• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    And those experts will be classified as having the bullshit thing the cons call “TDS” in a classic conservative, “no, you!” retort.

    I would note that the Soviets would classify those that didn’t agree with their regime as having a mental disorder:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union

    And so of course the cons are trying to get “TDS” classified as a real mental disorder, since having a leader under the sway of the Russians is not enough, we need to copy the worst tactics of their past. Of course the mouth-breathing idiots that are the marks for this level of disinformation eat that up - anyone that points out what an idiot and a criminal that Donvict is must have “TDS”; that’s just science.

    https://www.newsweek.com/minnesota-senate-republicans-trump-derangement-syndrome-mental-illness-2045600

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    Repubs will get rid of him but the plan was, and so far apparently still is, to wait until after January next year, after the midterms and so that Vance will take over with less than half the term remaining, allowing him to run twice more. Their hope was that keeping him around until the midterms would help them hold the majority in both Houses of Congress, more than Vance would be able to. But by now, some of them are regretting that, since he’s going off the deep end further and faster than they expected. They might lose both Houses anyway and now he’s started this catastrophic war. I’m sure some of them are arguing for getting rid of him sooner than planned at this point.

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    The letter, entered by Senators Whitehouse and Reed of Rhode Island on April 30, represents an unusually direct intervention by medical experts spanning conservative and liberal ideologies, multiple religions, and diverse backgrounds. The press release announcing this action was published Tuesday night (May 5).

    It’s rare to read that in published form. A potential problem is that it may be useful to someone near Trump for him to remain there. Perhaps Vance, perhaps Vought, perhaps someone else, or a group of them. I don’t believe Trump is making these continually bad and harmful decisions on his own. “The power behind the throne.

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        Isn’t it interesting we don’t read much about him in the news? Author of a section of Project 2025, and director of the US Office of Management and Budget. “Follow the money”?

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      Vance wants him to stay in through next year. He wants to be the longest serving president since Roosevelt.

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        I’m sure Theil also supports that plan. He wants his puppet to have maximum power for as long as possible.

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        Yeah. If vance can get trump over Day 713 then he has 10 years to dismantle voting and term limits.

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    This is as useful and effective as:

    “Dozens of security experts testify that Windows 11 with Copilot is spyware and must not be used.”

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    Idk what I’m supposed to do with the advice of dozens of mental health experts. Anyone with the ego to run for President of the United States is arguably mentally unstable to begin with. Trump’s always been a degenerate little freak. And now he’s a senile degenerate freak.

    But he’s hardly the first President in US history to suffer from Old Person Brain and get shepherded around by a gaggle of scheming viziers while the country crumbles around them. What is anyone going to do about it? The Senate is packed with people exactly as senile and corrupt and petty as Trump. And nothing in the next election cycle seems like it will change that.

    Hell, Democrats were working kinda-sorta hard to put an 80-year-old woman into Susan Collin’s Senate seat barely more than a week ago. In NC, they’re running Roy Cooper at 68 years young. Meanwhile, 73 year old Sherrod Brown is looking to reclaim his Ohio seat for another six years. These are the Fresh New Faces we’re supposed to rally behind to defeat the Trump Gerontocracy?