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    They may just “Weekend at Bernie’s” this shit as far as they can take it.

    I’m calling it now. If this keeps up, they’ll roll out AI-based addresses and propaganda in his image for a while before they have to face the music. The biggest tell is that if they use his voice, it’ll be cogent, understandable, and to the point.

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      They already tested the water with the med bed AI video where he spoke too clearly. When they got caught they deleted it.

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    I’m honestly curious how long Trump is gonna make it. Realistically he’s probably running on a bunch of drugs at this point. No shade here, I assume Biden and maybe even Obama were the same. How do you work that much and not sleep? The answer is drugs!

    Even if they are “relaxing” the president has a lot of stress, the job physically ages you. Trump being on a golf course is still probably stressing out even if he doesn’t give a shit about the US; whether it’s about how his personal investments will work out or about his personal vendettas the job is stressful.

    Trump was also severely stressed while out of office due to the pressures of the lawsuits he was under. With 12 years of stress the man may be 79 currently, but he’s probably way older physically. I don’t see him making it through this term and the only way he’s made it this far is drugs and a good pharmacist.

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      “Let’s face it, this is a rally,” said the motherfucker to Sailors in their dress uniforms.

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    His past few vids were not even very convincing AI, he’s barely hangin on. When I was a kid my dad’s friends would joke about the decripit soviet leader being strapped to a 2x4 and dragged out for public appearances. Well well well how the tables have turned

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      He was referring to Breznev. In the late 70s he was in terrible health and was hospitalized but no soviet media talked about it. There was a joke that Russia TV was just a ballet channel due to the constant playing of Swan Lake to fill in the time.

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        Thanks for the reference, most of that side of the family died in pretty quick succession so these memories are just what my mind can contain. tbh Swan Lake 24/7 might do more to heal our nation than the news onslaught we get. My dad died in '16, about 3 months before Trump got in, and I’m almost happy he didn’t have to see it. He was a lifelong republican but he was also a WWII buff, I’d never seen him actually afraid of a politician until then. I’ve been traveling the world since I was 17, he used to be terrified for me, but during that campaign he started encouraging me to spend more time abroad.

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    Some folks here believe once Trump is dead, his empire will pass onto someone else. I couldn’t disagree more. Every time someone tries to do what Trump does, it’s a big flop. It will all unravel with him gone. It’s called a cult for a reason.

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      MAGA is a Cult of Personality, and there is no #2. Plenty of people feel like they are the obvious successor, but NONE of the MAGA followers believe that. They worship Trump, and Trump alone. When he dies, MAGA dies with him.

      When he assumes room temperature, the knives are coming out, and the backstabbing will be glorious. All the Dems have to do is stay out of the way.

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        It absolutely is a cult of personality. The part that breaks my brain is that his personality is abysmal. Just gross, horrible, mean, rude, hateful, lying, cheating, hurtful. Not even objectively attractive or well spoken. Just babbling hateful drivel. I do not understand how it ever got this big except that he represents all the worst parts of humanity and he gave all the worst people the permission to be the worst version of themselves and that is more appealing than being smart or kind.

        And when he does die the cult WILL implode. It already has fractured, but it will shatter into factions and infighting and it will be a big mess and lots of collateral damage. But maybe it will all be finally over. A decade of hearing his bullshit will finally end and maybe his cultists will start to snap out of the trance and be reasonable again.

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          He got that big because you not only described him, you described the bulk of his followers. A lot of people are just Pigs, and they’re proud of it, they think it’s a virtue.

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            Yeah. I don’t know which was better. Having millions of closeted racist hateful people pretending to be nice or outwardly venom spewing racists.

            At least now we can tell who the bad guys are because they broadcast it everywhere they go, and we can cut them out of our lives and try to stay away from their toxicity.

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          Trump is a narcissist who learned to play social media. At his core he’s a grifting and attention seeking slimeball. Everything else is sausage thumbs posting to social media and gauging what gets the best reactions.

          There’s no cynical intelligence to this, but something worse: chasing the worst of mankind who revel in his boorishness. The very act of remaking himself every second to seek that attention is what makes him who he is, and it’s why he’s so hard to replicate.

          Don’t believe it? Pay attention to his speeches when he’s talking about others. You can see him testing nicknames for opponents, watching the crowd to see how strong the reaction is. Watch for the satisfaction on his face when he finds the one that gets the reaction he’s looking for.

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      It’s less about this being a cult, more about it being a cult of personality. Regular cults can continue on, a cult of personality dies when the personality dies.

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      Exactly. Trump’s control over his base is unique. This is why they wanted him on top so much. We a bit fortunate that he is such an old and unhealthy fuck instead of being someone younger. Trump was always this egotistical and delusional. Can you imagine how much worse it would be if he was just 50?

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      Yup. Vance is never going to get the built-in MAGA fan base. Vance and Miller have none of that aggressive, ferocious stupidity that makes Trump so relatable to his base.

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        The worst outcome is he is seen walking and talking. If he dropped dead I doubt anybody else would feel emboldened to act the way he did.

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        It would also be good to prepare to take his cronies and enablers out. Legally if possible, though other ways are acceptable.

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      I hope it does unravel without dragging the whole world into another war. But i fear the seed of hate has already taken root. Unless the entire system is purged of hate I don’t have confidence it will be as simple as the Don kicking the bucket.

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      I keep a special bottle of alcohol on display for this day. There is going to be such a party all over the nation… It’s going to be wondrous.

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      Yeah and if the CK thing was any indicator of how it’ll go, the administration will milk it for all it’s worth. It’ll be gross.

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        I hope he dies in the stupidest, self-owning way possible, like tripping over his own feet and falling down some stairs. Preferably on camera.

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            During one of his dumb speeches in front of a crowd of MAGA idiots … right in the middle of making one of his dumb statements, just suddenly stops, stares into space and falls over.

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              Preferably saying something stupid like “Folks, let me tell you something — if I’m wrong, if the Republican Party is wrong — and by the way, we’re not — but if we were wrong, then may God strike me down right now! But it’s not gonna happen, because we’re doing what’s right for America. Believe me.”

              Love to see how they would try to spin that being his last words.

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              as long as there are elvises (heart attack while eating something nasty and then shitting oneself, then dying) involved and it’s on camera, i’ll win a bet

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          Definitely on camera. I want that still shot of his twisted head at an unnatural angle, his tongue hanging out, and his lifeless eyes looking in two different directions.

          Put THAT on on the cover of Time.

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          I was thinking he could be so constipated from eating junk fast food that he farts himself to death sitting on the toilet. 🚽

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        Unlike with CK though, they won’t be able to hide or contain or threaten the millions of people who will take to the streets celebrating. THAT is the part I look forward to, the absolute, uncontainable movement of the masses defying the state and all it’s impotent rage.

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          Honestly I don’t see that happening. Even with his passing, that really doesn’t change anything. The administration is still there, and 2nd in line is couch-fucker vance. The foundation for their plans are already in place, and quite frankly, Taco has served his purpose with his popularity declining.

          The administration will just use any uprising as a reason to mobilize more troops in the name of safety or whatever. I really wish I’m wrong though.

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            There will still be an enormous national celebration, and the remaining administration will watch it in terror.

            They are likely to use that reaction to respond with violence, but it won’t last. American citizens, both Democrat and MAGA, won’t accept the new government. There isn’t a single MAGA voter that cares about JD Vance at all. He may get their reluctant support as Republicans, but he won’t get it as MAGAs.

            After Trump croaks, the Republican party will almost certainly splinter.

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            JD doesn’t have the political capital Trump has had which has been the reason Trump gets away with shitting in the faces of everything and everyone.

            He has a feverishly devoted base of armed, loyal voters who will support ANYTHING he does. That’s raw political power at a foundational level. Nobody understands how he does it so they keep jockeying people like Vance into the spotlight hoping to be able to take the reins.

            But Trump’s base hates Vance. He talks too much, he sounds like a politician, he has no swagger like Trump does. The magic will go out when the dim light goes out of Trump’s lousy life.

            I don’t think birds will sing and sunbeams will wash the country clean or anything, but the end of Trump will be the beginning of the decay of the republican party. They have no leader with the same political capital. About the only person who had a chance of introducing his own brand of charisma to flute the rats was Charlie Kirk.

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              JD doesn’t have the political capital Trump has had which has been the reason Trump gets away with shitting in the faces of everything and everyone.

              Trump isn’t going to share the Russian kompromat that he has on the GOP in Congress with Vance. Russia didn’t hack the RNC for shits and giggles.

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                I genuinely don’t think there’s any kompromat, at least if there is I don’t think it matters anymore.

                In the early days of the trump… “thing” we all thought that whatever blackmail russia had on him would sink him and that Russia was pulling all his strings as a result, the whole world was fixated on the Meuler investigations and so on. We thought that it would be like Watergate, that if there was ANY evidence of impropriety in our leadership that someone, somewhere would pull the lever and restore order and law.

                Since 2016 we’ve watched the very idea of “disqualifying actions” lose all value. There are plenty of people who care and want to see law and order, but there are far, far more people who don’t watch the news anymore. They have tuned out the noise, they don’t believe anything anyone says, they just don’t care. Combine that with the fact that our entire legislative branch and congressional branch has been bought out, and we’re in a world now that more closely resembles pre-industrial monarchy.

                If a video surfaced of Trump throwing children into a wood chipper surfaced, there would be a SNL skit about it, a lot of comedian monologues, and people would wear shirts with wood chippers on them representing their feelings one way or another.

                (This is also why there seems to have been a shift in the attitude between Trump and Putin recently.)

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              It is well understood how he does it. Go watch the documentary Bad Faith. The CNP (Council for National Progress, the group that founded the heritage foundation), has been supplying priests and pastors talking point for 50 years. The CNP told the priests what to say, the priests tell people to follow trump. boom, cult.

              I’m fairly certain when djt checksout, the cult will be gifted to JD and business will continue.

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                It is well understood how he does it.

                Whether or not they understand it, they can’t replicate it or they would have already.

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        CK was supposed to be the big Horst Wessel martyr that they could build support around, but nobody cared. They all played it up for a week or two, but once they stopped flogging it, it disappeared.

        Their “Flood the Zone” strategy works when something sticks, and they can amplify it. But MAGA seems to have a systemic case of ADHD, so nothing lasts more than a week, before they are chasing the next outrage perpetrated by the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

        Nobody even talks about his “assassination attempt” any more, but that’s probably because it was obviously a hoax, and they don’t want anyone pulling to hard on that thread.

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          But MAGA seems to have a systemic case of ADHD, so nothing lasts more than a week, before they are chasing the next outrage

          Oh for real, and it’s annoying as shit because it’s so intense at the get go but gone soon after like a fart in the wind.

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          “And if you call right now, we’ll send you not one, but two commemorative plates and a set of gold plate holders”

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    People think he rambles a lot, but it has a purpose to it. What I’m worried about is that after meeting with the Project 2025 guy, that rambling might be receiving some calibration as well as a long series of other meetings to see if they go a new route.

    I don’t think he is really that ill simply because JD Vance would have been picking up a lot more of the slack if that were the case to position himself as the new president.

    Then there’s also the possibility that he is part of the caste of the country that does actually benefit from having no government oversight or presence during a shutdown. It makes people and groups that much more dependent on the private market alternatives these oligarchs own.

    Maybe he isn’t making any comments because this is where he wants to be right now. He still controls ICE, the execute and the supreme court can still continue reshaping the US, and he’s in a point where he has essentially just hit the pause button on any changes in congress until he can decide how to revert and influence that. He’s at the point where people who protest the extended shutdown can be incarcerated as the “radical left” “homegrowns” for whom the shutdown helps prevent any recourse as well, he’s putting any loyalist he can into ICE and it has a bigger budget than the rest of the military, he’s plunging and farming the value of the US economy which he and his oligarch friends can weather and later buy up on the low. It seems like he might have settled for this as a win condition, so he’s no longer making appearances to push things into other agendas for now.

    States need to step up if the government remains shut down, this is the perfect opportunity and excuse for them.

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      You think with trump and his sycophants and handlers would be willingly parading around their younger, hopeful replacement? “Strongmen” will lie and obfuscate the truth because the lie works. Look how long they’ve managed to get his followers to believe he’s just a virile and Uber healthy, fearless leader. They won’t shove the wet mop with eyes that is JD Vance into the role until they absolutely have no other options. Look all throughout history, these types of fascists have to project strength even when it’s clear they’re old, decrepit and on the edge of death.

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      You make it seem like he has a plan. I see an aged poser pinballing around in a toddler stomp. We may both be close to the truth.

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        He might not have a plan, but there are people who have and can sell him on doing small simple tasks that rump can actually understand, or at least do, and profit out of

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        He might be twiddling his thumbs but I bet the shadowy cabal controlling the right definitely has a plan and a schedule they’re working on.

        Dump is in a holding pattern.

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          Trump’s “plan” is too choose whatever is best for him psychotically and amorally. He’s not where he is right now because he had a plan, but because as you put it, the path was laid for him. It became clear with the drastic changes and statements he began his administration with. A destination was presented to him, and he’s tried to follow the path to it with the indications he has been given. Sometimes, he has even blurted out the “landmarks” prematurely, like his comments on Greenland and Canada.

          He’s just at a point he realizes he can already exploit, which probably seems like a good option to him since some of the directions he has received aren’t working out that well for him.

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      Question then becomes what to do about his lieutenants. We still got to deal with the evil that is Miller. In fact. I think tRump is too big an idiot for the full scope of evil that his administration is doing. I think much of this comes from Miller.

      Musk owns many politicians and is throwing his seig heils.

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        Correct. Trump is just the face but if he stroke out and can’t make public appearances, the facade falls quickly and there will be a 25A crisis.

        MAGA isn’t going to follow en mass any of the fuckers propping up Trump.

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          MAGA isn’t going to follow en mass any of the fuckers propping up Trump.

          You sure about that? They chanted, “Jews will not replace us.” They’re setting up camps. They hate the same groups the Nazis interred. They’re seig heil-ing. They want genocide.

          I think that means they’d follow anyone who gives them permission to hate. Hate is a powerful narcotic.

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            No, MAGA dies with Trump.

            They’ll all try to coalesce around someone, but there will be multiple candidates, based on their own personal ambitions, rather than the needs of the country. None of them will gather enough support to conquer the others, and they will be ripe for destruction, if the Dems can get their shit together.

            But if Schmuck Schumer and a Jeffries are still running the show at that point, the Dems won’t get their shit together, will barely respond to the atrocities of the last decade, and allow something far worse than MAGA to arise.

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            You’re confused in thinking MAGA is one contiguous group. There are Nazis within MAGA (in fact they have been promoted, especially this term), but there are non-Nazis too. There were people in MAGA who loved Charlie Kirk, and people who hated him for being pro-Israel.

            The only thing tying them together is Trump.

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              but there are non-Nazis too.

              I’m not so sure of that. Are there? This seems a hopeful fantasy in light of their lack of showing after tRump 2.

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                “Non-Nazi” in that they can look the other way while the actual Nazis do the dirty work.

                They’re still Nazis but it’s not their defining political position.

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      Crikey, harsh…but fair. Though a very long and painful illness that is untreatable is preferred.
      With just enough brain function for him to realise he’s on a slow painful and road to death.

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            We deserve for him -and his children, and his cronies and cohorts- to be imprisoned for the many blatant crimes. However I’ll settle for a nice long painful death. The next best is a quick and painful death.
            However, him going away and being forgotten is fine if some form of painful death isn’t an option.

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              You aren’t really thinking about your best interests. Humans are really poor at predicting what will make them happy.

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      Oh he’ll for sure be propped up and wheeled around indefinitely, but it’s basically confirmed he’s getting more frequent TIAs and worse recoveries despite his treatment. Real question is how bad is the next puppet going to be once he croaks.

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        I don’t think there is anyone close to being able to hold onto the MAGA fan base of Trump kicks it. Vance sure can’t, Elon is universally hated, as is Stephen Miller. None of Trump’s kids has any charisma either.

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          The whole point of everything the administration is doing right now, is to make sure support won’t matter. Who needs supporters when the vote is rigged?

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            They can only rig things so far. There’s a reason Congress has a record number of Republicans that have an announced they aren’t running again. There is a reason red states are rushing to push gerrymandering to its limits. They expect more elections to be contests.

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          The next few years would end up being “weekend at Bernie’s, Trump edition”

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      They likely have a replacement ready. When you manage to get a group all-in on tribalism juice, they’ll come up with cognitive dissonance and narratives all on their own and fall in line no matter what happens.

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    Handlers keeping him hidden like they did Biden. Dead or alive were still fucked, he’s just a cog in the machine that will be replaced to keep the status quo protected and running

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      Sure then the cult will quietly assemble under that master smooth charismatic leader Steven Miller.

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        Unlike master smooth charismatic leader Donald Trump?

        All he needs to do is slur some slurs and his base will eat it up. There’s nothing fancy behind them, just a lack of humanity.

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          Yeah it’s a cult of personality. DeSantis wanted it but they said No.

          Lindsey Graham thought he could weasel his way in, they laughed him out. Perjury Traitor Greed has all the credentials but, let’s be honest, she identifies as a woman, and they’re not electing that. Plus she’s plain old insane. He’s demented. It’s a fine but distinct line.

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            Desantis wears shoe inserts and graham is very clearly a closeted homosexual. Miller is hateful and patriotic and has the balls to atleast appear to be himself. That is all they like about trump aside from his illusion of wealth. “The way he just says what he means.” It will either be miller or miller will continue to control from the background and let vance be the scapegoat for when things get ugly.

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              Stephen Miller can never fill Trump’s shoes. Trump at least has charisma - he can charm and flatter people and keep a smile on his face. Miller is just hatred manifest, not to mention he exudes insecurity and he looks like a cartoon villain. Zero redeeming qualities. He has to stay in the background so people don’t see the ugly face of their agenda.

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                  Charisma and daddy’s money are the only reason he’s where he is.

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                I fear the need for charism is no longer relevant. They have become a self sustaining hate machine with very little standing in their way.

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              I mean - no. I know, i know, but seriously. They don’t even like Steve Bourbon, and he’s tried to be in the media as much as possible. Plus Miller is. Y’know.

              Let’s just say close but no cigar.

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                Bannon is a raging alcoholic that exudes Jabba the Hutt energy. I think of all of them, miller is the most immediately “effective”. I think given vances early ties to the paypal mafia, he is next in line for puppet.

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            Yeah but if trump croaks, there will be a power vacuum, and these are the kinds of people who need someone to worship.

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              With any luck they’ll display all of the hatred and animosity that made them famous toward each other.

              Y’know like the left does.

              Hi-oooooooo!

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          Some of you really don’t understand why Trump appeals to his base. Trump is entertaining to them. They find him charismatic and funny. They also like that he isn’t polished and that he speaks his mind, but doesn’t say anything overtly hateful, so they can pretend they’re not bigots because they can pretend he’s not a bigot. And in their minds he’s a fighter with a macho aura.

          Miller is a weird kid that eats glue and glowers, and you’re pretty sure he hurts animals. He’s not entertaining or funny or macho, and he probably makes the average Trump voter uncomfortable because he seems too overtly hateful and they like to pretend that they’re not.

          DeSantis was the RC Cola version of Trump. He wasn’t entertaining, but he wasn’t overtly hateful either. He seemed like a macho fighter at first. Then they all realized that he was kind of short (for a presidential candidate) and walked around in lifts because he was so insecure about it. He exudes desperation.

          Vance is like DeSantis. The man wears eyeliner. The only reason he’s VP is because Peter Thiel and the crypto bros put him there, and because Trump knew he wouldn’t outshine him. He has exactly zero chance of taking up the cult leader mantle. He’d probably be able to hold things together until the end of the term, but no longer.

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          I don’t get it but for whatever reason he has an enthusiastic following specific to him.

          There are a number of races where people tried to ride his popularity, but unless Trump is directly in the race, it doesn’t seem to matter so much.

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            He’s the embodiment of their idea of the American dream. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, accruing unlimited wealth and living a life with no accountability. They want to be him.

            They don’t want a world with no kings. They want to be king.

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        I can already see Steve Miller having a makeover and charming the public with a nifty military uniform, nice arm band, a cool toothbrush moustache and a brand new ”undercut” style toupee

        Sieg Heil, America - really speedrunning that ”fascist dictatorship” playthrough huh?

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          That’s more likely than him uniting the Evangelicals and the legacy republicans and the gravy seals.

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        He’s too close to the mothership. Vance will be president and ol Steve will continue avoiding UV light, where possible.

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      I was scrolling to find someone else thinking this. Its just a big show and they need peoples attention all the time. Last thing they want is to be ignored. So they say incredible stupid things all the time, daily.

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      Christmas Day would be the ultimate present. Oh you don’t like us celebrating on the day he died?? Who’s waging a war on Christmas now?

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          They’ll put a giant memorial up in Washington for every American person to weep at and they’ll track who comes to grieve and whether they have done so sufficiently to avoid the work camps that Dear Leader Vance will have built for disloyal citizens and degenerate queers.

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            The portapotties will be the closest we’ll be able to get to pissing on his grave.

            We should print up some Trump grave urinal cakes now. Could make a fortune on that day.

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          Remind them that Jesus Barabbas’ hiatus from the cult - a symbolic death and then rebirth - took place closer to passover anyway. There’s little chance we can keep Mr Trump alive long enough to line that up.

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      I’d honestly put money on him not making it to term, but that might be the safe bet. The thing is, that leaves us with Vance.

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          You think Vance is easier to manipulate than the literal pedophile with a lifetime of compromat who consistently flips his convictions over who complimented him last???

          I’m not saying Vance isn’t easy to manipulate, I’m just saying I can’t imagine there’s an easier to manipulate human being over the age of 4 than Donald Trump.

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          I’ve gotten the feeling that Trump acts out of loving himself, while Vance explicitly wants to be awful. Both about as terrifying, but Vance seems more menacing in my mind.

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            Vance himself isn’t the problem insofar he’s a symptom of the same disease Trump is one of. His ties to cryptobros and Peter Thiel, however, most definitely are.

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              For sure, and I was mostly considering them as individuals which admittedly isn’t the most pertinent when the rest of the party is the way it is.

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          Eh… Vance isn’t the childish wanna be strong man that Trump is. He’s an ambitious ideologue who has the backing of powerful wealthy men and will 1000% take advantage of the ground work towards authoritarianism that Trump laid. I wouldn’t be shocked if he fails to inspire MAGA at large to fall in behind him. He’d probably fave a lot of opposition and other Trump wannabes in a future election, if we have any more of those. But he will definitely try to hold onto all that MAGA influence and he will likely succeed in at least getting Trump’s cabinet and the Republican congress and SCOTUS to prop up his bullshit just like they did Trump. They’ll be relieved to have a more predictable autocrat in charge. If he continues to undermine elections and the rule of law like Trump, well… I’m sure he doesn’t hate the idea of being a young dictator for life.

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        Iirc, the revelations anti-christ is supposed to rule for 7 years, I also have some memory that there was a hint it might not be consecutive.

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        Vance is useless as fuck and is incapable of herding his republican cats. He was a joke before Trump and he’ll continue to be a joke after.

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      Has anyone made a website for him like the one for Kissinger? That way we can all bet and help a charity

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      Oh man, I’d be tempted to bet my savings on him living past then. That way I either win big or at least make some money.

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      Can we get this one on some of those event betting apps? I’d throw a dollar or two at that bet.

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        I’m sure you can find someone in the abandoned casinos who would love to do any kind of gambling with you at all.