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douglas9

(5,816 posts)
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 06:51 AM Aug 2025

Conservative Strategist: 'MAGA Hunger Games' Taking Place as Trump Health Slips

Conservative political consultant Rick Wilson says a “MAGA Hunger Games” is playing out in Washington as President Donald Trump, 79, shows his age.

Wilson said “rumors from the Trumpverse” indicate that Vice President JD Vance is “moving fast” in this shuffling of power behind the scenes, positioning himself to take over the MAGA movement sooner rather than later, according to Wilson’s Substack.

“Slow or fast, he’s headed down,” Wilson said of Trump. “The circle who knows what’s up is very, very small and very, very paranoid. JD Vance knows, and he’s moving fast.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/conservative-strategist-maga-hunger-games-taking-place-as-trump-health-slips/

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Lovie777

(23,747 posts)
2. No all caps since Tuesday from shithole.................
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 07:03 AM
Aug 2025

Vance stating "when" bullshit......................

RWers scrambling and judges ruling against shithole while he's firing.

Vance is just as bad.

OMG.

tanyev

(49,688 posts)
3. I rewatched the movie The Death of Stalin when Elon and Trump were feuding.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 08:40 AM
Aug 2025

Might be time to watch it again soon. Portrays all the feuding amongst Stalin’s inner circle when he died as they struggled to emerge as the next leader. A dark comedy based on a graphic novel, not a documentary.

Phoenix61

(18,889 posts)
4. It's a cult of personality. It's over when Trump dies or steps-down.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 09:27 AM
Aug 2025

The blood bath as they jockey for the scraps of power should be interesting.

LuvLoogie

(8,916 posts)
5. JD Vance will make MAGA feel smart.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 09:36 AM
Aug 2025

They will pivot. So will the congressional GOPs.
JD will cement the Nazism with great support.

Phoenix61

(18,889 posts)
6. That's not the way cults work. He has the charisma of a wet blanket.
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 11:29 AM
Aug 2025

No one and I mean no one is afraid of him.

LuvLoogie

(8,916 posts)
7. Its not about whether anyone fears him.
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 12:22 AM
Aug 2025

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It's whether the powers that be will back him. And they will.

And he will belittle and shit on everyone that trump has belittled and shit on, but with a slicker vocabulary.

Hell argue for and lie about the exact same policies. He'll make the GOPs feel safe about coming out of the woodwork. Hakeem will mellow out his rhetoric and stop his Capitol steps daring. Chuck will announce his willingness to work with J. D. where they find common ground. The racist raids will continue.

There will be no drama, but MAGA will stay tuned and keep cheering for the GOPs.

Phoenix61

(18,889 posts)
8. They back him because they are afraid of him.
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 10:00 AM
Aug 2025

He can rile the base against them. He can use his personal fortune against them and his offspring will help. JD is a pathetic little wimp. He is way too polished for the base to even like him let alone follow him.

LuvLoogie

(8,916 posts)
9. I'm talking about the powers that be will back Couchfucker
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 12:58 PM
Aug 2025

He's their handpicked guy.

If you think the MSM has done everything they can to normalize trump, just think what they'll do to create mad caricatures of a JB or a Newsom.

The base didn't happen overnight. This is decades of manipulative work and civil negligence, and centuries of unreconciled white supremacism with all its brutality forgiven and rewarded with the spoils of their crimes.

The base is softened up to further aquiesce to the flowered fascism. You can put eyeliner on a pig and they will fuck it.

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