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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 206 points 3 months ago

She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no — I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?

Same as it ever was

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 108 points 3 months ago

Why do people keep saying this?! Sure, he babbled some when he ran in 2015, but at you could hear the words and insert your own meaning. We can't even pretend to parse anything out of this speech. Hell, his own supporters are walking out on his rallies.

If your grandpa was living alone and conversing with you like this, you would quietly be contemplating a rest home in his very near future. People this far gone can no longer live alone.

Go back to the 80s and 00s and have a listen. Really. Watch a video or three. Doesn't matter if you agree with what he was saying, his speech was clear, on target.

Can't say when I noticed the sharp decline, hard to spot, a boiled frog thing. 2019 I think? Compared to then, the man has fallen off a cliff.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

He was a demented sociopathic narcissist in 2016, anyone could have, and did see it, and say it then.

Unfortunately, republiQans are a cult in every literal sense that matters. trump only needs to stay alive and they’ll vote for him.

The fact that he’s worse than ever will be borne by them as a secret shame; no one will talk about it, it makes everyone in the cult uncomfortable, and it will not deter them in the slightest.

It’s 2024 and I think as Americans we still don’t have consensus on how unfathomably broken the republiQans have made politics. It’s virtually unrecognizable from the viewpoint of someone even in the 60’s.

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[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Even as late as the 2016 RNC debates he was still speaking clearly, responding to his opponents, and occasionally making a coherent point.

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[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 months ago

So what happened to San Francisco?

[-] Shirasho 75 points 3 months ago

By the end I completely forgot he was talking about San Francisco, and I think that is the point.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 47 points 3 months ago

He probably did too

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 31 points 3 months ago

Destroyed, so just completely and totally demolished.

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[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Theodore Roosevelt got shot in fucking lung and still finished his speech. Trump barely or maybe it was glass who knows (literally two weeks later was completely healed) yet got wisk away by four agents then wore a tampon on his ear.

Fuck weird Trump and sounds like he has dementia.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Get your facts straight. It was a menstrual pad, not a tampon.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nah, he's definitely worse now.

It's just he gets worse at about the same speed we get used to it.

So he's constantly lowering the bar, and if "not trump" is enough, that means everyone else's bar constantly gets lowered as well.

If Dem voter's only standard is not being trump, we end up with people who will take money from anyone

It's pretty much the reason AIPAC is so blatantly buying primary elections these days. They used to hide it, now it's literally "fuck you money" against anyone that calls them out for genocide.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 21 points 3 months ago
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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 124 points 3 months ago

He's talking like my grandpa did a few weeks before he dropped dead, so fingers crossed I guess

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 45 points 3 months ago

People with access to healthcare can hang on while deteriorating well beyond where he is over the course of many years.

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 40 points 3 months ago

I want to see him in jail. Death is too good for him.

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[-] Spacebar@lemmy.world 78 points 3 months ago

There better be a huge (UUGE) focus on his decline after the debate. That's the time to put an emphasis on it - right after millions of people see it during the debate.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago

The press are going to be nitpicking Harris' earrings or the color of her blouse or something. Major news outlets are never going to treat Trump like Biden,

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 29 points 3 months ago

I hope they give him coke or amphetamines before the debate to try perking him up.

I also hope it causes him to incessantly freak out about how much he's shitting himself

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 70 points 3 months ago

The sad thing is, he will end up winning more than 20 states despite this.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 75 points 3 months ago

Also, despite the fact that he is a criminal, a racist, a misogynist, denies climate change and pretty much exclusively pursues policies contrary to the interests of ordinary citizens.

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[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 68 points 3 months ago
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[-] Krono@lemmy.today 60 points 3 months ago

He has always told rambling, near-incoherent stories. He has always lied profusely.

What's new is how hes slurring his words, and how lethargic he is. It was especially noticable in his recent performance on the Lex Fridman show podcast.

The early signs of dementia are unavoidable at this point. It might only be a matter of time until Trump has his "We finally beat Medicare" moment.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

He has always told rambling, near-incoherent stories.

No he hasn't. Here is a link to a Trump campaign speech from his 2000 run. Jump ahead to 6:45 or so in the video to where he starts and listen for just a few minutes. The difference between this speech and his current style of spewing sewer-pipe is starkly astonishing.

[-] Krono@lemmy.today 30 points 3 months ago

Ok sure, let me clarify.

Successful presidential candidate Trump has been telling rambling, near-incoherent stories since at least 2015. This type of unfiltered ranting based on reactionary grievances has earned him many followers and many detractors.

Unsuccessful presidential candidate Trump sounded much more like a run of the mill politician back in 2000, before he became a reality tv show star.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Are you telling my this speech from 2016 isn't the greatest feat of oration of all time?

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago

Too old and the dementia is hitting him hard. People are saying it is syphilis.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

A lot of very smart people?

[-] redisdead@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

He has the best syphilis, a smart doctor told him it's the best syphilis he ever seen.

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[-] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

It's syphilis, everybody says so... It's bad... Very bad...

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago

If even Trump supporters start noticing that he is spewing nonsense, it must have become seriously bad. They tended to overlook quite some of his brain-dead output so far, I thought they had become immune to senseless drivel.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

Many people are saying he should drop out. The Republicans should put together a unity ticket instead to reach out and show they can heal the nation by putting two Democrats on their ticket as President and VP.

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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Is it just me, or does he seem to be a bit thinner? Ordinarily I would say that is a good sign for his health, but coupled with this obvious mental decline I wonder if he has really bad PTSD and isn't eating or sleeping well.

I would have some sympathy for him as a human. Except, you know, he wouldn't have any for anyone not named Trump.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago

I wonder if he has really bad PTSD

May his suffering be proportional to that which he's caused.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

Might be even simpler - the elderly can decline very quickly mentally and also physically, and that may he what we're seeing with here.

[-] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago

Sudden weight loss at that age can actually be a sign of poor health as the body starts to fail and can't store as much fat. I'd say that's much more likely than him growing a conscience.

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[-] plz1@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

GOP will straight up Weekend at Bernie's on him to get him into office, at this point.

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[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 33 points 3 months ago

His speech is getting worse— but he has almost perfected the Putin/Un double cock air jerkoff dance

[-] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 31 points 3 months ago

I was told to read the transcripts back in 2017-2018, and did. This is what he always sounded like to me. A fucking moron. Now, he’s an older moron. I’m surprised this is news to anyone.

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 30 points 3 months ago

Trump is too old and out-of-touch. He can't represent the American People and should drop out.

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 28 points 3 months ago

I think it’s time to set a maximum age where you can run for president. Because now Trump is the demented old weirdo who has no business running on his broken brain.

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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

No shit, the dude is suffering serious cognitive decline and we've ignored it the last 6 years.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

We haven't ignored it.

His cult did.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Someone has to accidentally forget to turn off Mango Mussolini's microphone during the debate. PLEASE!!!

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 months ago

i pity the people who have to sit through that shit so i can read it because i refuse to listen to him speak

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

I hope he gets to live for at least a few years in prison. His humiliation should be thorough and public.

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