"Donald Trump is not well. ...

[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
/18

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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Andrew Egger suggests watching video coverage of Trump's interview with John Micklethwait:

"Watch a few answers, and you’ll be forced to conclude: It’s way worse than you thought."

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
/20

The Delusions of the Donald

We knew Trump’s economic policy proposals were unhinged. Until yesterday, we didn’t know he was barely able even to talk about them.

(www.thebulwark.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

“Trump has never been well, but he has never been this unwell. The prospect of his again possessing the enormous power of the presidency, this time with far fewer restraints, is frightening.”

~ Peter Wehner

#Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
/21

This Election Is Different

No election prior to the Trump era, regardless of the outcome, ever caused me to question the fundamental decency of America.

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

[runyan50@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy There might be a few voters cut off by recent hurricanes who did not notice, but pretty much the other 300M Americans are still laughing, not to mention several billion more in other countries.

[cdunnpasadena@sfba.social]

@wdlindsy
I wonder which definition of ‘sober’ NYT was going for?

[runyan50@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy And when he wears Melania’s underwear on his head, he is a fashion mogul.

[runyan50@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy Mental institutions and doctors offices have medications they prescribe for the weave every day. Best if prescribed by a psychiatrist or nurse practitioner with a mental health specialty. Some of them have significant side effects.

[runyan50@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy Trump has no policies. He does not need them. He has Project 2025.

[runyan50@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy Love “gurgling”. When I worked in mental health, I compared some patients’ intellectual processing as the person seemingly being on a carousel as they processed information, and I was a stationary participant. More accurate than a puposeful weave. Trump’s behavior is familiar to me. Having 70 million people follow him like a god is not.

[meltedcheese@c.im]

@wdlindsy ”Bluntly, the former president was incoherent when pressed with real questions about his policies.”

Thinking people have known this since day one of #Trump running for President in 2016. He was better at hiding — not just the facts, but that he was (and is) not able, cognitively, to answer questions coherently. It seems like the mainstream media has been behaving like adult children who deny the decline of their aged parents for various reasons. Better late than never. ‍️

[jmjm@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy Vance is bloodsucker Peter Thiel's Renfield.