Steve Bannon admits Maga operatives ‘working’ on third term for Trump

Democrats, the masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Of course they do, but the issue is that too much of Trump's control over their base is from his cult of personality (somehow), not the plan itself. They don't know how to replace that. Yet.

Read: the Republican Party is dead without drumpf

Yeah. The constitution also says anyone who starts a fucking insurrection is also ineligible and yet here we are.

If I had to put money on it, I'd guess they contest the legitimacy of the next election, and he just refuses to step down - can only be elected twice, but he's just there as a care taker until a proper election can happen

Actually, reading the language again, I can absolutely see some shenanigans where he runs as VP for someone else who runs on a platform of "vote for me and I'll immediately resign and put Trump in charge again". It'd need the supreme court to decide if that "and" is exclusive or not, and given that half the court seems pretty happy to give up their principles of it suits their politics, I wouldn't be surprised if that worked

It says "elected", but what is the president isn't elected? They will find a way, and with recent reality bending Supreme Court decisions or won't even be so hard.

Ok ok, but hear me out - what if we didn't have elections. No problem!

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

Unfortunately, there's an obvious loophole right there that they will argue for. The 22nd Amendment doesn't say that Trump can't be VP and take over as President on Day One. It just restricts how many times he can be elected as the President. He could theoretically run as VP and have an enabler run as President an indefinite number of times - there are no limits to the number of times somebody can be elected as VP: https://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/vp-term-limits/

According to Trump and many many in the GOP, he was elected three times.

After two years into this term, he will be disqualified twice from running again.

Yeah but he was impeached so the first time doesn't count /s

You don't think they're covering that contingency?

They rules they have formulated and want to pass as law are that the first two terms must not be consecutive. This would preclude Obama from having a third term.

Just like Biden used the SCOTUS immunity ruling to legally assassinate trump?

Democrats will not ever break precedent.

I don't think they mean presidents (plural) could run for the third term.

There will also be a rule if one of the contestants is going for their third term it's an automatic win & no opposing runners can join the game.

To be honest, the most likely scenario in my mind is some form of war declaration or emergency, suspending elections has precedent during wartime.

Maybe make him speaker of the house then have a stand in prez and vp step down?

I know a vp has to have presidential eligibility to be elected, which Trump wouldn't have at the end of this term. But Im not aware of the same restriction on the speaker

Musk is already occupying that position.

The only way they could attempt this would be to violate the constitution.

I don't think they're gonna be too worried by that.

The more people say it's impossible, the less.they consider the options that, though wayyy out there, are how they have found ways to do what they've already done.

There may not be a single obvious loophole, but a cascade of loops -a Möbius loophole -is how they approach things.

Do not forget his remarks recently about the big mid term surprise and blue states : "they may disappear off the map completely"

Not sure how you feel about that, but even in trump's verbal diarrhoea, that seems a terrifyingly ominous statement.

Why do people keep responding to this like laws and tradition meananything?

What does anyone think will be different this time??

The leader of an insurrection delayed investigations until getting reelected, threatened and fired people who dared to look at him sideways, and is unapologetically defying a judge's orders while using his sentient moneybag to openly bribe politicians who say they're willing to impeach a judge for not agreeing with the president (going against the warnings of the supreme court).

Where are our papers and pens going to get the power to do anything about it when all the power sits with the president? I've said it before and I'll say it again, anyone who pushes back hard enough is going to experience The Night of the Long Knives.

I genuinely think we are days to weeks away from seeing a politician become a political prisoner. And even then, headlines will ask "are we inching closer to fascism?" And people will say, "this is what the laws are for. We just have to wait for the system to work."

Lex Luthor has taken over Metropolis and is killing anyone standing up to him, Lois Lane is sobbing over Clark Kent's mangled corpse while Jimmy Olsen assures her that Superman will show up any moment now and everything will be okay. At that same time, Perry White is telling the printer to run the headline "Luthor Shoots 61 Citizens in one day, Experts say This Could be Illegal"