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How deep the pool?

December 9, 2025 by Guest Post 14 Comments

by Brenda Allington, Florence

How can so many wallow in the pool of intentional ignorance and denial when the cognitive decline of POTUS clearly has evidence of Alzheimer’s? Even his niece, a PHD in psychology, has admitted seeing behaviors in her uncle that she saw in her grandfather. We are all at the whim of his instability that has real daily life consequences for the rest of us. Congress should be doing everything possible to remove him from office if they care at all about his well being and ours. He is merely the puppet of Stephen Miller who is enjoying the ease with which he can control the President without so much as a raised eyebrow. He must feel giddy with power! EVERYBODY has A LOT to lose. If our legislators do not stand up to the cuts in health insurance subsidies and cuts in Medicare and planned dismantling of Social Security and prioritizing feeding children, are they really representing us? 

Billionaires are becoming trillionaires—at OUR EXPENSE! Did you know if you spent a million dollars a day from the time of Christ to the present, you would not have spent a trillion dollars?! That’s right. But since “too much is never enough” we are expected to keep on giving. 

If you do not recognize the lack of courage and conviction in your representatives (despite bragging on their military records), your hard work and compliance with the law is being ridiculed and used to make billionaires trillionaires. You don’t realize you are drowning in a contaminated pool of ignorance. But not before a lot of suffering! And my guess, you will be the first to blame anyone but the person staring back at you in the mirror.

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  1. Helen Sabin says

    December 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM

    Brenda –

    I watched Trump speak for an hour and not once did he fumble any word, including AMERICA, like Biden did in a recent speech. Not once did he misspeak someone’s name like Biden did many times. Not once did he ever fall going up the stairs of AF 1, falling off a bike, or tripping over something on a stage, like Biden did and that has been shown over and over again . Trump hit his points clearly, and he was in full charge of is mental faculties as he didn’t once use his teleprompter. but could speak clearly without rambling like Biden does who couldn’t even give a speech clearly even when reading a teleprompter to help him. You have TDS which you should get treated. HERE: go seek help:https://rehabnet.com/treatment/trump-derangement-syndrome/

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    • Howard S. says

      December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM

      Trump’s speeches, if you can call them that, are rambling, incoherent nonsense. When he even attempts to make a point, the “facts” he uses are totally detached from reality. He has nodded off at several meetings recently. He brags about passing 3 cognitive tests this year. The thing is, it’s not normal for a person to be given 3 cognitive tests in a year. If he’s getting those tests, his doctors are concerned. Also not normal to get an MRI. He’s out of it and the people hanging around him are using him to get what they want.

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    • WMA says

      December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM

      Helen,
      If you think Trump is articulate and reasonable and never relies on a Teleprompter, you are delusional.
      Biden was certainly in decline the last year of his administration. He should never have run for a second term.
      But I never heard Biden talk about Revolutionary War era airports.
      I never heard Biden say stealth fighter jets were invisible to the human eye.
      And I never heard Biden say Mexico would pay for a border wall.
      That was all Trump, a thoroughly evil excuse for a human being.
      I hate him to the bottom of my heart, and there’s nothing deranged about that.

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  2. WMA says

    December 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM

    Bill,
    Not sure how our Montana governor managed to direct federal funds into Ravalli County but I’m confident you will come up with some outrageous explanation.
    28$ mil to install each Biden ev charging station. Pretty wasteful.
    If it were true.
    I checked with the Federal Highway Administration for specifics. Couldn’t find your 28 mil figure anywhere. Closest I could find was $15,000,000.
    For the entire state of Maine: 62 fast charging stations and 520 other slower stations.
    Glad I could clear that up.
    PS: Maybe you should use that thimble for its original purpose and stitch up your unraveling reputation.

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    • Bill Cavanaugh says

      December 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM

      Do you hear yourself Wayne? $15,000,000 per charger? Tesla does it for under $250K (many times way less). Reuters reported in July that less than 400 have been installed under that bloated bill.
      Who cares about Maine. They have one of the fewest # of electric cars in the country.
      I stand corrected. Ryan Zinke Spearheaded the repair of your beloved Ricketts Road.
      You’re Welcome.

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  3. Tracy says

    December 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM

    Delusional

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  4. WMA says

    December 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM

    Kevin,
    I did not vote for Alzheimer’s in 2020. I did vote for a lifelong public servant who knew how to pass legislation. Biden accomplished more in two years to benefit middle class Americans than Trump will ever do.

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    • Bill Cavanaugh says

      December 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM

      One Example please Wayne…. Just one.

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      • WMA says

        December 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM

        OK.
        Infrastructure Investment and Jobs act. Signed into law Nov. 2021. Billions of dollars invested right here in Montana – including Ravalli County.

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        • Bill Cavanaugh says

          December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM

          That Dog ain’t gonna Hunt.
          in the bill $42 Billion for internet. ZERO Hookups
          $7.5 Billion for EVERY chargers 183 hooked up
          Billions in subsidies (money Laundering for Democrats) to Green weenie companies.
          added $492 Billion to Deficit, caused 9% inflation, Gas Prices rose 50%.
          How did that wok out for Montanans Wayne?

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          • WMA says

            December 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM

            Bill,
            That dog is hunting like a greyhound chasing down a jackrabbit.
            Right now, work is going on adjacent to my property, bringing fiber optics technology to the area west of Hamilton with plans recently announced to repave the road, all thanks to the legislation I mentioned. Like it or not, electric vehicles are part of our future and chargers are integral to that future. And just because you are too short-sighted to appreciate the positive potential of “greenie weenie” companies, this investment means more jobs and a cleaner environment.
            Working out damn fine for Montanans; thanks very much.

          • Bill Cavanaugh says

            December 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM

            Wayne… That is all thanks to our excellent Republican Governor. Try not to be so Naive. I love how you just ignored the fact that Biden’s EV charging stations cost $28MM EACH, meanwhile Elon Musk installs them for $35K.
            Your financial knowledge could fit in a thimble that might be best suited to hang around your greyhounds neck.

    • Kevin says

      December 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM

      WMA , you got Alzheimer’s, and you got a life long public server who become a Multi Millionaire as well as his son that he had to Pardon. I will stand by Trump and his record over the plate if dung served to our public in 2020.

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  5. Kevin says

    December 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM

    Alzheimer’s? You are projecting what you voted for in 2020.

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