Deliberate or just losing his mind?
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.
I bet everybody who’s had to deal with a parent who had dementia sees the signs too.
Same feeling: the rambling, the way he seeks acknowledgement, but more than anything the unfiltered hate he manifests. To me, it’s absolutely clear that he has an initial form of dementia.
That’s tough man. Sorry you lost your dad that way. Death of the person before the physical bodies passes is hard to handle.
Hope you and your family are okay now.
Thanks. But it’s been 22 years.
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.
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.
I don’t think Trump’s weird Alaska comments are because he remembered Alaska being Russia?
Probably heard about it as a kid from his similarly demented dad.
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.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.
How did this imbecile ever become anything, let alone allowed to ‘run’ a country…twice? TWICE!!!
Americans are, in general, far dumber than Trump.
Around a third of us for sure
Closer to 2/3. I absolutely include the “didn’t vote” or “voted third party” crowd in that dumb as fuck segment of Americans. They earned their place.
If that’s the chosen leader of all those fucking MAGA troglodytes, think of what that says about them. Following a spoiled petulant toddler brained moron rapist grifter.
There is no more pathetic person on this earth than a Drumpf supporter.
I used to have “imposter syndrome”, where I would always feel like I am just pretending to be a qualified and knowledgeable individual, and that at any moment someone would unmask me as a fraud, even if I wasn’t and had no reason to feel that way.
Then Trump got elected and suddenly I was cured. If that moron can get elected to the most important job in the country, whatever I’m doing is small potatoes. You can be an incompetent fool and still have people fall over themselves to defend you if you have confidence and strut around with an air of legitimacy.
By the time he was elected a second time, I no longer believed in either humanity or the concept of being “unqualified”.
Let him be an inspiration. Chase your dreams. If the village idiot can successfully become POTUS, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
I never understood why the other GOP members let him in.
Blackmail.
They realized they could ride his coat tails.
It has everything to do with how you used ‘run’ to describe it. Trump is a necessary figurehead and lightning rod of controversy that strengthens the oligarchy.
How did this imbecile ever become anything, let alone allowed to ‘run’ a country…twice?
You should look at social media and see what the algorithm that present only “the good part” of Trump while brushing aside the bad parts. That is, if you are willing to go down that rabbit hole.
I know people who acknowledges the bad aspects of Trump but also says “some of the things he says make sense.” I wonder what those are specifically. My guess is that depending on what you value, those values are supposedly embodied in Trump, while the negatives aren’t shown by algorithm. Conversely, those who don’t like Trump only see the bad sides and little to no good. Not that it’s a criticism of the latter, Trump objectively did more harm than good, kinda like Hitler who still “did some good things”. What is lost is nuance on understanding why people like or dislike a politician, whether because of personal values or propaganda have convinced them.
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.
Sure, sure… Now, about all the
Child Rape
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.
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.
My friend’s mum’s first Tweet was “benedict cumberbatch”
my gran was funny like that
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]
Trump saying sorry ? quite honestly I’m not sure this has ever happened
Maybe an. “I’m sorry you’re offended”. Or “I’m sorry for your mom, to have such a terrible child”
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.
deleted by creator
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?
the funny thing is, that they are using mastodon for the platform (although heavily modified, iirc)
Pretty much all of the original Anonymous were caught, hired by the government, or disappeared. They haven’t been a real thing in almost a decade. If you see anyone claiming to be them, it’s a government PsyOP.
Interesting. Not unbelievable, but I hadn’t heard specifically. Also, always assumed the point was that it would never have a set or core membership? “We are anonymous” means that you, me, grandpa, we’re all also anonymous, if we have the skillset and want to take up the mantle.
So in that way, anonymous could never be contained/captured in the way you mentioned. Again, that was just more my assumption/understanding. “I am Sparticus”, V for Vendetta, etc…
There’s no way he types like that in direct messages? Right?
Turns out he’s not playing a character, he’s exactly what he appears to be.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
I think it is virtually certain that he types that way in direct messages
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.
I like that’s a screenshot of “truth” posted on litter, then screenshotted and posted on Reddit, then screenshotted and posted on Lemmy
Hey, I’ll take a 4 deep screenshot inception over some link straight to x[.]com
God, Id always assumed the way he posts is just his persona. Imagine if all your work emails were from trump.
it’s weird that he uses those juvenile nicknames even in private(?) conversation.
Weirdo, what do you expect?
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.
And they freak out when Gov. Newsom emulates his behavior in jest. “That’s not dignified!!” Well, yeah, it ain’t, that’s the point.
Republicans are in a cult of power with Trump as their figurehead. They will believe anything that comes from dear leader
Such a sack of orange shit.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
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 !!
And just think that we all thought what a dumpster fire 2020 was. Little did we know…
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
