"After the June debate that so clearly exposed Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, news coverage questioning his competence to hold office for another term was seemingly never-ending, and for good reason.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
As Alex Henderson reports, CNN has aired a supercut video contrasting Trump's performance in the 2016 presidential debate to his performance on 10 September 2024 debate. Hafiz Rashid describes the latter performance compared with the former one as a "stark example of the convicted felon’s cognitive decline."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to wbpeckham last edited by
@wpeckham Yes, I agree. I never bought the spin of corporate media that Biden's performance betokened cognitive decline. I saw a tired elderly man who had just traveled through multiple time zones and was suffering from a respiratory illness, not knowing how to respond to a raving lunatic.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Aloniaxx last edited by
@Judeet99 I don't disagree that medical issues are at the root of cognitive decline — in most cases. My mother suffered from progressive dementia in her final years and I know the syndrome. My point is that I see no reason to demand that a clinical practitioner warning the public that a person running for high office is suffering from evident cognitive decline do clinical tests to prove that point.
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wbpeckhamreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy We Locked out with Harris, she has Clearly faced raving lunatics before and knew exactly what to do.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to WesDym last edited by
@wesdym Yes, I certainly agree that Trump is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to analyzing the problem facing us, when over 40% of Americans lean strongly authoritarian.
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Huntn00replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Ask why a lot of media is not all over Trump’s separation with reality, and the answer is terrible. These entities are complicit with the undermining of America. Question 2: Why? Why was Biden assaulted and Trump gets a relative free ride? Profits, and a political agenda, that’s something other than in our best interests.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Jane last edited by [email protected]
@janeadams Thanks for that information. The word "diagnose" seems to be doing some heavy lifting in that APA ruling — and, of course, as we learned from the APA's years on end of classifying homosexuality as a mental illness and the politics that had to be faced in shifting that shameful conclusion, the APA is capable of being very wrong.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Stoneface Vimes last edited by
@capnthommo I agree — a good point.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Huntn00 last edited by
@Huntn00 I very much agree. And I can't get those people at the Economic Club in New York to whom Trump babbled incoherently applauding him wildly. Lawrence O'Donnell was correct to say they were some of the stupidest rich people in New York — though many of them have degrees from the best universities.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to wbpeckham last edited by
@wpeckham Lucked out, you mean, right? I agree!
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Aloniaxxreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Simply because a person's private health is not public property. I'm sure there are mechanisms in place, or at least one would hope so, to prevent anyone so obviously unwell from gaining a position of power.
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Huntn00replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Wealth tends to be corrupting for perceived self benefit. Although I’m financially comfortable, not wealthy, that’s why I have an issue with wealth and how it twists society around its little finger in destructive ways. It’s a ME>WE issue.
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lolonursereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
I don't see that happening.
(& I also was horrified at the huge number of journalists, pundits, news people, media wonks... who attacked Biden, called him senile & demented - and never amended their attacks once it was clear that at least part of his problem had been how sick he was.) They aren't willing to be honest about TFG because they're afraid he will attack them, damage their income. -
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to lolonurse last edited by
@lolonurse I agree!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to lolonurse last edited by
@lolonurse When you say you don't see that happening, you mean you can't see the media giving up the sanewashing and directly addressing his cognitive decline, right? I fear you may be right, though there are some glimmers now, after the debate, of the media's willing to reassess their stubborn commitment to both-sidesism and giving Trump pass after pass
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Huntn00 last edited by
@Huntn00 I agree.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Aloniaxx last edited by
@Judeet99 Public figures are public figures. To point to very obvious mental aberrations in someone running for high office is not to invade her/his privacy. It's to do due diligence as a practitioner precisely because that person has a large public presence that promises to affect large numbers of people.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to lolonurse last edited by
@lolonurse @Huntn00 Oh, yes. Spend just a day in academic life and you'll encounter a world of folks like that.