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They’re never retiring. They’ll prop up their dead corpses to hold onto power.

That sounds most realistic.

I apologize in advance to Canada and the UK, but let them. Don’t let the door hit them on the way out.

I wonder what the spectacle would be if someone killed a black CEO.

This sounds like a cursed math question on a standardized test.

Oh the democrats did not learn a goddamn thing from 2016 let alone 2024.

I know it sounds completely crazy, and it is completely crazy, but I think there’s a damn good chance my state will secede if Canada shuts off our electric. Especially if they do that in the winter. I now have it on my utterly batshit insane what could go wrong 2025 bingo card.

The other thing that might make us secede is if they try fucking with our state constitutional right to abortion. If both happen, I think we will secede. Maybe join Quebec or maybe become our own spot of Canada or maybe be fully independent like we were before the United States existed.

Drugs. And some of this country is magnificently beautiful (I happen to live in a section that would qualify as such) which makes up for the absolutely shit people who run it.

I’m pretty damn cynical but I’d be surprised if they could pull of a constitutional convention.

I actually think it’s more likely my state would secede than a constitutional convention being successful. Especially if we end up in a tariff war with Canada and Quebec hydro shuts off power to us…

I’m aware of that, I’m not aware that they’re required to be American born, it would be an interesting constitutional question if the president and VP died and the speaker of the house wasn’t American born.

Edit - looking into it further, I don’t see the same qualifications being required as president and vp. For example, one only has to be 25 and up to be speaker of the house, yet one has to be 35 for president or vp. So again, I wonder if they elected a 25 year old as speaker and then a plane crashed with the president and vp on board (not possible they don’t fly together but let’s play pretend) I wonder if the speaker would be promoted to president to maintain continuity of government or if they’d be passed over to whoever’s fourth in line that meets qualifications.

Can’t modify the constitution without a convention, a constitutional convention needs 2/3 of the states to agree to the changes IIRC, that’s why there hasn’t been an amendment passed in a very long time.

Assuming they follow the rule of law, which they likely won’t.

I guessed back when the patriot act was signed after 9/11 that we’d have a fascist dictatorship by 2025. Well….

I really wish my ability to see patterns applied to seeing winning lottery numbers :(

I don’t think that matters for speaker of the house? It does matter for president and vp