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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's dementia will be on full display tonight, and the MSM
will ignore it.
That's my prediction.
dalton99a
(93,250 posts)NCDem47
(3,393 posts)Trump speaks to the nation
His speaking:
Lies
Half truths
Delusion
Gaslighting
Rancor
Incoherence
Venom
Nastiness
And hell go on, and on, and on. Perhaps a record in terms on length. No joke. It will be a loooooong night.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,636 posts)I can't, but I'd like to.
OLDMDDEM
(3,116 posts)Jersey Devil
(10,808 posts)The longer the speech is the more opportunities for him to ramble on with incoherent statements, lies, baseless attacks and just generally look like a fool.
popsdenver
(2,046 posts)his supplier delivered twice the normal amount of Adderall, in preparation for his SOU mindless blabbering........
He often reminds me of James Joyce? "stream of consciousness" rambling in his book Ulysses??????
chouchou
(3,020 posts)i'm going to you want to keep making mash potatoes with 3/4 tank of light headed violence? Free yourself and submit to the airplane spiders in your feet before were all doing taxes with Taxi's with our grandparents. Slugs might be wetter than sheep but at least they know how to run. Our planes will fly into the civil war ships.
Conjuay
(3,021 posts)FakeNoose
(41,052 posts)That's the first tip-off....
He literally cannot complete one thought without flying off to 5 or 6 others. I don't believe it's a sign of dementia because he's been doing it his whole life. That's why the news media always edits him down to sound bytes, because Chump's unedited speech pattern is nothing but word salads.
ShazzieB
(22,426 posts)He doesn't just ramble these days.His mind wanders all over the place, and he can't stay on track to save his life. The word salad has become word confetti.
Experts who have studied his speech ppatterns and compared recordings of him speaking now and at various times in the past have commented on how his speech and thought processes have deteriorated and are continuing to go downhill as we speak. The decline has been gradual, because that's bow dementia works.
Check out this post I made the other day for one expert's opinion: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1322107326
If he manages to follow the teleprompter and stick to what's on there, he may manage to sound reasonably coherent, but don't let that fool you.
debm55
(58,824 posts)Harker
(17,648 posts)Two weeks! In two weeks! It's always in two weeks... it's only two weeks away!
calimary
(89,499 posts)Oh thats gonna take two weeks.
They extend the job that way, so YOU have to keep paying for - yeah. Another two weeks.
agingdem
(8,816 posts)they'll whitewash his putrid vomitus phlegm..the lies, the nonsensical blather, the insults, the threats, the incoherence, the self praise....the MSM will dismiss Trump's verbal dreck as "Trump being Trump"...
and you can bet one of the Fox brainless twits will say " tonight Trump became the president"...
Ocelot II
(129,985 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(15,515 posts)He'll have write a sequel to his Biden bashing book.
leftstreet
(39,813 posts)We've gone through this before. Weekly evidence of Trump losing it. The anticipation of a national meltdown. Slurring, wandering from the podium, look at his hand.... !!!
Then he pulls it off and seems just fine. He's either acting or drugged
CrispyQ
(40,866 posts)He's a mess. It will mostly be a whine festa litany of grievances perpetrated against him since...well, forever. From his ramblings that I read yesterday, he wants to take credit for all 250 years of American progress. Apparently we were a failed state until he came along.
Hopefully he will stroke out on live TV.
leftstreet
(39,813 posts)That's a YouTube clip I'd happily seek out
Farmer-Rick
(12,572 posts)Has some seriously dangerous meds in it that put a strain on his heart and brain.
So, maybe that's why he had a stroke that makes his right side droop. Each time they pump him up with performance enhancement drugs, he gets a little closer to death.
llmart
(17,491 posts)He knows he'll be hopped up on some of the best drugs/uppers available otherwise he'd nod off while leaning over the podium.
Johonny
(25,872 posts)He never appears normal for a human being.
Ocelot II
(129,985 posts)that he's not completely batshit crazy? But he never seems "just fine." Sometimes he just seems a little less barking mad than usual.
leftstreet
(39,813 posts)I think, anyway.
Narcissists are famous for it. Drawing attention to themselves by acting weird, mispronouncing words, stumbling movements, dozing, etc. ANYTHING that gets them attention and/or gives them the option later to not be accountable.
If he has agency in this facade, he wouldn't need a lot of drugs other stimulants or something
CrispyQ
(40,866 posts)I don't think so. No way he'd doze off after calling Biden sleepy Joe for four years. And a belligerent he-man type of guy doesn't want people seeing him stumble & have difficulty with simple movements. He's deteriorating & trying to hide it. I read he leaned heavily on Melania at the gov's meeting. If she's going to a gov's meeting, you know she's in on the coverup. She's probably just a little less anxious for him to die than the rest of us.
edhopper
(37,239 posts)I just think his speech will meander all over, with false claims, contradictions and obvious lies.
Rebl2
(17,593 posts)Ignore it everyday, so why would today be any different.
Walleye
(44,306 posts)Dr. T
(580 posts)Blue Owl
(58,769 posts)And the M$M toilet lickers will say its the greatest SOTU speech theyve ever witnessed
Jrsygrl96
(266 posts)Grim Chieftain
(1,522 posts)He's been pretty hard hitting and fearless when it comes to calling Trump out.
MustLoveBeagles
(15,515 posts)AverageOldGuy
(3,643 posts)He is going to be on national TV. Don't have any idea of the audience size but there likely will be millions watching some or all.
"The media" -- including those who are slavishly devoted to Trump -- will be watching.
I really believe, especially if he drones on and on, gets off script, repeats his usual easily-disproven lies - - - there's a chance albeit a small chance that heretofore fence-sitting commentators and public will decide "This drooling old fool is off his rocker . . . WTF can we do to get rid of him??" There's a slim chance the dam will break tonight.
As an aside: Don't put it past him to order bombing of Iran just before the speech and announce that we started and won the war in 15 minutes.
MLWR
(947 posts)but when he gets to his "great accomplishments," "the eight wars he stopped," and his litany of grudges and grievances, my guess is that many will leave, having heard it all innumerable times before. He has been repeating the same BS-speech for some ten years now, lest we forget.
ChicagoTeamster
(690 posts)I can watch excerpts later on youtube if there's anything worth seeing.
YodaMom2
(175 posts)Probably the one hosted by Joy Reid and Katie Phang. And then Ill watch the MS NOW afterparty with Rachel and crew.
sop
(18,162 posts)then compare it to the time Obama told justices Citizens United was a misguided decision.
CTyankee
(68,006 posts)I'm hoping for voices yelling "YOU LIE!" every time he lies. It will be a cacophony of yells since he will LIE every time he opens his mouth.
Demobrat
(10,275 posts)That and the correct drug cocktail will get him through.
bucolic_frolic
(54,737 posts)Tariffs, wars, oppression, chest-beating and sabre-rattling. Financial market and the world community can only take so much more. It may be his only remaining choice is total chaos. Steal the crypto and run.
Dave Id
(263 posts)'will sabotage' Trump's TelePrompter and leave Trump rambling on incoherently worse than ever.
underpants
(195,844 posts)Joinfortmill
(20,742 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(68,998 posts)OGBuzz
(152 posts)The rest of the media will hang on to every word, interpret the gibberish, and marvel at his pure genius. Peter Thiel's c*ck holster and the phoney christian sitting behind him will give a visual exhibition of worship, obedience and pure devotion.
LiberalArkie
(19,580 posts)because they never make any sense at all and the listeners brain will try and make sense of it to the person. Like how when a person looks at scrambled words and be able to decern a message. That is how he has gotten by, people hear what they want to hear.
betsuni
(28,936 posts)They'll promise to let him have all the ice cream he wants later if he's a good boy. The way the pundits are talking it sounds like word has gone out that he has to be a good boy and behave himself.
Demobrat
(10,275 posts)and not go off script.
ultralite001
(2,466 posts)or should the title read, "Who is Krasnov worried about???
So much security fencing + so little security...
