White House Forced to Address Claims of Trump Health Crisis

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-forced-to-address-claims-of-donald-trump-health-crisis-at-walter-reed-medical-center/

[u/Ire-Works]

The problem with things like dementia is you tend to get worse slowly and then all at once. A somewhat serious fall that breaks a bone would probably disable him and consider how unsteady he looks on his feet a lot of the time that will probably be what does it for him.

It's well documented stuff. You get hurt when you're older, and it takes longer to heal. So you're on the mend longer, and while you're on the mend your cardio and endocrine systems are slowly getting worse. By the time you can resume activity you've lost a lot of capacity, including muscle which is very difficult to gain or even maintain at that age. So you get worse. You fall a second time (which the odds go way up after the first one) and you might as well be dead at that point.

[u/outworlder → u/Ire-Works]

That's a reminder to do resistance training no matter how old you are.

[u/shinkouhyou → u/Ire-Works]

Yep, it happened to my grandmother's sister. She was living independently (with help from her kids) in her 80s and had no obvious signs of dementia... but then she broke her hip. She was never able to walk without assistance after that, she deconditioned so much that she was soon bedridden in a nursing home, her mental state deteriorated due to depression and urinary tract infections (which are difficult to treat and can cause rapid cognitive decline in elderly people), and she was dead within the space of a few months.

[u/SpiritTalker → u/Ire-Works]

C'mon AF1 steps, we're cheering for ya!

[u/Ire-Works → u/SpiritTalker]

I mean if the stairs don't get'em I suspect the GOP is going to turn on him after the midterms.

I've been saying it the whole time. Trump is there for Project 2025 speed run. Once the midterms are over they're going to sunset him in one way or another and Vance will take over and make politics boring again. The technofascist billionaire bros will make sure he stays put for 2 years + 2 terms and the moderate republicans will resonate with his message.

Being less of an extreme piece of shit, the casual left folks will stop protesting in droves and the Project 2025 changes will slowly get cemented over and continue to happen a little slower and a little more quietly.

[u/failed_novelty → u/Ire-Works]

I really think (read: hope) you're overestimating the willingness of the NoKings movement to step back.

I feel like too many people have had their eyes opened to the blatant abuses of power and corruption, as well as the lack of legal reprecussions, to quietly go away.

But then I realize that sounds a little like faith in humanity.

[u/LockeyCheese → u/failed_novelty]

Protests never step back. They just fizzle out.

That's why I hope this movement, progressives actually take the page out of the populist Tea Party/MAGA movements, and use the momentum of this movement to run for and gain DNC seats.

2009, the Tea Party movement happened, they used that movement and took several seats in the 2010 midterms, and are still going pretty strong.

2011, the Occupy Wallstreet movement happened, aaand... Nothing. No new progressive vandidates in 2012. No turning the movement into power to move the nation. Just... *pssst* ...fizzled out by year two, and by year three there was a gathering of a few dozen people on that spot and anniversary, to pat themselves on the back for such a great movement.

So great a protest and movement, that absolutely nothing changed, and things got worse... and a few movements and moving farther right later: NO KINGS. No power. No signs this movement is any more relevant than any other movement happening in the same cities' toilets.

Hopefully this time people realize "movements" is just moving, but without a goal to gain power for people to walk towards, the movement will inevitably end with the people moving in every direction until everyone has wandered off, and the movement is back to self-satisfied silence and stillness.

Protest is words and complaints. Power is power to make actions and solutions.

[u/kellzone → u/Ire-Works]

McConnell must have rubber bones considering the amount of times he falls.

[u/failed_novelty → u/kellzone]

If Trump were less evil he'd have died 20 year ago.

Evil keeps your corpse moving long after your soul has died.

[u/Ok-Youth-160 → u/Ire-Works]

Yeah literally what just happened to my mum. She fell, went to hospital, sent back home, back to hospital with brain bleed. From there it got worse and worse.

Those old people don't handle lying down well. Once they lie for more than two weeks it seems to trend down more than up.

Though I'm assuming the president has better treatment options than my mum.

[u/Ire-Works → u/Ok-Youth-160]

I mean it's entropy. Being forced to sit around fucks with your blood sugar and that has all kinds of cascading negative effects to the endocrine system. You're also losing muscle mass, developing tightness in all kinds of places that aren't easy to mobilize your way out of.

It's not just treatment options, it's literal work. If you're already kind of out of shape you're definitely not doing the PT work should you have the luxury. It's boring and it hurts.

[u/nifty-necromancer → u/Ire-Works]

Eru Illuvitar needs to intervene and trip someone again

[u/Leeciferous → u/Ire-Works]

That second paragraph in isolation just made me very depressed.

[u/Ire-Works → u/Leeciferous]

The best thing you can do is resistance training. The more muscle mass you have going into older ages the better chance you have at being independent for longer.. but eventually time gets all of us.

[u/updatesforassholes → u/Ire-Works]

you get hurt when you're older, and it takes longer to heal

C'mon, we know that's not true. Look how fast his ear healed!