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.
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
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.
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.
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.
That’s what I said above. First two terms can’t be consecutive. Ridiculous.
Just like Biden used the SCOTUS immunity ruling to legally assassinate trump?
Democrats will not ever break precedent.
Maga operatives? Does he mean Gavin Newsom?
Anyone surprised at this is unqualified for political office.
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.
A strategically deployed hamberder in the next 1000 days will ensure Trump is president for life.
Nope, that is a declaration of war
Since we can’t rely on the law, it’ll need to be the people’s veto.
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.
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.
The problem is that word “elected.” It doesn’t specifically exclude someone assuming the role of president through the line of succession.
No, but the “acted as” should technically cover it. Again it’s meaningless if laws no longer apply lol.
That’s it. It’s just a pretty idea with no bearing on reality if not enforced.
The sad reality
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.
100% correct, very unfortunately
Why else would the orange be challenging the constitution? His current play of changing birthright citizenship is a practice range so he knows how to aim at his real targets.
To be honest, the most likely scenario in my mind is some form of war declaration or emergency, suspending elections has precedent during wartime.
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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.
Is there precedence for that in the US? I can’t find an example of US elections being suspended during war time, even the 1964 election happened during a war period.
It’s not even that elections could be stopped it’s that war powers notably direct media manipulation make it much much easier to win an election or rig it.
Let me guess, “Zelensky did it first”?
Hey yo, while we’re cutting jobs I heard the secret service costs the government billions and isn’t even secret, we best tell Musk on X and use a thinky emoji to show how smart that observation is.
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.
Democrats, the masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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
They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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!
Who do I think I am, anyway?
He wants to be just like putin. He should be in jail!
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.
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.
Read: the Republican Party is dead without drumpf
