#Third Term Project

[saywhat-politics]

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Wajahat Ali:

Many of us in America are suffering from a failure of imagination because we assume that authoritarianism can’t happen in America. We believe that we are somehow special, and we’ll avoid the fate of so many countries, such as Hungary. The American Empire will remain strong, steadfast, and powerful even though every empire before us has fallen, usually corrupted and destroyed by its own hands. Our institutions, which have bent the knee to Trump, will somehow protect us from a right-wing takeover.

And yet, in 2025, a convicted criminal who incited a violent insurrection has returned to the Presidency, where he has pardoned 1,600 of his fellow MAGA redshirts and wants to compensate them for their traitorous actions. Trump is engaging in trade wars with our allies, threatening conflict with Greenland, openly musing about Canada becoming our 51st state, disappearing innocent immigrants to be tortured in an El Salvador prison, illegally freezing funds, dismantling government agencies without Congressional approval, bullying law firms and judges, cancelling the visas of students with foreign policy opinions he doesn’t like, and outsourcing his job to the world’s richest man who is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court after successfully buying the Presidency for $290 million.

None of this should happen in America, but it is happening. None of this is normal, but it has become normalized because Trump is an aspiring authoritarian propped up by the Republican Party and the country’s establishment that is utterly complicit in replacing our flawed democracy with a corrupt broligarchy. So, why is it unfathomable to imagine that Donald Trump will become President for a third time?

Over the weekend, Donald Trump told NBC News host Kristen Welker that he wants to stay in office beyond his Presidency even though the 22nd Amendment bars an individual from being elected for 3 terms. “Well, there are plans. There - not plans. There are methods - there are methods which you could do it, as you know,” he said. Trump was dead serious, unlike before when we were told he was allegedly joking. I was never fooled. I took him literally and seriously. I also said Trump wouldn’t leave peacefully in 2020 and that the GOP would only become more radicalized and violent during Biden’s presidency. People like me were called hysterical, reactionary, and told we were suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome

On Monday, the White House Press Secretary confirmed Trump’s statement and told Fox, “Trump is right. People love the job this president is doing.” By the end of the week, you can expect the entirety of the right-wing media and the Republican machinery to fall in line.

Wajahat Ali has a solid piece on the reality of Felon 47 illegally seeking a third term. It would be a nightmare.

See Also:

Civil Discourse (Joyce Vance): Trump’s Third Term

Pepperspectives (David Pepper): A Third Trump Term?

[liberty1776]

No King But Jesus! - 3/30/25 By Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Attacks on Freedom of Speech, for speaking against genocide. Legal immigrants being kidnaped for speaking truth about Israel. Kennedy joining Zionists to restricting free speech. Federal Government trying to stop all free speech about Israel. Trump is a tyrant. Third term project. “ So This is how Liberty Dies! with applause”. See John 16. Face reality! Stand for Truth! Remind Trump that for American patriots there is no King but Jesus!

[i-am-a-megalodon]

I had to look this up. It’s real.

Looks like The Donald is taking cues from Putin. You know, his fascist buddy who’s already served too many presidential terms? That guy.

This shit is real

Time to react!

[mixelation]

i try not to get political on this blog, as it is in the end a naruto blog. however im not sure how aware of this the average person is. right now is a REALLY bad time to be a scientist in the US. a lot of grants and funding mechanisms are being canceled with no warning or real explanation, there are freezes on awarding or paying out grants, and there's hiring freezes both in academia and industry. this is includes retroactively cancelling ongoing grants for vague reasons like no longer being in line with the current administration, something which afaik has never really been done at this scale before. talking to scientist friends these past months has just been a wave of stories about early career scientists losing funding (that means for most people, losing their JOB) with no real hope for securing a new one. the proposed 2026 budget will massively cut money to the NIH and NSF (the two biggest funding agencies for biology). no one really knows what is going on, and the tone of most discussions for future planning are uncertain, deeply stressed, and afraid.

some of the end results of this are obvious. the US is a powerhouse for science and research (i've mentioned this a couple times-- i have looked into moving abroad more than once but the opportunities in the US for my field are (were) simply way better career-wise), and shutting down research means cutting research that's immediately applicable to human and environmental health that will have a global effect. it also slows basic research with less immediate application to the average joe, but which builds the foundations of knowledge to be able to do that more applied research and development. science, tech, and higher education is also one of our biggest exports, so this dismantling of research will hurt the economy even more.

some results will be less obvious. a lot of very educated people are about to lose their jobs. i've read a lot of anxiety from early career people about the market being flooded and over competitive, so entry-level positions are not obtainable by entry-level people, essentially pushing them out of science and creating a situation where "the next generation" is cut at its knees. i've seen anxiety about this from people in other countries because academics are, compared to other demographics in the US, pretty likely to look into moving abroad, and also talented scientists from outside the US who might have wanted to move there for career purposes are more likely to stay in their home countries or look into other countries, making those job markets worse. i've even gotten some targeted ads about moving to scandinavia. making the job market more competitive doesn't help anyone-- it means fewer opportunities for good scientists to do good research. also, building up a destroyed system is always harder and longer than tearing it down. if things continue like this, the damage will take decades to repair. that's decades of stagnated research and development with international impact.

so. i don't know. call your reps and ask them to stand up for science. give your local scientist a hug. and let me know if you know any european labs hiring for 2026

[shiraoyagi]

sometimes i think about this area conversation

also yes an says 相棒 (aibou) in the original text (i checked)

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Trumpsters have raised the possibility of a constitutional amendment that would enable Trump to seek a third term.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/possible-avenue-to-a-third-term-for-trump-raises-serious-concerns

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[squireofgeekdom]

Oh no. Don't let me start plotting out a Leverage Redemption / Moon Knight crossover. I don't need more wips. Help.

[tomorrowusa]

Never mind the 22nd amendment. Some Trumpsters are already talking about a THIRD Trump term.

The American Conservative magazine published an article last week in which the author, Peter Tonguette, argued that Trump should be able to run for a third term in office in 2028. This drew some attention in non-Trump circles as a potential trial balloon by Project 2025, the authoritarian policy agenda that is guiding Trumpworld right now. Tonguette argued that Trump’s victory in the GOP primary contest this year shows that voters still support him—and that they should be allowed to do so indefinitely. “As the primary season has shown us, the Republicans have not moved on from Trump—yet the Twenty-second Amendment works to constrain their enthusiasm by prohibiting them from rewarding Trump with re-election four years from now,” he wrote, perhaps getting ahead of himself a bit. I do not doubt that Trump would run for a third term if he could. He has addressed the possibility before, suggesting in 2020 that he should get to run for one “because they spied on my campaign,” referring to his political opponents. And at a closed-door fundraiser in 2018, Trump also favorably referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping for eliminating the two-term limit in that country. “He’s now president for life, president for life, and he’s great,” he reportedly told his supporters. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.”

Maybe Trump's campaign slogan for 2028 should be: Make America Belarus. The dictator of Belarus, a Putin satellite, has been using rigged elections to remain in power since 1994.

Never mind the US Constitution. Trump's trained seals on the US Supreme Court will gladly find some loophole allowing him to be president in perpetuity.

If somebody says he wants to be a dictator, believe him – especially if he's already a big fanboy of despots like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and Xi Jinping.

It's almost always easier to prevent a dictator from taking power than it is to get rid of one who is already in power.

[madoka-in-the-city]

If "Homura did nothing wrong", how come "Homura [also] did everything wrong"?

[Archaic: SHUT THE FUCK UP]

Ah, Homura's paradox! How fun~!

Homura did nothing wrong in the sense that she was selfishly selfless -- she wanted to protect Madoka, aka, me.

Homura did everything wrong in the sense that she was obsessive. As much as I do love her, I do have to fault her for pulling me apart~ However, I cannot fault her too much, as she was turning into a witch when she did it.

🌹

[wetbananapeel]

Self portrait in early December | 2023

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Chuck Tanner and Devin Burghart at IREHR:

Far-right groups like the Third Term Project and Republicans for National Renewal are concocting a multitude of ways to keep Donald Trump in power. In April, the “official retail website” of the Trump Organization, the Trump Store, unveiled the latest version of its red MAGA hat, emblazoned with ��TRUMP 2028.”[1] The hat is the latest nod to a blatantly un-Constitutional effort by the authoritarian-leaning President to seek a third term. The idea has been bandied about for some time by MAGA figures like Steve Bannon. While White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt coyly continues to hint at the possibility of a third-term effort, other far-right groups are actively pushing the cause. In the last few weeks, more than two dozen MAGA groups have either rebranded or formed with “2028” in their name.[2] Building on conspiracies of “stolen” elections and nefarious actors impeding the Trump agenda, far-right groups have concocted a multitude of schemes for Trump to stay in power. Let’s look at the various schemes and the groups behind them.

Scheme A: Amending the 22nd Amendment

The most popular scheme to keep Trump in power is a plan to amend the 22nd Amendment, allowing a president to serve three terms. The idea is the brainchild of Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN). In January, he introduced a “House Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to allow a President to be elected for up to but no more than three terms.” Ogles justified this action by citing Trump’s need for more time, “reversing our nation’s decay and restoring America to greatness.” Ogles’s examples of the regime’s first steps in this direction included Trump’s inhumane and unconstitutional attacks on immigrants and their due process rights, as well as the administration’s efforts to gut civil rights under the guise of having “broken the chains of DEI,” among other things.[3]

Far-right groups have started flocking to the Ogles effort. A recent Mother Jones article highlighted an effort to bring a Trump third term to fruition by the Third Term Project, a project led by Shane Trejo that emerged at last month’s CPAC convention. “Trump is the Caesar figure that America has needed.” Trejo declared. [...] Support for the Ogles effort also comes from the Republicans for National Renewal (RNR). This far-right nationalist group has featured speakers such as US Representatives Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), as well as anti-Muslim bigot and white nationalism fan Laura Loomer. A link on the Third Term Project page titled “Grassroots Resolution” connects to a petition hosted by RNR that “Supports a constitutional amendment, such as the one introduced by Rep. Ogles, to modify presidential term limits to allow for up to three terms in office.”[8] [...]

Scheme B: The Presidential Switcheroo

In addition to pushing Ogles’s 22nd Amendment change scheme, the Third Term Project is promoting the plan to have Trump run as Vice President, then ascend to the presidency after the inauguration.[10] If getting Congress to amend the 22nd Amendment’s two-term limit doesn’t take off, another scheme involves finding a loophole. The text of the 22nd Amendment bars anyone from being “elected” to a third presidential term, but says nothing about a person becoming president for a third term by some other route, such as by being elected vice president and then ascending back to the presidency through the death, resignation, or removal of the person at the top of the ticket. However, a prior Amendment addresses the unconstitutionality of the president-vice president switcheroo. Passed nearly 150 years before the 22nd Amendment, the 12th Amendment states that no one “constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President.” If Trump were ineligible to serve a third presidential term under the 22nd Amendment, they wouldn’t be eligible to become vice president under the 12th Amendment. [...]

Scheme C: An Article V Constitutional Convention

Suppose Congress fails to amend the 22nd Amendment, and the Supreme Court rules out the switcheroo scheme. In that case, far-right groups have been working for years on a backup plan to use the states to initiate a full-scale Constitutional Convention to rewrite the US Constitution to keep Trump in power. The Third Term Project also calls for an Article V Constitutional Convention, a gathering to amend the Constitution held by Congress when “two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary…or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states.”[11] [...]

Scheme D: Defy the Constitution

If the far right is unable to muster the votes for an Article V Convention, or a Congressional Amendment, or a Presidential switcheroo scheme, other ideas are percolating. There are likely new schemes to follow. Steve Bannon suggested in a recent interview that there are “four or five” options for a presidential third term that his group will be rolling out closer to the 2026 midterms.[28] Some far-rightists have decided that the corruption of judges and others in the “deep state” is just too deep, so it’s time to ignore the courts (and the Constitution). In the QAnon conspiracy world, some point to clues of Trump as “the Last President,” where he will maintain rule over the nation.[29] Tech NeoReactionaries, like Curtis Yarvin, see an opportunity to assert absolute executive power to move the country away from a Constitutional democratic republic to a Monarch/CEO system of control. Others, particularly in the paramilitary wing, continue to fantasize about a second Civil War if Trump is prohibited from running again.

The MAGA cult is planning some harebrained scheme to get Donald Trump a 3rd term one way or the other.

[youngpettyqueen]

trust the process trust the process trust the process I tell myself over and over as I try something new with crochet

[troglodytemignon]

I probably will have a choice for my next job, and the choice feels like I'm in a 19th century moral tale (I'm going to make the evil choice)

[etlu-yume]

the not-fun part of new monthly spreads is trying to work out why last month's version didn't work the way you want to and how to *quickly* fix it to test this month instead.

[ragnars-tooth]

It never fails to piss me off that because of my degree I wasn't allowed to take the bookbinding module (100+ hours of teaching) because it was "covered in the illustration syllabus". Was it. Because I got 15 hours in 3 years and they were all optional.

We got to third year and no one knew how to do a saddle stitch bind and the tutors (who we had in first year also) got mad at us. Like girl idk we'd BEEN asking for you to do more than all give conflicting opinions on poorly explained briefs but sure. Its my fault I can't really remember how to do that thing I learnt once when I was a silly idiot child (a fresher)

Anyways I'm planning to bind some little zines for xmas gifts and I know already that I'm going to scream and cry and throw up and do it all wrong repeatedly 🙏