President Donald Trump hasn't made a public appearance since his rambling and authoritarian speech to top military leaders, and people are noticing.The president told high-ranking military leaders to prepare to deploy in American cities for "a war from within," saying he told Defense Secretary Pete ...
  • fulcrummed@lemmy.world
    38·
    6 days ago

    If he died of natural causes, what makes you think that’s how the White House would report it. They’d say he was killed and use it to create a false divisive narrative, blaming some left wing conspiracy or assassin who doesn’t exist. They’d use it to galvanise maga behind Vance blah blah blah…

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      10·
      6 days ago

      Even if they don’t explicitly say it (which they will), the MAGA hordes will concoct their own conspiracy theories and believe them. After all, they are all QAnon alumni.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      But without Trump himself directing it, they won’t be able to focus that rage, it will quickly divest into the thousand little in-groups of conspiracies, backwoods nutcases screaming into the void, random nuts in trucks driving into drugstores and shooting up pizza places.

      It will be chaotic sure, but it will have no cohesion. Half the people around Trump are just there to pick up his crumbs of power, the other half are delusional enough to think they have the unique charm to take his place.

      When Trump dies, there won’t be leadership in the republican party. They’re making an effort with Vance by parading him around more and more, but the right doesn’t like him. He talks too much, he sounds like a politician.

      Honestly, the only person who could have possibly taken pole position and started rallying the right under his own brand of conservative charisma was Charlie Kirk. No wonder the right is so bent out of shape about it.

      • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        You hit the nail on the head re: Vance.

        The cushion connoisseur occasionally pretends to give a shit about working class people (even though he doesn’t). MAGAts want their faces brazenly spat on, because they’re temporarily embarrassed billionaires and being poor makes you worthless*.

        I shudder at the thought of a Kirk-led timeline though, so thank you for the silver lining.

        *according to them.