• شاهد على إبادة@lemm.ee
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    20 hours ago

    The US constitution has amendments canceling amendments, more specifically the 21st repealing the 18th. Legally it is possible to repeal the 22nd, but the votes aren’t there… yet.

    The New Deal was so popular that FDR was elected to four terms. The 22nd amendment was a reaction to that.

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        18 hours ago

        Exactly.

        “they can’t do that that’s illegal”

        Who’s gonna stop them? The law ain’t doing Jack FUCKING Shit. If there is no group or individual who is both willing and able to inflict consequences, THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES

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      20 hours ago

      I don’t share your concerns and am not going to take the time to hunt down another one.

      Regardless of the banner, the push is real, here’s one article today and another from yesterday.

      https://www.newsweek.com/third-term-project-donald-trump-2028-constitution-2034316

      https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/cpac-2671191186/

      Quote from second article:

      A new advocacy group, the Third Term Project — which has adopted a Caesar-like Trump image as its logo — is dedicated to upending the 22nd Amendment so that Trump can serve a third term.

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        18 hours ago

        When trump has asked about a third term, it has been jokingly. As far as those pushing for it, I don’t think it would pass. If it did though, he would still have to get elected again by the people again. I dunno I just don’t see it happening.

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          17 hours ago

          When a fascist “jokes” about taking and keeping more power, they’re not joking. They’re absolutely serious.

          He wouldn’t have to be elected again. He lost the vote last time and still tried to launch an insurrection to overthrow the legitimate government and maintain power. He’s learned a lot since that failed attempt. He’s dismantling the government and the checks and balances by the day. There won’t be anything left to stop him in 4 years. He will not leave willingly.

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            16 hours ago

            lol, he didn’t try to “overthrow” the government at the previous election. He did the same thing Hillary did in the election before that.

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              13 hours ago

              he literally did, definitionally he launched a failed coup. At the very least an attempted insurrection.

              He did the same thing Hillary did in the election before that.

              complete disinformation, hillary contested the results, which is a thing you are legally entitled to doing (she later retracted that statement publicly) trump has NEVER once retracted his statement, he STILL says it was stolen.

            • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world
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              15 hours ago

              Even you don’t believe that.

              Nobody here is going to play along, so I don’t even know what you think you’re doing. Getting “persecution points?”

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        19 hours ago

        I don’t share your concerns and am not going to take the time to hunt down another one.

        You don’t have to be a dick, it totally looks like some shopped meme.

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          19 hours ago

          I wasn’t being a dick, I was giving a straightforward answer. I don’t have a concern that the photo is shopped, I find it entirely believable, and so of course I’m not going to take the time to go looking for more pics. Even if there are none yet, it wouldn’t prove this was shopped.

          The banner is not really the problem, shopped or not.

          Now the right hand side of this on the other hand:

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    23 hours ago

    The AI image really sends the fucking campiness. It’s hard to imagine that fucking bozo even living to a third term. I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t got sniped by atherosclerosis yet.

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    2025 February 20, other sources :

    Washington Post

    ~By Justine McDaniel~ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-third-term-king-unconstitutional/

    Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term

    The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a king and quoted a dictator in suggesting that he was immune from following laws


    President Donald Trump on Thursday again raised the prospect of serving for an unconstitutional third term, asking a crowd at a White House event whether he should run again and receiving audience chants of “Four more years!”

    The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a king and quoted a dictator in suggesting that he was immune from following laws — all while his administration has continued pushing the bounds of presidential power.

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    Washington Examiner

    ~By Mabinty Quarshie and Hailey Bullis~ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3324704/cpac-trump-power-third-term-push/

    CPAC relishes in Trump’s power amid push for unconstitutional third term

    NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland - - Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference celebrated President Donald Trump‘s whirlwind return to power, with some mulling a plan to keep the Republican in the White House beyond a second term. (…)

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    @ fucking ~msn~ :

    (i do not post such putrid links, yet title is…) ‘Caesar figure’: MAGA die-hards pushing 3rd Trump term met with CPAC silence

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    Why it’s missing a star? Directly printed from the ai prompt?

    It’s not that difficult to clone a star with modern software…

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    How many people actually want to support this vs just joking about it “to own the libs”.

    Not excusing either option. The joking option is just as bad as long as it looks like actual support. I just wanting to know how much of that support is genuine.

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      23 hours ago

      Let me speak from experience that there is no such thing as an ironic Nazi. Every single “bro, it’s just a joke lol” is followed by a silent “…unless?”

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      1 day ago

      It’s a joke until it’s not. Same people that hurt your feelings and then say “I was just joking” when called out.

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      1 day ago

      Also makes me suspect that republicans have zero clue who they can run after The Donald. Why else would they even bother trying to mention having the guy in office after 2028? The methods to do that are either a constitutional amendment (they don’t have anywhere near a big enough majority to get one through) or unconstitutional means (scary, but also way more work/trouble than running a competent candidate and winning a normal election). It would be way easier to start grooming the heir apparent if they had any clue who that was.

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      1 day ago

      These people only tell jokes that are of the “punching down” variety. That makes them laugh. Stuff like this is wishful thinking, and it’s always “bro, it was a prank” to dodge ownership of it.

      That’s how the party of personal responsibility works.