Why does the president keep bragging about his passing of dementia tests‽ How can he not understand that that is admitting to needing them?
I just want to hear someone from the press pool shout, “you’ve already said this, Donald.”
“I passed that STD screening with flying colors!”
“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”
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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Lol i love aoc, makes the alt right cry like the babies they are
They even tried making fun of her, when they released her dance video. Ha
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.
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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Right? I do not fucking understand how the Garcia stuff wasn’t impeachable
Yeah…: but the GOP is “winning”. That speech when Donald went to office this year, was for them… not us.
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.
If only he worked himself nicely up and finally got a stroke.
I think Taco should have his diaper changed more frequently. Diaper rash can make babies cranky.
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.
Let’s hope that one day his blood pressure getd too high.
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.
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
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.
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.
Agreed, but this time he seriously is completely losing it. That post is insane, and nonsensical.
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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I’m a big fan of his complete inability to use scare quotes properly
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
Then what? What is the point of impeachment? It already happened twice, and he’s still here.
Yes the state is truly a failure literally created by enslavers. No surprise it’s full o’ fash.
… so better to give up? What’s your solution
Don’t try to play within a system that’s broken?
Great, what’s your solution?
The only viable one will get you banned for ‘inciting violence’.
I worry enough about other things to think about how to “fix” other nation’s governments, unlike Americans.
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Enlighten me on how that’s going to be effective in stopping a president who doesn’t give a fuck about the constitution
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Yeah, that’s a 100% happening. The guy who can just say “due process is not a thing”, challenges election results, 3rd term talks etc is definitely going to get convicted, say “sorry guys my bad” and leave peacefully
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None of those three things are going to happen while Congress is controlled by Republicans. Attempting to impeach him currently is a performative waste of time.
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.
Imagine having a literal Hitler running the show and STILL not understand the lesser of 2 evils meaning.
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.
I’m not so sure if it started with Biden. I think it started way far back.
So Trump is better than Biden in your eyes? You can’t see a difference? Lol yeah OK.
The “lesser evil” is actively participating in the same show that literal hitler is running.
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…
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.
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.
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.
what keeps us going right is electing the “left party” that runs on the right platform from a decade ago.
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I bet the name “Obama, DEI, and Biden” lives rent free in your head, like Donald’s.
You lack reading comprehension, I’m a brown socialist.
I’d take AOC over Trump every day of the week.
Unless it’s a fight. Then I’ll take Trump because AOC would probably kick my ass.
…I think I’d still rather have AOC kick my ass than have to touch Trump.
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.
Trump sounds like a democrat.
Trump needs to relax, all this stress can’t be good for his heart.
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Now you get it.
The always bragging about having to go take cognitive tests is so fucking funny.
“Everyone thinks I’m fucking crazy and senile, but I’m not, I swear! And you have only my word to take for it!”
Yes, exactly this. AOC hasn’t taken a cognitive test because she doesn’t need to. He doesn’t realize that every time he brags about passing the cognitive test he reminds us all that he’s super fucking old.
Reminds me of Sheldon Cooper saying “I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested”
I’ve aced cognitive tests, the ones to see if you’re a genius, not to test for dementia. But I don’t go around talking about it because I’m not a loser. Bragging about taking dementia tests is wild.
They also probably didn’t make you keep taking them as an adult. I got a few of the “hey you’re probably neurodivergent let’s see how smart you are to better classify you” tests as a kid, but at 30 I haven’t had one in a long time because I’m 30 and that would be unnecessary.
I suppose there’s Mensa for adults, but again didn’t do that because I’m not a loser, and intelligence is what you do with it not the results of a test. I never bankrupted a casino with my intelligence, much less six times.
Here are some sample questions
- Recall five unrelated words, such as: “rose, chair, hand, blue, spoon.” (You will be asked to repeat them immediately after the test-taker gives them to you, and then again later, toward the end of the test.)
- Count backwards from 100 by seven. You also may be asked to calculate using currency, such as determining what change you might expect from your $20 bill if you were charged $13.55.
- How many words can you name in one minute that start with F? (Or you might be asked to name words that fit a category, like fruits.)
- Identify animals from pictures (such as a zebra or tiger).
- To test your visual perception, you may be asked to identify objects drawn within a jumble of other objects. Or, you may be asked to draw a picture (such as a cube) based on a drawing shown on the test form.
- The “clock test”—common in many dementia exams—is part of the MoCA dementia test. The test administrator will ask you to draw the face of a traditional (non-digital) clock, as well as to illustrate a specific time.
- Your ability to think abstractly may be tested by asking you to determine the relationships between objects—for instance, how trains and boats are similar to each other
So yeah… we have a president who is bragging about being able to draw a clock and tell you that trains and boats are both methods of transporting people. JFC we are so fucked.
3-7 seem like anyone can do it, the first depends on the amount of time it takes. I might forget them after a few minutes of thinking of other questions. 100 counting down by 7’s should be easy, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t do something like 100, 93, 86, 79, 72, 65, 58, 51… And while feeling anxious question myself if I just said 51 or 61 or something stupid. But that’s just test taking nervousness.
It has nothing to do with the answer being wrong, it’s how you get there. If you fail to subtract seven, realize your mistake, and correct it you have already passed the test. People with dementia will either start to count down by the wrong amount, start counting up, stuff like that. You are testing whether they can abstract verbal instructions and maintain a consistent train of thought while performing trivial calculations.
Counting down on your fingers one by one and only saying every seventh number would be considered a perfect score once you make it to about 63 if you don’t lose track of what you are doing or start forgetting numbers.
Okay so I wanted to try the fruits to see. It says 8-12 fruits gets you 1 point, 13+ gets you an extra point, less than 8, 0 points. (1 minute to name them)
So I started pretty easy and then started questioning myself:
Let’s say watermelon, orange, tangerine, peach, strawberry, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, blackberry, blueberry, apple, jackfruit, mango, lime, lemon… But I didn’t think of lemon/lime immediately, my brain started saying use Tomato and Cucumber as they both hold their seeds internally so they are “fruits”.
I get that they would likely count but when the pressures on, I imagine I could still fuck up something like that haha
None of that matters. You’ll see when you get older and they start giving you tests like that.
ACED IT!!! 🥴
It does make me chuckle when people are too dumb to realize they’re snitching on themselves.
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
Her response is gold
Respectfully.
With All Due Respect
I just realized that it would be hilarious to write to someone “with all due respect (none) …”
‘The amount of respect due is zero, but I’m providing a token amount because I’m so fucking nice’
I genuinely think I have a crush on her. She consistently smacks these GOP losers around and does it with a smile.
‘The girls are fighting’
She is awesome - but I hope they don’t intend on running her for president - not because I think she would do any less than a fantastic job, but because we have proven even women in this country won’t vote for a woman president. Meanwhile we have children in 5th grade drama running things. “But a woman would be emotional”.
Honestly, I’m pretty tired of establishment telling us who we’ll vote for.
Not very long ago America was never going to vote for a black man.
Bernie could never beat Trump… for some reason.
I just don’t want progressives to do the work of conservatives.
Sounds like DNC logic - "Let’s not allow anyone who isn’t a right-leaning, but plausibly-moderate, cis-white person to run. We don’t want to divide our support. 🤦♂️
Plenty of people voted for Hillary Clinton, despite her being Hillary Clinton. I don’t think her being a woman was the issue there.
I think we need to wait and see how things shake out. If she can demonstrate broad based support then why not run her.
If it’s only lefties who love her, then she’s not the right choice.
I’d love to agree with you but look how it’s worked out - the two times the orange idiot has been elected he is running against ladies. It seems an insurmountable hill for the general public to be ok with a woman president
Was it because they were woman or because they were just the same old Democrats people were tired of? You know, the left candidates that are actually right leaning, the establishment. Trying to appeal to the other side while forgetting their own base like a parent giving all of its attention to the one child who constantly does mischief while the others feel left out.
Yeah. There’s a correlation vs causation problem here that I don’t really have the answers to.
In other words I think that’s reductive.
Hillary was Hillary and didn’t take Trump seriously.
Kamala was run without much planning and forethought.
AOC might be a woman, and I take your point that may not be in her favor, but she has many virtues that may outweigh that disadvantage.
Women candidates have struggled in the past, but it’s looking like Harris at least lost because of voter machine rigging.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
