Wow. I can’t believe after all these years I’m going to have to say, fuck you, Jon. I don’t give a fuck if Compatore was a firefighter, he was there showing support for a fascist wanna-be dictator. The only tragedy is that Trump is still alive. THIS is why we are where we are; because motherfuckers keep treating these fascist fucks with kid gloves. Fuck Trump, fuck anyone and everyone even remotely involved with Project 2025, and fuck every last person that gives any kind of sympathy to any of them or their supporters. This IS war, and if you can’t see that, you are part of the problem.
Jon is completely right.
I didn’t realize that all of Trumps supporters were psychically linked and would fall like dominoes once the Great Orange One falls.
The supporters aren’t going anywhere though, even if the bullet hit. And JD Vance has essentially inherited the MAGA base now such that the movement doesn’t die with Trump anymore. Pence was never going to really do that when he was VP. But Vance could carry the torch as running mate and gave the party a more clear view of what succession looks like.
He’s not wrong. If you thought the last debate was bad for Biden imagine if there was a DeSantis or Haley up there to really hammer the age difference and speak in complete sentences. That person also gets to carry out Trump’s vision and honor his memory. Once they won the election, they also get the opportunity to pass legislation that was Trump’s dieing wish.
Hard to say what would have been better.
There’s no doubt removing a Hitler from the US elections would benefit everyone.
But given how dangerous his cult is, can you say without a doubt they would stay calm and just accept their leader got killed? And, above all, that the one coming to take his place would be a less fascist person?
But given how dangerous his cult is, can you say without a doubt they would stay calm and just accept their leader got killed?
His cult will (and already does) do damage if gets in, so it doesn’t matter if they might if he doesn’t.
And, above all, that the one coming to take his place would be a less fascist person?
The current one already is a fascist person, at that point it doesn’t matter if they’re more or less, any fascist needs to go.
There are levels of fascism. A fascist like Trump is dangerous, but given his lack of intelligence, he’s less dangerous than a fascist that’s smart. You don’t want a smart Trump.
Edit: typo
If Trump is stupid, what does that say about the person losing to an idiot?
You really can’t see how a smart Trump would be the worst possible scenario? Trump is dumb. A person as evil as him but with half a functional brain would make the world tremble. Of course the world is better without Trump but do we want an alternative that could be more dangerous than him just by the fact of being smarter (something really easy at this point)?
They’re already delusional and obsessed about their new prophet, what difference would it make.
Most likely they would take significant action. There’d be a lot of terrorism.
Though, probably not much more than if he loses.
You remove Hitler and you get Chancellor Göring. As you suggest, it’s just not that simple.
It gets harder every time. Do you think it’s going to be anywhere near this easy to take a shot at a major presidential candidate again?
Trump embodies fascism on an instinctive bedrock level. By the time he saw the democracy, he was already a man, and it was nothing to him but stupid.
It’s unlikely that the person that replaces him will be as spiritually aligned with fascism. On the other hand, just like with Hitler, Trump’s pure stupidity and laziness is the one bright spot in what would otherwise be an unbroken landscape of horror that we’re currently driving into.
I think replacing him, atop the machinery that’s been created at this point, with someone who really knew what to do with it and could apply themselves to getting it done, would be probably the worst catastrophe possible out a set of possible futures that doesn’t have any shortage of catastrophes.
An organic cause would play out different than an assassin’s bullet. Both candidates have the best Healthcare available, so I dunno that organic is likely tho.
Him dying of an illness or simply old age would remove a good portion of the followers ire (not 100% because I’m sure there would be an interesting portion thinking the cause is fake and someone killed him; and of course some nutjob would try to capitalize it). The problem of a potentially worse successor remains.
The solution is by no means simple and, to do it well, you need a long term plan that includes not only defeating him but also a shock plan for anyone trying to copy him until they return to being a moderate right party.
The solution must include too opening the elections to a more complex system with more than 2 parties and actual alternatives that make people able of voting for something that’s not just “the lesser evil”.
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