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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

Ogles proposed an amendment on Thursday that says, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, 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 twice.”

Like other U.S. presidents, Trump is barred from running for a third White House term by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.

“President Trump’s decisive leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, suffering, and economic decline Americans have endured over the past four years,” Ogles said in a Thursday statement. “He has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal.”

Trump floated the prospect of running for a third term in a joke to House GOP lawmakers during a meeting in Washington before the conference had internal leadership elections.

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 72 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Well, that took exactly no time at all.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 hours ago

This one probably won't even be brought up for a vote. The administration is too new and hasn't fully taken power throughout the federal government. But then they'll introduce it again later, and it will get some votes that everyone will think is just the extreme cultist representatives. Then they'll do it again, and some "mainstream" (if that can even really be applied to current Republicans) will vote on it. But that's "just performative". We know they're just doing it because their base wants it and it won't pass so it's ok, no need to get worked up about it. Then after waves of right wing propaganda justifying it as "not that bad an idea" and the leadership counts their votes, they'll introduce it again and it will pass.

We spent years and years dismissing the attacks on abortion and pretending the people making them were just performing. Then the court killed Roe and now there's a lot of very serious efforts to enact all those things.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

They are speedrunning everything, it seems.

[–] randompasta@lemmy.today 7 points 10 hours ago

Almost like someone wrote a plan for this. Something he could use as a guide on 2025. So probably just this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

The firehose of bullshit.

Don't be distracted by everything happening along the edge. Find the control points and disable those.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 8 points 14 hours ago

Ikr? I was painting a worst case scenario to my spouse yesterday and added "and don't think it would be over in 4 years - the whole point is to stop democracy, so I guarantee in a year or two there will be a bullshit excuse and bam! More years of Trump as a "wartime president" or some other shit"

Not even a fucking week...