Summary
The Trump Store released $50 “Trump 2028” hats Thursday, sparking backlash online as Trump has repeatedly hinted at running for a third term.
“I have had more people ask me to have a third term,” Trump said on March 31, claiming the 2020 election was “totally rigged.”
Steve Bannon said he’s exploring “five or six different alternatives” to enable a third run.
Critics on social media called it “insane” and a sign of “fascist” ambitions. Though barred by the 22nd Amendment, Trump could run again if it were overturned by Congress and the states. However, it would require a two-thirds vote of Congress and three-fourths vote of the states.
I’m against violence, but I’m not sure urinating and/or defecating on anyone wearing this hat counts as violence
In case anyone is still unsure, he is not willingly leaving in 2028. Everything that’s happening indicates he is setting up a path for him to remain. One of two things are going to happen in our future.
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We will need to march on DC in INSANE numbers and force him to leave with the threat of lethal force.
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We will have to use lethal force to make him leave.
Only other possibility is he dies of natural causes before then. But then we get Vance and we’ll probably have to do the same thing. This isn’t just Trump. The entire GOP apparatus is a fascist movement. The only reason he didn’t do it last time is because he hadn’t set up the foundation for him to remain by doing things like, I don’t know, instructing the FBI to arrest federal judges who oppose him, which is a line we just crossed today.
Fascism is here. Arm yourselves. Help others arm themselves. Train. Help others train.
We’ll see. But I’ll be marching at your side if it comes down to it.
But then we get Vance
If Trump dies in 2026 then there are 10 constitutionally valid years of Vance ruling.
Do you think the Constitution will stay unaltered until 2036?
Altered or not, it’s not like the GOP gives a shit about a piece of paper.
Yes, all the ways to alter the constitution are fundamentally broken.
Because of this comment, I think I’m going to start saving a little money for a quick trip to DC. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I think I want to be there when it does.
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They’re also selling shirts that say “rewrite the rules” just under the rest of it. Oh boy.
If this joke of a nation had any merit at all, these coy suggestions would be disqualifying and his flabby, corrupt ass would be on the sidewalk or in jail tomorrow. Unfortunately, Americans are lazy, entitled, stupid, and collectively rich enough to pretend that there won’t be consequences to our shortsightedness.
Americans don’t have a democratic process to do anything about it.
Yup. If we did, trump could’ve never had a chance at being president
I can’t tell for sure if this is a supporting comment, or if it’s sarcastically pointing out that Trump was elected.
On the off chance that it is sarcasm, what I meant was that the people have no democratic process to remove elected officials from power.
I’m saying that if we had an actual democracy, 35% support from idiots doesn’t get you into office. It gets a little attention that fades and is almost forgotten a couple years later. You know, a sane world – in which we do not live.
The facts already disqualifying him is why he’s disqualified. Good to see Americans aren’t alone as the stupid ones
I’m not going to lie, this is a profitable move by Trump, because his voters will line up to get them to antagonize those outside their in group, as was the entire point of their vote, to harm their enemies as an end in itself, regardless of whether he’s able to get the SCOTUS to rule that up means down and no third term means infinite terms for Republicans only.
I’m just looking forward to all the idiots giggling about their own enslavement, as I see anyone wearing that hat as a derivation of this:
I was thinking of making a sign to be carried at a protest. One side would say “Honk if you support Trump.” The other side would say something like, “Only the assholes are honking.”
$50.00 for a fucking Made in China hat.
With tariffs, $120
It still isn’t currently legal for him to run for a third term. This is how confident he is the law will be changed or ignored.
The strategy they’ve been floating for years is: have two other candidates run while he runs for the house. Trump gets chosen as house speaker, meanwhile the President and VP resign, making Trump president. Then they argue this is technically constitutional since he didn’t win an election to become president.
That’s why it’s essential that after 2026, there is a push to eliminate this loophole. It may take a constitutional change, but first it’s going to take absolute annihilation of Republicans in the midterms.
To be clear. It’s not just “the law” it’s the goddamn constitution
Just a piece of paper unless someone enforces it.
My mom used to always speed like crazy, and when people would complain, pointing to the speed limit signs, she’d always respond with something along the lines of “signs can’t limit speed, let me know if you see a cop instead.” Some people just don’t give a shit about the forms of soft power meant to keep people in line without taking real action against them. My mom was one, and our current president is another. The funny thing is that we’re going to have to ignore them as well to stop him.
The problem is, the law DOES matter for us dregs. It only doesn’t apply for the wealthy.
Well, it matters for us if there’s enough people to punish everyone. It’s like speeding - there aren’t enough traffic cops to catch every speeder, so while my mom would’ve gotten plenty of tickets if there were, in reality she rarely ever got one. If we organize, we can overwhelm the criminal justice system. It’s not a fun prospect, and I’d really hoped we could pull ourselves out of this situation by other means, but our current president is actively advertising his plans to become a dictator - working within the system is no longer an option.
I just broke a dudes nose the other day that drove like a maniac and blew through a stop sign on my block, nearing hitting me, got out of his car and threated me, swung, missed, and got a broken nose courtesy of my fist. People that ignore “soft power” will find the wall that stops them eventually.
Well, if you ever get the opportunity to punch Trump in the nose, I hope you take it and more.
I would love to.
The Founding Fathers gave us the means to enforce it with the 2nd Amendment.
Unfortunately, the tyrants have people with far more guns and resources at their disposal. “The blood of patriots and tyrants,” indeed.
What we have are competent leaders. All those strong military leaders that spent their lives rising through the ranks to the highest levels, have been replaced by incompetent loyalist idiots, and now they are on our side. When it kicks off, at least half of the military rank & file will side with the competent leaders they respect, and as the MAGA military flounders, more and more will defect.
In addition, most people visualize a Civil War in which we are on our own, but that won’t happen. HitlerPig has very few allies in the world, and they are generally as incompetent as he is. Right off the bat, Canada and Mexico will side with the American Patriots against the MAGA Nazis, and so will Europe, once they band together to defeat Russia.
I don’t have the faith you do in our military to do the right thing, but I hope you’re right.
No they don’t. Liberals are well armed too.
I’m referring to “law” enforcement and the military. The MAGAts are a negligible threat.
People that have no understanding of history, nations, and laws say things like this.
Right back atcha.
This is why they are so actively defying the courts and ignoring their rulings, especially the Supreme Court, and he’ll be doing it as often as possible between now and Election Day 2025. That way, when he defies them to serve a 3rd term, it will just be the latest in a long series of violations, and people will be too fatigued to fight about it.
Is it just wishful thinking that we don’t have 3+ years until the election?
We’ve got to get through the 2026 mid-terms first, which will be vitally important for Democrats. This is the next big battle, and HitlerPig is almost certainly going to find a way to suspend the election, for the first time in history.
Oh there will be a fight. That’s for sure.
I agree. I should have stressed that that’s their strategy, not that it will necessarily work.
It’s more than likely just another grift to leech money from his drove of idiot supporters… but who knows with this asshole
This is one law he can’t ignore. If the ammendment doesn’t pass the house and senate with a two thirds vote and the idiot gets sworn in for a third term, it becomes legal hunting season. He would instantly become a domestic threat to the Constitution and any US citizen could legally attack him or anyone giving him aid. The US citizens would all basically become bounty hunters, and anyone that fought back to defend the illegal third term asshole would be considered a domestic threat as well.
Pray this man is really this stupid. I kind of want to see that drama unfold.
What is for sure is that he is confident he can sell a fuck ton of hats!
The shirt on the store says “rewrite the rules” so yeah…
Or they will just ignore the law. Law is no barrier to this cult.
Prison. Now. For him and all his corrupt, openly criminal Constitution-shredding cronies. We are far past the point of hand-waving over the open criminality and corruption. And in Trump’s case, legitimate Constitutionally-defined treason. Mass arrests and convictions of these criminals needs to happen now. Right now. Even if we the people need to take care of it ourselves. Nobody is coming to save us.
And these hats still had to be designed, manufactured and shipped.
Meaning, this wasn’t exactly done yesterday. Meaning that while Trump was publicly stating that “they want me to run for a 3rd term, but I can’t” this was likely already in the works.
Not surprising in the least, but still worth pointing out and adding to the already huge pile of bs coming from him and his suckers.
No different than any other conservative playbook.
“I know nothing about project 2025”
meanwhile https://www.project2025.observer/
“The trans people are abusing our kids!”
Meanwhile, page 50: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/2/2221200/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-50
Edit: Latest: page 55
“They’re spreading misinformation!”
Which is always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
The projection is the only thing consistent
Fantastic links here I appreciate the effort.
Remove Trump now!
CW2 when
So the movie Civil War (2024) became a reality
As long as the ending remains the same…
Some day, if conscious beings have access to our history, they may mistake Idiocracy as a documentary. I’m only kind of joking
Hey, if the coup fails, these hats also work for Eric…
Welp. It was a good run, America.
Almost three hundreds years of progress undone by a man that cosplays a billionaire Cheeto.
Truly remarkable.
Longest lasting representative democracy in history, ended by a felon rapist, while a solid chunk of the country cheered.
Truly a weak, pathetic, stupid, shameful country.
Oh, no, we aren’t even close to finished. By the time we are done, whatever is left of the Republican party will be very sorry they started all this nonsense.
Wish I shared your enthusiasm, but Americans have sleepwalked through everything so far. I don’t see that changing before it’s much too late. Only thing that saved Europe was the good guys swooping in. That ain’t happening in this scenario. We have to save ourselves and I don’t see it happening.
A rogue president ordering the military to invade a friendly allied neighbor has never happened. Its safe to say that would be the end of trying to recover our nation through legal Constitutional methods (which is the stage we are in right now). It would instantly cause a Civil War, and would vastly reduce the military forces, as MANY military members would refuse to comply. We have many very experienced high level military leaders who would be of great use to the Canadian army, and many of our trained soldiers will support them.
The MAGA military leaders are loyalists first, and competency comes far down the list. It is likely that HitlerPig will be calling the shots, just the way Hitler did in WWII, and that was a major reason for the German’s downfall. HitlerPig is even stupider than Hitler was.
It’s weird to wear a hat that says “punch me I’m a fascist” but okay
I saw a woman in a very liberal area in the US wearing a shirt that read “Proud Conservative!”
That alone made he seem deranged to me. It would be weird even if I didn’t get the distinct impression she wanted people to say something or at least feel discomfort with her advertising that she fully supports fascist dictatorship. What a fucking time to wear that shirt …
