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[Polds4OSU]

Sooo

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the home countries of some of Harvard's international students are "not at all friendly to the United States" and "pay NOTHING toward their student's education."

NPR (@npr) on Threads

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the home countries of some of Harvard's international students are "not at all friendly to the United States" and "pay NOTHING toward their student's education."

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[cowboyinexile]

Bidens condition as president was a massively under discussed story...until now (four months after he exited). The situation may get comparable but right now I don't think the two situations are anywhere near apples to apples.

I disagree. Think about a bunch of the stuff Trump has said and ask yourself how you would have felt if Biden said the exact same thing a year ago.

If people were calling for an investigation into Bidens mental fitness last year they need to be doing the same now. Otherwise it was never about Bidens mental capacity.

 

[Stillwaterman]

I disagree. Think about a bunch of the stuff Trump has said and ask yourself how you would have felt if Biden said the exact same thing a year ago.

If people were calling for an investigation into Bidens mental fitness last year they need to be doing the same now. Otherwise it was never about Bidens mental capacity.

I'm fine with a cognitive test now. Absolutely should have happened two years ago. Probably should happen before any president is sworn in or nominated for that matter. And probably should happen yearly after inauguration.

That said, disagree all you want. Biden was way the F out of it. Not the same as we are seeing now. Honestly not even close. We watched the two square off in the same room 10 months ago. Only one of them left with their party feeling like a loss was imminent and only one left believing a win was in the bag. And it had nothing to do with the message. The cognitive decline issue is not the apples to apples you want it to be.

 

[CowboyJD]

The cognitive decline issue is not the apples to apples you want it to be.

It’s not the apples to oranges that you want it to be either.

It’s more like…..peaches to nectarines…..or lemons to limes.

 

[Stillwaterman]

It’s not the apples to oranges that you want it to be either.

It’s more like…..peaches to nectarines…..or lemons to limes.

I'd say it's really plums to prunes.

 

[JTOSU]

I'm fine with a cognitive test now. Absolutely should have happened two years ago. Probably should happen before any president is sworn in or nominated for that matter. And probably should happen yearly after inauguration.

That said, disagree all you want. Biden was way the F out of it. Not the same as we are seeing now. Honestly not even close. We watched the two square off in the same room 10 months ago. Only one of them left with their party feeling like a loss was imminent and only one left believing a win was in the bag. And it had nothing to do with the message. The cognitive decline issue is not the apples to apples you want it to be.

Trump is all over the map when he talks…but he has also always been that way. Old clips of him on Oprah show how he jumps around topics. Trump has such a massive ego that he needs to stroke that he is constantly doing media interviews. An amazing stat is he did 129 media interviews during his first 100-days of his 2025 2nd term…compare that to the 125 media interviews Biden did during his entire 4-year term.

Add to that he has completed joint press conferences with many foreign leaders: Macron, Netanyahu, Starmer, Modi, Ishiba, Zelenskyy, Ramaphosa, etc. It is very fair to criticize his behavior, tone, and topical interest in those meetings, and certainly anyone as they age is going to start struggling with cognitive issues (to your point about age limits). But agree it is nowhere near the level of Biden. (edit: I like your plums to prunes reference)

 

[Stillwaterman]

An amazing stat is he did 129 media interviews during his first 100-days of his 2025 2nd term…compare that to the 125 media interviews Biden did during his entire 4-year term.

 

[mugatu]

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/25/pete-hegseth-generals-purge-seth-moulton-00360166

 

[Polds4OSU]

Trump: "Part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard ... but they refuse to tell us who the people are ... it shouldn't be 31%. It's too much. Because we have Americans who want to go there ... we want a list of those foreign students ... I assume with Harvard many will be bad."

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

Trump: "Part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard ... but they refuse to tell us who the people are ... it shouldn't be 31%. It's too much. Because we have Americans who want to go there ... we want a list of those foreign students ... I assume...

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[mugatu]

Sooo

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the home countries of some of Harvard's international students are "not at all friendly to the United States" and "pay NOTHING toward their student's education."

NPR (@npr) on Threads

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the home countries of some of Harvard's international students are "not at all friendly to the United States" and "pay NOTHING toward their student's education."

www.threads.com

Dont all the foreign students have to be approved for student visas? Why not just stop giving new student visas to people from those countries? And they still pay tuition.

 

[mugatu]

TAPPER: I really have a difficult time imagining that if this was a Democratic president holding a dinner for top investors in his private cryptocurrency, you wouldn't be outraged

MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

TAPPER: I really have a difficult time imagining that if this was a Democratic president holding a dinner for top investors in his private cryptocurrency, you wouldn't be outraged MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to...

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And he's not going to look into it and then comment later either. This us more of the same play dumb as a defense BS

 

[steross]

Bidens condition as president was a massively under discussed story...until now (four months after he exited). The situation may get comparable but right now I don't think the two situations are anywhere near apples to apples.

I don't think the point is to say that Trump's cognitive decline at the beginning of this presidency is equivalent to Biden's decline at the end of his presidency. The equivalence is taking actions to cover it.

 

[CowboyJD]

I feel so much better knowing the crazy he says, the crazy made up version of reality, the insanity and chaos, tariff back and forth nonsense, violating the law and ignoring due process is by design rather than due to cognitive decline.

Feels great knowing that’s just how he is and he’s always been that way.

 

[cowboyinexile]

I'm fine with a cognitive test now. Absolutely should have happened two years ago. Probably should happen before any president is sworn in or nominated for that matter. And probably should happen yearly after inauguration.

That said, disagree all you want. Biden was way the F out of it. Not the same as we are seeing now. Honestly not even close. We watched the two square off in the same room 10 months ago. Only one of them left with their party feeling like a loss was imminent and only one left believing a win was in the bag. And it had nothing to do with the message. The cognitive decline issue is not the apples to apples you want it to be.

And a couple months later one of them said people were eating cats and dogs. And he spent 15 minutes dancing randomly to YMCA at his national convention.

There's something going on there and we shouldn't downplay it just because of the letter next to his name.

 

[Polds4OSU]

 

[mugatu]

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[Stillwaterman]

There's something going on there and we shouldn't downplay it just because of the letter next to his name.

I know whataboutism is the cool new term, but when a party completely works to conceal the condition of a president for years on end starts to lecture the other party about "not ignoring the signs" almost immediately after losing power.... It just doesn't carry much weight.

And I understand the argument that I should still be concerned, and I agree. We should have some sort of standardized cognitive testing for all high-ranking officials.

But in this tribal world of politics the above isn't how people think. Both sides will continue to leverage off the other sides stupid in order to get away with being what they are. We live in the whataboutism.

 

[milehighpoke]

I know whataboutism is the cool new term, but when a party completely works to conceal the condition of a president for years on end starts to lecture the other party about "not ignoring the signs" almost immediately after losing power.... It just doesn't carry much weight.

And I understand the argument that I should still be concerned, and I agree. We should have some sort of standardized cognitive testing for all high-ranking officials.

But in this tribal world of politics the above isn't how people think. Both sides will continue to leverage off the other sides stupid in order to get away with being what they are. We live in the whataboutism.

Get back to me when there is wall to wall coverage about trump being too old, like there was with Biden (until he dropped out of the race).

 

[milehighpoke]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1042796320566559

Language.

How are they just able to detain people without probable cause? This is a US citizen working at his job. Other that being brown, what did the ICE agents have that allowed them to detain him for several hours?

Because there are a lot of people, including on this very board, that couldn't care less. They'll say "well, it sucks that happened, but we have to keep it up to get all the bad ones out".

They are willfully giving up the rights they have been screaming about for decades.

Idiots.