Does the Media have Licence or Even an Obligation to Question an Elderly Leader's Mental Capacity

I thought he was a crude, classless, ham-fisted buffoon 40 years ago when he was trying trying to con everybody back then selling flashy gold "Trump" branded "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" limos. The kind of guy who runs around putting chintzy gold plating on everything. They kind of guy who's favorite adjective is, "classy". The kind of person that mistakes costliness for quality. The kind of guy who buys a beautiful, 1930's craftsman masterpiece of a house, and tears it down to put up a pink stuccoed McMansion. The kind of guy who buys his wife a boob job for Christmas when she's never even mentioned wanting one.

I don't see why I should change forty years of disdain and disgust because the country lost it's collective mind and sense of decorum. If you polled me about him in the 80's I'd have expressed the same disgust for him then that I feel for him now. I found him to be a contemptible, disgusting human being back when he was trying to get into politics on the Democratic ticket, too.

He's actually a whole lot like a whole lot of wealthy real estate people I've met. A bad human being with an opinion of himself that is completely at odds with reality. He has failed time and time again professionally. What he has is the dogged determination of a dullard, who keeps on trying because he's too full of himself to step back and look at himself objectively. He isn't remotely as intelligent as he thinks he is, and if he had been, he'd have swallowed a bullet after the 3rd or 4th bankruptcy. At best, he has become moderately clever through years of trial and error in the skills of his chosen profession. He makes ridiculous demands in negotiations and, in the style of Dunning-Kruger, people who are more intelligent acquiesce.

He's a paradox - successful because he's too thick and self-delusional to realize what a loser he is so he just keeps on churning when someone with self awareness would throw in the towel - and as a result, has gotten ahead. He's basically rich, because it never occurred to him that he might not have a birthright to be.

I've always felt that way about him. I'm not going to suddenly pretend otherwise because you for some bizarre reason don't see how repulsive and gauche he is.

But you know what? The country seems to have fallen in love with crappy, stuccoed gaudy McMansions laden with cheap gold plating and shoddy craftsmanship, and fountains with "urinating" babies for the water stream right in the front, so maybe the country has exactly who they want and deserve. Just don't expect me to pretend I'm on board like you are.

 

If you TITLE a thread, for instance:
"Can we question the financial judgment of NFL players after retirement?" or
"Does media even have license to question any professional athlete's off-field life?"

You think people will ONLY talk about ONE single case?

 

Both Nancy and Ron Jr. had spoken and advocated publicly in favor of stem cell research, in direct reference to Reagan's Alzheimer's.

 

"Life goes on".....did you get that from me? I just came up with that a couple of days ago and I thought it was good.

 

Man, thought you were referring to Trump.

 

My theory is that most extremely wealthy Real Estate Moguls got to their position from being born into massive capital. It's the go to proffesion for people born with massive capital who never tried to obtain a discernable skill and thus just relied on the capital they were born with it. They lived their entire life with praise and adulation for merely being born wealthy. They develop no grit, skill or sound character.

Getting into the Naval Academy in itself is a accomplishment. He also got in with his own merit unlike Trump and UPenn.

 

Perhaps he realized his limitations and jumped over to politics. Why such attack? Don't agree with him all that much but McCain's character seems solid to me. Certainly way ahead of Trump.

 

Don't think joining military combat and being captured is privilege, certainly not anywhere close to Trump who made numerous excuses to avoid military service. Can't really compare these two in that respect.

 

Lol, now I pretty sure you are trolling.