The fifth?

[vladi]

So far 4 US presidents have been assassinated in office. What chances that DJT is the fifth?

Ladbrokes have it at 9/4 that he will not make it to the end of his term. 9/4 seems good odds considering his bizarre behaviour.

[Spartacus]

In a fantasy world , Musk will shoot Trump in Texas whilst testing a new hyper velocity rifle, and the bullet will move so fast it will hit Vance seconds after. 

Texas still has the death penalty, especially for presidential assassins! 

I wonder what odds Ladbrooks give on that 🤔 

[Sue]

  On 28/02/2025 at 18:35, vladi said:

So far 4 US presidents have been assassinated in office. What chances that DJT is the fifth?

Ladbrokes have it at 9/4 that he will not make it to the end of his term. 9/4 seems good odds considering his bizarre behaviour.

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Vance seems to be  as bad as Trump.

If Trump is assassinated, wouldn't Vance just step up to be president? Or doesn't it work like that?

 

[Azalea]

  On 02/03/2025 at 20:59, Sue said:

Vance seems to be  as bad as Trump.

If Trump is assassinated, wouldn't Vance just step up to be president? Or doesn't it work like that?

 

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Yes, he would become President.  Lyndon Johnson, VP became President after the assassination of John Kennedy.  Harry Truman, VP became President after the death in office of Franklin Roosevelt.  Andrew Johnson, VP became President after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

[Sue]

  On 03/03/2025 at 01:07, Azalea said:

Yes, he would become President.  Lyndon Johnson, VP became President after the assassination of John Kennedy.  Harry Truman, VP became President after the death in office of Franklin Roosevelt.  Andrew Johnson, VP became President after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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So unless Spartacus' fantasy world comes about (chance would be a fine thing) we are all still f***ed 😭

[Del in ED]

Why stop with Trump and his dogs Vance, Kash, Kennedy, Bondi, etc?

May as well take out his employer Vlad, too🙄

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[first mate]

A fair amount hangs on SCOTUS in the coming days. Will they prop up Trump's powers under Executive Orders or choose to support Congress? Some of the Judges are clearly corrupt but perhaps others, like Coney Barrett, will grow a conscience. 

[vladi]

  On 03/03/2025 at 07:51, Del in ED said:

Why stop with Trump and his dogs Vance, Kash, Kennedy, Bondi, etc?

 

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Yes, time to drain the swamp that is the White House.

[malumbu]

Vance is something else.  That's not a compliment 

[vladi]

  On 04/03/2025 at 18:11, malumbu said:

Vance is something else.  That's not a compliment 

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For sure!  It's seems like he is injecting Trump with steroids. Trump has got even  more deranged ever since Vance became VP.
Having read Hillbilly Elegy, I came to see where his insular , isolationist slant came from.

But he's very bright , having graduated from Yale, but he is a dangerous individual with tunnel vision.

He could be "the first" - that is the first  VP to be assassinated. 

As for Trump, he can only face a rising tide of hostility from sacked government employees and mid-west farmers whose produce is subject to retaliatory import duties by China .

Watch this space.

[vladi]

As every day goes by, it looks increasingly likely that Trump is going to sell Ukraine down the river. It's a re-run of Chamberlain and Hitler over Czechoslovakia.
Trump talks of re-allocating "assets" which means conceding assets of Ukraine to Putin  and of putting in peace-keeping forces into Ukraine  to "guarantee" security.
History tells us that peace-keeping forces are ineffective. Remember Bosnia & Hertzogovinia in 1996. Remember the peace keepers on the Golan Heights. They disappeared without firing a shot when Serbia and Israel took military action.

It will be the same in Ukraine. Give it five years (or less) and Russia will extend its land grab. 

Sadly, history repeats itself because the appeasers fail to grasp the realities.

Just pray that The Donald becomes the fifth before too long.

 

[jazzer]

Trump suffers from opening his mouth before putting his brain in gear. Needs to take a lesson in statesmanship from Carney, slow well thought out responses to media questions. How about Carney for President of the US as well. That should upset some and more.