• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    Comforting as this angle might be to some, I hate that people are trying to excuse what are clearly a lifetime of personality flaws and intentional bad behavior by removing his agency and attributing it to severe mental illness.

    He’s not demented, he’s just an evil piece of shit.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    Sigh…I was at a neurodegenerative diseases conference and there was a presentation by a large computing company about software that could detect dementia with very high accuracy from a short audio interview. Offline, the devs admitted they fed in Trump speeches and it scored as advanced dementia.

    That was in 2016. Everything you in see in Trump is typical personality, aggression and infantile behavior seem in dementia seniors homes.

    It’s not the first time the USA has had a sitting president with dementia. The country has a fetish with elderly politicians.

    If there was an independent media any more, they would have asked him to draw a clock face with the set time on live TV.

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      I wonder if there is a way to get him to try to draw a clock. He would certainly overpower his handlers and try doing it.

      That would not uncurse this timeline, but at least it would be funny.

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        There are a variety of simple tests from the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) he won’t be able to do.

        This is so fucking dangerous. USA put unlimited power into a person with a brain disease and thousands will die because of it.

        The average age of Senate is 65 The average age of the house is 58. The average age of Americans is 39.

        66% of people have cognitive decline by age 70. You cannot run a society on old people, who have no vested interest in a healthy future.

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    And he’s president. With nobody willing to remove him.

    Useless excuse. Aww, poor man blew up the works. Wasn’t his fault, it was dementia.

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    The wannabe dictator who had serious mental issues all his life but was able to compensate with fraud and money for the last 30 years has problems with his brain?

    NOOOOOOOOO WAYYYYYYYY

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    I love it when the main stream media starts saying out laud what everyone knew for years. It’s like… the last horse crosses the line. Congrats. The reality is finally so obvious to everyone that even the media can’t pretend it’s not true.

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    I’m no stable genius, not in the terms of the president… But maybe this is exactly what it seems like?

    I know, everyone… But stick with me.

    What if it’s all EXACTLY like we all think it is? And what if most of us are 100% aware of this, and have been the entire time?

    Man, that’d be crazy. Imagine how fucked up the people who knew all along would be?

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      Imagine how fucked up the people who knew all along would be?

      Republicans hid Reagan’s dementia, but his dementia left him passive and submissive.

      Biden did not have dementia, but he certainly had severe cognitive decline.

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      Random, but this pulled up an old memory. When I was a kid bordering on teenagerhood, one of my friends was excited that her parents were finally permitting her to swear. “No shit, Sherlock,” was her favorite, and it ended up practically becoming her catch phrase.

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    We can assess his brain for abnormalities during autopsy. Until then, continue to treat him as the domestic enemy to the Constitution, war criminal, rapist, and con artist that he is.

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      At this point I’d be fine with that. The needs of the many to see justice outweigh anything for him.