• PenguinMage@lemmy.world
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      35? I feel like that’s a low ball… though the sad fact is if it happened shit would probably get a lot worse real fast.

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        That’s about how I picture America - 35% now love Iran, other 35% are outraged out of their minds and think that Trump should nuke Iran, and the rest think iRan is a fitness app and instantly blocked that source of ads.

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        Yeah thinking rationally we are much better off just winning the mid terms and making him a lame duck.

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          Trump won’t be a lame duck though, he doesn’t care about Congressional approval or the Constitution.

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            True, it does depend on Congress doing its job. Which is only somewhat more likely with a Democrat majority.

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    I don’t normally like seeing violence / gore. It makes me queezy and upset. I don’t click on NSFL links ever.

    But I would watch this. If the current potus was assassinated by someone (especially a foreign contract for hire), and it was captured on video, I would watch it on repeat, at various speeds, and I would relish in his pain as he capitulates to the cold clutch of death’s grip.

    I would save the video and revisit it from time to time as a reminder that sometimes people do get what they deserve.

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      With such a video I’d definitely be recreating the NSFW version of Kevin Costner’s famous scene in the movie JFK every night.

      “Back and to the theft. Back and too the left… Oh that’s nice… Back and too the left… oooooh yeah”

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      I don’t want Trump to die. I think a fitting end to him would be jail time, then a stroke rendering his body crippled but his mind as fit as it can be.

      Him sitting alone, with no good way to communicate, in a prison of his own mind, in prison getting smacked around by other inmates makes me happy.

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    It feels like there are about 100 million of us in the states scratching our necks like Dave Chappelle and saying “y’all still got any of that ‘regime change’ we been handing out?”

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      Well he was brain dead before the attempt, so it’s hard to tell if they missed or not.

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      There was no bullet. A shot somewhere, his ss detail pull him down and scrape his ear on something, the ss agents atart blasting and hit the people, they cover it uo.

      Not 100 pc on this like I am kirk being Israel’s superfan faction doing it as the official story is impossible.

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        Someone above and behind him got shot. You can see it in the videos that it was with the fist shot.

        I’m saying he wasn’t the target.

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      Iranian Religious figures already declared a fatwa against Trump declaring him an enemy of the religion and posting a bounty that’s already like 40M dollars for his execution.

      You could probably donate to that bounty, although I am sure if you are a US citizen it runs afoul of some domestic laws.

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    I would never have thought that I would ever be on the same page with some religious dictator…

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    People forgetting even if Trump will be or had been assassinated, Vance would just take his place and continue the train. Besides, Iran has been claiming they can do this since forever with nothing to show for it.

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        Neither does Trump. I don’t know where the argument that he has some kind of Magic Secret Fascism Sauce comes from. Republicans fucking love idiots and have been rabidly supporting them for decades now, and they’ll blindly follow Vance just like they’re blindly following Trump. It could be a sentient mop with a bucket hat, they literally do not care. Trump didn’t win the election, project 2025 did.

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          I don’t know where the argument that he has some kind of Magic Secret Fascism Sauce comes from.

          Charisma isn’t a universal thing, it is about appealing to a large chunk of the population but not the population as a while. In this case he has been the face for the fascist MAGA movement for like a decade now with people who constantly ignore how his policies harm them directly and still support him. He has charisma when it comes to hateful morons who want to hear a fat old white dude spout the racist shit in their heads without any kind of moral compass that would lead to being embarrassed.

          They won’t follow Vance because Vance doesn’t have the same belligerent and arrogant delivery despite saying the same hateful stuff because it is clear Vance is a try hard spineless wanna be grifter and not someone who has been an entitled shit their entire lives because they were born into wealth. Vance isn’t the strongman that the Republican party has been stoked to follow.

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        He doesn’t need to, he’s already elected and he’s been awarded god powers to do whatever he wants…by the SCROTUS.

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          And then all the politicians do the calculus that he doesn’t have the mojo to back primary candidates and then they just impeach him.

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            Fine, that’s a good point, I hope so. But like the other comment says: trump is just a way for them to wash their guilt away, it could be anyone and they’ll still oblige and then you’ll find out that they weren’t being forced by anyone all along.

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          Remember the bloodbath of reprisal killings that MAGA was promising to deliver for Saint Charley? What ever happened with that?

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          To be a martyr you typically have to believe in something bigger than yourself. Trump can’t do that. He’s too self serving and everyone around him knows it because they wanna be just like him. He could get killed and people might try to make him a martyr, but he only pushes division and hatred and self enrichment, good luck getting anyone aside from the proud boys to rally behind that. They tried to do it with Charlie Kirk too and that amounted to fuck all.