Trump re-election not just possible, but likely.

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Judge Jeanine Pirro breaks down former President Donald Trump’s performance during CNN town hall on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’

Historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Niall Ferguson argued that former President Donald Trump is not only a strong candidate for reelection in 2024, but the most likely person to win and take back the White House.

"A second Trump act is not just possible. It’s fast becoming my base case," Ferguson wrote in an op-ed for The Spectator.

Ferguson explained that even a sustained "campaign of lawfare" against the former president by his political enemies is not enough to stop him from coming back into the White House. In fact, "the prospect of him performing the perp walk attracts media coverage, and media coverage is the free publicity on which Trump has always thrived," he said. 

[Mac Mickmanus]

And had Trump won the last election, he would be approaching the end of his reign as POTUS

[Tug]

This is something every American should keep in the forefront of their minds that it is indeed possible that this ignorant trust fund baby could possibly again be let lose on our democracy and the world it mustn’t be allowed to happen we at best will need decades to recover from what he’s done allready 

[torturedsole]

1 minute ago, Tug said:

This is something every American should keep in the forefront of their minds that it is indeed possible that this ignorant trust fund baby could possibly again be let lose on our democracy and the world it mustn’t be allowed to happen we at best will need decades to recover from what he’s done allready 

But all the crazy countries kept schtum during Trump's reign. And now, all of a sudden, they want a piece of the West. 

[Chomper Higgot]

31 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

And had Trump won the last election, he would be approaching the end of his reign as POTUS

He’s already passed his time in the WH.

 

(‘Reign’ that’s something visited on serfs, not citizens in a republic).

 

Edited May 14, 2023 by Chomper Higgot

[Pouatchee]

Question about American politics. If Trump wins can he sit for 8 years, or can he only do 4 cos he already did 4?

[Tug]

27 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

And had Trump won the last election, he would be approaching the end of his reign as POTUS

We are a democracy not a kingdom here it’s called a term not a reign hope that helps you to understand the American system 

[Chomper Higgot]

More garbage from FOX.

 

But if it galvanizes opposition to this would be tyrant, then all well and good.

 

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/

[Chomper Higgot]

7 minutes ago, torturedsole said:

But all the crazy countries kept schtum during Trump's reign. And now, all of a sudden, they want a piece of the West. 

What on earth is that about?

[torturedsole]

Just now, Chomper Higgot said:

What on earth is that about?

What are you on about?

[Mac Mickmanus]

4 minutes ago, Tug said:

We are a democracy not a kingdom here it’s called a term not a reign hope that helps you to understand the American system 

Reign means : 2 

 

: the period of time during which someone is in charge of a group or organization

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, torturedsole said:

What are you on about?

This, it doesn’t make sense:

 

10 minutes ago, torturedsole said:

But all the crazy countries kept schtum during Trump's reign. And now, all of a sudden, they want a piece of the West. 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Reign means : 2 

 

: the period of time during which someone is in charge of a group or organization

The President of the US does not reign.

 

Don’t expose any more of your ignorance on the matter, it’s embarrassing.

[scottiejohn]

22 minutes ago, Pouatchee said:

Question about American politics. If Trump wins can he sit for 8 years, or can he only do 4 cos he already did 4?

Only 4 more years.

The absolute max that can be served is 1 day short of 10 years and can only happen if you take over, unelected, from the sitting president and serve less than two years as the non elected president. You can then serve 2 full terms if elected in your own right. 

 

The number of years a president can serve in the White House is spelled out in the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." However, if an individual becomes president through the order of succession, that is by taking office after the death, resignation, or ousting of the previous president, they are allowed to serve an additional two years."

Edited May 14, 2023 by scottiejohn
22 amendment added

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, scottiejohn said:

Only 4 more years.

The absolute max that can be served is 1 day short of 10 years and can only happen if you take over, unelected, from the sitting president and serve less than two years as the non elected president. You can then serve 2 full terms if elected in your own right. 

That’s not the kind of ‘serving’ Trump has ahead of him.

 

And with that in mind, here’s the good news, the ‘term time’ runs to life.

[torturedsole]

11 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The President of the US does not reign.

 

Don’t expose any more of your ignorance on the matter, it’s embarrassing.

Do what you like but was clear enough. 

 

Take care and goodbye.

Edited May 14, 2023 by torturedsole

[LaosLover]

If the women and young don't show up to turf him out, I view it as very much on their heads.

 

But either way, It's not like I'm going back to $2K a month health insurance-land -pretty much ever.

 

Here, it's $450. The repubs fighting about drag queens and the wall in the face of that have resulted in a life time tune out on my end.

[Neeranam]

2 hours ago, Tug said:

This is something every American should keep in the forefront of their minds that it is indeed possible that this ignorant trust fund baby could possibly again be let lose on our democracy and the world it mustn’t be allowed to happen we at best will need decades to recover from what he’s done allready 

Not sure if you are joking or not. 

 

Trump did well cleaning up the mess the previous 2 made. 

 

Look at the figures and don't be like the other anti Trump supremacists. 

[Neeranam]

1 hour ago, LaosLover said:

If the women and young don't show up to turf him out, I view it as very much on their heads

I think they will turn up as he has done a terrible job, much worse than Trump would have done. 

Not sure why you think the women are important. 

[Tug]

8 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

I think they will turn up as he has done a terrible job, much worse than Trump would have done. 

Not sure why you think the women are important. 

Oh boy lol ???? really?catching any fish?

[ozimoron]

Yeah, Fox thinks Trump might win the election. Yawn.

 

There isn't any history of a failed president winning a second term after losing re-election the first time. .

Edited May 14, 2023 by ozimoron

[riclag]

I never heard this guy name before today

Niall Ferguson! 
Just another opinion that has 18 months of legacy media spin left to debate .imop

 

[ozimoron]

6 minutes ago, riclag said:

I never heard this guy name before today

Niall Ferguson! 
Just another opinion that has 18 months of legacy media spin left to debate .imop

 

 

serves as the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.[2][3] Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.

Ferguson writes and lectures on international history, economic history, financial history and the history of the British Empire and American imperialism

 

Ferguson was an advisor to John McCain's U.S. presidential campaign in 2008, supported Mitt Romney in his 2012 campaign and was a vocal critic of Barack Obama.

 

Edited May 14, 2023 by ozimoron

[herfiehandbag]

31 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Ferguson was an advisor to John McCain's U.S. presidential campaign in 2008, supported Mitt Romney in his 2012 campaign and was a vocal critic of Barack Obama.

So one can form one's own views on where " he is coming from", leaving aside that he is flavour of the month on Fox!

[ozimoron]

3 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

So one can form one's own views on where " he is coming from", leaving aside that he is flavour of the month on Fox!

Still, he does serve as a wake up for the Dems not to get too complacent which is useful for them if not Ferguson's intended target. It's a great shame that Biden decided to run again. We're going to see a lot more of these articles.

Edited May 14, 2023 by ozimoron

[heybruce]

5 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

And had Trump won the last election, he would be approaching the end of his reign as POTUS

And Ukraine and NATO would no longer exist.

[heybruce]

4 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Only 4 more years.

The absolute max that can be served is 1 day short of 10 years and can only happen if you take over, unelected, from the sitting president and serve less than two years as the non elected president. You can then serve 2 full terms if elected in your own right. 

 

The number of years a president can serve in the White House is spelled out in the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." However, if an individual becomes president through the order of succession, that is by taking office after the death, resignation, or ousting of the previous president, they are allowed to serve an additional two years."

Although if Trump is elected he will try to change that.

[heybruce]

2 hours ago, Neeranam said:

Not sure if you are joking or not. 

 

Trump did well cleaning up the mess the previous 2 made. 

 

Look at the figures and don't be like the other anti Trump supremacists. 

Exactly what mess(es) did Trump clean up?

 

Was it of the magnitude of the economic disaster that President Obama inherited from President Bush?

[bendejo]

4 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

That’s not the kind of ‘serving’ Trump has ahead of him.

 

And with that in mind, here’s the good news, the ‘term time’ runs to life.

The plan behind the MAGA/Bannon/Flynn/et-al vision for the US is to get rid of these intrusive laws and the entities that enforce them so that they can control with their own enforcement entities.  Don't get lost in the controversies of any given moment, those are just more sideshows to provide diversion, reaction and outrage ("he called her a WHAT?").  Think of Penn and Teller: the fat guy babbles endlessly to keep your attention while the other guy quietly sets things up. 

If DT gets elected again it is quite likely that within a few years Flynn will be running the US: the rats will be factionalized and destroying each other.  Flynn likes to say that he's taken down governments.

 

 

[300sd]

6 hours ago, Tug said:

This is something every American should keep in the forefront of their minds that it is indeed possible that this ignorant trust fund baby could possibly again be let lose on our democracy and the world it mustn’t be allowed to happen we at best will need decades to recover from what he’s done allready 

The US will never recover from what this administration has done!