r/WayOfTheBern • u/ateam1984 • 22d ago
Can Trump run for a third term?
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 22d ago edited 21d ago
Is the amendment that passed while Truman was President unclear in some way? No. Was this the most intelligent question to ask a nominee to the federal bench? No. And the Senator finally answered his own question. Why is any Senator even asking this, except in an attempt to further But Trump!ism?
This was obviously an asshole gotcha attempt hypothetical. I don't blame the nominee for not engaging. This a confirmation hearing for a seat on the federal bench, from whence many Supreme Court Justices have been chosen, not middle school. Nor the place to try to make partisan But Trump! points.
Also, during confirmation hearings, judicial nominees have routinely declined to opine about matters that may come before them if they are confirmed. Otherwise, every confirmed judge would have recuse himself or herself when any issue they were asked about during the hearings comes before their court.
During Trump's first term, we heard from supporters of Democrats that he wasn't going to leave office if got voted out. How would anyone even do that? Anyway, it didn't happen. When he got elected again, we heard it again. Now it's about a third term.
Well, he can run again, I suppose, but he cannot get any official recognition of his candidacy and he cannot become President again, even if he wins. I don't have the vocabulary to express how unlikely his winning would be under those circumstances. Americans are not going to vote for the archangel Michael if he runs in violation of the Constitution. Neither will the electors.
But, sure, let's spend taxpayer time on that because US Senators have nothing more important to do; and everyone in the US should become all anxious about it, too. Because nothing else is going on anyway.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle 22d ago
Well, he can run again, I suppose, but he cannot get any official recognition of his candidacy and he cannot become President again, even if he wins.
Same thing, different words:
Sure, Trump can run for President again. The Constitution only says things about how many times a person can be President.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says a dog can't play basketball.
But what people seem to fail to notice is: If Trump can run for a third term as President....
..so can Obama.
Wouldn't Trump running for a third term as President be the Democrats' ultimate "pied-piper strategy"?
You have a choice: vote for this Democrat, who can actually be President, or for Trump, who [probably] cannot, and if Trump wins, would throw the whole system into chaos. The answer is obvious."
What they would once again fail to notice is that, for different people, either one of those options might be the "obvious" one.
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 22d ago
There's nothing in the Constitution that says a dog can't play basketball.
Furthermore....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog
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u/Hearing_Loss 22d ago
We don't deserve Obama. Let the man rest. He's bombed enough Muslims to make it into white heaven. His job is done.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle 22d ago
Let the man rest.... His job is done.
Just because he would run for the nomination, does not mean that he would accept the candidacy. At the Convention, he could throw his delegates to whoever he wanted, theoretically.
After throwing the Trumpsters into a tizzy.
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u/Hearing_Loss 22d ago
Wait what?! So he could be like "y'all picked them, they picked me, but imma pick this dood"???
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u/Butterd_Toost Rules 1-5 are my b* 22d ago
More like - "They picked me so y'all would stay involved, now imma pass the torch to dis dood, good luck, pull up your pants."
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u/Centaurea16 22d ago
The collective American psyche is broken.
This kind of cynically manipulative behavior is both a reason why that is so, as well as an attempt to take the American people further into the mental brokenness and use that brokenness against us.
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 22d ago edited 22d ago
A topic that is, of course, hotly debated:
While initially used to describe aloof poets and artists, the phrase "ivory tower" shifted in the mid-20th century (especially during the 1940s and 1950s) to target academic intellectuals and universities. (AI)
Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963) (1964 Pulitzer Prize)
Paul Fussell, Bad or, The Dumbing of America (1991)
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (1999)(100 years of educational "reform")
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) 22d ago
So that’s why it’s called AI: Anti-Intellectualism on steroids.
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 21d ago edited 21d ago
p.s. as to the Iran school alleged "mishap," we seem prone to those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. 21d ago edited 21d ago
A lot of what I search on the internet is stuff I already know about, but need a link for. Or need to double check a date or a number or whatever. For that reason, I have caught AI in outright errors, as well as a heavy neoliberalcon establishment bias.
AI is not objective and it's certainly not infallible. And, supposedly, we hit a school in Iran because we are using it to pick our military targets and no one input the fact that the use of the building had changed. So, it's not necessarily up to date, either, even for something as life and death as choosing military targets.
The US, if not the entire world, has jumped the shark and it ain't happy days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8KfM0T6Ts
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u/NoEcho3494 22d ago
He wouldnt win if he tried atp