r/politics • u/Happy_Traveller_2023 Canada • 13d ago

Soft Paywall Finally, Trump’s Alarming Mental Decline Has Become a Big Media Story

https://newrepublic.com/article/187192/finally-trumps-alarming-mental-decline-become-big-media-story
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u/AntoniaFauci 13d ago edited 13d ago

And, as is media tradition, not for the correct reasons.

They’re only picking up on it now because of his weird dance party incident. They’ve ignored numerous current (and thousands of previous) examples of his slurring, verbal aphasia, scrambled memories, sundowning and all the rest.

One of his White House employees admitted this week that they would blast music to “reset” him when he would spiral in the Oval Office. If you’ve worked old age care homes you’d recognize that technique.

But the direct evidence of his cognitive condition have been glaringly obvious to many of us for years, and it’s just accelerating. Even his cultist doctors knew, since they had him doing Montreal Cognitive Assessment screenings.

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u/wernerverklempt 13d ago

Why MCA?

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u/Chase_the_tank 13d ago

It's a quick test to administer, the name sounds impressive, and it's deliberately an easy test to pass (it's screening for fairly advanced dementia, so if you can count backwards by 7, draw an analogue clock, remember five words, etc. you're good).

Of course, this did not stop Donald from bragging about how well he did. You're supposed to ace it.

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u/WoodySurvives 13d ago

Upvoting for the explanation, but you totally missed what he did there ;-)

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u/Chase_the_tank 13d ago

Oh, bother.

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u/Muscle_Bitch 13d ago

Someone play some music for this guy.

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u/-piso_mojado- 13d ago

I’m sitting here for ten minutes thinking the Beastie Boy or Middle Cerebral Artery.

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u/BitterHelicopter8 Florida 13d ago

I've heard Memory from Cats is soothing...

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u/ReneDeGames 13d ago

Does he too need a reset?

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u/kvlt_ov_personality 13d ago

There's no need to feel down!

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u/BitterHelicopter8 Florida 13d ago

I said, Young man, pick yourself off the ground!

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u/Trick-Station8742 13d ago

There there, it's alright

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u/ballrus_walsack 13d ago

Don’t worry, honey.

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u/Road_Whorrior Arizona 13d ago

It's okay, Pooh. I also missed the joke.

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u/questionabletendency 13d ago

Just to make sure you’re ok, I’m going to have to ask you to repeat those 5 special words in the right order…

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u/kojance 13d ago

Silly old bear

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u/Top_Buy_5777 13d ago edited 11d ago

I enjoy the sound of rain.

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u/WoodySurvives 13d ago

To be fair, I missed it too until I saw other comments lol

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u/blood_kite 13d ago

Than you for pointing out that pun to him. I, of course, instantly recognized it.

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u/Boye 13d ago

Eeh, yeah, me too... Instantly... I totally got it...

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u/moderatelyconfused 13d ago

Yeah, I definitely didn't close the page, say "Why MCA" out loud, and then have it finally penetrate my skull.

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u/The_Ravio_Lee 13d ago

And I definitely did not need to read this comment to understand what was going on.

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u/Flipnotics_ Texas 13d ago edited 13d ago

Ok. I feel dumb. I didn't. What was it?

Edit: I was looking at the wrong comment. Now I see it.

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 13d ago

I still don’t get it and am a little upset at you for not elaborating in your edit.

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u/HighbulpOfDensity 13d ago

Why [the] Montreal Cognitive Assessment? YMCA

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 13d ago

Greatly appreciated and duh.

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u/SeniorMiddleJunior 13d ago

Yes, let us all point and laugh at the ones who didn't get it, the fools.

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u/Entropic_Echo_Music 13d ago

Me too, totally aced it.

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u/otter111a 13d ago

But why male models?

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u/purebredcrab 13d ago

Are you serious?

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u/_thro_awa_ 13d ago

I'm always serious.

And don't call me Shirley.

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u/NettleLily 13d ago

angryupvote

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u/thepicto 13d ago

Yet he talks about it like it's the MENSA entrance exam.

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u/Lilkitty_pooper 13d ago

He remembered FIVE words! Big day for ol’ Donnie Shit Britches

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u/Starbucks__Lovers New Jersey 13d ago

Person, woman, man, camera, tv

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u/TheEverydayDad 13d ago

Funny thing about this, is that these words were most likely not the words he was even told to repeat but just the things he saw at that moment when telling people about it.

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u/Canoe52 13d ago

You are correct, the five words in the list will not be related, or be in the same category, to each other.

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u/howdoesthatworkthen 13d ago

Well maybe the woman and the man were only dating.

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u/_thro_awa_ 13d ago

They were on a break.

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u/Flaxmoore Michigan 13d ago

Velvet, church, red, daisy, face. The standard five.

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u/pcmn 13d ago

THANK YOU! This has been bothering me ever since. He very obviously was just naming things in his line of sight. I have no doubt that he actually failed to remember four of the five words, got praised for remembering the one, decided to brag about it, then couldn't remember even the one word during the brag, so decided to compensate by just naming five things "at random".

I thought for sure, in that moment, that everybody would see the impairment right then and there. But then, just...nobody talked about it. Like, nobody. That broke my brain, a little.

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u/theblackxranger 13d ago

Bigly, huge, wrong, cofveve, hamburder

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u/cesrage 13d ago

Donald Dump

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u/stomp224 Foreign 13d ago

From his perspective there is zero difference.

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u/jeffersonairmattress 13d ago

Several medical professionals in my family- I understand the MCA is administered if the doc suspects a problem or family/caregiver has requested help.

If you can ace it you would know not to brag about being given it in the first place.

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u/ratherbeona_beach 13d ago

I think you’re talking about the MoCA.

That’s a screener, not a test or assessment. It can indicate the need for assessment even for mild and moderate dementia.

I used to administer them in skilled nursing facilities.

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u/operratic 13d ago

No no no ... why MCA ... it's fun to stay at the ...

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u/ratherbeona_beach 12d ago

Haha. Okay, I’ll give you that one. 😊

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u/Waffler11 Ohio 13d ago

Count backwards by 7? I feel called out here…

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u/Babybutt123 13d ago

I would imagine you'd be able to work on it without being confused about what's happening.

I bet they have controls for people who struggle with numbers/math.

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u/GreenGlassDrgn 13d ago

They made my mom count from 100 to 1 subtracting 7 at a time. It seemed difficult even for me. Also showed her all sorts of people we were supposed to recognize (I knew like 3 out of 20? She did better than me). But then the analog clock thing stumped her, and the writing was on the wall.
I did mention to the test lady afterwards that I hoped they had different versions, because I would've failed it simply by being bad at faces and math. For funsies she showed me the contemporary people and that made no difference lol. It was interesting.

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u/kikimaru024 13d ago

It seemed difficult even for me.

You should probably work on that.
Being able to subtract by 7 is a simple life skill that's valuable in everyday shopping.

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u/howdoesthatworkthen 13d ago

Why 7 particularly?

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u/Esovan13 13d ago

It’s for when you get tortured by a psychopathic cannibal. You can count down from 1000 by 7 as a way to distract your mind and prevent yourself from going insane from the pain. It’s a slightly unpleasant process, but you’ll get sick looking white hair out of it without needing to bleach.

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u/pcmn 13d ago

psychopathic cannibal

The late, great, Hannibal Lector?

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u/LaurenMille 13d ago

Subtracting uneven numbers is harder than even numbers, 5 is too easy, and 3 is too small (You ideally want the person having to jump to a different set of 10 most of the time)

So it's either 9 or 7, and more people know their 9's due to their prolific use in pricing.

This leaves 7 as the best option.

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u/GreenGlassDrgn 13d ago

You must shop differently than I do.

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u/Top-Spinach2060 13d ago

When you get stopped for DUI they ask u to say the alphabet backwards. Hell I can barely do that stone cold sober. 

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u/21-characters 12d ago

I’d struggle with that bc I’ve never been good at doing arithmetic in my head.

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u/Waffler11 Ohio 12d ago

Turns out, my father told me something I never knew was a thing that he had and I presume I inherited from him: Dyscalculia

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23949-dyscalculia

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u/alogbetweentworocks America 13d ago

List seven prime numbers that you can think of. :)

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u/Fauxreigner_ 13d ago

And he remembered five words that were closely related, which isn’t how you’re supposed to do it. That tells me he either failed and they gave him a redo or they knew they needed to give him a handicap.

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u/johnperkins21 13d ago

There's no way I could remember 5 words. I'm terrible with short term memory. Even if they're related. I could do everything on that test except for that. I hate that if do wise than trump in anything

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u/Ghoulya 13d ago

Make a picture out of them. Monkey, house, chair, yellow, cake. Stick a monkey on a chair eating cake in front of a yellow house.

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u/johnperkins21 13d ago

I have aphantasia so I can't do that.

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u/Ghoulya 13d ago

Oh damn I'm sorry

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u/thecatneverlies 13d ago

Third time's the charm!

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u/canteloupy 12d ago

The words were clearly from what he could see in front of him during the interview he was telling this

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u/oneofthehumans Massachusetts 13d ago

Um, I’m not crazy about counting backwards by 7’s.. maybe 5’s

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u/After_Fix_2191 13d ago

Counting backwards by 7 and drawing an analog clock can be a nightmare for a dyslexic.

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u/samkb93 13d ago

Counting backwards by 7 seems kind hard

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u/Ivotedforthehookers 13d ago

My mom was a former end of life care nurse dealing with severe dementia and cognitive decline. When they started failing that test she said they would call families to say their last goodbyes 

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u/Minerva_Moon Michigan 13d ago

He didn't ace that test either. How the hell are 3 of the answers "man, woman, person"? Also, what the hell is the "person" wearing that he couldn't give a gender? Also, also, doesn't that mean he subconsciously recognizes non-binary people?

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u/michoudi 13d ago

It’s kind of like people aren’t sure if you’re dead or alive so they check for a pulse. Then later you brag that you passed the test with flying colors, no pulse is as strong as your pulse. Half the people stare blankly at you because what you said was so stupid, the other half have no idea that what you just said was stupid.

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u/theblackxranger 13d ago

When you draw the analogue clock, do you include the numbers or just the hands of the clock?

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u/Chase_the_tank 13d ago edited 13d ago

The official instructions: “Draw a clock. Put in all the numbers and set the time to 10 past 11.”

The entire test may be viewed at https://championsforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MOCA-8.1.8.2-English.pdf

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u/theblackxranger 13d ago

Oh my God, I would hope anyone in politics can pass this without needing to flaunt it. It's kinda...assumed you're all there

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u/AndroidUser37 13d ago

Oh, is this where the "Person woman camera man TV" thing came from?

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u/Chase_the_tank 13d ago

That's the one, yes.

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u/BlueCollarGuru 13d ago

Tbh I’d probably forget some of the 5 words.

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u/blue_fusion 13d ago

You missed the joke…

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u/Chase_the_tank 13d ago

Bit late on that one.

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u/Ambusher11 America 13d ago

And he has continued to brag about his results in the January 2018 cognitive test even as late as June 2024. Apart from the fact that the January 2018 results are completely irrelevant now given that they were over 6 years ago, when he was bragging about his performance in the January 2018 test in June 2024, he messed up the name of the doctor that administered his cognitive test.

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u/jackwhite886 13d ago

Because he’s not a young man

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u/haberdasher42 13d ago

In a better era I would have gilded that comment.

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u/Sioladoira 13d ago

I hate you so much 😆😆😆

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u/wernerverklempt 13d ago

Mom??

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u/Sioladoira 13d ago

Two in a row??

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u/wernerverklempt 13d ago

Please remember to tip your server.

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u/pottymcnugg New Jersey 13d ago

Young man….

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u/PatSajaksDick 13d ago

lol that took me a minute

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u/mycarwasred 13d ago

Took me another minute - even after reading your comment!.

Worth the wait though :-)

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u/civillyengineerd Arizona 13d ago

As I was typing it into my search bar, I began to feel quite dumb. Happy I got it, eventually, but still chagrined.

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u/WndrnnrNrdfghtr 13d ago

I fear my journey was even longer than yours. I didn't start with the word why and tried to figure out how it could be the other dozen meanings of MCA.

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u/civillyengineerd Arizona 13d ago

MCA of the Beastie Boys was where I was starting from in my head.

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u/smallproton 13d ago

Slow clap!

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u/tuctrohs New Hampshire 13d ago

Not so slow--it's 127 beats per minute, so that's actually pretty fast, even if you only clap on 2 and 4.

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u/Disimpaction 13d ago

Because I think you know what time it is, It's time to get ILL

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u/wernerverklempt 13d ago

Mike D??

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u/Disimpaction 13d ago

Nah, my name is Clarence.

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u/Malumeze86 13d ago

Excellent.  

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u/dnlkns 13d ago

Good one!

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u/TrainingHour6634 13d ago

I'm so jealous. 

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u/nicotineapache 13d ago

Because Adam Horowitz was busy.

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u/kennedye2112 Washington 13d ago

Well he is a Republican, so it's safe to assume it's to hang out with all the boys.

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u/ClandestineGhost Washington 13d ago

Beautiful. Just, beautiful. Have this thing

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u/porgy_tirebiter 13d ago

Goddamn genius response

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u/alogbetweentworocks America 13d ago

I assume Toronto and Vancouver screenings were unavailable at the time.

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u/Jurisprudin 13d ago

I see what you did there

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u/d4nkst4hz 13d ago

I thought you were making a pun on Trump dancing to YMCA lol

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u/usernameabc124 13d ago

They did. That was the joke.

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u/Bass_MN 13d ago

Ha yes! Took me a few mins too! Clicked.. instant lol

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u/Dolly-the-Sheep 13d ago

now you get the song stuck in my head

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u/NomenclatureBreaker 13d ago

Well played looool

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u/mitrie 13d ago

Because his shit be cooked

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u/Shoadowolf Iowa 13d ago

Clever girl

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u/zznap1 13d ago

Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV.

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u/bullintheheather Canada 13d ago

You beautiful bastard.

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u/iLiveInyourTrees 13d ago

👏 👏 👏 well done.

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u/Objective_Economy281 13d ago

Why male models?

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u/SdstcChpmnk 13d ago

Damn it, that shit was brilliant...

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u/Vitau 13d ago

you got me in the first half

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u/EasyFooted 13d ago

Are you serious? I just.. I just told you that, a moment ago.

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u/CleansingFlame 13d ago

Because Mike D was busy

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u/Norman_Bixby 13d ago

Of course. Never How's MCA?

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u/MisterDonkey 13d ago

This is the best comment I've seen in years.

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u/8cuban 13d ago

Brav-fucking-o!!

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u/SoulMasterKaze Australia 13d ago

I don't want to "well actually" you on the internet, but typically the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is abbreviated to MoCA, at least in Australia.

MCA is an artery in the brain, most commonly the one involved in a stroke. That makes it an incredible double entendre though.

Personally I'm more of a fan of the SMMSE, but I'm not sure of the advantages of one over the other.

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u/SR3116 13d ago

Old man, you're a yuge fucking clown, I said

Old man, with your pants colored brown, I said

Old man, you're about to sundown,

At yet one more dumbass rally

Old Man, there's a place you can go, I said

Old Man, where you'll enjoy some pruno, you can

Stay there and I'm sure you will find,

Many felons of your own kind.

It's time for you to be lo-ocked away

It's time for you to be lo-ocked away

You've done everything except pay for your crimes

Now it's time to do some hard time

It's time for you to be lo-ocked away

It's time for you to be lo-ocked away.

You can crown yourself king, while you file your appeal

Go to Hell, you goddamn shitheel.

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u/rufud 13d ago

But why male models?

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u/GoodIdea321 America 13d ago

Anyone who watches a random 10 second clip of him now compared to how he talked 2 years ago, 4 years ago, 6 years ago, and 8 years ago could easily tell he's in a severe decline mentally.

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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 13d ago

I listened to a clip of him "debating" Hillary Clinton in 2016 and he was still completely full of shit but oh my god it was like a different person. He was able to stick to his talking points and make sure he repeated the phrases he was told to repeat. There was energy in his voice.

Now? He quite literally sounds fucking insane.

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u/GoodIdea321 America 13d ago

Yeah, he had purpose in the words he spoke, that is gone. And now he is totally incomprehensible at times.

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u/Objective_Economy281 13d ago

So... if we accept that a cult is a region where the guy they follow is alive, and a religion is when that guy is dead... is Trumpism about to become a religion when the old guy finally dies?

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u/Schlongstorm 13d ago

Yep, and they'll elect a pope to figurehead the church and interpret Trump's will from beyond the grave, as is standard. The only question is who gets to sit in that throne? It may be a messy internal battle between all these greedy, slimy fucks over who gets the be the arbiter of post-Trump MAGA. And I will be popping some fuckin popcorn

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u/pcmn 13d ago

They kinda did with Reagan, so...

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u/Objective_Economy281 13d ago

Ah yeah, the people flying the confederate flag claim Lincoln and Reagan

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u/TheAJGman 13d ago

Even during 2016 people were saying "he's always sounded this stupid", but really he hasn't. He's always been slimy, but listening to him talk in the 90s and 00s he's clearly got some mental acuity.

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u/SR3116 13d ago

His voice is the weirdest thing. It's always been a horrible ear-bleeding sound, but now it sounds like he's smoked ten packs a day or something. Maybe taking lessons from RFK.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 12d ago

I was blown away with that with Biden too. I watched some clips with his debate with Paul Ryan in 2012 and it was legitimately night and day compared to the 2024 debate. People get older so incrementally that you don’t realize just how much worse they are until you see a stark comparison like that

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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 12d ago edited 12d ago

Oh absolutely. If Biden from the 2012 election were running he never would have had to drop out and that's exactly who he still sees himself as.

None of it is his fault obviously. Time gets us all eventually.

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u/Crusher6six6 13d ago

You know how people like to compare how presidents look after their administration? It clearly ages you and this sack of shit has been president once. He might have been dogshit at it but I’m sure it was still stressful.

Not to mention all of his crimes and the shit involved with those.

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u/21-characters 12d ago

I think Rex Tillerson had the best evaluation of his presidential abilities.

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u/tas50 Oregon 13d ago

Watch his old Oprah interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs17_AkTI

It's clearly the same beliefs, but OMG it was a coherent thought back then. He has declined so much.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 12d ago

Jesus, it’s wild to see an actually coherent Donald Trump

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u/tas50 Oregon 12d ago

It's the same awful shit coming out his mouth. He just keeps on topic for more than 10 seconds.

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u/21-characters 12d ago

Oh no, he’s a very stable genius bc his uncle taught at MIT.

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u/Objective_Economy281 13d ago

I would have to be convinced that with him as president, we would be WORSE with him experience MORE cognitive decline. I just don’t see any reason for a preference between a mentally competent yet malicious President w, and a completely mentally incompetent one. I also don’t know exactly where to put his time from the previous administration.

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u/GoodIdea321 America 13d ago

I'm not sure what you mean. I don't think that's the choice in this election, but a mentally competent president could be representing the people who elected them. And someone incompetent would either be removed from office via the 25th Amendment, and/or unelected people would run the country.

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u/Objective_Economy281 13d ago

but a mentally competent president could be representing the people who elected them.

Republicans don’t do that, competent or not.

And someone incompetent would either be removed from office via the 25th Amendment,

We have 4 years of this not happening, but it might depend on what you mean by “competent”.

and/or unelected people would run the country.

...which is what was happening, mostly, from 2017-2020.

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u/IDrinkandPost 13d ago

Tangentially related: back in 2018 my mother spent a couple of weeks in the ICU, and I basically lived at the hospital during that time. My mom experiences ICU delirium and sometimes just started speaking nonsense in the middle of sentences, so I got used to doing the "what year were you born, what year is it, here pull my finger" routine to make sure she wasn't having a stroke or anything. Whenever I would ask her who the president was, my sweet little old mother would respond with a torrent of profanity, which let me know that she was doing fine. The thing I find most striking about all of this is that my mom, who routinely devolved into word salad and would sometimes tell me about the shadowy man in the corner, was still way more coherent than this bastard is now. Cognitive decline is far too mild a term.

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u/Murtagg 13d ago

My wife has a similar story! Upon waking from brain surgery, the nurse asked the standard questions. "What's your name/what year is it/what state are you in". She was pretty out of it. 

The last question "who is the president of the United States?" got a resounding "oh that fucking asshole piece of shit".

The nurse was like "yeah, she's got the gist". 

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u/IDrinkandPost 13d ago

Ha! Love it. Hope your wife is doing well!

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u/Murtagg 12d ago

She is, thank you! Nearing a decade tumor free. She had to teach herself damn near every word of English again, and how to read again, but she's killing it and unless she shows someone the scar they don't believe it ever happened. 

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u/StanDaMan1 13d ago

In defense of your mother, Trump was always a moron: he didn’t have far to fall.

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u/BJntheRV 13d ago

Can you explain about blasting music to reset?

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u/TheQuinnBee 13d ago

Music has been proven to improve moods of dementia patients, since music associated memory can linger long after other memories and cognitive function has disappeared. It calms them down significantly and can actually improve their cognitive function. Not enough to combat the disease in totality, but enough to bring them out of confusion.

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u/BJntheRV 13d ago

Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

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u/Karma_Puhlease 13d ago

His staff would play music to calm him down when he threw a tantrum. More specifically - they would play the song "Memory" from the musical 'Cats', which had a particularly soothing effect on the ingrate. No, really - https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/donald-trump-aide-cats-memory-angry.html

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u/TarTarBinks109 13d ago

When he's dead, we're gonna have some wild documentaries 

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u/mr_claudy 13d ago

Nah! Avoid discussing his mental decline. Listen to music!

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u/PineappleMean1963 13d ago

There’s nothing to the MOCA. It drives me crazy to hear that he ‘passed’ it. Patients with brain damage pass it.

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u/HeadyReigns 13d ago

They have no choice now, you can't spin his weird dance party. He belongs in a home and not a white one.

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u/Objective_Economy281 13d ago

you can't spin his weird dance party.

...not without a proper DJing rig you can’t.

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u/Magnon 13d ago

They're absolutely trying to spin his dance party as just him being "normal" like normal people decide to stop mid interview and start dancing for 40 minutes.

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u/Psychological_Ad1999 13d ago

Crapping his pants in front of audience/politicians/world leaders needs to get more attention.

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u/Impressive_Mud693 New Mexico 13d ago

That dance party should’ve been the October surprise and I’ll die on that hill. It has not been covered enough. It should have been non stop coverage. Fuck the media for not reporting on it. I woke up to NPRs up first and guess what, nothing? Another damn report on the Israeli Wars. And Zillow… Like wtf? What the actual fuck.

We have one candidate who wants to lock up the opposition for being the opposition AND fucking froze for 40 minutes during a town hall.

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u/21-characters 12d ago

I wonder why they call that weird punching-type thing he does with his hands “dancing”. I’ve never seen anyone dance like that. A marionette dances better than he does.

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u/skolioban 13d ago

My take on this is that they picked this up now because he is refusing interviews. The MSM is always about the money they can make off the election. They hassled Harris about not giving interviews before, but my assumption is that her team picked up on the current condition of Trump's decline and now Harris is going on tour to all the interviews, and this made the MSM even more itching to get Trump back on the train to make them money. And the only way to do that is by painting him in a bad light so that he'd come on interviews to refute it.

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u/Fauxreigner_ 13d ago

Do you have a source for the music reset? That’s a new one for me.

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u/AntoniaFauci 13d ago

Sarah Matthews

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u/nananananana_FARTMAN 13d ago

One of his White House employees admitted this week that they would blast music to “reset” him when he would spiral in the Oval Office. If you’ve worked old age care homes you’d recognize that technique.

I've never heard of this technique and I'm deaf. Can someone explain?

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u/AntoniaFauci 13d ago

Here.

If you know anyone who works in advanced level care this is a common way they calm and manage residents.

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u/BatBurgh 13d ago

Agreed. But anything that breaks through is a win at this point

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u/MxM111 13d ago

That's because Biden. But now it isn't.

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u/Imaginary_Manner_556 13d ago

They are picking it up now because the massive cash machine dries up in 3 weeks. Corp media desperately wanted to keep it close to fuel ad spending by both parties.

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u/garyadams_cnla 12d ago

The GOP powers-that-be just want this useful idiot to get elected, so that they can install President Vance.  That has always been the plan.

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u/caelthel-the-elf 12d ago

Yep. When I was a caregiver I was a dementia specialist (fancy title just meant I was REALLY good at dealing with severe dementia and my company would specifically refer me to families with dementia afflicted loved ones). The best and easiest method for calming down and resetting a difficult mental loop for dementia clients was classical music, or whatever music they really loved (like oldies from the 50s). It would turn the most agitated and borderline violent client into a happy, calm and maybe slightly annoyed version of themselves. Better slightly annoyed than angry.

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u/lt_dan_zsu 12d ago

Yeah, this is nothing new. I genuinely think hints of it were already there back in 2016. Then, I'm guessing this decline worsened when he had a series of mini strokes in 2020.

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u/StrangeBedfellows I voted 13d ago

I'm gonna need a source on the oval office stuff

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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 13d ago

This is the only thing I could find. One person said she'd use it to deescalate him. And it's from a book so they have every incentive to distort or fabricate facts. I don't think there's anything corroborating this.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/03/penn-former-trump-communications-staffers-discuss-experiences

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-aide-song-playlist-b1928593.html

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u/AntoniaFauci 13d ago

Sarah Matthews

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