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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJD Vance chances of successful administration with MAGA after replacing Trump.
We all know that the US Constitution dictates that should the President of the United States be unable to complete his term he will be replaced by the Vice President and the House Speaker only assumes the role if both are eliminated/incapacitated at the same time. The Speaker does not become Vice President. The Vice Presidential replacement is then nominated by the President and shall only take office after confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
JD Vance is unpopular with MAGA in large part because of his marriage to an Indian women and his children having Indian Hindu names. He's even less popular with Americans in general because of his participation in promoting Trump's racist MAGA policies at home and abroad. Should Trump pass or be replaced (25th Amendment) due to his obvious health issues, Vance would most likely be an even less popular President than Trump.
Most MAGAs probably don't even know about Vance's affiliation and financial backing from Peter Thiel, owner of Palantir (MAGA thinks Palantir has weather machines) and backer of Elon Musk starting way back with his original company X. They even more likely don't know about Vance's affiliation with the distressed farmland acquisition company Acre Traders or his contributions to Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
If more of the public is reminded about these and other of Vance's social and political liabilities it would probably guarantee him an even lower favorability rating in the polls than Trump is currently getting. That will greatly impact the mid term elections. Maybe even in Texas where the Heritage Foundation president is from because his organization had Vance write the foreword to their Project 2025 book.
LearnedHand
(5,152 posts)Republican congresses impeaches Trump and Vance (as extreme liabilities) and installs little holy Moses Mikey.
ChicagoTeamster
(191 posts)lame54
(38,958 posts)Ocelot II
(128,338 posts)He's creepy and condescending, exactly the sort of unpleasant weirdo you might believe has intimate relationships with upholstered furniture. If Satan calls Trump home before his term is over, all Hell will break loose in the GOP (as well as in actual Hell when Trump arrives) when ambitious GOPers start jockeying for position in the primaries. Vance might have Thiel's money but I don't see how he can possibly inherit MAGA; he's mean like Trump but he's also boring. And he has a wife and children who aren't white.
hlthe2b
(112,158 posts)leftstreet
(38,379 posts)They're a Trump phenomenon. The Republicans have to get their racist, homophobic, misogynist base back to the dogwhistling triggers that work on them.
It's not a short game, but they can do it. Vance is irrelevant. They expect to lose along the way
ChicagoTeamster
(191 posts)The MAGA will go back to not voting and saying the UN is going to invade the Thumb of Michigan from Canada even though the UN headquarters is in NYC and they can just cross over from Windsor to Detroit via the Ambassador Bridge, the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, or the new Gordie Howe International Bridge. The government will again be ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government) and the Pope will again be the antiChrist. Timothy McVeigh will be a talked about hero again like the Jan 6ers.
Johonny
(25,088 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,321 posts)And Thiel is tied to Epsteins depravity, fun times!
Dulcinea
(9,467 posts)He has no interest in teenage girls?
Kid Berwyn
(22,321 posts)Boys. Girls. Whatever looked profitable on camera.
Epsteins reach was global.
Dulcinea
(9,467 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,321 posts)
How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Establish A Police State In This Country The story began in late 2010, when a disputed presidential election in Cote d'Ivoire triggered violence.
Edited by: NDTV News Desk
Nov 16, 2025
Excerpt
Ouattara's son met Epstein in New York. Three months later, Epstein met Ouattara's niece Nina Keita and then Barak privately at the Regency Hotel. Epstein later flew to Africa, planning stops in Cote d'Ivoire, Angola, and Senegal.
Barak has claimed his dealings with Epstein were private, but documents suggest Epstein acted as a fixer. After leaving office in March 2013, Barak continued negotiating the deal. On March 19, he received an email from his brother-in-law Doron Cohen with materials from MF Group outlining plans for a surveillance and video monitoring centre in Abidjan. Communications were kept secret using cryptic references.
Negotiations were briefly disrupted by a UN report on Israeli-labelled ammunition, and the embargo was extended. Barak then called Israeli security figures including Amos Malka and Michael Micky Federmann, and on May 27, Sidi Tiemoko Toure, Chief of Staff to Ouattara.
Using a non-security pretext of building hospitals, Barak arrived in Abidjan on August 1, 2013, meeting top officials and President Ouattara.
On September 16, 2013, Barak received a 13-page proposal from Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash detailing a SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) system for Cote d'Ivoire. Farkash wrote, The document is based on experience that has been accumulated during Amnon's and my service in the unit I believe this meets the export‑of‑knowledge' test. I thought it appropriate to bring this to your attention.
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https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-jeffrey-epstein-helped-israel-establish-a-police-state-in-this-country-9645587
The only good to come from this is that the suffering of Ms. Giuffre and the other victims will be evidence that brings these evil criminal elites to justice.