• DistressedDad
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    41 month ago

    If Trump was elected in the 80s, he wouldn’t be alive long enough to change the name plate of the oval office desk. We’re living through such a wild time in history.

  • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Why? Because no matter how much the unhinged right, many “centrists”, and some of the leftists and a lot of the corporate media mocked those among the Democrats that said democracy is at risk…it is.

  • @flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Just remember, if his new administration has proven anything, it is that the difference between legal and illegal in the American political system is mostly down to everyone being willing to go along with that law. There is very little actual teeth behind a lot of it at the high up federal level.

    So it might be unconstitutional for him to run again, but who is actually going stop him? He has more guns and more sycophants than the court system.

  • @PurpleSkull@lemm.ee
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    01 month ago

    Trump already looks 20 years older 2 months into his second presidency. Look at pictures of him yesterday. How on earth would he even run for a third term, physically I mean? He will be the oldest president EVER by the time his term ends. 2 Years older than Biden when he left. A third term would serve no one but the actual rulers Peter Thiel and Musk behind him…oh.

    • @stopdropandprole@lemmy.world
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      I think you’re onto something… Thiel and the billionaires who bankrolled JD Vance knew exactly what they were doing when they made a deal with Trump for the VP seat.

      tinfoil hat time: they will keep Trump for as long as he serves them, then it’s 25th amendment time, and then theyll have their boy JD in power. even if it’s only the remaining term, it’ll be long enough to get the pieces into play for their ancap fantasies of a balkanized USA, with different CEOs over regional corporate fiefdoms.

      • @Bristingr@lemm.ee
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        Trump will be 25th on January 20th 2027, if the Cheeseburger or a Luigi doesn’t get to him first.

      • ssillyssadass
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        Lol, lmao even. There is, and will be, no “national militia.” What’s going to happen is that the American people will sit in their couches, maybe cry, and say “why is this happening to us, somebody save us.” Anything that doesn’t take effort.

        • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          We are quite factually already NOT doing that. Get involved with a movement before you post doomer shit like this. Remember, every war we ever lost has been against fighters that blend in with the population. Its why we lost Vietnam, why we lost in Bush’s little scandal, and why they’ll lose when Trump tries to do this. Our biggest hurdle isnt getting people off their asses.

      • @alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 month ago

        I remember the Russian military recruitment offices burning these past years, and their railroads getting sabotaged.

        The western press proudly stated “this is what happens when you don’t allow people to protest, they turn to sabotage”.

        But I guess this administration missed the memo.

  • FundMECFS
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    31 month ago

    When Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon said “I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028,” last week, it should have been a surprise, but wasn’t. “We’re working on it. … We’ll see what the definition of term limit is,”the dishevelled Bannon told NewsNation. It wasn’t the first time he had mentioned it either. The president’s adviser, who went to prison for refusing to testify before a congressional committee about the 6 January insurrection, suggested it in December. Then, he argued that Trump could circumvent the 22nd amendment, which codifies the two-term limit, because the word “consecutive” is not in the text of the document.

    Trump has been making his feelings clear too. Shortly after his election victory last November, the president told congressional Republicans: “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s so good we’ve got to figure something else out’.”

    Then, in January, during the annual House Republican retreat in Florida, he joked with speaker Mike Johnson: “Am I allowed to run again, Mike?” In February, he asked supporters at the White House: “Should I run again? You tell me.” Offhand musings about a third term in office sound less like bluster and more like a blueprint.

    If we’re sharing articles can we make the effort to add a couple relevant paragraphs under the headline? Otherwise the discussion ends up being about the headline and often innaccurate.

    • @derfunkatron@lemmy.world
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      No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

      You’d think that the absence of the word “consecutive” and the phrase “no… more than twice” would mean quite clearly that it’s two terms period, not one, plus two consecutive terms.

      Unless, of course, these fuckheads are arguing that consecutive terms count as one.

      Fuck.

    • @tyrant@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 month ago

      Ill try to do that but… People should also read the article before before impulse commenting.

      • FundMECFS
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        As someone who’se shared hundreds of articles on reddit then lemmy.

        Good luck getting more than 1% to read the article. People want headlines, scrollable information bits that they can instinctively react on.

        That’s why paragraphs under are useful. Makes people atleast read those before commenting a gut reaction to an oversimplified headline.

  • @Wilco@lemm.ee
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    31 month ago

    Yes, but if Trump refuses to leave office then he will need some serious guards. My understanding of the Constitution is that he becomes a domestic threat at that point and “fighting him” is technically legal … and required by anyone that took an oath to defend the Constitution.

  • @BlackSheep@lemmy.ca
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    61 month ago

    There is a dictatorship happening to the south. Professors are leaving Yale University for the University of Toronto. For God’s sake, get out and vote in Canada in our upcoming election. Danielle Smith is blatantly snuggling up with MAGA. And PP keeps changing his ideologies with the political wind. Save our sovereignty.