This poster is a Harvard grad, a smart, sensitive, rational man, and a theater professional.
But look at that thing. France’s ruling party just used lawfare to ban the conservative politician polls say would be likely to win the next election. Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far right, was barred from running for public office for five years following a court ruling that she “played a central role” in allowing her party to embezzle millions of euros of European Union funds. The court found that the party used European Parliament money to pay assistants to National Front members of the body for work that was unrelated to E.U. business.
That’s embezzlement in France? I wonder what they would call all of the misdirected funds DOGE has been finding. Anyway, Le Pen denies wrongdoing and says this is a politically motivated prosecution. I haven’t see the evidence, but the timing sure is suspicious. “Ms. Le Pen and the National Rally could also paint the verdict as a threat against a popular politician and party, and French democracy itself,” the Times observes. Why yes, I’d say that’s a significant possibility.
Note how the Facebook poster approves of using courts to remove political opposition, and how “rule of law’ is rapidly joining “racism,” “fascism,” “autocracy” and “white supremacy” as formerly meaningful terms that the Left has rendered meaningless by overuse. The “rule of law” was distorted beyond recognition in every one of the cases brought against Trump last year, including the non-rape conviction and the redundant “felonies” Trump was found guilty of committing in New York despite no harm being proved to any of the “victims.” Then there was the classified documents case where Trump was being prosecuted while Joe Biden wasn’t (because he was too senile to be convicted, according to the special counsel), the contrived sort-of-insurrection case, and best of all, Fani Willis using the prosecution of Trump in Fulton County to support her fling with an adulterous lawyer. Rule of law!
As the cherry on top, my friend is certain that Trump really is plotting a third term, impossible though it is. Why does my previously sane, rational friend think this way? It is because he is now the equivalent of the hysterical woman who confronts Tippi Hedren in the worst moment of “The Birds”:
Ethics Alarms 
But remember that to the Trump Deranged:
Well, of course, we do need to be more like France.
It’s fascinating that the left moves in lockstep all across the west.
This began as a query by a journalist what Trump thought about the prospects of a third term that was bandied about among others and he trolled them by saying he isn’t considering it but it could be done somehow. Well it could. 38 states could repeal the 22nd amendment.
Obama was asked a similar question and he replied he would be ok with it if someone else was the front man and all he had to do was make the decisions outside the public eye. Seems to me Obama had his third term especially in light of information that he was pushing for an open convention and was not backing Harris
And, in fact, here is a history of bills submitted to repeal:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hjres15/summary
I wrote “Well it could if 38 states voted to repeal the 22nd amendment.”
I don’t know why it added words and reordered what I wrote
France is not the only European country to ban someone from President. Georgescu of Romania was also banned from being President. It seems that the anyone to the right of centre is labelled “far right” and then they find a reason to bar their candidacy.
They’ve even tried it in Israel.
An early morning, I just got out of bed thought on Lefties being all riled up about Trump planning to serve for a third term.
Obama was asked the same thing, and he didn’t dismiss it out of hand. He dressed up his answer and bragged if he was asked to, he would consider it.
Whoever asked Trump about it was probably setting the whole thing up.
Finally, let’s face it: the “Biden” Administration, aka Weekend at Bernie’s, WAS Obama’s third term. Had Harris won that would have been Obama’s fourth and possibly fifth term as long as they kept admitting millions of illegals and giving them Social Security numbers so they can get free stuff in return for voting Dem.
Gawd, the Trump deranged are lemmings.
For some years I’ve found the Mexican system interesting…for what it’s worth.
The president elect gets a single 6 year term and after that term he (or she) is banished from political life, forced to retire permanently from politics. As the story goes, it emerged after the Revolution, when Lazaro Cardenas declined to run for a second term in 1940, and the single 6 year presidential term became the norm.
The longer backstory (perhaps post-hoc rationalization) is that Porfirio Diaz had been at the top far too long before the Revolution, impeding the “circulation of elites” as Vilfredo Pareto called it. No one wanted to see another *Porfiriato*, so the Mexican elite class agreed on “six years and you’re out of politics.” Wikipedia is telling me they call it the *sexenio*.
This is my understanding. Anyone with knowledge of Mexico, please correct me.
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We had the same concern here, thus the constitutional amendment to limit the president to two terms.
I favor a constitutional amendment that prohibits the spouse of a previous president serving as president, to prevent a Hilary from becoming president after her husband Bill. Or to prevent Michelle Obama from becoming president after Obama, for that matter.
I also favor some constitutional amendment to prevent COVID lockdowns in the future. My brilliance knows no bounds, so my canonical list of fabulous ideas to modify the constitution is something I’m still working on. “In my copious spare time,” as my college friend always says…
charles w abbott
rochester NY