david_herdson
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Re: Is Trump seeking to enter Gödel’s loophole? – politicalbetting.com
You are wrong. Sorry. Final sentence of the 12th Amendment: But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. That… (View Post)1 -
Re: Is Trump seeking to enter Gödel’s loophole? – politicalbetting.com
The fun bit here is that Vance is put up by Peter Thiel, and Thiel and Musk have history. (View Post)1 -
Re: Is Trump seeking to enter Gödel’s loophole? – politicalbetting.com
Or that while it is impossible to write a constitution that could not be taken over by a bad actor dictator, the fact of such an impossibility cannot be proven - but that the combination of the conje… (View Post)1 -
Re: Is Trump seeking to enter Gödel’s loophole? – politicalbetting.com
Sorry, but I'm afraid that's exactly the kind of lawyerly-academic thinking that's proven misleading in the past. Dictators don't give a damn about legal precedent, nor do their lackeys. This is not … (View Post)3 -
Re: Is Trump seeking to enter Gödel’s loophole? – politicalbetting.com
That one's easy: he just runs for VP under a surrogate, who then either acts as his proxy or - more probably - resigns in his favour. The bar on more than two (or strictly, more than two-and-a-half) … (View Post)1