I mean sure seems like something a Harvard rowing team coxswain would be saying is happening.

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      He is already leaking fluids, and solids, on a daily basis. There are multiple confirmed reports.

      Not sure what gasket you are referring to

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        repairing a blown head gasket in a car is often a repair that costs more than the car would be worth. maybe that’s what they meant?

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    I would have preferred the last three years of his miserable life spent in a maximum security prison, but as it seems like the law doesn’t exist in the US anymore I will accept a series of strokes leading to shitting himself and collapsing on a stage in public. I’m okay with that trade.

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    Draws questions and alarm?

    Question: When will he finally croak?

    Alarm: They will be wasting millions to keep this rotting corpse alive for as long as possible.

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    Can news organizations please PLEASE stop it with the headlines that are all ALARM! BE AFRAID! SLAMS! RIPS! EMERGENCY!

    We have already enough to be anxious about without them helping. I don’t care if this is about the Cheeto or Obama or my mother. Stop it with the clickbait headlines for every single headline.

    Make Jews Boring Again, the way news is supposed to be!

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    He absolutely had a stroke. His bruised hand is probably from being hooked ip to an IV and being really, really old. The side effects are confusion, trouble being coherent, and other mental problems he already had so at least those won’t be as noticeable as they would be on a regular person.

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      I’m pretty damned old and just had a cannula in my hand for a couple of days because I had surgery that required me to be knocked out. No hematoma. For him to have gotten one of those, either a nurse fucked up or he’s on blood thinners.

      And yeah, there’s some evidence he’s been having mini-strokes on and off for at least a year. Here’s hoping they get progressively worse, and he sees nothing in his future but worsening debility and helplessness, surrounded by people who despise him. May he survive long into his term, just to frustrate Vance’s ambitions. A long power struggle as his flunkies try to remove him from office while dishing the dirt on his incompetence and dementia will also be wonderfully humiliating and will make Vance seem even more like the backstabbing weasel he already is.

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        I’d rather he croaked earlier because Vance doesn’t have the same belligerence that has led to declaring war on US cities and he doesn’t have the cult following that enables it when Trump does that shit. Vance would be actively undercut by the party and it would fall back to infighting.

        If nothing else it wouldn’t be worse now and I wouldn’t have to hear about Trump as much.

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      Lol… we can never really know because he’s looked and acted like a stroke victim for years.

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        He’s probably been having them for years

        Once you have one they become more and more common, and the common they are they more likely you are to hit a serious (life ending) one.

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      hes probably on anti-clotting medication, which can cause bruising and bleeding. clots which makes you prone to strokes.

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    Denzel kept making that same face in that new Spike Lee movie, so it might be nothing.

    I say he should avoid see a doctor about it, and wait until gets much, much worse. Then ignore it for a while longer, because it will probably go away.

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    cant wait for his face to droop all over his keyboard making him RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES by accident

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    While I won’t wish Mango Mussolini a quick death, how hilarious and poetic would it be if he just had a splash of Bell’s Palsy?

    For those of you who don’t know, go look up the name of one of the viruses that causes Bell’s Palsy and join me in a sensible chuckle!

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      JFC that’s not a little bit of a droop. That’s almost definitely signs of a stroke. A guy I knew at work looked exactly the same after his stroke. Trump looked relatively normal at the u.s. open a few days ago and you’d think after a stroke he’d at least take a week or two off given his advanced age and “robust” health. Maybe it’s bell’s palsy or someone smacked him upside the head with a frying pan?

      Edit: Also this article seems a little on the nose.

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        He can’t take time off. He believes it’ll make him look “weak” and he’ll lose control of the narrative.

        And deliciously, him trying to push through and play strong man will kill him even quicker. I seriously wonder if he’s starting to question his mortality or is just completely ignorant.

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        The last time he disappeared for 4 days, everyone assumed he was dead. Now he can’t take any time off, or the rumor mill will really start spewing.

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        If it was done with a frying pan … they should have done the other side too just to even things out and not make it so noticeable.

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      Looking like how my grandpa looked shortly before he died. Granted I’ve said that before and the bastard is still here but here’s to hoping it goes through this time

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      Oof yeah thats an old man who’s unlikely to make enough of a recovery to be doing speeches for a living again. Didn’t see if it’s full body sagittal droop or just facial. Former says stroke, latter says palsy. Like neither is good for him but palsy is manageable, stroke in a 79 year old is entirely likely to be the beginning of the end.

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        Latter can also say stroke, just localized to the area of the brain that controls the facial nerve.

        My hope is that something blows out in his brainstem. If he survives it, there’s no way he’d be able to hide the effects of that.

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        You can see in the clip he checks his left hand with a lift but can’t match it with his right hand. Similarly, he conspicuously doesn’t move his right hand in his most recent recorded speech.

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        I wouldn’t consider this “not sleeping” either. It appears that he’s in some state of mental limbo.

        If this isn’t a stroke, then his doctor should probably check for zombie bite marks.

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      Nah, if he dies too soon Vance has more time to cement his power. He needs to wait like 2 years and 8 months.

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      Sadly, there is an ever-ending shit-shoot of potential other candidates to follow. They won’t have to capture his audience or be as “charismatic” as he is. As things fall apart and degrade. They will just crack down as authoritarians do. On innocent people of every stripe.

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    On Sept. 11, 2025, people assumed that the Pentagon’s memorial ceremony marking the victims of 9/11 would be a somber, typical occasion.

    Are these people unaware of who is president?