This is the thing, all these arguments against a third term begin from a rule of law / “The Constitution says” POV. If, instead, you go with “L’État, c’est moi” authoritarian POV, there are no barriers. “The law is what I say it is” is part and parcel of authoritarian rule. We are amazingly far gone down that road for only 2 months into Il Douche’s lawless regime.
It’s still vitally important that people point out that any idea to allow Trump a third term is explicitly unconstitutional. Trump’s “legal experts” keep claiming there are loopholes that would allow it. There are not.
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His stance on a third term alone should be enough for an impeachment.
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Yep, they are making up excuses in order to justify their unlawful attempt to take over.
In normal times, it would be.
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A past filibuster, can’t remember who or for what, involved an enema beforehand and a catheter during, as I recall.
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In any normal time, J6 would have been a conviction.
Any single item he’s done, besides the golf, in this term would be impeachment for anyone else. Go ahead, think of Obama, Biden, or even your favorite flavor of Bush doing it. All of them, gone.
More evidence that Trump is the antichrist, I guess.
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Yeeeaaahh, not a book anyone needs right now. Yuk.
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Yes, but you see he likes money.
Edit - just noticed in the article it says Biden is planning his own book on the election. NO, JUST NO. He needs to do a GW Bush and disappear for a while. The more he’s visible, the easier it is for smooth brains to blame him.
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An interesting take, especially so long after his candidacy ended. I guess the deference ended rather abruptly:
One name missing from this piece is Pelosi, but I’m sure the analysis of her influence will be coming soon. IMO, it’s less about Biden and more about an unwillingness to let go of traditional norms now that the opposition is busy violating as many of them as possible. When he was first elected, people were desperate to get those norms back. 
I get the feeling some of those on the side of normalcy fear change means adopting truly unethical tactics to regain power - because it can be a dangerous, slippery slope. They’ve seen a lot of their colleagues go down that path in the past 10 years. There are folks who like to claim both sides are equally bad, but I don’t think any of us really wants to see that come true. Where would the people turn if neither party respected the rule of law and all pols treated our founding documents as things to be ignored?
We need a progressive agenda that outlines a new normal - one that closes all the loopholes and unenforced rules or regulations that have been exploited since 2016.
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Yep! Let’s stop feeding billionaires.
As usual, Sen. Bernie Sanders has had the right political instincts in this moment. When Musk began laying waste to everything Americans value, from cancer research to Social Security, Sanders launched the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour through red and purple states. The message to Trump: “We will not allow you to move this country into an oligarchy,” which Sanders defined as a government “of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires.”
Politico’s report on Musk’s likely exit noted that President Trump has been watching these town halls with consternation, fearing that Republicans won’t keep their majority in the House next year.
America doesn’t want billionaires buying votes, destroying our government for personal gain, and attacking the livelihoods of working-class people. Trump’s administration is a government only a billionaire could love, the Left is arguing. Increasingly, that message is resonating.
There is much that can be said about the Trump administration that is both true and deeply damning. The regime is eugenicist, racist, patriarchal, anti-science, transphobic, xenophobic, warmongering, irresponsible, corrupt, chaotic, stupid, nihilistic, and antidemocratic. All that is true, and each is a good reason to oppose and to fight Trump. The regime’s grotesque and illegal kidnappings and disappearances of pro-Palestine protesters have been criticized by Joe Rogan, and more surprisingly, Ann Coulter and Curtis Yarvin.
But no specific criticism of this administration has united and mobilized Americans as much as the “oligarchy” framing.
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God damn, I wish Bernie were 30 years younger…
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Once again, Teen Vogue is doing a lot of heavy journalistic lifting.
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But the shift in party dynamics has left many young voters increasingly disaffected by politics and disconnected from a party that once felt aligned with our values.
Not just young people, sad to say. I’ve voted Democratic sInce I was old enough to vote-- thirty-some years– and I feel disconnected from and disaffected by the party as well. While I admit there are a few (like Bernie and AOC) who still talk as if they care about the voters, a glance at their voting records proves they’ll just fall in line with the rest of the corporate-owned party at the first opportunity, so 
. The only reasons I haven’t re-registered as an Independent/Non-affiliated is because I’m lazy and I don’t want any excuse to get thrown off the rolls, given how much voter suppression has become normalized. Words are wind; let’s see some actions, Democrats.
like i’m just a rando but do you see the difference?
Yes, and it gives me some small kernel of hope. If there’s any opportunity for something good to grow out of the current chaos, it will likely come from people like her, who are ready to fight.
But we also need a critical mass of organization and action from the masses as well as from within the political structures. The system alone isn’t going to save us, I think, from what I’m seeing.
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Where I live, the Democratic primary effectively is the election, from US Congress on down (tho maybe not governor; e.g. Larry Hogan). When I was unaffiliated and showed up to vote in a primary, I’d get a ballot that maybe had some judges whom I knew nothing about, &/or some referenda, & that’s it.
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