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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 169 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I don't wish death to anybody but, if he croaks of dementia before November it would be pretty funny.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 75 points 5 months ago

Moms Mabely practically wrote his epitaph: “They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good.”

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 72 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't wish death to anybody but, my lawyer advised me to end the comment here.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago

"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

-Clarence Darrow

[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 28 points 5 months ago (4 children)

My only concern is that they'd decide he's a martyr and claim the deep state killed him.....

Seriously, is there no way out of this bs?

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I try to look at it like this: before 2016, I thought this level of hatred, bigotry and cruelty was an outlier in the right. That most of them just wanted tax cuts and weren't hood wearing racists. I've since learned that the "outliers" are the party and the "moderates" are the actual outliers.

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them." Maya Angelou.

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You are white I take it? This was obvious to me (as a mixed race but not white passing person, with a very foreign sounding name) since before the GW years.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Like many other suburban white folk, I had an all too naive view on racial issues. While I didn't think all racist issues had been solved, I didn't realize how bad things actually were.

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

I appreciate your honesty here. I keenly remember the post 9/11 rhetoric being the big driver for my immigrant father to stop voting republican, unfortunately for many it takes something really hitting home in order to recognize what was there all along.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I'm in the same boat. The last straw for me was Covid.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

No. It doesnt matter when or how he dies its going to be thought to have been the deep state. I mean some of these people believee JFK and JFK Jr are still alive and will come back to rally for Trump.

We are doomed

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Stupid people gonna stupid, unfortunately.

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

A bolt of lightning striking him in front of a church with many cameras present

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If he croaks first of all Id be partying but I'd also think this make the election even more of a crap shoot as many light conservatives will go with the Republican candidate instead of Biden or abstaining, not to mention Bidens campaign centers how bad Trump is, if hes gone there goes the effect of millions of campaign dollars.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Too good for him, instead we watch him getting increasingly unhinged while his empire crumbles, and while he loses elections and the felonies pile up.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If he dies of natural causes before the election, no one that supports him, which is roughly half the country by the way, will believe it, and domestic violence will dramatically increase as well paranoid conspiracy theories.

I frankly hope he stays alive and is somehow, miraculously beaten by a significant margin.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If he's dead he can't provoke a civil war.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Oh sweet summer child.

Hugo Chávez once said "I'm more dangerous dead than alive" and he was right. Look at the chaos in Venezuela right now.

We can go further back in time: Christianity.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

He's already laid the groundwork. Get a few talking heads "just asking questions" and violence will happen.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The first president with full blown dementia

[–] Bdtrngl@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

Reagan would like a word.

[–] Distant_Foreground@lemm.ee -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, they both seem quite senile and spout a load of confused nonsense.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

"Speaks their language"

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Sooner, please.