Bannon placed second in a CPAC strawpoll
My first thought: That'd be great, there's no way he'd win
My second thought: Democrats would find a way.
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My first thought: That’d be great, there’s no way he’d win
Remember, the overwhelming majority of the country thought the exact same thing about Trump in 2016.
Democrats, the masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
i mean let's give Putin some credit too, his disinformation campaigns and bot farms have been a master class in manipulating public perception. that's to say nothing of the Twitter/X situation
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Read: They still don't have a replacement for Trump.
Of course they do, but the issue is that too much of Trump's control over their base is from his cult of personality (somehow), not the plan itself. They don't know how to replace that. Yet.
Musk is hoping to be next. Yes, constitution doesn't allow it, but they don't intend to follow it anyway.
The constitution also doesn't allow an insurrectionist to be president, but here we are.
That's why they're so interested in making Canada part of the US. His mom is Canadian. If Canada becomes part of the US he becomes a natural born US citizen and becomes eligible to run for president. And this is one of many reasons we cannot allow ourselves to become part of the US.
They absolutely do not need Canada for this.
We are living in a post-truth world. The MAGA right do not care about the law, the facts, or even what is right.
They want power. By any means necessary.
FOX and OAN will run pieces about how Musk was born here in the states and was moved to South Africa to help run his emerald mines. They will draw up fake birth certificates, change birth records in hospitals to show he was born on an Army Base in Texas.
They'll even find the doctor that ushered his delivery.
And the Right will eat it up.
The sad thing is Trump has the means to make all of this possible. This is not figurative.
This is the nightmare scenario. And Musk will not let go of power.
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They're putting a LOT of faith in those arteries holding up that long LMFAO
Just keep feeding him McDonald's lol
I swear to God you can hear all the grease caked inside his body when he speaks. That wheezing, wandering, droning voice has had a few too many Big Macs.
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We’ll see what the definition of term limit is
It's right there in the amendment:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and 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.
Donald Trump was elected twice. He is ineligible to be elected again.
Yeah. The constitution also says anyone who starts a fucking insurrection is also ineligible and yet here we are.
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If I had to put money on it, I'd guess they contest the legitimacy of the next election, and he just refuses to step down - can only be elected twice, but he's just there as a care taker until a proper election can happen
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Actually, reading the language again, I can absolutely see some shenanigans where he runs as VP for someone else who runs on a platform of "vote for me and I'll immediately resign and put Trump in charge again". It'd need the supreme court to decide if that "and" is exclusive or not, and given that half the court seems pretty happy to give up their principles of it suits their politics, I wouldn't be surprised if that worked
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It says "elected", but what is the president isn't elected? They will find a way, and with recent reality bending Supreme Court decisions or won't even be so hard.
Ok ok, but hear me out - what if we didn't have elections. No problem!
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Since we can't rely on the law, it'll need to be the people's veto.
If Presidents can run for a third term, I want to watch Trump get destroyed by Obama, when he also runs for a third term.
You don't think they're covering that contingency?
They rules they have formulated and want to pass as law are that the first two terms must not be consecutive. This would preclude Obama from having a third term.
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Just like Biden used the SCOTUS immunity ruling to legally assassinate trump?
Democrats will not ever break precedent.
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Likely scenario:
They'll first try to get two thirds of both the senate and the congress, and to a constitution overhaul in the style of Hungary. If that fails, there's always the option for a martial-law, or just circumventing the whole of the constitution.
To be honest, the most likely scenario in my mind is some form of war declaration or emergency, suspending elections has precedent during wartime.
A very handy use of the expansionalist dreams of GOP, but more likely is that Trump will just use the war on immigrants as an excuse to suspend elections.
Is there precedence for that in the US? I can't find an example of US elections being suspended during war time, even the 1964 election happened during a war period.
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Maybe make him speaker of the house then have a stand in prez and vp step down?
I know a vp has to have presidential eligibility to be elected, which Trump wouldn't have at the end of this term. But Im not aware of the same restriction on the speaker
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and 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.
That's the wording. It looks pretty iron clad, if you care at all about the rule of law.
The problem is that word "elected." It doesn't specifically exclude someone assuming the role of president through the line of succession.
No, but the "acted as" should technically cover it. Again it's meaningless if laws no longer apply lol.
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That wording wouldn't prevent Trump from becoming Speaker of the House, and then becoming President for a third term through the line of succession.
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Nope, that is a declaration of war
Time to 2A up to protect yourselves America. Only a copper jacketed hollow point between freedom and tyranny.
FYI I know nothing about ammo other than what I hear in movies or TV.
Hey yo, while we're cutting jobs I heard the secret service costs the government billions and isn't even secret, we best tell Musk on X and use a thinky emoji to show how smart that observation is.
Trump will be 79 in 2 months, at 83 he himself wont be around to run in 2028, but MAGA would still be there and that's what we should be fighting. I mean sadly and similarly Bernie Sanders wouldnt be around to run in 2028, but his movement is what we should be carrying
A strategically deployed hamberder in the next 1000 days will ensure Trump is president for life.
He wants to be just like putin. He should be in jail!
Time to really get to know our communities and our people in the military. The only justice imaginable coming from this is a coup in one form or another to oust them. Anyone in the military that is actually on board with this needs to be purged by the rank and file.
Third term?
Again with the Russian model - why not be more imaginative and declare yourself some new made-up dictator name (& just be a dictator, no terms, no red & blue, only polished golden ass), like something Borat would come up with.
His supreme big handedness of the Lord, the shitter of golden diarrhea, he who licks no domestic butts, the holy eternal MAGAer, the trumpest with the mostest absolute dumptruck ass, senior car salesmen.
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Anyone surprised at this is unqualified for political office.
Maga operatives? Does he mean Gavin Newsom?
Fascist pricks are doing something fascistic, what?!
There is nothing to work on, unless you think 3/4rds of state legislatures will agree to amend the constitution so that Trump can have a third term. Not gonna happen. The only way they could attempt this would be to violate the constitution.
The only way they could attempt this would be to violate the constitution.
I don't think they're gonna be too worried by that.
The more people say it's impossible, the less.they consider the options that, though wayyy out there, are how they have found ways to do what they've already done.
There may not be a single obvious loophole, but a cascade of loops -a Möbius loophole -is how they approach things.
Do not forget his remarks recently about the big mid term surprise and blue states : "they may disappear off the map completely"
Not sure how you feel about that, but even in trump's verbal diarrhoea, that seems a terrifyingly ominous statement.
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