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      “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…”

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    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.

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

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    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)

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      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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        It’s senile ramblings and when he rambles on his deathbed who to kill next even then the sycophants around him will follow it as a message from the 6d gods playing chess against the enemy.

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    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?

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

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

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          And with the help of the other right wing party, by putting forth a candidate who insisted everything is fine, even when it isn’t.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.