Oh, normalization of a third term. Cool.
Cool, cool, cool.
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No. Hard stop. This is just him trying to force Dems to decide that they’re okay with the idea of a third term and then use that admission against them to support why it’s okay for him.
Cut off any thoughts of third terms NOW.
Should run against a giant guillotine. Something tells me the guillotine would win the popular vote.
Boots Riley has been saying it for decades...
It's finna blow cause
They got the TV, we got the truth
They own the judges and we got the proof
We got hella people, they got helicopters
They got the bombs and we got the, we got the
We got the guillotine
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This reads like an obvious ploy to soften the idea to his base. They hate Obama too, probably because Trump does.
What other opponent would ire them more? Also, if someone like Obama was on-board, it would be more of a challenge to the rule against it from both sides. Democrats rally behind Obama, Voting machine hackers behind Trump.
Is like a pretext to calling Obama a chicken for not doing it down the road.
The clearest indicator yet that Trump's rigging the next one.
hypothetical right now
The GOP is brewing up something.
Bannon has stated publicly they are working on working around the constitution to do so.
One trick would be via order of succession. Eg JD runs for prez, some rando as VP, trump as ~~VP~~ speaker, JD resigns, VP resigns, trump is acting prez.
It certainly goes against the spirit of it, but yea, the amendment says no person shall be elected more than twice.
It’s something entirely different to be elected the highest office in the land and be such a sycophant as to give it away to a madman.
I believe cuck is the word they would use, but sycophant works.
hey America, you know all those GUNS you have to protect you from monarchy....time to use them.
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I'd "love" to see Trump run off a bridge.
long walk off a short pier. Preferably someplace with sharks.
Trump has such a hard on about Obama. He lives rent free in trumps mind.
Also, he's already stacked the deck so of course he would love to get the next win against him.
I’m convinced the only reason he went from saying he’ll run to actually trying to run was that White House Correspondent’s dinner in 2011 where Obama made fun of Trump a bunch.
Hypothetical? That's a weird way to spell "unconstitutional".
Trump would love to run against Obama because he knows if he loses it’d be easy to dispute a third Obama term.
I feel like someone took the Necronomicon, and didn’t speak the three words correctly
Klaatu varada...necktie
Now look at what you did!! The time-space continuum is ruined and we have oompa loompas with long necties wrecking the geopolitical and economical landscape!
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It would be nice to see Trump get absolutely destroyed by the person he hates most in the world.
He seems like someone with deep-seated internalized self-loathing, so I feel like that would just be a self-own.
I doubt it. Obama really went into the dark side after his first term, so he'd only be marginally better than your average Dem candidate.
I’ve been a conservative voter with ethics my whole life and Obama was the best candidate I ever voted for.
So you've been a sucker that voted against your own interests your whole life lol.
Unless you are a millionaire, voting against workers rights, raising the minimum wage, expanding public schools and universal healthcare makes you a class traitor.
Tell me you didn't finish reading even one complete sentence before responding, without telling me you didn't even read one complete sentence before responding.
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Obama broke like half or more of his promises, like ending the war on terror, closing Guatanamo Bay and universal healthcare. Maybe you liked that, but "conservatives with ethics"—if we accept their existence, which I don't—don't exist in nearly enough numbers to matter, and the people who do matter in this equation absolutely hated it.
Voters don't really pay close enough attention for that to matter. The vast majority couldn't tell you a single 'dark side' thing he did.
Obama is super charismatic, which is a large part of why he won in the first place.
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Its not hypothetical. Its straight out against the constitution.
Order of succession is one thing they are looking at.
JD runs for prez. Someone else as VP. trump as speaker ~~VP~~.
Daddy Warbucks buys/rigs elections.
JD wins.
JD resigns. VP resigns.
Trump is acting prez.
He didn't run nor was elected as prez. But he can become acting prez via order of succession.
Voilà. 3rd term.
For reference https://thehill.com/opinion/5204688-steve-bannon-trump-third-term/
"But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
-12th Amendment
Also, succession skips other people who would be ineligible, as the requirements for being a member of the House allow people who are ineligible to be President to serve as Speaker of the House, who is otherwise 3rd in line.
Fair enough. Then he becomes speaker and then
Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
So he acts as president.
Point being. If you think there isn't a loophole they won't exploit you haven't been paying attention.
Everybody is trying to figure out the storyline arc to this bs, like some Netflix series. Maybe people will stop voting for celebrities and reality TV stars, I hope.
Trump says he would love to run against deceased president Washington in 2028.
What the drunk....
DRUGS
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