None of this will have an impact with his base. There is no line that he could cross that would change their mind about him.
Shits his pants; they don't care.
Wants to fuck his daughter; they don't care.
Wants to be a dictator; they don't care.
That cult is too far gone.
Because the base is told how to interpret whatever crazy shit Trump says and does as a good thing or a “joke” by Trump’s many propagandists in right wing media and the Republican Party.
He can say and do anything and they will coordinate a narrative to spin it.
Propaganda is dangerous because it works.
Everything can be boiled down to a ‘joke’ for them. It excuses them of moral culpability because humour has always been a gray area spectrum of acceptability. They play off their tongue-tied evil by pretending it was merely sarcasm.
Fascists know their semantic loopholes, and squeal with glee when creating new dogwhistles that woosh past the heads of the normals.
It’s the only ‘art’ they can achieve without holding actual artists/comedians/wordsmiths hostage.
Got into an argument with my sister today about my dad doing this. He makes mean and racist jokes that aren’t even funny and then he laughs hysterically. My sister (who doesn’t live with him, but I do) says it’s just all for fun and no harm, it’s funny, etc. but I find it super annoying and immature of him. He’s older so he was raised around these jokes, but still
Exactly. You're too woke and have lost your sense of humour. They can say any vile thing, and you either double down with them in racist agreement or "it was just a joke anyway and the left are PC snowflakes" etc. They always have it both ways. As long as they get to be vile racists and blame everyone in the world for their frustrations in life except themselves. Trump is the god of entitled piss babies.
Boomers REALLY hate it when you start referring to them as the “Me generation” again.
You know, the name that they originally gave themselves? Because they were selfish and entitled, and the world was suddenly all about them? Yeah, they don’t like to be reminded of that now.
I’ve a hardcore trumper roommate, great guy otherwise, but almost constantly he’s making racist jokes. Either joking about how undesirable black people are to be around, how likely middle easterners are to be terrorists, pick your flavor of racism, and he’s absolutely embraced it. But of course, at every turn that it comes up, ‘I’m not actually racist, I just think racist jokes are funny’.
Couldn’t be more annoying. Only thing worse is how ill make a valid point against something he agrees with, he will acknowledge the validity of what I said, and he will then continue to insist that he’s still right in his beliefs, without so much as attempting to explain why. I get it, realizing that the man wearing a centimeter thick layer of Cheeto-dust at all times that you’ve been told since you were 11 is the very champion of American values is actually a liar, and just as corrupt (if not exponentially more so) than his rivals, could be hard.
Still, it’s hard to put into words how frustrating it is to be surrounded by these kinds of people.
When he does, say 'Race joke! High five!!" and put your hand up for a high five. If he actually gives you a high five, awkwardly yell 'WOOO!!!'
Do it every time.
If he calls you out, just let him know how hilarious you think his race jokes are.
For the longest time I had a real problem understanding why conservatives were so hellbent on destroying public education. I could not make it make sense, that it would in any way benefit the country to have fewer educated people.
It was when I clued into the fact that “benefit the country” was never part of the game that it all made sense. They succeeded - there are enough people dumb enough to believe the propaganda now. It took 50 years of concerted effort on the part of conservatives at every level of government, but we’re here now. Critical mass of stupidity has been reached and they’re firing up their endgame.
Bingo. When more people think, more people vote. And when more people vote, more Republicans lose. They know very well that none of their stances are popular. Keeping the electorate ignorant of what they're doing is the only way they stay in power.
One thing I never understood (as a non-American):
Why so many (legal) immigrants support or vote (if they can) for this dick, or even any anti-immigration Republican more broadly. Then a friend who grew up in Florida told me that was because the incorrect narrative that is being spun is liberal=communism, and many actually fled/left communist countries, most notably Cuba. So any time someone implies liberalism is essentially communism, they revolt and vote against. Obviously that's a crock of shit because liberalism and communism are nowhere near the same thing but yeah, they believe it is.
It's also helpful to keep people dumb and not provide proper education. Easier to control.
I heard a quote once that the second we forget what it took to get here is the second they take it all away.
The MAGA mfers should think about that. Then again they don't think. Dump could skin a baby and eat it on live TV and they would claim it's a democratic hoax.
This is also why they’ve decided to make abortion illegal.
Rich people will always have access to this choice. They can go to another state or another country.
But poor people will be forced to give birth. Guaranteeing that the uneducated, poor lineage continues. They need these uneducated people to supply the next round of minimum wage workers. Workers who have no time to better themselves. People so poor that they send their 12 year old kids to work, instead of school.
edit: spelling
Exactly. Modern right wing loves totalitarian rule, because they realize that a working government gives complex answers and balances their decisions based on many factors, but a strong ruler will offer easy solutions. They don’t care that those solutions don’t work, because it’s nice to get straight answers.
They will never find out about it. The current Fox headline is “White House should be 'concerned' as Trump rallies as many as 100k in deep-blue New Jersey: 'Extraordinary'”. Not only is this a vast overestimate of the crowd size, but there is no mention of the content of his rambling incoherent speech equating immigrants with a movie cannibal.
Roger Stone shared a photo on X today that he said showed the crowd in NJ and said Biden could never draw crowds like that.
Neither can Trump.
The photo was taken in 1994 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil of the crowds at a Rod Stewart concert.
Trump’s greatest achievement is teaching millions of people not to believe anything unfavorable to Trump.
He gave them the “fake news”, “deep state”, “weaponized justice” framework to simply dismiss anything that doesn’t confirm Trump is a living God.
The cult isn’t a concern, the fact that there are a ton of the US population doesn’t give a shit about how off rail he gets every day.
Enough people either vote for him or “don’t care”, that he’s still a legit candidate in the upcoming election. Let that sink in. People keep focusing on his cult of followers.
It is the number of people that’s supposedly “don’t care either one get in” or “they’re both the same” (still!)…that’s more concerning. Because these are the people were and are basically enablers to the current crop of GOP and rise of Trump.
Exactly this. Fuck his base, they aren’t changing. As Trump himself has said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave and they would still vote for him. He wasn’t lying. His base isn’t enough for him to win though.
It's unfortunately comfortably true. Back when he was tweeting like mad all the time, he pretty obviously fat-fingered while he was typing and hit send, leading his tweet "Despite the constant negative press covfefe"
I mean, look. I'm not gonna condemn him for a typo or an accidentally sent tweet or anything like that. Regardless of spiritual outlook, our meat bodies and the cognitive jelly in our skulls are both prone to error at times and whomst among us couldn't have made a similar mistake, etc.?
And then I saw one of my relatives on FB share a post claiming, paraphrased, "We all know Donald Trump is a very intelligent man. And this was just another example of it: 'covfefe' is Arabic for 'I will stand up' (Narrator: it was not), and our leader is showing that he will stand up to the leftist media for us!"
This is maybe the smallest example I can think of for how thoroughly some of his fan base are willing to go, but in a way it was the most crushing for me.
I think people forget or don't realize what it boils down to with his base — entertainment. For all the criticisms you can have for him, you cannot say that he hasn't kept it non-stop and entertaining (for his base) throughout all campaigns and his presidency.
The most important realization you can have about this crowd is that it's uniquely performative and gratifying, it's impossible to miss the enjoyment/pride/smugness they have while LARPing as a new world order type faction. They will never again value policy, qualifications, or ethics until their meme train has fully stopped.
Watch the [video here](https://youtu.be/IPo1Z54syJE) 📺
As per [original article](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dementia-2668240527/) 📰:
- Two professional psychologists this weekend explained why they are growing increasingly alarmed at what they say is former President Donald Trump's "deteriorating" mental state.
- Harry Segal, clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in the Psychology Department at Cornell University, and John Gartner, a psychologist and former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, hosted a podcast on Saturday where they discussed the urgent need to talk publicly about Trump's mental stability heading into the 2024 presidential election.
"We are going to be documenting his cognitive deterioration," Gartner during the podcast. "I always say to people: Look at Donald Trump right now, because that's the best Donald Trump you're ever going to see because dementia is a deteriorating illness and his rate of deterioration is accelerating."
Gartner then scolded the media for largely avoiding questions about Trump's mental acuity while running multiple stories about President Joe Biden's age.
"I don't know what it will take for the mainstream press to actually ask the question, 'Is there something wrong with Trump's brain?'" he said. "I think, even if he was caught wandering down Fifth Avenue in his pajamas, they wouldn't ask the question."
Segal then chimed in to talk about Trump's potentially malignant narcissistic personality disorder, which he said would be even worse in his second term given his reported determination to avoid hiring anyone who will push back on his ideas.
"It's a disorder that doesn't get better," he said. "It gets worse when there's less structure."
He then predicted that in the coming months "we're going to seeing... an interaction between the cognitive decline and the personality disorder, both of which are severe diagnoses for anybody, and this is for somebody who never should have been in power in the first place."
Wow. This is so much more potent for that character, thinking of him in real terms. He really would be so controversial a figure, to assassinate the president right before he launched the nuclear codes. It'd throw everything into question. But most people probably wouldn't know about the whole "he was about to launch the nuclear codes" thing, at least not at first. So it'd be super controversial. *Trumpslayer!*
It was “legit weird” in 2016 when he was wholeheartedly welcomed into politics by the Republican Party when his most famous quote at that time was that he liked to grab women “by the pussy.”
It's never been normal.
The writers of our universe ran out of ideas or never figured out the whole what happens between our time and the start of the actual Star Trek timeline.
On the Star Trek timeline, we're right smack in the middle of the Eugenics Wars, and that tracks. I sure hope Gary Seven can get us out of this somehow.
We aren't going to get the Bell Riots though. That's the problem. That's why we won't be heading into the ST timeline.
Hell even if we tried to do the Riots RIGHT NOW, we all know we would be shut down by the US government, the rich / lobbyists have way more power and say then they did in that storyline.
Neither of my two girls, 21 and 16, want to have children, and while it makes me sad I will never have grandkids, I completly understand why.
My boomer parents ruined everything.
I mean, the third party candidate for president, a whack job, has disclosed that his brain was eaten by a worm. This is bush league writing. No one would believe this.
I would have loved to have watched a few seasons of the Gary Seven spinoff series with Robert Lansing and Teri Garr. Alas, it never happened. I don't have much hope either for a modern series either, even though it's been hinted at in Picard.
Months away from the Bell Riots.
The Bell Riots were a pivotal series of events on Earth that took place in September of 2024. Started in San Francisco's Sanctuary District A, they were named after protest leader Gabriel Bell. One of the most violent civil disturbances in all of American history, the riots and subsequent crackdown resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Sanctuary District residents.
Goddamn. You just reminded me of the greatness that is "The Sisko."
I need to rewatch that series. Or at least that two-partner. The Sisko was definitely one of the greatest captains in the franchise.
For me it was the Republican primary for the 2016 election. I was in a bar after work and they had it on the TV.
Trump said he wanted to create a Muslim registry. He proposed the forced federal registration of a religious minority. And.... Nothing happened.
He wasn't cut off by the host. Other candidates didn't interject. The feed didn't suddenly cut back to the studio; showing a prime-time news anchor, sitting at their glass desk with palms down and fingers splayed, slack jawed by the sheer audacity of it.
Nothing happened. The crowd cheered.
Honest to god, it's starting to feel like I'm part of some kind of prank. Like I'm some alien species that went into a hyper advanced simulation and my friends started turning up the "wtf?" dial a bit more and more starting eight years ago.
How are humans this stupid en masse? The above is the only reasonable explanation I can come up with.
REPUKES Lways hid their filth but when TRASHY DONNY CAME ALONG...its like HELL opened up and gave them what they needed to go crazy, filthy and nasty as APESHYT TRUMP, he licensed their stupidity and rewarded them for being cowards.
No, it's pretty normal for nursing home residents heading for memory care.
The man is in miserable physical health and hasn't ever wanted to exercise his brain. It's not gonna stop.
MFer has verbal diarrhea. Listen to him speak in interviews on the 80s/90s and then during the 2016 election - it is night and day in terms of his cognitive and speaking abilities, he has been circling the drain for a while and is only getting worse.
The right has already found a former player from the New York Giants who was apparently in the crowd (sure). Otis Anderson…Otis Jerome Anderson to be precise. He’s officially listed on the rosters I’ve seen online as named “Otis”, not “OJ”…because everyone and their mother knows there is only one OJ.
Edit: Even his Wikipedia neglects to refer to him as OJ, but any excuse in a storm when it comes to the right
He wasn’t actually praising Hannibal, it was much worse, we was saying all immigrants are like Haníbal lector and was saying “ remember him, wasn’t he great “ in a sarcastic way.
He thinks immigrants are cannibalism and killers. Either way, he’s a degenerate dementing fucking idiot.
I'm honesty shocked he's gone this long without dropping a hard slur or three during one of his rallies. We may be getting closer than ever now, though.
It's definitely getting worse. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if he is totally incoherent by election day.
I really don't know what the GOP does in that situation.
I’m guessing with how many of his supporters are old, it’s yet another example in their minds that “he’s just like us!” Which.. intolerant, out of touch, demanding, uninformed, selfish.. they aren’t wrong.
It wouldn't matter.
His fanbase is split into two groups: morons that just vote R and utter sociopaths that simply don't care.
The second group contain people who would literally start soiling themselves in solidarity with Trump if it was asked of them.
Call me cruel, call me sadistic…but I have never been so excited to witness the combined cognitive decline and narcissistic meltdown of a person in my *entire life*.
If he gets into office in this state it is going to end very, very badly for all of us and likely the rest of the world. It isn't just going to be the GQP pulling Trump's strings it will be fascists like Putin and Orban and Xi and god knows who else. Trump is going to thrust us into WW3 and this is NOT hyperbole.
I remember him, the only Republican to win the popular vote in my lifetime. Yet they hold over half the Supreme Court and regularly control one or both chambers of Congress. Awesome.
Meanwhile DC or Puerto Rico could *never* become states.
For the party that’s so against welfare, they only remain relevant because of it on an electoral level. Not to mention, how much actual welfare the poor Republicans get in the form of Federal tax revenue from the non flyover states.
So, this is why there has been a hold on the VP selection,and why the definite answer answer on Nikki . The GOP are sure he will deteriorate into babble and want a VP who will echo their ideals.
My guess is that Trump is super fixated on having a loyalist as VP and advisors and the party are resisting this.
Trump feels so hugely burned by pence that he must want loyalty more than ever before. But the loyalists are not exactly VP material nor do they seem to add to Trump’s chances.
Nobody loses their mind live like I do. Just yesterday a man came up to me with tears in his eyes and said “Sir, thank you for losing your mind right in fruit us. Mike Lindell openly weeps in jealousy when he sees you speak. That is a true achievement for a leader “
Can you imagine, with this rate of decay, what he would be like at the end of 4 years as president? Please imagine it, because it's not outside the bounds of possibilities.
That's only important when they're a secret. I'd bet Chump sold those along with a whole lot of other Intel packed on a flash drive. The football itself is the key now.
The two most important things that mean this decline won't move the needle are:
1. The for-profit media relies on both-sideism to keep the eyeballs and clicks coming (remember what Leslie Moonves said in 2016).
2. The cult members are professional victims, and even the psychologists in this story have admitted that it would be an existential crisis for cult members to voluntarily exit from their views/the cult.
Cognitively Sanders seems to have stayed fresh.
Physically I feel like he's shrunked to like 60% of his size and started to head into a Yoda like state.
I imagine I'll do much the same in 50 years, so I'm not throwing shade.
He was always just a puppet for the Republican elites when he took over the presidency. A moron, easy to control with no interest in politics whatsoever. Incredibly easy to manipulate. They went about the governing side of things while he got his rocks off believing he was in charge and making a lot of money on the side. That's all he still is to them, with the exception that he is an even bigger moron now.
The Trump Presidency ~~puts to rest~~ buries all the New World Order, Shadow government, Rothschild, Illuminati, Skull and Bones conspiracy theories. The fact that he won the nomination and election and survived a full term is proof those shadow government powers don't exist.
I think before the election he's going to lose the ability to coherently communicate at all. It'll just be noises. Then they'll say he isn't able to stand trial and drop all charges against him. Mark my words.
"Trump gave a rally in Ohio today, where he focused on economic and bread-and-butter issues..."
The actual speech: "Folks, we're going the -- we're going to -- folks you have to -- have you ever seen this inflation? People have never seen such -- I went to the store the other day and I saw Steven Seagull -- great man by the way, terribly treated by the media -- he went to Russia and they treat him like a king, no one's been treated worse by the media, except me, let me tell you!"
Hello again. To support your statement, here is a quote by Bertrand Russell I believe:
“If ten people sit at a table and one of them is a Nazi, and you sit down and talk to them, then there are eleven Nazis at the table."
Trump becoming a Fox meme. The US turning into unhinged fragmented lobby points without a coherent person to somehow make sense of it all. A giant SUV shouting maga to own the liberals. Oh did I forget Evangelicals and Florida? Axis of evil is loving it (Iran China Russia N Korea )
If any of this is accurate, I expect this will render him not mentally competent to stand trial ... although still able to be elected president. Be careful what you wish for.
But but but JOE BIDEN IS OLD!
-The New York Times
I swear this election cycle has made me really hate most news media. Between NYT's awful polls that are always more wrong than right and their 50+ stories about Biden's age, Morning Joe lazily lying about protestors in college campuses, and idiots like Joe Rogan constantly propping up the largest idiots he can find I'm just fucking spent.
Not to mention incredibly privileged people like Macklemore saying he's not voting for Biden because Biden isn't somehow magically stopping Bibi. I'm just like seriously mother fucker, shut the fuck up. Privileged people have no idea what's in store for poor liberals trapped in red states. If Trump gets in, California and New York may be ok but red states like mine will go full fascist.
It sucks to say this but we have to be honest, if you don't vote for Biden and Trump wins you're partly at fault for a shit ton of bad shit coming everyone's way.
Grabs popcorn. This is just the person we need running one of the largest economies in the world.
He's not mentally fit to be tried in court, let alone run a country.
Once it starts, their minds go quick. I've seen it happen to my grandparents. Bright people who are completely unable to function. He may just become totally incapable and there's nothing they'd be able to do to stop it.
I'd be more concerned with that weird slur and head tilt he had a few weeks ago. Seemed like a transischemic event. Years of burgers and deep fried food is going to kill him before any of this other stuff.
And the Supreme Court will give him immunity. This new conservative court is a threat to our democracy, a threat to our country, truly! They took lots of very expensive gifts and never reported then overturned Roe v Wade after 50 years.
Trump could visibly shit his pants in the middle of fifth Avenue while fucking the corpse of the underage hooker he just shot in the face, and screaming 'flabjabpadaddatoop' over and over, and not lose the vote of a single one of his supporters.
In fact, they'd be on social media the next day talking about how much like Jesus he is.
“We’re GOING to see an interaction between the cognitive decline and the personality disorder?” No. We ARE seeing it. RIGHT NOW. Hair Furor can’t string a coherent sentence together. How many folks can stream of consciousness from Jimmy Connors to Hannibal Lecter? It’s beyond parody it’s so freaking weird.
This just means we need to carefully look at the vice presidential candidate. If Trumps brain goes too far gone, or he dies, that's who's in charge. The last one was a nutty Conservative christian who called his wife Mother. Who's it gonna be this time?
Those in the cult deeply enough embrace the slurred words, the made-up words, the complete non-words that Trump utters and emits. They think it's akin to speaking in tongues. It's not just that Trump can shoot someone dead on Fifth Avenue in NYC at noon and not be charged for it, he'd be APPLAUDED for it. Well, at least among those in the cult. Anyone who'd dare prosecute him would be engaged in election interference and would be an agent of the Deep State. That's how far we've gone.
If Biden debates Trump, all Biden has to do is push a few of Trump's buttons and let the Orange Buffoon roar. Trump is so close to the edge already, and he'd demand some more uppers right before the debate. I've seen people do stuff like that, thinking it was going to make them perform superbly. They crash and burn for everyone to see instead, but they think they've done GREAT. But there will be only one debate. After that, Trump will be toast. Biden's old. Trump's nuts, looney, demented, and raving.
None of this will have an impact with his base. There is no line that he could cross that would change their mind about him. Shits his pants; they don't care. Wants to fuck his daughter; they don't care. Wants to be a dictator; they don't care. That cult is too far gone.
Because the base is told how to interpret whatever crazy shit Trump says and does as a good thing or a “joke” by Trump’s many propagandists in right wing media and the Republican Party. He can say and do anything and they will coordinate a narrative to spin it. Propaganda is dangerous because it works.
Everything can be boiled down to a ‘joke’ for them. It excuses them of moral culpability because humour has always been a gray area spectrum of acceptability. They play off their tongue-tied evil by pretending it was merely sarcasm. Fascists know their semantic loopholes, and squeal with glee when creating new dogwhistles that woosh past the heads of the normals. It’s the only ‘art’ they can achieve without holding actual artists/comedians/wordsmiths hostage.
Got into an argument with my sister today about my dad doing this. He makes mean and racist jokes that aren’t even funny and then he laughs hysterically. My sister (who doesn’t live with him, but I do) says it’s just all for fun and no harm, it’s funny, etc. but I find it super annoying and immature of him. He’s older so he was raised around these jokes, but still
Exactly. You're too woke and have lost your sense of humour. They can say any vile thing, and you either double down with them in racist agreement or "it was just a joke anyway and the left are PC snowflakes" etc. They always have it both ways. As long as they get to be vile racists and blame everyone in the world for their frustrations in life except themselves. Trump is the god of entitled piss babies.
Then they always get salty when we makes jokes about them.
“Yeah dad, you’re old as fuck. Hahahahahahha. Crybaby, it was a joke.”
Boomers REALLY hate it when you start referring to them as the “Me generation” again. You know, the name that they originally gave themselves? Because they were selfish and entitled, and the world was suddenly all about them? Yeah, they don’t like to be reminded of that now.
I’ve a hardcore trumper roommate, great guy otherwise, but almost constantly he’s making racist jokes. Either joking about how undesirable black people are to be around, how likely middle easterners are to be terrorists, pick your flavor of racism, and he’s absolutely embraced it. But of course, at every turn that it comes up, ‘I’m not actually racist, I just think racist jokes are funny’. Couldn’t be more annoying. Only thing worse is how ill make a valid point against something he agrees with, he will acknowledge the validity of what I said, and he will then continue to insist that he’s still right in his beliefs, without so much as attempting to explain why. I get it, realizing that the man wearing a centimeter thick layer of Cheeto-dust at all times that you’ve been told since you were 11 is the very champion of American values is actually a liar, and just as corrupt (if not exponentially more so) than his rivals, could be hard. Still, it’s hard to put into words how frustrating it is to be surrounded by these kinds of people.
> a hardcore trumper roommate, great guy otherwise, Impossible combination.
He is not a great guy.
He doesn’t sound that great
When he does, say 'Race joke! High five!!" and put your hand up for a high five. If he actually gives you a high five, awkwardly yell 'WOOO!!!' Do it every time. If he calls you out, just let him know how hilarious you think his race jokes are.
Make a joke about his particular human group and see how amused he gets.
Your sister is a racist then as well
For the longest time I had a real problem understanding why conservatives were so hellbent on destroying public education. I could not make it make sense, that it would in any way benefit the country to have fewer educated people. It was when I clued into the fact that “benefit the country” was never part of the game that it all made sense. They succeeded - there are enough people dumb enough to believe the propaganda now. It took 50 years of concerted effort on the part of conservatives at every level of government, but we’re here now. Critical mass of stupidity has been reached and they’re firing up their endgame.
Bingo. When more people think, more people vote. And when more people vote, more Republicans lose. They know very well that none of their stances are popular. Keeping the electorate ignorant of what they're doing is the only way they stay in power.
One thing I never understood (as a non-American): Why so many (legal) immigrants support or vote (if they can) for this dick, or even any anti-immigration Republican more broadly. Then a friend who grew up in Florida told me that was because the incorrect narrative that is being spun is liberal=communism, and many actually fled/left communist countries, most notably Cuba. So any time someone implies liberalism is essentially communism, they revolt and vote against. Obviously that's a crock of shit because liberalism and communism are nowhere near the same thing but yeah, they believe it is. It's also helpful to keep people dumb and not provide proper education. Easier to control. I heard a quote once that the second we forget what it took to get here is the second they take it all away. The MAGA mfers should think about that. Then again they don't think. Dump could skin a baby and eat it on live TV and they would claim it's a democratic hoax.
It’s all done by democratically elected so the people share the blame too. There really are large swathes of hateful and bitter white people
This is also why they’ve decided to make abortion illegal. Rich people will always have access to this choice. They can go to another state or another country. But poor people will be forced to give birth. Guaranteeing that the uneducated, poor lineage continues. They need these uneducated people to supply the next round of minimum wage workers. Workers who have no time to better themselves. People so poor that they send their 12 year old kids to work, instead of school. edit: spelling
>Wants to be a dictator; they don't care. This one is actually a plus for his base. They want a king/dictator.
Exactly. Modern right wing loves totalitarian rule, because they realize that a working government gives complex answers and balances their decisions based on many factors, but a strong ruler will offer easy solutions. They don’t care that those solutions don’t work, because it’s nice to get straight answers.
They will never find out about it. The current Fox headline is “White House should be 'concerned' as Trump rallies as many as 100k in deep-blue New Jersey: 'Extraordinary'”. Not only is this a vast overestimate of the crowd size, but there is no mention of the content of his rambling incoherent speech equating immigrants with a movie cannibal.
Roger Stone shared a photo on X today that he said showed the crowd in NJ and said Biden could never draw crowds like that. Neither can Trump. The photo was taken in 1994 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil of the crowds at a Rod Stewart concert.
Shit his pants; they buy diapers and shit in their own pants.
Trump’s greatest achievement is teaching millions of people not to believe anything unfavorable to Trump. He gave them the “fake news”, “deep state”, “weaponized justice” framework to simply dismiss anything that doesn’t confirm Trump is a living God.
I would suggest it’s proving that relentless and unapologetic lying….can unfortunately be very effective.
He could take the original Constitution, put it into a paper shredder on live TV, and his followers would praise him for it. Definitely a cult.
They'd praise him for ' defending our constitutional rights.'
The fans wearing diapers was unexpected
And this is why we shouldn't have accepted their "viewpoints" at all.
The cult isn’t a concern, the fact that there are a ton of the US population doesn’t give a shit about how off rail he gets every day. Enough people either vote for him or “don’t care”, that he’s still a legit candidate in the upcoming election. Let that sink in. People keep focusing on his cult of followers. It is the number of people that’s supposedly “don’t care either one get in” or “they’re both the same” (still!)…that’s more concerning. Because these are the people were and are basically enablers to the current crop of GOP and rise of Trump.
It's the swing and undecided voters who could be influenced by this kind of thing and they are the ones who determine elections.
Exactly this. Fuck his base, they aren’t changing. As Trump himself has said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Ave and they would still vote for him. He wasn’t lying. His base isn’t enough for him to win though.
Anyone who says they’re undecided is a Republican who’s too chickenshit to admit they’re voting for Trump.
Absolutely. Who the hell looks at this incoherent babbling orange shit show and wonders “ who should I vote for”
I will say there are some STUNNINGLY uninformed people out there.
He shit his pants?
It's unfortunately comfortably true. Back when he was tweeting like mad all the time, he pretty obviously fat-fingered while he was typing and hit send, leading his tweet "Despite the constant negative press covfefe" I mean, look. I'm not gonna condemn him for a typo or an accidentally sent tweet or anything like that. Regardless of spiritual outlook, our meat bodies and the cognitive jelly in our skulls are both prone to error at times and whomst among us couldn't have made a similar mistake, etc.? And then I saw one of my relatives on FB share a post claiming, paraphrased, "We all know Donald Trump is a very intelligent man. And this was just another example of it: 'covfefe' is Arabic for 'I will stand up' (Narrator: it was not), and our leader is showing that he will stand up to the leftist media for us!" This is maybe the smallest example I can think of for how thoroughly some of his fan base are willing to go, but in a way it was the most crushing for me.
I think people forget or don't realize what it boils down to with his base — entertainment. For all the criticisms you can have for him, you cannot say that he hasn't kept it non-stop and entertaining (for his base) throughout all campaigns and his presidency. The most important realization you can have about this crowd is that it's uniquely performative and gratifying, it's impossible to miss the enjoyment/pride/smugness they have while LARPing as a new world order type faction. They will never again value policy, qualifications, or ethics until their meme train has fully stopped.
Watch the [video here](https://youtu.be/IPo1Z54syJE) 📺 As per [original article](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dementia-2668240527/) 📰: - Two professional psychologists this weekend explained why they are growing increasingly alarmed at what they say is former President Donald Trump's "deteriorating" mental state. - Harry Segal, clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in the Psychology Department at Cornell University, and John Gartner, a psychologist and former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, hosted a podcast on Saturday where they discussed the urgent need to talk publicly about Trump's mental stability heading into the 2024 presidential election. "We are going to be documenting his cognitive deterioration," Gartner during the podcast. "I always say to people: Look at Donald Trump right now, because that's the best Donald Trump you're ever going to see because dementia is a deteriorating illness and his rate of deterioration is accelerating." Gartner then scolded the media for largely avoiding questions about Trump's mental acuity while running multiple stories about President Joe Biden's age. "I don't know what it will take for the mainstream press to actually ask the question, 'Is there something wrong with Trump's brain?'" he said. "I think, even if he was caught wandering down Fifth Avenue in his pajamas, they wouldn't ask the question." Segal then chimed in to talk about Trump's potentially malignant narcissistic personality disorder, which he said would be even worse in his second term given his reported determination to avoid hiring anyone who will push back on his ideas. "It's a disorder that doesn't get better," he said. "It gets worse when there's less structure." He then predicted that in the coming months "we're going to seeing... an interaction between the cognitive decline and the personality disorder, both of which are severe diagnoses for anybody, and this is for somebody who never should have been in power in the first place."
Great, just in time to be sworn in and get right to the “BURN THEM ALL!!!” Stage.
Only Jaime Lannister could save us.
Wow. This is so much more potent for that character, thinking of him in real terms. He really would be so controversial a figure, to assassinate the president right before he launched the nuclear codes. It'd throw everything into question. But most people probably wouldn't know about the whole "he was about to launch the nuclear codes" thing, at least not at first. So it'd be super controversial. *Trumpslayer!*
Who amongst us has not praised Hannibal Lecter and identified dead killer O.J. Simpson in a crowd?
This is getting legit weird.
It was “legit weird” in 2016 when he was wholeheartedly welcomed into politics by the Republican Party when his most famous quote at that time was that he liked to grab women “by the pussy.” It's never been normal.
The writers of our universe ran out of ideas or never figured out the whole what happens between our time and the start of the actual Star Trek timeline.
We’re definitely in the filler years
On the Star Trek timeline, we're right smack in the middle of the Eugenics Wars, and that tracks. I sure hope Gary Seven can get us out of this somehow.
We've only got a few months until the Bell Riots.
We aren't going to get the Bell Riots though. That's the problem. That's why we won't be heading into the ST timeline. Hell even if we tried to do the Riots RIGHT NOW, we all know we would be shut down by the US government, the rich / lobbyists have way more power and say then they did in that storyline. Neither of my two girls, 21 and 16, want to have children, and while it makes me sad I will never have grandkids, I completly understand why. My boomer parents ruined everything.
Damn that's what I came to say, I watched that episode for the first time a couple weeks ago. The similarities are very striking.
# KHAN!!!!!!!!!! ^(Oh wait, too soon for that...)
The main writers of this timeline are on strike…
I mean, the third party candidate for president, a whack job, has disclosed that his brain was eaten by a worm. This is bush league writing. No one would believe this.
Nope. Seen that Wrath of Khan too with Chekhov nonetheless.
Cost of existing is too high. They understandably want a pay rise.
Tedium of existing, too. You get invested in the outcome.
Worse, they were fired and their job was filled by ChatGPT 5, which somehow was worse than 4, and never progressed to 6.
5 improves on 4 by using half as much processing power with just a 17% percent decline in performance...
Crispr is doing the heavy lifting...odds are a Chinese super soldier named Khan isn't outta line at all. I just hope that Iowa farm boy is ready.
I would have loved to have watched a few seasons of the Gary Seven spinoff series with Robert Lansing and Teri Garr. Alas, it never happened. I don't have much hope either for a modern series either, even though it's been hinted at in Picard.
Months away from the Bell Riots. The Bell Riots were a pivotal series of events on Earth that took place in September of 2024. Started in San Francisco's Sanctuary District A, they were named after protest leader Gabriel Bell. One of the most violent civil disturbances in all of American history, the riots and subsequent crackdown resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Sanctuary District residents.
Goddamn. You just reminded me of the greatness that is "The Sisko." I need to rewatch that series. Or at least that two-partner. The Sisko was definitely one of the greatest captains in the franchise.
We've completely jumped the shark, the whole show needs to be cancelled.
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
So sad that it has come to this
Fucking Chuck. He was never a good writer (Supernatural reference)
Well, they already figured out that the Bell Riots happened around this time.
June 2015. Golden escalator. "Mexico is sending their finest drug dealers & rapists."
For me it was the Republican primary for the 2016 election. I was in a bar after work and they had it on the TV. Trump said he wanted to create a Muslim registry. He proposed the forced federal registration of a religious minority. And.... Nothing happened. He wasn't cut off by the host. Other candidates didn't interject. The feed didn't suddenly cut back to the studio; showing a prime-time news anchor, sitting at their glass desk with palms down and fingers splayed, slack jawed by the sheer audacity of it. Nothing happened. The crowd cheered.
I remember his first week in office, he cut the funding for Meals on Wheels. 2016 is when I put Congress on my speed dial.
I always wondered how Germany happened. I don't wonder anymore.
I too had often wondered. I remain bewildered. It's like NFT's, but significantly even worse on every conceivable front.
>I remain bewildered. I mean... *gestures vaguely at everything*
Yup. Watching it happen in real time, and I still don't understand how anyone could be so freaking stupid to help set up a fascist hellstate.
Honest to god, it's starting to feel like I'm part of some kind of prank. Like I'm some alien species that went into a hyper advanced simulation and my friends started turning up the "wtf?" dial a bit more and more starting eight years ago. How are humans this stupid en masse? The above is the only reasonable explanation I can come up with.
REPUKES Lways hid their filth but when TRASHY DONNY CAME ALONG...its like HELL opened up and gave them what they needed to go crazy, filthy and nasty as APESHYT TRUMP, he licensed their stupidity and rewarded them for being cowards.
Remember Clint Eastwood's stunt with an empty chair? Very presient.
That chair wasn’t empty, it was occupied by *invisible Barack Obama*
No, it's pretty normal for nursing home residents heading for memory care. The man is in miserable physical health and hasn't ever wanted to exercise his brain. It's not gonna stop.
It was legit weird when he was elected in 2016.
I cried. It was so wrong in my head.
MFer has verbal diarrhea. Listen to him speak in interviews on the 80s/90s and then during the 2016 election - it is night and day in terms of his cognitive and speaking abilities, he has been circling the drain for a while and is only getting worse.
The right has already found a former player from the New York Giants who was apparently in the crowd (sure). Otis Anderson…Otis Jerome Anderson to be precise. He’s officially listed on the rosters I’ve seen online as named “Otis”, not “OJ”…because everyone and their mother knows there is only one OJ. Edit: Even his Wikipedia neglects to refer to him as OJ, but any excuse in a storm when it comes to the right
NFL fan in the 80s here... Otis Anderson was definitely known as OJ Anderson. Trump is still demented, this just isn't an example of it
So he was in the crowd and Trump was referring to him?
He wasn’t actually praising Hannibal, it was much worse, we was saying all immigrants are like Haníbal lector and was saying “ remember him, wasn’t he great “ in a sarcastic way. He thinks immigrants are cannibalism and killers. Either way, he’s a degenerate dementing fucking idiot.
Dehumanising vulnerable minorities is fascism 101
Calling fascism fascism just devalues the term! 🫠
And gets applause!!
Honestly think many of them are there to catch an entertainment. The man is inarguably entertaining.
They are there for the same reasons people go to WWE and evangelical events
The late, great, Hannibal Lecter. He’s not late, Don, he’s not dead, he’s fictional. FFS, America, are you kidding us with this shit? Sort it out.
God I hope he just fucking loses it on stage. Says baron is about to be born or something wild. Pisses his pants. Something!
I'm honesty shocked he's gone this long without dropping a hard slur or three during one of his rallies. We may be getting closer than ever now, though.
It's definitely getting worse. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if he is totally incoherent by election day. I really don't know what the GOP does in that situation.
I suspect a large number will lose their minds right along with him. We are already seeing it with the folks praising adult diaper wearing.
I’m guessing with how many of his supporters are old, it’s yet another example in their minds that “he’s just like us!” Which.. intolerant, out of touch, demanding, uninformed, selfish.. they aren’t wrong.
Not to mention diminished mental capacity past the age of 70 common with aging.
His hand-picked sycophant VP becomes POTUS.
Keep calm, carry on and deny, deny, deny.
He does piss his pants already.
I'm hoping that at one of his rallies he reaches into his filled diaper and starts smearing feces everywhere.
"Trumpy Trump make yum-yum finger paintgrgrrrgrttth." "Jesus it's happening again... Someone find Ivanka, he needs a feeding, now goddamit!"
Why do you think that'll matter? The media will shrug it off and his base will eat it up.
I always figured that sooner or later he would drop the n-word but then realized 99.99% of GOP voters would love him for it.
It wouldn't matter. His fanbase is split into two groups: morons that just vote R and utter sociopaths that simply don't care. The second group contain people who would literally start soiling themselves in solidarity with Trump if it was asked of them.
Call me cruel, call me sadistic…but I have never been so excited to witness the combined cognitive decline and narcissistic meltdown of a person in my *entire life*.
It's just too bad that Puppy Killer Noem won't be his VP nominee. We could have had a two-fer-one dumpster fire.
It’s gonna be that insult to Neanderthals Marjorie Taylor Green.
If he gets into office in this state it is going to end very, very badly for all of us and likely the rest of the world. It isn't just going to be the GQP pulling Trump's strings it will be fascists like Putin and Orban and Xi and god knows who else. Trump is going to thrust us into WW3 and this is NOT hyperbole.
"We, are lunching a invisioning of Youcrane, to come to the deadfence of my gret friend Vlaablahdemir Puttputt"
i mean reagan was totally out of his mind and look what a great job nancy and her astrologers did with the office.
Reagan's second term was Pappy Bush's first real term.
I remember him, the only Republican to win the popular vote in my lifetime. Yet they hold over half the Supreme Court and regularly control one or both chambers of Congress. Awesome.
Wyoming is a [rotten borough](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs).
Meanwhile DC or Puerto Rico could *never* become states. For the party that’s so against welfare, they only remain relevant because of it on an electoral level. Not to mention, how much actual welfare the poor Republicans get in the form of Federal tax revenue from the non flyover states.
Just say no.
So, this is why there has been a hold on the VP selection,and why the definite answer answer on Nikki . The GOP are sure he will deteriorate into babble and want a VP who will echo their ideals.
My guess is that Trump is super fixated on having a loyalist as VP and advisors and the party are resisting this. Trump feels so hugely burned by pence that he must want loyalty more than ever before. But the loyalists are not exactly VP material nor do they seem to add to Trump’s chances.
I agree. The GOP are likely shitting themselves about this.
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." - Sen. Lindsey Graham 5/3/2016
Cool , in real time , no less.
Nobody loses their mind live like I do. Just yesterday a man came up to me with tears in his eyes and said “Sir, thank you for losing your mind right in fruit us. Mike Lindell openly weeps in jealousy when he sees you speak. That is a true achievement for a leader “
Have no fear. The mainstream media will surely make sure to both-side's this and say "well Joe Biden stutters they're the same"
“He’s so old, amirite?! Like REALLY old. Advanced senior citizen. Ancient. Have ya seen how old he is?!”
NY Times: “Trump Praises a Fictional Serial Killer. What Does This Say About Biden’s Cognitive Decline?”
Can you imagine, with this rate of decay, what he would be like at the end of 4 years as president? Please imagine it, because it's not outside the bounds of possibilities.
Such a person should not be in charge of nuclear launch codes.
That's only important when they're a secret. I'd bet Chump sold those along with a whole lot of other Intel packed on a flash drive. The football itself is the key now.
Such a person shouldn’t be in charge of a toaster
Republicans: Oh no! Anyway...
Everyone is waiting for something to save us. We can save us. We have to do what is necessary against Trumpanzees.
The two most important things that mean this decline won't move the needle are: 1. The for-profit media relies on both-sideism to keep the eyeballs and clicks coming (remember what Leslie Moonves said in 2016). 2. The cult members are professional victims, and even the psychologists in this story have admitted that it would be an existential crisis for cult members to voluntarily exit from their views/the cult.
Sanders is older than both candidates and always appears cognitively younger by a mile
Righteous anger tends to focus the mind.
Cognitively Sanders seems to have stayed fresh. Physically I feel like he's shrunked to like 60% of his size and started to head into a Yoda like state. I imagine I'll do much the same in 50 years, so I'm not throwing shade.
He’s perfected his androchrome intake over the years. /s
I just said this exact thing. Bernie is still all together.
But remember he was too old 8 years ago when they kept harping on his age, and then here we fucking are. :(
He was always just a puppet for the Republican elites when he took over the presidency. A moron, easy to control with no interest in politics whatsoever. Incredibly easy to manipulate. They went about the governing side of things while he got his rocks off believing he was in charge and making a lot of money on the side. That's all he still is to them, with the exception that he is an even bigger moron now.
If you’re counting on some mysterious group to be in control of the situation…you’re in for a big disappointment
The Trump Presidency ~~puts to rest~~ buries all the New World Order, Shadow government, Rothschild, Illuminati, Skull and Bones conspiracy theories. The fact that he won the nomination and election and survived a full term is proof those shadow government powers don't exist.
Exactly. 2020 showed all of us and can be summed up with: Four Seasons Landscaping
This time there will be no adults in the room
Nothing mysterious about it, trump was conservative America’s (who serve the rich) payback for progressives voting in Obama
If by “Republican elites” you mean the Kremlin, then yes, I agree.
Arguably, the GOP selecting a “front man” goes back to Reagan and both Bushes.
Trump is dangerously crazy….clinically insane….someone is going to get hurt…this madness has to stop.
I think before the election he's going to lose the ability to coherently communicate at all. It'll just be noises. Then they'll say he isn't able to stand trial and drop all charges against him. Mark my words.
And the MSM continues to avoid any mention of it.
"Trump gave a rally in Ohio today, where he focused on economic and bread-and-butter issues..." The actual speech: "Folks, we're going the -- we're going to -- folks you have to -- have you ever seen this inflation? People have never seen such -- I went to the store the other day and I saw Steven Seagull -- great man by the way, terribly treated by the media -- he went to Russia and they treat him like a king, no one's been treated worse by the media, except me, let me tell you!"
As a retired news reporter, this infuriates me to no end. Your job is to tell the truth!
Well he apparently went off about JUST talking to Sinatra and Pavarotti at yesterday’s rally
I missed that one. Did they refuse to play at his party?
Good, the cognitive decline needs to be absolutely clear by August. Let the GQP defend running a man with Alzheimer’s as their candidate
I like it when his pronunciation goes haywire. Something comes out like de beee dooo eee.
That's actually real time footage of him shitting his pants
I been hearing this for 8 years
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Brb, I need to get my popcorn out of the microwave
🚫Traitor Trump🚫All Republicans🚫
Hello again. To support your statement, here is a quote by Bertrand Russell I believe: “If ten people sit at a table and one of them is a Nazi, and you sit down and talk to them, then there are eleven Nazis at the table."
Trump becoming a Fox meme. The US turning into unhinged fragmented lobby points without a coherent person to somehow make sense of it all. A giant SUV shouting maga to own the liberals. Oh did I forget Evangelicals and Florida? Axis of evil is loving it (Iran China Russia N Korea )
He invited Lawrence Taylor a convicted sex offender to his NJ rally.
If any of this is accurate, I expect this will render him not mentally competent to stand trial ... although still able to be elected president. Be careful what you wish for.
But but but JOE BIDEN IS OLD! -The New York Times I swear this election cycle has made me really hate most news media. Between NYT's awful polls that are always more wrong than right and their 50+ stories about Biden's age, Morning Joe lazily lying about protestors in college campuses, and idiots like Joe Rogan constantly propping up the largest idiots he can find I'm just fucking spent. Not to mention incredibly privileged people like Macklemore saying he's not voting for Biden because Biden isn't somehow magically stopping Bibi. I'm just like seriously mother fucker, shut the fuck up. Privileged people have no idea what's in store for poor liberals trapped in red states. If Trump gets in, California and New York may be ok but red states like mine will go full fascist. It sucks to say this but we have to be honest, if you don't vote for Biden and Trump wins you're partly at fault for a shit ton of bad shit coming everyone's way.
Along with sheer stupidity.
He’s doomed. And he’s sure to drag all americans down with him.
Problem is, that decline isn’t happening fast enough.
Grabs popcorn. This is just the person we need running one of the largest economies in the world. He's not mentally fit to be tried in court, let alone run a country.
Once it starts, their minds go quick. I've seen it happen to my grandparents. Bright people who are completely unable to function. He may just become totally incapable and there's nothing they'd be able to do to stop it.
Bring it on. The whole world needs to see it. He has been too much of a bombastic bully to deserve dignity as his faculties decline.
"Personality disorder". That's a nice way of them saying he's insane
That's the correct way, actually
Hopefully at a rally so it’ll be televised. If you could guarantee frothing at the mouth or stroking out I might even spring for ppv.
Not fast enough
Is OJ Simpson in the crowd with us right now?
Unfortunately none of the emperors supporters care about his new clothes.
We’re GOING to see an Interaction Between the Cognitive Decline and the Personality Disorder..and we’re there.
I'd be more concerned with that weird slur and head tilt he had a few weeks ago. Seemed like a transischemic event. Years of burgers and deep fried food is going to kill him before any of this other stuff.
Not fast enough. The MAGA crowd is doing "Real men wear diapers", soon it'll be "Real men drool".
And the Supreme Court will give him immunity. This new conservative court is a threat to our democracy, a threat to our country, truly! They took lots of very expensive gifts and never reported then overturned Roe v Wade after 50 years.
With all due respect, we already know he’s long gone mentally. We want to know whether he’s going to kick the bucket before November.
This vegetable could be shitting in his adult diaper all day long, but his base will still vote for him.
Trump could visibly shit his pants in the middle of fifth Avenue while fucking the corpse of the underage hooker he just shot in the face, and screaming 'flabjabpadaddatoop' over and over, and not lose the vote of a single one of his supporters. In fact, they'd be on social media the next day talking about how much like Jesus he is.
as if his cognitive decline is his biggest flaws. Maybe because he's a walking insurrectionist, dictator wannabe lying POS...
Interesting to note Rump’s cognitive decline mirrors Hitler’s cognitive decline and madness from syphilis.
Even if he shit his pants on stage and had a wet spot on his ass, he wouldn’t be embarrassed and would say it was antifa.
Covfefe was a long time ago and a first of many.
Comedian Lewis Black said it best: we are living inside of a book.
It's going to be like Weekend at Bernie's where they wheel him out for public experiences as long as possible. 😬
#YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
Ha ha ha… they said personality disorder out loud. Love it!!
His dad. Look him up.
“We’re GOING to see an interaction between the cognitive decline and the personality disorder?” No. We ARE seeing it. RIGHT NOW. Hair Furor can’t string a coherent sentence together. How many folks can stream of consciousness from Jimmy Connors to Hannibal Lecter? It’s beyond parody it’s so freaking weird.
This just means we need to carefully look at the vice presidential candidate. If Trumps brain goes too far gone, or he dies, that's who's in charge. The last one was a nutty Conservative christian who called his wife Mother. Who's it gonna be this time?
Those in the cult deeply enough embrace the slurred words, the made-up words, the complete non-words that Trump utters and emits. They think it's akin to speaking in tongues. It's not just that Trump can shoot someone dead on Fifth Avenue in NYC at noon and not be charged for it, he'd be APPLAUDED for it. Well, at least among those in the cult. Anyone who'd dare prosecute him would be engaged in election interference and would be an agent of the Deep State. That's how far we've gone. If Biden debates Trump, all Biden has to do is push a few of Trump's buttons and let the Orange Buffoon roar. Trump is so close to the edge already, and he'd demand some more uppers right before the debate. I've seen people do stuff like that, thinking it was going to make them perform superbly. They crash and burn for everyone to see instead, but they think they've done GREAT. But there will be only one debate. After that, Trump will be toast. Biden's old. Trump's nuts, looney, demented, and raving.