Well, he confused Iraq with Syria. Maybe that’s what you meant?
You must have missed this thread. I encourage you to review it thoroughly and see if you reach the same conclusion as your assertion above.
I’ve seen Trump’s gaffes. And yeah, they could be symptomatic of early-onset dementia. But emphasis on ‘early’. Trump can talk extemporaneously to a crowd for two hours and keep them entertained. He fills sports stadiums because he entertains the crowd. Joe Biden shuffles stiffly to the podium, takes a long time to collect his thoughts, speaks slowly, and still makes gaffe after gaffe.
Like that press conference he called after the Hur report that was so mock-worthy. He CHOSE to come back to the podium to say something, then fumbled with his papers for 30 seconds trying to figure out what to say. He started talking about the Gaza border, but somehow landed on Mexico (probably because there have been Mexican border issues, and he momentarily conflated them). Then he called the President of Mexico ‘Sisi’, who is actually the President of Egypt (and named El-Sisi, not ‘Sisi’). He basically mangled together two issues and left everyone scratching their heads. He wasn’t put on the spot - he had something to say, went back to the podium to say it, and lost himself. That’s what it looked like to me.
Except Trump can’t speak in complete sentences. Trump can’t finish a thought. He speaks in nonsensical, incoherent, word-salad gibberish. And Trump can’t fill a stadium. And he’s easily confused because of his narcissistic personality disorder.
That’s because Trump is a blowhard idiot, not because he’s senile. He’s been saying crazy shit since he entered politics. IMO, it’s a bad combination of narcissism and Dunning-Kreuger.
But of course he’s not as mentally sharp as he was 20 years ago. Nobody is. Nobody is as sharp at 40 than they were at 20, either. Hopefully, experience and knwledge makes up for brain firepower. In Trump’s case, apparently not.
My grandfather died of Alzheimers. He had the name-confusion thing, but then he had that when he was 20, and I’ve also had it my whole life. He used to call me by my brother’s name, and vice versa. He’d correct himself instantly, though. I think it was more a Tourette’s type of symptom than dementia. I don’t blame Biden or Trump for occasionally mixing up a name, especialloy if they are aware they did it and correct it. If they aren’t aware, and keep doing it, that’s another matter. I’m not sure if that’s the case with either of them, though.
Not mutually exclusive. Trump is demonstrating cognitive decline, and he’s a blowhard idiot.
He could recite Jabberwocky backwards, in the original Klingon, hands flailing wildly as they often do, and his crowd would cheer wildly.
Give the man some time will you?
Remember Allende Obama, and the days before, before the army came
Please remember Victor Jara Taylor Swift, in the Santiago Stadium FedExField,
False equivalency, comparing mistakes made by Trump vs. mistakes made by Biden.
PSA
You are using the term ‘early-onset dementia’ incorrectly. Early-onset dementia means dementia in a younger person.
I think you meant to say, “And yeah, they could be early symptoms of dementia.”
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Thanks. You’re right.
I wasn’t drawing any kind of equivalency, other than that in both cases it could be something other than dementia.
Here is an MSNBC article that IMHO makes the pretty good case that it refers to members of the far right being kicked off payment platforms (e.g. Laura Loomer)
His saying “We’re going to debank” I just the standard threat where if you do something to us we will do it back to you. So when we get back in charge we will prohibit banks from doing any buisiness with liberals.
This, this is true. None of us are in a position to diagnose either candidate, only a qualified doctor with proper testing could do so.
Don’t confuse stochastic parrot with stochastic terrorist, is my advice. Though he might be both at the same time.
I think Trump meant “transpose” (the word “interpose” wouldn’t make sense in this context) but those are complicated words so I’d let that pass.
Of course, even if what’s he’s saying is true (which I doubt), it still doesn’t make sense. Getting them mixed up doesn’t make any kind of rational point. It’s not like he was attributing something to one politician that would be equally applied to the other.
I mean, if it’s a gaffe on his part, whatever. Every politician does them. Every person does them. The more you speak the more you’ll make, and when you’re doing them on camera then they are immortalized. Look at the blooper reels of any scripted work and you’ll see outtake after outtake of gaffes. It happens.
This might be yet another example of “the coverup worse than the crime”.
Oh, that could never happen here.
(narrator: It certainly could)
It Happened Here (1964).
I mean, if you’re trying to make a sarcastic remark about how Biden isn’t actually working as the President, that he’s just a front for Obama, you don’t just call him “Obama”, you mix it up. “Obama, Junior”, making him seem less than Obama, and also a bit of a joke about their relative ages. Or “Obama Lite”, or “Obama’s Understudy”, or “Joebama”, or something, so we have a clue that you’re actually comparing the two, not confusing them.