Trump is clearly a moron with some kind of clinical brain dysfunction, but this is just like 2 seconds of fumbling with words, which pretty much anyone who does public speaking can do. I was expecting more than like 2 second’s worth based on how big a deal the story sounded like.
IDK, maybe Newsweek is trying to run cover for him by running a big non-story about something innocuous to distract from the Nikki Haley / Nancy Pelosi thing.
I really don’t understand Newsweek.
Right, it’s one or two words he fumbles. His cognitive decline has been observed since 2016, nothing new here.
The article first says the video “is stoking concern among social media users” which, if you ask me, is not something news worthy. But then it goes on to point out how this was re-posted by the Biden campaign. Which does seems a little more of interest than just a bunch of yahoos on twitter pointing fingers.
Newsweek seems to always have a bullshit story above the fold and something somewhat relevant below it.
This clip is pretty much on par with everything that tumbles out of his mouth. “Until you’re vetted and everything else” is what I heard. I’m so sick of non-stories about Trump when there are so so so many credible things to attack him for.
I found your comment by searching for “Until you’re vetted”. It was easy enough to understand what he was saying that I was able to just search for the words I heard and find them here.
It’s easy to hear what he’s saying, sure he’s “slurring the words”, but it’s not like a drunk slurring the words, or like he’s had a stroke. He’s just speaking in a sloppy way, not enunciating his words. There’s a clear difference from earlier speeches where the words he was speaking were gibberish, but his enunciation was better. But, so what? What does that prove?
The Nikky Haley thing was a bigger gaffe, and more likely to indicate his not thinking correctly. But, again, it’s just a gaffe. Biden also made plenty of gaffes, even when he was much younger.
None of this matters though. What matters is what will happen if Trump becomes president again. His first term resulted in all kinds of damage, and that’s despite the fact that he didn’t really have the Republican establishment behind him, and that so many of his staff were inexperienced. This time the main reason he’s running is to be able to pardon himself from various crimes. He’s going to have the new republican party behind him pushing extreme ideas, and he’s going to be out for vengeance for all his enemies.
I really hope that going after him for “slurring his words” isn’t actually an effective strategy for the Biden team, because if it’s the kind of thing that actually sways votes, it shows how bad things really are in the US.
The last time Newsweek reported on him 🙄
You have a twice-impeached president but focus on this?
Yeah. I’m becoming more and more convinced that Newsweek is blowing up non-stories about Trump to dilute genuine criticism of him by creating a “stupid criticism of Trump that has no merit” bucket in people’s minds.
I mean they are both old as hell. I actually have been really pleased and surprised with what Biden’s done but he’s definitely old, and he doesn’t have Trump’s animating meanness energy to keep him sustained.
It would be hilarious if Trump just keeled over. Not only would his fans go nuts with insane theories but it would save the country a lot of trouble.
Arguably, it’s the best thing that could happen for this country right now, that’s also in the realm of possibility. Like, a meteor conveniently taking out the more corrupt half of the supreme Court would obviously be better, but not realistic.
I keep thinking someone might assassinate him. But that makes him some kind of martyr, which is bad. But then I wonder who would be the next demagogue and how would they use that to their advantage?
I get a little bit excited every time there’s a Breaking News alert on my phone. Unfortunately the definition of breaking news is now such that it basically means someone retweeted something stupid.
GAME OVER: [Person with center-left politics/retired GOP politician with no skin in the game] TOTALLY HUMILIATES [Trump/MTG/any GOP demagogue] with argument
…it’s a just a tweet into the void that nobody with any stake in said argument will ever read
Thanks, HuffPost, MSNBC, et al, for basically all being MeidasTouch
You know they will wait for 3 days outside Maralago for the third cumming of christ.
Honestly, I think him keeling over before the primaries are finished will harm the country. One of his opponents could run basically unopposed, and they’re all pretty shit.
And the moderate conservatives that are sitting it out because trump will gladly show up and check the ® box for pretty much anyone else. Don’t know why it’s so tough to get people to show up and vote on the democratic side, the conservatives will show up and vote for roadkill.
Part of dagma and zealotry is undying faith in the cause despite everything in the face of it. Democrats merely act in self interests and with basic minimum empathy, we have no allegiance to anybody and we do not idolize our politicians.
Trump kneeling over and dying would be arguably the worse outcome. We all saw what happened when Dear Leader took a L, with the culmination being January 6.
In Trump land, unless Dear Leader dies in a golden light and ascends to heaven. The autopsy could be conducted live with the most unbiased person and it still wouldn’t matter. There will be massive conspiracy theories about the “Biden Crime Family”/Deep state/Hunter Biden’s laptop etc. assassinated Trump and that revenge needs to be taken.
Trump needs to be made irrelevant first. No one is going to storm a building over someone who is irrelevant.
In 2013, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC; the acquisition included the Newsweek brand and its online publication, but did not include The Daily Beast.[11] IBT Media, which also owns the International Business Times, rebranded itself as Newsweek Media Group, and in 2014, relaunched Newsweek in both print and digital form.
In 2018, IBT Media split into two companies, Newsweek Publishing and IBT Media. The split was accomplished one day before the District Attorney of Manhattan indicted Etienne Uzac, the co-owner of IBT Media, on fraud charges.[12][13][14]
IBT Media is an American global digital news organization with over 90 million monthly readers, owned by followers of religious leader David Jang.[1][2]
Long story short, one of the more savvy outlets of the Evangelical right.
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Does that mean they’re turning on Trump? Because this sure isn’t a positive story about him.
They tend to try to seem centrist. They’re savvy about it, so they’re not necessarily interested in being caught out at being a straight-up, purist, propaganda rag.
That said, I’m not sure if they support Trump or not. Not all evangelicals do, since he’s not very Jesus-like. I’ve been trying to remind people of that myself recently, despite not personally being a very religious person.
Sounds like Aphasia, maybe the 2 brain cells collided and caused a stroke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia
But I’m not an expert, it would have been nice to have the rest of the speech.
Trump’s picture has been my mnemonic for dysarthria which is a bit more of a precise term for what we’re talking about.
I have no idea what that is but it implies primary and secondary syphilis…
If racial slurs did tank his candidacy, regular old slurring probably won’t.
