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Quote:I hope history repeats. Trump’s frequent raging madman behavior could end with a stroke. It has happened to other Presidents.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, suffered a series of strokes, including a severe one in 1919. The stroke left him paralyzed on his left side and incapacitated until the end of his term in 1921.
Explanation
• Wilson's strokes were characterized by denial and downplaying the severity of his condition.
• The White House covered up Wilson's condition, and the public didn't learn of the stroke until early 1920.
• During Wilson's illness, his wife, Edith, became involved in the day-to-day running of the government. Some historians called her the "Presidentress" or "Surrogate President".
Other presidents who have had strokes include:
• John Quincy Adams
• John Tyler
• Millard Fillmore
• Andrew Johnson
• Chester Arthur
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Richard Milhous Nixon
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113 predictions for Trump's second term
From constitutional crises to Mars and back again.
By Nate Silver | Jan 26, 2025
https://www.natesilver.net/p/113-predictions-for-trumps-second
Democrats win the presidency in 2028. In contrast to markets, which see this as a pure 50/50 proposition, I give just the slightest edge to Democrats. In the short run, I tend to see anti-incumbent effects prevailing, and Republicans won’t get to nominate a true incumbent with Trump term-limited, even if there may be a conservative vibe shift in play over the medium term. 55%.
Democrats win a trifecta (House + Senate + POTUS) in 2028. They’ll have to flip 3 of 4 obvious Senate pickup opportunities by 2028. Considering how correlated everything is, I think they’re a favorite to do this, conditional on having won the presidency. 40%
Democrats win the House in the 2026 midterms. Prediction markets put this at 70%, but I suspect there’s too much hedging toward 50/50 given the historical midterm penalty plus the narrowness of the current GOP majority. Plus, the Democratic voting bloc should still turn out in midterms. 85%
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
That's because you've been propagandized by your media.
Four years of Trump was infinitely better than four years of Biden*.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:I'm hoping that raging madman Donald Trump gets disabled by a stroke as was President Woodrow Wilson. What do I have against Wilson? This:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
That's because you've been propagandized by your media.
Four years of Trump was infinitely better than four years of Biden*.
In 1900, fragmented memories were turned into political mythologies to impose a new system that legalized discrimination. Thomas Dixon helped to develop the mythology with his book The Klansman, which presented an apology for white slave owners through the presentation of Black men ready to assault white women. Then his classmate, Woodrow Wilson, wrote A History of American People, and Dixon’s best friend, D.W. Griffith, put the ideas from both books into his film, Birth of a Nation. The NAACP boycotted theaters that showed it, but Wilson had private showings at the White House. Suddenly racism became socially acceptable again. By 1915, a new version of the KKK was formed that adopted ideas from the film, like burning crosses. It’s amazing how three well-connected buddies can shift an entire generation’s beliefs, and that was even before television existed.
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/01/everything-old-is-new-ag
ain.html
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:Brenda is picking up the signals that Trump transmits with his talk of deporting tens of millions of aliens and conquering new territories. Nazi signals. In the past, signals were transmitted and acted upon by receptive people:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
In 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the SS took the initiative to devise the methods of mass killing without orders to do so. They guessed what their superiors wanted and demonstrated what was possible. It was far more than Hitler had thought.
At the very beginning, anticipatory obedience means adapting instinctively, without reflecting, to a new situation. Do only Germans do such things? The Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, contemplating Nazi atrocities, wanted to show that there was a particular authoritarian personality that explained why Germans behaved as they had. He devised an experiment to test the proposition, but failed to get permission to carry it out in Germany. So he undertook it instead in a Yale University building in 1961—at around the same time that Adolf Eichmann was being tried in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews.
Milgram told his subjects (some Yale students, some New Haven residents) that they would be applying an electrical shock to other participants in an experiment about learning. In fact, the people attached to the wires on the other side of a window were in on the scheme with Milgram, and only pretended to be shocked. As the subjects (thought they) shocked the (people they thought were) participants in a learning experiment, they saw a horrible sight. People whom they did not know, and against whom they had no grievance, seemed to be suffering greatly—pounding the glass and complaining of heart pain. Even so, most subjects followed Milgram’s instructions and continued to apply (what they thought were) ever greater shocks until the victims appeared to die. Even those who did not proceed all the way to the (apparent) killing of their fellow human beings left without inquiring about the health of the other participants.
Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority. “I found so much obedience,” Milgram remembered, “that I hardly saw the need for taking the experiment to Germany.”
from Chapter One of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I hope history repeats. Trump’s frequent raging madman behavior could end with a stroke. It has happened to other Presidents.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, suffered a series of strokes, including a severe one in 1919. The stroke left him paralyzed on his left side and incapacitated until the end of his term in 1921.
Explanation
• Wilson's strokes were characterized by denial and downplaying the severity of his condition.
• The White House covered up Wilson's condition, and the public didn't learn of the stroke until early 1920.
• During Wilson's illness, his wife, Edith, became involved in the day-to-day running of the government. Some historians called her the "Presidentress" or "Surrogate President".
Other presidents who have had strokes include:
• John Quincy Adams
• John Tyler
• Millard Fillmore
• Andrew Johnson
• Chester Arthur
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Richard Milhous Nixon
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I could deal with that and would applaud it.
I admit to not knowing much about your early presidents but I know Roosevelt had polio, so a stroke happened when he was out of office. And the same for Nixon.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
That's because you've been propagandized by your media.
Four years of Trump was infinitely better than four years of Biden*.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
No, it is because I have critical thinking skills.
Nixon was a crook and that has been proven and Ford was dumb enough to pardon him. Reagan had Alzhiemers and really didn't know what he was doing. I freely admit to not remembering much about Bush 1 but Bush 2 was an idiot. Trump had checks on him the first time. This time he is surrounded by yes men and also he just want to make a buck off being the most powerful person in the world.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
Some of it is unpredictability. His wanting to make a buck. His willingness to break and remake pretty well of your institutions down there.
Every so often one of your leaders will make a crack about Canada that for the most part it goes in ear and out the other.
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Quote:President Woodrow Wilson was a raging racist, just like Trump. Wilson had a stroke, ending his crazed rampage in the White House. A stroke could do the same to Trump. I'm sure Trump's replacement, Vice President JD Vance, is not a racist nor a hyper-wacko Nazi like Trump.
Originally posted by Brenda:
I could deal with that and would applaud it.
I admit to not knowing much about your early presidents but I know Roosevelt had polio, so a stroke happened when he was out of office. And the same for Nixon.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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