No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
Those are the exact words of the 22nd amendment. It's explicit. There's no ambiguity or room for other interpretations. Trump was elected twice, he's hit his limit, that's it.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
Those are the exact words of the 22nd amendment. It's explicit. There's no ambiguity or room for other interpretations. Trump was elected twice, he's hit his limit, that's it.
Arrest. Charge. Try. Convict. Execute.
Can we just skip to the end? We all know the results of the middle steps.
Skip to the end.
Who's going to do the first step though? The police? The police that are bought and paid for by the people that should be arrested? The police that are actively murdering people in the streets instead of defending them?
I keep seeing this "arrest them" and "put them in jail for life" sentiment but nobody has a valid argument of how to do that in our current system without getting disappeared.
The 22nd amendment is pretty fucking clear on this one
"But what if it means two in a row!?!?!!?"
That's a literal claim from some Republicans.
No no it has to be the first term, interrupted, then second, then third. The reason? Because they need to exclude Obama from running again.
I've heard this too. Utter insanity. Quick, dig up and reanimate the corpse of Carter.
And why wouldn't it be?
To be a Republican is to be a grifter/conman/shitstain. Cheating is always on the table.
I know it's hard to plan for all eventualities, but I really wish the founding fathers had covered things in a little more detail.
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice...regardless of whether the terms are consecutive."
The founding fathers didn’t come up with the 22nd amendment, that was done in the late 40’s after FDR was elected four times in a row. The founding fathers intentionally left that one open, I think
Yes, it was intentional. They wanted the Constitution to be revised and expanded as necessary, rather than being bad law set in stone. They were well aware they couldn't foresee the many issues that would come up, especially over time. That's why the Constitution is often described as a "framework" for the US's "laboratories of democracy".
They genuinely don't care. I've seen many clips of republicans, the whole country over, saying they'll figure out a way to get him in a third term.
He just wants to run, the 22nd says he can't be elected. Not that he can't run.
In the third term, he's gonna lower the price of gas and groceries & end the wars in Ukraine/Iran. Day 1. Bigly.
Don't forget the bestest healthcare plan ever. Aaaaaaaaaany day now.
It's a bigly plan, the most beautiful plan. You can't see it, but many people are saying it's the greatest perfect plan ever.
If we understand "now" as less of a time stamp, and more of a constantly shifting, meaningless word, it all makes sense.
I heard the new healthcare plan is dropping two weeks from "now"! And the Iran war and the genocide in Gaza will end two weeks from "now"! Oh, and Venezuela will be up and running with their new for-US-profit systems two weeks from "now" so we won't have to steal their resources ourselves! Go Trump go!
Oh, so THAT'S why the high gas prices are temporary. It all makes sense now.
The funniest part is he could do 2 of those very literally right now by just...stop attacking Iran.
Who could have predicted back in 2016 that giving this man power would turn him into a despot?
anyone with working eyes and ears
I didn't vote for him, but I was pretty sure that his plan was to hire people to do everything semi-competently so that he could focus on fucking around and enriching himself. That was a very disappointing thing to be wrong about.
Believe it or not, there was actually a small coalition of just a few hundred million people screaming this from their rooftops around the world. If only the maga crowd could've heard their message sooner.. Surely, well presented fact-based arguments would've changed their minds
They heard it. They also know that because you don't agree with them on everything that you are a dirty liberal, and thus everything you say is a lie and you should be in jail.
And they knew that only a despot would be willing to actually put political opponents in jail, so they voted for one. But then he turned out to be some kind of despot!
I suspect there is a great deal of crossover between maga supporters and flat earthers
Shockingly, I had a coworker who is one of those that thinks they're the smartest person he knows. He was one of those reddit-know-it-alls who spent a lot of time replying to people telling them they're wrong. He claimed he was one of the most well informed people because he "reads both sides". And by "reads both sides" he read the shit he agreed with and the headlines of an article from tHe OtHeR sIdE. He was also a staunch blow rogan supporter.
When he said he was "well informed" I replied "that's what a lot of flat earthers say". He got pissed and didn't even reply. A fellow coworker of ours could barely hold in the laughter
I saw the Good Liars asking donnie supporters about how old the Earth is; and you see some of the dumbest answers.
Haven't seen them probe on the flat earth thing (yet), but being a young-earther is really quite ignorant as well. Oh, and of course, schools shouldn't teach evolution, because goddidit is better for young minds to contemplate, I guess. 🙄
Also, they had no other choice. A vote for Democrats means "those people" would get welfare benefits, the border would be wide open, xtians would no longer be allowed to pray, and everyone would be trans and vegan.
They heard the message, this is what they want. They want a lawless society where they can get away with ripping people off just like the president does.
I do believe his mother said something of the sort. That he should in no way ever enter politics
I bet in his third term he will definitely release the Epstein files right guys?
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