• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    27 days ago

    Whatever dementia issues Joe Biden may have, there is no denying that his staff was superb at managing them and protecting both Biden and the country.

    WTF? Statements like this undermine credibility. Biden was a President with dementia, and that should not have been allowed to happen. The Democrats struggling to cover up what everyone could see is part of what allowed Trump to return. Trump is also suffering dementia, and should not be allowed to continue in the job either. And it has happened before with Reagan. For a good chunk of my lifetime the USA has been led by old men with failing minds.

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      Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a few years after leaving office, but his son said the symptoms were there in 84, before he started his second term.

      It’s like a time honored tradition around here

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      Biden nor trump have been diagnosed with dementia. Mental decline in both of them feels obvious, but suggesting either of them have a diagnosis that they never actually received isn’t cool

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        OK. They have symptoms characteristic of some kinds of dementia. They may not have progressed to the point where the diagnosis is clear, but the symptoms are still a serious concern. Reagan didn’t receive his diagnosis until after he left office, but those around him saw clear symptoms starting several years before that.

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        Nah, they totally have a diagnosis, its just not public. These are people who were elected to the highest office in the country. They have the best doctors in the world following them around.

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        They would never tell you if he was diagnosed. Do you believe he’s 220 pounds and a perfect model of health? Like his doctors report says.

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      What strikes me is how startlingly different dementia looks on a decent old man, compared to a life long cunt.

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    What NOW, TheHill? Motherfuckers, this rapist has been off the charts gibbering for YEARS. You could have called this out before the election. You could have thrown everything you have into stopping this obvious descent into chaos and fascism.

    And now you have the balls to sit there and be like “wow he’s fucked in the head, gee what should we do”?!

    FFS GTFO TheHill.

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    If you aren’t comfortable with labeling this as dementia, that’s fine. But there is no question that the president — the man tasked with making critical life and death decisions for both the country and the world — is struggling with mathematical concepts, has vivid “memories” that are not rooted in reality and has an increasingly foggy grasp of past events that did happen. That’s not a medical diagnosis. These are facts we can see for ourselves and we all know, even those of us who voted for Trump three times, that this can’t be allowed to continue.

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    Yah, nobody cared first time, nobody cared through the four years in between, nobody cares now.

    We handed over our entire political institution because we tuned out because we got tired of the manufactured nonsense, and the only people left paying attention to politics were WWE fans living in a weird cognitive limbo where nothing is real but everything is a life-or-death theatrical spectacle, as it was planned.

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    What now? There will be nothing whatsoever done about it because Trump has a magical aura around him that makes it impossible to impose consequences for anything

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    He is a fucking fascist that tried to overthrow the government. Why are we concerned with whether he declined from bad to worse?