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16. Your "reality" is based on expectation of conformance to norms

Thu Oct 23, 2025, 03:09 PM

Oct 23

If we should have learned anything these past 10 years it is that there is no norm they will not trample. Relying on "two terms is two terms" is more of these same. They've floated numerous ways to get around the inconvenience of the Constitution.

Fascist dictators do not give up power voluntarily, EVER. They simply can't, for they know they will then be held accountable for their crimes. As the saying goes, dictators have the dilemma that they need to die in bed still firmly gripping the levers of power.

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When his second term is over, he won't leave. [View all] CTyankee Oct 23 OP

The tyrant will not vacate the White House voluntarily. dalton99a Oct 23 #1

I have a feeling he will be gone within six months. I had a dream monday night he died of a heart attack Trueblue1968 Oct 23 #41

If they bring him out feet-first, I'll be okay with that. Aristus Oct 23 #2

have you seen him try to walk? NJCher Oct 23 #3

He needs double-hip surgery, it was announced a few days ago FakeNoose Oct 23 #27

Stop perpetuating defeatist mythology Fiendish Thingy Oct 23 #4

Oh, I didn't want to make it seem hopeless! It will just be very, very hard to get him to go... CTyankee Oct 23 #6

We are in this together Fiendish Thingy Oct 23 #8

Of course, we always must resist tyranny, Our founders are counting on us! CTyankee Oct 23 #11

We? Aren't you Canadian? BannonsLiver Oct 23 #17

You didn't want to make it seem hopeless? MorbidButterflyTat Oct 23 #26

Not according to Republicans on X womanofthehills Friday #53

Did you forget the sarcasm thingy? Solomon Oct 23 #14

My post was reality based Fiendish Thingy Oct 23 #15

Your "reality" is based on expectation of conformance to norms LR3 Oct 23 #16

My posts are grounded in physical reality, and reject dystopian fantasies Fiendish Thingy Oct 23 #18

Stamp your feet and insist that your opinion is "reality" all you want LR3 Oct 23 #19

So, you're staking your position that the military will commit treason? Fiendish Thingy Oct 23 #20

The military that Hegseth is systematically gutting of anyone not loyal to Trump over the Constitution? LR3 Oct 23 #21

You clearly haven't thought this through Fiendish Thingy Oct 23 #23

Again, you think they are bound by laws or the Constitution LR3 Oct 23 #31

If the military doesn't prop up Trump via a coup, he won't be president after 1/20/29 Fiendish Thingy Oct 23 #33

Once again you are imagining that they give one shit about laws or following precedent LR3 Oct 23 #39

Why have you surrendered in advance? Fiendish Thingy Oct 23 #40

It is quite the opposite LR3 Friday #42

Your prediction of a military coup was implicit in your other prophecies Fiendish Thingy Friday #45

No, unless you define a military coup, as the military doing nothing LR3 Friday #48

So, when a new president not named Trump is inaugurated in 2029, what will the military do? Fiendish Thingy Friday #49

As opposed to stomping your feet and insisting that it's true? EdmondDantes_ Oct 23 #22

Nah, I'm not insisting that I must be right because only my vision is "reality" LR3 Oct 23 #24

Some of us have noticed how he ignores laws synni Oct 23 #29

He can't ignore the laws of physics Fiendish Thingy Oct 23 #34

Your interlocutor is Canadian. BannonsLiver Friday #47

Thank GOD one person on this board pushes back on this wimpy democratsruletheday Oct 23 #37

Trump tried to stay last time and we got a riot LetMyPeopleVote Oct 23 #5

Is it bad karma to wish the worst on him? CTyankee Oct 23 #7

No, "karma" and "wishes" aren't real JoseBalow Oct 23 #32

fuckin' A right.... democratsruletheday Oct 23 #38

God help us if he needs an organ transplant in order to live. Baitball Blogger Oct 23 #9

Probably from some poor schlep who is on Death Row. CTyankee Oct 23 #10

Have heard that the ballroom isn't scheduled to be completed until 2029 and can't imagine allegorical oracle Oct 23 #12

Before 2028 comes, area51 Oct 23 #13

By then, he will be rotted meat in his gold-laden, over-sized sarcophagus. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Oct 23 #25

What a great thought! Heh, heh, heh... CTyankee Oct 23 #28

He won't have a choice. Ms. Toad Oct 23 #30

Yep, the power goes off at noon on January 20, 2029. Sogo Oct 23 #35

That is an awesome idea!!! MorbidButterflyTat Friday #55

Plus - half his party no longer likes him womanofthehills Friday #54

It doesn't matter if he won't leave. Sogo Oct 23 #36

Or he may control the Republican Party so long as he is alive? kentuck Friday #43

Let's hope he's totally incapacitated by then... CTyankee Friday #44

Then we will know that he "has stuff" on all of them. Sogo Friday #50

He will be 82 in January 2029 JI7 Friday #46

Unnamed sources say the President is 'riddled with arthritis' Coldwater Friday #51

He won't make it. Jeffrey is calling, and the two will be together again soon. usonian Friday #52

He's building his bunker bcbink Friday #56