This guy really thinks he's never gonna die. I'll be surprised if he survives this upcoming term, and not even from a Minecraft related cause, just poor health.
What is a "Minecraft related cause?"
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Creepers in the White House, it's a known problem in the dark corners of the building. Half of what the secret service does in the morning is clear the building of creepers that spawned over night when no one was around to block hostile mob spawns.
When you're talking about actionable threats, I.E. real world violence, but want to appear only hypothetical, the meme is, "I'd kill X in Minecraft.".
Death by Ender Dragon.
A lot of dumb people thought they could talk about killing politicians on the Internet if they ended their message with "in Minecraft" so they could claim they were just taking about a game. At least one of them has already been arrested proving their plan doesn't actually provide any defense.
So a Minecraft cause would be someone plotting (and then presumably actually) killing them.
I'm sorry, a 'Minecraft related cause'?
You a fed or something?
He got the wrong ideas from all these god emporer memes back in the day.
“He jokes all the time,” said Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., who was in the room at the time. “I think it's one of the problems with politics is you can't even tell a joke without being excoriated.”
Definitely, that's the problem in politics. Ffs.
"excoriated"
That's certainly a $10 word for a Republican.
I think you should be able to DISTINGUISH it's a joke. Also, as anyone who does politics will tell you, ANYTHING that comes out of your mouth into any form of microphone can and should be expected to be used against you, and should be expected to be believed.
"Joking" in politics should've died with Reagan's press sec laughing about gay men dying of AIDS.
Any time he says anything that gets significant negative pushback, it is dismissed as a joke.
Same thing with the rest of them. It's always a joke unless you agree with them.
Let's hope the next 4 years are tough on the felon, he may not even make it to 2028 🤞🏼
I'm not convinced Vance or Johnson is any better than the orange baffoon .
They would be worse. A dumb Nazi is preferable to a smart Nazi.
Upside is the cult of personality is attached to Trump, and no one else has been able to pull it off him. Trump is only effective because somehow, for some insane reason, he, personally, has a lot of devoted followers.
The cult is attached to Trump, yes. But when he dies his followers won't suddenly wake up from their madness and flock behind a "normal candidate".
They will still go for the crazy ones who act and talk the way Trump did. There may not be a second Trump, but they are lost nevertheless.
Yep. When a dictator dies, it doesn't necessarily lead to democracy and prosperity because the system is broken, and the next person simply assumes the absolute power.
Will the MAGAs back Vance without Trump?
He doesn't have "D" next to his name and has shown no indication of rationality, so yes.
Some will, some won't. Cults of personality don't tend to fare well without their personality, and Vance has all the charisma of a used tissue, so it'll come down to how skillfully he can navigate things.
Remember, a LOT of right-wing Christians think Trump is either a prophet, an agent of God, or (in some cases) literally Christ Himself. That's an awful hard act to follow when your prophet doesn't get taken up to heaven in a fiery chariot, or your Messiah doesn't rise again after 3 days.
He won't need to run. He already said he will be a dictator. Dictators don't need elections.
This is what we get.
Revolution is the answer. Killing the rich.
The 22nd amendment to the US Constitution bars Trump as a viable candidate for the Office of the President. It would require an additional amendment to be possible and there's no way that 3/4ths of all US states will agree to that shit.
The only potential loophole that I can discern is that there's no clear consensus on if Trump would be allowed to run as Vice-President on someone else's ticket. If he can, then, theoretically, he could run for VP and then have the elected President immediately resign, making him the President again.
...there's no way that 3/4ths of all US states will agree to that shit.
We've had an extraordinary number of "there's no way that..." moments in the past decade most of which have been connected to Trump, why tempt fate like that? The 2024 election map has more than the 38 red states needed to ratify a constitutional amendment.
So right at the end of the 12th amendment there's this line.
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
So as of his presidential win this election he's ineligible to be vice president.
The Supreme Court will just "interpret" that away.
With as much as this Supreme Court is riding Trump's dick I wouldn't put it past them to rule in his favor if this made it to them.
The 22a says he can't be elected. But that doesn't make him ineligible to serve. The wording presents a loophole that our highly partisan Supreme Court could drive a truck through.
Or he's gonna wipe his ass with the Constitution in an X live stream and declare Jan 6 "National Patriots Day" while Fox commentators claim he's joking.
The 22nd amendment to the US Constitution bars Trump as a viable candidate for the Office of the President. It would require an additional amendment to be possible and there’s no way that 3/4ths of all US states will agree to that shit.
I no longer believe the process and laws of our government will apply to this administration. We'll see.
If they do it, it will be by suspending the constitution entirely. Don't need any states for that.
The Putin Ploy
The 14th amendment didn't stop him from running again, I fail to see what the 22nd amendment would do.
He is 78.
So overturn or amend? Like I’m kinda surprised he’s even taking the constitution into consideration. Like he’s weird, he doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge that once he’s done all he says he wants to do the United States of America will no longer exist. Caesar could not cross the rubicon and rule the republic, he could only control Rome. Nor could Napoleon take full control of the French Republic. Republics are finicky things like that, a dictator can only ever hold their land, not the thing itself.
I don't think his brain works like that.
Well, with having control of literally every aspect of the government they actually could change this country for the worse. However, it's theoretically possible that some of them grow a spine.
If you ask Trump, this IS his third term, so no, he's not joking.
I mean, we might as well just go all in. It seems like most everyone is running headlong into apocalypse anyway.
I just don't have the capacity for this. Ugh.
Fuck it, nothing matters anymore; they’ll do “something” and we’ll vote him in again
Who cares whether he’ll be 82 by then, age clearly wasn’t the issue this time
It's going to be hard to campaign from a New York state jail cell for the next 4 years. The DOJ may have rules about a sitting president but he was neither when he committed the crimes he has already been convicted of in NY state court.
He will never go to jail, he will never suffer any consequences of his past and future actions. Unfortunately it is what it is.
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