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I hope he speaks so long that he dies of heat stroke.

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Ah yes, the reverse William Henry Harrison

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That would be alright with me too.

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Not with me. He must do time in prison. I don’t care if it’s house arrest. I want him to experience being locked up.

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I just want him gone and quiet.

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No! I want to see him in prison!

Plus if he dies now, his base will elevate his persona. Read about Venezuela. Or, hell, see what happened with Jesus!

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They’re going to do that regardless of how he dies. He could go peacefully in his sleep and they’re going to martyr him anyway

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Sure. But the rest of my wish still stands. I wish to see him in prison, even if it’s house arrest.

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I’d be happier if he ran off to a non extradition country. They can still elect him from prison, he wouldn’t be a martyr. I don’t care as long as he is out of my hair.

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He won’t be elected. Ever.

And no. No fleeing the country and living the good life with the millions he grifted.

Prison is the only acceptable outcome.

You think he would be out of your hair in another country? Nope. Prison is the only way.

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Get him a hector Salamanca setup, complete with a bell

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Oh what a dream.

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I desperately hope he doesn’t. I never appriciated the power becoming a martyr could be until I thought about Trump dying. We would literally never hear the end of conspiracy theories or bad faith bills made in his name. Think of all the rallies of people protesting the “deep state” that caused the stroke. It would be absolutely insufferable and set the country back even further. He has to live to be old and forgotten.

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He doesn’t need to die of it, just get incapacitated enough that he can’t participate. Let people see him as old and fragile. The people who need him to be a strong leader would lose their faith in him

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Any case of Trump dying will cause conspiracy theories. His supporters think he’ll live forever.

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I hope he plans to talk about how global warning is made up.

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Id rather stand somewhere cold all day than somewhere hot. You can always add more layers for heat, but you can only take off so much to cool off before you get arrested lol

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Tbf, it might be difficult to find layers when you’re stranded.

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There’s a point in heat where it becomes advantageous to wear light coloured clothes that cover your body.

Sweat doesn’t evaporate as fast so it works longer and keeping the sun off your skin.

Just gotta get used to being sweaty 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I’m the opposite, heat sucks but at least it isn’t straight up painful like single digit/subzero temps can be. That being said, I remember being in Kuwait when it was around 130°F out and it was absolutely miserable. I was in the Army and had to stop through their on my way to R&R and the 3 days I was there waiting for my flight were horrible. All the transient areas were just tents, and the portable AC units they had hooked up to them couldn’t keep up and the temps during the day never got below ~90°F.

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I was gonna say “Clearly you’ve never been in the desert!” but then you mentioned playing in the sandbox and I get that.

That said, even in Texas, a good 90% of the summer is “Going outside will sting, staying outside will burn in a matter of moments” weather. I’ve had those 110°+ days and those “So far below zero the LCDs in your car freeze” days of Upstate NY during a lake effect blizzard and all I can say is, both suck.

That said, I prefer the cold. This is coming from a prior cold weather injury as well but I fall back on “No bad weather, just bad gear.”

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He’s more interested in people hearing him speak than the health and safety of his future constituents.

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Were you alive during COVID? A lot of his supporters were… and are no longer around.

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I’m still here. - Herman Cain

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That part, at least, is not news

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“I don’t want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote,”

This was one of the three Trump quotes they have in the article. He added he was just joking but pretty sure he was serious.

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After that remark he said the media will say he is horrible, as if the media is the problem for telling everyone exactly what he said.

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He’s had rallies where they are left in the cold with no transportation after.

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It’s ok to hand out water here, but not when people are in lines for voting right? 🥴

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Well I mean it totally depends on how racist the policy is. Supplying water here isn’t racist at all, so the GOP has no problem with it.

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When would supplying water be racist?

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