Damnit I’m wrong and it all still terrible
I predict that there will be no consequences.
A short history of what happens to Presidents in Peru From 2000 to now.
Alberto Fujimori July 1990 to November 2000 (10 years +) Imprisoned, Corruption and crimes against humanity.
Valentin Panaigua November 2000 to July 2001 (9 months) Transitional President
Alejandro Toledo July 2001 to July 2006 (5 years) Extradited, money laundering, collusion.
Alan Garcia July 2006 to July 2011 (5 years) Suicide, accused of bribery and corruption.
Ollanta Humala July 2011 to July 2016 (5 years) Imprisoned, accused of bribery and corruption. That’s two Presidents in a row!
Pedro Kuczynski July 2016 to March 2018 (almost 2 years) Under House arrest, accused of bribery. At least there is no corruption (charges).
Martin Vizcarra March 2018 to November 2020 (2 ½ years +) Ousted in Coup. Accusations of moral competence.
Manuel Merino SIX DAYS (6 DAYS) Resigned due to protests and riots.
Francisco Sagasti November 2020 to July 2021 (9 months) Transitional President
Pedro Castillo July 2021 to December 2022 (1 ½ years) Detained. In custody, attempt to dissolve Congress.
At this point we are the only consequence he can get. Congress refuses to act, courts do, but he started to ignore them, institutions are gutted.
This unfortunately won’t end without us going on the streets.
so…go on the streets!
I do, but also want others to join me.
April 5. Everybody, do your part.
But I am le tired!
Then go take a nap…IN THE STREET!!
So Obama can run against him then?
Of course not, the two cases are totally different. They’re so different, it’s like black and white…
“White”
This is… The most accurate
They’re so different that if he tries he will be shot, either through official order or some frothing at the mouth maniac.
No, the bill presented by GOP congress excludes any president that served two consecutive terms.
So currently, the only person on the planet that can serve a third term is trump.
Well, trump wouldn’t be elected into position - that is explicitly prohibited. So no running for him or Obama.
The “loophole” is that he’s trying to line up a coordinated effort to elect other GOP members. After elected they’ll nominate trump into the line of succession as Secretary of State or another unelected position. Once the pawns are in place, the line of succession simply has to step down until it falls to him. Third term without breaking the “elected twice to office” condition.
IMO this is just to test the base and get them used to him stay in the office until he dies then someone from his family takes over or maybe musk himself.
The goal is a dictatorship and if there will be an election it will be a sham one line putin has.
I agree it would be a temporary measure. Realistically Republicans only need ~6 more governors on board before they can start talking constitutional amendments, and do away with these pesky restrictions all together.
Six flips is asking a lot when Red states are tending to lean more purple these days.
That sounds like something someone who’s never heard of gerrymandering or voter suppression would say.
Voter suppression would work, but you can’t gerrymander state-wide votes.
This “loophole” wouldn’t work. There are plenty of people in the line of succession that are ineligible to be President either due to being too young or being foreign-born. First, if it gets to the point where one of them would even become President, we have much bigger problems to worry about. Second, those people that would be ineligible would simply be skipped over for the next person in line who’s actually eligible.
Sure, they could use the same backwards logic and hand-waving of Constitutional amendments that they’ve been using all along, but at that point they might as well just make an exception for the 22nd amendment and call it a day. If they’re just planning to hand-wave away the rules anyway, why go through all those extra steps when just saying that the 22nd amendment is unenforceable would be quicker, easier, and accomplish the same thing?
It’s a stupid loophole and hard to coordinate. The simple solution is for trump so send jd Vance, or whoever Trump figures can win and gets added on as VP, then he’d spend forever saying how the people wanted him back so badly. The President will step down and Trump again
He can’t run as VP because he is ineligible to be President. VP is the only position in the line of succession that can’t be skipped. Anyone chosen as VP must also be eligible to be President.
The easiest way for them to do it is to go the “Casino” route. Put in some sock puppet as President and have Trump be the “senior advisor” that’s calling the shots behind the scenes. Kinda like they’re doing now with Musk.
I realize I’m playing advocate for a devil that needs no help, and I hope you’re right. Simply saying there are arguments taking place that seperate the concepts of “being elected” as defined in the 22nd vs “being ineligible” as defined by article 2.
As it’s been explained to me, this interpretation would of course be challenged, and ultimately determined by our wonderful supreme court.
I’ve seen this loophole and it ends up with Jack Bauer being president.
Just this huh not the…. points at dozens of examples of what dictators do
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Adolf Hitler said he had solutions to all these problems. Screaming his threats and boasts, he could seem insane to outsiders, but he was saying what his audiences wanted to hear. He promised jobs, better living conditions, restored power and pride for Germany, and suppression of communism and other political trouble-makers. He also attacked Germany’s Jews, saying they were responsible for Germany’s defeat in the war.
Despite his growing support, some had a hard time taking him seriously. Hitler’s boasts that Germany would regain power sounded so fantastic, it kept the world laughing for a few more years.
Source: How Did Hitler Succeed
They’ll still say this even though he clarified that he wasn’t joking.
The sanitation of his tyrannical insanity is infuriating.
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They never actually cared. They want a WWF villain to make a new big story they can all watch because they’re dumb and don’t understand politics and we gave them the country.
HE has ALREADY done what dictators do. GAME OVER!
- Disappearing people with unwanted opinions without legal investigation.
- Have judges condone clearly illegal acts.
- Pardon already prosecuted and sentenced criminals because they gave the president money.
- Willfully destroy government institutions under the guise of fraud and cost savings, but never making clear where the money will go now.
- Accept bribes and claim its all legal.
- Allow bribery for those in his staff/judicial system.
- Use the justice apparatus to put pressure on and silence political enemies or those with unwanted opinions.
- Install an extra, and unmonitored, internet service in the White House.
- Declare war on allies.
- Covertly speak to centuries long enemies and prefer their opinion over your own intelligence agencies.
- Steal Top secret documents and distribute them to unknown international agents.
- Steal an election and declare no new voting is needed when he’s in power.
- Start an Insurrection.
- Perform an illegal rugpull with crypto in your name and shrug it off.
- Threaten schools and educational institutions to only promote the official vision.
- Destroy the department of education so that only propaganda will be taught in schools
- Destroy Healthcare and Social Security, making it harder for the common man to rise up.
- Declare it illegal/terrorism if protests arise against one of his inner circle.
- Shout that whatever he does is for the country, but none of his actions actually benefit anyone else besides his own interests.
Yup, it all fits the bill.
Its not game over, not by a long shot. Its not even game over if the fascists solidify their rule. There will always be dissidence and rebellion. If you’re feeling like we’re not doing enough right now you aren’t involved with the right groups. There are people.setting things in motion against these all over the country. Let’s shake these AI blues and start rebuilding our faith in each other and our communities. Fascists are only strong when the people are isolated.
It’s refreshing seeing optimism. Thanks for that.
Well, yea. HIS game is over. Our game has just started.
I like this comment, and your optimism. You’re right about atomization of the individual, that’s how they keep us ineffectual. Seek out the similars and organize to take action!
Dude shut up. Getting so sick of you weak doomers. Ffs.
So now truth is doom?
You are NOW living in a dictatorship. Adjust your lifestyle accordingly.
Dictator for day 1
Special operation for 3 days
I’m beginning to think they don’t understand time
Walmart is way too entrenched to switch. They own the supply chain from the soil to the store. They write half the ag bills.
What Contempt? The people who Defend The Constitution after a School Shooting that leaves SCORES of 6 Year Olds DEAD are FULLY on Board with this!
He’s 85…he’ll be lucky if he survives life until the end of this term.
Trump is 78 years old.
Awe. Damn.
There’s still an entire cult of people that will step up in his wake if he dies.
He is a symptom, not the cause.
Then he should find out what the 2nd Amendment is for.
He almost did. But missed the lesson by a few inches
Nah, that was staged. Nothing about it was real except that they blew a MAGA Moron’s head off. Not really a big loss, it’s not like he was using it to hold a operational brain.
Did they stage the dead and injured bystanders behind him as well?
Those were sacrifices. Look up Altona Bloody Sunday. In April 1932, the fucking Nazis conducted a larger operation to win sympathy.
allegedly
It was staged.
He’s doing it one way or another. Americans better face that.
Everything he does is what dictators do. Somebody explain to me why America has collectively allowed him to run the country
Why three terms? If hes doing such a good job when do we need elections anymore? We need trump till death and then then name his successor. It wont be JD. Itll likely be someone from his family. Ivanka fits the bill. He needs to get JD out and let ivanka in.
Careful, the scrapers might give the wrong message and this comment could end up in a 3 IQ news story about how alternative social media is warming to trump.
Not really. But they are that fucking stupid.
