• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    Why does the president keep bragging about his passing of dementia tests‽ How can he not understand that that is admitting to needing them?

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      I just want to hear someone from the press pool shout, “you’ve already said this, Donald.”

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        “My physical therapist had me walk across the room. He told me I did amazing. Perfect genes, I should be in the Olympics. I challenge Obama to try to walk across the room without even stopping a fourth time. He can’t. SAD”

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          This is the guy that probably actually believes the BS height/weight that he got some doctor to issue, LOL. Surprised he has not had a doctor tell everyone that he has a 14 inch dong, too. In any case, he’d probably believe that, too. :)

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    And WTH is up with the Dem votes against? Are we THAT boned?

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    OK, I get it in context now. Every president has stuck their manhood into foreign affairs with ordinance. Obama did a lot of surgical drone strikes, I remember not liking it then either. I think this is a unnecessarily busy hornets next to be fucking with but what he’s doing isn’t new, and while I still don’t like it, impeaching him over it won’t work, we need more. He’s not going to war without Congress (yet), just doing what many others before him have done.

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      The dying flailings of neoliberalism, but also yes.

      Like the left during the rise of the Nazis the movement is disorganized and divided, having counted on the support of the “moral” centrists who simply don’t exist.

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      Honestly, compared to all the dozens of other crimes he’s committed this time around, I’d give him a pass on Iran and nail him something else, he still should and could be impeached if the GOP could grow some balls.

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      This is a bad take, no previous President has done something like this quite as unilaterally. Obama and past Presidents have gotten UN resolutions, congressional approval, or something more than just validation from their cabinet of yes men.

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      UTIs (urinary tract infections) really fuck with people experiencing dementia. Sometimes the way a person acts under a UTI is the first sign of such cognitive decline. They’ll be fine one day, but when infection sets in it’s like they become another person.

      However, that’s for people who ordinarily have self-control. For Trump, it’s anyone’s guess.

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    How many times has he “completely lost it” recently? He’s always been insane. Insanely stupid in fact. Nothing new here.

    Yet, when we read the headlines, every few days or weeks, he “completely loses it”.

    If he were throwing grass in the air, eat dirt, or speak in tongues, maybe it would be worth the completely lost it title. Otherwise, it gets old after a few times.

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      I’m also very sick of the clickbait titles. But in the case, he did actually lose it… I was doubled over laughing, the whole sequence is amazing

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      That really irks me is we basically have two styles of headlines right now.

      The newer sites like Rawstory, Mediaite, New Republic, Daily Beast, and Meidas Touch all use this bullshit style of headline writing.

      Meanwhile the traditional media sane washes the man and is equally disconnected from reality, but in the other direction.

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      It’s hyperbolic, as headlines always are.

      Trump “completely loses it” all the time because he seems to have complete undying loyalty from everyone around him. There are no negative consequences for these outbursts.

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    I’m not sure what is worse - when he goes ALL-CAPS/CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL, or when he has the Random Capitalization of words For no Apparent reason.

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    Maybe if we let him rant and rave long enough, he’ll tell us how he rigged the election in his favour…and nothing will be done about it

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      He basically already has:

      Trump on Elon Musk: ‘He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.’

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        In a sane country, he would be immediately removed from office, or at the very least there’d be a recount

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    I wanna see them file for actual impechment and not just call for it.

    Like whats the point other than making the orange turd angry

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      It’ll take another decade for some of you to realize Bernie and AOC are just as ineffective and just as much part of the neo-lib machine that keeps us going further right.

      AOC isn’t saving us, she just gives you the illusion someone is fighting for you. She’s allowed to vent on your behalf.

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        Imagine having a literal Hitler running the show and STILL not understand the lesser of 2 evils meaning.

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          Biden is our literal Hitler, when we (Palestinians) write our history books on the genocide, we will not leave our any detail and we won’t let him rest in peace.

          He mocked our suffering as he have Israel unlimited power to destroy all of our life in Gaza, and Trump doesn’t get the credit for it, he inherited it from Biden.

          Unless you want to give credit to everything good he inherited from Biden too? I didn’t think so. Stay consistent!

          Genocide Joe is the reason we’re here, his genocide is literally the trigger for everything we’re dealing with today, and you still think he’s the lesser of two evils. There is no lesser, there is only evil with these two parties.

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            So Trump is better than Biden in your eyes? You can’t see a difference? Lol yeah OK.

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            Oh shit. You mean both parties are equally bad in all respects? Neither has even a slight lead in not being awful? Grow the fuck up. If you can’t tell which is worse, I’m fucking sorry you’re a lost cause. Goddamn…

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              It’s puritanism, plain and simple. If you can’t make things perfect, you’re not allowed to make them better, either. It’s just one of the many attitudes that all but guarantees we’re going to keep slip-and-sliding to the right.

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                what keeps us going right is electing the “left party” that runs on the right platform from a decade ago.

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              Neither has even a slight lead in not being awful?

              Both deliver genocide and destruction and a foreign policy that’s destroying the world, but one has a slight lead in not being awful (your words), and that’s reason to cheer for them?

              To be very clear: that’s a disgusting position. It’s literally the same position as them (fuck everyone else, I want mine, the rest of the world can burn and die and be bombed by my tax dollars, I just want my Amazon prime and Starbucks), it’s just this murder cult has a bigger circle that fits your friends too.

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                I don’t cheer them. I acknowledge the simple fact that between the 2 Democrats are ahead in doing good. And again if you can’t see that that’s a you problem.

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        I bet the name “Obama, DEI, and Biden” lives rent free in your head, like Donald’s.

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    You know, these headlines do tend to exaggerate and call any outburst a rant or meltdown. But Jesus Christ, that is indeed a completely mental meltdown over a relatively ordinary political statement. And I like how Omar’s country is definitively rated the worst in the world, but…maybe it’s not rated the worst in the world.

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    Everyone should pray for a heart murmur for the Orange turd. A murmur, or other little things like that help people people realize how close 90 is. And knowing that 80+ year olds make up a tiny percent of the population begs a big bigly question… Where do they all go?

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      But don’t be discouraged because for older men there’s a sweet sweet reward:

      Hmmmm but if they all hate you. I don’t know man…

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        Fantastic! But we need more granularity. What year within that 18-64 range is the crossover where odds turn into our favor! If I’m going to die early, at least I may finally get the advantage before I ho

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        The statistics guy is terrible! Why won’t he add bars for people ages 90 to 100? Lazy Lazy guy!

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      That would be nice. Lightning would be better. Its looking like a fatal fall may do it. One cannot outrun the reaper, and his decline has been visible for the past decade. Ten years ago he was stupid and cruel but not obviously suffering from dementia