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They’re also selling shirts that say “rewrite the rules” just under the rest of it. Oh boy.
He got into power rigging the election with Elon, Russia, and ballotproof. He will magically get enough seats in the midterm to overturn the 22nd and be king til he dies if successful.
Third term has nothing to do with being a grift for money or whatever. He's using that as a tool for power
It's simple. He's going to jail when he's done being president. And he's pissed off so many people he's definitely getting shanked
He cannot pardon himself for state crimes
The entire point of running a 3rd term is to stay out of jail
He is going to ride the courts until he dies or too old to care. They had 4 years to lock him up for his previous crimes including Jan 6th. He won't see jail time and he knows it
Doesn't matter. Remember how stressed he appeared during the last lawsuits.
Make the prick stress the fuck out so he can't sleep at night
Sure, everyone has seen the checks and balances in action
Like how they put him in jail during Biden’s term?
Oh wait!
Why do you think he ran for presidency again... He was convicted. Legally, he can't argue he's running for a 3rd term, so the judge can't make the same. The only thing the judge did was say he'd postpone sentencing...
"Power creates power. The more power you weild, the more you accumulate."
He will be president for the rest of his life.
And if that's a month, two, who are we to judge God's plan or the Luigi who carries it out.
To put on my own conspiracy hat for a moment, he's getting set up to be the fall guy. He's following a playbook he didn't write, the people that did write Project 2025 know how unpopular it will be, and the final play is setting trump up as the tyrant to be deposed by a real dictator. Sure hope I'm wrong.
courts decided he's not going to jail....
During his presidency...
And he can't pardon state crimes
God knows how many more state crimes have been queued up since then....
Not saying I agree with the whole 2 terms 4 years each thing americans have let alone their political system in general, but who was actually surprised? That's what fascists do, just take Mussolini.
You have to soft launch your fascist dictatorship. People need time to accept the possibility.
It took a lifetime to turn the Roman Republic into the Principate. You gotta ease into these things to keep peope from shanking you on the senate floor.
$50.00 for a fucking Made in China hat.
With tariffs, $120
Hats made in china cost about $4 before tarriffs
i just assumed the corruption is so out in the open already that he will add an exemption for trump merch
In case anyone is still unsure, he is not willingly leaving in 2028. Everything that's happening indicates he is setting up a path for him to remain. One of two things are going to happen in our future.
We will need to march on DC in INSANE numbers and force him to leave with the threat of lethal force.
We will have to use lethal force to make him leave.
Only other possibility is he dies of natural causes before then. But then we get Vance and we'll probably have to do the same thing. This isn't just Trump. The entire GOP apparatus is a fascist movement. The only reason he didn't do it last time is because he hadn't set up the foundation for him to remain by doing things like, I don't know, instructing the FBI to arrest federal judges who oppose him, which is a line we just crossed today.
Fascism is here. Arm yourselves. Help others arm themselves. Train. Help others train.
So it's gonna be January 6th all over again?
I'm not trying to be a pessimist, but this is the same kind of logic J6ers used in 2021. They believed that the election was stolen and tried to invade the capitol as a result.
I'd like to be proven wrong here, but if a massive crowd of armed people show up to the capitol doors if trump is somehow reelected in 2028, you'd be hard pressed to convince most normal people that it's any different than J6.
The Romans stormed Rome more than a few times. Sometimes they succeeded.
What showed up on Jan 6 were a few thousand redneck losers, many of whom already had criminal convictions. What I'm talking about is something that will need to be larger than the Civil Rights march on DC in '63. Larger than the 2020 protests. What showed up on Jan 6 were dipshits who believed an election was stolen without a shred of evidence. If this fuck tries remaining after 2 terms there's no guesswork involved. No BELIEF that something is wrong. You're going to see something unlike anything this country has seen before that unites all liberals, all independents, a lot of people who never identified as anything before, and probably even a lot of conservatives who still have some sort of red line.
A president only getting 2 terms is one of those basic, foundational rules that is easy to understand. There's lots of grey area in what Trump and his fascist enablers are doing, especially to stupid people. But even stupid people get the 2 term rule and can grasp why it matters.
He doesn't care about that. Because he's going to jail after regardless. So whilst he may be president, he's fucked suffer way
But then we get Vance
If Trump dies in 2026 then there are 10 constitutionally valid years of Vance ruling.
Do you think the Constitution will stay unaltered until 2036?
Yes, all the ways to alter the constitution are fundamentally broken.
Because of this comment, I think I’m going to start saving a little money for a quick trip to DC. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I think I want to be there when it does.
We'll see. But I'll be marching at your side if it comes down to it.
it's ment for americans. more than soft people
I'm not going to lie, this is a profitable move by Trump, because his voters will line up to get them to antagonize those outside their in group, as was the entire point of their vote, to harm their enemies as an end in itself, regardless of whether he's able to get the SCOTUS to rule that up means down and no third term means infinite terms for Republicans only.
I'm just looking forward to all the idiots giggling about their own enslavement, as I see anyone wearing that hat as a derivation of this:
I was thinking of making a sign to be carried at a protest. One side would say "Honk if you support Trump." The other side would say something like, "Only the assholes are honking."
I don't get the "rigged 2020 election" argument.
Did he forgot about his first mandate? If he won in 2020/21 it would still make 2 mandates and he theoretically would not been able to go for 2024/25.
OFC it is just a shit excuse to please his crowd, but math are math, one + one still equals two, 2020 election or not.
It still isn't currently legal for him to run for a third term. This is how confident he is the law will be changed or ignored.
It still isn't currently legal for him to run for a third term.
Being a convicted felon made it illegal for him to run for a second term. Still didn't stop him.
You can run as a felon. You can even run for president from jail.
Since he was eligible to run, the only process (that I know of) that could've made it illegal is as a possible consequence in an impeachment conviction in the Senate.
are you sure about that? theres been candidates literally in prison receiving electoral votes before
It's more than likely just another grift to leech money from his drove of idiot supporters.. but who knows with this asshole