• psmgx@lemmy.world
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    actuary tables suggest trump doesn’t make it to 2029.

    honestly I’m far more afraid of the shady-ass VP who is the bagman for Peter Theil

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      actuary tables suggest trump doesn’t make it to 2029.

      Actuary tables say Dick Cheney should have died ten years ago.

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      Trump can get away with what he does because of his cult, historically cults typically fall apart after the founder dies even when there’s a planned line of succession

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      He is a vile PoS. Even when Biden announced cancer, Trump demonstrated more humanity than Vance did. Vance has no chill and no human decency.

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        Trump did no such thing. Trump’s handlers took his phone and typed a message, Trump since has been nothing but disgusting and vile

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          Whatever, the point was even Vance couldn’t do that. Started questioning Biden’s health before.

          I was not defending Trump, I was criticising how Vance limbo’d under Trump’s response…

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      But, now hear me out, about a barely-obese 52yo with a seeerious ketamine addiction?

      The line of blood donor clinics I predict he opens in order to funnel the youngest blood into his own veins and ideally stave off ageing, even that’s gonna do nothing about the impending kidney failure.

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        Ket causes bladder inflammation, leading to infection and bleeding. Kidney problems, when they occur, are secondary to that.

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        And that’s just factoring in the ketemine and obesity, now what happens when you include the rest of his drug cocktail? At least Hitler had the excuse of getting gassed on the trenches, Musk is just a druggie.

        Not shaming folks who like drugs but let’s be honest here Musk is filling his weak little ego with narcotics.

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      Tell that to Trump’s self contained severed living head in a glass container in 2070

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        More realistically… AI Trump.

        They could feed all of his bullshit into a model, and have an AI Trump spewing nonsense forever. Bet it’d even take AI golf trips.

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    I know Death doesn’t care about fame, but if you could roll in and take this mf…man. you would be a hero. Throw the hood on, grab the scythe and have some political fun!

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      I’m calling it now so I can link to it in 3 years, Musk is wanting to make a presidential run.

      like @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social said, this show has a purpose and I think Trump is planning on going even harder and now they have someone they can pass the torch off to since they’ve already vetted his ideology and love his money. Gotta distance yourself at some point so you can swing in and be the “savior”. He can lay the whole DOGE think on the current administration getting in the way and will totally be a conservative this time. The comments and rhetoric around Elon are already starting to be softer now that he’s in this feud with Trump.

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        Not that it’ll stop them from trying but the constitution does say you have to be a natural-born citizen.

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          “What is Habeas Corpus?” joking, but I guess my minds been so fractured from this administration it doesn’t even consider the constitutional protections America has.

          It does make me wonder about the presidential line of succession though. The Speaker of the house is 3rd in line, they could all get together tomorrow and vote him in.

          The Constitution does not explicitly require the speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives… permitting a non-member to serve as Speaker would effectively exempt Speakers from the eligibility requirements of the House Qualifications Clause of Article I, Section II and from being bound by an oath of office under the Oath or Affirmation Clause of Article VI as opposed to House members. (link)

          Would be fascinating to see how something like that would play out, scary, but still fascinating in a historical precedence kinda way.

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            Well honestly its not talked about enough but Ted Cruz ran for president and he was born in Canada. The fact that it was never brought up in any debate by any moderator or opponent is a little worrying.

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              He had birthright US citizenship just like McCain (born in Panama). That’s what made the whole Obama birth certificate so stupid. He would still be a US citizen at birth even if he was born outside of the US. But he’s brown and has a foreign sounding name. If he was Barry O’Bama and white, no one would have batted an eye.

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              Ted Cruise’s mother was a citizen when she gave birth to him. That makes him a naturalized citizen. Honestly, if that wasn’t true we would be ICE raiding of banning from office a ton of military children.

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                No. That makes him a US citizen at birth. A naturalized citizen is when someone who is not a US citizen acquires US citizenship.

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            Anyone in the line of succession that is disqualified to hold the office is skipped. Again according to the rules that the GOP might just ignore without consequence, but I don’t think they like Musk enough to bother.

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        He can’t be president, he wasn’t born here. They already tried that with Ahn-old, and he actually stood a chance of winning. No way anybody with enough juice will back Skum’s presidential bid.

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          If Trump every gets his way with annexing Canada, Musk’s birthright canadian citizenship could allow him to be eligible to run for president.

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          Considering how unprecedented things have been I’m not sure pointing to the past as what to expect in the future makes much sense anymore

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    Mediate scraping the bottom again. 3.5 years is how long is left until election. That this outlet is considered credible is 🤯

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    I just learned that I am older than Laura loomer. Her plastic surgery made me think she was 50.

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    So there’s this radio editorial from 1973 called “America: The Good Neighbor”, written by George Sinclair. I think a lot of what Sinclair described has been lost, unfortunately, but this line always pops into my head:

    You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at.

    I feel like this part is still true. For better or worse, as a nation even when we feel shame due to the behavior of our politicians we don’t try to hide it, pretend like it doesn’t exist. Our politics is theater and we all know it. It’s on display for everyone to see.

    You can read the whole thing here: https://thinkingagain.com/html/american_tribute.php

    It is an artifact of history, and just… keep in mind that it needs to be read and understood in the context of the time it was written. The Apollo program had just ended the year before, and US troops had just withdrawn from Vietnam. The Watergate scandal was current news and is specifically what Sinclair was referring to in the quoted line above. Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered only 5 years prior, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s was a recent memory. It had been only a decade since John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

    And there was video and live discussion of all of it just on display for everyone to see on the still quite new platform of broadcast television.

    Things haven’t changed much.