• Abyssian@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Totally a normal thing a person does when they’re trying not to scream at everyone to leave them alone because they’re trying to mourn they deceased parent because dirty soulless politicians want them to keep the death a secret for their political games.

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    27 days ago

    The only question swirling in my mind is how long they’ll Weekend at Bernie’s him before admitting the truth.

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      27 days ago

      After August 3 apparently, after then it is too late to put someone in for him until the election.

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        27 days ago

        That only works if they can keep everyone involved quiet. If he’s actually deceased, that fact is going to leak.

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          26 days ago

          Sounds like he’s brain dead which fits with “found unconscious”. They can keep him on life support for months

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            26 days ago

            That’s my guess as well. There was also reporting that said CPR was administered. When that is done on a frail elderly body, it creates many more problems than it solves.

            He started with cardiac arrest and now he’s got maybe a chest full of shrapnel as well: he’s only leaving feet first, IMO.

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          My totally unfounded theory is that he’s just hooked up to a bunch of machines to keep him “alive” and they’ll pull the plug after that.

          It really does make the most sense given the info at have so far.

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    26 days ago

    There clearly needs to a rules for circumstances like this. The people do not have a functional representative at the moment and haven’t for month. That isn’t democracy and is not what the intent is. Y’all need to organize with each other and become actively political. I don’t mean protests and marches, I mean help each other learn how the procedures of politics functions and start using them.

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      25 days ago

      Rules don’t matter any longer in America. They only matter insofar as they’re enforced, and they’re not being enforced against the powerful.

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        Yes but low level politicians aren’t bureaucratic geniuses and they don’t have the functional support of the powerful members of the GOP, yet they are required for the running of things to happen. People won’t be engaging with Turmp and Co. they will be engaging with Nancy Nobody in district 590.

        I have absolute confidence there are plenty of average people smart enough to outmaneuver these low level GOP idiots, if they put their focus there. The battleground the average person engages on isn’t national politics, it’s local politics and the goals there are absolutely achievable if people group the fuck up already. Any new movement to take on the gop has to come from the bottom up because it requires people who don’t know how to politic, to learn to do so, and those skills are developed in the small ponds.

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    He’s dead and we all know it. Instead of pretending that’s not true, they should just wrap his deboned corpse around a robot dog and send him back to work, the GOP will probably give “him” a standing ovation for his dedication.

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    25 days ago

    She’s probably also tired of seeing the celebrations of his impending death, if he isn’t dead already.

    Sorry girl. Your dad is a traitor piece of shit who may be in the top 10 list of people who have done the most harm to this country.

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    25 days ago

    Using “hospitalization” a bit loose here, huh? Booked into one of those rooms with the refrigerated human-sized drawers.