Monday, December 16, 2024

Steve Bannon Is Talking To Idiots

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.
The lack of “consecutive” is not a loophole.

The “loophole” would be this: Trump runs in ‘28 as the VP candidate, and gets the winner atop the ticket to resign.

But he can’t be elected again. Even the Roberts Court wouldn’t decide Congress has to make a finding to enact the plain language of the 22nd.

Besides, Trump would have to run in ‘32 to get people to forget how badly he fucked up, again.  

He’d be 86. I don’t see it.

This is like the online furor that RFK, Jr. is going to eliminate vaccines. That idea doesn’t survive first contact with the real world. What’s the constituency for polio, again?
Every nominee Democrats block or delay, every legislative loss—it all chips away at Trump’s aura of inevitability," he wrote. "This is one of the reasons Democrats must fight Trump’s nominees in a loud, public, messy, demanding way. It makes him spend his mana points on Pete Hegseth, not on ending birthright citizenship. The war for Trump’s agenda is trench warfare: messy, loud, and brutal, with landmines of timing, personalities, and competing priorities waiting to explode."
My only disagreement is that I want Trump to waste his time on birthright citizenship (i.e., section 1 of the 14th Amendment). That’s been the law since we were English colonies. Lemme tell you how jus sanguinus works in a country with 50 sovereign states.

My daughter had to get a Colorado driver’s license. She needed her Texas birth certificate to do it. The clerk in Colorado didn’t consider that a valid document. Now shift that to a birth certificate, where the parents have to prove their citizenship for the citizenship of the newborn. Yeah, how’s that gonna work out?

An amendment has to get through Congress, and then 3/4’s of the state legislatures. Please let Trump try to conduct that fight. 
"I've spoken to way over 100 people, where they called to congratulate not only the election but also the size of the election and the extent of the victory," Trump claimed. "They were great. I spoke to over 100 countries." 
He then announced: "You wouldn't believe how many countries there are. I'm trying the best I can to get back to everybody," said Trump. "There are a lot of countries. Literally, everyone called. It was very nice."
Please. It would be entertaining. Almost as much as this would be:
BREAKING: Trump confirms our scoop over the weekend that he is looking at privatizing the United States Postal Service
Do the words “it would take an Act of Congress” ring a bell? To return to the insights of Rick Wilson:
"The Freedom Caucus is hellbent on keeping the SALT cap from the 2017 tax bill—a move that screws over blue-state Republicans who desperately need a SALT deduction to survive politically," Wilson opined. "For GOP lawmakers in the Northeast, this is existential. For the Freedumb Caucus, it’s another chance to spike the football of spite against anything that smells like a win for blue states. This fight is only getting started."
And you think Postal Service privatization sails through Congress because Trump says so? There’s a reason UPS and FedEx don’t want the responsibility of delivering letters to every address in America.

Just because Trump has an idea, doesn’t mean it’s already law. Or ever will be.
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