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    Donald J Trump

    Fair point, so only Trump is that stupid in living memory, right?
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    Donald J Trump

    I'm thinking one thing everyone hereabouts could agree on is that the best thing Biden could do for his health is decide not to stand again.
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    Donald J Trump

    Aye, I'll bow to your greater knowledge. I'm assuming he's checked out regularly by doctors whether he wants to be, or not. If he's that far gone, surely, someone in his own party or family just steps in and stops the whole show by outing him. Fuck knows, the consequences of not doing so are obvious. If the Democrats field a candidate they know can't cut it and let him loose in a live debate that's suicidal and they don't want to gift Trump an election victory. In extreme circumstances they'd commit regicide one way or the other, right? The only president I know who made a point of regularly swerving medical advice is Trump.
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    Deathrace 2024

    So, last call on this - I'm seeing nowt to disrupt the top end of the scoreboard, I'll give it another 24 hours and if nobody throws up proof of a death anywhere that belatedly keeps this competition alive Banana can be enthroned for a truly impressive hat-trick of back-to-back victories, duly rewarded and then the entire thread can fuck off and die, or summat!
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    Donald J Trump

    Not sure Biden's that far gone.I think one thing making the difference seem more than it is is that Biden's concerned with facts and trying to recall them, work through the remains of his speech impediment and get over the pressure of fielding press questions makes him seem worse than he is. That said, he's showing signs of age, the job's draining him and I don't think he's good for half a term, let alone the whole lot. Trump's much greater fluency owes a lot to the way he's never been that concerned with facts when he speaks. When he slips up it's less a sign of dementia and more blatantly that he never knew the key facts in the first place. Thankfully a few others were aware of the folly of trying to "introduce bleach to the body" to treat Covid. Trump's love of junk food offsets some of the other clean living choices. I don't think he has ten years left.
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    Donald J Trump

    Aye, oddly - football, as in a natural talent that gives you a strong identity amongst a bunch of people who aren't your immediate family, might be the best thing that could happen to him. Coincidentally, a book about Donald Trump and golf discusses his penchant for kicking the ball to a better position than the one it landed in. A habit he displayed so often at one golf course that the workers there who saw it nicknamed him Pele. Cover of said book shows just how much fat is swaddling his vital organs. Let's not forget - for all the diversions on this thread - we're dead poolers!
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    Donald J Trump

    Trump's dad was a totally insensitive bully who basically terrified his kids, drove one son to alcoholism and left the Donald insecure to the point he doesn't know enough of the truth to tell it. That's a recipe for fucking up his kids and leaving them with the same problem of feeling the need to succeed but lacking the social skills. Those kids may come from a rich background but they're also shackled by the complexities of a business that's now being torn apart by legal investigation and also by the reputation of their own dad. The only way you could really cope in that situation is to have such a strong sense of your own identity you can separate and rise above it. The Donald coped by heading off in one direction (building an empire, building his own ego - albeit on the fragile base of needing constant respect and reassurance and paying for it when he couldn't get it on his own merits). In any family dynamic and in most family businesses there simply isn't room for two adult babies on such a scale. It's worth looking at the rise and fall of the various Murdoch children, outwardly successful but totally dependent on the structure with their dad at the top. I'd be amazed if any younger Trump presented as a credible presidential candidate once the Donald's demise has occured.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2025

    Elijah Blue Allman clearly isn't in the best place and his mum's just been refused temporary conservatorship to help him. Obitable, likely, in his own right but having Cher as yer mum makes it a shoo-in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68138790
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    Donald J Trump

    Yeah, well...that presumes Trump is so successful the country regards a succession plan as the right idea and - secondly - ignores his mafia boss style behaviour. It's in the nature of narcissistic dictators that they imagine their children have inherited their qualities and find out, often the hard way, that they haven't. Has Donald Jr. achieved anything significant in his own right that didn't result from being a Trump?
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    Football Manager Sacking Bingo 3

    Well below our radar for qualification in this pool but Sutton United's women's team has the UK's first trans manager: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68122079 In a massive relegation battle, which should give them something to talk about when they collide with the men's first team (who look almost done and dusted to join the National League)
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    Deathrace 2024

    Oh aye, and when the picks finally started dying I was down to one more meme I could have used to keep us all amused, so I'll download it now:
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    Deathrace 2024

    Seeing loads of congratulations and no evidence that - say - a 112 year old Indian environmentalist died slightly off radar about a week back. Looking good here for Banana's third enthronment in a row.
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    Donald J Trump

    Hell yeah, we'll pencil that next civil war in to start in December, shall we? Should make 2025 a bumper dead pooling year
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    Authors Last A Long Time, But....

    Read Visions of Nostrodamus by him ages ago.
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    Deathrace 2024

    Banana winning the Deathrace - who'da thunk it, eh? To be clear, tradition dictates this is provisional in case any of the other nonentities talented picks capable of hauling other players to victory have pre-deceased the massively famous basketball coach who helped Banana over the 2024 point line. But, provisionally, RESPECT to Banana Banana - 2116 Sideik - 1778 Wannamaker - 1775
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    Interesting Ways To Die...

    Good job I checked this had been posted, was on my way to put the same story in the Darwin Awards thread - 33 years old, so may have kids, in which case the Darwin thread is likely the wrong place
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    Deathrace 2024

    So, anyway, that thing I said about the Deathrace being more exciting than the FA Cup You knew I was kidding, right? Feel free to post any deaths of Deathrace picks, had a random trawl just now and spotted nowt since Stuart Gray
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    Donald J Trump

    Take your point but the election is in November and looks like it's two old men, one frail the other quite possibly certifiable and in danger of a custodial sentence before then. The overwhelming public opinion - way ahead of any one candidate's poll rating - is that voters are appalled at these two being the main choices in the first place. You'd be an idiot at this point to believe that the polls today are even predicting the two candidates who'll fight it out, let alone be accurate in ten months time once the campaigns have played out.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2024

    Aye, well, should any of us win after this we'll doubtless lend the glittering trophy to a local museum for a year and donate the entire £100,000 cash bonus to medical research aimed to put dead poolers out of business.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2024

    Shit happens both ways, mind and when those of us looking into the abyss of backing a list of the missed pick were contemplating the lack of a qo a few days back we - pretty much -shrugged it off and cried a little into our collective beers. I'm guaranteeing now, I won't moan if the DDP world and his dead pooling dog are celebrating Drop 40 bonus points for Esther Rantzen later in the year whilst I'm left out having left her out.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2025

    One of Australia's leading cancer specialists has a terminal diagnosis (suggesting he won't see the end of 2025) and has become a public guinea pig in research on the condition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scolyer
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    Donald J Trump

    So, the author isn't exactly an admirer of Trump but some good points here in terms of how things might go to shit for him. A basic but solid argument being his current behaviour and life-events are turning off the undecided middle voters and his absence from major social media after the storming of the Capitol might have done him a favour that's now being undone as his charmless rants remind some undecided types of what he's really like. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/26/trump-is-vulnerable-biden-way-to-win
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    Deathrace 2024

    My bad on the DDP thread - slight adjustment for Jason Smith's actual date of death makes no difference to the running order and Stuart Gray points (provisionally 339 on today's date) don't boost anyone into the sharp end of competition, Sideik still in prime position to squeeze over if sharing a pick with anyone in the chasing pack. Three players one hit away. But - watching Maidstone United earlier - who knows when some unfancied sort suddenly turns it on and storms to victory? Sideik - 1778 Banana - 1777 Wannamaker - 1775 An Fear Beag - 1428 msc - 1418 Drol - 1417
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    Derby Dead Pool 2024

    Bit harsh on the stay-at-home cancer mums much beloved of the Daily Mail in December, innit? Are you saying their sterling efforts to avoid paid employment or public service count for nothing?
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    Derby Dead Pool 2024

    Thanks, significant in a small way because it takes a point off Sideik and puts two teams into a tie for the lead. If their joint picks keep dying we might go into the first Deathrace head to head tiebreak. I mean, obviously the fourth round of the FA Cup couldn't compete with that nail-biter! I'll tweak the leaderboard later on after watching Maidstone humble the Tractor Boys
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