• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Buy a gun.

    Join or form a militia.

    Conservatives don’t, and never did, give a flying fuck about the Constitution.

    The rest of us are going to have to.

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    to anyone here who is active duty military:

    you took an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the USA. It’s time to start protecting and defending the constitution.

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    Stop listening to his words and report what’s actually happening, news media

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      did you look at his makeup from a recent video, he looks very sickly without it, the skin past his ears that is. thats why he made all attempts to hide sickly white skin with the orange makeup.

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      Naw, he’s got at least another decade in him. His dad died at 93, and his mom died at 88. And that’s without the health care they have today. I wouldn’t be surprised if he lived into his 90s.

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        only the good die young. seems the worse you are, the longer you live. this fucker will still be destabilizing the globe at 100

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      Even if old age gets him, Vance becomes the acting president, and he’s every bit as evil while not being quite as senile. I highly doubt the MAGA cult is going to die alongside Trump.

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        Cults rarely survive a leader transition, especially ones based so fully around an individual rather than specific ideals. The cult will die, and the support will fracture, the underlying issues with the Republican party that allowed it will still be there.

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            The Democratic party of today will think it’s won and do fucking nothing for us.

            I feel like this needs to end with a new constitution or we just punt the issue a few decades while still allowing all the insane shit of today.

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          There were early rumblings of making it a Trump Dynasty, which would be easier than transitioning to Vance (in the event of a third term, where they probably will run on a false ticket of Trump/Trump).

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        Trump chose the most feckless, least charismatic person ever as VP specifically so he wouldn’t show him up. He’s evil, all right, but no way he’ll be able to inherit Trump’s cult.

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        IDK they seem pretty darn unable to agree on anything besides how much they all love Trump. There’s no Republican politician who is anywhere close to his equal. There is no obvious successor. Seems like a strong possibility of a power vacuum when he dies.

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    I understand one tactic is for him to serve as VP under someone else who promises to resign to allow Trump to serve again but he keeps saying there’s also other options.

    WHAT OTHER OPTIONS IS HE TALKING ABOUT?

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      The supreme court has already ruled that the 14th amendment isn’t self executing and congress is required to disqualify someone from being president.

      The legal argument holds for any decision about presidential eligibility. So Trump can just stand and see if congress are brave enough to disqualify him in an open vote.

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      Trump could claim that his term as 45th and his term as 47th are recognized as separate offices of President. Thus, he would get one extra term as 47th’s second term.

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        Thus opening the door for some sort of Clinton-Bush type of future scenario where a Democrat and Republican are buddies behind the scenes and just keep running for one term and alternating for 20-odd years.

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      one tactic is for him to serve as VP under someone else who promises to resign to allow Trump to serve again

      According to the 12th amendment, “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

      This seems pretty plain to me: if you can’t serve as president, you also can’t serve as vice president. Of course, this has never been tested in court…

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      Just not holding elections due to some sort of national emergency is a tried and true method.

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        We held elections in the middle of the Civil War and made sure soldiers could vote. If Lincoln could do it then, we can do it now. I’ll fight to make sure we have elections, and I hope others do the same.

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          Yeah, but Lincoln wanted elections. It’s different if the President doesn’t want them.

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      He’s making a lot of noise about Zelensky not going to the polls. So …

      War, he’s talking about taking America to war so strongly they can’t have an election.

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        I guess that makes sense. I have a very firm feeling he is going to intentionally provoke a war against China. That war might already be brewing but he is much more likely to take us into it than almost anyone else.

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          If I had to guess at motivation for war with China it would be that Putin sees China as a threat and would like to use the US to weaken them either before they attack or to prevent China from more closely focusing on Russia.

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      Trump is inelagable to be president after their second term, the line of succession would jump to Johnson.

      Never been tested in court tho so I’m sure it’d get by. But at that point why even care about the rules?

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      The boring bit is that I’m not the least bit surprised that he said that. other aspects of this dystopian timeline are certainly less boring.

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        He’s been saying this for months at this point, and it was part of Project 2025, which he seems to be following like a computer runs code.

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    It’s easy. Just refuse to leave and nobody will do shit about it except complain, as always.

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    That would take an amendment to the Constitution, which requires 2/3 of states to ratify. He has a better chance of taking it by force than by law.

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      Trump isn’t supposed to be able to assume office according to the constitution being an insurrectionist and all. The document doesn’t say a damn thing about total presidential immunity.

      The constitution is meaningless.

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            Sometimes. It depends on the judge, which is a problem in itself, being that the law is not partisan. Boasberg has been working insanely hard to uphold the Constitution in his court. We should recognize the ones that put their duty above money or loyalty, and replace the rest.

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      There is an exception for wartime… Fuck Nevermind. I checked and that was false.

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      I said the same thing, but it turns out there is a weasely way around it. The 22nd amendment doesn’t actually say you can only be president for two terms. The text actually says:

      No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,

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      Some guy pitched it as “Vance runs with Asshole as VP, wins then resigns. Asshole is prez again.” Of course this requires Vance not having ambitions of his own.

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      I’d say don’t give them any ideas, but I’m sure that force has been on the menu for a long while now.

      PS: next, Trump will complain that a 2/3 majority for constitutional changes is cultural marxism or some such. I called it!

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    “The White House has become an adult day care center” Republican Senator Bob Corker

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      Immunity from crimes. Always has been. Although the lust for power is bigly too.

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        Immunity from crimes. Always has been.

        Is he ready to say that quiet part out loud though? Actually nvm, he did. He just calls it “injustice”