I do, but it’s just a manner of speaking (see motto next to user name)
In a way though, that is the cruellest fate Trump could… well, suffer is the wrong word here. Earn, I suppose? It has to be terrifying to Trump to think that once he is gone, he is just gone. Eventually people will stop talking about him and he’ll be reduced to a punchline in history textbooks. There will come a point where nothing he ever did will matter. All his bluster, all his tough talk, all his insane plots. All just nothing in the end. I’d like to think that day will come sooner rather than later.
My name is trump, king of kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
I fear that his biggest legacy will be people using this all caps phrase to make fun of him.
Years from now, even after Shelley, Shakespeare, Wilde, and other famous wits have been forgotten, the least presidential president will be remembered by his stupid words.
I wish someone could get it through his thick skull that he will be reviled and mocked in perpetuity. We may not get the pleasure of spitting on his hanging corpse, but generations to come will know him as the central figure in one of our country’s darkest times. When kids read about his ridiculous words and actions, they’ll think of him the same way we think about the likes of Nero. “Oh, he’s the asshole that set the country on fire and played golf while it burned.”
Benedict Arnold, Nero, Donald Trump.
If Trump dies during office what I’m going to hate is a state funeral and having to pretend we are sad.
Naw.
It’ll be right up there with, “I am not a crook.”
I’m hoping for something like Mozart’s funeral as depicted in Amadeus.
Except, rather than the beautiful music in that clip (Requiem Mass in D Minor)… they will play something more appropriate like Yakity Sax.
So then the film of him being dumped in a pauper’s grave will have to be sped up accordingly. Works for me.
Benedict Arnold had a reasonably successful career after betraying West point. The British gave him a command, and he raided Connecticut and Virginia. He wasn’t entirely trusted by the British, and had to subsist on reduced pay for a while, but he was able to speculate in land and bought a ship, and later outfitted a privateer. He certainly didn’t regret his life choices (stories about deathbed confession notwithstanding). He didn’t get military honors at his funeral, but he got “seven mourning coaches and four state carriages”, which is more than I’ll ever get.
I think he should be buried alongside Ivana Trump.
I hope this is one of our country’s darkest times, but I don’t believe it couldn’t be worse, or even that worse is unlikely to come.
I don’t think Trump thinks about posterity or his own death. He strikes me as one of those people who has very effective mental blocks against anything so unpleasant.
Anyway, I am posting mostly to thank the OP for this thread. I enjoy seeing it every day, and opening it with hope. It can happen, after all; it is happening almost certainly.
Too much sympathy in that clip.
I had originally been musing for a while that constantly verbally reminding Trump of his own imminent death, and lack of time left in life, may be one of the most effective ways to actually get through to him - in a way that no other mockery or criticism could. Even for a narcissist, being age 79 is kind of impossible to deny given his body’s growing inconveniences. But as you pointed out, it still might not click in his mind. And it might just make him lash out in worse ways instead.
I agree. It’s a nice thing to think about, and one fine day it will be the truth.
Occam’s Razor says that they’re full of shit and the flag looked like that to the naked eye.
If it’s some elaborate visual effect via polarized film or something, surely they can demonstrate it.
Or, as common sense will tell you, they got caught and are trying a variation of the pathetic “it wasn’t me I got hacked” excuse.
“They call me Ozymandias — a tremendous king, maybe the best king, everyone says so.
Look at my buildings, folks, the biggest, most incredible works you’ve ever seen — total winners! — and believe me, you’re gonna despair, because nobody does it like I do.”