Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?

• joekar1990@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah but the difference is Trump has the magnetism and Vance doesn’t? Usually when a cult leader dies the whole cult kinda fizzles out.

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Tell that to the Christians. You might even say their leader dying sparked the whole thing.

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It was much easier to fake a resurrection back then.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I mean… have you seen how good ML-generated videos are getting these days?

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      • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s also totally possible to survive on a cross for three days and for someone to take you down while you’re unconscious and put you in a cave.

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    • tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We could make a religion out of this.

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  • aaron@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think what you call “magnetism” is the balls to straight up lie to your supporters like they’re stupid. Seriously, I think Trump demonstrated that you can just say whatever feels good and people will accept it with zero regard for reality. That’s what was assumed false before Trump. I think they know the game plan now.

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    • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But he also says it stupid like them, in a way that can’t be faked. That’s why they love him. It’s the classic “wanting to hear your opinion in someone else’s voice”. They want to hear their shitty opinions in someone else’s voice. Except because they’re idiots, they get grammar and syntax wrong. Or they ramble through a dozen conspiracy theories in a single run on sentence.

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Exactly this. Donald Trump has the Charisma to assemble a cult whereas then these other people can hold together the coalition. Everyone’s just writing Trump’s coattails so without him the whole thing just falls apart

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    • Alenalda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is misguided, the rubes will believe whatever the talking heads on Fox News or the algorithmic fuckery from x or reddit, etc

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sure the cult does, but the dictatorship the left doesn’t fizzle out.

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t know if you even need the magnetism. Vance has shown he can lie just as bald-facedly As Trump does. For god sakes there was a time where the Republican hordes were carry ground cups of JD Vance cum or something. Does no one remember that? I wouldn’t be so sure they wouldn’t just transfer right to him.

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  • happydoors@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I agree but I believe that’s why his underlings are using him as a front to destroy all checks and balances so when he does fizzle out, they can keep control.

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• DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  WE ARE NOT LUCKY TO HAVE A FUCKING HALF-DEAD RETARD AS PRESIDENT. THIS IS NOT OKAY AT ANY FUCKING LEVEL.

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  • aaron@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Your president is half-dead on a few levels sweetie.

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• MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The only thing possibly holding them off is that there’s 2 or 3 factions all wanting to long knife™ eachother at the first chance, which means they have to be ready to go as soon as the power vacuum happens, and one of the factions controls the VP seat.

  That might delay the chaos a bit, but not for long.

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• finder585@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Let’s see how his mouth-breathing paint-eating constituency acts when this fat fuck is dead. Probably no different, but maybe.

  Trump and the media have built a cult of personality around Trump. I don’t see how that power could transfer to another person, I can’t think of another person in the line up that has personality.

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  • aaron@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I disagree, and I’ll point you to down-ballot MAGA Republicans who are running and winning saying the same things. I strongly believe that this has nothing to do with Trump’s “personality”, it’s to do with what he was first willing to say and get away with. Nobody assumed you could get away with it and succeed.

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