I mean sure seems like something a Harvard rowing team coxswain would be saying is happening.

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    He absolutely had a stroke. His bruised hand is probably from being hooked ip to an IV and being really, really old. The side effects are confusion, trouble being coherent, and other mental problems he already had so at least those won’t be as noticeable as they would be on a regular person.

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      I’m pretty damned old and just had a cannula in my hand for a couple of days because I had surgery that required me to be knocked out. No hematoma. For him to have gotten one of those, either a nurse fucked up or he’s on blood thinners.

      And yeah, there’s some evidence he’s been having mini-strokes on and off for at least a year. Here’s hoping they get progressively worse, and he sees nothing in his future but worsening debility and helplessness, surrounded by people who despise him. May he survive long into his term, just to frustrate Vance’s ambitions. A long power struggle as his flunkies try to remove him from office while dishing the dirt on his incompetence and dementia will also be wonderfully humiliating and will make Vance seem even more like the backstabbing weasel he already is.

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        I’d rather he croaked earlier because Vance doesn’t have the same belligerence that has led to declaring war on US cities and he doesn’t have the cult following that enables it when Trump does that shit. Vance would be actively undercut by the party and it would fall back to infighting.

        If nothing else it wouldn’t be worse now and I wouldn’t have to hear about Trump as much.

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      Lol… we can never really know because he’s looked and acted like a stroke victim for years.

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        He’s probably been having them for years

        Once you have one they become more and more common, and the common they are they more likely you are to hit a serious (life ending) one.

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      hes probably on anti-clotting medication, which can cause bruising and bleeding. clots which makes you prone to strokes.