• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    JD doesn’t have the political capital Trump has had which has been the reason Trump gets away with shitting in the faces of everything and everyone.

    He has a feverishly devoted base of armed, loyal voters who will support ANYTHING he does. That’s raw political power at a foundational level. Nobody understands how he does it so they keep jockeying people like Vance into the spotlight hoping to be able to take the reins.

    But Trump’s base hates Vance. He talks too much, he sounds like a politician, he has no swagger like Trump does. The magic will go out when the dim light goes out of Trump’s lousy life.

    I don’t think birds will sing and sunbeams will wash the country clean or anything, but the end of Trump will be the beginning of the decay of the republican party. They have no leader with the same political capital. About the only person who had a chance of introducing his own brand of charisma to flute the rats was Charlie Kirk.

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      JD doesn’t have the political capital Trump has had which has been the reason Trump gets away with shitting in the faces of everything and everyone.

      Trump isn’t going to share the Russian kompromat that he has on the GOP in Congress with Vance. Russia didn’t hack the RNC for shits and giggles.

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        I genuinely don’t think there’s any kompromat, at least if there is I don’t think it matters anymore.

        In the early days of the trump… “thing” we all thought that whatever blackmail russia had on him would sink him and that Russia was pulling all his strings as a result, the whole world was fixated on the Meuler investigations and so on. We thought that it would be like Watergate, that if there was ANY evidence of impropriety in our leadership that someone, somewhere would pull the lever and restore order and law.

        Since 2016 we’ve watched the very idea of “disqualifying actions” lose all value. There are plenty of people who care and want to see law and order, but there are far, far more people who don’t watch the news anymore. They have tuned out the noise, they don’t believe anything anyone says, they just don’t care. Combine that with the fact that our entire legislative branch and congressional branch has been bought out, and we’re in a world now that more closely resembles pre-industrial monarchy.

        If a video surfaced of Trump throwing children into a wood chipper surfaced, there would be a SNL skit about it, a lot of comedian monologues, and people would wear shirts with wood chippers on them representing their feelings one way or another.

        (This is also why there seems to have been a shift in the attitude between Trump and Putin recently.)

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      It is well understood how he does it. Go watch the documentary Bad Faith. The CNP (Council for National Progress, the group that founded the heritage foundation), has been supplying priests and pastors talking point for 50 years. The CNP told the priests what to say, the priests tell people to follow trump. boom, cult.

      I’m fairly certain when djt checksout, the cult will be gifted to JD and business will continue.