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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.
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.
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.
i want him to be eating on camera and then accidentally elvis himself
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.
Because he is so awesome Lord Jaysus took him from us too soon.
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.
Preferably giving the mike a blowjob again?
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
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.
Pop a vessel while shitting out his 3rd Big Mac of the day
Trpping and falling down the steps of AF1. And then, as he's dying at the bottom, he shits himself.
I was thinking he could be so constipated from eating junk fast food that he farts himself to death sitting on the toilet. 🚽
What's the hight of the tail rotor on a Sea King?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
Whether or not they understand it, they can't replicate it or they would have already.
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.
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.
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.
A series of commemerative plates.
"And if you call right now, we'll send you not one, but two commemorative plates and a set of gold plate holders"
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.
got an eighth of high grade weed and a cheap box of wine set aside for the day
Why the good bad and not good good?
Nothing bad can happen, only good happen.
huh?
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.
i mean krasnov going feels like a good bottle occasion, but celebrating anything related to krasnov with something more than box wine feels wrong. he reminds me of cheap ass-wine from a box.