Randahl Fink“Biden is too old”, they said. So they elected this guy:
Aho@randahl ah, he will live in the detention camp, good to know, hope they fill it up on maga
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@randahl That's not being old, that's being self-centered to the point of brain rot - in the middle of the Alligator Auschwitz situation he half-listens & assumes a reporter is asking him about his vacation plans, because how can any conversation be about anything except him...?
Tom DB 🦣@randahl I think his answer means :”forever”.
The second journalist should just ask: “ so Mr. President, based on your answer you want them to stay there forever?”
Keep confronting him with his silence.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@randahl ah, they just wanted to see their neighbours dragged away by the gestapo and see everyone in their lives suffer and be miserable.
It was never about Biden, it was about abusing everyone around you to make yourself feel strong and powerful....the mentality of the Abuser.
77 million Abusers, loving the pain and misery they've inflicted on everyone else.
But call them out and they cry victim, and the Rich take their side because we judge the Rich for their depravity.
Brian Grinter
Helianthus@randahl I'm struggling to wrap my mind around how some people still are surprised that Trump's attention span has dropped below zero.
It was not only foreseeable, it was imminent.
It was not only foreseeable, it was imminent.
JimTheWhyGuy ❌👑@randahl So now #PresidentKrasnov cannot hear very well, as well as not being able to read?
I really do not like this alternate timeline which IMHO was triggered by the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series in 2016.
Passwordsarehard4@jimthewhyguy @randahl I think that was a result of the Harambe fissure in May of that year.
@passwordsarehard4 @randahl Yeah, but Harambe wasn't foretold by Back To The Future 2, was it? 😇
WesDym@jimthewhyguy It's pretty much just dementia. He heard 'spend', and converted that to money, which he's familiar with. Then got lost in his own thoughts. He heard fine, I think. He's not PROCESSING well.
@wesdym Yeah, I've noted a lot of the same patterns with DJT that I saw with my Dad and MIL. Both who had dementia. At least they tended towards the humorous side rather than bitterness in their old age ...
@jimthewhyguy I've often regarded senility as being much like alcohol, a disinhibitor. It tends to bring out more of who or what you really are. People who are closet racists their whole lives become more overtly racist in their later years, because they're not restraining it as well. Like that.
As the layers of the onion peel off, I believe we're seeing more and more of the real Don, and it's not pretty. He's a bitter, hateful old man who's only ever understood conflict.
@wesdym Yes, totally agree. He's like a Roman emperor who wants to have his inner circle fight amongst themselves just for the spectacle.
And if he has his way, next year we'll have a special event to commemorate our Republic's utter degeneration:
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/04/nx-s1-5456844/trump-ufc-fight-white-house
WrenShe asked a simple question. Twice.
Instead of answering the question asked, he actively chose to intentionally scramble the answer until it no longer had any connection to the topic. Then he concluded by describing it as “a very nice question” as if to say, “Don’t you dare ask your nasty question about detainees being held in Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps a third time.” With that, he ended the press conference.
This specific incident is not a ”too old' problem. This is a Orwellian Ministry of Truth controlling information problem. The “journalists” enabling this to continue are compounding the problem.
@wren The journalists are caught in a bind. Standing up to this guy means losing access, which means fewer valid outlets reporting on him. You can't piss him off, or else the People end up paying the price.
It's easy to shit on journalists, but I'd invite anyone to do better in their shoes.
The People are already paying the price.
Expecting journalists to do their job is not shitting on them. Any outlet that carries his BS for him invalidates themselves.
@randahl Age isn't as relevant as many people think. I know plenty of much younger burnouts and also plenty of sharp minds in their 90s. It's a statistical average of much less relevance to a given person.
Taco is a burnout, but not merely for being old. He suffers from dementia now, and that's MORE LIKELY if you're older, but not at all certain, for anyone.
@randahl My concern is that kneejerk assumptions that age coincides with mental degradation can lead us to unwisely dismiss the wise counsel or guidance of older people who have much to offer.
masyukunMy point is that age =/= uselessness. ANY age.
This is a simplistic and unhelpfully reductionist way to deal with the world and the people in it. And we do it to our detriment. People must be assessed individually, not based on broad statistics.