Palestine can’t afford six more months of this president. We have to demand that he goes immediately, and then pressure Kamala Harris to change course.

coup biden, coconuts in our lifetimes

(secretly do be hoping copmala desire for power is greater than her husbands commitments)

  • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    4 months ago

    Stupid question but if Kamala did take over for the next 6 months and actually won in November (I said it was a stupid question) would that be her second term or could she run again in 28?

    Not that there’s any chance Biden steps down especially now that all thenopini8n pieces are about how brave and patriotic he is for not running again.

    • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      4 months ago

      22nd amendment:

      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.

      • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        Consider term limits. The US Constitution was amended to enforce term limits in direct response to FDR’s popular 12-year presidency (he died in office, going on for 16). As a policy, it is self-evidently quite anti-democratic (robbing the people of a choice), but nevertheless it has been conceptually naturalized to the extent that the 2019 coup against Evo Morales was premised explicitly on the idea that repeated popular electoral victories constituted a form of dictatorship. If rotation was important to avoid corruption or complacency, corporations and supreme courts would institute term limits too. Term limits ensure that in the miraculous scenario that a scrupulous, charismatic, and intelligent individual becomes a rebellious political executive, they won’t be in power long enough to meaningfully challenge the entrenched power of corporate vehicles manned by CEOs with decades of experience. Wolfgang Schäuble, a powerful advocate of austerity policy in Europe, succinctly summarized the extent to which electoral democracy is subordinate: “Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy.” One Party States and Democratic Centralism are not the result of lack of sophistication or cronyism, they are a proven bulwark that acknowledges that political power will often need to be exerted against the will of Capital, and so the wielders of said power must necessarily undergo a much more serious vetting process than a popularity contest.

        from https://redsails.org/why-marxism/

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Ascending to the presidency from the chain of succession does not count as a term for the purposes of term limits. Technically you could serve a functionally unlimited number of terms so long as you find enough people willing to run for president, win, and then hand over the reigns to you as VP.

      Edit: Ignore me, I’m wrong.