Posted on 11/03/2017 5:20:40 AM PDT by raybbr
Nearly 8 years after a terrible wreck left a man unable to communicate, his power of speech has returned. George Bush was 62 when the mainstream media derailed his presidency, which resulted in him and his entire administration going off a cliff and tumbling to the ground.
"For eight long years he didn't speak a word," said George's brother, Jeb Bush. Though his family continued to talk to him, they had no idea whether he understood them. That eased a few days ago, when he began responding to questions with grunts and by blinking his eyes.
On a doctor's advice, the family had tried art therapy, giving George paints and canvases. He started to paint, which allowed him to communicate with the world, even if non-verbally.
To everyone's amazement, those were mostly pictures of dogs and cats, which made some wonder if George had anything meaningful to say even if he could communicate verbally. It didn't help that George developed a liking for sniffing the paint thinner.
But in October this year George made a major advance. When Jeb walked into his room to sniff some of George's paint thinner, George suddenly said his first word in eight years: "Trump!" According to Jeb, that took them both by surprise. "You could tell by the look on his face, his eyes were kind of big," said Jeb.
Later that day George added "asshole" to his vocabulary. "He would not have talked dirty before he wrecked," his mother Barbara said. The next day, when asked what other words he could say, George answered, "I can say anything."
That was when, on October 19, the family took George to New York and asked him to read something before an audience. George showed a remarkable ability to read from the teleprompter, which sent the entire American media reeling with excitement. It was a speech written by one of George's former speechwriters who had survived the 2008 crash with a minor scratch. The speech was broadcast on all major networks and became an international sensation in medical circles.
According to some neurologists, however, what George may be experiencing is a disorder known as selective mutism. "It is an anxiety disorder when a person who is normally capable of speech cannot speak in specific situations or to specific people," said an insider who wished to remain anonymous.
"People with selective mutism stay silent even when the consequences of their silence include shame, social ostracism, or even punishment. This was obvious several years before the crash, when George lived in the White House and remained mute when his voters and supporters wanted him to speak up," he said.
Some researchers speculate that selective mutism may be an avoidance strategy used by a subgroup of politicians with social anxiety disorder to reduce their distress in difficult situations that they do not fully understand. At the same time they display other communicative behaviors, such as hand clapping, waving, or hugging babies.
"Time will tell whether George's eight-year-long muteness was caused by brain trauma or it was a strategy to avoid a situation where he was in over his head," the source said.
Though George's speech remains slow and labored, he loves to talk and his mother is very proud of him.
LOL! Good one.
Brilliant read!
The Bushies are a family of charlatans. Thank God that the neo conservative movement has shone the spotlight on the fraud that is the uniparty
LOL! Tell me about it, that freakin’ bum. Not one single solitary peep out of his pie hole the entire 8 years the Muslim brotherhood was running the White house. One act of treason after another after another after another after another after another after another after another, everything our vets fought and died for in Iraq BECAUSE of Bush, given right back to the enemy by the employee of the Muslim brotherhood,and not one peep.
But OH, the second Trump takes office, here he comes out from under his rock, blah blah blah stutter stutter blah blah blah stutter stutter blah blah blah..
Very nice.
George W. “Aw, gee Biff” McFly Bush deserves this.
Terri Schiavo, GW and Jeb. Terri Schiavo.
Lol!
Now if only they could find a cure for Hillary’s political Tourette’s
Molly Ivins was right....No More Shrubs.
Ha, ha!
ROFL
Nice!
Right on.
Lol! The People’s Cube is great! Very creative and funny.
What he said after he regained his ability to speak proves that he suffers from some degree of brain damage.
You got me with that one.
GREAT! Had me laughing from “George Bush was 62....”
The Bushes are after Trump because Trump is after the other half of their duopoly - Billary, Inc. That duopoly played the American sheeple for suckers for sixteen years, and they thought it all creating the chance for Obama was not bad enough, they wanted a do-over - either another Clinton or another Bush - and Trump ended that chance. So their mad. That’s too bad for them but good for the American people.
This...but I would change “charlatans” to “traitors to the Republic”.
...along with "Agenda 21 driven, one-world-government elitist, pseudo-intellectual buttholes."
ROTFL but with the selective disorder, GW never stopped talking to our veterans.
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