• katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    if i had a nickel for every time conservatives propped up a dementia riddled alzheimers patient in order to cling to power despite not being popular i’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s fuckin depressing it happened twice

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      4 days ago

      Reagan wasn’t nearly so damned obvious. Trump is a fucking train wreck. If any of us had a relative talking like him we would have been planning on a nursing home 3 or 4 years ago. At this point he can barely speak at all.

      Just a couple of days ago, right here. He’s rambling and making shit up and has no clue he’s doing so.

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      3 days ago

      That’s just if you’re talking about the presidency. Mitch McConnell still holds his office in the senate today, years after publicly freezing in confusion multiple times.