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[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 18 points 17 hours ago (18 children)

I wanna see them file for actual impechment and not just call for it.

Like whats the point other than making the orange turd angry

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[–] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 47 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Lol i love aoc, makes the alt right cry like the babies they are

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Trump needs to relax, all this stress can't be good for his heart.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 64 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Why does the president keep bragging about his passing of dementia tests‽ How can he not understand that that is admitting to needing them?

[–] J92@lemmy.world 31 points 22 hours ago

I just want to hear someone from the press pool shout, "you've already said this, Donald."

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 7 hours ago

Trump sounds like a democrat.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 31 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

How many times has he "completely lost it" recently? He's always been insane. Insanely stupid in fact. Nothing new here.

Yet, when we read the headlines, every few days or weeks, he "completely loses it".

If he were throwing grass in the air, eat dirt, or speak in tongues, maybe it would be worth the completely lost it title. Otherwise, it gets old after a few times.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 10 points 20 hours ago

I'm also very sick of the clickbait titles. But in the case, he did actually lose it... I was doubled over laughing, the whole sequence is amazing

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 22 hours ago

It's hyperbolic, as headlines always are.

Trump "completely loses it" all the time because he seems to have complete undying loyalty from everyone around him. There are no negative consequences for these outbursts.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Agreed, but this time he seriously is completely losing it. That post is insane, and nonsensical.

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[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 166 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] JHRD1880@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I genuinely think I have a crush on her. She consistently smacks these GOP losers around and does it with a smile.

'The girls are fighting'

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[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (21 children)

When we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office

I’ve got $1,000 on AOC’s test scores over trump’s; especially since he doesn’t know how to capitalize words properly and since she didn’t have a rich father that made huge donations to her college to get her in.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

He can't even spell his name any longer. He's got full blown dementia.

[–] numlok@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This guy has been calling out everyone else's grades and test scores since at least Obama, while consistently threatening institutions with lawsuits if they release his records. Such stereotypically weak-ass bully behavior.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the guy that a Wharton professor said was the dumbest motherfucker he ever taught.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I love that you somehow caught a downvote on that. It's almost a direct quote.

"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had. " W. Kelley, Wharton Professor. Died 2011!

That's how fucking dumb he was.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago

Its clearly a dementia test. AOC behaves like a non-cognitively impaired adult. Trump acts like a 70 year old who was in the NFL.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

AOC should be forced to take the Cognitive Test that I just completed at Walter Reed Medical Center, as part of my Physical,” continued the commander-in-chief. “As the Doctor in charge said, ‘President Trump ACED it,’ meaning, I got every answer right. Instead of her constant complaining, Alexandria should go back home to Queens

I miss adults running things.

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 183 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The always bragging about having to go take cognitive tests is so fucking funny.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Yes, exactly this. AOC hasn't taken a cognitive test because she doesn't need to. He doesn't realize that every time he brags about passing the cognitive test he reminds us all that he's super fucking old.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Here are some sample questions

  • Recall five unrelated words, such as: "rose, chair, hand, blue, spoon." (You will be asked to repeat them immediately after the test-taker gives them to you, and then again later, toward the end of the test.)
  • Count backwards from 100 by seven. You also may be asked to calculate using currency, such as determining what change you might expect from your $20 bill if you were charged $13.55.
  • How many words can you name in one minute that start with F? (Or you might be asked to name words that fit a category, like fruits.)
  • Identify animals from pictures (such as a zebra or tiger).
  • To test your visual perception, you may be asked to identify objects drawn within a jumble of other objects. Or, you may be asked to draw a picture (such as a cube) based on a drawing shown on the test form.
  • The "clock test"—common in many dementia exams—is part of the MoCA dementia test. The test administrator will ask you to draw the face of a traditional (non-digital) clock, as well as to illustrate a specific time.
  • Your ability to think abstractly may be tested by asking you to determine the relationships between objects—for instance, how trains and boats are similar to each other

So yeah... we have a president who is bragging about being able to draw a clock and tell you that trains and boats are both methods of transporting people. JFC we are so fucked.

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Everyone thinks I’m fucking crazy and senile, but I’m not, I swear! And you have only my word to take for it!”

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[–] FireAtWill@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'd take AOC over Trump every day of the week.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Unless it's a fight. Then I'll take Trump because AOC would probably kick my ass.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 138 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Dropping F-bombs to the press, calling AOC stupid, and Schumer a Palestinian this morning. Dude’s gonna be shitposting the whole way to The Hague. Can’t wait for the next two days of NATO summit highlights from this very stable genius.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 85 points 1 day ago (16 children)

I can't believe that at this point anyone actually believes that the Orange Jackass will ever suffer any actual punishment.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

it’s useful to constantly say it… if everyone just shrugs and says “exactly what we thought”, it’s inevitable. stay angry, keep everyone else angry, keep reality that there will be consequences because otherwise the only sure thing is there will be no consequences

the only people that gain by repeating that it’s unlikely that there will be consequences is the people doing horrible things

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is legit why people started to believe in Hell- to think there is some kind of justice in the world even if there doesn't seem to be any. Before the late BCs, most people in the Mediterranean didn't believe in Hell, at least as a place of eternal torment for the wicked. They believed in an afterlife that was pretty bleak, but everyone went there. The ancient Greeks and certain Jewish sects began to imagine separate portions of the shared afterlife for particularly evil of righteous people to be punished or rewarded in after death. For the Greeks, these were Tartarus and Elysium, and for the Jewish sects these were Gehenna and Paradise. These concepts arose, particularly within Judaism, as a way to answer the question "why do good things happen to bad people, and why do bad things happen to good people?" And the answer was that the good would be rewarded and the evil tormented in the end, even if things look bad in this life. These ideas were floating around in the time and place Christianity arose, and became incorporated into it.

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[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Maybe if we let him rant and rave long enough, he'll tell us how he rigged the election in his favour.....and nothing will be done about it

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[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

He just has a crush on her and can’t figure out how to show it.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

You know, these headlines do tend to exaggerate and call any outburst a rant or meltdown. But Jesus Christ, that is indeed a completely mental meltdown over a relatively ordinary political statement. And I like how Omar's country is definitively rated the worst in the world, but...maybe it's not rated the worst in the world.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 day ago

Someone told him that she's also polling better than he is, lol:

Ocasio-Cortez submitted on Saturday that Trump’s decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites was ground for impeachment, arguing that his “disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.”

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You gotta love the fragility of these people who claim they are emotionally stable, unshakable, epic masculine geniuses.

Like shit dude if you're so tuff maybe stop melting down over the most tempered criticisms of your policies.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

He really thinks this cognitive test he took is an IQ test or in any way measures intelligence doesn't he? It checks for signs of dementia. It doesn't have anything on it that is complicated, measures knowledge or critical thinking skills. It's basic association, memory, and recognition testing. A neurotypical 6 year old can do it.

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