Talking about Trump talking about a “third term” isn’t talking about the future. Trump is starting the attack right now. And the attack is part of how he consolidates power right now. This isn’t “a conversation for later.” Once again, we’re watching a coup attempt, his second, in slow motion. - ThreadSky

jeffsharlet.bsky.social • 11 days ago

Talking about Trump talking about a “third term” isn’t talking about the future. Trump is starting the attack right now. And the attack is part of how he consolidates power right now. This isn’t “a conversation for later.” Once again, we’re watching a coup attempt, his second, in slow motion.

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melancholyjaques.bsky.social•11 days ago

I'm curious why you call it an attempt when it seems pretty clear that it's over, he won.

lanarkrose.bsky.social•11 days ago

Or third. ‘20, ‘24, ‘28

denismcdowell.bsky.social•11 days ago

He is really good at the slow boil, too. He starts by mentioning kind of as a sort of throwaway jokey line then his surrogates start talking about it before he picks it up once it is more normalized.

He did the same with Greenland and Canada.

sugarcubedog.bsky.social•11 days ago

He talked about it while campaigning. Same with being a dictator. Now he has the power to do it even though it’s legal.

lantern-light.bsky.social•11 days ago

Absolutely, and it’s also very bold of him to assume his body’s not going to give out by then. He is an old, unhealthy man.

restofusparty.bsky.social•11 days ago

Correct. We need to start acting.

profbobhowarth.bsky.social•11 days ago

He got away with his first coup attempt, through shear brashness, deceit, and stalling in court. So perhaps not surprise he is emboldened to try again.

kaykenney.bsky.social•11 days ago

Trump never stopped talking about his next coup even after the fall out from his first coup 1/6/21.

velcroski.bsky.social•11 days ago

Not certain that it is slow.

gautammani.bsky.social•11 days ago

I don't think the motion is all that slow.

jeffsharlet.bsky.social•11 days ago

I know, it feels fast. But we’re going 10 mph on a ride that goes up to 1000. “Slow” means no tanks.

velcroski.bsky.social•11 days ago

Okay. I’ll agree. But the way I see it, they are picking off one group at a time, vilifying as they go. “Inefficient, lazy, fraudsters, foreign, rural, urban, criminal.”
Eventually, they will get to everyone’s “my” group, while actually it was right at the beginning.

westvillagecrank.bsky.social•11 days ago

I am puzzled. Pettyman Smallcock announcing that he wants to be king for life could will strike some people - some unbalanced people - the wrong way. And those people express their anger in unpleasant ways.

artrage.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yup just like when he was in his last year of his last term and he "predicted" his upcoming reelection bid would be "rigged." It wasn't. He lost. On January 6th he attempted his first coup.

astrobot101.bsky.social•11 days ago

He really, really likes that title, "Most powerful man on Earth", despite being the biggest fucking ignorant pussy alive.

freejack.bsky.social•11 days ago

Probably...but also manipulating the media to get them off the Signal story and other bad news (economy).

whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social•11 days ago

Third

selenenightingale.bsky.social•11 days ago

The slow motion part is what makes it so dangerous.. people don’t notice until it’s too late.

notjobloggs.bsky.social•11 days ago

How about him doing a first term behind bars?

embersidhe.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yes!

erinslick.bsky.social•11 days ago

As If that lazy slob is gonna survive that long

vtgenie.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's as though they asked him, were you thinking of robbing a bank? And then reporting about the conversation they had about his preferred banks and methods. Except, of course, it's worse because they are normalizing his pathologies.

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