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Donald Trump can’t seem to remember what state he’s even in anymore.


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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He’s very obviously cognitively impaired, and has been accelerating in his decline. It’s right there for all to see.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago

Except of course for the corporate media that do the best they can to cover up his obvious mental illness and dementia.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Regardless of blind political party worship, he is, seriously, TOO DAMN OLD. I am so happy that we got Biden to step down, absolutely love the "youthful" energy of Kamala!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've met a lot of geriatric people with tons of energy and young people who make sloths look hyperactive. It depends highly on the person.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No, sorry, cognitive decline is inevitable. Nobody over 70, no more.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

when did he have a grasp on reality?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Never. Never is the correct answer. He's been delusional his whole life.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe it was when he said there were airports in the 1700's? Wait, no... Shoot. You know, I'm starting to think this man may have a bit of dementia...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

said there were airports in the 1700’s

WTF

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Seriously. "Where Have You Fucking Corporate Newspeople BEEN"

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Trump didn’t bother to correct his mistake, and the crowd clapped anyway.

Today’s GQP in a nutshell.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wonder how many paid actors they place in the crowd to clap and hype everyone up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Not enough. True believers in the cult gravitate to the rallies for - reasons. Including “not having to be politically correct”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing about that is new. That has been going on for a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sad but true

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

If he does win, they will 25th Ammendment him and put ~~Peter Thiel~~ J D Vance in charge I guarantee it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That would require the people he selects for his cabinet to have a spine, which I don't see happening. Trump is easy enough to manipulate, they don't need to get rid of him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It will be a Reagan scenario only Don Jr will play the part of Nancy Reagan's clairvoyant and Rudy Guiliani will play Nancy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You mean Rudy will be the "Throat GOAT"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think he'd be so into that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Saw this here a while ago and I think it belongs here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The people behind him would replace him in a heartbeat. The tech bros want to carve the US into kingdoms, and Putin wants the US to be balkanized.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

People were saying that in 2016 and every year since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I have said the extract same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So he's the easy to manipulate tool for the republicans as well as being Putin's? Probably..

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

That's the point! Republicans loved Regan because for at least the last two years of his presidency, he didn't even know who he was and they could get away with all kinds of shit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

His cult:

He was just joking

He then tried to correct his mistake, tweeting about “internal polling in Louisiana” that showed him “winning the state by the largest margin.” (Sure, let’s see those polls!)

He's just talking about THIS internal polling

During his speech on Tuesday, Trump’s brain also short-circuited when he tried to talk about the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“She didn’t say anything except lies, like bloodbath, like Charlottestown,”

He was just translating the french "ville" to english as "town" because his stable genius brain is always working

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only internal polling he truly understands is date night with putin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Being Putin’s cockholster is a full time job

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Every state he goes to all he sees are the two sheets of glass.

Easy mistake to make.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Member when we had already decided he was a corrupt criminal heading for jail? Guess he upgraded to just being a dumb weirdo.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn’t that the 1990’s? Then he funded some stupid reality show to rehabilitate his image? Yeah, I expected that to crash and burn, and him go off to jail. I have no idea how the last couple decades of politics happened

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Lead. So much fucking lead. In the paint in the pipes in the gas.

My uncle's used to literally cast lead soldiers in the attic of their childhood home.

Then Play army men.

They knew lead was poisonous 3,000 years ago. What. The. Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Just now? He didn't years ago?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Late stage syphilis-/ Dementia Don /

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Is this a headline from 2018?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree with the sentiment but the order of words in the title and text appear a bit weird to me. For instance, "totally lost grasp..." and "can't even seem to..." make more sense to me than how it was posted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I was gonna ask if they asked Trump to decide the headline.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

You cannot lose something you never had.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Appears?” Does water “appear” wet? Does the sky “appear” to contain air? Man… journalism has gotten lazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think the story is from 2015. I haven't read it, but the title makes that seem likely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

well he is very old

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh hey an article from 2015.