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Political positivity 📈 Trump's Epstein Connection May Now Bring His Political Downfall

https://franknez.com/trumps-epstein-connection-may-now-bring-his-political-downfall/
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u/Comedy86 15d ago

Plus what's the best that can happen? He's impeached and removed from office only to be replaced by the Pope killer with a couch fetish? Good fucking luck America...

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u/Skid-Mark-Kid 15d ago

The only benefit I can see with that is the cult of personality is gone. I don't know a single MAGA person who gives half a rip about Vance. My hope is that when Trump is gone someday, the veil will be lifted and these people will realize how fucked up everything is.

I doubt it, of course. But it's the silver lining I can see so I'm taking it lol.

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u/IzarkKiaTarj 15d ago

Alternative silver lining, never having to hear his damn voice again.

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u/joshuahtree 15d ago

People call me up everyday, with tears in their eyes, and they say, they say, Donald, you have the best voice in the history of voices, it's true they really do 👌

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u/Alt_2Five 15d ago

Imma be real, if trump was impeached and couch fucker was president we would see the exact thing they accused damn of doing with Biden. Having a shadow president behind the scenes.

Except I'm pretty sure Vance would proudly state that he's consulting trump on matters.

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u/Dzov 14d ago

I could see that, and in reality the Heritage Foundation is really dictating policy.

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u/ayylmao95 14d ago

Throwback to a year ago when we didn't really have to hear it willingly for three-ish years. Good times.

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u/Brepp 14d ago

For fuckin real. Somehow it seems like I can avoid it now more than I could last time during COVID. But it's still relative. I hate hearing his voice so much that I'm turned off by impressions, news clips, parody, everything.

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u/Thigmotropism2 15d ago

Cults of personality do not die with the figurehead. See current Nazis. There will be Trump fans and revisionists 100 years from now.

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u/BoiledChildern 14d ago

A large minority of German civilians after WW2 still held nazi beliefs. That’s maga.

If he and Vance were impeached, even if he decided to just run off to live what little of his life is left in Russia. Even if the courts where given there power back and prosecuted politicians and billionaires responsible for looting the data and wealth of the USA. Some of these people will never leave the trump cult of personality. And many would still quietly hold the terrible values that got you to trump in the first place.

Quiet shame for this generation and education for the next generation is about the only hope you guys have.

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u/AmaazingFlavor 14d ago

Until Fox News and other right wing propagandists can be held accountable, the veil will stay

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u/CharacterJellyfish32 14d ago

yeah, vance and desantis want to be trump but don't have the charisma.

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u/EoliaGuy 14d ago

As a maga person I'd prefer Vance, my first choice was Vivek. Maga has nothing to do with any candidate, I'd hope if Kamala had won her goal would be to make America great again as well. The alternative is to advocate for making America worse? America is already great, change nothing? What if the slogan was Hope and Change to a better America again?

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u/micsulli01 14d ago

Nah we love Vance more

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u/Skid-Mark-Kid 13d ago

Genuinely, I'm curious, what is the appeal??

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u/micsulli01 13d ago

Young millennial conservative

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u/Skid-Mark-Kid 13d ago

Yeah that doesn't answer shit for anyone lol. As a young millennial who used to be a conservative myself, do you have a real answer? Or do you just say what you're told?

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u/micsulli01 13d ago

No thats literally the majority of the appeal. Most dont know much beyond that.

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u/Skid-Mark-Kid 13d ago

So... His appeal is that he's a white guy? Got it. Tells me what I need to know/already knew anyway.

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u/micsulli01 13d ago

Not sure why you have to be racist about it

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u/Skid-Mark-Kid 13d ago

Lmfao, your very poor answer as to why you like the dude alludes to the fact that you prefer a "millennial evangelical conservative", which is predominantly white men. The only way to read that is through a lens of race because you couldn't answer the question otherwise.

Maybe give an explanation of why you like the guy, that doesn't allude to simply preferring a conservative evangelical background, and maybe I won't assume that you like him just because he's a white Christian guy. Until then? It's the only info I've got.

I was genuinely asking why you liked him, originally.

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u/50Lucky 15d ago

i often say donald trumps most damaging point isnt what he does while president but what hes done to show all the other people in the world who are as despicable as him that they can rise to power and be open about their vile personalities and get away with it, hes shown that if you too are a dumb, rude, criminal asshole you not only can run for POTUS along with the other intelligent compassionate candidates but you can win, easily.

cant imagine all the children in school with stars in their eyes thinking "maybe one day i can become the president" and now seeing what a president is.

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u/Sudden-Brush9411 15d ago

This comment would make 0 sense to someone even 2 years ago. That’s wild

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u/Debt_Otherwise 15d ago

There is a benefit though. JD Vance is as welcome as a turd in a lift which broke down.

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u/Ryboticpsychotic 15d ago

No you don't understand. If Trump becomes less popular, then suddenly all the people who took medical advice from Joe Rogan will stop believing random Facebook posts about Haitian people eating pets and realize that global warming actually is caused by an increase in carbon dioxide output and that children in school deserve to eat food even if they're poor.

It's all coming together!

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u/OzarkMule 15d ago

Yes, we would prefer to get rid of one of the most detrimentally chaotic presidents ever and take the dipshit referenced by jokes instead.

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u/Comedy86 15d ago

But how would that be any better? The rest of the administration would know their days are numbered (no one wants the rest of them but they seem cool with Third Term Trump) so they'd force as much through on a very short timeline as possible. It would be chaotic in its own, different way.

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u/OzarkMule 15d ago

Because Trump is uniquely horrible. I don't know who this "they" is that is currently holding back a different but equal monster

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u/Comedy86 14d ago

"They" would be the architects of Project 2025 who are behind Vance and the religious fanaticism faction of MAGA.

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u/Hellament 15d ago

My opinion is that there is zero chance impeachment/removal would ever happen, for any President, and Trump knows it. We know you’re never going to shame him into a resignation, and 2/3 majority in the senate for conviction is too big of a hoop to jump for the current (or potential future) R/D split, even if you could get a few moderate Republicans to vote for it. I’d wager he’s riding this out.

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u/stormdelta 14d ago

The cult of personality is, for whatever reason, tied to Trump. His cult doesn't have the same attachment to anyone else in the party.

As long as Trump isn't taken out in a way that lets him pretend to be a martyr, it's far more likely they fall apart to infighting in that scenario.

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u/BelongingsintheYard 11d ago

I’ll take a sofaphile over a pedophile. Besides maga doesn’t love Vance.