Jeez. Metastasize already.
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The best time for a major cardiovascular event was 30 years ago. The second best time is today. 👍
An aneurysm would also be good.
Won't anyone save us from this meddling priest!?
A stroke. Leave him in a semi-vegetative state but keep his mind as aware as possible. I want him to live a long life after that, in the worst possible misery: that of being a prisoner of your own body. I want him aware when the world celebrates that he's become a bedridden monster that nobody wants near and everyone fights to keep away because he's not relevant anymore.
"Your ears you keep, so that every shriek of every child shall be yours to cherish—every babe that weeps in fear at your approach, every woman that cries 'Dear God, what is that thing?' will reverberate forever with your perfect ears."
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What about ALS? Hard to believe that I'd wish that nightmare of a disease on someone, yet here we are...
I dunno, spinal osteosarcoma or pancreatic cancer would be fine too.
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God that would turn me on so much. Him in a vegetative state where he was still watch TV and see just how much the world celebrates his decline. Watching as people crowd the streets cheering, dancing, chanting and shouting in celebration and he just gets to lay there and watch. Even Fox News is broadcasting it, calling it a disgusting act by the left but he still has to lay there and watch it unfold.
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All he can do is lay there and watch tv. The kind nurse turns on MS.NOW so he can watch it all day. Every day.
"Look at me Hector!"
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Trump reduced the time you have to wait between annual exams by 600%.
"I'm so good at annual exams that they actually want me to do them more than once a year. They say I'm the best annual exam taker and they always learn something interesting when they do the tests with the things" - Trump probably
I hate how plausible this sounds.
Trump undergoes a series of medical treatments designed to cheat death for another 7 months.
First his chiropractors perform a slight spinal adjustment. Then a team of doctors administer eyedrops, painkillers and a vocal chord scraping. The whole ordeal leaves Trump twisted and disoriented.
TIL DT is Mr. Burns
It's an alien, kill it, kill it!
Stop, it's not an alien, it's DT
Aww, it's DT... KILL IT!! KILL IT!!
I bring you ~~love~~ hate
why defak is chiropractic being included in a phrase about medical treatments?
This is a simpsons reference.
They thought there was an alien in the forest. Turns out it was Mr. Burns who did his medical treatments (quoted above) and he would be high as a kite wondering through the forest at night and the glow is from working at the nuclear plant for so long.
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I weigh 220 and I'm 5'9" and I'm not nearly as massive as that fucker.
Hes got to be 320 at best.
Yeah...... Him claiming to be 6'3 and 215lb is hilariously insecure. That would make him roughly 30 pounds heavier and an inch taller than Justin Trudeau.
I'm 6'1" and 250 lbs and in way better shape than him. It is physically impossible for someone with a body like him to weigh 215 and be 6'3", he's either lying about his height, his weight, or both (it's definitely both). I'd guess he's probably like 5'8" and 300 lbs.
He's still a pretty big dude compared to the average person. You can take a look at pictures of him next to Trudeau, and he only looks a couple inches shorter than him. I'd say he's prob around 6ft with some help from his lifted shoes, but he's definitely pushing 300lbs.
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He wears shoes that add 3 inches to his height. It’s why he’s alway hunched forward. (They’re basically concealed platform heels.)
Just saying…. He’s even shorter than we guess.
I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation, specializing in orthotics and prosthetics. I often have to build lifts into shoes to accommodate people with limb length discrepancies. He definitely wears lifted shoes, but the most you can really hide without making it very noticeable is about an inch, maybe an inch and a half.
With the type of dress shoe he wears and with his age, there's no way he'd be able to manage a 3" heel lift. If I were to guess, he's prob got a 3/4 to a 1" lift in his shoes. Which would be more than enough to create an anterior pelvic tilt.
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That's hilarious
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I am 6’4” @ 190lbs, I’ve never believed for one fucking second that he was only 30lbs heavier and an inch shorter than I am.
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Lies and more lies
Only three weeks after his “unscheduled ‘dentist’ visit”.
In January, Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he'd tried using compression socks to help treat the issue [his cankles] but stopped because he "didn't like them."
Trump has made some unusual medical choices in the past. Most notable is his use of aspirin. Trump takes 325 milligrams of aspirin every day, according to the Daily Beast. That's four times the doctor-recommended dosage.
When asked why, Trump said it was because aspirin was “good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart."
If they find something iffy what's actually going to happen though ? I assume it must be something like his heart etc that he would have an interest on maintaining. if it's his brain that's going, I doubt he would want to admit that and go back for further checks.
I’d bet they actually aren’t telling him everything that’s wrong. My MIL has vascular dementia and I’m fairly certain they don’t completely explain everything that’s amiss. My FIL knows but I don’t think she does.
I’d imagine it’s similar with Trump’s staff, handlers, family members, whoever is in control of such things.
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"Testosterone levels this high are usually only seen amongst rapists," Dr Oz continued.
Shall we place bets on when he will no longer be in office, for any cause - illness, death, expulsion, whatever.
My prediction is gone at least by the end of March 2027, maybe Feb. I think in the case of expulsion (or forced 'resignation') --which requires the repubs to choose since dems don't have enough power, that would be the date they would wait for. After the midterms and swearing in of the new congress. It can't be earlier than that if they (Thiel, etc) want Vance to qualify for 2 more full terms after this partial one.
If forced out by health reasons it's a lot harder to predict. Usually with these types the sheer evil force is enough to keep the heart pumping longer than the average mortal, even if the brain withers away. But like everyone else here, I check the headlines with fingers crossed each morning.
If Democrats win control of the House, then it will happen earlier, because once the VP becomes President, the VP position becomes vacant, and can only be filled if both houses of Congress approve. And Democrats would likely use the "McConnell doctrine" to sit on any appointment made by President Vance and not act on it.
That would effectively give Democrats an extra half vote in the Senate, because there would be no VP to break ties. And the next Democratic House Speaker would be next in line if, somehow, President Vance also leaves office.
So, once the returns are in (with good news for Democrats), if the plan was to shove Trump to the side it will happen before the new House takes over, while Republicans can still pick a new VP.
Ooh, interesting angle. Though I'm not confident Dems would muster up enough spine to do that (or that some wouldn't break away and vote with repubs), but yeah, repubs probably wouldn't want to take that chance.
No, they definitely would sit on the appointment if it's someone dumb.
They might take what they think is the "middle ground" and let a "compromise candidate" through. But I hope they remember that Merrick Garland was the "compromise candidate", and Mitch and Lindsey still shit all over that pick.
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Excited for 10,000 posts by online EMTs ready to announce how many more days Trump has left to live
I read the headline as "routine anal medical examination" at first.
Well, he's a giant ass, so you're not wrong
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