• dominic.borcea@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    Trump is 100000000000000% more likely to die from eating yet another McBurger in the next 24hrs than he’s to be assassinated by the Islamic Regime from now to the end of his natural lifespan.
    Also, to people who’d view that as a positive because hurr durr Trump (I get it): that would lead to President Vance with a mandate to wage a war of revenge. The whole political discussion would suddenly shift from all the damage that Trump has done to USA, to destroying Iran, with a high possibility of giving more strength to republicans.

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      53 minutes ago

      I see it claimed that Vance would be worse a lot, but he doesn’t even remotely have what it takes to be a cult leader, which is all the GOP is now. The power vacuum could only be a good thing.

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      4 hours ago

      I don’t think causus belli works like that in the modern day, and we haven’t cared about legal mandates for war in the US for like 50 years.

      Vance probably won’t have a political mandate for continued war because a historically unpopular and getting more so by the moment president was killed in retaliation for a war he started.

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      6 hours ago

      I am not so sure. Trump is an idiot and ignores people’s advice because he thinks hes a genius, so I could see Iranian cells in america coming up with a viable assassination plot. Especially since they are not against kamikazee typed assassinations.

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      7 hours ago

      The point Iran is making is that a war does not need billions of dollars of munitions to turn. They can do a lot of damage economically. This world would have been a 20x better place if some kid just aimed 2 inches to the right.

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        6 hours ago

        I think about that, and he honestly just shouldn’t have gone for the headshot. At over 70 years old, it’s very unlikely a hollow point to the chest will be survivable.