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Donald John Trump is unwell. He is physically and mentally unstable. (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 OP
So are the people who support him and vote for him. Aristus Jan 2024 #1
That is a bdamomma Jan 2024 #14
TFG has threatened us with chaos, bedlam, and 'de-banking'. LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #2
I so want to call my bank and ask what SEC and FDIC rules permit "de-banking" bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 #3
Debanking is actually a real thing. SilasSouleII Jan 2024 #25
And they can do it for LEGAL businesses too, which shouldn't be allowed. oldsoftie Jan 2024 #35
Why did they do it? dpibel Jan 2024 #54
They dont like my kind of business. oldsoftie Jan 2024 #62
Dear Goddess, that is actually the way he looked during that psychotic break? niyad Jan 2024 #32
Post removed Post removed Jan 2024 #59
Hello GP6971 Jan 2024 #60
Darn! Did I miss lg again? niyad Jan 2024 #64
LG's in a league of thier own, a troll who cannot resist a trolling. marble falls Jan 2024 #65
bye! mmmmmmm .... pizza! marble falls Jan 2024 #61
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2024 #63
Donald Trump is smart enough to know.... OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2024 #4
What's the Republican back-up plan?................................ Lovie777 Jan 2024 #5
Wow.....I think you are right. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2024 #6
I would call "No Labels" "No Future" instead DBoon Jan 2024 #8
Well, they did go 'No Platform' in 2020, so they are a lot of NO Captain Zero Jan 2024 #11
I used to be a willing third party voter COL Mustard Jan 2024 #15
Whatever it takes to stop trump I dont care. oldsoftie Jan 2024 #36
MSM has a lot to answer for mcar Jan 2024 #7
Good luck getting those capitalist MSM owners to admit that they care more about profits erronis Jan 2024 #21
You know what is really funny? The NYT is supposed to be America's 'Newspaper of Record.' I often comment PatrickforB Jan 2024 #40
Great exposure of the NYT deep capitalist roots erronis Jan 2024 #44
Now, Fox News is pointing out Trump's cognitive decline. LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #71
The craziest Roman emperors were also the cruelest. dalton99a Jan 2024 #9
I don't believe he's mentally unstable at all. He's bluestarone Jan 2024 #10
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2024 #12
He is a dangerously deranged sociopath completely caught up Ford_Prefect Jan 2024 #13
He'll fall apart eventually but maybe not fast enough MadameButterfly Jan 2024 #17
Trump confuses Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi when talking about Jan. 6 LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #31
I heard Nancy Pelosi wouldn't let George Washington use Air Force One in 1776. Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2024 #49
Yeah, this one give me hope MadameButterfly Jan 2024 #58
Die, motherfucker, DIE!!! Blue Owl Jan 2024 #16
There's been a change? UTUSN Jan 2024 #18
Maybe he'll fucking die of natural causes, horribly and publicly Orrex Jan 2024 #19
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2024 #42
He needs to stay upright long enough to lose the election. Dulcinea Jan 2024 #43
I'm down with that. Orrex Jan 2024 #46
Dementia can progress slowly, but once diagnosed U can look back & see early signs. LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #20
Wow, that's a messed up word salad. Dave Bowman Jan 2024 #53
TFG may have topped (or bottom) himself LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #70
He's acted like this for at least 10 years. BigmanPigman Jan 2024 #22
The bigger story of the election is actually going to be Trump's cognitive decline LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #30
Trump is not nearly unwell enough to suit me. stage left Jan 2024 #23
EXACTLY!!! niyad Jan 2024 #33
I want him above ground, drooling, pooping himself, and unable to be understood even by MAGAts Kennah Jan 2024 #57
He is still acting as always 5 yr old brat who was never told NO Tribetime Jan 2024 #24
Its up to the GOP who they want to run (unless courts say otherwise). BootinUp Jan 2024 #26
He is emotionally incapable of dealing with the job Warpy Jan 2024 #27
#TrumpMentalHealth is obviously impaired. LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #68
He Isn't RobinA Jan 2024 #72
Anxiously waiting Tornado Jan 2024 #28
A confused Trump blames Nikki Haley for January 6th and says she was in charge of security for the Capitol LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #29
The deterioration isn't happening fast enough to suit me. (nt) Paladin Jan 2024 #34
Karma makes it's own timetable. Be patient. twodogsbarking Jan 2024 #38
I only wish that he gets what he deserves. twodogsbarking Jan 2024 #37
What else is new? live love laugh Jan 2024 #39
Still one of my favorite photos of Nikki Haley LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #41
love it nt et tu Jan 2024 #45
I don't want him to escape prosecution and conviction because of it. LiberalFighter Jan 2024 #47
36 months and counting republianmushroom Jan 2024 #48
He's no more mentally ill than the rest of his cult. progressoid Jan 2024 #50
And that does not matter one bit. Hope22 Jan 2024 #51
No shit, Sherlock! bif Jan 2024 #52
Dementia J Loser's brain is oozing like Hassler Jan 2024 #55
"Dementia J Loser" Dave Bowman Jan 2024 #56
President Biden just released this devastating ad calling out Donald Trump's cognitive decline LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #66
Has anyone figured out why Nikki Haley tore Trump's SOTU speech? LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #67
'His mind is scrambled eggs': Morning Joe concerned by Trump's increasing mental decline LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #69

bdamomma

(63,974 posts)
14. That is a
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 09:05 PM
Jan 2024

slim minority of people who would vote for him. There are more of us than them. Just sharing that.

bucolic_frolic

(43,513 posts)
3. I so want to call my bank and ask what SEC and FDIC rules permit "de-banking"
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 08:00 PM
Jan 2024

because I'm worred about it, and worried they might be closing. We could drive banks crazy trying to find out.

SilasSouleII

(364 posts)
25. Debanking is actually a real thing.
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 10:17 PM
Jan 2024

Banks can close(debank) accounts that they asess are a risk to the bank. Drug money accounts, criminal organizations(like trump org.), proud boys(already debanked by paypal).

oldsoftie

(12,675 posts)
35. And they can do it for LEGAL businesses too, which shouldn't be allowed.
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 10:53 AM
Jan 2024

Its happened to me with Wells Fargo. Totally legal business but they'll tell me I have to close the account. Eventually I quit them, but I made them spend a lot; I'd simply open a new acct every time they did ti. Opening a new account costs them a few 100 bucks so I got a little satisfaction. Plus the local bankers weren't to blame but they got credit for "opening new accounts".

Its discrimination and it shouldn't be allowed.

oldsoftie

(12,675 posts)
62. They dont like my kind of business.
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 08:52 PM
Jan 2024

Its an ATM servicing (cash loading) small business. Private ATMs like you see in stores & bars. They'll see the daily deposits from an ATM processor & somehow it'll fall something somewhere. Even though its totally LEGAL.

Response to niyad (Reply #32)

Response to marble falls (Reply #61)

OAITW r.2.0

(24,786 posts)
4. Donald Trump is smart enough to know....
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 08:14 PM
Jan 2024

he is fucked 6 ways to Sunday. He's losing his fortune, the house of Trump cards are falling down. Then you have stolen docs, 1/6, Defamation suits......and. while he needs to keep pumping for MAGA dollars, he can hardly string a coherent sentence together, at his rallies.

Rooting for him to be the nominee and then watch the polls and his decline.

Question. Trumps flames out, in spectacular fashion around July/August. What's the Republican back-up plan?

Lovie777

(12,408 posts)
5. What's the Republican back-up plan?................................
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 08:27 PM
Jan 2024

"No Labels" (the new and improved GQP).

OAITW r.2.0

(24,786 posts)
6. Wow.....I think you are right.
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 08:38 PM
Jan 2024

GOP is melting down if Trump flames out. A mass exit of Republican voters to "No Labels"?

Pretty weird, but maybe this is the end of the GOP, reconstituted as "No Labels"....no idea's or policies, either.

oldsoftie

(12,675 posts)
36. Whatever it takes to stop trump I dont care.
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 10:54 AM
Jan 2024

Trump is a threat to the US and the free world. Nobody else the GOP would put out there is even close to the threat he is

mcar

(42,474 posts)
7. MSM has a lot to answer for
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 08:41 PM
Jan 2024

their set in stone theme of "Biden is old and incapable" (despite reality), vs "Trump is popular and inevitable despite his issues" is journalist malpractice and dangerous.

erronis

(15,470 posts)
21. Good luck getting those capitalist MSM owners to admit that they care more about profits
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 09:50 PM
Jan 2024

than journalistic integrity.

PatrickforB

(14,605 posts)
40. You know what is really funny? The NYT is supposed to be America's 'Newspaper of Record.' I often comment
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 11:55 AM
Jan 2024

on its online articles, and one time I disagreed with their reporting because it seemed untrue.

So I posted that the NYT's editors have no real fiduciary responsibility to truth in news because of the doctrine of Shareholder Primacy, which began in 1919.

The NYT did not approve that post and so it never showed. This is one of only a handful of times when one of my comments was not published. The Times allows me to rail against Shareholder Primacy when I am commenting on some other corporation, but not their own shop.

For your reference, the NYT is listed on the NYSE and is currently trading at $48 per share.

Just saying. This is why you need to go to other sources for the real truth. The largest institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc, BlackRock Inc., Farallon Capital Management Llc, Stockbridge Partners LLC, ValueAct Holdings, L.P.

Meredith Kopit Levien is the NYT CEO. She has a net worth of $13.5 million, and 'earned' $7.5 million in 2022.

To repeat, her ONLY fiduciary responsibility as CEO of NYT is to generate profits for shareholders. That is it. She is not responsible for truth in news, for worker welfare, for consumer welfare or the environment. Only PROFITS.

And you know, I have been thinking long and hard about this, and the fulcrum whereby we could force publicly traded media organizations to publish truth in news would be to overturn the Shareholder Primacy doctrine and replace it with a stakeholder approach to governance whereby truth in news, worker and consumer interests and the environment are held equal in importance with shareholder profits. If we made this seemingly minor change in the rules, and then enforced it, the public would be in for a real awakening.

erronis

(15,470 posts)
44. Great exposure of the NYT deep capitalist roots
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 12:30 PM
Jan 2024

I've wondered about having for-profit corporations being treated as publication outlets for the US (or state/etc.) governments. As you state, the NYT is the paper-of-record - not only for official notices but also because it has assumed that position and much of the business world is in deference. Seems way too easy for this outlet to subtly change messaging (not always subtle, I know) and lead the readers astray.

Same for the new tech outlets, especially Xitter (dead blue bird) where many government agencies publish articles and the owner is a crazy/evil zealot. So easy for him to modify messages and create havoc.

I cancelled my NYT a few months ago and am still receiving the WaPo but probably not for much longer. The Guardian is my most trusted news source as well as many RSS feeds from many smaller outlets.

bluestarone

(17,128 posts)
10. I don't believe he's mentally unstable at all. He's
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 08:46 PM
Jan 2024

Mentally EVIL! He, 100% knows exactly what he's doing, just like ALL his cultist followers!!

Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Ford_Prefect

(7,935 posts)
13. He is a dangerously deranged sociopath completely caught up
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 09:01 PM
Jan 2024

In his fear that legal retribution is at hand, along with relative poverty.
His neice has diagnosed his pathology and has called his bizarre and dangerous behavior out at every turn.

Someone needs to make the case that he is not competent. Sadly too many people have their political and financial futures invested in propping him up.

MadameButterfly

(1,118 posts)
17. He'll fall apart eventually but maybe not fast enough
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 09:17 PM
Jan 2024

to save us. Once he's president he can be Caligula and no once can stop him.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,968 posts)
31. Trump confuses Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi when talking about Jan. 6
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 01:37 AM
Jan 2024

The rate of TFG's decline seems to be accelerating



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-confuses-nikki-haley-pelosi-talking-jan-6-rcna134863

Former President Donald Trump appeared to mistakenly refer to GOP rival Nikki Haley instead of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., when discussing the Jan. 6 riot at a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Friday night.

The mixup came during Trump's remarks to a crowd of supporters in Concord, N.H., where he spoke for more than 90 minutes and repeatedly bashed Haley, who served in his administration as an ambassador to the United Nations and has never been a member of Congress.

“Nikki Haley, you know they, do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it. All of it because of lots of things like Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people,” Trump said......

Trump's gaffe comes as he frequently portrays President Joe Biden, 81, as confused and mentally unfit for office. The former president, 77, has previously confused politicians during his speeches. In September, Trump confused Biden with former President Barack Obama, saying "with Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn't be won."

During the same September speech, Trump also said that "we would be in World War II very quickly if we're going to be relying on" Biden.

MadameButterfly

(1,118 posts)
58. Yeah, this one give me hope
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 07:11 PM
Jan 2024

that he'll fall apart fast enough. The undecided low-information voters will need a slew of these, but perhpas they are coming. He's under a lot of stress and probably taking drugs.

Orrex

(63,295 posts)
19. Maybe he'll fucking die of natural causes, horribly and publicly
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 09:45 PM
Jan 2024

That would be just about the best thing ever.

The actual best thing ever would be if he'd been born with some horrifically painful congenital malady that tortured him every second of his shitty, miserable, decades-overlong existence.

But if we can't have that, then I'll settle for watching him suffer a stroke so powerful that it pops both eyes from his skull.

Response to Orrex (Reply #19)

Dulcinea

(6,692 posts)
43. He needs to stay upright long enough to lose the election.
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 12:30 PM
Jan 2024

It sucks, but Dolt 45 will be the GOP nominee. He'll most likely lose. As of 11/6, he needs to go away forever.

BootinUp

(47,222 posts)
26. Its up to the GOP who they want to run (unless courts say otherwise).
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 10:33 PM
Jan 2024

I don't feel like they are going to listen to us liberals/progressives.

Tornado

(3 posts)
28. Anxiously waiting
Fri Jan 19, 2024, 11:49 PM
Jan 2024

I will not have competed peace until he is not reelected. The vision of him being president again after every thing he's done and what I've heard and seen is horrifying to me. It's almost like there is some invisible ray beem controlling the minds of his followers because it is so profoundly clear to me what he is and what he is not.

Hope22

(1,909 posts)
51. And that does not matter one bit.
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 04:39 PM
Jan 2024

If he is on the ballot in November he will wage an even bigger insurrection. He will never ever stand down. It is the fight for his life. Screw the rest of us!

Dave Bowman

(1,898 posts)
56. "Dementia J Loser"
Sat Jan 20, 2024, 06:05 PM
Jan 2024

Lol, that's a good one. From now on I think that I'll just call him The Stinking Madman.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,968 posts)
69. 'His mind is scrambled eggs': Morning Joe concerned by Trump's increasing mental decline
Mon Jan 22, 2024, 09:29 PM
Jan 2024

TFG's senility is becoming too obvious to ignore
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mental-decline-2667026074/

On Monday morning, MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough detailed the extensive gaffes and ramblings of Donald Trump that appear to be increasing with his every appearance and suggested there is good evidence that the former president is "addled."

As the MSNBC host noted, the Trump campaign is hoping to make President Joe Biden's age a central theme of their attacks, but the GOP has a serious Trump problem.

"You know, I spent a lot of time with Joe Biden. I can tell you, Joe Biden knows where he is. He knows what decade he's in, he sure as hell knows who he is running against — there's just really no comparison here," he exclaimed. "Yeah, you want to talk about who is addled? This is an easy one. Let's talk about who is addled. Who is addled is a guy who can't even remember that Barack Obama hasn't been president of the United States in eight years.".....

"Except for the fact he is in 2016 most of the time; even in 2016, he forgets who he ran against. He talks about the landslide victory against Barack Obama," Scarborough insisted. "Jonathan Lemire, let me bring you in here because I know you've been seeing this. He talks about the landslide against Obama. He talks about Obama so much as president of the United States, that on the radio show, [Fox host] Brian Kilmeade has to interrupt him and correct him.... his mind is scrambled eggs when he gets up there and gets tired. He really thinks that he is running against Barack Obama. just like he thought Nikki Haley was speaker of the House on January 6th."

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