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We are entering the "falling out of windows" phase. (Original Post) sheshe2 4 hrs ago OP
Defenestration, a cup of Novichok tea, or an unexplained disappearance. surfered 3 hrs ago #1
WWPD, what would Putin do? JoseBalow 2 hrs ago #12
Above all, NO SMALL PLANES. nt eppur_se_muova 3 hrs ago #2
You might want to move into a basement apartment... Enter stage left 3 hrs ago #3
SSA says it's one option cbabe 3 hrs ago #4
Stay out of small planes, dude. n/t TygrBright 3 hrs ago #5
He's probably been visited by Trump's men in masks. OGBuzz 3 hrs ago #6
That is exactly what he is doing. sheshe2 2 hrs ago #15
Good grief. What a country n/t leftstreet 3 hrs ago #7
Well there is always the "Epstein option"... Arrested and then so despondent he hung him self.. cough, cough..nt mitch96 3 hrs ago #8
I wonder how his steps are Figarosmom 3 hrs ago #9
Jesus what is this crappy government we have? AllyCat 3 hrs ago #10
I might be dumb but what is gopiscrap 2 hrs ago #11
Ummmm.................... sheshe2 2 hrs ago #13
kind of what I thought gopiscrap 2 hrs ago #14
I hear ya, gopiscrap. sheshe2 2 hrs ago #16
JFC, how far this country has fallen! niyad 1 hr ago #17
I agree, niyad. sheshe2 1 hr ago #18
Russian common cause of death of Putin enemies Pototan 1 hr ago #19
Yup. sheshe2 48 min ago #20

JoseBalow

(9,341 posts)
12. WWPD, what would Putin do?
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 10:19 PM
2 hrs ago

He'd stick to the tried-and-true playbook if he could...

Send thugs to bang on his door at 3AM. Frog walk him into the back of a Black Maria with a sack over his head, and take him on a joy ride ending on the wrong side of the gates to the Lubyanka. Keep him awake for a couple of weeks straight while subjecting him to constant interrogation, until he signs a confession to trumped-up charges (bonus points if he can be forced to implicate some acquaintance-subversives.) Then it's off to the frozen gulag for a double-nickel of starvation and hard labor.

Ah, The Good Old Days

Enter stage left

(4,423 posts)
3. You might want to move into a basement apartment...
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 09:20 PM
3 hrs ago

It's not quite as fatal when you fall out the window.

Damn, I shouldn't have warned him.

cbabe

(6,446 posts)
4. SSA says it's one option
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 09:31 PM
3 hrs ago
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221020077

Trump admin horrifies with training on suicidal callers: 'That's not the thing you say'

By Matthew Chapman
Published February 13, 2026 8:13 PM ET

Mental health experts are aghast at the training Social Security Administration workers are receiving from the Trump administration on how to handle suicidal callers.

According to Government Executive, "SSA recently began shifting new swaths of its workforce to phone answering duty, including those who normally receive and process retirement and disability claims, manage the agency’s technology and work in the agency's finances unit. Those employees received brief, three-hour training before they began answering calls. As part of that training, they were warned some callers may express suicidal ideation and presented with examples using a theoretical employee named Fiona."

In a video obtained from the training, an animated instructor tells the employees, “It's important for Fiona to keep the caller engaged and to remind her that suicide is only one option, and that there is no urgency to make any decisions.”

https://www.rawstory.com/social-security-2675268818/

OGBuzz

(113 posts)
6. He's probably been visited by Trump's men in masks.
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 09:46 PM
3 hrs ago

It sounds preemptive, like 'if anything were to happen to me..........'
Smart move actually.

mitch96

(15,722 posts)
8. Well there is always the "Epstein option"... Arrested and then so despondent he hung him self.. cough, cough..nt
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 09:50 PM
3 hrs ago

Figarosmom

(10,685 posts)
9. I wonder how his steps are
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 09:59 PM
3 hrs ago

And can he fly? This does seem logical for Massie to say since trump is getting his play book from putin.

gopiscrap

(24,638 posts)
14. kind of what I thought
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 10:23 PM
2 hrs ago

what a fucked up administration....last year when I was traveling around the world, people would come up to me and what the hell is wrong with the US. I made sure they knew I didn't vote for the orange child rapist!

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