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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    pretty unlikely, but two people have already tried…

    So i guess we can’t leave cards off the table. Just needs the correct moment, and opportune time, which is going to be a huge pain point for any would be attempter. If there are any, they’re likely to be like the first two.

    Not to mention we would have JD vance as president at that point, and honestly, i have no idea what happens after that.

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      The Republicans puppet him into walking back the most insane shit while they continue destroying every institution they care to. Nothing gets better. We get slightly worse predictions about what the fascists in charge are going to do next, but it’ll still be terrible.

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        they haven’t done anything significant in a month, there’s been tariffs sure, but that was delayed a month already. Lame duck president if i’ve ever seen anything.

        • That’s not what lame duck means. And sending people to prison in Guantanamo Bay, El Salvador, and Panama is pretty significant. They can’t even find one of the legal guys who has been ordered to be returned to the US. US (possibly world) heading for economic recession if not depression. Inflation and lack of work like you’ve never seen unless you’re 100 years old. We’ve got an anti vaccine fuckwit in charge of healthcare. An unelected oligarch has dismantled large portions of the federal government. They’ve got their eyes on social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. It’s certainly not nothing.

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      Depends on how the assassination is done. If it’s a headshot on trump, Vance will likely be president. If someone flies an IED drone into the two of them and they both die in the explosion, that’s different.

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        a friend and i theorized the chain of succession, it doesn’t look good, unless you get chuck grassley, who is 4th iirc. Might actually be good, he’s like 91 though.

        Everyone beyond that seems equally dogshit but i didn’t bother looking. I figure you would have to go through like 30 people, before getting a solid one.

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          There is no way they would allow someone to get on a roof this close.
          Certainly not be on there for long when he already was spotted and reported to the police long before.
          The ridiculous ‘wound’ that completely healed in 4 days,
          If it were real he would also be under a pile of secret agents and you wouldn’t see an inch of him.
          They certainly wouldn’t let him get up for the pompous posed picture with the raised fist.
          A complete farce, you would have to be a gullible and not so smart american to believe this embarrassing pathetic spectacle.