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[–] 296 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I’m so nervous, what if he’s okay?

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  • [–] 89 points 7 months ago (18 children)

    I had guessed by Christmas. He looks terrible. Cankles like that happen when your heart and/or kidneys are in failure. He also acts like a man with stroke defecits. In addition to all the signs of Alzheimer’s, which, unlike dementia, is an additional physical degradation of the brain that can kill you.

    If he’s on dialysis, skipping dialysis can easily kill you. Potassium alone can do it. Skip, potassium rises, maybe to 6+, heart attack. The meds that remove that fluid and reduce the size of cankles rely on the kidneys and can damage the kidneys.

    Even so. Do not believe for a single second that any of this improves under President Theil, er, Vance.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago

    What it does is fragment their base. Hopefully beyond repair. Vance is not well liked by literally anyone right now. Only the billionaire class.

    Trumps base thinks vance is a poser.

    He will try to do some evil theil shit, but he will have little to no support.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Exactly.

    As weird as it is to say, Trumps unpredictability, irrationality, and penchant for reacting without thinking, have probably mitigated more damage than its caused.

    When you get Vance in there, Who is capable of self control, who has the pressure of the money masters on him to do X.. I think things would genuinely get much worse under him. Especially since he'd also be struggling to reign in control of the cult of trump and direct them usefully.. Possibly by declaring that liberals were responsible for Trumps death, and inciting extreme violence as a result to distract from his own weakness.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    I do think it will improve under vance. He is far more likely to listen to advisors. And far less likely to start a war to distract from him being in the Epstien files.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Van would be wholly submissive to his masters. The same masters that try to control trump, but often fail due to Trumps own inbuilt idiocy.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    But they don't have the support that Trump does. That blind cult loyalty.

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  • [+] -6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Trump can be replaced immediately by any hack TV personality. That Hercules guy, for example...

    Or anyone with solid name recognition, like Bezos. It's a really big deal for the stupid, and the stupid are most of the registered voters, after all.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    No, bezos is too smart for that crowd. They want to feel equal to. They want someone as stupid as them, so that when he calls someone stupid with no basis, they feel validated calling anyone left of them stupid as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think JD is still likely to be puppeted by a consortium of evil, but he may also be beholden to a smaller subset of evil masters than DT. Not sure if that's a good thing or not

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Does it help that he takes 10x the aspirin his doctor recommends?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Explain this. Starting with who. Vance, Thiel, or Trump?

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  • [–] 169 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm at Walter Reed feeling fine thanks everyone.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago

    Not so fun but interesting fact. The folks peddling this thing also desecrated human corpses, can't remember if this is one of them or if this one just used animal remains. If it's just the animal it's neet if not then it's from a pillaged native site.

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  • [–] 142 points 7 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I pray he doesn't. I pray he suffers a debilitating stroke, that he wastes away in a chair, refusing to step down or stop taking press conferences. I pray he suffers tremors, and delirium, slurred and broken speech, visibly decaying.

    I want his followers to see him as the pathetic husk that he is. I want him to live decades in that chair, I want him to have endless trials in that chair. Death is the easy way out.

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  • [+] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Charlie Kirk is absolutely still talked about by the right, and it absolutely has undertones of martyrdom.

    It's not about justice, it's about breaking the spell. It's about destroying the ridiculous, yet widespread, picture of him as a charismatic strongman. If he just dies, his devotees can hold onto that image, and carry the enthusiasm to the next one. If he withers away pathetically over years, the magic of the movement leaks away, and the cult may awkwardly wither with him.

    But more importantly, the people behind him pulling the strings will be able to get away with much worse if obedient JD fills his seat. The saving grace of Trump's incompetence is his tendency to screw up the plan given by his puppeteers. His buffoonery is currently the most effective factor in slowing Project 2025.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    it absolutely has undertones of martyrdom

    Some, such as his grifter wife, are pushing that narrative hard, but mainly he's just not being discussed as much. For many others on the right, his znti-zionism runs against their desired narrative (even if it was coming from antisemitism rather than from basic human decency).

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  • [+] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)
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    I think the consequences of Trump dying are worse than the consequences of him living. As I said, the next in line would likely make fewer mistakes in implementing terrible policy. His administration has control for the next 2+ years either way, he does more damage to their platform through his incompetence than his replacement would.

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  • [–] 110 points 7 months ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No one's ever seen a party like this.

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  • [–] 54 points 7 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Can we have him live and ship him off to The Hague? I'd much rather see him in cuffs and also avoid Vance becoming president automatically

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Vance doesn't have the cult behind him and certainly wouldn't be daily headlines like Donald.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    He's way smarter though, at least rhetorically to the median electorate as a psychopath anyway. We all thought the same of Trump back in 2015 too.

    When the billionaires make their pivot, and you can tell they're already setting up the chess pieces for a post-Trump era, watch how suddenly they promote Vance or some other shithead

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Smarter than Trump isn't exactly a high bar. Without the threat of the redhats behind him, he'll be toothless. If just billionaire backing was enough the republicans would have been god emperors of the earth forty years ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I think red hats will follow whatever bait billionaires dangle in front of them. It only takes a little meeting among the puppeteers to decide whom to start promoting, and then they'll all fall in line like good little pawns. They fall for it every single time, this much I know. If they can fall for Bush Jr., for Trump, then the next person will be no different. In fact, they'll just go, "You guys said Trump was a clown with the bronzer! Look how refined and sophisticated JD Vance is! He's even a pretty good debater and just speaks facts that you don't like!"

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    When the billionaires make their pivot, and you can tell they're already setting up the chess pieces for a post-Trump era

    Vance is already Theil's puppet. Has been since before he was nominated to run with Trump.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    No. I hope he lives until 2027 and J. D. Vance's vice presidential pick has to be confirmed by a Democratic Senate.

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  • [–] 47 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It would be the most popular thing he ever did.

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Dear Lord Jesus, it's been many years since I prayed. Give me this one thing and we can work something out. Over and out.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Huge Kratos energy over here. "ARES!!! Destroy my enemies and my life is yours!"

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important. Valor pleases you, Crom, so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "What if Trump dies on my birthday?" -literally my girlfriend this morning

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago (1 child)
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    The White House also issued what is known as a 'lid' on Saturday, a notification to the press pool indicating the president would not be making any public appearances for the remainder of the day. Krassenstein noted that a lid at 11 am was unusual for Trump, adding that the president had not travelled to Mar-a-Lago as he typically does at weekends. A separate, unverified post on Bluesky from an anonymous user claimed that a major road near the hospital had been blocked off and that an emergency meeting was underway at the White House. Neither claim has been independently verified.

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Given the quality of this timeline I expect something superficially exciting will happen, and then President Vance will call for a time of unification and healing, and of respect for the separation of powers. After ending the war he disbands ICE and starts rolling back some of the most bigoted trump shit while keeping his "race: political" wife front and center. He does all that opportunistic shit to build his wholesome public image, and it works with many people who barely pay attention or just want things to look normal.

    And then in the background the transfer of wealth continues to accelerate in the wrong direction while the surveillance state grows unchecked and the Supreme Court helps it along as planned.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm amazed the fat cunt has survived this long. He's literally been rotting for months but like a really stubborn nugget of shit in my bum hairs, he still managed to cling on.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    He's not going to the place with the clouds.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago

    Hippocratic oath and all that.
    Doctors and nurses. Remember your oath. The lives of many or one?

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Is he dead yet? Is he dead yet? Is he dead yet?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    I hope I’m wrong, but what I’ve read it’s not happening today. Sounds like Walter reed had roads shut down around it and around the same time the White House shut down media access. I think he’s been at the White House surrounded by military all day. I hope I’m wrong. I really do

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Please god let him die, and let him die in pain and all alone.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Eh, he's (supposedly) at a fancy hospital. So he'll be surrounded by doctors and nurses, and probably on really good pain drugs.

    So you can forget about the 'in pain and all alone' part. But we can still hope...

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago

    I've got a bottle of rum set aside for exactly this situation, and goddamnit I could use a drink.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    America may have to tap into its emergency Champagne reserves…

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Thoughts and prayers... for the clots and aneurysms.

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    [–] 24 points 7 months ago

    So, those Epstein files coming out yet?

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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