President Trump fell asleep at the 9/11 memorial ceremony.
The president dozed off at multiple points during the event Friday, slumped over in his chair with his eyes closed and his head hanging down while everyone else onstage—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Melania Trump, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—was clearly awake.
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FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 46 pts · 1d
That second photo... he's definitely had a stroke right? Some photos from the last several months have shown that drooping side of his mouth and this one is pretty clear.
WitchKnight@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 1d
God please
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 1d
Sure looks like it. It could be Bells Palsey too though, an inflammation of the nerve going to one side of the face, caused by an inflammation a nerve from infection or a virus or unknown causes.
The way to tell, if it's Bells Palsey, the eyebrow still works, if it's a stroke, the eyebrow is frozen too.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
One can only dream.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Absolutely.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 21 pts · 1d
sleepy joe biden strikes again! oh wait...
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1d
Our esteemed president, folks.
waltersf@bookwyr.me · 10 pts · 1d
your*
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 1d
Only because I have no choice. I voted Green.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 1d
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 1d
Sure, Jan.
We're just not gonna blame Kamala Harris for looking at a bunch of people who can't afford groceries and insisting that we be joyful. Awesome, perfectly run campaign.
We're gonna blame the guy who voted for a politician that he actually agreed with instead.
This definitely isn't on me. It's on you guys.
the_q@piefed.social · 17 pts · 1d
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
LOL americans
YeahToast@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1d
Surely the point of voting is to actually vote for the political party you want ? Or is it not a democracy in US?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
you can democratically vote for the fascist party, you can choose what speed they get there, that's it.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 20h
It's not a democracy in the US. You vote for who you really want in the primaries. In the general there are only two viable options.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 18h
Here comes the BlueMAGA genocide apologist brigade
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 1d
Read what I wrote, and then come back with a reasonable response whenever you're ready. Thank you.
the_q@piefed.social · 19 pts · 1d
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 14 pts · 1d
Regardless of votes, remember who it's really on. The ones who are playing us against each other. Yes, it's also the fault of people who voted for him many times, and for those who split a vote where only two party voting would have given him a loss. AND for those who allowed the DNC to make so many bad choices. AND Harris for dropping what seemed to be a working campaign for a bit. AND... well, it goes on.
But it's the ones laughing at the top. They're the real problem. Never forget. They love to see this finger pointing at the bottom, it makes them feel safe.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 9 pts · 1d
"you guys", as if even the whole of Lemmy (most of which probably aren't even living in the US) would have been enough to make a different DNC candidate happen. I haven't even seen anyone who says that they actually like Harris.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1d
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1d
Of course, it's just when you don't see anyone liking Harris, it's stupid to blame these people for the DNC picking an unpopular candidate. Unless a majority of US Lemmy users says they don't vote in primaries or something.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 18h
You were neutral on genocide?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
There seems to be abundant evidence that they didn't.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1d
Didn't what?
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1d
That's your example why she would've been a bad choice?
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 18h
True, the fact she's a genocidal monster should have been the go to
waltersf@bookwyr.me · 8 pts · 1d
🫂 I voted for someone in jail for wearing black.
Electoralists are really hounding you, when they should have ended First-past-the-post millennia ago.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
It's probably easier to just blame me than look at the absurdity of what Democrats did in 2024 and admit it to themselves.
As far as voting reform goes, the American people have been powerless to do that in any meaningful way for our entire history. The founders only gave wealthy, landowning men the right to vote. There was never any real intention for the poor or working class to be able to select a president. Our only real political power is local, and at least locally, good things are still possible. (For now.)
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 20h
It's plenty easy to blame both.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20h
Not for a partisan ideologue.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1d
Millennia ago there was Athenian democracy. Randomly select citizens to fill roles in judiciary, executive council and assembly for a year. Pretty hard to corrupt. Worked well for centuries, they even returned to it after king making coups. Representative democracy was corrupt and serving the rich and powerful about day one. Sure, first past the post is awful, but there's higher things to aim for than Instant-runoff or whatever. Direct democracy is more viable than ever.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 1d
I am intrigued by the roman system of electing two of every position for one year terms. They wouldn't elect one proconsul (leading an army contingent or something of the like,) but two. Sometimes in a campaign it reached absurd levels as each would take turns leading the army every day.
But what we should do, and this is a moonshot that would take time, is a new constitutional amendment establishing a Tribunate, the tribune with the power to veto acts of government, provide asylum to the accused, whose own safety is invoilable.
The Roman peasants got the tribunes in 500 bc then 350 bc they expanded it in two general strikes, where they encamped to one of their great hills and refused to work until they got reforms, the tribunate being one. It was organized by tribe I think. They also forced a written set of laws in the first one iirc, the twelve tables, as the rich just made shit up as they went prior.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1h
Supports status quo politicians that will continue regressing everything
Said politician is far-right and wants to commit a genocide
Turns out most people here are in fact centrists
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 1d
Hmmm. Not the type of sleep most are looking for …
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 1d
Another one, that is what, 36 times he's fallen asleep at official functions with cameras on him. Or something like that I heard as of like a week ago.
The party is running the show, the president doesn't know what is going on at this point and seems to be declining fast. He does have the best medical care in the world.
Probably getting daily injections of that little trafficked orphan juice shit that his Q buddies accused the opponents of rw extremism of drinking. After all, every accusation is a confession seems to have precious few exceptions with what I know.
art@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
"Change the channel, Marge!"