If Trump runs for a third term, Obama should too.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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Nah, that just legitimizes it for no real benefit.
They don't care about legitimacy, they brew their own at home. Though I'm not too keen on Drone Strikes McGee coming back.
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until it's actually time for the next election, all of the third term bullshit is functionally serving only to distract from signalgate and dismantling the courts/gov etc. do not lose focus. (edit: typo fix)
Why would him? Bro can't get tired of collecting W's
Most states probably won't even let him register for presidential election.
Hasn't the Supreme Court already ruled on this when Colorado tried it? It was pretty clear then that he violated the 14th Amendment. So what's the 22nd to them this time? The deed will be done.
I believe they commented it was fine for colorado to enforce the 35 yrs old requirement because its clear cut and there's no process needed to make that determination. The 22nd amendment doesn't require any determination process, so its unlikely they'll be able to bar it without letting toddlers run for president
He'll just threaten to stop all federal monetary transfers to those states and they'll cave.
Sure but you only need them to bar him long enough to keep him off the ballot. Imo it takes time to cave to monetary pressure.
if he and the republicans really want to play with fire, they will try to run trump a third time.
everyone is watching.
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The only thing keeping most people quiet is the idea that Trump is temporary. This will not bode well for stability.
No one votes for someone to be a president for 4 years thinking it's just temporary.
By temporary and quiet, I think the previous poster means: The reason why there has not been more resistance or assassination attempts is that everone expects Trump to die from uninflicted causes soon enough. It's not worth sacrificing your own life to see it happen sooner than later.
The entire world is a powder keg where everyone is hoping that the fuse goes out before it explodes. That is why nobody is stopping Trump. This includes the people in GOP who know fully well that they're on the wrong path. You can tell because they've stopped blowing air on the fuse. Except for Vance and Elon. Those idiots want the world to explode.
Waiting it out is still a bad solution, because it will enable more to follow his example.
We've all become complacent (incl Canadians). Few are willing to die, get injured, be fired or end up in jail in El Salvador because they were in the fight 'too early'.
By the time America wakes up to the need for battle Project 2025 will be (almost?) completed and it will be too late to change course.
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Well, if chump finds a way to run again, I hope Obama runs too.
Much of the problems we're facing with rampant executive overreach, supreme courts packed with the worst people, and vulnerabilities in our rights being exploited have been direct products of Obama's inaction and compromise with Republicans.
He was a great "leader" in that he kept the country and world seemingly stable, but he wasn't the great president most people think. I would still take 30 Obamas over a half of a single Trump, but we wanna be very careful about idolatry in our political leaders.
I don’t think he’ll run as much as he’ll just still be there when he’s not supposed to be and no one in government will do anything about it.
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There's not even going to be an election. He's just going to declare himself president, because literally who would stop him?
He's proven that he does not care about court orders or rules of law, so I doubt he'd be against ripping up the constitution. Not an American so forgive me if I seem ignorant on this, but I hope that there's failsafes against him getting a third term no matter what he does.
There are not. Fascism has only ever been defeated in two ways: Ballot or Bullet. And wouldn't you know it, we're fresh out of Ballots.
… duh?