There's a bundle posts on YouTube and other places on the Internet speculating wildly about Trump's health, and whether or not he will live through the entirety of his second term as President of the United States. I get it - he's such an awful person that any little straw of hope is better than nothing.
But, frankly it doesn't matter, and here's why. It's no longer about Trump - at this point, he's the pitch man and that's about it. He'll do what others tell him to do as long as someone funnels another million into his bank accounts somewhere that it can't be touched - and that kind of transactional stupidity is straight up oligarchy.
Look at Trump's nomination for various cabinet and other high in the government positions. They are all obscenely wealthy, and frankly utterly unqualified for the positions they hold. There are so many probably and overt conflicts of interest in these appointments it's bonkers. Then we get to the half dozen or so utterly looney appointments like RFK Jr. - a man whose cheese slid off his cracker a long time ago.
Most of these people are the types who think along the lines Ayn Rand did - if you aren't ridiculously wealthy, you are a parasite leeching off other "more productive people". The reality is, of course, quite the opposite - most of these people got ridiculously wealthy by a combination of family wealth, scamming the hell out of people, and lastly off the backs of honest workers that they see as patsies for their schemes.
Trump's cabinet is a veritable "rogues gallery" of people who are setting up for a smash-and-grab theft on a scale that the world hasn't seen since Putin and his oligarchs pushed Yeltsin out of office. They aren't moving to make a "smaller, more efficient government", they're going to break it up and sell it to themselves. The level of self-dealing that is going to happen will be stunning, and every one of them will walk away with their wallets bulging just a little more than they already do - and you the taxpayer will be paying more in fees as they try to monetize every single transaction.
Now, let's say Trump falls over dead tomorrow. JD Vance steps in and takes over as President. Do you think Vance is going to do anything to slow down what has already begun? The odds are very good he won't - as long as the oligarchs pass a few million each to keep their posts.
What we have been witnessing since January 20 is the installation of what will become an oligarchy government. Even if there is an election in 2028, it will be at best a show process, and there may be a turnover in the cabinet, but by then the senior layers of the bureaucracy will one way or another be beholden to the oligarchs either through direct ownership of government agencies as "free enterprise businesses", or plain old corruption.
Trump is an old man now - he will be Theodin to Musk's Grima Wormtongue. Whether he survives or not really doesn't matter.
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