″No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms,” the amendment states.
They are trying to make sure Obama can't run again
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The ACLU is going to fight this hard. Until it passes, then they'll support it 100%.
The process to amend the US constitution is so convoluted it will never happen again.
Not in time for Trump to have a 3rd term anyway, if Trump even lives that long.
He's just showing off how eager he is to get on his knees and lick the boots of the administration before they even asked him too. He needs Trump to know what a good boy he is.
Hell yeah let's undo the FDR term limit bill and get more people like him elected.
It would be extremely funny if most of the dems voted no but republicans find a way to push it through anyway 
Are you serious? The Dems will absolutely vote yes for this
Shouldve done thia earlier so we coulda voted in jimmy carter
Carter only did one term, we coulda been voting for him this whole time
Open casket presidency
Oh now you tell us this!
Does it say anywhere in the Constitution that he still has to be alive to get elected?
Carter 2028
Wow, this is unprecedented! Time for bipartisanship to take action!
They're doing it for the wrong reasons, but I'd be happy if that limit wasn't there. It's fundamentally anti-democratic. Not that the us is a democracy and removing it now will just make fascist consolidation of power so much easier, but still
Nah, keeping a limit forces the MIC and other entrenched powers trying to push the US agenda around the world to stay in the bureaucratic shadows instead of gaining decades in the presidency outright.
Not that the us is a democracy and removing it now will just make fascist consolidation of power so much easier, but still
The current one is different so that unlike that one which would allow Bush or Obama to run again, it would forbid anyone with 2 consecutive terms from a third:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/29
I wouldn’t have guessed it was a Democratic sponsor.
Why?? This was even before Obama’s 2nd term. Just because they thought they had the numbers?
Honestly, I can't remember the reasoning. I'm sure there's a daily Kos article about it or something from back then. I do remember them claiming it wouldn't apply to Bush, but those of us in left leaning spaces were pretty suspicious.
Would he even be alive by a third term?
That was fast
Miss me yet? 
Bush will win the democratic party nomination in 2028 and he'll run against Trump.
I'll note that you didn't specify which Bush 
I mean, the youngest Bush brother hasn't been activated yet...
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IT'S TIME TO STOP 
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Please don't speak this into existence lol
OMG. I feel it in my bones
Please step away from the :lathe-of-heaven:
Too real to be a bit
Eh the term limits were out there in the first place by Republicans terrified of FDR. Trump probably isn’t going to take it and even if he did I could see the Dems pushing Obama, something Obama’s ego would be more than happy to take on.
Yeah, they thought of that, and made sure this proposal would forbid 2 consecutive terms from having a third, just so it wouldn't apply to Obama
We're going to get Obama's third term with Kamala as VP, aren't we?
The last thing he wants is to have to do shit
It's his turn (again)
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