• @barsquid
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      Raw Story may be on the same side as us but they are still complete trash. Headline is often a straight-up lie.

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      35 minutes doesn’t seem very long for an interview. Is expecting the presidential candidate to remain lucid and coherent for slightly more than a half hour too much to ask?

      • @[email protected]
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        No no, that’s not what I’m saying. Just that there’s no need to over dramatise the events in a way that makes your point shakier than it has to be.

    • archomrade [he/him]
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      This entire article is sensationalized. Bongino doesn’t even really seem phased when trump says he’s gotta go.

  • @[email protected]
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    He’s suffering from frontotemporal dementia. This is relatively certain. The town hall was classic sundown syndrome. The fundamentalists know this and are going to have him removed from office shortly after the election (if he wins). The democrats would gladly take the opportunity to remove him, as would many republicans. Unfortunately that would put Vance in the oval office which should terrify anyone who doesn’t want to larp a handmaid’s tale.

    As a European I find it utterly bewildering that people seriously consider voting for him. But alas I don’t get a say in it.

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      That shit was harrowing at the retirement home I worked at. I only worked during the day, so the worst thing I saw was falls. My fiancé’s brother worked at night, though. The residents would get stir crazy at night. They’d try to “escape,” and they’d be found laying in the nearby hospital’s flower bead. This was in NON-assisted living. Trump definitely reminds me of those residents. They’d end up walking to the hospital because it was the only place they knew how to get to, but they didn’t know why they were walking there. They just wanted to escape. A lot of them expected their old house/ kid’s house.

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      The best explanation I’ve come up with after discussing politics at length with them is that they are gaslit. Pure and simple. They just have enough gullibility to see one tiny thing that coincides with something they were taught or otherwise believe. It also explains why they are being scammed so easily on truthsocial.

      Trump just has that dirty salesman skill of creating a story with just enough validity or truth and twisting everything to his favor.

    • @Etterra
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      Dude there’s a whole cottage industry here that’s dedicated to trying to understand why people vote for him, and the answers are as varied as they are stupid.

      • @thesohoriots
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        But how else will podcasters, ring light, and audio equipment manufacturers make a living? Who will hear about FACTOR meals and $40 underwear with neon laser rainbow cats?

    • @thebigslime
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      Damn, the behavioral variant describes him well. Impulsive, uninhibited, socially unacceptable, listless, and apathetic.

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    I really hate that the only people reporting anything like this are sites like rawstory and dailybeast. Meanwhile, NYT and NPR are reporting on how Kamala is testy and Trump is friendly.

    • @stoly
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      Oh yeah. Seems that she’s “emotional”, unlike Trump. Think that people are probably projecting their misogyny.

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        I unfortunately think the majority of the country is more likely to vote for fascism than for a woman. I’m not holding my breath :( I need to find a way out

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    Among the bizarre topics Trump discussed was his empathy for former producer Harvey Weinstein, saying that he was treated badly after being found guilty on one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault in New York.

    He recognizes fellow travelers. Creep.

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      Where does the word travelers come from? I have it as an ear worm from a book or something

      • @WhiteOakBayou
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        Fellow travelers is a phrase used to denote someone who pushes or encourages an ideology or opinion without officially being part of the organization pushing it. It was originally applied to communist sympathizers but is used for other things commonly. A race science believer might be a fellow traveler with nazis but doesn’t have to be a member of the nationalist socialist workers party.

  • @[email protected]
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    So I just watched the clip. Granted the clip was only a few seconds, and yes I believe he is old and senile. But.

    The clip doesn’t seem to give evidence of anything specific. He might have to pee for all we know.

    • @just_another_personOP
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      It was a couple minutes in. His handlers are pulling him out of events when he starts talking nonsense. The shit they accused the Democrats of doing with Biden that never actually happened.

      • archomrade [he/him]
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        He sits in that interview for like 30 minutes, and nothing about it seemed off to me. Just as scattered as he’s always been.

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    Bottom line, if he can’t handle the stresses of a campaign then he can’t handle the stresses of the Presidency and you can bet your life that they’re already plotting to remove him by way of the 25th amendment inside of a year. So this isn’t about Trump anymore, this is about preventing a Vance Presidency Dictatorship.

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      Not gonna happen. The 25th Amendment would require a majority of cabinet members to sign off, and Trump will pick them as total loyalists. Trump has control over the party, many of them view him as an infallible prophet. If they haven’t turned against him so far, they’re not gonna do it later. If Trump gets elected, we’re all gonna be along for a ride on the crazy train with him until he dies.

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      What stress as president? He just golfs and when pushed for a decision on something, just picks randomly from the options presented. He doesn’t even bother understand what the options are. Remember the whole injecting bleach crap? That was him literally glancing at a slide and running with it, obviously with no prior briefing.

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      They said the same thing about Biden.

      My point is it’s hypocritical made up shit.

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    I feel like the Democrats ought to be pivoting towards attacking Vance at this point. The possibility of Trump kicking the bucket from natural causes and the GOP getting a sympathy (/conspiracy-theorist) bounce in the votes this late would be devastating, so they ought to be pulling out all the stops to anticipate and mitigate that before it happens.

  • @dariusj18
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    Remember: the presidency ages people. How long would he be president?

    Oddly, this is something that didn’t seem to happen to Trump. We all know why of course, he didn’t actually do the job of being President.

    • @just_another_personOP
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      Because he doesn’t actually do any work, and only worries about himself.

      In contrast, presidents like Obama and Biden age quickly because they’re actually working nonstop, and stressing out about world events.

      • @b34k
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        That’s why he’s aging so fast right now… he’s working really hard to try and stay out of prison!

    • @barsquid
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      Donald did no work. He only watched TV, golfed, held rallies. He spent more time on the toilet producing whatever it was that took so many flushes than he did on the job.

      Donald aged quickly afterwards and especially after the start of his court cases for the numerous crimes.

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    “Among the bizarre topics Trump discussed was his empathy for former producer Harvey Weinstein, saying that he was treated badly after being found guilty on one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault in New York.”

    From the clip it’s hard to get context, but it sounds more like he was saying things that were too crazy for his handlers.

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      I’m shocked you didn’t clip the quote where he claimed Weinstein got “schlonged.”

      lol what the fuck. I’m on set and we’re rolling sound and I almost burst out laughing when I read that line

    • @WhiteOakBayou
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      Article says “‘They’re going crazy,’ Trump said, pointing off camera.” Which I think further strengthens your argument.

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        They were desperately trying to get him to not defend Weinstein. Probably trying to avoid him lighting the fuse on his own October surprise

    • @just_another_personOP
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      This is a narcissistic and delusional old man who has never really participated in society as a normal human being. When he says “they”, he literally thinks there is a shadow group of people doing this. The fact that someone rich got caught committing crimes and was found guilty by “normies” is all just a part of the shadow group’s plan to allow such things to happen. He literally believes “they” could have stopped that from happening IF they wanted to, but decided not to.

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    I won’t be sad when this shit stain is gone from public life.

    • @Boddhisatva
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      I will be extremely sad if he leaves us with President Vance.

    • @ccunning
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      I just hope he doesn’t manage to run out the clock before facing consequences.

      I wouldn’t bet on it, but I do hope for it.

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    I have never wanted a month to go by as much as I do right now

    Americans are really starting to annoy me at this point

    We are slowly destroying ourselves with global warming but all we’re centring our attention on is on how 400 million people can’t decide between a sane young politician or an elderly sociopath with fascist leanings to lead their country.

    We’re screwed as a species

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      Like it or not, the US presidential election has potentially dire worldwide consequences for global warming. If you think our attention is best spent on global warming – and I would agree – then paying attention to the election is that.

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        I get that … but that third is a pretty loud obnoxious bunch and the other 2/3rds are either too quiet, don’t speak up, don’t vote or are just completely apathetic to everything happening around them.

        The problem is not the remaining 2/3rds saying or supporting one thing or another

        The problem is the 2/3rds just not participating and instead just stand around and watch the world burn.

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          Your numbers indicate 0 Americans standing up to this bullshit, which is just false. I get you’re frustrated. So are we.

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          What exactly are we supposed to do except vote? Yell at them more? Look everywhere, we’re doing it

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      Oh, do fuck off. If you can’t look away from the spectacle, that’s a personal problem. Our problems get magnified by the media but they’re the same problems everywhere.

  • Atelopus-zeteki
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    Betteridge’s law of headlines. No, he’s not ok. And any sane, observant person has known this for a long time.

    • ALQ
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      Absolutely! As long as you wear our patented Swiss-made* MAGA-colored glasses, of course. Starting price $999.99.

      *Product not made anywhere. If you visit our LLC’s location, please do not be alarmed that it’s just a Starbucks. Enjoy a coffee, on you.

      • @hohoho
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        Seems like a rosy way to look at the world.