Azath Vitr (D, on 11 September 2023 - 03:24 PM, said:
Unfortunately biology does not necessarily reward 'virtue' or punish 'vice'; plenty of obese people who eat like Trump does and don't exercise don't get heart attacks.
As someone who's wife has spent 20 years working in this exact field of geriatrics, the notion that Trump isn't ALSO suffering from cognitive decline is laughable.
Fun fact, MANY people who show a really debilitating cognitive decline do not do so all day every day, they do so often in the evening. Something called Sundowning. They can be alert, and viable, and energetic for most of the day and the cognition issues only really present after like 7PM...at which point they become slowly more and more unable to function. Happened to a friend of ours. She spent a full year having her father assessed and reassessed by the health care services and his doctors and they simply never would bring someone around late enough to see him sundowning...so he went uncared for in that regard for a long time and my friend suffered a tortuous year of trying desperately to get him the help he needed. By the time the sundowning was actually observed by someone who could make the call to transfer him to a care centre as she'd been asking for them to do for a year...he lasted 3 weeks and then died from the illness.
The many and varied elements of cognition do not always just present like Joe Biden might be presenting. It can happen in many ways, and frankly things like Adderall addiction would mask a lot of that, as does the fact that he's ALWAYS spoken in world salad nonsensicals...
Again, I'm not fighting for the idea that Biden isn't too old to run again, or that someone else should not be chosen to run in his stead....I'm simply saying that any notion of Trump being of sound cognition or physical health is being willfully blind to the many instances of proof we've seen in his behaviour in the last few years, even the last year he was president.
Like it's so silly that I can't believe we are even talking about it...Trump is just as cognitively fucked as Joe Biden is. They are both Octogenarians (or close enough to), and should not even be fucking DRIVING, let alone running any world governments.