I remember
telling Shelley when Ronald Reagan was President that the man was in the
beginning stages of Alzheimer’s disease. I had noticed him doing some odd
things in conversations and video that looked to me like classic early
symptoms. The press eventually locked on his behavior and began asking
questions. He was eventually diagnosed with having the disease; my belief is
that we had sitting President with Alzheimer’s disease.
I don’t make
that statement to be critical or hateful. Two in my immediate family have had
dementia of different types. It’s difficult and dehumanizing. It takes away the
essence of a human being. It steals away memories and functionality. It’s a
horrible disease.
A couple of
things, make that several, have caught my eye over the course of this 2016
campaign. Donald Trump has been called a pathological liar on a regular basis.
This happens because he lies so incredibly frequently about things that he has
said. I have personally watched him lie in real time within minutes. This
happened during all the call-in interviews that he was making during the
primaries. (This is during the time when the television media that he hates was
giving him a couple of billion dollars of free air time.) On one call he
commented on a particular political clip that he had seen concerning him and a
few minutes later on another interview said that he hadn’t seen the ad. There
was really no point in making that claim and the newscasters were aware that he
had just talked about it. They just laughed it off incredulously. “Well, that's
Donald Trump."
In the 1st
televised debate he said that he was smart for not paying any income taxes.
Then a few hours later denied having made the comment in front of some eighty
plus million people. When Hillary Clinton brought up the Miss Universe Latina
that he had insulted years previously Donald Trump inquired, “Where did you
find this? Where did you find this?” I have reviewed the clip several times and
it looks to me like he was hearing this for the first time. I believe he really
didn’t remember and this may be the case for any other of the number of falsehoods
he perpetrates.
In the past I
have said that I believe that he lives in the moment and believes what he says
at the time he says them. He frequently accuses a biased press of lying about
him even though there is often video, audio or interviews of him readily
available, often from multiple sources. I have spent a lot of hours looking at
videos of Donald Trump. It isn’t a case of biased media. He is a fabrication of
himself. He has created this caricature that is Donald Trump. He is what he is
and has a long history of being Donald Trump. He is the best. Everything he
does the best. He doesn’t need to ask God for forgiveness because he is Donald
Trump and everything he has done is justified by him. He said during the debate
that he has said some disparaging things about Rosie O’Donnell but that
everybody agrees with him and everybody agrees that she deserves it. It’s safe
to say that half the country disagrees with him but he makes grandiose
statements like this on a regular basis. He is the spokesperson of humanity.
Unfortunately, the great fabricator has a flexible relationship with reality. I
specifically wanted to use the word reality as opposed to the word truth.
Since so many
made such a huge deal out of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cough I think that it’s
worth considering that a man that can’t seem to remember what he said a few
hours ago, calling back things that he has said in the past, having a limited
vocabulary, being repetitious, struggling with words, unable to focus, short
attention span and the list goes on, MIGHT HAVE A PROBLEM.
These kinds
of things can also be attributed to simply having senior moments. Is it always
the case? No. My grandmother was sharp into her 90s as was my wife’s
grandmother, also in her 90s. But go and check out Donald trump’s early videos.
He didn’t have this sing song repetitious speech pattern that he has now. He
was much more coherent and lucid in his talk.
My reality is
that I am nowhere close to where I was even a decade ago. But, I am not running
for President. I am not an expert in the field by any stretch of the
imagination, but it would certainly explain a lot if Donald Trump is in the
process of losing his mental faculties—especially the frustration and
outbursts.
Go yourself
and look at the contradictory statements and denials that Donald Trump makes in
videos. Reputable news agencies have lists of all the lies that he’s told. Now
I understand that we aren’t supposed to trust the news agencies but they are
much more trustworthy that all the conspiracy and political operative sites out
there. Ask yourself why he cannot remember something that happened less than a
day before. Why can’t a man with a miraculous memory remember anything when
being deposed? Check out President Reagan and his struggle with the disease and
the early symptoms.
He’s either intentionally
lying to the American people on a regular basis or he genuinely can’t remember
at times: his short term memory is shot and his long term memory retrieval
system is failing.
How’s this
for a conspiracy theory? Better than a cough? Okay, I’ll admit that it only
took me 20 minutes to bang this out. It certainly doesn’t have the legs of the
Birther movement or the cachet of the Clintons’ Murder Inc. conspiracy theory
but it’s my first foray into just making stuff up, mixing it in with known
events and putting it out there. I should have added that a famous doctor, Dr.
Whoozit, has been analyzing Trump’s actions and has confirmed that there’s an
85% chance that he has Alzheimer’s disease. That would really make it credible!
There are at
this time thousands of people in this country dedicated to making stuff up and
putting it out there. It’s what they do for entertainment and some of them even
get paid for it. It’s a cottage industry. It might even be that that 400 pound
guy in a bed that Trump was talking about is doing it right now.
People, stop
looking at that crap! It feeds itself. Once you head down the rabbit hole it’s
hard to remember what normalcy is like. One whack site leads and links to
another. They are self-serving and self-promoting. Believe no one but them.
They’ll have some new concoction ready for your consumption in a few minutes.
In the
meantime…
There are
thousands of journalists, real journalists, working in a shrinking industry,
being squeezed out of jobs by bottom line pencil pushers and guys in suits like
Donald Trump who has victimized thousands of working people and is still doing
it. The thousands of people working behind the scenes in newsrooms, television
studios, internet offices, cubicle dwellers, technical support from the
janitors on up are working stiffs just like the rest of middle class America.
Trying to make a living and do their job. Do you really believe all these
working people in the media industry are in on this conspiracy?
They are
simply reporting what Donald Trump is.