THREAD: “This is a five-alarm fire…The most important issue of our time,” said Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State. A breakdown of Trump loyalists’ growing success in taking control over voting in swing states:
Arizona. Republican legislators have passed a law taking away authority over election lawsuits from the secretary of state, who’s now a Democrat, and giving it to the attorney general, a Republican. And debating another bill that would allow them to revoke election certification.
Georgia. Brad Raffensperger, helped stop Trump’s attempts to reverse the result. State legislators have since weakened his powers, and a Trump-backed candidate is running to replace Him. And passed a law that gives a commission they control the power to remove election officials.
Michigan. Kristina Karamo, a Trump-endorsed candidate who has repeated the Big Lie is running for secretary of state. (Republican candidates are running on similar messages in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.)
Pennsylvania. Republicans are trying to amend the state’s Constitution to make the secretary of state an elected position. One of the states where Trump allies — like Stephen Lindemuth, who attended the Jan. 6 rally—have won local races to oversee elections.
Wisconsin. Senator Ron Johnson is urging the Republican-controlled Legislature to take full control of federal elections. Doing so could remove the governor, currently a Democrat, from the process, and weaken the bipartisan state elections commission.
1/5 Join hosts Dr. John Gartner and Dr. Harry Segal for another episode of Shrinking Trump, a hit new weekly show dedicated to analyzing Donald Trump from a psychological point of view. youtube.com/live/jjQT4_x4f…
In this episode, our guest is psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. Lance Dodes, retired assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Why is Trump falling asleep in court? Will he actually attend the debates? What would a second term for Trump look like once he’s lost all impulse control? You won’t want to miss the team's psychological approach to answering these questions and more in this fascinating interview.
1/4 “His deterioration is accelerating" said psychologists John Gartner and Harry Segal on their new podcast "Shrinking Trump.”
“We are going to be documenting his cognitive deterioration, every week.” rawstory.com/trump-dementia…
2/ “I always say to people: Look at Donald Trump right now, because that's the best Donald Trump you're ever going to see because dementia is a deteriorating illness and his rate of deterioration is accelerating," said Gartner.
3/ “I don't know what it will take for the mainstream press to actually ask the question, 'Is there something wrong with Trump's brain? I think, even if he was caught disoriented, wandering down Fifth Avenue in his pajamas, they wouldn't ask the question."
1/9 Join Dr. John Gartner and co-host Dr. Harry Segal for the first episode of “Shrinking Trump,” a weekly show dedicated to analyzing Trump from a psychological point of view. We discuss Trump’s recent signs of dementia from his Gettysburg Address to his falling asleep in court. Watch:
2/ We interviewed Dr. Vince Greenwood who conducted an empirical study comparing Trump and Biden on signs of dementia and aging. I have said “it’s a tale of two brains: Biden’s brain is aging and Trump’s brain is dementing.” Dr. Greenwood put both those hypotheses to the test. We report on his data here
3/ Greenwood: “According to DSM-V You need to show decline in at least one of six areas, and language is one of them. The advantage of the language function is that we have hours of observational data: it’s called videotape.”
1/6 “Donny isn’t falling asleep out of boredom, or because he’s a sociopath — no, it’s because his brain is deterioraing at an ever-increasing rate.”—Jeff Tiedrich
“Donald Trump was already a burst trash bag of personality defects. add “losing control over his basic bodily functions — sleep, wake, excretion” to the mix and holy shit, these are exactly the qualities you want in a Day One Dictator.”
“Media-obsessed Trump is, of course, painfully aware that the entire world is laughing at his sleepytime courtroom dozefests — and so yesterday morning he took to his failing ghost-town of an app and posted this pathetic attempt at deflection: “
Trump has slept involuntarily 5 out of 7 days, “tilting his head dramatically and making trout-like movements with his mouth.” It’s not drugs, deprivation of drugs, or sleep deprivation. Those are common, but this is unheard of
It’s dementia.
Reports that he is farting and allegedly incontinent just confirm that he is losing control of basic biological functions.
Falling asleep involuntarily during the day is symptom of dementia. That isn't the only possible cause, but given that Trump appears to meet multiple diagnostic criteria for dementia, it's the most logical inference.
1/12 "Doctors are warning of Trump’s dementia—it’s time corporate media report on this!" by Dean Obeidallah
"When 500 mental health professionals sign a petition warning Trump has clear signs of dementia, you would think corporate media would cover the story." deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/doctors-are-…
"But of course that would conflict with the corporate media’s non-stop narrative that President Biden is the one with cognitive issues."
Trump's cognitive deterioration has accelerated since he left office. “Now Trump can't get through a rally without evidencing one of these tell-tale signs of dementia," said former Johns Hopkins psychologist Dr. John Gartner.