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TedStriker  Sep 29, 2016 • 2:26:32pm

Not cool…at. all.

We don’t like it when the Republicans try to “remote diagnose” Hillary, this is the same fucking thing.

For shame.

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Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)  Sep 29, 2016 • 8:55:36pm

Look, stumbling and falling into a van while suffering from pneumonia, taken as evidence of AIDS, Parkinson’s, leprosy, brain syphilis, whatever … or the shimmy as evidence of St. Vitus’ Dance … these are all taking an isolated incident, and attempting to extrapolate a larger narrative out of it.

What I was hoping to accomplish here was to take the larger narrative - that of the persistent, omnipresent patters of Trump’s behavior, and drill down to the specific causes for the exterior manifestations.

Also. I did have a disclaimer on this. But yeah, I acknowledge that remote diagnosis is not, and should not be definitive.

But again - part & parcel of the GOP’s approach to their political opponents, is to accuse them of the failings that they themselves exhibit. Accuse your opponents of your own weakness - going right back to the “Al Gore invented the internet” to defuse the intelligence gap with Bush … or “John Kerry was a lying coward” to defuse the Bush draft-dodging.

(small voice) MIght it not be possible that the Trump camp operatives have seized upon the health issues that are pretty much illusory for Hillary, and instead tried to do a pre-emptive strike, so that if/when Trump’s mental failings come out, it sounds like just more political blather? And where is his health report from a reputable doctor, anyway?

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 5:59:17am

I, personally, think it would be irresponsible not to ask these questions. We’re just asking questions!

All joking aside, I have said for months that there is something wrong with him - and when I say wrong I meant it in the clinical sense. Other than he’s an obvious sociopath in that he has no idea that what he says or does is morally or ethically wrong and not just “not PC”. An example from yesterday is that he thinks his own marital record is just fine (as he plans to bring up Bill Clinton).

But if you can manage to get any comprehension from his overall word salad repetition of…usually nothing coupled with his facial expressions and behavior, he is “off” no matter how you look at it. He behaves like a petulant child. Let’s say it’s just rich man’s entitlement psychosis…it is still psychosis. It is not normal for someone to behave like that.

My dad had dementia and I have to tell you it is a horrible disease. You remember things from 50, 60 years ago (my dad was in his 80s when he was diagnosed), but you don’t remember more recent events like that he didn’t remember my mother to whom he was married to for 25 years. You say weird things and you are absolutely certain that you are right.

I am not going to try to diagnose Trump other than to say that there is definitely something wrong with him.

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 12:14:31pm

Kal, out of curiosity, have you looked at Trump off-the-cuff speeches from 5, 10 and 20 years ago? I would be curious of his speech patterns and speaking style as time went on.

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Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)  Sep 30, 2016 • 2:24:33pm

re: #4 MsJ

Kal, out of curiosity, have you looked at Trump off-the-cuff speeches from 5, 10 and 20 years ago? I would be curious of his speech patterns and speaking style as time went on.

Going back to the - admittedly limited - archive of things from the 80s, he showed no signs of the volatility, repetition and meandering that now mark his public appearances.

Then again, most of his video appearances from that epoch were scripted.

Then again again, most of his appearances these days are scripted as well. He just lacks the self-control to stick to the script.

Oprah Winfrey Interviews Donald Trump in 1988

Check out the faster pace of his sentences. And yeah, he jumps from subject to subject, but there *is* a throughline there, and the sentences come out in an order that has a beginning-middle-end. Nothing there about a 10-year-old kid who is great with his Apple IIc, or a 400-lb person on a bed, or Rosie O’Donnell (or the 80s equivalent, which would be Ruth Buzzi).

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MsJ  Sep 30, 2016 • 3:04:23pm

re: #5 Khal Wimpo (no longer entitled to his own facts)

I saw this one and thought exactly the same thing. Same words (disaster, etc.) but none of the crazy stuff we see.

Trump: The Disastrous Connie Chung Interview


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