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And to clarify here. Biden is declining because we all do at that age. No one is immune to that. Trump is declining because he has abused who knows how many different drugs and fuck knows what else over the decades, add that history to age and it's never going to be good. Biden has always had a stutter and while I know you didn't mention it, it's been used a bully stick by the maggats seemingly unaware of the fact that their guy has been deranged and unable to stay on topic for years.

Shit, I'm 34 and I mix up names sometimes. If I had to keep track of as many people as he does, I'd mix up names all the time.

This is almost word-for-word an interaction I had with a coworker yesterday. Said she voted Orange this primary because "he's the only one to fix this damn gender issue", so I asked her what she thought of his policies on foreign affairs and the domestic wage gap.

I got a double-chinned shrug and an "idunno". Lmfao our country is going to burn because a vast swath of people would rather see hundreds of thousands prosecuted for socially-engineered offenses instead of nurturing the human condition.

On a solemn note, our country's governance has become a joke. A circus of clowns too busy honking horns and throwing pies at each other to notice the tent around them is ablaze. To everyone, please, do not take our country's governance as a joke. Serious, irreversible consequences oft come from impotent or non-existent legislative power.

We stand at a precipice, so please vote. Vote. VOTE. VOTE.

If only they just realized as long as trans people and democrats have rights, so will they. They want so badly to be oppressed

He's more useful as an incoherent, babbling dementia patient. Even more if dead. They can just turn him into a literal puppet.

I'd vote for this dog. Bad comparison. One is a mindless idiot bumbling from treat to treat, the other a majestic dog living the best life.

Sticks for everyone! And water fountains on every street!

He doesn't deserve the peace of a 6' hole. Make it 6", an open grave, and a public hole-in-the-ground bathroom.

Trump has never been his own candidate: there are bigger powers behind him that need a demagogue to get into the office because everything they stand for is SO immensely repulsive. I'm talking about the ones Leonard Leo has been working for over the last forty years.

And Trump's advancing dementia is not new. His staff have been making adaptive movements around him for quite some time that are familiar to those of us who have ever lived with or cared for an aging parent or other person with dementia. Also, looking at dementia in a stranger or a public figure is exactly equivalent to looking at an iceberg: we are only seeing the tiniest bit of it. What's happening in all the hours and days we don't see is already far worse than what little we have seen.

And it doesn't get better, either: dementia is a series of plateaus, where there's a slip and the new normal holds for a while, but never attains the level of previous competency.

So what is FAR more likely, unfortunately, is that his handlers will take over and continue to trot him out to prove he's still alive, but he will speak for himself less and less. The media/propaganda outlets that are pushing so hard for his presidency today will continue pushing just as hard, as though he himself were still running, but he's just the public face at that point. They want Trump for president no matter what his condition is, because he was always just their ticket to ride.

This strategy is not new; it's historically what people who want to get and keep power do with the incompetent leader they find themselves saddled with, like Kim Jong Il or even Stalin in his last year or so. Even Ronald Reagan to some degree, depending on who you believe in regard to the progression of his Alzheimer's disease.

I've said this before but I'll say it again: watch the VP spot very carefully, because it will NOT be filled with anyone of Trump's choosing. It will be filled by the person the people running Trump as a candidate want to be President. And if "Trump" wins the presidency, even though people with dementia can live another dozen years from this moderate point, Trump won't. The VP will be president within three months, IMO, depending on the stability of the national situation, because they will only keep him alive as long as they need to in order to cement their own hold on the presidential office.

But the saddest (most laughable? I dunno anymore) part of all of this is that the people who vote Trump from this point forward are not actually voting for Trump, because he no longer exists as they knew him. That's just the nature of dementia. Rather, they are voting for the people running him. In other words, they are voting for EVERYTHING THEY DESPISE and expected Trump to rescue them from, their protest vote going toward exactly what they desperately want to protest.

Yes, it's The Manchurian Candidate with a twist. Unfortunately, it's all too real a scenario.

It's a sad fucking world these days.

There's a very good chance Trump's trial doesn't conclude until after voting day. At which point we may face the situation of having a President-Elect that is convicted of Insurrection.

We really should have just let the states ban the guy.

I don't forsee the second happening. Short of literal murder the rich dont end up in jail, and if they do its brief. Murica...

Edit "rich" but you know what I mean.

Hamburger From Heaven 2024

I feel like there would be parades in the streets if dude just had a massive heart attack while speaking on the road.