Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Trump says F-35 pilots are better-looking than Tom Cruise, who is a good guy, with "equal" faces but better bodies.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 19, 2019

xp or he means the crowd will now be responsible for flushing his own

I can't help but laugh at the toilet and dishwasher lines, although not in a "tell it like it is" way he's going for

turns out the rumored pee tape was actually just footage of him flushing for the 12th time

Trump neurologically malfunctions w/ a full spasm. Note his shoulders involuntarily jerk as he slurs. Thx @karenamyatt & @ChuckWa74233336 for the heads up. Trump desperately needs a neurological eval at a quality facility like the Mayo Clinic. Not Walter Reed which reports to WH pic.twitter.com/ct6S5Pln2d

— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) December 22, 2019

lol

urgent neuro eval!!

My background is running technology & finance businesses in Chicago & Silicon Valley and technology/biotech investing. I’ve said a number of times on Twitter that I am not a physician. Additionally, I have said hundreds of times that Trump should receive a neurological exam, workup and evaluation at a top facility like the Mayo Clinic or Johns Hopkins. In the absence of him receiving a proper medical diagnosis, raising public awareness is necessary to expose the obvious coverup of his health condition.

Dud

A neurological malfunction during Infrastructure Week leaves Trump increasingly isolated, but hey! Bacon!

it would be pretty amazing to see him stroke out in the middle of one of his horseshit lies

So how do events like the neurological malfunction play out in the US media (asking from the UK)? Fake news?

The US news media, ime (including commercial TV news, print newspapers and NPR radio), does not report on his physical condition at all, and treats his insane and illiterate rageblurts as "the president spoke harshly" or "the president struck back" or 'the president issued a statement" etc without remarking on the illiteracy or incoherency or illegality of the content. Somehow this is regarded as a matter only for opinion writers.

I looked at that "malfunction" clip and was not convinced. He was blurting stuff out impromptu, as he always does at his rallies, and therefore he was just mindlessly stringing his favorite clichéd words and phrases together when he suddenly realized he was about to wish everyone a "beautiful" something- his next intended word seemed to be either 'Christmas' or more likely 'holidays' - because his brain veers instantly to the stupid "war on Christmas" crap he knows will go down well with the crowd, so he zaps the word halfway out of his mouth and quickly shifts his confused tongue into a whole different sentence.

The midline shift in "thinking" comes out of his mouth as "bzzphtht" or some such, like Bill the Cat. But it wasn't a seizure or spasm, just a normal Trumpian brain fart.

I'm not convinced either, but it's the upper-body jerk the guy's referring to as a dementia spasm, not the verbal/brainfart

there's no such thing as a "dementia spasm", all this armchair quarterbacking of neurological symptoms is a blend of wishful thinking and concern trolling

Mayo Clinic is the first result, guess that's why dude wants Trump to get checked up there: they're in on the conspiracy

xpost

But how can that be? The neurologist who diagnosed it on Twitter has a background in running technology & finance businesses in Chicago & Silicon Valley and technology/biotech investing!

if he were to die before the impeachment goes into full gear, do dems bring new evidence against pence or just throw up their hands and say GAWRSH alright you get a year

that tweet is such bullshit jeez talk about overselling....the responses are unreal. every time I dip my toe in centrist #resistance Twitter I get so profoundly scared about the election

they are either credulous idiots or hucksters or usually both

who was that dude who was hopped up on stimulants who made the EPIC twitter thread at the beginning of the Trump era? the one that was credulously retweeted by a bunch of people who thought it captured the zeitgeist

I mean, it did, because it was all the work of some armchair cowboy who mainlined a bunch of stimulants and went into epic thread mode pointing to all the ephemeral, dumb conspiracy angles that people jump on instead of battling the constant raging incompetence and malevolence

otm

the main legacy of the Trump era, outside of pulling back the curtain on the voting public and making us question why we make the choices we do, is going to be the institutional shift

as much as the public eye has concentrated on shady executive order mandates and gross policies proposed by Stephen Miller and his ilk, the hands-off approach is going to affect us in the long term just as much. there are so many understaffed agencies, embassies, and programs that might end up withering on the vine or becoming irrelevant by the time they're filled. I have no idea who is running the show or whether these places are staffed, because something like 1/3 of the appointed roles are empty. I think part of this is intentional on McConnell's part in that many roles that have nominees aren't being put up for approval in the senate and an administration that gave a shit would be pushing on him.

The cynic in me says that maybe some of the backchannel trading and negotiation that happens abroad should have been more closely examined and the fact it just.. can't happen with no one there.. could somehow be a net positive. But I see no indication this is done with any sense of purpose or analysis, just negligence by design and pure negligence.

The Ukraine boondoggle is the one bit that's in the public eye and it's showing how weary the public is of the status quo. Ukraine should be able to buy weapons, because they're a democratic government and being armed would be insurance against an incursion because that's how things are done. But is that how things should be done? Do we know that even works, or that it works in a way we can morally justify? Is it our place to be the world's weapons wholesaler? Nearly everyone that seems to care is objecting because the protocol has been broken, not due to a strong belief in protecting the sovereignty of Ukraine.

Optimistically, we end up examine what we're actually doing as a country, why we do those things, and whether they're effective in pursuing an actual stated goal. And the Trump era gets its silver lining. But I don't see a path where that's happening.

xxp that would be Eric Garland, I’ll always treasure his follow-up rant about the people mocking him - “you malignant professionals!”

Garland is p much the goat resistance lib

eric garland was the "guys, it's time for some game theory" dude. the reactions to his thread were even more gloriously psychotic than the thread itself -- the editor in chief of fuckin' mother jones called it a federalist paper for our time or some nonsense like that.

sic in that link a muscle spasm is a sustained contraction - causing a lack of movement - rather than the sort of clonic jerk he gave in the video. I still think the armchair neurology is people trying to put a figleaf on their angry opinion, "it's not just that I think he's a fuckwit, I think there is genuinely something neurologically wrong with him so it's out of concern." Nobody with a full on dementia or neurological disorder could sustain the schedule that he follows, even if it's less than other presidents. His speech patterns etc are the product of fatigue because the asshole has never had to actually work before. The other "symptoms" are stupidity, DGAF and a stunning lack of empathy - I mean the psychological "diagnoses" are obvious but he doesn't have a degenerative brain disease unless diagnosed as such.

I don't know or care whether he's seriously ill or just a colossal asshole. That said, if I thought he were seriously ill, I might suggest that the right course of action is NOT to point it out or urge that he get evaluated. Let the tapeworm or whatever eat his brain. Fine with me; no loss.

I’m on board with that as long as they don’t let him make decisions

you know we have a world, right?

-Coldplay

lol

clara jeffr3y has a lot of... moments.. and the eric garland bit was definitely a tell

The other "symptoms" are stupidity, DGAF and a stunning lack of empathy - I mean the psychological "diagnoses" are obvious but he doesn't have a degenerative brain disease unless diagnosed as such.

Yeah, as I said I'm not cosigning - I stand by my observations of his physical and mental condition over the last few months of threads - just pointing out the actual argument made there, so folks can argue that rather than a strawman. Your list of symptoms are absolutely long-standing and certainly still a massive part of his behaviour, now more widely visible.

His speech patterns etc are the product of fatigue because the asshole has never had to actually work before.

Strongly disagree with this, though. His speech patterns have deteriorated significantly from 2016, and were significantly less focussed then than a decade earlier. (Also in 2016 it was easy to tell when he'd been racking up to focus - the crazy snorting in the debates - and whatever he's on now seems to still work for stamina, but not, or no longer, for concentration.) And it's not like he's doing any work now, he just has to leave the building his apartment is in, sometimes.

(For me, the way he's been almost completely kept from one-on-one conversations also speaks to Miller and his handlers being aware of decline - see also the terrified hostage eyes of the Fox & Friends hosts when he slips the net and spends an hour shouting down the phone at them.)

a dementia spasm

a well described medical phenomenon

qualmsley otm

Trump’s nuts rant about wind energy: “I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much... Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes & everything.” pic.twitter.com/DvkJq9NbWg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 23, 2019

MatthewK otm

I had a bad night but at least I’m not this guy pic.twitter.com/JktuBA830T

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 3, 2020

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Juuuuuuust wait.

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Isn't there another city in the wrong state, I'm sure there is but it's driving me nuts

West New York, New Jersey!

a bunch along the mississippi river

East St. Louis, Illinois and East Dubuque, Illinois come to mind

Missouri City, Texas

I’m still not sure what a Texarkana is

so sad how they learned US geography when he was absent from school due to bone spurs :(

Missouri City, Texas

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 21:49 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lol this is the one I was referring to I think

Nevada City, California

there are like a billion of these

I’m still not sure what a Texarkana is

Texarkana, TX, near the border of TEXas, ARKansas, and louisiANA

Washington, DC isn't in Washington state