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Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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« on: February 18, 2021, 09:37:40 AM »

The 1960s had a run of three Presidents in a row for whom Cluster B personality disorders wouldn't surprise me.

Hoover's immediate post-presidency involved both depressive and manic behaviors.
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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2021, 01:36:52 PM »
« Edited: March 02, 2021, 01:43:02 PM by Away, haul away, we'll haul away, Joe! »

Also, there's obviously Biden with his stutter, which is definitionally a mental condition as it stems from the neural processing area of the brain that controls speech.

I've suspected for a while that Dubya as well might have a mild aphasia that produces some of the Bushisms. (Dyslexia, as themiddleman suggests, might also explain it.) I wonder if he was less prone to malapropisms before his struggle with alcoholism.

It doesn't show up in writing and thus not in my posts on this forum, but I suffered some blows to the head a few years ago and ever since then I've had a tendency to Bushlike flubbed idioms and mixed-up lexical items when I speak.
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