President Donald Trump has hinted at the possibility of somehow serving a third term in office.
  • Emerald@lemmy.world
    54·
    6 hours 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.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      413·
      2 hours 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
        21·
        1 hour ago

        The American people failed.

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

        Stupidest populous on earth.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 hours 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.

  • Ænima@lemm.ee
    90·
    9 hours 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.

    • TimmyDeanSausage @lemmy.world
      10·
      5 hours 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.

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      5 hours ago

      After four years of them being in power, he’ll probably just be able to…not leave, regardless of any election. Who would stop him?

      • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 hours ago

        Presumably someone with better aim than the last shooter.

        I’d be very careful as a wannabe dictator in a land with this many guns. The next four years are going to be tense for everyone.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      19·
      6 hours 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.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      21·
      2 hours ago

      In the end, the country isn’t a democracy. It’s a complicated system with complicated interactions.

      It’s really not impossible that a democracy turns into fascism.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    691·
    10 hours 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.

  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
    57·
    11 hours 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.