Exactly. This is why, despite having much more worthwhile things to think about, I keep wondering about the Gilded Turd’s specific posting process. His posts read like he talks, yet they seem vaguely edited. I can’t picture his hands doing anything other than holding a can of soda. Who actually types and enters those often all-caps diatribes? If voice-to-text, who edits them? Some sorta “Truth Assistant”? “Sir, this post is not insulting enough,” “Sir, you haven’t met your self-imposed lie quota in this post.” I also can’t picture him reading comments or responses (unless very short) or reading anything that hasn’t been re-formatted as a list of percentages. Does the “Truth Assistant” also read aloud to him? Shamefully, I am curious.
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No. There are some really good videos available contrasting his speech between the ‘80s, 2000s and now. He was still an evil, narcissistic shit back then, but in the 80s he was even borderline articulate. At the start of The Apprentice, he was already using shorter, simpler sentences but they still mostly made sense. By the time he started his campaign in 2015, his speech was inarticulate garbage and out-of-context sound bites.
I wouldn’t go so far as to try and diagnose some kind of cognitive decline, but the long-term changes would be consistent with chronic stimulant abuse.
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It looks as though he is reading text of some sort. Even the way the Gilded Turd white-knuckles a podium annoys me. For a teetotaler he looks mighty hungover.
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Results of a lifetime of the many non- food chemicals and such in fast “food”?
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My no was not giving him a pass.
He often has teleprompters set up but to this day, I think it’s fair to say that we don’t know if he actually uses a teleprompter. We also don’t know if what was written was WWII, WW II, World War 2 or World War II, and we don’t know if he has vision or literacy issues. However, it’s safe to say that if there was a pre-written speech, the teleprompter text must have had Biden rather than Obama in the speech.
My best guess is that we seem to have evidence that Trump doesn’t uses his teleprompter and prefers to speak extemporaneously. I can only assume that he believes that he’s smarter and better than a pre-written speech. The only problem with this approach is that he sounds like he’s cognitively-challenged.
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Come on, be fair - his Russian backers always refer to World War 2 as the Great Patriotic War.
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Let the P-Corn fly!
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In 1939 the Russians aligned with the Nazis. Will it be the other way round?
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Yeah, it’s clear that there is something wrong with TFG.
Whether it’s Altzheimer’s or something similar; or damage from years of using cocaine, meth etc.; or just the result of decades of narcissism and rewriting history and events more to his liking, until he’s lost track of reality, I don’t have a clue.
But the cognitive decline is real and obvious, if you aren’t part of the cult.
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Trump went back in time and declassified it. He had already seen some documentaries about it.
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The rumor for years is that he abuses Adderall. No confirmation, but as you say, something’s going on.
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You have to think like a Markov chain. No need for meaning, structure, or any of that.
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Papa Fred died of Alzheimer’s.
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My fingers are still crossed for him to have a debilitating/fatal ‘episode’ mid-rant on camera before 2024…
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It’ll say “Live” on the screen and a bunch of our BBS pedants will be shouting “No, he isn’t.”
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I’m okay with that.
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With his brain-spurs, he missed everything except the War on STDs, where he got a Purple … Heart.
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