The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President

[Jolly]

@89th said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

Sounds like Trump uses the same method for determining gas prices as he does for property values

As of today, premium is about $5.20/gallon in California.

[George K]

So, a reporter is doing a journalism by pointing out the errors in a candidates speech.

Good for him.

Now, let's see the stenographers at NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN do that with the Big Guy.

[taiwan_girl]

Whether or not other outlets "bash" President Biden or not, it doesn't change the "lies" of President Trumps speech.

(We need to start over with two new candidates)

[taiwan_girl]

This is (unintentionally) funny and this thread is as good a place to put this as anywhere.

Speaking at the Black Conservative Federation Gala in Columbia, South Carolina, the former president leaned into all the criminal charges against him, telling the crowd about how he’d been indicted, and then “indicted a second time, and a third time, and a fourth time.”

He went on to claim that “a lot of people” told him “that’s why the Black people like me,

[xenon]

“I like to call myself a social. justice. warrior. I dunno if you’ve heard the term… social justice warrior.. I invented it…”

[Jolly]

And...He's picking up black support, particularly males.

[taiwan_girl]

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

@89th said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

@Doctor-Phibes said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

Sounds like Trump uses the same method for determining gas prices as he does for property values

As of today, premium is about $5.20/gallon in California.

So, the most expensive gas in the most expensive state is almost a dollar cheaper than your Dear Leader claimed. And this somehow vindicates him.

Do you work in advertising by any chance? Hopefully you don't work in a gas station.

[Axtremus]

@Jolly said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

And...He's picking up black support, particularly males.

Link to video

[taiwan_girl]

https://futurism.com/neoscope/doctors-trump-cognitive-issues

"Not enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented," psychologist and former Johns Hopkins Medical School professor John Gartner,

And others, like clinical psychologist and Cornell University senior lecturer Harry Segal, who specializes in mental health disorders, offer a more nuanced assessment — though not one that inspires much confidence in Trump.

"Since this is an intermittent problem, it suggests that when Trump is especially stressed and exhausted, he suffers cognitive slippage that affects the way he associates words or their meaning," he told Salon. "Note, though, that Trump’s pathological lying is itself a form of mental illness, so these cognitive lapses are literally sitting atop what appears to be an already compromised psychological functioning."

[Horace]

These sorts of "experts" are a big reason why nobody trusts "experts" when it comes to politics. Lump in the climate change experts with that too. I understand the void that leaves, but people will inevitably be skeptical when midwit academics with political axes to grind weigh in with their credentialed opinions, and those opinions looks like this. By the way, the Colorado ruling that took Trump off the ballot was informed by a sociology professor who testified that Trump had developed a coded language by which he communicated to the mob, telling them to do an insurrection.

[Jolly]

@taiwan_girl said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

https://futurism.com/neoscope/doctors-trump-cognitive-issues

"Not enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented," psychologist and former Johns Hopkins Medical School professor John Gartner,

And others, like clinical psychologist and Cornell University senior lecturer Harry Segal, who specializes in mental health disorders, offer a more nuanced assessment — though not one that inspires much confidence in Trump.

"Since this is an intermittent problem, it suggests that when Trump is especially stressed and exhausted, he suffers cognitive slippage that affects the way he associates words or their meaning," he told Salon. "Note, though, that Trump’s pathological lying is itself a form of mental illness, so these cognitive lapses are literally sitting atop what appears to be an already compromised psychological functioning."

According to Gartner, if you're successful, you're fucked up.

[taiwan_girl]

@Horace Horace, I agree with you 100%. Everybody has bias which helps to "define" what they believe.

If an article like the above is about (generic) your guy, it is easy to point at the weaknesses.

If an article like the above is about the other guy, it is held up as a sound expert reasoning.

And as usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

[Jolly]

@taiwan_girl said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

@Horace Horace, I agree with you 100%. Everybody has bias which helps to "define" what they believe.

If an article like the above is about (generic) your guy, it is easy to point at the weaknesses.

If an article like the above is about the other guy, it is held up as a sound expert reasoning.

And as usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Of course, after all, Hitler liked dogs.

[Horace]

@taiwan_girl said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

If an article like the above is about the other guy, it is held up as a sound expert reasoning.

You will find that when appealing to the "experts", both sides are not equal. The institutionally entrenched side (the left in America) will by definition have the institutional experts on its side, and so the appeals to the experts will come mostly from that side.

Now, somehow the institutionally entrenched side is not the "conservative" side in the West, which is an interesting state of affairs. What we mostly need is to redefine how we think about "conservatism". It seems obvious to me that the conservative inquisitor class, the people with the psychological earmarks of entrenched status quo true believers, are on the institutional left these days. These people would have been conservatives in any culture they were ever born to, to the extent that psychology plays a part in tribal affiliation.

[George K]

@Jolly said in The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President:

Hitler liked dogs.

Wait a minute...

Didn't Biden have German Shepherds?

Ich bitte um einen Freund.

[taiwan_girl]

Two points: He either believes that he is "Honest Don" which indicates he probably has some cognitive problem, or he is lying. Second, he seems to forget that he did not debate at all during the primary. Maybe another sign of cognitive problem??

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112081056323716257

[Jolly]

Actually, Trump lies less than most politicians. It's part of his charm...

[taiwan_girl]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-schumer-israel-jewish-democrats-35bd1522edd64caf1dedbb10fddf0fcf

Trump, in an interview, had been asked about Democrats’ growing criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ......

“I actually think they hate Israel,” Trump responded to his former aide, Sebastian Gorka. “I think they hate Israel. And the Democrat party hates Israel.”

Trump, who last week became the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, went on to charge: “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion. They hate everything about Israel and they should be ashamed of themselves because Israel will be destroyed.”

[Jolly]

I agree.