Of Course He's Running Again
We need to be prepared.
When I see the pundits smirking over Trumpet’s post that Republicans did so poorly in the election because he wasn’t on the ballot, I’m afraid.
They laugh and say “He’s never going to be on the ballot again.”
That’s just Wrong.
Saying that gives us a false sense of complacency.
Please stop.
Trumpet says he’s running all the time. His people like Bannon say the motive part out loud: he needs to be serving in 2029 or they’re all going to jail.
Trumpet is still the leader of the cult-of-personality MAGA GOP.
That gives them motive and opportunity.
Let me unpack the means.
I understand this is going to be an anxiety and anger provoking essay, and I hope you’ll realize I’m just a messenger here.
The simple path is what he’s said: he’ll run for Vice President. Then whoever ran for President will step aside and he’ll ascend to the Presidency again.
At this point you may want to yell: “No! 22nd Amendment!”
I understand, but it doesn’t say what you may think it does.
Some more of you may now yell “Aha! 12th Amendment!”
But because the 22nd isn’t what you thought, the 12th doesn’t help us.
This is well researched: I’ll put links at the end.
Of course there will be a court challenge to him running, but he’s likely to win even with a Supreme Court that isn’t bending backwards for him.
We can hope he might die of old age, but we better not be planning on it.
If he is on the ballot, and if he loses - and both things seem likely - then on January 6th, 2029, he will be able to summon a mob and the Quick Reaction Force National Guard that they’re now building, to come to Washington DC to overthrow what he will call the “traitors who are stealing your country... again.”
I’ll go into detail on what I expect that may look like in a future post.
But it is bat-shitaki-mushroom crazy.
I’m sorry.
Despite our wins in November, we’re not out of this thing yet.
Here’s the pin I want to put out now: DJT can run again, and he’s told us multiple times how. It’s the Vice President who then succeeds to President gambit.
Let’s get the 22nd and 12th Amendments out of the way.
The Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 uses the construction “No Person except (some qualifications) … shall be eligible to the Office of the President.”
And the 12th Amendment goes the same way: “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
Sadly, the 22nd Amendment is completely different: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.”
So the prohibition in the 22nd is against being elected, not serving. Because it doesn’t preclude serving, the 12th amendment doesn’t apply (because they’re not “constitutionally ineligible to the office,” only to election to the office.)
Imagine a scenario where Barack Obama was Speaker of the House, and the President and Vice President died at the same time. Obama would succeed to the Presidency: no problem with the 22nd Amendment.
Yes, it’ll be challenged in court as not being what the framers of the Amendment intended. But that’s a hard sell, especially since there was apparently an early draft of it that included prohibition of being able to serve as well as get elected, but the final text didn’t have that service prohibition. Which indicates pretty strongly that their intention was to only stop them from being elected.
Implications:
Once you accept that they now have motivation, opportunity, and with the VP-to-Pres hack, they also have the means.
So the crime is coming.
Assuming he doesn’t die of natural causes, the motivation for his backers to continue to back him is that he’s the only one who can pull off the violent coup that will be necessary to keep them all out of jail.
I imagine he proceeds as follows:
He teases this idea from now until the midterms. That’s a way of ‘grooming’ the nation and his followers by lightly touching on it.
When the midterms clobber them, he’ll say what he said this time: “It’s because I wasn’t on the ballot.”
At some point he’ll announce he’s going to do this thing: he’ll run for the Republican Nomination for President (there’s no amendment against that, though there may be a court challenge, perhaps he loses it, but see the Supreme’s rulings in Trump v. USA and decide what you really believe.)
Like last time, he walks away with the nomination without even running, and that’s assuming some candidate is willing to cross him and run.
At the convention in the middle of the summer, with only 3 months for court challenges left, he picks his surrogate - let’s call that JD - to be the token Presidential candidate.
They run the general election (I imagine Trump’s name is bigger on all the advertising.)
There will be a second court challenge, but with just 3 months to go, it can be punted or whatever, or even decided: the language is in Trumpet’s favor.
Assuming the courts don’t somehow stop this, Trump is on the ballot on Nov 7th, 2028.
If he wins (unlikely) then there’s the chance that JD would double-cross him.
This was my original objection: feasibility of the heist at the end.
But then I realized that while he was President, Trumpet can give Seal Team 6 a preemptive pardon for assassinating JD if JD double-crosses Trumpet.
And Trumpet can stack that: Ranger team 6 is pardoned for assassinating Seal Team 6 if they don’t go through with it.
And Trumpet tells JD all this. Heck, he shows them loading JD engraved bullets right before the oath ceremony.
It’s just every day mobster politics.
However, odds are pretty strong Trumpet loses. And badly.
Then they re-run the January 6th 2020 playbook.
But this time they have pre-pardoned rioters and National Guard Quick Reaction Forces and maybe even 1 or 2 battalions of Trumpet loyalists in the military.
You can see already how bat-shitaki-crazy this new Jan 6th 2029 is likely to be if we have a losing DJT on the ballot.
Which is why no one should mock it.
We need to take it deadly seriously, because down this road lies violence and the threat of violence with the ultimate prize of power over the United States of America.
Which I will cover in another video. Actually, it will take a series of them.
If you want to read the gory details before that video comes out, you can head over to ProjectLiberty2029.info and look for the Coming Constitutional Hack.
Finally:
We’re ultimately going to win, because they cannot hold America, land of a half a Trillion guns, with just 30% of the population, a Quick reaction .
But. They can make it very painful, and we need to not mock or smirk at the idea of him on the ballot in 2028.
We need to shed the idea that we can have a completely peaceful return to Liberty and Justice for All.
That means looking clear-eyed at the strategic and tactical moves this regime may take to preserve its power.
With careful planning, which should emerge as consensus among those of us resisting this regime, we can maximize our chances of success with a minimum of violence, where hopefully any such violence is caught on camera as coming from their side.
I will point out once again, that this coming battle over January 6th 2029 is another reason why if Democrats run on a Universal Basic Share of All Income, we will have a better outcome, because such a promise is achievable at the national level, better for 80% of Americans, controls the national debt, and makes the powerful pay a tax to support it that they cannot avoid.
Such a policy offers so much security to regular Americans that it will drain enthusiasm for using and participating in armed force by the 30% who are still just in love with Trumpet.
It will not only reduce our pain in the short term, but it will insure our gain in the long term.
See www.FairAndShare.info for more.
On that note,
Amen, America.
Arguing that it IS constitutional:
Twice and Future President: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1908&context=mlr
Larry Tribe: “Trump isn’t ineligible.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laurence-tribe-donald-trump-third-term_n_67eb8bf2e4b001c7dedc7d7f
George Conway: “The text of the constitution allows him to accede to the office.” “The legislative history is worse, because the original drafts included ‘no serving,’ but they changed it to ‘elected.’”
Arguing that it IS NOT
constitutional: