Ed: I think this is exactly right, Trump has retained verbal fluency and that makes him SEEM less elderly even though he’s spouting gibberish

I think this is exactly right, Trump has retained verbal fluency and that makes him SEEM less elderly even though he’s spouting gibberish

have said this before but trump’s brain is pretty obviously far more cooked than biden’s if you listen to what they actually say. but the presentation - basically trump being a spaz - makes trump *look and sound* less cooked to many people i think

when my grandmother was pretty far along with Korsakoff Syndrome and had no idea who I was, she confabulated so well that it was hard to tell she had dementia at all

It’s pretty common tbh!!

This would also be why when, “reading the cold transcript, we get a very different picture of Biden. Substantively, he ably & forcefully made the case that that Trump should not be allowed back in the Oval Office. While… he occasionally lost his train of thought, he struck some hard & telling blows”

Biden lacked oomph, but the transcript tells a different talethehill.com Reading the cold transcript, we get a very different picture of Biden. Substantively, he ably and forcefully made the case that that Trump should not be allowed back in the Oval Office.

This becomes readily apparent when you just read the transcript of the debate. Biden seems more cogent and coherent while Trump just rambles...

yup

Also like.... when Joe Biden says "we defeated medicare" we kind of realize he must have meant something like "we defeated covid and strengthened medicare" and he just flubbed it. But if Trump says "my toilet won't flush hard enough because of the immigrants" he could have meant something about

how he's mad about toilet flush regulations, and also he's mad about immigrants, or he could have meant that he thinks immigrants generate an aura of bad flush that has infected the country. It's not clear that being old made his brain break in any specific case, his brain was already so broken.

My 89 yo mother listened to the debate on the radio and said that Bidem made perfect sense and his responses were great…where 45 was a lunatic

his verbal fluency is very dimished compared to the past thou: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9c4...

NBC: Donald Trump Interviewed by Tom Brokaw on the Today Show - 1980www.youtube.com Emotion subtitles enabled (info below).Transcript and analysis: https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-interview-today-show-august-21-1980/Donald Trump is...

'Awash in speed'

He was talking about inflation and then rambled on to say: "And people.... they aren't living anymore." and that was probably the only actual quote I remember from his nonsense other than 'black jobs' and abortions AFTER baby is born. And he meant it.

A la A.E. Housman: Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to speak.

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