Donald Trump unsurprisingly wants to revoke the 22nd Amendment and find some way to “win” a third term as president. Everyone knew it would happen. [Associated Press]
I feel like I’m watching a different White Lotus than everyone else, because I’ve enjoyed the hell out of this season, but everyone is like “Parker Posey is the only reason to watch.” No she isn’t! She’s great, but so is the rest of the cast! Put some respect on Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan & Aimee Lou Woods for what they’re doing! [Pajiba]
The trailer for PT Anderson’s One Battle After Another looks really good/interesting? It will be great to see what Leo DiCaprio does here. [LaineyGossip]
Beauty shots of Matt Bomer. [Go Fug Yourself]
The trailer for Prime’s Overcompensating. [OMG Blog]
Laverne Cox in Dior! [RCFA]
Rest in peace, Richard Chamberlain. [JustJared]
Carrie Underwood without makeup looks like a different person. [Seriously OMG]
A Breaking Amish star has passed away. [Starcasm]
Sean Kingston & his mom were convicted of fraud. [Hollywood Life]
Sabrina Carpenter is really over Barry Keoghan. [Buzzfeed]
He’s the Jesus Christ of White-Collar Criminals like himself. He has to stay in office until he ticker gives out. So many white collar criminals to that are major republican donors to pardon. And it keeps himself out of the klink too.
If he thinks he can get a 3rd term he will go for it. They will just cart him around like a puppet and pull his strings to sign executive orders.
Remember his election promise that people only needed to vote for him this last time, they don’t need to do it again – he and his comrades are doing to rip up the constitution to he (and his family) can run the US like they run the Trump family business, into the ground to line their own pockets.
We can only hope he drops before that happens as I don’t think those around him have the support to do it without him.
I don’t understand what Jesus has to do with Donald Trump? Satan would be a better name for him.
Oh he has said there are ways around the laws that say only two terms. I know he cheats to win this doesn’t surprise me. Let’s hope his soul contract expires before then.
He has to be dead by then. He just has to.
I was certain of this when we got that reprieve in the 2020 election. Now I’m not sure he isn’t being cloned as we speak.
Can he run as VP instead of the President? That is what the dictators usually do as a loophole. They run in another position and put a weakling in their former position, then they still act like the President.
I think so. Under the constitution as currently written you can serve 10 years as president, two elected terms. This is how LBJ was going to run again in 1968 (although he withdrew.) There was nothing questionable about it – he served out the rest of JFK’s term, then won in 1964, and then could have run in 68 and been elected and would have served 11 years or thereabouts.
I’m just not sure how it would work in the reverse. If Vance runs as P with Trump as VP everyone knows Vance will turn power over to him the minute he’s sworn in. So that would be 12 years.
One possibility is that he resigns after 2 years, Vance takes over, Trump runs in 2028.
Of course this is all operating under a very big assumption – that the constitution still matters. And at this point, I’m not sure it does.
LOLOLOLOLOLLL forever!!!! Trump would NEVER be a VP. Never. Never, ever. This is the biggest, most fragile ego in world history (which, btw, is what makes him such a grave risk to our security).
Not in a billion years would he — publicly! — accept a #2 position.
(No shade to you @sevenblue. It’s just that he is that transparently effed up.)
No. To run as VP, a person must be eligible to serve as President. A naturalized citizen and a 2 term former President can NOT run for VP.
Johnson had not been elected to the presidency in 1960. He was elected to only 1 term as president in 1964.
And a fun fact – Gerald Ford was never elected to Vice President or President. He was chosen by Nixon and confirmed by Congress after VP Spiro Agnew resigned to face criminal charges for tax evasion. I loved to throw that in the face of MAGAts who claim Kamala Harris couldn’t run for President.
A law expert quoted in a Boston Globe article said that anyone who is ineligible to be president is also ineligible to run as vice president. So, per the Constitution, no.
@FYI, yeah his ego is definitely too fragile. He for sure makes sure everyone knows he is gonna be the one in charge. That is usually what the dictators do in other countries due to term limits.
No. He can’t be the Veep. Separately, the 12th amendment precludes (the last sentence) anyone from being eligible for the office of Vice President if they are constitutionally ineligible to be President. Of course, he and his sycophants will try something shady.
Thank you guys. Good to hear that the American constitution covered that loophole.
Yeah, they’re trying to say the law really means two consecutive terms, not two total. 🤨
We all knew that if he got back into the White House, the only way he was ever going to leave it again would be in a coffin, right?
Sooner, rather than later?
I can’t believe he’s still alive now. When will Beelzebub come to collect?
The worse the person, the longer they live. Slime like him feel like they live forever.
Beelzebub is scared to collect…He thinks the Putrid Pumpkin may try and take his job…
He wants to be like Putin.
Of course we all saw it coming.
If he lives that long? He’s already a million years old ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It would be interesting if he is still with us in 2028 and Barack runs against him. And then after winning Barack resigns for… whoever his VP is. I don’t know, I’m just spitballing.
Do you think they’re ever going to allow another Democrat to get elected now that they’re the judge/jury/unaliver-er, holding the voting machine patents, the satellites, now that they’re the only research and reporting and have been handed the golden keys? I would LOVE for this outcome but I think it’s very optimistic to believe there will ever be another free and fair election in the United States-unless they are removed somehow, and optimistic to think 2026 will result in anything except a total media red-out, much less the next presidential election. I hope I’m wrong.
Yeah, then Michelle would divorce him for real. She said she is not going back there. Democrats need to find another leader. That is just sad at this point.
@Lola
Obama can’t serve a 3rd term either.
Yes, but what you’re thinking is so deeeeeelicious!!!! 🤤
If he runs again, then W Bush should challenge him for the GOP nomination and Bill Clinton should also run,
Not that I think any of them should be a party nominee, just doing this to mess with what little of Trump’s brain functions..
Trump can’t go a single day without sh-tting on the Constitution.
💯💯💯💯
I don’t think he wants to “run” or “win”. I think he just wants to “be” president again. Running and winning imply that an election will take place.
This!
He didn’t hide this….he told the voters they wouldn’t have to vote again, that he wanted a third term. Some people just refused to take him seriously – just what an incredible threat he was to this country and voted for their one effing issue.
So, here we are.
Which issue?
The price of Eggs?
Owning the libs?
Didn’t like the idea of “that girl” being POTUS?
Ugh, these people and their short sighted blindness!
Yeah, the 34 time felon wants to be a king for life, not subject to elections. He posted a portrait where he’s wearing a crown.
The only way he’s ever leaving office again is in a pine box.
He does not look or sound healthy …. We’re all hoping the pine box is soon.
My biggest worry is that Satan is getting his money’s worth from the chaos he’s creating, and probably doesn’t want him back any time soon anyway.
This is just a distraction from the Signal issue and the abduction of people and putting them in the El Salvador prison.
I’m more interested in how much money Musk and his baby hackers are taking from SS and other programs.
1000%!
If everyone took the time and energy they spend on reacting to his bs, and spent that time instead on participating in mass mobilization efforts, we could end this nonsense.
Look up the 3.5% rule and then find an event near you.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/35-rule-how-small-minority-can-change-world
It’s the whole ensemble of White Lotus for me, esp Mike White’s script that takes everyone on a wild ride. So many gems. Who could’ve guessed Sam Rockwell’s Frank watching home movies with Sritala? Or that Saxon suddenly became a reasonable character? Carrie Coons climbing out of a window to escape her hookup’s furious gf and a plea for $10K on cashapp?
ITA 100%! I watch each episode 3x to absorb it all. Bring back Carrie Coon for a solo victory tour next season. She’s a massively flawed character but I love her scenes. I feel like she knows she regresses around these friends and should do better but loves how she can be a teenager again with them, escaping her stressful life.
I am curious. What are people in the US actually doing to stand against this government and ensure that they do not win again? Last time there were protest this time there just seems to be a lot of online complaining and some burning of cars. Have the public given up or is it not being reported in the news?
omg. At least once a week on here, maybe more, there is a question like this.
WE ARE PROTESTING. We are boycotting. We are contacting our representatives.
There’s not much more we CAN do.
Also, please keep in mind how huge the U.S. is. Local protests (and there are many going on) tend to be smaller and get less news coverage, but it’s prohibitive for most of us to get to D.C. for the big ones. In, for example, Hungary, about a fifth of the population lives in Budapest, and anyone else can drive there in half a day tops. But only 700K Americans live in Washington, D.C. (that’s one-fifth of one percent of us), and people on the West Coast are more than 2,000 miles (3,000+ km) from Washington. It’s just a totally different environment in terms of making ourselves heard/known to the federal government. We really are trying. There’s a huge protest planned for this weekend and I think we will see a lot of people in D.C. and many more at the hundreds of local protests planned across the country. And we are donating money where we can, calling and writing letters, etc.
In this country voters carry a lot of weight which is why they’re pickled in right wing propaganda as Heather Cox Richardson puts it. Even with every awful thing Trump has done, his overall job approval is holding steady. Unfortunately, it’s going to take a lot more pain for the majority of voters to hit “critical mass” and turn on him. The midterms next year are the key. Everyone must vote. EVERY ELIGIBLE VOTER. And they must vote for the Democrats. Informed voting is the only way out of this hellscape. Sorry, but there are no quick fixes in a presidential system of government.
Please stop. Comments like this are so unhelpful. It’s bad enough living here and have to deal with the daily onslaught of terribleness. People are doing their best, whether it’s protesting, boycotting, showing up at town halls and calling their elected officials. It’s not being reported on.
We are trying. There’s not much else we can do. If you haven’t heard, they’re also starting to disappear people off the streets. So maybe some of us with young children are trying to be careful we don’t wind up in some El Salvadorian prison.
You’re not looking in the right places. There are protests every day at the local level. I follow 2 blue states closely, the ones where my family is located and there’s constant activity. People are not being complacent about under-performing politicians. Boycotts and lawsuits are flying. I have a personal connection to a white shoe law firm targeted by a Trump executive order and they’re suing to prevent enforcement, they have many previous victories against Trump and the law is on their side.
Goto threads or Blusky there are a lot of just normal/regular people posting about the different protests across the country. Unfortunately the media(both here and internationally) aren’t showing them. I know some people are upset but they also keep to themselves. The only way is to vote them out , there’s special elections this year and midterms next year. Louisiana did say NO to all 4 GOP amendments last week and the Dems won big in PA as well last week. We’re hoping tomorrow will be a Dems win in Florida and Wisconsin.
Also there have been some wins in the courts where they are blocking some of his orders. For example About 1000 national parks employees have been reinstated and judges blocked his order on abolishing birthright citizenship. There’s many other cases still pending. These aren’t prob being reported overseas . Any wins help.
At least twice a week, I call or email my congressional representatives. (a Congressman + 2 Senators).
I have also boycotted businesses that support Trump.
I drive by a Tesla dealership every day after work, and every day there are protestors in the dozens, tens of dozens. Our newspapers are also reporting on the BS & the quid pro quos going on. We are not holding back.
He told us this was coming. Vote for me and I’ll fix it that you’ll never need to vote again. Warned and the maga faction didn’t care.
He’ll probably start a war (or say we’re already in one) and pull from FDR’s WWII third term.
FDR was only able to get elected four times because there was no Constitutional Amendment prohibiting it and that’s exactly why the Constitution was changed.
ETA: Carrie Underwood is practically unrecognizable. So much plastic surgery. I know she’ll blame her freak accident but she started tweaking long before that.
There is NO WAY he will be getting a third term. The American people will not allow it because that is a HUGE signal that our democracy is over and we now have a dictatorship. Anyone who normally just goes about their daily lives without paying attention to the news, all the people who never vote, people too busy to get involved in local politics, will be out in the streets, protesting this. It will get ugly, but it won’t happen.
Yeah right. His base is upset with him again. Just like he lost to Biden last time because his base was mad. if he runs again he will lose unless he turns it around. I honestly think he owes so much money that he can’t kick these people out.
We know he is tired of Elon. We know he doesn’t want to be in the middle of these unpopular wars. We know he wants to focus on trying to get money. Yet, he cant because he OWES these people. Someone bought JD Vance the vp position. Linda McMahon is a family friend but she bought a spot. Most of his financial team are donors.
His base sees how indebted he is too these people. They won’t vote for him or Vance. Now is the time for the DEMS TO FIND new people. Start running for president now.