2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIQ killing Trump transcript from today
Adam Khan ?@Khanoisseur 1h1 hour agomy IQ plunged reading this Trump transcript from today
bb ?@beebigelow 18m18 minutes ago
this is not a man of sound mind
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Worse than Palin.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)This man is unhinged, nuts, wacko, crazy. God help us.
Arkansas Granny
(31,543 posts)But, yeah, he's unhinged, nuts, wacko, crazy.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Her job is done. He is completely incoherent.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)It is truly Palinesque.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Yeah, just as soon as "Meredith McIver" writes you those piercingly witty insults, right?
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)He's not a supporter but wanted to see what it was like. I asked how the Donald was, if he was still raging about all the mean lies said about him at the Dem convention. He said it was a lot of incoherent rambling, no real segue from one topic to the next. Said it reminded him a lot of Palin.
I imagine it was much like that gibberish in the transcript.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)nolabear
(42,005 posts)And yeah, it' a diagnostic for a number of things.
Ilsa
(61,717 posts)Read nolabear's link, everyone. It may be diagnostic for bipolar disorder, mania, even schizophrenia. Imagine, any one of those on top of his narcisstic personality disorder.
randome
(34,845 posts)This will be the most publicly humiliating downfall in recent history. Surely the campaign staff realizes this by now. Surely even the Trump offspring realize this by now.
I bet that less than 6 months after Clinton is sworn in, we'll hear how Donald was rushed to the hospital and is undergoing a long convalescence from which he may never recover.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]
Ilsa
(61,717 posts)And I wonder at what point he'll just say "screw it" and leave it all to Pence. That worries me because the rnc might actually rally around Pence.
I don't see how trump can keep going at this pace without becoming completely unhinged. Sarah Palin was losing it at one point.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)That is a very useful term to know. I plan to use it!
nolabear
(42,005 posts)I've said here many times how I wont diagnose en absentia but this is a pretty hard thing not to see. Mind you, someone who speaks this way doesn't necessarily do it all the time. But stress, mania, confusion, etc. can cause people to lapse into it. So I'm not claiming any particular reason for it but none of the possibilities is good in a presidential candidate, in my opinion.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Thanks again for sharing your expertise!
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)This is the Donald to a T. It needs to be spread far and wide.
nolabear
(42,005 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)I was thinking it was the same thing. He is mentally unstable. Under stress it can worsen fast.
treestar
(82,383 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)Watching Melenia speak. she would sometimes get what looked like a scared look in her eyes. I wasn't too sure if it was stage fright worried that she wouldn't get it right. Or possibly worried about donnie would say or do if she goofed up. After reading this I am leaning toward the later.
nolabear
(42,005 posts)Heck, I'd have been uneasy too.
duncang
(1,907 posts)I worked with a guy who would sometimes go off like that. He was really agitated one day while talking to him that nite went home and killed his wife. So I know that colors my perception a lot when I see someone talking like that. I am not a doctor and it may not be valid. But I really believe he needs to get some help.
nolabear
(42,005 posts)Hindsight is deceptive though. You can't go back and be the person it made you before it happened, and believe me, not seeing something like that coming is far more common than seeing it.
Ilsa
(61,717 posts)HIM! And I wonder if her low profile, especially with the public revelations that she lied about the degree, might mean that she really wants out from under the brutal carnival tent.
3catwoman3
(24,133 posts)None of which are good, and all of which should be sufficient to disqualify someone from being POTUS.
Ilsa
(61,717 posts)Last night Donald was in the depressive phase of manic-depressive mental illness-today he is in the manic phase. I watch some of him earlier. It was bizarre! Wish the cables would have continued broadcasting for the world to see!
Tweet:
CNN finally shuts down Donald Trump after he brags about hiring illiterate contractors
By Daily News Bin | July 29, 2016 | 0
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If Donald Trumps first speech today after the conclusion of the two national conventions was a good indicator of where he intends to take his general election campaign for the rest of the summer, that direction is just as confusing as when the day began. Trump held an event in Colorado in which he more or less rambled about random topics with little coherency or sentence structure. At one point, after he began bragging about how he hires illiterate contractors, CNN finally felt compelled to pull the plug.
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highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)Old Terp
(464 posts)Search Donald Trump
In addition to a research article comparing him to Voltemort, there is another research article saying that reading Harry Potter act as a patronus charm against Trump
Ilsa
(61,717 posts)Anyone sitting on the fence. Maybe the values of tolerance, conflict resolution without violence, overcoming authoritarianism, etc will sink in.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)Poe's Law has actually taken over.
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)public speaker I've ever heard in my life.
Not only is Sarah Palin better, she's EASILY better. That's scary
Salviati
(6,009 posts)I think it literally killed some brain cells.
Ilsa
(61,717 posts)about Benedict Donald's speech patterns and what they may represent. It can't just be aging. It's worse than that.
NEVERMIND... READ UP-THREAD ABOUT FLIGHT OF IDEAS, ETC., reply #7.
Tal Vez
(660 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)...and forgets that he's running for president?
I think he gets to talking and just loses track of why he's there...
Moostache
(9,897 posts)anamandujano
(7,004 posts)His governor friend called him with this advice. Good advice that he will not take plus it is already too late.
C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)A vile orange smörgåsbord of random hatespittle.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Chico Man
(3,001 posts)It is intoxicating.
For a lot of people.
I call it "Trump Drunk".
Chico Man
(3,001 posts)I was watching CNN.
When will he be held responsible for his lies?
Ms.Lib
(131 posts)It's beyond scary that this man is real & will soon be receiving intelligence security briefings.
JDC
(10,152 posts)After just having the umpteenth back and forth with a "buddy" of mine about the constant word salad that is Donald Trump, it just dawned on me what the issue is with his backers. Trump's words - to his Followers - are like the Higher Power in AA. They mean whatever you want them to mean. He is abstract. His speeches are an empty canvas and whatever he says, you or the guy next to you can interpret that to mean whatever it means to you personally. Substance, or lack thereof, be damned. He is so all over the place, people have convinced themselves he is talking to them, but they are actually just talking to themselves.
#been a while since I've posted. missed this place...
*edit for typo
rgbecker
(4,835 posts)Say whatever, let his followers put whatever meaning on it they want.
greyl
(22,990 posts)His followers are Trump Drunk.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That one has to go viral! That is exactly what these people are!
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...every time he opens his mouth he reduces the sum total of human intelligence...
relayerbob
(6,561 posts)Now we know why she wasn't at the convention.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)less sense than Keak Da Sneak.
Hekate
(91,039 posts)Bucky
(54,094 posts)And did you notice how when he stands there he goes? Why no one is goier than The Donald!
All the best words, I tells ya
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)John Poet
(2,510 posts)Trump's big problem is, he can't prevent his mouth from voicing every disturbed thought he thinks, in the second that he's thinking it-- and then half the time he can't complete the thought before he's off in the weeds somewhere else..
That was hard to read...
skip fox
(19,360 posts)grubbs
(356 posts)All to distract from the fact that he actually said he would hit them so hard their heads would spin. So he has the biggliest best smartest-est and now heaviest words. What an assclown.
mercuryblues
(14,562 posts)to his Denver speech. It is worse than the exerpts in the OP.
http://kdvr.com/2016/07/27/donald-trump-to-make-stops-in-denver-colorado-springs-friday/
But here is how the media covered it.
A day after the Democrats finished their convention, Republican Donald Trump declared during a trip to Colorado Friday he is taking the gloves off and will visit the state so often before election day that his supporters will tire of him.
Trump began a verbal take-down of Hillary Clinton in the afternoon in Colorado Springs and continued at an evening rally at Wings Over the Rockies museum in Denver.
We have created a movement, Trump said to the roaring crowd inside a hangar at the Wings over the Rockies Air & Space Museum. I mean, look at this.
Speaking without a teleprompter, Trump addressed the rowdy crowd for about 40 minutes in a speech that ranged from national security, respect for police officers and torture, to the use of economic sanctions to force American companies to keep jobs here. His speech was long on generalities and short on specifics. He promised better care for veterans and more support for police and the military, adding that his family has more star power than the speakers at the Democratic National Convention.
He was right the media is dishonest. They are portraying him as sane, reasonable and intelligent. In essence they are putting lipstick on a pig.