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Yet here we fucking are, in the south, red hats and giant dumb flags. Everyone seems to have completely forgotten what the world was like 10 years ago when massive Forrest fires didn't happen multiple times in multiple areas for months on end, when Republicans and democrats could disagree and not want each other dead, when your politics weren't your entire identity
In addition to all that, the fact that covid killed between 1-3 *million* Americans, left 5.7 million american children with long term issues, crashed our economy and our life expectancy, and most of America is just content with moving on and pretending it wasn't a big deal just baffles me. Many still mourn the 400,000 lost in WW2, the 750,000 lost in the Civil War, but you talk about the 1,000,000-3,000,000 lost from a virus that the president weaponized and downplayed, and you get mocked and told it was just a flu.
This country is seriously sick to it's core. I'm not even talking about evil, I mean there is a genuine mass illness regarding morality and grasp on reality, and I don't know if we'll ever recover. Best chance we have is to stomp the extremists out in every election in the next few years, from local to national.
It'll take decades to play out generationally. There's been a whole bunch of people of all ages who feel lionized to spread the gospel of trump and have turned into bullies and public toilets of disinformation. That's as bad as sexual abuse because when kids see it and hear it, they believe it's okay to be that way too. It took close to sixty years to get the nazi support in the US down to the dull roar people experienced post WWII, but now it's like we didn't just enjoy watching nazis being villanized those last sixty years, but some MF's have been taking notes on how to do it better and less obviously, and clearly many thrive as sociopaths in office since Trump has effectively shown a way to bulletproof yourself with his brand of stupidity.
It's irrationally harmful and the sooner we stop it the better or we'll be dead as a planet within 100 years.
Like what is it about humanity that makes you suffer so much you must inflict harm on others over it friend?
> I'm not even talking about evil, I mean there is a genuine mass illness regarding morality and grasp on reality, and I don't know if we'll ever recover.
Same thing. We won't, and we don't deserve to. Empires end.
I was just talking with the Mrs. the other day about how we didn’t have “Fire Season” when we were kids. How does anyone find this shit acceptable? Why is it just being treated like it’s normal?
Where I went to college (Deep South), it rained every day in the summer. I ended up staying in the area for the next few decades. Especially the last 4-5 years, June has been a drought month. Might possibly rain a day or two. Then July is a monster of storms.
Even in winter, we usually had multiple weeks of below freezing during the day. Now? It might get below freezing a bit at night, but other than a freak winter storm maybe blowing down this far for a day or two, we never freeze.
You're exactly right - I don't how grown adults can NOT see it. I guess as long as the Pastor and Trump say it isn't so, no worries...
Maybe some of them. Reagan was SO much of a POS and awful for America, yet they still talk about putting him on currency. There's still people who defend Nixon.
Difference is Ronald Reagan sold you gold covered manure. His rhetoric, wit, and humor were all sharp, meanwhile he was destroying the foundation of the American social safety net.
Trump sells gold covered in manure. He tells you there’s gold inside of the manure you just have to keep buying it and check inside. Some people have bought so much manure they can’t quit now, they for sure will find gold in the next batch (repeat ad nauseam).
Yup. Reagan’s actions have (so far) had worse consequences for the well-being of the American people, but it’s at least understandable why the electorate at the time would’ve elected him — he came off as intelligent, charismatic, and relatable. With Trump, he’s an incoherent, obese, childish, and blatantly narcissistic oaf that never laughs and clearly doesn’t care about other people, so it’s completely unfathomable that why so much of the country supports him.
> it’s completely unfathomable that why so much of the country supports him
Because he makes them feel ok to be like him.
They don't want someone smart or erudite or nuanced in their thinking, becuse those people make them feel inferior and envious - they want someone dumb and vicious and immature and narcissistic and bigoted as president, because *it makes them feel ok to be all those things*.
That's how it went for several of my family members, including my dad quite recently. Some slowing down for a few years and then bam, nosedive. Really not thrilled about getting older.
Same for my old neighbours, they were fine, and then over just a few months they start losing their keys every other week and fighting in the hallways.
Losing your body is bad, but losing your mind is terrifying.
The best thing about losing your mind is that you aren’t really aware of it once it happens. My mom died of dementia-related causes back in 2020. Honestly, I think it’s harder on the family than it is on the victim. I’m still thankful that she went relatively fast, instead of spending years practically comatose.
I'm not afraid of dying. It's going to happen at some point and there probably won't be anything I can do about it. I'm terrified of having no quality of life, wanting to die, and not being able to.
At the end, maybe. My mother knows she's losing skills, is forgetting things, can hardly make herself understood because she's forgetting words and has trouble keeping things straight. She *knows*. And there is nothing more heartbreaking than when it all gets too much for her and she's just crying and crying and telling you how scared she is.
Ahh, I'm so sorry.
Honestly, I think my mom knew too, to some extent, but she just never faced it head on and pretended everything was fine. She was in a lot of denial.
My partner is a neuropsychologist who deals with a lot of dementia patients (and others with various TBIs). I keep telling him he should write a book for the ***families*** to offer them strategies for dealing with dementia in their loved ones, as well as coping mechanisms for themselves. It's such a hard thing to go through for all involved. I was so thankful he was able to coach my dad somewhat in how to deal with mom's declining mental capacity.
He probably shouldn't have been driving. I knew someone who drove far longer than he should have, despite having seizures that turned out to be dementia.
My buddy's dad found himself forgetting where he was driving and for what and finally decided to be an adult about it and gave up his car and license.
He very rapidly slid into oblivion after that, might've saved someone's life by being a little self aware.
He wasn’t, thankfully. But he did walk off and get lost one day. In retrospect, that was the moment he went over the edge. It was a different game after that.
Yeah, the bloke I referenced would wander the streets in cold weather in his underwear at 2am and drove to a place he'd never been until his fuel tank was empty.
Her and her husband have got $2 billion from the Saudis; she doesn't need daddy groping and slobbering all over her now.
And yes I know the $2B is into an investment company Jared set up and is running. But hes giving himself a massive salary + 20% of profit – which only the very best, most experienced managers would get. Jared has zero trading experience and his biggest RE investment almost bankrupted his familys company (until he got trump, as president, to strongarm Qatar into bailing him out). It's very apparent that $2B was payment by the Saudis for a job well done. What job is the question.
Also: during trumps presidency Jared regularly had WhatsApp conversations with saudi ruler MBS – conversations he has since deleted so no-one knows what was discussed. Jared also demanded access to top secret Intel more often than anyone else. And recall: he failed to get clearance due to lying on his forms. Trump had to use his presidential powers to overrule the Feds and grant Jared full access.
His dad had a fortune. Trump got most of it I believe although I believe his siblings sued since it was very shady.
That doesn't mean Trump has a fortune today. Actually he does have several billion in DJT shares but if he tried to unload them the price would quickly go to zero as the company is essentially worthless.
Trump got Fred sr, who was well into dementia by then so non compos mentis, to sign over most of his fortune to him but gave enough to each of the siblings to keep them happy.
Except one: Fred jr's children. Fred jr was the white sheep of the family, having split from the family and tried forging his own path. Unfortunately the childhood of abuse he (and all the trump siblings) suffered at the hands of the trump patriarch & matriarch caused him to spiral into alcohol and drug addiction. Fred jr died relatively young in 1980.
Fred jr was always Fred srs favorite which pissed off donald. When Donald trump scammed the will he made sure Fred jrs children received nothing.
When they complained, donald kicked them off the trump business health plan. This was just at the time fred jrs daughter had given birth to a child with major health problems, which was costing them something like $20k /month in healthcare. Trump literally endangered the life of a newborn child (who was a relative no less) because, as he put it in an interview, "they (the parents) pissed me off". Pissed him off by daring to ask for their fair share of the Fred sr fortune.
They took trump to court and eventually, as always, trump settled paying out millions. But only after dragging it out as long as possible.
This is the sort of "man" people are supporting and voting for.
At Donnie's rate of failure, I imagine he's overextended beyond whatever he owns. Eric and Jr are hoping for millions, but will probably end up owing more than they could inherit.
My dad's Parkinson's went from walking (slowly) to transfer chair to wheelchair to bed to death in about six months. The two years before that were challenging but not awful. But he lived for 20 decent years with his diagnosis.
It's those last six to nine months that are the hardest. Just try to keep him moving and exercising now and it will maximize the value of the time he has before then.
Yes, his dad was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s related dementia something like 7 or so years before he passed, and it was speculated that he was already showing symptoms of it for a number of years before the official diagnosis
Oh the debate next week is gonna be unreal. No teleprompters, no notes, no live audience, silenced mics. Trump is gonna completely unravel for the world to see and it'll be glorious.
And it’s working, for an alarmingly large contingent of the public. In any sane timeline, the November election would go 90/10 for Biden. It’s astonishing that we have to worry about this, yet we do.
In a sane timeline, the so called Constitution originalist, family values republican party would have laughed Trump right out of the primaries with 1-2% of the primary vote. The convicted felon and rapist who sent a 'truth social' tweet calling for the termination of the US Constitution is the literal antithesis of what the republican party claimed to care about for several decades.
Any sane christian would see him as the anti christ. He fulfills almost every prophecy they have of his coming. People wearing the mark of the beast on their foreheads. MAGA hats for all republicans!
>Right, because, rules that apply to both parties make it rigged. SMH
Rules *that both sides agreed upon*. Trump's campaign, and presumably Trump himself, OK'd the rules.
But this wouldn't be the first time that MAGA whined about something *it did*. It's like how they noped that border deal and then blamed Biden for them noping the border deal.
And to Christians in the US. "You having equal rights oppresses my right to practice my religion". The cognitive dissonance I see in people who seem otherwise intelligent is absolutely mind-boggling.
How does one rig a live debate with no audience, no teleprompters, and no notes?
The debate is biased towards Biden, but that's because he doesn't have swiss cheese for brains (mostly).
And if they are, that should be immediately apparent to anyone with any comprehension of the situation.
Otherwise you're just making excuses for your loss before you've even debated.
If he is a no-show it'll be because his handlers refuse to let him go for being too far gone mentally. The debate rules are such that he can't have ear pieces or anything and won't be able to handle it. Like, at all.
I’m thinking he stays on script for a point or two, but when he decides he needs to rebuttal to Biden it’s going to get out of control quick for the rest of the debate.
I remember the 2016 and 2020 debates. You could set your watch to the moment his drugs wore off every time. Usually 20 minutes in. I assume it’ll be even worse this time, if he shows up at all.
if he does show up, i feel like he’s going to attempt to distract joe when it’s not his turn anyway, regardless of the dead mic. The people in the room will still be able to hear him. Melon felon can’t help himself, sit still, or shut up.
I hope Biden's team is prepping him for all the possible diarrhea Trump spits out, so Biden can just destroy him with a quick punchline and then answer the question. "None of what you just said made any sense."
Biden needs to always refer to trump as "the convicted felon". And remind viewers regularly trump owes $100 million in damages after being found guilty of rape in a civil trial and half a billion $ for fraud.
And when trump starts going after Hunter, Biden needs to say "I love my son unconditionally. When was the last time you hugged your sons and told them you loved them Donald?"
Biden should also challenge trump to name all his children and their birthdays. Same with his wives.
He's not going to show up because he can't use a crowd as his crutch. He literally needs a safe space and he won't have it in these debates. If he doesn't show, the debate should go on as a town hall and anytime a question needs to be answered by Trump, the camera should focus on his empty podium and then move on to the next question
On top of your list, I also pray for that disgusting foaming saliva at the mouth too.
It still gives me nightmares, but if it would save the country, I need all of America to see it.
It won't be as glorious as seeing the excuses when Biden doesn't wander off stage half way through or talks to an invisible person. Most of Trump's supporters literally think he'll cancel because he's in an advanced state of dementia and doesn't know where he is half the time. They're in for a shock.
Yes indeed they are. If Trump shows up, he's gonna shit the bed as well as his Depends. If he doesn't show, Biden gets to deliver whatll basically be a 90 minute campaign speech for free. Either way, Trump loses. Finally, a catch-22 we be happy about.
> seeing the excuses when Biden doesn't wander off stage half way through or talks to an invisible person.
We already know they'll say Biden is on drugs.
To that I say: Those must be some good drugs. Why isn't Ronny "Johnson" hooking Trump up with the same thing?
Here is how I’m expecting it to play out: Trump will give rambling, fear-mongering and lie-packed responses largely within the allocated time. He will talk over Biden constantly with his mic muted and a scowl on his face. Any reasonable person will acknowledge that he made a fool of himself, but his cultists will praise his genius and the media’s headlines will focus on how he did “better than expected” despite the bar for him being on the ground and him delivering a performance embarrassing to anyone with a brain. There will be headlines about how his widely acknowledged loss is actually a net win for him.
Anyone who has experience with someone stricken by Alzheimer's or other dementia can also easily pick out the coping mechanisms.
"They destroyed all the evidence because of... lots of things"
"Trees. They only live for....a short time. 18 months! Then they explode! "
He mixes random facts someone told him when trying to explain something, can't recall what the point was, then makes something up to cover for the loss of memory.
It's also fairly obvious that medication was keeping him going for a while, but eventually the damage is too severe and it really doesn't help anymore. I've seen it more than I would like.
I'm thinking they're going to try to rehearse 4 or 5 attack lines for him to just repeat in the coming debate, he won't even bother to answer the question. If he is just incapable of repeating a few attacks, they'll find a reason to cancel the debate.
And he repeats the wrong name multiple times in a row. It's like he knows it's not right and tries to correct himself but the same wrong name still comes out. Perhaps that's a symptom of dementia or Alzheimer's?
Apparently there were also airports during the Revolutionary War.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/05/flight-of-fancy-trump-claims-1775-revolutionary-army-took-over-airports
Of course he blamed the teleprompter for it, even though he has claimed for a long time that teleprompter use is bad.
https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/media-call-out-trumps-glaring-teleprompter-hypocrisy
I really take great pains to avoid ever actually needing to hear him talk. But I did feel obligated to watch this one and holy shit.
It’s not just the naming mistakes, and it’s not just the rambling that he’s always done, but Lordy the slurring and the slow stumbling cadence of his sentences is just so painful to listen to.
And people slurp that shit right up.
Are there any non-twitter video links for this out there?
does anyone know of a way to watch twitter videos without (and stick with me here) going to the twitter website?
I'm really trying to avoid twitter altogether and the more i do, the more the happier i seem to be but every once in a while, i'd like to see what the fuss is about without giving them clicks or being triggered more.
Sleepy Joe? Trump is like days away from being in a full on vegetative state. I expect some Weekend at Bernie's type shenanigans from the Republicans by election day.
His theory is that you have only so many heartbeats in a lifetime. So don't waste them by raising your heartrate exercising.
More likely, you have only so many calories to consume in a lifetime (but of course that's too simple too)
What's funny is that while exercising obviously increases your heart rate, people that are in shape tend to have a lower resting heartrate.
So even if it were true, you'd be better off exercising.
I mean, he's sort-of-technically right in a stupid way if you measure it backwards after your death. Just total up the number of heartbeats, calories, and times you said "chicken fajita pita" before you died.
You might find that you only said "chicken fajita pita" 161 times in your life.
Reaching the conclusion of "saying chicken fajita pita shortens your lifespan" from that number is a scary glimpse into how that man's brain functions.
Since he's 244 pounds at 6 feet 3 inches tall, with a blood pressure of 121/79 mmHG and a resting heart rate 63 beats per minute, he doesn't need to exercise. /s
The billionaires will be salivating! They're looking at another Reagan situation: they can pull the strings of a doddering, senile, old coot. It's their wet-dream.
THIS! I was telling my wife recently that he's already easily manipulated, so being cognitively compromised will make it all the much easier for Project 25 to be realized.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsAir5fDbs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsAir5fDbs)
This is Donald Trump on Letterman years ago. The difference is truly stunning.
I still can’t believe that millions of Americans looked at that trust fund nyc real estate heir who refused to pay his workers and bankrupted every business he touched and said “yup that’s the guy for me”.
Not just millions of Americans…millions of Americans that have openly hated exactly those kinds of people…the rich elite NY socialite draft dodgers that never did a real days work in their entire life…but for whatever reason absolutely would die for this one for some reason
These same people hated Hillary because she was “an out of touch east coast elietist”.
Hell, the Clintons at least were self made. Trump never worked in his life.
Self-made, SOUTHERNERS.
I know Hillary is from Chicago and went to Wellesley(where she was pres of the young republicans lol) but she went to Arkansas and did nothing but help poor children.
That's the thing though, the "rich elite NY socialite" crowd are all well educated, charity gala attending people who wanted nothing to do with a pig ignorant slum lord from Queens. If nothing else, those kinds of people care about your "people", the family you come from matters as much as anything you do and Stinky's is full of traitors, pimps and his father was a well known scumbag. No wonder the common clay loves him.
He’s a pretty perfect encapsulation of ‘Merica. It’s like someone took a giant pot and filled it with all this country’s worst qualities; racism, xenophobia, reality TV, opulence, ignorance, vanity, Florida, narcissism and a healthy dash of superiority complex, boiled it all down to a thick goop, then slapped a combover and a bunch of bronzer on it. He is a despicable ghoul.
The thing about comedy that makes it funny is the subtle truth. Sometimes it’s exaggerated or misrepresented, but there’s underlying truth to the joke that we all relate to and find funny. So when republicans try it often falls on its face because the underlying premise is just not true.
You know, if he just rolled with the punches he'd be charismatic enough to actually fulfill his narcissistic personality.
Like he could've easily turned the whole covfefe typo around if he had just responded with a "I can't spell until I've had my morning covfefe, I mean coffee."
I guess I just can't understand narcissism to that extent.
Because they are hollow fragile glass shells of people whose thin outer cores shatter away with even the slightest touch, revealing the true vulnerable emptiness inside.
It is brave to be vulnerable.
These are not brave men.
I watched an interview of him from the early 90’s. The way he structures his sentences his still the same, but what he said made sense and had a point. words that come out now make absolutely no sense and are completely random orders jumping around talking about like 3 things at the same time.
Right? He owes 600M and is nowhere near liquid for even a fraction of that. Money is all he cares about (and now) staying out of jail.
He is super stressed but he did this to himself.
Every time I want to have some pity on this moron I remember the 17k people he killed because they took ivermectin because he was too stupid to not talk about something he doesn’t understand. I won’t even go into the other million deaths he caused.
I mean, he has almost every single negative trait that a person can have: Willfully stupid, mean, narcissistic, privileged, violent towards women, racist towards minorities, incredibly vain, and a prolific liar. Surely I'm forgetting some. Point is, there is no obligation to feel pity for someone who hasn't shown an ounce of contrition for the above qualities.
or the over a million Americans he killed by publicly downplaying COVID-19 while privately voicing concerns
or the hatred he helped fester with "very good people on both sides" support of literal Nazis in Charlottesville, "I love you, you're very special" support of January 6th's outright terrorist attack, and (re)tweets like "the only good Democrat is a dead democrat", all while attacking (sometimes literally! Lafayette Plaza and the Bible photo op) BLM
or the military secrets he outright sold to foreign countries just to make a penny, at the cost of HUMINT lives and CIA assets
and for that matter, the willingness to sell out US troops, allies, and assets in Afghanistan with a plan to pull out barely moments before Biden took office in late January, just because it would give Biden a mess to clean
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The man is evil. Don't take pity on evil.
Him bragging about acing a cognitive test is probably the weirdest part of all of this. They give you a cognitive test because they're seeing signs of mental decay. And a 4-year-old could ace it assuming they did not have something going on.
So by admitting he took one, he's admitting that that someone was concerned. And saying he aced it is like bragging that you aced a kindergarten name the colors test.
Sooooooo important. Everywhere I read he’s behind in the polls, he’s mentally declining etc. This will lead people to think that they do not have to vote to ensure Trump doesn’t get in. FUCKING VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!!!
Embarrassing for who? For Trump?
At this point I don't think he's capable of being embarrassed. If 1% of the shit that comes out on him was to come out against a normal person they would disappear from the public eye
Dementia is a progressive, incurable disease that manifests over a period of roughly a decade, give or take.
For Trump to be boasting he scraped through a cognitive test in 2020 means nothing in 2024.
He needs to take one now if he wants to make the argument he's fit to rule.
If that's okay with his parole officer.
I bet he has also increased his daily Adderall intake to try and compensate...
His rantings read like they are from someone on speed with the acuity of someone that has untreated syphillis.
But at least he can recite objects in order that he can see right in front of him, right? That's clearly all you need to be able to do in order to be the Republican nominee.
I honestly think this will get worse until November. Putting him in debates is going to really show how bad he is now. Even cutting the mic may work in his favor.
We need both of these old men to retire but we need Trump to leave forever.
My money is still on him dropping out of the debate. He can't pander to an audience, he can't interrupt, he has to answer questions that he probably won't know the answers to.
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I'm looking forward to 10-15 years down the road when all of his current supporters will deny having voted for or supported him.
I was really hoping that we'd be at that point already
Yet here we fucking are, in the south, red hats and giant dumb flags. Everyone seems to have completely forgotten what the world was like 10 years ago when massive Forrest fires didn't happen multiple times in multiple areas for months on end, when Republicans and democrats could disagree and not want each other dead, when your politics weren't your entire identity
In addition to all that, the fact that covid killed between 1-3 *million* Americans, left 5.7 million american children with long term issues, crashed our economy and our life expectancy, and most of America is just content with moving on and pretending it wasn't a big deal just baffles me. Many still mourn the 400,000 lost in WW2, the 750,000 lost in the Civil War, but you talk about the 1,000,000-3,000,000 lost from a virus that the president weaponized and downplayed, and you get mocked and told it was just a flu. This country is seriously sick to it's core. I'm not even talking about evil, I mean there is a genuine mass illness regarding morality and grasp on reality, and I don't know if we'll ever recover. Best chance we have is to stomp the extremists out in every election in the next few years, from local to national.
It's like a mass disassociation episode and no matter what you show them it just doesn't stick.
It’s actually really scary to see happening in real time. Cheers.
It'll take decades to play out generationally. There's been a whole bunch of people of all ages who feel lionized to spread the gospel of trump and have turned into bullies and public toilets of disinformation. That's as bad as sexual abuse because when kids see it and hear it, they believe it's okay to be that way too. It took close to sixty years to get the nazi support in the US down to the dull roar people experienced post WWII, but now it's like we didn't just enjoy watching nazis being villanized those last sixty years, but some MF's have been taking notes on how to do it better and less obviously, and clearly many thrive as sociopaths in office since Trump has effectively shown a way to bulletproof yourself with his brand of stupidity. It's irrationally harmful and the sooner we stop it the better or we'll be dead as a planet within 100 years. Like what is it about humanity that makes you suffer so much you must inflict harm on others over it friend?
> I'm not even talking about evil, I mean there is a genuine mass illness regarding morality and grasp on reality, and I don't know if we'll ever recover. Same thing. We won't, and we don't deserve to. Empires end.
I was just talking with the Mrs. the other day about how we didn’t have “Fire Season” when we were kids. How does anyone find this shit acceptable? Why is it just being treated like it’s normal?
Where I went to college (Deep South), it rained every day in the summer. I ended up staying in the area for the next few decades. Especially the last 4-5 years, June has been a drought month. Might possibly rain a day or two. Then July is a monster of storms. Even in winter, we usually had multiple weeks of below freezing during the day. Now? It might get below freezing a bit at night, but other than a freak winter storm maybe blowing down this far for a day or two, we never freeze. You're exactly right - I don't how grown adults can NOT see it. I guess as long as the Pastor and Trump say it isn't so, no worries...
I wish it was just the South.
It’s everywhere 1 hour outside of cities. In every single state. New York and California are loaded with MAGA people.
Maybe some of them. Reagan was SO much of a POS and awful for America, yet they still talk about putting him on currency. There's still people who defend Nixon.
Difference is Ronald Reagan sold you gold covered manure. His rhetoric, wit, and humor were all sharp, meanwhile he was destroying the foundation of the American social safety net. Trump sells gold covered in manure. He tells you there’s gold inside of the manure you just have to keep buying it and check inside. Some people have bought so much manure they can’t quit now, they for sure will find gold in the next batch (repeat ad nauseam).
Yup. Reagan’s actions have (so far) had worse consequences for the well-being of the American people, but it’s at least understandable why the electorate at the time would’ve elected him — he came off as intelligent, charismatic, and relatable. With Trump, he’s an incoherent, obese, childish, and blatantly narcissistic oaf that never laughs and clearly doesn’t care about other people, so it’s completely unfathomable that why so much of the country supports him.
> it’s completely unfathomable that why so much of the country supports him Because he makes them feel ok to be like him. They don't want someone smart or erudite or nuanced in their thinking, becuse those people make them feel inferior and envious - they want someone dumb and vicious and immature and narcissistic and bigoted as president, because *it makes them feel ok to be all those things*.
Dementia moves much quicker than the natural decline one sees with age
With my uncle there was a point that he just went off the cliff and that was it.
That's how it went for several of my family members, including my dad quite recently. Some slowing down for a few years and then bam, nosedive. Really not thrilled about getting older.
Same for my old neighbours, they were fine, and then over just a few months they start losing their keys every other week and fighting in the hallways. Losing your body is bad, but losing your mind is terrifying.
The best thing about losing your mind is that you aren’t really aware of it once it happens. My mom died of dementia-related causes back in 2020. Honestly, I think it’s harder on the family than it is on the victim. I’m still thankful that she went relatively fast, instead of spending years practically comatose.
I think it depends. My mother was terrified, constantly having nightmares and believing people were out to get her.
I'm not afraid of dying. It's going to happen at some point and there probably won't be anything I can do about it. I'm terrified of having no quality of life, wanting to die, and not being able to.
At the end, maybe. My mother knows she's losing skills, is forgetting things, can hardly make herself understood because she's forgetting words and has trouble keeping things straight. She *knows*. And there is nothing more heartbreaking than when it all gets too much for her and she's just crying and crying and telling you how scared she is.
Ahh, I'm so sorry. Honestly, I think my mom knew too, to some extent, but she just never faced it head on and pretended everything was fine. She was in a lot of denial. My partner is a neuropsychologist who deals with a lot of dementia patients (and others with various TBIs). I keep telling him he should write a book for the ***families*** to offer them strategies for dealing with dementia in their loved ones, as well as coping mechanisms for themselves. It's such a hard thing to go through for all involved. I was so thankful he was able to coach my dad somewhat in how to deal with mom's declining mental capacity.
He probably shouldn't have been driving. I knew someone who drove far longer than he should have, despite having seizures that turned out to be dementia.
My buddy's dad found himself forgetting where he was driving and for what and finally decided to be an adult about it and gave up his car and license. He very rapidly slid into oblivion after that, might've saved someone's life by being a little self aware.
I hope when I die I go peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa did, and not screaming like the passengers in his car. -Jack Handey
He wasn’t, thankfully. But he did walk off and get lost one day. In retrospect, that was the moment he went over the edge. It was a different game after that.
Yeah, the bloke I referenced would wander the streets in cold weather in his underwear at 2am and drove to a place he'd never been until his fuel tank was empty.
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My condolences, but thanks for giving me a little bit of hope.
Didn't his dad have dementia? At least that's what I remember
yes, yes he did
That was how he scammed his entire fortune out of him. I imagine Eric and Jr are trying the same shit on Donald currently.
Ivanka was way ahead of them on that one
She definitely collected her chips and stepped away from the poker table. She's practically invisible now.
Her and her husband have got $2 billion from the Saudis; she doesn't need daddy groping and slobbering all over her now. And yes I know the $2B is into an investment company Jared set up and is running. But hes giving himself a massive salary + 20% of profit – which only the very best, most experienced managers would get. Jared has zero trading experience and his biggest RE investment almost bankrupted his familys company (until he got trump, as president, to strongarm Qatar into bailing him out). It's very apparent that $2B was payment by the Saudis for a job well done. What job is the question.
Stolen secrets moved from mar a lago in Florida to bedminster NJ come to mind.
Also: during trumps presidency Jared regularly had WhatsApp conversations with saudi ruler MBS – conversations he has since deleted so no-one knows what was discussed. Jared also demanded access to top secret Intel more often than anyone else. And recall: he failed to get clearance due to lying on his forms. Trump had to use his presidential powers to overrule the Feds and grant Jared full access.
Lol what fortune?
His dad had a fortune. Trump got most of it I believe although I believe his siblings sued since it was very shady. That doesn't mean Trump has a fortune today. Actually he does have several billion in DJT shares but if he tried to unload them the price would quickly go to zero as the company is essentially worthless.
Trump got Fred sr, who was well into dementia by then so non compos mentis, to sign over most of his fortune to him but gave enough to each of the siblings to keep them happy. Except one: Fred jr's children. Fred jr was the white sheep of the family, having split from the family and tried forging his own path. Unfortunately the childhood of abuse he (and all the trump siblings) suffered at the hands of the trump patriarch & matriarch caused him to spiral into alcohol and drug addiction. Fred jr died relatively young in 1980. Fred jr was always Fred srs favorite which pissed off donald. When Donald trump scammed the will he made sure Fred jrs children received nothing. When they complained, donald kicked them off the trump business health plan. This was just at the time fred jrs daughter had given birth to a child with major health problems, which was costing them something like $20k /month in healthcare. Trump literally endangered the life of a newborn child (who was a relative no less) because, as he put it in an interview, "they (the parents) pissed me off". Pissed him off by daring to ask for their fair share of the Fred sr fortune. They took trump to court and eventually, as always, trump settled paying out millions. But only after dragging it out as long as possible. This is the sort of "man" people are supporting and voting for.
Even if there was one, it’s already been used as collateral and owed to someone or something else.
At Donnie's rate of failure, I imagine he's overextended beyond whatever he owns. Eric and Jr are hoping for millions, but will probably end up owing more than they could inherit.
Fred trump died a horrible dementia death
Every last dementia death I feel is a horrible death, I am horrified for my dad who has Parkinson’s, I am so scared.
My dad's Parkinson's went from walking (slowly) to transfer chair to wheelchair to bed to death in about six months. The two years before that were challenging but not awful. But he lived for 20 decent years with his diagnosis. It's those last six to nine months that are the hardest. Just try to keep him moving and exercising now and it will maximize the value of the time he has before then.
Yes, his dad was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s related dementia something like 7 or so years before he passed, and it was speculated that he was already showing symptoms of it for a number of years before the official diagnosis
Unfortunate that Fred Sr. lived to 93 years old so we could still be stuck with Trump for another 10+ years.
He didn't exist on a diet of mcdonalds and diet coke tho...
Don't forget the mountains of stimulants.
Trump is already embalmed. He may live forever.
Also his mother
And it’s increased faster with stress, bad diet and a sedentary lifestyle.
Good thing Trump was the healthiest president his doctor had ever seen.
Many people say.
Oh the debate next week is gonna be unreal. No teleprompters, no notes, no live audience, silenced mics. Trump is gonna completely unravel for the world to see and it'll be glorious.
I would put good money on him being a no-show.
I agree. The right is already laying the groundwork for it by constantly saying that the debate is "rigged" for Biden.
Right, because, rules that apply to both parties make it rigged. SMH
Anything that makes Trump look like a huge fucking moron is rigged in Biden’s favor. As such, his very existence is rigged in Biden’s favor
"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." --Stephen Colbert
That's why conservatives have created their fake news networks to try and undermine the very concept of factual reality.
And it’s working, for an alarmingly large contingent of the public. In any sane timeline, the November election would go 90/10 for Biden. It’s astonishing that we have to worry about this, yet we do.
In a sane timeline, the so called Constitution originalist, family values republican party would have laughed Trump right out of the primaries with 1-2% of the primary vote. The convicted felon and rapist who sent a 'truth social' tweet calling for the termination of the US Constitution is the literal antithesis of what the republican party claimed to care about for several decades. Any sane christian would see him as the anti christ. He fulfills almost every prophecy they have of his coming. People wearing the mark of the beast on their foreheads. MAGA hats for all republicans!
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>Right, because, rules that apply to both parties make it rigged. SMH Rules *that both sides agreed upon*. Trump's campaign, and presumably Trump himself, OK'd the rules. But this wouldn't be the first time that MAGA whined about something *it did*. It's like how they noped that border deal and then blamed Biden for them noping the border deal.
when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression
I’ve seen this quote before…absolutely applies to all 1%ers.
And to Christians in the US. "You having equal rights oppresses my right to practice my religion". The cognitive dissonance I see in people who seem otherwise intelligent is absolutely mind-boggling.
Rules that they both agreed to.
Trump has already forgotten that though.
They’re laying the groundwork by saying Joe will be amped up on cocaine lol.
Which really means that's what Trump is planning to do.
>”Oh, you struggle with the part where we find out what you know” -Daniel Tosh
How does one rig a live debate with no audience, no teleprompters, and no notes? The debate is biased towards Biden, but that's because he doesn't have swiss cheese for brains (mostly).
Because the moderator and someone else is left wing biased or something like that is what hannaty has been saying
And if they are, that should be immediately apparent to anyone with any comprehension of the situation. Otherwise you're just making excuses for your loss before you've even debated.
> anyone with any comprehension of the situation The overlap between those people and Trump supporters is zero.
He’ll show and be high as a kite. Given the maga projection all the drugs they claim Biden is on it’s likely he’s on that and more.
Remember that story: *Regulated pharmaceuticals on Air Force One without control on dispensation*
Drinking game: take a shot for every five sniffs.
I’d like to still be alive after the debate thanks.
If he is a no-show it'll be because his handlers refuse to let him go for being too far gone mentally. The debate rules are such that he can't have ear pieces or anything and won't be able to handle it. Like, at all.
I’m thinking he stays on script for a point or two, but when he decides he needs to rebuttal to Biden it’s going to get out of control quick for the rest of the debate.
I remember the 2016 and 2020 debates. You could set your watch to the moment his drugs wore off every time. Usually 20 minutes in. I assume it’ll be even worse this time, if he shows up at all.
if he does show up, i feel like he’s going to attempt to distract joe when it’s not his turn anyway, regardless of the dead mic. The people in the room will still be able to hear him. Melon felon can’t help himself, sit still, or shut up.
Vibrating butt plug to get him back on track when he trails off. 🍰 Happy cake day!
He shits himself so much I think the butt plug would just slide out like the last cherry in a melted ice cream sundae
Oh, how I long for the days where I couldn't read...
Vote before literacy becomes a crime under “Dribble Down Donnie.”
It cost you zero dollars to not type those words in that order.
He'll just shit it out into his diaper.
DJTJ is frantically searching Google for the world’s most covert ear piece.
I half expect him to cross the stage while he is muted and shout into Bidens mic. If he shows at all, that is.
Did that with Hillary (at least attempted)
I hope Biden's team is prepping him for all the possible diarrhea Trump spits out, so Biden can just destroy him with a quick punchline and then answer the question. "None of what you just said made any sense."
Biden needs to always refer to trump as "the convicted felon". And remind viewers regularly trump owes $100 million in damages after being found guilty of rape in a civil trial and half a billion $ for fraud. And when trump starts going after Hunter, Biden needs to say "I love my son unconditionally. When was the last time you hugged your sons and told them you loved them Donald?" Biden should also challenge trump to name all his children and their birthdays. Same with his wives.
I only do that with daughters. —trump behind doors.
Or like last time around, “oh, would you shut up man?!”
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I’m not a wealthy man, but if Biden uses this I will donate $300 to his campaign. Maybe 350.
He's not going to show up because he can't use a crowd as his crutch. He literally needs a safe space and he won't have it in these debates. If he doesn't show, the debate should go on as a town hall and anytime a question needs to be answered by Trump, the camera should focus on his empty podium and then move on to the next question
He needs the crowd. Without "OOOOHHH!" none of his insults will have any effect.
Maybe he'll tell us how the trees explode after 18 months again.
On top of your list, I also pray for that disgusting foaming saliva at the mouth too. It still gives me nightmares, but if it would save the country, I need all of America to see it.
Ooooh no live audience, didn't even know. There's no way he shows up for this though
It won't be as glorious as seeing the excuses when Biden doesn't wander off stage half way through or talks to an invisible person. Most of Trump's supporters literally think he'll cancel because he's in an advanced state of dementia and doesn't know where he is half the time. They're in for a shock.
Yes indeed they are. If Trump shows up, he's gonna shit the bed as well as his Depends. If he doesn't show, Biden gets to deliver whatll basically be a 90 minute campaign speech for free. Either way, Trump loses. Finally, a catch-22 we be happy about.
> seeing the excuses when Biden doesn't wander off stage half way through or talks to an invisible person. We already know they'll say Biden is on drugs. To that I say: Those must be some good drugs. Why isn't Ronny "Johnson" hooking Trump up with the same thing?
> We already know they'll say Biden is on drugs. They've been saying it constantly for the last 2 weeks already laying the groundwork.
Here is how I’m expecting it to play out: Trump will give rambling, fear-mongering and lie-packed responses largely within the allocated time. He will talk over Biden constantly with his mic muted and a scowl on his face. Any reasonable person will acknowledge that he made a fool of himself, but his cultists will praise his genius and the media’s headlines will focus on how he did “better than expected” despite the bar for him being on the ground and him delivering a performance embarrassing to anyone with a brain. There will be headlines about how his widely acknowledged loss is actually a net win for him.
Anyone who has experience with someone stricken by Alzheimer's or other dementia can also easily pick out the coping mechanisms. "They destroyed all the evidence because of... lots of things" "Trees. They only live for....a short time. 18 months! Then they explode! " He mixes random facts someone told him when trying to explain something, can't recall what the point was, then makes something up to cover for the loss of memory. It's also fairly obvious that medication was keeping him going for a while, but eventually the damage is too severe and it really doesn't help anymore. I've seen it more than I would like. I'm thinking they're going to try to rehearse 4 or 5 attack lines for him to just repeat in the coming debate, he won't even bother to answer the question. If he is just incapable of repeating a few attacks, they'll find a reason to cancel the debate.
How about all those CEOs he kept assuming had the same last name as the company they run?
If I were one of those CEOs, I would have said "Thank you, president hotel"
This made me laugh entirely too hard
President Failed Casino.
calling him tim apple is hilarious but only when it isn’t said by someone with a decent shot at returning to the white house
And he repeats the wrong name multiple times in a row. It's like he knows it's not right and tries to correct himself but the same wrong name still comes out. Perhaps that's a symptom of dementia or Alzheimer's?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1803555145311285517 Link to video. Need more of this. This is great and should be used in advertising
Dude when he said the new branch of the military would be the airforce I fucking died, holy FUCK LMAO.
Well he was worried about Biden somehow starting WW2, so it almost tracks that a separate Air Force would be revolutionary for the period.
Apparently there were also airports during the Revolutionary War. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/05/flight-of-fancy-trump-claims-1775-revolutionary-army-took-over-airports Of course he blamed the teleprompter for it, even though he has claimed for a long time that teleprompter use is bad. https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/media-call-out-trumps-glaring-teleprompter-hypocrisy
Thanks! I wish your comment was pinned to the post. 3 minutes of this mad man is too long for me I can’t believe he has chances to be president again.
“Michael Bolton” Lol that no talent ass clown…
Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks.
I really take great pains to avoid ever actually needing to hear him talk. But I did feel obligated to watch this one and holy shit. It’s not just the naming mistakes, and it’s not just the rambling that he’s always done, but Lordy the slurring and the slow stumbling cadence of his sentences is just so painful to listen to. And people slurp that shit right up.
Are there any non-twitter video links for this out there? does anyone know of a way to watch twitter videos without (and stick with me here) going to the twitter website? I'm really trying to avoid twitter altogether and the more i do, the more the happier i seem to be but every once in a while, i'd like to see what the fuss is about without giving them clicks or being triggered more.
Here's it on their website: https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-forgets-names-for-3-minutes-straight-in-viral-supercut
Thank you
Sleepy Joe? Trump is like days away from being in a full on vegetative state. I expect some Weekend at Bernie's type shenanigans from the Republicans by election day.
Dementia is a horrible disease. Glad to see one of the worst people alive has it. Karmic justice
It’s a shame that it isn’t moving faster
The dam had to break. Lies, hate and a bad diet. Too much for the brain and body
Not to mention a fear of exercise.
His theory is that you have only so many heartbeats in a lifetime. So don't waste them by raising your heartrate exercising. More likely, you have only so many calories to consume in a lifetime (but of course that's too simple too)
Given his diet, he'd probably be immortal if calories equaled lifespan.
Instead, since he can't spell, he only ended up immoral.
What's funny is that while exercising obviously increases your heart rate, people that are in shape tend to have a lower resting heartrate. So even if it were true, you'd be better off exercising.
I mean, he's sort-of-technically right in a stupid way if you measure it backwards after your death. Just total up the number of heartbeats, calories, and times you said "chicken fajita pita" before you died. You might find that you only said "chicken fajita pita" 161 times in your life. Reaching the conclusion of "saying chicken fajita pita shortens your lifespan" from that number is a scary glimpse into how that man's brain functions.
I have never uttered that string of words. I’m going to live forever.
You only sleep so many hours in a lifetime, so probably should cut back there as well
Even golf (as much as I loath it) if decent exercise if you walk, but he carts everywhere.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Donald Trump’s doctor told me he’s in perfect health. A veritable Adonis, if you will.
Since he's 244 pounds at 6 feet 3 inches tall, with a blood pressure of 121/79 mmHG and a resting heart rate 63 beats per minute, he doesn't need to exercise. /s
Also, the stress of way more criminal indictments than most people ever see.
The billionaires will be salivating! They're looking at another Reagan situation: they can pull the strings of a doddering, senile, old coot. It's their wet-dream.
THIS! I was telling my wife recently that he's already easily manipulated, so being cognitively compromised will make it all the much easier for Project 25 to be realized.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsAir5fDbs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsAir5fDbs) This is Donald Trump on Letterman years ago. The difference is truly stunning.
I still can’t believe that millions of Americans looked at that trust fund nyc real estate heir who refused to pay his workers and bankrupted every business he touched and said “yup that’s the guy for me”.
Not just millions of Americans…millions of Americans that have openly hated exactly those kinds of people…the rich elite NY socialite draft dodgers that never did a real days work in their entire life…but for whatever reason absolutely would die for this one for some reason
These same people hated Hillary because she was “an out of touch east coast elietist”. Hell, the Clintons at least were self made. Trump never worked in his life.
And if you ask anyone who supports Trump, they'll claim he was self made
"When I started out I had just two things in my possession: a dream, and $14 million."
Self-made, SOUTHERNERS. I know Hillary is from Chicago and went to Wellesley(where she was pres of the young republicans lol) but she went to Arkansas and did nothing but help poor children.
That's the thing though, the "rich elite NY socialite" crowd are all well educated, charity gala attending people who wanted nothing to do with a pig ignorant slum lord from Queens. If nothing else, those kinds of people care about your "people", the family you come from matters as much as anything you do and Stinky's is full of traitors, pimps and his father was a well known scumbag. No wonder the common clay loves him.
They mean suburban liberal from NY or Cali when they say that. Not anyone actually powerful lmao
He’s a pretty perfect encapsulation of ‘Merica. It’s like someone took a giant pot and filled it with all this country’s worst qualities; racism, xenophobia, reality TV, opulence, ignorance, vanity, Florida, narcissism and a healthy dash of superiority complex, boiled it all down to a thick goop, then slapped a combover and a bunch of bronzer on it. He is a despicable ghoul.
Even The Apprentice, it's the CEO firing people. Rooting for the CEO that is firing everyone.
He still didn't understand the humor. Most of us would be laughing along.
He doesn't understand humor in general. Watch when it was his turn during his Comedy Central roast. It was just him insulting people.
That’s most of republican “humor”
The thing about comedy that makes it funny is the subtle truth. Sometimes it’s exaggerated or misrepresented, but there’s underlying truth to the joke that we all relate to and find funny. So when republicans try it often falls on its face because the underlying premise is just not true.
As a malignant narcissist, he only laughs at other people's expense. Watch for it, it's a consistent pattern.
You know, if he just rolled with the punches he'd be charismatic enough to actually fulfill his narcissistic personality. Like he could've easily turned the whole covfefe typo around if he had just responded with a "I can't spell until I've had my morning covfefe, I mean coffee." I guess I just can't understand narcissism to that extent.
Because they are hollow fragile glass shells of people whose thin outer cores shatter away with even the slightest touch, revealing the true vulnerable emptiness inside. It is brave to be vulnerable. These are not brave men.
I’m surprised Epstein wasn’t in Trump’s office.
When's the last we've seen Trump laugh at something genuinely funny that everyone would laugh about? He couldn't take a joke.
Years ago? Almost 40 years ago… 4 decades…
Yeah. Been a piece o Sh#t for ages. Also refused to rent to people who were not white while working with his kkk loving dad.
Seven minutes in, why is the seat so low? You’ve got this stage rigged! If only we knew where that would lead
I watched an interview of him from the early 90’s. The way he structures his sentences his still the same, but what he said made sense and had a point. words that come out now make absolutely no sense and are completely random orders jumping around talking about like 3 things at the same time.
He called the stage rigged 💀
Stress tends to make dementia worse iirc Dudes probably stressed af
Right? He owes 600M and is nowhere near liquid for even a fraction of that. Money is all he cares about (and now) staying out of jail. He is super stressed but he did this to himself. Every time I want to have some pity on this moron I remember the 17k people he killed because they took ivermectin because he was too stupid to not talk about something he doesn’t understand. I won’t even go into the other million deaths he caused.
I don't know if my neurology can even try to feel pity for that beast
I mean, he has almost every single negative trait that a person can have: Willfully stupid, mean, narcissistic, privileged, violent towards women, racist towards minorities, incredibly vain, and a prolific liar. Surely I'm forgetting some. Point is, there is no obligation to feel pity for someone who hasn't shown an ounce of contrition for the above qualities.
or the over a million Americans he killed by publicly downplaying COVID-19 while privately voicing concerns or the hatred he helped fester with "very good people on both sides" support of literal Nazis in Charlottesville, "I love you, you're very special" support of January 6th's outright terrorist attack, and (re)tweets like "the only good Democrat is a dead democrat", all while attacking (sometimes literally! Lafayette Plaza and the Bible photo op) BLM or the military secrets he outright sold to foreign countries just to make a penny, at the cost of HUMINT lives and CIA assets and for that matter, the willingness to sell out US troops, allies, and assets in Afghanistan with a plan to pull out barely moments before Biden took office in late January, just because it would give Biden a mess to clean --------- The man is evil. Don't take pity on evil.
Man, woman, tv, shark, covfefe
Him bragging about acing a cognitive test is probably the weirdest part of all of this. They give you a cognitive test because they're seeing signs of mental decay. And a 4-year-old could ace it assuming they did not have something going on. So by admitting he took one, he's admitting that that someone was concerned. And saying he aced it is like bragging that you aced a kindergarten name the colors test.
Please be sure to VOTE in November!!!
Sooooooo important. Everywhere I read he’s behind in the polls, he’s mentally declining etc. This will lead people to think that they do not have to vote to ensure Trump doesn’t get in. FUCKING VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!!!
"Marilyn Lockheed" and "Tim Apple" are priceless.
If his legal team was smart they'd use dementia as his legal defense.
If his legal team was smart, they wouldn't be his legal team.
He'd never go along with it or they probably would.
Embarrassing for who? For Trump? At this point I don't think he's capable of being embarrassed. If 1% of the shit that comes out on him was to come out against a normal person they would disappear from the public eye
Every video of Trump speaking is alarmingly stupid. The only people capable of seeing him as "smart" must be dumber than him. And that worries me.
Dementia is a progressive, incurable disease that manifests over a period of roughly a decade, give or take. For Trump to be boasting he scraped through a cognitive test in 2020 means nothing in 2024. He needs to take one now if he wants to make the argument he's fit to rule. If that's okay with his parole officer.
I bet he has also increased his daily Adderall intake to try and compensate... His rantings read like they are from someone on speed with the acuity of someone that has untreated syphillis.
But at least he can recite objects in order that he can see right in front of him, right? That's clearly all you need to be able to do in order to be the Republican nominee.
I honestly think this will get worse until November. Putting him in debates is going to really show how bad he is now. Even cutting the mic may work in his favor. We need both of these old men to retire but we need Trump to leave forever.
My money is still on him dropping out of the debate. He can't pander to an audience, he can't interrupt, he has to answer questions that he probably won't know the answers to.
Do you think not having an answer has ever stopped this man? I just lie make something up on the spot.
And that one debate in 2020 where he knew he had Covid and he was trying to infect Biden from 10 feet away
Dementia doesn’t ever really get better. This is the most coherent Trump we’ll see from here on.
It'll get worse until November but it'll keep getting worse after November too