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      Real talk, in 2016 I knew two assholes who voted for him to punk libs as a joke. So uh, kinda yeah.

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      Sort of. It’s the result of a very long history of the government using all of their resources to attack, discredit, destroy and infiltrate and person or group that is remotely left of the far right unaccountable colonialist capitalist subjugation. On 4 Chan that was the occupy movement and that was infiltrated and destroyed by our government yet the more dangerous Nazi’s and incels got a pass. This is because these hateful ideologies support and reinforce the oppressive system. Just more COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

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      The qanon saga… some are just nasty and don’t know the difference between comedy because of social pathology

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    Trump managed to convince me in two sentences that his MRI was on his brain. He really does have a way with words.

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    Cooked his brain? It didn’t even look at his brain. Didn’t need to because he aced the tests, which you couldn’t possibly do. His brain is as raw and fresh and smooth as the day he was born. I bet yours is all gross and old and wrinkly looking.

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    Oh, so it has had an MRI, I wonder where?
    “It wasn’t the brain”
    Oh, so it’s had an MRI on the brain, I wonder if they found it?

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    How Is this person even real? And the president of the usa?

    He talks about deporting immigrants to their origin country, how about we deport him off the office and make him calm down and SHUT UP!

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    He will never admit to what he sees as weakness. He painted himself into a corner there with how he constantly accuses Joe and Hilary of not being forthright about their health issues. He’s such a hypocrite.

    His bragging about “passing” these cognitive tests makes me think the doctors have to make them into a game he can “win” or best others at just so he’ll take them. So even they are well aware he’s a stupid narcissist and know how to manipulate him.

    My hot take is I bet Leavitt looked ashen that day because he had a heart attack and/or stroke right in front of Putin.

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        At this point, I would say almost all of the brain has been affected. Different types of dementia typically start in a few specific regions but then they spread.

        Eventually everything breaks down.

        I bet if we saw mri scans of his brain it would show 20-30% reduced gray matter (from healthy average 50 year old) with most significant alterations in the frontal cortex and temporal lobes. Atrophy in the hippocampus and other limbic organs.

        It would take post-mortem review of the brain to fully access the damage. Probably some loss of mass in the cerebellum (controls balance and posture). Significant changes in the brain stem that controls arousal and sleep states.

        Here is what I think is going to happen.

        After Trump’s gone. Suddenly the Republicans will admit he has dementia.

        And we will all be expected to feel bad for poor ol trump.
        He had dementia after all. A terrible medical condition. So sad.

        Only a monster would make fun of someone with dementia. Only a monster would criticize a mans decisions that were made while he had a terrible brain disorder.

        They will still make it out that no one knew. And that technically (and this is technically true) a certain diagnosis of any dementia can only be made post mortem. Even Alzheimer’s. Because an biopsy examination is required.

        But we can “highly suspect” specific dementias while the person is alive.

        To clarify I’m not “making fun” of him for having dementia. I’m pointing out he has dementia and the consistent evidence.

        He’s not even in charge. He’s a puppet. What things he is actually doing is destroying the white house. Building ball rooms. He isn’t in charge of much else. Not even the tariffs. Someone else is telling him to do that. Think about it. You think he’s looking up trade deficit numbers? You think he even knows the names or locations of half the countries he put tariffs on?

        He doesn’t even know where he is or what is going on in the world.

        Although dementia (any of them) is a terrible horrible thing for a human to have. And it’s not something I would wish on others.

        Sometimes, I do ask myself:. If someone did deserve it … ?

        Unfortunately though. we get the fallout.

        But I do want to be clear. He is a puppet right now.

        Any shit going down right is the men around him. Miller. Mikey. Hegseth, The project 2025 guy. The antichrist guy. Anyone else with access to him.

        He can be swayed by anyone who flatters him, and asks for his autograph on important papers.

        These handlers let him have his little distractions like decorating his ballroom.

        But they are running everything else. Trump is at a point he is incapable of following any kind of questions or thoughts.

        He’s much worse than people realize. I worked in Alzheimer’s research. You wouldn’t believe how many times family members would bring dear old gramps in , saying “he seems to be struggling a little bit with remembering things” and we would do testing and dear old gramps couldn’t figure out how to fold a piece of paper and put it in an envelope (that’s a real part of cognitive tests). It was very sad to see and I always felt so much empathy for those people and their families coming to terms with how much decline had happened.

        My point is. On the surface it may only look like he’s slightly impaired but I’m telling you it’s severe. The word salad is enough evidence for that. The wandering around also comes when the condition is moderate to severe.

        I don’t feel empathy regarding Trump. Only sadness that so many are suffering because of power hungry losers. Who are also not even that smart. Using Trump like a “weekend at Bernie’s” to fuck us and live out their power fantasies.

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    It’s like a child in 6th grade still talking about passing a spelling test in 1st grade.

    But hey, windmills cause cancer and no one knows how magnets work. Oh, and they definitely stop working underwater.

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    I feel like he would remember if it was the brain just because they click in a cage thing over your head for the duration of the scan. I get an MRI of my brain once a year for my MS and I would never forget getting one. But hey, who knows, he’s going senile. Maybe he forgot. Or maybe he has some kind of disease in a different part of his body that needs an MRI to diagnose.

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      Or he’s lying because he doesn’t want to admit to having the cognitive issues he clearly has. Or possibly just because he’s so used to lying at this point it’s just automatic.

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        Ah yes, that’s probably the most likely. Although I could also just see him not being informed what’s going on in his body because they think he’ll just blab it out one day.

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          him not being informed what’s going on in his body

          Um, what the fuck? Do you understand how medical consent occurs in America?

          This would require someone have the power to consent for him and have medical decision make power. That’s a far more wild accusation.

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            I mean this is hypothetical but they could have told him the general stuff without the details of what’s actually wrong. Like “something is wrong with your pancreas” instead of “your pancreas is utterly failing because of xyz”. I’ve personally experienced doctors doing this with my own medical issues (I found out later by switching doctors) and while it’s salacious to not tell a patient the entire truth, some asshole doctors don’t. Add in that patients with dementia are often viewed as incapable so aren’t informed of everything as much and yeah I could see it happening. Especially since if he has dementia then someone is likely more knowledgeable of that situation than him and likely would have been informed of the details of the MRI in full instead of him. This also isn’t far off from what was going on with Reagan.

            But this is, again, a hypothetical and it’s much more likely he doesn’t remember or he is lying.

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      Weird I got a brain MRI scan about 4 years ago and there was no cage

      Edit: I am in no way defending Trump, just curious about the MRI experience. Trump is a pedo fascist fuck with dementia

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      @LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world

      @MuskyMelon@lemmy.world

      Right now, my mum is developing dementia (we’re waiting on tests to help with a definitive diagnosis). Her memory is very bad, and getting worse. She can forget what she said in one sentence by the time she is part way through the next. If it wasn’t terrible it would be amazing - like she fully 100% has no idea what she said and sometimes will even argue that she didn’t say that thing. So I think it’s completely within the realms of possibility that he doesn’t remember.

      I also think that he doesn’t care enough about any of this to even register the information as worth remembering in the first place. He’s a shitty cunt regardless of the objective assessment of his mental state.

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        I believe his dementia is full-on and the traitors around him are propping him up to serve their own ends. He’s being used as a puppet and that’s dangerous for someone who commands so much power.

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      Also not defending chester Cheeto. But I’m curious why they make you do the cage. That thing absolutely terrifies me, and I was so glad they never made me use it when they were scanning my brain because of my chairi malformation. Maybe it’s because it’s my brain stem they’re looking at?

      At any rate, I’m so sorry you have to go through that. I can’t imagine. Literal nightmare fuel

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        I’ve had scans for my brain and neck area and they’ve used a cage always. And the last time they did the neck they did this extra big cage just for that section. It fucking sucks. It’s possible it’s just because I’m in a red state that hasn’t had as much investment in it for medical tech so things are more outdated. Or the people hate me and want me to suffer in that cage. Probably that first one. Or they just need to because they’re scanning the whole brain maybe? I dunno. I just know that I have them put a washcloth over my eyes so I can’t see it because, like you said, nightmare fuel.

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          :( God, that’s awful. It’s making me wonder if they’re going to do it to me when I get my next scan. I haven’t had one since I was 14 (34 now…), and I was in Virginia then. Doc told me a couple years ago I should probably get a scan sometime soon to confirm everything is okay. It’ll either be in Tennessee or South Carolina this time around.

          Do they use the mesh one that hardens in place on you?

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            If you mean the washcloth then no, it’s just a normal washcloth that you would use at home. They just lay it over my eyes and I can’t see the cage so it’s easier to convince myself it’s not there.

            If you end up getting another one, they say that you shouldn’t move at all during the scan and that’s not quite true. There are multiple scans and you can quickly adjust in the lul between loud dub step noises. When I’m not sleeping through the scan I’ll take those few seconds to adjust and get more comfy. Just some advice. Those spots also might be harder to hear if you listen to music just fyi, I don’t.

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              i was confusing the mask for the cage. I thought you were talking about one of these, but apparently they are for oncology treatments.

              Still, the cage would be awful. The washcloth is a great idea. I panicked really badly my first time in an MRI when I was a kid. I got to a point by 14, when I had my last one, where I was mostly okay… But it being 20 years, I don’t know how I’ll handle it when I get the next one, especially if they introduce a cage >.<