Hell, I weigh about 220 and look nothing like that fat piece of shit. I’d believe 260, minimum.
This is my concern. Yes, he is already irritable and easy to anger. But I’m afraid this will exacerbate his flaws.
Trump is clearly an excellent marketer, and while many people find him repulsive, he objectively has a lot of charisma.
You can’t trust anything out of the White House. He might very well have CVI, but I’m hoping it’s something more serious like congestive heart failure.
I’ve got some personal experience with this-- not me, but a relative. Those unsatisfactory surgeries-- once they’ve all been tried and failed, there is one left-- amputation. That’s usually reserved for patients who are in chronic pain, can’t walk, or are experiencing secondary problems such as poor blood flow to other body systems, threatening heart, kidney or liver damage-- or when someone doesn’t take care of the wounds that develop, and progresses to gangrene.
I doubt Trump is there yet, and most people don’t get there, but the PT to rehab from an amputation, even a below-the-knee one, is a full-time job.
Ditto. I’d much rather Trump be happy and comfortable if it made us (i.e. the country and the world) safer and better off.
What puzzlegal said - you don’t get a cult-like following like Trump does without having charisma, or at least what his supporters think is charisma.
Of the head? 
Shitheadtomy…
It won’t, though. This is appeasement thinking. When Trump’s in fine fettle he’s more devious and more effective.
Having him deteriorate into a twilight state, without handing the reins to a clever schemer like Vance, is the best-case scenario here. As a bonus we get to see him not only in physical pain due to his infimity, but him and his followers in psychological pain due to his diminishment.
This is an unvarnished good, no need to look the gift horse in the mouth. No point, either.
Just because Trump’s charisma doesn’t work on me or thee does not mean he does not have it. He clearly does, otherwise he would not be able to inspire such loyalty and devotion among his followers.
There’s no reason he can’t have both…
If I had a heart, it’d be breaking.
I also thought of “Venus” but my thought was to just take out the “o” and make it a “Venus insufficiency”. It implies a lack of a little something in the love department more elegantly due to minimalism than changing it all the way to “penis”.
I generally find it distastful to wish illness/death on another human being…
There are exceptions.
There is a least one obituary I will read with great pleasure.
There may be a connection. Varicose veins are a common presentation of CVI. According to an NIH study published in 2022
Results: A total of 9,601 patients with varicose veins and 38,404 matched controls were enrolled in the study. The varicose veins group had higher incidence rates than the control group for Alzheimer’s disease (12.60 vs 6.24 per 10,000 person-years; Hazard ratio, 1.647 [95% confidence interval, 1.326- 2.045, p<0.001]). Patients with complicated varicose veins had increased incidence of Alzheimer’s disease than uncomplicated cases (adjusted HR, 1.474; 95% CI, 1.034-2.101, P=0.032).
Conclusion: The present study demonstrated a positive association between the varicose veins and Alzheimer’s disease. Physicians should be alerted to cognitive function in patients with varicose veins, especially those with presence of inflammation and ulcerations.
The article doesn’t explain the connection, but damage to the blood vessels leading to the brain can cause dementia and strokes. My MD is purely imaginary, but that’s the conclusion I’ve drawn from my research.
It is, at best, a correlation not a causation.
@nelliebly , you crack me up.
I found your cited study, veeery ink-ter-estin’
[Creepy finger waving].
Is pitting edema always heart failure?
No, pitting edema is not always caused by heart failure. While heart failure is a common cause, pitting edema can also result from kidney failure, liver disease, venous insufficiency, deep vein thrombosis, certain medications, and even pregnancy. Pitting edema refers to the indentation that remains after pressure is applied to the swollen area, indicating fluid buildup in the tissues.
Look at all these other causes!
So many conditions, so little time!
I guess it would be in really bad taste to create a poll… yeah, it would… even for here…