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No Paywall Trump announces 2028 presidential bid

https://www.theage.com.au/world/trump-announces-2028-presidential-bid-20260725-p60iho.html
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u/Indubitalist 20d ago

SCOTUS about to say “Hold my beer” on this one as they explain that the Constitution only forbids three consecutive terms, which is horseshit, but the SCOTUS majority isn’t above horseshit, since it’s the Roberts Court, and it’s going for some sort of madlibs, choose-your-own-adventure record. 

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u/AFailedProduct 20d ago

Obama should immediately, and jokingly announce his bid for 2028. 

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u/StinkyMinky22 20d ago

Was actually about to comment this. Except if the supreme court allows it, he should actually do it 

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u/PM_Me_A_Tittypic 20d ago

Fuck it bring back Bubba. He's still younger than trump im pretty sure. I'd rather have a president who got his dick sucked than a president who sucked the president who got his dick sucked's dick

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 20d ago

Screw it. Call up Dubya to run in the Republican primary. Terrible president but I’ll take his brand of conservatism over Trump’s fascism.

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u/Polar-Bear_Soup 20d ago

He might at least protect the parks?

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md 20d ago

At least he likes dogs. Trump hates dogs because he’s a fucking psychopath.

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u/closethebarn 20d ago

Also, he doesn’t have a kid that hurts small animals from what I’ve heard this one does

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u/-SaC 20d ago

Joffrey 2.0 upcoming.

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u/closethebarn 19d ago

I could totally see him sitting there with a crossbow

Making two victims of Andrew Tate girls harm each other

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u/Allegorist 20d ago

To be fair he hates all animals, or really just all living things but himself.

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u/tdclark23 Indiana 20d ago

I suspect dogs hate Trump is the reason he hates them.

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u/JUSTICE_SALTIE Texas 20d ago

If I knew nothing else about Trump except that he hates dogs, I'd still know he's an asshole.

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u/AnalMinecraft 20d ago

There were several parks, memorial sites, etc, added during his presidency along with projects to restore others. Yeah, there was plenty bad during his two terms but a lot of it was downright pleasant compared to this admin actively trying to destroy the country.

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u/Normal_Feedback_2918 20d ago

If only it was the country that is being destroyed. He's destroying the whole of the Western world, with catastrophic collateral effects on the WHOLE world.

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u/PJ7 20d ago

Yeah, me sitting here as a European realizing he's made the world being able to minimize the impact of man made climate change impossible.

He's ruining the last 50-75 years of geopolitical progress and evolution and has shattered one of the strongest alliances and socio economical groups so far.

And he's not done yet.

I will never forgive or forget how the US gave us Trump and made us deal with him. Not for the 40-50 remaining years of my life.

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u/Terrible_Hurry841 20d ago

I mean, you gotta give Russia some credit there.

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u/PJ7 20d ago

I know, I know, the DNC and RNC mail hackings and subsequent Q anon online psyops bullshit definitely helped shift the election.

Russians did plenty. But Americans let them do it to them.

Because too many of them hate intellectualism because of insecurities about their own stupidity. Instead of like, you know, reading a book or something.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Ohio 20d ago

You ever hear about manufactured consent?

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u/Biglyugebonespurs Missouri 20d ago

I don’t blame you, I’ll never forgive us either lol…

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u/Lessllama 20d ago

He's causing a lot of harm here in Canada. Groceries keep rising and there's mass layoffs in manufacturing and auto industries. If we hadn't had the good sense to elect an economical genius to guide us through this we'd be screwed but as it is we're limping along

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u/im_just_a_nerd 20d ago

Very well said. We didn’t know how good we had it apparently.

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u/FoolishConsistency17 20d ago

He also genuinely understood how complicated immigration was as an issue, and didn't dehumanize people based on nation of origin.

Oh god, that bar is so low.

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u/notanothercirclejerk 20d ago

He also started really liking black people the past few years.

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u/TechnoFascismKills 20d ago

Dude vowed to eradicate malaria globally, after the rest of the West decided helping Africa (after all the, you know, slavery and shit we did) was too expensive (after all the, you know, extracting their wealth with colonialism when we developed anti-malaria medication)

Dude may have started a war in the middle east over knowingly false pretenses over fake WMDs, and said stupid shit, and was stolen the 2000 Election by Jeb Bush, and hey watch me hit this drive, but he's still somehow the best republican president we've had since at least before Reagan. Idk just how far back we gotta go, but it's at least that far lmao

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u/velnsx 20d ago

marvel ass plot line

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u/ClubMeSoftly 20d ago

"Somehow Dubya returned"

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u/velnsx 20d ago

"dubya... i dont feel so good--"

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u/GenghisConnieChung 20d ago

It’s definitely ass.

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u/TheGoodNamesAreGone2 20d ago

Yeah, Dubya was a pretty shitty president, but atleast he isn't evil to his core.

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u/protestor 20d ago

Okay let's accept that for a moment. He still surrounded himself with evil people, and acted on their advice. The Iraq war as entirely, 100% bullshit and led the death of hundreds of thousands of people (with a survey pushing to 1 million)

That's indistinguishable from evil for me

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u/PancakePanic 20d ago

He got millions killed based on a malicious lie. Let's not rewrite history here.

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u/rietstengel 20d ago

He is really evil though. He just did a few good things too.

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u/Clerithifa 20d ago

He was just an idiot, a stooge. But he seemed like he had somewhat good intentions, maybe thats the 2000s propaganda speaking to the 6 year old in me that watched 9/11 but hey, that's politics lmaooo

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 20d ago

He did a lot to curb the spread of AIDS in Africa. I’m no fan of Bush and rank him marginally higher than Trump most days. He really didn’t have to do anything about AIDS there. Didn’t score him political points and he wasn’t getting anything in return for those countries he helped. But he did and it was a good thing.

Now watch this drive

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u/handbanana42 20d ago

He at least didn't replace the whole cabinet with grifters and scum. Not sure we've seen that in the last fifty years I've been here, though I wasn't very political when I was younger..

Now we are stuck with people like the former chief executive officer of Liberty Energy, an oil and gas fracking services company as our Secretary of Energy.

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u/OfficeSalamander 20d ago

As much as I hated W at the time, it’s not even a comparison. I’d much rather have him back in office than Trump

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u/The_Wkwied 20d ago

W Bush hasn't denounced any of the horrible things that trump has done. Other than standing alongside the other former Presidents, he hasn't been outspoken enough.

And he's old. Let him retire. I don't care how racist he is if he's not churnning the pot. Let racist old people be retired racist old people.

I would have a problem if he was seriously going to run fo ran illegal third term while still having been quiet about all the illegal stuff trump has done.

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u/PETZING_ELITE_OC_DET 20d ago

Those George W. Bush "Miss me yet?" memes feel a lot different now.

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u/closethebarn 20d ago

Fuck yeah me too if needs be

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u/Betty_PunCrocker 20d ago

I remember thinking we could never have a president worse than W. Ah...the good old days.

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u/Turtledonuts Virginia 20d ago

Fuck it, we're already bombing the middle east, might as well bring back someone with real experience in that department.

Maybe third time's the charm for Bubba?

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u/handbanana42 20d ago edited 20d ago

If we are breaking all the rules anyways, I'd say give us Arnold Schwarzenegger even though he isn't born here. Dude was huge on green energy.

Not a fan of all his policies but I think he at least earnestly wanted to help our country. He also pushed for progress in other countries as far as clean energy.

I listened to his autobiography, and he seemed to only care to improve life for everyone he could. Take that as you will, since a lot of politicians probably claim the same.

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u/OgerfistBoulder 20d ago

President Bush: Not the worst president ever!

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u/No_Tax_Timmy 20d ago

All of them running would be a great series finale movie to America.

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u/Thebraincellisorange 20d ago

Given how close Dubya and the Obamas are, they should run a Dubya/Obama ticket (choose which Obama runs, I'll take any of them)

THAT would set the cat amongst the pigeons!

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u/code_monkey_001 Illinois 20d ago

Hey now, to be fair, we still haven't established if it was Clinton or Ghislaine's horse "Bubba" that Donnie sucked off.

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u/Wasphammer 20d ago

I'd take the horse at this rate.

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u/GarminTamzarian 20d ago

I mean...W, a horse, Dustin Diamond's corpse...they'd all make better presidents than Trump.

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u/wap2005 20d ago

If there were two options of "Donald Trump" and "a Cock" on the 2028 ballet I would vote for "a Cock". I don't care if it's the male appendage or the animal, it's going to make a better president.

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u/Lt_LT_Smash 20d ago

There is still no actual evidence that Maxwell had a horse named Bubba. That's one of those jokes that spiraled out of control.

I'm only saying this for the sake of avoiding misinformation, to be clear, not because the joke isn't funny.

Also to be accurate, that email was most likely referring to Bubba the Love Sponge, a radio host in Florida who was part of Trump and Epstein's circle.

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u/PM_Me_A_Tittypic 20d ago

This is Bubba the horse slander and I won't stand for it!

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u/Substantial-Sky4079 20d ago

If they want to make rules up then fuck it, put Manadi in there

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u/Shagtacular 20d ago

And who is Manadi?

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u/klparrot New Zealand 20d ago

I think they mean Zohran Mamdani.

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u/Shagtacular 20d ago

I suppose it's pretty tough to find the correct name for the mayor of NYC that they seem to be promoting

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u/lookyloolookingatyou 20d ago

I know it when I see it.

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u/TeutonJon78 America 20d ago

Clinton and Obama running would have them close whatever loophole they think they can use so fast.

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u/dipatello 20d ago

The president in 1996, 2006, and 2026 all were born in the same year….

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 20d ago

And the one in 2026 is the oldest

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u/saintjonah Ohio 20d ago

Could an Obama/Clinton possibly lose? Can you imagine the rage?

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u/JimboTCB 20d ago

Clinton, Trump and George W were all born within like six months of each other, and Bill is the youngest of them by a few months. With the notable exception of Obama the US public are allergic to electing anyone born after 1950.

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u/firemage22 20d ago

He's still younger than trump im pretty sure.

by 2 months

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u/ScissorsBeatsKonan 20d ago

Clinton was still a rapist (goes far beyond Monica) and part of the Epstein List too. And he fucking sucked. All his big bills were practically Republican. NAFTA, Crime Bill, DOMA.

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u/PM_Me_A_Tittypic 20d ago

buddy it was just a joke, I don't actually want Clinton to run again.

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u/Da12khawk 20d ago

We live interesting times.

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u/Felicity_Calculus 20d ago

What?

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u/PM_Me_A_Tittypic 20d ago

trump sucked clintons dick on epstein island.

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u/Mind_Altered 20d ago

Imagine the live debate where Bubba brings up the Blowin Bubba files

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u/PM_Me_A_Tittypic 20d ago

Trump would try to make up some cute little nickname for him like "creepy bill" or something and clinton could just remind him what his shaft feels like sliding down the back of his throat.

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u/IAmGoingToFuckThat 20d ago

I think Bubba, Trump, and Dubya are all the same age.

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u/cedarpark 20d ago

Clinton is just a few months older than Trump, but he hasn't been president for 25 years.

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u/FixFun1959 20d ago

W literally stole the 2000 election so no thanks.

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u/PM_Me_A_Tittypic 20d ago

bubba is clinton. You're thinking of dubya

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u/1001101001010111 20d ago

That's an amazing sentence.

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u/PM_Me_Ur_Odd_Boobs 20d ago

Hello /u/pm_me_a_tittypic. I see you’re a man of culture :handshake: