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[egg_]

- Dean Blundell

Where'd you find this?

 

[Kermit McDermott]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/politics/trump-physical-exam-results.html

Mr. Trump “remains in excellent health” and “exhibits excellent cognitive and physical health.” It refers to Mr. Trump’s “frequent victories in golf events” as an example of his “active lifestyle”

And people thought these pictures of Trump were fake.....

 

[JohnnyRaz]

''he is a remarkably stable genuis for a man of his age''

 

[nuke terrorist]

@thumpedgpt -
Can you give examples of Donald Trump admitting he made mistakes and/or apologising?
Does Trump do this often?

EDIT: no reply - I obviously typed @Thumped GPT wrong

 

[flashback]

What do we think would happen if the creature died?
Would things get better, or worse, with Vance?
The cult of personality would die with him, but Vance would still have the power to continue to destroy everything.

 

[magicbastarder]

is vance the sort of 'friend of the schoolyard bully' who holds his coat for him, and can be a bully himself when he's able to use the big bully as a threat?

 

[egg_]

Would things get better, or worse, with Vance?

Without an obvious top dog I expect the regime would descend into chaos

 

[dudley]

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[flashback]

Before I was hoping that he'd not die, I'm not sure exactly why, I felt that it would militarize the crazies or somehow make things worse. I was thinking that he'd just ramble through being his normal lazy self, and nothing much would happen.

He does seem to be at least handing things off to people who are breaking things at a rate that surprises me.

I also thought he was somehow immune to death, a bit like Kissinger. Kissinger's still dead, I just checked. For some reason, yeah, it occurred to me that maybe he could croak, and then what. I suspect it would lessen the rate of deterioration, but then I'm caring less about all of this too.

They're shit. We get it. No one's going to do anything about it. Let's just forget about it.

 

[magicbastarder]

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i've seen another comment today that they've already passed the point of no return, in that trump just straight up ignored the supreme court and his VP and AG backed him.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

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Hitler's birthday

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Before I was hoping that he'd not die, I'm not sure exactly why, I felt that it would militarize the crazies or somehow make things worse. I was thinking that he'd just ramble through being his normal lazy self, and nothing much would happen.

He does seem to be at least handing things off to people who are breaking things at a rate that surprises me.

I also thought he was somehow immune to death, a bit like Kissinger. Kissinger's still dead, I just checked. For some reason, yeah, it occurred to me that maybe he could croak, and then what. I suspect it would lessen the rate of deterioration, but then I'm caring less about all of this too.

They're shit. We get it. No one's going to do anything about it. Let's just forget about it.

Thump being dead would probably not change the direction of travel. In some ways without his tendency to impulsiveness it would possibly move in a more direct fashion.

It would however make the regime less popular with the base. Trump=MAGA, without the cult of personality it would be harder to sell some of the shit they are doing

 

[ernesto]

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Apparently Going to declare something as a national emergency and then Marshall law

 

[egg_]

FWIW the Insurrection Act has been invoked a bunch of times before (1992 was the last time)

List of invocations of the Insurrection Act - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[therealjohnny]

 

[pete]

The ‘Oscars of Science’ can’t take a Trump joke

Tough crowd.

www.theverge.com

 

[magicbastarder]

saw this being reshared on bluesky. it reads like more of that 'the other part of the left isn't doing enough' stuff that crops up all the time.

The Right Builds Power. The Left Hosts Rallies. That's Why We Lose.

Bernie Sanders is back on the road. He's touring the country on an "anti-oligarchy" crusade, warning that billionaires are running the show and that we,

znetwork.org

or 'my contribution to the struggle is to criticise it'.

 

[Richie]

saw this being reshared on bluesky. it reads like more of that 'the other part of the left isn't doing enough' stuff that crops up all the time.

The Right Builds Power. The Left Hosts Rallies. That's Why We Lose.

Bernie Sanders is back on the road. He's touring the country on an "anti-oligarchy" crusade, warning that billionaires are running the show and that we,

znetwork.org

or 'my contribution to the struggle is to criticise it'.

The author of that piece may be correct in thinking that electoral politics aren't the right vehicle to build a sustainable left wing movement in America, but having a go at Sanders for not having single-handedly developed a viable network of alternative institutions seems a bit unfair..

 

[pete]

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[magicbastarder]

Didn't take long