Deliberate or just losing his mind?

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[–] 236 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

My Dad had frontotemporal dementia. My sibling and I had to deal with the consequences - until we couldn't cope, when my Dad became properly violent.

We're looking at Trump and let me tell you, it feels eerily familiar. The confusion, remembering stuff from the past but not the present, but most importantly - and that's one of the defining traits of frontotemporal dementia - the constant aggressivity that stems from the sufferer's incorrect world views and beliefs being at odds with a reality that everybody keeps reminding him of, that leads him to believe everybody is against him... When it gets bad enough, the person literally assaults people who contradict him out of frustration. Ask me how I know...

We see the signs in Trump. Clear as day. And I bet everybody who's had to deal with a parent who had dementia sees the signs too.

The difference is, our Dad wasn't a sitting US president with a penchant for fascism and autocracy. He was a random dude and he was institutionalized before he could harm other people.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    My dad had dementia. I had just started my first job states away when he got really bad. Coming home every month to find a new part of him removed. Was only 62. Went downhill quickly.

    I made my wife promise me she'd assist in suicide if I ever got like that. I never want my kid or her to experience that.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Sorry about your experience but I’ve been hearing about his mental/physical health decline since probably the day he was elected. The Trump era has been seemingly hours from over every day for the last ten years.

    I’ll believe it’s over when he’s gone.

    And, unfortunately, at this point I feel like MAGA is actually bigger than him.

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    [–] 93 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    This is like old people telling their partner to get milk on Facebook in a public post or doing a Google search in the comments of a Google Facebook post.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Trump: "order corn"

    Foreign governments: "??? Not sure about that, the tariff situation being what it is"

    Trump: "Sorry my bad I got confused" [deleted immediately]

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    But it's also government officials not understanding what tools to use to ensure secure government communication. See also the journalist that git invited to a top secret Signal group.

    This kind of communication shouldn't happen on such public platforms. Too much can go wrong.

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    [–] 85 points 1 year ago

    Sure, sure... Now, about all the

    Child Rape

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  • [–] 85 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There's no way he types like that in direct messages? Right?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    That's the unsurprising but sad thing to me. His posts on Truth Social are unhinged rants, but I still held out some hope that when he was talking privately to members of his own team he would at least refrain from using the stupid nicknames, the over the top bragging, the insults to random other people, but no. It looks like when he's sending a memo to his attorney general he writes it as if he's looking for social media likes from red-hatted morons.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago*

    Without a doubt was not intended as a post, I assume Trump uses direct messaging on Truth Social for government business. This isn't directly to the public, it shows that he really like that. And it's blatantly incompetent to reveal it like that.

    Not that it matters, the president is a convicted felon, pedophile protecting that just got caught telling the DOJ to arrest his political enemies with no evidence and he still has support of his cultists. It's almost hard to believe how far we've fallen.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is so nutty.

    Every day that goes by I wonder how even republicans can pretend like his behavior is totally fine and normal.

    This is how your deranged 80 year old uncle posts on facebook. POTUS not so much.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    How did this imbecile ever become anything, let alone allowed to 'run' a country...twice? TWICE!!!
    He's a fucking village idiot in need of a village, an obvious traitor, an unregistered child rapist, a convicted criminal AND rapist. And yet he's seen no consequences plus been president of the us twice.
    Fuck sake, I just can not understand it. It's unfathomable.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    He was born just rich enough to be highly visible and was recognized by real power as a useful idiot and put to the task of dismantling the united states, and there's a good chance that Trump doesn't even realize that.

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    [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    Frankly, I cannot completely parse this text and I won't try. It could give me TDS.

    But it does look like he's accidentally publicly talking about things that are happening behind the curtain.

    No news per se: we already know that this is a fascist coup. But another piece of evidence.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    God, Id always assumed the way he posts is just his persona. Imagine if all your work emails were from trump.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    The whole post is so incoherent that I couldn't even tell that the random segue was meant to be directed at someone else without the highlight.

    This dude's brain is mush.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They are using his fake twitter clone for government communication outside of oversight. I imagine they have relatively horrible information handling and security practices at that company... Has Anonymous or anyone tried to hack in and release?

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This reminds me of when the Ukraine blackmail story first broke. Even before the impeachment push, it seemed like the story was far more riveting -- entirely because of the whistleblower angle. I remember thinking at the time that if all the transcripts being shown on the news with the reactions and dramatic highlighter effects had instead been a public statement by Trump that "yeah, we're withholding weapons until Zelensky gives us dirt on Biden," the entire thing would have blown over in a week. Maybe this could be similar?

    (You know what else has the cachet of secrecy and coverup? The Epstein files.)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Nah it still would've been a big deal. Any other president would've been impeached if they personally withheld international military aid to an allied country under active invasion just for a promise that they would make up a lie about his political opponent's son.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I like that's a screenshot of "truth" posted on litter, then screenshotted and posted on Reddit, then screenshotted and posted on Lemmy

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Such a sack of orange shit.

    Release the Trump/Epstein files

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    the 2016-2020 trump timelime pales compare to this one. Back then, we had late night shows making fun of him, stupid and random tweets (remember covfefe?). Things only blew up during covid and george floyd and the Jan 6th insurrection.

    This timeline 2025 to 2029 (supposedly) is full of what the fuck moments. And we're not even done with the 1st year !!

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Call me naive but I thought he was only lightly sipping on his own kool-aid, not drinking it by the gallon.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    The word I keep coming to is deluded.

    These people, the followers and the leaders, are deluding themselves.

    Have you ever met someone who thinks they're dating a 5 star military general who just needs one more google play gift card to marry them? A week in, and you might think they're foolish, or perhaps naive. But after a year, it starts to become clear that they're indulging in a fantasy. They know it isn't real, but they'll do anything to pretend a little bit longer.

    The scary part is, if you're dying already, why not? You can't convince them otherwise because they don't want to believe otherwise. It's literally not worth their effort to change and grow at that point. At least from the myopic perspective they're working off of, I suppose.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I think it's a screenplay like in the Epstein book

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it's weird that he uses those juvenile nicknames even in private(?) conversation.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Who is this Lindsey that apparently has Trumps ear?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    probably this pam blocked him (dump is a very creepy guy) so it's an attempt to evade.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Is he suggesting Pam seduce Lindsey?

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