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The Trump Store released $50 “Trump 2028” hats Thursday, sparking backlash online as Trump has repeatedly hinted at running for a third term.

“I have had more people ask me to have a third term,” Trump said on March 31, claiming the 2020 election was “totally rigged.”

Steve Bannon said he’s exploring “five or six different alternatives” to enable a third run.

Critics on social media called it “insane” and a sign of “fascist” ambitions. Though barred by the 22nd Amendment, Trump could run again if it were overturned by Congress and the states. However, it would require a two-thirds vote of Congress and three-fourths vote of the states.

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    19 hours ago

    Prison. Now. For him and all his corrupt, openly criminal Constitution-shredding cronies. We are far past the point of hand-waving over the open criminality and corruption. And in Trump’s case, legitimate Constitutionally-defined treason. Mass arrests and convictions of these criminals needs to happen now. Right now. Even if we the people need to take care of it ourselves. Nobody is coming to save us.

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    20 hours ago

    …and who exactly is going to stop him? All evidence so far suggests he will continue to do whatever the fuck he wants and continue to get away with it, simply because nobody has the power or the will to stop him

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      19 hours ago

      Juan Merchan was obliged to do so by the law, the Constitution, and good-old ethics. But he kissed the ring, instead.

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    21 hours ago

    If no-one stops him, then the US only has itself to blame.

    The tangerine pufferfish has an incredible ability to say a thing enough that it becomes true enough to happen.

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    22 hours ago

    How is it fucking soft launching fascism? The US is already at the concentration camp step, it is already fully blown fascism.

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    I’m against violence, but I’m not sure urinating and/or defecating on anyone wearing this hat counts as violence

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    He got into power rigging the election with Elon, Russia, and ballotproof. He will magically get enough seats in the midterm to overturn the 22nd and be king til he dies if successful.

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      Republicans would have to win two thirds of state legislatures with MAGA loyalists to even bring a vote to overturn the 22nd. There is no way that happens legally, and Republicans know it. If they plan on a third Trump term, my bet is they will either be ignoring the 22nd altogether, or enacting emergency powers to suspend the entire Constitution indefinitely.

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    2 days ago

    Not saying I agree with the whole 2 terms 4 years each thing americans have let alone their political system in general, but who was actually surprised? That’s what fascists do, just take Mussolini.

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    You have to soft launch your fascist dictatorship. People need time to accept the possibility.

    It took a lifetime to turn the Roman Republic into the Principate. You gotta ease into these things to keep peope from shanking you on the senate floor.

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    Third term has nothing to do with being a grift for money or whatever. He’s using that as a tool for power

    It’s simple. He’s going to jail when he’s done being president. And he’s pissed off so many people he’s definitely getting shanked

    He cannot pardon himself for state crimes

    The entire point of running a 3rd term is to stay out of jail

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        He got convicted. Just not given a prison sentence

        And he can’t pardon State crimes. Tax fraud is serious. And there is no where to escalate this to. He has no control over the courts in ny

        He only wasn’t sent to jaildue to the possibility it would be considered election interference.

        And, I’m not sure he can’t even appeal it

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        During his presidency…

        And he can’t pardon state crimes

        God knows how many more state crimes have been queued up since then…

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          its not likes going to jail for state charges anyways, the courts just strung along all the cases , so they can make it look like they did something.

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        Why do you think he ran for presidency again… He was convicted. Legally, he can’t argue he’s running for a 3rd term, so the judge can’t make the same. The only thing the judge did was say he’d postpone sentencing…

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          I would love to live in this fairytale land where Trump actually faces consequences, but unfortunately that will never happen and people need to face reality and focus on minimizing damage.

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      He is going to ride the courts until he dies or too old to care. They had 4 years to lock him up for his previous crimes including Jan 6th. He won’t see jail time and he knows it

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        Doesn’t matter. Remember how stressed he appeared during the last lawsuits.

        Make the prick stress the fuck out so he can’t sleep at night

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          he couldn’t sleep at night because he was getting all his sleep during the hearings

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      “Power crests power. The more power you weild, the more you accumulate.”

      • Curtis Yarvin, brologarch that wants Trump to literally mass-drown journalists and Dems in foam to seize power.
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          To put on my own conspiracy hat for a moment, he’s getting set up to be the fall guy. He’s following a playbook he didn’t write, the people that did write Project 2025 know how unpopular it will be, and the final play is setting trump up as the tyrant to be deposed by a real dictator. Sure hope I’m wrong.

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            My worst nightmare is him getting killed right before the next election cycle ramps up and the fascists running a campaign “in memory of Trump”.
            Maybe they’ll have kicked off the war with Iran by then too, so they can say “This is no time for a change in leadership”.

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    I don’t get the “rigged 2020 election” argument.

    Did he forgot about his first mandate? If he won in 2020/21 it would still make 2 mandates and he theoretically would not been able to go for 2024/25.

    OFC it is just a shit excuse to please his crowd, but math are math, one + one still equals two, 2020 election or not.