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Comment by n0n0n4t0r

13 hours ago

Given how the democracy is attacked, I'm not sure there will be an election in 2028

There will almost certainly be an election in 2028. The degree to which it will be rigged through gerrymandering, voter intimidation, voter suppression and/or blatant cheating is a different question.

  • The answer is "as much as legal, and maybe a little more" as with all American elections.

you don't make improvements to a house, adorn it with gold all over, make 200m improvements if you have the intention of leaving.

behaviour says more than words

  • i think the person you are talking about doesn't treat houses like most people, i mean he (and his kind) lives for short term gratification and will move on to another house and decorate that with gold.

    • >he (and his kind) lives for short term gratification and will move on to another house and decorate that with gold.

      Exactly. It's a social norm among that class of society

      When a Koch, or a Scwab, or the CEO of some mega-corp buys a property on Martha's Vineyard, or the Hamptons, or Vail or overlooking Tahoe or whatever, with intent to actually spend even the scantest amount of time there themselves they engage in absurd unnecessary renovations. That's just how they do things. There is an occasional exception for those in that group who have "found meaning" in some other avenue for lighting money on fire.

      Edit: You can thank me later for implicitly telling you where the best construction dumpsters are.

  • Every president remodels and redecorates the White House, often to a much greater degree. The consternation over it is an intentional distraction.

  • You don't adorn it with gold if you have taste.

    Trump is not going to live much longer than 2028 anyway.

    • I think he had a stroke at the 9/11 ceremony and no one is talking about it yet.

      And there was definitely some weirdness with his hand, the absence that convinced people he was dead, some odd rumors about his shirt sleeve and suit implying he was hiding medical devices or some kind of injury, an "AI" glitch in a recent video which may have been debunked, and his obvious mental and emotional degradation when confronted with the Epstein stuff.

      I am absolutely convinced Trump is only being kept alive by ritual blood sacrifice or that he's being puppeted by Grok through a Neuralink or something.

      Biden got taken down by the the "crippling senile dementia" meme because it's only a problem when it's Democrats, but Trump seems worse off than Biden ever was. The bastard will probably live another thirty years though, somehow.

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