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Trump again invokes claim he has the ‘right’ to run for third term as president
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Master sh.itjust.works Master@sh.itjust.works
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#102 · Quote Reply

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.

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join lemmy.ml join@lemmy.ml
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#103 · Quote Reply

Souverän ist, wer über den Ausnahmezustand entscheidet.

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UltraGiGaGigantic lemmy.ml UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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#104 · Quote Reply

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.

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UltraGiGaGigantic lemmy.ml UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-08-23
#105 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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badgermurphy lemmy.world badgermurphy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-26
#106 · (edited) Quote Reply

Term limits are trivial to bypass. Same with limitations based on age or the born citizen requirement. Authoritarians figured this out ages ago. You just get a patsy to run instead. Consider the example of Lurleen Wallace. Her husband, arch-segregationist George Wallace, was term limited per the Alabama constitution. So she ran instead, openly announcing her intention to simply serve as a figur...

I get the plan from your example, but the "figurehead" you've selected in your example is probably not the best choice, as he is from the ethnic group that they believe to be entirely consistent of political operatives bent on controlling the world. I dont know that they would vote for a Jewish person even as a Trump stand-in. They would need to run someone with no discernible ethnic ties to a country other than the US. J.D. Vance is probably that guy; he's so nondescript that he doesn't even have a whole name.

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Smoogs lemmy.world Smoogs@lemmy.world
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#107 · Quote Reply

if he can run so can obama.

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freely1333 reddthat.com freely1333@reddthat.com
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#108 · Quote Reply

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?

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badgermurphy lemmy.world badgermurphy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-26
#109 · Quote Reply

Depends how much power he can consolidate between now and election time. Trump brags about telling the DOJ to sue Alaska over election results. He could run and then do another J6 then use whoever shows up as a personal standing army, arming the loyalists and refusing to leave the Whitehouse for the actual winner. I'm sure the ballroom bunker will be built by then.
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Colonel_Panic_ eviltoast.org Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org
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#110 · Quote Reply

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?

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Colonel_Panic_ eviltoast.org Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org
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#111 · Quote Reply

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.

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?

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cy888 lemmy.world cy888@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-11
#112 · Quote Reply

I bet in his third term he will definitely release the Epstein files right guys?

He will also release his tax returns.

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AdolfSchmitler lemmy.world AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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#113 · Quote Reply

And the 4th and the 5th time

No chance he lives that long

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Jiral lemmy.world Jiral@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-06
#114 · Quote Reply

Term limits are trivial to bypass. Same with limitations based on age or the born citizen requirement. Authoritarians figured this out ages ago. You just get a patsy to run instead. Consider the example of Lurleen Wallace. Her husband, arch-segregationist George Wallace, was term limited per the Alabama constitution. So she ran instead, openly announcing her intention to simply serve as a figur...

It is not trivial. Of course a precondition is that term limits are absolute, that means no interruption nonsense. You can still have a sock puppet but legally that sock puppet is in power then. That is super dangerous for a fascist regime because betrayal is a real risk then. Putin was also super nervous about it, even if it worked out for him.

The main thing about those absolute term limits is however to add friction to the perversion of a democratic constitution. If voters are ready to accept it, it is too late anyway, but it makes it just a bit harder to justify the actions, while the constitution is not completely overthrown yet.

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rethnor lemmy.zip rethnor@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-04-08
#115 · Quote Reply

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.

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

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baeb66 lemmy.today baeb66@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-04-15
#116 · Quote Reply

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.

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#117 · Quote Reply

if he can run so can obama.

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.

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#118 · Quote Reply

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.

Democrats ran their modern version of Wilson in 2020. It went about as well as in 1913.

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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#119 · Quote Reply

No chance he lives that long

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.

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chiliedogg lemmy.world chiliedogg@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-26
#120 · Quote Reply

And the 4th and the 5th time

The good die young and ducks live forever.

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SnarkoPolo lemmy.world SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-08
#121 · Quote Reply

if he can run so can obama.

That's not how it works. The law applies to Democrats, not to the Ruling Party.

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monkeyslikebananas2 lemmy.world monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#122 · Quote Reply

Why would any Republican run against him?

Seriously the sociopaths (AKA Republicans) are looting the Republic. They couldn’t be happier.

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SnarkoPolo lemmy.world SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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#123 · Quote Reply

Don't forget the bestest healthcare plan ever. Aaaaaaaaaany day now.

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.

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SnarkoPolo lemmy.world SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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#124 · Quote Reply

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.

But Miller will.

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SnarkoPolo lemmy.world SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-08
#125 · Quote Reply

no-one in the usa will enforce the constitution. So maybe just give it to him now because elon is just going to spend a billion to buy it anyway.

This is the most realistic thing I'm going to see this week.

And don't forget, there will be no "revolution." Frank Freeway is too busy with mandatory overtime and sports on TV.

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SnarkoPolo lemmy.world SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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#126 · Quote Reply

If there's still a Constitution by then.

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cloudshouter lemmy.zip cloudshouter@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-01
#127 · Quote Reply

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.

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Destide feddit.uk sirico@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-04
#128 · Quote Reply

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?

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rumimevlevi sh.itjust.works rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-01-07
#129 · Quote Reply

No chance he lives that long

With his unhealthy life style he should have died a decade ago

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maxthemummer lemmus.org maxthemummer@lemmus.org
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#130 · Quote Reply

Who could have predicted back in 2016 that giving this man power would turn him into a despot?

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VeryVito lemmy.world VeryVito@lemmy.world
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#131 · Quote Reply

he can only shit in the oval office twice We're already way past that.

I count each term as one long, uninterrupted shitstorm.

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Taldan lemmy.world Taldan@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-31
#132 · Quote Reply

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

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Sam_Bass lemmy.world Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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#133 · Quote Reply

Who could have predicted back in 2016 that giving this man power would turn him into a despot?

anyone with working eyes and ears

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TimmyDeanSausage lemmy.world timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#134 · Quote Reply

Who could have predicted back in 2016 that giving this man power would turn him into a despot?

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

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TimmyDeanSausage lemmy.world timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world
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#135 · Quote Reply

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!

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Hogrider lemmy.world OleFoFa@lemmy.world
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#136 · Quote Reply

Who could have predicted back in 2016 that giving this man power would turn him into a despot?

I do believe his mother said something of the sort. That he should in no way ever enter politics

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Hogrider lemmy.world OleFoFa@lemmy.world
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#137 · Quote Reply

If there's still a Constitution by then.
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Hogrider lemmy.world OleFoFa@lemmy.world
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#138 · Quote Reply

If there's still a Constitution by then.

Narrator: There wouldn't be.

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Goodlucksil lemmy.dbzer0.com Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#139 · (edited) Quote Reply

anyone with working eyes and ears

Which turns out to not be a significant minority of the US and A population.

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Soggy lemmy.world Soggy@lemmy.world
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#140 · Quote Reply

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.

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resipsaloquitur lemmy.cafe resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2026-04-14
#141 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

They’ll puppet his bloated corpse until the end of Vance’s term.

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III lemmy.world III@lemmy.world
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#142 · Quote Reply

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.

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glitch1985 lemmy.world glitch1985@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-09
#143 · Quote Reply

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?

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gwl [he/him] lemmy.blahaj.zone gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-10-16
#144 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

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

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gwl [he/him] lemmy.blahaj.zone gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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#145 · Quote Reply

In reply to an earlier post

You forget that he stacked the deck

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Konala Koala lemmy.world KonalaKoala@lemmy.world
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#146 · Quote Reply

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.

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Stormy thelemmy.club Stormy@thelemmy.club
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#147 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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smeenz lemmy.nz smeenz@lemmy.nz
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#148 · Quote Reply

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.

I suspect there is a great deal of crossover between maga supporters and flat earthers

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flop_leash_973 lemmy.world flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-08
#149 · Quote Reply

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.

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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#150 · Quote Reply

Bonus points for all three?

Certainly doesn't hurt

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monotremata lemmy.ca monotremata@lemmy.ca
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#151 · Quote Reply

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!

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