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Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 07:44 PM Aug 2016

How embarrassed will Trump supporters be when it comes out that he has dementia?

Can you imagine everyone knowing you're an ardent supporter and later learn the guy is not playing with a full deck? He has all the signs. Paranoia, simplistic language, erratic behavior, poor focus, memory loss. Of course his dad had Alzheimer's and it is heridatary. Very interesting piece from Salon from last April. Probably explains why he's going after Hillary on health. All about deflection.

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/25/maybe_donald_trump_has_really_lost_his_mind_what_if_the_gop_frontrunner_isnt_crazy_but_simply_not_well/

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How embarrassed will Trump supporters be when it comes out that he has dementia? (Original Post) Dream Girl Aug 2016 OP
Not embarrassed at all. elleng Aug 2016 #1
yup rufus dog Aug 2016 #3
Will probably relate to him even more closely. eom Festivito Aug 2016 #17
Doesn't Matter! They still think Ronald Reagan was a genius, knowing he had dementia Chasstev365 Aug 2016 #2
No reason why an aging clinical cluster B "narcissist" Hortensis Aug 2016 #4
I pity anyone who has that disease. CentralMass Aug 2016 #5
Nothing Embarrasses These People. Nothing. SDJay Aug 2016 #6
This is why he is calling out Hillary,s health randr Aug 2016 #7
yep. The Con does it constantly and habitually. 63splitwindow Aug 2016 #14
I think he has a serious illness, other than the mental one randr Aug 2016 #16
I think he DEFINITELY does. . . . BigDemVoter Aug 2016 #8
I thought the same thing watching old interviews spiderpig Aug 2016 #13
The Play-Doh might be a sign. Does Trump try to drink it? FSogol Aug 2016 #9
They've already done this drill romana Aug 2016 #10
Yes but the difference is that with Reagan it didn't come out until years later and no one knew exac Dream Girl Aug 2016 #11
If so, he's had it since 1985. sofa king Aug 2016 #12
I also don't buy the dementia excuse ... moonscape Aug 2016 #18
Most of them have dementia, and worse. JoePhilly Aug 2016 #15
If he has dementia, no they wouldn't mythology Aug 2016 #19
The short fingered vulgarian is narcissistic, sociopathic and megalomaniacal etherealtruth Aug 2016 #20
 

rufus dog

(8,419 posts)
3. yup
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 07:48 PM
Aug 2016

We are talking about the same fucking ignorant people that can look you in the eye and claim Obama is the worst President ever. No facts, no comparison of August 2016 to August 2008. They are fucking delusional.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. No reason why an aging clinical cluster B "narcissist"
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 07:56 PM
Aug 2016

couldn't have dementia also, but aside from memory loss, how would you tell? All the other traits except paranoia are classic for cluster B disorders, and I don't really see signs of paranoia. People really are out to get him.

SDJay

(1,089 posts)
6. Nothing Embarrasses These People. Nothing.
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:02 PM
Aug 2016

These are the same cretins who stood up and defended a child molester like Josh Duggar. A bigot like Kim Davis. Every televangelist that ever turned out to be a total hypocrite. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig. I could go on and on.

These people do not think for themselves. They are told what to think. They do what they're fucking told and they repeat what they're told to say loudly and repeatedly. They hate children they're told to hate - see brown ones that don't speak English. They hate women - see any woman who doesn't just shut her mouth and do what she's told, especially the brown ones. They hate foreigners - basically all of them. They hate poor people, even though they're too stupid to realize they're also poor and being kept that way by the 'patriots' they support. You cannot reach these people with reason.

There is literally nothing Drumpf could do to turn them off. Literally nothing.

That's why they are dangerous.

If it turns out that Drumpf has some terrible brain condition, I'd give it .000000004 nanoseconds before some asshole pushes out the 'conspiracy theory' that the Clintons gave it to him somehow only to watch millions of morons run with it.

randr

(12,412 posts)
7. This is why he is calling out Hillary,s health
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:05 PM
Aug 2016

Attack you foe on your own weaknesses. Typical fright wing move.

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)
8. I think he DEFINITELY does. . . .
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:22 PM
Aug 2016

He's a f__king idiot for SURE. . . . But I watched a video on Youtube of Trump circa 1990. . . . He was a different person altogether. He could actually speak in complete sentences and sometimes even made sense. He was still a stupid asshole, but I didn't have the impression he belonged in a nursing home either.

I SINCERELY believe he has some form of dementia, and I would venture to guess that it's a pre-frontal form as evidenced by his behavior and statements.

His supporters? Shame? HELL no! They already voted for Sarah Palin in 08, so they are primed to vote for Ass Face himself.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
13. I thought the same thing watching old interviews
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 09:05 PM
Aug 2016

He was always a jerk, but was able to speak extemporaneously, even though what he said was BS.

Put early Donald side-by-side with his current behavior - talking in circles and repeating phrases over and over and over - and it's shocking.

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
11. Yes but the difference is that with Reagan it didn't come out until years later and no one knew exac
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 08:50 PM
Aug 2016

Exactly when it set in. With Trump all those people who say He says what he means, speaks his mind, etc. will have to admit to themselves that they were taken in by someone with diminished capacity. What does that say about them that you chose to follow someone with dementia?

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
12. If so, he's had it since 1985.
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 09:03 PM
Aug 2016

I've had to watch this asshole my whole adult life. He has always been a shallow, narcissistic fool. I remember him doing a television interview about his book in which rather clearly revealed that he hadn't even read his own book.

What Trump does know, better than most, is how to manipulate his marks, and this time his target is paranoid, unfocused, monosyllabic Republicans. Part of what he is doing is doing is drawing them in by relating to them--so that he can rip 'em off.

So I will want to see far more powerful evidence than I have seen so far before I decide that he is in mental decline. If he is, I know from experience that he doesn't have a helluva long way to fall.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
18. I also don't buy the dementia excuse ...
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 11:04 PM
Aug 2016

he has been vapid at least since the late 70's when I lived in Manhattan which coincides with forever. Was always an empty suit.

Besides, I cared for my mom who had Alzheimer's and Trump would be an insult to that disease.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
19. If he has dementia, no they wouldn't
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 08:51 AM
Aug 2016

They aren't embarrassed to support a racist, bigoted, misogynistic asshat. If that doesn't cause them any discomfort, nothing else will either.

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)
20. The short fingered vulgarian is narcissistic, sociopathic and megalomaniacal
Tue Aug 23, 2016, 09:57 AM
Aug 2016

.... pretending to "diagnose" him with an illness that devastates individuals and families is tasteless and disrespectful to all that suffer from a dementing illness (and those that love them)

Additionally, a "diagnosis" such as this absolves the short fingered vulgarian of his hateful, racist, bigoted and self centered actions and words

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