Haley Questions if Trump Is ‘Mentally Fit’ After He Confused Her With Pelosi
Haley Questions if Trump Is ‘Mentally Fit’ After He Confused Her With Pelosi
He most certainly is not.
330 million people in the US and both parties are going to run a candidate who should, by rights, be considered medically unfit for office.
I hate it here.
“The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
One of my favorite books, but depressing people were pointing shit out 50 years ago and society at large is still ignoring it today.
It's obvious from this excerpt that Adams was mostly talking about British Prime Ministers, who are elected by the government and do not wield much (if any) power beyond that of being a figurehead. Of perhaps the Royalty, who aren't elected but hold even less power and are even more of a distraction.
The US president, by contrast, is not elected by the government and has a shit-ton of power, and increasingly so as the US congress is less and less able to govern due to Republican infighting. The US president can start and win a foreign war in less time than it takes congress to even form an opinion on the matter.
Zaphod spent two years in prison for fraud, meanwhile the US president is protected by more military firepower than literal nukes and has a chain of succession longer than most Kings because the US government literally cannot function without a President.
But then several books later we see the person who's really in charge and he was great
Do you have any proof at all that Biden is mentally unfit, or are you just repeating what TikTok says?
All I see is that he's old, his stutter has gotten worse, and he tripped over a sandbag once.
his stutter has gotten worse,
He was a favorite in the 1988 presidential primary because he was such a a great public speaker...
He got over his stutter when he was a child, and a stutter doesn't make someone say something completely different than what they meant to. Hell, he wasn't even doing it while Obama's VP, and he was in his 70s then.
Stop pretending he just has a stutter, he's 80 years old and he gets confused sometimes. It'll happen to all of us if we're lucky to live that long.
That doesn't mean he's still fit to be presidet, and he sure as shit isn't the best option for a Dem candidate even if he is mentally fit for office.
In 2020, his campaign had to stop scheduling evening events with Buden because he would start sundowning. He's an 80 year old man who is clearly starting to show signs of his age.
My favorite part about all this is both sides just kind of ignoring that their candidate can't string together a coherent sentence, gets confused a lot, and mistakes people for others all the time as if those aren't signs of cognitive decline.
Cheers. Thank you for doing your part to ensure this never changes.
A mental aptitude test for all politicians is a great idea actually
This could be weaponized as a tool of discrimination to keep minority groups or the impoverished out of office by constructing purposefully confusing questions. Just like the Jim Crow Era laws requiring people pass literacy tests to vote.
This.
It has to be something really really unassailable. Age would be a good starter.
Requiring candidates to release their IRS records in order to appear on the ballot is another close second.
I get the problem, but I don't think it's really applicable. Voting is a basic right of every citizen of the country. Presidency is not for everyone. You wouldn't want a translator who doesn't know the languages they're supposed to translate? Why would you accept a president who is, let's say mentally challenged?
I could understand objecting to specifics, like why should mental aptitude get tested, but I don't understand being against the whole idea. IMO presidency is like a job and like most jobs there are specific requirements that a person needs to meet to be fit for that job. I don't think it's unreasonable to have certain expectations of people who are running for president.
Just publicize the questions results, judges/proctors, etc.
This could be weaponized
COULD, not WOULD.
If you don't make any rules that the fascists might want to abuse, you don't make any rules.
Your slippery slope fallacy does not invalidate the need to make sure that public officials are fit to carry out their duties.
I mean... Trump did take a mental fitness test, and failed so miserably he genuinely thought he had passed it. Person-woman-man-camera-tv, anyone? And that was years ago, he's certainly lost even more of his faculties since then.
Toss in drug testing and annual financial audits as well.
And monthly tests if they test positive for drugs, daily if they within the last two terms have voted to criminalise that drug.
And toss in a breathalyser test for everyone before entering to vote.
Alcohol would be something. Nixon was a raging alcoholic and look at the damage he did
There's basically 3 rules to be president:
If Trump can't be barred from running for his role in Jan 6, there's no way adding more requirements will somehow fix things.
Man, woman, person, camera, TV
The doctors were so impressed with how well I did on that intelligent test.
Fwiw, he passed a cognitive stroke exam 4 years ago.
Trump hasn't been mentally fit since prior to the end of the apprentice
Narrator: of course he’s not fit.
But neither are his voters, who would rather burn the world down out of hatred and spite than accept defeat.
Haley needed to be saying this stuff 2 years ago.
She's clearly just a spineless flip flopping politician.
Just look at loser Ronny. He waited far too long to be negative about Trump and his dreams ended in kissing Donnie’s ass and walking away with nothing. Best case scenario he gets to be the wannabe mango Mussolini’s puppet VP
Aka a politician.
Yes yes they're all the same, right, and that's why you vote Trump. Tell us more.
So would the most mentally defective be their leader? Or the least?
Why is that even a question in 2024
No. The answer is no.
Go gloves off you pussy bitch Nikki Haley. You think your orange idol would hold back?
Haley waited too long to go in for the kill, and that just shows she isn't the right material. She's going to pander to Trump's base who believe his obvious lies. They will vote for Trump. These clowns don't have the first idea about strategy or commanding power or assessing the electorate.
The kill-shot should've been to point out that he's a loser who lost the election... but they can't get his base if they do that because his base doesn't think he lost.
Who could've known casting doubt on the veracity of the election would lead to such inconvenience?
Questions it? The answer to that question has been thoroughly documented.
What is with america and demented old fools as presidents? You guys have some kinda fetish or what
In his defense, I see the resemblance. Plus, they both enjoy policymaking as a medium for enriching themselves and their friends!
She's going to be his VP pick and then she'll stop all the criticisms
Eric said it was gonna be Tucker Carlson.
None of those three people are mentally fit for office
I wish they'd stop calling these gaffes...
A Gaffe is when you mix something up or make a mistake and immediately realize it and feel embarrassed.
trump and Biden are just rambling and saying factually incorrect things, then later an aide has to explain it to them, and issue a correction.
If no one corrected them, they wouldn't know they fucked up.
Theyre both so old that they literally need aides around them 24/7 to make sure this shit isn't happening.
Why?
Why are these the only two choices Americans have?
It was bad enough 4 years ago, but now we have to repeat it again, and pray next year it's not another 80 year who's turn is up.
It's like we have the same requirements for President today as in Hitchhikers Guide:
The most important thing for a president is to stand around and say crazy things to distract from the people with real power doing terrible shit.
There is a minimum age on presidency, and there should be a maximum age.
And I think it should be the life expectancy of the country minus 4 years.
73 and want a second term? You'd better be damn good at raising the life expectancy, and fast!
It's not just the presidency, it's American law in general.
If you're 39 years old, your employer can flat out say you're too young for a position so they won't hire you for the promotion/position solely because of your age.
If you're over 40, then they legally can't say you're too old for anything. But they can still just say you "don't have enough experience"
Our laws about "age related discrimination" only legalized age related discrimination for anyone not elderly. For them we have to pretend science isn't real and a 80 year old is just as capable as a 30 year old.
Which makes old people feel good about themselves, but obviously isn't true.
It's just elderly people make our laws, and they think anyone under retirement age is too inexperienced to do anything. So they had no issues making age related discrimination against literally half of Americans 100% legal
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/us/millennials-outnumber-boomers-trnd/index.html
I don't think they care if they fuck up...
They don't. I'm sure they have handlers just like Dianne Feinstein did and Mitch McConnell does now. They're getting Weekend at Bernies'd.
It's so strange how the press covers Nikki Haley like she actually matters.
I’m so glad young people no longer watch cable news. I hope it continues
I'm not sure that getting your "news" from random TikToks is any better...
If Trump is unable to be president because of Court cases that should rule that way (will they? Flip a coin...), then Haley has a pretty good chance of beating DeSantis. So yeah, she does matter.
I'd rather her over the others because she's not so MAGA and far-right.
I'll be voting for Biden either way.
None of those cases is going to be decided by November, or even January. He may have a 'convicted pending appeal' or two, but those appeals will be postponed until 2028. Hell, even if he loses, I doubt he'll exhaust his appeals before 2030.
Pretty tone deaf take here.
She’s been backed by a few mega donors who are able to push media coverage if I recall correctly
She is easy on the eyes and can generally make coherent points. That makes her a very small minority within the GOP.
Pick one.
24 hours a day of drama to fill. Gotta cover something
This comment has not aged well.
I've been waiting for this day, to throw off all my shackles and be my most petty of selves.
ahem
lol. lmao, even.
It's not even New Hampshire yet and the Republican primary race is effectively down to only two people and she's the option that's not Trump.
She'll probably win every state that has an open primary at very least.