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Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term

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Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term

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Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • protist@mander.xyz
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    Stop listening to his words and report what’s actually happening, news media

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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.

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        he did literally get elected on the promise of being a dictator

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          Got elected with a promise of being a dictator on the side. Not on the promise of being it. He got elected on the promise of abusing immigrants.

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            No, he literally said he’d be a dictator on day one. He was very up front about it, and his base cheered him on

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          Lol. What?

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            He said several times during the race that he’d be a dictator from day 1

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              For day 1.

              It was supposed to be a ill be a dictator for a day to get shit done.

              Of course, that’s not what actually happened, and it was obvious that was never what was going to happen, but it wasn’t a “from day 1” as in a i’ll always be a dictator.

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              Right. Don’t believe everything the media tells you…

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                It’s literally on camera but i can see you already drank the cool-aid.

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                I’m so glad I have you tagged as ‘fucking moron’

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                  Me too

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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.

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          Wait! You’re suggesting that William Randolph Hearst wasn’t one of the good ones? I am shocked, SHOCKED, I SAY! --Well, not that shocked.

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    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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

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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.

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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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          Agreed. And it is not necessarily good news - this might turn into chaos quickly.

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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.

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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.

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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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        Vance doesn’t have the support of the personality cult.

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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

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          Case in point: Dick Cheney. And Henry Kissenger.

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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.

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      Worked for Reagan…

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    arrest this traitor for going against the constitution

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      There is no magical way out of this — there will be blood | Opinion Story by D. Earl Stephens

      Alternate access: https://web.archive.org/web/20250318050135/https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/new-civil-war/

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        Got an archive link or something? Can’t even read a full sentence on this garbage site before it asks you to install their app.

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          https://web.archive.org/web/20250318050135/https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/new-civil-war/

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          Just type

          https://archive.is/

          Before the link URL. That almost always works.

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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?

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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…

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        That’s interesting. When I was reading the Constitution, I didn’t read it the same way. I thought that the basic rules (age, citizenship, etc.) were what applied since obtaining office and serving office were distinct in my mind. I like your reading better but I have a feeling SCOTUS wouldn’t read it the same way you do.

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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?

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        inelagable

        that’s a new one lol

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          ineligible I think.

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

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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.

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              🤣

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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.

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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.

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          If I had to guess at motivation for war with China it would be that Putin sees China as a threat and would like to use the US to weaken them either before they attack or to prevent China from more closely focusing on Russia.

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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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      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.

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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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    This isn’t a boring dystopia thing. It’s many things, but it’s certainly not boring ):

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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.

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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.

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    It’s easy. Just refuse to leave and nobody will do shit about it except complain, as always.

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

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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.

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    When has the constitution ever stopped him before?

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    I don’t think "serve"is the right verb to use here.

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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.

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    Did they ask him why? I know he’s wanting it, I want to know his justification for it.

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

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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”

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    Because of cause he would say that eventually. A boring dystopia indeed.

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