When it happens, all you guys will support it
Straight-up autocracy. People will say “no way” now, and say he’s just trolling…then every one of them will support it.
Because he’s the Dear Leader.
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/politics/trump-third-term-methods?cid=ios_app
Replies to: When it happens, all you guys will support it
Please. Just stop with the nonsense.
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Someone should tell that to our Mango leader who keeps talking about it.
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Everyone please note that 100% of hypothetical threats to democracy posts are made by liberal fruits
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Seems like you must have missed all the “lawfare” BS posts here when Biden was prez.
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I would not support it, and it don't see it happening
From your article: "Repealing or changing the 22nd Amendment would require two-thirds votes in both the House and the Senate and the ratification by three-quarters of the states."
He doesn't have two-thirds of either house, and it would have to pass in 38 states, he only won 31 last election.
The democrats like to talk about him being a malignant narcissist all the time, you really think he'll be the Vice Presidential candidate on JD Vance's ticket? Why would Vance win the election just to turn it back over to Trump? Is it a technical loophole that could be attempted? Sure, but I don't see him talking anyone into it.
The 22nd clearly states "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." He's won two elections now, he is not eligible to run for president again, and although there likely are some lunatics who might want to support him getting a third term, the majority would be against it, in my opinion.
Exactly. The rules are clear, and the votes required to change it simply aren't there.
The bigger theoretical risk, in my opinion, would be him getting upset that he didn't have the support he wanted and scorching a few incumbents on the way out, messing up the election results for 2028. I'm reminded of that snake Lin Wood going off on the G.O.P. Senate candidates in Georgia in the 2020 run-off and encouraging Conservative voters to stay home; that the current candidates didn't deserve their support.
You're absolutely right. But the rules don't matter.
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Even if he really pushes for it, what is your response to the votes issue to change the rule?
I mean....he doesn't have the votes. Not even close.
Putin didn't need the votes. He appointed Medvedev the puppet.
Three ways it could happen (h/t Cilizza):
1. Trump runs as VP in 2028 with JD Vance as the presidential nominee. There is either an implicit or explicit understanding that if Vance is elected, Trump will be the de facto president again. Asked by Welker about just such a possibility, Trump responded “that’s one” before adding: “There are others too. There are others.”
2. Trump stays in office and the Supreme Court capitulates. He could simply say the 22nd Amendment doesn’t apply to him for some reason — and if a majority of the nine Supreme Court justices agree then, voila, he stays.
3. Trump stays in office, the Supreme Court rules against him and he ignores it. Under this scenario, Trump basically says I have the military with me and I am staying.
Heh. Good thing we've never had a puppet president.
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I still think this is much ado about nothing
1. Why would Vance be ok with becoming the president and not being president? All of these politicians are narcissistic on some level, I don't see Trump talking anyone into that position.
2. The good thing about actually having a majority conservative Court is that they are far less likely to come that conclusion. I'd like to know which of them you think would side with Trump when the wording is pretty damn clear in the Constitution.
3. Do you really think the military would back Trump? What could possibly make you think that, if so? In my opinion he would very much not have the military with him. We take an oath against all enemies, foreign and domestic for a reason. Especially if the Court already ruled against him, he would be an enemy, any orders given by him would be unlawful, and would amount to nothing.
You've worried #2 and #3 before. I just can't fathom it, and I can't change your mind.
#1 seems far-fetched to me. I don't see him being willing to run as a Vice Presidential candidate.
I hope you are right. But it's not like he has respect for the rules.
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This is a logical response to an absurd proposition. Well done.
Certainly there would be people who would not support such a thing. Ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
You'll vote for him. It will be a choice between Trump and [random Democrat].
And you'll think he is the lesser of two evils and you will vote for him.
And if you think he would not emerge from a GOP primary, you have not been paying attention.
Maybe if the [random Democrat] weren't all lunatics, more people would vote for them. Instead, the
party seems to be propping up Bernie and AOC. The Democrats need to find someone new, someone more middle of the road. It's not Newsome. He has now started to try and walk back all the bullshit he said in the past, but the internet lives forever, and he just isn't believable.
There is a reason your party is sitting at a 27% approval rating. Find someone with common sense that actually relates to the American people and the party will have a chance.
He will be as lame as Biden by then. The country is past ready not to have an octogenarian leader.
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No. The Constitution is clear on this one.
And he'll be 82. Time for the next wave of G.O.P. leaders to step up. We won't support this.
If he’s still alive, he’ll try. And the GOP will have his back.
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GOP? The GOP has been bastardized by the Trump disease. My hope is that it will recover before…
I’m gone.
Here's one Republican who gets it.
Whoever it is, they need to be primaried. They need to fall in line with the rest of the GOP. The
GOP needs to start acting like Democrats. No free thinkers and do what they are told by the leaders of the party.
You don’t think that would happen to any Republican that stands against Trump?
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Of course it would. Again, the GOP needs to start playing by the Dems rules. The Dems all
fall in line with what their leadership tells them. Pelosi ruled with an iron fist.
Both parties have been bastardized. Neither are what they used to be but the Dems seems to jump on
other side of Trump. Lots of issues that are just common sense but the Dems take the other side just to fight Trump.
I don't feel like risking another wager loss, but I disagree.
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Oh, he’s not joking. It’s in the works right now. Just mentioning it or
having others float it casually tells us all what his plans are. And I agree, these MAGA buffoons on here and across the nation can’t wait for the moment.
Just look at one of these cultish shiny lure chasers - LanceM- “ My thoughts: thank goodness Trump won handily.” -
Link: http://My thoughts: thank goodness Trump won handily.
This stuff just riles up the "you've got to destroy democracy to save democracy" leftist crowd.
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This “stuff” is the idiocracy that you cultists embrace.
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I embrace securing our borders and a strong America, which you clearly don’t.
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You think a strong America embraces a dictator like Putin, and an effort to give Mango Strongman a
3d term?
Take some ginko biloba - it helps with TDS.
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Now that was right funny. You should give up your day job!
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And who here to better exemplify that than LanceM and Tampa. Good call Franky.
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Well, if the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, he would be out of your hair by now. It will be time
For him to move on in 2028. He will need to install Vance into the Presidency and pull the strings, you know, like Obama did with Joey. Maybe by then, we will have a medical breakthrough that will allow Trump to live forever and we will have many more years of winning.
And if January 6th attack on the Capitol had worked…
Trump - the honorable guy for the ages.
You really think a mob of riotous goofballs could overthrow the United States of America?
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