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question everything

(51,212 posts)
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 01:20 AM Sunday

Republican Warns Trump is Becoming a 'Weekend at Bernie's' President

Even Republicans are starting to voice concerns about President Donald Trump’s mental state and physical well-being.

On Friday, former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger posted a Substack essay and video detailing his concerns regarding the president’s mental acuity. Kinzinger is also an Air National Guard veteran and works as a commentator for CNN.

“You don’t know anymore what’s an act, what’s real. But I mean, it feels like he’s even descended since the beginning of his term,” Kinzinger said in the video. “Three years left of this and that’s the question. So when he does hit a point where he’s completely out of it, would there be anybody that had the courage to do the 25th amendment? So you may ultimately end up with a Weekend at Bernie’s president.”

In recent months, Trump has demonstrated memory problems, mixing up the names of people, places, and aircraft, sharing factually inaccurate stories, and failing to recognize people he knows, including world leaders—even when they’re sitting right in front of him.

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“Stephen Miller drives the crackdown on immigrants and the push to use the National Guard,” he wrote. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading the assault on public health. Russell Vought is overseeing the mass firing of thousands of federal workers.”. “The truth is, what Donald Trump says matters less than what those behind him do,” he added. “And that may be the most dangerous reality of all.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republican-warns-trump-becoming-weekend-050247699.html

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Republican Warns Trump is Becoming a 'Weekend at Bernie's' President (Original Post) question everything Sunday OP
Welcome to the world of President Pee Wee German! generalbetrayus Sunday #1
I've been reminded of the last days of Brezhnev many times recently. eppur_se_muova Sunday #2
It's hard to top his NJCher Sunday #3
He's a chatbot. Probably programmed by ChatGOP. usonian Sunday #4
Hrmph! slightlv Sunday #5
"sharing factually incorrect stories" Martin Eden Sunday #6

eppur_se_muova

(40,360 posts)
2. I've been reminded of the last days of Brezhnev many times recently.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 01:39 AM
Sunday

Little more than an animated corpse with PeeWee Goering pulling the strings.

NJCher

(41,803 posts)
3. It's hard to top his
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 02:36 AM
Sunday

Lower than a snakes belly behavior, but by letting him make a fool of himself on the international stage, they have immortalized a sad, pitiful descent into full on dementia.

usonian

(21,735 posts)
4. He's a chatbot. Probably programmed by ChatGOP.
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 02:45 AM
Sunday

And Miller's pulling the levers on his rotted corpse.


https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

Judge for yourself.

Tue, Apr 29th 2025 09:34am - Mike Masnick

We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something that sounds right. The actual truth of the response is, at best, a secondary consideration.

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But over the last few months, it has occurred to me that, for all the hype about generative AI systems “hallucinating,” we pay much less attention to the fact that the current President does the same thing, nearly every day. The more you look at the way Donald Trump spews utter nonsense answers to questions, the more you begin to recognize a clear pattern — he answers questions in a manner quite similar to early versions of ChatGPT. The facts don’t matter, the language choices are a mess, but they are all designed to present a plausible-sounding answer to the question, based on no actual knowledge, nor any concern for whether or not the underlying facts are accurate.

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This is not the response of someone working from actual knowledge or policy understanding. Instead, it’s precisely how an LLM operates: taking a prompt (the question about job losses) and generating text based on some core parameters (the “system prompt” that requires deflecting blame and asserting greatness).

The hallmarks of AI generation are all here:
• Confident assertions without factual backing
• Meandering diversions that maintain loose semantic connection to the topic
• Pattern-matching to previous responses (“ripped off,” “billions of dollars”)
• Optimization for what sounds good rather than what’s true




slightlv

(6,843 posts)
5. Hrmph!
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 03:56 AM
Sunday

It's not often a republican will say something I agree with it, but I gotta say, he's got THIS right..

“Stephen Miller drives the crackdown on immigrants and the push to use the National Guard,” he wrote. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading the assault on public health. Russell Vought is overseeing the mass firing of thousands of federal workers.”. “The truth is, what Donald Trump says matters less than what those behind him do,” he added. “And that may be the most dangerous reality of all.”

Martin Eden

(15,019 posts)
6. "sharing factually incorrect stories"
Sun Oct 19, 2025, 09:20 AM
Sunday

That has long been part and parcel of his deliberate lies.

Which doesn't negate other evidence that his brain is turning into orange mush now.

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