Pelosi calls Trump āunhingedā and reveals exchange with doctors at 2019 memorial for top psychiatrist
In early 2019, at a memorial service for a prominent psychiatrist, a succession of ādoctors and other mental health professionalsā told Nancy Pelosi they were ādeeply concerned that there was something seriously wrongā withĀ Donald Trump, āand that his mental and psychological health was in declineā.
āIām not a doctor,ā the former speaker writes in an eagerly awaited memoir, ābut I did find his behaviors difficult to understand.ā
To clarify, I think anyone over 80 (even Bernie) is too old to hold important political office.
What Iām saying is when Pelosi says trump is too old, it means as much to the average person as if Trump says Pelosi is too old.
Anyone under 70 is free to shout it from the mountain tops. And even Jimmy Carter since heās not holding office.
Do you not understand why Pelosi saying this wonāt change a single personās mind?
The only people who tolerate hypocrisy, are voting trump.
Pelosi saying this wouldnāt change anybodyās mind if she was a teenager. Constant reinforcement from multiple sources and repeated reasons for the narrative to be present in media may change the perception over time.
The headline is the goal here. The headline exists, the goal is accomplished. Now you need a few hundred headlines like that one from different sources based on different causes.
Just to be absolutely clear, Pelosi was a major player in doing this exact thing to Biden. It was less than two weeks ago. We need to start having some object persistence at some point.
Youāre thinking of āchange someoneās mindā like, convince them to change their vote.
Iām talking āchange someoneās mindā as in getting someone to vote who currently thinks both sides are the same.
Look at Kamala, sheās pretty much saying the same stuff Biden was saying about trump. But because sheās a functional adult it means more and people are jumping out of the woodworks to endorse herā¦
Thatās a huge example of how the person saying something matters.
It certainly is a huge example of how the person running matters, and of how this stuff is, unfortunately, a matter of perception.
Which is to say, there is now a big incentive for all dems to keep hammering on the obvious point that Trump was a barely functioning idiot at his best and now heās an old barely functioning idiot. The age of the person saying it only matters if youāre going to get in an argument about it, but if Pelosiās book can get this into a headline, itās certainly a valid hit on that front.
Because, again, if youāre a normie willing to vote democrat that is driven by image, not policy, it is way more relevant to get the message on as many places and as frequently as possible, nuance be damned.
And if youāre not, and you want to argue on the merits of the argument and not do armchair political strategy on the Internet, the fact that Trump is entirely unfit for the job is obvious in any case.
But of the people who havenāt decided to vote, how many would hear of this?
How many are reading political articles but canāt decide who to vote for?
This aināt outreach, itās inreach. Which isnāt even a word, because itās a pointless endeavor
Itās The Guardian. Itās sitting right there on the cover of the US edition right below their live politics ticker currently titled āTrump criticized by Republicans and Democrats after questioning Harrisās racial identity ā liveā.
Iām gonna guess tons of people saw that headline, read it, and that was the last piece of engagement they had with this.
Which is why you need one of these up on major newspapers every day.
You think the majority of Americans who arenāt already voting read Newspapers everyday?
Specifically a British one?
Iām not going to spend anymore time explaining this, itās clearly not working.
That pice is actually not in the UK edition. The Guardian publishes a specific edition for the US, hence the American spelling on that one. My understanding is they have some reach, apparently. You made me look it up, their advertising brochure has them being about half the size of the Washington Post in the US.
Not that it matters for the issue at hand, but itās an interesting factoid.