Ah, good catch. I’d forgotten about that. Apparently the 12th Amendment should narrow that loophole significantly:

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Honestly, the whole insurrection thing should disqualify him anyway, but again they’d probably argue that he’s not ineligible for the office of President, he just can’t be elected to it due to the 22nd Amendment.

no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once

Unfortunately, there’s an obvious loophole right there that they will argue for. The 22nd Amendment doesn’t say that Trump can’t be VP and take over as President on Day One. It just restricts how many times he can be elected as the President. He could theoretically run as VP and have an enabler run as President an indefinite number of times - there are no limits to the number of times somebody can be elected as VP: https://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/vp-term-limits/

Ugh. I really hope my fellow Aussies don’t vote this guy in. He’s increasingly copying Trump.

I believe the term is “airship” (blimps have no frame/internal structure). Can we toss the Nazis out of them instead?

He’s really leaning into the villain trope. So many sci-fi villains claim that empathy and/or compassion are weaknesses. Their lack of it is usually their undoing.

Good to see we’re pivoting away from US contracts. Too unreliable with Trump and Musk at the helm.

As entertaining as this is, I am concerned that it downplays the very serious threat Trump and his cronies pose simply because they aren’t particularly intelligent.

My concern here is whether anyone is actually going to stand up to him. He’s clearly flagging that he’s going to go after these people and it’s going to be dependent on whether the DOJ actually pushes back or not.

A well-written article and worth the read.

Probably the main thing I disagree with him about is the economic aspect and that’s only because it’s Trump we’re talking about - I’m not sure the economic costs will actually stop Trump doing something as stupid as trying to take Canada, Greenland or Panama by force.

Precisely what I am doing. Too many devices that still do what I need simply to ditch just because Windows 10 is EOL. I’m a bit over half-way in my migration (still have a few programs to sort out - may have to run a W10 VM for a couple of them as they don’t work under WINE and there is no Linux equivalent).

I’m not sure how you’d describe Australia’s distributors, since we’re a small market to begin with. Locally ViaVision/Imprint are more likely to have things that interest me, but seeing as a lot of Imprint’s masters are sourced from other distributors the quality can be all over the place. AID has been building up steam of late, filling in some gaps where we missed a local release. Umbrella and Madman are the other main ones I can think of, but I have very few of their releases.

Internationally, I have sourced things from Indicator (UK), Plaion (Germany) and Elephant Films (France), often as they are the only way to get a Region B release.

This is unhinged. I hope it doesn’t pass.

The question now is whether Trump and his cronies are going to obey the judge’s restraining order or take immediate action.

Me.

Or so that he can control other countries’ trade. He would be the gatekeeper unless ships wanted to take the long route around the Americas.

https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/urgent-warning-trump-is-planning suggested next year for Canada and/or Greenland.

I hope my fellow Aussies say no, they align with Australia’s interests.

Both the US and my own country (Australia) are below the replacement fertility rate (~2.1). Without immigration, there simply won’t be enough people to keep things going over the coming decades as the population slowly ages out. I seriously doubt the average anti-immigration rightwinger understands this.

Sounds like Usha (her daughter) made a bad choice for a husband (Vance). Must make for some very tense dinnertable conversations.

His base won’t realise it was him either. Too long ago.