The Sad Cognitive Decline of a President

[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.

[Doctor Phibes]

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

I agree.

Well there’s a shock

[Jolly]

No, he's right from a Biblical perspective. It's not uncommon for Jews to turn their backs on Israel.

The current Democrat party has become very anti-Israel. It does not make rational sense to vote for people who have no problem supporting people that would eradicate your mother country.

[Renauda]

Netanyahu is not Israel and nor is Israel Netanyahu. I see no problem in supporting Israel but opposing the policies of Netanyahu. Likewise I wholly disagree with Schumer’s statements amounting to interference in Israel’s internal affairs. Schumer is totally out of line in his capacity as an American senator and Senate Majority Leader.

Could care less whether that corresponds to any biblical perspective or whether his Jewishness and loyalty to the current government of Israel are dependent on one another. I think both are just conjured and partisan straw man arguments.

It is just bad political form on Schmer’s part. Bad enough that he should be called upon to resign as Majority Leader.

[taiwan_girl]

President Trump freezes at rally. Maybe he is taking lessons from Sen. McConnell.

Link to video

[Copper]

He probably just paused to listen to that violin music.

[taiwan_girl]

At first I thought that maybe the closed caption TV failed, but President Trump said that was not the case. He just paused for "dramatic effect" LOL

I think that they should run the debate different. Have Presidents Trump and Biden on one team against a group of 6 form students.

[Renauda]

@taiwan_girl

Without knowing what he was saying leading up to the pause, it’s difficult to know whether it was a pause for effect or he did in fact freeze.

I think I will give him the benefit of the doubt, although there may have a been something going on off camera that caused him to pause. Teleprompter glitch or some such technical hiccup?

[George K]

[Doctor Phibes]

[Jolly]