He’s already old as fuck and declining. No way he’d be mentally fit to run in 4 years, let alone finish a 3rd term.
He wasn’t mentally fit this time and that didn’t stop the hordes of magas lining up to vote for him. I have no doubt that they’ll be fine voting for the weekend at donny’s version of trump.
This time they’ll hook an AI trained on his posts and the gibbering of monkeys to Twitter and nobody will be able to tell the difference.
Technically, he could run as VP with the explicit plan to have the actual president step down as soon as they’re in.
But I don’t know if Trump would even be down for that. He just wants to run for a third term full stop.
There is a part of the constitution that prohibits someone that has completed 2 terms as president from being vp afterwards.
My understanding is because of the way its worded that it could be generously interpreted by SCOTUS to favor Trump running as VP. I can’t remember the specifics but I remember reading such.
The 12th amendment prohibits anyone disqualified from running for POTUS from being VP. It’s quite clear.
He will run and the supreme court wont shit about it by citing some bullshit legal ambiguity. Democrats in the house will whine and then say they can’t do anything about it while waving small little signs to show their indifference.
Easy, the founding fathers didn’t say anything about term limits.
Bingo
Have they actually tried arguing that constitutional amendments are unconstitutional?
Republicans are already ignoring constitutional amendments like separation of church and state with teachers having to teach the holy bible in Oklahoma. The right doesn’t even need to rule something as unconstitutial the supreme court simply ignores them
The argument made for Trump being able to run for a 3rd term is that he didn’t have two consecutive terms. The rule of law in this country is a joke. Nobody is held accountable for any crimes, if he runs nobody is going to stop him.
OK I was asking in context of the founding fathers comment though
The constitution is an living document. The founding fathers created it as something that changes with the times. As long as the law is amended to the constitution it can’t be ruiled unconstitutional because it IS a part of the constitution. It takes a 2/3rds majority to amend the constitution and the president has to sign off on it though I think the pres can be sidestepped with a super majority vote. Amendments can be removed too with enough votes. If congress and the president decided that our government wanted turn into a monarchy then they would need to amend a monarchy into the constitution and they’d have to vote on removing term limits from the constitution. If congress decided that every one has a right to a free Nintendo switch 2 then that could be amenended too and then every american would receive a Nintendo switch. Anything can be amended!
Federal law isn’t part of the constitution and the supreme courts can rule any law unconstitutional of it violates any of the amenents. Abortion was never amended and thats why states can get away with outlawing abortion while other states can allow it.
This system only works if the checks and balances are actually working and the laws are enforced. The founding fathers knew the system would break down one day and thats why we have the second amendment.
OK but that still wasn’t my question.
But don’t worry about it
“The constitutional amendment only applies to Harry Truman”
Right wing voters will vote for him again and leftists will step aside and say the democrats are just as bad
Third term is on the table? Obama should run that’d shut them up really quick.
He’s too much of a boy scout to ever do that.
What i’d do to turn back the clock to Obama’s era. I have my doubts now I’ll even be alive for a better president
Neither are we
Show him the 2024 A24 Civil War movie… TV is the only thing he understands and that’ll scare him straight
I hate that A24 made a documentary of our near future.
They tried hard to focus on the moment and not “what lead to this”… but even so it was really on the nose
Extra extra, 80 year old fat man thinks he is going to live 8 more years
I believe death by an AR-15 bullet is considered dying of natural causes in America.
Hopefully Trump dies of a natural cause, tonight.
Let’s just hope The Simpsons are actually predicting the future
because Lisa will become president and fix everything after trump bankrupted and robbed the place? sigh, yeah
So much for the “oh he’s just joking” excuse
He’s been gaslighting for over a decade now.
Remember when Obama was asked if he could run for a third, and he said he couldn’t because it’s not allowed. Imagine a President who respects the law, the Constitution, and the will of the people via Congress. Irony is that it was Republicans who put in place the term limits, so Trump is even against his party’s previous mandate.
I mean Obama did drone strike an American citizen without due process but respecting some laws is better than none.
I also remember republicans freaking out about how Obama was going to run for a third term and declare himself king even though there was absolutely no indication that anyone thought that was a good idea. He was just popular and they couldn’t handle it.
I’m sure the magats are eating it up. When are the rest of us revolting?
When the rest of us pacifist lefties, and i am also including you the person I’m replying to, buys a gun. So far, the Republicans overwhelmingly own more guns and train more often and would wipe us all out from the comfort of their diabetic mobility scooters.
Right now.
Walk the walk.
Aye
It means, “yes I agree”
They have been, you just aren’t hearing about it because they don’t want you to hear about it. People are fucking pissed.
Yeah I know people are pissed. So I guess I’m watching for when we mount a resistance. I would be a shot leader for it, and I must admit, I’m afraid, I’m afraid of what it will mean, but still somewhat ready to join.
I thought it was the magas who were revolting.
Oh, you mean like revolution.
Revolutioning? I guess I could have said starting the revolution.
Naw, you were clear. I was just making a joke.
English is a silly language.
Cool.
Your party has proven that one can avoid taxes, but I don’t think you can avoid death as well.
Surprised Microsoft hasn’t pushed the person who wrote that out of a window
What does he have to do to be taken seriously? It’s like a man on an active shooting spree and everyone says “he’s just kidding”
HahahAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Ok we get it. You want us to try something. Message couldn’t be clearer.
