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[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 209 points 2 weeks ago

It’s impressive how hard these people lick boots.

[-] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 2 weeks ago

But also how shameless they are, doing it in full public view

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 126 points 2 weeks ago

Good fucking luck with that hurdle.

They need a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; or a conventio called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures. Then it has to be ratified by the legislatures of three-quarters of the states.

Even if they managed a super majority on both sides of Congress for Trumplefuck, there's no way they're getting 38 States to agree to that.

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 112 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think the law is a restricting factor for the trump regime.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 53 points 2 weeks ago

That's what the Trump regime wants us to think.

[-] Maiq@lemy.lol 55 points 2 weeks ago

Laws only apply if they are enforced.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 58 points 2 weeks ago

Which is why I often find myself saying the Trump admin will face one of two types of justice: vigilante or none.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Trump is ruling by executive order and no one is stopping him from doing any of it, constitutional or not.
He'll just issue an executive order to lower the threshold and at best that order gets challenged and goes to the SCOTUS, and we all know what will happen there.

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[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 126 points 2 weeks ago

It's cute how so many in the comments think the legal checks will prevent this. They don't care about the law or the Constitution in the same way they don't care about optics, hypocrisy, decorum, or process. People keep viewing this through the lense of American democracy. None of that matters to fascists.

[-] prole 27 points 1 week ago

Yeah, people don't seem to truly understand this, and I fear it will take something extreme before they do... And it's likely already too late now, let alone by then.

[-] timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

They care about the law the same way the nazi's cared about the law until the night of the long knives. I suspect their mass deportation plan is really them gearing up for the night of the long knives 2.0.

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[-] prole 94 points 1 week ago

Good job guys, you saved Palestine!

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 week ago

Fuck you, that wasn't why Trump won. It was because Dems offer nothing but the avoidance of something worse.

I'm outraged at the genocide and voted for Biden anyway. People can be mad at Dems and demand better without being responsible for their failure.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

The American people failed.

This was fucking advertised. This was chosen. This was voted for.

Stupidest populous on earth.

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 84 points 2 weeks ago

In order for it to pass, they need 290 votes in the House. The Republicans currently have 220 votes, so they would need 70 Democrats to flip.

Then it goes to the Senate where they need 67 votes. First, 60 to get past the inevitable filibuster, and with 53 votes, Republicans need 7 Democrats to flip to move it forward and 14 to pass it.

Then, the fun part, they need 38 states to ratify it. Trump did win 31 states, so he would still need 7 Harris states to ratify an amendment.

[-] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 79 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nah. They're just gonna say "whachu gonna do about it" as he sits in the office for the third time. Or the richest men in the world backing the regime will just ~~bri~~ lobby.

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[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago

“It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles said in a statement

so Biden created a bad situation for him in 4 years, yet he thinks Trump needs 8 years to undo it. Sounds like a skill issue to me.

[-] satxdude@lemm.ee 67 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine the Dems brought Obama back

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 56 points 2 weeks ago

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms...

Obama served 2 consecutive terms so would be ineligible. They literally wrote this so that only Trump would be eligible.

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[-] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 65 points 2 weeks ago

Me as a Tennessean: "I bet it's Andy Ogles"

Checks

Goddamn can I read that man like a fucking book. I'm sorry we're all trying to vote the bastard out but the State gerrymandered the district because... AND I SHIT YOU NOT... "California does it, so it's okay if we do it too". Honest to God what our State Assembly said about breaking Nashville up into a hellscape of gerrymandering.

Do know, he's an idiot IRL as well. He's the kind that's really full of himself and he's got a super high self-worth in head.

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago

What a frivolous waste of congressional speaking time. I thought these guys had real problems to solve? I thought Trump was gonna fix it all this time around? You're telling me not even 1 week into his new term and he's already thinking about how the job won't be done in time?

Conservatives are pathetic.

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[-] Metz@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago

And there it is..

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 weeks ago

Do they really expect their orange beanbag leader to still be alive in four years? And if he still is, to still be able to know his own name or speak coherently in public?

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[-] elbucho@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago

Standard traitor shit.

[-] DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A constitutional amendment required 2/3s House and Senate AND 3/4 of states. And they don’t have that. This is more bullshit to distract.

To amend the U.S. Constitution, a proposed amendment must be approved by a two-thirds majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and then ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures (38 out of 50 states). Alternatively, an amendment can be proposed by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures, but this method has never been used.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago

This is more bullshit to distract.

This is saying it louder for the people in the back. Musk's Nazi Salute isn't getting the message across? Okay, how about this?

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 1 week ago

Pretty cool how we have the freedumb to install a dictator.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

So where them 2A folk at LOL

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[-] waywardninja@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago

From the article:

Ogles’ resolution is tailored specifically to permit Trump to serve a third term, but not to allow three out of the four living former presidents to serve third terms.

It's a Trump only privilege which, given the track record, could have been assumed, unfortunately.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

On one hand: called it. On the other: fuck.

[-] htrayl@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Trump is not exactly a spring chicken. He is one mild medical event to being in the history book.

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[-] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago

FTA" "Trump “has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal,”" - He hasn't don't anything yet!! How has he 'proven himself'

[-] spooky2092 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He's proven that he's a fascist and demented psycho, so that's good enough for republicans.

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago

The Right has outgrown their use for masks.

[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To amend the United States Constitution, a proposed amendment must be approved by Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states. The process is outlined in Article V of the Constitution.

Congress: A two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate is required

Constitutional convention: Two-thirds of state legislatures must call for a convention

Ratification: Three-fourths of state legislatures or conventions must ratify the amendment

Each state legislature must vote on the amendment in an up-or-down vote

State legislatures cannot change the language of the amendment

This is DOA

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Obama returns to the presidency in 2028!

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[-] Drusas@fedia.io 25 points 2 weeks ago

Surely we would all actually show up to try to fight this, right? If it passed.

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[-] blackberry@midwest.social 23 points 1 week ago

'No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms," the amendment states. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all served two consecutive terms, and thus would be barred from being elected to a third term. But not Trump, who is the first president since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to be elected to a second, non-consecutive term.

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

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[-] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Wonderful idea, I can't wait for a third Obama term.

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[-] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

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

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