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He will be too old. All presidents should follow the 2 term rule. FDR should have followed it.

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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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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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The 1st is a stretch. To goes so far beyond the meaning and precedent that you might as well annul the whole constitution at that point.

The 2nd doesn’t work, because you must be eligible for president to run as vice president.

As for the speaker, maybe.

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The 2nd doesn’t work, because you must be eligible for president to run as vice president.

The 22nd amendment is worded in a way that could be interpreted as an eligibility to run for the presidency, not an eligibility to be the president. Theoretically, the supreme court step in and give their interpretation of it.

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Read the document. It specifically calls out the VP for this. You can’t be elected VP if you can’t be elected president.

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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.

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79 points

Good job guys, you saved Palestine!

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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.

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43 points

The American people failed.

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

Stupidest populous on earth.

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How is any of this “chosen” when everything is gerrymandered and rigged?

Our biggest fault was being the frog who stayed in the water while it was heating up. We have just slowly been giving up freedoms with a little fuss but not enough to matter. We need to learn to say no firmly and with conviction.

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3 points

I’m with you until the last sentence. Fewer than 50% of American voters voted for Trump.

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The avoidance of all of this is probably the single most motivating thing in existence. Implying otherwise is strange.

You don’t sleep in your actively burning home because none of the local hotels tickle your fancy.

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Which is why I voted for the lady who refused to condemn genocide. What are you arguing?

Dems are center right. They have been for a long time because of cold war propaganda and brainwashing. That doesn’t mean I won’t vote against fascism. It means we need better alternatives.

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Why are y’all still fighting about this? Your farce of an election is over, what purpose does this ceaseless bickering serve?

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Pretty fucking gross if you ask me.

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26 points

Obama returns to the presidency in 2028!

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3 points

Not paying attention. He already served two consecutive terms. Can’t run for a third unless you win a term them lose a term then win a term and need a third term to actually get shit done.

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''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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It doesn’t really matter. Getting a new constitutional amendment ratified is basically impossible at this point.

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bet they try to take it to the supreme court “whaaa the congress won’t give me a dictatorship whaaa” and the court just fucks us all.

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