Sure, there was the attempted assassination of Reagan and the fears for Obama as the first black President, but in those cases it was a lone nutter rather than a conspiracy.

How long can Trump crash the market before an angry billionaire decides to take him out? The remaining Koch brother is already pouring money into legal challenges against Trump…

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    I think he’s more likely to have a massive Big Mac Attack and just keel over. Which would be a good thing because his opportunist coattail riders will claw each other to pieces trying to be the top dog, or rat or cockroach. It will frag the whole Magapublican party. I just wish he’d hurry it up. Chow down, Donny boy.

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        Wouldn’t really surprise me if Orangeboy happened to possess superlongevity genes. He’s always had pretty incredible luck for stumbling out of the way of just about every consequence of his own actions.

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    I’ll be honest, seeing this sudden shift to openness talking about this when knowing how controlled the narrative is even here, makes me think this might actually be part of the narrative they’re now trying to push.

    I could definitely be wrong about that, but I’ve seen this brought up here a few times and even last night there was an AskReddit about what Americans would feel is the final straw to have Trump removed from power.

    I actually was talking about this in a post a few days ago. If Vance suddenly succeeded Trump as president, it would not fix anything, and it would likely make things much worse

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    Pretty likely. The chances of getting assassinated are essentially dependent on two things:

    1. how easy would it be

    2. how many people want to make it happen

    I believe that there’s enough of the second to more than compensate for the first.

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    100% chance but mostly because i think that the plan

    1. Let trump do what he want
    2. Kill trump
    3. Put a puppet like vance in is place
    4. Use trump death to do what they want with the reason of stopping the big bad left
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    As much as I hate the guy I hope he isn’t killed. The last thing we need is republicans having a martyr, especially before they find out how bad for them he is.

    With tariff fallout there are decent chances they will not have a majority for a long time. After the tariff act of 1930 they went from having 14 seats more than democrats to a low of 16 seats out of 96 In senate in just 8 years. After that they had a senate majority once and congress majority twice in the next 50+ years.

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      I think the Republicans personally hate him. His only use is as a charismatic rabble rouser. Without him they will lose the only guy truly able to get their movement together.

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          The GOPers won’t assassinate him. He is too useful for them to want him dead. Steve Bannon made it clear that his interest in Trump is solely due to his unique ability to command such a following.

          No one in the Republican party has even close to that kind of ability.

          And Trump has been honing that ability ever since he was a kid. Countless people hated him back then. As a child his classmates couldn’t stand him, his teachers found him unbearable, and when he started in ‘business’ in the 70s writers of the period bashed him as a blowhard who can’t deliver anything near his lofty claims.

          Yet for all that and despite a massive downturn and series of public humiliations in the late 80s and throughout the 90s, he somehow managed to cultivate the image of a successful businessman… despite having no business successes at all.

          He was the perfect personification of what the libertarian movement wanted… wanting ‘not a politician, but a businessman’ for president. They got what they wanted but still thought the results were great despite it being a complete derailment of the US’s soft power in the world.

          But he will still have enough people doing his bidding and will follow him to hell and stay there that he will sadly be idolized by millions for many, many years to come. Even going so far as to be a Reagan like figure despite being far, far worse and having no redeeming qualities as a human being whatsoever.

          Kinda like Hitler, who held Germans in absolute contempt by the end of the war and refused to allow Berlin to be evacuated as the Soviets invaded. He and other top ranking Nazis even conceded that they were wrong about Germans being the master race and thus deserved the same kind of extermination that they had planned and were carrying out during the war.

          With that in mind it legit makes you wonder why the fuck anyone would still admire Hitler… but I did have a Nazi tell me that it is because he made them feel supported and special, so they followed him into death and suffering and they refused to believe he was anything other than their savior. He said the first part, I added the second.

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      It could have been “by snu-snu”, but Stormy Daniels failed us…