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Dawgman49

(263 posts)
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:31 PM Monday

Please Stop !

I’m getting tired of this talk about this psychopath running for a third term…he has managed once again to use his reality show skills to manipulate the media and sadly too many democrats to even engage in this nonsense discussion… he will be 81 by that time if he survives 4 more years of gluttony… and .. it is unconstitutional….so get a grip and avoid this issue ..don’t give him more air,…but do laugh at him..it’s what he hates the most. and let’s avoid the distractions and get on with protecting our democracy

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Please Stop ! (Original Post) Dawgman49 Monday OP
He'll be pushing up weeds before the year ends. Meadowoak Monday #1
Message auto-removed Name removed Monday #9
Wow! MorbidButterflyTat Monday #15
Back again. sheshe2 Monday #16
Well, there is his diet and weight... RainCaster Tuesday #19
Well Shazam!!!! By golly, I think you're right? Oh wait...that can't be. Let GP6971 Tuesday #22
Montana's nickname is Big Shy....does that mean they GP6971 Tuesday #23
Their user name is a song title sheshe2 Tuesday #24
Darn!!! Gone so soon!!! And I was just getting started! GP6971 Tuesday #27
I'm not going to wish for Trump's death. GaYellowDawg Tuesday #34
Right, another Con'' AMENDMENT would be necessary, elleng Monday #2
I'm not too worried about the prospect. I don't think he's going to survive *this* term. nt Buns_of_Fire Monday #3
He's a lame duck and this should be repeated whenever possible. Sneederbunk Monday #4
I agree. H2O Man Monday #5
Fred made it to 93. CentralMass Monday #6
yeah, but BlueKentuckyGirl Tuesday #32
He didn't know it. Meadowoak Tuesday #35
Yeah, we all thought the talk of annexing Canada was nonsense too, but... LudwigPastorius Monday #7
TSF wants to protect Canada by attacking her. Justice matters. Tuesday #25
trump pulls our chains, and loves our outrage. He's not running and knows it. Let it die. Silent Type Monday #8
He wants a J6 2.0 Justice matters. Tuesday #26
I was just wondering today why ANY fool is even engaging with it LearnedHand Monday #10
This message was self-deleted by its author dweller Monday #11
Then turn off the news and get off social media iemanja Monday #12
How many times have we heard that Trump won't go there, and then he does? Dictatorships happen. Doodley Monday #13
+ 1000 hamsterjill Monday #14
Exactly... if you don't want to participate in or read the discussions then don't Meowmee Tuesday #37
Laugh at all of them. Alice B. Monday #17
Yeah, nobody thought there'd be a second term either NoRethugFriends Tuesday #18
Now that he is trashing the economy, who would bite for him? RainCaster Tuesday #20
Maybe DELUSION is the 5th stage of grieving? WarGamer Tuesday #21
I agree, its like stopping to water your plants before evacuating a burning home, it just doesn't matter at this point. ImNotGod Tuesday #28
"Unconstitutional" doesn't mean shit to fascists. Almost everything this administration has done is blatantly Karasu Tuesday #29
If it looks JDAcme Tuesday #30
We so easily fall into the trap of repeating what Trump says - thereby making it far more likely. summer_in_TX Tuesday #31
Short reply. usonian Tuesday #33
The Felon's intent is dictator for life Martin Eden Tuesday #36

Response to Meadowoak (Reply #1)

RainCaster

(12,491 posts)
19. Well, there is his diet and weight...
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 12:16 AM
Tuesday

So how about TSF saying bad things about the man who owns him? (Putin) He better not stand too close to a window.

GP6971

(34,399 posts)
22. Well Shazam!!!! By golly, I think you're right? Oh wait...that can't be. Let
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 12:26 AM
Tuesday

the countdown begin!!

sheshe2

(90,990 posts)
24. Their user name is a song title
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 12:31 AM
Tuesday



Will Fudeman sings this song written by Jack Hardy at a concert at EcoVillage in Ithaca, NY in May 2008. Accompanied on the guitar by John Simon.

Lol...he is wearing a Kucinich TShirt.

GaYellowDawg

(4,950 posts)
34. I'm not going to wish for Trump's death.
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 03:56 AM
Tuesday

But I would read his obituary with great delight.

And should he ever catch another virus, I'll be pulling for the virus. Imagine if COVID had done its job in October 2000. No Trump to vote for. No January 6. No central figure for MAGA to coalesce around. Infighting amongst Republicans to inherit MAGA. Biden would probably not have felt the need or urge to run. MAGA voters who don't get their candidate of choice refuse to vote at all. A Democratic candidate with a full election season thrashes DeSantis or Noem or Haley and we pick up both houses of Congress. That virus took so many good people. It just had to take one more that it didn't.

H2O Man

(76,495 posts)
5. I agree.
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:39 PM
Monday

Recommended.

People need to keep in mind that he attempts to distract the public's attention. He has not made a single meaningful speech or had a "win" yet in his "first one hundred days." He isn't doing well in court cases. He is simply fronting for a group seeking to destroy democracy -- including the economy. And why? Though it will not change anything in their daily lives, they are excited to have a different sequence of digits in their accounts.

Keep your eyes on the prize.

LudwigPastorius

(12,040 posts)
7. Yeah, we all thought the talk of annexing Canada was nonsense too, but...
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:44 PM
Monday

Canadians are sure as fuck taking it seriously.

Trump running for a third term will probably never happen, but there's nothing wrong with being proactive when it comes to how to respond to unconstitutional power grabs.

Justice matters.

(8,229 posts)
25. TSF wants to protect Canada by attacking her.
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 12:32 AM
Tuesday

Straight jacket needed in the westwing presto prompto.

Silent Type

(8,844 posts)
8. trump pulls our chains, and loves our outrage. He's not running and knows it. Let it die.
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:45 PM
Monday

There’s plenty of trump crud that needs to be in headlines.

LearnedHand

(4,590 posts)
10. I was just wondering today why ANY fool is even engaging with it
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:48 PM
Monday

And you are 1000 percent right! He IS a reality tv idiot who knows exactly how to dominate the conversation.

Response to Dawgman49 (Original post)

iemanja

(55,757 posts)
12. Then turn off the news and get off social media
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:50 PM
Monday

People are not going to refrain from discussing the news because you don’t like the story. I’m sick to death of people trying to police what others post.

Doodley

(10,663 posts)
13. How many times have we heard that Trump won't go there, and then he does? Dictatorships happen.
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:50 PM
Monday

Meowmee

(8,214 posts)
37. Exactly... if you don't want to participate in or read the discussions then don't
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 06:58 AM
Tuesday

but don't tell anyone what that psycho will and will not do... look at what he already did and is doing right now... destroying the country and the economy etc. and our allies and so on.

Alice B.

(466 posts)
17. Laugh at all of them.
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:57 PM
Monday

When they work up a full head of outrage, ask them concernedly if they're ok.
Or just laugh and move on.

I think about this every time I see a clip of Pammy Jo and MTG etc etc etc. spewing nonsense.

All of them.

RainCaster

(12,491 posts)
20. Now that he is trashing the economy, who would bite for him?
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 12:20 AM
Tuesday

Very shortly we will be entering the Trump Recession. That should endear him to all those whose 401k have gone under water.

ImNotGod

(565 posts)
28. I agree, its like stopping to water your plants before evacuating a burning home, it just doesn't matter at this point.
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 12:38 AM
Tuesday

Karasu

(865 posts)
29. "Unconstitutional" doesn't mean shit to fascists. Almost everything this administration has done is blatantly
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 12:42 AM
Tuesday

unconstitutional, and guess what? They've gotten away with the vast majority of it due to how slow the system is to respond, the loyalty of the GOP, and years of successfully assaulting the fundamentals on which our democracy rests. So no, claiming that this is an impossibility and should be dismissed simply because it's unconstitutional is absurd at this point. If there's one thing the last decade has taught anyone, it should be that.

JDAcme

(33 posts)
30. If it looks
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 12:54 AM
Tuesday

like a lame duck, and constantly f~~~ks up like a lame duck, and so so desperately doesn’t want to be treated like a lame duck, you got yourself a lame duck. Maybe the spineless republicans will take note and allow triage for our country.

summer_in_TX

(3,519 posts)
31. We so easily fall into the trap of repeating what Trump says - thereby making it far more likely.
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 01:09 AM
Tuesday

George Lakoff's study of language and cognition show that only makes the outrageous words stick more deeply.

We need to treat all his outrages with the "Truth Sandwich" tactic. Say what the truth is, name the lie, then repeat the truth.

The 22nd Amendment says "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once." So Trump's weird claim that there are ways he could be reelected for a third term is just wishful thinking. Our Constitution protects us against anyone trying to illegally shoehorn himself into more than two terms.

If we don't push back, it becomes an inevitability in many minds. But if we just repeat what he says, it actively reinforces it. A little mocking of it can help our cause, as long as it's wrapped in a truth sandwich.

usonian

(16,854 posts)
33. Short reply.
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 02:46 AM
Tuesday

Trump annexes South Africa. Greenland and Canada are a head fake.

He perishes from tainted onions in a Big Mac.

Musk is elected speaker of the house.

Vance perishes in a burning Tesla.

Musk becomes president, being a native-born Ametican in the 51st state.

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