Are we all in agreement? Is the lathe even involved with this one?

  • SovietyWoomy [any]
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    3 years ago

    Fun fact: the speaker of the house is not required to be an elected member of the house of representatives. A bill was introduced in the house in July 2021 to add this requirement, but was never voted on. The speaker of the house is second in line to be president after the vice president.

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      "Speaker of the House President Donald J Trump"

      I feel like this might happen, if only because the outcome would be exactly what this country deserves: Biden and Harris getting impeached - and conceding and resigning without much of a fight to the GOP, making Speaker Trump the President again.

      It's perfect because the GOP gets what it wants like it always does, and the Democrats can only scream "coup! We've been coup'd!" so loudly because ultimately it was legal and that's the part they care about most. And then the GOP can scream about liberals being hypocrites about impeachments. And then the Dems can cry about the GOP kinda-sorta-pulling-a-coup-call-it-a-coup-we-have-to-call-it-one-and-otherwise-do-nothing.

      The perfect blur of just enough deniability and confusion that nothing actually changes.