Posted on 11/11/2024 10:25:36 AM PST by DallasBiff
I’m surprised by the ease with which I’m taking this. I was far more worried in ’16, but Trump will have far fewer constraints on his worst impulses this time around, and is poised to bring on average a much worse group of people to his admin than during his first term. The main reason this doesn’t seem nearly as dire a prospect is that Trump himself has declined so noticeably in vitality, and so rapidly that he may well already lack the energy to really yeltsin things up. We might even be lucky enough to have this be an abbreviated term, with him stepping down at the two-year mark to focus his last years on hedonism.
The effect of burnout and normalization can’t be neglected, neither. As creatures of flesh, there’s only so much we can chemically expend on panic before we burn out. This may well be a much worse term than the first. For as old as DJT is, he’s still only a year younger than Ayatollah Khomeini was before his own assumption of supreme leadership. The Imam was hardly the picture of health in his dotage, and his chaos machine tragically spins on almost half a century later.1 It’s best to not underestimate the damage an unchecked elderly man with unlimited power and an unquenchable sense of grievance can inflict. But our feelings don’t care about our facts. Their chemicals have already expended themselves upon us for as long as we have invested ourselves in this shameful drama. For our youngest voters, such has been nearly half their lives.
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What? I’m ypunger than President Trump, and I couldn’t keep up with all his events!
Lack of energy? He was doing three or four rallies every day in as many states leading up to the election. I think he’ll have plenty of energy to make this idiot writer’s worst fears come true.
I think it been very instructive watching just how wide spread untreated mental illness is in the USA.
This author is so far from any contact with reality he is tripped overing into being psychotic.
Posts like this, obviously written for entertainment and placement in the Babylon Bee, are why I so love reviewing the news every morning, especially since last Wednesday.
Trump’s name will live on for decades; this guy, unknown in his hometown when he started off, is and will continue to be unknown all over the world.
I find it ironic that the people who put the full weight and force of the government now worry about the ‘State of our Union’ as if Mussolini himself is coming to town.
Perhaps there was a sliver of truth to some of the prosecutions brought against Trump. Perhaps.
But there was certainly more than a sliver of Evidence against Hillary Clinton and her servers, Biden and his influence peddling, Pelosi and her gift for making great stock market predictions, and didn’t Obama kill Americans with a missile without due process?
No time for prosecuting these cases? There was only time to nabb Trump on technicalities. OK. Got it.
This directed ‘justice’ only against Trump disqualifies the lot of the DOJ as partisan hacks. They can’t be gone soon enough.
...so he’s not Hitler anymore, he’s Khomeini? Hard to keep up
Leftist nuts are irrelevant. Waste of time. Republicans should be looking to gain seats in 2 years and continue to register voters and vet potential candidates.
No one is paying attention to the left until 2026. Majority of this country knows they are insane and inept. We need to keep them irrelevant. Nonexistent. Never a thought or link to their insanity.
Cancel or Dox? Whatever the woke call it. Erased.
Kamala was the one dragging. She started looking tired months ago and was not doing 1/8 the work Trump was doing out there.
On 11/6, around 2:30am, I did think Trump sounded a bit weary. So was I, and I’m less than half his age, and did nothing that whole day except vote and freep.
“What “sliver of truth to some of the prosecutions brought against Trump.”
Has fentanyl seeped into your household ?!
I’m trying to be gracious. My overall point is the Dems are obviously corrupt and nothing happened to them.
ok, where does charitably trying to be gracious lead to dishonest ‘sliver of truth’ ?
Fair enough. You win. We can both agree Trump was screwed by law-fare.
I bet Trump can go after Latisha James for election interference which is a federal crime. She campaigned on getting Trump. Why not return the favor and make her life miserable for a few years fighting the charge.
Wasn’t trying to win,
just to clarify/ that statement.
Wasn’t trying to win,
just to clarify/illuminate that statement.
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