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‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter sends shockwaves across the globe
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I think most people don't want to throw their life away killing a guy that already has one foot in the grave.
We could probably just send him a dozen hamburgers and he'd finally have that heart attack we've been waiting for.
I don’t think I’ve ever rooted for high cholesterol before, but these are strange times.
High cholesterol, a blood clot, a stroke, an ugly fall, a heart attack... I'm rooting for so many fatal conditions right now.
Evil seems to do wonders for the life span. Even Death doesn't want to go near him.
Ohhhh, Death. Would you grow some fucking balls?
Look at how long fucking Kissinger lived.
Dude should have been munchausened.
The immorality of killing someone besides, and making him a martyr to his supporters that would make them more dangerous, there is a legal process to remove a president.
We think that this administration is driven by Trump, but once removed, the people who are behind much of his policies are still there. Venezuela is comparable at the moment. It is still controlled by Maduro’s administration.
The world needs to treat America as a pariah despite the economic pain. It needs to find a way to thrive without it.
America needs a revolution that demands reform in all three branches as well as the voting process. Our leaders and judges, given their privilege of power, should be subject ti term limits. First past the post should be replaced by a comprehensive voting process such as ranked choice.
People keep using the word martyr, but I'm not sure he can become that. There's no ideology bringing these people together, the disruption that he's causing is the unifying force.
If he's gone, there's no clear contender to continue that disruption, so there would be tons of infighting. I don't think there's a path to dominance from that kind of chaos. Trump only managed to get elected with the support of broken systems, which are being dismantled.
Agreed, but there's something that's like an ideology. They don't know what it is, but it comes in a red ball cap and waves a lot of flags. Usually from a giant truck. Whatever those things are are the "ideology". And his murder would definitely calcify a lot of that.
I mean, it's a cult. Plain and simple. What happens when a cult leader is killed? Besides the inevitable factional war?
Disruption is the thing that's like ideology in this instance. There's no path for a cult member to disrupt things enough to become the new cult leader. There's the chain of succession or whatever it's called, and that relies on the legitimacy of the system to be used. If that legitimacy is disrupted, the only people that can take the lead position will be the people controlling the military, which will be nobody in governance because the commander in chief will be dead.
This is one reason I guess the ICE budget is getting juice, so that when that change in leadership comes there is some force behind the change.
It’s really not that hard to create a highly contagious flu with a 50% IFR. Just do the initial release around people likely to interact with the inner circle and you’d wipe most of the old ones out. Plus once it got out you’d be eliminating anti-science people at a 5 or 10:1 ratio, improving the future prospects for the planet as a whole. Some really angry molecular biologist who got fired by RFK Jr. could do it for $50k in a limited space.
Shit, what if they already tried this once?
I 100% think you are right about this. I don't think most people want look inwards and acknowledge this fear.
It's not just one guy though... I bet the German people thought the same in the 1930's, and look how many people died because of their reluctance to being more active against the nazis.
The real evil behind the throne is 40 years old.
*throne*
And yes, but he's got the charisma of a week old sandwich left on top of the trash bin.
Is there a word for typoing a different homophone even though you knew damn well which one was correct?
Anyway, my point was, waiting for him to die of old age is not a solution. Positive action must be taken to get rid of him.
We need to go rustle up a German. I'm sure they have one.
That fat cunt could eat 12 of those in twenty minutes without sweating much more than the pig usually does. Fucks sake, put him out of everyone's misery.