Trump is clearly a moron with some kind of clinical brain dysfunction, but this is just like 2 seconds of fumbling with words, which pretty much anyone who does public speaking can do. I was expecting more than like 2 second’s worth based on how big a deal the story sounded like.
IDK, maybe Newsweek is trying to run cover for him by running a big non-story about something innocuous to distract from the Nikki Haley / Nancy Pelosi thing.
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I really don’t understand Newsweek.
Right, it’s one or two words he fumbles. His cognitive decline has been observed since 2016, nothing new here.
The article first says the video “is stoking concern among social media users” which, if you ask me, is not something news worthy. But then it goes on to point out how this was re-posted by the Biden campaign. Which does seems a little more of interest than just a bunch of yahoos on twitter pointing fingers.
Newsweek seems to always have a bullshit story above the fold and something somewhat relevant below it.
This clip is pretty much on par with everything that tumbles out of his mouth. “Until you’re vetted and everything else” is what I heard. I’m so sick of non-stories about Trump when there are so so so many credible things to attack him for.
I found your comment by searching for “Until you’re vetted”. It was easy enough to understand what he was saying that I was able to just search for the words I heard and find them here.
It’s easy to hear what he’s saying, sure he’s “slurring the words”, but it’s not like a drunk slurring the words, or like he’s had a stroke. He’s just speaking in a sloppy way, not enunciating his words. There’s a clear difference from earlier speeches where the words he was speaking were gibberish, but his enunciation was better. But, so what? What does that prove?
The Nikky Haley thing was a bigger gaffe, and more likely to indicate his not thinking correctly. But, again, it’s just a gaffe. Biden also made plenty of gaffes, even when he was much younger.
None of this matters though. What matters is what will happen if Trump becomes president again. His first term resulted in all kinds of damage, and that’s despite the fact that he didn’t really have the Republican establishment behind him, and that so many of his staff were inexperienced. This time the main reason he’s running is to be able to pardon himself from various crimes. He’s going to have the new republican party behind him pushing extreme ideas, and he’s going to be out for vengeance for all his enemies.
I really hope that going after him for “slurring his words” isn’t actually an effective strategy for the Biden team, because if it’s the kind of thing that actually sways votes, it shows how bad things really are in the US.
The Nikki/Pelosi thing is more than a gaffe. It’s not like he said one name when he meant the other, a mixup anyone can make. No, he actually confused the people the way a person with Alzheimer’s does.
I KNEW IT
Your take seems the most plausible to me, especially considering the clip they link to is super super short and removes any context.
I immediately wondered why this was a story given that clip.
The last time Newsweek reported on him 🙄
You have a twice-impeached president but focus on this?
Yeah. I’m becoming more and more convinced that Newsweek is blowing up non-stories about Trump to dilute genuine criticism of him by creating a “stupid criticism of Trump that has no merit” bucket in people’s minds.
For-profit media doing whatever is most profitable, which is clickbait and gossip.
Could assume their viewership only reads headlines and conservatives ignore it anyway?
You aren’t wrong about any of this, but let’s not forget that a split second “BYAAAAAH” (Howard Dean) can tank an entire presidential run if it gets media attention.
With that said, Trump has had dozens of these blunders over the years. It means nothing.
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I mean they are both old as hell. I actually have been really pleased and surprised with what Biden’s done but he’s definitely old, and he doesn’t have Trump’s animating meanness energy to keep him sustained.
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It would be hilarious if Trump just keeled over. Not only would his fans go nuts with insane theories but it would save the country a lot of trouble.
Arguably, it’s the best thing that could happen for this country right now, that’s also in the realm of possibility. Like, a meteor conveniently taking out the more corrupt half of the supreme Court would obviously be better, but not realistic.
I keep thinking someone might assassinate him. But that makes him some kind of martyr, which is bad. But then I wonder who would be the next demagogue and how would they use that to their advantage?
I think his martyrdom is a small price to pay for his lack of existence.
I just wonder if he’s more dangerous as a martyr when someone else takes the reins and invokes his name. Now it validates their oppression.
A certain archduke comes to mind.
No, not right now. September or October would be better.
Agreed. Make him a martyr now and someone will take the mantle.
I get a little bit excited every time there’s a Breaking News alert on my phone. Unfortunately the definition of breaking news is now such that it basically means someone retweeted something stupid.
GAME OVER: [Person with center-left politics/retired GOP politician with no skin in the game] TOTALLY HUMILIATES [Trump/MTG/any GOP demagogue] with argument
…it’s a just a tweet into the void that nobody with any stake in said argument will ever read
Thanks, HuffPost, MSNBC, et al, for basically all being MeidasTouch
all the “[person] slammed by [person]” headlines.
You know they will wait for 3 days outside Maralago for the third cumming of christ.
And then Jesus came…
All those Big Macs and KFC Big Crunch’s have to come back to haunt him eventually. Dude can’t be the only person on Earth immune to cholesterol.
Trump kneeling over and dying would be arguably the worse outcome. We all saw what happened when Dear Leader took a L, with the culmination being January 6.
In Trump land, unless Dear Leader dies in a golden light and ascends to heaven. The autopsy could be conducted live with the most unbiased person and it still wouldn’t matter. There will be massive conspiracy theories about the “Biden Crime Family”/Deep state/Hunter Biden’s laptop etc. assassinated Trump and that revenge needs to be taken.
Trump needs to be made irrelevant first. No one is going to storm a building over someone who is irrelevant.
In 2013, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC; the acquisition included the Newsweek brand and its online publication, but did not include The Daily Beast.[11] IBT Media, which also owns the International Business Times, rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched Newsweek in both print and digital form.
In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges.[12][13][14]
IBT Media is an American global digital news organization with over 90 million monthly readers, owned by followers of religious leader David Jang.[1][2]
Long story short, one of the more savvy outlets of the Evangelical right.
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Does that mean they’re turning on Trump? Because this sure isn’t a positive story about him.
They tend to try to seem centrist. They’re savvy about it, so they’re not necessarily interested in being caught out at being a straight-up, purist, propaganda rag.
That said, I’m not sure if they support Trump or not. Not all evangelicals do, since he’s not very Jesus-like. I’ve been trying to remind people of that myself recently, despite not personally being a very religious person.
From what I see of the Evangelicals from the outside, their relation to Jesus seems to be fairly tenuous at best.
The maze of US Christian sects is fairly confusing when seen from abroad.
Sounds like Aphasia, maybe the 2 brain cells collided and caused a stroke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia
But I’m not an expert, it would have been nice to have the rest of the speech.
Trump’s picture has been my mnemonic for dysarthria which is a bit more of a precise term for what we’re talking about.
There’s also the possibility of tertiary syphilis.
Personally, I hope it’s a carnivorous brain worm.
What’s wrong with him is not what I’m hopeful for. What I’m hopeful for is what Douglas Adams once suggested happened to the second-worst poet in the universe:
his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
that starved a long time ago.
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I have no idea what that is but it implies primary and secondary syphilis…
That might be more plausible, I’ve just seen Aphasia a few times, dysarthria is new to me, but it fits better with an earlier incident, where they claimed it was dry mouth.
If racial slurs did tank his candidacy, regular old slurring probably won’t.
Yeah, I’m sure THAT’S what will convince them to drop him. Not all the other far too many issues, but his slurred speech. For sure. /s
If it’s interpreted as weakness, maybe.
He’s an overweight 77 year old in heel lifts with a bad hair restoration job.
Weakness isn’t what bothers them. They just want somebody who hates all the same people they hate. To see their bumfuck opinions parroted back to them by a man in a tie.
Or if they believe he’s strong, then they can believe they are strong. Or smart or whatever they are insecure about.
He is, but that’s not what they see. What they see is the Ben Garrison body builder version of him. It’s why his catchphrase was “winning”, and everyone against him was a failing loser. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole election denial thing was just them (and honestly, him) not being able to cope with taking an L.
This is exactly what it is.
There was another article I read earlier about typical old Republicans lamenting the fact that they had accomplished nothing to run on going into this election. That’s the old way of thinking. Now MAGA (The old Republican party is dead) voters only care about how badly you want to beat up the people Newsmax, Fox news, and whatever Billybob Basement Report podcast tells them to hate.
It’s actually pretty simple, but you won’t get any opposition to Trump while he’s alive because he cultivated an actual cult. DeSantis will have a better chance when Trump is dead as long as he can keep up the “beat up liberals, they’re the elite, they want to eat your babies, and they’re communists” bit.
His speech wasn’t exactly attractive before. He sounds more and more like his base the longer this dog and pony show continues.
This is fucking stupid. Donald Trump appears to run out of breath while saying “and everything else”. Surely this will convince the MAGA turds to abandon him. Surely it won’t just undermine legitimate criticism.
Which will decline faster is 2024? Inflation, interest rates or Trump’s cognitive ability?
Interest and inflation have a lot more room to fall.
Yes ✅
He is doing what he believes Biden does.
Every accusation is a confession.
I’m not from the US, but I have the distinct opinion that both Biden and Trump are too old. My parents are/were younger, and I wouldn’t trust them with decisions about anything other than what they want for breakfast.
Bernie Sanders seems saner, but you guys really need some lesser-than-septuagenarian who has non-Xitter oomph, and who has compassion and respect for human life and the planet.
This POS needs to die of a CVA or MI. Hell, I’d be happy if he choked on a hamberder.
I’ve said it a few times already and I’ll say it again, I’m really hoping that this will be the year we read about how he was found dead on the toilet from a perforated colon and a traumatically prolapsed rectum
That’d be wonderful.
He’s slurred his words, forgotten words, used the wrong words, acts like he’s on ketamine half of the time.
He might be too old to be president, guys.
acts like he’s on ketamine
When I’m spangled on ketamine I’m a philosopher king compared to Trump.
What are the chances he had a stroke, or a heart attack?
God I hope he did lol
It does not really raise questions. It just confirms many peoples’ suspicions: that he is senile and unfit for office.
I just briefly looked at the article, watched one video which was 30 seconds of people cheering and Trump being silent.
The second video was him speaking a few sentences and the last one he says something like ‘stay in Mexico until you tjhgwgqcannfonfbvafa’
Is that it? Trump’s a fucking loon but this shit empowers his voting base, it’s so minor it’s not even worth talking about
