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Trump Spotted After Widespread And Giddy Speculation He Is Secretly Dead Or Dying
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Surprised I hadn’t seen this emoji representation of Trump before, it’s perfect 🫲🍊🫱
Sorry if anyone got their hopes up.
I'm honestly torn. Trump is definitely being "handled" by the Project 2025 architects (the Heritage Foundation), but he is such an idiotic narcissistic ass that he also tends to fuck their plans up a bit. Vance, on the other hand, will be a dutiful little soldier boy, and not get in their way so much - which is why the HF got Trump to pick him despite the bad blood between them. I'm really a bit more scared of that - kind of a "be careful what you wish for" situation.
You're forgetting that cults don't continue when the leader is gone. Trump doesn't his entire life getting people to believe him and love him or hate him he is good at it. Vance sucks. No one likes him and he will not be able to continue the grift when Donny dies. They have no one past him that can handle the base and the party. There is going to be a lot more pain when he is gone because of all the fighting. Better case unfortunately would be for midterms to happen then he dies then at least there's a chance the GOP won't have full control over the government
I mean, Scientology is doing pretty well since the death of L Ron Hubbard.
And Mormonism, The Children of God/The Family, Aleph/Aum Shinrikyo, etc.
Hell, Christianity pretty much started as a Roman era cult around Jesus.
These are just taking in the cults that have succeeded. It's survivorship bias. There's countless more cults that have died out, or faded away time, and time again.
That's kinda what I mean - if Trump dies now, the HF still has plenty of time left before the midterms to do the most damage possible using Vance. I'm sure they have their marionette strings tied to enough Republican Congress critters to get their stuff done even without Trump's bullying & they can coach Vance on the rest. If Trump goes, I think I'd rather it be a LOT closer to the midterm election.
ETA: Don't forget they're the party in power, and can change all sorts of things that will affect their chances in the election, too. Those things don't have to hold up legally, just cause legal delays that let them keep power.
All true, but we are very near a point with USA where Vance doesn't need a cult following, he can rule as a dictator supported by oligarchs. He already has the military and intelligence services and the supreme court. The rest will follow, as resistance is weeded out by those powers.
That is the goal of Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation.
The goal isn't so much who leads it, as long as it's the wealthy white Christian Nationalists.
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Yeah but MAGA doesn't have cult leader boner for Vance. They wouldn't let him shit in their mouths. Trump on the other hand...
They're still going to be loyal to the party because they've been brainwashed to think Democrats (who are unfortunately the only other viable option) are out to destroy them & their way of life. It's gonna take a long time for that to wear off for any significant number of them - during which time another acolyte may be found to carry the torch.
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I don't want Trump dead. I want to see him pay in some way for his countless crimes.
If he just dies because he's old, then he's never faced any justice.
I would prefer that, too, but reality is that's extremely unlikely to happen. As such, I'm more focused on getting through this so the damage can be undone as quickly as possible.
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I have no hope for him to face real punishment. My greatest hope is that her suffers real badly in the polls and is terribly unliked - so badly his consonant dissonance has to be at full steam trying to gaslight out of it.
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I also don't want him dead. I want him locked in after a massive stroke.
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Upgraded from secretly dying to visibly dying.
“Seen”
If I won the $1B powerball and Trump also died, Im confident I know what Id consider to be the best thing to happen to me this week
I forgot that I even bought a ticket because I was so excited about the mere prospect of that bastard dying
I saw people saying on Bluesky that this was from a month-old video, can anyone confirm?
That picture though. He looks like he had something happen.
Yeah, his makeup actually extends back past his ears. Which means some other poor soul probably had to do it.
It might be the way the pic was taken, but it has stroke energy about it.
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Shit his pants, probably.
Also, this:
Good, shouldn’t be quick Though, ideally he’d be grossly physically disabled but still cognizant, at least in so far as he currently is
“Spotted” like livor mortis spots?
Something's fucky
https://sports.inquirer.net/367910/trump-tees-it-up-with-hall-of-fame-golfers-player-sorenstam
The picture in the Mediate article is a cropped version of the one in this article which has been circulating all day.
Look at the license plate, the shoes and clothes.
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Uff he’s ancient. He needs to be poopin’ his pants at brunch somewhere with his grandkids screaming “grandpa smells again!” in public really loud, not making a fascist power grab.
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It’s crazy how I sound like a conspiracy theorist when I say this doesn’t look like him. His nose and neck look off. As another mentioned his makeup looks too good.
I caught a bit of the speculation, in the form of a couple threads of people joking how nice it would be for him to pass on a long weekend so they could really party.
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Deepfake!!
Fuckit, lets turn the tables
south park already did a couple eps ago. it was gross.
Nope. Just golfing.
He does not look healthy
He’s been looking worse each passing week.
Of course he's golfing again