Trump Says He's 'Entitled' to Illegal Third Term as Allies Draft Voter Suppression Decree

Yes I moved all investment out of the USA and stopped buying american products as much as possible. Fuck USA and it's Epstein class supporting citizens !

I’m assuming you’re American, because it’s very on-brand for Americans to expect someone else to fix their shit for them while they sit by and do nothing (thereby making it everyone else’s problem)

I mean he's clearly broken the first amendment more than a few times by ordering the government to pressure organizations over their right to free speech.

Also, constitutional problems with his deportation bullshit. Which he's been ordered not to do, and yet they're still doing it.

It's very important to make the distinction between Congress failing to hold him accountable and declining to. In the first case Congress is ineffective. In the second, and current situation, it is willfully inept. Big difference.

I'm getting tired of all these assholes calling Americans cowards for not rioting in the streets every day and erecting a guillotine on the ellipse! They tried that during the George Floyd fallout, and the right was quite successful in vilifying them. It was only the glaring racism of Trump's first term that revitalized BLM. His second term has effectively quashed that as well, somehow.

The US population is effectively a hostage, and this started long before Trump. Their livlihoods are financially bound to their employment, which is precarious at best. I've said it elsewhere and I'll say it many more times: US citizens, particularly the ones in the upper-middle class are going to have to be willing to die. It's that simple. If the population "rises up" like all the internet idiots want them to, Trump will implement the Insurrection Act ASAP. The aforementioned willfully inept Congress is highly unlikely to stop him. That's going to result in one or both of a lot of dead citizens or a civil war.

All of this brings me to the midterm elections. Americans are facing the shit sandwich of the current criminal and his willing accomplices in Congress, and the Democrats who:

• Aside from 2 weak funding fights, have refused to act as an opposition party in anywhere near the same manner as the GOP when they're in the minority.
• Are largely funded by the same authoritarians friendly billionaires and tech bros.
• Are unlikely to behave like an opposition party even if the manage to win back both houses of Congress, which is not super likely.

I think a lot of Americans are hoping things improve after the midterms, and I hope they're right. I don't think its going to happen, but I think plenty of people are looking for a reason to not risk their livelihoods, or lives. And that's what its going to be. This criminal has no care for anyone but himself. He has no compassion or empathy. He sees US citizens the same way the worst Kings and Emperors of old did: as expendable. If they get "uppity," he will not lose a wink of sleep ordering the military, National Guard, ICE, police forces, or any armed body he can control to open fire on them. Whether they will or not is a massive question most rational people don't want to see asked.

The US is effectively being run by a mad king, and whatever safeguards used to be in place for such a situation are either complicit, or ineffectual (ie, the courts). People are really hoping that a Dem "wave" in the midterms will somehow fix something. Like I said, I hope they're right.

You can't point to something he's clearly violated? What? The most obvious and clear example is the emoluments clause, but it's easy to add in the first and fourth amendments. (Preference given to Christianity, and search and seizure without probable cause, as examples.)

the stupidest motherfucker in the country can do the math to see it's unconstitutional

It's not at all unconstitutional for Trump to enjoy a third term as president. All the Constitution says is that he can't be elected a third time. There's nothing that says he cannot run as VP and then succeed into POTUS once Vance steps down.

Explain ice bloated budget

The military literally takes an oath to uphold the Constitution.

Donald Trump is wiping his ass with the Constitution. There couldn’t be anything more Contritutional for the military to do.

ICE's training is also nonexistent. The only thing they're effective at is terrorizing and occasionally murdering unarmed civilians.

you obviously have no idea what "do your job" means here... military are trained to kill, do you really want them to "do their job" in US streets?

As an outsider. The big danger appears to be how your country has also armed your police and now customs people as if they're military too. Things could start to get very messy very fast.

Things are crazy enough that the last term might need to be more like... ProjectPedoPhilia?

And that could double as a nickname for Project 2025!

You know the other name for Pedophile Protectors?

Pedophiles.

I got permabanned for REPEATING a comment that I had posted multiple times before without incident. Once Trump was inaugurated, however, I was immediately permabanned.

My comment said something like: "Trump and his henchmen are really lucky we live in such a forgiving country. In most countries, at most times in history, on the evening of a failed coup, the traitors would have been dragged out onto the front lawn of the White House, and publicly executed, every last one of them."

I wasn't saying we should do that, I was saying that they were lucky that we didn't. It was a simple fact, but I was permabanned anyway.

It is somewhat funny the rest of us see this and Trump doesn’t realize it yet.

Yeah, but you still have to make sure a "term" isn't suddenly 50 years long by some mechanism

The 22nd amendment of the United states constitution, fully ratified in 1951, begins as such:

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.

Term length is set to four years for the President and his VP in Article II, Section 1 of the constitution itself (original text) and has not been amended or altered.

Trump needs 38 state legislatures to ratify an amendment, he doesn’t and won’t ever have that.

Imagine that, approximately 8.3 BILLION human beings on this planet. Of those, most of which know this waste of DNA exists, of those, I imagine the majority of which wish he and his ilk would just keel over sooner rather than later.

Too bad "vibes" can't be measurably sent. Guy would've been melted by the world's collective ire by now.

I wish you were right. I really do, but unfortunately, it's really hard to understand true malignant personality level disorder narcissists like Trump. He doesn't care because he thinks he's the only one in the entire world or universe that exists.

Narcissists like this, they see everyone else as a puppet whose strings are dropped when he leaves the room, waiting for him to come back where they will then reanimate. That's how they see human beings other than themselves. They literally can't give a shit even if they wanted to about other people. You could more ask a person who has colorblindness, and can't see red and green, to see red and green, then you could convince a narcissist at the level of Trump to care about another human being.

Even if it seems like he cares about someone else, it's just that his agenda lines up with theirs. It's always about him, always. Extreme narcissists are very predictable, they all act this way. Some people are narcissists on a much lower level. In fact, a lot of people have a smidge of narcissism, but the ones that are extreme narcissists, there's no hope for them.

He doesn't think he's human garbage because he thinks he's the only human being that exists, therefore, he thinks everything he thinks and feels is the only thing that is right and true. Nothing else registers. He doesn't think or care that other people hate him because he thinks he's the only person that matters and exists. It's hard for us who aren't like this to understand it, but when you've had a parent like this, you get to know the patterns.

Even a stroke clot needs to form somewhere. The full body MRI would very likely pick that up months before a stroke would happen.

Edit: Sorry to annoy you with basic medical facts for everyone downvoting my comment -_-

By all means. I'm not advocating for them. I can just tell you, that this is where the ultra wealthy put their money. And on an individual level the value of a full-body-MRI for prevention is quite high. There's a small exclusive club of people who have access to these kind of things and we are not part of it

The second part means that if you took over as President during someone else's term (for example if you were VP when the President died and you took over) and served for two years or more of that term, you can only serve one more term. So however you become President, you can't serve more than two terms.

Not American, but yes. You can look at the wiki if Lyndon Johnson who became president after JFK was killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson