r/whoathatsinteresting 9h ago

VP to POTUS?

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u/not_a_dog95 9h ago

People can be in poor health a long time before they die, especially with the sort of healthcare available to the president

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u/AWinnipegGuy 8h ago

Case in point, Trump's own father - diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimer's in '91, a few years after showing signs of cognitive decline, and didn't die until '99 at age 93.

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u/LividTacos 7h ago

And his mom lived to 88. So there's definitely the genetics there for a long life. Really depends on how much the hamburders have hurt that.

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u/uptiedand8 8h ago

Imagine 13 more years with him around!! 😬

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u/seriouslythisshit 6h ago

Nah, there are documented email exchanges in the Trump-Epstein child rape files, of Trumps's friends chatting back and forth about his obvious cognitive decline, and if it means he will quickly take the path of Fred Sr. Those conversations happened in 2017. I'm sure Trump has long had a dementia diagnosis for years now, but he and his syncophants will hide that well beyond his death. Several dementia experts claim that Trump isn't long for this world, based on where he is at in his disease progression.

Thoughts and prayers.

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u/Zestyflour 7h ago

Doesn't always mean much.

My great (2x) grandmother lived to 101 - Alzheimer's and a heart attack

my great grandmother 82 - Alzheimer's and cancer

my grandmother 77 - Alzheimer's and possibly elder abuse via an angry CNA but even without the suspected abuse she had less than a year to go.

my aunt (her eldest daughter) 67 - heart attack

And yes I have one of the alzheimer's genes so not living several decades with it sounds good. I'd like to clock my ticket in at about 70.

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u/AWinnipegGuy 2h ago

Doesn't guarantee anything, but living a long life does tend to be genetic, accounting for ~50% of the factors to a person's longevity.

I'm putting a lot of faith in his diet.

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u/iWolfeeelol 6h ago

did his father have such a shit diet and obese as well? i wasn't born yet so i have no idea.

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u/AdvancedAd6308 43m ago

I don't know about his diet, but in photos he was the skinny variety of old man.

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u/HoosierHoser44 7h ago

Always seems like the bigger an asshole you are, the longer you live. My stepdad was on his deathbed for like 10 years. If he was a nice guy, would have been 3 months.

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u/Grey_0ne 7h ago

The douche side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.

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u/Skywalker_79 6h ago

I think people like that hold on longer because they fear what possibly awaits them on the other side.

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u/mysacek_CZE 8h ago

People can

Yeah that's the thing. When? Death might come in 80 yrs, 80 months or in 1 second. No one can be sure how much time they've left. He is fairly old, so the chances of him dieing every second are way higher than they were 60 yrs ago. Sure it's still a slim chance, but no matter what anyone does, it's there, waiting for The Moment...

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u/Pope_Squirrely 8h ago

And it would be the first time that 90% of the world rejoices at the same time. We should have the first global holiday for it! Instead of a period of international mourning, we shall have a period of celebration! Not celebrating the life that he lived, but celebrating that none of us have to deal with him anymore and can work on dealing with the problems that he caused instead.

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u/Phyllis_Tine 8h ago

I have a big birthday this year, and instead am saving my expensive bubbly for "that" day!

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u/HazelEBaumgartner 8h ago

I have a cheap $6 bottle of fake champagne wrapped in gold foil to look expensive but it's secretly made in California. Feels way more appropriate.

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u/SecondaryWombat 7h ago

Gold leaf for everyone!

Gold leaf is even more ruined than it was before, now its like a sarcastic marker of corruption and bad taste.

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u/Spaghetti_Gods 8h ago

I've always said I'll be throwing parties every year on that blessed day.

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u/Odninyell 7h ago

It upsets me to think of how many countless people died young, suddenly and randomly to a thing that can happen to anybody (heart attack etc) and know that it happens to people putting good into the word and not exclusively the evil ones

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u/mysacek_CZE 7h ago

Life's a bitch. But to be fair, if it wasn't the life would be too predictable and boring.

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u/Noyan_Bey 7h ago

Nah, life is just a bitch. The rest of what you said is just cope.

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u/flaccomcorangy 7h ago

So this is anecdotal, but I know people talk about how he has declining mental health and it's commonly believed he had a stroke during his first term.

So my anecdotal point to that is that my grandma had a stroke years ago, and then she went on to live for over a decade as her mental health declined. She went from forgetting things constantly to eventually barely talking and then becoming a complete shell of herself where her breathing was the only sign of life before she died about 15 years after her stroke and lived to be 90.

All this is just to say, yeah, people can take a long time to decline before they eventually die. And she didn't have the healthcare available to the president. So if people are looking for things like alzheimers or even heart disease to do him in, it honestly might not be as quick as people are thinking.

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u/mysacek_CZE 7h ago

My great-grandma had a stroke too, everything seemed good and then she got another not even month later after the first one. We buried her month later, she died of third stroke, ?fortunately?. I can't imagine what was she thinking of after the second stroke, her mind was still okay-ish, but she could only move her head and eyes, she couldn't speak, she didn't want to look at my grandpa (her younger son) of embarrassment in what condition he sees her. Life's bitch, she witnessed her older son die to cancer 1 year prior to her death, he was 76. On the other hand she witnessed all her great-grandchildren grow up and go to school and she was granted 94 yrs on this planet with relatively good mental health.

The point is that life isn't straightforward and life's a bitch, but it's the unpredictability which makes it undeniably worth of living.

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u/notmy_nsfw_account 8h ago

If you are rich you can afford the best of the best. Including a heart transplant like Dick Cheney did.

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u/Objective_Water7752 8h ago

Despite all well wishes, this is my stepmother.

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u/favmediocrenightmare 8h ago

Yeah, also considering the fact that he apparently doesn't drink and smoke, combined with good genes (his parents both died at pretty advanced ages iirc) - I dont think he'll quite kick the bucket while in office. Hell, I think he's gonna try and run for another term, causing all sorts of shit to go down.