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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 23

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slyjoe said:
He has a lot to cover up for in the Crhis Wallace interview. For example, talking about his cognitive test:



Plus, he insisted his coronavirus prediction that it will just disappear will eventually be right.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...ctions-wide-ranging-interview-i-will-n1234307
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Spoilered, because it's slightly NSFW:

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I named the animals Aslan, Pete, and Greg. Was I supposed to identify species? Damn, guess I'll fail, now.
 
"The last five questions are really hard. I guarantee Joe Biden would get them wrong."

- Very Stable Genius

What city are you in?
 
Aridas said:
To poke at a couple things...

Voting Rights Roundup: Pennsylvania GOP aims to gerrymander the court that blocked their gerrymander

...And, under the current gerrymandering, they have an very unfortunately good chance of success, unless there's a massive blue wave.
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We already are a Banana Republic:

Federal courts have also not established a binding national precedent that judicial districts need to be of equal population like legislative-branch districts must, opening the door to even more extreme gerrymandering in future years.
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The Republicans in the state legislature doesn’t even have to draw those silly-looking pie-shaped wedges into each major city. Heck, they don’t even have to have a sub-committee draw district boundaries, they can just say that each of the state’s 67 counties will be a district.

So the 1,500,000 people in Philadelphia County get one vote and the 50,000 people in Bedford County get one vote. (I used Bedford County as an example to avoid stick shock. There are several counties with fewer than 50,000 residents. (Some counties are in the 4-figure range)).

Like the song says “America ****-Yeah.”
 
Norman Alexander said:
Having seen the questionnaire, someone correct me if I'm wrong but that definitely appears to be the sort of test you would give an elderly person whom you were determining the level and/or decline in their senile dementia.
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My wife does ten a day, and I do one every week for each of my (post stroke) parents.

It's used on elderly for dementia, but really it's designed for any age, to examine brain function (to evaluate progress with recovery from concussion, stroke, brain surgery, carotid artery surgery &c).

Perfect scores represent no cognitive impact.


There has been some discussion recently about the clock face question, in light of younger people having less exposure to analog clocks, but the evidence isn't in yet that it's really impacting the meaningfulness of the score.
 
blutoski said:
My wife does ten a day, and I do one every week for each of my (post stroke) parents.

It's used on elderly for dementia, but really it's designed for any age, to examine brain function (to evaluate progress with recovery from concussion, stroke, brain surgery, carotid artery surgery &c).

Perfect scores represent no cognitive impact..
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As I said the last time this came up, "The doctors were amazed that the President of the US did not have any cognitive impairment" is not quite something to brag about.
 
pgwenthold said:
As I said the last time this came up, "The doctors were amazed that the President of the US did not have any cognitive impairment" is not quite something to brag about.
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The reality is that most people who have had that test are immune to the contradiction, since they're probably still cognitively impaired.

An anecdote about my mother:

Shortly after she had a stroke, we had an election. I thought it was important to get her to vote, even if her politics are not aligned with mine. Elections Canada has a service where they can send a returns officer to bedsides of voters who are not physically able to get to a polling station, so I arranged for a visit to the house.

My mom was very confused about the candidates, and manually wrote in "Brian Mulroney." So, a few things:

* Firstly, Brian was PM 20 years ago, and hasn't run for anything since.
* Secondly, that's not how Canadians vote for a government. We vote for our local MP, and if they form a government, they pick an MP to be PM.
* And thirdly, writing on the ballot spoils it, so after all that effort I was kind of questioning the payoff.


Trump's going to appear on a lot of spoiled ballots over the next 70 years.
 
Horatius said:
If only there had been someone in a position of power these past three and half years who could have done something about this...
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But if there is an investigation you can't complain that there should be an investigation. And, you run the risk of the investigation coming up empty (see Hillary and Benghazi).
 
carlitos said:
Or a word for ninety. They say "four twenties and a ten," like you're making change instead of telling them about the George Bush Sr. years.
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You're preaching to the choir here. I'm Canadian, so partly bilingual. Meaning as French bilingual as a Vancouverite can be... Actually my Squamish is possibly better than my French at this point. It's a bit embarrassing when I'm in Quebec and they mistake me for American.

(that's me bringing the thread back on topic)
 
The only question I think The PDJT should get a pass on if he muffs it up would be the month-day-date-year-city question. Since he travels so much, it would be logical for him not to nececessarily know that info right off the top.

Being retired, I'm often not immediately clear as to which day it is, myself.
 
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