And apparently unkillable. He fell twice in the Capitol Building two weeks ago and finally announced he won't seek reelection last week "due to health issues". I hate the guy but it's nice to see that he's too frail to keep going.
They're still further away than most of the world (not only the US) prefers. Remember him for being the guy who gave you this russian puppet government.
You know, if he wasn't such an incomprehensibly terrible person, he'd be kind of a cute and sweet-looking old man. Like, just look at that smile in the last few frames.
I’m convinced that Mitch McConnell is a reanimated corpse. He drowned in a swamp, was there for at least a month someone fished his ass out and brought him back to life (mostly, sort of) and decided to keep letting him hobble around being a senator for reasons beyond my comprehension. No way that dude is actually alive though.
He does. But without the blind adoration that Trump has somehow managed to build, he won't be nearly as effective at getting crazy shit done. There's something about Trump that fully unites the right. Without him, they'll splinter (see: what happened when they attempted to move on from him after January 6).
His is also visibly covered in beige makeup, though. You can tell by the weird greenish hue that the bruise is probably purple, but with a beige sheen.
Source: I have covered body parts in makeup before to hide scars.
Edit: Holy shit has this man not heard of lotion? He’s ashy af
I'm conflicted on this. On the one hand fuck Trump, but on the other hand Vance would be a much more competent and effective potus. And given how closely he's tied to project 2025, that could end up being much more of a disaster than 4 years of the current manchild
But on the other other hand, Vance doesn't have the cult glamour Trump somehow willed into being, so Republicans might not roll over as much for a Vance presidency
Really a "would you rather be kicked in the shin or kneed in the groin" kind of problem
Vance won't have the cult of personality though. And once trump croaks there will be a massive rush to grab power in republican circles. It will probably create a lot of factions and cause fracturing.
The MAGA party is a cult though. And the key to a cult is that they worship one person. Not a belief system, or a book, or a holy ghost. Just one living person, who will eventually die, and with it the cult.
Who could possibly take over the cult? JD Vance is unlikely to carry on after Trump. Elon can't be president. Vivek is a brown person, which doesn't fly in the MAGA party.
Trump emerged on the escalator that fateful day to lead a dying demographic in America on its final farewell tour. It's unlikely to find another leader before it craters.
No doubt they believe any alternative to a democrat is preferable.
But they have to agree on that alternative first, which they will never agree on. They will eat each other alive for years before they can come to an agreement on who should carry on the cult, and by then the old MAGAs will have died, and the young MAGAs will lose the energy and go back to not voting. Which couldn't happen fast enough.
Assuming we don't have another pandemic, they will have to defend their work in 2 years, and then in 4 years. And there are too many people in this country to fool all the time. They can fool em some of the time, but not all the time.
I agree with this as a first blush opinion on it. But I think his passing would create a massive power vacuum that would, ultimately, fracture his base. He has too much ego to name a true successor.
Trump has one thing they don’t - the undying and undivided adulation of his base. He could shoot their granny on 5th avenue and they’d justify it to themselves somehow. But somehow I doubt the rest of them are going to have that level of support. Especially once they start fighting and backstabbing over who’s in charge now.
The invariable infighting that can tear the party apart and save us from the future we all foresee in our worst nightmares makes me feel things about your implication I should feel ashamed to feel, but don’t.
Like Bette Davis said when Joan Crawford díed: "You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good... Joan Crawford is dead. Good"
Change a few names here and there, and the sentiments will be the same on my behalf
I get what you’re saying there but I don’t see Vance as being able to hold onto that power. Too many rivals are hoping to be the next demagogue and unable to catch the same fascist lightning in a bottle so I truly hope to see some deep fractures after Trump’s inevitable passing, whenever that may be
I do think it’s really possible that if trump dies in office they will in fact weekend at Bernie’s him until the truth gets leaked, not because of it just being deceitful but because they spread that Biden was weekended at Bernies’ed so much that they believe it happened and beleive it would be fair.
Unfortunately Trump's golf habit is largely unabated. Meaning that while he might have dementia he's not on his last legs (though a heart attack / stroke can show up any time).
I know she had her share of shameful things in her past too but she looks so adorable here. Not a fan of royalty but I always appreciated her continual growth as a person over the years and her elegance, at the least she never embarrassed her people.
Rt Rev Dr Iain Greenshields, who later said he was finding it difficult to fathom how quickly Her Majesty’s health deteriorated (in such a short space of time)
She was 96. I do hope that Don-old deteriorates quickly, though.
She died of multiple myeloma, which is a cancer of blood plasma. Continual blood draws. A hallmark of the disease is easy bruising that takes longer to heal.
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