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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 10:58:38 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   "Donald Trump is not well. ...

   A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for JD Vance."

   ~ Jason Sattler

   #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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   https://thecause.substack.com/p/a-vote-for-a-not-well-trump-is-a

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 10:58:36 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "MAGA-friendly CNBC host Joe Kernen dropped an interesting nugget right as Squawk Box went to commercial break on Tuesday.

     'Well, Trump canceled, and he was going to come on,' Kernen said.

     Not only did Trump once love going on CNBC, but Kernen’s revelation comes on the heels of Trump declining or canceling a number of other high-profile opportunities to make a pitch to voters on mainstream TV."

     ~ Aaron Rupar

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cancels-cnbc-cnn-debate

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 10:58:36 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The explanation for all this is not that Trump has suddenly become camera shy. It’s that his campaign undoubtedly realizes his rapidly degrading condition doesn’t play well with audiences beyond the MAGA cult. ...

     Following his Economic Club of Chicago event on Tuesday, Trump traveled down to Atlanta for a low energy rally where he seemed to have trouble stringing together cogent sentences when he wasn’t reading from the teleprompter."

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 10:58:37 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Is Donald Trump well enough to serve as president? ...

     To watch the event [i.e., as he swayed and bobbed to musice for 39 minutes on stage in Pennsylvania] is to see signs of someone having a breakdown."

     ~ David A Graham

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/trump-breaks-down-stage/680256/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 10:59:31 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Noting the media's deep concern -- "almost an obsession" -- with Biden's age and mental stability, Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump asks,

     "How bad does it need to be before they sit up and take notice [that Trump is decompensating before our eyes]?"

     ~ Mary L. Trump

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #media
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     https://www.marytrump.org/p/hes-decompensating-before-our-eyes

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 10:59:32 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The campaign did not, though, cancel a scheduled live interview today with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago. That interview echoed last night’s train wreck. ...

     Trump has multiple meltdowns each day and major media looks on with mild bemusement. The NYTimes dismissed Trump's 39-minute interlude of listening to music at a rally on Monday as an 'improvisational detour.'”

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #NewYorkTimes
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 10:59:32 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Really?! If Harris had done the same thing, the Times would have described the event as 'disqualifying.' Perhaps that explains why Kamala Harris would rather be interviewed by Fox News than the NYTimes."

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #NewYorkTimes
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 10:59:33 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "After Trump’s bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen."

     ~ Robert B. Hubbell

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/harris-continues-to-take-her-message

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 10:59:34 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "At other points, Trump barely seemed able to get words out. ...

     Trump, however, reliably gets help from a mainstream press that too often sanewashes his speeches for readers and viewers who aren’t watching them live and may not spend a lot of time on social media.

     The New York Times, for instance, described Trump as 'swaying soberly' during his musical 'detour' in Pennsylvania, adding that he’s known 'for improvisational departures.'”

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #NewYorkTimes
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:34 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "You have the [Washington] Post on the one hand treating it with the concern that I think is warranted, and then you have these two other comparably influential outlets [ABC and Walll Street Journal] saying it was like a happy concert. The New York Times more or less [is] ignoring it."

     ~ Brian Beutler

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia #WashingtonPost #ABC #WallStreetJournal #NewYorkTimes
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     https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-blast-with-greg-sargent/id1728152109

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:35 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     He deigned to school Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, about how tariffs work, and took pot shots at Wall Street Journal, claiming it knows nothing about economics. Harris writes,

     "Aaron Rupar of Public Notice, who watches and clips Trump’s speeches, called the appearance 'bonkers.' Journalist David Rothkopf of Deep State Radio wrote: 'The past 24 hours seem to have been a dividing line in the Trump campaign...and in Trump."

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:36 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     As Heather Cox Richardson reports, Trump showed up nearly an hour late for his interview tin John Micklethwait, and "things went downill fast." Micklethwait asked "real questions," and Trump responded with "aimless rants and campaign slogans," with Micklethwait correcting his disinformation. Trump then became "angry and combative."

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-15-2024

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:37 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "His aversion to questions, especially tough or unexpected ones, has become alarmingly evident. Just consider:

     His refusal to debate Kamala Harris a second time for a variety of garbage excuses;

     Canceling his 60 Minutes interview, shattering over half a century of tradition;"

     ~ Brian Tyler Cohen

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/trump-takes-swing-state-too-literally

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:37 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "His ludicrous proposal that his rambling responses are in fact an intentional 'bob and weave' narrative device he uses to stitch together his gurgling thoughts;

     And, most recently, shutting down last night’s Q&A portion of his rally in favor of spending 39 MINUTES on stage, doing this

     While this 78 year old man sways, bobs, weaves, and makes a muddled mockery of engaging with other humans, his opponent is in 'excellent health.'”

     #Trump #KamalaHarris #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:38 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Micklethwait spent most of the interview attempting to break Trump out of what the former president repeatedly referred to as 'the weave,' his term for his rambling digressions — with ever-decreasing intelligibility — and general inability to focus on a given topic for more than a few seconds during his rallies and interviews."

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:39 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "If nothing else matters—the criminality, the cruelty, the misogyny, the racism, the viciousness, the freaking fascism—than surely the steep cognitive decline of a man who is running to be the leader of the free world should matter."

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #AP #NewYorkTimes #media
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:39 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Donald Trump continued his pre-election economic event tour on Tuesday with a lengthy interview with Bloomberg at the Economic Club of Chicago. It was a total mess."

     ~ Nikki McCann Ramirez

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia
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     https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-crumbles-pressed-economic-policy-bloomberg-interview-1235134459/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:40 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "This should be a five-alarm fire across all media organizations, and yet the AP headline [about Trump's onstage breakdown in Pennsylvania] read, 'Trump turned his town hall into an impromptu concert.' The write-up in The New York Times was, if possible, worse."

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #AP #NewYorkTimes #media
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:01:44 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "They have long since abandoned, the 400 or 500 or so reporters and editors who comprise the mainstream political news media, any commitment to the idea that the way you cover one candidate and the way you cover the other candidate should be roughly comparable."

     ~ Brian Beutler

     #Trump #JDVance #age #MentalDecline #dementia #WashingtonPost #ABC #WallStreetJournal #NewYorkTimes
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