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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 88 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I had guessed by Christmas. He looks terrible. Cankles like that happen when your heart and/or kidneys are in failure. He also acts like a man with stroke defecits. In addition to all the signs of Alzheimer’s, which, unlike dementia, is an additional physical degradation of the brain that can kill you.

If he’s on dialysis, skipping dialysis can easily kill you. Potassium alone can do it. Skip, potassium rises, maybe to 6+, heart attack. The meds that remove that fluid and reduce the size of cankles rely on the kidneys and can damage the kidneys.

Even so. Do not believe for a single second that any of this improves under President Theil, er, Vance.

What it does is fragment their base. Hopefully beyond repair. Vance is not well liked by literally anyone right now. Only the billionaire class.

Trumps base thinks vance is a poser.

He will try to do some evil theil shit, but he will have little to no support.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Exactly.

As weird as it is to say, Trumps unpredictability, irrationality, and penchant for reacting without thinking, have probably mitigated more damage than its caused.

When you get Vance in there, Who is capable of self control, who has the pressure of the money masters on him to do X.. I think things would genuinely get much worse under him. Especially since he'd also be struggling to reign in control of the cult of trump and direct them usefully.. Possibly by declaring that liberals were responsible for Trumps death, and inciting extreme violence as a result to distract from his own weakness.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do think it will improve under vance. He is far more likely to listen to advisors. And far less likely to start a war to distract from him being in the Epstien files.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Don't bet on it. Thiel's a madman, and he owns Vance.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Van would be wholly submissive to his masters. The same masters that try to control trump, but often fail due to Trumps own inbuilt idiocy.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But they don't have the support that Trump does. That blind cult loyalty.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Trump can be replaced immediately by any hack TV personality. That Hercules guy, for example...

Or anyone with solid name recognition, like Bezos. It's a really big deal for the stupid, and the stupid are most of the registered voters, after all.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

People are going to be worshipping Trump like a god after he dies. There's no replacing that.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

No, bezos is too smart for that crowd. They want to feel equal to. They want someone as stupid as them, so that when he calls someone stupid with no basis, they feel validated calling anyone left of them stupid as well.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

or they can just say the liberals did it, and the cult wont care whose in charge, because blood and vengeance will be on their minds instead.

[–] phx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think JD is still likely to be puppeted by a consortium of evil, but he may also be beholden to a smaller subset of evil masters than DT. Not sure if that's a good thing or not

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 3 points 23 hours ago

Eh. They can’t tell Trump what to do, only nudge and manipulate. Trump has to think it’s his idea.

Vance will do as he’s told.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

If there is a civil war, I hope Trump lives long enough to prosecute it. I want my enemies to be wholly incompetent, it would save many innocent lives.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it help that he takes 10x the aspirin his doctor recommends?

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Explain this. Starting with who. Vance, Thiel, or Trump?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

"They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don't want thick blood pouring through my heart," Trump, 79, told The Journal. "I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?"

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2026/01/02/nx-s1-5665112/trump-aspirin-325-81-mg-low-dose-cardiac-stroke-heart-attack-bleeding

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

So sad. Someone get that man a banana or ten.