Wow, Philadelphia Inquirer calls out MSM...

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4. The AlterNet article is pretty pointed on Trunk's mental decline.

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But now that Trump is facing a much younger and more vibrant and vigorous opponent, questions about how his age and mental acuity affect the viability of his candidacy have become increasingly more frequent. Author Timothy O'Brien, who wrote the book "TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald," posited that the same accusations of being too old to occupy the White House are now dogging Trump. One unnamed European leader even reportedly mentioned to a Democratic U.S. senator during this summer's NATO summit that they were perplexed about how Trump's rants haven't been discussed more by political journalists.

“The reason he’s now offering these convoluted explanations of his speech patterns in his public appearances is because he’s hyper-aware that people have noted that he’s making even less sense than he used to,” O'Brien told the Guardian. “What we’re seeing now is a reflection of someone who’s very troubled and very desperate.”

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SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah likened Trump's comments on child care to a "dementia clinic." And political commentator Digby said the ex-president "sounds like a 4th grader who didn’t read the book." And Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell noted that she "can’t even find a complete sentence" when reading the transcript of his comments.

As I mentioned in "The Tipping Point" ( https://democraticunderground.com/100219427348 )
(an OP, not a book by Malcom Gladwell), maybe, JUST MAYBE, perhaps

with the public meltdowns, the vilest of the vile dancing on the graves of fallen heroes, and so many other crimes and dishonors that could no longer be normalized, the klaxon (abandon ship alert) sounded.

So-called journalists, actually clickbait lovers of his streams of bilge and bile, might start taking notice.
THEIR jobs declined from honest reporting to bottom-seeking (and that's a UUUUUUUGE bottom) and AI will replace them in a week or two, because AI excels at finding crap.

With no Edward R. Murrow in sight, I'm putting out a call for SOMEONE with some cred left to turn the tide from this concrete enema of fawning and giving a hall pass to the guy who can't hold his verbal poop.


The Inquirer article is a start.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/debate-philadelphia-trump-harris-questions-election-20240908.html