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[–] 146 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Relax, it’s just a stroke, guy

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  • [–] 143 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Strokes took out both my parents. Come on stroke, you owe me. I'll undoubtedly go out the same way.

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  • [–] 91 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    High volume activity and movement after a stroke pretty much guarantees a secondary event. Just saying.

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    What does this mean? You should be sedentary after a stroke?

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    [–] 68 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I read the headline earlier, with no picture, and thought yeah he always looks like a bloated orange monster that tracks.

    Actually seeing the pictures all I can think of is the training I did on FAST, literally the F is for face drooping, that old mother fucker is having a god damned stroke...

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    It is even clearer in the video footage. A single picture could just be him grimacing in a single frame, but the video makes it clear that the droopy face is his actual resting face, which it wasn't before.

    The hamberders are finally catching up to him.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The acronym FAST is good to know:
    From https://www.mass.gov/info-details/stroke-signs-and-symptoms-act-fast

    Face
    Arms
    Speech
    Time

    One last thing. It's ted-ed but here's a brain researcher who experienced and analyzed a stroke as one happened:
    https://youtu.be/mYD7Y9CXeUw

    Cw if you need: she displays and handles a real human brain and spinal cord

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago

    Maybe Kirk was one of his horcruxes

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    We can call him Droopy Donny now right?

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Imagine if he died before Biden

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (19 children)

    Hey! .... maybe the stroke might just mellow him out and he might not act so strange or say such terrible things

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Evidence shows brain damage tends to make people even LESS empathetic and thus MORE fascist.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    For real? Because that didn't happen to my wife.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It is fairly common for certain types of head trauma to be followed up with personality changes depending on the severity and type of brain injury, usually frontal lobe damage. A lot of people become more paranoid and angry, which often leads to their political views leaning to the far right.

    Here’s an article on the subject. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0137

    I had a traumatic head injury that required brain surgery as a child and it’s never lead to any of those kinds of symptoms, but it wasn’t anything involving the frontal lobe.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    The brain is a wild place, but generally it's true.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Since when is it my job to prove your claims?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Since when is it my job to type words into a search bar for you?

    This isn't a formal debate or a peer reviewed journal article. I'm under no onus to cite anything other than my own knowledge.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    You made an unfounded claim.

    It's literally nobody else's job to prove or disprove whatever random shit you type.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That sounds like a you problem to me. Believe me or not, because I couldn't care less.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not a problem at all. I easily continue to operate under the assumption that anything out of you is bullshit.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Man, it's annoying seeing a headline starting with "Trump, 79" that doesn't end with "dead".

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Doubt he lives to the midterms.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    That's not so much a "call out" as a "hey, I think the president just had a stroke."

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    C'mon man, just lay down and go off into that great night. You'll be at peace

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    I hope he sees all these types of posts where people are actively HOPING he had a stroke.

    😊

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    We always have a bottle of Pinot Grigio sitting around so we can spontaneously celebrate.

    If this mf dies, we need more wine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Not even a joke: I know someone with a wine cellar and he has bottles set aside for certain people's death and there's a bottle for Trump in there.

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  • He had an Adderall stuck in his tooth.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Literally every 79 year old has already had a small stroke of some kind. TIA they are called. He’s on soooo many meds. Shits his pants daily.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    This is not an actual stroke right?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Time to go to a locked facility grandpa

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I thought that video they put out with him speaking about Kirk was so weird and somehow wrong. Like AI or edited footage. I assumed it was because the man can’t string together coherent sentences but now I wonder if it could have been health related.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Face.dropping like a plane hit it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When is that orange mask NOT droopy???

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  • [+] -12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Bell's palsy. I am fairly certain it is not a stroke. Sorry to disappoint.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The diagnostic difference between Bell's palsy and facial paralysis due to stroke is that Bell's palsy gets better in a few weeks. The only way to know it's not caused by a stroke is when it goes away, or if scans and other diagnostic techniques to detect a stroke show that none has occurred (in which case it's more likely but not certain).

    So where do you get your fair certainty from?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't really tell without an exam but bi-lateral arm movements seem even and regular. Speech does not seem to be affected. His doctors haven't strapped him to a bed to prevent a fall from right leg weakness. All the signs point to just facial nerve involvement and not CNS. Still could be a stroke, but from looking in from the outside, I don't think so.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I had Bell's palsy for about 6 weeks back in 2008. Literally put a line down the middle of the face, and one side has full movement, and the other does not. Just the fact that Droopy Don can blink indicates he does not have Bell's palsy. I had to use tape to keep my eye shut.

    Not to mention all the other facial movements he has on his entire face.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He's definitely had a stroke, which makes sense as to why his address about Kirk was AI-generated. Can't have his base knowing he can't speak well, that seems 'un-manly' to them.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    He needs to be in a retirement home

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