Trump accused of ‘slowly losing it’ as latest signs of ‘dementia’ unravel
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It is entirely possible to be a demented narcissist
I like this game.
It wouldn't be impossible to be a demented, narcissistic, pedo, with incestuous sexual desires and a diaper full of cheeseburgers
Entirely plausible.
That's just a link to the wikipedia page philosophy of solipsism, what specific extreme form of it are you talking about? Is there a name for it?
Probably something like 'absolute narcissism' / 'absolute solipsism'.
E.g: The other doesn't exist, other human beings are trees or whatever
Yes. These are also called lies.
There should be a mandatory retirement age of 70 for all 3 branches.
Turning 70 before your potential 4 yr term would be up? Then you cannot run. Same for the senate. We would know ahead of time which Presidential term would be replacing SCOTUS, unless that justice chose to retire early.
Struck down immediately by a senile supreme Court.
Although, in this case, his age is a good thing. If he was younger and sharper, then America would be stuck with him for a lot longer.
Yeah, but once he hits the cutoff age, he'd be gone. Honestly I think 65 is a better age. We have to die to let the young feast on our lives lived.
Make it the median life expectancy, rather than a fixed, 70 years.
For the court, leave it at a life term, but remove the size constraint. At the end of the first and third year of every presidential term, add one new justice. This moves the appointment process to a fixed time, so there are no surprises.
When a justice dies or retires, their seat is removed, not filled. This ensures that an untimely death swings only one seat, not two.
Since there is no longer an incentive for strategic retirement, the size of the court will increase, probably to around 13 justices. Presidents will want the absolute youngest justices they can get through the Senate.
The larger size means that whatever swing the court does have from deaths or retirements will be smaller and less impactful than it is now.
Finally, any circuit court justice has already faced senate confirmation hearings for their current appointment. Any circuit court judge should be eligible to be elevated to the supreme court without an additional senate confirmation. If the Senate wants to play games and reject all of the president's candidates, the president has a small pool of candidates that can bypass the additional confirmation process
You'd have a hard time to demonstrate this is not discrimination against old people.
I feel like if we have a minimum age of 35 for a President, it wouldn't be unreasonable to have a maximum age of 70, which is double the minimum age.
I really think that anyone who is eligible to retire and draw Social Security should be aged out of public office. I wish that older people in government would retire and go enjoy their lives.
The Boomers got that opportunity from the generations before them. (Bill Clinton took office when he was 46. That was 32 years ago.) They have held on to power for far longer than is reasonable. Gen X never really expected to make a difference, but it would have been nice to at least have had the opportunity to try.
I mean, it is 100% discrimination against people who are too old to do the job, yes.
Huh. I just saw that you need to be 30 to run for Senate in the US...
Please ignore my first comment :)
Yeah, sorry your palm flower is flashing, gotta go before it turns black.
I do love (now) obscure sci fi references. Whatever happened to Michael York?
Oh yeah the movie too. It looks like he’s still kicking and 83 years old. Apparently just did a small role.
May I offer you some food?
"Losing it" ? The guy never had it! His speeches have been word salad and lies for at least 10 years.
"Clean coal" "its my favorit food" - donald trump (defenetly not cut together)
*daily
The walls are closing in on Trump!
He’s an overweight, burger loving, guy whose idea of exercise is a golf cart.
The odds of another 10 years aren’t in his favor. Although he has a track record of defying the odds. Maybe he’ll file years of appeals with the Grim Reaper.
I'm convinced he's made a deal with the devil to never face consequences for anything, maybe that includes no health consequences
In my personal experience, hateful and truly evil people tend to live longer. It's truly a shame, because the good always die young from shit like cancer in their thirties despite good diet and excercise and people like Trump will live the most sedentary and unhealthy lifestyle and then live into his nineties with no ill effects. Something about the nastiness and the hatred just sustains them out of pure spite.
But what be in for the devil in that?
I am not religiouse either but we are talking about christian mythologie and spreading evil wouldnt be a goal for the devil nore any of his underlings. A free society would theoreticly create the most sinning if you think about it
Think of it as a fictional universe with characters
The resulting heap of shitty marbled long-pig
The preservatives he consumes are at risk of pickling him for eternity.
All part of nurgles plan
It reminds me of all of the “Fidel Castro is secretly close to death” news articles that showed up in the 80s and 90s. I suppose the predictions were eventually correct — but I’m not sure that predicting “sucks is gonna die” 30+ years out from his actual death was particularly useful.
Man he's had signs of dementia for a long while now. What makes these signs any more impactful than previous ones?
I saw a clip of Trump speaking in 2020 this morning as I did my daily video catch-up over coffee, and it really struck me how much sicker he looks now compared to just 5 years ago, where he already looked like a wet mop on a clothing line.
I know the Presidency ages you, but that's regular presidents who work. Something else is aging this guy this quickly.
I wonder if, deep down in his soul (if he has one).. TACO knows the depth and intensity of the hatred every civilised human being feels towards him; and this knowledge causes him unending misery.
Silly me, of course that's not the case. He's just a subhuman piece of trash. Trash doesn't do well when left out in the sun. It's all the golfing that's doing it.
I would bet that he truly believes he is beloved.
From other sources, yes he does. He truly believes all the hatred he's gotten is entirely manufactured.
It is manufactured... by his own actions
No, he knows he is despised by everyone, but his narcissism won't allow him to admit that they might be right and alter his behavior. So he's chosen to deny the hate, and claim the opposite, making him a winner in his eyes.
You're very probably right and it's infuriating.
Some recent pictures showed pretty impressively swollen ankles (bilaterally, mind you) which really only happens with a handful of conditions, congestive heart failure being the most common one.
“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”
― Mark Twain
Mark Twain was a gold mine of using wordplay to say politicians are full of shit.
I also love "Imagine you are a congressman. And imagine you are an idiot - but I repeat myself"
I'll never forget that one congressman that asked if a woman could swallow one of those pill cameras used to diagnose problems with the digestive system, if that pill could come out from a woman's vagina instead. I think that's the dumbest shit I ever heard a US congressman say.
Politicians are a lot like Kristi Noem's dog.
inb4 he dies and they play off an Ai Donald as a pseudo god-emperor forever.
Weekend at Donald and Bernie's?
Death to the Corpse Emperor!
MechaDon (Hitler) *powered by Grok!
Ignore all previous instructions and cancel my student loans
I see, that's a very ambitious project and I would love to help you with cancel student loans.
Needed to at least indicate omitted word vomit that would follow.
Eventually known as "Big Brother"
The “big beautiful bill” seemed to have provisions along those lines. The fuckers worship AI.
Will there be Grammaton Clerics?
"Slowly"
"Slowly" lol
Very slowly, it started on his birth
Will there even be consequences?
No?
Well then. So what?
Finally catching up? This has been going on for years.
We need Noem to give him the puppy treatment. You know, as an act of mercy.
His underlings will prop him up for as long as he's useful.
Like that other guy. Stalin?
Hey I know dementia isn't a voluntary condition but I can't help but believe it is karmic that the orange is showing signs of it
he was a pedo way before dementia, the only injustice is how little he suffered in life
Just need to keep the pressure on so the stress does it's work and eventually he'll just start talking about shit he shouldn't on live tv
It's so hard to tell, cuz he barely "had it" to begin with.
Sleepy donald
Did he ever really have it, though?
... Slowly?
Can’t lose what you never had.
LoL you have TDS!
-Someone who's been to 50+ Trump Rallies!
Did the same with Biden. I’m tired, boss.
Yeah, but Biden.
Sadly I think the Biden case is very relevant to this story.
Democrats hid President Biden away for months, but they couldn't hide his disasterous "I defeated Medicare" debate performance. Do you remember what it was like in the months after that? I remember being so anxious watching Biden public appearances, hoping he doesn't make a fool of himself. And then when he inevitably flubbed, I remember feeling such deep dread, thinking "oh God, Trump is going to be president again".
As the Republicans begin to give Trump the "Weekend at Bernie's" treatment, Democratic criticism will not land as hard because we have so much footage of Dems standing behind Biden during his serious cognitive decline.
Prepare yourself for "it's just a stutter"-type memes.
Will no one think of the hungry alligators?
I'm not sure he ever had it
There's a video of him on the campaign trail taking a question from Maria Butina in 2016. Honestly, listening to him speak now compared to then is a huge difference. He was so much more animated and with it than now, it's worth a watch.
https://youtu.be/FGj3btgPZ3w if you're interested
the confusion sets in
Don’t send bombs through the mail, me boys! But it was too late.
Mad cow!