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bahmboo ◴[] No.45660320[source]
"The president and I want to get to the moon in this president's term" - Sean Duffy NASA administrator.

A scary way to set a schedule on a complex project with lives at stake. They don't care though.

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jm4 ◴[] No.45660957[source]
The silver lining is that they are operating under the assumption that he will leave office at the conclusion of his term.
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sigmoid10[dead post] ◴[] No.45661073[source]
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cyberge99 ◴[] No.45661164[source]
Which will backfire spectacularly when Obama is re-elected.
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Spooky23 ◴[] No.45661841[source]
You can’t get elected if you don’t count the votes. That requires a joint session of congress. If due to an unprecedented emergency the congress cannot come into session there’s no clear rule what happens.

Any number of emergent events may create an emergency preventing the congress from gathering. The congress are collaborators and the Supreme Court is compromised.

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1. DocTomoe ◴[] No.45663027[source]
I was under the impression that the 20th amendment would still terminate his term on January 20th, noon. In the absence of an elected president, the line of succession as defined in the Presidential Succession Act would kick in, meaning you got a Speaker of the House becoming president (if one exists), and if not, the Senate's president pro tempore.

Not entirely sure where you see murky and undefined situations...