A 78-year-old Trump rants nonsensically, demonstrating an inability to hold a thought, and it's deemed 'a jumbled answer'? C'mon. The man is unfit.
  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Republicans understand that projecting faultless confidence is an advantage in a head to head race.

    Democrats… And those who claim to be Democrats… Seems to believe that passing through a labyrinth of strife and tribulation is somehow an advantage. Vetting candidates with fire only makes sense if you are in an environment where good faith prevails.

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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    10 days ago

    Oh, they were talking about it back when talking about Biden’s obvious decline got you death threats from democrats.

  • ...m...@ttrpg.network
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    10 days ago

    …i mean, to be fair he was barely coherent at seventy, too: that’s kind of his whole thing, sputtering out incoherent word salad so his fanbase can infer whatever they want to hear…

    “Well, yes, he said that but what he really meant was this.”

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Trump being senile doesn’t matter to Trump voters. As long as he hates the same people they hate, they’ll decorate their trailers and go out and put him in power.

    Biden being senile did matter to Biden voters. That’s why they attacked him on it. And rightly so. Let the poor man retire. It’s not an easy job if you actually bother to do it.

    The GOP won’t replace Trump even if they his health does concern them, because if they do they go from just under half of the votes to being obliterated.

    • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      It’s interesting that out of the republican base, there are that many more of “people who want a person [trump] who hates the same people they do” rather than “people who care about [traditional republican values].” That they’re running trump in the hopes to win means the party has traded its soul of traditional values for hate.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        I think its going to be a landslide. I think a ton of republicans are done with either trump or the party as a whole.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Right, in a sane world, Trump has been proving himself unfit to hold any more responsibility than a burger flipper for decades now. The fact that anyone could possibly be on the fence about him at this point means the game is already lost.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I have a theory that they’ll tolerate anything to get into the whitehouse again, get proj 2025 rolling, then Vance et al do the ol 25th Amendment cha-cha and Peter Theil gets to control the white house.

      By himself, Vance can’t get Theil there, but riding the deranged tangerine palpatine into office is extremely plausible.

  • WordBox@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Since his run for 2016 his speech has been teetering on coherency… It’s part of how he became a meme. How far gone he/it is is more or less meta and par for course.

    Tldr by what metric

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      He drifts between topics more regularly and in fewer words that he used to. Like in 2016 he would say dumb stuff, but could say two sentences in a row or more on the same subject before switching to something else tangentially related if you squint hard enough. It was word salad, but you could follow it if you just pictured it was the utterance of an excited four year old.

      Now he has trouble finishing sentences without switching subjects and instead of saying nonsensical things it is more of a word puree than word salad. Everything is mixed together and completely incoherent instead of stupid. It was a low starting point, but it has gotten worse.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    What are your favorite top 3 “wow, Trump is nuts” videos to show your uncle who’s only seen the Fox News version of Trump? The nuclear engineer monologue is pretty good.

    Now I get this article is rhetorical, but just we’re all clear: When Democrats recognize truth, then they adjust; when Republicans recognize truth, they ignore, spin, lie, and double-down on said lie. We saw the truth behind both Biden and Trump; but naturally, their criticism only applies to the (D).

    It’s also literally in their brain wiring. Their Anterior Cingulate Cortex tends to be smaller, which reduces the capacity to recognize patterns or introspect on cognitive dissonance…

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Trump could be in a vegetative state, literally medically braindead, and Trump voters would still line up to cast their ballots for him.

    That’s what happens when you have a cult of personality, it takes on a life of it’s own and becomes more of an identity than an ideology. They don’t care what Trump stands for or even if Trump stands, all that matters is that they are Trump people and they only want to associate with their kind.

    For the rest of us, things like fitness and policy matter, which is why Biden was held to account and Trump will never be. There is no line that cannot be crossed.

      • Furbag@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        Report to the nearest Ordo Hereticus branch office for immediate punitive correction and summary execution.

    • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I actually don’t think this is correct. Whom is used when the unknown person is the object being impacted (to whom did you sell your car). In this sentence, who is actually referring to a person that would be causing the action to occur (“who questioned him?” And “where are those who questioned him?” Would you use who, not whom. You wouldn’t say “whom questioned him,” but whom could be used to replace “him,” such as “he questioned whom?”).

      So I believe that your correction came across a bit rude, and I’m fairly certain it is also wrong.

      • Disgracefulone@discuss.online
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        9 days ago

        Why was it rude? Was your correction rude simply because your explanation (which is valid by the way, nice catch. I was more focused on the fact that it sounded weird, not why) was more in depth? You’re also weirdly latching to the whom when my focus was the in pronoun group choice, as in: where are those whom who**.

        I don’t correct out of rudeness. Making assumptions makes you look more of an asshat than correcting someone. I want people to correct me. As I said, nice catch.

  • Mio@feddit.nu
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    9 days ago

    I don’t understand why Trump can’t be happy to be one of the few people to have been a president. Why must he do it again?

    Now, let him retire. He have the money. He is already famous. Just let him go in peace to the prison…

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Probably because he’s done so much illegal shit his only hope is to regain the presidency so he has some immunity until either the various cases and charges get dismissed or he’s simply old enough that he can ride out the clock and die either too senile to know he’s under house arrest or die before he could start a prison sentence