Trump is "undisciplined, unhinged and deranged": Guardian

[Pototan]

A “beautiful” beach body and a “mentally disabled” opponent. “One rough hour” of police retaliation to stop criminals. “A million Rambos” in Afghanistan. Haitian immigrants “eating the dogs” and “eating the cats”. Death by electrocution versus death by shark. Insane asylums and, of course, “the late, great Hannibal Lecter”.

These are just a few of the recent remarks made by one of two major candidates for president of the United States. Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, has spent years saying the unsayable to entertain, goad and grab attention. But his pronouncements over the past few weeks have plumbed new depths of absurdity and incoherence.

Trump, 78, increasingly slurs or stumbles over his words, raising fears over cognitive decline. He is slipping in polls against Kamala Harris and knows that defeat could lead to criminal trials and even prison. After a decade of dominating American politics, critics say, Trump could be in the throes of a final meltdown.

His verbal output now is “absolute batshittery”, according to Tara Setmayer, a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill. “These are not the musings of a well-adjusted adult. He demonstrates daily how unfit he is to have the most powerful position in the world.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/06/trump-behavior-final-meltdown

[OLDMDDEM]

1. And you just noticed this?

[Pototan]

2. Everyone on DU knows this

but we need to reach the ill-informed voter and have the media relentlessly focus on the Trump decline.

Two articles appeared today, and I posted both. The other was the N Y Times.

[yardwork]

3. Thanks for posting this.

I took the other remark to be aimed at the media, who have been, at best, asleep at the switch on Trump since 2016.

[Poiuyt]

4. I agree with everything except that he's slipping in the polls against Kamala

If anything, they're tightening.

[Pototan]

5. If the MSM focuses on these issues of Trump's decline

and fitness for office, I think we'll be just fine.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Favorable character traits per MAGA.

[Crowman2009]

7. File this under: What else is new?

[anamnua]

8. Remember this is a British newspaper

And their readership may therefore not be fully up to speed.

[RandomNumbers]

10. I missed the "million Rambos" remark. Just curious,

(and not to entertain any notion that any of the given examples make ANY sense at all),

Just Where the F*ck would we get "a million Rambos"? Consider that there are about 1.3 million active duty in ALL services (including the Coast Guard); add in ALL part-timers like National Guard and Reserves and it goes over 2 million. (Summary of data)

Only someone who never served in the military and is completely devoid of clues, would think you could get a million Rambos out of that. Oh sure, most of our military troops are fine folks (except for many being deluded by right-wing content on the military media channels); but not "Rambos". Of those who qualify (e.g. Special Forces), many are already stationed in crucial missions around the world.


Well the whole comment was probably completely insane anyway - I missed it, so don't know exactly what he was going to do with his million Rambos, never mind the consequences - but the logistical ridiculousness of it sort of jumped out at me, and I literally
.

[Farmer-Rick]

11. He's an elderly man who has outlived his brain

He repeats the same stories to the same people. He doesn't recognize people he's had in-depth conversations with if he met them recently. Though he remembers people from the 1980s, though he mispronounces their names.

I really think the filthy-rich oligarchs need to find themselves another psychopath to use. This one is too old and worn out to be of any use.

Reminds me of my Grandpa in his
final days, if he had been a nasty, lying psychopath.

[republianmushroom]

12. They finally get around to posting the obvious.

It is a start.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Fantastic headline from The Daily Beast on Donald Trump's cognitive decline!

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