I've long watched speculation on line of many that allegations of his various stages of syphilis are a continuation of his mental health problems in addition to his overall health issues.
Syphilis effects continuing for years untreated would likely have killed him by now? Surely, treated and monitored? Where would he be with the secrecy that surrounds him? It's a q medical condition. There remains the privacy issues.
Speculation without concrete evidence is more speculation.
If even remotely true and revealed, it should be a disqualfier based on the facts of the level of behavior that is being witnessed. If true, invoking the 25th is one way of removal from Office. It must be proven that it exists. The Epstein files could reveal who and when it began. It is after all, a sexually transmitted disease.There are indications of that possibility.
The 'Richmond Doctor' is correct and now I ask: why you are still asking why he does what he does? When somebody comes to kill you stand up first and kill him ( Thora )
Wendy, your Jones frame does something most political commentary won’t: it ties the psychological structure to the body count rather than stopping at the diagnosis. I want to pick up one thread you touched and carry it a little further.
Juan Orlando Hernández. One line in your piece, and then the argument moves on. I think that line is where the whole thing lives.
Hernández was convicted in a federal court, on American soil, of cocaine trafficking. He helped move hundreds of tons of drugs into the United States while serving as Honduras’s president, with cartel money and cartel protection. A U.S. jury found him guilty. Trump pardoned him.
The same week, American warships were burning fishing boats in the eastern Pacific. The Pentagon called it counter-narcotics operations. More than 200 people are dead across two oceans, most of them deckhands, crew, men at the bottom of whatever chain they were part of. No charges. No trials. No names in the papers.
This isn’t a contradiction. That’s what I want to say plainly. It looks like hypocrisy because we keep measuring it as a law enforcement policy with an inconsistency problem. It isn’t. It’s a loyalty system with a body count.
Powerful men who stay close get protected. Men without lawyers or names get the strike video. The message travels in both directions at once and doesn’t need a press conference to land.
What makes this worth saying out loud is that loyalty hierarchies like this don’t hold still. They have to keep proving themselves. The enemy list has to keep growing because the internal logic demands it. Jones couldn’t stop at defectors. He eventually needed the CIA, the Guyanese government, the relatives outside the fence. The grandiosity required new threats the way a fire requires new wood.
Trump’s target list moved from Venezuela to Colombia to Cuba to Mexico to Greenland to Iran inside two weeks. That’s not a foreign policy. That’s the list growing because it has to.
The Hernández pardon and the boat strikes aren’t separate stories filed under different cabinet secretaries. They come from the same hand and serve the same purpose. One rewards loyalty at the top. The other punishes expendability at the bottom. Together they’re not a policy failure. They’re the policy.
Wendy you named the overall structure. I think this is what it looks like at the operational level.
Worked in MH areas all my life. Couldn’t agree more, no diagnosis needed. Everything we need to know is in our face everyday. He is not fit to hold that office
No one but Trump himself, ever accused him of significant intelligence. One expert (name not recalled) once estimated his I.Q. to be 73. I doubt that it is that low; But just listening to him speak - and the words he can comfortably use - strains me to believe that his can be much higher than average (100). A disease such as discussed here could cripple the reasoning of even a genius. So, if making a case against his fitness, it is most important to focus on the behaviors and speech. Still, just for curiosity, I did ask AI. ' What would be the functioning level of a person with an I.Q. of 73?' Here was the response: "An IQ of 73 is considered to be in the borderline range of intellectual functioning, which typically indicates below-average cognitive ability but not severe enough to qualify as an intellectual disability. Individuals in this range may face challenges in reasoning and problem-solving but can often function in everyday life." Sound familiar?
I believe it damaged his heart along with his weight, diet etc. earlier through his life.
the heart damage causes the swelling in his legs, episodes of raspy and soft speaking and shortness of breath. It is why he sits so much and now they don’t show him walking much because he isn’t. His color is poor despite makeup. I mean Iook at his weight loss! Compare to earlier photos. The weight loss can be seen on face clearly. He began obese so easy to miss the loss. Everything sags facially wrinkles more pronounced. The weight loss and decrease walking and breathing issues is due to heart failing and heart having to work so much harder to try to move the blood around. That is also why all the slapping his name on everything in sight and buildings. He knows time is short. Um yes
SYPHILIS? TRUMP? and compare him to HENRY VIII?
He would LOV IT🤣
😂
I agree with Jeanne. I am a retired APRN and untreated syphilis is surely a strong possibility given his history.
I've long watched speculation on line of many that allegations of his various stages of syphilis are a continuation of his mental health problems in addition to his overall health issues.
Syphilis effects continuing for years untreated would likely have killed him by now? Surely, treated and monitored? Where would he be with the secrecy that surrounds him? It's a q medical condition. There remains the privacy issues.
Speculation without concrete evidence is more speculation.
If even remotely true and revealed, it should be a disqualfier based on the facts of the level of behavior that is being witnessed. If true, invoking the 25th is one way of removal from Office. It must be proven that it exists. The Epstein files could reveal who and when it began. It is after all, a sexually transmitted disease.There are indications of that possibility.
Releasing the files clarifies all of it.
The 'Richmond Doctor' is correct and now I ask: why you are still asking why he does what he does? When somebody comes to kill you stand up first and kill him ( Thora )
Thanks for this.
I read, from Jim Jones' son, that in Jonestown, Guyana ...
Jim Jones spoke on loudspeakers...
ALL DAY.... EVERY DAY... praising himself and telling everyone that they couldn't live without him!
ESPECIALLY at the very end before Everyone Drank The Koolaid.
BTW: Jones, himself, never took the poison...and was such a WEAKLING that he had to have one of his crew shoot him before she shot herself.
THAT IS HOW little a Cult Leader cares about their cult followers.
Sound familiar??
NEVER EVER TRUST A BULLY because they are SO insecure narcissistic and paranoid that sooner than later EVERYONE becomes one of their TARGETS!!
Your article ended so poetically. This should be framed and sent to the Smithsonian for future generation to learn from.
Wendy, your Jones frame does something most political commentary won’t: it ties the psychological structure to the body count rather than stopping at the diagnosis. I want to pick up one thread you touched and carry it a little further.
Juan Orlando Hernández. One line in your piece, and then the argument moves on. I think that line is where the whole thing lives.
Hernández was convicted in a federal court, on American soil, of cocaine trafficking. He helped move hundreds of tons of drugs into the United States while serving as Honduras’s president, with cartel money and cartel protection. A U.S. jury found him guilty. Trump pardoned him.
The same week, American warships were burning fishing boats in the eastern Pacific. The Pentagon called it counter-narcotics operations. More than 200 people are dead across two oceans, most of them deckhands, crew, men at the bottom of whatever chain they were part of. No charges. No trials. No names in the papers.
This isn’t a contradiction. That’s what I want to say plainly. It looks like hypocrisy because we keep measuring it as a law enforcement policy with an inconsistency problem. It isn’t. It’s a loyalty system with a body count.
Powerful men who stay close get protected. Men without lawyers or names get the strike video. The message travels in both directions at once and doesn’t need a press conference to land.
What makes this worth saying out loud is that loyalty hierarchies like this don’t hold still. They have to keep proving themselves. The enemy list has to keep growing because the internal logic demands it. Jones couldn’t stop at defectors. He eventually needed the CIA, the Guyanese government, the relatives outside the fence. The grandiosity required new threats the way a fire requires new wood.
Trump’s target list moved from Venezuela to Colombia to Cuba to Mexico to Greenland to Iran inside two weeks. That’s not a foreign policy. That’s the list growing because it has to.
The Hernández pardon and the boat strikes aren’t separate stories filed under different cabinet secretaries. They come from the same hand and serve the same purpose. One rewards loyalty at the top. The other punishes expendability at the bottom. Together they’re not a policy failure. They’re the policy.
Wendy you named the overall structure. I think this is what it looks like at the operational level.
Cause and effect is a powerful thing. The correlation can be easily seen. Thanks for your perspective!
I’m just another guy with an opinion. But I like reading Wendy. She makes one think.
Worked in MH areas all my life. Couldn’t agree more, no diagnosis needed. Everything we need to know is in our face everyday. He is not fit to hold that office
Twump does not HAVE syphilis; he IS syphilis.
Powerful commentary….sounds like Trump
"Discombobulator"?? That sounds like something my son and his friends would
"invent" back when they were 8 and 9. No serious ordnance unit in any of the Armed Forces would come up with such a name.
No one but Trump himself, ever accused him of significant intelligence. One expert (name not recalled) once estimated his I.Q. to be 73. I doubt that it is that low; But just listening to him speak - and the words he can comfortably use - strains me to believe that his can be much higher than average (100). A disease such as discussed here could cripple the reasoning of even a genius. So, if making a case against his fitness, it is most important to focus on the behaviors and speech. Still, just for curiosity, I did ask AI. ' What would be the functioning level of a person with an I.Q. of 73?' Here was the response: "An IQ of 73 is considered to be in the borderline range of intellectual functioning, which typically indicates below-average cognitive ability but not severe enough to qualify as an intellectual disability. Individuals in this range may face challenges in reasoning and problem-solving but can often function in everyday life." Sound familiar?
Yeah.. It would be an acronym as always...
Distructive Insinuation of Strategic Combined Omnipresent Ballistics by Blasts Unilaterally Aimed Towards Objectives Related.
That could be enhanced with an additional suffix TD. Touch down!
The key word being insinuation. Scare them by threats empty of reality...
Final result the: Discombobulator TD
Used in a sentence:
"We hit them with them the disco ball and scored a touchdown but got back a serious case of symbolic syphilis... Helluva party, though"
I am a nurse + 40 years. I said this long ago. Untreated syphilis . A strong possibility. And woe to all of us. It gets worse.
Gosh it’s syphilis! That explains it —late stage syphilis has damaged Donald Trumps brain — I see it now!
So it’s fatal? Does that mean the disease has reached his brain and it’s now irreversible and fatal like rabies once that has happened?
Also, if it’s syphilis, there’s no way WH ever going to let those medical records become public can you imagine
Yes he won’t survive.
I believe it damaged his heart along with his weight, diet etc. earlier through his life.
the heart damage causes the swelling in his legs, episodes of raspy and soft speaking and shortness of breath. It is why he sits so much and now they don’t show him walking much because he isn’t. His color is poor despite makeup. I mean Iook at his weight loss! Compare to earlier photos. The weight loss can be seen on face clearly. He began obese so easy to miss the loss. Everything sags facially wrinkles more pronounced. The weight loss and decrease walking and breathing issues is due to heart failing and heart having to work so much harder to try to move the blood around. That is also why all the slapping his name on everything in sight and buildings. He knows time is short. Um yes
Add in his daddy Fred passed with Alzheimer's
As I was a medical student, the teaching of syphilis used the term ‘the great imitator’. The irony is that it’s easy to treat, mostly.
Trump is a disease plaguing our nation and the citizenship.
I prefer syphilis.
Super description.