I think the obvious and blatant dementia is a dead giveaway. It's incredibly sad that we'd even consider having such a person well into decline in a position of leadership. He should be in a home receiving compassionate end-of-life care.
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He should be in a home receiving compassionate end-of-life care.
The entirety of his life choices should have resulted in him dying in a jail cell.
If America still had balls, it would have been at the end of a noose on Jan 7th.
On Jan 6th if they had real ones.
They hid Reagan's dementia for years. But, he had a pretty competent group in his administration, not like this trailer park clown show government.
Throw more leaves in the pool, Nancy.
In North Korea
Well, not sure how compassionate it should be. But yeah.
He's really proud of having undergone - and aced, according to him - two cognitive tests in one year. But he totally fails to see that this many such tests at such short intervals is a clear sign that his doctors are worried he's actively going gaga.
Not to mention, acing a cognitive test is about as difficult as acing a patellar reflex test: it's not a sign that you're smart, it's just proof that your noggin' is still working correctly at a basic level.
Of course he's proud! It's probably the only test he's ever passed.
"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had." -One of his professors at Wharton
Oh his doctors know some shit but the issue is nobody will do anything about it because as soon as they do the house of cards will fall. I expect his inner circle has had to walk him back from the precipice several times. And there’s the rub. His handlers actually control most everything he sees, and when they don’t he sees riots in Portland from several years ago and thinks it’s current. As soon as he gets 25’d they lose all that power. Kinda like what was going on with Dianne Feinstein. She was barely lucid at the end and was being puppeteered by her staff.
...oh look, we're talking about everything except the Epstein files...
If he were more transparent, he wouldn't need an mri
'cause they could just see whatever it was
Don't need an MRI to see he's a piece of shit tho
“You know I’m old, I know I’m old. I’m getting tests to confirm that I’m fit for the job. And they said I am.”
A normal human response that would have been fine. Why can’t he even act human?
“They said I’m human, the most human person they’ve ever seen. No other human came close.”
I hate how easy his speech pattern is to mock. Well ok not really…
He doesn't do human.
There are many reasons why an 80 year old could need frequent MRIs. My mother has them every 6 months. The question no one is asking is where are they looking. If it's the head, the are tracking the rate of loss of brain volume. Regardless, Ronald Reagan had dementia while in office, it just made him quiet and submissive. Trump has senile dementia onset irritability. It's why he flies off and spews nonsense.
Maybe the US should stop electing the oldest government in the world?
The problem is that the largest voting bloc is the Baby Boomers and they're just electing their peers because they refuse to recognize that they're old enough that they should have passed that baton about 20 years ago. Not that Gen X would be substantially better given their demographic's track record and history of lead poisoning during developmental periods, but it would at least be a slight nudge in the right direction. It's going to be decades before the Millenials and younger have enough votes to overcome the older, more conservative blocs, but that's not accounting for the proportion of younger people that have been entirely brainwashed by monsters like Kirk, Tate, and Fuentes.
Didn't Regan have dementia by the end of his term? I'm assuming they are riding the useful idiot until the end.
Reagan had dementia but his particular flavor made him quiet and submissive.
Trump's is making him agitated and aggressive, which so far hasn't been a problem for his handlers, but it might become one soon.
This is not new. Pretty sure they did the same thing for Reagan and Biden. Doesn’t mean it’s right, just not unprecedented.