And applying the vegetable oil to Satan's asshole.

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

Kissinger was 99.

I mean.... those are special circumstances. Sometimes people give karma a helping hand.

Eh. I don't believe in superstition but... I get it, he certainly bears an uncanny number of markers of the Antichrist. To the degree it seems it should be an obvious warning to the believers.

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.

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.

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.

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

Even if that’s true, it only means the slow and steady decline of the country instead of the rapid spiral.

I don't think MAGA holds Vance in the cult-likenregard they hold trump.

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.

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.

I try not to be judgemental about such things. Everyone has different circumstances in life that might have prevented them from learning those skills. My fiancee, now in her 30's, has never owned a bicycle and was never taught. She had a poor upbringing and so the funds were never there for her to be able to learn.

But man, I sure do wonder about the people whose parents did have the financial means for bike riding and swim lessons. Either the parents didn't show any interest in teaching their kid how to do it, or the kid was not interested in leaning. Either way, it's not really a good reflection on either the parents or the kid.

Thiel and all the other fascists will just pay all the grifters influencers to push propaganda like they always do.