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Orrex

(67,112 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:18 AM Dec 2025

Is he dead yet?

Concussion from head hitting the table when he abruptly nods off during another cabinet meeting?

Felled by aggressive cancer after judge overturns windmill ban?

Stabbed in the jugular with a pen possibly belonging to a female reporter tired of his bullshit?


Just fucking died already for literally any reason at all?

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Is he dead yet? (Original Post) Orrex Dec 2025 OP
Sadly, not yet, but the fortunate event is likely to occur soon SheltieLover Dec 2025 #1
He has access to the best health care in the world Buckeyeblue Dec 2025 #12
Not soon enough. surfered Dec 2025 #20
Not until we see this Coldwater Dec 2025 #2
I have been pondering... Hugin Dec 2025 #3
It's interesting to note... GiqueCee Dec 2025 #9
I have recently seen both episodes... Hugin Dec 2025 #13
I'd forgotten about the water skis... GiqueCee Dec 2025 #14
While I was watching... Hugin Dec 2025 #17
Henry had been a water skiing instructor at a summer camp when niyad Dec 2025 #26
Oh, how I yearn for the day... GiqueCee Dec 2025 #4
Now would be good surfered Dec 2025 #5
I'm stealing this malaise Dec 2025 #7
🙏 surfered Dec 2025 #10
That is better than I could do. Bravo. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #11
lol... Coldwater Dec 2025 #18
Good one! Joinfortmill Dec 2025 #24
No but malaise Dec 2025 #6
Fell asleep in a staff meeting. Rather than wake him they let him sleep. After 3 days they realized, twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #8
Bwaaaah malaise Dec 2025 #15
Alas, my bottle of bubbly remains unopened. niyad Dec 2025 #16
Soon, my champagne is losing patience 🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾🥂🍾 surfered Dec 2025 #19
Alas , niyad, time passes Gordcanuck Dec 2025 #22
I am on my third bottle these days. Actually, I keep two chilled. A split niyad Dec 2025 #27
Please check it everyday for bluestarone Dec 2025 #30
Thank you, I will do that. niyad Dec 2025 #31
He will die on a national holiday! Wonder Why Dec 2025 #21
No, but I keep praying....TickTock. Joinfortmill Dec 2025 #23
"when he nods off for the last time..." hlthe2b Dec 2025 #25
'Shuffling off this mortal coil': Analysis sees signs that Trump knows the end is near LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2025 #28
Rumors of his pending death are greatly increasing Blue Owl Dec 2025 #29
Chunk of Venezuelan fishing boat goes airborne, flies many miles Wicked Blue Dec 2025 #32
This message was self-deleted by its author HeartsCanHope Dec 2025 #33

Buckeyeblue

(6,352 posts)
12. He has access to the best health care in the world
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:13 AM
Dec 2025

My guess is that they can keep him alive and semi functional for a long time.

Hugin

(37,848 posts)
3. I have been pondering...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:44 AM
Dec 2025

When exactly during this second imposition was the first time he jumped the shark? I know there have been many, but there’s always a first.

For the first imposition, I’d say it was the lies about the inaugural attendance.

(Apologies to The Fonz.)

GiqueCee

(4,259 posts)
9. It's interesting to note...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:09 AM
Dec 2025

... that through the 10 years that Happy Days was on the air, Henry Winkler (AKA Arthur Fonzerelli) never actually learned to ride a motorcycle. Or so legend has it.
WInkler's comparatively diminutive stature would have made it hard to muscle around a 500-pound Harley on a sound stage, though the series-shattering scene that gave us the phrase, "jumped the shark", was a location shot, as I recall.

Hugin

(37,848 posts)
13. I have recently seen both episodes...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:17 AM
Dec 2025

The original where The Fonz jumps a number of upright 55 gallon drums. The bike he’s shown riding is a smaller bike. It looked relatively stock too.

The shark jumping was on waterskis. It was a location shot in an area used quite often in the era.

GiqueCee

(4,259 posts)
14. I'd forgotten about the water skis...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:22 AM
Dec 2025

... but the stuntman earned his shekels on both days!

Hugin

(37,848 posts)
17. While I was watching...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:43 AM
Dec 2025

All I could think of is how miserable it must’ve been to wear a wet leather jacket.

niyad

(132,446 posts)
26. Henry had been a water skiing instructor at a summer camp when
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:54 AM
Dec 2025

he was younger. With the exception of the actual moment over the shark, it wwas Henry. Who, by the way, is an absolute hoot in an interview. And his biography is interesting. He is a severe dyslexic.

twodogsbarking

(18,785 posts)
8. Fell asleep in a staff meeting. Rather than wake him they let him sleep. After 3 days they realized,
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:09 AM
Dec 2025

that is was PARTY TIME!!

niyad

(132,446 posts)
16. Alas, my bottle of bubbly remains unopened.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:37 AM
Dec 2025

Still, the day is yet young. One dares to dream.

Gordcanuck

(185 posts)
22. Alas , niyad, time passes
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:04 AM
Dec 2025

but he doesn’t. So drink up, drown your sorrow over his persistence, and get another bottle in readiness!

niyad

(132,446 posts)
27. I am on my third bottle these days. Actually, I keep two chilled. A split
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:02 AM
Dec 2025

just for me, as soon as I hear the news. A regular one for the celebration at a friend's house immediately thereafter.

bluestarone

(22,179 posts)
30. Please check it everyday for
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:31 AM
Dec 2025

Maybe new bubbles floating around. THAT would be a good sign.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,870 posts)
28. 'Shuffling off this mortal coil': Analysis sees signs that Trump knows the end is near
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:12 AM
Dec 2025

trump is not well

Tick tock, mofo. We need a Merry Xmas, a Happy Hanukah & a Kickass Kwanzaa. Do us & the world a favor. DO go ____ly into that bad night. Think of the ratings!

'Shuffling off this mortal coil': Analysis sees signs that Trump knows the end is near

www.rawstory.com/trump-mortal...

ScruffyR (@scruffyr.bsky.social) 2025-12-09T14:40:03.642Z

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mortality-2674381659/

President Donald Trump has been sending signals that his health is fading — and he's losing his grip on power, according to an analyst.

The 79-year-old president has been dozing off in public meetings and showing other signs of diminished health, including mysterious bruising on his hand and swollen ankles. Foreign policy analyst David Rothkopf told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump seemed aware of his eventual demise.

“They actually are serious issues because they are evidence that Donald Trump is at the end of his story,” Rothkopf said. “They are signs to the world that this is not a vigorous person. This is not a person whose biography is about their future. It’s about their past, and everybody can see that in Washington.”.....

Rothkopf also highlighted the president's increasingly frequent moves to rename institutions and buildings after himself — such as the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Kennedy Center — as another indicator that Trump is thinking about his legacy as his life comes to a close.

“If you’re watching his Band-Aids and you’re watching his cankles, the number of things he wants to name after himself, I think, is a good indicator of how ill he thinks he is, because this is just him looking for some legacy,” Rothkopf said. “It’s just him saying, ‘Well, that could make me immortal.’ Because I think he realizes that he is shuffling off this mortal coil sooner rather than later.

Wicked Blue

(8,868 posts)
32. Chunk of Venezuelan fishing boat goes airborne, flies many miles
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 12:04 PM
Dec 2025

and lands on His Evilness standing at the front steps of Merde-A-Lago.

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