Trump's Third Term

[Trebuchet]

There's this.


Maga weirdos sure know how to gaslight.

My post you reference was on January 10. Two weeks ago.

 

[Resume]

My post you reference was on January 10. Two weeks ago.

Yes, I updated the situation.

 

[Andy_Ross]

wrong thread

 

[Norman Alexander]

Any failings will be marketed internally as "all the Democrats fault for not allowing us to run rampant". And it will be lapped up...until enough Americans rebel and take back what is rightfully theirs. I suggest some drunken dress-ups pushing a few tea-chests into Boston Harbour should do the trick.

It's going to be a mess...

I'm just revisiting this. I was wrong. Dreadfully wrong.

It's going to be a class-1, grade-A, combined-armed-forces, end-to-end, batteries-included, full-scale, FUBARed ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ mess.

 

[ThatGuy11200]

This question is for people who know. What checks are there to prevent SCOTUS from making arbitrary decisions?

 

[The Don]

This question is for people who know. What checks are there to prevent SCOTUS from making arbitrary decisions?

In theory, plenty. In practice, very few.

They're supposed to make rulings based on the law but increasingly they're doing this based on what they imagine the lawmakers had in mind when they made the law rather then what they wrote down so it's become a free for all

 

[sphenisc]

And as ever - who is going to enforce a decision against Trump?

This question is for people who know. What checks are there to prevent SCOTUS from making arbitrary decisions?

You guys should really have a well regulated militia to deal with this kind of thing.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

This question is for people who know. What checks are there to prevent SCOTUS from making arbitrary decisions?

noted legal scholar and historian Donald Trump proposed a solution based on a broad interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.

 

[zooterkin]

You guys should really have a well regulated militia to deal with this kind of thing.

Or a judicial system that does not depend on political affiliation for advancement.

 

[TragicMonkey]

This question is for people who know. What checks are there to prevent SCOTUS from making arbitrary decisions?

A steady supply of luxury RVs and expensive vacations keeps things steady, and is all perfectly acceptable. They said so themselves.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

So one term in, one term with a bookmark flunky in, then the next term in, then the bookmark. Repeat until death.

He could even borrow Medvedev off Putain.

 

[Regnad Kcin]

Unless SCOTUS finds a new way to interpret the (22nd ?) amendment - rather like they did with the 2nd.

They may find that the amendment really meant no more than two consecutive terms.....

And 14:3.

 

[AmyStrange]

Of course, he's just joking... right?


Trump Asks Mike Johnson if He’ll Allow Prez a Third Term
Story by William Vaillancourt

Donald Trump again publicly mused about serving further presidential terms Monday, asking Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson whether he was “allowed to”—just a few days after another House Republican introduced legislation to enable just that.

“I’ve raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can’t use for myself, but I’m not 100 percent sure,” Trump told House Republicans in Doral, Florida. “I think I’m not allowed to run again.”

Turning to Johnson, a former constitutional lawyer, Trump asked, “Am I allowed to run again? Mike, I better not get you involved in that argument.”

Just two days prior in Las Vegas, Trump spoke about serving “three times or four times.”

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[a_unique_person]

At least he really likes his job. How many of us can say that?

 

[The Don]

At least he really likes his job. How many of us can say that?

Except he doesn't.

He likes his job title and he likes play acting President but he has no interest in actually buckling down and properly performing the role of President.

 

[angrysoba]

A steady supply of luxury RVs and expensive vacations keeps things steady, and is all perfectly acceptable. They said so themselves.

My theory on the RV is that it's an early retirement gift.

I mean, this is Clarence Thomas we are talking about. It is pretty clear which way he is ruling on everything. So, now that Trump is in charge, it is time to retire and let some 35 year old Federalist Society dweeb take over who will be there for the next forty or fifty years or so.

 

[a_unique_person]

Except he doesn't.

He likes his job title and he likes play acting President but he has no interest in actually buckling down and properly performing the role of President.

That's how he presidents. All the fun and none of the toil.

 

[SteveAitch]

Except he doesn't.

He likes his job title and he likes play acting President but he has no interest in actually buckling down and properly performing the role of President.

Just like Boris Johnson's approach to being PM of the UK.

 

[Darat]

My theory on the RV is that it's an early retirement gift.

I mean, this is Clarence Thomas we are talking about. It is pretty clear which way he is ruling on everything. So, now that Trump is in charge, it is time to retire and let some 35 year old Federalist Society dweeb take over who will be there for the next forty or fifty years or so.

Doubt we will see any "early" retirements, they all need to stay in place so that they can rule what they've done is not a breach of ethics and even if it was there are no laws about it so it's all fine. The money is only resting in their accounts.

 

[angrysoba]

Doubt we will see any "early" retirements, they all need to stay in place so that they can rule what they've done is not a breach of ethics and even if it was there are no laws about it so it's all fine. The money is only resting in their accounts.

Well, I don't mean his retirement would be early, but rather the gift. That said, maybe you are right and they want him to stay to rule that if the president does it, it is legal.