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In order for it to pass, they need 290 votes in the House. The Republicans currently have 220 votes, so they would need 70 Democrats to flip.
Then it goes to the Senate where they need 67 votes. First, 60 to get past the inevitable filibuster, and with 53 votes, Republicans need 7 Democrats to flip to move it forward and 14 to pass it.
Then, the fun part, they need 38 states to ratify it. Trump did win 31 states, so he would still need 7 Harris states to ratify an amendment.
FTA" "Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal,”" - He hasn't don't anything yet!! How has he 'proven himself'
Me as a Tennessean: "I bet it's Andy Ogles"
Checks
Goddamn can I read that man like a fucking book. I'm sorry we're all trying to vote the bastard out but the State gerrymandered the district because... AND I SHIT YOU NOT... "California does it, so it's okay if we do it too". Honest to God what our State Assembly said about breaking Nashville up into a hellscape of gerrymandering.
Do know, he's an idiot IRL as well. He's the kind that's really full of himself and he's got a super high self-worth in head.
Standard traitor shit.
Surely we would all actually show up to try to fight this, right? If it passed.
Absolutely. People talk about another civil war. If you start hearing about spontaneous violence in the streets, that's when you need to worry. I think if this actually passed, we'd start hearing about stuff like that.
Realistically, Republicans know this has no chance of passing. Frankly, I think this is just mean-spirited trolling--which is a good indicator of the state of our politics. We want to see the other side suffer.
Well if the heritage Foundation is going to follow the book of revelation, he needs to be there for 7.5 years.
On one hand: called it. On the other: fuck.
That will never happen, legally, anyway.
However
22nd amendment says:
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. ...
So what they are gonna do is that:
They are gonna argue that presidents are not "elected" but appointed by the Electoral College, therefore the 22nd amendment doesn't apply and hereby null and void.
Or just use elect VP + accension to presidency loophole, and run a dead person as President, then trump as VP, since the placeholder name they put for president isn't alive, VP become president.
Or just cast placeholder names for presidency and VP, and use the Speaker role as acting president.
There are so many loopholes that doesn't require repealing 22nd amendment.
The 1st is a stretch. To goes so far beyond the meaning and precedent that you might as well annul the whole constitution at that point.
The 2nd doesn't work, because you must be eligible for president to run as vice president.
As for the speaker, maybe.
The 2nd doesn’t work, because you must be eligible for president to run as vice president.
The 22nd amendment is worded in a way that could be interpreted as an eligibility to run for the presidency, not an eligibility to be the president. Theoretically, the supreme court step in and give their interpretation of it.
I mean, it’s gonna. Every worst case thing is happening all over the place. The constitution is only as good as the people upholding it.
Stop hand wringing in here. It's fucking stupid, and a PR play. You need 38 states for a constitutional amendment, and that isn't happening however you slice it.
It wouldn't even get that far. You need either two thirds of both House and Senate or for two thirds of the states to call for a constitutional convention just to propose an amendment.
Just shoot however many states are missing govenors in the head, as the SC has ruled the president can order anything illegal. Repeat until passed.
The US has rotten so much on the inside over the past decades, that this decline of the nation is inevitable. Question is only, if people will let the fascists control the decline until the country lies in rubbles, or if people will fight to create a new nation.
Bold to assume he would even be elected again after 4 years of fucking it up. He wasn’t last time.
Bold of you to assume the next elections would be fair.
Bold of you to assume there'd be more elections...
/s
I don't think that's sarcasm, is it? It sounds like a realistic concern, though fraudulent show-elections are more likely at first.
It was just in case 😉
Personally I think he'll try and extend term lengths too.