Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?
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wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 14:42 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Interesting question. He may even bring it up before inauguration.
How long did it take Bloomberg before he brought up serving a third term as NYC Mayor?
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@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Interesting question. He may even bring it up before inauguration.
How long did it take Bloomberg before he brought up serving a third term as NYC Mayor?
wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 14:53 last edited by@Axtremus said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
How long did it take Bloomberg before he brought up serving a third term as NYC Mayor?
What an excellent question, Ax!
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wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 14:57 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Is that legally possible?
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wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 15:02 last edited by
He can suggest anything but it won’t happen. I doubt he suggests it.
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@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Is that legally possible?
wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 15:07 last edited by@Klaus said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Is that legally possible?
The process would be a constitutional amendment. Once constitutional amendments are on the table, almost anything is possible, for any president. It's always been that way, and it'll always be that way.
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wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 15:24 last edited by
If the amendment did happen, Mr. Obama would be the next president.
Be careful what you wish for.
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wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 15:39 last edited by
Ain't gonna be no such amendment.
Utterings from the TDS Swamp without a shred of common sense.
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Ain't gonna be no such amendment.
Utterings from the TDS Swamp without a shred of common sense.
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wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 17:02 last edited by
Besides, the message from the future tells us that Trump does and Vance takes over when he’s 39 years old. That means DJT must die…(checks the calendar) at least 7 months ago…
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wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 23:09 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Why didn't he suggest that last time?
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@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Why didn't he suggest that last time?
wrote on 10 Nov 2024, 23:31 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
Why didn't he suggest that last time?
He was too busy being a shitty Hitler.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
Why didn't he suggest that last time?
He was too busy being a shitty Hitler.
wrote on 11 Nov 2024, 06:26 last edited by@George-K said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
Why didn't he suggest that last time?
He was too busy being a shitty Hitler.
Yeah I know right, the Jewish community really had a hard time when he was pres—OH NO WAIT THAT'S THE OTHER GUYS.
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@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Why didn't he suggest that last time?
wrote on 11 Nov 2024, 08:50 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Why didn't he suggest that last time?
He still had a second term to look forward to. But he did once suggest he was owed 2 more years in his first term due to the Russia investigation.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Why didn't he suggest that last time?
He still had a second term to look forward to. But he did once suggest he was owed 2 more years in his first term due to the Russia investigation.
wrote on 11 Nov 2024, 16:04 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
he was owed 2 more years in his first term due to the Russia investigation.
That's reasonable.
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wrote on 13 Nov 2024, 19:54 last edited by jon-nyc
@jon-nyc said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
What’s your over/under on when he suggests he should get a third term?
Did anyone have 3 days on their bingo card?
I didn’t make a guess, but had I done so it would have been around midterms. Trump is already outperforming my expectations.
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wrote on 13 Nov 2024, 20:00 last edited by
Trump doesn't like to lose, but if the rule says he has to retire in 2028 when he's 82 I don't think he'll mind stepping aside and letting his protégé (Vance) take over in 2028. That would be a good GOP legacy, and it doesn't involve him risk losing.
To your original point @LuFins-Dad I think that is a good analysis. He was certainly caught off guard in 2016 when he won, but now he knows how the Swamp works.
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wrote on 13 Nov 2024, 20:09 last edited by
I think the better reason why Trump won't try to run for a third term, is that he'd need to amend the constitution to do so.
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wrote on 13 Nov 2024, 20:22 last edited by
Call me a n00b but I always thought it was a limit of two terms consecutively... I didn't realize it was a total of only two terms.
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Call me a n00b but I always thought it was a limit of two terms consecutively... I didn't realize it was a total of only two terms.
wrote on 13 Nov 2024, 20:28 last edited by@89th said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
Call me a n00b but I always thought it was a limit of two terms consecutively... I didn't realize it was a total of only two terms.
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” 22nd Amendment.
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@89th said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
Call me a n00b but I always thought it was a limit of two terms consecutively... I didn't realize it was a total of only two terms.
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” 22nd Amendment.
wrote on 13 Nov 2024, 20:32 last edited by@Tom-K said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
@89th said in Will Donald actually be strengthened by being a Lame Duck?:
Call me a n00b but I always thought it was a limit of two terms consecutively... I didn't realize it was a total of only two terms.
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” 22nd Amendment.
Easy fix… Just make him Speaker of the house after his term, then have the duly elected President and VP step down…