Biden’s fitness for a second term

I went against a better judgment and unblocked a few of your posts to see what you were ranting about today and if this post does not show what a sick, demented, and ignorant person you are to people then I don't even know what to say anymore. You in fact are making Trump look like the stable genius he claims he is by comparison. I don't care what your politics are the fact that you can say with such conviction that you don't think Joe Biden is a good person and has a good heart just shows how out of touch with reality you are. I hope this is a straw that breaks everyone's back and they stop giving you the attention you are so desperately seeking.

Against my better judgement, I am going to ask you something. All I want is a yes or a no answer.

If in November, the nominees for POTUS are President Biden and trump, will you be voting for trump?

What one has learned about MAGA Gal aka Twister Gal is that she will never answer a straight yes or no question.  

Still waiting for her to answer the simple question “Do you think trump is a compassionate person”.

Now if MAGA Gal aka Twister Gal should respond to this she will start ranting using big bolded letters, accuse me of all kind of things but will not, I guarantee you, answer either question.  But if she does it’s only because I’m challenging her which she can’t stand so she will have to prove me wrong and answer the questions.

He says he once apologized to his mother for using foul language in front of her. Other than that, of course, he's never done anything wrong. Eye roll.

Clearly, these sources are liberal, but there are some valid points from a psychologist about Trump's mental capabilities.







washingtonpress.com/2024/02/24/dementia-psychologist-says-trumps-brain-is-dementing/

Psychologist and former Johns Hopkins University Medical School Professor Dr. John Gartner is trying to help cut through the confusion — of the voters, not the candidates, that is.

He says that the mixups we’re seeing from Biden and Trump aren’t actually as similar as they may appear to the layman’s eye. According to Salon, he said:

“There is also this focus on Biden’s gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden’s brain is aging. Trump’s brain is dementing.”

He explained that mixing up names can be normal from an aging brain, and doesn’t necessarily imply any general loss of sharpness or ability. However, he pointed out that Trump’s errors are often substitutions of slushy, mushy, non-word messes, or, “phonemic paraphasia.”

He described the incidents where Trump starts to say a word and it goes sloppy before the end — “benefishes” for “beneficiary;” “Obamna” for “Obama,” “renoversh” for “renovations,” and others.

Dr. Gartner says this isn’t typically seen until “moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer’s,” and calls it a “fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language.”

He also addresses the “word salad” Trump sometimes engages in, seeming to change topics mid-sentence.

Perhaps most importantly, Dr. Gartner addresses the “baseline.”

He says Biden has always had a stutter and verbal flubs, but in interviews in the 1980s, Trump was “a bit of a jerk, but he was articulate and polished.”

In short, there’s been a significant change in Trump’s ability to speak over the years, while Biden has “always made gaffes” but has “a good heart and good judgment,” by Gartner’s evaluation.

Gartner isn’t the only medical expert offering his advice to the public on how to assess the mental acuity of a presidential candidate, either.

S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago, a researcher on aging, also says that mixing up names on occasion can be a normal goof for people of any age, especially when speaking publicly and dealing with stressors, according to the Associated Press.

Dr. Eric Lenze, a geriatric psychiatrist, weighed in as well, explaining that names can be the easiest thing to mix up, but that for an accurate evaluation of how someone’s mind is deteriorating, the focus should be less on a specific verbal gaffe than the overall accuracy of what the speaker says.

One wonders how you measure the accuracy of someone who likes to tell deliberate lies.


www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

Dr. John Gartner on a tale of two brains: "Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing"
"This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language," the renowned mental health expert says of Trump

The claim that President Biden is old and therefore so diminished mentally and physically that he is incapable of being an effective leader has taken on a life of its own. In many ways, this narrative is immune to the facts and evidence and may be a deciding factor in the outcome of the 2024 election and the future of the United States.

Dr. John Gartner is a psychologist and former professor at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Gartner was a contributor to the 2017 bestseller "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President."

In this conversation, Gartner argues that it is actually Donald Trump and not President Biden who is showing diminished mental acuity and dangerous behavior related to aging. Gartner explains that Donald Trump’s escalating dangerousness is connected to what he believes is a diseased mind that will only get worse. Gartner warns that given Trump’s dangerous personality and emotional state, (Gartner describes this as “hypomanic” behavior) he is almost certainly plotting revenge and how to make his “enemies” suffer as revenge for finally being held accountable by the courts and the rule of law. At the end of this conversation, Gartner explains how even on his worst day as an older person, President Biden is a far superior leader and decision-maker (and human being) than Donald Trump.

There is also this focus on Biden's gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing.

"Phonemic paraphasias" —the substitution of non-words for words that sound similar—are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer’s.

Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes “benefishes.” Renovations become “renoversh.” Pivotal became “pivobal." Obama became “obamna.” Missiles became “mishiz.” Christmas became “Crissus.” Bipartisan became “bipars.”

This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language. If you were talking to your father on the phone and he did this you would think he is having a stroke. There is no healthy older person who speaks that way.

Trump also engages in what we call "tangential speech." He just becomes incomprehensible when he engages in free association word salad speech that is all over the place. Again, that's a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step not being, but of severe cognitive deterioration.

Biden has been excoriated for forgetting names, which can be a normal part of aging. But Trump isn’t just forgetting names, he’s forgetting and combining people. Trump believes Nikki Haley is Nancy Pelosi. He has said repeatedly that Obama is still president. He said his father was born in Germany when that was his grandfather.

There is also a person's baseline. This is an essential tool for evaluating a person's mental decline. If you look at Trump's interviews and speeches from the 1980s for example, he may have always been a bit of a jerk, but he was articulate and polished. Now if you look at Trump there is great deterioration. By comparison, Biden has never been the most articulate person; he always had a stutter. He always made gaffes. But Biden has a good heart and good judgment. Over the decades we have not seen much evidence of deterioration in Biden's speaking.

Trump is what we would clinically describe as "hypomanic." Trump is a man who is sending out messages on what used to be Twitter and also on his Truth Social platform at three in the morning, sometimes dozens of them in a row. A hypomanic personality has certain strengths and weaknesses. But a lot of it is like a vector of force that depends on where you direct it. Trump has directed his energy in purely destructive and hateful ways. What appears to be endless reserves of energy feeds the incorrect impression that somehow Trump is stronger because he has the vitality of someone who is in a crazed state, who's running amok. There's energy in that apparent crazy behavior. But in the end that is not the type of person who we want as a leader. Such a person will not keep us safe. Trump and people who act like him are not going to have good judgment.

Even if he was demented, I would rather have Biden than Trump as President of the United States. Dementia brings out the worst in people's character. They become 10 times worse. If Biden really were to mentally decline — and I'm not saying he has or will or is — but he's basically a benign person with good judgment. Biden cares about his fellow human beings. Biden is patriotic, and he actually believes in defending the Constitution and the United States of America. So even if Biden were to become diminished in his cognitive abilities, he's still not going to do something evil or crazy. He just might need more help. By comparison, Donald Trump unleashed would be like Satan unbound.

Biden's great great grandfather was apparently pardoned by Lincoln. But none of that stopped Turkey from trying to smear Biden with a story from Biden's family 4 generations ago.


eta - autocorrect changed his name, but I decided to leave it

Most importantly: Biden has appointed and will continue to appoint experienced cabinet members who believe in our constitution and the rule of law. If he became unable to do the job, they would invoke the 25th.

Trump has shown that his primary criteria for cabinet members is blind loyalty to him and a desire to destroy the department they oversee. They will do what Trump, Inc. tells them to do no matter what his mental state.

That’s pretty much all anyone needs to know about the candidates’ mental states right now. Spouting off about third party candidates is foolish in the extreme. That’s not going to happen. A vote for a third party candidate is a vote for Trump and a descent into fascism.

Except that’s not the question you asked or that people responded to. Eventually you decided you meant something different, but it wasn’t what your poll said, then or now (yes, I realize you can’t edit a poll). So no need to get sanctimonious with me about how your question was nothing like my example.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-25-2024

But Saturday’s South Carolina Republican primary suggested that the drive to lay waste to American democracy is not popular. Trump won the state, as expected, by about 60%—lower than predicted. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley won 40% of the vote. This means that Trump will have to continue spending money he doesn’t currently have on his campaign.

More important than that, even, is that it shows that even in a strongly Republican state, 40% of primary voters—the party’s most loyal voters—prefer someone else. As Mike Allen of Axios wrote today: “If America were dominated by old, white, election-denying Christians who didn’t go to college, former President Trump would win the general election in…a landslide.” But, Allen added, “It’s not.”

Which may be precisely why Trump loyalists intend to overthrow democracy.

I mean, you can have old Biden, or you can have the party that welcomes Nazis: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335.

And whose mainstream has an openly stated goal of ending democracy and turning the US into a Christian neo-fascist theocracy: newrepublic.com/article/178848/ban-abortion-trump-lgbtq-project-2025.

I feel like this shouldn't be a hard choice.