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Trump unveiling 2028 campaign hats: ‘Soft launching a fascist dictatorship is insane’
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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.
Doesn't matter. Then we get Vance and the same situation continues. The GOP apparatus is a fascist movement. It's possible it dies with Dear Leader, but the next up to bat will most likely step in and not much will change.
The plan is to argue that only two consecutive terms bar someone from running for a third term, and have the Supreme Court's Republican majority rubber stamp it, so Trump can run and Obama can't.
The wording in the constitution really doesn't allow much wiggle room at all.
It’s not about what the constitution says, it’s about coming up with a reason that their die hard fans will accept, and that probably won’t be that hard
The fans don't matter. It's the courts that matter.
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I really do like this idea. But I don't think modern dems look at coorperate democrats like Obama the same way they used to.
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.
"legitimizing" their attempt to tear up the constitution by also doing it isn't how you save it...
I might be getting misunderstood here.
They are going to make an attempt for a third term. They are going to claim some constitutional loophole and the SCOTUS is going to agree with them.
This is and always has been their plan. They've been screaming it from the rafters for the last 8+ years.
This will happen one way or another, Trump will likely get "cleared" for a third term for some bullshit reason that every "constitutional lawyer" will decry foul on, but it will still happen because the pillars of our democracy have already crumbled.
After that happens, we can either try and fight it and live in the past, or we can lean into it and adapt to fascism to fight fire with fire until such time that we can rebuild the pillars of our democracy.
The 2 term limit was added as an amendment in 1947 after FDR was so damn popular that he would have just kept running and winning until he died, and the other side didn't like it.
They fascists should be more scared of repealing the 2 term limit than progressives, if they studied history. Which they don't. So here we are.
Edit: Why are you downvoting me for simply stating what is planning to and going to happen based on what's already been done so far? Trump should have never been allowed to run for a second term, he's got a 34 felony convictions, had several ongoing investigations and trials set including classified documents, fraud, rape, treason, and a coup attempt. If they cared about the constitution, he should have been outright barred from running at all, just like CO Supreme court ruled before the election. But the SCOTUS is in his pocket so they will overrule anything to give Trump an advantage.
This will keep happening, downvoting me does not stop it. We can talk about what the appropriate level of response should be when it does happen, which is what I assumed we were doing, but it's going to happen. I'm on the side of the camp that's tired of taking the high road against fascism. It sounds like you're not. That's ok. We're still on the same team and should work together to produce the optimal outcome for the most people here. We're not enemies. We just have different approaches/responses to fighting fascists. That's ok. I respect the high road perspective. I just don't think it's going to work. Because it hasn't yet, and all we do are pile up losses to fascists.
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.
He has the best medical care in the world and his dad lived to be 93.
Ah, but his dad wasn't eating cheeseburgers every day and refusing to work out because he thinks it'll kill him faster.
Plus, his dad was in a bad way for the last decade or so of his life.
You're right though, he could live to be 90. Which would suck. But somehow, I just have to imagine there's only so far the best medical care in the world will take you when you're on adderall and pepsi/hamburders all day.
I want to believe!
So did Steve Jobs.
All the medical expertise in the world mean jack dick if one is too much of an egomaniacal jackass to admit that the doctors may, in fact, know better than you.
Should we put all our eggs in that basket? Absolutely the fuck not, but it does still bear noting.
He's an idiot, but he does has shown a willingness to follow medical advice. He got vaccinated against covid, after all.
Yeah, Jobs is admittedly an imperfect comparison because Trump doesn't seem the type to try and combat cancer with fruit salad and good vibes (that seems like more of an RFK thing if any of them). I could, however, absolutely see Trump firing any doctor who dared suggest major lifestyle changes or anything like that until he ends up with some quack who will happily tell him whatever he wants to hear as long as the check clears. Shitcanning anyone who has the audacity to try to be the adult in the room and replacing them with whatever sycophant chortles his balls with the most enthusiasm is like half his personality. That's gonna be a major fucking hindrance to anyone who's job would involve at least occasionally giving him bad news.