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[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 68 points 3 months ago (5 children)

In b4 both candidates are dead before the election

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't wish either to die, but this really does seem like one of the better potential outcomes.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Sorry to break to to you, but they won't be around for much longer either way...

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net -2 points 3 months ago

It would definitely make things more, "fun."

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Biden, as an official act, declares it illegal for felons to be president. Biden then drops out of the next election.

Turning America off and back on again.

[–] raef@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You know the SC would decide that Trump's convictions aren't final since they're under appeal

Edit: convictions

[–] Audacious@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago

This is why I consider trump still effectively ruling like a king, as someone above the law, controlling one of the three major branches of the government.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

That may actually be the case, at this point I'm thinking about it in terms of Harris Vs. Vance

A black woman vs. a guy who openly admits to being a racist who hates Mexicans in his own fucking campaign ad - https://vxtwitter.com/JDVance1/status/1511311385543815180

I think my favorite part is this sob story about how his mother nearly died on the "poison Mexicans are bringing into this country!"

If you do a fact check, his mother was a nurse who raided the controlled substances locker to get high.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Man I thought they were already dead, one being paraded around as a string puppet, and the other with the innards replaced with a chuck e cheeze type animatronic with chatgpt or something controlling it.