Longpig Bard posted:

So the nuclear threat ended at the end of 1979?

Batterypowered7 posted:

Jordan Peterson: Never forget what they took from us!

Catastrophe posted:

Can anyone translate this into English?

Rod Hoofhearted posted:

Honestly? I'd rather Trump just died during his next public appearance, whether it's tonight or tomorrow or later this week. Just have him drop dead live on a TV where everyone can see it.

It's not like the Republican Party will suddenly turn hyper-competent once the old guy croaks. He's the only thing keeping the basket of various deplorables together. His death will trigger an all out, multi-factional schism. Trump's death isn't the end of the Republicans' problems, it's the beginning.

Professor Shark posted:

Getting your wife’s name wrong has got to make some Rightwingers wonder

Professor Shark posted:

Getting your wife’s name wrong has got to make some Rightwingers wonder

Catastrophe posted:

It's gotta make Melania wonder who the heck this Mercedes might be

Shageletic posted:

People have been predicting the breakup of the Republican party for as long as I've been paying attn to politics, 20 plus years now. Honestly you're setting up yourself to be super disappointed if this is actually something you really are hoping for.

kazil posted:

Durf posted:

thinking of all those conservative marriages that seem real and genuine and not a desperate attempt to pass themselves off as normal human beings



if anything Lyndsey Graham is a brave outlier for sticking to the 'Washingtons Most Eligible Bachelor!' thing for his entire life

Catastrophe posted:

It's gotta make Melania wonder who the heck this Mercedes might be

Mr. Barnesworth posted:

wonder if Melania and Turmp are only speaking through lawyers at this point

Lifespan posted:

Pay your bill you bronzed bitch

nine-gear crow posted:

The Mercedes thing is fascinating because it's so far outside his usual brain slips. Like calling her Melanie, or Marla, or Marlena I can get, but seriously, how to get Mercedes from there?

nine-gear crow posted:

The Mercedes thing is fascinating because it's so far outside his usual brain slips. Like calling her Melanie, or Marla, or Marlena I can get, but seriously, how to get Mercedes from there?

Toxic Mental posted:

Real talk, what else could it be other than some kind of dementia? Forgetting names is a classic sign. Like, try to imagine what it would take to actually forget your own wife's name, that badly? Was he just looking at a Mercedes on his instagram feed and his mind was wandering to it while he was making that speech? Who the gently caress knows.

Spindle posted:

But Trump allies said he was likely referring to Mercedes Schlapp, a political commentator and wife of American Conservative Union (CPAC organizer) chair and former White House staffer Matt Schlapp, who he mentioned later in the speech.

Rod Hoofhearted posted:

I'm pretty sure that at least half of his "dementia moments" come from him reading poo poo off a teleprompter and being too vain to wear glasses, so he can't see what he's reading.

He's also a moron, so he's literally reading word-by-word without contextualizing the meaning of the entire sentence.

'Cuz he's dumb as poo poo and an established furniture-humper.

Professor Shark posted:

Getting your wife’s name wrong has got to make some Rightwingers wonder

nine-gear crow posted:

The Mercedes thing is fascinating because it's so far outside his usual brain slips. Like calling her Melanie, or Marla, or Marlena I can get, but seriously, how to get Mercedes from there?

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"Phonemic paraphasias" —the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar—are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer’s.

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Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes “benefishes.” Renovations become “renoversh.” Pivotal became “pivobal." Obama became “obamna.” Missiles became “mishiz.” Christmas became “Crissus.” Bipartisan became “bipars.”

This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language. If you were talking to your father on the phone and he did this you would think he is having a stroke. There is no healthy older person who speaks that way.

Trump also engages in what we call "tangential speech." He just becomes incomprehensible when he engages in free association word salad speech that is all over the place. Again, that's a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step not being, but of severe cognitive deterioration.

Professor Shark posted:

Getting your wife’s name wrong has got to make some Rightwingers wonder

QuarkJets posted:

Can someone with a better connection to Jesus ask him to update Trump's teleprompter to simply read I poo poo MY DIAPERS over and over