149 points

Republicans would elect a bowl of soup to the presidency if they had to, because then they can rubber stamp a hundred orders a day dismantling government agencies, destroying welfare programs, neutering regulations, and oppressing people of color, women, LGBTQ+, and non-Christians. Trump is the most useful, most idiot useful idiot the world has ever seen.

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123 points

Republicans would elect a bowl of soup to the presidency if they had to

I guess you forgot Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer’s while President.

But it’s okay, he forgot too.

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53 points

But it’s okay, he forgot too.

Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.

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28 points

But it’s okay, he forgot too.

Savage 💕

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10 points

Oh man, a bowl of soup would be a great president.

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9 points

What kind of soup are we talking here? We don’t need no Goulash running the country, that’d be communism

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6 points

I’ve always had a fondness of carrot cream cheese soup and of course I will hate you forever if you disagree.

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3 points

Finally we would get the gespacho police we’ve been promised!

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135 points

I’m no expert but It seems to me Trump is getting worse fast now.

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the patron saint of the right spent most of his presidency with a head full of mush, they don’t care. It’s the same reason the age stuff resonates with Biden only, the right wants useful idiots who will sign off on their fever dreams. A non-functional brain is a virtue to them.

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21 points

The dementia just makes them easier to control

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He spent all of his 2nd term with it as well. Oh wait, you were talking about Trump. But you’re absolutely right. Mushbrain has never been a deal breaker for them.

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19 points

Nah, talking about the chimp guy. 2nd term could have had a talking sandwich and have the same results. Having had relatives who went through the same though, I have zero belief that he was in control of his faculties for the entire first term.

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I can’t help but think a lot of folks are misunderstanding your comment. Maybe they don’t realize “he spent all of his 2nd term with it” is referring to Reagan and think you’re dissing Obama or something?

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79 points

I’m sure all the stress caused by the court cases doesn’t help. Usually the presidency is the most stressful thing to people, but that’s only true if they took the job seriously. Trump did not. Something that effects him is likely far more stressful for the narcissist.

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16 points

And the prolonged use of drugs, for his entire life, but also specifically during his presidency.

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-1 points

I didn’t know he was known for doing drugs. Where did you find this information?

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13 points

That’s a very good observation imo. 👍

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65 points

Watching an elderly parent/grandparent go through the down slope of dementia isn’t fun.

But a Human Vegetable President is sort of the party dream. Just do a full Weekend at Bernie’s with a sitting President and you can get away with whatever you like, then deflect the blame onto a corpse.

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11 points

Just do a full Weekend at Bernie’s

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I don’t think he can hold it together until November. Just look at how much he’s declined this year alone and we’re only 3 months in.

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It seems like that’s becoming a very real possibility. At this point I’m just waiting for him to go on national tv next week and demand that Obama debate him while dropping the n word.

Trump thinks he’s running against Obama and thinks Nikki Haley was the speaker of the house during 1/6. He is deeply unwell and belongs in a long term care facility.

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At this point I’m just waiting for him to go on national tv next week and demand that Obama debate him while drop

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Trump thinks he’s running against Obama

White house correspondent’s dinner 2011 really got to him.

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I agree, I think it will soon be impossible for him to keep up even a semblance of appearences. It looks like it’s about to collapse completely any time now.

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But wait! He was able to name a rhinoceros and do differential calculus! Person woman man camera tv!

He brags about ‘acing’ that test, but here’s the actual test:

The most difficult maths problem is to subtract by 7s.

The answers to the 5 words memory question would never be ‘person woman man camera tv’, because they’re always carefully chosen to not be related in any way, because that would defeat the purpose, since related words are easier to remember. They’d be things like ‘daisy chair monkey water picture’. Even from his very first retelling, he didn’t remember the words, he was just naming things he saw in the room at the time, and he was bragging about passing a test that if you fail, you may be deemed unable to care for yourself.

We know this is the test, because he talks about the rhino part, then says it gets hard from there (eta: in his own words, 3 years ago), and now says almost nobody can pass the rest. And he says the doctors told him he’s one of the only people they’ve seen pass it.

This is himself recounting the story last month, January 2024. (e: Sorry for the Twitter link; I couldn’t find a better one.)

And his cult cheers this shit. It’s utterly bonkers.

e: Link, and another link. And one more.

e2: I couldn’t help but add this. I am so sorry. If it must be in my head, now it’s in yours too.

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The answers to the 5 words memory question would never be ‘person woman man camera tv’, because they’re always carefully chosen to not be related in any way, because that would defeat the purpose, since related words are easier to remember. They’d be things like ‘daisy chair monkey water picture’.

Haha mnemonic device go brrrr

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-10 points

downvoted for XCKD

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Downvoted for spelling xkdc wrong

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6 points

“Cat-dog, pig-unicorn, snake-moose”

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5 points

Ok, that’s enough wizardry for you. Next you’ll be making some sort of centaur-minotaur!

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Doesn’t matter. He could be comatose and they’d still vote for him.

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19 points

God-Emperor and all that

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6 points

It’s not about who they’re voting for.

It’s who they’ve voting against.

And I can legitimately both sides that one. Two party systems are a fucking cancer. It’s not democracy. It’s Douglas Adams’ lizards.

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2 points

To summarize the summary of the summary: People are a problem.

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-13 points

Yeah, honestly all the smearing on Trump will not work if the opposition does not offer anything substantive.

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You may need to go see what of substance the ‘opposition’ (usually not the term for the controlling administration so much as its leading competition) has offered. There’s a list, but publicizing that list is where this democratic administration truly has sucked.

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1 point

Not committing an insurrection is pretty good policy IMO.

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As opposed to Biden supporters right? LOL…

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41 points

You realize that most people voting for Biden are just voting against Trump right?

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16 points

They’re voting for turnip…so no they don’t understand.

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4 points

It’s not all fear-voting but it looks that way.

The rules never change:

  1. Vote for the candidate who has the best chance of delivering on policy that helps the most people be objectively happy.

  2. Repeat forever

This means people will vote against Mr Trump and for Mr Biden, but only because Biden offers policy that saves money long-term and offers the most objective happiness as per the UN guidelines, and Trump offers none of that.

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As opposed to Biden supporters

I love how you “both sides” this one.

Also, yes: as opposed to [democrats]. The approach to power on both parties is different - if we compare just those two - in that the primary attribute shown by the Republicans is loyalty, as in “conservatives fall in line”; whereas the primary attribute by Democrats is skepticism, as “Democrats fall in love”.

Each party has used this to their advantage, but any party can shake up the democrats with their angst simply by offering a candidate that seems better than the absolute shitheel the conservatives offer now. Democrats will jump ship if the candidate evaluates well at the start or middle of the term.

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Bidens supporters are critical of him, trumps supporters masturbate in the corner staring at a picture of him and Putin shirtless. We’re not the same.

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👍

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While I do really hate this guy, and I also assume he isn’t mentally fit to manage a Wendy’s, never mind being president…we shouldn’t be listening to doctors willing to diagnose psychiatric conditions or mental health based on how someone is acting on TV. No doctor can get enough data to make an accurate diagnosis that way.

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Yeah, Any doctor thats willing to go on TV and diagnose someone they’ve never personally met, is a doctor that should be ignored and avoided.

cause no reputable doctor will go on TV and do that shit.

Plenty of reputable doctors will go on TV to discuss illnesses and shit, but they wont diagnose someone like this.

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This cat is a PhD doctor, not a medical doctor. I wouldn’t listen to any of his diagnosises.

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I got this comment in my message replies and i was confused for a solid minute about why you were denigrating a poor cats college efforts before I clicked the link to see the context and realized, oh, yeah… not meow cat. lol

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He has enough money to pay right? All the lies are bought

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I mean, what shine the article, it’s the hatred. thats as far as possible from any clinical stance.

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Yet they have telemedicine, that is tantamount to “how someone is acting on TV”, no?

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What? Absolutely not. Are you talking to people on your TV? More importantly, are they answering your questions? Have you ever even had a telemedicine appointment?

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For Medical marijuana with an M.D. By the way, they now have AI to detect malingering by video. so… if an AI can do it, the doctor could use the tool & get the results as their own. That’s what is happening Right Now with AI. People are passing off AI results as their own, and they are generally better. My understanding is AI can get 90% on the LSAT & by next week will probably have the same result or better on the MCAT. [zero passes]

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