Fact: The average lifespan of an empire is (was?) around 250 years.
Fact: The USA is 248 years old.
These facts are unrelated. I don't even know why I brought them up.
Fact: The average lifespan of an empire is (was?) around 250 years.
Fact: The USA is 248 years old.
These facts are unrelated. I don't even know why I brought them up.
It can be hard to look back at your life as an older nonbinary person.
The ways in which society held you back in earlier years becomes more obvious with age. It can be especially complex when young nonbinary people around you are able to thrive in ways that you had wait to experience.
But your history, your memory, is valuable. You are needed to remind us of how bad it has been, what it's still like around the world, and how important it is to continue to fight for more.
"Americans from both sides of the political spectrum should be alarmed by Trump’s words and behavior. The nation must confront the fact that beyond his hateful character, he is crippled cognitively and showing clear signs of mental illness."
#Trump #LizCheney #women #violence #abortion #MentalDecline #age
/9
"But as he continues his bid for a second term in the White House, there is an unsettling and undeniable shift that is leading many experts, observers and even some Trump supporters to conclude that the former president’s mental acuity and sharpness are also in decline, that his physical health and stamina are waning and that his frustration and anger are boiling over."
#Trump #LizCheney #women #violence #abortion #MentalDecline #age
/8
"Donald Trump’s racism, sexism, xenophobia and penchant for corruption have long made him unfit for any public office, let alone the presidency."
~ Las Vegas Sun
#Trump #LizCheney #women #violence #abortion #MentalDecline #age
/7
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/oct/30/trumps-decline-has-been-alarming/
"Trump’s mental state continues to deteriorate, taking with it the former president’s inhibitions. After going on a rant about the people he blamed for troubles with his microphone at a sparsely attended rally in Warren, Michigan, the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America simulated oral sex on stage."
#Trump #LizCheney #women #violence #abortion #MentalDecline #age
/4
"No president in American history has been wealthier than Mr. Trump. And no president in the modern era, at least, paid less in federal income taxes in their first year living in the White House."
#Trump #fascism #MentalDecline #age #crime #lies #disinformation
/10
"No major party presidential candidate, much less president, in American history has been accused of wrongdoing so many times. …
America for the first time in its history may send a criminal to the Oval Office and entrust him with the nuclear codes."
~ Peter Baker
#Trump #fascism #MentalDecline #age #crime #lies #disinformation
/9
And as Robert Hubbell reports today, through it all, the beyond shameful New York Times keeps right on trying to sanewash Trump, with hot-shot young reporter Michael Gold trying to sell Trump's off-the-wall lewd reminiscences about Arnold Palmer as "golf stories." Until so many readers shouted back that the Times had to make a correction….
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #EmperorHasNoClothes #NewYorkTimes #sanewashing
/8
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/lets-focus-on-what-we-can-control
"Trump’s Campaign is in freefall. Trump’s own behavior has been completely off the rails, and the media are paying attention. His closing argument seems to be that he’s in cognitive decline and not capable of another term as president. I won’t speculate about what’s going on with him but something clearly is, and whatever the issue is it should be disqualifying."
~ Melissa Ryan
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #EmperorHasNoClothes
/7
https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/two-truths-and-an-observation
"The bottom line is simple: Donald Trump has no business running for the presidency. It’s increasingly difficult to dismiss the notion that Republican kingmakers are well aware of his incapacity but are intent on using his popularity to take the election and then quickly transitioning to a JD Vance presidency."
~ Joyce Vance
"Recent weeks have exposed with awful intensity the accelerating cognitive decline, the rising desperation, the unhinged lying, the hateful attacks and the increasing incoherence of Donald Trump."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #EmperorHasNoClothes
/5
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/overcoming-heartbreak-embracing-hope
"The fact that someone on Trump’s campaign leaked to Politico that he is 'exhausted' is almost certainly a sign that people down the ranks are deeply concerned about his ability to finish the campaign, let alone run the country. But party leaders continue to stand behind him, raising echoes of their staunch support during Trump’s two impeachment trials."
Exhausted all my eye and Betty Martin!
"The real story of today is that the Republican candidate for president is not mentally able to handle the job of the presidency, and Republican leaders are trying to cover up that reality. ...
To anyone paying attention, it is clear that Trump is not in any shape to manage the government of the United States of America."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #EmperorHasNoClothes
/3
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-20-2024 [heathercoxrichardson.substack.com]
"At a town hall-style forum in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Trump seemed to have no recollection of meeting with a severely injured veteran and his family. The veteran’s wife noted that 'you visited with him many times' and ;you just saw him this summer.'”
~ Steve Peoples and Lauran Neergaard
The record remains broken and we grow weary of listening, but it's impossible to stop playing it — too much hinges on our refusal to hear:
"The last two weeks alone, we have been treated to an incomprehensible amount of evidence of Donald Trump’s unfitness."
~ Mary L. Trump
Then Mary Trump offers quite a list of incidents to back her statement up.
Noting that Trump's niece Mary Trump is warning us that Trump's mental decline is steep and dangerous for all of us if he's elected, Dean Obeidallah writes:
"Corporate media covered President Biden’s potential cognitive issues non-stop—but when it comes to Trump they are giving him a pass. We know that’s not happenstance, but rather a decision made by corporate media executives—many of whom who are supporting Trump."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #MediaFail
/12
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/mary-trump-is-warning-about-donalds
The Five 8 respond to the pretense (pretending as in lying — let's face it: a lot of us love lies and tell lies) that we just don't "know" Kamala, so we can't possibly vote for her.
As the video points out, we absolutely DO know Donald Trump. And these folks want him instead?!
"'Get that guy the hell off our— get him up, Jill, slap him around. Get him up. Get him up, Jill. We want him off the couch to get out and vote.'
Trump’s performances over the past few days seem to confirm that the 2024 October surprise is the increasingly obvious mental incapacity of the Republican candidate for president."