My grandmother with Alzheimer's passed those clinical tests long after she had already asked us to take away her keys because she knew she wasn't safe to drive anymore. So yeah...
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So what you’re saying is, he’s a stable genius who’s more than qualified, and extremely fit to be the president of the United States?
This has to be out of context bullshit. Someone running for president again can’t be that dense.
“The first questions are very easy, the last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question,” Trump preened in the interview. “It’s like, you’ll go, ‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ So they’d say, ‘Could you repeat that.’ So I said, ‘Yeah. So it’s person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’”
DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW FUCKING STUPID THIS MAN IS?
Yeah, are we all stuck in some endless emperor's new clothes shit.
Can anyone honestly argue that this guy isn't either (a) super fucking dumb, (b) partially mentally deteriorated, or (c) both?
Maybe not. Maybe he's an evil genius. He could possibly be the present...again...
Watching American politics makes me question my grasp of reality.
Your grasp of reality is fine but I would guess you haven't been in any religious circles for a while.
People still wrapped up in religion don't realize their values are hardly shared through all of society and are taught anyone outside of the circle are a breed apart. They are going to hell. Some evangelicals get misguided into thinking they can 'save' the heathens and that's where we get anti-abortion shit but that's not really what Christianity teaches.
The problems is there is just too many of them. You have all these people with these conflicting values saying they are inherently different than the non-believer so we can't ever come together.
religious circles
I've been a member of what turned into a mega church with over 10k Members. I didn't see any insanity like that, but I'm sure I would have disagreed with something if I could have seen it.
...values hardly shared...
I'd suggest that's the whole idea behind some of this. The bad religious people think the whole problem or cause for everything wrong is that people don't subscribe to their values. I'd also argue that there is a way to do religious values correctly, but that's a much deeper thought.
That's a whole thing right there. Every group, culture, society has values that some like and some don't. I have a particular problem with the you're going to hell people. That's not at all how God represents himself in the new testament.(Christian Bible).
I'm betting Indiana's cake lady from years ago is all about swearing Trump is a religious choice, though I have no idea. I'm basing that on their bigoted (my opinion) stance she referred to as religious freedom. I fault dragging religion into an instance of just not liking gay people. I would much rather her just say that. Just be honest.
People thinking Trump is a religious choice blows my mind, and when I ask them why, I don't get much. Your mention of abortion is about it. Seems funny though, because I'd wager he's paid for a few of those based on my evaluation of his conduct.
Unrelated to trump and oversimplified, if people claim to subscribe to Christian values, they should probably follow God's model instead of acting exactly like the only group of people he condemned (Pharisees).
The "hilarious" part of that exchange was it's a memory test, so they give you a series of unrelated words (velvet, cracker, sleet, grandfather, doorway). Not only was the best example that his stupid stupid brain could come up with all related words, they were all (except maybe tv) things he could see at the time!
There’s almost always a monitor on set, which is basically a tv. So, yah. No exceptions.
Yes, I do! That people want him to be the president is what's so troubling.
To be fair, a whale can easily be confused with a bowl of petunias.
Oh no, not again.
You know if he's bragging about it he definitely didn't get that question right
You mean it was on porpoise?
Whale Oil Beef Hooked
“I think it was 35… 30 questions. And let me tell you, you know, they always show you the first one: a giraffe, a tiger or a whale. ‘Which one is the whale?'”
He's done this enough times that he knows the first one is always this question? How many cognitive tests has he completed? Did he pass the others?
It's also insane that the bar is this low. You recognize animal shapes, here are the keys to the nuclear stockpile, have fun.
All of this shit is just so upsetting on an existential level. How is any of this real? It literally feels like a completely different country than the one I grew up in.
Bin Laden won. 9/11 broke everyone's brains, then electing a black man made 1/3 of the population just go completely batshit.
I swear he's said something similar before, and the quote appears incomplete as I remember him going on to say "From there the questions get more difficult". As if he's pointing out that the first few questions are no brainers. At least that's my interpretation.
This kind of clickbait doesn't help anyone. Let's focus on how bad his policies are, all of the legal trouble he's in, and his lack of moral character.
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
"Person, Man, Woman, Camera, TV"
When does he start bragging that he kept the colors inside the lines when he crayoned the kids' menu?
Right after he hands the US to Putin. Clearly.
I love the fact that he thinks it good his doctor made him take a cognitive test.
"Went to the doctor... smart doctor. Ronny Jackson, ladies and gentlemen. Hes a smart guy guy. Told me Nikki Haley has something going with her head, after her collapsing after that speech and i said you know, maybe i should take a cognative test right now and he agreed. Let me tell you it was easy. Had to identify a whale, let me tell you looked like Rosie O'Donnell... what a despicable person. I need a presidential immunity because of the witch hunts. Victor Orbán wouldn't let this happen to him. Strong leader. Aced the cognative test and the concussion test after, too"
I honestly have no idea if that's a real quote or if you're shitting me.
He's so stupid, even his speeches have spelling mistakes.
How many doctors quit before one would give him a passing grade? We've seen how he burns through lawyers.
Well we can be pretty sure his BMI was a complete fraud (if that guy is 6' 3", then I'm 8 feet tall), why not this.
Was the test a mirror?
Is the test in the same room with you right now Mr Trump?
But can he identify a dumbass insurrectionist? I think not!
Would there need to be a mirror involved?
Nosferatu can’t see themselves in those
This is a Chris Christie joke.
So Trump identified Christie? How much coaching was required and how many tries did Trump get?
Next, He will tell me he has fully read the little engine that could book.
I need to hear his book report on The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Not going to take him seriously until I see him finish "My Pet Goat" without getting distracted.
correctly identified a whale
So... he looked in a mirror and went, "Yeah that is me"
Way insulting to whales, imo.
At the next possible opportunity, a journalist should ask him what the answers to those invented "advanced" questions are.
I mean, I know they won't, but they should.
He's been talking about these tests for years now. This means he either gets them regularly, or got it once and keeps thinking he just took the test last week. Neither scenario gives me confidence in his mental ability.
No, he just thinks it tells people how smart he is and therefore the best to be president. He doesn't understand what a cognitive test is or for.
He's gaslighting us and a considerable portion of us is choosing to believe it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump, who has a penchant for crowing about hoarding classified documents and the crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021, boasted about acing a basic cognitive test in his continued efforts to prove his self-proclaimed title of an “extremely stable genius.”
During a campaign stop in New Hampshire Wednesday night, the former president touted his ability to correctly identify animals of different shapes.
Spawning countless memes, the former president touted back in 2020 how well he had done on a 10-minute assessment designed to detect mild cognitive impairment (such as early-onset dementia) during an interview with Fox News.
As Trump supporters stood in the cold waiting for the ex-president to take the stage on Wednesday, the scene echoed his visit to the state just a day before in southern New Hampshire where fans waited in the snow for the presumptive Republican nominee.
Trump, who has achieved the feat of being the only (four-time) indicted former or current president, was charged for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, which his own officials at the time claimed was the most secure in U.S. history.
As the former president prepared for legal proceedings in ongoing cases against him, Trump swooped a historic win in Iowa on Monday with 51 percent of the caucus vote, defeating former U.N.
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