Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House - eviltoast
  • Ænima@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    It’s cute how so many in the comments think the legal checks will prevent this. They don’t care about the law or the Constitution in the same way they don’t care about optics, hypocrisy, decorum, or process. People keep viewing this through the lense of American democracy. None of that matters to fascists.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 days ago

      Yeah, people don’t seem to truly understand this, and I fear it will take something extreme before they do… And it’s likely already too late now, let alone by then.

    • TimmyDeanSausage @lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      They care about the law the same way the nazi’s cared about the law until the night of the long knives. I suspect their mass deportation plan is really them gearing up for the night of the long knives 2.0.

    • samus12345@lemm.ee
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      7 days ago

      After four years of them being in power, he’ll probably just be able to…not leave, regardless of any election. Who would stop him?

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        6 days ago

        Presumably someone with better aim than the last shooter.

        I’d be very careful as a wannabe dictator in a land with this many guns. The next four years are going to be tense for everyone.

    • TiaNati@sh.itjust.works
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      I can’t like this comment enough!!! When will we learn they DON’T PLAY BY THE RULES. If the magats want this to pass, they will manipulate, intimidate, bend, or break the rules to do it. This is how coups happen. They don’t sit down and ask nicely, they just DO IT and back it up with military force if they have to.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 days ago

      In the end, the country isn’t a democracy. It’s a complicated system with complicated interactions.

      It’s really not impossible that a democracy turns into fascism.

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      6 days ago

      They care so little they’re trying to get an amendment passed… wait.