I know we've joked about it for awhile now, but seriously, this is dementia right?
Yes, he's sundowning and smiling more, but sometimes has clarity. Unfortunately, he has nazis in his cabinet that are also evil, but young.
Joked?
It's been obvious dementia to those familiar with it since like 2015, probably before. It's now late stage dementia.
He's not quite there yet ... but he's coming close to the edge.
A person in the later stages of dementia may get worse slowly over many months. During this time they will usually:
A person in the later stages of dementia is likely to have a weak immune system. This means they have a higher risk of getting infections, which in some cases can last for a long time. One of the most common causes of death for people with dementia is pneumonia caused by an infection.
I feel like people throw the dementia diagnosis at every stupid thing he says, when it's probably just a lifelong habit of being a belligerent dumbass with money.
Look at videos of him speaking in the 80s, after 9/11, during his 2016 campaign, and now. He's always been a narcissistic prick, and was showing clear signs of decline in 2016 to 2020, but it's worse now.
We don't have to guess about these things, we have documented records of him showing his best face throughout the years, and it's clear he's becoming less articulate and having less control (or desire to control) what he says. The latter may certainly be choice, but the former doesn't really look like it. This isn't a matter of him using simpler language to appeal to his audience, this is him having less capability to form coherent thoughts.
Yeah as a helper to 3 different elderly dementia relatives, it varies day to day and sleep schedules affect it. Also sunlight and mornings seemed to be the most coherent/aware times in general. Sun-downing is very much a thing and made evenings some of the hardest moments.
Why not both?
...what…?
The correct response anytime he opens his anus...sorry I mean mouth, mouth.
Over here, we call that verbal diarrhoea
I think he might be confused and think it's February 2025 and the US just lost the tourney
Dafqu?
I mean that's just levels of stupid that can't be blamed on dementia.
However it can be blamed on the fact that a bunch of new Epstien files were release and that it outlines the allegation that he got a blowie from a 14 year old.
This is hilarious, but FFS 'thedailybeast' fuck off with your headlines. There's nothing panicked here. A realistic, actual meaty headline would be "Trump tells Canada that China will restrict Ice Hockey, when asked about British trade with China"
This headline tells the facts, without dipping into outrage politics.
The problem there, oddly enough, is that I wouldn't have believed that headline. I would have dismissed it as a Beaverton article (Canadian version of the Onion) and not read it. Whereas this headline was sufficient to make me click on it to find out what his "hockey warnings" were.
"China will take hockey away from you!" Is such a completely deranged pants-on-head bonkers idiot thing to say that even now I'm still half convinced that this is parody that has somehow slipped through all the filters that are supposed to keep this serious.
Your headline calmed me down and made me feel more informed. Also, the trustworthy wording makes me think, "yeah, this article probably isn't filled with garbage, and I should read it."
In other words, YOU FAILED! YOU GOTTA MAKE ME ANGRY SO THAT I SHARE A LINK TO EVERYONE I KNOW WITHOUT ACTUALLY READING ANYTHING!!! I SHOULD FEEL MY HEART RATE INCREASE BY THE THIRD WORD OF YOUR HEADLINE!
"give yer balls a tug, donny" this guys is 10-ply.
" you wife shoots so much cum around my room I gotta put wood chips on the ground like I've got fuckin' guinea pigs."
Melania wanted me to stick my whole arm in her then cried when I knocked over the box of baking soda she keeps up there.
Actual quote? Genius either way!
WTF?
Really? That's the best boogeyman he can think of? They're going to ban ice hockey for no reason? (When they take over a country they barely think about)
Biggest win 35 - 0 over Kuwait. 35 goals?!
Make him watch heated rivalry.
"Ice hockey" what a fuckin moron
I'm confused. "Ice hockey" is what I've always called it too.
It's just hockey
There are different kinds of hockey though.
If I say I went to school yesterday. People don't think driving school.
If I say I played hockey yesterday, you wouldn't think I played it on grass would you?
I'd ask, "Ice hockey or field hockey?" because there's no way to tell until you specify.
Canadian here, I've never once met someone refer to field hockey as hockey. Actually I don't know if I've ever heard someone mention field hockey at all, lol
Trump isn't Canadian.
As a Canadian I have only once had the experience of someone talking about playing field hockey. Going on 30 something years.
Hockey is ice hockey, I might be surprised about which league you were talking about.
Trump isn't Canadian though?
Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that field hockey was one of the major league sports that can be found playing in any sports bar in America provided it's in season. That must be the big difference between Americans and Canadians. Thanks for clearing that up!
The point wasn't that field hockey is a major league sport (though it is a popular recreational sport - my high school had a field hockey team but not an ice hockey team, for example).
The point is that this is a clear dialectal difference between some speakers of American and Canadian English, and so criticizing Trump for this, of all the things you should be criticizing him for, is stupid (and ignorant)!
And my point is that most Americans know of hockey just like most Canadians do, and while there may be more Americans playing field hockey than Canadians, I expect most Americans also refer to ice hockey as hockey, and field hockey as field hockey. Unless they're an ignoramus with dementia, in which case, here we are.
One can also reference how the promoters of the leagues refer to themselves.
https://www.usafieldhockey.com/
Both the people running ice hockey and field hockey in America recognize that, in general for the country, hockey by itself refers to ice hockey and not field hockey.
Also, while there may be some dialectical differences in this respect between Canadians and Americans, that likely doesn't apply to someone who grew up in New York City. Moreover, his education until his twenties was gained in New York City, so it's difficult to say it was some quirk of his education. So how they refer to hockey in some region of America that hasn't touched ice that wasn't floating in a drink isn't really relevant to this discussion.
And my point is that most Americans know of hockey just like most Canadians do
Unfortunately for you, two groups of people having knowledge about the same thing does not mean that they use the same words to refer to that knowledge (see "aluminum" vs. "aluminium", or maybe more appropriately, "soccer" vs. "football"). Americans and Canadians both knowing about ice hockey does not mean that they use the same words to refer to the sport, and to assume otherwise is uninformed and wrong. Like, this is Ling 101 levels of basic.
I expect most Americans also refer to ice hockey as hockey, and field hockey as field hockey.
Ah the hubris that comes with unquestioned assumptions based on your own dialect.
My wife cracked up the first time I asked her if she wanted me to "carry her to the store" (meaning "drive her"), which genuinely shocked me, because I had had zero reason up until that moment to think that idiom was unique to my own dialect area, especially when we're from roughly the same region.
The point is, you're very clearly, demonstrably wrong about this. Based on a poll of just the four people in my household, three of them would say "ice hockey" while the other says that they would probably just say "hockey".
One can also reference how the promoters of the leagues refer to themselves.
One can also realize that not everyone speaks like people paid to have a career in a specific sport. Maybe asking people with literally the most possible bias for one over the other isn't the best way to go about capturing linguistic diversity.
that likely doesn’t apply to someone who grew up in New York City
Based on what? Your ass? Because New Yorkers famously sound just like Canadians and don't at all have a very famous, particular way of talking...
We already have an excellent data point that this may not in fact be true. That data point? The fact that Trump, who is a New Yorker, educated in New York, as you pointed out, said "ice hockey" in fluent speech instead of saying "hockey".
So how they refer to hockey in some region of America that hasn’t touched ice that wasn’t floating in a drink isn’t really relevant to this discussion.
Demonstrating that there clearly exist Americans who say "ice hockey" instead of "hockey" is an excellent data point when discussing whether this is a dialect difference between some American and Canadian speakers.
All of your assertions come, like I said, straight from your ass, and are therefore much less relevant to the discussion.
And, of course, the main point, once again, because I think it's important:
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU CRITICIZING TRUMP FOR SAYING "ICE HOCKEY" INSTEAD OF, Y'KNOW, CRITICIZING HIM FOR THE HORRIBLE SHIT HE'S DOING TO CANADA??
First, when you use someone who obviously has dementia as your reference point for what a group of people do, you are probably wrong unless the groups you're referring to is people with dementia.
Second, promoters use the terms people are most likely to associate with the products they're promoting, not what it is or think it should be called. That's why you'll hear diamond advertisements use the word diamond and not carbon allotrope, because one of them has no relevance to their customers.
Third, I'm not here to talk about Trump. Ive been saying shitty things about him since before Lemmy existed, and this tidbit is almost completely irrelevant to the issues Canada has with respect to Trump. I'm here to talk about your hot take that is probably relevant to the 2% of Americans (that number is for color and is neither an opinion nor an assertion, and if it is a fact, that is purely coincidental) who naturally assume hockey refers to field hockey or who have declined sufficiently due to dementia that they have difficulty with context when speaking.
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