Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
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enough of the sane washing, NBC. THERE ARE NO “METHODS” to do this. the 22nd Amendment is very clear. Nobody gets to serve more than two terms. Period.
This isn’t something that “is up to debate” or “subject to ambiguity“
You’re not taking a “partisan stand” to declare the plain text of the 22nd Amendment means what it says.
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But what if there are enough willing folk in Congress to stifle the 22nd Amendment with another amendment?
After all up until 1947 there was no 22nd Amendment proposed and until 1951 if was not ratified. So in US historical terms it’s still a relatively new thing
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Amendments ALSO require a 3/4ths vote from the States to pass, and even that is insufficient, the Equal Rights Amendment has passed both Congress and the 3/4ths State requirement; the republicans just added an imaginary time limit on it’s passage. The Constitution has nothing about how long it may take to pass a proposed amendment.
The 22nd Amendment was pushed in the US by Republicans to “prevent the takeover of the United States”; apparently by a not-Republican president.
FDR was also the first president to break with George Washington’s precedent of not running after two terms.
And the 12th amendment: saying that no one not qualified to be President can be the Vice-President was passed in 1804, a mere 5 years after the Constitution was ratified.
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These would all be valid and reasoned arguments in an era when people voted with a degree of maturity and perspective. When the political process albeit with many flaws was conducting with certain rules and restraints.
When however a person who threw a temper tantrum because an election wasn’t going his way and brought a mob to Washington, who is a convicted felon whose history is littered with scandal still is voted in as president for a second time the points of those arguments can become moot.
Those who drafted the 22nd amendment and saw it passed were concerned about the basis on which the USA operates as a democracy and placed that above their own ambitions.
In this current frenetic era in which a cultish movement has taken hold of one political party in the US, has placed their action toy at its head and attacks anything it does not like as ‘woke’ or ‘fake news’, can the USA depend upon its own people as a body to ensure the democracy they took for granted holds.
The most disturbing aspect was that 90,000,000 did not vote, most because they couldn’t see any difference between Trump and Harris.
I would like to be proven very, very wrong, but I fear for the very structure and integrity of the USA as it has been known.
Nations and empires seeming to be strong and resilient eventually fell, the usual factor being internal.
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And so it begins….
Pity Help the USA – Most of the 90,000,000 folk who didn’t vote have a lot to answer for
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Hi Roger. Yes but things are beginning to change in interesting ways. Chuck Schumer head of the Democrats in the Senate gave in to tRump after getting a few calls from wealthy Wall Street donors is having his butt handed to him in a spike filled basket. Younger democrats are already stepping up and hammering the capitulation to the radical take over of the US but those that won by a very slim margin but are ruling like gods who won a huge majority. And in recent elections the republicans are in deep trouble even in the deepest red / republican areas. People who supported him have stopped listening to the rhetoric and hype spewed by the cult leaders but seeing with their own eyes they are getting screwed with no lube or kisses. Hugs
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I do hope for you, each and every one not taken in by this great folly that is the support for Trump that there will be a steady civil and civic turning against him and his and that by the end of his tenure his authority, court and support base will be in ruins.
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