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People say this, and it definitely feels good to say, but what exactly do you think will happen if he dies?
Wishful thinking, a messy internal power struggle as Vance is not the cult of personality. Things do not improve but the wild tactless nonsense stops for a brief moment as we await the midterms.
GOP will regress on, as ever
I get a good laugh. And Vance becomes president, and because he has all the charisma of a generic can of tomato soup, MAGA officially collapses on itself, and then we get free entertainment watching a bunch of red-hatted apes fling shit at each other.
I imagine those red hats will be about as popular as W stickers were c. 2008. Even now, you sometimes see stories where someone is burning their ~~Nazi uniform~~ John Barron gear.
I bet there will be a sudden influx of "independents", too.
Vance becomes President, the Epstein Files are completely forgotten, a few more bombs are dropped in Iran before the war exits the media completely, lots of "It's time to move on" from the Dems, various Trumpers try to become a successor.
Trump said it himself the other day. I'm paraphrasing a little bit because I don't feel like finding the exact quote, but when talking about Republicans that don't support this war against Iran he said something like "They're not maga, I am."
Historically speaking the cult of personality disappears once the leader dies. Nobody likes Vance and nobody is afraid of him. Yes, he's going to be bad, but not nearly as bad as what we have.
Vance is coherent and entirely Thiel's little bitch piggy. If he ends up getting the same amount of mindless knob slobbing Trump gets, I think it'll much worse. Hopefully since nobody likes him he won't be able to do the damage Thiel wants him to do
The only reason why Trump allowed Vance to be his VP is that Trump doesn't view Vance as a threat. Because he isn't.
At least not to Trump. Vance can and will do a fuckload of damage, but he's far too easy to mock, even for moderate Republicans.
Party at my place
Joy