Wilson and Reagan left office before the dementia really took hold

Wilson had intended to seek a third term in 1920, but was fully incapacitated and bedridden by October of 1919

Multiple Reagan staffers confirm he was fully in the thrall of dementia by his final year.

Wilson and Reagan would suggest otherwise

Napster was audio only.

It was file type specific and had a soft file side limit, but that’s easy enough to work around.

Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?

They all had it as well, yes

But Trump was showing early signs of dementia during his first term.

That’s what was reported. But, again, none of this reporting is reliable. It’s all just court gossip.

The difference here is evidence.

It’s credulity. Liberals are more receptive to “conservatives in decline” than they are when it is reported of their own politicians.

That’s why Feinstein got to die in office without facing any kind of serious challenger. And why Schumer will benefit from the same.

Which politicians, exactly?

Trump, back during his first term (the rumors about him being on death’s door with COVID were rampant). Biden, for nearly his entire term in office. Hillary was going to die in the middle of her 2016 run. I remember people insisting Vladimir Putin was on his way out any day now all the way back in 2005 - there’s even a wikipedia article about how many times his death was misreported. And there’s an endless parade of rumors about Kim Jung Un keeling over, Ayatollah Khomanie being terminally ill, ffs “Castro is dying, get in the boats!” was a thing people said about Fidel from his mid-fifties until he handed over office to his brother Raul in 2008.

Pretty much anyone the US government / media doesn’t like gets a scattershot “dude could die any day now” headline from time to time. And the more reactionary the source, the more credulous the allegations.

Get on Kalshi and place your bets.

But all this naked speculation about how Trump is on death’s door has been going on since he was running for President the first time way back in 2015.

Lemmy Users are just a subset of Reddit Users who couldn’t stop picking up aggro from the mods

And in another five years, I’m sure he’ll look even worse. But will he still be breathing out that noxious brew of smarm and bigotry? So long as he’s still breathing.

Kissinger looked like this in his 80s and made it another 20 years.

Don’t hold your breath.

If I had a dollar every time I heard “Politician I hate definitely has late stage physical/mental illness and will be going away shortly”, I’d be rich enough to blow millions bankrolling corrupt NYC mayoral candidates who promised to keep my taxes low.

Trump appears healthier than Cheney and Cheney lasted five years longer than Trump is right now. So don’t hold your breath.

Fifty shades of Tan

You’re missing carrots and celery to round out the Holy Trinity. Otherwise, it looks good.

There’s no appetite for these laws in the voter public of any state

Evangelical right-wing states have a huge contingent of politicians who compete with one another to be the toughest on “child sex trafficking” and other Epstein-tangential topics. So, in the GOP primary, you get a lot of promises about how you’re going to round up all the pedos and put them to the sword or whatever. And this inevitably manifests as “please insert your dick into this pepper grinder to access the pornography” laws, as a sort-of practical compromise.

Is California no longer liberal?

Current Status: Failed (2024-08-15: In committee: Held under submission.)

Looks like they’re retaining their title. That said, if you peak under the “Supporters and Opponents” what you’re going to see in the Supporters section is a litany of right-wing evangelical organizations and a couple of mega-corps.

They may resort to just blanket ID-checking everyone rather than risk prosecution.

The current strategy appears to be refusing to host content in the regulated states. Even then, there are plenty of social media and general content distribution channels that dodge the regulation by claiming to be content-blind in how they serve their data. I don’t see Facebook or YouTube getting the business end of any of these regulations. Almost as though they’re toothless if you’ve got enough money to tip your Congresscritters.

Setting aside the fact that there’s no appetite for these laws in liberal states because its purely a conservative fetish, you can still get porn on the internet without going to the big corporate online clearinghouses.

FFS, there was porn on Napster back in the day.

My cat won’t talk to the police.

My dog won’t shut up about how he’s a free canine on the land and the postman refused to make joinder.

Go enjoy your day

Hey! That’s the spirit. Touch some grass, bro.

soon we’ll have no states to vpn to

I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously. Unlike trying to make porn sites take your credit card info in advance (a policy they hated so much gosh darn it!) you’re really fucking with the money when you try and regulate VPNs. Also, just… not really that practical. For the same reason Congress has been pretty toothless when it comes to regulating Torrents and digital encryption, going after VPNs at the regulatory level is something of a technological rabbit hole.

then all the websites will be in French

Nothing will ever make anyone on the internet learn a language other than English.

If that’s the case I’ll reiterate

You would have to make sense the first time for it to matter

States are also considering banning VPNs now as well.

Well, some legislators have proposed taking wack-a-mole to the next level and demanding all VPNs be certified and regulated. But good luck getting that passed through the Silicon Valley Presidency or the Ancap Courts.

Are you trying to argue that language is static?

I’m pointing out a term’s historical roots. You just seem to be arguing through hyperbole. FFS, even if you don’t want to acknowledge the existence of Latin, you might at least recognize the existence of etymology as a field.

We’re also talking about 70 years ago.

Brother, wait till you find out how old Arabic numerals are.