This is an excellent opportunity for someone to start selling "Obama 2028" hats.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Trump unveiling 2028 campaign hats: ‘Soft launching a fascist dictatorship is insane’
(www.latintimes.com)
Or Bill Clinton 2028 hats. They're the same age, after all and the jokes write themselves.
Bill Clinton - At least he was able to balance the budget.
Bill Clinton - He'll just fuck the interns instead of the rest of us.
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Let's be honest, Obama is at least partially responsible for the USA being in the situation it is now. We don't need Obama again, we need an actual left candidate that will actually fight for leftist agenda items, like Medicare for all, and not double down on W Bush policies and kill thousands of people with drones.
Obama ran on a left leaning agenda with major grassroots support, then dismantled that organization and governed as a center right Democrat.
The point is that there's NOTHING that would infuriate Trump more - and any argument for how Trump can run for a third term will also then apply to Obama.
Any US opinion of what's "left" and "right" is unparseable for us who live in Europe anyways.
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If this joke of a nation had any merit at all, these coy suggestions would be disqualifying and his flabby, corrupt ass would be on the sidewalk or in jail tomorrow. Unfortunately, Americans are lazy, entitled, stupid, and collectively rich enough to pretend that there won’t be consequences to our shortsightedness.
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In case anyone is still unsure, he is not willingly leaving in 2028. Everything that's happening indicates he is setting up a path for him to remain. One of two things are going to happen in our future.
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We will need to march on DC in INSANE numbers and force him to leave with the threat of lethal force.
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We will have to use lethal force to make him leave.
Only other possibility is he dies of natural causes before then. But then we get Vance and we'll probably have to do the same thing. This isn't just Trump. The entire GOP apparatus is a fascist movement. The only reason he didn't do it last time is because he hadn't set up the foundation for him to remain by doing things like, I don't know, instructing the FBI to arrest federal judges who oppose him, which is a line we just crossed today.
Fascism is here. Arm yourselves. Help others arm themselves. Train. Help others train.
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Let's be honest. His health isn't going to make it. But regardless, if true, we should run Obama against him just so he can lose to a black man, again, before he dies.
Are you really willing to bet the future of the country on this? Evil has a way of sticking around way longer than you'd think...
Absolutely not. I would rather the constitution not get used like toilet paper for this waste of human space. But if they go full authoritarian, why not lean into it and play our own hand in a similar vein?
I'm tired of taking the high road against fascists.
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Fuck NO we should not run any other candidate. You want to imply that 3+ terms is acceptable?? That is friggin nuts
As mentioned in another reply, this is more fighting fire with fire sort of thing. They're going to trample all over the constitution one way or another here it looks like. They already have. the SCOTUS has legislated some incredibly unconstitutional rulings in the last several years, so it's going to keep happening.
We can either stick our heads in the sand and say: NO, MUH CONSTITNTUION, and hide behind what is ultimately just a piece of paper with some words on it if nobody in power is willing to defend it; or we can adapt and fight fire with fire until we can fix the institutions that have collapsed and recover our democracy.
If you try and take the high road with fascists, they'll just keep winning. That's literally what Fascism was created to destroy.
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It still isn't currently legal for him to run for a third term. This is how confident he is the law will be changed or ignored.
To be clear. It's not just "the law" it's the goddamn constitution
Just a piece of paper unless someone enforces it.
My mom used to always speed like crazy, and when people would complain, pointing to the speed limit signs, she'd always respond with something along the lines of "signs can't limit speed, let me know if you see a cop instead." Some people just don't give a shit about the forms of soft power meant to keep people in line without taking real action against them. My mom was one, and our current president is another. The funny thing is that we're going to have to ignore them as well to stop him.
The problem is, the law DOES matter for us dregs. It only doesn't apply for the wealthy.
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This is why they are so actively defying the courts and ignoring their rulings, especially the Supreme Court, and he'll be doing it as often as possible between now and Election Day 2025. That way, when he defies them to serve a 3rd term, it will just be the latest in a long series of violations, and people will be too fatigued to fight about it.
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Third term has nothing to do with being a grift for money or whatever. He's using that as a tool for power
It's simple. He's going to jail when he's done being president. And he's pissed off so many people he's definitely getting shanked
He cannot pardon himself for state crimes
The entire point of running a 3rd term is to stay out of jail
He is going to ride the courts until he dies or too old to care. They had 4 years to lock him up for his previous crimes including Jan 6th. He won't see jail time and he knows it
Doesn't matter. Remember how stressed he appeared during the last lawsuits.
Make the prick stress the fuck out so he can't sleep at night
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I'm not going to lie, this is a profitable move by Trump, because his voters will line up to get them to antagonize those outside their in group, as was the entire point of their vote, to harm their enemies as an end in itself, regardless of whether he's able to get the SCOTUS to rule that up means down and no third term means infinite terms for Republicans only.
I'm just looking forward to all the idiots giggling about their own enslavement, as I see anyone wearing that hat as a derivation of this:
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And these hats still had to be designed, manufactured and shipped.
Meaning, this wasn't exactly done yesterday. Meaning that while Trump was publicly stating that "they want me to run for a 3rd term, but I can't" this was likely already in the works.
Not surprising in the least, but still worth pointing out and adding to the already huge pile of bs coming from him and his suckers.
No different than any other conservative playbook.
"I know nothing about project 2025"
meanwhile https://www.project2025.observer/
"The trans people are abusing our kids!"
Meanwhile, page 50: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/2/2221200/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-50
Edit: Latest: page 55
"They're spreading misinformation!"
Which is always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
The projection is the only thing consistent
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They’re also selling shirts that say “rewrite the rules” just under the rest of it. Oh boy.
Remove Trump now!
He's not soft launching shit. It is a fascist regime.
How is it fucking soft launching fascism? The US is already at the concentration camp step, it is already fully blown fascism.
Hey, if the coup fails, these hats also work for Eric....
I'm against violence, but I'm not sure urinating and/or defecating on anyone wearing this hat counts as violence
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I think I'd be surprised if he lived that long. I know he's "in perfect health" but that's getting quite up there.
Kissinger lived to be 100 years old. It's always the hateful ass holes that hang on forever.
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