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Cake day: August 9th, 2024

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  • Trump doesn’t seem to concern himself with what’s going to happen after he’s gone. So whoever is next seems unlikely to have Trump’s level of devoted fans from day 1. Good chance the whole movement will collapse with him and tons of infighting.

    I also wonder, once he’s gone, if Rs and Fox News will suddenly be more willing to criticize Trump. They fear retaliation right now, but once he’s gone that threat may be gone. They’ll have some new candidate to promote, they don’t usually keep promoting the old one.

    But from that collapse, they’ll eventually find someone. Hard to imagine them being a whole lot worse. Mel Gibson? He sorta fits the Trump/Reagan mold. Would someone like Mel Gibson really be that much worse? Joe Rogan?


  • I’m quite seriously not going to be the least bit surprised if he ends up up on the short list of all time mass murderers, right up alongside Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Pol Pot. I don’t think it’s a question of whether or not he would do it - he most definitely would. The only question is whether he’ll be able to.

    Luckily he’s far older than any of those people were. Plus I don’t think he’s trying to speed run a genocide. Trump’s more concerned with himself, so at least we’ve got that. But also I’d say he has far more in common with Mussolini. One of the worst world leaders in modern history, sure, but he’s gonna die long before anything as extreme as Hitler or Pol Pot happens. A Stalin-like dictatorship seems plausible, but not within the next few years - it would have to be something his successor does. Whatever Trump’s long term goals are, I’m confident it will all fall apart when he dies.




  • Reminds me of Futurama, “we all have commercials in our dreams” scene.

    Leela: Didn’t you have ad’s in the 20th century?

    Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!