Trump’s aging is getting harder to ignore. The Epstein situation has brought out a lot of people who are questioning what’s going on with him. He’s not all there. Over the past few weeks, we have seen pictures of him where he appears old and ill far more than Joe Biden ever did. Joe is still a positive picture and tRump … isn’t. We’ve seen the brace on Agent Orange’s leg. We’ve seen the possibility of a catheter. And we’ve seen bruising on his hand, imperfectly covered with makeup.
Epstein just brought it out. He’s doing poorly at hiding the Epstein files. He’s made us certain that he’s in them. But Speaker Johnson adjourned early to stave off a vote on the files. That was pretty blatantly obvious. Was he trying to save tRump or himself? You can find this here.
However, this omits the fact that a small but growing number of Republicans have been in the vanguard of the push to release everything the administration knows about the child-sex trafficker. The vote that Johnson canceled Tuesday was on a bipartisan measure. “Americans were promised justice,” said rightwing Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a social media post, according to reporting by the HuffPost’s Jen Bendery. “Our binding bipartisan legislation to release the complete Epstein files now has 20 sponsors.”
They might actually be able to force the bill through. When *Republicans*, Trumpolini’s party, start pushing, that’s a bad sign. However, what are the chances it will actually work? That’s a big question. It might, simply because of the shock value. I hope it works, but I won’t be holding my breath.
We should not doubt that the MAGA faithful are willing to blame former President Obama for the intelligence report that concluded that the Russians influenced the 2016 election without changing any votes. But we should consider doubting whether the MAGA faithful are willing to continue giving Trump a never-ending supply of benefit-of-the-doubt.
We are beginning to see MAGA fracturing. Some are still slavish dogs, but others are not. It shows. In the words of MTG, “dangling bits of red meat.” In a manner of speaking, that applies to us, except that red meat has rotted. Trump is in trouble with a good part of his base. We saw it all along.
Perhaps the real story is how Trump purified the GOP of “Republicans in name only” but now that he has, as president again, reneged on a campaign promise to bring a perceived cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles to justice, he’s getting a dose of his very own medicine. Moreover, he’s old, in poor health. With the tax bill signed into law, the GOP may not have more use for him. With new reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the exposure to his right flank has just gotten worse.
It seems that MAGA is splitting, and it seems Congress is splitting. This would be bad even if it were in his first term, when he was speaking coherently, when he was thinking coherently. Now? It may bring him down. This is getting to be quite a ride. What will tomorrow bring? There is this and more at the above link.
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Just do the world a favor and DROP DEAD! The day he leaves a child will be saved. Try bullshitting Death fatman…even faux news can’t stop time.
D☭Иald TЯUM₽ continues to have TIAs (mini-strokes) that he isn’t even aware of. He rarely visits doctors. Like everyone else on earth, he distrusts doctors. His dementia slowly but steadily increases. His liver is failing from taking maximum daily doses of Rovustatin to lower his cholesterol since 2019. His gastrointestinal system has been limping along for decades. His heart & circulatory system are slowly failing. It’s just a matter of time to see which organ fails first, followed by eventual multiple organ failure. By the end of 2025, expect the first of many hospitalizations.
In his first term, he used to read just the title of bills he signed. Later he would ask what the bill was about without reading. These days he doesn’t even ask – just signs whatever someone puts in front of him. At some point in 2026, he won’t be able to even to be rolled out on display by the administration to pretend he is functional human. Vance is chomping at the bit for the day when the 25th Amendment is invoked so he may rule Americans as their next Dictator. This sh*t show won’t end until all the GOP-Nazis are removed from power or voted out along with their bribe-takers inserted & in control of SCOTUS. Even after that, it will take DECADES of no GOP-Nazis in power before America resembles what it had been as a Democracy functioning for We The People, as the Founding Fathers envisioned, instead of controlled by GOP-Nazi traitors who put person over party over country and consider all humans of no value unless they are working slaves to support the rich and powerful.
He’s likely wearing compression stockings that are covered by an adjustable Velcro’d sleeve to keep the stockings in place. Size outlined in the pants looks like them and are about the right height.