The podcast host spoke with The Economist in a wide-ranging interview released Thursday.

When asked directly about the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits any U.S. citizen from serving more than two terms as president, [Steve] Bannon pointed to how there are “many different alternatives” for Trump to stay in office, but did not provide specifics.

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
    1211·
    13 hours ago

    I don’t know if this happens, or if it doesn’t. There should be zero tolerance for even joking about this. The only thing that I will assert is this: If this happens, and some combination of: another branch of government, state governments, the public, law enforcement, the military, and the media, don’t immediately halt everything and throw his as in out, then the United States is over. I don’t mean ‘over’as a descriptor for decline. I mean it’s just immediately done. There is no nation, there are no laws and we have no constitution. The entire project ceases to exist immediately.

      • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
        284·
        10 hours ago

        Lol, the vast majority of Americans will never tolerate Kings, and we mean it. We’re willing to die to ensure it never happens here. I know you don’t believe me, so I’ll just say sit back and watch us torch our billionaire class and eat their flesh. You’d be surprised what Americans are willing to do to ensure No Kings. Its not just a protest slogan. We fucking mean it.

        • leadore@lemmy.world
          2·
          33 minutes ago

          True, we won’t tolerate a king. OTOH, more than a third of us are more than happy to tolerate a dictator.

        • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
          22·
          6 hours ago

          I’m in Australia. We have a king and it’s no big deal. Thailand has a king and it’s no big deal.

          What you have on your hands is an imminient dictator. You don’t want that.

          • 5in1K@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            19 minutes ago

            No, I don’t want either. Call it a king, call it a dictator. They can both eat shit. Fuck your king, fuck Thailand’s king. Their continued existence is an affront to every human being that breathes.

        • Tryenjer@lemmy.world
          53·
          3 hours ago

          Sure pal, you’re different from everyone else in the world, you are immune to fall under an authoritarian regime, sure. LoL

        • CircaV@lemmy.caEnglish
          15·
          6 hours ago

          You already have a king, so there is that! But yeah I’d love to see what you describe. But dude, he tore down the WH and it’s all crickets.

          • brown567@sh.itjust.works
            41·
            3 hours ago

            To be fair, I really don’t care about the White House in general

            I despise its current tenant, and it sucks that the add-on is gonna be a tacky gilded ballroom, but I’d be fine if the building got blown up by a space laser