• degen@midwest.social
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    14 hours ago

    I’d honestly put money on him not making it to term, but that might be the safe bet. The thing is, that leaves us with Vance.

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        13 hours ago

        I’ve gotten the feeling that Trump acts out of loving himself, while Vance explicitly wants to be awful. Both about as terrifying, but Vance seems more menacing in my mind.

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          Vance himself isn’t the problem insofar he’s a symptom of the same disease Trump is one of. His ties to cryptobros and Peter Thiel, however, most definitely are.

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            For sure, and I was mostly considering them as individuals which admittedly isn’t the most pertinent when the rest of the party is the way it is.

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        You think Vance is easier to manipulate than the literal pedophile with a lifetime of compromat who consistently flips his convictions over who complimented him last???

        I’m not saying Vance isn’t easy to manipulate, I’m just saying I can’t imagine there’s an easier to manipulate human being over the age of 4 than Donald Trump.

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        Eh… Vance isn’t the childish wanna be strong man that Trump is. He’s an ambitious ideologue who has the backing of powerful wealthy men and will 1000% take advantage of the ground work towards authoritarianism that Trump laid. I wouldn’t be shocked if he fails to inspire MAGA at large to fall in behind him. He’d probably fave a lot of opposition and other Trump wannabes in a future election, if we have any more of those. But he will definitely try to hold onto all that MAGA influence and he will likely succeed in at least getting Trump’s cabinet and the Republican congress and SCOTUS to prop up his bullshit just like they did Trump. They’ll be relieved to have a more predictable autocrat in charge. If he continues to undermine elections and the rule of law like Trump, well… I’m sure he doesn’t hate the idea of being a young dictator for life.

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      10 hours ago

      Iirc, the revelations anti-christ is supposed to rule for 7 years, I also have some memory that there was a hint it might not be consecutive.

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      12 hours ago

      Vance is useless as fuck and is incapable of herding his republican cats. He was a joke before Trump and he’ll continue to be a joke after.