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Trump’s Brain Is Not Okay That last example took place during Trump’s State of the Union Address, just to contrast that with the SOTU we just witnessed. In recent rallies in GA, NC, and VA over the course of just a few days Trump evidenced more examples: “We have becrumb a nation” “All comp-ply-ments” to Joe Biden. “I know Poten.” “He can’t cam-pay. He can’t campaign.” “We will expel the wald-mongers.” But of course, this is exactly what we should expect. As he deteriorates, these deficits will make themselves apparent more and more often. Now he can’t get through a rally without an example. Cornell psychologist Harry Segal speculated Trump may be “sundowning” and hence most vulnerable to going off the rails at night-time rallies. Some have argued that Trump’s impaired speech could be an articulation problem, rather than a brain problem. Some have argued he could be slurring from a variety of causes, from loose dentures to drug toxicity (indeed many have speculated that Trump might be abusing or even snorting Adderall or some other stimulant.) But all those competing explanations are disproven by one fact. Trump commits these aphasic errors in his written posts, as well, proving the problem is in his brain, not his articulation. For example, he recently posted: “Joe Buden DISINFORMATES AND MISINFORMATES” “Semantic aphasia” Semantic aphasia is using a real word, but in a way that doesn’t correspond to its meaning. For example, when Trump referred to the “oranges of the investigation.” Another example would be “midtown and midturn elections.” Recently, when apparently trying to say “three years later,” Trump said: “Three years, lady, lady, lady.” More recently Trump said at a rally: “We’re going to protect pro-God…” In mid-sentence he goes blank and looks at the ceiling. When he reboots, the words he uses to complete the sentence don’t make sense: “…context and content.” C) Complete loss of all verbal language Like an infant sometimes, Trump just makes sounds: “Gang boong. This is me. I hear bing.” Until finally, he is reduced to silence. “Saudi Arabia and Russia will re-ve-du. Ohhh…” Trump’s face went blank, followed by a sigh, and a silent pause while he looked at the ceiling. D) Tangential Thinking Trump evidences “tangential thinking” where he drifts from one unrelated thought fragment to another, and sometimes tries to “confabulate” them into a story. But the narrative is literally incoherent. When the press describes Trump’s speeches as “rambling,” they are gaslighting us with a euphemistic word that normalizes the grossly abnormal. Trump regularly degenerates into incomprehensible strings of words. Just recently outside a New York courtroom, Trump declared: “We can’t have an election in the middle of a political season. We just had Super Tuesday. And we had a Tuesday after Tuesday already.” Other examples would be: “We are an institute in a powerful death penalty. We will put this on.” “I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I could tell you about the elevators on a tremendous carrier, the Gerald Ford, and they decided not to use hydraulic like the John Deere tractor, they decided to use magnets, ‘we’re gonna use magnets!’ to lift up the elevators with seven planes.” In a recent string of rallies in GA, SC, and VA he said: “They say I’m cognitively impaired. I’m not cognitively.” “They don’t want illegal immigrants knocking on their front door and saying I’m going to use your kitchen. And I’m going to use your bedroom and there’s not a damn thing. And that’s the nice ones, okay?” “They raided my house in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, they raided. With no raid, they had no reason to do so.” Some of his utterances are incomprehensible for a different reason. They suggest Trump is so disoriented he’s occupying a different reality than everyone else. For example: “They’re weaponizing law enforcement for high-level interference against Joe Biden’s top and only political appointment. A guy named me. A guy named me.” At a recent rally, he said: “Biden beat Barack Hussein Obama. Ever heard of him?” Biden never beat Obama. So we have to conclude that Trump is confused about basic reality, and living in a different reality that changes unpredictably. When a confused patient is evaluated in an emergency room, a standard psychiatric question to determine if a patient is disoriented is: “Who is President of the United States?” If you get that wrong the most probable explanations are dementia, psychosis or drug toxicity, and most probably you’d be admitted for observation in any case. 4) Motor Performance: Dementia expert Elisabeth Zoffmann, assistant professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, told Salon that Trump evidences a “wide-based gait, commonly found among patients with dementia. Video online shows that he swings his right leg in a semi-circle as if it were dragging a dead weight. He has also shown deterioration in his fine motor coordination, for example having difficulty drinking a bottle or a glass of water without two hands. Some doctors have also pointed out the peculiar way he leans forward as a typical sign of a type of dementia known as frontotemporal dementia. It could be frontotemporal, or it could be Alzheimer’s like his father had. There’s more than one cause of dementia and that’s where a brain scan would be helpful, but we’re never going to get to see that. 5) Behavior: He is showing marked deterioration in impulse control and judgment, becoming ever more paranoid, aggressive and confused. Even the judges in his cases are throwing up their hands because they see Trump actually can’t control his outbursts at this point, it’s like a Tourette’s tic. What are the real risks to our nation of a president who is exhibiting signs of dementia? I can imagine a list of horribles, but what are some of the ones that spring foremost to mind? It’s an axiom that when a patient with a personality disorder becomes demented, everything about their personality-disordered behavior gets exponentially worse. Trump will become more horribly Trumpian, if you can believe it. Everything evil and destructive about him will become even more exaggerated in an unbound, and even more erratic way, until he is nothing but rageful id, with no rational control or inhibitions. It will be pure chaos. From that point, there’s simply no bad outcome that you can think of that’s inconceivable. People need to understand dementia is a progressive illness, which means the Trump you see today is the best Trump you’re ever going to see. It’s all downhill from here. Trump’s rate of decline is accelerating, and if he’s typical, at some point, he will “fall off a cognitive cliff” and become completely disabled. Trump could be found wandering the lawn of the White House in his pajamas confused about where he is. I’m not joking. I honestly believe that will happen if he’s reelected. At the rate that he’s deteriorating, I don’t believe it would be possible for him to get through the next 4 and a half years without becoming incapacitated while in office.

Had to tweak and edit -- had too many CP in play 😛 Character Name: Eleanor Wrigley Alternate Identities: Geist Player Name: RedRajah CHARACTERISTICS Val Char Base Points Total Roll Notes 5 STR 10 -5 5 10- HTH Damage 1d6 END [1] 15 DEX 10 10 15 12- 18 CON 10 8 18 13- 16 BODY 10 6 16 18 INT 10 8 18 13- PER Roll 13- 18 EGO 10 8 18 13- 18 PRE 10 8 38 17- PRE Attack: 7 1/2d6 20 PD 2 18 20 20 PD (0 rPD) 20 ED 2 18 20 20 ED (0 rED) 4 SPD 2.0 20 4 Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12 10 REC 4 6 10 30 END 20 2 30 20 STUN 20 0 20 10" Running 12 -2 10m 0" Swimming 4 -2 0m 2" Leaping 4 -1 2m 142 Total Characteristics Points CHARACTER IMAGE EXPERIENCE POINTS Total earned: 0 Spent: 0 Unspent: 0 Base Points: 300 Disad Points: 60 Total Points: 300 MOVEMENT Type Total Run (12) 10m [20m NC] Swim (4) 0m [ NC] H. Leap (4m) 2m V. Leap (2m) 1m Flight 10m [40m NC] DEFENSES Type Amount Physical Defense 20 Res. Phys. Defense 0 Energy Defense 20 Res. Energy Defense 0 Mental Defense 3 Power Defense 3 COMBAT INFORMATION OCV: 7 DCV: 7 Combat Skill Levels: COMBAT MANEUVERS Maneuver Phase OCV DCV Effect Block 1/2 +0 +0 Block, abort Brace 0 +2 1/2 +2 vs. Range Mod. Disarm 1/2 -2 +0 Can disarm Dodge 1/2 -- +3 Abort, vs. all attacks Grab 1/2 -1 -2 Grab two limbs Grab By 1/2 -3 -4 Move and Grab Haymaker 1/2* +0 -5 +4 DC attack damage Move By 1/2 -2 -2 STR/2 + v/5 Move Through 1/2 -v/5 -3 STR + v/3 Set 1 +1 +0 Ranged Attacks only Strike 1/2 +0 +0 STR or weapon COMBAT MODIFIERS Range 0-4 5-8 9-16 17-32 33-64 65-128 RMOD 0 -2 -4 -6 -8 -10 Targeting shot OCV Hit Location Head shot (Head to Shoulders) -4 1d6+3 High shot (Head to Vitals) -2 2d6+1 Body shot (Hands to Legs) -1 2d6+4 Low shot (Shoulders to Feet) -2 2d6+7 Leg shot (Vitals to Feet) -4 1d6+12 Character Name: Eleanor Wrigley Alternate Identities: Geist Player Name: RedRajah SKILLS Cost Name 3 Mimicry 13- 3 Oratory 17- 3 Computer Programming 13- 3 Forensic Medicine 13- 3 Criminology 13- 3 Streetwise 17- 3 Ventriloquism 13- 5 Cramming 3 Interrogation 17- 3 Shadowing 13- 32 Total Skills Cost PERKS Cost Name 3 Dead Folk Get No Notice: Anonymity 3 Total Perks Cost TALENTS Cost Name 4 Speed Reading (x10) 4 Total Talents Cost POWERS Cost Power END 31 Life Support (Eating: Character does not eat; Immunity All terrestrial poisons; Immunity: All terrestrial diseases; Longevity: Immortal; Self-Contained Breathing; Sleeping: Character does not sleep) Notes: This is a ghost 0 3 Power Defense (3 points) 0 3 Mental Defense (3 points total) 0 8 EctoHeal: Regeneration (1 BODY per Hour) 0 50 Ghosty Stuff!: Multipower, 50-point reserve 4f 1) It Goes RIGHT Through Me!: Desolidification (affected by Magic), Custom Adder (40 Active Points) 4 3f 2) FREEZE, MOTHER[BLEEP]ER!: Entangle 2d6, 2 PD/2 ED, Alternate Combat Value (uses OMCV against DMCV; Mental Paralysis; +1/4), Works Against EGO, Not STR (Mental Paralysis; +1/4), Takes No Damage From Attacks All Attacks, STR only to break out (Mental Paralysis; +1) (50 Active Points); Mental Defense Adds To EGO (Mental Paralysis; -1/2) Notes: Mental Paralysis 5 2f 3) THAT WHICH MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO SEE!: Sight Group Flash 4d6 (20 Active Points); Limited Range (-1/4) 2 2f 4) Just Call Me 'John Cena'!: Invisibility to Sight Group (20 Active Points) 2 2f 5) That Oogie-Boogie Feeling: Drain CON 2d6 (20 Active Points) 2 3v 6) WHEE~!: Flight 10m, x4 Noncombat (15 Active Points) 1 2f 7) Gimmie That!: Telekinesis (10 STR), Fine Manipulation (25 Active Points) 2 4v 😎 "BOOOOOOOOOO~!": +20 PRE (20 Active Points) 2f 9) Ghost In the Machine: Dispel Electronic Devices/Computers 12d6 (36 Active Points); Increased Endurance Cost (x2 END; -1/2) Notes: Affects only Electronic Devices/Computers 8 119 Total Powers Cost Character Name: Eleanor Wrigley Alternate Identities: Geist Player Name: RedRajah DISADVANTAGES Cost Disadvantage 5 Vulnerability: 1 1/2 x BODY Magic (Uncommon) 5 Vulnerability: 1 1/2 x STUN Magic (Uncommon) 10 Psychological Complication: Obsessed with finding out THE TRUTH about her murder (Uncommon; Strong) Notes: Leaving the specifics up to the GM 15 Psychological Complication: Code Versus Killing (Common; Strong) 25 Distinctive Features: Ghost (Not Concealable; Extreme Reaction; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses) 60 Total Disadvantages Cost

As I said earlier, GM doesn't want the Desolid always on, so that's why she can't stay Desolid 24/7...

I totally expect Belkar to gripe about V not doing that sooner...

New one up! https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1301.html

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