J.D. VanceVag was derailed by hecklers as well.
One could say that this is a turning point for his political career.
Remember when they got all butthurt and were threatening to throw us in jail because we were laughing and then it turned out that they shot their own guy?
What? Are you referring to Kirk getting shot by a different flavor of fascism for not liking Israel enough?
And then some rando falsely confessed to the shooting and got arrested. By the time they realized he wasn’t the shooter they found child porn on his laptop and arrested him for that…oh also the FBI couldn’t start investigating as soon as they wanted because Kash Patel was using the FBI plane for personal use and they had to wait in the flight.
Man it was a pretty strange time.
Erika Kirk—who became the chair and CEO of TPUSA following the assassination of her husband, Charlie Kirk, on September 10, 2025—was supposed to appear at the University of Georgia event but announced on social media that she would not attend because of recommendations from her security team.
Vance’s security team is the secret service, no shot her team thinks it knows more then them. She’s lying because she knows Vance is poison.
MAGA doesn’t do martyrs so good. They’re all sociopaths, and only care about themselves. Other people are only good for as long as they are useful, so once you’re dead, your usefulness starts to end. There’s a bit of utility in the time right after the death, but that soon fades. They’ve already forgotten about a Charlie Kirk, and that’s exactly what’s going to happen when Trump assumes room temperature.
Nowhere is this more manifest than Trump’s obsession with what he can’t have, loyalty.
He knows his only value is what he can provide for others and as soon as they get more utility elsewhere, they leave. This is also why he uses fear to prevent attrition, the deal they get for ‘betrayal’ must overwhelm their fear of Trump, which is dependent on his power to act on the threats, which is partly why he wants absolute power. As soon as that damn cracks and the first successful betrayal is visible, his followers will see him as powerless and begin scouting for offers to betray him as well and it all collapses. That is the exact scenario Trump fears most, the lack of power to keep people loyal. Either by offering them the most or by terrorizing them into obedience. Both can fail and inevitably, as his mind fails him and his incompetence reduces both the rewards and the ability to punish, both will fail.
Among the encounters Comey describes is a Jan. 27 dinner at the White House. He says that after Trump asked him if he wanted to remain as FBI director, the president declared: “I need loyalty. I expect loyalty.”
Comey says he replied that he could offer his honesty, and that when Trump said he wanted “honest loyalty,” Comey paused and said, “You will get that from me.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/comey-congress-president-trump-told-need-loyalty
The “honest loyalty” always cracks me up.
Exactly. The way I see it, Trump has managed to act as a magnet for the 00’s Fox audience. The people that were indoctrinated by Fox style tv and talk radio to feel heavy emotions around certain issues that made them into a powerful voting block. Trump snatched that from the classical GOP by acting as somewhat of an avatar of that feeling, more than they could ever be because they remained, well, attached to reality somewhat. He just went and said Obama wasn’t a real US citizen and that Mexico had to pay for a wall and yeah that reaped success.
Any vague sense of a durable movement or ‘loyalty’ can go f itself because it’s still all built on lies sold to a dying generation.
Vance can’t envigorate these people against the horrible Obama (because they can’t remember why those years were so horrible). He can’t envigorate them against abortion or migration or something because that fizzled out.
So Trump managed to catch a wave and hold it past its due date, and now his hangers on are slowly seeing this. I hope the midterms come too early for them but rest assured that the extreme right in the US will come up with a new strategy for the coming decade.
So, what’s the next iteration of this playbook going to look like?
I hope all the stadiums are empty during the world cup
Yes, but the same thing happened in the campaign and he and Trump still went on to win the election.
These “low turnout” events are nice, hilarious distractions from a country that STILL turned over the reins of power to these idiots.
The rally turnout doesn’t matter. The schadenfreude doesn’t matter.
What matters is when people show up to vote, and these empty arenas, like streets full of demonstrators after the fact, ultimately say WAY less about the US as a people than the victors of elections.
Holy crap!
They could have used our high school auditorium and still had open seats.
Honestly kind of more people than I expected. Who wants to listen to JD?
Ours too and I’m in a small town
Is that real? It looks empty enough to be a rehearsal or something.
They picked one of the most democratic leaning cities in Georgia. The surrounding rural areas are right leaning yes, but these people are terrified of cities and given the rise in gas costs would probably not want to spend the money to see Vance
The event was in that city because that’s where UGA is, which is fat and away the most notable university in the state.
TP USA = Toilet Paper USA, because it’s shit.
They forgot to pay the people to show up.
Ah ah ah!
Holy shit, that’s a seriously pathetic crowd.
“Crowd”. Most were probably security detail
So maybe a few hundred deluded morons.
Not even the MAGAt morons wanna watch that gross loser talk…
Erika saw the ticket sales and no-showed
Sales? Wasn’t the event free?
