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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Well if the heritage Foundation is going to follow the book of revelation, he needs to be there for 7.5 years.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

California could be broken into 66 Wyoming-sized states.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 12 points 3 days ago

Just shoot however many states are missing govenors in the head, as the SC has ruled the president can order anything illegal. Repeat until passed.

The US has rotten so much on the inside over the past decades, that this decline of the nation is inevitable. Question is only, if people will let the fascists control the decline until the country lies in rubbles, or if people will fight to create a new nation.

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Pretty fucking gross if you ask me.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just imagine how cheap the eggs will be!

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sorry if I have no faith in the US democracy and law system after a literal felon who staged a coup got re elected, had his bestie pull a bunch of nazi salutes while he was busy pardoning literal violent criminals who did the coup, made everyone a woman AND started a system of snitching on your neighbor to get them removed for noncrimes.

And lets not forget people enforcing the law are now his cronies.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 12 points 3 days ago

I mean, it’s gonna. Every worst case thing is happening all over the place. The constitution is only as good as the people upholding it.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 3 days ago

boot-throating cucks

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