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Post by hoyas24 on Jul 27, 2024 0:25:30 GMT -5
I know a lot of Republicans and many are very concerned with the mental health issues surrounding dementia particularly in the area of how it affects senior political leaders. Honestly, I think that age and its effect on competence is a very fair concern. The President of the United States should be able to form a complete sentence and not mix up names. While mixing up names or misspeaking isn’t a huge issue, but it undermines the perception of competence -and with it perception of American power. I think Trump has health and mental issues related to his age too that should preclude him from a second term. Happyhoya1979 - I’d like to genuinely ask, at age 77 do you think Trump will be able to serve a full term without being impacted by health or mental issues? When I see clips of him speaking it seems like age may be catching up to him too.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 27, 2024 3:57:32 GMT -5
I know a lot of Republicans and many are very concerned with the mental health issues surrounding dementia particularly in the area of how it affects senior political leaders. Honestly, I think that age and its effect on competence is a very fair concern. The President of the United States should be able to form a complete sentence and not mix up names. While mixing up names or misspeaking isn’t a huge issue, but it undermines the perception of competence -and with it perception of American power. I think Trump has health and mental issues related to his age too that should preclude him from a second term. Happyhoya1979 - I’d like to genuinely ask, at age 77 do you think Trump will be able to serve a full term without being impacted by health or mental issues? When I see clips of him speaking it seems like age may be catching up to him too. happyhoya will not have a problem with this, because then the cat man will take over.
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 27, 2024 4:38:01 GMT -5
I know a lot of Republicans and many are very concerned with the mental health issues surrounding dementia particularly in the area of how it affects senior political leaders. Honestly, I think that age and its effect on competence is a very fair concern. The President of the United States should be able to form a complete sentence and not mix up names. While mixing up names or misspeaking isn’t a huge issue, but it undermines the perception of competence -and with it perception of American power. I think Trump has health and mental issues related to his age too that should preclude him from a second term. Happyhoya1979 - I’d like to genuinely ask, at age 77 do you think Trump will be able to serve a full term without being impacted by health or mental issues? When I see clips of him speaking it seems like age may be catching up to him too. Demented Donnie is 78 not 77. Regardless of age he is clearly DSM-V diagnosable as a having APD (Antisocial Personality Disorder). and NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) right now. Don the Con fits both APD and NPD criteria to a T! APD (Antisocial Personality Disorder) is a DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition), diagnosis assigned to individuals who habitually and pervasively disregard or violate the rights and considerations of others without remorse. People with Antisocial Personality Disorder may be habitual criminals, or engage in behavior which would be grounds for criminal arrest and prosecution, or they may engage in behaviors which skirt the edges of the law, or manipulate and hurt others in non-criminal ways which are widely regarded as unethical, immoral, irresponsible, or in violation of social norms and expectations. Those with APD often possess an impaired moral conscience and make decisions driven purely by their own desires without considering the needs or negative effects of their actions on others. Impulsive and criminal behavior is common. The terms psychopathy or sociopathy are also used, in some contexts synonymously, in others, sociopath is differentiated from a psychopath, in that a sociopathy is rooted in environmental causes, while psychopathy is genetically based. NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder), DSM-5, Criteria Clinical features include at least 5 of the following: Having a grandiose sense of self-importance, such as exaggerating achievements and talents, expecting to be recognized as superior even without commensurate achievements. Preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, beauty, and idealization. As for his cultists: The pathological narcissism that some have attributed to Donald Trump repels many people who are secure in their identity, but it may attract those who may be less secure, who may think of themselves as exceptional but feel undervalued and who thus identify with the grandiose and aggressive aspects of Donald Trump, using this identification to defend against their own vulnerability [13, 32, 33]. In effect, Trump’s narcissism may attract the support of those who also have narcissistic tendencies (and, additionally, may reinforce these tendencies). Indeed, at Trump’s rallies and other public events, his followers often respond with what might be considered effusive admiration and an inflated sense of their own self-regard, manifesting aspects of both narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability. It is unclear the degree to which one or both dimensions of narcissism might influence how people actually vote. Research suggests that narcissistic entitlement (an aspect of narcissistic grandiosity) is associated with political conservatism in general [34]. Research further suggests that collective narcissism (the feeling one’s in-group is exceptional, which is linked to narcissistic vulnerability) is associated with voting for Trump for president in 2016 in particular [32] as well as with holding a positive opinion of him post-election [35]. However, there is little research examining what aspects of pathological narcissism might have predicted voting for Trump for re-election in 2020. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8049239/
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 27, 2024 14:11:28 GMT -5
MAGA GOPers = Morons. You let Don the Con's idiot sons select Vance. JD Vance is giving Republicans buyer’s remorse As the Bush-Quayle and McCain-Palin campaigns learned the hard way, it is never a good thing when the No. 2 person on the ticket becomes the story. Is there anyone in America who hasn’t heard in recent days what JD Vance said in a 2021 interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson? The best-selling author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” who was embarking on a U.S. Senate race in Ohio, asserted that Democrats — including Vice President Harris, whom he called out by name — are “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” Now, it might have been sensible for Donald Trump’s newly named running mate to put out a statement like this: “I said something boneheaded three years ago, and I regret it.” But rather than doing cleanup and moving on, Vance is expanding the blast zone. On Friday, he told SiriusXM talk show host Megyn Kelly: “Sometimes it’s the truest and most important points that cause them to attack you the most.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/27/jd-vance-republicans-buyers-remorse/
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 27, 2024 14:51:34 GMT -5
Just another dishonest MAGA GOP POS. Vance is a grifter who happens to have a Yale Law degree. J.D. Vance’s bona fides for a run to the U.S. Senate in 2022 largely rested on two things—the success of his Rust Belt memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which captured the plight of the white working class, and a career in venture capital that began in 2016 at Mithril, the firm founded by billionaire investor and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel. But according to some of Vance’s former colleagues, the new vice presidential nominee’s track record at the fund that gave him his start wasn’t all that memorable. A person who worked at Mithril Capital Management in 2016 told the Wall Street Journal that in the year Vance was there, he never once saw him in the office. Another former colleague told the Journal that he remembered seeing Vance, but also that the newly acclaimed author spent a good deal of time promoting Hillbilly Elegy. Neither person could remember any significant deals Vance worked on while at Mithril, which is named after a fictional precious metal featured in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. fortune.com/2024/07/26/jd-vance-peter-thiel-venture-capital-mithril/
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Post by hoyajinx on Jul 27, 2024 16:46:28 GMT -5
Tomorrow, Republicans will appear on talk shows and tell everyone that the media is blowing this out of proportion, and that Trump didn’t mean what he actually said. It’s always the same. And some on here want to gaslight us into thinking we are being “alarmist” when Trump is telegraphing his intent in no uncertain terms.
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 27, 2024 17:07:06 GMT -5
Tomorrow, Republicans will appear on talk shows and tell everyone that the media is blowing this out of proportion, and that Trump didn’t mean what he actually said. It’s always the same. And some on here want to gaslight us into thinking we are being “alarmist” when Trump is telegraphing his intent in no uncertain terms. Yeah, the cultists on here have memory-holed January 6th as if it never happened or was just a regular tourist visit.
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 27, 2024 17:18:25 GMT -5
Only ignorant morons vote for this maniac. A Trump shark’s tale: Whether to be eaten or electrocuted Over the past 10 months, former president Donald Trump has periodically unspooled a nonsensical tale involving a sinking electric boat, a potential electrocution and a ferocious shark attack. Trump’s recounting of the saga goes roughly like this: In September, a South Carolina boat manufacturer warned him about the scourge of electric boats — arguing that the battery is so large that it leaves little room for passengers and, worse, the battery is so heavy that the boat might not even float. It was then that Trump claims he posed the “very smart” question the manufacturer said he had never before been asked: If the boat sinks under the weight of its own battery, couldn’t the boaters be electrocuted? And worse, if they jumped off the boat to avoid electrocution, might they then be devoured by a shark? The riff has all the hallmarks of a classic Trumpian yarn — full of fabrication, riddled with illogic, defying the laws of physics and, by turns, rambling and hyperbolic, humorous and head-scratching. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/26/trump-shark-ev-boat-electrocution/
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Post by tashoya on Jul 27, 2024 21:12:25 GMT -5
The former Republican party will just say that this is proof that the DOJ has been weaponized against Trump and his egregiously stupid followers will buy it.
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Post by tashoya on Jul 27, 2024 21:13:55 GMT -5
I know a lot of Republicans and many are very concerned with the mental health issues surrounding dementia particularly in the area of how it affects senior political leaders. Honestly, I think that age and its effect on competence is a very fair concern. The President of the United States should be able to form a complete sentence and not mix up names. While mixing up names or misspeaking isn’t a huge issue, but it undermines the perception of competence -and with it perception of American power. I think Trump has health and mental issues related to his age too that should preclude him from a second term. Happyhoya1979 - I’d like to genuinely ask, at age 77 do you think Trump will be able to serve a full term without being impacted by health or mental issues? When I see clips of him speaking it seems like age may be catching up to him too. Hahahaha!!! HH is entirely full of it. He couldn't care less about Trump's mental health or stability. He, like so many others, only care if he wins.
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 28, 2024 5:35:08 GMT -5
Vance - just another phony performative POS. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ and J.D. Vance’s art of having it both ways In 2016, the well-meaning liberals who would later display in-this-house signs on their lawns were in the market for a certain kind of book. They needed a primer on that enigma, the White working class, but the guidebook they envisioned was subject to several requirements. For one thing, it had to make them feel magnanimous and broad-minded for even bothering with the demographic they held accountable for the stunning political success of Donald Trump; for another, it had to be conspicuously folksy, a reflection of their romantic preconceptions about shotguns and twangy accents in the sticks. Above all, this book could not demand too much. It could not contain political theory or, God forbid, economics. At its most intellectually ambitious, it could venture some light psychologizing, perhaps a few simple statistics, but it could never stray far from the safe and sentimental territory of the emotional appeal. In short, right-thinking liberals wanted an emissary from the heartland to assure them that Trump did not oblige them to change their lives or reexamine their politics. Enter J.D. Vance, a recent Yale Law School graduate and self-proclaimed hillbilly with a knack for telling liberals what they wanted to hear. Vance hailed from the rapidly deindustrializing city of Middletown, Ohio, and he presented himself as a seasoned MAGA whisperer. Although he was critical of Trump’s crass nativism — he was in the liberal-placation business, after all — he billed himself as an interpreter of rural languages that cosmopolitans did not speak. Eight years later, Vance has grown uncivilized, our electoral politics more uncivilized still. The writer Irving Kristol famously characterized a neoconservative as “a liberal who has been mugged by reality”; Vance is a liberal-pleaser who has been mugged by the prospect of power. In 2016, he was calling Trump “America’s Hitler” in private messages to a friend; now he is the former president’s running mate and most sycophantic defender. But the signs of his eventual pivot were legible all along, at least to those who cared to read them. “Hillbilly Elegy,” then, was never a good-faith sociological foray. It was always a performance, a conspicuous display of homey authenticity. In her incisive corrective “What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia,” the historian (and fellow hillbilly) Elizabeth Catte described Vance as “someone with tired ideas about race and culture [getting] famous by selling cheap stereotypes about the region.” The gun-toting characters in “Hillbilly Elegy” are cartoonish, and so, too, is the prose. Take, for instance, the first line. “My name is J.D. Vance,” the memoir begins, “and I think I should start with a confession: I find the existence of the book you hold in your hands somewhat absurd.” It is this aw-shucks affectation — not Vance’s wispy arguments — that was the source of readers’ initial fascination. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/23/hillbilly-elegy-jd-vance-vice-president-nominee-review/
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