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The United States loses its status as a liberal democracy: ‘Trump is aiming for a dictatorship’
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this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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They're going to let him tear the country apart, and then 25th amendment his ass just after January 20th 2028. That lets Little Smokey take over, and he's still eligible for 2 full terms. Mark my words...
Ah yes, President Couch Fucker
He’s an obese octogenarian. He’s already on borrowed time.
All the signs are there, he's suffering acute heart failure likely. Just that he's likely to get Dick Cheney'd a new heart they rip out of some teenager in China.
I think they're just gonna kill him. Leaving him alive risks the chance of him sending whatever is left of MAGA after them. It also risks splitting their support base.
If they were going to do the smart thing and off him, they would have done so long ago.
Why would republicans have done that? It wasn't in their interest to kill him while he still had enough sway and the populace still had some power. Now though, they know they can take over without risks since they've managed to accumulate so much power in the presidency that, so long as they can hold on to the senate, they can do whatever they want with the judicial having abandoned any semblance of control over the executive.
Yep, they will prop his rotting corpse up as long as they can, the plan is to having him be the wrecking ball, take all the blame, but by then the fixes are all in for the next one in line.
Not sure if they will foist vance on us, I don't think they believe he can be the front of a cult but by they maybe the power will be consolidated enough that they don't care since he's just a puppet.