It must surely be imminent. He’s not in the best health if the reports about him eating mcdonalds all the time are true. He’s 79 which isn’t that old but I dont see many fat, stressed 90 year olds on a mcdonalds diet.
Say he had a heart attack next week… then what? Presumably Vance would take over as actual president, but I can’t imagine anyone being as bad as him. Would the maga movement continue with a different cult leader? Do you think things would meaningfully change?
My practical experience with people with anti social personality disorder rarely feel stress, they thrive doing constant power games and destroying lives. So I doubt he’s stressed.
When he dies I’ll fucking rejoice. Other than that I dunno
He only eats fast food on the road, when he’s at the White House or one of his own places he probably eats pretty well.
US hockey team was served McDonalds at the White House just a few weeks ago.
That may just be a display of power. Either that or he really likes fast food.
Trump is the disposable useful idiot to be the fall guy if the fascist coup fails. Everyone will pretend to sober up with their “it wasn’t us, it was him and we tried to fight it from the inside, but he was just too powerful.” story. These lines are well rehearsed.
The fascist party is still fully present and accounted for, and are learning to exercise their newfound powers with alarming speed. Trump dying fixes nothing. They lose a figurehead, and the idiot fallguy. Their plans don’t stop. If anything they accelerate and intensify because their big escape clause just disapeared and the cost of failure goes up.
Trump dying fixes nothing.
Well, it could potentially fracture their party between different figures vying to be the next Trump. That’s the only thing it could fix.
It’s extremely rare for a cult to survive the death of its leader.
The only one I know of is Scientology.Vance would become POTUS, but he won’t be able to keep MAGA united. Remember, Rump is miraculously keeping both pro Israel Zionists and anti-Semitic Neo-Nazis together on the same team. As well as others who would be natural enemies. MAGA will collapse. Vance’ll almost certainly loose in '28.
Every religion currently operating is a cult that survived the death of its leader.
A handful maybe.
Most grew organically from collections of myths, stories, and traditions.Greek, Nordic, Egyptian, Hindi, Jewish, Wicca, Vodou, Zoroastrian, even Christian, each started as loose regional folktales. They took shape and coalesced over generations.
Nothing would change. It should be obvious that Trump isn’t the one making the decisions and neither would be JD Vance.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if there was little attention being given to a funeral. Just as a show of power of how disposable the figure heads are.
They could go the way of a leadership cult they have in north korea, where btw, the title of kim il sung is still technically, officially head of state, even though he’s dead. They simply invented a new position and keep him as eternal big leader. + something with christian nationalism, like “trump is watching over you guys from heaven”.
Maybe I’m too pessimistic too, we’ll see if “they” will allow the mid term elections to take place or how that will go down.
It should be obvious that Trump isn’t the one making the decisions
Oh yes, for about 3-400 of the less important daily decisions, he is 😉
Vance (and Peter Theil by proxy) become president.
It’d probably be best if Pete Thiel just died also. That would be pretty cool.
Vance would accuse Democrats of assassination and impletement martial law and arrest Democrats
It doesn’t matter even if it’s a heart attack
He needs to end in a humiliating self inflicted way. Falling off the stairs or something.
For legal reasons: I want to be clear I do not wish death upon anyone…
But I do wonder what it would look like if a politician choked on a burger and died…
Like imagine how absurd it would be if it happened on live tv
if it happened on live tv
Nah, the beeper people are quick enough not to let this be seen.
The Portuguese way look suitable: his chair breaks and he hits his head
I actually got a book that disputes that narrative, arguing that it was likely something even more embarrassing like him falling inside his bathroom, due to the fact that apparently the killer chair was never found, that there are conflicting stories, and weirdly inconsistent testimonies Edit: went to see the Wikipedia article, they do have this dispute mentioned. Fun
I prefer the chair story, it yields better memes
