Let's be honest. He'll just declare a "national emergency" and suspend elections, no third term necessary. He's trying it out in DC and LA now. It's all in the dictator playbook.
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mortality is the only thing that will get him out of office at this point. sadly he has the best medical care this country has to offer. thankfully he has the best medical care this country has to offer.
He also eats like shit, doesn't exercise at all, has a stimulant addiction, and his age is catching up with him.
Even if by some miracle he makes it to the end of this term, he won't last for a 3rd term.
After that the real fun starts when there's a struggle to fill the power vacuum, that could cause an actual civil war.
Time for an American Year of Four Emperors
Does he really have the best care? Be honest if you were a doc and Trump gets rolled in are you going to be particularly good to him, sure you may follow the Hippocratic oath but there's nothing saying you can't go full WW1 combat medic and make the healing as physically painful as possible.
I’m sure plenty of doctors are republicans.
Yeah but most Republicans don't have to be up close to his body, let alone touch it. Can you imagine how greasy his skin is?
Just follow the guidelines of the RFK HHS and that could be enough.
Perfect. He'll be dead in 6-12 months.
For real though, RFK's appointment was to intentionally kill and harm as many poors as possible. Christian fascists are among the most psychopathic psychology that can exist.
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He has ACCESS to the best medical care, but he'll demand a MAGA doctor, which means he'll probably get some mental defective like Ben Carson, or some quack RFK Mengele will recommend.
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He is not leaving power willingly.
We shall indulge him.
Which is odd. I don't understand how he would suspend elections, as the states run those. So, essentially if some states refuse to have an election, and the rest do, then he loses.
Obviously he wouldn't accept that, but the voting states will likely form the Union again, Ally with the rest of the world and crush the every loving shit of the Christian Nationalist movement once and for all.
Maybe we let them keep Florida though. Just the cock part, and have a massive DMZ across it.
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Hopefully his heart disease is serious about preventing him.
I'm hoping it happens on labor day. Its a positive for workers and we have the day off yo celebrate.
If we could roll that back to Friday so we have a full 3 day weekend to celebrate (also because the sooner the better, but also the partying) that would be swell.
I'm going to need more than a day to celebrate
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I thought kidney problems are the current concern?
I've heard heart issues. The latest hand showing with make-up being to cover bruising from IVs to balance fluids. All speculative I think, but I'm hoping for the worst, most painful yet effective and fast solution.
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I guess they’re officially saying chronic veinous insufficiency as the cause of his cankles but people were speculating that it was heart failure or something similar.
I may dislike Newsom for a multitude of reasons but he's dam right here.
And I like his trolling of Trump because you know it gets under his skin.
If Trump is still alive come the next election season I guaran-fucking-tee he will try to run for president again.
Really wish he would just become unalive right fucking now.
Every day I wake up hoping that’ll be the big news story.
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Oh he is not leaving power willingly. Not at all. He’ll either get SCOTUS to say people are not allowed to serve three consecutive terms (which would also mean he implicitly acknowledges that he lost 2020) but 3 non-consecutive terms are a-ok OR he starts an internal or external war and claims a national emergency to remain in office.
I’m betting on #2.
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Kissinger lived to be 100 years old. Unfortunately I think this shit bag will be around for quite a while.
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Third term my ass, he plans to be dictator for life. “Term” implies some sort of permission to be there.
Term also implies there is an election lol
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"democratic norms"? That's a law. Not just any law, it's a literal amendment of the literal Constitution.
Great whose enforcing those amendments? The Supreme Court? Who said he can do whatever? Congress who has rolled over and not pushed back in the least?
Hey now, Cory Booker did that thing where he stood in one place and talked all day, and Schumer wrote a VERY stern letter.
Democrats will watch a Republican shoot a baby on fifth avenue and announce "We're forming a committee to investigate the possibility of bringing in an independent prosecutor to review the events in question. Please donate $25."
Yeah, the writing has been on the wall for a while. He won't be leaving office until he's dead.
He can be as serious as he wants. He won't live to run again.
That One Big Beautiful Obituary is coming. And soon.
Strom Thurmond lived to be 101. He was in in congress from 1956 to 2003. We can all hope for the Big Beautiful Obituary, but only the good seem to die young.
And nor will that be the end of our struggles
Not even the beginning of the end.
We'll go from his incompetent bumbling to professional fascists running things. And that shit is going to be a nightmare.
I am 100% serious when I say I really think the best case scenario is economic collapse and balkanization. I truly believe that's how we get out with the least amount of blood spilled.
Spades are broke. Our systems. Our guardrails. They've all failed or been purposefully exploited and compromised. The Heritage Foundation has spent 2 generations finding every chink in the armor of our govt they can in order to exploit it. There's no fixing it. There's no going back to normal. Can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
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That is STUPID! The Constitution CLEARLY states a President Only gets TWO TERMS just like it CLEARLY STATES that School Shooters are OK!
The SCOTUS has awarded him personally absolute power. Full stop. If Trunp decides to stay on he’ll do an executive order and say it has to be you can’t run for three consecutive terms (which would be hilarious cause it implicitly admits he lost 2020) OR he will start an internal or external war and just stay on citing an emergency. It is crystal clear. He is not leaving office except by dying.
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Trump has been looking pretty shit lately, more than he usually does. And has been talking about getting into heaven. I don't think he gets to 2028. Though I guess they could try some Weekend at Bernie's shit with him, wouldn't really put it past the current people around him.
Weekend at Bernie's? They will put his corpse on a golden throne and run enough currents through his body to pretend to have a pulse, and worship the god emperor regardless
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No, that a bright red line. He is NOT eligible for a third term under ANY circumstances. If they do engineer it so he has a third term, then American Democracy is dead, and I have no obligation to follow any laws, pay taxes, etc. It's Robin Hood Economics, and I'm heading to the nice neighborhoods.
He will start a war and declare it mandatory that he remain to see it through. And I guarantee it’ll be with Mexico. He’s already provoking them.
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