The Trump Presidency, Season 2

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Veritable Quandry said:
Twitler can not run as Vice President, as the Constitution says that anyone barred from holding the office of President can not be Vice President.

To make this scheme work, they would need to run two people who could get elected but are willing to resign. As soon as they are sworn in, the House of Representatives could then elect Mangolini as Speaker. The Constitution does not require that the Speaker be a Representative, and in fact has no qualifications for the office. The Speaker is, however, third in line to the Presidency.

Gerald Ford is the only Speaker to become President by succession, as Rockefeller had resigned due to his own tax scandal before Nixon had resigned, and the Senate had not voted on a replacement VP.
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Re: my disagree. Ford wasn't speaker. He was House Minority Leader. Carl Albert was speaker when Ford was nominated for VP.

In 1973, during Albert's second term as Speaker and Nixon's second term as president, Vice President Spiro Agnew was investigated for tax evasion and money laundering for a series of bribes he took while he was governor of Maryland. Agnew resigned as vice president and eventually pleaded nolo contendere to the charges. This event put Albert next in line to assume the presidency, should that office have become vacant.

Under the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Nixon nominated Republican House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to succeed Agnew as vice president in October 1973. As the Watergate scandal began to unfold and the impeachment process against Nixon began, it quickly became apparent that if Nixon resigned or was removed from office before Ford was confirmed by both houses, Albert would become acting president under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. Albert would have been forced to resign from the office of Speaker as well as the House.

This was the first occasion since the Twenty-fifth Amendment's ratification when it was possible for a member of one party to assume the presidency after a member of the opposing party vacated the office. As speaker of the House, Albert presided over the only body with the authority to impeach Nixon and had the ability to prevent any vice presidential confirmation vote from taking place in the House. This meant Albert could have maneuvered to make himself acting president. Ted Sorensen prepared a contingency plan for Albert that outlined the steps Albert would have taken had he assumed the presidency. The vice presidency was vacant for about seven weeks; Ford was confirmed and sworn in December 1973.

Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, and the office of vice president was once more left vacant when Ford succeeded Nixon that day. This event put Albert next in line to assume the presidency for a second time. Former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller was nominated by Ford, then confirmed and sworn into office as vice president in December.
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ETA 1: Oh, missed the "as Rockefeller had resigned due" part. Rockefeller didn't resign as VP. He just declined to be Ford's running mate in the 1976 election.
ETA 2: It would have been interesting if Carl Albert had succeeded to the Presidency. Since he was a Democrat.
 
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Noodles said:
Work from home really could be the real solution here, not in every case, and to some extent it would require some to accept a but more "effort" for some activities. But it spreads the need for housing out a lot, which helps with the stupid housing cost problem that cities have.

Also, one excuse I see a lot is, "There is much more to do in the city." but I wonder how often people Do those things. Is it worth paying 2-3x per month in rent to maybe go to some activity once a month? Take that savings and just get a nice hotel once a month, and still save money.
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Re: "There is much more to do in the city." but I wonder how often people Do those things."
Before I moved to NY, I visited on vacation the year before. Hadn't known I was going to be moving there. Saw a ton of plays. Did the 'tourist' thing (visited museums, Statue of Liberty, etc.). Only time I did that type of thing after I moved and lived there for about 8 years? When relatives visited. Then I went to plays and visited the 'tourist' things.

On other hand: when I lived in NY: it's incredibly nice to blink, realize I'm quite hungry, roll myself out the door and walk a block to the local pizza place and eat pizza. At midnight. See a movie? That's another block up the road. Catch the metro? 1 or 2 more blocks up the road. Where I live now? Nothing seems to be open when I suddenly become hungry after 11pm (at some point McD's went 24/7, not sure if I knew that at the time, or if I moved back to Virginia before they changed their hours). NOTHING is within walking distance now where I live. Well, except a Jehovah Witness Kingdom Hall is within walking distance (never attended); otherwise nothing is within walking distance now.

I'm sad things aren't in walking distance any longer. Heck, when I lived in NY, there was a Grumpy Cat bar just up the road from me. I used to walk 40 blocks easily back then, so it was within walking distance.
 
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You know, it occurs to me that if "Autistic people don't make families or babies etc" whatever RFK was going on about the other day. WTF are these Eugenics nut jobs worried about?

Wouldn't the "problem" just resolve itself?
 
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The eugenics agenda ties in with this observation as well:

Naomi Klein (@naomiaklein.bsky.social)

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of...
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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Trump is finally getting the military parade he's always wanted. And for his birthday!

Donald Trump Birthday to Coincide With Massive Military Parade (archive,today)
President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, on June 14, coincides with the 250th anniversary of the US Army and, according to reporting from The New York Times on Friday, a large-scale military parade is being planned for that day in the streets of Washington, DC.

This parade, one of several events set to commemorate the anniversary, is set to include 150 vehicles, 50 aircraft, and participation from 6,600 soldiers.

The Friday reporting comes after the White House, last month, denied that such a military parade was planned on the president’s birthday. The Army has held in statements that the procession is meant to celebrate the anniversary of the military branch’s founding on June 14, 1775. Reporting from the Associated Press on Thursday, based on unreleased planning documents, confirmed that a parade was in the works.
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Trump defends the cost of a parade as being totally worth it!
 
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Pete Hegseth had a rare moment of insight and a great idea - no kidding: he asked Army contractors in a new memo to grant the Army the right to repair.

"The Secretary of the Army shall…identify and propose contract modifications for right to repair provisions where intellectual property constraints limit the Army's ability to conduct maintenance and access the appropriate maintenance tools, software, and technical data—while preserving the intellectual capital of American industry,” it says. “Seek to include right to repair provisions in all existing contracts and also ensure these provisions are included in all new contracts.”


 
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Lexxi said:
Re: "There is much more to do in the city." but I wonder how often people Do those things."
Before I moved to NY, I visited on vacation the year before. Hadn't known I was going to be moving there. Saw a ton of plays. Did the 'tourist' thing (visited museums, Statue of Liberty, etc.). Only time I did that type of thing after I moved and lived there for about 8 years? When relatives visited. Then I went to plays and visited the 'tourist' things.

On other hand: when I lived in NY: it's incredibly nice to blink, realize I'm quite hungry, roll myself out the door and walk a block to the local pizza place and eat pizza. At midnight. See a movie? That's another block up the road. Catch the metro? 1 or 2 more blocks up the road. Where I live now? Nothing seems to be open when I suddenly become hungry after 11pm (at some point McD's went 24/7, not sure if I knew that at the time, or if I moved back to Virginia before they changed their hours). NOTHING is within walking distance now where I live. Well, except a Jehovah Witness Kingdom Hall is within walking distance (never attended); otherwise nothing is within walking distance now.

I'm sad things aren't in walking distance any longer. Heck, when I lived in NY, there was a Grumpy Cat bar just up the road from me. I used to walk 40 blocks easily back then, so it was within walking distance.
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*checking Yelp from my tiny apartment in Berlin*

There are 167 restaurants within a distance of 500 meters or less. That's 31/100 miles or the length of about 1.5 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. How does that stack up against New York?


(Unfortunately, I like to cook.)



ETA: added American units of measurement
 
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