Trump's rambling is getting worse | His speech is becoming harder and harder to understand.

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.

So what happened to San Francisco?

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.

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.

I mean Jackson and Lincoln both got shot, at least Jackson wasn't a bitch about it.

This is way worse than it ever was.

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

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

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,

I hope they give him coke or amphetamines before the debate to try perking him up.

I also hope it causes him to incessantly freak out about how much he's shitting himself

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.

And there will be people who consider themselves good people who wont vote and will just let it happen because they can't be bothered or think they're above it.

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.

Weird

Hey! I've said the same thing! You can look at my comment history. :)

He has always told rambling, near-incoherent stories.

No he hasn't. Here is a link to a Trump campaign speech from his 2000 run. Jump ahead to 6:45 or so in the video to where he starts and listen for just a few minutes. The difference between this speech and his current style of spewing sewer-pipe is starkly astonishing.

I am thinking someone took his adderall away to avoid a complete mental collapse.

A lot of very smart people?

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

Honestly, it won't make a difference. The people who have decided to be Trump supporters are going to stick with him through it all. They think any criticism is either a hoax or a conspiracy to get him down. I have family members who are completely wrapped up in this guy. They believe anything he says and would do anything he says. Literally anything. It's pretty scary to be honest.

Oddly enough the opposite is true with Kamala. She was saying some wild shit 4+ years ago or just aimlessly rambling. Idk if she just got good scriptwriters since then or what, but it's a lot better now.

"The two-party system sucks"

"Wait, that's not what I wanted!"

Lol

Lol, a unity Republican ticket? What would that even look like? Two Dems would immediately lose the MAGA base and be dead on launch. Trump would also launch a third party campaign!

I wonder if he has really bad PTSD

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

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

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.

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.

His hair looks a lot more like normal hair these days, which means he's yielding to the advice of people around him. Which in his case means he's losing his goddam mind.

I thought he was on Ozempic?

I mean he could stand to lose some weight?

I was thinking more of a Dead Tom situation:

It’s the office they want, not him. He’ll be removed after regardless. If America lets them.

Thing is, he used to be absurdly stupid but his ramblings seemed coherent enough for some folks...now it seems more incoherent rudderless babble...hes confoundingly unintelligent...just absurdly so

No bar so low he won't limbo under it.

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.

Always has been

57 is the optimal age for a first-term president.

I want to be able to retire. I want everyone to be able to retire. I want my representatives to share that value, and set that example for the general public. I want them leaving office at age 65.

I won't necessarily vote against an older candidate, but a workaholic does not share my values: I don't live to work, and I think poorly of people who do.

They can certainly continue to contribute I. Their retirement. They can speak, teach, work for charitable organizations, sit on boards, counsel and mentor. Pretty much anything except professional business like politics.

The president should be setting the example and promoting retirement, not working themselves into the grave.

Pilots have one, why not world leaders?

We haven't ignored it.

His cult did.

He was never in remotely good mental health, but he's gone from "in the deep end of a pool, and he can't swim" to "In the middle of the Pacific Ocean (in an electric boat, and there's a shark nearby)" with how quickly he's declining

When things start very low and then decline further it's harder to notice. I think he is called an ass-emtote.

I do wish the media would forget to mention him altogether. Pay as much attention to his rants as they have to his increased dementia (not much).

I'm incapable of listening to the gasbag. Even his written (transcribed) speech I can only skim.

His rambling nonsense & lie fueled non sequiturs are too exhausting to take in for my little cat Lady brain (I'm just a neighborhood cat enabler (food, nip, water) & enthusiast, but I'll happily wear Vance's scorn label).

Still, I'm grateful, like you, for the people patient enough to listen to & transcribe that Cockwomble's stories.

By the time that ever happens, it’d just be house arrest at worst for him.

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

What about his diaper?