He's clearly suffering from dementia. Too old to drive, too old to govern. That's what meemaw always said.
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Has he ever actually been on the rails?
Probably depends on what kind of "rails" we're talking about.
He claimed Los Angeles limits residents to just 38 gallons of water a day, and referred to some mythical "valve" that could bring limitless water to L.A., but that officials instead diverted to the ocean.
"They have a valve, think of a sink but multiply it by many thousands of times the size of it, it's massive. And you turn it back toward Los Angeles. Why aren't they doing it? They either have a death wish, they're stupid or there's something else going on that we don't understand," Trump said.
or there's something else going on that ~~we~~ I don't understand," Trump said.
He was so close to realization.
I don't know if I can handle 4 more years of this.
If it's of any comfort I'm predicting he'll die within the next 4 years. But I'm also predicting it'll only get worse with his death so maybe there's not much comfort to be had.
If he died of old age tomorrow, his followers would probably think it was a deep state assassination. There would be no convincing these nutjobs that an old, unhealthy person like Trump could die.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Vance will be even worse for the country.
We will all endure.
No. Many people are going to die. I will not have that be erased.
It sucks but sometimes it's a pleasant change of circumstances to see the USA fucking itself, first. We've been dying for decades.
I know three people leaving the country.
Block social media that centers on him or politics. Find like minded people. Do things you love.
Burying your head in the sand while the country burns is not the answer.
And what should we do instead that you're doing right now? I personally feel powerless in all of this.
Unfortunately, I don't have the right answer. I can still recognize the wrong one though.
That feeling of powerlessness over everything is what they want. It eventually leads to something called learned helplessness, where we no longer even try to change things.
Look mate, I don't even live in the States and I need to keep my sanity. I did what I could when I felt like I could do it and Americans picked Trump, so I'm doing what I gotta do to survive. Is it selfish? Yeah, it is a little bit, but that's the truth.
As an American, I'm sorry.
But killing yourself slowly with the ratcheting insanity helps how..?
Just turn the giant valve?! Why didn't I think of that!
Just use the weather control machine and make it rain duh! /$
They either have a death wish, they're stupid or there's something else
You know what they say. Everything that comes out of their mouths is either a confession or projection!
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President Musk*
It's disrespectful to refer to him by his subordinates.
Seriously, everyone who speaks to him should just ask about president musk. Trump will fucking stroke out.
It's fucking wild how closely this skews with Revelation. The Beast and the Antichrist were two different people. The Beast distracted while the Antichrist ruled.
this is America.
a zombie state that doesn't realize it's already dead.
and nobody is willing to do what must be done to stop it.
Trump said something incredibly stupid? Wow, that is news!
Can’t go off the rails if you’ve never had rails
He's done a lot of rails at least
This follows on from previous posts https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-misinformation-about-the-los-angeles-wildfires-and-california-water-policy
Trump, in a Jan. 8 Truth Social post, blamed Newsom’s management for the water issues, and said Newsom had refused to allow “beautiful, clean, fresh water to flow into California.”
“Governor Gavin (Newsom) refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,” Trump said. “He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!), but didn’t care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid.”
Trump’s posts seemed to blame the water constraints on statewide water management plans that capture rain and snow as it flows from Northern California. But experts said those plans would not have affected the fire response.
Southern California has plenty of water stored, said Mark Gold, the water scarcity solutions director at the Natural Resources Defense Council and a Southern California Metropolitan Water District board member.
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