• tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    The last media talking head to start speaking ill of Trump was Charlie Kirk if I’m not mistaken.

    Like I’m not saying Tucker is going to have an assassination attempt but it sure would be convenient for that to happen so Trump could have a distraction from the Epstein stuff… Which coincidentally was also a big talking point right before Charlie Kirks assassination…

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        17 hours ago

        In a video with Ben Shapiro he questioned if the news we were hearing regarding Israel and Gaza could be trusted. Shapiro looked mortified that a fellow conservative would even entertain such a thought. It’s been alluded that was the moment that Kirk sealed his fate.

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          He backed off very hard on this in line with a bunch of other conservative talking heads. This is from July:

          “Plenty was said this last weekend at our event about Epstein. Honestly, I’m done talking about Epstein for the time being. I’m going to trust my friends in the administration, I’m going to trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done, solve it, ball’s in their hands. I’m going to trust my friends Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, my friend Pam Bondi. All these guys. Ball’s in their court. I think that there was plenty of, let’s say, speeches that were directed towards this topic this last weekend. So we don’t need to spend our valuable time on this program relitigating it.”

          Emphasis mine because saying “balls in their hands” is hilarious to me.

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      17 hours ago

      It sure would be wild if I felt really conflicted right now. It is a good thing I don’t Mr FBI Agent Reading This.

      But a LOT of the right wing and even magat base are turning on trump by the day. He is actively killing the economy (so all their donors), once again has demonstrated he can’t get anyone else elected, and actively hurt their careers by fucking up the shutdown so badly that even schumer can’t take ALL the blame.

      Combine that with his well documented health issues and the odds are good he doesn’t survive until 2028… for multiple reasons (again, what up Mr FBI Agent Reading This?). So a LOT of chuds are trying to position themselves as his successor.