If this crazy social experiment we call the Internet catches on and more people become aware of it, maybe someday we’ll come up with a means for directly connecting, or “linking” if you will, to information we want to share with others.
I looked through the site and found it. They are amusing:
Thanks!
Well, our president appeared with a weather map that was obviously and crudely altered with a line drawn by a Sharpie in order to “prove” his assertion that Alabama was in serious danger from Dorian. He seemed to genuinely believe his own delusion, which is what concerns me the most.
Not long after he was elected, and in a discussion on this board pertaining to his constant and obvious lies, I pointed out that there is, in fact, a condition where a person lies and actually believes the lies even if they are obviously lies to any observer. Our school councilors have cases like that. “Johnny” slaps “Billy” in the face right in front of an adult, but will adamantly deny doing so and many times ending up in tears because of the “unjust accusation” of the adult. As Trump has aged and his mental abilities have diminished, he has shown signs of slipping farther and farther into his delusions and lies. This could at some point become very dangerous because of the power he can bring swiftly to bear without the approval of Congress.
This bit with the summit meeting with the Taliban shows some sort of disorder, I’m not sure what to call it. Messiah complex? He seems to think that with zero preparation, he can come into a meeting and singlehandedly solve complex disputes by the sheer power of his superior intellect and personality. Maybe it’s delusions of grandeur. Whatever it is, hostile nations have it figured out and know how to play him like a fiddle. Or maybe in his case, a double bass.
Well, he looked up at the heavens and somberly announced, “I am the chosen one.” So, yeah, “Messiah Complex” might be a good description.
Agreed. That’s always been his thing. ISTR in the election cycle, he talked about how he didn’t like to have scheduled meetings or even carry a briefcase. He just liked to “see what develops during the day” (paraphrasing from memory). So, yeah, he just figures he can wing it because he’s so damned smart.
Remember when Republicans complained that Obama was “arrogant”. I’m beginning to think that might have been a code for something else.
In The Atlantic online today.
Trump Is Not Well
Accepting the reality about the president’s disordered personality is important—even essential.
This is from a very long article. Here’s the punch line:
My bold.
We don’t need a name (Latin or otherwise) for his condition and a paper signed by a doctor to see with our own millions and millions of eyes that he is not fit to hold the office (or to hold a Sharpie, for that matter).
“Uppity” is so 19th-century.
Last weekend I was on a tour boat, and one of the other passengers was shitfaced. She was rambling and semi-coherent, and every time one of the crew tried to mitigate her behavior she lashed out, accusing them of persecuting her and threatening legal action.
Here’s the punchline: her exasperated husband was wearing a Trump t-shirt. Suppose it occurred to him that the President he supports acts like his drunk wife 24/7?
The President is in the news of late. Since I avoid video I rarely see him. My goodness he looks unhealthy. I would not be surprised if he is unable to run in 2020.
He will run if some one has to hold him up.
Our bloated, burnt orange POTUS is dragging his right foot on the regular, forgetting simple words, repeating himself repeatedly, needs notes to speak to reporters, saying, “I want nothing, I want nothing” (note repeat), slurring, making odd faces, has one eye that barely opens, and had a sudden impromptu “partial physical” last Saturday, all hush-hush with conflicting stories coming out of the White House until they settled on releasing a note from a very real military doctor who wrote it as if he’d barely graduated high school, but is was SO official.
Sure. Trump’s fine. He’s in perfect health! (I believe Judge Pirro declared him almost superhuman). And sure…we all get “partial physicals” three months out from our actual annual physical. Right?
Stroke or dementia? Or both? The dude is a walking Big Mac, after all, so anything is possible.
Linky-link-link?
I have no idea what’s going on inside his head, as far as whether he has beginnings of dementia or anything like that.
But I don’t think he looks objectively bad for a 73 year old man, I’ve seen plenty of folks younger than him that looked worse. His father did live to 93, a pretty ripe old age.
He’s only 73? I think he looks at least 80.
As has been noted elsewhere, the most accurate way to express his age is to move the ‘s’ and the hyphen(s): he is seventy three-year-olds.
a relevant tweet to this topic
In that clip, he does not seem aware that he has slurred / skipped a step / anything.
He can’t hide out like Woodrow Wilson did for the last 2 years of his time in office.