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[–] 181 points 1 year ago (51 children)

This is a direct admission that Trump is gonna die soon

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Evil people always last longer than you think. I'm not sure whether Trump is actually evil or the evil is a byproduct of extreme narcissism combined with staggering stupidity.

    I heard a theory the other day that the thing that makes Trump Trump is that he speaks on a fourth grade level because he's just that dumb. He politically engages people who are too ignorant and disinterested in politics to do more than check Trump's name and ignore other Republican candidates. I saw it here in my own state where was something like an 800k vote discrepancy between Trump and conservative Supreme Court candidates. It's why districts that Trump won by double digits flip hard for Dems in special election's and non-presidential elections.

    What that means is, when Trump dies, the Republican Party is pretty much fucked if they haven't achieved full on fascism by then. I'm not smart enough to know whether that theory is correct, but I really want it to be.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Hitler died at 56. Mussolini was 61.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    To be fair, neither of those deaths were "natural causes" as it were.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Dunno what you mean. Hitler's brain naturally stopped working due to high speed application of external force. Mussolini's brain stopped working due to a natural oxygen shortage.

    Real ubermensch have titanium skulls and aren't addicted to oxygen.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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    Fuck me, you're right. What about Thatcher?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
    1. H W Bush is 94.

    I’m pretty sure evil is a longevity elixir, unless something intervenes.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It helps having access to the internal organs of undocumented immigrant children.

    I'm just kidding. I hope.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Man. I know you are joking. But you are also saying the quiet part out loud that a lot of us are thinking.

    Who would notice if a few compatible with Trump immigrants disappeared at the border? Would you believe their friends? Or would you just assume the cartels got to them?

    That’s always my fear as a minority in the USA post 9/11. Due process seems somewhat gone now too. They could send me to Uganda and people around me (friends and neighbors) would probably assume I did something to deserve it or… not even notice.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    One last grift: on his deathbed, Trump received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Fuckin lol

    Imagining the Christian nationalists losing their mind; that would be iconic.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Eh. Trump isn’t a christian by their definition now. He could find Krishna on his deathbed and they’ll still make pilgrimages to his grave, expecting him to rise up as their saviour.

    They don’t care about his beliefs or actions. All that matters is their own fear, anger, and hate. That’s all this has really been about. Not ideals, not standards, and certainly not reality.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Trump isn’t a christian by their definition now.

    Yes he is. He doesn't go to church. He doesn't know what's in the bible. He's self-centred, greedy, and hateful to those who are different. He's exactly like the Christians that worship him.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Right, most of them are like that.

    He’s objectively a christian, but not by their idealised definition. They can’t see they’re also all of those things, because they’ve perverted the meanings of right and wrong, ‘good’ and ‘evil’, and what morality is.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I don't think they'd give a shit at this point.

    Whatever he does must be right and he must be obeyed; he is now their God. They'll come up with some explanation for why it was clever or something.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (27 children)

    Fingers crossed! JD will not be as batshit. He wants to keep the job and not get bounced from the top spot next election.

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  • [–] 118 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    JD will not be as batshit.

    Considering his connections to Peter Thiel I'm not so sure about that. But what matters is that he won't be able to wield the cult of personality that has formed around Trump the way Trump can.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Exactly.

    JD is scary due to the thiel connection.

    He's very unlikable though imo. He doesn't have the charisma trump has (not genuine charisma, but like an arrogant bullying charisma that MAGA is attracted to). Hopefully this alone would work against him.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    To be fair, though, Trump is deeply unlikable for many people. I've had almost a physical reaction to hearing him speak or seeing him since his debates against Hillary. He's always seemed gross and slimy to me.

    In other words, just because you and I see JD as unlikable doesn't mean that MAGA will also find him unlikable. In fact, Vance's approval rating among republicans is 89% favorable while among democrats it is 3% favorable as of the beginning of August.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I see people keep saying this but why does it even matter anymore? They already have the power, they already tested camps, they already have troops deployed, he can do what he wants and still control the narrative like they are now

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    I'm not optimistic about them "going back in the box" as it were but that fracture into competing factions will allow more reasonable leaders to get it. Kinda how Bernie was winning before moderates unified behind Biden but sorta in reverse.

    Trump won the R primary in 2016 and 2024 because the others didn't unify.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don't think they'll deconvert. I do hope they will become apathetic without their "charismatic" leader. I don't think Vance will be able to hold people's attention as well or rile them up to the same degree.

    Side note: Calling Trump "charismatic" makes me want to vomit, but apparently he is for some people...

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    JD also doesn't have as much of the crazy vote. Some people find trump charismatic, and find he can do no wrong, while JD chaises that charisma while lounging on the couch like a Lay-z-boy.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What?

    JD and his wife were groomed to be the Republican version of the Clinton's...

    They were literally set up by the "Tiger Mom" who's an ivy league law professor, then the wife was given SC clerkships.

    They are 1000x more dangerous than trump, in no small part because they won't be as blatant.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I don’t discount that argument, but my hope/expectation is without the base and therefore without undying tacit support from congress, the threat posed by Vance isn’t as much as a live Trump.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ahahahahaha! You guys are fukt. JD is a bigger puppet than Strumpf. And a whole lot less likeable if that's at all possible?!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    He's a puppet, but he can't build the groundswell of support that Trump can.

    There's a very short list of dictators who successfully transition the government to their choosen successor and have them stay in the long run. It's North Korea, and not a lot else.

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