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[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago

I'd also like him to drop dead. It seems our goals are singularly aligned.

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago

With any luck he'll only live a couple more days.

[–] SlothMama@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Whose life? He can't possibly live that much longer tbh

[–] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"President for life"

monkey's paw moment.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"I declare myself President for life!"

"So you're saying there's exactly one very particular way for us to make you not be President anymore...?"

"Uh..."

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure he’s made comments that suggest he would try to eliminate elections.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

He is in charge of the FEC now.

Realistically, his life probably won't last until the end of his term. It's vance's theocratic dictatorship you need to watch out for.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hope someone helps him fulfill that wish immediately.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My dudes, this pacifist in the USA with active background investigations will happily say I’d die defending my country against this outcome.

[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah I'm pretty sure a majority of Americans would pick up guns for that.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 day ago

Personally I hope he doesn't even finish two full terms.

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was called out (on Reddit) for pointing out how insanely dangerous this comment was in 2018.

Trump also praised China’s President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn’t mind making such a maneuver himself. “He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”

(https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html)

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

“On Reddit”? There’s your problem.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

this is some annoying meta-irony thing that a politician should not be doing, because it is very difficult to discern a position from it. you have to take him both literally and sarcastically at the same time, which is about as useful as ignoring him. nobody has a clue what's going on when he talks

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Was it not already clear last time when he encouraged his followers to launch an insurrection when he lost?! How much fucking warning do you need?

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The insurrection happened because conservatives saw that they couldn't win democratically.

This time they did, with the help of voter suppression.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

with the help of voter suppression.

And amplification of the anti-electoralist/accelerationist cult's propaganda.

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[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

.. win democratically. This time they did, with the help of voter suppression.

So, they didn't.

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 126 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Let’s let him be president for life, as long as that life is less than four more years. Anything beyond that has a “second amendment solution”, as I’ve heard countless Republicans describe.

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

as I’ve heard countless Republicans describe

99% of whom are fucking chicken hawks.

The only ones who put their money where their mouths are got arrested for occupying BLM land in Oregon, or later, Congress.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Hopefully not very long then.

[–] NewDay@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where is Luigi? We need him more than ever.

In another castle.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A New York jail of some kind.

You know if you got a few thousand like minded people, you could change that.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 45 points 1 day ago

Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 95 points 2 days ago

I mean, it's pretty obvious to anyone paying attention.

He wants to be America's Putin

[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

...by eating mcds and drinking coke every day. He'll catch that burger from the sky in 2-3 years.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Not likely. Fucker is going to be 100 out of spite and being filthy rich

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Nah he's just planting trees for future generations to sit under.

Can't have Barron end up anywhere other than King, right?

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if he doesn't live through his term, the action of evading term limits will surely have much longer impact as it opens new doors for dictators.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Best case scenario he finishes his prep to abolish term limits and fails to kill elections.

Then we get Obama/Waltz 2028.

[–] UnexpectedBehavior@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (3 children)

By dying within three years?

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He scrapped USAID. The CIA is gonna take that a lot more personally than 'he didn't escalate our harebrained scheme in Cuba to a full war'.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Were the CIA to effective take steps to defend American democracy from authoritarianism they could almost be forgiven for all their other fuckery.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

I really really really hope you’re right

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[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago

When 'jokes' align with actions, they stop being jokes—this is a blueprint for authoritarianism. Well-supported claims and critical analysis.

🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Luckily, Trump's built-in termination date isn't too far away and will limit the damage.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago

I don’t think so. Dying of natural causes signals to Republicans that they just need to try again but with a younger fascist.

Dying from, say, a guillotine sends a different signal.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Vance is the dangerous one. Trumps only purpose was to get Vance onto the throne. Peter Thiel will likely have him whacked and blame it on the radical left so Vance can use martial law to further dismantle Americas democratic institutions.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Peter Thiel likes money, i still find it hard to believe billionaires are ride or die like the Nazis.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

He's still part of a weird Catholic sect. The Nazis think they are manipulating the fundamentalists to do their bidding, but really it's the other way round. Just wait and see.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

We can certainly hope, but evil people have a way of clinging to life in ways that seem almost unnatural. Dick Cheney is still alive for god's sake.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago
[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And to think, just one bullet could make his dreams come true.

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

But hopefully he waits until the 4 years term is done. I gotta agree with the other guy who pointed out that vans is basically a nazi but unlike trump, vans would probably not care about "coming out" and doing what nazis do.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gonna be a short life if he tries.... lol.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 19 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I hope you're right, but we can't even get our fellow citizens to vote against fascism. Now some are expecting these same people to protest, engage in economic boycotts, risk their livelihoods by staying home from their jobs, and more!?

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