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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 179 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The always bragging about having to go take cognitive tests is so fucking funny.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Everyone thinks I’m fucking crazy and senile, but I’m not, I swear! And you have only my word to take for it!”

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Yes, exactly this. AOC hasn't taken a cognitive test because she doesn't need to. He doesn't realize that every time he brags about passing the cognitive test he reminds us all that he's super fucking old.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Here are some sample questions

  • Recall five unrelated words, such as: "rose, chair, hand, blue, spoon." (You will be asked to repeat them immediately after the test-taker gives them to you, and then again later, toward the end of the test.)
  • Count backwards from 100 by seven. You also may be asked to calculate using currency, such as determining what change you might expect from your $20 bill if you were charged $13.55.
  • How many words can you name in one minute that start with F? (Or you might be asked to name words that fit a category, like fruits.)
  • Identify animals from pictures (such as a zebra or tiger).
  • To test your visual perception, you may be asked to identify objects drawn within a jumble of other objects. Or, you may be asked to draw a picture (such as a cube) based on a drawing shown on the test form.
  • The "clock test"—common in many dementia exams—is part of the MoCA dementia test. The test administrator will ask you to draw the face of a traditional (non-digital) clock, as well as to illustrate a specific time.
  • Your ability to think abstractly may be tested by asking you to determine the relationships between objects—for instance, how trains and boats are similar to each other

So yeah... we have a president who is bragging about being able to draw a clock and tell you that trains and boats are both methods of transporting people. JFC we are so fucked.

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[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 169 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 62 points 6 days ago (3 children)
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[–] JHRD1880@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (9 children)

I genuinely think I have a crush on her. She consistently smacks these GOP losers around and does it with a smile.

'The girls are fighting'

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 131 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Dropping F-bombs to the press, calling AOC stupid, and Schumer a Palestinian this morning. Dude’s gonna be shitposting the whole way to The Hague. Can’t wait for the next two days of NATO summit highlights from this very stable genius.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 85 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I can't believe that at this point anyone actually believes that the Orange Jackass will ever suffer any actual punishment.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This is legit why people started to believe in Hell- to think there is some kind of justice in the world even if there doesn't seem to be any. Before the late BCs, most people in the Mediterranean didn't believe in Hell, at least as a place of eternal torment for the wicked. They believed in an afterlife that was pretty bleak, but everyone went there. The ancient Greeks and certain Jewish sects began to imagine separate portions of the shared afterlife for particularly evil of righteous people to be punished or rewarded in after death. For the Greeks, these were Tartarus and Elysium, and for the Jewish sects these were Gehenna and Paradise. These concepts arose, particularly within Judaism, as a way to answer the question "why do good things happen to bad people, and why do bad things happen to good people?" And the answer was that the good would be rewarded and the evil tormented in the end, even if things look bad in this life. These ideas were floating around in the time and place Christianity arose, and became incorporated into it.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

My comment about The Hague is referring to the NATO summit in The Netherlands happening today and tomorrow.

Otherwise, I expect he’ll fuck off to a non-extradition Middle Eastern country after his presidency. He’s building enough resorts to have several options.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Yeah the Trump family has made a billion dollars every month that he’s been president.

Maybe he’ll just live on this billion dollar private island his family bought

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/trump-family-kushner-undeveloped-island-mediterranean-sazan-albania

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

He'll live in a private country his family bought. He's the president of it right now.

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[–] IckabodKobain@feddit.online 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

His brain is decaying mush. He'll be shitposting from his deadbed no doubt.

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[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 85 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

When we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office

I’ve got $1,000 on AOC’s test scores over trump’s; especially since he doesn’t know how to capitalize words properly and since she didn’t have a rich father that made huge donations to her college to get her in.

[–] numlok@lemmy.world 66 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This guy has been calling out everyone else's grades and test scores since at least Obama, while consistently threatening institutions with lawsuits if they release his records. Such stereotypically weak-ass bully behavior.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

From the guy that a Wharton professor said was the dumbest motherfucker he ever taught.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I love that you somehow caught a downvote on that. It's almost a direct quote.

"Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had. " W. Kelley, Wharton Professor. Died 2011!

That's how fucking dumb he was.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (18 children)

I don't think there's a person on the planet who would take that bet in good faith, except maybe Trump himself.

He truly believes he's a genius. Everyone else on the planet, including his supporters, knows deep down that he's by far the dumbest person to hold the office.

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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago

How many of her teachers said she was the dumbest student they'd ever had?

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 week ago

Someone told him that she's also polling better than he is, lol:

Ocasio-Cortez submitted on Saturday that Trump’s decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites was ground for impeachment, arguing that his “disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.”

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 64 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Why does the president keep bragging about his passing of dementia tests‽ How can he not understand that that is admitting to needing them?

[–] J92@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

I just want to hear someone from the press pool shout, "you've already said this, Donald."

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago (2 children)

AOC should be forced to take the Cognitive Test that I just completed at Walter Reed Medical Center, as part of my Physical,” continued the commander-in-chief. “As the Doctor in charge said, ‘President Trump ACED it,’ meaning, I got every answer right. Instead of her constant complaining, Alexandria should go back home to Queens

I miss adults running things.

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[–] carlossurf@lemmy.ca 51 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Lol i love aoc, makes the alt right cry like the babies they are

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You gotta love the fragility of these people who claim they are emotionally stable, unshakable, epic masculine geniuses.

Like shit dude if you're so tuff maybe stop melting down over the most tempered criticisms of your policies.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 week ago

i feel like "wild marathon rant" would just apply any time he opens his fat bullshit spewing face anus, and can be considered a given

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

He really thinks this cognitive test he took is an IQ test or in any way measures intelligence doesn't he? It checks for signs of dementia. It doesn't have anything on it that is complicated, measures knowledge or critical thinking skills. It's basic association, memory, and recognition testing. A neurotypical 6 year old can do it.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

His style of communication makes a lot more sense when you realize he doesn’t give a shit about convincing other people about things. He says it out loud to convince himself.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Unfortunately, he's a clinical narcissist, so he really does genuinely have the ability to completely delude himself over his own superiority regardless of all evidence to the contrary. He genuinely believes he's a genius, an intimidating presence, a great deal maker, a popular person with the general public, that he won all 3 elections, and even that he's seen as a sex symbol. He does not live in objective reality in regards to his own attributes, or much else for that matter. It's all delusion. And that's before the dementia started setting in.

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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (6 children)

What a disaster it was! AOC should be forced to take the Cognitive Test that I just completed at Walter Reed Medical Center, as part of my Physical,” continued the commander-in-chief. “As the Doctor in charge said, ‘President Trump ACED it,’ meaning, I got every answer right.

So does acing a cognitive test means you have cognitive decline or not?

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Bragging about it does

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

In this case: yes.

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago (5 children)

AOC vs Trump. I want to see a neutral third party administer IQ tests. Go on, Donny. Take the test. Get owned.

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 days ago (4 children)

How many times has he "completely lost it" recently? He's always been insane. Insanely stupid in fact. Nothing new here.

Yet, when we read the headlines, every few days or weeks, he "completely loses it".

If he were throwing grass in the air, eat dirt, or speak in tongues, maybe it would be worth the completely lost it title. Otherwise, it gets old after a few times.

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[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Maybe if we let him rant and rave long enough, he'll tell us how he rigged the election in his favour.....and nothing will be done about it

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

And WTH is up with the Dem votes against? Are we THAT boned?

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OK, I get it in context now. Every president has stuck their manhood into foreign affairs with ordinance. Obama did a lot of surgical drone strikes, I remember not liking it then either. I think this is a unnecessarily busy hornets next to be fucking with but what he's doing isn't new, and while I still don't like it, impeaching him over it won't work, we need more. He's not going to war without Congress (yet), just doing what many others before him have done.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The dying flailings of neoliberalism, but also yes.

Like the left during the rise of the Nazis the movement is disorganized and divided, having counted on the support of the "moral" centrists who simply don't exist.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think Taco should have his diaper changed more frequently. Diaper rash can make babies cranky.

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[–] philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago

This reads like an Xbox live message.

[–] PillowD@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

the guy has the vocabulary of a child

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[–] Bieren@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

He just has a crush on her and can’t figure out how to show it.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

If only he worked himself nicely up and finally got a stroke.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The angrier he gets the more unrelated imagined slights and enemies he pulls into his rants. One of these days he's going to be raving against Kamala Harris and toss in a reference to the very mean boys who bullied him during elementary school.

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[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 18 points 6 days ago (26 children)

I wanna see them file for actual impechment and not just call for it.

Like whats the point other than making the orange turd angry

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 week ago

“As the Doctor in charge said, ‘President Trump ACED it,’ meaning, I got every answer right.

It’s weird how he always trots out this line of bullshit. It’s sad that his supporters believe him.

He must be a fucking genius. Yeah, that’s it. /s

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what is worse - when he goes ALL-CAPS/CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL, or when he has the Random Capitalization of words For no Apparent reason.

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