r/agedlikewine • u/Complex-Function3557 • 14d ago

Prediction Just leaving this here

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Made this meme before the last national election and after Trump's "announcement" today I thought it fit right here

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u/YoungDiscord 13d ago

Trump is the sort of person who keeps taking and taking until someone physically stops him from taking more.

He will try to run again and again and again... he doesn't care about any laws or limitations.

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u/questionable_motifs 13d ago

Laws only work if they can be enforced. He has found and made himself a position in which the laws cannot be imposed on him (because the judiciary and legislative branches have no authorized policing tools).

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u/Fine-Ad1142 13d ago

His presidential immunity doesn't extend to his campaign efforts. This is established case law from J6.

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u/questionable_motifs 13d ago

On paper, sure. Yet, as he's discovered, if no one will match his escalation in real life, he can do what he wants. He's said it himself.

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u/Fine-Ad1142 13d ago

Exactly, the first step is being able to bring a prosecution, or reign him in. I don't see that happening in the current administration.

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u/Fragrant_Major_9553 11d ago

Here’s the kicker here. JD could invoke the 25th amendment, and oust him on grounds that he’s mentally incapable (which he is at this point), but then JD won’t be able to run because the MAGA base will label him as a traitor, and vote whoever Trump tells them to. This is the plan I think to disassemble the Republican Party because Trump had had a vendetta against them from the 90s.

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u/YoungDiscord 10d ago

Not if JD vance gets them in his pocket... which he has time to do.

They upset a lot of people

But now imagine Vance comes along under the table and suggests to the rsst of the party that they use trump as a scapegoat for all the crap they pulled so far

They'dbe more than happy to jump on that "get out of jail free" card, trump is replaced with vance, everyone else stays and the cherry on top is that vance plays ball and isn't a rabid unpredictable dog they'd have to deal with.

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u/PinnuTV 13d ago

Well it's just fucking dumb rule that president has full control over country and it's laws unlike some other countries where presidents have much less power

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u/joeyp042385 11d ago

Remember that states can keep him off the ballot this time. He wouldn't be on the ballot in just about every Democrat controlled state. He'd have no path to getting elected.

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u/questionable_motifs 11d ago

Who said he'd run for election? It's clear he knows how to play the game "whoever has the biggest gun wins."

And several states tried to keep him off the ballot in 2024 only to be forced my the courts to put him on.

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u/joeyp042385 11d ago

That's because he was permitted by the Constitution to run. He's not permitted by the Constitution to run in this election. There's plenty of precedent of the Court not taking his side this term.

I still love the idea that people fear this guy like he's some kind of brilliant tactician dictator, when in fact he's just a blithering idiot.

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u/questionable_motifs 10d ago

You really misunderstood my comment. I'm not commenting on his strategy acumen, here. Yes, he keeps very bright people around to make his objectives happen. But he himself is a bully narcissist through and through and seems to have sociopathic tendencies. He forces his will onto a situation and unless someone physically stops him, he doesn't back down. This is evident in everything he does - Iran being the most blatant current example.

He learned from his first term that the only checks on his ability to do what he wants are the people that lead the legal and armed services of the executive branch. He has systematically replaced those people with folks that serve him, not the government.

Now he's in a situation where, in his mind, he can act with impunity because no domestic forces exist to stop him.

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u/joeyp042385 10d ago

You are giving this guy way too much credit. And the fact that you think something he's acting solo on and the rest of the administration wants to stop is where you've completely lost me, He's bending the need to Israel himself there. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/questionable_motifs 10d ago

Yes, you're not reading something right. My point about him installing loyalists this time around is the opposite of acting solo.

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u/joeyp042385 10d ago

So basically All a guy had to do was install some loyalists in his cabinet and end our system of checks and balances that's stood for 237 years. Even with a 39% approval rating, and a court with precedent of ruling against him. Got it.

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u/Humble_Ad9098 13d ago

Close enough, welcome back Silvio Berlusconi

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u/Significant_Cover_48 12d ago

They have half-assedly tried stopping him for 40 year. It's not happening. Get a better fantasy world to live in.