It must surely be imminent. He’s not in the best health if the reports about him eating mcdonalds all the time are true. He’s 79 which isn’t that old but I dont see many fat, stressed 90 year olds on a mcdonalds diet.

Say he had a heart attack next week… then what? Presumably Vance would take over as actual president, but I can’t imagine anyone being as bad as him. Would the maga movement continue with a different cult leader? Do you think things would meaningfully change?

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    Most likely a mad struggle for power among those in his circle alongside a struggle to be seen as the heir. Vance has an advantage here, but you can see other players making their moves including Greene. Had Kirk been alive he honestly might’ve been my dark horse bet. But if nobody wins a sufficient coalition then everyone loses. Some of the ideas will remain, but mostly the energized masses return to how they were before him or they’ll split into their feuding factions where the San Francisco technofascists and the Midwesterners who hate change and the southerners who just hate everyone different from them are all back at each other’s throats and all are disgusted with Nick Fuentes

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    He only eats fast food on the road, when he’s at the White House or one of his own places he probably eats pretty well.

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    Parties. Celebration. But things won’t really improve in the short term. Medium term, maybe the cult fractures, but fascism is much bigger than this one fuckhead.

    Still, parties.

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      Fascism usually doesn’t recover from a leader loss for years.

      Historical examples: Mussolini, Franco, Pinochet.

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    I’ll go into the nearest pub and buy everyone a round.

    Things are likely to stay pretty shitty as Trump is a symptom rather than an underlying cause, but we’ve had precious little to celebrate.

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    Satan keeps his people alive. He has more energy than most 40 year olds.

    79 is not that old? Most people dont live to be 85. So yeah, its pretty old… The average age of death for males in America is 76 years old. Only 1 in 10 males reaches 90.

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    Politicians will use his death for X agenda. vance is primed for it and Erika Kirk is a good case study.

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    The immediate thing that would happen would be spontaneous dancing in the streets.

    But to the point of your question, I see things splitting in the following ways:

    RFK jr health grifter faction

    JD Vance silicon valley faction

    Fuentes/Owens antisemitism faction

    I think there is going to be real right-wing schism over isreal. RFK jr is a boomer and will back isreal out of conditioning, the SV tech industry is in deep with the isreali MIC, and young republicans are motivated foremost by racism/mysogyny/anti-semitism.