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So everyone agrees Trump is a mental menace and the argument arises when professionals make that assessment without some level of direct interactive contact with him?
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16th September 2022, 09:51 AM | #2210 |
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Two new interviews with Dr. Trump:
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19th September 2022, 01:18 PM | #2213 |
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Trump openly embraces Qanon.
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If anybody needs proof that T is completely off the deep end--there it is!
and its not 'nearly identical'--the song played at Trump rallies (as the crowd holds up one finger) is IDENTICAL to the Qanon self-proclaimed theme song wws1wga by 'Richard Feelgood' I know cause I listened to both tunes on Youtube, and there is *zero* difference. You dont need to do a spectral analysis to figure that one out. The only puzzle is why the original composer (?) of 'Mirrors'--the song the Trump team claims it actually is, has not sued Feelgood. There are several possible reasons, from the composer being the same, to the fact that the music is royalty free and so there is no financial incentive. But wow, to blatantly play a well-known Qanon song and then claim it isn't--that is beyond bonkers. |
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I wonder why it took so long for Trump to publicly get behind the theory that he will be returned to power on a blaze of glory with his enemies being tried for crimes before being executed.
It’s clear he has fantasized about it since Nov 2020. |
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Michael Cohen weighs in:
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This is from The Atlantic, published Friday. About the suspense over Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro's reaction to his narrow defeat in Brazil's national election the previous Sunday. Would he or wouldn't he (claim fraud and refuse to concede)?
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trump's continued blathering about the 2020 election having been stolen has really damaged our democracy. From CBS News:
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Calling into question the basic fairness of our elections is undermining American democracy in a way never seen before. This is all on trump. He just won't stop. He's had advisers, his attorney general, even some family members, tell him they don't see any evidence the election was "rigged." But trump keeps right on going. Can he not see the way he is damaging our democratic system? No he can't because, as we were warned 250 pages and upwards of 10,000 posts ago, he doesn't process things in a normal way. He's m-e-n-t-a-l-l-y i-l-l. We're right back where we were when this thread began five and a half years ago:
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Most seem to agree that he's crazy, and to agree that he's dangerous. But we can't make the connection without a dot between the dots.
Maybe we can pride ourselves on being strict empiricists, and like Hume observe that when a fox chases a rabbit it does not cause it, but I wonder if perhaps we're missing something. At some point, might it be possible that the isolated inctances we see now - flushing documents down the toilet, fake magazine covers, theft, riot, demanding that agencies cook up explicit lies, drawing childish fantasies on a weather map, windmill cancer, pussy-grabbing etc., etc., will coalesce at some later date? Might there come a time when, from the distance of history, we realize that it was a dot all along? |
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There is more information available on Trump's long-term behaviors and thinking for psychiatrists to examine than they normally get from a person before they diagnose them.
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At this point, anyone who would claim that a psychiatrist can make no diagnosis of this most public figure unless sitting down in an in-person interview is willfully delusional.
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8th November 2022, 09:25 AM | #2226 |
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I have commented before that Trump is in a position, which he created, that denies him mentally healing interactions with others.
One case in point being that most folks, upon losing an election, have friends and family who help mollify the loss. Some leaders are so well liked and so deserving of respect that their opponents come by and thank them for their service! They are told: "The voters didn't see what a great guy you are, boss!" "Hell, who needs the job anyway?" "Go play golf. The job will take ten years off your life, anyway." "Screw 'em. You're still one hell of a good man!" "In a year they'll wish they had you back!" My sense is that Trump never got any of this sort of thing after the election. . .and rarely got such in his younger years! He can't be mentally healthy. He may not be "clinical", but he still ain't right in the head. |
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Some time back, North Korea released a story that Kim Jong-il scored an 18 on his first outing on a golf course.
I wonder what would have happened if North Korea’s lunatic told America’s lunatic “the first time I played golf I scored 18. Yep eighteen holes-in-one.” |
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True to form DJT is claiming that voting machines in predominately conservative areas of Arizona where not working properly.
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We had a report he is blaming and screeching at Melania for recommending Oz as a "Trump endorsement".
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I suspect that as the media continues to editorialize heaping blame on DJT for the GOP's embarrassing under performance in the midterm elections the former guy will only get more vocal and more surly.
The next step in his plan was to announce his candidacy for 2024 on November 15th. Many around him are said to be urging him to reschedule the announcement. You have to figure he was hoping to follow up a red wave with a triumphant announcement that he's coming back with a vengeance. God laughs at our plans, Donny. |
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In a Firing Line interview I recently watched, Times reporter Maggie Haberman -- the author of "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" -- said that trump is incapable of taking responsibility for anything and will not accept blame. If it works he takes the credit. If it fails it was somebody else. I really believe it is evidence of his illness.
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I think Trump, as far as his popularity goes, is going to end up like Father Coughlin*. One day everybody loves him, but it eventually his shtick gets old and nobody much cares. In Coughlin's case it took almost a decade before everyone had enough.
The difference may be that Couglin didn't, as near as I can tell, go bat shirt crazy. I think Trump is sliding into a state of narcissistic shock (compounded by senility) from which he will be saved only by a "choke-and-stoke" on a Big Mac. *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin |
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But was he?
All I heard was “I’m going to make a very important announcement on Nov 15.” He pulls that **** all the time. For all we know, his announcement was going to be “I’m going to announce my decision on January 16,” or “I’m going to write a book about how much I hate socialism.” Two words: attention whore. |
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How big a hole can this ******* dig?
Trump’s offensive against Ruby Freeman reaches an ugly new level She has already sued OAN Network and the suit was settled in her favour. OAN dismissed from election workers’ suit after settlement If she sues T, there is no way she cannot win. However, the personal cost to her emotionally must be horrible. |
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Occam called: The simplest explanation is probably the best. Trump has senile dementia. He forgets stuff he has been told thousands of times. He re-imagines stuff that never existed. He blurts out ill-thought-out comments at inappropriate times. He forgets who he is with and where he is...
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