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Trump cracks about leaving office in ‘8 or 9 years’ — a month shy of his 80th birthday
(www.independent.co.uk)
Sounds like he’ll be doing weekend at Bernie’s soon.
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Fun fact: Trump is the same age now that Biden was in 2022.
Fun fact: Obama is younger now than Donald Trump was when he took office.
Fun fact, If Donald died tomorrow millions of people would take the day off and celebrate
Wow, that is a fun fact! ☺️
The only fun I manage to get out of that fact is the idea that the overdue blood clot delivery could be and day now.
I love when media plays stupid. It isn’t a joke.
Fuck the media. They should have been reporting on project 2025 nonstop during the election. Somehow it's not considered "objective" reporting to say when a political party are objectively fascists who intend to strip away people's rights
Maddow did. Every day. MSNBC
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He's not kidding. He's building a fucking ballroom, a project that will go past 2029. He has no intention of ever leaving office. He won't leave unless physically forced to. Fuck you if you think the government will make him leave just because the law says they will
I think a cardiovascular event will sort it out eventually. Let's hope it happens sooner rather than later.
Should have happened 30 years ago.
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Arm up.
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You know what? I think its time to set up an seperate national assembly of some sort to address the actual problems of the people. Let's just pat the rich on the head, let Congress go sniff tRump's farts, then go govern the addressing of actual problems (the unaffordablility of food, the lack of healthcare to the masses, global heating, AI causing mass unemployment, etc.). Our government clearly refuses to address the actual problems of the masses, so lets collectively assemble a seperate but equal governing body to address them ourselves.
We have the right to abolish the government - https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
The question is will those in power turn the military towards the people and try to kill citizens acting legally? The answer is absolutely they will kill as many as possible to preserve their world order where the rich get everything and you get nothing. The only hope for our side is that there are far more of us then there are of them - even when you count the pedophile loving magats.
The only hope for our side is that there are far more of us then there are of them
Why do you think they're making such an enormous investment in robots and mass surveillance?
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He knows something we don't. Something like, there's not going to be any election.
First of all, he doesn't KNOW anything. Literally. He is profoundly ignorant, easily the dumbest person to ever occupy the presidency. It's isn't even close. He is mind-bogglingly STUPID.
So he knows what he wants, and he thinks wishes are facts, and repeats them with the full confidence of the narcissistic simpleton. Don't mistake that confidence for competence, or anything else. He's a Sociopath, who has learned to hide it under bluster and noise. He's just shouting like a crazy homeless person. It doesn't make any sense, why would you listen to it?
You are under no obligation to believe it, or worry about it. He thinks he can rig the election by gerrymandering a few extra House seats, but that isn't going to get him anywhere near the number of seats he needs, and he's not taking into account the 5-10 MAGA seats that are almost certainly going to be surpirse flips that nobody will know about until election night.
He's trying to convince you not to vote. Instead of listening, you have between now and November to convince at least one friend who wasn't going to vote, to finally do it, especially if you are in a red state or district. That's where the flips will happen, and we need all the votes we can get.
YES - voting is not a sign of weakness or complacency. And not voting because you oppose the system doesn't register in broader society as opposition - it registers as apathy, which just emboldens these assholes.
If you're an American who doesn't vote "on principle", please reconsider. You don't have to vote for people you don't like. You don't even have to cast a vote in all the races. But do vote. I guarantee there is someone on your ballot you want to support, be it a Green or an Independent, or an especially maverick Democrat. Heck, there might even be a Socialist on your ballot.
And don't forget there are state and local races too, and those are much easier to impact than federal races. Even if The Donald has a successful coup this time around, you'll be better off living in a town run by people who aren't beholden to the duopoly, and that only happens if people of conscience vote.
If everyone who refused to vote out of some principled notion instead voted their conscience, we'd have a very different government from the one we have now. It would still suffer from corruption and manipulation by the ownership class, but much less so than it does currently.
He doesn't know but he's been priming us for it since 2021
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Haha its all fun and games until people break and a prominent white building gets burned down during a very important meeting!
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Do you want a civil war? Because this is how you get a civil war.
The only people willing to do civil war in a meaningful number are being pardoned for j6.
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Yeah... jokes. Anything bad he says is always a joke, even when it isn't. Hell, especially when it isn't. These stupid media fuckers need to stop with the damn kid gloves. But hey, long as they get their money they don't give a fuck about us, hell, they'll even sell us out to the highest bidder.
It's literally never a joke with this guy
What does that say about America's politics when our only hope of stopping Trump is McDonald's
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He’s already incoherent much of the time; he’ll be in memory care by then.
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.
In before SCOTUS declares US Constitution unconstitutional.
(too late?)
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You see, they forgot to define "Term". Just because there's an election doesn't mean it's a term. It really means you get a second chance if you're voted out, but not a third. Unless...
-SCOTUS 2028, Probably
Technically, "Election" is not the only way to become president. He is eligible for other roles in the line of succession. Speaker of the House can be anyone that the House chooses, not necessarily a member of the House.
We're a "Night of the Long Knives" away from the kind of bullshit that would put him back in the White House.
It says they can't be elected to office. What about when he cancels elections and extends his existing term indefinitely?
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I can't wait until he suggests his eldest son should take over after he dies because how much worse can things get?
I don't think Trump likes his kids that much.
He's also worked fairly hard to not have a successor, because he's a malignant narcissist who doesn't care what happens after he's gone.
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