I'm certainly not attempting to document "a significant and/or slow mental decline."
Just acknowledging that it is very possible that he has less mental acuity, in reality, than she is saying.
That's an alternative interpretation, but gallows humor is frequently sarcastic/ironic in tone. Either or both are possible explantation.
Also I did not say it was. Just putting some numbers to the grim reality of the situation she's facing at...
How would that help?
Alzheimers patients walk towards water, dementia victims prefer high places, while heat stroke sufferers can usually be found in the dark?
All this means is that, unlike a lost hiker, the missing person cannot be counted on...
I know pretty well what you're talking about, except that stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) are very specific to loss of brain function caused by a blocked artery (ischemic) or a ruptured blood vessel (hemorrhagic), which can't even be...
Discount, absolutely...though I don't think that it takes it entirely off the table.
There are multiple reasons that her assertion might not be correct:
She may not be comfortable saying in public that he's not all there, mentally. This sort of...
That's for sure far from a mental decline on your part, by pointing that out.
AFAIK, even if someone asked them a clarification, it wasn't made public.
Ooops! That's my mental decline! I read "(from Jan/2026 up to date)" as "(from Jan/2025 up to date)"...
which is obviously why I said "13 or 14 months." 100% my reading error...I'll go edit that out, so's not to confuse anyone.
While we're on...
when our criminals make themselves unwanted by society, we imprison them. That's why her terminology doesn't bother me so much.
I get that her angle in using those words is likely more to demonize Israel then my interpretation of the term...