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[–] 249 points 1 year ago (34 children)
  • [–] 94 points 1 year ago (25 children)

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

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

    i want him to be eating on camera and then accidentally elvis himself

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

    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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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh definitely the stairs, since that's the "frail old man" tell that he seems most afraid of. And with nobody anywhere near him, and on a beautiful clear day with no wind and no sun in his eyes.

    It has to be clear as day that it was a failure of his body and not foul play or trickery.

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  • [+] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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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  • [+] 21 points 1 year ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

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

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

    got an eighth of high grade weed and a cheap box of wine set aside for the day

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

    Why the good bad and not good good?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think they're wondering why you're cheapin' on the wine, but to be honest I don't think anyone truly cares.

    I got a nice pack of lagers and some of Caliva's finest right here in a box.

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  • [+] 73 points 1 year ago (19 children)
  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    If he died of natural causes, what makes you think that’s how the White House would report it. They’d say he was killed and use it to create a false divisive narrative, blaming some left wing conspiracy or assassin who doesn’t exist. They’d use it to galvanise maga behind Vance blah blah blah…

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  • [+] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    You hit the nail on the head re: Vance.

    The cushion connoisseur occasionally pretends to give a shit about working class people (even though he doesn’t). MAGAts want their faces brazenly spat on, because they’re temporarily embarrassed billionaires and being poor makes you worthless*.

    I shudder at the thought of a Kirk-led timeline though, so thank you for the silver lining.

    *according to them.

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

    they won’t be able to focus that rage, it will quickly divest into the thousand little in-groups of conspiracies, backwoods nutcases screaming into the void, random nuts in trucks driving into drugstores and shooting up pizza places.

    Curious how many will assume Vance poisoned him to become president or something like that.

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

    No that would be to competent for them, they're gonna weekend at bernie him

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Honestly if he really is ill, I very much wouldn't put it past them to off him themselves and blame the "radical left" in order to kick off the civil war they keep trying for.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago* (21 children)

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

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

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

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

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    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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  • [+] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    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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  • 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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You may be 100% correct, but I would still fear that the corruption soaked deep into our institutions by this bonkers insane second term would enable the fascist train to keep rolling and take us on the rest of the ride we've already started. Everybody around him is appear running the administration.

    Maybe if the timing of the passing of the empire is favorable we might have some elections that seem valid maybe?

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

    Is that why its been so quiet? What a Stroke of luck!

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Stop getting our hopes up. Evil bastards live a longtime.

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

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

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

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

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

    Don’t do this to me again, don’t give me hope.

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