JD Vance has said he is ready to take on the presidency “If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens” to Donald Trump.

In a wide-ranging interview with USA TODAY, the vice president said he was “confident” President Trump would see out the rest of his term, but added he has had a lot of “on-the-job training”.

He also insisted to White House Correspondent Francesca Chambers Trump was in “incredibly good health”, despite recent questions about the president’s physical wellbeing.

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Some of y’all never been in a cult, and it shows.

    No. What happens is they all tear each others throats out trying to be on top. Nobody wins. The GOP dies with Trump.

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      Unless all of the rich megadoners die at the same instance, nothing will fundamentally change. We’re in a class war, not a Democrat vs Republican war. Trump may be the man leading the consolidation of power push today, but the reason that movement is working is the environment being ripe for the movement.

      Trump dies and the minimum wage doesn’t go up, fox news doesn’t dissolve, and taxes on the rich sure as hell don’t start up. Nothing fundamentally changes, and with the state of all the fundamental and important agencies worsened and delegitimized things probably worsen significantly for those orgs and their services in the short term while power is redistributed, reconsolidated, and resolidified.

      Trump dying would likely just be the temporary slow down of the currently inevitable decline. You’re right to say things get more chaotic and there is a large opportunity for things to improve or change - but believing the GOP disappears, and therefore we enter into a utopia, seems to ignore the underlying cause for their existence in the first place. The rich and powerful want to remain rich and powerful, and ideally become more so, at the expense of everyone else so they fund systems that further those goals.

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      This is the US.

      They’ll politely forget and go back to pretending they’re the greatest nation in the world.

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      Yeah, it’d require him to name a successor that’s competent. A thing that will never happen. Trump has to be the smartest in the room, you think room temperature idiots like that can stop the cataclysm?