GOP insanity containment thread 3: more human than strom thurman

[wirelessgrinder]

lol lmao

https://x.com/april_harding/status/1773730805325389955?s=46

[dlk9s]

Wut

[clovis8]

He obviously has centrist tendencies but why do you think he is awful? I usually find his show pretty thoughtful and he is willing to say when he makes mistakes.

[beetlejuice]

The problem: every educated person who pays attention finds the Republican party repulsive

The explanation: millions of people are involved in an evil conspiracy

The solution: boost the repulsive party without thinking too much about what they’re up to

[Chippa58]

I love how Republicans are always crying about Democrats dominating the fields of journalism and education. Yet they want to control both. Maybe if they would actually work in the fields they profess to care about, they’d have more pull. But that means working for peanuts for years. And if they do that, they’d start thinking like a liberal.

[Trolly]

The woke left apparently dominates all of pop culture, arts, science, politics, journalism, education, etc. etc. etc. but somehow also they’re incompetent clowns who can’t do things correctly.

[SPIFF]

Everything could be undrestood by incompetance

got artirtis writig that

[SPIFF]

idots
i may hav spelled thart wrong

[SPIFF]

NoMeansNo - Red on Red

[otatop]

Trump 2028

Yet, even if Trump returns to the White House this November, the Twenty-second Amendment will bar him from standing for re-election in 2028. Ratified in 1951, the amendment is largely seen as a kind of constitutional course correction following the four consecutive presidential terms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The amendment reads, in part: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”

This sounds reasonable enough, especially in light of FDR’s hold on the office. Yet those who supported the amendment more than 70 years ago could not have foreseen the prospect of a one-term president who lost the office but who later regained it in a subsequent election. Grover Cleveland remains the only president to have successfully vaulted himself to the White House in nonconsecutive elections, in 1884 and in 1892. (Theodore Roosevelt, president from 1901 to 1909, also gave it a try by running as the Progressive Party standard-bearer in 1912.)

In modern times, it is virtually inconceivable that any of the ousted one-term presidents would have seriously thought of running anew against the same opponent (now the occupant of the White House) who had bested them four years earlier. (Think about it: George H.W. Bush running against Bill Clinton in 1996?) This is not a reflection of a weakness in their character but the reality of American public life: Voters are fickle, and by the end of the first term of any presidency, they have long forgotten the loser from four years earlier.

As the primary season has shown us, the Republicans have not moved on from Trump—yet the Twenty-second Amendment works to constrain their enthusiasm by prohibiting them from rewarding Trump with re-election four years from now.

This is plainly unfair. Indeed, there has long been support for axing the Twenty-second Amendment due to the artificial limits it places on voter choice. Many popular presidents have agreed. In 1985, the Washington Post reported that Ronald Reagan supported repealing the amendment, saying in private remarks that the lame-duck label being applied to his second term left him feeling “handicapped.” In 2016, Barack Obama told David Axelrod that he was sure he would have coasted to a third term if such a thing were permissible: “I am confident in this vision, because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could have mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it.”

The case of Donald Trump, however, makes an even more forceful ethical argument against the Twenty-second Amendment and for its repeal: If a man who once was president returns, after a series of years, to stand again for the office and proves so popular as to earn a second nonconsecutive term—as Trump seems bound to do—to deny him the right to run for a second consecutive term cuts against basic fair play. If, by 2028, voters feel Trump has done a poor job, they can pick another candidate; but if they feel he has delivered on his promises, why should they be denied the freedom to choose him once more?

Don’t let questions of Trump’s age in four years fool you.

Besides the glaringly obvious differences between the men in their brain power, physical strength, and ability to walk in a straight line, Trump and Biden are about four years apart, making this issue something of a wash. If Trump wins in November and would be eligible to run for re-election in 2028, he would be 82 years old during that election—the same age Biden will be later this year. And at the end of Trump’s hypothetical second consecutive term, in 2032, he would be 86—the same age Biden would be at the end of his second term if he is returned to the White House.

Conservatives have gritted their teeth for years as the Left, in their hatred of Trump, has attempted to pervert the meaning of first the Twenty-fifth Amendment and, more recently, the Fourteenth Amendment. The case for repealing the Twenty-second Amendment is far more straightforward: As with Prohibition, it is simply a matter of finding the will to get rid of a bad idea that needlessly limits Americans’ freedom.

Trump vs Obama 2028, LFG.

[beetlejuice]

lmao the authors of the 22nd amendment couldn’t possibly have envisioned a thing that happened 70 years earlier

[beetlejuice]

https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1774092221051998633?t=JhZ2hZQKLStovXHHzmFu_g&s=19

[TrollyWantACracker]

@otatop

Trump vs Obama 2028, LFG.

Trump vs. Carter imo.

[Thickcut]

You are not asking a real human a question. It’s a bot

[suzzer99]

Yeah the side that’s annoying on campus is a lot more dangerous than the side with all the guns who stormed the Capitol to overthrow an election.

The military deep state would align with any R not named Trump. They’re not aligned with Democrats.

All the stuff he describes about the surveillance state is literally about to happen to Ukraine if Russia wins, and he actively supports Russia’s invasion.

And he’s right on the pulse of the nation with the transhumanist divinity concept thing.

[FuncrusherPlus]

If you and @clovis8 are going to continue to launch personal attacks on posters, then you better be prepared to take in what you dish out.

[Thickcut]

Good observation

[Thickcut]

Hey thick cut, you are stupid!

Aaaaaggggghhhhhhhhh

[Thickcut]

Some of you are bots, some of you are children

[DrChesspain]

Some people got free furniture, and some people got bubonic plague.