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[–] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION 53 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

lmao if he dies of old age 3 weeks before the election I'm gonna shit my pants

[–] cultsuperstar 8 points 9 hours ago

I would rather have that than him win and JD Vance become president.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 day ago (20 children)

I'm a lifelong fan of political dramas. I watched the BBC version of House of Cards and adored The Manchurian Candidate.

There's stuff going on in this election that makes everything I ever read seem placid and tame.

[–] assembly 115 points 1 day ago (43 children)

Republicans would vote for the corpse of Trump before even considering not making a terrible decision. I cannot believe that this election is this close. It’s mind boggling that the outcome is currently a toss up between Nazi spray tan confused grandpa and middle road politician.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The point isn't to get Trump into the Whitehouse; it's to get Vance into the whitehouse.

Trump will legitimately kick the bucket within the next four years, guaranteed. And Vance will be the one to take his place. Vance will be the one who is suddenly an "incumbant" backed by the heritage foundation who is actually reasonably well spoken, able to debate, far smarter than Trump, and younger.

Vance wasn't "chosen" by Trump, he came as a part of the deal with the Heritage Foundation to get him elected.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago

It’s infuriating that the election is this close. People were complaining that Biden was too old. A smart qualified candidate took his place, Trump now is having mental breakdowns in public, and somehow, the election is still a toss-up.

[–] 800XL 11 points 22 hours ago

If he died tomorrow Republicans would be Black-Friday-75%-off-smart-tvs trampling each other to be the one to skin him and wear him so they could continue the coup.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you wrote this election into a political drama ten years ago, it'd get rejected as not believable.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

True story I have told so many times....

Right after the 2016 election the NY Times assembled a panel of all the creators of the top TV political dramas. House of Cards, West Wing, Scandal, Veep...

Every creator said the same thing. If they'd had a character say that they "liked soldiers who didn't get captured" the networks and advertisers would have demanded that character be shown as hated by all Americans and voted out by the next episode.

Meanwhile you have MAGooswho also fly the black POW/MIA flag next to their Trump flag

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[–] Passerby6497 25 points 22 hours ago

Why? Can't you just play music and sway back and forth during the interview?

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After his 40 minute solo dance party, he’s probably exhausted.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Very low energy. Sad!

[–] ThePantser 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Soup 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The evening began to take a different trajectory when a man appeared to faint in the crowd. Trump paused his remarks. Attendees fanned the man and began to sing “God Bless America.” As the man waited for medical help, Trump mused: “While we’re waiting. So we had a beautiful evening. And I don’t know if they could get this song up quickly, but if they could work really quickly backstage while we’re waiting. ‘Ave Maria.’” The song began to play.

Brother what in the fuck is going on anymore.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That's honestly tame compared to the rest of the town hall

At the end, he made it sound like he was done and going to wrap up, said thank you and then he... just stood there for 39 minutes noding to music

Oh also he said "does anyone else want to faint too" after someone fainted

He also told people to vote on January 5th instead of election day (Nov 5th)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That honestly sounds like he cant recenter himself, which if true means he may not be alive much longer. My great great aunt wasnt able to recenter herself and died within a couple days from that point. Mind you he could stay in a coupletely alucid state for who knows how long, it is kinda random.

[–] IchNichtenLichten 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It could be that he's tired, old, and really fucking lazy. He wants to be in front of his crowd as it indulges his pathetic need for attention but he just can't be bothered to meet them halfway by trotting out the same old lies so he just stands there, shuffling a little to some music while they bask in his magnificence.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago

His team is doing a Weekend at Bernie's hide-the-dementia dance until the election

[–] shyguyblue 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Think his team is more so afraid of making his mental decline even more obvious after his town hall yesterday. He cut if off early, said "who wants to listen to questions" and "let's listen to music" followed by an early wrapping up. Sounded like he was going to leave, but he just didn't. He stood on stage for 39 minutes of him nodding on stage to music

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-music-sways-town-hall/

[–] thisorthatorwhatever 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

39 minutes...that's really troubling. It's not like 1 song or 2 short songs, to take a few impromptu questions as people filled out. That's almost an hour of some sort of severe breakdown.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

His team was telling him to take more questions on the teleprompter and he still just stood there

(Photo from the Washington Post article)

[–] givesomefucks 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I always knew his teleprompter wasn't just lines to a prewritten speech.

They literally have people that type messages to him in real time, but they can't put a lot up there so he just gets vague topics and rambles about it, then when a new message pops up he changes immediately to that.

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