• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Great news to see Republicans thinking about anyone besides Trump running for an illegal 3rd term.

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      3 days ago

      The MAGAs are done with Trump, they don’t want a 3rd term. He did his job and got MAGA into power, now it’s time to toss the Useful Idiot aside, and get down to the job of real oppression.

      The good news is that there are all sorts of right wing whack jobs who feel like America can’t survive without them, and nobody else, in charge, so the MAGA primary is going to be an even bigger circus than usual, with all of them trying to out-extreme each other. I would not be surprised at all to see some candidates advocating for work camps for their political enemies.

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          Can you explain? I thought the amendment thing said he just can’t be elected president. Or does it say he can’t be elected vice president too?

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            if you are ineligible to be president you cannot be “in line” to be president such as a vp.

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              Why wouldn’t he be eligible? The wording of your amendment specifically says “shall not be elected” clearly that means that becoming president by other means is fine, otherwise it would have said “may not serve as president” or just may not be president.

              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.

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                2 days ago

                because one, if elected as vp, and needing to become p is, by some odd logic considered “elected.”

                it’s why voting is important.

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                  But it doesn’t say he can’t be elected as vice president, only he can’t be elected president. By being elected as VP he’s not being elected president.

                  You’ve just said it can’t happen, not explained what would actually stop it happening.

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                    i reckon it’s not as black and white as i portrayed it to be earlier because, it makes sense to me that someone who is not elig to be pres through voting cannot therefore be vp through the same channels of voting.

                    there is debate.

                    i hold however hope that it will get shut down and become moot anyway.

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              His people will just “interpret” what the corpse means, much as they currently “interpret” what he means after one of his verbal diarhhea’s. The orange cunt can’t speak normal English anyway, and half the country has been sane washing him for years. Nothing would change if he wasn’t actually wasting oxygen by breathing.

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        4 days ago

        He’d still be elected in a way that could be contested, whereas the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress. So the method we expect is Vance/Some Asshole and then they both resign after swearing in, making Trump president again. Although this looks less and less likely as Republicans splinter.

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        4 days ago

        That absolutely will not happen, you underestimate how power hungry all of these clowns are.

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          3 days ago

          Exactly. There are a LOT narcissist MAGA psychopaths calculating their strategies for the post-Trump era. They want him out of the way.