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    My main team, Plausible Passings of 2024, looks like it made it in OK, except for my selection of Prince Edward the Duke of Kent, which was filed under Prince Edward, the younger brother of the king. Re-checking my spreadsheet, it looks like I entered the phrases Prince Edward and Duke of Kent in the wrong order vs. the DDP listing, so my apologies for the mistake. (Though the fact that the younger Edward is currently listed on 5x as many teams as the older one suggests mine was not the only lost Duke of Kent pick.)

     

    I'm also unable to find my theme team, Six Feet Under the Dome.

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    4 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

    Democratic politician and former high school basketball star Ted Blunt died at 80 years:

    https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2024-01-12/ted-blunt-former-wilmington-city-council-president-dies-at-the-age-of-80

    He served on the City Council of Wilmington, Delaware from 1985 to 2000 and later served an eight-year term as the council's president.

    Also the father of Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, who is virtually certain to be elected to the US Senate from Delaware this November.

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    1 hour ago, Genfærd said:

    Wonder what headline they'll use. Surely, they'll come up with a pun on "der Kaizer".

    Considering that he was a pundit for Sky Deutschland, I'm bracing for a "Football Host is Toast"

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    33 minutes ago, BonScott said:

     the ex peanut farmer been in hospice for ages but not read of any turn for the worse etc

    I mean, he kind of has been in a continual turn for the worse for a long time now. He might keep on for a little while longer, but there wouldn't be any surprise at all if he died before the end of the year without any further statement from the family or something.

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    13 hours ago, Drewsky1211 said:

    Why not both?

     

    Considering past presidential runner-up picks like Bob Dole and John McCain, I suggest Michael Dukakis (both 90 years old and a US politician).

     

     

    Not so sure about Dukakis imo. Looks he was just able to do a full interview this month for his 90th birthday, and he looks pretty good in the pictures: https://commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/at-90-michael-dukakis-still-looks-ahead/

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    18 minutes ago, Sean said:

    Tony Booth and Liz Dawn both died on the same day and their deaths were announced the following day within the same hour.

    Out of curiosity, I checked the old threads, and it looks like the first posts on the Tony Booth and Liz Dawn threads about their deaths were 52 minutes apart. Today, the first posts on Rosalynn Carter and Joss Ackland's threads about their deaths were 24 minutes apart. 

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    Can't remember if this was previously reported, but the article also says that there was no specific incident/illness that led to him starting hospice care:

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    Mr. Carter was not suffering any particular ailment that prompted him to enter hospice care last February, according to people close to him, but was tired of being in and out of the hospital and wanted to spend his final days at home with Mrs. Carter.

     

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    5 hours ago, Jonah said:

    Grassley also notoriously filed paperwork for reelection in 2028.

    Though filing paperwork to run for re-election doesn't necessarily mean he really will run for re-election. Members of Congress often do this as a formality to keep fundraising for their party, so if they do end up retiring, the money can be transferred.

     

    Dianne Feinstein also filed paperwork for re-election before her retirement was announced, and her staff absolutely scrambled to clarify to the press that this didn't actually mean she was running again, since this was around the time that the public reporting about her decline was really starting to pick up.

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    1 hour ago, Toast said:

     

    They seem to be always together so difficult to see how it could be avoided.

    I recently read a post somewhere else on the forum (can't recall specifics, sorry) about a retired boxer with dementia whose wife had died, and apparently he usually thought she was just out doing errands. I guess in a circumstance like that, it might be better not to correct him since he won't remember the conversation anyway.

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    15 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

    the only question is : will she reach the end of her term ?

    For a while, I assumed she'd have no problem making it, because people can hypothetically carry on for a while with dementia, and it seemed she was in decent physical health for a long time. But it feels like she's really declined since her husband died, and the shingles and related complications have just been devastating.

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    The New York Times is reporting that, to no surprise, her recent illness was much worse than her office reported: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/politics/feinstein-illness-shingles-senate.html

     

    Key points:

    • Her shingles infection spread widely to her face and neck, causing the partial paralysis of her face with Ramsay Hunt syndrome.
    • The infection also caused swelling in her brain (encephalitis), making her memory loss even worse.
    • Basically everyone around her has totally given up any hope she will choose to resign. The article suggests that were only two people who could have possibly convinced her otherwise (her husband and a former colleague), but they're both dead. There are still 18 months left in her term.
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    27 minutes ago, Puma85 said:

    I can see Trump and Obama quite easily becoming nonagenarians

    Not so sure about Trump, to put it politely. I could easily see Obama and Bush making it well past 90 though.

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    30 minutes ago, Sean said:

    Although he was making movies when he was clearly unable to function properly and none of his family stepped in and let him carry on acting in movies that seriously compromised his dignity so maybe you are right.

    I think some reports implied that he wanted to do that after he started to go downhill, because he wanted to leave as much money to his family as he could before he was completely unable to work. Apparently if you look at the movies in question he's hardly in them and he was only on set for a day or two each, so he could just bank them up.

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    13 hours ago, Zsa Zsa's leg said:

    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R), 81, hospitalized for a fall.

    History of poor health, polio survivor since childhood; previous refusal to comment on bruised hands and purple face in 2020.

    Assuming he survives this, but we all know how one fall is all it takes to send someone down a spiral — especially after losing mobility.

    Definitely a big name to keep an eye on, has been in the Senate since 1985 and led the Senate Republicans since 2007. Was the single biggest pain in Obama's (and maybe Trump's) ass for 8 years.

     

    He's being treated for a concussion: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/politics/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized/index.html 

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    2 hours ago, Comped said:

    I used to hear he was friendly with a certain group looking for cash in the US during his time as a Congressman and Ambassador, but never anything concrete.

    If so, that would in no way make him an outlier among many Americans of his background in that era. It was stunningly mainstream in certain avenues for a while, though it eventually was knocked off pretty decisively.

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