By Pepper Parr
January 28th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Here is how it looks like things are going to work.
After a Republican introduced legislation earlier this month to propose a constitutional amendment that would allow Trump to run for a third term, Representative Dan Goldman, Democrat of New York, said in a statement:
“Are you getting the joke?”
“By now, Donald Trump’s pattern is predictable:
‘joke’ about something unconstitutional or authoritarian;
normalize the ‘joke’;
allow sycophantic Republicans to adopt the ‘joke’ as a serious idea
until it becomes MAGA orthodoxy.”
That’s what we are seeing so far.
Standing up to President Trump has to be started at the joke point.
I think what’s come as a shock is how fast democracy can end when a small majority of people don’t pay attention and vote for a lunatic felon and when a considerable number of people don’t vote – either due to ignorance, racism, sexism, or apathy. Nobody should be excusing anything that Trump and his cabal of criminals is doing, or treating them as if any of this is “business as usual”. It’s like 1936 Germany. Every Canadian and Canadian leader should be speaking out loudly like Charlie Angus is.
And please, I don’t want to see the face of the racist rapist on here. Please insert a mango or something instead.
Wouldn’t this be a disservice to the melon?
Just one of many periodicals out there, this one is a much softer view by the author of What Americans Voted for rather than ‘Fortress America’ but that’s Trump’s ‘Go Big or go home’ style; If you were hoping it was all bluster, it isn’t, Canada still needs to restructure it’s thinking, and be quick about it. Just as a reminder regarding 5. Below, refers to a remark by George Washington in his farewell address ‘Passionate attachments’ ‘RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT’: A Manifesto for restrainers’
5. Restrainers Want Business-like Relations with All Countries and Special Relations with None.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2019/12/04/a-manifesto-for-restrainers/
Mr. Goldman has hit the nail on the head. Not unlike the patterns adopted by con men to take in their marks. They appear friendly and smiling at first, maybe joking, but over time they get more serious as the marks become more attentive and agreeable. And soon you’ve got followers along your parade route.
Dictators in the making use similar techniques to lure in gullible people on their way up. Americans, you saw this coming. And you didn’t stop it.
FDR got a third term so this could happen.
I just looked up the third-term issue. “Two years after FDR’s death, Congress passed the 22nd Amendment, limiting presidents to two terms. The amendment was then ratified in 1951.”
https://www.history.com/news/fdr-four-term-president-22-amendment
I’ve heard about this option – Trump has someone he controls run for president, Trump runs as vice president, after the election the president resigns.
Putin used that option to become dictator in Russia. He couldn’t run again for President (similar rules then as U.S.), so he ran for Premier or something like that and his puppet ran for President ands won. Soon the puppet was gone and Putin changed the rules so I think he can be President for life if he wants now. That’s what dictators do.
Barron. The start of a Trump dynasty?
I don’t know why people are so surprised when it comes to Donald Trump issuing executive orders to do the things he said he would when campaigning prior to the election.
Perhaps people are so conditioned for politicians not to do what they indicated they would do prior to winning an election that this has come as a shock to them.
I am not someone who would have voted for Donald Trump but the majority of Americans did and he is doing what he promised he would.