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Just a reminder (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My money is on him having a coronation. I can't see him leaving willingly. Assuming the elections won't be totally rigged to give him 99% of the vote.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    He's not eligible to run for president for a third term, so he's not going to be on a presidential ballot. Maybe he'll get a handful of write-in votes, but that's about it. I suppose he could run for another office in Congress, or Governor or such, but I just don't see it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    This is adorably naïve. When has "the rules say" ever stopped that man from anything? When has it ever stopped the Republican Party?

    Here's how it will happen if Trump survives and decides he wants another term:

    • The party will announce that he's the candidate.
    • The press will lose its mind, then bend over backward to have a debate about the issue once Fox and CBS point out that "well actually, the rule is for consecutive terms.
    • There will be protests, maybe a few people will die.
      • The victims will be branded "terrorists".
    • The Democrats will run some empty suit of a candidate (Harris, Newsom, Biden's corpse) that intends to change absolutely none of what Trump has wrought. They then demand that everyone vote for them to "save democracy ".
    • Trump wins handily again.
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