Why couldn't this be Don instead.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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Only the good die young.
82 is young?
Well he was a genocide supporter.
Good point. I guess that is pretty young for a genocide supporter.
/s
He wasn't that good lol
Trump wouldn't ever release that information publicly and even has a personal doctor insist that he's the healthiest person ever despite being almost 80, only eating fast food, never exercising, and a well known stimulant addiction.
Trump could be on deaths door and we'd never know.
If he does die of natural causes in office though you know the reds will claim the "libs" did it.
If trump knew he was going to die he'd probably claim that he was poisoned by the democrats to at least see some more violence committed for him.
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I'm convinced at this point that Trump will live forever in a cyborg body just to spite me
The man had one foot in the grave his whole presidency.
And yet we keep electing old people
The parties do, not the people.
The people just voted for the old racist guy instead of the younger woman.
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The people kept electing the parties, so they must be okay with it or else they wouldn’t.
The two party system is so entrenched that voting 3rd party is a vote for the other guy that is bad. You wouldn't want to vote for the bad guy, so vote for our good guy instead of throwing away your vote on the 3rd party.
It is possible for a third party to arise in FPTP elections, but it's certainly not common or easy. The UK has a bunch; NZ had a couple before moving to MMP; I think Australia has some.
It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.
AOC might pull it off.
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“Israeli attacks forced the European Hospital, the last hospital in Gaza for cancer treatment, to cease operations, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.”
Has Trump already tweeted something disrespectful about this?
The first-person statement (Melania and I) I saw was surprisingly typical of what you'd expect of someone in Washington.
I give it 48 hours before we see something from him and not one of his handlers pretending to be him.
Cancer has the right to protect itself
Bruh. You made me chuckle one of the most unethical chuckles of my life. God damn your sense of humor
Not the kind of "aggressive pro-state" we needed, but the "pro-state" we deserved.
Fuck, that's as dark as it is clever
Well, I hope the doctors have a very sterm and frank phone call with the ~~invader~~ cancer.
Call Schumer. He's always got a weak message of strength in the chamber. He'll show that cancer who's boss (it's cancer).
It'll be great it this took away attention from that stupid parade.
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