• Makeshift
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    1 day ago

    He has 2 options.

    First is the obvious saying that there’s nothing stopping him from running for a 3rd term, and once again using Jim Crow era vote suppression and other slimy tricks to win again.

    The second option is to just declare that presidency is a for-life position. He can do that, after all.

    And he’s making that last part perfectly clear. He is above the law. There are no consequences for him breaking the law, and nothing stopping him from doing whatever he wants. The people who could are so polite that if words won’t stop him, they say more words at him. That’ll do it!

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      5 hours ago

      First is the obvious saying that there’s nothing stopping him from running for a 3rd term

      The 22nd Amendment does. And it would take 38 states to vote to change that.

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        4 hours ago

        Isn’t there something about insurrectionists not being allowed to be president?

        We’re about to allow an insurrectionist to be president.

        Pretty sure no silly little written amendment on a piece of parchment will stop him. They sure haven’t before. Those rules only apply when HE wants them to.