The Trump Presidency

[Zakalwe]

Never going to happen.

To pass Congress, a change to the Constitution requires a 2/3 majority of both the House and the Senate. The 535 seats in Congress currently stand at  273 (R) v 262 (D)... Republicans would need at least 321 sets to pass the proposal and send it to the State Letgislatures for ratification.

To ratify a Constitution change it requires a minimum of 75% of the states to agree. There are 49 Bicameral State Legislatures and one unicameral (Nebraska), so 50 Upper Houses and 49 Lower Houses, a total of 99 chambers. Republicans would need to control 75 of those chambers, but they only control 57.

Even if, somehow, it were to pass Congress though some Senate and House rules changes, it would never pass the ratification stage. No Democrat chamber is going to vote The Fat Orange Turd a third term.

You are assuming that the modern GOP gives a rancid rat's arse about the Constitution and the rules. Trumps owns the SCOTUS. His pet attack-dog, Musk, has shut-down USAID. They are trampling across the laws of the land and the mores of normal behaviour.

Lets be honest though. The chances of Trumpelthinskin actually surviving his second term are low. His chances or surviving that term without further major cognitive decline are close to zero. A third term is an irrelevance and is only a blatant attempt to curry favour by Andy Ogles. The GOP are going to rework the system to ensure that shaking their grasp on power will be very, very hard. Vance is ready to step in once Trump has served his usefulness and they wheel him off to dribble in a nursing home somewhere.

I personally think that we are watching the start of the collapse of the United States. If Musk stops Federal aid payments to citizens then a civil war won't be long behind. There's enough people out there that think that Luigi Mangione is actually a hero....

[raven]

Well, now we got a fun little trade war going on with you guys, eh?
That'll aboot bring down the price of eggs, fer sure, eh?
Gods, this timeline gets dumber and dumber with each day.