Do they really expect their orange beanbag leader to still be alive in four years? And if he still is, to still be able to know his own name or speak coherently in public?
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He only needs to stagger over the four-year line before dropping dead, and Republicans get to stay in charge for four more years.
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Actuarial tables for an obese guy of his age reckon 50/50 chance of making it to the end of his term. Of course he has access to better healthcare than most.
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On one hand: called it. On the other: fuck.
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.
They introduce it now, and even some conservatives laugh it off as "just a joke," but within the next 4 years, it will be raised many more times, each time with them getting more serious. They put it out there like this so it's less shocking the second, third, and fourth time you hear it. By the end, every conservative bootlicking moron will be lining up to say "presidents should be allowed to have an uninterrupted span of 8 years of rule so as to enact the agenda we 'voted' for!"
It's predictable. I'm going to buy some guns and start hitting the range.
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Well if the heritage Foundation is going to follow the book of revelation, he needs to be there for 7.5 years.
Pretty fucking gross if you ask me.
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.
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Huh, the stupid party always screaming dumb things like "term limits" just cannot prostrate themselves enough in front of donvict, and completely reversing themselves.
Imagine that.
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.
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