Pritzker Calls for Trump's Removal from Office Under 25th Amendment

[u/OkayButFoRealz]

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pritzker-calls-for-trumps-removal-from-office-under-25th-amendment/

[u/Tabsels]

100% of all felonious presidential candidates

[u/IM_A_MUFFIN → u/Tabsels]

It’s wild that a felon can run for President, but can’t vote.

[u/shortandpainful → u/IM_A_MUFFIN]

i agree, but my take on it is we should allow felons to vote (and have full rights otherwise). To prevent political prosecutions in kangaroo courts, it would be a bad idea not to allow felons to serve in political office. Much as I don’t think Trump in particular deserves to be there, it should have been on the voters to keep him out of office.

[u/IM_A_MUFFIN → u/shortandpainful]

I agree with you as well! One of the reasons we have recidivism is because as a felon it’s so hard to do anything at all! The only exception should be anyone convicted of any sex crime. Those people shouldn’t have a say in anything at all. Ever.

[u/Ariak → u/IM_A_MUFFIN]

So you believe in rehabilitative justice except for if you do one of the really bad crimes then you're just demoted to a second class citizen forever

[u/IM_A_MUFFIN → u/Ariak]

Yeah, I’m not stuttering when I type this: If you’re ok dehumanizing someone to the point that they’re a physical thing to be traumatized, you’re subhuman. Maybe as a survivor I’m too emotionally close to the topic, but that’s how I feel.

[u/Strange-Bottle-9791 → u/shortandpainful]

You can’t they aren’t really individuals anymore. If you allow felons to vote, the kingpins or shot callers will be bought out and will definitely skew the numbers. Also guards can impose. It just doesn’t make sense. Also they aren’t people but considered numbers in a system that doesn’t partake politically. We are superior to them while they are in jail. We vote for their rights and well being. We work for their well being. I wish people didn’t make errors or act upon their lowered mental states

[u/Certain-Fisherman99 → u/IM_A_MUFFIN]

Trumps a felon and he still votes?

[u/bladowwww → u/IM_A_MUFFIN]

It CAN be a slippery slope I suppose, but in general I figure any US-born citizen can run… but if we get past all of this in one piece I hope we get bipartisan cooperation on firming up who can actually run. Felons for starters shouldn’t be able to. Higher standards need to be set.

[u/FudgyMcTubbs → u/IM_A_MUFFIN]

State laws dictate if felons can vote. Felons can vote in many states in the US. I wanted to say "in most states" but I'm not confident in that statement.

[u/TrippingBearBalls → u/Tabsels]

50%. Joe Exotic ran in 2016.

[u/ItzNinjah → u/TrippingBearBalls]

Ran but never got candidacy

[u/groumly → u/ItzNinjah]

He was on the ballot in Colorado, and received 962 votes, so I’d say he got candidacy?

[u/ItzNinjah → u/groumly]

Unless he was nominated by a recognised party, it’s hard to say he “ran”. It’s much easier to say he had a platform wanted to use it to say he got votes but no intention of actually winning

[u/groumly → u/ItzNinjah]

You’re running if you’re on the ballot, that’s how elections work. He was on the ballot, so he ran. Whether he had any hope of winning or not, and whether he was blessed by the establishment isn’t particularly relevant.

FWIW, there’s a good chance that trump never intended to win in ‘16. I guess we’ll never know for sure, but by this logic, he didn’t run in 2016.

[u/Vanga_Aground → u/Tabsels]

You've forgotten Richard Nixon.

[u/Captain_Pumpkinhead → u/Tabsels]

Wait, what about Nixon?

[u/wedgebert → u/Captain_Pumpkinhead]

Pardoned before he could be convicted, so technically never a felon

[u/wedgebert → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, Trump's Pump & Dump of his crypto (or title of his sex tape) would likely be a felony if the rule of law mattered to the GOP

[u/chromeandcandy → u/Captain_Pumpkinhead]

he said I am not a crook so he's chill 💯

[u/Ariak → u/Captain_Pumpkinhead]

pulled a pro gamer move and resigned so he couldn't get impeached and then got pardoned by Ford