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I take comfort in knowing that, if I live a normal lifespan, Trump will die in my lifetime. Unfortunately, all the hatred and bigotry won't die with him.
If it isn't Mussolini style I'll be disappointed, I can't lie.
We all will.
It's going to get worse as he gets replaced aby a more competent facist.
That was probably one reason why Hitler wasn’t assassinated by the allies. OTOH, the death of Franco (but to old age!) meant the end of fascism in Spain. When a dictator dies, there’s always a chance for better.
I won't be surprised if he is made a religious prophet by certain Christianity sects.
The cultural relief felt when thatcher died was palpable, and I wasn't even alive when she was actively fucking the country.
I lived near Brixton, South London. There was an immediate street party.
He's absolutely a figurehead. Dozens of people are lining up to be the face of a much bigger fascist coalition.
Nobody else has the ability to be the cult leader that he is. But maybe they'll be entrenched enough that they don't need the cultists' support any more.
Plus, hasn't he pretty well decimated the GOP ranks? Any worthy competitor has been exiled or humiliated or both leaving the ranks filled with only sniveling sycophants and uncharismatic bigots.
Cool, let them fight it out
The contest won't be over who can imitate Trump the best. It'll be who can use Trump as a martyr best. They all know Trump is the glue that holds their machine together.
Trump will destroy the courts and elections. Then the rest doesnt matter. Any idiot republican will be able to slide right in.
Invoking a cult leader as a martyr can only get you so far. I'm unconvinced there's anyone else likely to successfully take on the mantle of cult leader after him. I guess we'll see eventually.
Invoking a cult leader as a martyr can only get you so far.
Thousands of years, billions of followers, largest global influence, as this is basically what christianity is built from
I'm honestly surprised that the fuck head that he is, has been able to build a cult. He's so fucking good damn repugnant.
There has to be a pathetic charmer in that bunch. It really is amusing this here temu run at fascism.
More a disfigurehead amiright?
I don't think I can handle things getting much worse
I have theories about what may happen when Trump inevitably dies. 1. The best case scenario is Trump dies, and his whole empire just slowly fizzles out and goes away. 2. Trump dies, and then the true religion of Trump begins much in the same way as Jesus when he was crucified, and his supporters believed that he will rise from the grave, bringing about a new apocalypse and judgment for the non-believers. 3. Trump dies and a new vicious wave of domestic terrorism breaks out all over the country if not, the globe. 4. Trump dies and his supporters go full Jonestown and commit mass suicide. 5. Trump dies and his supporters believe that he will reincarnate much like the Dalai Lama bringing forth a new group of charlatans and snake oil salesman, believing that they are the reincarnation of Trump starting a new way of life and a new cult of Trump. 6. Trump dies and his supporters do not believe it in and reported sightings of him being alive will exist far after the fact much the same way as Elvis.
Tell me more about option 4.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
This is a link to the Wikipedia page of Jonestown. While not completely the same, there are some very key similarities. I feel between Jonestown and the Trump cult.
Of all the people for the dipshits to rally around, they picked this failed game show host. It's so very much stupider than I could have possibly imagined. I sort of get how they lionized Ronnie Raygun, despite how awful he was for this country and so on....the veneer at least seems halfway decent and he at least pretended to love this country and those that live in it.
Taco has just a complete disregard for everything good about this country and hates everyone. What is there to like about that?
I believe that they like how he doesn’t care about anything but himself much like his supporters they only care about themselves and also being racist. And also Trump already being known helped and Obama being elected broke a lot of peoples minds. I live in a small town of about 4k people and the day after Obama was elected you would have thought that a 2nd 9/11 happened or a nuke was dropped. I also remember around that time an older coworker said that this country needs a rich, selfish, racist president and damn I should have put on it then. There are alot more factors that lead to where we are now with trump being president. We can only hope and cross our fingers that he dies soon.
I live in a small town of about 4k people and the day after Obama was elected you would have thought that a 2nd 9/11 happened or a nuke was dropped.
I remember I worked with a guy and another co-worker was sometimes still finishing up listening to NPR at a low volume, and around that time (Obama years), they'd be playing a soundbite from Obama. Almost every time Obama was talking, even though we could just barely hear it, the other co-worker would turn to me and mutter how much he hated Obama's voice. Like clockwork. Not what he was saying (if we could even make it out). Just his voice. This same co-worker thought NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, etc....were all extreme left outlets, too, lol. And he spent some period of time where he was super-upset about...checks notes....seeing two government workers in a trucks. He mentioned this multiple times, so I can only guess it was some thing on hate radio around that time. When asked follow-up questions on why he's upset, nothing coherent could be discerned. Same dude was riled up about people that couldn't afford their house getting bailed out by government, or something, too.
I lost contact with him before Taco was elected, but I can only imagine he thinks that Taco is "fixing" everything. I don't know what he was like before Obama, but he was nearly inconsolable about Obama. It's why I think they uncreatively talk about "TDS" when Taco does completely outrageous things - Obama did completely normal things, or even if he did nothing at all, and they lost their heads over it.
This pretty much sounds exactly like my day-to-day life with coworkers as well. They are hard-core Trump supporters no matter what Ride Or Die for Trump even now with the Epstein files being unreleased. A few of them were upset about it but as of now they are still 100% behind Trump no matter what. I do think and feel that the Epstein files not being released may actually drive a divide between Trump supporters, but in the deep rural areas of America,I highly doubt even this will cause them to lose any faith in their would be King.
My Republican coworkers thought Trump was a clown and a joke who would never be elected, then after he won, it was "he's not that bad", and "people are too hard on him".
Trump dies, and then the true religion of Trump begins much in the same way as Jesus when he was crucified, and his supporters believed that he will rise from the grave, bringing about a new apocalypse and judgment for the non-believers.
How dare you speak this evil into existence
Don't worry, #6 has precedent. It is the most likely.
Sorry, yea it’s very possible. If you watch anime the after credits scene of death note is probably what will happen.
I’m hoping for 4 but realistically I think it’ll be 5 but with a twist. They’ll have to find and agree to 1 leader, and internal fighting and splitting of the cult will begin. Whether or not they’re able to pick a leader will depend on how long t has left to live - he hasn’t publicly declared who is next in line and there isn’t anyone else that’s anywhere close to leading maga. If he dies today maga will be fucked.
Yes definitely. And in my personal opinion 5 would be the most entertaining outcome.
Well, there are conspiracy theories Hitler didn't die and he fled to Argentina. Even if that were true I think he'd be dead by now
I believe Trump is just the warm up. Full on religious hegemony is yet to come.
We are far less religious than any point in recorded history.
That was true for Iran in the 70s, too.
And, supposedly, the US government a year ago.
And yet the people in charge of the judiciary are more religiously motivated than they've been in nearly a century.
It doesn't really matter if we as a society are less religious than ever if the people with their hands on the tiller are not. There's a reason they are called reactionaries......
100% this is part of p25. The dismantling of the government now will allow this to come into fruition. They’ll continue to remove everyone who won’t align, citizen or not.