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Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Remember though…. bOtH siDeS r tEh sAmE!
Democrats would NEVER checks notes dance?
On stage, during a campaign event, for nearly an hour? Lol, no. That's weird.
I'm glad to know where your priorities lie, I guess.
None of my other priorities would like donald trump in office either
It's just kinda weird to me to hold up this as a refutation to the idea that "both sides are the same" when this specific thing is purely about aesthetics.
It's not aesthetics. It's very obviously a mental issue. Almost certainly Alzheimer's/dementia. If Biden had done this on the campaign trail every media outlet would be calling it what it is.
What makes you think this wasn't a conscious or cognizant decision?
It's so incredibly obvious to me and pretty much anyone with a functioning brain that there is no point in trying to explain it to you. It's very obvious where your bias lies here.
The liberal position is that dancing means you have brain damage and if you don't agree you're the enemy. Interesting tact.
So it's "he doesn't have dementia he's just retarded" then? Because that was either mental decline or he's just a fucking paint chip eater.
Real classy language you got there.
No, dancing doesn't indicate any sort of cognitive impairment at all. There's plenty of legitimate shit to criticize him for, this is just petty bullshit.
Competent leadership?
How dare you ?
Once we missed out on a way better president because he enthusiastically yelled "YEAAAAAHH!!!"
No we didn't. Deans campaign was already in the toilet. The scream was his attempt to get people jazzed about upcoming primaries he had no chance of winning anyway.
That’s how I remember it as well. I liked him but he wasn’t the party insider.
Too many 20 year olds read SCREAM LOST ELECTION! on a BuzzFeed article or some crap so I guess it's the truth now. But yeah, I was there, John Kerry was the onl viable candidate by then.
I was too, no he wasn't.
Yeah, and that was bad.
I'm not sure how that's relevant here except as a reason why doing that sort of thing is generally a bad habit.
For 40 minutes, during a rally, awkwaedly swing back and forth? No I doubt they would. Imagine what you would think if Biden did this.
The dude sucks at dancing like most maladjusted white men. i dont see an issue here out side of his rampant racism and fascism. we can do better.
Honestly? I'd be more likely to attend a political rally if they had more dancing and less pomp.
I wouldn't think anything of it if Biden did it.
-Lemmy.ml moment
Notorious dance fans, lemmy.ml
So full of shit.
Lol ok.
I don't just assume people are in cognitive decline every time they do something spontaneous. Besides, Trump is obviously unfit regardless of his mental state. I guess when you're fully in on partisan brainworms you just have to reaffirm at every moment that everything the other side does is The Worst Possible Thing in case someone doubts your loyalty or commitment. Honestly part of why I don't give a shit about appealing to that circle, because it seems really boring and narrow. The world is so much larger than that.
I mean no one would because Biden isn’t running for president.
The bar is set so low for Trump the devil keeps stubbing his toe on it.
I wouldn't have thought anything of it when he was running for president.
Like, I said he was having cognitive decline because of stuff like this. Dancing at a campaign rally isn't a sign of cognitive decline, it's just making a mountain out of a molehill to have material to fill the news cycle. And I guess to "settle the score" or something, since liberals still seem to be holding onto this idea that calling out Biden's decline was somehow unjustified. If anything, you could make a better case by finding a clip of Trump saying something incoherent (not hard), but coming out hard against dancing just sounds like the bad guy in some boomer movie.