My favorite part of all this is that they actually have nothing on her. All their attacks are based on surface level observations and blatant racism, not anything about policy or scandals or anything. Frankly, the worst thing that could happen is someone unearths an old picture of Kamala ordering a hot dog with mustard while wearing a tan suit.
They don't want Harris to run for 2 terms, and they want to try and cause a shitshow in the Senate over a VP confirmation. They have lost all agency right now and are desperate for anything. QQ more GOP. Keep it up with the racism and misogyny. Fucking snowflakes.
I hope they "weekend at Bernie's" him after he gets better from COVID: spend a couple days at senator Sanders' house, hold a press conference about passing the torch to the next generation, really make it a thing. But insist on calling it his "weekend at Bernie's" at every opportunity
He should totally dress up as bernie from the movie and get two young dudes to do the same and put him on a hand truck to be wheeled out to the podium for his next conference only to step off, take the aviators off, not address what just happened, and start his speech. No malarkey.
The kind of person with the great judgment to look at Lauren Boebert and say "I am excited for the opportunity to work with your campaign, you seem like a good candidate"
It's because that is exactly what they would do if they were in that position and that situation happens. It's so fucking obvious at this point that they love accusing Democrats of shit they do. Constant projection.
They've been blasting Biden because #BidenSoOld for a very long time, then he drops out, and now their heads are going all splodey - they are going even crazier than they were previously.
The GOP certainly does. They have been planning and exciting their strategy for decades or a century. It finally came to fruition. Only they didn't realize that the mob of loyalists they were cultivating are idiots.
The result would be Mike Johnson is the probable next in line to the president with Harris acting as president. This would give MAGA and those Trump have asked to 'stand back and stand by' months to 'find a way' to get Johnson in as president for the election and certification period.
The more obvious and plausible reason is they just want something, ANYTHING, that gets them a news bite.
With this SCOTUS I would not put it past them to say "actually the constitution meant to say we need 60 Republicans to impeach a president and they can be anyone not just senators. We pulled this from the myass papers"
If he were dead, she would assume the remainder of his term and only be eligible for one of her own. The only way this argument makes sense is if they are scared they are going to lose and don't want an incumbent in the next election.
I was wrong. See all the replies.
They aren't kidding that the quickest way to get a right answer on the internet is to post a wrong one.
That's not true actually. She would have to be president for 2 or more years in that scenario. So she could have been pres for 1.9 years already and still eligible for 2 more terms.
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.
Since she's inside the window of two years, it would not count as a first term.
Not even that. The 22nd Amendment states that a person can only be elected to the office twice, unless they've served two or more years of somebody's else's term, in which case they can only be elected once. Five months away from the next inauguration, it would change nothing if Harris had to take over the Presidency for some reason.
This is simply not true. She would only lose out on a term if she has taken the majority of bidens, not the last 6 months. You can serve for up to 10 years total.
I don't get it. I do not friggin' understand how these nutjob ppl get elected. Wait. I can do the calculations.. but good lord. It's bleak when you see this stuff.
The reason why people like this keep getting elected is because people will go into the voting booth and vote strictly on party lines. They don't consider the platform of any given candidate they just go down the line and check all the boxes that say Republican/Democrat.
You forgot the part where they're actual representations of the people who elect them. People want people like MTG in government, because that's what they believe too
Yeah, I see a lot of that locally where I'm at. That line of thinking. I don't think the average voter actually checks voting records of the candidates and sees if they align with what is good for them, their neighbour, community, etc. They just assume that 'their' party are the good guys. It's like.. okaaaay, but can you articulate why? And not talking points either. Are you struggling with health care costs? Who's actually voted for stuff that would help you.
Sorry, longer response than I anticipated. I agree with you completely, so thank you for posting.
That’s exactly right. Per relatives and such who vote that way.
So far: Jan 6 was just bad players, not an insurrection. Trump did nothing wrong. Trump had the documents ready to go, waiting for a pickup, but they were dramatic about picking them up. And he’s not great but he’s good about showing the dem double standard. On what, exactly, I’m not sure.
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I’ve been trying for months to get the sources out of these relatives and finally scored on that last week. Glen Beck and Ben Shapiro. I didn’t even know Beck was still out there doing his batshit crazy schtick.
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Every discussion turns into a game of “you need better sources” constantly being thrown in both directions. Trump broke facts back in 2016.
From the looks of it, she gives them out for free. You just have to buy her tickets to a public performance with children present, and not have a problem with that last part.
They don't belive this stuff. It's just a way to stay in the spotlight. It's like shockjock morning radio bullshit. You say outrageous shit and people lap it up. Most of the people don't believe it either, not really. It just gives them something to yell about and get worked up over. It keeps their hackles up so they don't have to critically think about anything. Sure there are some people that actually believe all this shit, there were actually people waiting for JFK to come back, but thats a very small number of people. Most are just riding the outrage train so they can be nasty to women, be racist, and stay afraid of gay people. None of it has to make sense, there's no logic behind it. It's just another way to stay mad. It seems like an exhausting way to live.
They're accusing Democrats of that because it's exactly what they'd do in that situation. They're dumb corrupt assholes who constantly accuse Democrats of shit they would do.
I'm starting to think our own outrage and disbelief at their wacko conspiracy shit is the point... Like leftists are the audience they're playing to.
Like the clearly unhinged, deeply troubled person at a house party that keeps working *Theseus up to crazier and crazier stunts. Their fuel is attention of any kind, and without an audience they just go back to being sad.
I dunno; a thought. I'm sure it's not so pat
* rofl I meant "themself" but leaving this autocorrect in
There's a radicalization pipeline, where you slowly start with relatively small untruths, and over time it gets worse and worse. The farther you go, the harder it gets to admit to yourself that it's all a lie. So they keep lying to themselves.
But these guys are just the paladins of incompetence, they are the multipliers. The vast mass of voters don't believe everything, but they are consistently bombarded with shit. And some of it sticks, some narrative works on them, and they believe that.
Ah yes repubs going on about Biden this, Biden that after he dropped out and therefore has zero relevance to upcoming election is totally a winning strategy.
It's too late suckers, we've already moved his nervous system into a 30 foot tall rainbow colored tax payer funded robot who is coming to corrupt your jobs and emigrant your children.
Lauren Boebert? Wait, the same one that was caught ON CAMERA jacking a guy off at a public play with children present just feet away? That same Lauren Boebert?
I mean, even if I thought that, I'm smart enough to know that if I said it out loud, Biden could appear the next day and make me look like a complete idiot
Which is the height of irony since Trump died of COVID on October 3, 2020 at Walter Reed and he had his corpse reanimated via an evil pact with a demon.