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"The nature of Trump’s personalist presidency, in which the entire govt is organized around turning his whims into reality and the barest hint of dissent is swiftly punished, makes the question of his age *even more important* than it was with Biden, who was surrounded by competent people."

publicnotice.coWhat if we covered Trump's age the way we covered Biden's?His rapid decline is obvious. Why not give it the attention it deserves?

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with social media is not anymore about true or false it is about controlling the narrative Trump is surrounded by largely incompetent people with one exception: they mastered the narrative control

Gee, I wonder if it might have something to do with the fact that all our media outlets are owned by billionaires who donated millions to Trump because they know his corruption will get them more money than his dementia will lose?

Exactly. The concern around “what would happen if Biden died while in office” made no sense. He had a competent VP who was a former AG and Senator. While it would have been sad if Biden passed away or was no longer capable, Harris who many thought would be a good POTUS, would take the helm.

He's now nodded off multiple times in front of an audience in the Oval Office and elsewhere. I haven't heard the corporate media mention it once. Imagine if Joe Biden had done this even once?! It's mind-boggling! This man was never mentally fit for office, but now he's a mental and physical wreck.

Why isn't the corporate media covering his obvious physical and metal decline the way they did Biden? Why aren't they covering his family's corruption AT ALL, while they often covered Hunter Biden's miniscule by comparison influence pedaling? Thee free press isn't free, and might never have been.

I never understood why Joe Biden's age was an issue. Sure, he was old, but if it came to a point where he was not up to the job, Kamala Harris was right there to step in. The team is what matters. And that is why Trump's dementia is an issue. He's crazy and surrounded by fools.

The nature of Lord Dampnut's (aka Trump's) "personalist presidency, in which the entire govt is organized around turning his whims into reality and the barest hint of dissent is swiftly punished" is fascism. But yes, one of the awkward features of fascism is so much hinges on the cult Leader.

Been saying that about the difference between Biden and 47. Biden had the most competent people in his administration. This one is a dumpster pile of garbage who know nothing about history or how to run a government.

There will come a day when he will fall into such disrepair that he is removed. We won't speculate on what happened because, as you point out, we've had to deal with a family member with the same issues. What I'm interested in is how the enablers will work to hide what they've done to us.

EXACTLY. I've pointed this out to people repeatedly. Reagan was senile, but at least he delegated responsibility. The issue was more how his people were incompetent than how he was.

I wish the media would also point out that Trump never goes out among regular people except for his rallies, and he never interacts with them. He never has, but at this point he doesn't even acknowledge the existence of regular people. The dementia and the narcissism are like two trains crashing.

💯‼️‼️It absolutely makes the question of his age(and sanity!) more important than it was with Biden. But Main Stream Media is so corrupt and kow tows to the dictator's whims.

WTF is up with this "personalist" newspeak? If you have an entire government organized around the President's whims, he is a fn dictator. Yes? If you have political officers maintaining ideological purity and controlling the media. You have the makings of a totalitarian gov't.

If you have the cops of multiple jurisdictions being deputized in some dog and pony show and patrolling the parks to make sure no one touches Dear Leader's pet project. You have cult of personality totalitarianism.

And for an impulsive person with zero ability to accurately assess risk and who is solely motivated by self-aggrandizement and enrichment, the lack of any meaningful barrier represents an existential threat to our country and republic.

The political right consistently receives more favorable coverage in both the UK and the US, often facing less scrutiny for behavior that would draw much harsher criticism if it came from the left. Right wing media has a significant influence left tends to be less aggressive in defending positions.

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💵s 2️⃣ 🍩s: the MAGA “out” will be to blame dementia for this. importantly- they’ll bring the Biden name into this. it will flood the zone as pundits stir the pot, as that strategy has worked brilliantly. it will allow them the wiggle room to escape the very real legal and historical repercussions..

And he invited the Taliban to Camp David for 9/11. Yet Democrats won’t call for Trump to resign. Their weakness emboldens their attacks on Democrats. And, trump surrendered to Iran b/c he likes bad guys, and wants a 20% cut of the tolls.

The media is still covering Biden’s cognitive impairment as if he were still President, and you never hear a word about how bad Trump’s cognitive decline is affecting the people of this country.

President Biden is a decent, compassionate, and empathetic human being, so of course there was no problem. When you’ve got a sociopathic malignant narcissist with no filter and delusions of grandeur, you’re going to get more of the same and probably worse.

And it not just their ages. Biden was smart and decent and not corrupt. Those are pretty big differences before you factor in the fact that they are old. But yes, all the press could talk about was Biden’s age. While President crazy pants does or says 20 awful things a day and they “sane wash” it!