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Trump’s Brain Is Not Okay (ghostarchive.org)

submitted 7 months ago by DevCat@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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While for many it’s obvious how serious Trump’s declining mental capacity has become, for too many Americans that reality has not yet broken through. The media continues to treat Trump like a normal candidate; many Americans have baked Trump’s bizarre behavior into their perceptions of him; and many take right-wing lies about Joe Biden’s mental fitness at face value.

Given this, we wanted to hear from John Gartner, founder of Duty To Warn, a group of mental health professionals who have been raising the alarm about Trump’s increasingly sociopathic behavior since 2017. Now in 2024, Gartner has an even more dire warning about Trump: that there are increasing signs the former president is heading fast down the road toward dementia.

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[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 69 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Gartner has an even more dire warning about Trump: that there are increasing signs the former president is heading fast down the road toward dementia.

Not fast enough. He's going to need to be in a wheelchair drooling and unable to talk before anyone in the right concedes that there may be an issue.

[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

I mean, look at Mitch McConnell he's stuck rebooting his brain.

[-] Ack@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago

He's going to need to be in a wheelchair

He’s never liked exercise, just like many of his fellow Americans. Man of the people!

drooling

He’s got someone to wipe up the drool, that’s job creation!

and unable to talk

He’s the strong, silent type!

before anyone in the right concedes that there may be an issue.

I don’t know if this will happen, unless he loses too many elections (??) and they suddenly drop him like a sack of hammers.

[-] zigmus64@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Eh… Texas still elected Greg Abbot though…. I’m not convinced even that would do it…

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

The problem with Abbot isn't his legs.

[-] morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

You're right but that's beside their point.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works -3 points 7 months ago

Heh, you said but t.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

He's going to need to be in a wheelchair drooling and unable to talk

Ronald Reagan says "Do you know who I am? No really, I don't have a clue."

[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Here's the thing - Trump has always been a high extroversion, low agreeableness, reward-seeking narcissist (that article is from 2016). Here's magician Penn Jillette talking about his experience with Trump on 2 seasons of Celebrity Apprentice (in 2012) and why he thinks Trump's personality makes him a terrible choice for President (definitely watch it, it's 90 seconds of Penn slaying Trump). So sometimes it's hard to tell if Trump is being combative and illogical because he's progressing towards dementia or if it's just his personality which has been awful for as long as it's been recorded. He's the real-world embodiment of the quote by Douglas Adams:

“In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.” ― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

[-] DevCat@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

I believe the tell is in the degradation of his speech, both written and verbal.

[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 27 points 7 months ago

This is probably WHY the more sane GoP is putting up with his shit - They hope he'll become a barely functioning puppet for them

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

It worked with Regan.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

again...

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Now where have we heard this one before? Only difference here is one wanted to tear down a wall, the other wants to build one.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Now where have we heard this one before? Only difference here is one wanted to tear down a wall, the other wants to build one.

[-] sagrotan@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Obviously. I don't even wanna know what his sick bastard of father did to him. Don't get me wrong, no empathy here, just emphasising that some shit must have happened down the line. His parents weren't mentally same either.

[+] aibler@lemmy.world -68 points 7 months ago

I think the most remarkable thing about this is how both sides are so unable to see that their own guy is clearly experiencing extreme mental collapse. Believe it or not, it is possible for two people to simultaneously be losing their shit. The cognitive dissonance is so thick that it seems like nobody on either side can see their own hand when it's an inch in front of their noses.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 66 points 7 months ago

Both sides bullshit. Biden gave an hour speech that was well received. Trump slurs his rehashed rhetoric. But sure, same thing.

[+] aibler@lemmy.world -32 points 7 months ago

Look, if I had to pick a team, I'd be on team blue, but by no stretch of the imagination is Biden an exemplar of mental acuity. It isn't exactly hard to find countless examples of him tripping all over himself. Trust me, I wish there was a chance that we were not about to put someone who should probably be in assisted living into office. If you take a step back for a second and look at him with an open mind, its not hard to see. Just as an experiment, watch some videos of him and pretend like it's trump saying that stuff. If you can do that, then you will get a glimpse of what any rational person has been seeing for quite some time.

[+] item09@lemm.ee -19 points 7 months ago

Completely reasonable arguments and not at all “both sides bullshit”…

Both sides bullshit is when someone is using that argument to imply that “both are bad so it doesn’t matter” or “x is bad so y isn’t such a bad choice”

You said none of that and just commented, very reasonably, that both of these guys are too fucking old to run a country. Idk why Lemmies seem to see everything in black and white.. I’ll vote blue as well, but not because I think Biden is an excellent choice.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

His first comment literally says "both sides" and then basically says they're equivalent.

[+] aibler@lemmy.world -20 points 7 months ago

I said I would choose the blue team if I had to choose. I don't do the whole thing where I avoid magic phrases. I just speak my mind. If you are being honest, would you say that you find Biden, in his current state, to be an inspirational leader?

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He was probably about my fifth choice in the 2020 primaries, but I also realize he was never going to get primaried as the incumbent.

I've also seen enough people on here trying to argue dumb ass things like trump being better for Palestine that when someone shows up in an article about Trump's mental decline saying "hey everyone, Biden sucks too" for no particular reason, I get a little suspicious about their motivations.

Edit: wrong year

[-] aibler@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Anyone who thinks the red team is more pro-palestine than the blue team just hasn't paid any attention to us politics before. The red team is inherently anti-darkskin, especially when they are going up against "god's chosen ones."

It is absolutely perfectly reasonable to complain that there are no options that are likely to not have dementia. That's a valid complaint that rational people can make. I always just assume that people who get so upset about that complaint have just been scared and pressured out of being able to share honest observations because they think it means they are some sort of traitor. Instead, they put on performance about how delicious the taste of puke-on-rye is.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 4 points 7 months ago

You do have to choose a side when you vote...

[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The two major parties should try to find candidates below 75 years of age. These two are the very best politicians available in a country of over 330 million people?

[-] aibler@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Exactly. How is this a revolutionary concept that neither side seems to be able to understand?

[-] VubDapple@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Hyperbolic comment at best, at worst part of a disinformation campaign.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social -4 points 7 months ago

Your analysis applies to your own comment moreso than the one you are responding to

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