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States keep denying RFK Jr.'s requests to be removed from their ballots, which was key to his plan to help Trump win
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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Honestly, he should either have to drop out completely or be forced to remain on the ballot everywhere he's already been authorized to be on the ballot. What he's trying to do is deeply unserious. I mean uts a blatant attempt to interfere in the election for a different party while pretending to be a candidate. Not that i think what he's doing would matter for the election, but if he wants to do that, just drop out altogether and go falconing
It's also absolutely illegal, and should be punished(!), to do 'quid pro quo' "If I drop out, will you give me a cabinet position?" shit. Is it prosecuted? Clearly not. Should it be? In my opinion, obviously yes. This shit is just another level of corruption in the nation of "free and fair elections! ™️"
Yeah, it's totally "free and fair" for like 4 nominees to get phone calls and hard promises of executive branch cabinet positions or VP position if they simply all drop out two days before a major primary date and unanimously, unprecedentedly, all back the most right wing corpse the democrats have managed to shove through since like fucking Truman. Really great shit. Oh and the "important primary" state that totally "swung" opinion was a deep red, "absolutely will never vote for ANY democrat" in the general election, "should be ignored" by democrats for their primaries state (South Carolina).
Unserious dogshit country overall in every way
If it were for money, sure, it would definitely be illegal.
But I don't think there's any statutes anywhere in the USA that make "dropping out and endorsing or joining another candidate's potential cabinet" illegal.
It's literally definitionally quid pro quo which is almost always illegal somewhere if you dig hard enough. It's just become so totally normalized that no one seems to give a shit I guess.
I kinda hate discussing it around Trump/RFK because it feels so annoyingly libbed up, so I'm time machining back to spring of 2020. Pete (and the others) got a phone call presumably from Obama. All we know is he got a call. Presumably the offer was "drop out, endorse Biden, keep your mouth shut, you'll get a nice high up cushy job and we'll speak well of you in 8 years if you try again." You do for us, we do for you.
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There's that law that plainly by the language straight up bars a candidate for any office from offering a job to another candidate with conditions. "Proving it" might be difficult with most cases... which makes the RFK thing particularly hilarious because as with all shit around Trump they just do obvious corruption right out in front of us. Pete and Biden both suck shit but at least they didn't run around admitting to rat fucking. RFK was literally like shitty voice "uhhh I could uhhh fuck you over Harris uhhh please let me be the uhhhh vaccine czar uhhhh"
I don't actually expect anything to come of any of this, obviously, just mostly using it to point out another way the US is full of shit. Those positions are "supposed to be" given to people by merit basis, not by favoritism or nepotism or whatever else. And yeah all the dumbass libs would just claim Pete knew about transportation (yeah, ok, sure) or that Kamala was especially qualified for VP. I don't even know what Joe did for the others like Klob (sp and don't care to look up) and whoever was left. Warren seems to have been told to NOT drop out. Maybe they got some money from the DNC to push around their states, I dunno. Giving cash to help candidates you personally like is one thing though. Just giving an important job to some nepo dipshit who was literally only ever an evil consultant (and VP to a cop basically) is, uh, not good no matter how much the media normalizes it. VP sorta makes sense, but the Pete and RFK thing and many others from the past are just obviously exactly what they appear to be
Without any sources to back up my assertion, I am 100% certain that not every position in a Presidential administration requires Congressional approval. These are the patronage positions that can be doled out to whomever the President decides and Congress can complain but not really do anything to stop.