When his second term is over, he won't leave.

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42. It is quite the opposite

It is not obeying in advance, and your claim is both offensive and misguided. The crux of my argument is that pinning our hopes on the fact that he is supposed to leave office no later than the end of his current term is foolish. If we should have learned anything over the last 10 years, and particularly the last 9 months, it's that LAWS DO NOT APPLY TO HIM.

He is now literally murdering fisherman in South America and claiming they were "narco-terrorists". Do you think it's just a coincidence that they are now claiming all Democrats in general, and anyone opposing him more specifically, are "terrorists?

And yes, he is a fascist dictator. He and his enablers have ticked off 13 of the 14 boxes of the characteristics of fascism; is there any doubt they will go for the 14th, Fraudulent Elections, in the next pass?

Marcos is actually a good example, so I thank you for that. You'll note, however, he was forced from office due to mass protests. This is exactly my point. Claiming that we'll be rid of Trump no later than the end of his current term is painfully naive. Marcos declared martial law to stay in power past his term, if you don't think Trump will find a work around and that his enabling lickspittles in the Republican party will cheer him on, I don't know what to tell you. If America is incredibly fortunate, the actuarial tables will win before his four years are up, but barring that, it needs to be a popular uprising.

I truly hope you CAN'T make an I told you so post in January 2029, because American can't survive that long. Where you get this weird idea that I stated something about a military coup I really don't know.

Lastly, just like your attempt to control speech by claiming that arguments that you don't like will "hurt DU morale", attempting to cast doubt on my point of view not through reasoned debate but through post count is certainly an interesting approach. But sure, I'll play: I had thousands of posts at the old DU stretching back to 2004, but when the database got wrecked I was never able to recover my old account afterwards. I always continued to monitor DU over the years, but never felt the need for a new account to comment...until the pitch black darkness of Trump.