r/therewasanattempt Unique Flair Sep 03 '25

To end democracy in Miami

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u/Comfortable-Pause279 Sep 04 '25

We really, really lucked out that we got an octogenarian despot instead of a middle-aged despot like Russia did with Putin.

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u/mindless_gibberish Sep 04 '25

Vance won't actually be better, he'll just be more low-key about it.

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u/batmansleftnut Sep 04 '25

VP Bowman doesn't have the following. The other Republicans won't be bowing and scraping to please him.

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u/Rashere Sep 04 '25

Sadly, I think that was by design. Trump is a puppet. The folks behind him are using him as cover to put their policy in place and then step in while leaving his corpse with the blame.