My Dad had frontotemporal dementia. My sibling and I had to deal with the consequences - until we couldn't cope, when my Dad became properly violent.

We're looking at Trump and let me tell you, it feels eerily familiar. The confusion, remembering stuff from the past but not the present, but most importantly - and that's one of the defining traits of frontotemporal dementia - the constant aggressivity that stems from the sufferer's incorrect world views and beliefs being at odds with a reality that everybody keeps reminding him of, that leads him to believe everybody is against him... When it gets bad enough, the person literally assaults people who contradict him out of frustration. Ask me how I know...

We see the signs in Trump. Clear as day. And I bet everybody who's had to deal with a parent who had dementia sees the signs too.

The difference is, our Dad wasn't a sitting US president with a penchant for fascism and autocracy. He was a random dude and he was institutionalized before he could harm other people.

I bet everybody who’s had to deal with a parent who had dementia sees the signs too.
Same feeling: the rambling, the way he seeks acknowledgement, but more than anything the unfiltered hate he manifests. To me, it's absolutely clear that he has an initial form of dementia.
That's tough man. Sorry you lost your dad that way. Death of the person before the physical bodies passes is hard to handle.
Hope you and your family are okay now.
- Thanks. But it's been 22 years.
We see the signs in Trump. Clear as day.
And he wasn't in a good place before all that started. Very important. The shameless greed, complete lack of moral or ethics, dumb narcissism etc.
My dad had dementia. I had just started my first job states away when he got really bad. Coming home every month to find a new part of him removed. Was only 62. Went downhill quickly.
I made my wife promise me she'd assist in suicide if I ever got like that. I never want my kid or her to experience that.
Sorry about your experience but I’ve been hearing about his mental/physical health decline since probably the day he was elected. The Trump era has been seemingly hours from over every day for the last ten years.
I’ll believe it’s over when he’s gone.
And, unfortunately, at this point I feel like MAGA is actually bigger than him.
If you feel comfortable answering: did your dad show aggressiveness before or was it a completely new trait and behaviour for him? Because if the second: new fear unlocked.
- He never lifted a finger on us or our mother. He was a gentle man.
  Then he started saying weird things, like we had made a fake copy of the family house with fake copies of the furniture and the things inside the house to gaslight him. When we tried to prove to him that it was our real house, he'd get annoyed. Frontotemporal dementia causes sufferers to stop recognizing things as their own, and familiar people as the real people they know. It's very odd.
  Then one day he found his car keys that we had hidden for his own safety (he got real mad about that one too), drove off and almost killed himself going down a one-way street. He later claimed the street hadn't been one-way the night before. It had been one-way for a good 15 years.
  And then the whole conspiracy theory he had latched onto went wild: he claimed we tried to make him mad with the fake house and the fake things so we could send him off to a mental institution and steal his money - and of course, when we did send him there, it was confirmation to him, and he refused to talk to us ever again after that when we visited him. He tried to hit us with a fire iron that day.
  One day, he drank too much. My Mom tried to stop him drinking and he hit her, saying "You impostor won't tell me what to do!"
  Another time, he went to the bank to arrange something or other with his bank account, and ended up screaming his head off at the teller for trying to steal his money, and that the bank was in cahoots with the impostors trying to control his life at home. The bank had to call the cops and the fire department to get him under control.
  Long story short, at some point, we had to institutionalize him. He was so violent at the medicalized retirement house that they had to hammer him with meds until he was reduced to a dribbling mess.
  And one day, he was so heavily medicated that he fell down the stairs at the institution, broke his hip, and 4 weeks later, he died. In a way, it was a blessing in disguise, as this shortened his suffering and ours by a good 10 years.
  Our experience with our Dad is a depressingly common one, sadly.
  new fear unlocked
  Someone in your family if I may ask?
Actually not that uncommon with world leaders
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3873339.stm
I don’t think Trump’s weird Alaska comments are because he remembered Alaska being Russia?
- Probably heard about it as a kid from his similarly demented dad.

This is like old people telling their partner to get milk on Facebook in a public post or doing a Google search in the comments of a Google Facebook post.

My friend's mum's first Tweet was "benedict cumberbatch"
- my gran was funny like that
Trump: "order corn"
Foreign governments: "??? Not sure about that, the tariff situation being what it is"
Trump: "Sorry my bad I got confused" [deleted immediately]
- Trump saying sorry ? quite honestly I'm not sure this has ever happened
But it's also government officials not understanding what tools to use to ensure secure government communication. See also the journalist that git invited to a top secret Signal group.
This kind of communication shouldn't happen on such public platforms. Too much can go wrong.

Sure, sure... Now, about all the

Child Rape

There's no way he types like that in direct messages? Right?

Turns out he's not playing a character, he's exactly what he appears to be.
- When people tell you who they are, believe them.
I think it is virtually certain that he types that way in direct messages
That's the unsurprising but sad thing to me. His posts on Truth Social are unhinged rants, but I still held out some hope that when he was talking privately to members of his own team he would at least refrain from using the stupid nicknames, the over the top bragging, the insults to random other people, but no. It looks like when he's sending a memo to his attorney general he writes it as if he's looking for social media likes from red-hatted morons.

Without a doubt was not intended as a post, I assume Trump uses direct messaging on Truth Social for government business. This isn't directly to the public, it shows that he really like that. And it's blatantly incompetent to reveal it like that.

Not that it matters, the president is a convicted felon, pedophile protecting that just got caught telling the DOJ to arrest his political enemies with no evidence and he still has support of his cultists. It's almost hard to believe how far we've fallen.

This is so nutty.

Every day that goes by I wonder how even republicans can pretend like his behavior is totally fine and normal.

This is how your deranged 80 year old uncle posts on facebook. POTUS not so much.

Republicans are in a cult of power with Trump as their figurehead. They will believe anything that comes from dear leader

How did this imbecile ever become anything, let alone allowed to 'run' a country...twice? TWICE!!!
He's a fucking village idiot in need of a village, an obvious traitor, an unregistered child rapist, a convicted criminal AND rapist. And yet he's seen no consequences plus been president of the us twice.
Fuck sake, I just can not understand it. It's unfathomable.

He was born just rich enough to be highly visible and was recognized by real power as a useful idiot and put to the task of dismantling the united states, and there's a good chance that Trump doesn't even realize that.
How did this imbecile ever become anything, let alone allowed to ‘run’ a country…twice? TWICE!!!
Americans are, in general, far dumber than Trump.
- Around a third of us for sure
I never understood why the other GOP members let him in.
- Blackmail.
- They realized they could ride his coat tails.
I used to have "imposter syndrome", where I would always feel like I am just pretending to be a qualified and knowledgeable individual, and that at any moment someone would unmask me as a fraud, even if I wasn't and had no reason to feel that way.
Then Trump got elected and suddenly I was cured. If that moron can get elected to the most important job in the country, whatever I'm doing is small potatoes. You can be an incompetent fool and still have people fall over themselves to defend you if you have confidence and strut around with an air of legitimacy.
By the time he was elected a second time, I no longer believed in either humanity or the concept of being "unqualified".
Let him be an inspiration. Chase your dreams. If the village idiot can successfully become POTUS, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
If that's the chosen leader of all those fucking MAGA troglodytes, think of what that says about them. Following a spoiled petulant toddler brained moron rapist grifter.
There is no more pathetic person on this earth than a Drumpf supporter.
It has everything to do with how you used 'run' to describe it. Trump is a necessary figurehead and lightning rod of controversy that strengthens the oligarchy.
How did this imbecile ever become anything, let alone allowed to 'run' a country...twice?
You should look at social media and see what the algorithm that present only "the good part" of Trump while brushing aside the bad parts. That is, if you are willing to go down that rabbit hole.
I know people who acknowledges the bad aspects of Trump but also says "some of the things he says make sense." I wonder what those are specifically. My guess is that depending on what you value, those values are supposedly embodied in Trump, while the negatives aren't shown by algorithm. Conversely, those who don't like Trump only see the bad sides and little to no good. Not that it's a criticism of the latter, Trump objectively did more harm than good, kinda like Hitler who still "did some good things". What is lost is nuance on understanding why people like or dislike a politician, whether because of personal values or propaganda have convinced them.

Frankly, I cannot completely parse this text and I won't try. It could give me TDS.

But it does look like he's accidentally publicly talking about things that are happening behind the curtain.

No news per se: we already know that this is a fascist coup. But another piece of evidence.

God, Id always assumed the way he posts is just his persona. Imagine if all your work emails were from trump.

The whole post is so incoherent that I couldn't even tell that the random segue was meant to be directed at someone else without the highlight.

This dude's brain is mush.

They are using his fake twitter clone for government communication outside of oversight. I imagine they have relatively horrible information handling and security practices at that company... Has Anonymous or anyone tried to hack in and release?

the funny thing is, that they are using mastodon for the platform (although heavily modified, iirc)
Pretty much all of the original Anonymous were caught, hired by the government, or disappeared. They haven't been a real thing in almost a decade. If you see anyone claiming to be them, it's a government PsyOP.
- Interesting. Not unbelievable, but I hadn't heard specifically. Also, always assumed the point was that it would never have a set or core membership? "We are anonymous" means that you, me, grandpa, we're all also anonymous, if we have the skillset and want to take up the mantle.
  So in that way, anonymous could never be contained/captured in the way you mentioned. Again, that was just more my assumption/understanding. "I am Sparticus", V for Vendetta, etc...

This reminds me of when the Ukraine blackmail story first broke. Even before the impeachment push, it seemed like the story was far more riveting -- entirely because of the whistleblower angle. I remember thinking at the time that if all the transcripts being shown on the news with the reactions and dramatic highlighter effects had instead been a public statement by Trump that "yeah, we're withholding weapons until Zelensky gives us dirt on Biden," the entire thing would have blown over in a week. Maybe this could be similar?

(You know what else has the cachet of secrecy and coverup? The Epstein files.)

Nah it still would've been a big deal. Any other president would've been impeached if they personally withheld international military aid to an allied country under active invasion just for a promise that they would make up a lie about his political opponent's son.

I like that's a screenshot of "truth" posted on litter, then screenshotted and posted on Reddit, then screenshotted and posted on Lemmy

Hey, I'll take a 4 deep screenshot inception over some link straight to x[.]com

Such a sack of orange shit.

Release the Trump/Epstein files

the 2016-2020 trump timelime pales compare to this one. Back then, we had late night shows making fun of him, stupid and random tweets (remember covfefe?). Things only blew up during covid and george floyd and the Jan 6th insurrection.

This timeline 2025 to 2029 (supposedly) is full of what the fuck moments. And we're not even done with the 1st year !!

And just think that we all thought what a dumpster fire 2020 was. Little did we know...

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Call me naive but I thought he was only lightly sipping on his own kool-aid, not drinking it by the gallon.

The word I keep coming to is deluded.
These people, the followers and the leaders, are deluding themselves.
Have you ever met someone who thinks they're dating a 5 star military general who just needs one more google play gift card to marry them? A week in, and you might think they're foolish, or perhaps naive. But after a year, it starts to become clear that they're indulging in a fantasy. They know it isn't real, but they'll do anything to pretend a little bit longer.
The scary part is, if you're dying already, why not? You can't convince them otherwise because they don't want to believe otherwise. It's literally not worth their effort to change and grow at that point. At least from the myopic perspective they're working off of, I suppose.