• شاهد على إبادة@lemm.ee
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    The US constitution has amendments canceling amendments, more specifically the 21st repealing the 18th. Legally it is possible to repeal the 22nd, but the votes aren’t there… yet.

    The New Deal was so popular that FDR was elected to four terms. The 22nd amendment was a reaction to that.

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      I think you are bold to assume their plan involved repealing vs ignoring.

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        Exactly.

        “they can’t do that that’s illegal”

        Who’s gonna stop them? The law ain’t doing Jack FUCKING Shit. If there is no group or individual who is both willing and able to inflict consequences, THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES

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    11 hours ago

    The AI image really sends the fucking campiness. It’s hard to imagine that fucking bozo even living to a third term. I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t got sniped by atherosclerosis yet.

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t share your concerns and am not going to take the time to hunt down another one.

      Regardless of the banner, the push is real, here’s one article today and another from yesterday.

      https://www.newsweek.com/third-term-project-donald-trump-2028-constitution-2034316

      https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/cpac-2671191186/

      Quote from second article:

      A new advocacy group, the Third Term Project — which has adopted a Caesar-like Trump image as its logo — is dedicated to upending the 22nd Amendment so that Trump can serve a third term.

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        7 hours ago

        I don’t share your concerns and am not going to take the time to hunt down another one.

        You don’t have to be a dick, it totally looks like some shopped meme.

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          I wasn’t being a dick, I was giving a straightforward answer. I don’t have a concern that the photo is shopped, I find it entirely believable, and so of course I’m not going to take the time to go looking for more pics. Even if there are none yet, it wouldn’t prove this was shopped.

          The banner is not really the problem, shopped or not.

          Now the right hand side of this on the other hand:

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        5 hours ago

        When trump has asked about a third term, it has been jokingly. As far as those pushing for it, I don’t think it would pass. If it did though, he would still have to get elected again by the people again. I dunno I just don’t see it happening.

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          I’m pretty sure it’s just another distraction and nothing more. Plus, he’s already pretty much a babbling idiot, he’ll likely be a vegetable in four years.

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          When a fascist “jokes” about taking and keeping more power, they’re not joking. They’re absolutely serious.

          He wouldn’t have to be elected again. He lost the vote last time and still tried to launch an insurrection to overthrow the legitimate government and maintain power. He’s learned a lot since that failed attempt. He’s dismantling the government and the checks and balances by the day. There won’t be anything left to stop him in 4 years. He will not leave willingly.

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            lol, he didn’t try to “overthrow” the government at the previous election. He did the same thing Hillary did in the election before that.

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              he literally did, definitionally he launched a failed coup. At the very least an attempted insurrection.

              He did the same thing Hillary did in the election before that.

              complete disinformation, hillary contested the results, which is a thing you are legally entitled to doing (she later retracted that statement publicly) trump has NEVER once retracted his statement, he STILL says it was stolen.

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              Even you don’t believe that.

              Nobody here is going to play along, so I don’t even know what you think you’re doing. Getting “persecution points?”

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    2025 February 20, other sources :

    Washington Post

    ~By Justine McDaniel~ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-third-term-king-unconstitutional/

    Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term

    The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a king and quoted a dictator in suggesting that he was immune from following laws


    President Donald Trump on Thursday again raised the prospect of serving for an unconstitutional third term, asking a crowd at a White House event whether he should run again and receiving audience chants of “Four more years!”

    The suggestion followed a stretch of days in which Trump referred to himself as a king and quoted a dictator in suggesting that he was immune from following laws — all while his administration has continued pushing the bounds of presidential power.

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    Washington Examiner

    ~By Mabinty Quarshie and Hailey Bullis~ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3324704/cpac-trump-power-third-term-push/

    CPAC relishes in Trump’s power amid push for unconstitutional third term

    NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland - - Attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference celebrated President Donald Trump‘s whirlwind return to power, with some mulling a plan to keep the Republican in the White House beyond a second term. (…)

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    @ fucking ~msn~ :

    (i do not post such putrid links, yet title is…) ‘Caesar figure’: MAGA die-hards pushing 3rd Trump term met with CPAC silence

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    Why it’s missing a star? Directly printed from the ai prompt?

    It’s not that difficult to clone a star with modern software…

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      Do they need him to be alive? They can use him as long as he’s not rotting too obviously. I have a strong suspicion he already stinks.

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        Not taking sides, but be honest, I’m pretty sure that was Biden.

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          Dianne Feinstein is the more egregious example.

          What happens is is that these congressman build a circle of aids who handle all the real work while they campaign. Those aids develop working relationships with other aids. The more senior, the more influence they have. It quickly gets to the point when the politician themselves are just a figurehead and the aids don’t want to start over with a new one, so they just wheel their host around.

          Trump is well into the category where he’s just being lead around by his handlers.

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      He can do 20 more years. Weekend at Bernies is also possible. No crazy scheme is off the table in today’s America. Trump may also just be laying out the red carpet for some even crazier lunatic. Maybe hereditary dictatorship? Elon? Nothing is off the table at this point. Fuck me and the bleak possible future.

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        They will “transfer his conciousness” into one of Elon’s bartender-bots. Pay no attention to the Afrikaans accent.

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      Once they force three terms onto Trump they can use whatever flimsy justification they have found to allow three terms for Vance or whoever they get to replace trump.

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    Tacky as hell

    At least Nazi Germany hired actual artists and designers to create stunning and awe inspiring designs and artwork using quality materials (and no I am not glorifying those monsters)

    MAGA just go to the local print shop and skim off any premade imagery and use AI to mash it all together on the cheapest poster they can buy.

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      (and no I am not glorifying those monsters)

      You don’t have to glorify their beliefs to admit they were fantastic at propaganda and aesthetics. Birth of a Nation was used in film schools for decades afterward for a reason and that reason wasn’t that film schools were all secretly run by Nazis.

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        Can you provide some info about what film you mean? I only see results for the 1915 American film called Birth of a Nation. Which sounds pretty awful, but seems to predate Nazis.

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          Sorry, got my racist propaganda films that still show up in film school because they used revolutionary techniques in film making and are thus important pieces of cinematic history mixed up. The Birth of a Nation is the US one, Triumph of the Will is the Nazi one I was thinking of.

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      The Roman Empire, which lasted about 1000 years, looking at the American Empire collapsing after 250 years:

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          The US eagle was indeed inspired by the Roman one, but that doesn’t mean it’s a continuation of that empire.

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            it most certainly is friend. Rome still lives you’d be a fool to dismiss it. how can you defeat an enemy that is thought to not exist?

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              By your logic, shouldn’t it be called the Ancient Egyptian Empire?

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                  Yes. You posted a picture of past Empires that used birds as symbols, implying that’s the reason America is “the Roman Empire.” But Egypt did it first.

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            it’s the same logo for the same empire numb nuts, just rebranded with better weapons

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              Nope. Other than all having a bird, they don’t have anything in common. The designs are wildly different, the first two aren’t holding weapons but rather representations of the sun, and I’m not sure WHAT the Roman one is holding, but it doesn’t look like any recognizable weapon.

              Not to mention that the regimes referenced were wildly different in most ways and rivals where overlap happened. This is “the Illuminati controls everything” level bullshit.

              My nuts are nice and responsive btw, thank you very much 😄

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            it’s a representation of the phoenix phenom.bit will come back (Venus comet) the great dragon

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            Raptors are awesome and they absolutely hunt and kill other animals. You don’t have to make up fake animal facts to dunk on the US.

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              Yeah but the bald eagle in particular has a proclivity towards cowardice and scavenging, despite its size. Red tailed hawk or turkey is a much more admirable bird

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                Turkeys are super cool, but it’s still a bit silly to apply human values to wild animals. Pretty much all animals are wired to survive while expending the least amount of energy and reducing risk to themselves. Stealing catches from other animals is quite common across species because it’s easier and safer. The reality is that it’s brutal out there. I don’t have diminished admiration for a bear because it found some food in a trash can instead of catching fish from a stream.