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All right, which one of you clowns signed me up to receive mailings from the far-left Youth Save Democracy PAC? I suppose you think you’re very funny. But anyway, on Saturday, I received a breathless email from them, and it looks as if the sky is falling: “Robert,” it said chummily, “Donald Trump just said the quiet part out loud. In a recent interview, Trump openly mused about serving a third term as president – something explicitly forbidden by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.”
After that, they threw every typographical denotation of urgency at me, just so I’d know how serious they are: “This isn’t a joke. This isn’t hyperbole. This is Trump telling us exactly what he wants to do. And there’s only one thing standing between Trump and unchecked power: the House of Representatives.”
Following that horror-of-horrors-the-sky-is-falling scenario was a pitch to give them money so that Democrats can take back the House in 2026. Now, if Trump really were the fascist dictator of the left’s fervid imagining, winning back the House wouldn’t help, but this mailing was actually only a mild helping of Trump-is-a-dictator hysteria. Has-been talk show host David Letterman was more direct last Tuesday, but after all, he is a relic of a more direct age. “He’s our dictator,” Letterman declared, adding: “He’s not going anywhere.”
Well, sure, except then you wake up. That is, then you wake up if you’re not a leftist who is so blinded by hatred and so indoctrinated with propaganda that you can’t see what’s right in front of you. As for the third term, Trump said this in late October: “I have my highest poll numbers that I’ve ever had, and, you know, based on what I read, I guess I’m not allowed to run. So, we’ll see what happens. I would say that if you read it, it’s pretty clear. I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad, but we have a lot of great people.”
Apparently, even wanting to remain in office is evidence of a dictatorial tendency, although no one was sounding the alarm about a dictator-in-the-making back in 2015, when Barack Obama said: “I am in my second term. It has been an extraordinary privilege for me to serve as President of the United States. I cannot imagine a greater honor or a more interesting job. I love my work. But under our Constitution, I cannot run again. I can’t run again. I actually think I’m a pretty good President — I think if I ran, I could win. But I can’t.”
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Bexarkat says
I seem to recall President Obama flirted with this idea as well.
Hoi Polloi says
BHO then ran candidates based on his assessment of just whose strings would be the easiest to pull and we got more years of BHO.
somehistory says
Yes, bo was manipulating to get biden in and tried with hellary and harris….the two cacklers.
All of those mouth his words and do his bidding.
If this society survives until Trump is done, bo will be in there promoting another schill. Or he’ll try again with harris or hellary. Perhaps the two cacklers could *run* together.
Hoi Polloi says
Double the cackles; what a ticket!
somehistory says
It’s the stuff of nightmares.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
In one of his more serious moments, when he wasn’t trolling anybody, President Trump did say that this would have been his last term as POTUS, even if he hadn’t been term limited
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Of course, facts do not matter to Leftists.
But you knew that already…
Tim gallagher says
I have occasionally thought this two terms so only 8 years is strange and could result in a brilliant and fairly young politicians talents being lost when he or she could be elected another time or two. It is a different system, but in Australia Robert menzies had a total of 18 years as prime minister. Kept being elected.. John Howard was prime minister for 11 years I think.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Tim
The problem is there being term limits only for the President. There are no term limits for Congressmen – be it Senators nor House members. So Biden could have only had 8 years at best, but he did serve ~50 years as a senator
There needs to be term limits everywhere, so that it’s not just the President who is handicapped. Also, in the US, politics was never supposed to be one’s lifelong profession. It was supposed to be a period of civic duty that one gave, following which one would return to whatever one was doing previously – law, journalism, medicine, whatever
Tim gallagher says
No doubt you’re right, infidel. And it would be better if we had more politicians who did something before they went into politics and then did nothing else but being a politician. I was thinking in terms of a very bright person elected president at 50 and being out at 58. It could be a big loss of talent for the country. Politicians here don’t seem to hang around the way Pelosi did. Or Biden. What a bad joke. Still they get voted in somehow.
terry says
The key is the term consecutive.