"Donald Trump is not well. ...

William Lindsey :toad:

"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)

William Lindsey :toad:

"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

Mastodon Migration VOTED

@wdlindsy

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

Kevin Leecaster

@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.

Mister Prickles 🦔

@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.

William Lindsey :toad:

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)

William Lindsey :toad:

“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

@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.

CEDunn

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

Runyan50

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

Runyan50

@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

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

Runyan50

@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.

David J. Atkinson

@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

@wdlindsy Vance is bloodsucker Peter Thiel's Renfield.

Weasel

@wdlindsy @swasserstrom

"The nominee for the Republican Party, Donald Trump, is a squalid figure, and the squalor is not subtle. His vileness, his lawlessness, and his malevolence are undisguised. At this point, it is reasonable to conclude that those qualities are a central part of Trump’s appeal to many of the roughly 75 million people who will vote for him in three weeks. They revel in his vices; they are vivified by them."

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)

Weasel

@wdlindsy @swasserstrom

"But what makes this moment different, and unusually dangerous, is that we have never before had a president who is sociopathic; who relishes cruelty and encourages political violence; who refers to his political opponents as “vermin,” echoing the rhetoric of 20th-century fascists; who resorts to crimes to overturn elections, who admires dictators and thrives on stoking hate. Trump has never been well, but he has never been this unwell."

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)

Weasel

@wdlindsy

How do they make the puppet strings so invisible?

Elon Musk's bartender robot had more grace than whatever this is...

Probably because the bartender robot actually had a human behind it. There is nothing human behind Trump's eyes; indeed there doesn't appear to be much at all behind Trump's eyes -- I mean just look at his face, there's no sign there might be any intellect behind it.

CassandraVert

@wdlindsy
Trump is a "peel me a grape" kind of leader. It was always going to be other people doing the work.

William Lindsey :toad:

@CassandraVert Well-stated — a great image to describe what he's about.