Finally, the over-the-too sycophancy comes back to bite donnie

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Donnie had to take a cognitive test because He had a stroke or something, and the doctors insisted. His flatterers surely told him that it was a really hard test but he passed with flying colors and it proves he's a genius.

Because that's what sycophants do.

(Personally, I think it's not dementia, or not dementia alone; i think he had a stroke and that they did detect some cognitive impairment, but that's another topic entirely)


Since then Donnie's been running around town touting this test as if it really does prove he's a genius and his sycophants can't tell him they were just blowing smoke up his butt.

It was absurd from the get go. Hopefully this Wallace interview finally gives this story some proper play.


The mere fact that the president of the United States found a cognitive test difficult is quite disturbing.

[RockRaven]

1. More pundits should be making hay out of the point that he keeps banging on about

how difficult the test was. He thought the test was hard! That is the story here.

[empedocles]

2. The cognitive test was about as hard as the infamous 'walk down a slight ramp' with no side rails?

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3. It's designed to quickly assess if there's been any brain damage

You don't want potus to be a close call on something like that!

[agingdem]

4. he was confused about that one foot in front of the other thing

right foot/left foot or left foot/right foot...very difficult to remember

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. I had to take that test last year.

There was no suspicion that I had a stroke, brain damage or any kind of dementia. Rather I had to go into a care facility to have treatment for MRSA and it was required. And it was a piece of cake.

Fortunately, I'm home now.

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6. Glad to hear you're ok. Mrsa is nasty.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Thanks, and yes it is.

I spent 3 1/2 months on IV antibiotics. When I got out in March, it was just as everything was closing down because of COVID-19.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. My Wife Had It!

Same as you with IV.
We had the pump set up in the living room.
It was vancomycin 2x per day, and another (don't remember the name) once.
How's your GI system?
It messed up my wife's GI system for a couple months after treatment. Got too much of the beneficial bacteria.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. She was lucky to have had it at home.

I had vanco once a day and another whose name I can't remember three times a day. They gave me a PICC line, which had to be replaced twice. The nurse who came in to do that said the nurses where I was weren't flushing my line adequately.

At least I had no problem with my GI system. I know that I was lucky about that.

Here's to hoping that your wife never has a recurrence.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. She Had To Have PIC Replaced Once

Home care nurse did it here.
I ran home from work at lunchtime to do the 2nd med. It was only 20 minutes.
The vanco was closer to 45. Did that at 5 & 5.
Once that 2 months went by, it was like nothing ever happened. But, was a drag.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. My 3 x a day med lasted an hour and had to be done at 8-hour intervals.

So one was started at about 2 a.m. That was annoying. The vanco ran for two hours and was started around 6 a.m.

It's a major drag.

[LizBeth]

8. I agree.