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To add context, the ads are on YouTube, I’m in North Carolina, they’ve mostly (all?) been regarding Medicare with a voiceover saying “He’s not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid” followed with him saying “None of that stuff is gonna be touched”

I can only imagine there’s some local elections or primaries that have his stink on it and some GOP candidate is trying to ‘roll down the windows’?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (10 children)

Because we do not live in a Democracy with regular election seasons.

We live in a fascist oligarchy, which must constantly beam propoganda into the minds of its citizens.

...

Trump basically never stopped campaigning during the entirety of the Biden term, nor even for his fist term... despite being the President.

US political ad seasons are notorious for being ... way too long, up to a year... compared to most functional demcracies, where this ad season is often several weeks, not several, or many months.

Trump ratcheted this lengthy American political ad season into just literally all the time.

Before him, a sitting President running ads... during the middle of their own term... I think its literally unprecedented. Sure they'd give addresses and speeches to the public in extraordinary situations... but not run what amount to campaign ads... just all the time.

This is the power of money and media in the digital age.

Tell the lies often enough, and they become real to the enthralled. Literally right out of Goebbels playbook.

It truly now just is cult reaffirming propoganda, in the derogatory 1984/dictator sense of propoganda

Trump has stated many times he'll serve a third term. Told people they'd "never need to vote again." He fully plans on being President untill he dies.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

Trump has stated many times he’ll serve a third term. Told people they’d “never need to vote again.” He fully plans on being President untill he dies.

Hell, his official website is selling Trump 2028 merch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Look at the Atlantic interview.

"I would never, ever consider running again, I'm against it, I don't even want to talk about it, it's a boundary too far, stop asking."

"However I do have people shouting in my face that I must."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

He'll not run again.
However, unless he is stopped by the American people, or death, or death by the American people -wink wink- then his second term will be for as long as he wants it to be. Putin style.

It's up to the people of the USA if he is allowed to do that or not.
I doubt they'll do anything though. They'll wait and wait hoping for someone else to do something and when they finally realise no one is going to stop him it will be too late. He'll have taken over everything that could topple or stand against him and filled it with his cronies. The backwards school yard bully will have become the backwards despotic dictator.

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