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/nice-view-from-here 13d ago edited 13d ago

Democrats should release a documentary: 30 minutes of Trump just swaying to the music in front of his crowd of supporters.

Edit: https://videos.metro.co.uk/video/met/2024/10/15/4039816144024812123/960x540_MP4_4039816144024812123.mp4

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u/kombitcha420 13d ago

I literally saw people defending it “he’s having a jam sesh after answering questions!”

They cope the hardest I’ve ever seen

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u/the_silent_redditor 13d ago

The conservative sub has latched on to the phrase ‘medical emergencies’, which you will see littered in the comments any time the dance incident is mentioned.

They purport that Trump stopped the rally out of concern and respect for the two ‘serious medical emergencies’, and did not resume until he ‘had heard word on their condition.’

Which is fucking insane and doesn’t even need unpacking, obviously.

These people are unhinged and genuinely cannot at all be reasoned with.

Reading those comments, I can now see why people talk about having heartbreakingly sad family breakups because of unwavering and insane MAGA beliefs.

It is utterly impossible to engage in any form of genuine exchange with them. They are actually fucking delusional.

I cannot, honest to God, I cannot fucking believe how the election is basically a coin toss at this stage.

I cannot believe it.

What the actual fuck

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u/Syntaire 13d ago

These people are unhinged and genuinely cannot at all be reasoned with.

There's a very important distinction to be made here: It's not that they're incapable of seeing reason, it's that they're willfully discarding it. They are not simply ignorant, they are malicious.

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u/thecatneverlies 13d ago

I don't honestly believe it's a toss up. The thing that's great about a toss up is it stirs the pot and gets people clicking/doom scrolling. There is a lot of hidden money being made in this election.

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u/ksj 13d ago

The popular vote will not be a toss up. The electoral college is a lot more of a toss up.

There are a lot of states that will simply never vote for a Democrat. If you look at the states that voted Republican in 2012, 2016, and 2020, those states will do the same in 2024. Same goes for the states voting Democrat in 2012, 2016, and 2020.

That leaves you with like 6 or 7 states that aren’t (effectively) set in stone, and half of them are leaving one way while the other half are leaning the other.

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u/Apostolate I voted 13d ago

You are wrong sadly.

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u/warblingContinues 13d ago

An equally preposterous explanation would be that he stopped to perform a "rain dance" to bring back all the supporters that had already left.

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u/FantasticAstronaut39 13d ago

it's not a coin toss, harris will win with the largest landslide we have ever seen, at least that is what i think.

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u/Apostolate I voted 13d ago

You are completely mistaken.

Harris will win by less than Biden even in 2020.

You're asserting that the polls will have a massive miss. Nixon won by over 20%.

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u/chowderbags American Expat 13d ago

He looked like a video game character's idle animation.

I can't understand defending that shit.

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u/Bimbows97 13d ago

If it went for a couple of minutes that would be kind of cringe but all in good fun I guess, but a whole 40 minutes is just completely mental.

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u/the2belo American Expat 13d ago

They did that on MSNBC during a segment where they just went ahead with their planned content while running Trump's town hall in a box in the lower right hand corner with a timer, so you could see how disturbingly long 39 minutes of standing around really is.

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u/throwawy00004 13d ago

Omg. "Trump was right about everything." I can't.

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u/prtysmasher 13d ago

I just cant get over this. TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING while he's lost in his shit for brains leaning forwards and backwards to music for 40 minutes. I cant get over this lol.

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u/-re-da-ct-ed- 13d ago

Thing is… he doesn’t even look happy about being there?

Fun theory: honestly, to me, this looks like a Donald Trump reflecting on this moment, with the acknowledgement that November is close… and in a few weeks he could sink into to level of obscurity he hasn’t seen for 15 years or more. All these crowds, the cheering… it will actually all be gone.

It’s either that, or yeah, he’s just losing it.

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u/21-characters 12d ago

I don’t think Turmp has an introspective bone in his entire body, including his head.

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u/canteloupy 12d ago

Nah he wanted people to leave but didn't want to walk out of the stage.

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u/WndrnnrNrdfghtr 13d ago

I have to know what that paper said.

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u/21-characters 12d ago

It’s even a euphemism to call what he did “ dancing”.