https://xkcd.com/2875/

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It wasn’t originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington’s example and gotten false teeth.

  • @Maggoty
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    16 months ago

    Well that’s a standard no president since Jimmy Carter meets. And the Democrats used minority filibusters all the time in the 2000’s.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      6 months ago

      Well that’s a standard no president since Jimmy Carter meets.

      Carter’s Volcker Shock was an absolute give-away to Wall Street

      And the Democrats used minority filibusters all the time in the 2000’s.

      Democrats forced half as many cloture votes in 05/06, the last year Bush had a Senate majority, as Republicans invoked in 07/08.

      • @Maggoty
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        -16 months ago

        Oh no half as many? So they did do it after all?

        And dude are you really going to try and tell us the peanut farmer president was a bank man?

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          06 months ago

          Carter was a nuclear technician with a 15 year long political career fixated on privatizing the state and national economy. He inherited a peanut farm from his dying father and kept the business afloat precisely because he understood how to obtain cheap lines of credit. Carter wasn’t tilling soil in the 50s. He was a spreadsheets guy.