If the Supreme Court rules that the 14th amendment doesn’t apply to Trump, what’s to stop them doing to the same with the 22nd amendment? That’s the danger of when we just start ignoring sections of the Constitution just because they’re inconvenient or we’re afraid his supporters will turn violent again.
Here’s how TFG (or anyone else) can get around the 22nd amendment: The amendment states that no one shall be “ELECTED to the office of the President more than twice” (my emphasis). That means that a President, having served two full terms based on his own election, could run as Vice President with someone else, and then that person could resign at slightly after noon on January 20, leaving the previous President to serve as President again.
Now, the rest of that clause states that having “held the office of President…for more than two years of [another’s] term”, our hypothetical president could then not be “elected” again. Note that the amendment uses the word “elected“ once more, not “serve” or “hold the office”. So, I would aver, there’s nothing Constitutionally preventing our hypothetical President-for-life from pulling this “run as Vice President” malarkey more than once. I’m sure this makes us all feel better. 🤔😉😊
"Entitled" is tied with "Liar" for largest in any word cloud of descriptions of Turnip. However, 56000 odd votes (and I do mean ODD, because they had to be the true believers and fanatics to caucus in Iowa), and that was barely over half of the nutcases that turned out, who were only 15% of registered Republicans in the state, is by no means a landslide or any sort of indication of how slightly more rational and less deluded voters will vote in other states.
We shouldn’t pause even for a moment in our efforts to make sure Trump loses by historic margins. It’s not exaggeration that our democracy depends on it.
But the near total declarations, even here in The Banter, that Trump’s win in Iowa was some kind of decisive, commanding win is bullshit. 49% of hard-core Republicans voted for someone else.
Trump squeaked out a win by the narrowest of margins.
Gen Z -- the generation that will be most affected by what Trump brings in year one: a nationwide abortion ban, end of the EPA, FDA, consumer product protection bureau, national parks, and the collapse of Europe (where they long to take selfies while finding themselves) etc. -- is too young and naive to A.) appreciate what Democracy is, B.) appreciate what the above mentioned freedoms mean for them, C.) that autocracy isn't something you get to "vote out next time". So they will protest vote about Gaza, being oblivious to the complexity of that conflict or all the other catastrophes happening worldwide. Worrying about Biden's age is racist dogwhistle for "no female black president". Biden needs to clearly spell out -- in tik tok videos -- what youth life will be like under Trump. And he must do the same for all other centrist and liberal leaning communities who feel "life wasn't so bad" under Trump, plum forgetting about empty store shelves, closed restaurants, no concerts and festivals, and no toilet paper (which a generation before was the metaphor for life under a dictatorship).
That’s exactly what it is. Their business model requires Republican crimes and Democratic accomplishments both be downplayed so the election is a “horse race”. That’s what keeps people watching and the ad dollars flowing and the book deals coming.
Millions of Americans WANT this to happen. They WANT America to become a dictatorship under a President-for-Life who uses the police arms to imprison his enemies.
Why? Because he'll eliminate the opposition, muzzle the press, get beggars off the street corners, lower taxes, improve government services, rebuild pride in America...and make the trains run on time.
Just like all the other dictators promised. And look what happened to them.
That's because they are unfamiliar with Stalin's Purges and Hitler's Knight of the Long Knives.
Revolutions are often nourished by the blood of their makers. Robespierre went to the guillotine a year later. Trotsky got the axe from Stalin in Mexico City.
The Americans did better...Thomas Paine died in obscurity, but that's about it. Heck, we even welcomed surrendering British and Hessian troops in various battles, who stayed here, married local girls, and either set up businesses, farmed, or headed out to fill up the Northwest Territory.
We still do that...under Clinton, the Undersecretary of State for African Affairs was Donald Yamamoto, a Columbia professor.
His grandfather dreamed up the attack on Pearl Harbor.
If the Supreme Court rules that the 14th amendment doesn’t apply to Trump, what’s to stop them doing to the same with the 22nd amendment? That’s the danger of when we just start ignoring sections of the Constitution just because they’re inconvenient or we’re afraid his supporters will turn violent again.
Here’s how TFG (or anyone else) can get around the 22nd amendment: The amendment states that no one shall be “ELECTED to the office of the President more than twice” (my emphasis). That means that a President, having served two full terms based on his own election, could run as Vice President with someone else, and then that person could resign at slightly after noon on January 20, leaving the previous President to serve as President again.
Now, the rest of that clause states that having “held the office of President…for more than two years of [another’s] term”, our hypothetical president could then not be “elected” again. Note that the amendment uses the word “elected“ once more, not “serve” or “hold the office”. So, I would aver, there’s nothing Constitutionally preventing our hypothetical President-for-life from pulling this “run as Vice President” malarkey more than once. I’m sure this makes us all feel better. 🤔😉😊
🍊 💩 might be younger than Biden, but he's hardly the picture of health. Mentally and physically.
"Entitled" is tied with "Liar" for largest in any word cloud of descriptions of Turnip. However, 56000 odd votes (and I do mean ODD, because they had to be the true believers and fanatics to caucus in Iowa), and that was barely over half of the nutcases that turned out, who were only 15% of registered Republicans in the state, is by no means a landslide or any sort of indication of how slightly more rational and less deluded voters will vote in other states.
Exactly.
We shouldn’t pause even for a moment in our efforts to make sure Trump loses by historic margins. It’s not exaggeration that our democracy depends on it.
But the near total declarations, even here in The Banter, that Trump’s win in Iowa was some kind of decisive, commanding win is bullshit. 49% of hard-core Republicans voted for someone else.
Trump squeaked out a win by the narrowest of margins.
Gen Z -- the generation that will be most affected by what Trump brings in year one: a nationwide abortion ban, end of the EPA, FDA, consumer product protection bureau, national parks, and the collapse of Europe (where they long to take selfies while finding themselves) etc. -- is too young and naive to A.) appreciate what Democracy is, B.) appreciate what the above mentioned freedoms mean for them, C.) that autocracy isn't something you get to "vote out next time". So they will protest vote about Gaza, being oblivious to the complexity of that conflict or all the other catastrophes happening worldwide. Worrying about Biden's age is racist dogwhistle for "no female black president". Biden needs to clearly spell out -- in tik tok videos -- what youth life will be like under Trump. And he must do the same for all other centrist and liberal leaning communities who feel "life wasn't so bad" under Trump, plum forgetting about empty store shelves, closed restaurants, no concerts and festivals, and no toilet paper (which a generation before was the metaphor for life under a dictatorship).
I don't know that they're so much ignoring as they are deciding that he is good for ratings and implicitly supporting him because of that.
That’s exactly what it is. Their business model requires Republican crimes and Democratic accomplishments both be downplayed so the election is a “horse race”. That’s what keeps people watching and the ad dollars flowing and the book deals coming.
A man who would have at his disposal the world's largest nuclear arsenal and standing army...
If this doesn't terrify you, it should.
Millions of Americans WANT this to happen. They WANT America to become a dictatorship under a President-for-Life who uses the police arms to imprison his enemies.
Why? Because he'll eliminate the opposition, muzzle the press, get beggars off the street corners, lower taxes, improve government services, rebuild pride in America...and make the trains run on time.
Just like all the other dictators promised. And look what happened to them.
And, of course, the enemies he’ll imprison are always someone else. None of his supporters believes a police state would ever also turn on them.
That's because they are unfamiliar with Stalin's Purges and Hitler's Knight of the Long Knives.
Revolutions are often nourished by the blood of their makers. Robespierre went to the guillotine a year later. Trotsky got the axe from Stalin in Mexico City.
The Americans did better...Thomas Paine died in obscurity, but that's about it. Heck, we even welcomed surrendering British and Hessian troops in various battles, who stayed here, married local girls, and either set up businesses, farmed, or headed out to fill up the Northwest Territory.
We still do that...under Clinton, the Undersecretary of State for African Affairs was Donald Yamamoto, a Columbia professor.
His grandfather dreamed up the attack on Pearl Harbor.