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Donald Trump is, once again, president of the United States, and Republicans are wasting no time proving to everyone else that they are every bit the danger to American progress as well as the Constitution they pretend to love so much.
In fact, just a few days into Trump’s new administration, a GOP legislator is already proposing a constitutional amendment to allow Trump to serve a third term in office. (Yes, you read that right. No, you probably should get to the bathroom if you need to throw up.)
Meet Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.).
On Thursday, the House Republican introduced a resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow Trump and any other future president to be elected to a third term. He’s not even hiding the fact that he has only introduced this measure because he thinks Trump is the second coming of White Nationalist Jesus, not because the amendment would be good for the office of president.
According to CNBC, Ogles proposed extending the current maximum of two elected terms, declaring that Trump “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.”
Damn, dude — try dry-humping your messiah a little harder, why don’t you?
Truthfully, Trump has never “proven” anything. He never even presented evidence to back his voter fraud propaganda — his first attempt at remaining in power after his time was up — and now he has pardoned all of the police-attacking criminals who tried to upend democracy by brute force at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, inspired by Trump’s big lie.
When Ogles says Trump has proven he’s “capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness,” all he means is that Trump is giving MAGA conservatives everything they want: mass deportations, the decriminalization of white terrorists, the dismantling of DEI and the validation of white conservatives massive and delusional persecution complex.
If any Democrat were to propose an amendment to give former President Barack Obama a third term just because he signed policies that aligned with their ideology, Republicans would call it outright tyranny and certainly un-American and unconstitutional.
And that’s not just pure speculation either. In fact, Ogle specifically tailored his proposal to exclude any currently living president besides Trump, who, by the way, will be 82 by the time his second term is over. Obviously, Ogle didn’t want his little ploy to extend Trump’s presidency to inadvertently put Obama, who is 15 years younger than Trump, back in the White House in 2029.
From CNBC:
Ogles’ resolution is tailored specifically to permit Trump to serve a third term, but not to allow three out of the four living former presidents to serve third terms.
″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,” the amendment states.
Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all served two consecutive terms, and thus would be barred from being elected to a third term.
But not Trump, who is the first president since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to be elected to a second, non-consecutive term.
“It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles said in a statement.
“He is dedicated to restoring the republic and saving our country, and we, as legislators and as states, must do everything in our power to support him,” said Ogles, a hard-line conservative who is serving his second term in the House.
“I am proposing an amendment to the Constitution to revise the limitations imposed by the 22nd Amendment on presidential terms,” he added.
Again, Ogle isn’t even making an argument for why two-term limits for the presidency, which have been in place for nearly 75 years, aren’t sufficient for the office anymore, and why it should be permanently changed to three. He’s essentially only arguing to his fellow Republicans: We’ve got our president back, now let’s keep him as long as we can.
“For a resolution to amend the Constitution to be sent to the Archivist of the United States, it must receive a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. If that is done, three-fourths of the states — 38 — must ratify the amendment for it to become part of the Constitution,” CNBC noted. So, Ogle’s proposed amendment surviving Congress is a longshot, but, then again, there was a time when the idea that a 34-time felon who inspired a domestic terrorist attack could be elected president for a second time would be considered the work of absurd fiction.
And yet, here we are.
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