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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

Ogles proposed an amendment on Thursday that says, “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, 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 twice.”

Like other U.S. presidents, Trump is barred from running for a third White House term by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.

“President Trump’s decisive leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, suffering, and economic decline Americans have endured over the past four years,” Ogles said in a Thursday statement. “He 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.”

Trump floated the prospect of running for a third term in a joke to House GOP lawmakers during a meeting in Washington before the conference had internal leadership elections.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    9 hours ago

    I mean I’d likely instantly be fired and lose my house, healthcare, car, so would my wife and so would all my colleagues and their families (right to work state).

    I know from the end of year state of company address the company has enough funds to last 4 months without any income whatsoever, an easy time period to replace us all with scabs, especially if they have no payroll to worry about.

    When facing literal homelessness that would take maybe decades to recover from, I’d have to think very carefully about whether I’m willing to make that sacrifice on behalf of the health of a political system of a country where I’m not a citizen.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
      31·
      5 hours ago

      Honestly, the best kind of “survive but strike” would literally be to buy the bare minimum everything. I’ve already started myself. Cancel streaming services, get a cheap $20/mon cell phone plan, downgrade to the cheapest Internet connection, drive less to buy less gas. Everyone do everything in their power to spend as little as possible, collectively, across the entire country. That punches those shits in the “economy” while collectively we still mostly survive. It also means you will have a surplus of money to save up, or pay down debts faster.

      The one thing to truly make this succeed, however, is an advertising campaign to let them know we are all doing it. Billboards, ads on every DC TV/radio/stream/podcast, robocalls and emails to every government official that this won’t stop until they get their heads out of their collective asses. That part would take some capital.

      The best part of the advertising campaign is it’s basically reverse-propaganda. As more people see it, more people will start doing it.

      Edit: The propaganda should be designed to look like the US propaganda from WWII like “buy wisely - cook carefully - eat it all” to enhance the gravity of the situation.

      If that doesn’t work, and it comes down to full-on fascism, it isn’t going to matter if your family has a home or not, because we’re all collectively fucked.