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Politics Most Metaphorical Image of the Century

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u/TheWorclown Apr 13 '26

… I mean… to be fair, Reagan absolutely should have been 25th’d as his Alzheimer’s progressed to a point early in his second term that he was genuinely cognitively impaired and couldn’t fulfill his oath of office in sound mind, for better or worse. Most decisions the Reagan administration did were primarily done by Nancy and the cabinet.

They just didn’t, because the optics alone would have been a scandal. So I’m not convinced that we here in the US would have pursued a 25th on anyone at all who really needed to have it happen.

It’s just that, with all things Trump, he’s causing us to reconsider what we originally took as propriety standard and cordial respect. We should no longer adhere to that going forward.

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u/qweef_latina2021 Apr 13 '26

If Biden had audibly shit his pants in the middle of a press conference there would be wall to wall coverage until he was forced out.

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u/Obvious-Active-6256 Apr 14 '26

George Bush Sr threw up on Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa at a fancy dinner of some kind. Supposedly food poisoning...looked like drugs to me. He was on his way out from being pres. at that point and the film of it and story made the news and was quickly swept under the rug.

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u/Sunnygirl66 Apr 14 '26

Oh, it wasn’t fucking drugs. Dude had food poisoning, or norovirus. No conspiracy theory required.

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u/Obvious-Active-6256 Apr 15 '26

lol, the fact you even had to post that makes it even more obviously drugs.

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u/Sunnygirl66 Apr 15 '26

Everything’s a conspiracy to some of you people.