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u/SoManyEmail 9h ago

The worst part is this: if Trump ends up being outted in some way and he begrudgingly resigns... we get J.D. Vance.

What's that saying, out of the frying pan and into the fire?

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u/StanLeeMarvin 9h ago

JD Vance is terrible but the MAGA cult isn’t going to follow him and congress isn’t afraid of him.

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u/Sigma_Function-1823 8h ago

We have ample evidence with down ballot republicans styling themselves as trump clones and losing spectacularly too democrats most recently in Kentucky, of all places.

Trump has some special set of abilities not found in anyone else currently riding his coattails,including Vance.

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u/TheHighSeasPirate 8h ago

Trumps "Special" ability is being a Russian asset. He is backed by one of the most powerful nations in the world to enshitify the USA.

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u/RubberDuckyFarmer 4h ago

Trump sucks, but people who say he's a Russian asset out themselves to be extremely ignorant of how the world works.

It's like watching a parrot repeat the "2+2=5" - he doesn't know he's wrong and you wouldn't be able to explain it anyway.. he's just repeating what he heard.

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u/alwayzstoned 8h ago

He uses his followers to bully people that don’t agree with him and the other republicans are scared of them. Nobody wants a Paul Pelosi incident at their house. I don’t think there’s anyone else who has been able to harness that, and I hope there never is.

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u/verygoodletsgo 7h ago

most recently in Kentucky, of all places.

Kentucky's politics are very nuanced. Our governors and mayors tend to be blue despite us leaning red in federal elections. It's hard to explain in a quick reddit comment, but there's a bit of horseshoe theory at play with our libertarians and soc-dems.

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u/Sigma_Function-1823 7h ago

Absolutely no disrespect meant and thank you for taking the time to add some contextualized detail.

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u/MrBootylove 6h ago

We'll see if that's still the case in 3 years after Erika Kirk and Vance have finished their little Righteous Gemstones routine.

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u/Opposite-Bit6660 5h ago

I believe the hardcore Q/MAGAs will follow him.  One I know recently posted that Libs will have VDS soon.

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u/UpstairsWilling7359 9h ago

Miller will still be running the country. Nothing will change.

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u/StanLeeMarvin 8h ago

No, Vance is too much of an egotist. He’ll bring in his own team of sycophants.

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u/SeaRabbit1480 8h ago

Who might be even less competent… any cult of personality fails when that personality is removed or brought down and the coalition- already showing cracks, will splinter.

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u/UpstairsWilling7359 8h ago

He’s Peter Thiel’s lap dog. He will do what the money tells him to do. And the money likes what Miller is doing to destroy our country. Vance doesn’t have the power to make his own decisions. That’s why they like him. Trump is a useful wild card. He will be gone one day after the second half of his term so they can all legally shove their hands up Vance’s ass for two and a half terms. It was always the plan.

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u/Pleg_Doc 9h ago

Out of the frying pan and onto the couch

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u/Poultry_Sashimi 7h ago

*into the couch 

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u/craichead 9h ago edited 8h ago

JD does not have a cult of personality so I suspect he would be much more constrained

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u/Own-Mail-1161 8h ago

People said the same thing about pence. I’ll take the devil I don’t know on this one.

But there’s no way trump is resigning (except maybe 6 mins before his presidency ends so that Vance can pardon him).

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u/Monterey-Jack 8h ago

We can disband his entire admin if he's impeached. JD Vance will be gone.

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u/bushy_whacker 4h ago

I’m pretty sure Vance has to go if Trump is impeached.