That doesn’t quite work. Ukraine can’t have an election because a chunk of it is under Russian control, and millions of its citizens have fled the country to safety elsewhere. Ukraine also can’t end the war by simply going home.mik wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 10:18 pm Someone on the Lotus forum was highlighting - hang on I'll just paste his thought:
When he was in his slagging off Zelenskyy phase a couple of weeks back he was claiming Zelenskyy wasn't legitimate because he hadn't held elections when they were due a year or so into the war with Putin. The rest of the world backed Zelenskyy as legitimate for continuing during war time without the disruption of holding elections. All Trump has to do is manufacture a conflict somewhere (Greenland?) and he can claim legitimate continuity for a third term on the same basis.
America won’t have those problems as the agressor invading Canada. Using the Russian invasion as a precedent for not having an election would require the message to be “Putin doesn’t have elections so we shouldn’t either” and that’s not true, he does, they’re just transparently rigged. And even with the current lunacy the idea of moving to Russian-style voting would be a stretch.
However, I have previously said a manufactured crisis will be used to “temporarily delay” elections. That could easily be an internal crisis - as Beany says.
The almost legitimate route is far simpler - he runs as VP with a patsy like Junior as president who resigns immediately and the VP takes over. Because the constitution says you can’t be elected more than twice this is OK because in that scenario he’s not been elected. Another bit of the constitution however says if you’re not eligible to be president you can’t be VP. That should prevent this but SCOTUS will do some hand waving about eligibility and declare it totally fine.
He’ll cling onto power until his last breath. The alternative is prison and that’s one of the things he’s genuinely terrified of.
