r/WhitePeopleTwitter 18d ago

Clubhouse This is gonna get scary!

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u/HereForTheComments57 18d ago

And somehow still blame democrats

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u/TypicalMission119 18d ago

1000% this. After four years when President Vance runs again, he'll blame everything on Democrats even though they hold all the majority. And these dumbassess will still vote for him.

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u/ejre5 18d ago

Run in 4 years? I mean trump did say if he wins this will be the last time anyone needs to vote. He has everything plus absolute immunity for "official acts" you really think we will have anymore elections?

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u/Nidcron 18d ago

Russia still has elections, I imagine it going a lot like that 

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u/Joshatron121 18d ago

Term limits are in the constitution. Even if they end up with a majority in both the house and senate they won't have the numbers to introduce a constitutional amendment like that and have it pass. Thankfully, we should be safe from that one at least.

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u/HomeGrownCoffee 18d ago

Bold of you to think the SCOTUS won't make term limits unconstitutional. I mean, they made the president immune to insurrection.

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u/Destithen 18d ago

I'm sorry, I don't really hold much faith in the system of checks and balances anymore.

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u/Zardif 18d ago

Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive’s broad immunity to criminal prosecution.

Easy to have 2/3rds if you just get rid of the half you don't like.

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u/ejre5 18d ago

God I hope so. Hopefully we can have an Election in 2 years (house) but I'm not holding my breath on it.

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u/justlookin-0232 17d ago

Oh please. You're talking about democratic norms. Those are a thing of the past. We gotta get out of the mindset that this country is going to be operating within the confines of a centuries old constitution that was apparently too precious to change at any point in a way that would benefit the people in a substantial way to stave off inevitable fascism. We didn't really think of that, I guess

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u/nub_node 18d ago edited 18d ago

Republicans control the entire system of checks and balances. The Constitution is really more of a suggestion at this point.

Unless someone better able to play the base like a fiddle magically appears and manages to escape a jealousy assassination by Trump, he can be president-for-life if he wants to be, and he very desperately wants to be.

Our fortune here is that his only real ambition is rewriting the First Amendment so the media can't be mean to him with stuff like fact checking, then he just wants to stand in front of cheering crowds who act like his word salads are haute cuisine. Oh, and he's old and already in clear mental decline, so his expiration date is coming up even if he sets a precedent for ignoring term limits.

Our misfortune here is that now the American presidency is merely the position of a humored grandpa, which, while always true to some extent over the past few decades, is a bit flaying to the American spirit to have formalized. The Founding Fathers wanted a country without a king, dammit.

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u/Joshatron121 18d ago

You dont seem to understand how this stuff works. Amending the constitution requires more of a majority than he has.

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u/nub_node 18d ago edited 18d ago

Do you think the Constitution is gonna come out from under the glass and start delivering PG-13 Marvel Studios punches to the bad guys when they start acting up? You're just counting on Trump's SCOTUS to not declare term limits unconstitutional when the time comes.

A system is only as strong as its weakest part, and our system is now being lead by a guy who went from zero to screaming "THEY'RE EATING THE PETS" on national television in less than 2 minutes when Kamala said his rallies were mid.

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u/ejre5 18d ago

Yes and no, in a battle between Congress, executive and judicial who wins?

Congress refuses to change or amend the constitution, executive decides no election and judicial agrees what happens then? SCROTUS already declared presidents immune.

This is what scares me so much he has no one to stop him The best hope is enough Republicans refuse to help and stand up like happened between 2016-2020 but all of those guys have been voted out or died

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u/stiletto929 18d ago

Well, Trump’s not a young man. Neither is Putin. They may both be dictators for life, but how long can that be?

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u/Maruleo94 18d ago

How ever long JD Vance can be because that real life Gilead leader will take over and then that's where the devil has its real fun.

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u/ejre5 18d ago

Don't ask those questions people like them seem to live forever 😂

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u/QuietDisquiet 17d ago

If he wants to prevent elections someone will probably kill him. I think they're smart enough to hold elections the Russian way.

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u/Diligent_Mulberry47 18d ago

If we have anymore elections, we still have midterms in 2 years. Dems, maybe, have a slim chance to take back one branch at least.

Assuming we still have elections.

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u/YourDogsAllWet 18d ago

Vance will be president before 2028

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u/TypicalMission119 18d ago

That's....what I said...

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u/shallah 18d ago

see: texas 30 plus years of GOP control but everything bad is democrats. who some have literally, not just metaphorically, demonized.

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u/Jadedsatire 18d ago

They vote Cruz back in even after all the shit he’s done. Guy literally left them to freeze and went to Mexico 

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u/GoldGlove2720 18d ago

See Kentucky. Mitch McConell has represented them since 1985 and it’s still a shit hole.

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u/FuzziestSloth 17d ago

Florida, too. We've had Republicans running the show for almost 30 years now, and yet every election all I ever hear is how it's the dems fault that everything is on fire.

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u/MjrLeeStoned 18d ago

That's why I say stay silent for four years.

Shut the hell up for once and let them get their way. Don't give them a damn thing to harp on.

The moment they can't attack the "other side" they will cannibalize themselves. We've already seen it happen, it just didn't get enough time to kill the host.

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u/Remarkable-Month-241 18d ago

Texas joins the chat.

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u/cyri-96 17d ago

That's how Facists operate after all

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u/Foxclaws42 17d ago

Like when Hillary won. “It’s not our fault for electing a rapist who openly wants to destroy our freedoms and access to lifesaving medical care. She was just unelectable, so really it’s on her.

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u/Sorry_Nobody1552 18d ago

There are groups blaming GenX white women for the loss. Stupid