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There's nothing to be gained from platforming fascists like cucker.
Mitch realizes that conservative Republicans have lost their party to MAGA.
He does more then shit his diaper on stage?
American politics looks like a fucking hospice.
This made me think about a possible third term for Trump, this is without changing the rules.
Trump completes his next term, then campaigns again, this time for vice president, with a puppet as a running mate.
The puppet will, shortly after taking office, declare to step down for health reasons and Trump will be president again.
There is as far as I know, no rule preventing this.
If they have control of the house, Supreme Court, senate, and presidency then they can just change laws or ratify whatever they want including term limits for president. That’s the way I would see if going.
He's 78 and displaying moderate dementia symptoms. I wouldn't worry about a third term.
Also known as the Medwedew move. But I doubt Trump will manage one full term, let alone two.
The Vice President must be eligible to be president. Obama is not eligible for the VP position.
This is not quite accurate. The vice president must be eligible to be the President, not to be elected President. The 22nd amendment has some very specific language.
"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."
It prevents someone from being elected President, but does not make the person ineligible to be the President since it only restricts that one method of gaining the office. A person can definitely become President through succession even if they have served their full two terms already...at least by the constitution as written.
Representative Trump could make it work though.
The reality, however, is that they'll just ignore the Constitution.
Huh, I did not know that, thanks!
You can’t be vice president if you’re not eligible to be president, it’s in the constitution. 12th amendment.
The Supreme Court will rule that nobody has standing to bring a challenge based on the 12th Amendment. Kind of like what they did to the Emoluments Clause.
The reason I made my comment was due to this paper:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1012/
I hope I am wrong or that we won't have to find out....
Interesting, thank you!
we can only hope their are repugs that oppose him. in the final push many will cave
Everything's a goddamn coup with these people.
Scheduling legislative leadership elections at an allowed time is a coup against a guy who is currently not in office?
K.
It's only a coup if it's against them. If they're orchestrating ir, it's "being patriotic."
Ya, I think I have to do some researching into how to block those fake click-bait news :-/
I assume holding the vote early is so incoming MAGA senators don't get a say.
It's so he can set some terms such as blind ballots, which really helps republicans align with democrats in choosing without fear of retaliation and that's why they're all losing their minds over this. Tucker Carlson is screaming at people to call their senators and demand that they back Rick Scott because now they have no control over how any republican chooses to vote.
So hopefully Mitch succeeds in turning the government into a total do-nothing circus despite Trump possibly controlling the supreme court and all three branches of the government. GOP might fucking implode like the Whigs finally, MAGA spending all their time and energy trying to unseat traditional republicans, that deal
Except January 6th, apparently
The goal is to use the word coup often so that the word loses its punch, that way when an actual coup happens people will just shrug when it's reported and think it's just a minor occurrence.