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[Dennis Donovan]

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[LisaL]

1. And while he is at it, give everyone a pony.

NT

[Tadpole Raisin]

3. That's got to be a thread winner!

And marks the third time I laughed in a week…
Chortled actually!

[dutch777]

6. Make mine a unicorn please.

[GreenWave]

9. I'm going to name my pony "Wildfire".

What could possibly go wrong?

[kkmarie]

2. Harris #47

I had read this somewhere, maybe on DU
It would make VP Harris #47 and trumpfuck #48.
All his merchandise with #47 would be wrong. Much like all the maga merchandise about President Biden.

[Raven123]

4. In no way, will that achieve the stated goal.

[Ocelot II]

5. But there wouldn't be a vice president.

Resigning and making Harris the president wouldn't automatically elevate Walz to the VP position, so she'd have to appoint him and get him approved by a majority of both houses of Congress. Good luck with that. Maybe that wouldn't be a problem for such a short time, but if anything happened to her and there is no VP, the Speaker of the House, the odious Mike Johnson, would be president, though temporarily as well. However, if Harris is temporarily the president, at least she wouldn't have to preside over the electoral vote count - that would be taken over by Patty Murray, the current president pro tem of the Senate.

[tritsofme]

19. Republicans will be in the majority on 1/6, Grassley not Murray, would preside.

[Ocelot II]

21. Ew. Good point.

But it's not going to happen anyhow.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

7. I'd rather have him put her on the Supreme Court

If Justice Sotomayor is willing to retire now.

[tritsofme]

20. Even if it was a good idea, she's a bit too old.

[Polybius]

23. 60 is quite a bit younger than 70

She's also in far better health.

[tritsofme]

24. And 50 is even better than 60 for SCOTUS nominees.

[dutch777]

8. I suggested about 2022 Biden should bow out & give it to Kamala to fake a temp health issue making Pelosi president

I thought that would accomplish the woman President part and make almost all MAGA heads explode.

[Prairie Gates]

10. Four week pressure campaign could make it happen

[SomedayKindaLove]

11. If there is no VP

Who certifies the election?

[Ocelot II]

12. The president pro tem of the Senate takes over

if the president of the Senate (the VP) is unavailable. Currently that's Patty Murray.

[Dennis Donovan]

14. President Pro Tempore of the Senate Patty Murray. n/t

[SoCalDavidS]

15. Makes A Lot Of Sense

Which is why it won’t happen. Sounds like something the other side WOULD do though.

[NickB79]

16. To what end?

All the misogynists who refused to vote for a woman President last week won't suddenly be swayed for 2028 because Harris held the office for two months. It would have no impact other than to piss off Trump and enrage the Republicans even more.

[Ocelot II]

17. I don't see much point in it.

Being (sort of) the first woman president doesn't mean much if it didn't happen via an actual election - Biden stepping down and giving it to her for a couple of months is just a man giving a woman something she was wrongfully denied in the first place by other men. Anyhow, Biden ought to serve out his entire term. He's owed at least that much for all the shit that's been thrown at him.

[tritsofme]

18. Wrong, it would be Grassley presiding, Murray and Democrats will be in the minority by then.

Not that this isn’t a dumb idea for plenty of other reasons.

[Maru Kitteh]

22. As a woman I find this patronizing as fuck.

[Dennis Donovan]

26. I agree

I'm deep sixing it.

[jalan48]

25. LOL-The Fascists are taking over and we still want to play identity politics?