It’s neurosyphilis-induced dementia, which isn’t surprising for a rapist pedophile who’s gone years without punishment.

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    Trump could be sitting there with eyes glazed over, drooling and playing with the shit out of his diaper. And the maga idiots will still be like he is the fucking pinnacle of human health. They would be like you are taking it out of context.

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    Yawn. Wake me when it’s JD Vance and Mike Johnson. Not a single republican in the USA gives a shit about what 2 key democrats think.

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        Like what, exactly?

        Doing things in a democracy requires votes, and they didn’t have them.

        The American people decided they wanted Trump with a Republican Supreme Court, Republican House, and Republican Senate.

        Let’s blame the Dems for everything they do.

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          Let’s blame Dems for not holding the fascists accountable while they had the chance. Let’s blame Dems for not presenting any kind of vision to voters other than “we’re not him”. Let’s blame Dems for systematically undermining party internal democracy. I could go on and on.

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          That makes sense if you forget about the last thirty years and also common sense. Nothing happening today is entirely surprising; you can pretend we didn’t see this coming and tell the Dems to step up, but we remember the truth.

          Politicians vote, and they also … do other things. Or they don’t. Their actions show their values.

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          We’re past getting votes. This is fascism in America, sweaty. Kindly step to the side if you want to play by the rules. Make sure to campaign super hard against the machine of fascism!!! You’re so cute.

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      Huffpo: saying shit with no bearing for years and years now.

      At least they didn’t “slam” Trump, he couldn’t withstand that kind of onslaught this week.

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      Yawn. Wake me when it’s JD Vance and Mike Johnson.

      Oh, if they (along with Vought and Miller behind the scenes) can get to where they don’t need him any more, they’d absolutely love to invoke the 25th. The problem for them is, so far they’re still dependent on his cult of personality. They just need to finish consolidating their power. They’re working on that with the military right now and the goal is to have everything cemented before the midterms that would normally take place next November, or before the time trump kicks the bucket, whichever comes first.

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    Why is it easier for dems to say that trump has dementia than to say the administration is unconstitutionally abusing its power violating their oaths?

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      Are you saying they’re not saying that? Because i’m pretty sure they are.

      We won’t hear about it of course, but that should be expected. I guess we’d have to define what you mean by “dems”, but I’m pretty sure we can find more than a couple.

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      They say that shit all the time, omfg the public is so completely uninformed or misinformed rn it pains me. You want to know what they’re saying? They all have social medias ffs.

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        Thank you. Just when I had started to lose hope in Lemmy. (Maybe that’s the point of the constant railing against Dems here.)

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          I agree so let’s give the DNC at least 4 more senate seats with caucus in the midterms and make an honest effort to remove all 20 GOP up for reelection not matter the cost.

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      He’s 80. His dad died of Alzheimer’s. Odds are in favor of it. While syphilis is on the rise lately, it’s also cured with antibiotics. I think there’s lower odds of the syphilis, granted, until the last year or two, it wasn’t a common test run on anyone, so, maybe.

      What’s interesting is China just came out with new nanotech which has effectively reduces the causes of Alzheimer’s in animal models. Meanwhile, Trump has both alienated China and chased many scientists from our country to theirs.

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        His dad, his grandad, and his sister all died of it. Of COURSE he has it, we’ve been screaming it since the first time this demented rapist was illegally placed in power.

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          Read this. His nephew details his later years. They were not good.

          This came out last year as a part of warning everyone not to vote this demented rapist into office for god’s sake. For all the good that did.

          Fred recalls his grandfather’s decline beginning in the 1980s, “with some of the similar stories you’ve heard time and time again, that when his limousine would stop, he would just get out of the car and start walking away.”

          . . . “He would scream, and I witnessed this, scream at my grandmother for spending too much money,” says Fred, reminding that money was not a concern for his grandfather. The behavior "kept escalating and escalating, to the point where doctors would say to my grandmother, ‘You really shouldn’t be staying in the same bedroom with him at night.’ "

          Fred, the son of Donald’s late brother Fred Trump Jr., clarifies that he never saw or heard his grandfather ever become physically violent with his grandmother, but instead, “agitated in his language, and vicious.”


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            The classic “metal fatigue” level of brain degradation is Biden. A little woo-hoo, spacey now and again, slower, but totally with it other times.

            Alzheimer’s, however, is only decline. Spiraling down., with varied momentum, marked by anger, erratic mood swings, and sometimes aggressive outbursts towards loved ones.

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        I see your point, however my point is that his entire regime (administration) should be removed from power.

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      Because they don’t want fingers pointed at them, just in case they want to do it too.

      The US desperately needs a grass-roots movement that lies low and makes do with harm reduction so the ones in power do not see it coming, and then suddenly switches their vote together all at once when they know they have enough numbers for a third party to surpass the other two, and be able to pass constitutional amendments, fix the electoral system, and other changes to start undoing the damage of McCarthyism.

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      Cynical view: neoliberals are in bed with republicans, gotta follow the money and lobbyists.

      A kinder take: The dems definitely have a messaging problem.

      Bernie and AOC will tell it to you straight.

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        Cynical view: neoliberals are in bed with republicans, gotta follow the money and lobbyists.

        A kinder take: The dems definitely have a messaging problem.

        Realistic view: Neoliberals are almost as corrupt as Republicans, a lot of their owner donors are the same ones who own the Republican party, and that’s most of the reason why they absolutely suck at messaging.

        When you’re trying to defeat the fascists who came into power using moneyed interests to abuse a broken system, the moneyed interests who own and benefit from the system is your ACTUAL main source of income and most of the people you’re pretending to appeal to absolutely loathe both billionaires and the system, your messaging is GONNA suck big, floppy donkey dick.

        As fraudulent and infantile as the fascist messaging is, it’s still clear and forceful, which makes it much more effective than the empty and vague promises and threats of Neoliberals.

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      Because most things that are “unconstitutional”… aren’t. At best they are a grey area that (arguably) clearly goes against the spirit of the document but… the spirit of the document is also that white men are all that matters.

      So a claim of “that is unconstitutional” would need a nuanced discussion (and nuance is for Barren Women And The Gays!!!) and would lead to actual lawyers saying “uhm… it technically isn’t?”. And said nuance would lead room for a bad faith interpretation by the SCOTUS to “clarify” things in law.

      Cue: “The SCOTUS will not go that far because steven universe taught me the power of friendship and we are totally going to have fair elections in 2028!” idiots.

      Whereas “he is both mentally and physically unfit” is something that speaks to both sides. Just look at Kamala’s campaign (which was mostly “Hey guys… I am not Biden”)

      Also… republicans are going to push a LOT harder on the illegal shit angle because they can be implicated in that. Whereas this will let them say “We were just following orders” and “I didn’t do anything wrong”

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      Because if they said he’s unconstitutionally abusing his power, you’d be asking why they’re not talking about his dementia.

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    JFC, Science says 50% of people over 65 have some form of cognitive decline. The average age of government is 65.

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    And does it matter? People blamed Biden for every time he said Umm, but yet Trump did much worse and nobody in the media has even hinted at his dementia.

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      Because they’re afraid. Self regulating. Between the litigation and the FCC Trump has them under control.

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        It’s because Fox et al are unabashed propaganda machines to attack dems and protect GOP. The rest are still bound to the truth, or in this case burden of proof.

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          Fox isn’t the biggest propaganda machine. That will be found within Turning Point, now co-opted by Jr and Vance.

          You do realize that’s the next ticket? Vance and Trump (Jr).

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          news nation is this shill positioning itself the way fox did with “balanced” bullshit reporting. So they are trying to say yeah fox is right and most are left but look at this “center” one. I hope no one is buying it.

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      I don’t get why you guys say stuff like this. I’ve seen dozens of articles that do more than hint at a possibility that Trump has dementia. So have you. I’d be willing to bet that your belief that he has dementia came from one of those articles. Why then are you saying no one has mentioned it?

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      His dad didn’t get as much syphilis and tear through mountains of cocaine either. He also wasn’t on camera 24/7 for half a decade.

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    No, he’s just dumb. He’s always been this way. His whole nepo baby life just revolved around people telling him “yes”

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      He has always been this way but he’s more this way now. I was always skeptical about the “Trump’s losing it” stories because Trump has always been an idiot and a narcissist who can’t distinguish between his fantasies and reality. But now it’s undeniable that he seems more confused, out of touch and unpredictable.

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        I’m still not seeing any difference to anything since his escalator ride in 2015. At most, you can tell when he’s not on drugs like that one UN speech.

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      No. Just look at an interview from, say, 2010. He’s coherent. An idiot, a rapist, sure, but he’s not the babbling demented mess he is now. He’s not just dumb, his neurons are peacing out.

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      If you don’t see signs of his dementia, then you too need to be checked for it. Yes, he’s not the brightest, but his latest spews have been particularly bad and getting worse.

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      The other day I happened to watch a video of him speaking for a minute in 2019, and no, it’s night and day compared to now. Sure, even then he had trouble staying on topic, but he had a mental clarity about him that was more recognizable as a speech than a ramble. He’s slurring most of his words nowadays, you didn’t see that back then. 2019 Trump wouldn’t get lost and find himself on the roof of the White House…

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          Right so he has permanent Covid brain fog, except just caused by an old age illness instead of covid.

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    They have Feinstein on their track record, so it’s small consolation.

    If you watch the Schiff updates, a lot of this is squarely on the backs of Republicans, and they’re complacent. Schiff shows a vid of Lindsey Graham, of all people, asking Bondi how many illegal immigrants are in Chicago right now, he pushes the question too. She can’t answer. I was shocked that Graham even asked. It will take men like Graham to be willing to state Trumps infirmity out loud.

    But I don’t think they will because they haven’t solidified anything yet, separate from Trump. I think that’s why they’re rolling out national guard and moving faster, Trump looks like he’s dying on his feet.

    As an aside, re the national guard. There’s a YouTube channel called The Dangerous Ones. I don’t know how I ended up there, but it certainly seems like the symbol of liberal that is Portland is going to be a center point both now and moving forward. We should all keep an eye on that city. Check out the troll action happening over there. Look at how Portland is protesting. This is something that was not possible in 1935, this wide open media outside of places like CNN and the WaPo. These YT channels and substacks are communication & documentation. The trolling focus of The Dangerous Ones gave me hope.