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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 198 points 2 months ago

She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no — I shouldn’t talk about this but that’s OK I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it’s the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, ‘What do you think you lost?’ I said, ‘Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.’ They say, ‘You think you’d do it again?’ And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, ‘Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.’ I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?

Same as it ever was

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 102 points 2 months ago

Why do people keep saying this?! Sure, he babbled some when he ran in 2015, but at you could hear the words and insert your own meaning. We can't even pretend to parse anything out of this speech. Hell, his own supporters are walking out on his rallies.

If your grandpa was living alone and conversing with you like this, you would quietly be contemplating a rest home in his very near future. People this far gone can no longer live alone.

Go back to the 80s and 00s and have a listen. Really. Watch a video or three. Doesn't matter if you agree with what he was saying, his speech was clear, on target.

Can't say when I noticed the sharp decline, hard to spot, a boiled frog thing. 2019 I think? Compared to then, the man has fallen off a cliff.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

He was a demented sociopathic narcissist in 2016, anyone could have, and did see it, and say it then.

Unfortunately, republiQans are a cult in every literal sense that matters. trump only needs to stay alive and they’ll vote for him.

The fact that he’s worse than ever will be borne by them as a secret shame; no one will talk about it, it makes everyone in the cult uncomfortable, and it will not deter them in the slightest.

It’s 2024 and I think as Americans we still don’t have consensus on how unfathomably broken the republiQans have made politics. It’s virtually unrecognizable from the viewpoint of someone even in the 60’s.

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[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Even as late as the 2016 RNC debates he was still speaking clearly, responding to his opponents, and occasionally making a coherent point.

[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 months ago

So what happened to San Francisco?

[-] Shirasho@lemmings.world 74 points 2 months ago

By the end I completely forgot he was talking about San Francisco, and I think that is the point.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 47 points 2 months ago

He probably did too

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago

Destroyed, so just completely and totally demolished.

F

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 months ago

Just like Portland. Burned right to the ground. Never mind all the intact buildings and people living there still. That's just a liberal hoax.

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[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

Theodore Roosevelt got shot in fucking lung and still finished his speech. Trump barely or maybe it was glass who knows (literally two weeks later was completely healed) yet got wisk away by four agents then wore a tampon on his ear.

Fuck weird Trump and sounds like he has dementia.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Get your facts straight. It was a menstrual pad, not a tampon.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nah, he's definitely worse now.

It's just he gets worse at about the same speed we get used to it.

So he's constantly lowering the bar, and if "not trump" is enough, that means everyone else's bar constantly gets lowered as well.

If Dem voter's only standard is not being trump, we end up with people who will take money from anyone

It's pretty much the reason AIPAC is so blatantly buying primary elections these days. They used to hide it, now it's literally "fuck you money" against anyone that calls them out for genocide.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 22 points 2 months ago

Speaking of rambling....

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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 123 points 2 months ago

He's talking like my grandpa did a few weeks before he dropped dead, so fingers crossed I guess

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 45 points 2 months ago

People with access to healthcare can hang on while deteriorating well beyond where he is over the course of many years.

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 months ago

I want to see him in jail. Death is too good for him.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Same but I'll take what I can get.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

It may not be his just desserts but it may give us just enough of a bump from am electoral point of view to keep Vance the fuck away from power. Do not prioritize satisfaction over effective.

[-] Spacebar@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago

There better be a huge (UUGE) focus on his decline after the debate. That's the time to put an emphasis on it - right after millions of people see it during the debate.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago

The press are going to be nitpicking Harris' earrings or the color of her blouse or something. Major news outlets are never going to treat Trump like Biden,

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 70 points 2 months ago

The sad thing is, he will end up winning more than 20 states despite this.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago

Also, despite the fact that he is a criminal, a racist, a misogynist, denies climate change and pretty much exclusively pursues policies contrary to the interests of ordinary citizens.

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[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

They will vote for a corpse, as long as it is not a Democrat. The same was true with Democrats when Joe Biden was still running.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Difference is that a good number of Dem voters saw Biden's issues and understood it's a choice between those issues and a fascist that'll deal the death blow to the moribund US democracy. Trump voters are just cooked.

You get one - there isn't a third option, and abstaining is a win for the fascists.

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[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago
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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

Too old and the dementia is hitting him hard. People are saying it is syphilis.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

A lot of very smart people?

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[-] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

It's syphilis, everybody says so... It's bad... Very bad...

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

If even Trump supporters start noticing that he is spewing nonsense, it must have become seriously bad. They tended to overlook quite some of his brain-dead output so far, I thought they had become immune to senseless drivel.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

Many people are saying he should drop out. The Republicans should put together a unity ticket instead to reach out and show they can heal the nation by putting two Democrats on their ticket as President and VP.

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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is it just me, or does he seem to be a bit thinner? Ordinarily I would say that is a good sign for his health, but coupled with this obvious mental decline I wonder if he has really bad PTSD and isn't eating or sleeping well.

I would have some sympathy for him as a human. Except, you know, he wouldn't have any for anyone not named Trump.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago

I wonder if he has really bad PTSD

May his suffering be proportional to that which he's caused.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Might be even simpler - the elderly can decline very quickly mentally and also physically, and that may he what we're seeing with here.

[-] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

Sudden weight loss at that age can actually be a sign of poor health as the body starts to fail and can't store as much fat. I'd say that's much more likely than him growing a conscience.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

He is certainly someone who was deeply and irreparably harmed by his even more evil father who drove Donnie’s older brother to suicide. Trump is an example of how people who have everything can still suffer.

What is sad about Boomers in general and less so for Gen X/older millennials is not being able to stop the cycle of pain and let them be the last generation to be traumatized by their own family.

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 months ago

I went back to college (I am an older millennial) and it was insane to me the difference in how kids ten years younger than me were raised. Just talking with them and how they missed the whole “it’s the 80’s, fuck dem kids” parenting style.

Kids being loud? Beat them within an inch of their life. Kid needs help with school? Fuck you, asshole kid. I have TV to watch. Going to the store? Lock these asshole kids in your watertight Buick in the middle of the summer for some reason (I still don’t understand this at all).

Then I talk to younger kids who just went along with their parents to the store. It is incredible to me how truly awful Boomer parents were at being parents.

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[-] plz1@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

GOP will straight up Weekend at Bernie's on him to get him into office, at this point.

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[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago

His speech is getting worse— but he has almost perfected the Putin/Un double cock air jerkoff dance

[-] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago

I was told to read the transcripts back in 2017-2018, and did. This is what he always sounded like to me. A fucking moron. Now, he’s an older moron. I’m surprised this is news to anyone.

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 29 points 2 months ago

Trump is too old and out-of-touch. He can't represent the American People and should drop out.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

Too bad a hundred million people are still too detached from reality to acknowledge this. The unfucking of America will take at least the better part of a century.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 28 points 2 months ago

I think it’s time to set a maximum age where you can run for president. Because now Trump is the demented old weirdo who has no business running on his broken brain.

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Someone has to accidentally forget to turn off Mango Mussolini's microphone during the debate. PLEASE!!!

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months ago

i pity the people who have to sit through that shit so i can read it because i refuse to listen to him speak

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I hope he gets to live for at least a few years in prison. His humiliation should be thorough and public.

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

"Saudi Arabia and Russia will rapidoo aahhh..." -Donald Trump (my only explanation was that he shat himself)

[-] buttfarts@lemy.lol 19 points 2 months ago

One day he's just going to take his pants and shirt off on stage 😞

[-] superkret@feddit.org 22 points 2 months ago

And his followers will go nude in public to show their support.

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[-] profdc9@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Knowing the media, not being able to say anything coherent is a benefit for him, because unlike Harris, nothing he says can be construed as truth, a lie, or anything sensible. If Harris says something that could be even slightly wrong, she will be pilloried, while Trump will be excused because he is senile.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

LoL you have TDS! But BIDEN has DIMENTIA while TRUMP is playing 5D Chess!

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