“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”
― Mark Twain
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Mark Twain was a gold mine of using wordplay to say politicians are full of shit.
I also love "Imagine you are a congressman. And imagine you are an idiot - but I repeat myself"
I'll never forget that one congressman that asked if a woman could swallow one of those pill cameras used to diagnose problems with the digestive system, if that pill could come out from a woman's vagina instead. I think that's the dumbest shit I ever heard a US congressman say.
Politicians are a lot like Kristi Noem's dog.
"Slowly" lol
Very slowly, it started on his birth
Will there even be consequences?
No?
Well then. So what?
Hey I know dementia isn't a voluntary condition but I can't help but believe it is karmic that the orange his showing signs of it
he was a pedo way before dementia, the only injustice is how little he suffered in life
Did he ever really have it, though?
LoL you have TDS!
-Someone who's been to 50+ Trump Rallies!
Sleepy donald
This is the classic Krasnov 4D chess maneuver, that is far beyond our mere mortal consciousness, right?!
the confusion sets in
Mad cow!
There should be a mandatory retirement age of 70 for all 3 branches.
Turning 70 before your potential 4 yr term would be up? Then you cannot run. Same for the senate. We would know ahead of time which Presidential term would be replacing SCOTUS, unless that justice chose to retire early.
Make it the median life expectancy, rather than a fixed, 70 years.
For the court, leave it at a life term, but remove the size constraint. At the end of the first and third year of every presidential term, add one new justice. This moves the appointment process to a fixed time, so there are no surprises.
When a justice dies or retires, their seat is removed, not filled. This ensures that an untimely death swings only one seat, not two.
Since there is no longer an incentive for strategic retirement, the size of the court will increase, probably to around 13 justices. Presidents will want the absolute youngest justices they can get through the Senate.
The larger size means that whatever swing the court does have from deaths or retirements will be smaller and less impactful than it is now.
Finally, any circuit court justice has already faced senate confirmation hearings for their current appointment. Any circuit court judge should be eligible to be elevated to the supreme court without an additional senate confirmation. If the Senate wants to play games and reject all of the president's candidates, the president has a small pool of candidates that can bypass the additional confirmation process
Struck down immediately by a senile supreme Court.
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"Losing it" ? The guy never had it! His speeches have been word salad and lies for at least 10 years.
"Clean coal" "its my favorit food" - donald trump (defenetly not cut together)
Ah yes, the monthly "Trump is senile" post. Been going since 2016.
Should we meet back here in another ten years when he's on his fourth term without consequence or care from anyone in power?
It reminds me of all of the “Fidel Castro is secretly close to death” news articles that showed up in the 80s and 90s. I suppose the predictions were eventually correct — but I’m not sure that predicting “sucks is gonna die” 30+ years out from his actual death was particularly useful.
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Man he's had signs of dementia for a long while now. What makes these signs any more impactful than previous ones?
I saw a clip of Trump speaking in 2020 this morning as I did my daily video catch-up over coffee, and it really struck me how much sicker he looks now compared to just 5 years ago, where he already looked like a wet mop on a clothing line.
I know the Presidency ages you, but that's regular presidents who work. Something else is aging this guy this quickly.
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