Maybe the third time's the charm (in more ways than one). It's not too soon to start talking about impeaching Trump again. This time, maybe more Republicans will see the light.
Relevant and to the point! Another brilliant piece from PN. Felon 47 must be take seriously when he talks about a third term. He is well supported by Steve Bannon as well. The naivety of Jeffries is just appalling, the distraction is just stupidity. Felon 47 means what he says. He wont leave the WH without a fight.
I'm weary of hearing that anything he says is a 'distraction.' The fact that he's easily dismantled the government, eliminated most barriers to his power and made us the enemy of the world means he is pursuing and succeeding with almost every moronic idea that passes through his ignorant brain. Meanwhile his approval ratings are high enough to give him a voter base that keeps the GOP in line.
My prediction: Republicans will go along with him when he says we can't have an election because ... reasons. He's a stubborn child who thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants and he's not been proven wrong. His little toddler-sized ego wouldn't be able to stand other Republicans campaigning to replace him. Meanwhile, the Democrats will hold primaries and choose a candidate and there won't be an opponent to run against. He'll control the military and no one is enforcing the law or the constitution now and it's only been a few months.
Hopefully there will be some nationwide way to get rid of him before 2028, or the Dems will have overwhelming control of the House and can use that power somehow. Better yet, he'll be dead or placed in a facility, which will be our true liberation day.
IMO, it’s also important to understand that most big corp entities are our enemies in the fight for democracy. They are more likely than not to aid and abet a trump dictatorship. They are run by unprincipled entitled white men who got where they are by sucking up to the right people at the right time. They are comfortable in trump’s world and will sell us and democracy out to save themselves and their personal fiefdoms.
Trump‘s public regression to early child developmental stages dependably and completely distracts from the previously recognized need to replace our very extreme version of hyper capitalism.
I.e., it is easy to get seduced by personal spectacle away from our previous occasional Public discussions about our shared legacy of systemic economic, and racist regression.
I can't see Trump running for a third term. The constitutional problems are too big and require him to depend on people he can't control. What I can see him doing is manufacturing a crisis and refusing to hold an election. I wouldn't put that beyond him at all.
My reading is he's not governing like someone who expects to run in another election. Surely he knows that his actions in the last few months: DOGE, being Putin's pal, tarrifs, invading/acquiring Greenland, Panama and Canada poll really badly. I just don't think he cares. He even said he doesn't care if the price of cars will go up. No politician says something like that. It's electoral poison, especially when he knows the prices will indeed go up.
Let Trump keep talking. He is essentially confessing to starting the planning for criminal conspiracy, e.g., at least 18 U.S.C. 371 and maybe even 18 U.S.C. 241. If Vance joined Trump in doing as Trump suggested, they'd both be guilty of criminal conspiracy and they both would be disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment.
It appears Trump's sycophants have convinced him that by querying AI they can provide him with instant solutions to big problems--including how to achieve a third term--so he can be freed to go golfing as much as he wants.
And Paul Krugman's Substack today shows that AI actually suggested the ridiculous formula Trump's team of interns used to decide how to enact the worldwide tariffs. Check it out.
Um wasn’t our complicit MSM that even suggest that specific Vance path:
NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Trump if one possible way to seek a third term was having Vice President JD Vance run for the top job and “then pass the baton to you.”
I don't think he plans to "run" again, I think he honestly believes it's his until he decides he's finally done with it. Either he fully believes the lies he tells again and again about his popularity or he's living in a complete bubble of deception where everyone is afraid to tell him the truth - and which (Nazi analogy warning!) leads to scenes like Hitler ordering imaginary armies around in the final days of WW2. He'll never leave unless we make him.
If we all have points in life when we learn various life lessons, I recall the day I learned that power is actually the ability to determine what is an issue.
Thank you for highlighting this very serious problem. Trump and the sycophants supporting him are what 5 U.S.C. 3331 emphasizes that every public servant must "support and defend support and defend the Constitution of the United States against," i.e., our Constitution's "enemies, foreign and domestic."
"We the People of the United States" created our Constitution and constituted federal government to "establish Justice" and "provide for [our] common defence, promote [our] general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." We all need to act accordingly.
We all need to set aside mere partisan politics and other petty differences and unite to save our nation from someone who threatens us all. Trump is no Republican. He may be the most dangerous RINO in the world. He is an unhinged megalomaniac served by sycophants. We would do well to emulate Thomas Jefferson, who declared in 1801 "every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." (https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/thomas-jefferson-first-inaugural-address-1801).
We are all Americans, and our Constitution was written and ratified to protect us from tyrants like Trump. As James Madison (echoing Montesquieu), fairly famously highlighted in The Federalist No. 47, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many” is “the very definition of tyranny.”
Madison (quoting Montesquieu) emphasized, “There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates,” or, “if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.” "[T]here can be no liberty, because" the "same [executive] or [legislature] should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner.” Where “the power of judging” is “joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the [people] would be exposed to arbitrary control, for the judge would then be the legislator.” Where the power to judge is “joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with all the violence of an oppressor.”
As a result, Madison emphasized that “the preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct.” The Framers devoted considerable effort to limiting and separating powers. That is exactly why every state and federal Constitution separates powers among three distinct co-equal branches. Again and again in the past two months, Trump has usurped the powers of legislators, judges, juries and even the sovereign people, themselves (in the First Amendment).
Trump telling the truth about a third term show Trump planning to usurp the powers of voters and even of states.
The Twelfth Amendment and Article II emphasize that the people who elect the president and vice president "shall" be determined by states under state law. Article II commanded that "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors."
The Twelfth Amendment commanded that "[t]he person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President" and "[t]he person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President." Neither Trump nor any criminal co-conspirator who runs for president with Trump as vice president has any power to attack and undermine our Constitution in the manner Trump has said he may try.
In fact, the very reason the Constitution was amended with the Twelfth Amendment is that a person whom electors voted for to be vice president tried to become president. Aaron Burr tried to take the presidency from Thomas Jefferson.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
-Maya Angelou
Maybe the third time's the charm (in more ways than one). It's not too soon to start talking about impeaching Trump again. This time, maybe more Republicans will see the light.
Relevant and to the point! Another brilliant piece from PN. Felon 47 must be take seriously when he talks about a third term. He is well supported by Steve Bannon as well. The naivety of Jeffries is just appalling, the distraction is just stupidity. Felon 47 means what he says. He wont leave the WH without a fight.
I'm weary of hearing that anything he says is a 'distraction.' The fact that he's easily dismantled the government, eliminated most barriers to his power and made us the enemy of the world means he is pursuing and succeeding with almost every moronic idea that passes through his ignorant brain. Meanwhile his approval ratings are high enough to give him a voter base that keeps the GOP in line.
My prediction: Republicans will go along with him when he says we can't have an election because ... reasons. He's a stubborn child who thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants and he's not been proven wrong. His little toddler-sized ego wouldn't be able to stand other Republicans campaigning to replace him. Meanwhile, the Democrats will hold primaries and choose a candidate and there won't be an opponent to run against. He'll control the military and no one is enforcing the law or the constitution now and it's only been a few months.
Hopefully there will be some nationwide way to get rid of him before 2028, or the Dems will have overwhelming control of the House and can use that power somehow. Better yet, he'll be dead or placed in a facility, which will be our true liberation day.
IMO, it’s also important to understand that most big corp entities are our enemies in the fight for democracy. They are more likely than not to aid and abet a trump dictatorship. They are run by unprincipled entitled white men who got where they are by sucking up to the right people at the right time. They are comfortable in trump’s world and will sell us and democracy out to save themselves and their personal fiefdoms.
That is a very good point!
Trump‘s public regression to early child developmental stages dependably and completely distracts from the previously recognized need to replace our very extreme version of hyper capitalism.
I.e., it is easy to get seduced by personal spectacle away from our previous occasional Public discussions about our shared legacy of systemic economic, and racist regression.
About 400 years of it.
I can't see Trump running for a third term. The constitutional problems are too big and require him to depend on people he can't control. What I can see him doing is manufacturing a crisis and refusing to hold an election. I wouldn't put that beyond him at all.
My reading is he's not governing like someone who expects to run in another election. Surely he knows that his actions in the last few months: DOGE, being Putin's pal, tarrifs, invading/acquiring Greenland, Panama and Canada poll really badly. I just don't think he cares. He even said he doesn't care if the price of cars will go up. No politician says something like that. It's electoral poison, especially when he knows the prices will indeed go up.
Let Trump keep talking. He is essentially confessing to starting the planning for criminal conspiracy, e.g., at least 18 U.S.C. 371 and maybe even 18 U.S.C. 241. If Vance joined Trump in doing as Trump suggested, they'd both be guilty of criminal conspiracy and they both would be disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment.
It appears Trump's sycophants have convinced him that by querying AI they can provide him with instant solutions to big problems--including how to achieve a third term--so he can be freed to go golfing as much as he wants.
This article in Forbes ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/lutzfinger/2025/03/31/trumps-third-termhow-ai-can-help-to-overthrow-the-us-government/ ) lists advice from multiple AI sources on to how to achieve a third term. You can readily see that many are already underway.
And Paul Krugman's Substack today shows that AI actually suggested the ridiculous formula Trump's team of interns used to decide how to enact the worldwide tariffs. Check it out.
And is it the giant data centers needed for AI which are bringing back coal plants and nuclear power?
Um wasn’t our complicit MSM that even suggest that specific Vance path:
NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Trump if one possible way to seek a third term was having Vice President JD Vance run for the top job and “then pass the baton to you.”
“Well, that’s one,” Trump responded.”
I don't think he plans to "run" again, I think he honestly believes it's his until he decides he's finally done with it. Either he fully believes the lies he tells again and again about his popularity or he's living in a complete bubble of deception where everyone is afraid to tell him the truth - and which (Nazi analogy warning!) leads to scenes like Hitler ordering imaginary armies around in the final days of WW2. He'll never leave unless we make him.
Except that the military t***p orders deployed to quell massive peaceful public protests is very real.
If we all have points in life when we learn various life lessons, I recall the day I learned that power is actually the ability to determine what is an issue.
This post is an excellent example of true power.
Thank you for highlighting this very serious problem. Trump and the sycophants supporting him are what 5 U.S.C. 3331 emphasizes that every public servant must "support and defend support and defend the Constitution of the United States against," i.e., our Constitution's "enemies, foreign and domestic."
"We the People of the United States" created our Constitution and constituted federal government to "establish Justice" and "provide for [our] common defence, promote [our] general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." We all need to act accordingly.
We all need to set aside mere partisan politics and other petty differences and unite to save our nation from someone who threatens us all. Trump is no Republican. He may be the most dangerous RINO in the world. He is an unhinged megalomaniac served by sycophants. We would do well to emulate Thomas Jefferson, who declared in 1801 "every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." (https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/thomas-jefferson-first-inaugural-address-1801).
We are all Americans, and our Constitution was written and ratified to protect us from tyrants like Trump. As James Madison (echoing Montesquieu), fairly famously highlighted in The Federalist No. 47, “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many” is “the very definition of tyranny.”
Madison (quoting Montesquieu) emphasized, “There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates,” or, “if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.” "[T]here can be no liberty, because" the "same [executive] or [legislature] should enact tyrannical laws to execute them in a tyrannical manner.” Where “the power of judging” is “joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the [people] would be exposed to arbitrary control, for the judge would then be the legislator.” Where the power to judge is “joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with all the violence of an oppressor.”
As a result, Madison emphasized that “the preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct.” The Framers devoted considerable effort to limiting and separating powers. That is exactly why every state and federal Constitution separates powers among three distinct co-equal branches. Again and again in the past two months, Trump has usurped the powers of legislators, judges, juries and even the sovereign people, themselves (in the First Amendment).
Trump telling the truth about a third term show Trump planning to usurp the powers of voters and even of states.
The Twelfth Amendment and Article II emphasize that the people who elect the president and vice president "shall" be determined by states under state law. Article II commanded that "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors."
The Twelfth Amendment commanded that "[t]he person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President" and "[t]he person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President." Neither Trump nor any criminal co-conspirator who runs for president with Trump as vice president has any power to attack and undermine our Constitution in the manner Trump has said he may try.
In fact, the very reason the Constitution was amended with the Twelfth Amendment is that a person whom electors voted for to be vice president tried to become president. Aaron Burr tried to take the presidency from Thomas Jefferson.