• Chetzemoka@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    My grandmother with Alzheimer’s passed those clinical tests long after she had already asked us to take away her keys because she knew she wasn’t safe to drive anymore. So yeah…

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      So what you’re saying is, he’s a stable genius who’s more than qualified, and extremely fit to be the president of the United States?

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    “I think it was 35… 30 questions. And let me tell you, you know, they always show you the first one: a giraffe, a tiger or a whale. ‘Which one is the whale?'”

    He’s done this enough times that he knows the first one is always this question? How many cognitive tests has he completed? Did he pass the others?

    It’s also insane that the bar is this low. You recognize animal shapes, here are the keys to the nuclear stockpile, have fun.

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      All of this shit is just so upsetting on an existential level. How is any of this real? It literally feels like a completely different country than the one I grew up in.

      Bin Laden won. 9/11 broke everyone’s brains, then electing a black man made 1/3 of the population just go completely batshit.

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      I swear he’s said something similar before, and the quote appears incomplete as I remember him going on to say “From there the questions get more difficult”. As if he’s pointing out that the first few questions are no brainers. At least that’s my interpretation.

      This kind of clickbait doesn’t help anyone. Let’s focus on how bad his policies are, all of the legal trouble he’s in, and his lack of moral character.

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    How many doctors quit before one would give him a passing grade? We’ve seen how he burns through lawyers.

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      Well we can be pretty sure his BMI was a complete fraud (if that guy is 6’ 3", then I’m 8 feet tall), why not this.

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    I love the fact that he thinks it good his doctor made him take a cognitive test.

    “Went to the doctor… smart doctor. Ronny Jackson, ladies and gentlemen. Hes a smart guy guy. Told me Nikki Haley has something going with her head, after her collapsing after that speech and i said you know, maybe i should take a cognative test right now and he agreed. Let me tell you it was easy. Had to identify a whale, let me tell you looked like Rosie O’Donnell… what a despicable person. I need a presidential immunity because of the witch hunts. Victor Orbán wouldn’t let this happen to him. Strong leader. Aced the cognative test and the concussion test after, too”

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    At the next possible opportunity, a journalist should ask him what the answers to those invented “advanced” questions are.

    I mean, I know they won’t, but they should.

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      So Trump identified Christie? How much coaching was required and how many tries did Trump get?

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Donald Trump, who has a penchant for crowing about hoarding classified documents and the crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021, boasted about acing a basic cognitive test in his continued efforts to prove his self-proclaimed title of an “extremely stable genius.”

    During a campaign stop in New Hampshire Wednesday night, the former president touted his ability to correctly identify animals of different shapes.

    Spawning countless memes, the former president touted back in 2020 how well he had done on a 10-minute assessment designed to detect mild cognitive impairment (such as early-onset dementia) during an interview with Fox News.

    As Trump supporters stood in the cold waiting for the ex-president to take the stage on Wednesday, the scene echoed his visit to the state just a day before in southern New Hampshire where fans waited in the snow for the presumptive Republican nominee.

    Trump, who has achieved the feat of being the only (four-time) indicted former or current president, was charged for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, which his own officials at the time claimed was the most secure in U.S. history.

    As the former president prepared for legal proceedings in ongoing cases against him, Trump swooped a historic win in Iowa on Monday with 51 percent of the caucus vote, defeating former U.N.


    The original article contains 464 words, the summary contains 214 words. Saved 54%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    He’s been talking about these tests for years now. This means he either gets them regularly, or got it once and keeps thinking he just took the test last week. Neither scenario gives me confidence in his mental ability.

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      No, he just thinks it tells people how smart he is and therefore the best to be president. He doesn’t understand what a cognitive test is or for.

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        He’s gaslighting us and a considerable portion of us is choosing to believe it.