Breaking News An Expert Doctor at John Hopkins diagnosis Trump with an EXPLOSIVE REPORT, TRUMP HAS DEMENTIA

This would require an act by Vance and a majority of Trump's cabinet. They'd have to present a declaration letter to Congress stipulating he was unfit. How likely do you think that is to take place?

Trump's Truth Social posts are virtually unreadable. Just like there are some foods I can't eat without gagging, I can't force myself to read Trump garbage. It isn't so much as what he says--it's always the same basic two or three things--as the childish way he writes, with ALL CAPS for emphasis (something I lampoon here often) and his bizarre Trump Capitalization Syndrome, capitalizing nouns he feels are important, like it's 1780.

But insofar as the topic of Trump's dementia goes, you're correct that in order to make a viable diagnosis, a doctor would have to examine the patient in person. But that's for the average Joe; the doctor wouldn't have heard Joe talk or read anything he had written; nor would he have any videos. So what would the doctor do? Listen to the patient, and observe his behavior and demeanor.

So I submit that a trained clinician would have more than enough evidence to reach a tentative conclusion, without personally interviewing Trump. There's his social media messages, his press conferences, and recorded interviews. I think the conclusion an unbiased layman and a doctor would reach would be the same.

As in, the Turd's brain is like that tub of cottage cheese that's been in the back of the refrigerator for six months. It's covered in green fur, and it's moving.

         So says the idiot - one of many - who said Biden was not mentally impaired. 

I said he wasn't "brain-dead," a silly claim that you made that would have meant he was...dead. He was definitely alive, conscious, etc.

   Brain dead Biden - recoognized throughout the world and proven during the debate. 

You keep flogging that lie--if he was "brain dead," he wouldn't have been there at all; he would have been dead. Deceased. Not walking, not talking, not breathng. Dead.

I can't believe that you don't understand that. End of thread.

So, there's the so-called "Goldwater rule."  Back in the 1960s, several psychiatrists said that Barry Goldwater had a paranoid personality disorder (perhaps he did), and the American Psychiatric Association rendered an opinion that it's unethical for a psychiatrist to diagnose a patient whom he/she hadn't examined.  Back in 2016, plenty of psychiatrists opined that Trump has a narcissistic personality disorder, but the Goldwater rule supressed a lot of public discourse about it, and should probably supress the talk about his having frontotemporal dementia.

That being said, a few comments:  

1)  Dementia is a progressive disorder.  Does Trump appear to be getting worse?  Not more emboldened, but worse?

2)  If he's suffering from dementia, does that remove any culpability for things that he's doing?

3)  David's "brain dead Biden" comments are just annoying hyperbole; he's not the only one here guilty of that.

I posted this as a satire of classic David Miller posts. I used a fringe news source from a person who wasn't credible, and my headline used emotional words with misplaced capital letters. I followed the original post with the classic, "everyone knows!" hyperbole along with the vague "experts" claim.

I was kidding around.

   I enjoyed the humor. 

OK, I'll clarify.  Joe Biden's condition of health does not even minimally meet the uninformed layman's label of "brain dead."

"Brain dead" is an unfortunate word/phrase, often used to denigrate someone who is fully alive.  It is not an accepted medical diagnosis.   Sadly even hospital personnel are heard lapsing into its use in casual conversation.

A person in cognitive decline, such as in dementia, is not "brain dead."

Brain dead correctly defined refers to a long term "wakeful unconsciousness" following severe brain injury from anoxia, now termed PVS, Persistent Vegetative State.   Diagnosis and ongoing care have medical, legal, and ethical complexity.  Now called iPVS, Irreversible PVS. 

In PVS there is minimal to no awareness or purposeful movement.  Often breathing continues after being restored, due to the effect of the beating heart.   

The case of Terri Schaivo illustrates the complexity of diagnosis, care, legal and ethical decision making in PVS.  Terri was in PVS for some 15 years after collapsing at home, age 26, found by her husband and being resuscitated by EMS.  Extensive neuro testing and brain imaging confirmed damage from prolonged lack of oxygen.  Her husband and her parents battled for years over whether to continue care which included nutrition by feeding tube.  The husband as legal NOK maintained Terri would not want to live in this state and would want the feeding tube removed, but there was no living will.  Years of legal wranglings over right to life, custody, who could decide, ensued.

In similar cases, loved ones interpret involuntary movements, such as a finger twitch, eye roll, facial grimace as signs of recovery.  Criteria for recovery includes 1) consciousness: awarness, consistent voluntary purposeful reactions to visual and auditory stimuli, engagement with others; and 2) function: communication, ability to learn and perform tasks, self-care, etc. 

For some, the removal of a feeding tube feels like 'depriving' the patient of food/nutrition.

As usual, ask me the time (is Joe Biden brain dead?) and I'll build you a clock.  Hope it informed.

Candy