There is nothing to work on, unless you think 3/4rds of state legislatures will agree to amend the constitution so that Trump can have a third term. Not gonna happen. The only way they could attempt this would be to violate the constitution.
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The more people say it's impossible, the less.they consider the options that, though wayyy out there, are how they have found ways to do what they've already done.
There may not be a single obvious loophole, but a cascade of loops -a Möbius loophole -is how they approach things.
Do not forget his remarks recently about the big mid term surprise and blue states : "they may disappear off the map completely"
Not sure how you feel about that, but even in trump's verbal diarrhoea, that seems a terrifyingly ominous statement.
The only way they could attempt this would be to violate the constitution.
I don't think they're gonna be too worried by that.
Steve Bacon: aka the Baron Harkonnen of real life
Isn't it great that all of these traitors to democracy are showing themselves and their plans in plain sight? Now the American people just need to decide how to respond.
Fascist pricks are doing something fascistic, what?!
We’ll see what the definition of term limit is
It's right there in the amendment:
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.
Donald Trump was elected twice. He is ineligible to be elected again.
It says "elected", but what is the president isn't elected? They will find a way, and with recent reality bending Supreme Court decisions or won't even be so hard.
Actually, reading the language again, I can absolutely see some shenanigans where he runs as VP for someone else who runs on a platform of "vote for me and I'll immediately resign and put Trump in charge again". It'd need the supreme court to decide if that "and" is exclusive or not, and given that half the court seems pretty happy to give up their principles of it suits their politics, I wouldn't be surprised if that worked
This seems like the most straightforward scenario. Nothing prevents trump running, or being elected, as Vice President, on the understanding that the duely elected President will step down on day 1. When they wrote the constitution, they didn't bank on a populist fascist, so the language assumes everyone plays fair.
Whether trump is in any state to do anything by then is a different question. If they find someone more useful they may simply shuffle him out of the game by declaring him mentally incompetant.
The absolute best case scenario is that they're just saying this because they know it outrages non-magas, and they love doing that. I've not seen much to support that as the probable outcome though.
Yeah. The constitution also says anyone who starts a fucking insurrection is also ineligible and yet here we are.
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According to Trump and many many in the GOP, he was elected three times.
After two years into this term, he will be disqualified twice from running again.
If I had to put money on it, I'd guess they contest the legitimacy of the next election, and he just refuses to step down - can only be elected twice, but he's just there as a care taker until a proper election can happen
Ok ok, but hear me out - what if we didn't have elections. No problem!
Yeah but he was impeached so the first time doesn't count /s
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Bannon placed second in a CPAC strawpoll
My first thought: That'd be great, there's no way he'd win
My second thought: Democrats would find a way.
My first thought: That’d be great, there’s no way he’d win
Remember, the overwhelming majority of the country thought the exact same thing about Trump in 2016.
as parent intimated: Democrats will find a way. :-(
I'll show me!
Who do I think I am, anyway?
They're putting a LOT of faith in those arteries holding up that long LMFAO
Just keep feeding him McDonald's lol
We should go fund me a lifetime supply of hamburgers and fries.
I swear to God you can hear all the grease caked inside his body when he speaks. That wheezing, wandering, droning voice has had a few too many Big Macs.
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@MicroWave "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!"
"Shocked! Shocked!"
Why do people keep responding to this like laws and tradition meananything?
What does anyone think will be different this time??
The leader of an insurrection delayed investigations until getting reelected, threatened and fired people who dared to look at him sideways, and is unapologetically defying a judge's orders while using his sentient moneybag to openly bribe politicians who say they're willing to impeach a judge for not agreeing with the president (going against the warnings of the supreme court).
Where are our papers and pens going to get the power to do anything about it when all the power sits with the president? I've said it before and I'll say it again, anyone who pushes back hard enough is going to experience The Night of the Long Knives.
I genuinely think we are days to weeks away from seeing a politician become a political prisoner. And even then, headlines will ask "are we inching closer to fascism?" And people will say, "this is what the laws are for. We just have to wait for the system to work."
Lex Luthor has taken over Metropolis and is killing anyone standing up to him, Lois Lane is sobbing over Clark Kent's mangled corpse while Jimmy Olsen assures her that Superman will show up any moment now and everything will be okay. At that same time, Perry White is telling the printer to run the headline "Luthor Shoots 61 Citizens in one day, Experts say This Could be Illegal"
Read: They still don't have a replacement for Trump.
Read: the Republican Party is dead without drumpf
Of course they do, but the issue is that too much of Trump's control over their base is from his cult of personality (somehow), not the plan itself. They don't know how to replace that. Yet.
Musk is hoping to be next. Yes, constitution doesn't allow it, but they don't intend to follow it anyway.
That's why they're so interested in making Canada part of the US. His mom is Canadian. If Canada becomes part of the US he becomes a natural born US citizen and becomes eligible to run for president. And this is one of many reasons we cannot allow ourselves to become part of the US.
They absolutely do not need Canada for this.
We are living in a post-truth world. The MAGA right do not care about the law, the facts, or even what is right.
They want power. By any means necessary.
FOX and OAN will run pieces about how Musk was born here in the states and was moved to South Africa to help run his emerald mines. They will draw up fake birth certificates, change birth records in hospitals to show he was born on an Army Base in Texas.
They'll even find the doctor that ushered his delivery.
And the Right will eat it up.
The sad thing is Trump has the means to make all of this possible. This is not figurative.
This is the nightmare scenario. And Musk will not let go of power.
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The constitution also doesn't allow an insurrectionist to be president, but here we are.