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xkcd #2875: 2024 (imgs.xkcd.com)

https://xkcd.com/2875/

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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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[-] panicnow@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago
[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 28 points 6 months ago

If logic was a thing Trump or his supporters cared or knew about, that might be a good angle.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

You're looking for logical consistency where none exists.

[-] StorminNorman@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

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...

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] geekworking@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 28 points 6 months ago

This is the most stressful XKCD I've ever read...

[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The ship of Theseus problem is easily solved with paperwork and IDs

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 months ago

Yep, Obama already faked his papers. Everyone knows he was born in Norway

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago
[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

It also feels like Ponytail in this strip is a time traveller

[-] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago
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[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

What if Obama replaces his body with that of a robot?

Better him than Nixon.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The brain and the soul make the man, not the body. Unless we're talking about Mr. Universe champions, or other elite athletes.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago
[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

But mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.

[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

I thought it was midi-chlorian. How else could synthesis coordinate without a standard protocol?

[-] supermario182@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

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

[-] stagen@feddit.dk 3 points 5 months ago

Oh man I was just talking about this topic yesterday. How surreal! :o

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