Republican President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was not joking about seeking a third presidential term, which is barred by the U.S. Constitution, but that it was too early to think about doing so.

Trump, who took office on January 20 for his second, non-consecutive White House term, has made vague allusions to seeking a third one but addressed it directly on Sunday in a telephone interview with NBC News.

“No, I’m not joking. I’m not joking,” Trump said, but “it is far too early to think about it.”

“There are, there are methods which you could do it, as you know,” he said. He declined to elaborate on any specific methods.

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    I perhaps should have clarified that I meant Republicans who said they opposed Biden because of his age, who are suddenly okay with someone in his 80s running.

    I certainly did not mean Democrats earnestly voicing concern of Bidens age.

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      They’re not upset you appeared to criticize a Democrat. They’re juvenilly incensed that you dared push back against the propaganda they fully believe. With the most feint of defense of a Democrat. Check their history. Dingdong don’t do nuance or maturity. You’re fine.

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          Sure go ahead. It won’t disprove anything I said. But that wasn’t the point was it? It was all about deflection and distraction. Because you don’t have a response to it. You know it’s true. And you just proved it. My sins real or imagined won’t change that. Have a nice day😀

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            Disprove

            Pull any receipts of mine you like. You are a toxic coward who insisted, for literally months, that we throw the election to Trump. And when it was all too obvious that the strategy you insisted on, that you belittled and badgered and abused and briggaded others for questioning it, when it was all too obvious your strategy towards electorism had doomed this nation, ONLY then were’ you able to get even partially with reality.

            We could have won this election, if you had recognized the deep toxicity of your rhetoric. That your world view is wrong; that it wasn’t you we had to convince to win the election. If blue-MAGA would have pulled their heads out of their asses in time for us to do change our strategy instead of insisting on an approach that would not win the election; Donald Trump was one of the most beatable opponents of all time: you chose for us to lose to him.

            The fact is you were wrong in such a way that it deeply damaged this country, and we’ll never forget that about you. You hurt everyone and everything with the way you approached rhetoric and this election. You should have sense of shame so deep your children come out hanging their heads.

            You are the spirit of the “white moderate” that MLK warned us all about. The one who prioritizes order, and decorum, and half a loaf, negative peace, avoiding the tension that is required to bring about positive justice. And maybe most importantly you lose fucking elections. You should never be listened to again, by any one: Because your world view precludes you from being able to predict what will happen in the future.

            You don’t win when it matters. All you care about, truly, is that you have your way, election results be damned.

            Here’s a classic from the archives:

            And for fairness, here’s a receipt of mine from the same time period:

            Spot the difference?

            I predict what will happen in the future before it does. My worldview is predictive of future states of reality.

            Yours doesn’t.

            Reject blue-MAGA and their insistence that we roll over to fascism and to Trump.

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              Lies and projection, impressive. As proof I point to your very first post in this thread chain. Go ahead look at your post now back to mine post again, then back to yours. Who’s the juvenile toxic one? Oh BTW you offered no receipts. You made an empty claim without even a link to a single post.

              Let me show you how to do it. You are well known for not being able to handle anyone who disagrees with you. No matter how respectfully. Resorting to juvenile tactics and name calling, such as blue maga. In an attempt to discredit the arguments and points of others. Because you cannot put forth any cogent defense of your viewpoints. You shrilly shouted it plenty.

              My only stance was that statistically, mathematically, historically, evidentially, and traditionally a Democrat or a Republican would win the presidency. That we should pick our battles and focus on keeping the fascist out. Nothing more nothing less. You were the one running Purity tests attacking the candidates we had. Fantasizing over candidates we didn’t. Focusing on being part of the group that helped keep constant attacks on Democrats in the news and not the fact that their opponent was a literal fascist that would be the end of us. And while Democrats are plenty to blame for their own failures. You factor in as well. I never advocated for any particular candidate.(against plenty) Just to keep the fascist out. But please do point a link to an actual quote of me saying otherwise. Would have if you could have. But you didn’t. Because as I said before, all you have is juvenile emotion and projection.

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                I brought receipts and you brought nothing.

                You threw this election because you couldn’t deal with the fact that the world didn’t agree with you. That’s what you own. Everyone you degraded and belittled: they were right. You were wrong.

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                    The only value you have to offer the world, is a demonstration of the kind of gaslighting toxicity that destroyed western Democracy.