Mostly because people aspire to be billionaires. Society would be much better off if people aspired to be hurricanes.

Lol I was telling a coworker about that the other day and they called me a weirdo. Best way to eat popcorn and keep your hands clean!

Here are some sample questions

• Recall five unrelated words, such as: “rose, chair, hand, blue, spoon.” (You will be asked to repeat them immediately after the test-taker gives them to you, and then again later, toward the end of the test.)
• Count backwards from 100 by seven. You also may be asked to calculate using currency, such as determining what change you might expect from your $20 bill if you were charged $13.55.
• How many words can you name in one minute that start with F? (Or you might be asked to name words that fit a category, like fruits.)
• Identify animals from pictures (such as a zebra or tiger).
• To test your visual perception, you may be asked to identify objects drawn within a jumble of other objects. Or, you may be asked to draw a picture (such as a cube) based on a drawing shown on the test form.
• The “clock test”—common in many dementia exams—is part of the MoCA dementia test. The test administrator will ask you to draw the face of a traditional (non-digital) clock, as well as to illustrate a specific time.
• Your ability to think abstractly may be tested by asking you to determine the relationships between objects—for instance, how trains and boats are similar to each other

So yeah… we have a president who is bragging about being able to draw a clock and tell you that trains and boats are both methods of transporting people. JFC we are so fucked.

Plus, Trump tweets in all caps. Not because he’s angry all the time, but because he’s old and that’s the only way he can read the characters as he types them.

Exactly. It’s just an insult to them.

A while back, one of my Trumper neighbors decided that she didn’t use an elliptical work-out machine that she had bought over 2 years prior. She took it back to the store without a receipt and demanded that they give her money for it - not just store credit - even though it was well past the return date.

When telling me this story, she acknowledged her crazy behavior by saying “haha I was acting like such a liberal.”

In her mind, it’s as simple as “liberal = bad”. The actual definitions of words mean nothing to them.

Yeah Facebook was vastly different back in the day. Instead of having a shadowy algorithm deciding which posts to show you, you just got a chronological view of all your friends’ posts. So during major events, you’d usually see lots of posts that taken out of context make absolutely no sense.

When Facebook moved to them deciding what you wanted to see, it completely changed the whole vibe.

I’d like to see the video as well. If anyone has a link, would appreciate it.

I’m so confused. Are they actually bragging about those things?

A tent managed by a beverage company handed out room-temperature bottles of an energy drink, Phorm. The flavor, called Screamin’ Freedom, tasted like hard candies dissolved in water, and an advisory on the cans warned that they were not to be consumed by minors or pregnant women.

If we saw this in a movie, we would laugh at how overly top unreal it was.

Yeah, I’m aware realistically that will never happen. I was looking for a silver lining.

At first I was like “this video is 6 years old, how could this possibly be relevant to this conversation?”

Then I watched the video and realized, “yep… same shit, different day.” The conservative playbook hasn’t changed a bit and Democrats keep falling for it.

Yeah, but maybe Trump issuing illegal orders to the military and offering pardons to those that follow them would be the catalyst Congress needs to pass an amendment limiting presidential pardon power.

That’s exactly it. Fox News demonizes and de-humanizes every minority group. I remember around 20 years ago, my grandparents got an openly gay couple as neighbors. My grandparents were shocked that their neighbors were just regular people.

They had watched enough conservative media that they had been convinced gay people were some sort of twisted abominations who were out to destroy our way of life.

Conservative media does that for every minority group (except the rich). Gays, immigrants, single mothers, the poor, atheists, trans people, educated people, etc. You name it, Fox News and co are constantly pushing this idea that anyone not like you (their audience) are your enemies and are trying to destroy America.

We drive across the country every summer to visit family. Growing up, my parents used to talk about different routes and which one felt faster. Like “you can get off the interstate and take this county road and shave some time off.” But then they’d argue about if it was worth taking a road with a lower speed limit even if it was less distance.

Eventually they tried to impart that wisdom to me and would ask “so which route are you taking?” It took years for them to finally grasp that I just go whatever the way the GPS tells me is faster.

Plus they get the added bonus of filling all the American roles in Chinese-made films.

Wow I didn’t notice that at first. On the second watch, it’s creepy as fuck. It’s not some random shot that accidentally hits her. The cop just looks at her, calmly raises his gun and shoots her.

In the years before joining the government, Mr Beattie wrote social media posts suggesting Western institutions should be “infiltrated” by Putin, while he also attacked what he described as the “globalist American empire”.

Awesome dude to put in charge. /s

Timmy! Timmy!

Here ya go

Yeah that snuck up on me too