Trump Wants to Be President for Life—and He’s Already Preparing for It
2 years ago by just_another_person to c/politics
as I’ve heard countless Republicans describe
99% of whom are fucking chicken hawks.
The only ones who put their money where their mouths are got arrested for occupying BLM land in Oregon, or later, Congress.
Was it not already clear last time when he encouraged his followers to launch an insurrection when he lost?! How much fucking warning do you need?
The insurrection happened because conservatives saw that they couldn't win democratically.
This time they did, with the help of voter suppression.
with the help of voter suppression.
And amplification of the anti-electoralist/accelerationist cult's propaganda.
By dying within three years?
Were the CIA to effective take steps to defend American democracy from authoritarianism they could almost be forgiven for all their other fuckery.
That.... can be arranged
I was called out (on Reddit) for pointing out how insanely dangerous this comment was in 2018.
Trump also praised China’s President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn’t mind making such a maneuver himself. “He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”
this is some annoying meta-irony thing that a politician should not be doing, because it is very difficult to discern a position from it. you have to take him both literally and sarcastically at the same time, which is about as useful as ignoring him. nobody has a clue what's going on when he talks
It's senile ramblings and when he rambles on his deathbed who to kill next even then the sycophants around him will follow it as a message from the 6d gods playing chess against the enemy.
“On Reddit”? There’s your problem.
Luckily, Trump's built-in termination date isn't too far away and will limit the damage.
Vance is the dangerous one. Trumps only purpose was to get Vance onto the throne. Peter Thiel will likely have him whacked and blame it on the radical left so Vance can use martial law to further dismantle Americas democratic institutions.
He's still part of a weird Catholic sect. The Nazis think they are manipulating the fundamentalists to do their bidding, but really it's the other way round. Just wait and see.
Spaniards said much the same about Franco and that little fucker stuck around seemingly forever.
With any luck he'll only live a couple more days.
You know if you got a few thousand like minded people, you could change that.
In another castle.
I'd also like him to drop dead. It seems our goals are singularly aligned.
Knowing American history .... they only reserve bullets for the good ones
When 'jokes' align with actions, they stop being jokes—this is a blueprint for authoritarianism. Well-supported claims and critical analysis.
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I hope you're right, but we can't even get our fellow citizens to vote against fascism. Now some are expecting these same people to protest, engage in economic boycotts, risk their livelihoods by staying home from their jobs, and more!?
Funny you think those were legitimate attempts.
I can... We were offered outright fascism or a continuation of slow decay. At least the slower option gave us much-needed time for positive change
I dunno, I'd rather rip the bandaid off, because keep going down the "slow decay" route just means we kept strengthening the machine that is bringing us fascism, making it a more solidly in place system...
But you're right: Fast descent to fascism, or slow descent. But, a fascist was the only options presented.
Realistically, his life probably won't last until the end of his term. It's vance's theocratic dictatorship you need to watch out for.
Not likely. Fucker is going to be 100 out of spite and being filthy rich
My dudes, this pacifist in the USA with active background investigations will happily say I’d die defending my country against this outcome.
I think you meant to type Emperor For Life
The fastest way to do that is leave him in a room with Luigi ^_^
Even if he doesn't live through his term, the action of evading term limits will surely have much longer impact as it opens new doors for dictators.
Best case scenario he finishes his prep to abolish term limits and fails to kill elections.
Then we get Obama/Waltz 2028.
But hopefully he waits until the 4 years term is done. I gotta agree with the other guy who pointed out that vans is basically a nazi but unlike trump, vans would probably not care about "coming out" and doing what nazis do.
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Let’s let him be president for life, as long as that life is less than four more years. Anything beyond that has a “second amendment solution”, as I’ve heard countless Republicans describe.
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