Duty To Warn's John Gartner Breaks Down Donald Trump's Cognitive Decline | Ghostarchive
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While for many it’s obvious how serious Trump’s declining mental capacity has become, for too many Americans that reality has not yet broken through. The media continues to treat Trump like a normal candidate; many Americans have baked Trump’s bizarre behavior into their perceptions of him; and many take right-wing lies about Joe Biden’s mental fitness at face value.

Given this, we wanted to hear from John Gartner, founder of Duty To Warn, a group of mental health professionals who have been raising the alarm about Trump’s increasingly sociopathic behavior since 2017. Now in 2024, Gartner has an even more dire warning about Trump: that there are increasing signs the former president is heading fast down the road toward dementia.

  • aibler@lemmy.world
    1143·
    8 months ago

    Look, if I had to pick a team, I’d be on team blue, but by no stretch of the imagination is Biden an exemplar of mental acuity. It isn’t exactly hard to find countless examples of him tripping all over himself. Trust me, I wish there was a chance that we were not about to put someone who should probably be in assisted living into office. If you take a step back for a second and look at him with an open mind, its not hard to see. Just as an experiment, watch some videos of him and pretend like it’s trump saying that stuff. If you can do that, then you will get a glimpse of what any rational person has been seeing for quite some time.

    • anolemmi@lemm.eeEnglish
      827·
      8 months ago

      Completely reasonable arguments and not at all “both sides bullshit”…

      Both sides bullshit is when someone is using that argument to imply that “both are bad so it doesn’t matter” or “x is bad so y isn’t such a bad choice”

      You said none of that and just commented, very reasonably, that both of these guys are too fucking old to run a country. Idk why Lemmies seem to see everything in black and white… I’ll vote blue as well, but not because I think Biden is an excellent choice.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        254·
        8 months ago

        His first comment literally says “both sides” and then basically says they’re equivalent.

        • aibler@lemmy.world
          525·
          8 months ago

          I said I would choose the blue team if I had to choose. I don’t do the whole thing where I avoid magic phrases. I just speak my mind. If you are being honest, would you say that you find Biden, in his current state, to be an inspirational leader?

          • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            112·
            8 months ago

            He was probably about my fifth choice in the 2020 primaries, but I also realize he was never going to get primaried as the incumbent.

            I’ve also seen enough people on here trying to argue dumb ass things like trump being better for Palestine that when someone shows up in an article about Trump’s mental decline saying “hey everyone, Biden sucks too” for no particular reason, I get a little suspicious about their motivations.

            Edit: wrong year

            • aibler@lemmy.world
              77·
              8 months ago

              Anyone who thinks the red team is more pro-palestine than the blue team just hasn’t paid any attention to us politics before. The red team is inherently anti-darkskin, especially when they are going up against “god’s chosen ones.”

              It is absolutely perfectly reasonable to complain that there are no options that are likely to not have dementia. That’s a valid complaint that rational people can make. I always just assume that people who get so upset about that complaint have just been scared and pressured out of being able to share honest observations because they think it means they are some sort of traitor. Instead, they put on performance about how delicious the taste of puke-on-rye is.