Poor Dementia Joe... It’s kinda sad that the man is going to shuffle off so angry and bitter. When he does the clenched teeth and the fist pounding shtick, I don’t think it’s just performative. He certainly doesn’t have anything resembling a cogent narrative as to why exactly Trump is the epitome of evil (Is he still regurgitating the “very fine people” hoax? Who knows), but he’s utterly convinced of his own righteousness in this tale. He reminds me a lot of Guy Pearce’s character in the movie “Mememeto”... he knows he’s hellbent on revenge but he can’t exactly remember why.
“When he does the clenched teeth and the fist pounding shtick, I don’t think it’s just performative.”
I’ve hear that insane anger comes with the territory of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Or maybe it’s Satan.
He’s not completely demented (yet). He was certainly with it enough to know he shouldn’t have run the first time, and there was enough left for him to discern that the second time. Yet his own hunger for power came first. He gets absolutely no pass for his breathtaking putting self before country
Yet Jill is worse, because she has no mental impairment. Pushing him forward was elder abuse pure and simple. It simply makes no sense she continues to allow appearances like this. He doesn’t have the ability to say or do anything to salvage his legacy and can only cement the now-universal view he was cognitively unable to complete a second term, and shouldn’t have run. She should have him sitting in his easy chair eating ice cream; instead, this further humiliation