#Politics
TFG not being on primary ballots may be exciting but:
- SCOTUS unlikely to bar him from general election ballot - they are more likely to shriek about atates' decisions and rights and shit and do nothing
- if TFG is not in the primary ballots, the Republican Convention could rebel against form and tradition and give him the nomination regardless
- Biden can't strategize until he knows who he is running against
- have you thought about a Haley presidency?
@publickovacs Both Democrats and Republicans, to my knowledge, can handle who their candidate is pretty much however they feel like it. I don't even think there's any requirement it be based on how people vote in it.
@CoyoteConscious
You are correct. Candidate selection is an internal affair of the parties. It is just that the traditions of conventions and delegates carry a lot of weight - and an awful lot of how politics is done, is based on traditions.
@publickovacs We've seen what the Republicans think of tradition, and following existing standards.
Heck, I recall Democratic primaries not too far back in history where they basically just had superdelegates overrule democratic primary voters.
I don't put _anything_ past the Republicans at this point.
@CoyoteConscious
Fair point/ points. And *terrifying*
@AskTheDevil
Bin-fucking-go
@publickovacs @CoyoteConscious I think the people of the modern age might be best served by studying cons and grifts, rather than listening to what the pundits branded for each of their perceived banners currently want them to hear.
@AskTheDevil
Yes. But that leads us into the thorny philosophical issues of whether we can ever get access to 'real' info without the 'noise' added in by the news industry...
@publickovacs @CoyoteConscious They want some version of Gilead. They don't care about traditions. Even if they did, they don't care about other peoples'.