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It's generally illegal under HIPAA, IIRC, for good reason. Though... I did like the STABLE GENIUS Act proposal.
With that said, was the doctor who administered the test one of the ones that have served as nothing more than a mouthpiece for BS that Trump concocted? If so, Trump being helped to cheat would be of no surprise whatsoever. |
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Allison Burger, Ladiz Washroom, Emplys Mustwashands
It certainly seemed that he was just picking words out of the air at the time, and their relative association to one another suggests a mind not exactly trying to overreach. All the same, I'm sure I'm not alone in giving him the old golf clap for his superhuman ability to remember 5 words. trump is like the Mechanical Turk, but the guy inside died ages ago from secret government mind-rays. |
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Surely they wouldn't give five words so easily connected - or is that the point?
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On the example test linked below, the words are:
Face Velvet Church Daisy Red https://www.parkinsons.va.gov/resour...st-English.pdf |
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"The president has been known to recite five words to aides in the West Wing or on Air Force One — he’d tweak the list to make it appropriate for the setting — while claiming that Biden could not do the same."
https://apnews.com/c8e5d800f5eb545c7aee8c5b597e6df4 |
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It's as sad as the paunchy middle-aged man sitting at a bar telling everyone about his glory days when he had trials for Manchester United (or for US readers when he was the quarterback of his high school team).
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What is delicious about this is that when Charlotte wouldn't promise him carte blanc to fill their facility to capacity regardless of Covid19 ... telling him that it would depend on the circumstances surrounding Covid19 precautions when the time came ... he threw a tantrum, picked up his toys, and loudly proclaimed he was going to move it. Jacksonville, apparently, being more accommodating to his ego and destructive urges. But not all of the GOP nomination functions have been cancelled, and now the essential ones are still going to be held. Guess where? |
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From the linked article; I guess it doesn't get much enforcement. Judging from their political proclivities. That was followed by; The constitution of the state of Arkansas was amended in the general election of 2008 to, among other things, repeal a provision (Article 3, Section 5) which had until its repeal prohibited "idiots or insane persons" from voting.[25]One might suspect that Arkansas' GOP managers realized the potential for problems that such a statute could present to the party's interests, and got it squelched. |
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Our Mayor (a Republican who was elected solely on a "I want to sell the community owned power company to a investment group that I have financial ties to, but it's totes not shady" campaign that turned into, and I'm quoting our local paper "the biggest scandal in modern Jacksonville history" soon after and is now being investigated by the state and lead to the power company's entire senior leadership stepping down) was trying to sell the city on the whole thing being about economic recovery, with the RNC guranteeing to bring in inconsistently various huge amounts of money that were all completely pulled from someone's ass. But after those numbers all turned into pie in the sky nonsense as the scope of the RNC has been scaled down again and again AND the pandemic showed no signs of slowing down he's spent the last couple of weeks doing a very bad impression of someone trying to backpedal.
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