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Metaphorical

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17. Vance Is Not Trump
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 12:30 PM
Jul 4

Right now Vance is playing good little soldier, because Trump would make his life a living hell otherwise. At the same time, Vance has power over Trump in one very particular way - he could form a coalition of people in the White House to declare Trump incapable of fulfilling his duty for health reasons - Article 25 section 4.

I do not think it at all accidental that Leo was elected Pope. The Catholic Church has gone down this route before, and I think they recognized that the US under Trump represents a huge danger. Sometimes the pope is ruler of a vast empire, but sometimes the Pope is also called upon to act as a priest to one man. This may be that time with Pope Leo and JD Vance. I am not a religious person, but if I was, I'd argue that God is acting through the church's conclave to find the best man to be the spiritual advisor to the man most likely to become president after the incumbent gets removed from the board.

What makes things SO interesting there is that I have no doubt Trump is aware of that calculus too, and it has to make him both furious and perhaps more than a bit more fearful that maybe, just maybe, God is very explicitly NOT on his side.

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