He didn’t learn that lesson during his first term. Now, he has a Republican majority in both houses of Congress. Why would he learn it now?
The word learn may be too generous.
But I suspect he’ll see some checks and he will be enraged.
Of course. The rules concerning holding political office in the federal government after engaging in insurrection or rebellion against the United States are quite clear in the 14th Amendment. Yet, Trump was allowed on the ballot.
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Anytime Trump doesn’t get his way, he will be enraged and go on a ridiculous social media rant like a two-year old. But, he has a majority in both houses, and many of those in Congress that aided and abetted his fake electors scheme and the storming of the Capitol building when the 2020 election results were to be certified are still members of Congress. That’s a big concern.
For him to be checked, we needed a Democratic majority either in the Senate or the House or a balanced Supreme Court. We have none of those things. There will be a few here and there, but not nearly enough.
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The worst case scenario is not assured, but there are insufficient guard rails to prevent it.
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I should not have said “learn.” I should have said “he will be shown.” Unless they amend the Constitution, he is a lame duck President from day one. Regardless, I rarely, if ever, worry about things I cannot control, and I never concede things I am against as hopeless. Call me Pollyanna, but I believe we will survive.
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I’m with you.
Bad things will happen to good people.
Bad people will profit.
But the tide will turn and some will get their just desserts.
I hope you are right, and they don’t try to use their Congressional majority to amend the Constitution to adjust presidential term limits. But, the fact the conditions exist to even make that a possibility is concerning, and I can’t put anything past Trump.
Exceptionally unlikely.
An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.
Just coming here to post exactly that.
The key to the accountability of this regime will rest with the next one, whichever party they represent.
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This is all we’ll hear: “We should just look forward, not back…”. Usually, sadly, it’s a Democratic president saying it about a Republican predecessor.
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When you conceive of the worst case scenario, Trump always finds a way to make whatever it is worse than that.
I mean, the pandemic was always going to be bad, but he managed to get people slurping down horse de-wormer and dying from drinking bleach.
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I don’t actually think Trump makes it four years. Either the McDonalds will catch up to him or the dementia will.
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This assumes that the Constitution will actually be enforced. While I don’t see it happening, there is a non-zero chance that Congress and the Supreme Court will simply ignore Article V and the 22nd Amendment.
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Term limits of one kind or another will get him eventually.
I go back and forth as to whether the tech broligarchs who own Vance will tire of Trump and oust him under the 25th Amendment, or whether they realize they need him to hold the cult together and so are stuck with him.
Either way, when Trump goes one way or another, it’ll be chaos. It’ll be chaos and we’ll be lucky to live through it.
Cue the Hunt for Red October scene with Fred Thompson after the F-14 crashes on the deck of the aircraft carrier.
Fun fact, that was a crash of a F-9 Panther from the Korean War they used in the film, but the forward canopy/windscreen had the same “Grumman” look as the F-14 Tomcat.
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I fail to see the world you (and others) see. Basically, I don’t see Trump as a pawn of the oligarchs. He’s their Frankenstein, not their pawn.
Relatedly, I cannot imagine a scenario where the oligarchs have the power to oust Trump via the 25th.
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Oh absolutely (albeit that Frankenstein was the scientist, not the monster). But the scientist thought he could control the monster the same way that these tech bros think they can control Trump.
Trump is and has always been surrounded by people who think they will be the one to get a win out of it. They all have been - and will all continue to be - wrong. ETTD.
Probably not. That won’t stop them thinking about it though. But in all likelihood they, like us, will have to wait for Father Time or Ronald McDonald to do their thing.
Thanks for the correction
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