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It is 2029. You wake up and rush to turn on your gold Trump TV with its gold remote to hear the mandatory Trump Two Minute Hate. Something about Biden again even though he's been dead for 2 years now. At least it's not about the trans immigrants at the Trump-Mexico border. You wait obediently for the tirade to end and swallow your RFK Jr.-approved Trump beef supplements. You grab your gold Trump phone and get in your gold Trump truck that only takes Trump leaded diesel at $9 a gallon and gets 10 MPG. You watch the obligatory display ad (Trump Credit - new low 51% APR!) before you are allowed to start. You take the Trump expressway, the one with the tolls every five miles, because you're running late to your job at the Trump Department of Trump. When you arrive, the Trump TV is already on. In fact it's always on, it's illegal for any government office not to have a Trump TV on. You are immediately assaulted with a close up of Trump's drooling, age-spot riddled strokeface as an interpreter gleefully translates his spastic gurgles as an announcement of his intention to add a Trump dome (gold, of course) to the Trump wing of the Trump House, and also there may be a slight six month delay in pay to Department of Trump employees due to budget restructuring. OK, then. So today's the day.You go to your gold desk, open the gold drawer, pull out your gold Trump gun, load the gold bullets and put it to your Trump temple. After a moment's hesitation, you pull the trigger, but the gun jams. Then you remember, it's Trump gold. You put your head down on the desk and weep, even as your coworkers rise for the 9 A.M. Trump of Allegiance.
Reminds me of Türkmenbaşy. Grandious narcisisim disguised as politics.
Wow and I never thought I’d read anything that made me more uncomfortable than 1984. If this is the future I’m out.
You don't get to be out -- the gun jammed, remember?
You’re my least favorite writer.
I hopefully doubt he'll live much longer.
I go back and forth between "look at this demented, greasy fuck, he'll be dead in a year" and "he's going to rot forever but never die because evil endures"
They will just prop up an AI version and we can all wonder if he is alive or dead. Maga will continue to believe he is alive while we all suffer.