• @pyre
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    247 months ago

    to be able to run for president even if you’re convicted is a good thing.

    though in lots of places in the US you can’t vote for the president. seems ridiculous that you can be one. both should be allowed.

    • @[email protected]
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      147 months ago

      I get it, a DUI is felony, and shit happens. However, 34 felonies, dealing with attempting to influence an election that got you the presidency, and paying off a porn star that you had sex with while your pregnant wife was at home, should ban you from the presidency. Jan 6th should have done that and put his ass up on the gallows, but here we are.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        117 months ago

        paying off a porn star that you had sex with while your pregnant wife was at home

        Let’s focus on the important parts, not play morality police as if Stormy Daniel’s profession or Trump’s marital status make the crimes worse. Let’s not sink to the level of the hypocritical authoritarians of the Christian Right or the equally hypocritical tabloid press.

        You’re right about everything else, though.

        • @nomous
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          77 months ago

          Banging a pornstar isn’t the problem.

          Paying off a pornstar on the eve of an election with the intent to influence that election and then falsifying business records to cover up the payments, is a problem.

          It’s less a morals thing and more actual crime things.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          The right want to bring church and religion into politics. They worship tRump as a “christian”. Cheating on your pregnant wife isn’t very christian. I mean no disrepect to stormy or anyone that does any kind of work like her. It should be legal. The only thing I will give her shit for is for is she fucked tRump, which had to be rather disgusting.

          • Queen HawlSera
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            27 months ago

            Trump’s literally an admitted atheist, I wonder how many of them know that.

        • Queen HawlSera
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          07 months ago

          Trump cheating on his pregnant wife DEFINITELY makes the crime worse… What are you talking about?

          • @Viking_Hippie
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            Infidelity is a private matter that has no bearing on the job.

            Judging presidents on whether we approve of their private lives is some bullshit best left to the Republicans and the tabloids.

            Unlike election tampering and campaign finance fraud.

              • @Viking_Hippie
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                07 months ago

                Which isn’t the electorate.

                JFK was also notoriously unfaithful in his marriage, that didn’t make him a bad president and the only ones who pretended that his philandering, as they probably called it at the time, were Republicans and Protestant bigots who were just looking for ways to attack him for anything.

                To be clear: I agree that Trump is absolutely a garbage person and that it was a horrible thing to do to his wife. It’s still completely irrelevant to his professional (mis)behavior, though. Unlike the subsequent coverup.

                • Queen HawlSera
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                  07 months ago

                  Cheating on your loved ones is definitely evil, the only time you should be sleeping around with someone who isn’t your partner is if you are in an open relationship or if you and your significant other are both polyamorous.

                  • @Viking_Hippie
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                    17 months ago

                    Yes yes, you’re on the record as being against marital infidelity. Such a brave and controversial stance 🙄

                    Let me repeat one last time: his private affairs (double entendre not intended) are not relevant to his public life and as such is none of our business until they break relevant laws and/or otherwise influence the job.

                    Or, to put it another way: as far as anything that actually matters that anyone not directly affected is concerned, he could have done the same things while not married or otherwise in a relationship and it would have been exactly as bad.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        Ummm… A DUI is a misdemeanor, unless it’s like your 3rd or 5th one in X number of years, depending on jurisdiction. I got a DUI years ago. I’m not a convicted felon.

          • @AngryCommieKender
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            Damn. I looked it up, and apparently New York, and New Jersey, and Wisconsin are the odd states that even a first time DUI is a felony. Everywhere else it’s generally charged as a misdemeanor for your first three, and the fourth is a felony.

            • @TheBraveSirRobbin
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              27 months ago

              Wisconsin is not a felony. WI has some of the most relaxed DUI laws

              • @AngryCommieKender
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                27 months ago

                Oh, well maybe that was why the summary lumped it in with the other two.

                • @TheBraveSirRobbin
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                  27 months ago

                  I believe it isn’t even a misdemeanor which could be why it’s lumped in with states where it isn’t a misdemeanor, but I could be wrong

      • Queen HawlSera
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        57 months ago

        After Jan 6th, he should have been put in front of a damn firing squad