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[–] donuts@kbin.social 112 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully he's dead (from natural causes) or in jail (from natural consequences).

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hopefully he's dead (from natural consequences).

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hopefully he's undead. From supernatural consequences.

If ever there was a lich in the making...

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[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hope so but the absolute shit show when he does is going to be insane. The conspiracy theories will be like nothing ever imagined. It's going to be nuts. I'd look forward to it but I could see it getting violent.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

No, trust me, bro, Trump isn't dead, he just had to go undercover, like Nick Fury

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, I'm surprised he's still alive giving his absolute contempt for everything remotely healthy.

[–] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hate is keeping him alive

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like a Sith lord's ghost inhabiting a bloated, greasy corpse

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His supporters will cryogenically preserve his body so he can keep perpetually lose every 4years.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Xariphon@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Bjorn the Fell-Handed might still be more coherent though.

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[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

if he wins in 2024, he’ll run in 2028, and 2032, etc. He’ll win those with 99% of the vote, just like his buddy Putin.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

He won't run. He'll waddle.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Well, thankfully I feel like he's statistically unlikely to all that much longer.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He will keep the campaign going for as long as he lives to keep reaping in the donations.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. The man hasn't stopped campaigning since he rode down that escalator in 2016. A month after his inauguration in 2017 he kicked off his 2020 re-election campaign so the donations could keep coming.

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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

If he's not dead of course he would, he's a malignant narcissist that we're going to be dealing with until he croaks.

[–] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Lose? Nah. If he doesn't win the election, we'll get Insurrection 2.0. Then he's either imprisoned, dead, or we get to live in a dictatorship.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hopefully he’s died of a massive burger induced heart problem

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if both Trump and Biden die of natural causes in September/October, throwing the November election into chaos as no one has anyone to vote for anymore.

It's just the sort of chaos this timeline seems to crave.

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[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He seems like he's deteriorating rapidly, would be surprised if he made it to 2028. I expect if he loses in 2024 he won't run again but will keep conning his followers for money and repeating the stale line that he never lost even when he did.

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[–] Upsidedownturtle@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd bet if he loses in '24 his health will start declining quickly and will use health related reasons as a means to avoid punishment for crimes committed.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it’s likely the same will happen if he wins.

Dementia doesn't just go away.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Remember: narcissists are psychologically incapable of imagining themselves no longer existing. He thinks he'll live forever because he literally can't conceive of any other possibility.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope he will be running from a psycho with a shank at ADX Florence in 2028. There’s a decent chance he will be dead in 2028 though. He’s not exactly the picture of fitness and good health. He’s an old, fat pig who lives on junk food.

More seriously, he has zero chance in 2028 if he loses in 2024, which is almost certainly what will happen. He’s been decisively rejected by voters once already. I find it hard to believe he has won over any new voters with his behavior since the last election.

Or maybe the government will step up and treat him like the terrorist that he is. If it was anyone else, they’d be waterboarding him with Diet Coke at Guantanamo right now. I mean, he’s openly calling for states to send the National Guard to Texas to fight the federal government. This fucker is on trial for insurrection and he’s out trying to incite another insurrection. Holy shit.

He’s had his deranged followers make threats against judges, prosecutors, federal agents, etc. He’s threatened his opponent in the primaries with a federal investigation if she doesn’t drop out of the race. He’s threatened her donors.

This dude is straight up nuts. I think it’s a legitimate question whether he’s eventually detained for the safety of the public pending his trials. At what point do the feds have an obligation to protect the country from this lunatic?

Forget about him and 2028. He might not even make it through 2024.

[–] Heir_Of_Isildur@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weeds don't die. I wouldn't be surprised if the fat fuck chokes on a burger tomorrow... But i also wouldn't be surprised if he lives another 20 years

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He’ll be dead by 2028. Hopefully in a supermax and suffering up until his last moment.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago

Don't get my hopes up

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Trump appears to be suffering from a serious cognitive decline since he was last president. He was never the sharpest spoon in the drawer, but it's bad now. If he's still alive in five years, I don't think he'll be capable of doing anything other than drooling on himself.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That sort of does not answer the question, seeing some US senators in the news that are barely pushed around.

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[–] ctkatz@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

I don't think he'd survive that long. and if he did, that syphilitic brain of his would prevent him from even being viable to everyone but the ones who have trump flavoraid for blood.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. He's that stupid.

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

He'll probably be dead by then, but the Republican Party will come up with another candidate who's even worse.
My guess is Jacob Chansley.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Wishful thinking but the elites don't mingle with the prolies, even if they are loyal idiots. I agree with Trump hopefully being dead by then. My guess is another DeSantis campaign but with some weird Trump martyrdom elements tbh. The cumulative conservative seething that 4 more years of Biden coupled with the death of their God Emperor will produce will rally them more than we've ever seen, I believe

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[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trump is cursed to live until he Makes America Great Again. He will run election after election, with unnatural longevity, but once he gets back in office he only has one term left to find the error of his ways, discover Wisdom in Friendship, and bring moral-philosophy-flavour-of-the-month to the troubled but inherently glorious institution of American politics, or the curse will be fulfilled and he will spend eternity haunting golf clubs and expensive hotels not quite dead but never quite alive.

...

Tune in later to part II, where, in a world taken over by the all-powerful EU, Donald's seventh descendent learns of the calamity of his forefather and sets out to rediscover the truth about America and set her people free from the tyranny of socialised healthcare. Coming soon: "The Seventh Trump"


Followed shortly after with direct-to-TV prequels "Seals and Fur Hats: the Decline of True America"; and sequels, "Bowling with the Ghosts of Presidents Past, Present and Future."

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[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago

He will be dead but I would expect him to try a run.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not really, but I don't think it much matters.

If Trump hit upon a political strategy that is effective, then someone else will presumably use it, absent a change in the political environment.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is it a requirement these days to be a super old white man to be president of the united states?

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[–] Rylyshar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Hard to run from jail (please)

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably and Republicans will be too stupid to go with anyone else, hopefully he's on his deathbed by then (if not gone sooner). At least Democrats will have to run somebody else, though not sure who in the current Democrat party would rise to the top. Hillary might make another go at it, but I could see Newsom or Warren going after it as well, but nobody really strong comes to mind.

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Hillary might make another go at it

This is both terrifying and entirely plausible.

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