It’s Trump — believe it or not - who actually has a family history of dementia (Alzheimer’s in his father, Fred)— and who’s increasingly inchoate. But he manages to hide it by compensating with a loud and rapid cadence as he barks streams of lies. This fools enough voters into thinking he has the cognitive edge (and energy) over Biden. He does not. It's purely an illusion and partly attributable to his showmanship as a reality TV personality.
I already wrote a post about his
batshit insane nonsense about sharks, batteries and sinking boats, i.e.
that surely ought to be a heads up to the nation about Trump's emerging Alzheimer’s. (One of the early signs for Janice’s cousin Desmond were tales of space aliens stealing mangoes from his mango tree in his back yard.) Also, a shot over the bow to Trump's big money donors like Duke Buchan III (WSJ Exchange, July 6-7). Does the Duke really want his $50.1 mil down the crapper if Trump goes total Alzheimer's three months into a new term (god forbid!) and has to be removed under the 25th amendment?
Other incidents over the past 6 months also reinforce this take that Trump is perhaps months from totally cratering. Let's spotlight some of them:
During the last several months of Republican primaries, Trump
repeatedly claimed that his opponent Nikki Haley was in charge of Capitol
security on January 6. (Haley never had any connection to Capitol security.)
He
has repeatedly confused who he ran against in the past, such as stating, “With
Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn’t be won.” (Trump defeated
Hillary Clinton in 2016.)
Trump
has confused Biden with Obama so often that he’s had to put out a statement
that the slips have been intentional.
Last
September, Trump suggested that the way to prevent wildfires in California’s
forest lands is to keep them damp. Here are his words:
“They say that there’s so much water up north that I want to have
the overflow areas go into your forests and dampen your forests, because if you
dampen your forests you're not gonna have these forest fires that are burning
at levels that nobody’s ever seen.”
In
October, Trump warned his
supporters that Biden will lead America into World War Two.
Trump has also claimed that
whales are being killed by windmills. That he won all 50 states in 2020. That he defeated Barack Obama in 2016. That the outgoing chair of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff should be executed.
Then in March we heard Trump
babble:
“They come out with faucets where no water comes out. You stand under a
shower and you have to wait five times longer.”
As Lawrence O'Donnell put it
in a March ‘Last Word’ segment:
“What person
with any sense remains under a shower when no water comes out?”
So we can agree that Trump is
showing growing signs of dementia, specifically Alzheimer's, but isn’t facing nearly the same scrutiny as
is Joe Biden. Why not? Because he basically got a pass with his debate
performance, using flood the zone with
lies tactics that left Biden unable to respond coherently. And this took place in front of 50 million
people which started Biden’s polls going off a cliff.
The media’s attitude, right or wrong, is that the post-debate polling confers an objective advantage on Trump. This gives him a kind of ‘benediction’ and protection from too harsh scrutiny or criticism. Biden could have turned this around but his high profile debate failure cratered any hope, and we’ve no idea what he’d do in a new debate in September. Lastly, we have to thank Donna Jackson Nakagawa for her ground breaking work in the book, 'The Angel and the Assassin'
on how microglial cells can be triggered into activity, get out of control and 'eat synapses'
Also how these ‘play an important role in the pathological process of Alzheimer's disease, often leading to extremely aggressive displays as we've beheld in Trump. They are mainly involved in the uptake and clearance of amyloid-β (Aβ), as well as the formation of neuroinflammation. It's been found that overactivated microglia increase Aβ and Tau, and Aβ and Tau in turn act as activators of microglia. These then 'go on the warpath' eating synapses and the ability to reason along with it.
Additionally, various cytokines and proteins, high cholesterol, and telomere shortening are all associated with microglia activation. This can start early in life with severe stresses, in Trump's case perhaps being sent to military school as a teen. This after his parents learned he was testing home-made switchblades on cats in his Queens neighborhood.
Are voters really prepared to see how he will test his 'Project 2025' switchblade on our democracy if they vote him into power again?
See Also:
If senility rears its head, isn’t a decent, honorable guy duty-bound to come clean to avert mayhem?
Against the worst menace ever to our functional governance, shouldn’t Dems field the nominee most likely to banish the explicit threat – plus the nasty ideology of Trumpism? Shouldn’t what we all know about Biden in excruciating detail have some input as to the party’s nomination? Or should allegiance to a good and decent president trump, so to speak, widespread dread over a worst-case scenario?
High-risk, abnormal jeopardy calls for abnormal proposals, even turning away from an untested primary winner. When conditions and skill-sets change – and a hurricane looms, isn’t it prudent, if not rational to exit comfort levels and seize the best shot at success? I defy entrenched passivity or true believers in the face of calamity.
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