"Donald Trump is not well. ...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MishaVanMollusq For sure.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Huntn00 Yes, you're right.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dave I think it's technical psychotherapeutic language reflecting Mary Trump's training and education in that field. I couldn't tell you exactly what it means to those trained specialists, either, but I have a pretty good idea it means something akin to "meltdown."

[huntn00@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy This is why Lil’Donny has the strength he does as head of the Cult. And when he loses we’ll get a four-year reprieve, but the war will be far from over. Young deplorables like Vance will come out of the woodwork and threaten again, along with a SCOTUS that supports this movement.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Huntn00 Yes.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@SDParris I can see where that would be easy to do — and they're really not so far apart.

[dave@europhiles.uk]

@wdlindsy
Thanks. It's certainly plausible. I'm convinced he has some kind of neurological condition.

[lindacollins11@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy This is a frightening reality

[mgd1616@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Sad to see that this is what the GOP has come to in their lust for power. Enjoy this parody of DJT
https://youtu.be/1946TRPdT8s?feature=shared

[nanowiz@vmst.io]

@wdlindsy

a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for the 25th amendment

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@nanowiz Well-noted and well-stated.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MGD1616 Yes, indeed. Will watch with interest. I appreciate the link.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LindaCollins11 I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dave So it appears to me, especially since I watched my mother go down the path of dementia and so much of what he's exhibiting seems very familiar from what I saw with her.

[davidarnell@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy
And a vote for JD Vance is a vote for Peter Theil who says freedom is not compatible with democracy.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"You have the [Washington] Post on the one hand treating it with the concern that I think is warranted, and then you have these two other comparably influential outlets [ABC and Walll Street Journal] saying it was like a happy concert. The New York Times more or less [is] ignoring it."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia #WashingtonPost #ABC #WallStreetJournal #NewYorkTimes
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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Listen to Greg Sargent's THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent podcast with Greg Sargent on Apple Podcasts.

Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"They have long since abandoned, the 400 or 500 or so reporters and editors who comprise the mainstream political news media, any commitment to the idea that the way you cover one candidate and the way you cover the other candidate should be roughly comparable."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia #WashingtonPost #ABC #WallStreetJournal #NewYorkTimes
/19

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy

But did anyone mention Kristi's 'jazz hands'?

[greenfire@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
Somewhat unrelated, but I happened to watch a podcast that included an author and journalist, I think his name was Jeff Shartleff?, who argued that the term sanewashing is somewhat whitewashing what our mainstream media is doing for the modern GOP.

He advocates for calling it fascism washing especially related to Trump in particular. He's been following him closely since before he came down the escalator and considers him a masterful communicator to his supporters if no one else.

[misterprickles@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy

This is an unusually useful interview. Trump has become accustomed to doing as he pleases, speaking the most astonishing rubbish because nobody pulls him up on it, or even (as we saw) choosing not to speak at all, instead letting the music take him wherever it goes.

When he meets a journalist who actually understands what Trump thinks is his home turf, he gets caught out, and falls back on saying "good numbers, bad numbers" over and over, like a cretin.