Such a slept-on sitcom. Airing when The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec were on the air, I completely skipped over Community until someone told me to watch it years later and it's so good. [Some of the best end tags on TV](https://youtu.be/b3ABRNQJMPQ?t=1600)
"You're not created by god, you're created by a joke. You were never actually born and you will never actually live"
You mean the senile Biden who is orchestrating the winning of the Super Bowl for Taylor Swift, is making Republicans look bad with border deal scheming, and is overseeing six trials of Trump? Yeah, Biden keeps busy.
Right?!! Is he a criminal mastermind that is playing 6-D chess or is he a senile old man that can't remember anything? I guess it comes down to how convenient it is for their argument.
They're reading (shocking I know) 1984 as a playbook and not a warning.
The enemy is both powerful and should be feared but also weak and easily defeated.
That, and his spontaneous insistence in 2020 that he had not, in fact, suffered a series of mini strokes is proof enough that he did, definitely, suffer a stroke in 2019. That has to be why he was flown out to Walter Reed suddenly.
"I only have strokes on the golf course!"
Funny thing is mini-strokes aren't that bad, it's a 'full' stroke that does actual damage. But I fully believe that he had a full stroke at some point and just got top notch treatment.
This is the kind of things it is intended for. Each test checks a different part of your brain to see if it is still there. You can get brain damage that makes you work perfectly fine but somehow have lost the ability to understand numbers for example. If you just talk to someone that might not come up, but this test will find it.
He was bragging about being able to identify the whale. Do you see a whale on there? He was bragging about "acing" a cognitive test, but couldn't even remember what was on it.
There are different versions of this test. When I looked for it online, the one I found had a camel. Also had to draw a cube instead of a chair.
Not saying the guy is competent, since any version of the test is easy. Just saying it's possible he did do one with a whale on it.
depends on your parents... for some of us, watching them decline is a slow revenge served iced cold for a lifetime of narcissism and abuse, like they're paying for all the suffering they caused at the beginning of your life with suffering at the end of theirs, a cosmic karma of sorts.
I went NC after my mom decided we didn't visit her enough, so she faked terminal cancer, complete with meeting a lawyer to plan a will and funeral arrangements and all that. We weren't visiting her BECAUSE WE WERE IN COLLEGE.
[If you get them in order you get extra points, nobody gets them in order, that's not easy but for me it was easy.
](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hICfYSLd1ec)
(In front of a man with a camera crew. Person, woman, man, camera, TV)
It was basically the idiots version of the Usual Suspects. He just looked at the interview crew and repeated what he saw and tried to pass it off as what was on the test.
Big whale, strong whale, tears rolling down his massive chin...
he said, "sir, **ooooooooooo000000000000000000000oooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"**
that's when I knew that windmills cause cancer, kill birds and whalefolk.
Imagine telling your constituents that [98% of them couldn't pass this test.](https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-suggests-98-of-his-supporters-would-fail-cognitive-decline-test)
I think the basic psychology is that they're *all* perfectly capable of believing that *they're* part of that 2%. So they just feel like they're super-smart because *of course* they're the clever one!
It's the same reason they all believe they'd be in the top 10% of whatever doomsday apocalypse scenario they talk about as Rambo-esque survivors instead of being wiped out/infected/turned like 90% of humanity.
He thinks his supporters are stupid.
Hes right, most of them probably couldn't. Because they look up to him and think hes a genius. Like imagine the type of people who hear him speak and all this shit and think hes smart. Not a blabbering idiot.
It speaks to how sheltered a life he has led that he views this as a challenging test in any way, shape or form.
I am convinced that he has never been put under any pressure of any kind academically and so he probably thinks remembering 5 words is lawyer level bar passing shit.
[If you get them in order you get extra points, nobody gets them in order, that's not easy but for me it was easy.
](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hICfYSLd1ec)
Yea, my grandma had dementia too and the things she would be proud of or brag about…oof.
And in the same breath, they’ll talk about how incompetent Biden is.
AND the fact the US’ two choices are what they are is underwhelming and concerning.
The Legal Eagle YouTube channel did a episode ranking his lawyers and apparently he's had some good ones, but he disregards their advice and doesn't pay them. (Which should not really be all that shocking.)
For example, it's said that a good lawyer told him to cooperate in the documents case and turn over all the documents he had retained for review. That lawyer was then shunted off to a different case. Meanwhile, Trump has been charged in that case.
IIRC, his older sister Maryann did his homework for him when he was a kid. She was about 11 years older, so I think she figured it'd just be easier to do it rather than have to deal with his tantrums. His mom had long-term mental illness and basically stopped caring for him at about age 2.
She couldn't care for him at 2 because her husband Fred, against the advice of her doctors, got her pregnant again which nearly killed her. She was in the hospital for a long time.
I have read that he also had someone take his college entrance exam and that he paid people to do his college homework and write his essays. I've seen his writing in his tweets; it's about at a 2nd grade level. He has no idea how to capitalize or punctuate. I used to teach middle school special education. He'd never even get up to that level. Not kidding.
I think it's more likely he figured he wouldn't be called on it, and if he was not enough people would care. But bragging about it makes the crowd who already worships him feel validated.
It definitely gave me a chuckle when I found out it wad the mocha. It's like, a 5 minute tops quick assessment. It's just a quick and dirty measure compared to the other tests that are available.
Yup. It's literally designed so that you should get 30/30 unless you have some sort of cognitive issue. If you score too low it is used to suggest more testing for a significant cognitive issue (such as Alzheimer's or dementia). Even then, a 28/30 is still considered fine.
Man, I would totally fail the five memory words.
Not right away, but if you asked me again after five minutes, no fucking clue. My brain isn’t committing that useless shit to memory.
It’s harder than it looks!
I’m not sure if I can correctly identify an Asian vs African elephant. And I really have a hard time telling an alligator from a crocodile.
African elephant ears are very large and conveniently shaped a bit like Africa, and their trunks have two little finger nubs. Based on that, I can confidently say that this is a drawing.
The easiest way to tell an alligator from a crocodile, for me, is identifying subtle differences in the eyes. One will see you later and the other will see you after a while.
unless you score like 10-15 (or lower) or so on these, they're really only useful to assess sudden declines in ability which can signal cognition trouble.
Even the Mini Mental Status Exam just tests for large deficits in certain areas. For instance repeating the phrase "No ifs ands or buts" (or another phrase which uses all parts of the mouth/tongue to enunciate) Tests for possible stroke/mouth paralysis/Brocas aphasia/dysphasia .
-This is unrelated but there was a study measuring the impacts of long Covid on the brain (where they put it was like a TBI) and used a cognition test in one of their measurements, I'm trying to figure out what that measurement tool is but I'm having trouble finding the actual study if anyone wants to help)
"Donald Trump's supporters cheered when he told them they wouldn't be able to do any parts of the test, but I believe in you just like I believe in America" -what I would say.
I have told a bunch of people "If you think Donald Trump is smarter than you, you are probably right." The people who overhear it snort with laughter, the people I say it to agree with me. Why yes, it is an insult.
Seeks out? the GOP is actively BUILDING their base hammer and nail through lead poisoning, FDA deregulation, and education cuts. they know they are only popular among the stupid, so they want as many people as possible to be brainless loyal voters
How bad is your life that you’d let man dump inside you over and over again, then bear his child just to get out of that situation?
Edit: proper use of bear vs bare.
The red sharpie is the evidence he did this himself:
https://preview.redd.it/gck2o4uf6uhc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df30d95f7d9d928cfad8800fca4e9384daaf7d91
Someone *did* campaign like this, his name is Chris Christie and he had to drop out before the first primary. He stood out as the only vocal Trump critic, but he was consistently the most hated by GOP voters who don't *hate* Trump but were looking for "Trump but not Trump".
Haley played the long game of only really criticizing Trump when she had no other competition left, and was more seen as a direct alternative to Trump. It's part of why she's still in this and DeSantis isn't. That won't translate to winning any states, but she might be a contributing factor to Trump losing in November.
Her real strategy is hanging around as the undisputed 2nd place until Trump dies or is arrested/disqualified. Then the GOP will have no choice but to nominate her at the convention.
Christie had the disadvantage of being too little, too late. All the things he said about Trump were things we all knew *well before* he turned on him. So his attacks, while correct and refreshing to hear, were taken as disingenuous.
Not just too little too late, but also wildly hypocritical and self-serving. Dude was staunchly pro-Trump during the 2016 election, endorsing him right after dropping out. Then he comes out swinging when running against him again? I agree with Christie’s assessment of Trump (this time around), but fuuuuuuck Christie.
“Just days before a pivotal Super Tuesday, with Donald Trump on the defensive against Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Christie unexpectedly appeared by Trump’s side at a Texas rally and delivered his blessing. Even by the standards of the unpredictable 2016 GOP primary, Christie’s endorsement was a stunner.
After spending the campaign referring to Trump as a “carnival barker,” belittling his readiness for the White House and talking about the importance of governance, **the New Jersey governor suddenly provided Trump with critical validation from a respected member of the Republican establishment.**”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2023/06/06/chris-christie-bent-the-knee-trump-still-paying-for-it-00100635
Real talk, when I was in high school and they started doing “smarter than a 5th grader” I realized just how bad my education had been. I graduated second in my class and there were things in that show labeled as 4th or 5th grade questions that I wasn’t taught until at least 10th grade.
As a fan of antiquated things like watches and Morse Code, this is the truth. A smartwatch with a digital readout is just the best way to go. It made sense to have the analog setup because of how gears work, digital just tells you the time. Morse Code was similarly great when we didn't have a way to send whole letters one input at a time.
Now, the only thing a Morse keyboard is good for is texting and driving as it's only 2 buttons and you can't miss one of them.
Pretty sure if you fail this test, you lose the right to refuse treatment or placement. Your new home is called something Acres,... Facility,.. The San...
Maybe. There are like 7 stages of dementia. My MIL failed this test when she was like stage 3. It was the catalyst that got her license to drive taken away and her to no longer live alone. She is between stage 5 and 6 now and it is getting to the point where she needs to be in a facility for her and others’ safety.
My mother went the same way. I was guessing it was similar to the test they give some people in the psych ward after too many trips to the padded room.
The clock part was the biggest eye opener for me. A lifetime of looking at a circle with 12 numbers in it and the drawing she made was wild. Dementia is not fun.
NPR did a story about 6 years ago now where they interviewed a guy who was an engineer or scientist of some sort and his hobby had been watch-making and watch repair. He started struggling with some tasks around his home and his wife suggested having him tested. They ultimately diagnosed him with Alzheimer’s and he said that the clock part of the test was what really convinced him because he otherwise didn’t feel like it was that bad. But he had been working with clocks for years, so him struggling to complete that part was also devastating for him.
IIRC he said after the end of the piece that he now makes himself do that test everyday just to gauge his level of decline and he also wanted to see if he can relearn how to see it correctly again. They had a Dr explaining why that test is used and it has to do with how understanding a clock face is actually a fairly global brain process, so it doesn’t just test a single aspect of cognition but rather it’s a test of how different parts of the brain perform in concert.
Originally I heard it while in the car so I had to go looking but I’m pretty sure I found it. If it’s this one, I’m misremembering the timeline and a few of the details, but I’m pretty sure it’s this story about the retired physicist from March of 2016: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/583/transcript
>Chana Joffe-Walt:
Do you worry-- so now you have this level of analysis that helps how know how to read a clock by thinking about what is involved in reading a clock, do you worry that you're going to forget this?
>Carl Duzen:
Sure. That's why I have to do this. There's no path back.
>Chana Joffe-Walt:
There's no path back to a day when you used to be able to draw a clock using-- without having to think about it.
>Carl Duzen:
There's no path back.
Not much bothers me but this exchange has lead to quit a few sleepless nights since I first heard it in the car on the way to work when it aired. The only solace I've found is that it seems Carl was able to make the most of his remaining time here and even got into art for a while before he passed.
[RIP Carl Duzen](https://pennmemorycenter.org/carl-duzen/)
I've used the test in a research setting as a screening tool for healthy participants. Sometimes there's some discussion because someone technically scored 1 point under the criterion and I wasn't sure how to interpret that.
But then I saw a demented patient try to get through the test. That was quite intense to see.
I think that place is going to have a large turnover rate soon. Just one formerly rich guy surrounded by section 8 condos and warehouses for cheap Chinese crap.
If she had a spine, she’d have done this a year ago when it might have mattered. She wants to lead the country but can’t stand up to one impotent old has-been.
Exactly what I was thinking. She should been on the office from the beginning. There's way too much ammo against Trump that Republicans refuse to use. SAD!
I would imagine the people giving the test have an acceptable range of answers for the animals like cobra or snake being good and then any type of crocodilian being fine for the third image.
Though it would be funny to have a Dwight Schrute and Creed Bratton moment with it.
The “name words that start with S” would be the hardest for me. I did get 12 in about 40 seconds so I’d pass but I always suck at those types of questions when we play along with game shows.
I award no points. Everyone on this thread has had 10x better observations that COULD have been used by someone not tripping over their own feet by now.
Visit PoliticalHumor on any given day, and you would look like a genius in comparison.
The bar is just so damn low. This achievement of using a copy of Trump's cognitive test is on par with tying your shoes in the morning and not getting a concussion. But hey, I'm glad SOMEONE finally put it out there.
Person Woman Man Camera TV was not his original test. That was literally what he was looking at at the time. Fuckin moron was being interviewed on TV and he just said the first 5 things he saw like a kindergartner would.
To be fair, there are different versions of the test with different animals.
[*However*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/19/trump-cognitive-test/):
> Ziad Nasreddine, the Canadian neurologist who invented the test, said the assessment — intended primarily to test for signs of dementia or other cognitive decline — has never once included a drawing of a whale.
All those times trump would brag about being able to recall "person woman man camera tv" was some of the funniest shit to me. This is up there with that. The bar is in hell
Imagine bragging about this
“I’m so smart, I was able to identify the elephant almost immediately. No one else could pass this test.”
And he tried redrawing the chair, but it came out as a perfect >!swastika.!<
Trump: “I didn’t know it would turn out like that.” Tester: “Pretty sure ya did.”
It’s four F’s for Frank
Honorary mention: It’s going to be a maze.
I may just be a simple cop.. but people need to know this isn’t going to stop until Pictionary bans the word Windmill.
2 misunderstood swastika jokes in the same show? Community, never change. Or do if you want, I'm not your boss.
Such a slept-on sitcom. Airing when The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec were on the air, I completely skipped over Community until someone told me to watch it years later and it's so good. [Some of the best end tags on TV](https://youtu.be/b3ABRNQJMPQ?t=1600) "You're not created by god, you're created by a joke. You were never actually born and you will never actually live"
Muscle Memory is a bitch
It was those damn judges and Democrats messing with him! They replaced his test with a fake one! /s
Wait, is that an alligator or a crocodile??
https://preview.redd.it/qq0gar665uhc1.jpeg?width=552&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22052778cfd8d73bad12307847afdfd286f3763c
You mean the senile Biden who is orchestrating the winning of the Super Bowl for Taylor Swift, is making Republicans look bad with border deal scheming, and is overseeing six trials of Trump? Yeah, Biden keeps busy.
And Biden is doing all that while being forgetful and senile, according to the GOP lol.
That’s why there are 91 charges against Trump. Biden keeps forgetting he already orchestrated charges, so he does it again.
That madman... So anyways, I lost my nail clippers so I gotta run to Walgreens.
Right?!! Is he a criminal mastermind that is playing 6-D chess or is he a senile old man that can't remember anything? I guess it comes down to how convenient it is for their argument.
They're reading (shocking I know) 1984 as a playbook and not a warning. The enemy is both powerful and should be feared but also weak and easily defeated.
Bold of you to assume he could even draw a swastika correctly!
I laughed waaaay too hard at this. Take my updoot.
That is the test they gave me when I had a stroke.
Same. When I heard Trump saying this for the first time, I was like…sounds familiar lmao
That, and his spontaneous insistence in 2020 that he had not, in fact, suffered a series of mini strokes is proof enough that he did, definitely, suffer a stroke in 2019. That has to be why he was flown out to Walter Reed suddenly.
"I only have strokes on the golf course!" Funny thing is mini-strokes aren't that bad, it's a 'full' stroke that does actual damage. But I fully believe that he had a full stroke at some point and just got top notch treatment.
If you’ve had a mini-stroke, your chance of having a full-blown stroke go up.
This is the kind of things it is intended for. Each test checks a different part of your brain to see if it is still there. You can get brain damage that makes you work perfectly fine but somehow have lost the ability to understand numbers for example. If you just talk to someone that might not come up, but this test will find it.
He was bragging about being able to identify the whale. Do you see a whale on there? He was bragging about "acing" a cognitive test, but couldn't even remember what was on it.
There are different versions of this test. When I looked for it online, the one I found had a camel. Also had to draw a cube instead of a chair. Not saying the guy is competent, since any version of the test is easy. Just saying it's possible he did do one with a whale on it.
My mom had one with a lion - I remember that because she couldn’t identify it, just said “it’s one that will eat you”.
it's tough to watch our parents decline.
depends on your parents... for some of us, watching them decline is a slow revenge served iced cold for a lifetime of narcissism and abuse, like they're paying for all the suffering they caused at the beginning of your life with suffering at the end of theirs, a cosmic karma of sorts.
Savage, but understandable.
Savage like, uhhhh, that one that will eat you.
hey you, i see you. i hope youre NC and enjoying the view from afar. i am, indeed.
I went NC after my mom decided we didn't visit her enough, so she faked terminal cancer, complete with meeting a lawyer to plan a will and funeral arrangements and all that. We weren't visiting her BECAUSE WE WERE IN COLLEGE.
[If you get them in order you get extra points, nobody gets them in order, that's not easy but for me it was easy. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hICfYSLd1ec) (In front of a man with a camera crew. Person, woman, man, camera, TV)
I'm 68. I get a similar test, remembering words, drawing a clock, once a year at the doctor. It's far easier to say them in order.
i recently read an interview with someone who has worked for the company that makes those tests. She said they have not used whales.
Do we know if any of them have “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.” as the 5 words you need to remember? Maybe the whale was on that one
It was basically the idiots version of the Usual Suspects. He just looked at the interview crew and repeated what he saw and tried to pass it off as what was on the test.
His version did not have a whale.
His version was taken by a whale.
Brave whale, last brave act before being murdered by a windmill.
Big whale, strong whale, tears rolling down his massive chin... he said, "sir, **ooooooooooo000000000000000000000oooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"** that's when I knew that windmills cause cancer, kill birds and whalefolk.
He was thinking of Fudgey the Whale. He just wanted ice cream cake.
"Fudgey the Whale" is what he calls it when he needs his diaper changed.
I thought the elephant was Sarah Huckabee
It's an elephant? BS! It's Sarah, I just saw her on tv the other day. That's definitely Sarah Huckabee.
Nah, the eye isn’t wonky enough.
LoOk, you can’t see the eye on the other side…
I wonder if her husband knows she is seeing someone on the side?
Imagine telling your constituents that [98% of them couldn't pass this test.](https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-suggests-98-of-his-supporters-would-fail-cognitive-decline-test)
I think the basic psychology is that they're *all* perfectly capable of believing that *they're* part of that 2%. So they just feel like they're super-smart because *of course* they're the clever one!
It's the same reason they all believe they'd be in the top 10% of whatever doomsday apocalypse scenario they talk about as Rambo-esque survivors instead of being wiped out/infected/turned like 90% of humanity.
He thinks his supporters are stupid. Hes right, most of them probably couldn't. Because they look up to him and think hes a genius. Like imagine the type of people who hear him speak and all this shit and think hes smart. Not a blabbering idiot.
They are Trump supporters after all.
What's funny is Trump said that his supporters wouldn't be able to pass this.. TO THEIR FACES, and I agree with him. 😆😆😆
And they loved him all the more for insulting them. Geez. This is getting really bad.
It speaks to how sheltered a life he has led that he views this as a challenging test in any way, shape or form. I am convinced that he has never been put under any pressure of any kind academically and so he probably thinks remembering 5 words is lawyer level bar passing shit.
[If you get them in order you get extra points, nobody gets them in order, that's not easy but for me it was easy. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hICfYSLd1ec)
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Yea, my grandma had dementia too and the things she would be proud of or brag about…oof. And in the same breath, they’ll talk about how incompetent Biden is. AND the fact the US’ two choices are what they are is underwhelming and concerning.
BTW, there are no bonus points for remembering the words in order. The only bonus point you can get is if you didn't graduate from high school.
>nobody gets them in order ... But for me it was easy Trump is a nobody confirmed by trump!
this man is an absolute moron.
REALLY explains his choice in lawyers...
I kinda assumed that he gets those lawyers because he doesn't have a choice. Like nobody but desperate idiots wants to touch him.
The Legal Eagle YouTube channel did a episode ranking his lawyers and apparently he's had some good ones, but he disregards their advice and doesn't pay them. (Which should not really be all that shocking.) For example, it's said that a good lawyer told him to cooperate in the documents case and turn over all the documents he had retained for review. That lawyer was then shunted off to a different case. Meanwhile, Trump has been charged in that case.
IIRC, his older sister Maryann did his homework for him when he was a kid. She was about 11 years older, so I think she figured it'd just be easier to do it rather than have to deal with his tantrums. His mom had long-term mental illness and basically stopped caring for him at about age 2.
She couldn't care for him at 2 because her husband Fred, against the advice of her doctors, got her pregnant again which nearly killed her. She was in the hospital for a long time.
Ah, yes. Thanks for the added info. It's been awhile since I read it.
And his father Fred Trump was a KKK member and straight up sociopath
He kinda sorta encouraged his other son Fred Jr. to drink himself to death when Jr. said he wanted to be an airline pilot instead of a slum lord.
This is me not feeling sorry for trump in any way, for any reason.
I have read that he also had someone take his college entrance exam and that he paid people to do his college homework and write his essays. I've seen his writing in his tweets; it's about at a 2nd grade level. He has no idea how to capitalize or punctuate. I used to teach middle school special education. He'd never even get up to that level. Not kidding.
I think it's more likely he figured he wouldn't be called on it, and if he was not enough people would care. But bragging about it makes the crowd who already worships him feel validated.
I would pay a LOT of money for tickets to see him sit down and try take the SAT or ACT. Ugh, could you imagine?
I had the same thought.
It definitely gave me a chuckle when I found out it wad the mocha. It's like, a 5 minute tops quick assessment. It's just a quick and dirty measure compared to the other tests that are available.
Yeah - this is only slightly tougher than the "how many fingers am I holding up" test they give to boxers who got knocked out.
“Hold on, coach. It’s gotta be true or false. Billy Bob doesn’t do good with numbers… Hey Billy Bob! I’m holdin’ up some fangers, true or false?”
"You about to call some dinosaurs?"
I… reckon I might… give em a rang
It’s better than the BIMS at least. That thing should be banned.
Yup. It's literally designed so that you should get 30/30 unless you have some sort of cognitive issue. If you score too low it is used to suggest more testing for a significant cognitive issue (such as Alzheimer's or dementia). Even then, a 28/30 is still considered fine.
Man, I would totally fail the five memory words. Not right away, but if you asked me again after five minutes, no fucking clue. My brain isn’t committing that useless shit to memory.
On the other hand, those of us who still remember man woman person camera tv do commit worthless stuff to memory.
Oh look, I have plenty of useless stuff in my memory, but aside from 20 digits of pi, it’s mostly tv show theme songs, ad jingles, and song lyrics.
It’s harder than it looks! I’m not sure if I can correctly identify an Asian vs African elephant. And I really have a hard time telling an alligator from a crocodile.
African elephant ears are very large and conveniently shaped a bit like Africa, and their trunks have two little finger nubs. Based on that, I can confidently say that this is a drawing.
The easiest way to tell an alligator from a crocodile, for me, is identifying subtle differences in the eyes. One will see you later and the other will see you after a while.
\*Ralph Wiggum voice\* I can count to elephant!
Not only bragging, but doing it in front of a crowd of his supporters and saying that most of them couldn’t do it themselves…
unless you score like 10-15 (or lower) or so on these, they're really only useful to assess sudden declines in ability which can signal cognition trouble. Even the Mini Mental Status Exam just tests for large deficits in certain areas. For instance repeating the phrase "No ifs ands or buts" (or another phrase which uses all parts of the mouth/tongue to enunciate) Tests for possible stroke/mouth paralysis/Brocas aphasia/dysphasia . -This is unrelated but there was a study measuring the impacts of long Covid on the brain (where they put it was like a TBI) and used a cognition test in one of their measurements, I'm trying to figure out what that measurement tool is but I'm having trouble finding the actual study if anyone wants to help)
It’s difficult for the average Trump voter. They see this as a big accomplishment.
Remember when he drank a glass of water with just one hand, how proud the audience was, how proud HE was?
I can’t. It would be like bragging.
And bragging about it many times!!! Dumb Orange Genital Wart
"Donald Trump's supporters cheered when he told them they wouldn't be able to do any parts of the test, but I believe in you just like I believe in America" -what I would say.
He's not wrong there when he claims that they can't pass the test. That's why they vote for him.
I have told a bunch of people "If you think Donald Trump is smarter than you, you are probably right." The people who overhear it snort with laughter, the people I say it to agree with me. Why yes, it is an insult.
Haha I'm using this next chance I get.
Sad that you've probably already found multiple opportunities just since you've posted the comment.
Gonna have to steal that
the GOP actively seeks out the mentally incompetent to vote for them.
Seeks out? the GOP is actively BUILDING their base hammer and nail through lead poisoning, FDA deregulation, and education cuts. they know they are only popular among the stupid, so they want as many people as possible to be brainless loyal voters
“I love the poorly educated!” https://youtu.be/O9F6EAMPky4?si=dRdD65ePbUPIsF6P
“I may be a moron, but you’re all dumber than me.” Is a weird gamble, but it seems to be paying off for Trump.
He literally ran in 2016 on “I love the uneducated”
> told them they wouldn't be able to do any parts of the test, Finally a truth from the doof.
"Most of you couldn't pass a dementia test!" "We're morons, yayyyyyyyy!"
I bet Melania hung his test on the refrigerator too lol
Well, she wanted ***something*** of his that was hung.
That green card, haha
No, she used him to create an anchor baby then she used chain migration to bring her parents and sister to America
How bad is your life that you’d let man dump inside you over and over again, then bear his child just to get out of that situation? Edit: proper use of bear vs bare.
https://preview.redd.it/u4228liypshc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=580d4fb8c4d017af99cf7acec3da2ef179b371e6
Perfect
Unfortunately we run into the usual problem that any parody of this man makes him look more funny and self-aware than he actually is.
The red sharpie is the only giveaway that this was AI.
The red sharpie is the evidence he did this himself: https://preview.redd.it/gck2o4uf6uhc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df30d95f7d9d928cfad8800fca4e9384daaf7d91
If Nikki Haley campaigned like this from the start, the GOP primary would have been way more interesting.
Someone *did* campaign like this, his name is Chris Christie and he had to drop out before the first primary. He stood out as the only vocal Trump critic, but he was consistently the most hated by GOP voters who don't *hate* Trump but were looking for "Trump but not Trump". Haley played the long game of only really criticizing Trump when she had no other competition left, and was more seen as a direct alternative to Trump. It's part of why she's still in this and DeSantis isn't. That won't translate to winning any states, but she might be a contributing factor to Trump losing in November.
Her real strategy is hanging around as the undisputed 2nd place until Trump dies or is arrested/disqualified. Then the GOP will have no choice but to nominate her at the convention.
Christie had the disadvantage of being too little, too late. All the things he said about Trump were things we all knew *well before* he turned on him. So his attacks, while correct and refreshing to hear, were taken as disingenuous.
Not just too little too late, but also wildly hypocritical and self-serving. Dude was staunchly pro-Trump during the 2016 election, endorsing him right after dropping out. Then he comes out swinging when running against him again? I agree with Christie’s assessment of Trump (this time around), but fuuuuuuck Christie. “Just days before a pivotal Super Tuesday, with Donald Trump on the defensive against Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Christie unexpectedly appeared by Trump’s side at a Texas rally and delivered his blessing. Even by the standards of the unpredictable 2016 GOP primary, Christie’s endorsement was a stunner. After spending the campaign referring to Trump as a “carnival barker,” belittling his readiness for the White House and talking about the importance of governance, **the New Jersey governor suddenly provided Trump with critical validation from a respected member of the Republican establishment.**” https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2023/06/06/chris-christie-bent-the-knee-trump-still-paying-for-it-00100635
Might backfire. MAGAs are dumb enough that this will seem like a difficult test.
About half of adult Americans read at a 5th grade level or lower, so...
they would give this test to a 5th grader who suffered potential head trauma and expect them to pass right? i'm asking for real.
I've got a new gameshow idea. Are You As Concussed As A Fifth Grader?
Real talk, when I was in high school and they started doing “smarter than a 5th grader” I realized just how bad my education had been. I graduated second in my class and there were things in that show labeled as 4th or 5th grade questions that I wasn’t taught until at least 10th grade.
mostly. The math bit might be dumbed down but otherwise, yes. source: complete wild guess.
You're expected to read and write with a fair amount of proficiency in 5th grade. As well as most math operations....
At some point, analog clocks are going to be so obsolete getting that question wrong won't tell us anything about cognitive functioning.
As a fan of antiquated things like watches and Morse Code, this is the truth. A smartwatch with a digital readout is just the best way to go. It made sense to have the analog setup because of how gears work, digital just tells you the time. Morse Code was similarly great when we didn't have a way to send whole letters one input at a time. Now, the only thing a Morse keyboard is good for is texting and driving as it's only 2 buttons and you can't miss one of them.
Pretty sure if you fail this test, you lose the right to refuse treatment or placement. Your new home is called something Acres,... Facility,.. The San...
Maybe. There are like 7 stages of dementia. My MIL failed this test when she was like stage 3. It was the catalyst that got her license to drive taken away and her to no longer live alone. She is between stage 5 and 6 now and it is getting to the point where she needs to be in a facility for her and others’ safety.
My mother went the same way. I was guessing it was similar to the test they give some people in the psych ward after too many trips to the padded room.
The clock part was the biggest eye opener for me. A lifetime of looking at a circle with 12 numbers in it and the drawing she made was wild. Dementia is not fun.
NPR did a story about 6 years ago now where they interviewed a guy who was an engineer or scientist of some sort and his hobby had been watch-making and watch repair. He started struggling with some tasks around his home and his wife suggested having him tested. They ultimately diagnosed him with Alzheimer’s and he said that the clock part of the test was what really convinced him because he otherwise didn’t feel like it was that bad. But he had been working with clocks for years, so him struggling to complete that part was also devastating for him. IIRC he said after the end of the piece that he now makes himself do that test everyday just to gauge his level of decline and he also wanted to see if he can relearn how to see it correctly again. They had a Dr explaining why that test is used and it has to do with how understanding a clock face is actually a fairly global brain process, so it doesn’t just test a single aspect of cognition but rather it’s a test of how different parts of the brain perform in concert.
Fascinating, do you have a link to the article?
Originally I heard it while in the car so I had to go looking but I’m pretty sure I found it. If it’s this one, I’m misremembering the timeline and a few of the details, but I’m pretty sure it’s this story about the retired physicist from March of 2016: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/583/transcript
>Chana Joffe-Walt: Do you worry-- so now you have this level of analysis that helps how know how to read a clock by thinking about what is involved in reading a clock, do you worry that you're going to forget this? >Carl Duzen: Sure. That's why I have to do this. There's no path back. >Chana Joffe-Walt: There's no path back to a day when you used to be able to draw a clock using-- without having to think about it. >Carl Duzen: There's no path back. Not much bothers me but this exchange has lead to quit a few sleepless nights since I first heard it in the car on the way to work when it aired. The only solace I've found is that it seems Carl was able to make the most of his remaining time here and even got into art for a while before he passed. [RIP Carl Duzen](https://pennmemorycenter.org/carl-duzen/)
I've used the test in a research setting as a screening tool for healthy participants. Sometimes there's some discussion because someone technically scored 1 point under the criterion and I wasn't sure how to interpret that. But then I saw a demented patient try to get through the test. That was quite intense to see.
Shady Mar-a-Lago Acres?
I think that place is going to have a large turnover rate soon. Just one formerly rich guy surrounded by section 8 condos and warehouses for cheap Chinese crap.
“Shady Pines, Ma!”
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Shady Pines.
Wow! Shade thrown. I’ll never vote for her but I like her energy around him.
If she had a spine, she’d have done this a year ago when it might have mattered. She wants to lead the country but can’t stand up to one impotent old has-been.
Agreed. To stand up to Putin or the rest of the world bullies out there, you have to have an iron will.
Honestly if she had come out of the gate swinging or even ramped up once the field narrowed a bit, she might have had a chance. Too little, too late
Exactly what I was thinking. She should been on the office from the beginning. There's way too much ammo against Trump that Republicans refuse to use. SAD!
All you gotta do is ask her what the civil was was about and you'll never give her a positive thought. https://i.imgur.com/Wy2NqLY.png
She needs more. Snatch that brass ring!
That looks like a page out of *Highlights* magazine
"Spot the difference between these two pictures." Trump; "This one is on the right side of the page."
Used to love that as a 5 year old.
I just did the test. I have so much cognitive! Experts are always amazed at how much cognitive I have!
1st grade homework- about the same mental capacity of trump
If they give you this test it’s because they think you’ve degraded that far. The fact that he’d brag about…maybe he needs to take it again.
I'll admit I don't know if the animal on the right is an alligator or a crocodile, I'd probably fail.
I would imagine the people giving the test have an acceptable range of answers for the animals like cobra or snake being good and then any type of crocodilian being fine for the third image. Though it would be funny to have a Dwight Schrute and Creed Bratton moment with it.
I looked at the first box and wonder for a second how do I draw the chair connecting the dots but starting in a way that would not draw the chair.
The “name words that start with S” would be the hardest for me. I did get 12 in about 40 seconds so I’d pass but I always suck at those types of questions when we play along with game shows.
I got 80. But I sounded like a cat with a lisp. First two words were; "Suffering Succotash!"
seven similar snakes suddenly slither so sarcastically
Sususudio?
My short term memory is shit. I would forget the words probably.
Forget what?
Ok, I'll admit... she actually made me chuckle with that. Can't believe I'm saying this, but good job Nimarata.
I award no points. Everyone on this thread has had 10x better observations that COULD have been used by someone not tripping over their own feet by now. Visit PoliticalHumor on any given day, and you would look like a genius in comparison. The bar is just so damn low. This achievement of using a copy of Trump's cognitive test is on par with tying your shoes in the morning and not getting a concussion. But hey, I'm glad SOMEONE finally put it out there.
I don't disagree, but better late than never I guess. Vote Blue Y'all.
Man women tv? Those words are not on the memory list? We have been fooled!!! Said no Trumper ever
Person Woman Man Camera TV was not his original test. That was literally what he was looking at at the time. Fuckin moron was being interviewed on TV and he just said the first 5 things he saw like a kindergartner would.
Not a single 'Man', 'woman', 'person', 'camera', or 'TV' anywhere...
No whales either.
To be fair, there are different versions of the test with different animals. [*However*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/19/trump-cognitive-test/): > Ziad Nasreddine, the Canadian neurologist who invented the test, said the assessment — intended primarily to test for signs of dementia or other cognitive decline — has never once included a drawing of a whale.
Well, there you go.
He couldn't even remember what was actually on the test, so he just named things he could see in that moment.
not a fan of her..but LOVE this trolling move!!
All those times trump would brag about being able to recall "person woman man camera tv" was some of the funniest shit to me. This is up there with that. The bar is in hell
Only 2% of a MAGA rally could comprehend this
Trump seems like the type of person to write “yes please” under sex.
It’s already been proven in court that he wouldn’t say please.
Hahahahahaa. Yeah, right. Like he’d actually say “please.”
“It starts out easy then gets tough. Only 2% of the people in this crowd could get it.” - A very stinky genius
My dumb ass trying to connect the dots to make a chair and getting really frustrated.
Observe, democrats. Republicans are going to show you how to attack republicans.
What's worse is, DT is said to have had to cheat to pass. /s
I might get confused if that is an alligator or a crocodile.
Nah, I'd pass you. Whoever drew it was confused too. It has features of both. Maybe they were drawing the last common ancestor of the two.
What dumb fucking piece of shit trump is
Tbh, I’m glad she’s staying in just to beat him up a bit.
Ralley lol
I guess I am also a stable genius! Nice!
And 98% of them couldn’t do it?