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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

That's a sick looking jacket!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I've always wondered why this isn't standard procedure for Presidential candidates.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Because it's not a constitutional requirement. It used to be tradition to release your tax records too until Trump stopped doing it.

I imagine that no Republican candidate moving forward will ever put out their tax records as a result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

I think the tax records thing only started with Nixon.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Person woman man camera TV.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

What's the context/meaning? I've never learned it, so I've been unable to forget it too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I'm disappointed that that's a wikipedia page...

Thanks for sharing it though!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Trump bragged about his previous dementia test where they asked him to name 5 items twice and the ones he picked were: person, man, woman, camera, tv. Obviously 5 things right in front of him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Ohh, lol

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I would love to see it streamed/televised live in primetime in split screen so you can see them both doing it live so conspiracy theorists would have to really work at coming up with an excuse for Trump. Any other way Trump would afterwards just make up an alternate reality where he "aced" a dementia test.

I know he would still lie afterwards, and try and discredit the test, but people would have access to the video evidence, which is also the reason we have a better chance of him releasing his tax returns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Her earrings are microphones, obviously /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

And if she doesn't wear earrings, it will be a dildo in the ass.

And if she gets x-rayed beforehand, it will be something else.

There's no reasoning with people who have beliefs based in fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

dildo in the ass

no it was beads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Yep, unfortunately. There will always be an excuse, however absurd it might be.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They'll just claim it was a deep fake

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

He has been planting the seeds for this. I'm sure it's also part of his disinformation campaign should he win, when people start showing video of him and his campaign doing horrible things, like trying to use the National Guard/Military against US citizens for instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know that the has the cognitive ability to be able to cheat at this point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago

It's an interesting catch 22, if you're able to figure out how to cheat you didn't need to, and if you need to you can't

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

He’d do it with a trash doctor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He can do it with Stella Immanuel and she can say his bad results are because he sucks Satan off too much or some other BS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Holy shit I forgot about Stella "demon semen" Immanuel. Bruh this timeline.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Not if they did it at the same place and at the same time. Not that he'd agree.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

He would say it was rigged by the corrupt media/medical industry/comrade Kamala etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Guys, I know he'd make any excuse if it looks bad for him. That's what he always does. It also has the potential to shave off a few voters here and there. And a few voters is all that's necessary.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

An exercise in futility if ever there were one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

The real point, of course, is just to have a quick talking point to swat away stupid questions about "Trump says you're low IQ. What're you going to do about it?" He would never publicly release anything medical that didn't come from a doctor (or "doctor") 100% in his pocket.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think this will help much, even if the outcome is what most think it will be. There are already lots of radicalized people within the right-wing fascist bubble who will not believe anything that scientists, doctors, journalists, intellectuals, or people from a different political spectrum say. They only believe what their own bubble and their own media/leaders say. They are unfortunately already so far removed from any sort of objective fact-based reality that re-education will take a long time (maybe for the rest of their lives) and will not happen in time for the current elections in USA. Also, their rhetoric has already become quite 1930s Nazi-like. They are already using various dehumanizing or demonizing terms for their perceived "enemies", like vermin or low-lifes. It will probably become worse over time, and since the rhetoric is already bad, it's likely that violence will be the next step for them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

Maybe, but he keeps saying he wants her to do that.