have now heard the news that the current US president is going to address the world on television tonight at 9pm EDT, and I am excited to see if his dementia just peeks its head out a wee bit or if it breaks through completely like the kool-aid man on acid
looks like *someone* got a larger than normal dose of meds today, there’s no way this 9pm announcement is going to work out as planned unless they trick him into taking a nap somehow https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/apr/01/donald-trump-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-case-us-politics-latest-news-updates
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@willb If I were in charge of wrangling all of this together, I'd put up black out curtains, film it early in the day when he's still semi-coherent, and just say it's live when broadcast. If they do this, my money is on them forgetting the black out curtains.