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634-5789

(4,690 posts)
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 05:03 AM Oct 2025

He has his minions telling media that 'he is staying' past 2028.

Stinky Bannon was telling Bill Maher that trump would be staying after 2028.

I'll fight that with everything I have left in me.

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He has his minions telling media that 'he is staying' past 2028. (Original Post) 634-5789 Oct 2025 OP
Watch Republicans and the 6 Partisan Hacks in Robes explain why Trump can run for a 3rd Term, but not Obama. Chasstev365 Oct 2025 #1
For all their flaws, even the corrupt SCOTUS can count to two. Nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 2025 #4
Yeah, but that was changed by an amendment that wasn't the Second. Ursus Rex Oct 2025 #6
You don't think they'll find a loophole? Happy Hoosier Oct 2025 #7
You have forgotten the one absolute truth: Fiendish Thingy Oct 2025 #9
A month ago, I would of bet no one would let *rump take a backhoe to the wh questionseverything Oct 2025 #13
Question is, if there was a legit vote kerouac2 Oct 2025 #2
States run elections Fiendish Thingy Oct 2025 #5
You won't have to fight at all Fiendish Thingy Oct 2025 #3
I hope you are right. Happy Hoosier Oct 2025 #8
It is folly, IMO, to perpetuate dystopian mythology Fiendish Thingy Oct 2025 #10
I Think Not! MineralMan Oct 2025 #11
He'll be in hell by then. milestogo Oct 2025 #12

Chasstev365

(7,983 posts)
1. Watch Republicans and the 6 Partisan Hacks in Robes explain why Trump can run for a 3rd Term, but not Obama.
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 06:42 AM
Oct 2025

Ursus Rex

(491 posts)
6. Yeah, but that was changed by an amendment that wasn't the Second.
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:48 AM
Oct 2025

Hence, not part of the Founders' TRUE vision.

Happy Hoosier

(9,573 posts)
7. You don't think they'll find a loophole?
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:56 AM
Oct 2025

I don't trust them. And if they DO find that, what if Trump just gives them the finger? Ya think Congress would do anything?

Fiendish Thingy

(23,542 posts)
9. You have forgotten the one absolute truth:
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 10:03 AM
Oct 2025
Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless

SCOTUS would be signing their own death warrants, power wise, if they were to rule that “two” doesn’t actually mean “two”.

Multiple states, red ones included, would ignore them and refuse to put Trump on the ballot.

It’s not going to happen.

questionseverything

(11,871 posts)
13. A month ago, I would of bet no one would let *rump take a backhoe to the wh
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 06:36 PM
Oct 2025

Everything has changed

kerouac2

(1,508 posts)
2. Question is, if there was a legit vote
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 07:21 AM
Oct 2025

With all ballots counted... Would he win? I have little faith in the 77 or whatever million of people who did.

And we all know that he will do manipulative things and lie leading up to election and that will get support. Like making up low crime numbers, low unemployment numbers, lift tariffs, etc

Fiendish Thingy

(23,542 posts)
3. You won't have to fight at all
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:23 AM
Oct 2025

On January 20, 2029 (at the latest) a new president and VP, neither of whom will be named Trump, will be sworn in, and they will immediately become commander in chief of the military, and Donald Trump’s reign of error and terror will come to an end.

Even if Trump attempts to interfere with the certification of electoral votes, the constitution provides for the installation of an acting president from the ranks of congress or the cabinet.

The only way this won’t happen is if there is a military coup, which would require mass acts of treason by millions of service members.

Don’t buy into media mythology- remember this one absolute truth:

Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless

Happy Hoosier

(9,573 posts)
8. I hope you are right.
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 09:58 AM
Oct 2025

Trump has been packing the courts and steadily replacing top military commanders with loyalists.

It is folly, IMO, to believe he cannot seize power. He can. Our system depends upon people acting in good faith. Will he? That remains to be seen.

Fiendish Thingy

(23,542 posts)
10. It is folly, IMO, to perpetuate dystopian mythology
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 10:08 AM
Oct 2025

It weakens our ability to resist and fight the actual fascism occuring daily.

Our system depends upon people acting in good faith.


That is incomplete; the actual tenet is:

Our system depends upon people acting in good faith, even when others do not

Do you imagine the states will sit by idly while Trump seizes a third term?

They will not.

Donald Trump will not be the 2028 GOP nominee, and he will never appear on a state’s presidential ballot again. His presidency will end on January 20, 2029, if not sooner. The military will not commit mass acts of treason to keep him in power.
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