My first reaction was that Noah was underestimating the massive constitutional barrier to changing the constitution. But he's right: I wouldn't put anything beyond the conservative majority of this Supreme Court.
Who is going to put a stop to this nonsense? It certainly is not a joke and until his followers, sycophants and crazies realize the error of their ways we are in for a wild ride. While Senator Barry Goldwater espoused crazy ideas in 1964 and was seriously trounced in that election year, this is frightfully different. We need to be once and for all rid of this maniac and the vote is the best way to ensure it happens.
Tbh, I am so stressed about TFG being president again. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills and I'm realllly concerned about this election. Stay the course Dems....and don't shut up for one second about Trump.
Trump is no Putin. No discipline, no longer term planning, no self control. The man can't even select his own cabinet. He is simply a man-child who us beholden to Putin for reasons we have yet to prove.
I have been banging this same drum, just lately, Trump did everything he could to illegally stay in the White House in 2021. Damn that Mike Pence for following the law!
Look how he speaks admiringly about Xi and Putin, both functionally "Presidents for Life," even if they playact at having "elections." There is absolutely no reason to think Trump, if elected, won't attempt to keep the presidency for himself, for as long as he lives. Then, expect a Trumpian Dynasty to form. President Ivanka, anyone?
I don't consider subtle a suitable word for anything Trump does. He made it clear to me in the winter/spring of 2020 that he was planning on stealing the presidency through coup if he did not win. I remember writing my concerns to the NYT in about April of that year, and them not publishing my comment, which was a surprise since that is only the second time that happened. The first time was when I suggested that the Department of Child Welfare in DC was not doing its job or they would have removed Barron from his home during covid due to his parent's behavior. I also do not think that Putin is the real model for Trump or the Republican party. Hitler is! In fact, Putin is just a Hitler wannabe. He can seem like he is following in Ivan the Terrible's footsteps and for a long time all of the leaders in Europe were big on Expansion, but wasn't it Hitler who used the term "Lebensraum" meaning room to live to justify marching into other countries. First he marched into Austria who let him and annexed it. I assume this is what Putin wanted to do to Ukraine, or expected to happen with Ukraine, instead he is getting Czechoslovakia, who did not just allow Hitler to annex them without a fight. While Trump appears to be goose stepping behind Putin, I think that he is putting some direct Hitler moves into place, as is his party. They seem to me to be getting ready to do massive deportations (and I believe killings too), which Putin is not doing in the same way. Right now people are fleeing Russia, not being deported. This is therefore not a replication of the Soviet Union where people were not allowed to flee. Although those who are eligible for conscription are not allowed to flee, and who knows were that will lead, but clearly Putin recognizes that if he traps his people inside Russia, even if they look back on the USSR as the good old days, that is a part that no one liked. Trump on the other hand already has Texas Governor Gregg Abbott in the role of Himmler. Himmler was in charge of the SS and also in charge of the death camps. That sounds about right for Greg Abbott, who has been killing immigrants in his river of death with nary a problem. He did get some federal flack but relied on his buddies in the Kangaroo Court on top to help him continue to acclimate US citizens to looking the other way while pregnant women and children were slaughtered in the waters of the Grand River. I did not hear of any student demonstrations over this, so clearly the New American Nazi Party, which calls themselves the Republican party, have learned that US citizens can be convinced it is an acceptable practice enough so that there is not the outrage and protest that we see on US campuses now over the same thing happening to people in Gaza. Of course the numbers there are larger, but we also did not see this happen for people being caged or families separated with children going missing. Right up Putin and his role model Hitler's alley. Trump and his Party the modern day US Nazi's are seeing how much they can get away with. Hitler did that too. He first killed children that were "deformed" or had any sort of chronic condition. Their parents had to allow them to be put in special homes, and then they would be reported dead, as if by accident. However, when they started going to kill institutionalized adults with "chronic conditions, deformities, mental health issues" the German citizens protested. So, the Nazi's learned they could not do that with people within Germany. Thus the need to transport them out of Germany. Well as far as I checked Texas is the US, but perhaps the place where people are dying on the traps Abbott has set is not the USA. Still, it might be the USA, or is almost the USA. I am still in shock that he is allowed to murder people with nary a consequence. He has not been arrested, tried or sentenced for murder, so he continues to do it. As I said, Abbott is in the Himmler role. All the rest are right now in the role of Goebbels, so I call them "The Goebbels Brigade" since he was Hitler's defensive talking head as minister of Propaganda. Is it okay that the people trying to get to the US are killed because I do not see it. They are not an enemy nation trying to make war on us, and have the right by international law to try to get to a safe space. So, since it is obvious that Trump not only intends to stay in power "if" he returns to power, but he intends to take power if it is not given to him and his buddies in Kangarooland Sammie and 'Rence are planning to give it to him, although if anything goes wrong their wives will take the fall for them.
"Trump, if he wins in 2024, will simply run again in 2028."
Yeah I seriously doubt that. Another four years would snap people out of whatever dumbassery makes them amenable to him now and he would go in to that election with a solid popular vote majority opposed to him and would probably ended up losing even bigger than in 2020.
Far more likely is that he would simply find a pretext to cancel the 2028 election and remain in the White House indefinitely, followed by a string of anointed successors. He toyed with the idea in 2020 with that trial balloon of delaying it, which in Third World countries is almost always a de facto cancelation. Tomato tomahto for the overall purpose of this piece, that electing Trump again carries a high risk of letting him installing himself as president-for-life one way or another.
I can't help but wonder whether Trump's recent reference to serving 3 terms was somehow related to the equally recent ad about the "unified Reich" (which some (apparently incorrectly) associated with the infamous Third Reich). I believe reports that some guy in Turkey made the image, but I wonder how Trump or Trump's people came to pick that image.
My first reaction was that Noah was underestimating the massive constitutional barrier to changing the constitution. But he's right: I wouldn't put anything beyond the conservative majority of this Supreme Court.
They don’t have to change it. They simply ignore the parts they don’t like.
Who is going to put a stop to this nonsense? It certainly is not a joke and until his followers, sycophants and crazies realize the error of their ways we are in for a wild ride. While Senator Barry Goldwater espoused crazy ideas in 1964 and was seriously trounced in that election year, this is frightfully different. We need to be once and for all rid of this maniac and the vote is the best way to ensure it happens.
Is it bad to hope he drops dead? Because I hope he does. In the most embarrassing way possible.
Acts 12:21-23 in the Bible comes to mind. Herod and trump have some similarities.
But I suspect that much greater action from on high is imminent.
I pray so every day!
The Hamburger from Heaven; that's what they call it over at The Bulwark.
Tbh, I am so stressed about TFG being president again. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills and I'm realllly concerned about this election. Stay the course Dems....and don't shut up for one second about Trump.
Trump is no Putin. No discipline, no longer term planning, no self control. The man can't even select his own cabinet. He is simply a man-child who us beholden to Putin for reasons we have yet to prove.
His one saving grace is that he has the attention span of a housefly.
Short but pretty well right on the money Karen.
He’s bankrupting the RNC in his bid for reelection. He’s media savvy but not intelligent.
I have been banging this same drum, just lately, Trump did everything he could to illegally stay in the White House in 2021. Damn that Mike Pence for following the law!
Look how he speaks admiringly about Xi and Putin, both functionally "Presidents for Life," even if they playact at having "elections." There is absolutely no reason to think Trump, if elected, won't attempt to keep the presidency for himself, for as long as he lives. Then, expect a Trumpian Dynasty to form. President Ivanka, anyone?
How long does this fool think he's going to live?
I don't consider subtle a suitable word for anything Trump does. He made it clear to me in the winter/spring of 2020 that he was planning on stealing the presidency through coup if he did not win. I remember writing my concerns to the NYT in about April of that year, and them not publishing my comment, which was a surprise since that is only the second time that happened. The first time was when I suggested that the Department of Child Welfare in DC was not doing its job or they would have removed Barron from his home during covid due to his parent's behavior. I also do not think that Putin is the real model for Trump or the Republican party. Hitler is! In fact, Putin is just a Hitler wannabe. He can seem like he is following in Ivan the Terrible's footsteps and for a long time all of the leaders in Europe were big on Expansion, but wasn't it Hitler who used the term "Lebensraum" meaning room to live to justify marching into other countries. First he marched into Austria who let him and annexed it. I assume this is what Putin wanted to do to Ukraine, or expected to happen with Ukraine, instead he is getting Czechoslovakia, who did not just allow Hitler to annex them without a fight. While Trump appears to be goose stepping behind Putin, I think that he is putting some direct Hitler moves into place, as is his party. They seem to me to be getting ready to do massive deportations (and I believe killings too), which Putin is not doing in the same way. Right now people are fleeing Russia, not being deported. This is therefore not a replication of the Soviet Union where people were not allowed to flee. Although those who are eligible for conscription are not allowed to flee, and who knows were that will lead, but clearly Putin recognizes that if he traps his people inside Russia, even if they look back on the USSR as the good old days, that is a part that no one liked. Trump on the other hand already has Texas Governor Gregg Abbott in the role of Himmler. Himmler was in charge of the SS and also in charge of the death camps. That sounds about right for Greg Abbott, who has been killing immigrants in his river of death with nary a problem. He did get some federal flack but relied on his buddies in the Kangaroo Court on top to help him continue to acclimate US citizens to looking the other way while pregnant women and children were slaughtered in the waters of the Grand River. I did not hear of any student demonstrations over this, so clearly the New American Nazi Party, which calls themselves the Republican party, have learned that US citizens can be convinced it is an acceptable practice enough so that there is not the outrage and protest that we see on US campuses now over the same thing happening to people in Gaza. Of course the numbers there are larger, but we also did not see this happen for people being caged or families separated with children going missing. Right up Putin and his role model Hitler's alley. Trump and his Party the modern day US Nazi's are seeing how much they can get away with. Hitler did that too. He first killed children that were "deformed" or had any sort of chronic condition. Their parents had to allow them to be put in special homes, and then they would be reported dead, as if by accident. However, when they started going to kill institutionalized adults with "chronic conditions, deformities, mental health issues" the German citizens protested. So, the Nazi's learned they could not do that with people within Germany. Thus the need to transport them out of Germany. Well as far as I checked Texas is the US, but perhaps the place where people are dying on the traps Abbott has set is not the USA. Still, it might be the USA, or is almost the USA. I am still in shock that he is allowed to murder people with nary a consequence. He has not been arrested, tried or sentenced for murder, so he continues to do it. As I said, Abbott is in the Himmler role. All the rest are right now in the role of Goebbels, so I call them "The Goebbels Brigade" since he was Hitler's defensive talking head as minister of Propaganda. Is it okay that the people trying to get to the US are killed because I do not see it. They are not an enemy nation trying to make war on us, and have the right by international law to try to get to a safe space. So, since it is obvious that Trump not only intends to stay in power "if" he returns to power, but he intends to take power if it is not given to him and his buddies in Kangarooland Sammie and 'Rence are planning to give it to him, although if anything goes wrong their wives will take the fall for them.
"Trump, if he wins in 2024, will simply run again in 2028."
Yeah I seriously doubt that. Another four years would snap people out of whatever dumbassery makes them amenable to him now and he would go in to that election with a solid popular vote majority opposed to him and would probably ended up losing even bigger than in 2020.
Far more likely is that he would simply find a pretext to cancel the 2028 election and remain in the White House indefinitely, followed by a string of anointed successors. He toyed with the idea in 2020 with that trial balloon of delaying it, which in Third World countries is almost always a de facto cancelation. Tomato tomahto for the overall purpose of this piece, that electing Trump again carries a high risk of letting him installing himself as president-for-life one way or another.
So if he wins in '24 and runs again in '28, who's gonna stop him? This SCOTUS??
"THE 22nd Amendment? PFFT. Many of us owe our jobs to him, so What the Heck?"
I can't help but wonder whether Trump's recent reference to serving 3 terms was somehow related to the equally recent ad about the "unified Reich" (which some (apparently incorrectly) associated with the infamous Third Reich). I believe reports that some guy in Turkey made the image, but I wonder how Trump or Trump's people came to pick that image.