Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration.
“You know, FDR 16 years – almost 16 years – he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?” The ex-president and GOP presidential frontrunner said to the organization’s annual convention in Dallas, prompting some in the crowd to yell “three!” Politico reported.
Trump has floated a third term in past comments, even mentioning a prolonged presidency while campaigning in 2020. He has also tried distancing himself from this idea, telling Time magazine in April: “I wouldn’t be in favor of it at all. I intend to serve four years and do a great job.”
Lock him the fuck up already
The same guy who unilaterally banned bump stocks with an executive order being hosted by the NRA shows how much the NRA actually cares about the second amendment.
Bump stocks and all other focuses on rate of fire are more or less a sacrificial lamb. It provides a strong distinction between “Heh, stupid fucking loser thinking ‘assault rifles’ are actually a thing” and “semi-automatic versions of rifles specifically designed for and used by military forces”
When the reality is that basically every military strong discourages the use of full auto by anyone whose job is not to carry a machine gun of some form. But, because that AR-15 you bought at Walmart doesn’t have full auto, it isn’t a military weapon.
And because it is our god given right to carry an m249 everywhere we go, it is a horrible insult to the gun nuts of the world to lose their full auto capabilities so we should all feel warm and fuzzy and stop trying to stop kids from getting shot.
Yeah bullshit, these assholes don’t give a fuck about your rights or mine, they care about their power, money, and influence.
That’s because full auto rifles*, are typically seen as wasting limited ammunition, and a modern military unit isn’t likely to encounter a bunched together group of 30-50 soft targets where a full auto rifle would be most effective…unlike a mass shooter indiscriminately targeting a crowded concert.
*Rifles, not machine guns. I’m well aware of the utility of squad machine gunners, talking guns, etc.
First off: modern militaries DO get some nice mass executions a lot more often than one would expect. Well worth doing some reading up on that.
Second: Automatic fire is still horrible for that. If your bullets have a high degree of penetration then you are, generally mortally, wounding multiple civilians per shot and are better at aimed shots at clusters of women and children. Or your bullets don’t have a high degree of penetration and you mostly just light up one or two kindergartners whose corpses take up most of the shots. At which point you are, again, better off at firing off a bunch of snap shots.
Third: The actual reason militaries have automatic weapons is for situations where aiming is difficult or less important. Machine gunners at the squad level are expected to fire very short controlled bursts (otpimally single shots) to actually suppress a target when trying to “keep some heads down” so that the maneuver group can flank. Or they are engaging at significantly longer ranges (which is why machine guns often have a larger caliber round than the rifles) where a short burst increases the likelihood of hitting a target. And while it is mostly out of favor, many infantry rifles had burst fire capability or even simultaneous fire capability (either with two barrels or a ridiculously high rate of fire burst) to increase the likelihood of infantry hitting a target by spending more on ammo than training (before realizing it significantly increases the cost of the weapons AND requires more training so that the high schoolers can maintain their weapons in the field). But modern optics, and a decade or two of being the only people with NVGs, rendered that obsolete.
This guy massacres
Are you claiming the “take the guns first” guy isn’t a strong 2A supporter? Say it isn’t so!
Amazing how little Republicans care when the person saying that has an R next to their name
PLEASE! SOMEONE SHOOT UP A BUNCH OF 6 YEAR OLDS SO I CAN PRETEND I CARE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION AGAIN! PLEASE!
-Pro Life Republicans.
What a doozie of a way to start a sentence…
You know, FDR 16 years – almost 16 years – he was four terms. I don’t know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?
Sounds like he’s just questioning whether the current Biden term is actually considered a Trump term. Just the usual election denial from him and the NRA crowd.
Least Nixon had the bottle to leave
And all that without even getting slammed or flattened. I guess he got away with it this time.
Ok hear me out…
Trump wants to be a dictator, sure. He was a terrible president and it would be a disaster if he was reelected.
Now that you know my position, listen to what he said at the NRA convention. He wasn’t saying ‘hey maybe I’ll serve 3 terms’… what he was saying was ‘if I get elected in 2024 then would that be two terms or three terms? Because we all know I was elected to a second term back in 2020 and so even though Biden is acting president, I am in my second term now, so a win in 2024 is a third term.’
The man is an idiot and rambled incoherently throughout the NRA speech. He reiterated his usual batch of racist xenophobic statements and bragged about his uncle at MIT… he is a one trick pony and there is plenty to poke fun at.
Would he tout the idea of a third term for himself? Sure! Is that what he did in this case, not precisely.
Exactly. Of course, by putting forth the belief that 2020-2024 was his second term, he should just bow out since he has also said he would not want to challenge the 22nd amendment.
Oh you’re right. I guess I forgot one could be that stupid
He read that in the morning and misspoke. And that’s how you get old people to say funny things.
Maybe have younger people running for president?
Are peoples memories that short? He posted this 2 months before he “tried” distancing himself from the idea.
i mean, statistically there have been at least one president with more than two terms before.
This was also before there was a law that prevented it from happening.
An Amendment has been repealed before by another.
The last amendment took over 202 years to get ratified. I’m not sure another amendment can really get passed anytime in the distant future.
You’d have a point if it was the last one proposed.
The real issue is that Republicans control too much of the Senate and too many state legislatures to allow any sane amendment to pass.
ok well this one was actually a shitpost, it was passed by a college kid who got a bad grade on a paper about that amendment specifically.
it just happened to be written up 200 years ago, without a deadline, and then as a result, it passed recently when it received renewed interest. Most amendments and bills, and shit like this have a dead line, to prevent this kind of shit from happening lol.
tru tru.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t still currently a law.
Hmmmm sound more to me like he doesn’t know the current max number of terms
Not the first time he’s done this.
That is just another article about the exact same incident…
My mistake. Meant to post this link.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/politics/donald-trump-third-term-2024/index.html
noted fascist is a fascist, more at 5
Guys I’m starting to think that this Trump fellow might not like democracy
Just stop listening to him already…
What’s newsworthy about this? Trump flirting with dictatorship isn’t news, he already said multiple times he wants to be one.
This is massively news-worthy…news media is supposed to relay relevant facts about the situation, like this one, not try to entertain people by pivoting to new forms of content constantly.
I agree with you, but this is blatant misrepresentation of what actually happened, and that should worry you. I’m not saying this to defend Trump, I’m saying this to point out the misrepresentation of events by the news media.
Oh I agree with you.
It’s just that at this point it’s like “wolf trying to eat three little piggies”, no shit, really? Yes you’re right, this is news but I’m so sick of having to hear the obvious. Give me the news where he died of coronary heart disease, which he will soon enough, or a drug overdose, which i also see very likely.
Until then it will be more me stamping my bingo card, because of course he does <insert something horrible here>, than reading actual news
This so much. People need to recondition that entertainment is not news, and news should not be entertainment. News should be description of noteworthy (even if boring) factual events. A presumptive presidential candidate talking about violating the constitution of the United States, that is noteworthy; maybe not unexpected in this case, but noteworthy.
We need to be less entertained by news and more informed by news. Tell me what presidential candidates are saying in the most mundane terms possible. Anything beyond the barest oblique (as opposed to direct) fact or factual description should be eschewed.
