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- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”
Ogles proposed an amendment on Thursday that says, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, 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 twice.”
Like other U.S. presidents, Trump is barred from running for a third White House term by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.
“President Trump’s decisive leadership stands in stark contrast to the chaos, suffering, and economic decline Americans have endured over the past four years,” Ogles said in a Thursday statement. “He has proven himself to be the only figure in modern history capable of reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness, and he must be given the time necessary to accomplish that goal.”
Trump floated the prospect of running for a third term in a joke to House GOP lawmakers during a meeting in Washington before the conference had internal leadership elections.
They won’t. There hasn’t been a popular armed resistance group since the Black Panthers, and they weren’t popular either. It’s more likely the rest of the world will have to team up with Russia and China to fight the Western Axis powers.
Well, it depends on how conflicted his own supporters would be. I have to assume there are a good number of 2A defenders who would take issue with this. Certainly a good chunk of them subsist on the koolaid at this point, but each extreme decision like this is the line for at least some of his base.
If Obama had done the same thing, Jan 6th would have happened much earlier.
I have family in the UK who support Trump and thought Jan 6th was staged by antifa. There is little that can make them conflict their brainwashing, they just keep pushing that line further and further which inevitably leads to justifying atrocities as they do it.
Wdym?
If Obama had tried to take a third term, trumpers (tea partyers at the time) would have literally rioted.
Ah yes, indeed.
I don’t see that going well for anyone.
The only way forward I see is shutting off trade which is doubtful due to the strength of the American dollar. Or a general strike by citizens which is also unlikely due to the price of food and housing.
The US would be in a defensive war in what you describe. And since the US Nuclear program is properly funded and the warheads are inspected and maintained on a very rigid schedule I have little doubt there will be a positive outcome for that.
There is no violent solution to this. There’s 300 years of entrenched efforts against it. It would be a decline like the Ottomans, where vassal states migrate away and begin forming their own external economic ties.
Look at the collapse of communism in Russia, the USSR and Warsaw Pact. They had nukes too, their leadership was arguably as brutal and inhumane as that in the US now, and much more deeply entrenched. Yet they were overthrown.
People power is a thing. Don’t pretend it’s impossible, that’s just the learned helplessness message they keep pounding into your head.
One thing that would be an appallingly bad idea would be to ally with either Russia or China in attacking the US. If they were to win, it’d be even worse. The leadership of both those countries makes the American psychopathic kakistrocrats look positively benign.
I agree with you, that’s why in my first comment I’m suggesting a general strike which is power of the people. The comment I replied to was saying that other countries would end fascism in America through war. I highlighted why that wouldn’t work.
If thats the story of the future you believe, then that’s what you’ll get. I prefer to believe in an option that’ll solve it sooner, nukes be damned, I dare them to nuke the world they so depend on for power. If only we could start telling ourselves a better, more realistic story of humanity instead of a pessimistic one. Not saying it’s gonna be pretty, but neither is 300 years of technofascism. You want reality to become that movie ‘Equilibrium’? That’s how you get reality to become that movie ‘Equilibrium.’ And if there aren’t any Grammaton Clerics to save you now there won’t be then.