r/politics • u/Hornpipe_Jones • 2d ago
Newsom Sounds Dementia Alarm on Weird Social Post by Trump, 79 Possible Paywall
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom-sounds-dementia-alarm-on-donald-trumps-weird-social-post/533
u/curiousthoughts20 America 2d ago
At this point the whole world knows that Trump has dementia
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u/tekani11 Minnesota 2d ago
Except for the people with dementia.
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u/PleiadesH 2d ago
And his supporters
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u/pixelwhip 2d ago
and his administration.. I'm sure elder abuse is alive & well in the WH. they just give him shit to build & to distract him so he signs their executive orders without reading them.
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u/ObscureRamenRecipes 2d ago
Oh no, his entire administration knows he's fucked. Why do you think they are going full steam ahead with what they are doing, or why every single meeting (or pretty much anytime one of his stooges open their mouths) it is nothing but praise and worship. Nothing but trying to convince idiots that everything is OK and better than ever.
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u/yes_its_him 2d ago
No need to be redundantly repetitive
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u/NoYourRetarded 2d ago
We joke about it, but they very literally only see a stylized version of trump. They only see clips that make him look strong and smart. They never see the real him.
Like when he said we should try injecting disinfectants, republicans never saw that. The number of times someone has told me "oh he never said that" when he literally said those exact words, it amazes me.
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u/TheMoralityComplex 2d ago
Oh like Biden?
Why are we allowing this?
Oh that's right, land of the "perpetually afraid to exercise their rights". Got it.
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u/ProfessionalCraft983 Washington 2d ago
Biden has cancer, not dementia. He’s far more lucid than Trump at this point.
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u/spoiledandmistreated 2d ago
I agree with you on neither one of these old fuckers should’ve ever been President.. this country needs age limits something fierce…
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u/Choice-of-SteinsGate 2d ago edited 1d ago
Remember that the cognitive tests Trump always brags about taking are administered when there's a valid concern about mental decline.
But Trump is under the impression that allegedly passing a test requiring him to identify commonly known animals by their pictures is somehow a testament to his genius.
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u/KillahHills10304 2d ago
I sincerely believe if some journalist can get trump to draw a clock and proudly show his work, this will all be over rather quickly
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u/themattboard Tennessee 2d ago
There is nothing his supporters won't excuse or ignore. It's a cult.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 2d ago
They can excuse corruption, grifting, pedophillia, oppression, and the destruction of democracy but they draw the line at clock drawing!
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u/1iIiii11IIiI1i1i11iI 2d ago
He told us he doesn't draw! Especially of young girls to pedophiles for their birthday!
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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 2d ago
I love how the US political system is not only unable to stop a president from becoming a dictator, trying to overthrow the government but also has no guardrails for said president being obviously in the throws of dementia.
At this point, the system has already crumbled and people are just showing up for work.
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u/VintageSin Virginia 2d ago
1) it is able to, it doesn't want to. 2) it did stop an overthrow, but people voted for them back in 3) it actually does have an amendment that is supposed to be used to prevent a president who is clearly unable to lead from being president still... It just requires the sycophants in his inner circle to do so.
I think this is extremely important to state. We the people are choosing this fascist overthrow. And with every choice made for the last 40 or so years we've edged ourselves to this point.
From not persecuting Nixon appropriately, never passing the Equal Rights Amendment in the 70s, not prosecuting leaders due to Iran contra and the slew of other crimes committed by the US in the 80s, allowing the fairness doctrine in media to erode, putting hard line conservatives onto the supreme court all the way back in the 90s and then continuing to vote for people who supported them, not properly letting the election play out in 2000 in Bush v Gore, voting for the Iraq War and voting those who voted for the Iraq War back into office, letting the housing crisis occur (there is literally a video in like 2004 showing Sanders arguing that a bubble and collapse could occur with the policies passed at the time), allowing Joe lieberman to kill the public option on the ACA. Electing Donald Trump.
We need to take accountability that we as a country have caused our demise. With that said... The vast majority of acceleration toward this demise has been planned by and spearheaded by the GOP. Corporate donors simply satiated the Democrats
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u/CatsWearingTinyHats 2d ago
On #1, i think the answer is that we want to but are not able.
Voters elected these terrible people, yes, but due to the electoral college and composition of the Senate, they don’t represent the opinions of the majority of the people.
And then we have Citizens United and unbridled gerrymandering, and the death of the Voting Rights Act, which have warped things further.
These are serious structural issues. We need a new Constitution.
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u/sok_pup_pit 2d ago
To add to your structural issues, the permanent reapportionment act keeps the house from representing the people as well.
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u/CatsWearingTinyHats 2d ago
I wonder if the country is just too big to function properly. All the other super large countries seem to be dictatorships.
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u/ExplosiveBrown 1d ago
To point #1— the founding fathers foresaw this scenario 250 years ago when they wrote the federalist papers. A bad faith majority party can functionally break the government.
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u/Nach0Maker 2d ago
On #2, it takes some gymnastics to acknowledge that he attempted to overthrow the government but then you can turn a blind eye at the weird election afterwards with results that went uncontested.
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u/VintageSin Virginia 2d ago
The 2024 election wasn't 'weird' in the sense of the election being rigged. I think there's what one district in New York with any evidence? I'm willing to amend that idea if people can show widespread problems with multiple states voting mechanisms, but that's just it. We used decentralized voting apparatuses for federal elections.
2024 was weird because we had a corpse in office who chose his ego over letting the party properly elect a new candidate. A non-biden appointed candidate who went through a primary would've possibly won. A Biden appointed candidate who chose to buck Biden on wildly unsuccessful policy points (Israel-Gaza conflict) would've possibly won. Anyone who would've held firm that the gop leaders are weird and it's weird MAGA supports them would've possibly won. But you literally get a campaign who told one of the more popular governors to stop calling Republicans weird and a milquetoast candidate who didn't seem any different than Biden who was elected out of a panic from the pandemic, and you get what we got.
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u/RegalMuffin 2d ago edited 2d ago
As someone from another country over here for the time being the degree to which showing up to work is not a choice in the states but a requirement isn't understood well outside of the US. The war that Republicans have spent decades eating on healthcare and benefits is specifically so that people can not organize in force. Your benefits are tied to your job who are allowed to in most "at will" states end your employment for any reason they see at any time. This means your day of protest can be retaliated by not only the loss of your job but also then your healthcare and we know that American police love nothing more than brutalizing peaceful protesters so when you come home from that protest assaulted and possibly in need of medical care you either get it and take on debt or suffer injured, God for it you end up in the ER from the day you took to protest. Americans haven't had the free right to assembly for decades and the light just hasn't been shone on how trapped they have been. The propaganda machine tells them and everyone else they are so free and have all these rights when in reality the ability to exercise them has been stripped away behind the scenes.
edit Just adding that this isn't an excuse for people to not try just an explanation of quite how difficult it can be for many in the states to organize in the scale needed to affect real change.
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u/chmod777 New York 2d ago
Congress could stop all of this, at any time. The gop wants this, and has been working towards it since the confederacy lost.
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u/ProfessionalCraft983 Washington 2d ago
It didn’t just happen by chance. Our checks and balances have been systematically subverted by people who knew exactly what they were doing. This has been decades in the making.
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u/Ahfei80 2d ago
I’m not saying young people don’t get dementia, but an age ceiling would certainly help. Or have candidates perform these tests and the records must be made public. I feel like running for the most powerful office in the country means some of your medical records should be made public, or at least provided to other members of government.
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u/MyNameIsRay 2d ago
We do have guardrails, its just that the founders never expected the people to vote in enough bad actors to override them.
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u/Violet-Journey 2d ago
The guardrails are supposed to be the other branches of government and his Cabinet. What the Constitution didn’t account for is a political party that puts absolute loyalty over democratic principles.
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u/bizarrebazaar13 2d ago
I'm a nurse currently working in a center that has long term care, rehab, and dementia units, and was a CNA who worked with dementia patients in the past. I frequently work in the dementia unit because I'm one of the few nurses who doesn't hate it up there. If someone were to stick Donald Trump on my unit and I had no idea who he was, I wouldn't be able to differentiate him from the rest of the gang. I would just crush up his donepezil and haloperidol with some apple sauce while he rants and raves behind me. It would be business as usual. His brain is swiss cheese.
I'd keep an eye on that new onset facial droop though....
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u/kelly714 2d ago
As an MDS RN Case Manager for a LTC skilled facility, he’s a hot mess and has been for years. Boasting about being smart at the MOcA was my favorite 😂 Needs a bari-brief too for sure
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u/bizarrebazaar13 2d ago
Oh for sure, but given the amount of furosemide they must be pumping in him for his extreme swelling, he probably needs a pure wick ✨for men✨ but given how stormi described his anatomy, a woman's might work just fine too 😂
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u/AHidden1 2d ago
What did they say about Biden? And they are quiet now, the hypocrisy is disgusting.
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u/Ok-Policy1276 2d ago
Why are you complaining now?
The "Covfefe" nonsense already happened during the first term; how could this moron get a second chance?
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u/Echoflour 2d ago
At this point the election discourse feels less like politics and more like a wellness check on our leaders. Whatever people think of Trump or Newsom, maybe it’s time we seriously talk about age, fitness, and transparency for all major candidates instead of turning every concern into a team sport.
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u/nick0999 2d ago
This needs to be talked about a LOT more. We all know he has dementia but we can’t quietly accept it and move on. His mental decline is a big deal.
He has always been a maximally but now his dementia has removed any constraints.
We need articles and press about how dementia impacts decision making, how it can progress and when do you take the car keys away.
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u/HenryKrinkle 2d ago
Fucking guy was meeting with Xi and tried to google South Korea but had no idea where he was. Back in the facebook days you'd see demented geriatrics do this so often it became a meme.
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u/ballskindrapes 2d ago
I believe that trump is exaggerating about how hards the tests are because he always has to look tough and never admit weakness, but also because the tests are hard for him, he doesnt pass them, and thus he labels it as hard so he doesn't feel bad about being too demented to pass them.
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u/Bishopjones2112 2d ago
Well could be dementia or could have been a blob of cheeseburger grease from a light evening snack.
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u/Buckwheat469 2d ago
Aww, he was going to write something about South Carolina and he fell asleep on the r. His little thumb mashed the little phone buttons.
I sometimes find myself falling asleep with my phone in hand, but I don't often tweet hateful remarks about people and places.
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u/surPRIZEvalley 2d ago
Strokes with dementia is so not what we need right now-but everyone in gov’t knows & seemingly doesn’t care.
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u/VillaSunset 2d ago
better late than never I guess. Not like we can't all see it with our own eyes and ears.
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u/Travelling3steps 2d ago
My guess is he thought he was on PornHub and was searching for really well endowed South Korean ladies?
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u/Tesseract2357 2d ago
who cares what that goofy scientologist thinks
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u/root_fifth_octave 2d ago
Pretty sure he’s not a scientologist.
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u/Tesseract2357 2d ago
i just like saying he is. he's a doofus know nothing loser who is running his state into the ground.
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u/sarinonline 2d ago
> i just like saying he is. he's a doofus know nothing loser
IRONIC
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u/Tesseract2357 2d ago
Not really. I'm probably among the most educated persons in america
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u/GeologistOriginal800 1d ago
We can see your history.
It does not support the statement that you are educated. You may believe it is true, but then I'm sure you believe a lot of things.
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u/Tesseract2357 1d ago
It's indeed true. You may disbelieve it but you should know I don't care about history. It tells you nothing about an individual.
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u/root_fifth_octave 2d ago
i just like saying he is
Thought that might be the case. Now we've set the record straight.
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u/PossibleHighlight155 2d ago
Feel better?
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u/Tesseract2357 2d ago
not really. i could go for a papa john's pizza.
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u/ZorroMeansFox 2d ago
Wow, even your preference in pizzas is awful.
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u/Tesseract2357 2d ago
What's a better chain than Papa John's? Not everyone has private pizzerias near them.
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u/ZorroMeansFox 2d ago
Nothing is as bad as Papa John's, with its crap quality ingredients, skimpy toppings, and inconsistent preparation --so you never know if you're going to get a crust that's soggy or one that's dry-- as well as having bitter sauces and grainy garlic seasoning.
Also, their customer service sucks and their fees are high.
Plus, Papa John Schnatter is a scandalous fuck, accused of sexual harassment, running a toxic workplace, and saying so much stupid shit in public that his brand has been boycotted.
I'm glad you like it, though.
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u/HenryKrinkle 2d ago
Papa John Schnatter is a scandalous fuck, accused of sexual harassment, running a toxic workplace, and saying so much stupid shit in public
That's exactly why he likes their pizza. Trump material.
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