Mildly amusing dystopia
My Dad passed away from from dementia, and he was deep into it before the tests finally officially confirmed it. Literally EVERYONE around him absolutely knew it, but so much of the test had to do with numbers - telling time, adding numbers, etc. - that he did deceptively good on it. He never had a problem with numbers, right up to the end. He had been a Mathmatics major in college, and was hard-wired for numbers. Even dementia couldn’t disturb that. I saw a 60 minutes piece on Tony Bennett, and he was exactly the same way with music.
So just because you pass the test, doesn’t mean you aren’t already showing strong symptoms of dementia. I’ve never taken the test, and neither has my mother. You only take it when someone suggests that it’s a good idea because you’ve been showing symptoms. Of Trump is taking it, it’s probably because those around him are becoming alarmed at his behavior.
Okay so this is the second time he’s done that right?
He’s confused a dementia test for an IQ test… twice…
Is that not a sign he might have dementia or something? He should at least remember us making fun of him for it the first time right?
This is an honest question btw. Am I’m missing something? It’s happened twice now?
I mean it could just mean he has incredibly low IQ, maybe?
Or both
They could also be lying to him what the test really is because he would refuse a dementia test otherwise.
The thing with IQ or any cognitive test, is they’re only administered when there’s a call for one.
If trump was behaving like a normal man his age, then there wouldn’t likely be a cognitive test. Just like how most people who get an IQ test are only tested if they’re either exceptionally advanced or exceptionally behind in their learning.
Yet he’s either too demented or too cognitively slow to realize that the fact his doctors want tests means that something seems wrong to them.
Imo you answered your own question👍
Remember the halcyon days when this would have automatically been assumed to be an Onion article? I remember…
Pepperidge farm remembers
💯he has dementia.
The related stories are just as funny/tragic:
5 words? oh the humanity
And he couldn’t even remember them, so he glanced around the room and came up with person, woman, man, camera, TV.
And… recalling the words later on in the test… is part of the test. Uh oh
ah yes, the 5 genders.
I really think AOC should take him up on this offer and demand it’s broadcast live.
a live telacast of everyone in congress doing dementia screenings would be fantastic imo
Is this consistent misunderstanding of his more indicative of his IQ or his dementia?
If he was truthful about the results (unlikely), then low IQ. If he was not truthful (likely), it’s dementia. Or both.
I do not drink alcohol. The day this guy stops talking I will go to the supermarket and buy a bottle of Champagne and drink it alone.
DRINK WATER.
that will be the worst hangover. Drink a lot of water with that.
Feeling hungover and not having gods chosen around will probably at least balance it out where you’ll still be ecstatic at least. Champagne is damn good though, hangover be damned so long as you drink a normal amount of water.
If you don’t drink, can I recommend basically anything but champagne? Its not good tasting, get a sweet wine or something else instead.
There’s other varieties of Champaign that aren’t Brut
yeah i celebrate with port
My wife and I have a bottle of champagne that was a wedding gift. The day it happens is the day we uncork the bottle.
There are better tasting options. A nice cognac, perhaps.
Strawberry shake, even better. Or a mango lassi.
I have a bottle of Michel Forgeron Barrique 1984 I’ve been sipping now and then. I dress for a Kool-Aid budget but live a cognac life.
Alcohol triggers two medical conditions I have so I to don’t drink anymore. After 6 years without a drop of alcohol, trust me you’re better off not having it, just buy some fireworks or something.
I would but gunpowder exacerbates my acid reflux
Gluten free gunpowder, a bit more expensive but worth it once in a while when you want to treat yourself.
Real gunpowder is gluten free
You’re thinking of the knockoff brand glunpowder
That’s why you have to light the fireworks before eating them. They undergo a chemical reaction when lit and are not longer gunpowder after a few seconds.
If I may ask, what conditions?
I’m currently trying to figure out why alcohol triggers migraines for me, but only sometimes. Lately it’s been most times. I only drink socially now, and even then, more often than not I abstain.
I’m not talking big drinking, I mean one Manhattan can either be the beginning of a fun night where I might have two or three more drinks, tops. Or I can feel the headache starting before I even finish the first drink.
Replace whiskey with gin, vodka, beer, wine, whatever. All have the same 50/50 chance of ruining my night and next day, depending on how hard I ignore it. No rhyme or reason to what alcohol does it, though I admit to not being extremely scientific.
Sugar level doesn’t seem to have an effect. Hyper hydration seemingly helps sometimes? But barely. Even with liquid IV or lmnt pregame, no dice. I drink plenty of water every day regardless, I like sugary foods but I avoid pop like the plague.
My recent blood work was all good, fasting glucose was good, so I don’t think it’s diabetes.
Doctor wasn’t extremely helpful. He did recommend trying tiny amounts of alcohol, and different types of alcohol. Trying to see if some combination can bring relief. Then just drink that.
My most recent thought was that maybe it has some connection to my teeth. I get migraines for seemingly no reason, but a bad toothache can definitely be a trigger. I’ve got a couple bad teeth, and I grind. But dentistry is expensive, so it’ll be awhile, if ever, before I find permanent relief there.
You might have a sensitivity to sulphates/ites, which is a common additive to alcoholic drinks to kill off the yeast/other microbes to shelf stabilize them. Although that tends to manifest more as respiratory or hives.
Tannins can cause headaches (so red wines, or any spirit that has been barrel aged).
While I don’t get migraines, I do regularly get massive headaches and grind my teeth which are in such bad shape the dentist said it would be cheaper to just get full upper and lower implants at this point. Seeing how alcohol doesn’t always trigger the migraine I’d say yes it’s probably more to do with your teeth, but I’m just going on what you wrote to produce my unsolicited prognosis.
As for what alcohol triggers for me, GURD (severe and chronic acid reflux) and IBS-D.
The GURD can trigger almost immediately or later, depending on how strong the drink is.
The IBS-D usually hits within 1 to 2 hours of drinking and then it’s hours of pain, cramping, sitting on the toilet, and praying for death.
I haven’t had a drink since March 2019 and while I’ll never fully escape the symptoms of either of these, I have managed to reduce the frequency and severity of them by cutting out all alcohol.
Best of luck figuring out what’s causing your migraines. Best advice I can give is stop drinking for a while and see if you still get them, if yes then it’s probably not the alcohol.
I’m going to drink a couple bottles of any Mexican beer
I love the specificity of Mexican beer.
Until he stops talking I’m drinking Mexican water :(
wouldn’t be too fast…shit is only getting worse when he croaks.
I made jokes about buying a very expensive bottle of scotch (something like Johnny Walker gold label, or even platinum) when Trump dies… but maybe I don’t.
Or you could buy some good scotch instead.
Johnny walker gold and platinum are both over 100$. What is your definition of good scotch and how much does it cost?
Not the person you were in a conversation with, but all Johnny Walker is blended scotch. I would suggest a single malt instead (the entire bottle is from a single distillation).
I’m partial to peat heavy scotches, and my go to are Lagavulin and Laphroaig, both should be under $100 (been a few years since I’ve indulged). If you want a more middle of the road honeyed and heathered flavor, go for MacCallan 12 or Glenmorangie, both should be under $60. If you want something with salty seaside flavor to it, opt for a speyside like Glenfiddich or a west highland like Oban.
It’s not that jw is a bad whisky, but for what people pay for a bottle of blue, you can get two fantastic bottles of an actual single malt.
Basically what I was getting at. Personally I really like Islay scotches, so Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Ardbeg (if you REALLY like smoke), Kilchoman, Caol Ila (which is where a lot of Johnny Walker’s blend comes from anyway) are all favourites that come reasonably priced.
If you want decent blends I personally go for Dimple or Monkey Shoulder. Or if you have an Aldi nearby, they occasoinally have a great blend called Highland Black which is very reasonably priced for what you get.
tl:dr Johnny Walker is overpriced and not nearly as good as their reputation.
Lesson for the day:
More money != Better than
I do not drink alcohol. the day this guy stops talking i will continue to not drink alcohol. Just because someone you hate stops talking doesn’t mean you need to drink.
Martinelli’s was good enough for me when I was 8, and it is good enough for me at 48.
Explanation: this is a carbonated apple juice, growing up this was provided at many parties for kids as an alternative to champagne. We keep a bottle in our house for celebrations still.
ill stick to my brio thanks.
I was agreeing with you and offering a non-alcoholic analog, but you do you bro.
cheers allan.
I’m glad you are staying to true to yourself and your own needs, but you can find other ways to celebrate that work for you.
ok
Doctor: Draw a clock.
Trump: sweating profusely
If he found the cognitive function test very hard…
Just another stupid story to distract from the Epstein files.
Isn’t this the second time this exact thing has happened?
Yeah but he didn’t remember the first time.
Yeah, this is Trump’s second “annual visit” to Walter Reed hospital.
Different thing. During his first term, he claimed to have aced a certain cognitive test his doctors gave him. When questioned about it, it sounds like he got the MoCA test, which you can see here:
https://geriatrictoolkit.missouri.edu/cog/MoCA-8.3-English-Test-2018-04.pdf
Yeah, that’s not a test an adult takes when your doctor thinks everything in your brain is fine.
Let’s hope its a trilogy and there’s no reboots.
Yep, and despite all that and his first term half the US voters still figured he’d be a great President.
But he could totally identify which one was the elephant, and didn’t confuse it with the rhino or the camel even once. I’m pretty sure that qualifies anyone to be the bigliest president.
Yeah, but Biden was just so old. Many people said so!
It’s fun to remind them that Trump was older when he took office in '25 than Biden was in '21.
It’s fun to remind them that he’s never won against a man.
For reasons that don’t make any sense to me, that seems to really bother them. 🤔
Democrats didn’t help themselves by running terrible candidates with shitty policies, yeah.
They’re going to keep giving it to him to gauge his decline.
Tbh, those tests are normally done when you already have issues to determine the severity, and his narcissism does not allow any other message than “perfect score”, so i would be more concerned about that his immediate surroundings wanted him to have an MRI and dementia screenings.
Maybe Trump got a perfect score for dementia. You know, 100% dementia.
He’s got the best dementia. It’s so hot. Everyone is saying how great his dementia is.
His test came back positive!
That’s what I said the first time he bragged about his doctors saying that he doesn’t have dementia: I don’t think people without indicators need in-depth screenings in the first place.
You genuinely couldn’t make this shit up, could you?
Also, I hate that I now read quotes from him in his voice. I want it out of my head.
Easy. Just swap his voice out for Kevin Hart’s.
Fucking cash back credit card ads in my head now. I wish ublock worked on my TV
PiHole. 🤘🏼
Doesn’t this not actually block the ads because they started delivering them via the same domain as the content (like years ago?)
Ways to counter this are available and the barrier to access is upheld in order to both mitigate attention paid to it (ie. tends to hasten correction of related exploits) and hopefully ensure that the user base is informed & capable of (empowered by) using it. 🤓🤘🏼
Yeah it’s been on my todo list for years. I gotta pick up an Ethernet cable for adding it to my lan.
My tired ass first read “you genetically couldn’t make this shit up”, and frankly, we should preemptively make a law for this.
