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Trump suggests he is entitled to another eight years of being president if he wins.
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Yeah, I know. But this is beyond a joke, which is how the right tends to frame it when he says this sort of shit.
Yeah, it's pretty old hat at this point. Won't be surprised if it ends up happening somehow
It's crazy how quickly people have become accustomed to this shit.
what's the "peaceful protest" at a rally in support of the people who are currently and illegitimately in power?
protesting against what?
protesting against what?
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they're framing it as this so they can skirt around orders of states that have a ban on mass gatherings.
That's the point. First you got to normalize the rhetoric and then you turn it into reality. It is my personal opinion that this country is in real danger of getting it's first king if America doesn't vote him out in November. Trump will find away. He always does.
Yet another example of "if obama said this, Fox News would have had a field day with this while being completely fucking mum when Trump says shit like this."
Yeah, the truth is it was never a joke.
And if he "wins" reelection, there's a decent chance he will get his wish. No rules/laws/precedents will matter anymore if he is given a second term.
He has already proven that we have no functioning system of checks and balances in this country and that the rules don't apply to him. Like all the fascist dictators he admires and aspires to be like, he will do anything he can to hold onto his power.
He has already betrayed and violated the constitution too many ways to count, with absolutely zero consequences.
So... it might as well be a "gentleman's agreement".
It was a gentlemen's agreement for about 150 years until FDR ran for a third and then a fourth term (with WWII as justification) and the Constitution got amended so two terms is a real limit.
No, it's Constitutional Law, but in a few years, that may mean nothing. I mean, it doesn't mean a lot at this point but I won't be surprised either way
If what he was talking about became reality, it means there would be no more elections and most top Democrats would either be jailed or executed
That's because it was a gentleman's agreement until FDR served 4 terms. Then they put in the ammendment which is just as binding as every other part of the constitution
I've been waiting for Trump to bring up FDR having served 4 terms. So it can backfire drastically considering FDR needed all that time to do his socialist stuff.
He certainly has, but it's all pretty muddled. The emoluments clause, poll taxes, things like that. There are theoretical (if poorly constructed) arguments as to why he isn't violating it.
The amendment literally says, in like a sentence, "two term limit". It's not a complicated legal document. The Supreme Court could not POSSIBLY allow this, it'd be a 9-0 decision at the moment.
Not to say it couldn't cause a minor civil war, but the judicial branch at least would not allow it.
Right, I'm just saying it wasn't always the case, and it can be ammended again (extremely unlikely but not impossible)
I'll drag you out myself, you fuck. It's astounding how much enabling & pussyfooting around this motherfucker has brought the US up to this line.
I look forward to him negotiating with the constitution and republicans saying "this seems fine".
I'm not.
apparently in America, it is not illegal if there are no consequences
Well yes but that's because Fox News and it's owners agree with the policy positions of the Trump admin and disagree with the policy positions of democrats.
People always say this like it's a gotcha but it's a consistent belief system. They don't have any moral opposition to an authoritarian regime on principle so long as it furthers their goals.
That's not what a supermajority is. A supermajority is 60 Senate seats.