**** Elections thread *****

[OngBonga]

What reason do I have not to? I mean we could play this game all fucking day. How can you be sure Abe Lincoln was fit for office? Because his doctor said so? Well that's great, clearly he was insane.

Fuck's sake.

[Poopadoop]

How can you be sure Abe Lincoln was fit for office? Because his doctor said so?

But that's precisely the argument that's being touted here by the T.I.'s. The doctor says Trump is in great shape, and anyone who questions that based on their own eyes and ears isn't an independent thinker but instead is a libtard grasping at straws because we should believe what his doctor says.

I mean I don't have enough data to pass judgment about his physical health other than that he's fat, eats garbage and doesn't exercise. And from that, I find it unlikely he's the prime specimen they're making him out to be. Is that such a strange suspicion to have?

Because his doctor said so? Well that's great, clearly he was insane.

That isn't the chain of logic here and you know it.

I don't have a battery of neurological tests to tell me if Trump can remember what happened 10 minutes ago, or understands right from wrong. But on the basis of one very simple cognitive test, we're supposed to believe he's perfectly fine, while ignoring a lot of his questionable behavior. Have you seen that test? You get 6 points just for knowing the date and where you are ffs. Another question asks you to identify three line drawings of a camel, lion, and rhinoceros. Another one asks you to draw a clock with the hands pointing to 11.10.

http://dementia.ie/images/uploads/si...nglish_7_1.pdf

Next they'll be saying we should believe what they tell us about 9/11 or JFK because it's the government and they never lie, and they did one test that shows something definitely hit the wtc. I mean some of those people who were on the 9/11 commission had degrees from good universities, come on how can you question them?

[BananaStand]

But that's precisely the argument that's being touted here by the T.I.'s.

I can guess the "T", but what does the "I" stand for?

The doctor says Trump is in great shape, and anyone who questions that based on their own eyes and ears isn't an independent thinker but instead is a libtard grasping at straws because we should believe what his doctor says.

If you're actually a doctor, with training, experience, and a medical degree, and you diagnose Trump without examining him, you are guilty of a significant ethical violation.

If you're NOT actually a doctor, an don't have training, or experience, or a medical degree, and you diagnose Trump, without examining him, you are guilty of shameful, hopeless, partisan idiocy!

I mean I don't have enough data to pass judgment about his physical health other than that he's fat, eats garbage and doesn't exercise.

No on disagrees with this, not even the doctor. It was in the report, it was said in the press conference. Trump needs to lose some lbs, improve his diet, and exercise more. Happy now??

And from that, I find it unlikely he's the prime specimen they're making him out to be. Is that such a strange suspicion to have?

Who used the term "prime specimen"? You seem to be grading Trump's fitness on some kind of universal scale. At the top of your scale are people like Floyd Mayweather, Michael Phelps, or Deion Sanders in his prime. Ok...so Trump probably isn't at the top of that scale, and no one ever claimed he was. For a 71 year old man, he is in an extremely high percentile of fitness. Why are you suspicious of that?

I don't have a battery of neurological tests to tell me if Trump can remember what happened 10 minutes ago, or understands right from wrong.

Yet you have no problem drawing conclusions. Again, it saddens me that you're an educator.

But on the basis of one very simple cognitive test

Simplicity does not negate validity, reliability, or accuracy.

we're supposed to believe he's perfectly fine, while ignoring a lot of his questionable behavior.

For the 1000th time....a Trump blooper reel is NOT a diagnostic tool.

Have you seen that test?

Have you seen what virtually every medical expert on the subject says about the test?

Next they'll be saying we should believe what they tell us about 9/11

If you want to say that there is information missing that the government redacted on some 'national security' grounds that may or may not be exaggerated....then ok. You're probably right. If you're telling me that terrorists didn't hijack planes and crash them into buildings, then you should wear less tinfoil.

or JFK

Same as above. Besides, even with the 'official' government story, there still enough FACTS (not speculation....FACTS) for people to draw the reasonable conclusion that the secret service killed JFK, albeit on accident.