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Doctor That Wrote ‘Goldwater Rule’ Says He Would Recommend Dementia Tests For Trump (www.huffpost.com)

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Edit: changed the title from the site to say "Doctor That ..." instead of "Doctor Who ..."

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh boy!

“I’m not 80, and I’m not that close to 80,” said Trump, who is 20 months away from turning 80. “I’ve done cognitive tests. I’ve done them twice, and I aced both of them, and the doctor in one case said, ‘I’ve never seen anybody ace them.’”

He aced a test that only shows... Fuck here's the test:

Recite these words back to me: person, woman, man, camera, TV

Harris could hammer that one home! "Here's the cognitive test Trump brags about."

Dyer and other psychiatrists, though, said that test, often used as an initial screening tool which Trump took nearly seven years ago, is not helpful in assessing his current condition.

Seven years is a long time in one's 70s. May be almost zero difference, may be drooling on the carpet.

“That assessment is given to potential nursing home patients to decide which wing to assign them to, not to someone you want to hire, let alone be president,” said Andrew Smolar, a Pennsylvania psychiatrist who has had numerous patients of Trump’s age and apparent condition.

OUCH.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 8 points 7 hours ago

I can't pass up the opportunity to point out that that list of words was not part of the cognitive assessment that he "aced." He forgot that list. Person, man, woman, camera, and TV were just objects in his field of vision at the moment he was speaking in the interview.

I've been pointing out his dementia symptoms for years now. Why does it still feel so shitty to be proved right by time? :-/

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I saw it happening to my mother. No one else did or they didn't want to see it. Its part of the reason why I was cast out.

[-] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I feel like the audience on lemmy is uniquely primed to see "Doctor Who" vs the general public. Also fuck Trump

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Why’s it all caps anyway? The HP article writer could have done better I think.

Doctor Who Wrote ‘Goldwater Rule’ Says He Would Recommend Dementia Tests For Trump

Versus

Doctor who wrote ‘Goldwater Rule’ says he would recommend dementia tests for Trump

Or even

Doctor which wrote ‘Goldwater Rule’ says he would recommend dementia tests for Trump

Having ‘Who’ in caps is probably what triggered. Were used to seeing the show name / dr name capitalized.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah I hate that always.

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Headlines usually are written in headline case which capitalize everything but article. It might've been good to deviate from the guidelines in this case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

[-] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 1 day ago

since when did Doctor Who get so Political? 😡

https://youtu.be/sjDFvoRNpOM

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

... "Doesn't he look tired?"

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago

I liked my sci-fi/fantasy non-political and not so fucking woke. Things like

The Golden Compass
Demolition Man
V for Vendetta
District 9
Starship Troopers
They Live

You know, back when men were men and women were women. Like Chaz Bono, Caroline Cossey, and Alexis Arquette

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 27 points 1 day ago

Yeah, those were the days, I remember growing up with wholesome, non globalist agenda-pushing cartoons like Ferngully and Captain Planet.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

BUT NOT SESAME STREET. I'm not letting some liberal agenda teach MY kids LETTERS AND NUMBERS!!!

What if it makes them *gulp* not bully kids I hold unreasonable grudges against?!

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I hear the alphabet they're teaching is also being used in some of the books banned in Florida for being too satanistically woke. Also some of the numbers that appear in Sesame Street were used in counting all the fraudulent votes in 2020 that were fraudulent because they had someone other than Trump selected.

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

It's Dr. That now.

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 17 points 1 day ago

Tell him he doesn’t have the best dementia and he will prove he does.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 day ago

I had to read the title multiple times before it became clear this has nothing to do with Doctor Who...

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago

Edited the title to say "doctor that" instead now

[-] one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I appreciate your attention to detail. Have an updoot.

[-] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

While that is a confusion-clearing thing to do, my understanding is "who" is used in reference to people, and "that" refers to things. So, grammatically incorrect but semantically correct.

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Grammar rules exist to make communication clearer. If they're getting in the way of that, ignoring them is usually fine.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

In this case, I think adding an article would also have cleared the garden path— that is, "The Doctor Who [...]" — but yeah, the meaning is clear enough this way.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

"Doctor, Who Said..."

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Doctor Who wrote what?

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fuck me, it's literally there first thing past the headline. Just read for 8 seconds.

Edit: Fuck, I'm stupid and didn't read the capitalization on the 'W'.

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

Its actually in the headline. Dr. Who recommended "Dementia Tests For Trump"

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Which one, though? It was 9, wasn't It? Him or 12, for sure.

[-] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Tenth

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

The best Doctor. Always will be ❤️

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