PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him] @ PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S @lemmy.sdf.org

**Anarchist**, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regrette

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It should also be mentioned that Biden resigned shortly after, so this event really shook up the overall trajectory of the election.

Nah, Biden's health spooked the donors well before Trump got shot.

Then fucking do it, and stop talking about doing it until you do it

I did read the article.

IMO any politician advocating for anything less than permanent global nuclear disarmament needs to have spitballs lobbed at them perpetually without debate.

While the Biden administration is not putting a date on when it will happen, they are not ruling out that they are willing (and more importantly able) to nuke the planet if something offends them.

I acknowledge that this is not some bombshell piece of news because it is "normal", i.e. the US military plans for various invasions and scenarios that they supposedly don't intend to act on. But this kind of anti-social behavior is not only allowed, but publicly funded as if it's supposed to benefit everyone. I'm calling it out precisely because it is normal.

My point is the fact that if you believe in nuclear nonproliferation, voting for either candidate won't move the needle on the issue.

Vote Blue No Matter Who so that Bad Man doesn't get into office and launch the nukes!

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What do you mean the Democrats are the ones planning to launch the nukes?!?

If they were from a different instance

Does SDF have a bad rep? I know that not literally everyone on SDF is a leftist, but I do think a lot of us are.

Now waiting to find a Lemmy skull

Basically just normal people because everyone is a monster in the eyes of "anti-woke" types except for themselves.

... one begins to recognize looting as a genuine form of decentralized political protest and that it works to, at least temporarily, redefine property relations and, consequently, relationships amongst people.

Prediction: same as anyone else because repression of protests is a systemic issue and cannot be fixed merely by putting """good""" people into existing positions of power. In fact, it is the system acting in the way it is designed to act.

I.e. probably gonna sic the cops on them.

Vultures are supposedly birds, and birds aren't real, therefore the only logical conclusion is that those "vultures" are actually winged cats.

Yeah I actually brought that up in my top-level reply. But does the two years count the time spent as Acting President?

I don't know. It does count, it's part of my top-level comment but I have the shittiest memory in the universe.

If we're being pedantic

I'm always pedantic, except when I'm not 😂

Thanks 👍. I corrected my response.

I pasted the entire 22nd Amendment into my reply to this post. The "trigger" isn't the numerical value of 8 years total, it's the numerical value great than 2 years served.

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.

... 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...

So having previously served two years exactly is allowed.

I'm not a legal expert so take this with a grain of salt. Assuming the Constitution is followed as it currently written...which is a big assumption...

The two-term limitation comes from the 22nd Amendment. This amendment is, in it's entirety, quoted below:

Section 1

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. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Concerning Section 2, it was ratified so it is law. Not important to answer our question.

If Joe Biden resigns or is permanently incapacitated right as I post this, then Kamala Harris would become acting President until his term ends on January 20th, 2025 for 157 days, 158 if you count today, which is a far cry from two years. (I believe that she was designated Acting President for a few hours while Biden was getting a colonoscopy, so add that to the tally maybe probably not.)

So it looks like, if I read the bolded section correctly, she would be eligible to be elected a second time if she took over from Biden should he be incapacitated or resign.

Edited based on feedback.

Any similar housekeeping I'm probably forgetting to do for Linux? Debian 12 on all my systems if it matters.

What are you smoking and can I have some?

But it gets cuter every time

Are you cutting food with dangerous and dull knives??

Probably yes because:

1. It was sharp at some point in the past, so I "bookmarked" it in my mind as a "sharp" object, but I always fail to update my "bookmarks".
2. I'm lazy.