On Tuesday, a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm regarding “more highly concerning behavior” from President Donald Trump. According to Dr. John Garrison, Trump’s recent actions suggest “steep neurological decline” and a dangerously “manic-like state.”

Garrison began by playing a clip from a recent Fox News interview, in which Trump declared that the price of oil is “going to go down like a rocket.” According to Garrison, “There were two neurological issues in this very short clip, both of them verbal. One is that he’s having speech planning issues, saying ‘going down like a rocket.’ Obviously, that’s combining phrases. He’s having a hard time organizing his thoughts. And second is an involuntary vocalization.” Here Garrison replays the clip, noting an abrupt sound Trump makes, explaining, “The pathways that deal with language are disrupted. We are seeing serious issues with language with President Trump.” What’s more, Garrison asserts that such vocalizations are “relatively new.”

In the interview, Trump begins talking about the midterm elections, saying, “I’m going to campaign like I did for myself and I’m going to hope that people think that I’m on. And if I’m not on, if they don’t go out and vote, if they go out and vote, we’re going to win easily.” As Garrison notes, “What he’s saying makes absolutely no sense. He cannot organize his thoughts. He gets confused and he believes what he’s saying is coherent. But it truly makes no sense.” According to Garrison, this struggle with verbal planning can be evidence of underlying “neurological issues.”

Here Garrison points to Trump’s pupils, which have remained dilated throughout the interview. “Trump is in a very bright room for this interview,” says Garrison. “You can see the lights actually reflecting off of his eyes, and what should be happening is that his pupils should be constricting rather than dilating because when there’s too much light in a room, your pupils get smaller, not bigger.” According to Garrison, “Dilated pupils like this can be from a wide variety of reasons, but it’s not just something that happens,” and likely culprits include medication for something like incontinence, Parkinson’s disease, or seizures.

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    Can we get rid of all the boomers from all governments in the world already? I wanna see a world where we’re fucking “represented” by our regular ass peers?

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    They never needed him compos mentis to execute their plans. Just alive and filling the chair.

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    As much as I LOATHE him, he is nothing but a mouthpiece. There are numerous people/entities controlling him and the things that are getting done in the government. I don’t actually believe that he has any power to make anything happen. I think the people who are controlling him are making things happen. First of all he’s not that smart, and second of all he’s obviously in cognitive decline I wouldn’t be surprised if he even knows what day it is. And even after he is gone however that is the powers that are controlling him are going to control the next puppet of the Republican party. So even if he croaks tomorrow and the couch fucker is in there nothing’s going to change.

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      Fascim is there to stay regardless of what happens. Dumbass retard Americans think that they are going back to “normal” after his passing. The only place they’re going is to the camps.

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      So even if he croaks tomorrow and the couch fucker is in there nothing’s going to change.

      Too many people are oblivious to this obvious assessment. :/ You’re one of very few I see who share that opinion. The think if the orange pedo croaks the world will miraculously be cured. Spoiler: it won’t.

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        The christian nationalist have been planning this for a really really long time. The have spent billions on propaganda. I’ll never understand how people are so fucking stupid to fall for it. The hate they have created for any type is progress is astounding.

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      Fascim is there to stay regardless of what happens. Dumbass retard Americans think that they are going back to “normal” after his passing. The only direction place they’re going is to the camps.

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    Whatever. Doesn’t matter till he’s dead or gone. Preferably both. Tired of being hope baited into thinking any of this will lead to a measurable outcome.

    “It don’t matter. None of this matters.” -Carl Brutananadilewski

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      Not just him - the ideal is that MAGA will simply collapse without their leader. The issue with that is we’ve already cemented a LOT of power into the executive in just a few years. Trump could drop dead tomorrow and despite having the charisma of an open can of surstromming, I think Vance would be able to hold onto power just through an overwhelming tide of repression. Trump’s caught up with people loving him - Vance, I think, doesn’t care if people hate him.

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      I think it’s important for the midterm elections. It’s important that folks who care, get out and vote.

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        Yes, I’m SURE the Democrats will spring into action! Chuck Schumer is gonna put his glasses SO far down his nose once he’s majority leader . . .

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    This is giving me “The Man In The High Castle” vibes. It’s a show about an alternate dimension where Hitler won WW2. The show starts with everyone figuring out Hitler is ill and going to die soon. There will be a power struggle when it finally happens.

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    he’s still your president

    you elected him

    he’s what represents your country

    he’s a stupid child rapist

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      eh, to be fair to USA people even though they are the worst people on earth, their elections are corrupt and fixed by the way they draw districts and manipulate ballots. It isn’t a democracy in any meaningful way.

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      Another European who thinks having a bigoted view of all Americans somehow makes them better than the bigoted Americans. Idiots.

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        you think if someone is not american they’re european?

        stupid yankees…

        anyways, how is pointing out you elected him bigoted?

        you did elect him and he is your president

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          European was the easiest guess without having to learn more about you ( something I have zero interest in based on your negativity) Obviously the point was that you are blaming every American for the actions of a cult. You are not better than me because you have the privilege of not living here. You are definitely not better than the people who voted for him because the way you speak is just fucking like them, ignorant as fuck.

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              Accusing me of not reading is hilarious. You clearly didn’t read what I wrote or you don’t have language comprehension skills to deduce reasoning. If you can’t see the problem with blaming every American for the actions of the people who actually DID elect them, then you are part of the problem…part of the problem that affects the human species as a whole, not just the people behind certain boundaries. Calling me gay doesn’t really hurt someone who has sucked dozens of dicks btw.

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                no one else in the world would be this insulted and jump to defend their country after being told their president was elected

                no one exept americans

                you hate your own peers so much you don’t even consider the president as your president

                I repeat, no one in the world acts this way

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                  Why would I give af what other people act like in other countries with completely different lifestyles? Again you are using Trump supporter logic. I never said i was insulted because you said he was elected or whatever the fuck you are trying to say with your word twisting. I said I was insulted because you lump every American in with Trump supporters. Yes I do hate my peers THAT much (and now you too) because they are sub human scum who are in a cult. I hate them so much I want the entire cult to do a re-creation of what happened with the cult in Jonestown (look it up you ignorant European) see doesn’t feel so good for someone to assume your intelligence level based off of geography, does it? Serious question…Do you think being a p.o.s in another country somehow makes you better than the pieces o.s. in my country? Have you ever heard the phrase, “You take yourself wherever you go.”? I bet you have and I bet you despise that phrase as much as I despise the way you and all the other biggots of the world think. And yes I know you are not European and no I still don’t care where you are actually from.

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                  Um yeah you definitely insinuated that was and thought I would be offended by that. Do you think you can just twist the words until you squirm your way out of looking stupid?

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                I didn’t say you personally voted for him, I said you elected him, thus the importance of knowing how to read

                and yes you did elect him

                you guys bomb countries, kill innocent fishermen, steal ressources, kidnap presidents

                but god forbid I tell you Donald Trump is your president, that would be “negative”

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    Funny how we’re going to switch from his people praising him and everything he says and does as proofs of his genius to claiming that this hero suffered from a mental disease “near the end”, and we shouldn’t criticize him for that, that would be unfair, cruel, immoral. The line from genius to mentally-ill will continuously move to include everything they want to keep and exclude everything that’s too unpopular. Timeline won’t matter at all.

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      Hi. Former psych ward orderly here. Mental illness and disability in general don’t care what your ethics are, they’re equal opportunity life-ruiners.

      So don’t feel bad about calling an evil person evil if they’re disabled. Don’t make excuses for them if they’re actively trying everything in their power to destroy the world. Don’t try to chalk up their bad decisions to their disability.

      There are millions of people who have the same disease(s), and most of them aren’t supporting war crimes, let alone committing them. Wheelchair or not, fistful of pills or not, their actions determine their nature. And Trump’s nature is unrepentant, naked evil.

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    I wouldn’t be surprised if your maga party didn’t pass a law that a corpse can be president

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      Yeah, I think so too. Vance, Vought, Miller, Heritage Foundation et al. are propping up a president with dementia because it’s to their advantage with regards to implementing their radical-conservative agenda.

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          to be precise, it’s authoritarian oligopoly. Fascism has a few key characteristics missing from this - mainly the threat of worker’s revolt/communism and a large amount of war veterans moving away from liberalism.

          Doesn’t mean it’s not disgusting and shouldn’t be overthrown immediately. But 20th century European fascism has a different context.

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    a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm

    This truly is the stupidest timeline

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    Person with ears and eyes finds Trump is a narcissist with dementia, ~33% of the population don’t give a fuck.

    Jesus could roll out of the clouds and disavow this pedo / rapist, and they’d call him a false prophet.

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    Breaking news of his sharp decline have been filling the YouTube airwaves every week for the last 2 years, maga has been fracturing every other day, his allies have turned on him every 24 hours and his administration has been on the verge of collapse every refresh of the algorithm.

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      I will say though it does seem like his supporters are falling fast. The most ardent supporters of his I know have suddenly been saying very negative things about him

      There’s also a dude who had a huge trump sign in his yard for years, like a big wooden one he clearly made himself. He took it down.

      Another guy had a huge FJB and a bunch of pro trump signs outside like real crazy anti vax kinda shit, a lot of them. All gone.

      Not saying they’re all done but they’re clearly showing signs of regret and embarrassment. Hammer the shame now while we can and maybe they’ll keep themselves shut the fuck up for the next 10-20 years

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        I live in one of the reddest counties in one of the reddest states in the south. When I say it’s red, I mean registered GOP outnumbers all of the rest of the registered voters here almost 2:1.

        You still see them on trucks occasionally, but I’ve not seen a Trump flag or sign on a house in over 6 months. One house on the route to take my kid to work has taken their Trump flag down after having it up since 2015 and replaced it with an American flag.

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        The regret and embarassment won’t last long past orange’s dying. Watch them jump onto the next puppet, the problem isn’t just the current figurehead, it’s always been who’s behind him actually driving the machine, and the 77M idiots who supported him and who are your neighbors, because they bought into what orange represents and they will defend the next one by comparison (won’t be hard to find a more mentally competent dude than 47…)

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        Those same people were foaming at the mouth about how Bush was Jesus. Those same people were foaming at the mouth that Obama would build mandatory mosques and force them into hijabs.

        They forget their own bullshit as soon as they stop spewing it.

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        Which is kind of interesting since the mid terms are coming up. I wonder what the results will be. 4 weeks to go.

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      Well, he does turn on his allies about every 24 hours, but for reasons I will never understand some other sucker fills the role immediately.

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      Yeah but has he been SLAMMED by a milquetoast center left politician yet? Has he been BLASTED by a journalist asking a softball question? Once we start seeing those headlines, things will change for sure!