Well the former presidency will leave office after January 20th regardless of if the election takes place, but there is a solid chance a new candidate doesn’t obtain enough delegates for that party to put them on the ballot and that the election does in fact take place.
The trumpanzees would lose their fucking minds. Trump could choke to death on Putin’s dick on live TV and it’d still be pitched as some kind of deep-state hit job.
There would likely be a lot of violence.
The conspiracy theory would be like in Killer Elite with Jason Statham, but this time in the bathroom instead of a special floor tile hammer, seal team 6 with a penis hammer.
(PS: I tried to google a harmless penis hammer fun picture for illustration reasons, but holy fuck, whats wrong with some people, sounding, nailing, smashing, … 😮).
The rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief.
We kinda have a lot riding on the US remaining a relatively incorrupt democratic superpower.
Putin is very obviously angling to start a world war with the US as a useful-idiot ally if trump gets even a day in office again.
Putin doesn’t want a world war, he is more interested in having the west just roll over and letting him retake the former countries of the Soviet Union
Of course, but that pretty much can only result in a world war
Do you really think he stops once the former Soviet countries are under his control?
If Trump gets elected, the modern world of relative peace ends and we’re thrown into chaos and suffering with possibly no easy way back to stability.
Oh I agree with you, I just don’t think that a world war is what Putin wants.
While I wouldn’t wish death on anyone, it would probably be one of the better things to happen to American politics this year, as you’d essentially be beheading the MAGA movement - it is unlikely that anyone else could retake those reigns with how centred the movement is around Trump specifically, man’s practically worshipped like a new Jesus to them.
I don’t want someone to go kill him, but I absolutely wish that he would drop dead without the slightest moral reservation.
My only concern is that however he were to die, everyone on the right would go full conspiracy theory and blame it on the left, and somehow we’d be worse off in ways I can’t imagine right now. The right always seems to find a way to make me regret any turn of events that I thought was good.
With either candidate, it all depends on timing.
If either candidate dies before their respective conventions, the Republicans on 7/15 to 7/18 and the Democrats on 8/19 to 8/22, then the convention becomes an open convention, with deals being made to select a new candidate.
If one of them dies after the convention, it’s up to the party to pick a replacement, likely the VP candidate, but it doesn’t have to be.
If the winner of the election dies after the election, it gets incredibly messy, again, depending on the timing.
There’s a good novel on that hypothetical called “The People’s Choice”.
