Summary
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon revealed that MAGA operatives are “working on” securing Donald Trump a third presidential term in 2028, despite constitutional term limits.
In an interview with Chris Cuomo, Bannon said, “We’ll see what the definition of term limit is,” suggesting they’re exploring ways to circumvent the 22nd Amendment.
Recently released from prison after serving four months for contempt of Congress, Bannon placed second in a CPAC straw poll for 2028 GOP nominees behind JD Vance, while maintaining tensions with Trump adviser Elon Musk.
Time to really get to know our communities and our people in the military. The only justice imaginable coming from this is a coup in one form or another to oust them. Anyone in the military that is actually on board with this needs to be purged by the rank and file.
Third term?
Again with the Russian model - why not be more imaginative and declare yourself some new made-up dictator name (& just be a dictator, no terms, no red & blue, only polished golden ass), like something Borat would come up with.His supreme big handedness of the Lord, the shitter of golden diarrhea, he who licks no domestic butts, the holy eternal MAGAer, the trumpest with the mostest absolute dumptruck ass, senior car salesmen.
Musk is already occupying that position.
If Presidents can run for a third term, I want to watch Trump get destroyed by Obama, when he also runs for a third term.
You don’t think they’re covering that contingency?
They rules they have formulated and want to pass as law are that the first two terms must not be consecutive. This would preclude Obama from having a third term.
I remember reading they want to adjust it to “two consecutive terms”. Which would invalidate Obama through their mental gymnastics
I think that’s the rule Putin and Medvedev used. They alternated to get around the consecutive term rule.
Just like Biden used the SCOTUS immunity ruling to legally assassinate trump?
Democrats will not ever break precedent.
I don’t think they mean presidents (plural) could run for the third term.
There will also be a rule if one of the contestants is going for their third term it’s an automatic win & no opposing runners can join the game.
Trump will be 79 in 2 months, at 83 he himself wont be around to run in 2028, but MAGA would still be there and that’s what we should be fighting. I mean sadly and similarly Bernie Sanders wouldnt be around to run in 2028, but his movement is what we should be carrying
Bannon placed second in a CPAC strawpoll
My first thought: That’d be great, there’s no way he’d win
My second thought: Democrats would find a way.
My first thought: That’d be great, there’s no way he’d win
Remember, the overwhelming majority of the country thought the exact same thing about Trump in 2016.
as parent intimated: Democrats will find a way. :-(
I’ll show me!
Democrats, the masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
i mean let’s give Putin some credit too, his disinformation campaigns and bot farms have been a master class in manipulating public perception. that’s to say nothing of the Twitter/X situation
Don’t forget Meta and other social media allowing (even encouraging in Twitter’s case) rampant misinformation to go unchecked, dismantling the very systems they built to combat it during Trump’s first term.
That, and their “1984 was a blueprint”-level invasive user tracking that allowed micro-targeting voters with propaganda to discourage Democratic turnout while inflaming Republican emotions. Russia might have written the articles, but Zuckerberg made sure they reached American eyes.
Nope, that is a declaration of war
Read: They still don’t have a replacement for Trump.
Of course they do, but the issue is that too much of Trump’s control over their base is from his cult of personality (somehow), not the plan itself. They don’t know how to replace that. Yet.
Musk is hoping to be next. Yes, constitution doesn’t allow it, but they don’t intend to follow it anyway.
The constitution also doesn’t allow an insurrectionist to be president, but here we are.
That’s why they’re so interested in making Canada part of the US. His mom is Canadian. If Canada becomes part of the US he becomes a natural born US citizen and becomes eligible to run for president. And this is one of many reasons we cannot allow ourselves to become part of the US.
What are the rules surrounding recognition as a state? Does Canada need to accept it or is there some mechanism by which the US can just say “we regard Canada as the 51st state” and as far as American law is concerned it’s now part of the USA, even if it isn’t on reality?
Well the mechanism is American military occupation and attempt at submission. Their rules / laws don’t really matter much to us. But per their laws their Congress needs to accept our admission as a state with a simple majority vote, and then the president needs to sign off on it. The only way us applying happens is if they are able to install a puppet federal government here, and even then if that all succeeds they need to prepare for an extended insurgency.
They absolutely do not need Canada for this.
We are living in a post-truth world. The MAGA right do not care about the law, the facts, or even what is right.
They want power. By any means necessary.
FOX and OAN will run pieces about how Musk was born here in the states and was moved to South Africa to help run his emerald mines. They will draw up fake birth certificates, change birth records in hospitals to show he was born on an Army Base in Texas.
They’ll even find the doctor that ushered his delivery.
And the Right will eat it up.
The sad thing is Trump has the means to make all of this possible. This is not figurative.
This is the nightmare scenario. And Musk will not let go of power.
Time to 2A up to protect yourselves America. Only a copper jacketed hollow point between freedom and tyranny.
FYI I know nothing about ammo other than what I hear in movies or TV.
They’re putting a LOT of faith in those arteries holding up that long LMFAO
Just keep feeding him McDonald’s lol
Amphetamines.
During the last election he went on a big ramble about how Biden is probably on amphetamines for stamina. Sounded like he was telling on himself.
I swear to God you can hear all the grease caked inside his body when he speaks. That wheezing, wandering, droning voice has had a few too many Big Macs.
Anyone surprised at this is unqualified for political office.
We’ll see what the definition of term limit is
It’s right there in the amendment:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Donald Trump was elected twice. He is ineligible to be elected again.
Yeah. The constitution also says anyone who starts a fucking insurrection is also ineligible and yet here we are.
Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to agree that since the 22nd Amendment doesn’t specify who enforces that the president can’t be elected, that it means Congress has to actively pass a law saying he can’t run.
That’s what ultimately happened with the Colorado case.
If I had to put money on it, I’d guess they contest the legitimacy of the next election, and he just refuses to step down - can only be elected twice, but he’s just there as a care taker until a proper election can happen
Or he’ll start a war and declares martial law
Martial law lets you arrest people without trial, but it doesn’t directly allow you to just not hold an election, and you can only declare it “unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it”.
I guess you could come up with some pretence then impose martial law and make it clear that anyone voting the wrong way is going to get arrested, but at that point why bother with laws at all?
According to Trump and many many in the GOP, he was elected three times.
After two years into this term, he will be disqualified twice from running again.
no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once
Unfortunately, there’s an obvious loophole right there that they will argue for. The 22nd Amendment doesn’t say that Trump can’t be VP and take over as President on Day One. It just restricts how many times he can be elected as the President. He could theoretically run as VP and have an enabler run as President an indefinite number of times - there are no limits to the number of times somebody can be elected as VP: https://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/vp-term-limits/
Isn’t there also a rule that says you can’t be VP if you already can’t be Pres?
Ah, good catch. I’d forgotten about that. Apparently the 12th Amendment should narrow that loophole significantly:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Honestly, the whole insurrection thing should disqualify him anyway, but again they’d probably argue that he’s not ineligible for the office of President, he just can’t be elected to it due to the 22nd Amendment.
A strategically deployed hamberder in the next 1000 days will ensure Trump is president for life.
He wants to be just like putin. He should be in jail!
Meh…what else is new? Let’s just keep clogging the news with more shit. This is his tactic anyways.
Likely scenario:
They’ll first try to get two thirds of both the senate and the congress, and to a constitution overhaul in the style of Hungary. If that fails, there’s always the option for a martial-law, or just circumventing the whole of the constitution.
To be honest, the most likely scenario in my mind is some form of war declaration or emergency, suspending elections has precedent during wartime.
So ramp up tension with either Canada or Mexico; then manufacture some incident and invade to “protect democracy” or some shit…bada bing bada boom, a nice little war and the ability to declare martial law.
A very handy use of the expansionalist dreams of GOP, but more likely is that Trump will just use the war on immigrants as an excuse to suspend elections.
Maybe make him speaker of the house then have a stand in prez and vp step down?
I know a vp has to have presidential eligibility to be elected, which Trump wouldn’t have at the end of this term. But Im not aware of the same restriction on the speaker
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
That’s the wording. It looks pretty iron clad, if you care at all about the rule of law.
That wording wouldn’t prevent Trump from becoming Speaker of the House, and then becoming President for a third term through the line of succession.
Shit, yeah re reading it it’s fucked. Unless there is something that the scotus ruled on as president that is not worded directly.
I don’t think it overly matters anyways, though; it’s not like Republicans would go “Oh darn, foiled” if Trump couldn’t be Speaker. Traitors gonna treason and coup, one way or another, and it’s going to be boots-on-the-ground organizing that stops them, if anything stops them.
The problem is that word “elected.” It doesn’t specifically exclude someone assuming the role of president through the line of succession.
