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Episode 712: Animated Haggis [VIDEO] (Patreon)

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2023-09-03 01:49:05
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The End Will Come for the Cult of MAGA - The Atlantic

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Foreign-Policy Fantasy - The Atlantic

"Hit list": Trump grand jurors face violent threats after names and addresses shared on QAnon forums | Salon.com

Mitch McConnell freezes, struggles to speak in second incident this summer

Wisconsin Supreme Court flips liberal, creating a ‘seismic shift’ - The Washington Post

Georgia Republicans Say They'll Move to Remove Fulton County DA Fani Willis From Office With New State Law | Vanity Fair

Majority of US dog owners now skeptical of vaccines, including for rabies: study | The Hill

Sheila Lewis is the latest casualty in the conservative war on expertise | Canada's National Observer

Following Elon Musk's lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation

How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs - Scientific American

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Eric Denton

Here’s the problem if Feinstein dies/retires. The GOP won’t allow the seating of a new DEM on the Judicial Committee. So if she dies and then a SCOTUS seat comes up it’s not getting filled by Biden. Not to mention any other regular judges that will get confirmed next year.

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I'm a licensed psychologist with a lot of training in neuropsychological assessment, so I thought I'd give you a little info on the Mitch McConnell situation and age-related cognitive decline more generally. Brief moments in which a person "glitches" and is totally out of it do not necessarily indicate a broader cognitive impairment. They could be epileptic absence seizures or something called a transient ischemic (iss-kee-mic) attack (or a few other things, but those are the two most likely). People can have those and be completely otherwise fine. So, yes, it is possible that McConnell actually is cognitively normal. Well, he could have normal language and memory and such. He's clearly morally fucked up, but that's not really a dementia thing. Now, there are causes of new-onset epilepsy and transient ischemic attacks that point to a broader problem, so he's not in the clear, but it's not immediately and irrevocably the case that someone who "glitches" like that is inherently unfit. As far as assessing broader cognitive decline goes...yes, it is absolutely possible to construct a completely politically unbiased test of basic cognitive abilities like memory, visual or auditory processing, language, etc. What's trickier is tying those basic cognitive abilities to the kind of abstract judgment you need to be a senator. It is possible for a person to have cognitive impairments in a narrow domain but still be able to make well-reasoned decisions. John Fetterman has moderate auditory processing impairments and mild expressive language impairments following his stroke. He can hear just fine, but he has great difficulty making sense of speech. However, he processes receptive language just fine when he reads it. He also has some difficulty producing speech. He sometimes retrieves the wrong word. He might say pen-and-paper instead of Pennsylvania, but as far as anyone can tell, his underlying decision making and reasoning are intact. He knows what he means, and the things he means make sense. And, he can get the message out correctly given a little time. So, with reasonable accommodations like speech-to-text, there is no reason to think he can't do all the mental tasks expected of a senator. (Both Fetterman and McConnell are almost certainly unfit for a job that requires immediate reactions, like surgeon or military general. But I don't think the senate is ever called on to make security decisions in 30 seconds.) There are some empirically-derived standards that tell us things like, "If your memory has declined this much, you are probably unable to drive safely." There are NOT empirically-derived standards for determining what level of cognitive decline prevents you from acting as a member of congress. If you asked me to make that determination, I'd have to make a lot of inferences. I suppose we could just make up a single objective rule (e.g., "If you are presented with 3 repetitions of 12 words and can't recall at least 6 of them following a 10 minute delay, you're unfit."), BUT there's no guarantee that rule would actually be valid. There might be people who fail it who are perfectly able to function. On the other had, if we made a more flexible rule, I couldn't guarantee my personal biases wouldn't play a role. I want Mitch McConnell to go away, so I might guess that any memory decline is enough to make him unfit. I agree with Fetterman's positions, so I'm more prone to conclude that his auditory-language impairments are narrow enough that he can still function. I'm not saying McConnell *is* fit. I hate him and hope he is gradually consumed by flesh-eating bacteria. But when it comes to linking specific, narrow cognitive functions to fitness for a job, it's not as simple as it seems at first glance.

Asymetra

I remember Robin Williams joking that Reagan was actually an animatronic and his operators were panicking when he broke. Now, we're seeing it live and no one is worried. As long as he can vote how his owners tell him to vote, he's in.

Julie LaVoice
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Those are all very important distinctions you just made about different cognitive impairments, Stormy! I'm grateful you as a licenced psychologist shared them here.