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      Umm…what?

      Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but it’s not that complicated. Constitution says he’s not eligible, so that’s that.

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      If you’re going to try to destroy democracy with an insurrection you don’t deserve to participate anymore

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      We voted last time and he lost and refused to accept his fate. He committed crimes (some of them against me as a ga resident who didn’t vote for him). The law says you can’t be president if you have supported insurrectionists. He incited the insurrection and even if you don’t believe he wanted it to happen he still offered his support to the perpetrators after the fact. Even after they were convicted for insurrection. He literally did what it says he can’t do. It’s as plain as the hole in my ass dude.

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      Should we start allowing people under the legal age and non-citizens run for president without first amending the constitution to allow that as well?

      If people want to change that outcome, then they should tell their representatives (the Constitution says Trump needs 2/3rds vote by both houses of Congress to be allowed to run for office in the US now) or amend the constitution. Its simply following the election laws that was accepted by the elected officials.

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      Someone who tried to ignore election results and incite a mob to overthrow the government? Yes.

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      This is the absolute worst troll argument from someone completely uninformed or intentionally misrepresenting things.

      Colorado’s ruling is following the Constitution. Amendment 14, section 3. It very, very, very clearly states that if you do what Trump very much did by attempting to overturn a legally sanctioned election.

      From the Constitution:

      No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States … who, having previously taken an oath … as an officer of the United States … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion.

      It’s clear as day. Which is why the legal experts in Colorado had the balls to move forward and force Trump to adhere to the constitution that he swore an oath to uphold.

      They’re the only state with the balls right now. Everyone else is worried about retaliation and escalation from fuckheads like you.