• snooggums
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    616 hours ago

    We already had four years so technically we would only get another four.

    Until SCOTUS says the constitution isn’t constitutional and gives him a literal crown.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      335 hours ago

      That’s the scary part. They’ll gladly approve his term limit extension.

      • @kitnaht
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        154 hours ago

        That’s how Putin did it; probably the guy guiding all of this.

        They have term limits over there in Russia as well, but they have interpreted it as “only allowed X years in a row”…so Putin installs a crony for 1 session every X years, and then magically wins the votes by a landslide every other time.

        That’s what they’ll end up doing. They’ll ‘interpret’ it as consecutive terms, and we’ll get 8 years of Trump, then 4 of Vance, then 8 of Trump, etc.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 hours ago

          Your scenario implies Trump lives to 98, and unless the preservatives in big macs are the key to longevity, I doubt he makes it that long.

          • @kitnaht
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            Yeah, I keep actually forgetting how fucking OLD that guy is…yeesh.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 hours ago

          Russian Constitution literally had this phrase “A same person cannot be a President for more than two terms in a row”, so it was already opened for an interpretation they did. This actually had changed for just “two terms” in 2020, but provided another excuse for Putin to be elected.

          Anyhow, in US Constitution the 22nd amendment says that “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”, so there is no room for interpretation. Even conservative SCOTUS would not do that.

          • Rhynoplaz
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            They’d write off Trump by then anyway. They’d hand the reigns to Vance, and go FULL project 2025 while keeping the Magats allegiance to Vance, while extending HIS term limits.

            Not that my scenario is any better.

          • @ninja
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            13 hours ago

            Run for VP with crony as pres. crony resigns. Wasn’t elected as President. Loophole!

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      155 hours ago

      He’s been saying that if he wins, nobody will ever need to vote again.