I remember in like 2014 people were saying that Putin had syphallis or dementia or whatever and "wouldn't last long" in power
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He shouldn't be removed for dementia, he should be removed for treason and prosecuted as such. Along with all his goons.
That's the correct approach. Keep calling out the obvious dementia, the guy's barely a vegetable. Just look at the recent speech with the generals , the orange turd is unrecognisable, he barely moves.
Also mentioning that you are concerned about his health can help to prevent people from immediately going up in arms by appealing to their empathy (no matter how twisted it is in their heads).
And then what? Vance taking power is not what you'd want, I believe
Vance is a puppy, maga will tear itself apart.
What do you call a puppy with a machine gun?
Sir.
Couch fucking loser is better than the Cult leader.
Cults fall apart once their cunt leader dies.
Not always, but usually. We can hope!
Trump staying in power is what I don't want. Tinyface Couchfucker certainly isn't a great choice as replacement but he's definitely not worse than Dementia Hitler.
He's young, ambitious and healthy. He could be much worse than Hitler. Wait till he upsets Trump
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I'm not sure this would fix much...
I'm willing to bet Vance doesn't get the blind worship that Trump gets from his followers.
If Trump goes down via something like the 25th amendment, or like, assassination, I can see the base rallying around Vance. But left to their own devices to pick a successor? Idk. The whole "Trump 2028" meme, as much as it's supposed to "trigger the libs," kinda shows a lack of confidence or at least excitement regarding Vance, and I can envision a contested primary, especially as things continue going towards shit and they have to find someone or something to blame.
Personally, I suspect that we've entered a period of one term presidents. There are systemic issues that will cause things to continue to get worse regardless of who's in charge (barring radical change) and at the modern pace of discourse, four years feels like an eternity.
It's a cult of personality, and Vance has all the charisma and personality of a couch.
And Trump has the personality of a sleezy used car salesman but apparently a lot of people are into that
Poor man's idea of a rich man. Idiot's idea of a businessman. Weak man's idea of a strong man.
Right, and Vance absolutely can not emulate it.
That's a roundabout way to tell him to go fuck himself.
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Also Vance is going to live long enough to face consequences.
Dude George W Bush was their guy two elections in a row.
There people are mindless lampreys just looking to latch onto anything that promises to hurt brown people.
Nobody was flying George Bush flags on their pickup trucks though. He didn't have the same cult of personality.
Nah, I remember seeing many “W” flags on bro dozers. It’s the same awful people.
He might unite the country in hating him.
They're like geese, they'll follow anything that waddles in front of them.
I think its too late to hope on that point, maybe if they all fall to infighting between the tech bro, christian nationalist, and groyper factions they'll tear themselves apart but he would have to be removed very soon for the country to be salvaged into anything resembling the one we knew growing up
He needs to fuck some more kids first.
JD can get removed after Trump as well. Same goes for porno Mike... And for anyone that goes against humanity.
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I know lots of tankies like to jump in and help the qons out by claiming Russia was a "hoax" when it comes to Taco.
But let's look at the outcomes - if you were one of our enemies, including Russia, you would be beside yourself in how much damage Taco is doing to this country.
It's pretty obvious that Russia owns Trump, but the legitimate evidence of Russian links gathered by Mueller only landed on members of his staff. Even that was soured by suspect evidence (servers in Trump tower, Steele dossier, wikileaks sources, fusion GPS meeting Natalia Veselnitskaya).
he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin
Fuck Putin, but he didn't order the army into cities... Unless we count wars, like literally war conflicts, not the made up shit about antifa occupied Los Angeles.
Look up the 2011-2013 Russia protests. He used the police, not the army, and used them to raid and arrest his opposition.
Yup, been there. I can clearly recall that police also used grenades shipped as international aid from Poland
That's because putin has already established control, meanwhile, trump is a wannabe dictator that still can't get 100% support yet, so he is desperate to project power.
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The only way Trump is going out is if we the people force him out. I’m open to other suggestions but a general strike is the only way I can see that is realistic.
The only way he's going out is with a bullet or a massive stroke/ heart attack
Come on, just a few more big Macs...
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The short version is that they find the president no longer fit to carry out his duties as president
Need more to join him in being patriots and standing up to fascist tyranny
… so the assumption is that Vance will be better?
Pritzker/Trump UFC match when?
Remove this president from office. I'm tired of all the rest of the suits on the hill pretending this guy is serious. He is a Mistake.
Sorry, Trump can't fight on this occasion on account of the bonespurs.
25th or 2nd.
Impeachment is a lower hurdle and more appropriate. But it's no more likely than the 25th being invoked.
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