Well, if chump finds a way to run again, I hope Obama runs too.
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2025
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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.
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why are people even surprised about this.
he says things that are in his brain. period.
He is not joking, or scheming, or planing, or 5d-chessing.
he says something. people laugh or groan, thinking its a (bad) joke. It's not. it's in his brain, so he says it. If he remembers it later, he will do it or at least try.
Why be surprised?
if he and the republicans really want to play with fire, they will try to run trump a third time.
everyone is watching.
Yeah, that's all anyone is doing.
Then have Obama run against him.
That's adorable how you think there might ever be another free and fair election in the US.
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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?
We know he's not joking. The question is whether the military, sworn to uphold the Constitution, will do anything about it when the time comes.
That time passed long ago.
The 14th amendment could not be clearer in barring from office participants in an insurrection. Yet Krasnov is president.
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Just heard an interview on BBC radio this morning with an American explaining that there are avenues for Trump to do this by abusing the line of succession. It sounds like they want to appoint him as Speaker of the House and then have the president and vice president abdicate.
If the Republicans manage to get someone other than Trump in office for the first time in over 20 years I really don't see them choosing to hand power back to him.
W was a fluke in both 2000 (Florida shenanigans) and 2004 (9/11). It could be argued that they haven't legitimately gotten someone other than Trump in office since Bush Sr. in 1988.
Reminds me of when there was a Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev who I think was just a puppet until Putin decided there was no point in pretending.
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I think his age and poor health will come into play before the end of 2026 if not before the end of this year. Once he kicks the bucket, the clown committee will not be able to keep it together. That's my prediction.
Added to that: the dems will make no meaningful move to capitalize on the moment of advantage when bad orange man is dead and republicans fall into disarray.
Edit: am i just wishful thinking? Maybe, but you guys and your cold water can't extinguish my hope.
If I'm wrong, then the only alternative is to shut down this idiot circus by other means. We must resist with everything we have, and never let go of our revolutionary optimism.
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And you thought Alex Garland's Civil War movie was fiction.
Obama has entered the chat
but "it is far too early to think about it."
Far too early yet. Didn't he promise his voters that this would be the last time they'd have to vote?
If anything says "I don't give a shit about the constitution or laws" this is it. Unless he can use it against someone else, Trump has no time for legality of anything. He doesn't abide by it if it interferes with his wants.