A digression

I'm going to interrupt the series on clinical trials to discuss a specific clinical issue, dementia. For those of you who are expecting a debate between the presidential candidates next week, I will bet you a substantial sum that it will not happen. That is because one of the candidates is currently experiencing a rapidly progressing condition of at least moderate dementia that is close to tipping over into the severe category. It is difficult to explain, however, why the corporate media not only resolutely ignores this fact, but works actively to cover it up. Here is your Dear Leader, in what is purported to be on of his relatively lucid moments:  

"It must because of MIT, my relationship to MIT, very smart, he goes, I say, what would happen if the boat sank from its weight, and you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery’s now under water, and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there — by the way, a lot of shark attacks lately, do you notice that? lotta shark attacks — I watched some guys justifying it today, ‘well they weren’t really that angry, they bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that they were, they were … not hungry but they misunderstood who she was.’ these people are crazy. he said, ‘there’s no problem with sharks, they just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming,’ no, really got decimated and other people too, a lot of shark attacks. so I said, ‘there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards, or here. do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking, water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking? do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted, because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. he said, ‘you know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.’ I said, ‘I think it’s a good question. I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water.’ but you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted? I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. so we’re going to end that, we’re going to end it for boats, we’re going to end it for trucks.”

 

You want to give the nuclear codes to this person.