#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*
@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'.
@AskTheDevil
Bin-fucking-go
@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 Thorny?