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It wasn’t originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington’s example and gotten false teeth.
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Huh. “Elected twice”, not “served two terms”… So, even if the insurrectionist ban doesn’t pan out, Trump still has to concede that he lost the 2020 election to run again.
If logic was a thing Trump or his supporters cared or knew about, that might be a good angle.
It’s a fun bit, but no. The Electoral College elects the President so even if his harebrained bullshit was reality, he wasn’t “elected” twice.
You’re looking for logical consistency where none exists.
Oh yeah, that line of reasoning you’re proposing has been done to death in the media etc. Hasn’t changed shit. Because reason hasn’t held any water in this particular case for a while now…
So hear me out here. He can only be elected twice. But the text of Article 2 says in the event of a tie, no one reaching a majority, or fuckery, Congress “chooses” the president.
I’ll be over here ordering more whiskey. I’m pretty sure I’m going to need it.
Oh and while there has to be an election every 4 years, Congress decides when to choose and call the electors. Yup definitely getting the good stuff.
Fucking gentleman’s agreement of a country.
Even if Obama were eligible, I doubt that we could convince him to do it again.
He seems way too happy with retirement to want to deal with the militant toddlers that sprung up after he left.
This is the most stressful XKCD I’ve ever read…
I would have happily taken a third or fourth Obama term over the shitshow we actually got.
Heck, a third Clinton term instead of GWB would have been great.
Between war criminals and a sexual predator that maybe a pedo, and a dictator sexual predator who might be a pedo. Obama looks like an angel.
Amazing how no revolution happen in the state yet.
The ship of Theseus problem is easily solved with paperwork and IDs
Yep, Obama already faked his papers. Everyone knows he was born in Norway
It also feels like Ponytail in this strip is a time traveller
That first panel was extremely relatable as a Brit.
What the fuck would you poms know about it? Like in the cricket, Australia has you beat. You’ve had 6 since 2000, we’ve had 8.
I didn’t know it was a competition as to whose government shit the bed worse. I guess making it one has to do with the inferiority complex you get from knowing all your ancestors were criminals.
Heh, my ancestors were english people who migrated in the last 80yrs, I’m closer to being one of you than I am a convict. And since when has anything our two countries has done not been a competition? Your angry reply kinda reinforces how tightly you poms all have those sticks up your arses though since you can’t recognise an obvious joke.
since you can’t recognise an obvious joke.
That clearly goes both ways.
Maybe we’ve both got too used to dealing with yanks on the internet.
I’ve always said that ours (and yours, cos whilst our two nations comedy is different, there’s a shit load of overlap) is too subtle for text communication!
And yeah, fucking yanks online… I’ve had a few drinks and a little bit of weed, so excuse this rant, but yanks online are fucked. I’ve met plenty in Australia and on my travels (including when I travelled the US) in person. 99% of them were lovely and I could chat with them and have a beer. But online? They are fucked for the most part. And I know that’s a generalisation, and most of the online Americans are great, but those who aren’t? They are so bad that they ruin my opinion of the good ones so badly I don’t even remember the good interactions.
Wtf is an “Australia”?
What if Obama replaces his body with that of a robot?
Better him than Nixon.
The brain and the soul make the man, not the body. Unless we’re talking about Mr. Universe champions, or other elite athletes.
Molecules aren’t cells.
But mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.
I thought it was midi-chlorian. How else could synthesis coordinate without a standard protocol?
I heard lemmy was doing good so I came by to try it out again, and after seeing this realized I haven’t been seeing xkcd comics for awhile
Oh man I was just talking about this topic yesterday. How surreal! :o
The older one gets, the faster time seems to fly. For child and teenage me, a US presidential term was basically an eternity; now it seems like the 2020 election happened basically yesterday, and I’m not even old enough yet to run for president there (apart from obviously not being a citizen or resident of the US), so the presidents themselves certainly perceive their terms as even shorter than I do.
Imagine being alive from 2009 to 2017 and thinking to yourself “Wow, Obama did such a great job, I want that guy back here running things again.”
God damn, I thought Randall Munroe was supposed to be smart.
I think it was more like the guy before him drug us into multiple, decades long wars - then the guy after him tried to overthrow our democracy and instill himself as president after losing an election. So having an 8 year break of semi-normalcy was refreshing.
No, tan suits and Dijon mustard are so much worse than either of those.
