There’s currently rumors, he had bruises on his hands, hasn’t been seen in public in the last few days and his schedule for the next few days has been cleared. It’s rumored that he even cancelled his golf session.
JD Vance said that trump is healthy but he’d be ready to take over if anything would happen.
Also the pentagon pizza place is busy.
Think: No
Hope: Yes
I really fucking hope he did but evil bastards somehow always live longer than they should
Maybe I am out of the loop but why is a hematoma from a person who probably receives regular infusions and blood draws a big deal?
It probably has something to do with Queen Elizabeth II who was photographed with significant bruising on her hand just two days before her death.
From our mouths to god’s ears.
And a lot of people end up with a hematoma like that because something screwed up during their annual blood draw. Most of them are not dead two days later.
It means someone was poking around his blood vessels. Could be for serious reasons or routine.
its usually not, unless you are going to great distances to hide it.
Wishful thinking. Similar to ‘thoughts and prayers.’
Because the admin isn’t being transparent and trying unsuccessfully to hide it.
Yeah, I had a mildly botched routine annual blood draw and it left a pretty significant hematoma for a while.
Yes it means he has probably had blood draw or IV through the hand for something, but impossible to say if there anything significant to it just because it left behind a hematoma.
In all reality at his age it’s probably just unavoidable due to scar tissue, shitty veins, and poor clotting but I know if I was the phlebotomist I would aim to go straight through the vein every time
Nice.
we arent that lucky
I’m unfortunately just as pessimistic, but, one can hope!
That’s my belief as well
Don’t drop it, dude!
We should party like never before. If he’s gone then the party is righteous. If he’s here he will see his legacy. It’s a win-win.
Also the pentagon pizza place is busy.
It is now. 222% spike at dominos, which appears to be one of very few open this early.
Other ones are very elevated now too. Maybe they are feeding the troops?
How often do they get to this highest “defcon 1” pizza traffic rating?
Reddit said so
That “source” is worse than Wikipedia.
Most sources are worse than Wikipedia.
But not many are as bad as reddit.
80% of /r/politics: dailybeast thehill newsweek slam a melt down on a rage or whatever. 50k updoots to the left pls
Yeah that’s true. I just think Wikipedia is the worst source one can use to support an argument. So anything below that is basically just “trust me bro” to me.
When Trump isn’t seen in public for days I don’t bother wondering why, it’s just a welcome break from him getting attention.
It’s a nice break from all the BS headlines along the lines of “Trump says, Trump demands, Trump claims, Trump threatens…” et Al from news outlets who learned nothing in 2016.
You know how young kids get quiet when they’re up to no good?
It’s the reverse and he’s off fucking some kids.
That was exactly my thought
I looked outside and I do not see people dancing in the streets.
So, no.
That said, there are a couple dozen fascists who are half his age ready to take up the mantle when he does. His passing will not be the end of fascism in the US. It may even spike it.
We’re not that lucky. But hope springs eternal.
When he does finally croak, I’m betting the administration hides the fact as long as possible while they devolve into a backstabbing, power grabbing, Bulgarian clusterfuck. The implosion is going to be Biblically epic.
Bulgarian clusterfuck
Well that’s a first for such an idiom. Is this in actual use somewhere, and what do you mean by it?
We used that in the 80s all the time. :)
:a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation
Wait, isn’t the line of succession in the US straightforward? Or how do you mean a power grab?
What I’ve read sounds like a medical emergency. Not getting my hopes up though.
No. Evil has long lifespans for some fucked up reason.
Because it’s up to good people to stop evil, yet religion has brainwashed everyone in to thinking punishment comes in the “next” life.
How convenient for evil!
Yup.
Donald may be sick but he probably has two decades left at least.
No. We’d know immediately if he died.
How?
The volume of the power vacuum in the Republican party would likely be audible from Europe.
Game of thrones.
Consider the Death of Stalin, both the event and the film. Nobody wants to admit that Trump isn’t the strongest, most alive man ever, for fear of the repercussions, either him getting better or his base turning on the bearers of bad news.
There’s no heir apparent: the sucking sycophants won’t know who to blow.
A disturbance in the force, of course
No. The idea is pure hopium. His health clearly isn’t good, but Vance wouldn’t waste a second to take the oath of office.
Vance wouldn’t waste a second to take the oath of office.
Vance would be standing right by Trump’s side in his hospital room… pillow in hand…
Vance looks around the hospital room.
“Is this one of those…”
/wipes drool
“Sleeper sofas?”
Eh. When Reagan was shot in public there was hemming and hawing about how to proceed, and this was only a year or two after Reagan had used dirty tricks on GHW Bush to win the primary. Bush would have leapt at the oath of office.
Trump has a cult of personality that will probably assume any death in office is the result of foul play. It’s not impossible that Vance et al would spend a few days working on how to spin the issue to prevent a coup attempt by some MAGA nut jobs.
There’s no way it’d be kept under wraps. This White House is leaky as hell. There’s pretty good chances of another journalist being invited to a Signal chat on the matter.
GHW Bush was a far savvier political animal than Vance. He had a lot of experience by then. Vance only first held office in 2023, and he mostly wrote books and worked for investment firms before then.
eh. jd vance is next in line and hes also a fascist.
if we keep relying on natural death we are gonna wait until all these awful ghoul fascists are 120 years old.
kissinger was old as fuck and probably had all the best amenities for when he died.
jd vance is next in line and hes also a fascist.
Guillotines spring eternal?
He’s also a limp puppet. He’ll do whatever he’s told to do by the GOP. Fortunately he has the charisma of a teenager’s crusty socks. If the Orange Jackass were to die (supposedly he’s been seen since the rumors/speculation started) the institute would carry on, but the cult would quickly start to eat itself alive as factions formed but lack the charisma to maintain the MAGA base cohesion.
Cults of personality rarely survive the death of the charismatic leader. Analysis of past cults have shown that a very specific kind of charismatic reformer/reorganizer needs to immediately step up and carry on from where the original leader left off. I don’t think any of the MAGA leadership has what it takes to pull that off. They’re all too self-serving and lack any real charisma. I think they’ll dissolve into infighting until a new equilibrium of some kind is reached, and that’s something I can’t even begin to predict.
