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‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said

Republicans are concerned that party leader Donald Trump is having a “public nervous breakdown” after he made a series of offensive outbursts about Vice President Kamala Harris as he slips behind her in the polls.

The former president has made a number of  insulting personal attacks against his Democratic rival since she moved to the top of the ticket. Last week, Trump questioned Harris’s racial identity  at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.” 

New polls indicate Trump is slipping behind the vice president in the popular vote and races are tightening in battleground states. 

“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump state department appointee, told Politico.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

What a fucking useless article. "Just write anything about Trump, we need the clicks". Fucking "journalists", absolutely complicit in the downfall of the US and the turn towards fascism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Mad (wannabe) king, with his subjects all in diapers, fixated and all chanting along in unison as he deteriorates "the nurses are all stealing the desert off my food tray!!! The nurses are all stealing the dessert off my food tray!!! The horses are all feeling the dress shirts on my good day!!! The morsels are healing my farts and the dogs gay!!!"

All the grifters surrounding their grifter in chief are going to "Weekend at Bernie's" his old, weird deteriorating body and mind so hard.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This article is bullshit.

Republicans don't actually think that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's just one of the Never Trumpers who doesn't even have a seat anymore, Kinzinger. The others have either kissed the ring or been kicked out of office.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And, I dont understand how he could, now, be having a public nervous breakdown, if he wasn't before. He always made personal attacks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

When narcissists become triggered they have a fight or flight response. Trump is having that same response every day of his life. He was having it during the coup, he was having it when he was raping, he was having it when he got convicted. The observation that Trump is mentally crumbling is true. But it's something that he does daily.

Just think how contorted someone's thinking must be I'm order to derive their self worth from a poll.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's rich that he is claiming she has a low IQ when he got gentlemen Cs while at Penn. One of his professors called him his worst student ever.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also his obsession with those two cognitive tests he didn't fail isn't a great sign for his IQ either.

Maybe I'm the dumb one, but a "cognition test" sounds to me like something they do after someone has received some head trauma to make sure it didn't break their brain or for an old person to see if they are going senile. Like a test where "tell me your name" is part of the test rather than part of the supporting paperwork.

Though maybe his handlers told him it was a genius test or something like that and no one has had the heart/guts to break it to him since.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You are correct. A cognition tests look to see if you are having severe mental cognitive issues. The questions are extremely basic like doing connect the dots or identifying a lion.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He said "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Missing some inflection

"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."

-Dr William T Kelley, numerous times over the course of 3 decades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Hell yeah public meltdown LET'S GO!

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