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  • It’s never been tested, so it is an open question. Not many people would be bold enough to try, and I don’t think Trump actually will either, but eventually this will go to the Supreme court.

    The main problem is, at the time the 22nd was written, there were plenty of cases of presidents who weren’t elected to the office, so why would the text specify only the electoral pathway if it were meant to cover all possible pathways? Even in the most broad reading (no elected official can become president after having been elected president twice), there remain appointed positions within the line of succession - namely secretary of state - that would completely avoid the election clause.

    I agree with you that the intent of the 22nd was to ensure a 2 term limit. Unfortunately the language is not that definitive and the current administration has little concern for following the unwritten rules.


  • Lutris communicates with GoG through their API, which is heavily throttled for downloading games. CP2077 was going to take almost an entire day to install using Lutris alone.

    Going to the website and downloading the pieces myself was much faster, but then of course I needed to manage the rest of the install.

    Small games are fine since you won’t feel as much pain on the download step.


  • Lutris downloads files from GoG using their API, which has heavily throttled download speeds. It was going to take 19 hours for CP2077 to download using Lutris.

    Downloading the 50 pieces individually from GoG through the browser took under and hour, but was quite annoying.

    If you don’t play any large games, you might not have noticed, but Lutris and GoG do not work very well together.



  • So the constitution doesn’t actually prohibit anyone from serving more than 2 terms as president, it prohibits someone being elected to the office of president more than twice (or once if they assumed office for more than 2 years of someone else’s term.

    In 2029 Trump could be elected as speaker of the house and then Vance and Dr. Evil resign as POTUS and VP and bam, Trump round 3.

    Trump could also be directly elected to the Vice Presidency, though the legal ground there is shakier given the 12th amendment.

    Ultimately, SCOTUS would need to weigh in because there is enough ambiguity in the constitution to allow for just the scenarios above.

    Good thing SCOTUS is chock full of no-nonsense nonpartisan jurists of the highest integrity.