And a surprisingly (depressingly) large number of law and order preaching conservatives are supportive of him doing it, despite him not being allowed to do that literally being written into the highest legal document in the country.
Who could have predicted back in 2016 that giving this man power would turn him into a despot?
I didn’t vote for him, but I was pretty sure that his plan was to hire people to do everything semi-competently so that he could focus on fucking around and enriching himself. That was a very disappointing thing to be wrong about.
anyone with working eyes and ears
Which turns out to not be a significant minority of the US and A population.
Believe it or not, there was actually a small coalition of just a few hundred million people screaming this from their rooftops around the world. If only the maga crowd could’ve heard their message sooner… Surely, well presented fact-based arguments would’ve changed their minds
They heard it. They also know that because you don’t agree with them on everything that you are a dirty liberal, and thus everything you say is a lie and you should be in jail.
And they knew that only a despot would be willing to actually put political opponents in jail, so they voted for one. But then he turned out to be some kind of despot!
I suspect there is a great deal of crossover between maga supporters and flat earthers
I do believe his mother said something of the sort. That he should in no way ever enter politics
While reality again invokes claim he has the ‘right’ to remain silent because anything he says can and will be used against him in a federal court of law. He has the right to a dipshit attorney, but if he cannot afford one or if all of them refuse to represent a despot, one democratic one will be appointed to him to make sure he goes to federal prison.
Impossible it was just a joke last year. You think he would do that setup a horrific violation of Western freedoms as a joke so no one takes it seriously then just full send it?
if he can run so can obama.
That’s not how it works. The law applies to Democrats, not to the Ruling Party.
Obama has absolutely no interest in this shit show. That’s half the joke of the current state of the Presidency. You need to either be a grifter, a soulless climber, or a senile coot to pursue the job at this point.
Bonus points for all three?
Certainly doesn’t hurt
If there’s still a Constitution by then.
Narrator: There wouldn’t be.
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In the third term, he’s gonna lower the price of gas and groceries & end the wars in Ukraine/Iran. Day 1. Bigly.
Don’t forget the bestest healthcare plan ever. Aaaaaaaaaany day now.
If we understand “now” as less of a time stamp, and more of a constantly shifting, meaningless word, it all makes sense.
I heard the new healthcare plan is dropping two weeks from “now”! And the Iran war and the genocide in Gaza will end two weeks from “now”! Oh, and Venezuela will be up and running with their new for-US-profit systems two weeks from “now” so we won’t have to steal their resources ourselves! Go Trump go!
It’s a bigly plan, the most beautiful plan. You can’t see it, but many people are saying it’s the greatest perfect plan ever.
At this point I would vote democratic just to have a president who can speak well. We had a chuckle at the Bushification of the language but 14+ years of it getting worse is just tiresome.
Oh, so THAT’S why the high gas prices are temporary. It all makes sense now.
Souverän ist, wer über den Ausnahmezustand entscheidet.
And the 4th and the 5th time
The good die young and ducks live forever.
No chance he lives that long
With his unhealthy life style he should have died a decade ago
Trump’s going to be kicking it into the triple digits. He and Senator Grassley are going to be tweeting at each other into the election of 2040.
With his mental decline it is unlikely that he will be in any shape to overturn the constitution and mount a campaign. Then stranger things have happened.
They’ll puppet his bloated corpse until the end of Vance’s term.
But Miller will.
I don’t think he’s working enough to that anyway, he’s incompetent on his own, the people that enable and execute these atrocities are just as much to blame
Cool. How about those Epstein files?
I bet in his third term he will definitely release the Epstein files right guys?
He will also release his tax returns.
They’ll get released in Obama’s third term. Thanks Obama!
Honestly, I support it. It’ll be like the election of 1912 where Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote enough that the Democrat Wilson was elected.
Why would any Republican run against him?
Seriously the sociopaths (AKA Republicans) are looting the Republic. They couldn’t be happier.
Democrats ran their modern version of Wilson in 2020. It went about as well as in 1913.
Blue states shouldn’t allow him on ballots if such a thing were to happen.
How about January 7th 2021 trump gets arrested and executed for sedition? Oh, is this a purity test to far for the democratic party?
Democrats are the cops at Uvalde. Keeping other people from going in and stopping the shooting (complicit alongside the republicans for perpetuating First-past-the-post voting, keeping others from competing against the republicans in the electoral system), yet doing nothing themselves.
Sure blue maga, blame those with no representation in government. Whatever makes you sleep at night.
They should, eya. Just like they should have kept him off in 2024, since he was already ineligible as an insurrectionist.
but only a handful of states actually tried. funny how that worked.
I’ve been screaming that for years. He shouldn’t even be president NOW!! He is an illegal and illegitimate president. He violated the constitution and our laws and was never cleared of those crimes and yet holds public office. But hey, he also violates every other law or rule we have so no biggie, right?
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
Those are the exact words of the 22nd amendment. It’s explicit. There’s no ambiguity or room for other interpretations. Trump was elected twice, he’s hit his limit, that’s it.
No person
Ah that’ll be where he’s trying to get in again then I assume, cause he’s not a person, he’s a monster
Sure, but we didn’t enforce the 14th amendment section 3, which clearly states that he shouldn’t be president currently.
No one enforced our laws, so we have NO LAWS.
Which means, he can just run for president again and if no one enforced the law then it could happen again.
I agree with you on the law, but NO ONE IS ENFORCING ANY LAWS LATELY!!! So what the fuck does any of it even matter anymore? Hmm?
So who is going to stop it?
Trump will run again and probably win, perhaps fairly.
I think the keyword here is “elected.”
That’s why ne said he’s going to run. He thinks he’s smart.
Im sure he could make a convincing argument that he isnt a person and therefore should be allowed to sit for a third term.
Unless those rumors are true and they did manage to game enough voting machines to clinch the election. In which case he was not actually elected twice…
Its not the general votes that matter. Its the electoral college. So even if they cheated he was still elected twice.
“Sorry everyone, I used my hall-pass to get re-elected so it didn’t count… wah, I wanna be Mr.President again! Gimme, gimmie, gimmie”
…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.
And that’s why Vance and the other fascists are waiting until after the midterms to get rid of trump.
There better be a real fucking riots in the streets across the entire damn nation if they come out with this bullshit.
Like I mean burning down federal buildings and police stations, storming the homegrown concentration camps to free the prisoners, a literal million+ person march on Washington DC right to the front door of the White House.
there should be riots in the street rn though.
How exactly do you guys think riots would go?
Do you think Trump would just say, “guess they don’t like me, I’ll leave office”?
Or do you think he would brutally crack down on everyone against him?
Riots would be the casus belli he wants to take military control of the country
Idk man. They did fly the army apache over them last time there was a big protest in Tennessee and then that time they did that weird stuff with firing the missiles in Cali. You’re right, but something has to change, I think we’re supposed to be brave and strong and united instead of shocked daily and then retreating, frightened, back under a rock to safety.
Like the riots when an insurrectionist was allowed to run for a second term after being ruled ineligible by a State?
But the Roberts Court, dontchaknow, intervened and went directly against the Constitution and made a BLATANTLY unconstitutional ruling that should have invalidated literally all of their appointments.
Trump was ineligible for the second term, whether or not the Roberts Court wanted to acknowledge it.
And hell will freeze over before I give those judges on the Roberts Court the dignity of referring to them with the words that other people call them or that court.
The election the Constitution is referring to is the Electoral College, not the general election.
Sounds like the foundation of our Democracy was built on quick sand, and the cement poured by the shadiest cheapest contractor capitalism could buy.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
This is why is fun to own a whole ass supreme court:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice
Words are fun for this guy
Trump appointed president for his 3rd term
Unless somebody stops him, he’ll do it. All the people that are supposed to check or balance his power are his minions.
There is wiggle room in some amendments but this one seems pretty fucking clear.
It does specify that he has to be a person. Perhaps they’re going to argue he isn’t?
In a wild turn of events, he’s gonna change his name to Deborah and run as our first trans President, claiming the transition resulted in him being a different person.
But then Elon Musk will crack the sads, and have a big sook, with multiple posts on Twitter.
The one weasel notion that I wonder about, what if he was elected VP and the president stepped down directly after? Then he wasn’t elected a 3rd time but placed by successions. It wouldn’t surprise me to see them try some such fuckary.
I don’t remember the exact wording, but basically to be eligible to be VP one must meet the eligibility requirements for being President. So he’s not eligible to be VP either.
But I recall someone claiming that no such eligibility requirement exists for Speaker of the House, who is in the succession line after the VP.
the legal
hippthesishypothesis is for the house to vote him in as speaker of the house and then the figurehead president and VP resign.If I were a fascist psychopath who had the opportunity to be part of such a scheme, I would 100% promise to step down and then not.
To prevent that, he’d need to replace the secret service with loyal sycophants.
Which could maybe work but even the more loyal bootlicker guys will prefer to be president than not.
They’d have to pause multiple times a day while he had his nap.
Yes, and none of that prohibits him from running for office again. The only prohibition is that he cannot be elected a third time. But here’s the thing: we don’t actually vote for President; we vote for who our Electors elect as President, and they are Constitutionally prohibited from electing Trump to a third term. If Trump runs and “wins”, the Electors cannot elect him. He can win 0 Electoral votes. Doesn’t matter what their States’ laws require because the Constitution is the highest law in the land… until SCOTUS rules the 22nd Amendment violates the 10th Amendment. 🤷🏻♂️
You forget that he stacked the deck
Therefore, by his own logic, he shouldn’t be in office right now, because he won in 2020, riiiight?
It doesn’t matter what it says when neither courts nor law enforcement will enforce it. Looks like we’re running out of democracy boxes.
There’s still one more box after November’s election.
yes, but is anyone gonna stop him?
So it sounds like there’s no prohibition against running, just against winning? Sounds like an easy win for the Dems.
It seems pointless to run in an election you are constitutionally barred from winning. But, Trump has proven time and time again he will do pointless things. If he tried running again and somehow he won, however, the constitution is clear: it’s a no go. He can’t get elected for a third time. That said, I don’t think that’s necessarily the point. I think the point is to create chaos and crisis. Hopefully he’s not around to run in 2028 so it becomes a moot.
Presidential candidate gets extra protections from prosecution and can raise pac money for bribes.
Yes, I fully expect SCOTUS to uphold that one 🙄
Well, he can run again. It’s just moot, as he can’t be elected. If he were to get the most electoral votes, I gu3ss the runner up is elected?
There’s wiggle room, he’s claiming a right to campaign. To run… He’s not saying anything about being elected.
He doesn’t actually do the electing. That’s up to public, and the officials who are in charge of elections (who he’ll try to stack with loyalists). He can’t say what they’ll do.
He runs, and if others elect him… Well… That’s the wiggle room.
That’s not wiggle room, it’s violating the Constitution. Not saying it can’t happen, but it’s not like that’s a logic loophole, it’s just not caring about acting illegally.
The Constitution specifically doesn’t call out Trump so…
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