• 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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        The ERA was made controversial. Any future amendment will likely be the product of catastrophe. I imagine if one happens it will be because we manage to get out of this current situation and need to prevent it in the future

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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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        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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            I don’t think he’s there yet, he still seems to know what’s going on around him, and where he is at.

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              I don’t believe he is. I know people like that. They fake understanding what’s going on, but can’t maintain a thought for very long. During Trump’s first term, his aids figured out that they would need to be the last person to talk to him because he quickly forgot the previous discussion.

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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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      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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    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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    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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    Kill the maga red hat Nazi party.

    There’s historical movies and documentaries about this.

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    How many people actually want to support this vs just joking about it “to own the libs”.

    Not excusing either option. The joking option is just as bad as long as it looks like actual support. I just wanting to know how much of that support is genuine.

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      These people only tell jokes that are of the “punching down” variety. That makes them laugh. Stuff like this is wishful thinking, and it’s always “bro, it was a prank” to dodge ownership of it.

      That’s how the party of personal responsibility works.

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      It’s a joke until it’s not. Same people that hurt your feelings and then say “I was just joking” when called out.

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      Let me speak from experience that there is no such thing as an ironic Nazi. Every single “bro, it’s just a joke lol” is followed by a silent “…unless?”

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      Also makes me suspect that republicans have zero clue who they can run after The Donald. Why else would they even bother trying to mention having the guy in office after 2028? The methods to do that are either a constitutional amendment (they don’t have anywhere near a big enough majority to get one through) or unconstitutional means (scary, but also way more work/trouble than running a competent candidate and winning a normal election). It would be way easier to start grooming the heir apparent if they had any clue who that was.

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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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