Open Thread

Has Trump had a stroke? It seems likely. 2 days ago, Will M., Felix B. and Matt Christman were talking about a Trump appearance on Chapo Trap House and noted it appeared he’d had at least a “small” stroke. (I wonder how small the normal 79 year old’s strokes would be.)

Matt Christman was first to coin the term CHUDs for the Trump toadies, then popularized its use. CHUD= “Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers”, from a satiric horror film. Unlike Hillary’s “Deplorables”, just flat class bigotry, CHUD at least carries clever disrespect. Christman himself had a stroke a couple of years ago and has mostly recovered, was off the show for at least a year and a half. (His wife had a baby about the time he had the stroke, so that household went thru a lot.)

See the picture here, the first of 3, which Diff Clue posted on the Charlie Kirk thread–
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-says-he-couldn-t-care-less-about-unifying-the-country-after-charlie-kirk-s-death/ar-AA1MrsBh?ocid=BingNewsSerp

The first pic in particular, right side of his mouth has collapsed and is sagging, eyes barely open and functional. Not a good look!! If this is so and he is permanently disabled, I can’t see Melania taking over as Mrs. Woodrow Wilson did at the end of his term, so I guess we’d get Mr. J.D. Vance.

Vance is despicable, “I don’t give a shit” about War Crimes (bombing an accused small “drug boat” with 11 people in it, no drugs visible, 1,000s of miles from USA with no refueling stations within 100s of miles.)

Vance’s wife is East Indian. Might the vicious color-based ICE racism be ramped down a bit? I wouldn’t predict it but it’s not impossible. The bigger question is with the charismatic strongman gone, largely discredited with the release of his 50th birthday card to Jeffrey E. in 2003 showing an early pubescent girls body and talking about the pleasure “enigma” can give us (an anagram for gamine, a young girl), can the likes of Vance move into the Strongman’s big shoes. Methinks not.

There will still be a MAGA movement, but it will become even more incoherent and shambolic than it already is (see mago’s comment on the same Kirk thread about the whole US culture becoming shambolic). Barron will be too young to run for Pres. in 2028 in any case.

Late Imperial Rot has hit the fish’s head . . . it only travels downward from there.