• Rhaedas
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      Immunity from crimes. Always has been. Although the lust for power is bigly too.

      • @[email protected]
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        Immunity from crimes. Always has been.

        Is he ready to say that quiet part out loud though? Actually nvm, he did. He just calls it “injustice”

  • @[email protected]
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    Buy a gun.

    Join or form a militia.

    Conservatives don’t, and never did, give a flying fuck about the Constitution.

    The rest of us are going to have to.

    • @[email protected]
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      The boring bit is that I’m not the least bit surprised that he said that. other aspects of this dystopian timeline are certainly less boring.

      • setVeryLoud(true);
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        He’s been saying this for months at this point, and it was part of Project 2025, which he seems to be following like a computer runs code.

  • SeeMarkFly
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    “The White House has become an adult day care center” Republican Senator Bob Corker

      • @[email protected]
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        If Trump can beat the USS Constitution in a 1v1 then he can run for a 3rd term. This goes for all future, unaugmented two-term Presidents.

    • @[email protected]
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      He’s the president of the most powerful country on earth. When his words are “I’m seeking a dictatorship” they are news.

    • @[email protected]
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      Exactly. Our media is absolutely spineless.

      It should be breaking news, the US has fallen to authoritarianism. Trump is a dictator, etc.

      They are not reporting the news accurately. But then again, the media currently serves the billionaire class.

    • Bakkoda
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      Newspapers say they report fairly on all topics. Critics say otherwise.

      Some people say the newspapers report everything perfectly fine. Not everyone agrees. Here’s what we think.

      I got a million of these.

  • the Howling North
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    Dude looks like grim death now. They’ll already have to Weekend at Bernie’s him from 2026-2028.

    • @[email protected]
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      did you look at his makeup from a recent video, he looks very sickly without it, the skin past his ears that is. thats why he made all attempts to hide sickly white skin with the orange makeup.

    • subignition
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      Even if old age gets him, Vance becomes the acting president, and he’s every bit as evil while not being quite as senile. I highly doubt the MAGA cult is going to die alongside Trump.

      • @[email protected]
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        Trump chose the most feckless, least charismatic person ever as VP specifically so he wouldn’t show him up. He’s evil, all right, but no way he’ll be able to inherit Trump’s cult.

      • @[email protected]
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        Cults rarely survive a leader transition, especially ones based so fully around an individual rather than specific ideals. The cult will die, and the support will fracture, the underlying issues with the Republican party that allowed it will still be there.

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            The Democratic party of today will think it’s won and do fucking nothing for us.

            I feel like this needs to end with a new constitution or we just punt the issue a few decades while still allowing all the insane shit of today.

        • @[email protected]
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          There were early rumblings of making it a Trump Dynasty, which would be easier than transitioning to Vance (in the event of a third term, where they probably will run on a false ticket of Trump/Trump).

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        IDK they seem pretty darn unable to agree on anything besides how much they all love Trump. There’s no Republican politician who is anywhere close to his equal. There is no obvious successor. Seems like a strong possibility of a power vacuum when he dies.

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      Naw, he’s got at least another decade in him. His dad died at 93, and his mom died at 88. And that’s without the health care they have today. I wouldn’t be surprised if he lived into his 90s.

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        only the good die young. seems the worse you are, the longer you live. this fucker will still be destabilizing the globe at 100

  • @[email protected]
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    That would take an amendment to the Constitution, which requires 2/3 of states to ratify. He has a better chance of taking it by force than by law.

    • @[email protected]
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      Trump isn’t supposed to be able to assume office according to the constitution being an insurrectionist and all. The document doesn’t say a damn thing about total presidential immunity.

      The constitution is meaningless.

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            Sometimes. It depends on the judge, which is a problem in itself, being that the law is not partisan. Boasberg has been working insanely hard to uphold the Constitution in his court. We should recognize the ones that put their duty above money or loyalty, and replace the rest.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’ve seen that sentiment floating around, so you’re not alone there. Good on you for verifying!

    • @[email protected]
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      I said the same thing, but it turns out there is a weasely way around it. The 22nd amendment doesn’t actually say you can only be president for two terms. The text actually says:

      No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,

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      Some guy pitched it as “Vance runs with Asshole as VP, wins then resigns. Asshole is prez again.” Of course this requires Vance not having ambitions of his own.

      • @[email protected]
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        Except he’d have to be Speaker of the House not VP. He can’t be VP after this term according to the Constitution.

  • @[email protected]
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    to anyone here who is active duty military:

    you took an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the USA. It’s time to start protecting and defending the constitution.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s easy. Just refuse to leave and nobody will do shit about it except complain, as always.

  • Lit
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    arrest this traitor for going against the constitution

  • 52fighters
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    I understand one tactic is for him to serve as VP under someone else who promises to resign to allow Trump to serve again but he keeps saying there’s also other options.

    WHAT OTHER OPTIONS IS HE TALKING ABOUT?

    • Chris
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      Trump is inelagable to be president after their second term, the line of succession would jump to Johnson.

      Never been tested in court tho so I’m sure it’d get by. But at that point why even care about the rules?

        • Chris
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          ineligible I think.

          I was high and couldn’t for the life of me spell it

          • @[email protected]
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            been there, my guy. i was playing stardew valley while high and ordered spaghetti from Gus, only to find out that i wouldn’t actually get spaghetti in real life. it was a sad moment.

    • @[email protected]
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      He’s making a lot of noise about Zelensky not going to the polls. So …

      War, he’s talking about taking America to war so strongly they can’t have an election.

      • 52fighters
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        I guess that makes sense. I have a very firm feeling he is going to intentionally provoke a war against China. That war might already be brewing but he is much more likely to take us into it than almost anyone else.

    • @[email protected]
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      Trump could claim that his term as 45th and his term as 47th are recognized as separate offices of President. Thus, he would get one extra term as 47th’s second term.

      • Random Dent
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        Thus opening the door for some sort of Clinton-Bush type of future scenario where a Democrat and Republican are buddies behind the scenes and just keep running for one term and alternating for 20-odd years.

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      The supreme court has already ruled that the 14th amendment isn’t self executing and congress is required to disqualify someone from being president.

      The legal argument holds for any decision about presidential eligibility. So Trump can just stand and see if congress are brave enough to disqualify him in an open vote.

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        No, he’ll just issue an executive order that gets rid of term limits. Who’s going to remove him?

      • 52fighters
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        We held elections in the middle of the Civil War and made sure soldiers could vote. If Lincoln could do it then, we can do it now. I’ll fight to make sure we have elections, and I hope others do the same.

    • @[email protected]
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      one tactic is for him to serve as VP under someone else who promises to resign to allow Trump to serve again

      According to the 12th amendment, “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

      This seems pretty plain to me: if you can’t serve as president, you also can’t serve as vice president. Of course, this has never been tested in court…