It’s insane how we’ve relied far too long on a sort of gentleman’s agreement around presidents and congress and all. I don’t think the founding fathers could have EVER anticipated the amount of corruption that could occur.
If the orange turd did one thing, it’s to lay bare how truly exploitable and corruptible the ruling class can be. I mean, we all know it was bad but he truly showed by bad (and open) it could get. And how nothing whatsoever would be done about it…
It’s like this in many countries. In the UK we’ve never had to deal with people being held in contempt of parliament, but in recent years we’ve seen corruption and a blatant disregard for “rules” that would have made politicians sick a decade ago. It’s at a point where the UK has considered a constitution to ensure that anyone caught being openly corrupt or breaking the rules can be arrested.
Many right-wing politicians have shown that the rules have been lax for a very long time, and IMO it’s a sign that perhaps we as a society need to seriously look at how we stop the right (and perhaps even the left) from abusing their power without consequence.
The problem isn’t that a convicted felon can be president, the problem is that a convicted felon can’t get other jobs and vote. We should stop dehumanizing felons.
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.
I was hoping for an actual list of jobs he is barred from in the posted link, but it’s just another dime-a-dozen article on Trump’s conviction and riddled with ads.
Anything requiring a background check:
https://asginvestigations.com/background_checks/5-industries-require-background-check/
He can’t get most normal jobs. Every job application has a part where you have to admit if you’re a felon and then do background checks. He also can’t rent in almost any place owned by a corporation instead of an individual. It’s actually a serious problem for non-violent and/or actually reformed ex-cons which don’t their time. But the incarceration industrial complex and the government that allows it don’t care, it’s just punish and forget. Then the rich felons like the Orange scrotum are unaffected and just get gigs in politics, sell books, expensive speaking jobs, become talking news heads, and all kinds of other disruptive, cancerous blights.
Trump can’t work for a casino in Illinois or a vet in Indiana, in pest control in North Carolina, he can’t sell a car in Mississippi, or work in any healthcare setting in Virginia.
Even in New York, if he wanted a real estate brokers license, he would need permission from the secretary of state.
In Florida, he can’t be a firefighter or legally tend bar at his Mar-a-Lago compound; Florida law prohibits bars from employing bartenders who have been convicted of a felony within five yea
None of those jobs should exclude ex convicts. The president is a job that should.
That would lead to false charges against political opponents or lead to laws that declare certain things as a felony to prevent certain populations from office.
Good point on the unintended side effects rules can have
Could you imagine him as your fucking nurse? He’s calling you a loser and stinking up your room while you lay there with a broken leg.
The only job for which he’s qualified is fertilizer.
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I don’t think someone who has committed and found guilty of any crime should be eligible to be president. I understand that can have consequences related to the broken criminal justice system, but with a country of almost 400mill people we can find some good candidates that aren’t convicted felons.
Who the fuck cares. While liberals are obsessed with Trump, Biden is still helping slaughter Palestinians, we still cant pay our bills or our rent and homelessness is still growing.
Somehow you expect Biden to reverse or ameliorate all these economic situations… or you somehow didn’t expect Trump to do all these yet you expect Biden to. Trump said he would accelerate the slaughter… you still had bills to pay when he was president (you expect the president to help you with your bills?), rent and homelessness is supposed to be fixed with cooperation from state, center, and landlords. The last of them are still greedy as ever regardless of presidents so I don’t generally expect that the president can do much. Even in this regard Biden is at least trying to fight the republican controlled congress and SC to pass student debt forgiveness.
When Biden tries you all cry that he isn’t doing anything while the republicans block any attempts in each step of the way.
When Trump does anything you all cheer his shitty behavior that hurt you more as a common man than as a conservative.
Wait, your landlord doesn’t let you pay your rent with deported immigrants? Wild.
