Fears is a funny way to describe it.
i fear it isn't serious
Fears of joy.
I do kinda fear JD Vance being president. It's mostly a "devil you know" kinda fear. There's the off chance that he's just the same same as Trump, but younger and, in the worst case scenario, more competent.
I could be wrong, but I don’t see Vance holding vast swaths of the American public in the palm of his hands the way trump does. I don’t get it, because I find everything about Trump utterly repulsive, but he does seem to have an almost preternatural sway over his followers. I can’t imagine factions of the right having the same fear of going against Vance that they do for Trump. I think there would be more opportunity to build coalitions against the march towards fascism with Vance in the top job. But maybe I’m just a dreamer.
Yeah pretty much my take.
Trump has 3 relevant characteristics, he has evil intentions, he's incompetent, he's popular.
Vance has evil intentions, he's less incompetent, but he's less popular.
I really feel this is why they've been pushing EOs and other methods to increase the power the executive has. Even if Vance comes into power and has the charisma of a used napkin, he can just silence dissent anyway.
Vance is pretty unpopular even with the Nazi base. Without the Führer, the whole movement will fizzle out.
Cults of personality tend not to last once the personality dies.
More competent should be better. It takes a special kind of stupid to betray your country as much as he has.
He might have a better position on the boat but we're roughly all in the same boat. If he causes a greater depression, that certainly won't be good for him. It'll be a lot worse for us of course, but that doesn't matter here.
The problem is Vance is the main one pushing the christo-fascist stuff. Trump is a greedy stupid narcissist which can (and has) caused plenty of short term damage. Enough short term damage can stack up to long term damage, but even that is recoverable. Over a long enough time scale foreign relations can be patched, soft power slowly restored. Nothing he has done domestically has been too catastrophic yet. Vance though has the potential intelligence to do some seriously long term lasting damage, the kind of stuff that would E.G. enshrine his particular flavor of Christianity as the national religion and make anyone who isn't male and white a second class citizen. Once society gets tilted in that direction restoring it becomes incredibly hard. Like overthrow the government hard.
Trump in contrast is basically a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. Sure he might break stuff, but broken things are easier to repair than things that have been maliciously constructed. The fascist systems Vance might build are far scarier than whatever Trump comes up with because what Trump makes never lasts. Just wait a little while and it will naturally collapse from greed, incompetence, and infighting. Vance I fear could make something stable though.
The silver lining in this I suppose is that Vance lacks the conman skills that have allowed Trump to weaponize morons and force others to go along with his delusions. Without the throngs of MAGAts supporting him Vance won't be able to strongarm the rest of the GOP the way Trump has which would hamper his efforts.
Don't let your fears get in the way of your dreams. They are like moles. Only real way to get rid of them is systematically, one by one.
For most people, its a fear of false hope
Hopes, health hopes. I hope his health continues this trend.
Do people outside the UK know just how bad The Express is? It's a bottom-tier reactionary tabloid. Don't give them clicks.
Never heard of it, but thanks for the heads up
The Express is what the Daily Mail secretly wants to be, were it not hindered by its own middle-class aspirations.
Again, I don’t think “fears” is the correct noun here.
There's such a simple, logical, reasonable explanation for a bruise like this: he had blood drawn recently and the phlebotomist had to draw from a vein on top of the hand. If TFG had any sense of humor he could joke about it. If he had any sense of relatability he would know that this happens all the time. But instead...he'd rather do this. Because he's fuckin weird.
What if he thinks that if people think he is about to die there will be fewer attempts?
Would you like me to apply the baby oil to Satan's asshole, boss?
Should be renamed Terminal Weak Artery Trouble in honour of him
That's looks more like a skin graft than makeup. You would think they could get close to matching the color of the rest of his hand but this administration can't even do that right.
The time I had a skin graft, they took a portion of donor skin from my upper thigh. So, same skin, but different levels of sun exposure.
For a long time I had this weird rectangle on my leg that looked like a movie theater screen.
Perhaps some aide's concealer she had on her in the moment.
It looks to me like he has a lot of blood pooling in his hands here, so it’s possible that in the morning, at rest with his arm on a table this did reasonably match his skin.
I say this as someone with a condition that causes blood to pool in my hands, so I know how extreme the color swings can be!
To be fair, no makeup department stocks his unique shade of orange. You gotta go to Lowe's and get a custom mix for that.
It kind of looks like a wound seal. But if he had a wound that big they would graft it.
I don't fear poor health of POTUS.
But who will take care of us when papa leaves?
Whoever survives the systemic governmental collapse caused by his death.
“Everybody dies”
All the McDoubles are leaking grease.
HOPE isn't spelled F-E-A-R, you silly goose.
~~Well, not fears exactly~~
Fears, Hopes. Tomato, Tomahto.
What’s left of his brain is desperate for a Nobel peace prize, calling fox and friends to tell them he’s worried he won’t get to heaven. I would guess he feels he’s getting near the end
^🤞
Fear? Not from me. I hope whatever it is kills him. I also hope it hurts the whole time he is dying. If he had his skin sliced and peeled off in strips until he bled to death it would be too good for him.
lol @ “fears”
Die fucker die
Finally, some hopecore
"fears" lol
Thanks Putin?
Who has the monkey's paw?
It looks more like a pig's hoof, to me.
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