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16. I'm sorry you went through that with your dad.

Sat Nov 2, 2024, 08:51 AM

Nov 2

I went through a similar experience with my mom, although it stretched out over more years and was less dramatic than your experience.

Your story makes an interesting point. When people are highly intelligent or highly skilled, the presence of dementia can be masked. Your father was a highly intelligent, capable man, so he was able to function in certain ways long after it was safe for him to be independent. My mom was similar.

Trump is not an intellectually curious or educated man, but he is very skilled at entertaining people. He knows what buttons to push. He's a carnival barker. The baseline skills are the last to go. The fact that he's now visibly falling apart on stage implies to me that he's probably close to non-functional off-stage.

Other people are running this campaign and they're hiding Trump's true condition from us.

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Donald Trump and his mental disintegration [View all] no_hypocrisy Nov 2 OP

He's going down hill fast. Emile Nov 2 #1

Yes! Jrsygrl96 Nov 2 #9

I wonder if that was before or after he mimed fellating the microphone? Wish i was kidding. mahina Nov 2 #13

Add to that the fact that he was a complete asshole even when he was younger people don't get better Walleye Nov 2 #2

I'm thinking he doesn't see much of 2025... MiHale Nov 2 #3

And he "blows out" his arms talking on stage?! yardwork Nov 2 #17

What makes it worse is that he never was competent, even without dementia. n/t. NNadir Nov 2 #4

Yes, ask the New York bankers who lost millions on Chump, even in his 30's and 40's FakeNoose Nov 2 #14

Now he's fellating microphones. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2 #5

Big difference between your father and TFG: Martin Eden Nov 2 #6

DonOld tried making it about age,,,, until he became the aged one. He's kinda quiet about that now. keithbvadu2 Nov 2 #7

He ought try tryin' deep throating that microphone IMO. speak easy Nov 2 #8

And choke like a dog dalton99a Nov 2 #10

I think it is a safe prediction to say this: DFW Nov 2 #11

Brags about an uncle that was a brilliant MIT professor. multigraincracker Nov 2 #12

It's really progressed quickly Farmer-Rick Nov 2 #15

I'm sorry you went through that with your dad. yardwork Nov 2 #16