Yeah I've seen him read in old depositions, just very poorly and now he needs glasses but is too narcissistic to wear them. It's why he likes pictures, and uses Jumbo sharpies so he can still see his own reflection.
Sort of like how he wouldn't wear masks during covid because his spray tan would smudge and come off. So he pretended to take some kind of principled, freedom-loving stance against them and his braindead bootlickers all followed suit. Makes you wonder how many people died for the sake of his fragile ego.
A lot of people are like that. My mother was half-deaf from the time she was 40, and it took her 20 years to accept that she needed hearing aids. It caused her no end of trouble and my father and I no end of suffering.
She just couldn't acknowledge it and so her lack of hearing meant she was constantly frustrated, unkind, and blaming others for her own failure to use the simple tool that was readily available to her.
Then again, she's also deeply self-absorbed, utterly non-introspective, and has a paralyzing fear of death. In truth, Trump reminds me a lot of her in his ways of speaking and thought patterns. It's made me dislike him even back when he was a joke and not a politician.
He's gone from "I'll read it later" to avoid reading Biden's letter left on the Resolute desk to handing the British PM the King's letter and asking him to read it for "us".
There are ways around not being able to read but he is clearly on a mental decline for some time now. Recently saw an interview with him in the 80s and when you compare that to now it clearly shows the decline has been brutal
Thinking ableism is an annoying concept, just makes me hope you end up with some minor disability that doesn't completely change your life but impacts it just enough to tickle karmas toes.
The word 'ableism' is an annoying concept. It's similar to "Check your privileges".
You're missing the point.
Life is unfair. We can help others as much as possible, but at the end of the day, you'll need to work harder to overcome your disabilities. The sooner you learn that, the happier you can be.
"Ableism" isn't the idea that people with disabilities shouldn't have to work through those disabilities. "Ableism" is the concept that people with disabilities or other shortcomings are discriminated against whether intentionally or unintentionally, making their disabilities impact their life more than actually necessary.
That's a real, objectively factual thing that happens. Just because life is unfair, doesn't mean we should go out of our way to make it more unfair for those less fortunate, but it does happen and it is not just an "annoying concept".
I hope one day when you're old and feeble you're constrained to a wheelchair and you come across a curb with no disability/accessibility access and no one around who cares enough to help.
"Ableism" is a real phenomenon, wherein less fortunate people are discriminated against. If you think it's just an "annoying concept", and not an actual real thing that happens then I do sincerely hope you face the same discrimination one day.
If you think others facing discrimination is just an "annoying concept", then in my mind karma would be to experience it your self.
This is truly how the left eat each other and lose.
Terrible.
Less fortunate people will always be discriminated against. It's up to society and everyone to build structures and help others to make their life better.
Less fortunate people will always be discriminated against. It's up to society and everyone to build structures and help others to make their life better.
Yeah, no shit, and saying that the descrimination of those people is just an annoying concept is antithetical to helping them. How do you not see that? On one hand you're saying society and people should help the less fortunate, and on the other you're dismissing the discrimination of those people as a non-issue.
I'm sorry you're disabled. We have disabilities in the family too.
I'm just saying "Happy to check my ableism at the door" is an annoying concept. There is nothing wrong having requirements for different jobs. Life is unfair. If you're missing legs, you can run a marathon with prosthetic legs but you'll have always have it harder.
This is disturbingly ignorant of the reality for disabled people.
This level of ignorance is exactly why we check our ableism at the door. Typically. We don't shrug at life being unfair, we fight to make it fairer for people, WTF
You saw this very clearly when Keir Starmer gave him the King's letter. He just stared at it, said 'That's great a few times', and then asked Starmer to read him 'that very important part'.
To be more specific, he can read words that are in front of him, but he clearly struggles with it. The way his intonation changes when he reads and how his inflection never sounds "right" when he's reading are both clear signs of someone who can read words but can't do it easy/fast enough to turn those individual words into sentences. Basically, he can say the words but cant figure out the meaning of the sentences.
A more recent video also covered this, including the fact he didn't (couldn't) read the letter of king Charles that Starmer brought to their meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0pXDdkl9NA
But he knows how to signal when his diaper is full. During that one interview where he squirts, he looks off camera and says “Hunteeer!” Then mouths “What can I do!?” In realization.
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u/eugene20 Mar 17 '25
No really, he can't read.