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      The dying flailings of neoliberalism, but also yes.

      Like the left during the rise of the Nazis the movement is disorganized and divided, having counted on the support of the “moral” centrists who simply don’t exist.

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      UTIs (urinary tract infections) really fuck with people experiencing dementia. Sometimes the way a person acts under a UTI is the first sign of such cognitive decline. They’ll be fine one day, but when infection sets in it’s like they become another person.

      However, that’s for people who ordinarily have self-control. For Trump, it’s anyone’s guess.

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    I’m not sure what is worse - when he goes ALL-CAPS/CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL, or when he has the Random Capitalization of words For no Apparent reason.

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    I wanna see them file for actual impechment and not just call for it.

    Like whats the point other than making the orange turd angry

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      It’ll take another decade for some of you to realize Bernie and AOC are just as ineffective and just as much part of the neo-lib machine that keeps us going further right.

      AOC isn’t saving us, she just gives you the illusion someone is fighting for you. She’s allowed to vent on your behalf.

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    Why does the president keep bragging about his passing of dementia tests‽ How can he not understand that that is admitting to needing them?

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        “My physical therapist had me walk across the room. He told me I did amazing. Perfect genes, I should be in the Olympics. I challenge Obama to try to walk across the room without even stopping a fourth time. He can’t. SAD”

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      I just want to hear someone from the press pool shout, “you’ve already said this, Donald.”

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    How many times has he “completely lost it” recently? He’s always been insane. Insanely stupid in fact. Nothing new here.

    Yet, when we read the headlines, every few days or weeks, he “completely loses it”.

    If he were throwing grass in the air, eat dirt, or speak in tongues, maybe it would be worth the completely lost it title. Otherwise, it gets old after a few times.

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      That really irks me is we basically have two styles of headlines right now.

      The newer sites like Rawstory, Mediaite, New Republic, Daily Beast, and Meidas Touch all use this bullshit style of headline writing.

      Meanwhile the traditional media sane washes the man and is equally disconnected from reality, but in the other direction.

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      I’m also very sick of the clickbait titles. But in the case, he did actually lose it… I was doubled over laughing, the whole sequence is amazing

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      It’s hyperbolic, as headlines always are.

      Trump “completely loses it” all the time because he seems to have complete undying loyalty from everyone around him. There are no negative consequences for these outbursts.

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      I genuinely think I have a crush on her. She consistently smacks these GOP losers around and does it with a smile.

      ‘The girls are fighting’

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        She is awesome - but I hope they don’t intend on running her for president - not because I think she would do any less than a fantastic job, but because we have proven even women in this country won’t vote for a woman president. Meanwhile we have children in 5th grade drama running things. “But a woman would be emotional”.

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          Women candidates have struggled in the past, but it’s looking like Harris at least lost because of voter machine rigging.

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          Plenty of people voted for Hillary Clinton, despite her being Hillary Clinton. I don’t think her being a woman was the issue there.

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          Honestly, I’m pretty tired of establishment telling us who we’ll vote for.

          Not very long ago America was never going to vote for a black man.

          Bernie could never beat Trump… for some reason.

          I just don’t want progressives to do the work of conservatives.

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          Sounds like DNC logic - "Let’s not allow anyone who isn’t a right-leaning, but plausibly-moderate, cis-white person to run. We don’t want to divide our support. 🤦‍♂️

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          I think we need to wait and see how things shake out. If she can demonstrate broad based support then why not run her.

          If it’s only lefties who love her, then she’s not the right choice.

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            I’d love to agree with you but look how it’s worked out - the two times the orange idiot has been elected he is running against ladies. It seems an insurmountable hill for the general public to be ok with a woman president

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              Yeah. There’s a correlation vs causation problem here that I don’t really have the answers to.

              In other words I think that’s reductive.

              Hillary was Hillary and didn’t take Trump seriously.

              Kamala was run without much planning and forethought.

              AOC might be a woman, and I take your point that may not be in her favor, but she has many virtues that may outweigh that disadvantage.

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              Was it because they were woman or because they were just the same old Democrats people were tired of? You know, the left candidates that are actually right leaning, the establishment. Trying to appeal to the other side while forgetting their own base like a parent giving all of its attention to the one child who constantly does mischief while the others feel left out.

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    You know, these headlines do tend to exaggerate and call any outburst a rant or meltdown. But Jesus Christ, that is indeed a completely mental meltdown over a relatively ordinary political statement. And I like how Omar’s country is definitively rated the worst in the world, but…maybe it’s not rated the worst in the world.

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    When we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office

    I’ve got $1,000 on AOC’s test scores over trump’s; especially since he doesn’t know how to capitalize words properly and since she didn’t have a rich father that made huge donations to her college to get her in.

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      This guy has been calling out everyone else’s grades and test scores since at least Obama, while consistently threatening institutions with lawsuits if they release his records. Such stereotypically weak-ass bully behavior.

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          I love that you somehow caught a downvote on that. It’s almost a direct quote.

          "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had. " W. Kelley, Wharton Professor. Died 2011!

          That’s how fucking dumb he was.

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        As much as I loathe The Good Doctor…

        Trump fits that meme perfectly. ‘I am da president’ through the lips of a crying man child.

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      Its clearly a dementia test. AOC behaves like a non-cognitively impaired adult. Trump acts like a 70 year old who was in the NFL.

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      I don’t think there’s a person on the planet who would take that bet in good faith, except maybe Trump himself.

      He truly believes he’s a genius. Everyone else on the planet, including his supporters, knows deep down that he’s by far the dumbest person to hold the office.

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          And rich people think they are smart, because of money, instead of luck of the draw with parents giving them money.

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              Being better educated doesn’t make them smart. I know some geniuses who had to drop out of high school to work and some real dumbasses with doctorates.

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              My brother and I noted the propensity for some people born into wealth to be attractive as well. Braces when you’re 10 and a dermatologist when you’re 13 can have massive, lasting impacts decades later. Just a bit more invisible privilege those born to money get.

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                Historically, rich people have been able to alter what people consider attractive too. There were multiple cultures across the globe that painted their teeth black because being able to eat a lot of imported sugar made your teeth rot.

                Straight up health problems being romanticized just because it was a problem only affecting the rich.

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        Lots of Trump cultists would. Remember that most of them need to be as stupid or even more stupid than Trump to worship him so.

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    AOC should be forced to take the Cognitive Test that I just completed at Walter Reed Medical Center, as part of my Physical,” continued the commander-in-chief. “As the Doctor in charge said, ‘President Trump ACED it,’ meaning, I got every answer right. Instead of her constant complaining, Alexandria should go back home to Queens

    I miss adults running things.