Unit2Sucks said:
concordtom said:
Trump must have dementia. First - they typically use the Montreal Cognitive Assessment as a quick screen when someone shows cognitive dysfunction. My parents are around Trump's age and have never been given the screening because they don't have any signs of dysfunction (although in his 50's it was impossible for my dad to remember Giant's pitcher William VanLandingham's name).
Second, if Trump is bragging about acing a test you can be pretty sure he failed it.
Yet the Trump supporters will continue to claim that Biden, who has been able to comfortably handle himself in multiple long-form interviews, is suffering through eleventeenth stage dementia and that Trump is as sharp as a tack. Perhaps a simple cognitive assessment screener would be whether someone thinks Trump is higher functioning than Biden. All of the boiled brain people think it's Trump.
My father is 82. Stepmom is 79.
Mom is 80. Stepdad died 6 years ago at 93.
Grandma died at 99 6 years ago.
I watched the last two mentally decline and now I'm starting to see it in my parents.
I think both Biden and Trump are losing it. Clearly.
Biden is like my stepdad: calm, slow reasoned. But clearly not following everything and clearly not coming up with novel leadership ideals.
Trump is like my mom: still jabberjawing away, but also just insisting everything is the world according to Gump.
Grandma and stepdad eventually got to the Duh stage.
They (Trump and Biden and my parents) and We are all in this pipeline of progression!
I think there's a common thread outside of mental decline and that's that proud and accomplished people don't want to lay the sword down and yield or defer to the next generation. They fought in their primes for their position or accomplishment and so they are going to continue to do so in old age - it's who they are.
And, I equate such a radical change for these types, from assertiveness to back-seating it, to be equivalent to them just laying down and dying.
They AREN'T going to go gracefully. They are going to hold the staff until it is wrested from them or they drop dead.
When it comes to family, nobody is going to wrest control.
But when it comes to national leadership, it needs to be wrested.
Biden would not be able to form his team on his own at this point. It's others. And they chose him to run again because it's the closest they'll ever come to the Presidency. They need him for their own designs.
For Trump, he's crazy and still able to boss people around, because he's a master at it. But it doesn't make him sane!
Dementia is multi faceted. It manifests itself in various ways.
PS: I like that you say, "if trump is bragging, you know he's worried about it!"
I think that's accurate.
My mom keeps trying to convince us she's not lost it yet. Defensive. Projection.
We can see she's losing it in the day to day, nonsensical, changes.
