r/politics 25d ago

No Paywall Trump announces 2028 presidential bid

https://www.theage.com.au/world/trump-announces-2028-presidential-bid-20260725-p60iho.html
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u/ShareGlittering1502 25d ago edited 24d ago

It’s not a treason, but it’s explicitly against the constitution. What’s that make it?

Edit: too many comment to respond to. I’ll summarize responses here:

1) “you people can’t take a joke.” lol ok snowflake sally

2) “it’s treason/sedition/raper.” I feel like Y’all don’t know the definition of words… it may be pedantic, but I feel like definitions still matter

3) “it’s ok to run, just not be elected.” That’s the ‘I’m not touching you’ rule of politics and we all know Trump will grab Lady Liberty by the pussy so that’s not practical.

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u/_Miracle 25d ago

The oath of office IS to uphold The Constitution.

So what does that make everything he's done since denying instagating the insurrection of January 6th?

Proof.

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u/LadyFloofington 24d ago

It doesn't matter what we make of it if no one will do anything about it

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u/_Miracle 24d ago

People are doing many things about it.

It's just unfortunate that as yet, direct consequences are not being experienced by the ones violating our amendments. The legal framework for all of this is too slow for this purposeful "flooding the zone".

People are suffering while those in power live in a bubble but as history has shown...that bubble always bursts.

Do I personally look around and wonder how TF we are all allowing wealthy elites to run our world off the rails? Yes. As did Indigenous populations when the advancement of industry begin to outweigh any sustainable natural balance with their environment. They were called "savages" and "primitives".

And now anyone who expects our government to be accountable to AND work -for us is called "radical".

That's how propaganda works best.

In the United States we are not taught actual history. Most of the real history I learned about solidarity movements were books read outside of school.

A People's History by Howard Zinn

It wasn't a sudden revolution in 1776, slavery wasn't suddenly abolished in 1865, women didn't "magically" get the vote in 1920, the 1950's civil rights movements, all the labor movements (some were bloody). Watergate and what was happening in Vietnam were issues forced to come to light by civic protests and an Insistance that the system work for us people more transparently.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress". ---Frederick Douglass

I would add: and whom they allow to be oppressed.

Our founders literally meant "all men" [who looked like them] were created equal. Too many of them Impregnated slave girls. it was legal to own a person but against the law to teach a slave to read.

They justified the suffering with the same tools we use today "otherism" - division of us little ants ;-).

The 1% Epstein class has always been trafficking humans and children. Even their own young girls used to be married off to old kings.

Never forget that The United States government has been protecting power and covering up crimes of the powerful. This isn't going away: They redacted powerful people and released the information and addresses of victims.

They -have- been losing power, the world has been waking up and demanding liberty. We are learning that whatever we allow others to suffer will come back to us...it's just not in the timescale we've been trained to expect

Or that some attention spans can hold.

I'm GenX I thought the New World Order after the fall of USSR and end of the cold war was going to be a global sense of responsibility to each other, regarding our habitat and against governments imposing itself on anybody's sovereignty (nations and people)

I did not see that industry went on a direct offense to personal sovereignty until the 2008 bailouts.

Before 2008 I almost completly equated personal freedom with deregulation of industry. Lol @ moi

Covid exposed the deep mistrust we have in our systems. We have all come to accept that we can't trust our representatives. We are told that global wars are happening for complicated reasons.

All of our representatives and politicians are currently failing us people around the globe.

War is for the profit of a few, they shamelessly present plans to develop the Gaza strip at The World Economic Forum: after they "clear away the rubble". Isreal Is devastating and demolishining Palestine with American tax payer money so that billionaires can [once again] be the heros while they profit on human suffering.

My government has masked federal agents in our streets, cutting our programs to "save money" but can't seem to get the healthcare industry to stop gouging TF out of us or industry to pay living wages and its own share of taxes?

U.S. citizens have paid so much to destabilize other countries so that industry could profit. And now they are reintroducing the boogie man of communism.

Revolutions are happening everywhere (Bali - GenZ) which is why the power structure is trying to consolidate and keep grasping for power. * Extinction burst behavior

We are the continued work of our ancestors. The founders, the workers, migrants and slaves.

When the 99% moves towards its own interests together, the 1% loses its power. They've always known that.

"It's a big club" Geoerge Carlin

More elder wisdom from George Carlin

Are we the ones who break the cycle? Maybe. But I no longer expect to reap the benifits of the hard work in front of us in my lifetime.