They don't have the votes to change the Constitution
Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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I think some of your are VASTLY overrating the life expectancy from a 77 year old, overweight, man with a likely history of drugs and alcohol and a McDonalds addiction.
The reaper hasn't taken McConnell yet either, so I'm not really taking death into account here. Prepare for the worst and all that.
There's no scenario where Trump has enough power to unilaterally overturn the 22nd amendment and doesn't just use that power to declare himself dictator for life instead. He's just being an idiot who doesn't think more than negative-two seconds ahead of what he's saying, as usual.
Term limits don't mean anything to these people. The constitution does not mean anything to them. No one will run against him, because whomever replaces him will be a handpicked autocrat whose sole purpose will be to ensure there is never a threat to their rule.
You're running on the assumption that they'll abide by the rules: they won't. They already consider themselves above the law (despite the incredibly slow evidence to the contrary.), and have already come within a hairs breadth of having the unquestioned power they want. Now they're scared, desperate animals because not only is there functionally no path back to that power, but the consequences on their actions is facing them down. If they get the power back to ensure they don't have to compromise on anything: they will never give it up willingly.
We got to watch brutus stab caesar, but the guard actually stopped him before brutus got to 18. This was the very real "Fall of the republic, rise of the empire" moment, and it honestly seems like we're not taking the seriousness of the moment to heart.
Pretty sure Kissinger is being kept alive by pure spite at this point.
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Makes Frightening Prediction After Trump Gag Order Request
The anchor's ominous warning comes as prosecutors seek to clamp down on Trump's inflammatory public remarks about his coup attempt case.
It is near perfect stuff to have Trump saying Biden is "cognitively impaired" right AFTER saying he beat Obama in an election and right BEFORE saying Biden may lead us into WW2.
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But isn't it kind of a whiff? If Biden knew how to lead us into WW2, I think an awful lot of Trump's supporters would like to go.
Yeah, but on which side?
Cause you even need that answer. We all know which side trump supporters are on.
Hmm, I've often thought of the idea of time travel as a tourist industry, but a retirement community sounds like a solid business idea too.
If you've got energy to burn sending people backwards in time: then there is practical and functional immortality already available. Ain't no one retiring under those conditions.
? Not to derail the topic but how does Time travel equal Immortality?
Are we using End Game time travel here?
If you've got the power, the energy, to idly send people through time: you've got the energy to do all kinds of other things: like perfecting biology, space travel, all sorts of crazy computer jive.
Will a human body live forever? No, of course not. Could good medicine and technology extend the human life span ridiculously? Yup. Could good enough technology and computing figure out how to transfer a living human consciousness without breaking continuity? Absolutely. And right there, for probably less effort than sending someone through time: you've effectively made them functionally immortal.
If you've got the power to violate time, you've got the power for functional immortality. Unless time travel turns out to be so ludicrously simple and cheap, there's always better ways to spend that kind of power... Like moving your planet to account for global warming, or getting a high level AI to calculate the last digit of PI before the end of business friday.
Actually it can be potentially cheap without allowing for all that other stuff - but with the caveat that it will only link two specific points in time and space.
1) Make a stable wormhole. (This is the big energy part of this, but the tech to produce the exotic matter needed for this doesn't necessarily imply the rest of what you mentioned)
2) Take one end of the wormhole out into space at relavistic speeds for a significant period of time. This slows the flow of time for the traveling end, but both ends of the wormhole would experience the same passage of time as a single object
3) Return and park the wormhole exit back where you started. You can now travel forward and backward in time by the amount of time difference generated by time dilation
And for practical uses of this tech, instant contact and transportation to and from space colonies, with the caveat that to FTL there you have to get there STL first.
Not that useful though for shipping people off to when they think they want to live.
1) Make a stable wormhole. (This is the big energy part of this, but the tech to produce the exotic matter needed for this doesn't necessarily imply the rest of what you mentioned)
2) Take one end of the wormhole out into space at relavistic speeds for a significant period of time. This slows the flow of time for the traveling end, but both ends of the wormhole would experience the same passage of time as a single object
3) Return and park the wormhole exit back where you started. You can now travel forward and backward in time by the amount of time difference generated by time dilation
And for practical uses of this tech, instant contact and transportation to and from space colonies, with the caveat that to FTL there you have to get there STL first.
Not that useful though for shipping people off to when they think they want to live.