If they both died tomorrow (oh god please), another would simply take their place. It would require a complete deprogramming of their supporters on the scale of Germany in 1945. The problem is that the entire government needs to fall for that to ever even be attempted. It would literally require a revolution or large scale invasion for that to happen at this point, and even then, as we've seen with Russia and Northern Africa quite a few times, revolutions have a tendency to just pave the way for the next lunatic to take power.

In USA, invasion isn't really possible, so it would have to be an incredibly violent and costly (in human lives) revolution, with a slim chance to actually change anything.

An invasion of Russia is probably possible, but it would require some insane inside help to make sure they don't just nuke everything when they realise they've lost anyway. A revolution probably wouldn't do much, because of the brainwashing problem.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Either or both of them dying couldn't hurt.

~~Soviet~~ Russian succession always takes a power struggle between rivals before things are consolidated.

Vance has the charisma of a turnip.

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

hey now that's just mean

turnips don't deserve such disrespect ;-;

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago

I can't speak for Putin, but MAGA is a cult of personality. Once HitlerPig assumes room temperature, there will be a vicious battle for leadership, and at least half of the MAGA Morons will drop out without their divine leader to follow. Its very likely they will pivot to making him a religious figure.

The traditional GOP will try to recapture their hegemony over the party, and the Sociopathic Oligarchs will wage a war to keep and expand their influence. They will all try to float a new leader, and we can expect HitlerPig Jr to make a big attempt, but he'll be recieved the same way as Frank Sinatra Jr - with a yawn. Anyone else will be accepted even less.

I hope the battle for control of the party will result in internecine violence, so the Dems can regain power, and use the crimes and violence of the MAGAs to crush them, and purge them from government and society.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

I think if that happened, the push against other nations would at least get a reprieve as infighting takes over, especially if Putin bites it.

There are a lot of people who want to be king and they'll all likely have plots to take out their rivals and consolidate power

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Any micro organism inside of them has my support.

By the time you're 70/80 years old your thymus has basically just turned into fat cells and can no longer create new T-cells for your immune system. We just need the right microbe to enter.