On Tuesday, a widely cited psychologist took to YouTube to raise the alarm regarding “more highly concerning behavior” from President Donald Trump. According to Dr. John Garrison, Trump’s recent actions suggest “steep neurological decline” and a dangerously “manic-like state.”

Garrison began by playing a clip from a recent Fox News interview, in which Trump declared that the price of oil is “going to go down like a rocket.” According to Garrison, “There were two neurological issues in this very short clip, both of them verbal. One is that he’s having speech planning issues, saying ‘going down like a rocket.’ Obviously, that’s combining phrases. He’s having a hard time organizing his thoughts. And second is an involuntary vocalization.” Here Garrison replays the clip, noting an abrupt sound Trump makes, explaining, “The pathways that deal with language are disrupted. We are seeing serious issues with language with President Trump.” What’s more, Garrison asserts that such vocalizations are “relatively new.”

In the interview, Trump begins talking about the midterm elections, saying, “I’m going to campaign like I did for myself and I’m going to hope that people think that I’m on. And if I’m not on, if they don’t go out and vote, if they go out and vote, we’re going to win easily.” As Garrison notes, “What he’s saying makes absolutely no sense. He cannot organize his thoughts. He gets confused and he believes what he’s saying is coherent. But it truly makes no sense.” According to Garrison, this struggle with verbal planning can be evidence of underlying “neurological issues.”

Here Garrison points to Trump’s pupils, which have remained dilated throughout the interview. “Trump is in a very bright room for this interview,” says Garrison. “You can see the lights actually reflecting off of his eyes, and what should be happening is that his pupils should be constricting rather than dilating because when there’s too much light in a room, your pupils get smaller, not bigger.” According to Garrison, “Dilated pupils like this can be from a wide variety of reasons, but it’s not just something that happens,” and likely culprits include medication for something like incontinence, Parkinson’s disease, or seizures.

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          To be fair, that’s not true at all. Only 30% of the primary electorate are his base, evangelicals mostly, other religious nutjobs, business dickheads, and so forth.

          It’s a lack of a seeming alternative that is the problem. But no, don’t listen to me, I’m sure Jeffries and Schumer will right the ship of state! /s

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            I mean, I don’t disagree Jeffries and ol’ Chuck are screwing up bigly, but when election day comes - debate has ended y’know? It’s trump or not.

            Last election I was really disappointed with some people who couldn’t face the thought of voting against trump. People who presumably were immediately and lastingly oppresse by his brand of incompetent fascism.

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              While I’ve always shared that sentiment to some degree, I’ve always known it was doomed to fail without a change in party. It’s become all too obvious that the people that rejected voting all along, were right all along, I hate to say it.

              And I say it as someone the encourages people to vote and always votes, against the worse candidates.

              But let’s not lie to ourselves, unless we get better candidates the non voting people are not entirely wrong. It means nothing in the medium let alone long term, we end in the same place with the controlled opposition in power every other cycle.

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      Yes.

      He should not be in that chair, and every day that republicans enable and warship worship him is both abuse and gross misconduct.

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        And we see how they played it with Mitch McConnell, so I’m guessing they’ll pull the same shit with Trump. Even the dems did this with Feinstein. So it’s really par for the course in this broken system. Will be interesting to see how cool they can play the game and pretend not to be worried this guy has his fingers on the nukes.

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          It’s par for the course for as long as the people choose to allow it to continue.

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              Incorrect. Spoken like someone who wasn’t around to see Los Angeles in May of '92.

              The French invented a solution to the problem of rich decadent assholes in 1789.

              The people decide when this ends.

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                What did the Los Angeles riots accomplish again?

                80%+ of executions by guillotines were commoners. Is this the solution you are talking about?

                Looks like someone is romanticizing violence.