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    He probably literally can’t. Like MAYBE if his staff hangs around with a cattle prod and teleprompter maybe they can hide it for a while but dementia patients often can’t retain new information, they circle back again and again to whatever knowledge/memories that were locked in before their deterioration stepped up to their current slope downwards.

    I wouldn’t be surprised it this is a huge part of why they’re panicking so desperately. This is cataclysmic and I can’t wait to watch it unfold

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      Something tells me that if Biden, Hillary and Obama were to start stumping for Harris and the media covered it, Trump would have no idea who he was actually facing in the election. There’s no way his handlers would be able to keep him focused.

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        It would be a pleasant alternate reality if some reporter who was doing an interview with Trump would start giving him a cognitive test live on air.

        You wouldn’t have to make it formal. Just ask a few questions about Obama, get him talking about Obama’s policies, maybe the Iran nuclear deal. And then suddenly ask, “Who’s your opponent, Donald?” Soft and friendly like a serial killer. “Who are you running against in this election?”

        “What year is it, Donald? What’s the day of the week?”

        “Who’s this, Donald?” and put up a picture of Nikki Haley.

        “What year did Covid happen, Donald? Can you remember?”

        Give him lots of long silences to try to figure the answers out. Don’t interrupt, don’t distract him, don’t move on. Just let the dead air play out until he can’t stand it and says something. But if it’s not the answer… ask again. Tell him it’s okay if he doesn’t remember, but you want to give him another try.

        Before you do it, set up his mic all tangled and firmly fastened, so if he tries to stand up and leave, he can’t get it off, and keep the camera running while he struggles. Keep asking questions while he’s trying to free himself. Politely and calmly, but don’t stop.

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          A little off topic but I’ve been listening to the Alex Jones depositions on the knowledge fight podcast (highly recommend) and that was kinda similar. Not in a cognitive test way, but seeing his fish gallop technique running into a wall is so satisfying.

          For example the plaintiffs lawyer asks a question, Jones uses that as a jumping off point for one of his famous nonsense rants and they just let him ramble for 2 minutes and then the lawyer answers in a very calm manner - “Mr. Jones, that was not my question, my question was …” Repeatedly until they got a straight answer, “Mr Jones I have all day to get the answers I need.”

          Once or twice the lawyer even interrupted him with “Babababab! Please just answer my question!” Or “What are you even talking about?” Jones was so caught in his show persona that he stood no chance of avoiding to answer unpleasant questions.

          His dad was way more in control of the court room, giving yes or no answers, keeping it short, like someone who listens to his lawyers should do.

          The scariest dude in the depositions was one of his editors, a nice sounding guy, who hated Alex Jones, knew that what they were doing was harmful bullshit but continued to do it for years without caring about the impact. The mundanity of evil.

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          Lets be real, he’d walk out. A few years ago I heard an NPR interview with him not too long after Jan 6th and he clearly only took them up on it because he had been mostly de-platformed and was struggling to land interviews right then. He talked over the reporter then hung up. The entire thing was only about 6 minutes long

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            Yes, if he’s still capable of realizing he’s being played, he’ll either attack back or end it.

            He’s doesn’t seem to have the quiet peaceful dementia (yet, maybe). He has the paranoid violent kind where he still likely knows he’s losing it much of the time.

            I’ve had 2 different in-laws go through Alzheimer’s. One went from Mr. Rogers nice, to swearing and upset, especially when he lost control of some of his bodily functions. Thankfully Covid got him early in the pandemic and he didn’t have to suffer through starvation.

            My MIL however was pleasant and calm, and eventually succumbed to dehydration when she forgot how to swallow. We need proper right to die laws in the US.

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          My favorite cognitive question ever is when I heard a paramedic ask a patient “Is Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?”

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        It would be hilarious if all three showed up at the debate location (if it even happens) to show support to Harris, I think the orange man would blue screen. :-D

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      It took him years to get over Clinton. He’s got 4 months now, and Biden is still President so he’s gonna have an even tougher time trying to keep it straight in his dementia-riddled mind.

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      It was also visible in the debate. They told him “whatever question comes up, bring up immigrants”. If Trump had been forced to actually answer any of the questions, his dementia would have been much more obvious.

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      …teleprompter…

      Speaking of which:
      Wasn’t there something about Trump’s wound being the result of a bullet-shattered teleprompter, not an actual bullet?

      What became of that? Not to minimize the heinousness of the act, but he didn’t take a bullet…

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        When people die from dementia, what is the actual organic cause or death? Lile does their heart stop, infection, etc?

        Also, how much longer would you give him?

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          For her it was probably her heart stopping from not eating. They noticed that her pulse was low a couple days ago. She basically did what old animals will do and just kinda stopped eating.

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      the best part is that they have absolutely no one who could come close to being a match for harris, if the worst (best) were to happen and trump croaks before the election

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    This is so tiresome and annoying. His “bad” nickname for her is “smiling Kamala”. Really? That’s your big bad criticism?

    I guess the unsmiling misery of the last 8 is supposed to be status quo now?

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      People will hear how he describes it and then see her and realize it isn’t crazy at all, it’s really friendly and welcoming. You can tell she’s really excited and enthusiastic about the job she has ahead of her.

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      Trump’s nicknames have always been at a fourth grade level. It appeals to people who don’t read higher than a fourth grade level.

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    How soon until he refers to Harris as “Hillary” or his other nemesis “Nancy”?

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    Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies that complete a coherent sentence is once again showing he’s too old to run our great country. He needs to step down, it’s embarrassing.

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      Don’t forget he likes to look at all the little bodies. Having been the owner of some miss USA pagents his time was always known as the creepy don days.

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    He’s too senile to change tactics. I’m willing to bet half the reason he chose Vance was because they knew he was going to screw up and say Pence a bunch, and the similarity of pronunciation would give them plausible deniability.

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    “Tomorrow trump will wake up and forget biden even dropped out!” - dementia addled trump

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    They also don’t know the difference between socialism and communism. His voters are morons.

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    Good, good, keep running against the wrong guy. Your dumb cultists will stay enraged, as you like them, but those who are possible to actually reach might be turned off by it.

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    Why would he? In his fantasy world, Biden is his easy opponent, he’s perfectly innocent and not a convicted criminal at all, he is actually the smartest person alive, instead of just the smartest person he’s ever been. Why would he join us in reality when his imaginary happy place that’s shared by millions of FOX viewers is so much more attractive?

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      just the smartest person he’s ever been

      He’s not even that. His brain is clearly deteriorating.

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          Give me some 1940s German Tanker chocolate, a bottle of Kentucky bourbon, and a trash bag full of cocaine. I can garuntee you he will gain enough lucidity to recognize that fact, he will also most certainly die while feeling real fucken good.

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        Trump seems to think so, considering how he’s already finding excuses why he can’t debate her. And not just like he was preemptively finding excuses for losing before the last debate.

        This time he’s crapping his pants because Biden’s style was politely waiting his turn until Trump finished and then presenting his version of one of the 50 false statements Trump had delivered in rapid-fire mode before.

        So far, Harris gives the impression that she’ll go straight for Trump’s felones.

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      No he won’t. He’s already doing a cop out saying he will only debate her if Fox hosts and moderates… Which I believe is impossible since the agreed networks (one of them isn’t Fox) have already been agreed

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      Oh, he’ll debate her eventually and it’ll be a slaughter and they’ll claim victory. Play that’s the end of the similarities of 2012.

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    I wish they’d stop using pics of dementia donnie with the maxi pad on his ear. The less we are reminded about another Republican trying to take this clown out, the better.

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      It’s like some kind of badge of honor in his eyes. See, he survived a shooting! Why can’t those dang kids survive. For anyone that needs this /s

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        An ear wound isn’t a strong image though. If he got shot in the chest, yes that would look “manly”. I don’t see the ear wrapper and think, wow, what a survivor.

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          Clearly you have never dealt with a narcissist on a close up basis.

          They could have shot him in the butthole and all of a sudden his wounded heroic butthole would be the chief topic of a lot of conversations. I fully expect he’s not gonna let go of his little ear pad until it’s gone on way, way too long.

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      The us media corporations are gonna try their best still to get him elected.

      I think it’s fucking hilarious myself. It’s like a toddler getting a bandaid for a boo boo

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      The problem is it’s surgically attached to his ear now. It would be dishonest to just use old pictures…

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    Sometimes, when people get older, they get a little confused. It happens. Donald, he’s getting up there, and maybe he’s just feeling a little confused again. Like that time he mixed up Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi.

    Maybe he should drop out of the race, let someone a little younger and more aware take over.

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      Yes, but I do wonder if he did step down would the GOP recieve the same invigoration the Dems appear to be receiving from a different contender.

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          It would be a disaster, but if a candidate were to die between the nomination and the election, I think the running-mate would stand-in for the headliner.

          Something like that happened back in 1872, when Horace Greeley died one month before the Electoral College met.

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        I was mostly just mocking him, but to take your question seriously… I don’t know. I don’t think it would help the GOP at this point, since Vance would most likely get the nomination, as Trump’s running-mate.

        I don’t think anyone else in the party can draw nearly the same support as Trump, either. Not in the party itself, or from the broader American electorate. Nikki Haley was the only candidate that could possibly do that, but Haley being handed the nomination at the 11th hour would be seen as a Deep-State RINO coup against the dear leader, so she’d loose the base.

        I think it’d also depend somewhat on the nature of his leaving the race. If he was successfully assassinated, that would likely turn the whole election on it’s head. Not necessarily in a way that would get Vance elected, but it would change the dynamics, and the electoral math, in ways we can’t predict. We thought the shooting would hand Trump the Presidency, but nobody even cared. Who knows what would happen if that shot was a couple inches closer. If Trump got sick, injured, or had some sort of catastrophic performance like Biden at the debate? I don’t think that would help the GOP in November, either.

        As for him willingly stepping down, as Biden did, for the good of the nation… Lol, no. He’s not doing that.

        Edit: minor grammar corrections.

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      Unlike the Democrats who had not yet put forth a candidate, the GOP has officially nominated theirs. The Democrats could turn the tables and get a successor off the ballots