What happens if Trump dies before the election? What impact do you think it would have for the next 4 years?
What happens if Trump dies before the election? What impact do you think it would have for the next 4 years?
The trumpanzees would lose their fucking minds. Trump could choke to death on Putin's dick on live TV and it'd still be pitched as some kind of deep-state hit job.
There would likely be a lot of violence.
They would claim it was deepfakes and he would become the new Elvis, spotted all over the place years later even though he was dead
The conspiracy theory would be like in Killer Elite with Jason Statham, but this time in the bathroom instead of a special floor tile hammer, seal team 6 with a penis hammer.
(PS: I tried to google a harmless penis hammer fun picture for illustration reasons, but holy fuck, whats wrong with some people, sounding, nailing, smashing, ... 😮).
While I wouldn't wish death on anyone, it would probably be one of the better things to happen to American politics this year, as you'd essentially be beheading the MAGA movement - it is unlikely that anyone else could retake those reigns with how centred the movement is around Trump specifically, man's practically worshipped like a new Jesus to them.
While I wouldn't wish death on anyone
The world would be a genuinely better place if Trump fell over dead before the election, I want a better world, therefore I DO wish the worst stroke medically possible upon Donald Trump.
I don’t want someone to go kill him, but I absolutely wish that he would drop dead without the slightest moral reservation.
My only concern is that however he were to die, everyone on the right would go full conspiracy theory and blame it on the left, and somehow we’d be worse off in ways I can’t imagine right now. The right always seems to find a way to make me regret any turn of events that I thought was good.
It would be temporary chaos like when the lich king died and the scourge went berserk
I know some other Republican sycophant will fill the vacuum, but please don't tempt me with a good time. I want to live long enough to throw an obituary party.
ChatGPT prompt:
Write an obituary for Trump in the style of a Trump speech.
Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here today to remember a tremendous life, a life like no other, believe me. Donald J. Trump, a man of great success, unmatched, really. He built an empire, folks, a fantastic, beautiful empire. The Trump Organization, Trump Tower, the best real estate, absolutely the best. And let's not forget, he was the 45th President of the United States, a job he did like no one else could.
He made America great again, folks. Jobs, jobs, jobs, everywhere. The economy was booming, the best economy we've ever seen, they say. He fought hard, so hard, for the American people. Drained the swamp, big league. He dealt with foreign leaders, and they respected him. They did, they really did.
Donald J. Trump was a family man, a fantastic father, and a wonderful husband. Melania, Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric, Tiffany, and Barron, all incredible, wonderful people. He loved them dearly, and they loved him.
He will be remembered as a patriot, a winner, a man who never stopped fighting for what he believed in. He believed in America, folks. He believed in you. And he will be missed. But we will carry on, we will keep fighting, and we will never forget the legacy of Donald J. Trump. Thank you, thank you very much.
Today, we say goodbye to Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, folks. He was a great guy, believe me. He made America great again, the best anyone’s ever seen.
He built tall buildings, really tall, with his name on them, huge success. And he had a big, beautiful plane, Trump Force One, amazing. Some people liked him, some didn’t, but that’s okay.
Now he’s gone, but people will remember him for a long time, a very long time. Goodbye, Mr. Trump. You were tremendous, really.
I feel like that's just an excuse to let hitler-like people to what the fuck they want.
The rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief.
We kinda have a lot riding on the US remaining a relatively incorrupt democratic superpower.
Putin is very obviously angling to start a world war with the US as a useful-idiot ally if trump gets even a day in office again.
Putin doesn't want a world war, he is more interested in having the west just roll over and letting him retake the former countries of the Soviet Union
His cult will vote for him, expecting his resurrection.
If a rapist felon can be president, why not a rapist felon corpse?
Ok, now, i might actually vote for that.
Dealey Plaza will be so crowded!
I'm sure NYT and CNN would have a laundry list of reasons of why it was bad for Biden.
The truth is it would undermine the main reason to continue supporting Biden. That's also why partisan democrats in Congress conveniently forgot about section 3 of the 14th amendment.
"The Democrats have fielded the only candidate who could lose against Trump, and the Republicans have the only candidate who could lose to Biden."
The Maga movement is definable as a High Control Organization, and Trump is the Prophet.
If he dies one of two things could happen, either 1) a new "great leader" is able to consolidate the base and keep the movement going, or 2) nobody is able to recreate that charisma enough to reform the movement, and as a result the entire thing collapses in on itself.
Trump suddenly dropping dead of old age would make the second very likely, he made a point of making the top echelons of the RNC dangerous to anyone who could make option one happen, because he sees anyone capable of that as a challenger to his authority. The king has no heir.
I genuinely think Trump dying of old age would produce similar results to the Republican Party that the Deaths of JFK and RFK (not the brain worm one) had on the Democratic Party. The fact that his base of support is on the older side would probably add to the despair of the whole thing, being a reminder that their time is similarly short.
I don't think we'll see very many of the cult snap out of the delusion, but we'd certainly see some have rather public breakdowns facing the absolute nothingness their devotion has wrought.
At best, they got a high for a few moments and returned to the state of despair they had been previously chasing the high to escape, at worst, they've lost all their support system to the sheer disgust they've felt over the cultist's indoctrination, leading to the wam bam combo of the despair in combination with inescapable loneliness, remember, a lot of these people are really just the "make the kids come back to thanksgiving again!" caucus.
I don't think we'll see infighting or civil warring among the ranks of the Redcaps, what we'll see is people who think that expressing grief makes you weak attempt to cope with what they'll see as their messiah just dying unceremoniously from the same hand that's reaching closer and closer for them every day, and before they got the rewards of vindication they had been promised by him.
Wow, i would like you to describe more in detail what these people think, your depiction so far is very clear
They're basically all children who never grew up. They're nostalgic for when they were young and the world wasn't as scary feeling, and decades of being told that those times weren't the best for everyone have prompted them to backlash and double down. Trump is their messiah because he made them feel unjudged wanting to return to their childhood times of simplicity. Another reason why him dying of old age would really put a lot of these people well into the depressive mindset.
I mockingly refer to this dynamic as them clinging to him having made them feel safe to say the N word, but having dealt with my own missing my childhood brought on by my mom hitting a very solid old people decline milestone, I've learned to be understanding if not sympathetic to what's actually going on here.
Of course over tens of millions of cult members there are other parts in each individual, undiagnosed narcissism being the biggest one, hence why they're all so furious about the idea of their kids no contacting them over their beliefs. There's also the despair factor of the opiate crisis and the abandonment of exurban and rural settlements by young folks.
When these people see young folks getting horny for a highly developed high speed rail network, what they see is young people conspiring to not even have to come visit when passing through on a road trip anymore, and making city roads less accomodating to trucks and minivans in favor of pedestrianization just rubs salt in the wound by making them unable to go confront them for never calling anymore.
Liberals completely drop their guard and the republicans put someone up who is actually smart but still follows the far right agenda. Trump is chaotic (inept) evil at best, but the danger is getting lawful intelligent evil in.
Feel like a fair amount are voting Trump cuz he's Trump. Cult of personality minus the personality just falls apart. I think even with someone who was 50 the numbers wouldnt budge a lot owing to that.
It'd be a toss-up at that point, depending on who they put up before the election. Maybe Nikki Haley could actually win again Biden? The other non-candidates that ran during the primaries don't seem like they'd fare well. That'd be hilarious if the party most opposed to women's rights were to get the first female president in office. Losing Trump would be a speedbump for Conservatives though, they're moving towards trying to take America down the road of a theocracy, I'm not sure that losing Trump would really stop that, they're pretty much committed to making it happen at some point.
I really feel trump’s organization would fall apart without his authoritarian grasp on the party. None of them are ruthless enough to take his place, base enough to speak to his base, and foolish enough to believe they’re right.
I think it kind of depends on how he dies.
Massive ugly heart attack on live tv is different than someone shooting him in the head, and those are both different than like a bombing at one of his rallies.
There will be a party that lasts for 4 years!!! Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead.
And more importantly, how would affect LeBron's legacy.
We'll see what happens when I put together my voodoo doll.
The entire would would rejoice. Except for Putin. Fuck that guy.
We aren't in such a nice timeline.
With either candidate, it all depends on timing.
If either candidate dies before their respective conventions, the Republicans on 7/15 to 7/18 and the Democrats on 8/19 to 8/22, then the convention becomes an open convention, with deals being made to select a new candidate.
If one of them dies after the convention, it's up to the party to pick a replacement, likely the VP candidate, but it doesn't have to be.
If the winner of the election dies after the election, it gets incredibly messy, again, depending on the timing.
There's a good novel on that hypothetical called "The People's Choice".
Probably get a different candidate.
Well the former presidency will leave office after January 20th regardless of if the election takes place, but there is a solid chance a new candidate doesn't obtain enough delegates for that party to put them on the ballot and that the election does in fact take place.