Come on stroke!
Vance 2026. It’s not a good outcome but it’s the best I can hope for.
They’ve been saying shit like this for years. Horrible people live far, far too long.
Apparently the the trick to longevity is alcohol sobriety with a healthy variety of amphetamines and fast food.
Pretty sure I remember reading this exact headline during trump1. It’s wishful thinking at best.
Someone get Jake Tapper!
I don’t think a blowie would help right now.
Trump dying sounds good until you consider he’ll be replaced by JD Vance
JD Vance doesn’t have the following or the charisma to pull off the nonsense Trump does. MAGA doesn’t work without Trump. Anytime MAGA has been in an election without Trump it fails pretty spectacularly.
You only need a following and charisma to get elected, he would just be handed more power so that doesn’t matter.
Nah, you need the charisma to convince the people in congress to go along with your ideas. Trump has that kind of sway and power because of all the lackeys he put in place. I don’t think JD could hold the same influence over them.
Maybe, but if he inherits a full on police state, he might not need charisma or followers any more.
Doesn’t work. Even a police state needs a base of support in the populace or it doesn’t last long. The constant pressure of enforced conformity is too much for the system to endure.
Also, under fascism, the second string guys are chosen for loyalty first and competence second. If the central guy dies, they fight amongst themselves and nobody wins.
Yeah… I’m reading this thread, and not thinking about his lack of charisma, but places like Pakistan where military coups follow.
Maybe, but I don’t think it will last. I think Trump has a better chance at getting a third term than JD has at getting a first term.
I’m not too sure. Sure, he’s VP but he’s also not that popular with MAGA. If Trump would go (in whatever way possible) I’m sure it’ll lead to infighting.
JD Vance is garbage, buuut… he’s just another horrible GOP person, really. The thing that made people afraid to resist Trump was his cult-like base. They’ve tried multiple successors, and no one has even come close to capturing the same unconditional love of this racist moron by those pieces of shit as Trump. If we as a country have a final chance we don’t deserve, it’s Trump dying from his beloved “hamberders”…
I don’t want Trump to die. I want him just in the edge of mental degradation so there’s a constitutional crisis. GQP will hesitate to 24A him cause MAGA would revolt. It would be an extremely lame duck presidency.
I want Trump to live long and quiet enough that he’s forgotten.
I want him to survive a Cat-5 hurricane that destroys Mar-a-Lago.
I want him to drool uncontrollably in a wheelchair while they take down his name down from buildings and golf resorts and turn them into shelters for the homeless and asylum seekers.
I want all his sons turn into Viserys III Targaryen, paupers and laughing stocks that people entertain out of pity, not respect.
I want him to live a long life in interesting times.
Your ears you keep and I’ll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, “Dear God! What is that thing,” will echo in your perfect ears. That is what “to the pain means.” It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
That sounds delightful.
It would be an extremely lame duck presidency.
It already is. Haven’t you seen him sign those executive orders and it’s immediately apparent he’s never seen or read it before that moment? He doesn’t have any clue what he’s going to sign before they put the paper in front of him.
Trump is in the White House for two reasons- make himself richer and avoid prosecution for his crimes. Everything else that’s happening is being masterminded by someone else. Smart money is on Stephen Miller.
It’s one part Stephen Miller one part Heritage foundation.
I believe it was Steve Bannon that previously referred to Trump as an “empty vessel.” These people promise him the chance to grift to his hearts content and they pour their agenda into him.
His whole Biden auto pen thing is more fucking projection… He has very little idea what he is signing, he’s just signing off heritage foundation wishlists and going about his day shitting himself and yelling at people.
Oh so you want the actual autopen presidency to continue
Gtfo of here with stupid MAGA-speak and come back when you can formulate your own criticisms instead of just parroting this low effort ‘talking point’ shit you’ve been given
It’s not a low effort talking point given to anyone. I made the same comment in another section of the thread thinking it was somewhat original. If he’s mindlessly signing what is put in front of him then it’s no different than an automated signature by a mindless machine.
The reference is to point out the hypocrisy of Republicans claiming Bidens use of auto pen meant he didn’t know about or care about what he was signing and was too unwell or careless to do it himself, and then we have Trump, albeit physically there signing the things, mentally checked out so he’s not doing anything particularly different than what crap the Republicans were saying before. Unless I’m misunderstanding it, it’s just a statement on Republican hypocrisy.
I think it fits well.
autosharpie
I’ll take “horrifically nauseous and hovering over a toilet forever and ever” for 400, Alex.
I think they’d Weekend at Bernie’s him to pass the worst legislation you’ve ever heard of.
If it’s unpopular Trump gets the blame and he’s too incapacitated and impotent to lash out at them.
Basically what Trump accused the Biden admin of doing.
I mean, thats what they’re doing now. He’ll sign whatever they put in front of him.
“He’ll sign anything that stays still long enough”- Ron Weasley on Profesor Lockhart
That practice isn’t rare in authoritarian states. George III, Stalin, Nero, probably Mao. Now TACO.
Let’s hope it happens before the 2 year mark so it counts as a full first term for Vance
The fewer shit stains the better. And while JD is pure evil, he doesn’t have the cult of personality that Shitler does.
That would be the main hope, that once Trump’s “charisma” is taken out of the picture, MAGA might start to lose enthusiasm. But it would take some time for the MAGA momentum to wind down, and the authoritarians-in-waiting would be keen to consolidate power quickly and insulate themselves against the opinions of the masses. So then the next hope is that they all start fighting among themselves so hard that the damage any of them can do is limited.
Them consolidating power is still better than that same power already consolidated
“Trump is going to die any day now” is a thing people were posting in 2018. It’s a thing people were posting about Vladimir Putin in 2018.
It’s all court gossip and click bait bullshit.
There’s a subreddit dedicated to telling you if Trump has died yet
JD Vance dying sounds good until you consider he’ll be replaced by Mike Johnson.
just gather them all and let a single mortar shell loose
And Mike Johnson tells his son every time he cums
His son’s phone alert goes off with the camgirl tip noises
dingdingdingdingding
“DAD it’s CHRISTMAS EVE”
I’d have ruined that app as a teen and not even by telling the truth. I’d be getting pictures of me in empty parks on a carousel like, “3 head shots, 7 kills.”
What?
Amazing. Assuming this is true, and he actually gets any, he can hit his son with “I came in your mom last night.”
It may lead to billions in therapy bills, but thet kid is getting the closest thing to the 2006 public Halo game experience.
Is online gaming different now?
Vance can pick anyone to be his VP I believe, so it likely wouldn’t be Johnson
They’re referring to the succession in an emergency. After that i think is speaker pro tempore
Yeah, I think they are just pointing in the line of succession doesn’t do much if the VP was chosen by the president. We only made it 4 electiona before the 12th amendment was made and killed any hopes that the line of succession would be useful and Washingtons hopes that we wouldn’t become a 2 party system were completely dashed.
Without the 12th Amendment I have no idea who would be president right now. Biden would have never been Vice President and such likely would have never been President. Harris the same. But the President would likely have an obstacle at all times in the Senate as the only way to get both the President and Vice President elected for the same “party” they would have to have 2 candidates beat 1 of another party, splitting the vote of their own party. In today’s media age, it would be really hard to have gotten that done.
If there is an opening in the VP spot, the President nominates a new VP. But that VP still has to be confirmed by both houses of Congress before he can be sworn in.
The only way Johnson becomes president is if a) Trump dies, Vance nominates him, and Congress confirms it, or b) both Trump and Vance kick the bucket at the same time which automatically puts Johnson in the White House.
I was curious how far down the line of succession you would have to go to find someone who would not be a catastrophically bad president. 11 positions down is the Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer. She’s a Hispanic woman who was one of 6 Republican house members who signed a pledge to respect the results of the 2024 election, the only Republican cosponsor of a pro- union bill, and opposes a national Bank on abortion or IVF. Far from Ideal but light years better than the rest of the fascists on the list
So how did she get a cabinet level position? I’m honestly confused
It would be nigh impossible for that outcome though. If trump dies, Vance assumes the role but then selects a new VP. This new VP is now first in line and Johnson hasn’t moved up at all. It would take the synchronized deaths of all those others in line ahead of Lori Chavez-DeRemer for her to get the position. This is a known possibility so they generally keep people separated to some degree. That way if someone wants to plot a mass assassination to clear the line, it’s much more difficult. They couldn’t just try to bomb one building or something.
Kiefer
True, but most if not all of those positions need congressional approval of the next person holding the position. It doesn’t transfer automatically. The approval process can drag on for months. I think one or two are still “acting” secretaries under Trump.
I’m an atheist but on Inauguration Day I was praying. Then they moved it inside suddenly. All those billionaire butt kissers were there too…
But seriously, that was a potential dream scenario for… uh… someone…
Yeah, we’re fucked.
What if all 18 are taken out then what?
Christ, what a list of absolute scumbags.
Someone shoot me a message when someone decides to do something about it.
You had me at shoot.
Wish all you want that Trump preferably dies soon but it doesn’t matter. He is merely the punching bag and front for the real rulers: the oligarchs. They will only prop up someone else as the fall guy, while they steal every fibre, life and soul of everything they touches.
I can’t wait for corporate fascism! Enclave when?! /s
But seriously, America wants to speedrun to corporate fascism (Thiel and Musk are accelerationists after all). But even without this speed running, corpo-fascism is only the logical conclusion of America’s deranged obsession and worshipping of capitalism.
C’mon, Rick Wilson saying something mean about Trump isn’t news. He’s not changing any Republican minds, his Lincoln Project has been outside the tent for years.
It’s been outside the GOP tent but squarely inside the Dem tent.
Wilson loves to tell Democrats that Republicans are going to suddenly and catastrophically collapse and then just hand power to the Dems on a plate. And all the Dems need to do is wait patiently for the right moment, doing nothing that might risk their opportune position.
“Trumps cognitive decline…”
Yeah, reason numbers 576,432 that he should never have even been on the ballet
Sorry for the stolen slop.
Worth
Make the “four” a “one” and then we’re talking.
I want it to happen live. Mid speech.
The guy that thinks the annotated photo of a dude’s knuckles isn’t annotated might have a cognitive issue? No way!!
On one paw, I would like Trump dead. On the other hand, if a 2nd American Civil War happens, I would like him to prosecute the Confederate’s actions. Under his influence, every single thing about the Confederates would be driven by DUI.
It would be nice if fascism suffered a curbstomp that it could never recover from. A war would be bitter medicine, but much needed to save America from Thiel and company. So long as they stay rooted in American politics, our rights and freedoms will be lost.
I don’t see how it could make any difference.
He’s already an idiot, a delusional narcissist, and a compulsive liar, so it’s not as if he could become even more detached from realitybthan he already is. And his supporters don’t care (and likely don’t even notice), since they’re even dumber than he is.
And it’s not like he"s going to forget his platform, since it’s pretty much just hating immigrants and LGBTQ, dicking over poor people, singing his own praises and scamming as much money as possible, and that’s all as natural and automatic to him as breathing…
Really, there’s just not much cognition going on there in the first place - it’s more in the nature of infantile immediacy and animal instincts - so I can’t see how any loss of it would matter much.
How many of us is he going to drag to hell with him?
"as my 6yo just said, “Ooold Donald Bananas”
completely unrelated to this, but it fits.
