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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,351 posts)
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 06:42 PM Dec 7

Rick Wilson - When Trump Dies

Every aging dictator, every long-in-the-tooth autocrat, every once-terrifying strongman eventually feels the cold hand of Death reaching out to tap them on the shoulder and whisper, “It’s time.”

We all understand mortality. It’s the constant of the human condition, the endless winner of billions of lives, even that of the Dear Leaders whose rule seemed eternal.

We don’t spend enough time on how much chaos and blood comes after that tap in the Generallismo’s shoulder, on the inevitable collapse of systems built around a single man entail.

The leader dies, weakens, is defeated politically or militarily, or even loses a step, and the entire structure that pretended to be a unified movement reveals itself as what it really was all along: a feeding frenzy for sycophants who think they were born to inherit the throne. The pressure cooker of autocratic systems rewards fealty, loyalty, public and private obeisance.

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/when-trump-dies

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live love laugh

(16,172 posts)
15. I'm submitting confetti wishes to be part of the NYE ball drop. The expeditious end of him is one.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 06:41 PM
Dec 8

orleans

(36,629 posts)
7. just hold up a sign (" going to piss on his grave") and stick out a thumb--
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:31 PM
Dec 7

you won't have a problem getting a ride; there'll be plenty of us going there

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,407 posts)
3. The truly depressing thing will be the state funeral he will
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 07:58 PM
Dec 7

undeservedly get.

Just as I always thought that Richard Nixon should have died in jail, that's where Trump should die.

Cha

(316,437 posts)
6. As long as it's the time for
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:29 PM
Dec 7

said "funeral"... the Whole Democracy Loving World Will Rejoice. Our prayers and Wishes have been answered. Hallelujah.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,407 posts)
14. No. He should not, absolutely NOT have a state funeral.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 12:56 AM
Dec 8

If Trump get one, then Benedict Arnold should have received the Medal of Honor.

soldierant

(9,254 posts)
8. I'm not sure about that -
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:48 PM
Dec 7

generally it's only Saints whose dates of death are celebrated. But it dos have possibilities.

Cha

(316,437 posts)
5. This is pretty much what I've been
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:25 PM
Dec 7

thinking ahead about.

This should be in GD, too.. so more can see it.. TY and Rick Wilson!!

It is something to hold n to.

DinahMoeHum

(23,321 posts)
9. Brace yourselves, people, and read the whole article
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 08:49 PM
Dec 7

Rick Wilson believes there will be some very nasty power plays among the various factions that make up MAGA.

There will also be a lot of MAGAs buried in the woodwork of the government to contend with.

cab67

(3,619 posts)
11. I read it, and I respect Wilson -
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 09:03 PM
Dec 7

- but I don't think there will be that much violence. Old Colostomy's approval right now is very low, and few of the sycophants who might cause trouble have any real authority. No one will be able to consolidate the kind of support needed to form any sort of working faction. The Republican Party will be a cesspool of indecision, but I'm not convinced this will translate into a national crisis.

live love laugh

(16,172 posts)
16. The 25th Amendment scenario gives a good idea of how things would play out.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 06:45 PM
Dec 8

And it won’t be pretty or easy. I don’t hold out much hope.

duckworth969

(1,111 posts)
13. Wonder how many MAGA's
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 09:27 PM
Dec 7

will unalive themselves in despair and grief after Chumpkin shuffles off this mortal coil?

Or go out in a blaze of glory taking as many of us as they can?

Sam I Yam

(45 posts)
17. I will dance naked in the street
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 07:49 PM
Dec 8

Be it January or June, I will rejoice. The fine I have to pay will be less than peanuts.

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