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Humanity's First Truly Simultaneous Global Celebration
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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I don’t even expect a respite- someone will pick up the “populist” mantle immediately. At best, it would be just a changing of the mask
A number of people are clearly already trying. They are all failing miserably. Amazingly, none of them have as much charisma, at least not with such a wide audience.
None of them had a 14-year propaganda campaign to convince Americans that they're "good at business."
Trump also represents a pretty impressive combination of horrible, charismatic, and authentic.
He is truly, truly horrible. He embodies the ugliness that a lot of people see in the world and in themselves, and is willing to cause harm to the world around him in a way that they wish they could.
He is, in his own utterly fucked up way, charismatic. He's eager to aggressively beclown himself for applause and to sell his poison in a way that Stephen Miller or Ron DeSantis couldn't match.
He's authentically awful. Every word he says serves his own corrupt enrichment and aggrandizement, and he makes no secret of that, even when telling lies. When he's lying, he's obviously lying. When he's stupid, he's authentically stupid, not pretending.
Voters are very sensitive to all three of those categories, and they can tell when someone isn't entirely any one of them. Trump is the rare beast to max out all three.
It's rare for cults to survive after their leader dies.
I don't see the movement continuing. Some will rally to the new face, but many won't.
Even today support for Trump is slowly waning with his base growing smaller. The issue with the American system is he can lose all support today and continue. Even if dems retake a majority in the Senate it takes 2/3rds vote to remove the president.
Trump is just a face to an economic force backing horrific practices. He’ll be gone and the well of money will find someone else to hop in.
Anyone smarter will damage the country less. Anyone dumber will drool on themselves while trying to speak.
Anyone smarter will damage the country differently. There is currently an economic force pushing the US toward a future where its citizens are separated and specific groups disenfranchised to pull money toward the ultra-wealthy and major voting blocs. Fewer overtly stupid decisions, plenty of horrors to come.
Exactly. He's an idiot. The ones whispering in his ear, not so much.
Hopefully someone left-wing can pick up that mantle instead.
Also the condemnation of everyone celebrating will make the people bitching over everyone being indifferent to fuckface Kirk look quaint.