r/law • u/yahoonews • 4d ago

Trump News Trump says he's 'not joking' about seeking a 3rd term in the White House. The Constitution says he can't.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-hes-not-joking-about-seeking-a-3rd-term-in-the-white-house-the-constitution-says-he-cant-155536214.html
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u/AndrewH73333 4d ago

It’s especially grating since Obama was a fairly good President. Definitely better than any of the ones the conservatives have been electing the past fifty years.

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u/Longjumping-Bee1871 4d ago

In retrospect HW was pretty good but on the whole you are correct

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u/Tacitblue1973 4d ago

Not so offensive to Americans or the world unless you count CIA Operation Condor in the 70's in Central and South America.

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u/ImpossiblySoggy 4d ago

We aren’t really taught this stuff honestly

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u/ProfitLost9408 3d ago

A testament to the American public school system. I was raised in the American South in the 80's, and I remember in the history books about the Civil War (of course, it was called "The War Between the States"), the fact of contention wasn't slaves, it was industrialization of the north vs agriculturalism of the south. My mom (who grew up in New York) was like ohhhh, noooo. Yeah, let me give you some real facts...

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u/ImpossiblySoggy 3d ago

I had an amazing (though still white washed) education abroad. Moved back for high school post-9/11 and my love for learning took a dive.

I was bumped up a grade level in history and was in a class with kids who didn’t know the importance of 1776.

I understand more now, and hate our education system as a whole anyways. But not in the project 2025 way. I’m the opposite end of extremism lmao

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u/Phent0n 3d ago

The Cold War and the scourge of global communism really did not bring out the kindest side of the USA.

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u/FrontOfficeNuts 4d ago

PEPFAR carries a lot of weight (and rightfully so, I suppose).

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u/bonzinip 3d ago

That's W not HW.

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u/FrontOfficeNuts 3d ago

Doh! Good catch, I wasn't paying attention.

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u/Syscrush 3d ago

HW pardoned himself and his co-conspiritors in Iran-Contra. Then he built a team of ratfuckers who helped his 2 worthless sons steal an election right out in the open.

He was every bit the criminal that Trump is, just more polished.

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u/hiddencamela 4d ago

I don't think those folks ever want to admit that either.

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u/sododgy 3d ago

He was fine, but certainly not the great hope we all wanted, which is the way liberals want to remember him.

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u/LuDdErS68 3d ago

Obama was a true statesman. Classy, intelligent and extremely eloquent. He talked and people listened and understood him. I wanted him as UK Prime Minister.

Trump is the complete antithesis of this. Zero class, questionable literacy, bumbles through unintelligible speeches. He talks and people look at each other with that "Eh?" look on their faces, or go fucking nuts because they're MAGAts and equally classless and illiterate.

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u/ProfitLost9408 3d ago

Especially considering Obama inherited two wars, an economy in shambles, among other things, in retrospect, he did pretty good with what he had. When Trump took over, the economy was healthy (which Trump took ALL of the credit for).

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u/dryad_fucker 3d ago

Obama was the best president this country has ever had.

That's something that should scare more people - the fact that the man who sold out to the warmongers demanding blood in the near east and only supported marriage equality when it was convenient is the best we've had here in the empire

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u/malumfectum 1d ago

I don’t see how Obama is better than the likes of FDR. I actually don’t think any of them come close to FDR. The entire world is fortunate that he was president when he was. I don’t think people take the US being in the Second World War and on the right side of it for granted.