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Make no mistake, Biden was out the moment NYT or CNN found it fit to cover his years of his episodes. The failed Trump assassination is a twist in the sequence that follows from this. Vance's nomination is a second twist too. The young Senator playing the part of the populist is perhaps a bit of a life insurance policy for Trump - in contrast to reported stories of a standard-fare GOP alternative such as Rubio.

As for speculation of Republicans revolting for real against future machinations of the Deep State? I have my doubts about any such revolt. We already saw all of that in the 2017-2020 presidential term.

In any case, the RNC laid down a clear signal. A Trump-Vance executive has a crystal clear agenda:

- Cut taxes, deficit spend, raise tarriffs, and print money like it's the armageddon.

- On China, continue the pattern of chickensh#t provocations around Taiwan, and more sanctions vs European firms (which do squat vs China, but are enough of an excuse to play pretend)

- Focus actual military resources on Iran/Lebanon/Yemen

- Also almost certain bait-and-switch on Ukraine -- except insofar as there will be a real need to conserve resources due to blowback vs US bases in middle east

- Continue the border wall, but likely allow immigration in some other form for business reasons

- Nominate socially conservative judges, but sell it in the time tested way of pushing controversial issues down to the states

- Crush unions with vigor (contrary to any false hopes)

What would Biden's DNC-handpicked successors have to beat this package? Border wall seems like the main one. Claims of 'honesty' and 'saving democracy' are getting pretty darn beat by now. The balance in the judiciary is a battle that's already lost at this point.

On foreign policy, people won't care too much probably, but it's 90% the same. Only with a Dem president, internal criticism is simply shut down, whereas with a Republican president, there is at least MSM recognition of the mistakes and crimes once in a while.

Does this put Trump in office? Yes I think so.

Is that good? Matters little. I don't think there's any serious effort by either party to either save 'the system'. Nor to reform it. It's all about maintaining privilege within what's left of it, for 5 or 10 or 15 years. EU, collectively, is not a player probably for the rest of the decade. BRICS countries I think can recognize that they will have to ride out a period of extreme dysfunction -- but are on the whole well equipped to do so.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

As one poster (forget who) has posted in several places, war enables them to invoke force majeure & walk away from debts.

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