• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    16 days ago

    We don’t have to lie, cheat, and steal like MAGA, we just have to play Hard Ball, and force them to follow the rules.

    In sports, the players are expected to follow EVERY rule, no matter how arcane. Every infraction is punished, without exception. No player is above the rules.

    So why should politics be any different? All we need to do is enforce the rules, without exception. If you are caught up in corruption, you will be punished, no matter how small the infraction. Why should MAGA just make up new rules whenever it suits them, like no Supreme Court appointments in the last year of a presidency, unless it’s the final months of a a MAGA administration? Why would Democrats go along with corruption like that?

    To start with, that means immediately, and strongly, enforcing the 14th Amendment/Section 3, which prohibits anyone who participated in the January 6 Insurrection from ever holding office. Besides those who spoke at, or participated in the rally, anyone who maintained that Biden stole the 2020 election, which encouraged gullible MAGAs to commit Treason on behalf of the Traitor-In-Chief, are also guilty.

    That will flush most of the MAGAs out of office, so they can be replaced by candidates who don’t have a record of treason, and we can try again, but this time with the rules in place.