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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

A LITTLE UNDERSTANDING, PLEASE


Donald Trump has been widely mocked for bragging in his Chris Wallace interview about having aced the Montréal Cognitive Assessment test or MOCA, which is usually used by doctors to identify the onset of dementia. I think it is unnecessarily cruel and partisan for people to make fun of Trump in this way. After all, it may well be the first test he has ever confronted that he did not pay somebody else to take for him.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Biden should take this test. If Biden becomes president, he will be the first deepfake-altered president as he cannot cognitively function and will need to be edited. Trumps leadership style is not new or novel, and does not particularly work in presidential leadership, but its coherent. Why are the Democrats putting us in the position of voting for the likes of Biden or Trump or Clinton or Trump? Then this November, the little guy will be put between the fighting over the rigged election. I was talking to a young intelligent college educated person and they are not thinking straight anyways. I think the milk was tainted between 1999-2015 thats the only conclusion I can come up with. These kids black or white are ready to rumble.

s. wallerstein said...

I've taken the test myself. Anyone over 70 has to take it when they register in the public health service here in Chile: my previous registration had disappeared in the computer.

I believe that even Biden will pass it without problems.