And I'm sure NOW the military will stand up, right? After all, their job is to defend the constitution not the fucker in office. Right????
More disrespectful to the US than anyone ever thought a self-described American could be. Attributing election rigging by others, while rigging the election himself, ambiguously in reality and in dark, threatening humour.
Which "minor update," to the voting machines, will help him win the next election.
They absolutely hacked the election, you can tell by the projection of Biden hacking the machines then all the suddenly they’re radio silent on this election.
Thank GOD he's NOT messing with the Amendment that LETS ME MURDER CHILDREN so I can FULLY Support this!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
Israeli Settlers aren't the only people who can shoot up a school with the government's blessing
Fortunately this is the sort of thing he's typically stopped from 5-4
Hopefully that at least
It’s official. He’s going for the Putin-esque “democracy”…a dictatorship where you beat the crap out of people at the polls for voting opposition.
it’s a stark reminder that the constitution is not immutable. amendments are changes, and they may seem “hard to do” but with this regime and supreme court, they won’t stop until they pretend they did this legally. remember: nazis were legal.
You think he's joking. You're about to find that things are different now.
I suppose I should go renew my passport before it's too late
Distraction from the war (failure), which is largely a distraction from the Epstein files.
Can we finally skip to the part where we arrest him?!
That part will never happen. No matter what - he's getting away with it. He's too old to face any real consequences.
What we need to ensure is that responsibility doesn't end with him. We need a new round of Nuremberg trials and his cronies and enablers need to be held to account.
No mercy. Those in the military who executed illegal orders should be court-martialed and executed.
You son of a bitch, I’m in
This is my theory: 1. Trump will try to declare a national emergency at the end of September or early October in order to stop the midterms from happening due to the ongoing “conflict” with Iran or any other geopolitical situation that he has caused himself. 2. The midterms will still take place, although it will be heavily scrutinized by the right with the possibility of violence toward people on the left on election day. 3. The midterms will heavily favor the Democrats leading to a total wipeout for Republicans in all states as a result the Republicans will cry foul and that they were cheated, causing immediate January 6 style riots all over the country and possibly even the capital again. 4. Regardless of the results of the midterms, Trump will use their results too justify him running in 2028 and at the beginning of next year he will do everything in his power to get the Supreme Court and anybody else to stand behind his presidential run and next summer, he will immediately pivot into campaigning. 5. While I do believe it is over for Trump and the Republicans, there’s always that small what if. If he manages to stay alive until 2028 I have that saddening feeling that there is a very good possibility he could win again. I will happily eat my own words on all of this, after it’s just a theory…stay safe and informed everyone.
If I could trust the system to actually enforce the Constitution, I'd say bring it on. The 22nd amendment never prohibits running when you're ineligible to be elected. I'd actually love to see him run, "win", and then have to watch his opponent get sworn in because he's not eligible.
IF I could actually trust that the Constitution would be enforced.
No, dimwit. Even if you live that long you can’t run again.
U gonna stop him? 🤔 u think anyone else is?
Can we get him arrested for "winning" 3x? Make him deny it publication to stay out of jail or something like that.
Don't forget that he is only president NOW because we are already ignoring the constitution. Don't act like breaking a different amendment is any different. We already lost our constitution and rule of law when we stopped enforcing them.
14th amendment - Section 3
"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
He engaged in insurrection, Congress never voted to remove it, he is holding office NOW despite our constitution stating quite clearly he is ineligible.
Illegitimate president.
You can bullshit around the insurrection label, but the term limit is pretty cut and dry. Not going to stop them, but the ramp is how we got here.
Is it though? I've already seen arguments like "It only means two CONSECUTIVE terms" and other such bs arguments.
The thing is, if no one enforces a law then you have no law. You can write a rule on a piece of paper, but if you don't follow it what does it actually mean?
Even without the consecutive terms bit that's obvious nonsense there is a legitimate legal question that could potentially be used and legal. It's not a new theory floated for Pedonald, it's been an unsettled question since the passage of the 22nd Amendment. 22nd Amendment's relevant bit is
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
By the most narrow, strict reading of the text it only prevents election, if they can find a way to become President without being elected such, there's a reasonable read that 22 doesn't trigger. 12th Amendment contains the text
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Does ineligibility to be elected trigger the ineligible to the office clause? Could he run as VP with a loyal puppet who immediately steps down? Main legal opinion is "probably not", but there's enough wiggle room there that I wouldn't trust the current corrupt Supreme Court not to side with him.
Exactly. Two big things at play with all this.
A. Legal loopholes and bizarre interpretations of wording. We see it every day, lawyers and politicians and the elites find the craziest ways to dodge the laws that bind your or I.
B. He ALREADY violates COUNTLESS laws and the constitution and the amendments and none of those are being enforced. He violated the 14th by inciting and enabling an insurrection, no consequences. He has committed treason with foreign powers, no consequences. He stole government documents and had them at his damn resort, no consequences. He committed election interference and fraud, no consequences. He diddled little children, no consequences. He's committed non-stop grifts and scams and frauds with his status of PUBLIC OFFICE as president for personal gain at the expense of the country, no consequences. And no one even wants to read this far, but the list keeps going. Not a single REAL consequence yet, he's captured all 3 branches of the government and has loyalists everywhere that are stopping any real actions against him, just like a classic mob crime boss.
So if laws can be dodged or interpreted differently and if the laws we do have simple aren't being enforced then there literally is nothing preventing him from continuing on, and he can make up whatever scenario he wants to pacify his brain-dead-followers into believing it's the "right thing to do".
Hell, he could just say "the libs are trying to come get ya! I need to stay president to stop em!" And 77mil people would fall in line. Ugh.
Good Lord. If trump looked any more like roadkill, he'd have to fight to keep RFK Jr from trying to eat him. He looks like absolute dogshit. I didn't think it was possible for somebody to look worse than Steve Bannon, and to be fair it's really fucking close, but trump does manage to look like a slightly worse, bloated corpse here.
But he's also a shitty president and a shitty person. Fuck trump. I can't wait to open my bottle of bourbon when it happens.
I hope whoever enabled autoplay on that website loses their favorite pair of socks
Is he just really losing it now?
losing it now?
dude he lost it a decade ago. he hasn't seen it in ages, and he's not even aware it's been gone.
Wait, that's illegal
According to the supreme everything he does is legal now
they’re gonna claim “term” means something longer than 4 years; biden got in illegally; therefore trump would still be in his first term.
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