Well the thing is, if you are filthy rich and have such resources at your disposal, what is terminal for one person doesn't have to be terminal to another. Medical science has come a long way, alas capitalism has ensured the best stuff is only available for the richest.

You might say hur dur I live in EU land and we have (almost) free top of the line healthcare. Yes, that's true, hello fellow EU healthcare enjoyer. A close relative of mine still died while on a waiting list, as there were more patients than treatment options available. I'm not saying if they were rich they would have cut in line, but it does happen.

He may not have cancer, but when interviewing Shoigu at the start of the war, he sure gripped that table like his bowels were about to fall out of his asshole. Something was definitely wrong with him health wise at the time.

And Parkinson's, I thought, at some point?

He's gonna be around for at least another decade, we're not that lucky.

Place your bets on how long the white house staff "Weekend at Burnies"'s 47 after he actually kicks the bucket.

Yeah they will just Ronald-Reagan-dementia-zombie trump around to do all of their cartoonishly evil shit

So fitting that magats are attracted to shit.

Pretty sure this was a plot point in the movie Equilibrium.

Could mean that.

It could also mean someone that used to work there, no longer do, but still has friends there that tell them about the ongoing shit show.

I still talk to old coworkers and get updates about the crap going on at places I used to work. In a place like D.C. where maintaining networking and unofficial communication channels are the way a lot of things get done, this isn't a stretch at all.

He can take a LOT of pumping, I suspect.

are there any of those left?

are you talking about raw story? OP changed the link to the original salon piece

Some context for others here, Kim Il Sung is dead but is still technically the North Korean supreme head of state. He is the "Eternal President" with his successors deriving their notional authority to rule directly from him, but apparently officially deferring to his corpse should the question of precedence come up.

In case anyone was wondering, Kim Kong Il holds (not held) the slightly less exalted titles of "Eternal General Secretary" (of the worker's party) and "Eternal Chairman" (of the national defense commission). Even though he is quite definitively also dead.

And while we're at it, Francisco Franco is also still dead.

True, but when assholes die the world becomes less shitty.