Biden and Trump agree to debate

[rogue06]

You have only ever been criticized for indulging to excess in your self-described daily meme trawling. Too many memes, you've been told a number of times.

-Sam

You complained about their use. So what we now have is when I post a meme, that's bad. Posting memes are bad. Period. But when you post a meme, that's different.


Welcome to the Memers Union Sam. Have a seat we're about to get started.

[Stoic]

You complained about their use. So what we now have is when I post a meme, that's bad. Posting memes are bad. Period. But when you post a meme, that's different.


Welcome to the Memers Union Sam. Have a seat we're about to get started.

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[Cow Poke]

You complained about their use. So what we now have is when I post a meme, that's bad. Posting memes are bad. Period. But when you post a meme, that's different.


Welcome to the Memers Union Sam. Have a seat we're about to get started.

It's kinda like when the Pharisees decide that it is not sinful to walk ALMOST 3/5 of a mile from your house on the Sabbath, but any more than that is a sin.
Perhaps Sam will tell you the precise number of memes you can post without it being a sin?

[Sam]

You complained about their use. So what we now have is when I post a meme, that's bad. Posting memes are bad. Period. But when you post a meme, that's different.


Welcome to the Memers Union Sam. Have a seat we're about to get started.

Well, since I never wrote that posting memes is inherently bad, period, but have repeatedly said that posting memes in lieu of critical thought and/or regurgitating multiple memes that you found in your daily trawl is a sign of brain rot ... that's a QED right there.

-Sam

[Sparko]

Well, since I never wrote that posting memes is inherently bad, period, but have repeatedly said that posting memes in lieu of critical thought and/or regurgitating multiple memes that you found in your daily trawl is a sign of brain rot ... that's a QED right there.

-Sam

That sentence was a bit hard to follow, so I translated it into a meme I found.

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[Sam]

That sentence was a bit hard to follow, so I translated it into a meme I found.

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Not bad, not bad.

Consider it analogous to microdosing LSD: don't overdo it and if you get the point of wondering if you're overdoing it, you probably are.

-Sam

[Sparko]

Not bad, not bad.

Consider it analogous to microdosing LSD: don't overdo it and if you get the point of wondering if you're overdoing it, you probably are.

-Sam

Translated:

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[seanD]

Whatever happens I know it will be entertaining!

Unless Trump gets locked up beforehand, which is one of the variety of potential scenarios that could change all this.

[Cow Poke]

Unless Trump gets locked up beforehand, which is one of the variety of potential scenarios that could change all this.

A) his polling numbers will probably increase - particularly among blacks, Hispanics, and Independents.
2) there is nothing that prevents him from running for POTUS or occupying the Office if elected.

[seanD]

A) his polling numbers will probably increase - particularly among blacks, Hispanics, and Independents.
2) there is nothing that prevents him from running for POTUS or occupying the Office if elected.

It is one of the variety of potential situations that will change the dynamic of the debate coming up.

[Sam]

A) his polling numbers will probably increase - particularly among blacks, Hispanics, and Independents.
2) there is nothing that prevents him from running for POTUS or occupying the Office if elected.

Being confined to a state petitionary would definitely prevent someone from "occupying the Office" in any meaningful sense. In such a case, the vice president would be serving as acting president until the president became available.

-Sam

[Diogenes]

Being confined to a state petitionary would definitely prevent someone from "occupying the Office" in any meaningful sense. In such a case, the vice president would be serving as acting president until the president became available.

-Sam

Eugene V Debs was allowed to run for office while incarcerated. There's nothing in the Constitution prohibiting a convicted individual from serving as POTUS. More than likely, any sentence would be tolled while in office.

[Sam]

Eugene V Debs was allowed to run for office while incarcerated. There's nothing in the Constitution prohibiting a convicted individual from serving as POTUS. More than likely, any sentence would be tolled while in office.

No. Running for office is not the same as serving in office and there's nothing in the Constitution or law that suggests a convicted criminal can have their sentence "tolled" until after their term ends. The president would remain the president but, not being able to fulfill their duties, could not serve as president until they were released. The vice president would preside as acting president, same as they would were the president hospitalized and incapacitated.

Yours would be to argue that a candidate could murder and eat 17 people, run for president, win, and remain free until after they served their term. Too bad for Hannibal Lecter that he apparently died before he got his chance.

-Sam

[Diogenes]

No. Running for office is not the same as serving in office and there's nothing in the Constitution or law that suggests a convicted criminal can have their sentence "tolled" until after their term ends. The president would remain the president but, not being able to fulfill their duties, could not serve as president until they were released. The vice president would preside as acting president, same as they would were the president hospitalized and incapacitated.

Yours would be to argue that a candidate could murder and eat 17 people, run for president, win, and remain free until after they served their term. Too bad for Hannibal Lecter that he apparently died before he got his chance.

-Sam

If you don't like the precedent of Eugene V Debs, that's not my problem. Seeing as Presidents routinely execute the office from places other than the White House, even assuming the individual would remain incarcerated, there's nothing to suggest the office of the President could not be executed from a jail cell.


Tolling the sentence would be the logical result of an incarcerated individual being elected.

[seanD]

If you don't like the precedent of Eugene V Debs, that's not my problem. Seeing as Presidents routinely execute the office from places other than the White House, even assuming the individual would remain incarcerated, there's nothing to suggest the office of the President could not be executed from a jail cell.


Tolling the sentence would be the logical result of an incarcerated individual being elected.

Even if he legally could serve from prison, putting aside how that would possibly work practically (how would they be able to protect him, etc?) the country would be so politically fractured, it would no longer be functional. I suppose that's inevitable at some point anyhow.