With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.
  • @[email protected]
    7•52 minutes ago

    Trump: “I am going to fark you all over.”

    NY Times: “Who KNOWS what Trump meant by that.” ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • @LEDZeppelin
    8•2 hours ago

    The first chance they get republicans will invoke 25th amendment to remove mentally unfit Trump and install JD as their president. Billionaires are bankrolling JD for this exact reason. Trump is literally a stepping stone for the oligarchs to get past this inconvenient thing called election

  • @Hobbes_Dent
    102•8 hours ago

    Reignites the question of media neglect and hypocrisy maybe.

    • @WhatAmLemmyEnglish
      18•6 hours ago

      But anything other than aggrandizing the pants-shitting kleptocrat is communism, and as we all know communism is the devil. Do you support Satan or Freedom™️?

      • @edgemaster72English
        4•2 hours ago

        Trick question, Satan is freedom, can’t tell me what fruit not to eat!

      • @[email protected]English
        11•6 hours ago

        Freedom has only gotten me into a capitalism dystopian hellhole where the rich control everything.

        So Satan it is.

  • @PNW_Doug
    29•7 hours ago

    JFC NY Times, you’re just noticing his decline now?. It’s been self-evident for years.

    • @ticho
      5•4 hours ago

      Even NY Times is starting to see the writing on the wall, and is starting to hedge.

  • elgordino
    10•6 hours ago

    . Proportionately, he uses 13 percent more all-or-nothing terms like “always” and “never” than he did eight years ago, which some experts consider a sign of advancing age.

    If you ask me this is a sign of worsening mental health as much as it is just getting older.

  • @cabron_offsets
    8•6 hours ago

    Dude’s head has been completely fucked for years now.

    • @[email protected]
      7•4 hours ago

      Just look at interviews from the 2000s.he was a completely different person. He definitely has fairly advanced dementia.

  • @affiliate
    4•6 hours ago

    was the question of age ever “extinguished”? how could it have been reignited?

    • @dirthawker0
      4•2 hours ago

      They stopped questioning age when Biden stepped down. Now it’s taken them almost 3 months to realize the other candidate also has age and dementia issues.

      • @affiliate
        3•2 hours ago

        my experience has been seeing one of these articles/posts about every week since kamala took over. and kamala harris has been drilling this point in her campaigning. but after looking into things a bit more, i think it’s probably just because i’ve been too online and my perspective doesn’t seem to be the most common one. i think what you said is probably closer to the public opinion/perspective on this.

        so i suppose the use of “reignites” is justified here.

  • @givesomefucksEnglish
    -7•8 hours ago

    This was always the danger of defending Biden’s age, and why I never got the big push to do so.

    Running shitty candidates because trump is even shittier just lowers the bar further.

    Kamala’s not great, but she’s slightly under retirement age and isn’t openly advocating for genocide, so compared to them she looks great, but pretending she’s perfect is just keeping the bar lower than it needs to be

    It shouldn’t be a big deal to say a candidate is good enough to vote for, but isn’t everything you want.

    • @PlantJam
      22•7 hours ago

      She’s a much better candidate than Biden, and Biden was a much better candidate than trump or Hillary Clinton. It’s been eight years, or closer to ten if you include the campaign season for the 2016 election. People are rightfully excited about Harris. You’re absolutely right that we can do better, but this is the most excited I’ve ever been for a candidate. I was pessimisticly excited for Obama, but was afraid he wouldn’t be able to win the general election.

      • @givesomefucksEnglish
        -4•6 hours ago

        But you’re ignoring that she’s not better than 2012 Obama, and definitely not better than 2008 Obama.

        Like, everyone knows Hillary was a terrible candidate, we all know Biden was a bad one.

        But Kamala being a decent candidate doesn’t mean we can’t be happy about that, or that we can’t acknowledge reality about her.

        She’s not as progressive as the average Dem voter.

        And until candidates start matching the Dem voter base, shit feels like trump always have a chance

        If the DNC ran a candidate that matched their voter base, it’d be a landslide. Just a lot less money flowing thru the campaign and the DNC. The people running the party have different goals than the people voting for it