If they aren't on that list, though, they at least COULD be clean:

E.g., I'm not on that list, and I'm clean. It's not too hard to imagine being both absent from the list and clean, since that describes the majority of everyone reading this.

But if I were on that list (assuming the list is purely of deepstate-aligned and/or pedo criminal filth), then there's no way I even COULD be clean.

If they aren't on that list, though, they at least COULD be clean:

E.g., I'm not on that list, and I'm clean. (: Said the anonymous Internet user, but in this case it's not too hard to imagine being both absent from the list and clean, since that describes the majority of everyone reading this.)

But if I were on that list (assuming the list is purely of deepstate-aligned and/or pedo criminal filth), then there's no way I even COULD be clean.