicans have is unwarranted vengeance and stupid culture wars bullshit.
Kinda irritated the newscaster didn’t fire back about Trump being removed from Colorado due to allegations.
Trump was removed in Colorado because the Colorado court found that Trump participated in an insurrection. It wasn’t alleged, that was the basis of their decision.
>Ashcroft accused Sanchez of lying.
Tell me you don’t know your own State law without saying you don’t know your own State law
God they’re so obviously corrupt. He’s not at all trying to answer the question.
All Republicans have left is hate politics. They don’t have policy solutions and they’re angry because they realize liberalism is the best future for humanity meaning they were wrong. They’ll never admit that because their tribe is based on loyalty, admitting wrongness would be disloyal.
These people are exhausting. Their bad faith arguments are designed to drain everyone else and drag the discourse down to their level. You have to refute every dumb point they make with logic and evidence until they eventually just make up a new point that requires the same thing.
This guy’s argument makes no sense when confronted with the facts, but he gets up there and proudly acts like he’s being personally attacked when correctly being pointed out for how stupid and hollow his argument is.
I’m also wondering what he is frantically looking at off camera.
Sanchez got so close and blew it.
All he had to do was say that the Colorado Supreme Court has determined that Trump was an insurrectionist, and therefore removed him from the ballot. Is there *anything* that Biden has done that is remotely ~~equivocal~~ equivalent?
edit: thanks for the correction, thickener
It’s like he doesn’t even understand the question: what is the basis for the allegations that Biden engaged in insurrection? What is the evidence? You can’t just say that someone committed insurrection and get them kicked off. There has to be evidence to back it up.
Trump wasn’t just accused. He’s not facing just allegations. He is indicted, meaning accusations were made, evidence was presented to a grand jury, and a grand jury decided that the evidence was convincing enough to proceed to a full trial.
So to parrot was the host said, what evidence is there that Biden engaged in insurrection?
Don’t underestimate the Republican Party’s ability to act on allegations alone in order to implement a disastrous course of action. For example, we invaded Iraq in 2003 based on allegations that turned out to be false. Thousands of Americans died, many more were injured, and countless Iraqi lives were brutally cut short. Yet we never sought out and punished the liars that led us into that disaster. As I write this, George W Bush sits comfortably within the confines of his ranch, dabbling in his paintings and living a peaceful, secure life.
Similarly, Obama allowed the criminals on Wall Street to walk after royally screwing America in the 2008 financial crisis. Eric Holder, Obama’s AG, never prosecuted anyone; rather, he left government and took a job protecting the very financial institutions that screwed us.
We may all have a good laugh at Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, but beware – history is clear that he will probably have the last laugh.
Until we the people decide to lace up our boots and jump onto the playing field of democracy and hold our elected representatives responsible, we’re going to suffer the whims of these fools forever.
I’m curious what he means by Trump is alleged to have done something.
I wasn’t asleep. I was paying attention.
I don’t see how anybody in the right mind could possibly say that Donald Trump did not engage in insurrection against the United States of America, in his obvious loss and attempt to retain power and stay in power no matter what. He literally had his idiots attack the capital to try to stop Congress from certifying the election.
We all saw it we are all aware of it. That was actually attempted insurrection at the behest of Donald Trump.
These people have nothing.
MFer was screeching like Charlie Kelly.
His look on his face when he didn’t know that Maine’s state constitution and Colorado state Constitution allowed for Trump to be pulled off the ballot was the indication of what these GQP representatives are really about.
Maga=🤡💩
There are far more people out there, raised by Fox and its ilk, who rely on opinion as fact, how something feels as fact, and enjoy bully tactics and bluster. They will all side with this guy. They will vote for this guy. Cornering him with actual facts is necessary theater, but don’t delude yourselves into thinking it makes a difference to the brainwashed MAGA crowd.
If our country survives this and doesn’t go the way of Germany or any other number of fascist states it will be and strange time to look back on once the cult has died off
“Nobody should be removed from the ballot because of allegations,” he bloviates, as he says he wants to remove Biden from the ballot because of allegations.
Ooof. Ashcroft sounds like he has all the emotional maturity and self-awareness of a 12-year-old.
Something nobody seems to mention is that the 14th Amendment doesn’t specify someone convicted of insurrection for very good reason; it was written to bar all Confederate traitors, except those Congress rehabilitated, from holding office. There were literal millions of men who had served the cause of insurrection against the US, so it was quite impossible to try and convict them all. So they were blanket blocked from holding office, as their conduct regarding insurrection wasn’t in any doubt. They had all been quite open in their treason, they thought they would win.
Trump is exactly the same. He and the rest of the Jan 6.ers thought they would win so they gambled everything, confident that there could be no consequences for people “like them”.
Oh I see. He’s a moron.
Folks run for local office, run for state office. These are not intelligent people, they are not better than you.
Nepo baby…
Whose hair did he steal?
“Remove Biden from the Ballot!”
“Why?”
“I don’t know… I didn’t know you were gonna ask me that”
It’s incredible watching an entire group of people take on the attributes of their malignant narcissist leader. They’re behaving like lying, petulant children. 100% this is a cult.
These idiots don’t care about the will of the people, they just want to hold onto power. The actual crime Biden committed that is being part of an insurrection? Presidenting while Democrat.
his eyes are just screaming uncontrollable mania.
Basically, he said he can’t put his finger on a legally defensible justification of any insurrection having been committed by President Biden. He couldn’t answer a straightforward question when asked “has President Biden has commited an insurrection” with anything other than some vague reference to “we have to do this if the Supreme Court allows Trump to be off the ballot in Colorado”.
These people all look like a version of the alien from Men In Black that wears a skin suit. It’s like the corruption and shitty behavior has an immediate impact on their physical form.
Dude needs to go back to managing The Undertaker.
The Republican party is a cancer. It needs to be eradicated.
Bruv, it was *Republicans* who asked that Trump be removed in Colorado in the first place, and the court agreed. Democrats do not have legal standing because they can’t vote in the GOP primary.
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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is threatening to remove Joe Biden from the ballot—but please don’t ask him why.
Can we sell Missouri or just give it away with a dishwasher or something?
Ya – he says that it is “alleged” (by Desantis and Dan Patrick no less) that Biden was involved in an insurrection. Give me a fucking break.
Republicans platform is vengeance. They are not qualified to govern, only ruin.
How incredibly pathetic
Of course, when asked to provide proof, he just completely folds. You can see it in his eyes, he knows he’s full of shit. And yet, he keeps it going. Wanna bet this guy secretly pays someone to tie him up and spank his ass?
Joe Biden should be winning by 40 points.
All Republicans have is unwarranted vengeance and stupid culture wars bullshit.
Kinda irritated the newscaster didn’t fire back about Trump being removed from Colorado due to allegations.
Trump was removed in Colorado because the Colorado court found that Trump participated in an insurrection. It wasn’t alleged, that was the basis of their decision.
>Ashcroft accused Sanchez of lying.
Tell me you don’t know your own State law without saying you don’t know your own State law
God they’re so obviously corrupt. He’s not at all trying to answer the question.
All Republicans have left is hate politics. They don’t have policy solutions and they’re angry because they realize liberalism is the best future for humanity meaning they were wrong. They’ll never admit that because their tribe is based on loyalty, admitting wrongness would be disloyal.
These people are exhausting. Their bad faith arguments are designed to drain everyone else and drag the discourse down to their level. You have to refute every dumb point they make with logic and evidence until they eventually just make up a new point that requires the same thing.
This guy’s argument makes no sense when confronted with the facts, but he gets up there and proudly acts like he’s being personally attacked when correctly being pointed out for how stupid and hollow his argument is.
I’m also wondering what he is frantically looking at off camera.
Sanchez got so close and blew it.
All he had to do was say that the Colorado Supreme Court has determined that Trump was an insurrectionist, and therefore removed him from the ballot. Is there *anything* that Biden has done that is remotely ~~equivocal~~ equivalent?
edit: thanks for the correction, thickener
It’s like he doesn’t even understand the question: what is the basis for the allegations that Biden engaged in insurrection? What is the evidence? You can’t just say that someone committed insurrection and get them kicked off. There has to be evidence to back it up.
Trump wasn’t just accused. He’s not facing just allegations. He is indicted, meaning accusations were made, evidence was presented to a grand jury, and a grand jury decided that the evidence was convincing enough to proceed to a full trial.
So to parrot was the host said, what evidence is there that Biden engaged in insurrection?
Don’t underestimate the Republican Party’s ability to act on allegations alone in order to implement a disastrous course of action. For example, we invaded Iraq in 2003 based on allegations that turned out to be false. Thousands of Americans died, many more were injured, and countless Iraqi lives were brutally cut short. Yet we never sought out and punished the liars that led us into that disaster. As I write this, George W Bush sits comfortably within the confines of his ranch, dabbling in his paintings and living a peaceful, secure life.
Similarly, Obama allowed the criminals on Wall Street to walk after royally screwing America in the 2008 financial crisis. Eric Holder, Obama’s AG, never prosecuted anyone; rather, he left government and took a job protecting the very financial institutions that screwed us.
We may all have a good laugh at Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, but beware – history is clear that he will probably have the last laugh.
Until we the people decide to lace up our boots and jump onto the playing field of democracy and hold our elected representatives responsible, we’re going to suffer the whims of these fools forever.
More here: https://medium.com/@dtschaefer/the-erosion-of-trust-navigating-americas-democratic-crisis-d19c4b329da2
I’m curious what he means by Trump is alleged to have done something.
I wasn’t asleep. I was paying attention.
I don’t see how anybody in the right mind could possibly say that Donald Trump did not engage in insurrection against the United States of America, in his obvious loss and attempt to retain power and stay in power no matter what. He literally had his idiots attack the capital to try to stop Congress from certifying the election.
We all saw it we are all aware of it. That was actually attempted insurrection at the behest of Donald Trump.
These people have nothing.
MFer was screeching like Charlie Kelly.
His look on his face when he didn’t know that Maine’s state constitution and Colorado state Constitution allowed for Trump to be pulled off the ballot was the indication of what these GQP representatives are really about.
Maga=🤡💩
There are far more people out there, raised by Fox and its ilk, who rely on opinion as fact, how something feels as fact, and enjoy bully tactics and bluster. They will all side with this guy. They will vote for this guy. Cornering him with actual facts is necessary theater, but don’t delude yourselves into thinking it makes a difference to the brainwashed MAGA crowd.
If our country survives this and doesn’t go the way of Germany or any other number of fascist states it will be and strange time to look back on once the cult has died off
“Nobody should be removed from the ballot because of allegations,” he bloviates, as he says he wants to remove Biden from the ballot because of allegations.
Ooof. Ashcroft sounds like he has all the emotional maturity and self-awareness of a 12-year-old.
Something nobody seems to mention is that the 14th Amendment doesn’t specify someone convicted of insurrection for very good reason; it was written to bar all Confederate traitors, except those Congress rehabilitated, from holding office. There were literal millions of men who had served the cause of insurrection against the US, so it was quite impossible to try and convict them all. So they were blanket blocked from holding office, as their conduct regarding insurrection wasn’t in any doubt. They had all been quite open in their treason, they thought they would win.
Trump is exactly the same. He and the rest of the Jan 6.ers thought they would win so they gambled everything, confident that there could be no consequences for people “like them”.
Oh I see. He’s a moron.
Folks run for local office, run for state office. These are not intelligent people, they are not better than you.
Nepo baby…
Whose hair did he steal?
“Remove Biden from the Ballot!”
“Why?”
“I don’t know… I didn’t know you were gonna ask me that”
It’s incredible watching an entire group of people take on the attributes of their malignant narcissist leader. They’re behaving like lying, petulant children. 100% this is a cult.
These idiots don’t care about the will of the people, they just want to hold onto power. The actual crime Biden committed that is being part of an insurrection? Presidenting while Democrat.
his eyes are just screaming uncontrollable mania.
Basically, he said he can’t put his finger on a legally defensible justification of any insurrection having been committed by President Biden. He couldn’t answer a straightforward question when asked “has President Biden has commited an insurrection” with anything other than some vague reference to “we have to do this if the Supreme Court allows Trump to be off the ballot in Colorado”.
These people all look like a version of the alien from Men In Black that wears a skin suit. It’s like the corruption and shitty behavior has an immediate impact on their physical form.
Dude needs to go back to managing The Undertaker.
The Republican party is a cancer. It needs to be eradicated.
Bruv, it was *Republicans* who asked that Trump be removed in Colorado in the first place, and the court agreed. Democrats do not have legal standing because they can’t vote in the GOP primary.