Mr Trump made the gaffe about the threat of World War II — which finished in 1945 — during the part of his address in which he was questioning the mental acuity of 80-year-old Mr Biden.

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    For those who didn’t read the article, Trump claims Biden is too old and senile to be trusted to run the country then proceeds to confuse WW2 and WW3, then confused Biden and Obama and then immediately after confused Hilary and Obama (ie, the headline slightly understates it if anything.)

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      Here’s the citation:

      “The radical left thugs have weaponised law enforcement to arrest their leading political opponent … leading by a lot … including Obama,” he said before catching the error and trying to get back on track but appearing to forget that it was Hillary Clinton he beat in the 2016 presidential election.

      “I’ll tell you what … you take a look at Obama and you look at some of the things that he’s done, this is the same thing, the country was very divided and we did with Obama, we won an election they said that couldn’t be won.”

      It made no sense to me, I thought I was used to how this guy speaks. I listened to the video. It’s the same thing. makes no sense.

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    If the Left weren’t so timid, they would be all over this and demand he is examined for senility. Because, let’s face it, that is exactly what the GOP would do if Biden started talking about the War of 1812 or how he will defeat George W Bush.

    Sure, there are going to be a bunch of snarky comments and a few memes about this posted, but I hate to break it to you all, our comments on social media don’t mean squat. We need actual people in positions of power to come forward and demand Trump get a mental health exam. But they clearly are too cowardly to do so.

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      Timidity isn’t the problem. The “left” only exists in online forums such as Lemmy. Truth be told, there’s been such a disastrous amount of damage done to working class consciousness over the decades during the cold war that people think wanting universal healthcare is communist.

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        But that is being timid. Because the Right has made universal healthcare a “communist” thing, but the Left is so utterly clueless in this country that they can’t make a unified, cohesive argument for it. They are too timid to attack the Right, even when the Right never misses a chance to go on the offensive.

        The Left in other parts of the industrialized world can be credited for universal healthcare, paternity leave, low-cost higher education and stuff like that.

        The Left in the US can be credited for fucking up pronouns.

        One is useful for getting working families what they need most to not just survive, but actually prosper. The other is just uselessly wasting everyone’s time and energy on pointless issues, and as such, it is no wonder that the Left in the US gets little support and even less respect.

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          The problem is that there is no true “Left” in America. The Democrats are a right wing political party when compared with international politics.

          The only difference between the 2 is that the Dems pretend to fight for human rights, though in actuality they DO very little. Mostly just talk, not mich action.

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      He’s had a mental health exam. Remember “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV?”

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/23/person-woman-man-camera-tv-trump-insists-cognition-test-was-difficult

      He bragged about how easy his Alzheimer’s test was. This is the organization that does the test he was referring to:

      https://mocacognition.com/

      MoCA empowers healthcare professionals and researchers to detect cognitive impairment related to

      Alzheimer’s disease

      Parkinson’s disease

      Huntington’s disease

      Lewy Body Dementia

      VCI/Stroke

      Fronto-temporal dementia

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      To be real, I’m kinda surprised the GOP hasn’t already done this, enough people already believe this especially on the right

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        They kind of have. Fox News is endlessly using the worst images and videos of Biden in their broadcasts. Some of them purposely altered.

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    Republicans once again proving that every accusation they make against others is just a confession

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    So world war two, the search for more money?!

    But seriously, Trump is such a bafoon

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    So why is this piece of shit human being convicted felon still allowed to give speeches? And what kind of fucking braindead moron would want to listen to a literal traitor give a speech? Those people should never be allowed to vote again.