Republican President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not joking about seeking a third presidential term, which is barred by the U.S. Constitution, but that it was too early to think about doing so.
Trump, who took office on January 20 for his second, non-consecutive White House term, has made vague allusions to seeking a third one but addressed it directly on Sunday in a telephone interview with NBC News.
“No, I’m not joking. I’m not joking,” Trump said, but “it is far too early to think about it.”
“There are, there are methods which you could do it, as you know,” he said. He declined to elaborate on any specific methods.
So, what’s your plan on passive progressive policy? Keep voting for centrists that keep campaigning with republicans? That remove third parties from elections? That run attack ads on third parties? That refuse primaries? We keep doing that and the party is going to be where republicans are now in 20 years. If the DNC refuses to adopt progressive policies, they lose. That’s not my fault. They would rather Trump win than give up their power. Can’t support a party that doesn’t represent me. I would like it to, but it refuses.
Yall need to understand people criticize the DNC because they want it to be better. Most progressives still vote, and even if they did not vote for Harris, they voted down ballot. But when you sue to remove their candidate from the ballot, then they don’t show up and then you lose those local elections. When you continuously attack progressives and defend the DNC’s choice to abandon progress after it had the biggest victory it’s had running on the promise of progress in 2008, you’re helping to cause voter apathy and that leads to losing local elections. Which leads to republicans controlling the house and senate and presidency.
Personally I’m considering the possibility of a third party that can sweep a majority. I’m exploring ideas and policies that work. I’m running them by my friends from different walks of life. I’m personally thinking of taking a run at Susan Collins seat in Maine. A very right leaning district. If I could get a right wing district as a centrist, we would have a friendlier face to progressive views. We would have a person that could message progressive policy to the middle. If we could replicate this in multiple red districts and take the senate maybe we could defund isreal. I’d love to not be accountable for death and resume sending food aid to Gaza.
As you know progressive policies come from Congress. So we need to get a friendly majority in congress some way or the other. The DNC has got to go, we need to shame them into submission or leave them for a better voting block. If the DNC is still in place we’re sstuck with lesser of two evil candidates and small incremental changes.
I like small incremental changes. I appreciate the scocial progress from 1950-2025 we are heading in the right direction until Trump got in. Now we are back at 1920 and you want to talk to me about Kamalas proposed policies she was using to win an election. Issues that polled well with median US voters.
You know 70% of voters consider immigration in elections? It’s a real issue people vote on. You and i may not agree with them but we can’t drown out their voices that defies democracy.
I dont know what to do i’m just in awe of the lefts response to this presidency and congress, and the endless policy. We’re still talking about biden and the DNC. they are dead and gone. irrelevant to our future. If we had Kamala we could be debating each other all day about how to get a better progressive candidate. now the real question is how will 1/3 of the country survive this admin? How will democracy even work in 2 years?
Glad we can at least agree on some things. I just try and stop people from attacking the leftists because most still will vote down ballot, which helps with congress and local elections and local amendments and other ballot measures, but stopping them from voting means losing all of that. Can’t really blame them for not voting for a party that refuses to represent them. I’d rather encourage someone to vote third party than not vote.
And yeah, while I understand immigration is something people think about, that was honestly one of the biggest things to piss me off. We did not need to validate their bullshit racist irrational fears and decide to be “hard on immigration.” Like, stop playing by their bullshit games and do something right.
I love my local leftists. Very civic minded. Tend to their communities. Do support great local legislation. They volunteer to feed the homless and create community programs. It’s the internet leftists that exist to score points that are giving them a bad name.
Also leftist policy gets more dicey at a larger scale. I’d love to see more leftist in state government, i realistically dont expect them to gain much national traction for another generation or two. Authoritarianism will have a leftist reaction, i pray its not a violent one.
Yeah I think the largest reason a lot of people are more upset with DNC over refusing progressive policy is that well, there’s still plenty of leftist policy that people would not go for so something like PSL, whose last candidates were talking about nationalizing the top 100 companies would not be something I could see people getting behind. And yeah, the internet is the internet, I just wish people didn’t get so stuck in their ways that leftists are tankies or vegans are snobby assholes or etc. like sure some of those people exist but most real humans aren’t those stereotypes. But oh well.
Senator Brooker has been filibustering the senate for almost 20 hours. Reading testimony from american people who are suffering under trump. He’s crying and begging people to take action. He’s pleading for our dying democracy, saying that’s all he can do. We are all really suffering right now. We need unity. If you have a chance there are good democrats on the senate floor right now doing everything they can to stop republican legislation. Not all democrats are bad eaither. A lot of people really care. if you can watch this filibuster it might be the longest in history, and it may give you some hope that there are representatives that care and are trying to find a solution. They are hearing us.
https://www.c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-senate/432077
Yeah my problem is (mostly) with the DNC and Dem leadership. Did see him doing that, which is impressive for sure.
the DNC is like a puppy dog, you have to reward it when it does good and scold it when it is bad. Or we can just abolish it for a more favorable party/leadership. Im over them as well. I just don’t want to hand an empty void over to the republicans for more control.
Nah if you’ve ever lived near a big city you know based leftists who are amazing intelligent people. And ya if you’ve been on the internet you also know the purity testing and violence they can represent.
At this point im just trying to figure out who reluctantly voted for Kamala, and who stubbornly handed trump an election with Jill Stien. I want those lefts out. Their views do not reflect the democrats. They are just using democrats to push their ideology, but they are not here for us when it matters. I don’t want the people who would ignore the danger trump represented any more than i want the DNC who failed to counter him.
What im sayin’ is I hope you good lefties win the purity test once and for all. We need you guys but you are not a large enough voting base to concede popular issues to.