• @tiita
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    4714 days ago

    The whole presidency is alarming… Please find a bit that it is not?

    • TheLowestStone
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      1814 days ago

      Nah, let’s all take a good honest look at what’s happening and start preparing for it.

    • modifier
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      1114 days ago

      In not alarming news…Maybe the annual tradition of pardoning a turkey will remain largely unchanged

      • @dellish
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        614 days ago

        Assuming Trump is the turkey in this instance.

    • @[email protected]
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      613 days ago

      Given his age, there is a non-zero chance that he may die while in the presidency?

      JD Vance isn’t exactly a charismatic individual (some might even go so far as call him ‘weird’); so this entire neo-fascist movement may very well fragment and flounder in the not too distant future.

        • @[email protected]
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          913 days ago

          Why is that? He lacks the cult of personality to be able to carry on after Trump IMO, and was largely picked as a ‘Yes Man’.

            • @[email protected]
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              713 days ago

              No doubt he’s smart, he hitched his wagon to the Trump train after all - but I don’t think that’s particularly important.

              He doesn’t have Trump’s charisma, so he’d struggle to maintain control over his fan base and would likely face challenges from key faces in the cohort (eg. Ron DeSantis, MTG etc.)

              • @[email protected]
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                213 days ago

                This is basically my reasoning as well, he will most likely be eaten alive by the true believers and power brokers will break him over knee. All of Vance’s influence is derived from Trump. And especially if Trunp dies before inauguration he may very well become irrelevant depending on certain factors.

          • @Jiggle_Physics
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            313 days ago

            If he dies before they are able to really get the structural changes in P2025 off the ground, Trump’s death will likely instigate the death of the movement. If it dies after that the P2025 restructuring has happened, won’t matter.