• Sam_BassEnglish
    195·
    7 days ago

    gotta ask yourself if you want a chance to fix things or no chance at all. with trump, its no chance at all

      • late_pessimistic@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Even if he leaves in 2029, the US doesn’t have that much time to sit on it’s ass and let all social progress, climate action, relationships with allies, economy etc get demolished.

        We have Germany, Russia, China and Japan hiking military spending and remilitarizing, preparing for a confrontation.

        Climate crisis is not getting any better either and we have just crossed the point of no return where we could have still saved coral riffs.

        This is the worst possible time to allow Trump admin free reign

      • Sam_BassEnglish
        4·
        7 days ago

        on paper, yes. voting rights were on paper too. abortion was guaranteed on paper, even. they didnt even try to justify gutting them. can almost bet they’ll try it on that as well

        • forbiddencherry@lemmy.today
          14·
          6 days ago

          He’s not eligible to run for president for a third term, so he’s not going to be on a presidential ballot. Maybe he’ll get a handful of write-in votes, but that’s about it. I suppose he could run for another office in Congress, or Governor or such, but I just don’t see it.

          • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
            61·
            6 days ago

            This is adorably naïve. When has “the rules say” ever stopped that man from anything? When has it ever stopped the Republican Party?

            Here’s how it will happen if Trump survives and decides he wants another term:

            • The party will announce that he’s the candidate.
            • The press will lose its mind, then bend over backward to have a debate about the issue once Fox and CBS point out that "well actually, the rule is for consecutive terms.
            • There will be protests, maybe a few people will die.
              • The victims will be branded “terrorists”.
            • The Democrats will run some empty suit of a candidate (Harris, Newsom, Biden’s corpse) that intends to change absolutely none of what Trump has wrought. They then demand that everyone vote for them to "save democracy ".
            • Trump wins handily again.