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      and appeared to fabricate stories that could not possibly be true

      Yes. These are also called lies.

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      This is not a function of dementia. This is a result of a man so narcissistic and self-obsessed, that he can literally not imagine that other people exist on this planet. It’s not that he doesn’t care about other people. He doesn’t even acknowledge the possibility that others exist.

      Is an extreme form of solipsism. If you don’t know what that is, you really should.

      solipsism

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        That’s just a link to the wikipedia page philosophy of solipsism, what specific extreme form of it are you talking about? Is there a name for it?

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          Probably something like ‘absolute narcissism’ / ‘absolute solipsism’.

          E.g: The other doesn’t exist, other human beings are trees or whatever

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    Man he’s had signs of dementia for a long while now. What makes these signs any more impactful than previous ones?

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      Sadly I think the Biden case is very relevant to this story.

      Democrats hid President Biden away for months, but they couldn’t hide his disasterous “I defeated Medicare” debate performance. Do you remember what it was like in the months after that? I remember being so anxious watching Biden public appearances, hoping he doesn’t make a fool of himself. And then when he inevitably flubbed, I remember feeling such deep dread, thinking “oh God, Trump is going to be president again”.

      As the Republicans begin to give Trump the “Weekend at Bernie’s” treatment, Democratic criticism will not land as hard because we have so much footage of Dems standing behind Biden during his serious cognitive decline.

      Prepare yourself for “it’s just a stutter”-type memes.

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    I saw a clip of Trump speaking in 2020 this morning as I did my daily video catch-up over coffee, and it really struck me how much sicker he looks now compared to just 5 years ago, where he already looked like a wet mop on a clothing line.

    I know the Presidency ages you, but that’s regular presidents who work. Something else is aging this guy this quickly.

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      Some recent pictures showed pretty impressively swollen ankles (bilaterally, mind you) which really only happens with a handful of conditions, congestive heart failure being the most common one.

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      Something else is aging this guy this quickly

      I wonder if, deep down in his soul (if he has one)… TACO knows the depth and intensity of the hatred every civilised human being feels towards him; and this knowledge causes him unending misery.

      Silly me, of course that’s not the case. He’s just a subhuman piece of trash. Trash doesn’t do well when left out in the sun. It’s all the golfing that’s doing it.

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    “Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There’s very little difference between a madman and a genius,” he said. Trump then said he once asked his uncle about the Unabomber.

    “What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? He said: ‘What kind of a student — seriously, good … he’d go around correcting everybody. But it didn’t work out too well for him. Didn’t work out too well, but it’s interesting in life,’” Trump said.

    Don’t send bombs through the mail, me boys! But it was too late.