• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
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    9 days ago

    His father died of FTD, and signs point towards him having it too. Epstein suspected it, and it’s becoming fairly obvious something is really wrong with him. He’s also suffered multiple strokes (visible facial droop), he has congestive heart failure (swollen ankles), and he might even have diabetes (needle marks on fingertips). He struggles stepping down stairs, and walking in a straight line. He also struggles with swallowing (slurping sounds), filtering whatever comes from his mouth, or what his body does (getting up to look at his ballroom in the middle of a meeting), he’s showing sundowning behaviour (falling asleep during the day, even in crowded, loud places, and tweeting crazy shit all night long) and has been incontinent for years at this point.

    I don’t know what he has exactly, but I hope his days are painful, his nights sleepless and that he hurts every single living second.

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      Really…uh…really brought it all together there at the end. I was like “Oh no…is Lemmy getting trump apologists?”

      But nope. Swerved everything back on track by the end.

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      FTD tends to present much earlier and verbal ability tends to be relatively spared though behavior worsens… I don’t think the overall picture fits here. It could be vascular dementia with his poor diet and seemingly poor cardiovascular health overall or Alzheimer’s dementia.

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      He sounds like Henry VIII, who was obese and had a shit load of diseases and other medical problems.

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    Maybe, but what he really has is a good scapegoat.

    “Oh, we didn’t know he was demented”

    “We can’t be held accountable for what a crazy pedo made us to do”

    “Our intentions were good, but he went crazy”

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      It’s both. 2016 Trump was a fucking moron, 2026 Trump is a fucking moron in steep decline.

      He was never the most eloquent, but he could put together a cohesive narrative in his youth. Party leadership is taking him for a ride and really embracing his insanity, keeping him distracted with these high-visibility, self-serving pet projects.

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    Difficult to say because he has always been incredibly stupid, and his pathological narcissism hinders him in having an attention span for anything that doesn’t involve him being the center of attention. If he has dementia we wouldn’t really be able to tell until he reaches a more serious crippling phase, such as with non-verbalism or similar, because has always been an incoherent rambler.

    He definitely is getting old with the naps and shitting himself.

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    I’m going to go out in this limb: nobody here is qualified to make that assessment and has direct access to the man, which you need to make the call. So fuck off with this shit stirring bullshit.

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      Your premises about qualifications and access is right but I disagree with your conclusion. We’re discussing a public figure, one whose heath state is affecting most people’s lives but said state is undisclosed or obfuscated from the public. It is our perogative to speculate political leaders’ state of mind affected by health issues because that is all that is available to us.

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        OG’s account is 5 days old and they have amassed quite a weird post history. I would call most of it shit stirring, always nicely illustrated with a picture.

        You are welcome to read my longer post history, which is quite anti-MAGA.

        Whether we all think that excuse for a man has dementia is irrelevant. Nobody here is likely qualified to make the call. And the ones who might speak up here to do it anyway disqualify themselves by speaking up. So all this is is pointless shit stirring.

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      His behaviour is televised daily and has been for over a decade. Most of the world has seen his mental decline. It’s obvious in his speech and actions.