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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago

USA, your "powerful leader" is literally displaying insanity dementia and is falling apart in front of your eyes.

If the Cheeto wasn't so fucking evil I'd say this is elderly abuse, but in his case, I just hope he does quickly so that the world can cool down and go to something new and nice

Yeah, I know that it's not just trump, it's all the people that enable him too, but he has this charisma, like Hitler. Trump dies, and the entire maga movement and all the fascist shit does with it.

What? You think that the VP can take over and continue like that? I know maga is dumb, but do you really think anyone would be dumb enough to support that wet towel?

Pete hegseth? Or whatever the fuck that losers name is? You think he'd get support?

Nobody has that nauseating"magic trump touch" that magats love so much that they'll happily let him rob them blind. Trump dies, manga dies.

So please trump, hurry it up, we're waiting for a happy new world where we can finally put wealth caps and shit to make everybody equal, finally

[–] wizbiz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 hours ago

Please please die soon

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 111 points 1 day ago (2 children)

His body has automatically gone into draft deferment mode. In the coming weeks, we may see all manner of manifestations.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 16 points 21 hours ago

A spur of the moment if you will?

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

If it's a legitimate draft the body has ways of shutting it down

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 103 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like it could be shingles. That shit can really hurt.

People, particularly old people, with weak immune systems get it pretty often.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's a vaccine for that.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

All the vaccine does is: make it happen less often and less severe. Vaccines are not panaceas.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

People with shingrex often never get shingles unless immune compromised.

Younger people who had the Zoster vaccine never get shingles.

Shingrex is less shingles, not some jackass panacea.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

yeah since we've been talking krasnov in general, who would have been 50 some odd years old when shingrix and zostavax were released to the public, he's not in the "never get shingles" group since he almost definitely got chicken pox when he was young. glad we're on the same page.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By the way, look at that horribly mangled, blown-off and then reconstructed ear following the assassination attempt. Why, that bandage he wore for a few days must've been truly miraculous. Amazing /s

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I believe the bullet skimmed the top of an over ketchup'd hot dog before whizzing nearby his ear at this point.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Mf's probably on every blood thinner known to man to keep his clogged ass McDonalds arteries open.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Looks like they graduated from hand IVs to neck...

Which would be horrible news for virtually any patient, but in this case I feel most wouldn't have the same reaction

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[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It looks like staphylococcus.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I disagree, but only slightly. I think his antibiotic resistant necrotizing fasciitis is polymicrobial.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Oh, I was thinking shingles. Which I understand to be incredibly uncomfortable (not sure about a staph infection though it still isn't pleasant)

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Shingles there is unusual, typically shingles break out around the mid body.

no onewants to see that.

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 15 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Both conditions are unpleasant, but I had a stronger gut instinct towards staph. It’s possible he has shingles because I suspect he never received the vaccine, and his condition is likely not being adequately cared for.

He’s probably receiving the same level of treatment as someone on their deathbed, dragged out for press coverage. Your family has to genuinely care about you, or shenanigans ensue.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 81 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I sure hope it's something serious, thoughts and prayers. 🙏

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hey, whoa, whoa. Let's consider our words. Let's hope it hurts, too.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thoughts and prayers to the red blotch.

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 16 points 1 day ago

I can only imagine the blotch's suffering while being attached to that putrid growth. Best wishes to the blotch.

[–] homes@piefed.world 50 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It would be so awesome if he suddenly just dropped dead

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It would be so funny if he was doing one of his bullshit press conferences where he gets pathetic sycophants to bow and scrape before the king, when they gradually realize that he's been sitting there dead for about ten minutes while they pretended like nothing was wrong for fear of making him look weak.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I want during his bullshit airplane pus conferences for him to shit his pants so loudly they hear it at the bottom of the plane, he sees them notice, in embarrassment he tries to flee through the door but yes he trips and tumbles on Vance down the stairs into a visibly messy splort (not blood, or at least mostly not blood and the blood is not from the tumble) at the bottom. He tries to pick himself up from the splort but there's too much feces and JD Vance on the ground for his lifts to get proper purchase so he keeps falling over and over like sideshow Bob and a rake and this.

After seven or eight attempts he just gives up and dies.

[–] homes@piefed.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol, that would be really funny

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Death of Stalin" vibes, where Stalin lay dying on the floor in his room for hours because nobody wanted to risk disturbing him.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago

I want to see the Ianucci film "Death of Trump." Who else could do justice to this murderous farce?

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 15 hours ago

And, please, let's have it with blood spraying out of every orifice while he squirms and screams but nobody helps him.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

This is so important. It happening during a speech or press event would be the best we could hope for, there will be denials and conspiracy no matter what but its harder to fuck with actual reality when someone watched happen. Note that i didnt say impossible, just harder

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[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 52 points 1 day ago

leía voice:

"help us cholesterol , you're our only hope."

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 day ago

C’mon, do something…

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the weirdest kind of edging i've ever heard of.

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