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Donald Trump is very ill.
He is unable to do his duties as the president of this country. When he is not on the golf course, you know something is terribly wrong.
Behind closed doors, they should be discussing the 25th Amendment.
Just as he has hid his health records from the public for the last 10 years, his supporters continue to hide the seriousness of his condition. He looks terrible. His face is swollen. He is covering up large bruises with make-up. He has a difficult time walking as his ankles are very swollen. His mental faculties have been dulled by his physical condition.
The people have a right to know about the health of their President. They were quick to accuse Joe Biden of dementia and incompetence, but they hide more serious health issues about Donald Trump.
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Haggard Celine
(17,642 posts)but he isn't ill enough to suit me just yet.
brush
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very well and even stopping to 'bow' at the booing crowd, which disappointed me as that came on the heels of reports of his ankles being so swollen he could hardly walk.
Don't get me wrong, I want the senile-adjacent MFer incapacitated too, but we have to bide our time as he's still able to walk well enough...dammit.
CTyankee
(67,728 posts)I think it's his insurance policy against getting thrown out of office on his ass.
brush
(61,033 posts)bargain.We are truly fucked as the SCOTUS 6 are in on it as they've given him immunity for 'official acts.'
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,283 posts)That doesn't mean the world wouldn't be better off without TACO's little fingers anywhere near the Red Button. I just don't see politicians and world leaders trembling in their boots at every utterance of The Bearded Boy.
barbtries
(31,090 posts)vance will not ever be as powerful as krasnov; he will not have the cult, republicans will not kowtow to him, even the SC will probably start making rulings that make sense again.
krasnov goes away and things will get better, not worse.
brush
(61,033 posts)What is going on here? Duers lobbying for trump to stay in power. We are now officially in Bizarro World.
barbtries
(31,090 posts)that the nation will go completely dark. but I think, without him around, some republicans will regain their spine. Some SC justices may even as well.
i don't think any of the people around krasnov are better than him. I think the situation will be more hopeful if he is gone.
brush
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Blue Owl
(58,108 posts)
Girard442
(6,812 posts)
NCDem47
(3,308 posts)
LiberalArkie
(19,204 posts)
Ilsa
(63,765 posts)Efilroft Sul
(4,285 posts)
TheBlackAdder
(29,959 posts)
DBoon
(24,658 posts)
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,496 posts)
ChazInAz
(2,988 posts)Is there a portrait of him somewhere that's getting younger and better looking?
Jack Valentino
(4,239 posts)
The Wizard
(13,551 posts)
Solomon
(12,630 posts)
ananda
(34,289 posts)that they have worshipped for so long.
mindfulNJ
(2,440 posts)in Men in Black...the corpse filled with cockroaches.
Captain Zero
(8,708 posts)He has around only 5 more months remaining in the White House. They won't say what, how, why. They just say 5 months and he won't be in the white house.
Celerity
(53,522 posts)
orangecrush
(28,050 posts)
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orangecrush
(28,050 posts)
dhol82
(9,624 posts)I’ll lay in the champagne supply. 
Disaffected
(6,106 posts)Why not (he asked rhetorically)?
Seinan Sensei
(1,322 posts)Disaffected
(6,106 posts)you give a rhetorical answer.
TnDem
(1,390 posts)So, we are down to tarot readers on YouTube to predict whether Trump makes it? You're kidding, right?
Maybe they can provide a few winning lottery numbers on YouTube, so I can quit my job?
leftyladyfrommo
(19,950 posts)than CBS. And they are a lot more fun.
If you hear of any predictions about something that will help any of our bottom lines, then let us know.
I have never used CBS as a prophetic guide to anything either.
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It's because you don't understand this sense. You can't come at it from the direction in which you or most others do so. It's an expanded consciousness and it does require certain mental disciplines to get there.
At one time the human brain spheres didn't communicate with each other and consciousness had a very different way of working. Read The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of he Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes as a starter.
on edit: So what I am saying is that the human brain evolves. What we are talking about is neuroscience. Yes, there are studies that document this. If you want the scientists and the bodies of work, I can give you a general direction in which to go, but I'm not going to do your work for you. To be clear: psychics and intuitives are operating at a higher level of consciousness. To get to that level, certain areas of the brain have to be developed. Certain mental focus exercises give one the ability to get to that level.
Is that clear?
Also, be aware that "time" is a fabrication of our particular dimension. This is why you can't get "time" from any psychic or even from a dream, which is another dimension.
Dimensions can be accessed through certain brainwave states, and this used to require decades of mental focus exercises. Now, with binaural beats and a few other methods, one can get to these states after a few months of practice, but even if you can get there, it doesn't mean you'll know how to navigate it.
TnDem
(1,390 posts)Anytime you see things like:
you don't understand this sense
be aware that "time" is a fabrication of our particular dimension
and this used to require decades of mental focus exercises
It screams reality avoiding, ephemeral nonsense...I mean, re-read your post.
Just think, if the detainees in South Florida can mentally focus enough, maybe they and the homeless woman in Lexington KY can escape to another dimension...Hell, maybe we can all escape and then we won't have to plan for the mid-terms.
NJCher
(42,291 posts)failed to draw a line here that you need to make sense of my post. It is:
Consciousness evolves.
I will go back and edit my post to put that in.
Of course it sounds like nonsense to you. The Encyclopedia Britannica looks like nonsense to a three-year old, too. You don't comprehend the intuitive sense because you either weren't born with the mental faculty to operate with it and/or you haven't devoted any time and effort to getting your mind to be able to work in an advanced level of consciousness.
I would ask, however, that you refrain from disrespecting divergent means of ascertaining what reality is when you don't understand this sense. At least put some effort into understanding it. It's like prejudice: certain white people don't like minorities because they've never been around them. Same applies to you and your M.O. for how others attain information.
Just so you know, for a time I tracked the predictions of these readers and a very high percentage of them did manifest. It is very time consuming work, however, and since it doesn't pay my mortage, I couldn't continue doing it. I did it long enough to know, however, that watching their predictions is not a waste of time.
So a person has to have an "advanced level of consciousness", otherwise, it looks like nonsense "like a three year old".
Maybe I should be been born with better "mental faculties", that way I could better understand "what reality is".
Of course, none of your replies above are condescending or disrespectful at all, correct?
I do agree with one thing you said, but I doubt those real trees can cloud your view of your ephemeral forest;
"...however, and since it doesn't pay my mortgage, I couldn't continue doing it..."
Disaffected
(6,106 posts)"........I tracked the predictions of these readers and a very high percentage of them did manifest. "
Show us the methodology and data (at a "three year old level" so we all can understand it please).
ETA: And please report back in 5 months if the prediction of the OP was accurate or not.
Disaffected
(6,106 posts)That's because it is divination and nonsense.
3Hotdogs
(14,968 posts)Jack Valentino
(4,239 posts)Captain Zero
(8,708 posts)Regardless, JDV is probably next up.
Dem4ever1978
(6 posts)And that will be as bad or worse.
leftieNanner
(16,099 posts)Some congress critters might actually grow spines and say no. JDV isn't their God.
NJCher
(42,291 posts)If you don't understand the sense, at least don't dis it until you do understand it.
OMGWTF
(4,997 posts)TnDem
(1,390 posts)More collegiate level soothsaying on TikTok.
Jack Valentino
(4,239 posts)I certainly do.
leftyladyfrommo
(19,950 posts)picking up on all the things going on right now. Trump is a mess and you can sense it just by watching him. Our minds take all that subliminal info and put it together. We can feel it in the atmosphere all around us.
That information can be very accurate.
I've seen the tarot card readers.
Dan Greany writer for The Simpsons is on TikTok saying Krasnov will be removed from office by the end of this year.
He says when Krasnov is removed no one will fight it. It will be accepted by all. He also said that although he doesn't know who will become president, he said jd and no one else in positions in this regime, will ascend to the presidency as they will have went up with Krasnov and they'll go down.
Here's a link to Tarot by the Bay. Also the reader said another medium is speculating that this may involve a recertification of the elections
Anyway
At 5:46 he plays the Dan Greany videos.
generalbetrayus
(1,478 posts)Traildogbob
(12,437 posts)What he has accomplished the last 6 months, 5 more will end us. Then Vance and Miller will drive in the final spike.
And we will be subjected to 6 months of trumps burial and endless media of his great he was and how loved he is by the world.
Hundreds of parades as his rotting corpse lies in our house cause they will never let him go.
ancianita
(42,759 posts)No matter how much fake pomp and circumstance his minions think is real, this one thing is true:
Rewriting his history will not erase the recorded and archived facts of his history of destruction.
One of his 'influencer' minions finally 'got' him and said the truth: "The liberals were right."
tavernier
(14,193 posts)But unless he’s standing next to a window in the Kremlin, I’m not betting any money on it.
CTyankee
(67,728 posts)
tinrobot
(11,937 posts)People are sick of him. If he's spouting off during the 2026 elections, Democrats win big
dalton99a
(91,784 posts)So it will be a while
His father wasn’t obese and most likely did not have the horrible diet that Donnie does.
keep_left
(3,141 posts)Trump's Mickey D's feast on his private 757. Corey Lewandowski said this occurred on Trump Force One on the regular.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219823994#post8
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219732796#post32
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,087 posts)What a hideous pic! 
calimary
(88,831 posts)3catwoman3
(28,473 posts) 
Joinfortmill
(19,879 posts)
efhmc
(16,050 posts)bucolic_frolic
(53,770 posts)because it sure ain't Donald Trump. His chiefs and cabinet secretaries? A triumvirate - Miller, Bondi, Patel? These people have been cut loose from accountability as long as they destroy government it's good to go.
dalton99a
(91,784 posts)Nowadays Trump only cares about things that affect him personally - business prospects, bribes, the Epstein case, etc.
Jvp
(43 posts)Someone should run the video of Stephen Miller in high school ranting about the unfairness of having to pick up his trash at school when there are paid custodians to do that job! He has crazy hair also! Over and over and over!
dalton99a
(91,784 posts)
rubbersole
(10,958 posts)
Hekate
(100,131 posts)Also — what crazy hair? He’s got male-pattern baldness.
Try again?
orleans
(36,626 posts)GoCubsGo
(34,629 posts)Like Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and the ones who own Roberts, Alito, Thomas, etc.
Bristlecone
(10,983 posts)Amaryllis
(10,922 posts)bucolic_frolic
(53,770 posts)No wonder they're focusing on accusing Joe Biden's tenure. At least Biden was a thinking, intelligent being.
Mike 03
(18,690 posts)I think he's largely responsible for the non-immigrant chaos, like the lawsuits, Executive Orders, the Big Ugly Bill, shutting off the money spigot to anything of value or that helps people, and much of the day-to-day decision making. His role is to actualize all he can of Project 2025.
lildDemz
(95 posts)(and evil). Miller is just ambitious(and evil).
sop
(17,265 posts)He'll likely be hospitalized any day now, then resign under murky circumstances. One can hope, right?
Bmoboy
(605 posts)A malignant narcissist cannot admit they were ever less than perfect.
sop
(17,265 posts)He'll probably be too far gone to realize what he's signing. His handlers will build a recreation of the Oval Office at Mar-a-Lago where he can sit and sign fake EOs still believing he's president.
Totally Tunsie
(11,526 posts)At least we've been told it's a replica. For all we know, he had the true original shipped down there when it was supposedly being "restored", and the replica is sitting in the Oval. 
viva la
(4,463 posts)that will make J.ust D.espicable Vance president.
But Vance doesn’t have the cult-following that Trump has.
LuvLoogie
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and transform it into the bigotry of the Ego. He will take trump's racism and morph it into an elitist intellectual cult where MAGA will deme themselves scholars of supremacy.
"Look at how smart JD is!"
Without trump they will look for anyone to keep them "on top." They'll hold the men with fascist Barbies and the women will follow the men.
JD has even less problem lying than trump. He is the Terminator.
viva la
(4,463 posts)less than real Americans.
Yeah, the in-laws with PhDs are not as good Americans as his cough hillbilly forebears? Oh, right, the hillbillies (that was his term) are white. And they are descended from other white people!
"Americans with Civil War ancestors have greater claim to US, Vance says."
Umm, you mean also the ones who fought on the ENEMY side?
gotta ask this-- which group is going to contribute more to the US we have now? Hmm, the microbiologist-college provost and her husband the aerospace engineer?
Or his ma and MeeMaw who set his Peepaw on fire?
no_hypocrisy
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vapor2
(3,625 posts)FadedMullet
(615 posts)
Norbert
(7,519 posts)
mackdaddy
(1,932 posts)My conjecture is that Trump's vascular issues also affect his cognitive function through reduced blood flow to his brain from Long Covid. Or syphilis. Or Both...
Botany
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Live in hope.
Besides he is 79, does not exercise, and his dinners in Saudi Arabia were from
McDonald’s and they were 2 Big Macs, 2 Fillet of Fish, and a chocolate milkshake.
When I was getting a home care nurse she told me that he looked and acted like
some of her patients right before Alzheimer’s set in. The shuffling of his feet to
regain balance, the slurring of words, and lack of focus on the issues. She told me
he is very close to being out of it.
KentuckyWoman
(7,365 posts)A 79 yr old - 4 fast food sammiches in one sitting? First off, how can he stay off the pot long enough to get any sleep that night. Good heavens .... Those poor maids.
Botany
(76,202 posts)But as far as I’m concerned he needs some McDonald’s French Fries with his meals too.
Btw about 10 years ago I was hungry and I had 2 McDonalds fish sandwiches… they tasted ok
but about 1/2 an hour later my later I was outside working on one of my wildflower native plant
projects about 10 minutes from my house and my body rejected that food and sent it out the
back door. I didn’t even get home. When I did I had to undress in the shower. Outside of a very
few egg McMuffin breakfast meals that has cured me of eating that garbage again.
Ms. Toad
(38,080 posts)
When hands have edema, nearly all the wrinkles vanish because the tissue is flooded with excess water. His hands are plenty wrinkled.
This is a hand with edema:
https://dims.healthgrades.com/dims3/MMH/c50d3e9/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x3357+0+483/resize/1430x800!/format/webp/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fucmscdn.healthgrades.com%2Fbd%2Fb5%2Fcc207fdd4444851f2ed16e5163d5%2Fgettyimages-1215224848.jpg
Botany
(76,202 posts)
Nasruddin
(1,169 posts)Maybe so but people have been saying he was on death’s door or about to be locked up for the obvious dementia from the middle of his 1st term…. Eight years ago.
Don’t count on any of it. People can ride CHF for years and he’s so stupid no one will know if he has dementia until it attacks the brain stem.
I personally don’t think his early departure is a good thing at all. Vance is a huge potential disaster because he is not presidential material.
3catwoman3
(28,473 posts)Pictures?
Botany
(76,202 posts)Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usaid-doge-deaths-children-cuts-7nb83dfkp
Jean Genie
(532 posts)I've said it before, and I'll say it again - one of my dearest wishes is that Biden outlives Trump - and maybe dances at his funeral.
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)two, two, two republicon FAILS in one.
Ohioboy
(3,846 posts)Trump's too busy rage tweeting to be healthy, both mentally and physically.
NJCher
(42,291 posts)I've seen people die of bitterness. It was etched in their faces.
Not a pretty sight.
I also think that thoughts somehow become manifest and when you have this many people hating, loathing, and disgusted with you, it cannot be good.
Safe as Milk
(191 posts)(IMO) Stress turned inward can do a lot of hormonal/enzymatic/biochemical damage. Sociopaths/psychopaths don't have that kind of internal mechanism because they don't have a conscience that would activate those biochemicals. That's why it's possible for Trump to effectively kill hundreds of thousands of COVID victims and still sleep soundly (if he can stay off the social media posts for a night).
Silent Type
(12,373 posts)Kid Berwyn
(22,695 posts)
"Clunk the Cuck"
CanonRay
(15,910 posts)It may have to be scrapped as unrepairable.
NJCher
(42,291 posts)This person who wrote it was a psychologist. Long story short, his brother committed suicide and the brother, the author of the book, did an exploration into what happens to people who commit suicide. There are some, like trump, who are so effed up that they cannot be brought up to standards, meaning the standards we have for human decency. This is post mortem, i.e., after the person has crossed over.
If I can find the spot in the book that describes it, I might copy and paste it here. That will take me a while, but it is quite interesting.
Suicide comes from self-hatred and from believing that one is not worthy of the rewards in life that the rest of us regularly reap. That's one explanation, anyway.
And yes, there are some that are in such bad condition they do something with them, but I can't recall what that was. Sort of like scrapped, but not entirely.
CanonRay
(15,910 posts)NJCher
(42,291 posts)thanks for the tip. I haven't finished it because it's an audio book and I dont' have the right audiobook software to bookmark where I left off. Have to work on that.
CentralMass
(16,824 posts)
Takket
(23,419 posts)tonekat
(2,427 posts)An armature to prop his corpse up at the press briefings. "He has laryngitis, so we're just going to play a tape of one of his earlier briefings".
Maine Abu El Banat
(3,529 posts)But the reason we have the most incompetent cabinet in history is so the 25th will not be an option
hay rick
(9,307 posts)The 25th amendment will deliver us directly into the hands of Peter Thiel's stooge, Mr. Vance. He's working on his makeup as we speak.
live love laugh
(16,166 posts)He’s never disclosed his medical conditions before but all of a sudden we get a quick response and a full detailed report?
It doesn’t track.
mgardener
(2,275 posts)When he was at I think, West Point graduation?
He had a hard time walking down a ramp.
Someone was walking right beside him.
He had trouble walking then, and that was over 4 years ago.
Iris
(16,824 posts)The people he has surrounded bundled with are power hungry.
Greybnk48
(10,659 posts)Why isn't he out there every day, as usual? Brilliant, Kentuck1
Mblaze
(914 posts)"They were quick to accuse Joe Biden of dementia and incompetence, but they hide more serious health issues about Donald Trump."
And they let his incompetence slide.
AZ8theist
(7,052 posts)GiqueCee
(3,281 posts)... and mindless malice are the lifeblood of the Republican terror organization. They lie to their dying mothers for idle amusement.
They have to prop up Putin's puppet until the Heritage Foundation can take complete control of all three branches of government, and totally tank the economy so they can create the Randian Hellscape of their fever dreams. The planet, and everyone on it, be damned.
It won't happen overnight, but there will be an abundance of slavestock available until both American continents look like Pol Pot's Cambodian Killing Fields from coast to coast.
Hyperbole? I don't think so. But keep your rose-colored glasses handy, 'cause it's gonna get worse before it gets better. LOTS worse.
3catwoman3
(28,473 posts)Excellent alliteration - 
GiqueCee
(3,281 posts)... alliteration!
Thanks!
3catwoman3
(28,473 posts)Here's my string of adjectives for TACO Donvict - contemptible, cruel, coarse, crass, common, and crude
GiqueCee
(3,281 posts)gfarber
(187 posts)There once was a leader named Trump,
Whose health had become quite a slump.
With face swollen and bruised,
His duties refused,
While whispers of twenty-fifth jumped.
He stumbled around looking pale,
His health was a hush-hush dark tale.
While Biden faced jeers,
For imagined health fears,
This President's truth hit a wall, to no avail.
calimary
(88,831 posts)
Jspur
(783 posts)don't care as long as he continues to spit out his hate rhetoric. Unfortunately for all of us his illnesses haven't stopped him from doing anything.
republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)Raven123
(7,444 posts)His April 2025 physical reported no edema, so this problem was not noted (hard to imagine if he had a physical), not reported (what’s new?) or of recent onset. That the problem was visible across the room (so to speak) suggests it isn’t mild. If he had no edema 3 months ago and does to that degree now, makes me wonder.
That in addition to the other observations makes me believe they are hiding something.
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Orrex
(66,584 posts)Suffering as much as possible along the way, of course.
twodogsbarking
(17,457 posts)AdamGG
(1,859 posts)Vance wouldn't be much better. But, without the cult of personality disorder, hopefully the Rethuglicans would be less unified.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(25,496 posts)Doodley
(11,568 posts)
IL Dem
(888 posts)He has slowed down at it since the end of May.
https://didtrumpgolftoday.com/
Captain Zero
(8,708 posts)where he plays.
Dave Id
(230 posts)History repeating itself. Republicans hid their chosen god Ronald Reagan's alzheimer's decease from the public as long as the could get away with it. He had been falling asleep in cabinet meetings, but they kept their mouths shut.
SCantiGOP
(14,647 posts)Both he and Biden should have been ineligible, if we had a reasonable Constitutional limit on how old a candidate can be.
I had a friend who had a very important position with KPMG. They had a worldwide mandatory retirement age of 65, which applied to everyone including the CEO.
And before you label me as ageist, I am only 5 years younger than trump, and fully realize that I would not be as effective at my job as I was when I retired at 67, and certainly not as sharp as I was in my prime.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,502 posts) 
kairos12
(13,456 posts)caterwauling calumnies.
calimary
(88,831 posts) AKwannabe
(6,870 posts)Just saying
No fucks
Hope he explodes!
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)No dignity for the office whatsoever.
Treating the govt like HIS business to make $ off of for sport?
Attilatheblond
(8,107 posts)They are probably almost done with him and ready with the bus they WILL throw him under, but Theil, et al, may still need a bit more time to put the last pieces of their dictatorship in place. Seems like Pam Bondi's job has been to hold him together until they are ready to crown JD, and that stress is really showing up on Bondi's face.
Dulcinea
(9,584 posts)She looks like she hasn't slept in weeks. Even her hair looks tired.
Joinfortmill
(19,879 posts)Ms. Toad
(38,080 posts)I'd be close to millionaire.
CountAllVotes
(22,055 posts)This is a problem that I myself have.
It gets severe when I travel on airlines, so I cannot travel on airlines any longer.
I ended up at an ER in Hungary as a doctor that was sent to my hotel room was worried that the swelling could be hiding a blood clot in my legs.
I went to the ER in Hungary and left because I didn't know what anyone was saying. Someone wanted 300EU from me so I managed to get a cab and flew home a couple of days later.
I arrived home in poor shape and was back at the ER again.
dump should not be traveling via air. That much I can say without hesitation as it is dangerous if you have lymphedema.
Historic NY
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randr
(12,613 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(174,176 posts)
FakeNoose
(39,957 posts)If he's not willing, there's nothing the people/voters can do.
I hope I'm wrong about this.
Pacifist Patriot
(25,185 posts)That "and" in the first sentence is critical. It must be the VP and a majority of the cabinet.
Here’s how it works:
Initiation: The Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet must submit a written declaration to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House stating that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office.
Effect: Upon this submission, the Vice President immediately assumes the powers and duties of the Acting President.
Challenge: If the President disputes the claim and declares he is able to resume his duties, he sends his own written declaration to Congress.
Resolution: If the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet dispute the President’s declaration within 4 days, Congress must decide. A two-thirds vote in both houses is required within 21 days to keep the Vice President as Acting President.
FakeNoose
(39,957 posts)The VP must call the Cabinet together to discuss and vote on the 25A invocation. They can't meet without the VP calling it. But once the meeting is called, they need at least a 51% majority to proceed to the next step... which is notifying Congress.
This was written before the internet and 24 hour news coverage.
Safe as Milk
(191 posts)The Vice President, along with a majority of the President's Cabinet (or another body designated by Congress), can declare the President unable to fulfill their duties.
themaguffin
(4,884 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(174,176 posts)
Wednesdays
(21,534 posts)Even in the absolute worst-case scenario, they'll prop up his carcass a la "Weekend At Bernie's."
liberalhistorian
(20,897 posts)will get right on it? Right? Anyone? Anyone?
Katinfl
(605 posts)
lastlib
(27,404 posts)Best news I've heard today! 
I truly wish him a complete non-recovery.
Initech
(107,219 posts)But 25th amendment him and we're stuck with Vance.
awesomerwb1
(4,960 posts)If he were very ill he wouldn't be playing golf anymore.
stollen
(1,036 posts)Trump is that sick.
maspaha
(701 posts)
eppur_se_muova
(40,840 posts)If someone were to post that on X, would MAGAts be convinced that was a flattering term ?
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wishstar
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writerJT
(467 posts)That’s still just one out of the last four weekends, unless I’ve missed others. Thanks for filling in some info.
barbtries
(31,090 posts)not to mention a seriously damaged and malevolent, malignant narcissist. He is a nihilist.
he is on the edge of being so bad off his keepers and users and acolytes and sycophants are going to have to do something about it. seems like it never will happen, but when it does, it will seem like it happened in an instant. the only certainty is that it will happen. no one lives forever and krasnov is way closer to the end than to the beginning.
i just hope I live long enough to see it.
WiVoter
(1,537 posts)are so sick, they have to die to get better. So, maybe he’ll get better? I
Traildogbob
(12,437 posts)Been a SICK son of a bitch. Now he is just old and a sick son of a bitch. And I fill certain his mother “was” a real bitch. To dump his ass on the world.
COL Mustard
(7,926 posts)Measuring the draperies in the Oval?
paulkienitz
(1,494 posts)A lot of GOP insiders have probably been itching to ditch Trump since before he was sworn in. They want a more sensible and common-sense single-party dictatorship without all the chaos and mess and financial ruin. But they're still scared of the rabid base, and the base follows him and no one else. They're desperately trying to balance the equation of whether their gains from tossing him into the Mt. Epstein volcano can balance their losses from having no one who they can depend on to rally the maga morons to support the new administration.
Trump has pushed other republicans into this same kind of dilemma many times before, and every time they've ended up concluding that they're stuck riding the Trump train all the way to the end of the line. But now, with his health failing. the track may finally be running out. And though they're very tempted, I doubt they'll change their ways... they probably won't make a move until he's actually in the hospital with a fair chance of never coming out.
Evolve Dammit
(21,408 posts)Emile
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flying_wahini
(8,244 posts)That’s it. I Would bet you that he has a wheelchair in his private quarters and some portable o2 nearby,
His bruises are probably from the IV Lasix they are giving him. Probably wearing a catheter too. Keep him up and walking around without any gaffs on live TV. That’s it.
I’m thinking it’s why they are slinging all the Project 2025 wishlists out in succession so quickly.
They have the cover of the Epstein shit and the SCOTUS is still in their pocket. So they are doing it now asap. Added benefit is that they can all blame Trump when the Dems take back both Houses.
(Yes, eternal optimist here)
biocube
(166 posts)because Cheney was so much worse.
But I can’t fathom Vance being worse than Trump. The wost case scenario is he'll just do what the so-called "tech right" donors want. That’s bad, but at least he won't throw a grenade into the global economy with senseless tariffs or threaten to invade allies.
displacedvermoter
(4,079 posts)and I tell everyone I know that he does. I don't care if it is true or not, I like to tell people it is.