Elections; 2024
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Tom Edsall interviews a bunch of mental health folks today about Donald Trump's recent behavior. Here's one of them:
“Trump is an aging malignant narcissist,” Aaron L. Pincus, a professor of psychology at Penn State, wrote in an email. “As he ages, he appears to be losing impulse control and is slipping cognitively. So we are seeing a more unfiltered version of his pathology. Quite dangerous.”
In addition, Pincus continued, “Trump seems increasingly paranoid, which can also be a reflection of his aging brain and mental decline.”
This seems about right. Hardly anyone seems willing to say it, though, even though it's become more and more obvious over the past year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opinion/trump-danger-rage-psycholog
y.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I had a great nap today Second.
8/10.
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"Trump seems increasingly paranoid..."
Yeah, bc NOBODY'S been out to get him since 2016!
How can anyone believe a psychologist who's that clueless??
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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was at the barbershop, this morning, getting ready for Thanksgiving. The Trumptards were pontificating about every subject imaginable, but on subjects I know for absolute certainty, these guys are full of shit.
Wow, you know subjects for absolute certainty?
Since you post so much crap about every subject under the sun, it's hard to believe you know anything about anything.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Opinion | Why Trump Is a ‘Trifecta of Danger’
By Thomas B. Edsall | Nov. 22, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opinion/trump-danger-rage-psycholog
y.html
The Roots of Trump’s Rage
Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality.
Brian Klaas, a political scientist at University College London, captured the remarkable nature of the 2024 presidential election in an Oct. 1 essay, “The Case for Amplifying Trump’s Insanity.” Klaas argued that the presidential contest now pits “a 77-year-old racist, misogynist bigot who has been found liable for rape, who incited a deadly, violent insurrection aimed at overturning a democratic election, who has committed mass fraud for personal enrichment, who is facing 91 separate counts of felony criminal charges against him and who has overtly discussed his authoritarian strategies for governing if he returns to power”
against “an 80-year-old with mainstream Democratic Party views who sometimes misspeaks or trips.”
“One of those two candidates,” Klaas noted, “faces relentless newspaper columns and TV pundit ‘takes’ arguing that he should drop out of the race. (Spoiler alert: It’s somehow not the racist authoritarian sexual abuse fraudster facing 91 felony charges.)”
Klaas asked:
“What is going on? How is it possible that the leading candidate to become president of the United States can float the prospect of executing a general and the media response is … crickets?”
How is it possible that it’s not front page news when a man who soon may return to power calls for law enforcement to kill people for minor crimes? And why do so few people question Trump’s mental acuity rather than Biden’s, when Trump proposes delusional, unhinged plans for forest management and warns his supporters that Biden is going to lead us into World War II (which would require a time machine), or wrongly claims that he defeated Barack Obama in 2016?
The media, Klaas argued, has adopted a policy in covering Donald Trump of “Don’t amplify him! You’re just spreading his message.”
In Klaas’s view, newspapers and television have succumbed to what he called the “banality of crazy,” ignoring “even the most dangerous policy proposals by an authoritarian who is on the cusp of once again becoming the most powerful man in the world — precisely because it happens, like clockwork, almost every day.”
This approach, according to Klaas, has backfired. It’s bad for democracy. The “don’t amplify him” argument is disastrous. We need to amplify Trump’s vile rhetoric more, because it will turn persuadable voters off to his cruel message.
Looking over the eight and a half years during which Trump has been directly engaged in presidential politics, it’s not as if there had been no warning signs.
Three months after Trump took office, in April 2017, a conference called A Duty to Warn was held at the Yale School of Medicine.
The conference resulted in a best-selling book, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.” A sampling of the chapter titles gives the flavor:
“Our Witness to Malignant Normality,” by Robert Jay Lifton.
“Unbridled and Extreme Hedonism: How the Leader of the Free World Has Proven Time and Again That He Is Unfit for Duty,” by Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword.
“Pathological Narcissism and Politics: a Lethal Combination,” by Craig Malkin.
In a review of that book, as well as “Twilight of American Sanity: a Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump” and “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, a 500-Year History,” Carlos Lozada, now a Times Opinion columnist, wrote in The Washington Post that the political elite in Washington was increasingly concerned about Trump’s mind-set:
“I think he’s crazy,” Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) confided to his colleague Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) in a July exchange inadvertently caught on a microphone. “I’m worried,” she replied …. Even some Republicans have grown more blunt, with Senator Bob Corker
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81,268,924
VOTED DEMOCRAT
74,216,154
VOTED REPUBLICAN
101,176,932
BETTER START TO GIVE A SHIT
https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2020presgeresults.
pdf
https://twitter.com/VehementRedhead/status/1663949029879709721
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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81,268,924
VOTED DEMOCRAT
74,216,154
VOTED REPUBLICAN
101,176,932
BETTER START TO GIVE A SHIT
https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2020presgeresults.
https://twitter.com/VehementRedhead/status/1663949029879709721
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
You guys reek of Desperation right now.
I've been telling you that Trump will be fine and Trump will be your next President for years now, and Biden* has been up just as much as he's been down in the polling in that time. But two months of negative Biden* polls and you're freakin' out.
You know that 101,176,932 don't give a shit. I know that 101,176,932 don't give a shit. She knows that 101,176,932 don't give a shit.
However, what I also know and what you and very-happy-and-not-at-all-a-40-year-old-cat-lady apparently don't know is that if any of those 101,176,932 people actually give a shit next November it's going to be because prices for everything sucks, nobody can afford to buy a home, and all we hear about anymore in the news is foreign wars, out-of-control crime and the highest level of illegal border crossings we've ever seen.
You'd better fucking hope and pray that come November 5th of next year that 101,176,932 people still don't give a shit.
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Opinion | Why Trump Is a ‘Trifecta of Danger’
By Thomas B. Edsall | Nov. 22, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opinion/trump-danger-rage-psycholog
y.html
The Roots of Trump’s Rage
Dems are terrified Trump in going to do the them what they did to him.
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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Opinion | Why Trump Is a ‘Trifecta of Danger’
By Thomas B. Edsall | Nov. 22, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/opinion/trump-danger-rage-psycholog
y.html
The Roots of Trump’s Rage
Dems are terrified Trump in going to do the them what they did to him.
- SIGNYM
I'm sorry, What?
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