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[-] crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago

He is losing the narrative control over his base. Cracks....cracks forming!

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago
[-] don@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 20 points 1 week ago
[-] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

"I LOVE THE UNEDUCATED"

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

This is literally the last person on earth that understands this as the situation.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago

Know what? Good for them.

[-] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Starting to think, in general.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

She will continue to vote Republican though, which is what matters since Trump can't run again anyway.

[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago
[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

If he gets another 'term' it won't be from running for office.

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Vance is gonna run in 2028 and "step down", since the 22nd amendment states no on can be elected twice. That way, Trump wasn't elected, Vance was. They'll just make it very clear that a vote for Vance is a vote for trump.

[-] teft@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

No one ineligible for the presidency can hold the office of vp so that wouldn't work unless they made trump speaker of the house and the pres and veep both resigned or were defenestrated.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That’s interesting…

But I don’t think it says anywhere that the speaker of the house has to be an elected member of congress?

[-] teft@piefed.world 2 points 1 week ago

Nope. It can be anyone except someone already appointed in the executive branch. It’s just tradition that the speaker was a representative.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

But that's just it, the loophole would be that he is eligible to be president, but just that he can't be elected as such. It's pretty dumb but the phrasing of the 22nd does use the word "elected", clearly we all know the intent but the words may have undermined the spirit.

Either way, both the VP and the president have the same stated basic requirements, but the 22nd amendment makes no statement of the VP. While common sense suggests it's dumb to have a person that hit the term limit as VP, it is not expressly codified.

So no matter the interpretation of the 22nd amendment, it seems like he could be VP. If you have a sane interpretation of the 22nd amendment as a hard term limit, then the succession would skip such a VP, just like it would skip a foreign born person.

[-] teft@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago

The 12th amendment states no person ineligible for the presidency can hold the vice presidency.

The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I'm surprised people here think he's going to live that long. He's so old...

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Did he pull a Hillary "basket-of-deplorables" Clinton?

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Except using it to describe a large portion of his base.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's not the first time, the first time was in 2020 when he tried to push the covid vaccine as his great achievement. Which incidentally is something I will give him credit for.

But yeah, I'm cautiously hopeful. I think this is an opportunity the left has to actually reach people if we aren't dicks to them. If we're honest and treat them like people who got suckered into a cult or a long con we may get some folks to see what an evil sonofabitch he is

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