Popehat: "Yeah, not funny any more, now that I've watched. I don't think he's well."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Yeah, not funny any more, now that I’ve watched. I don’t think he’s well. Reminder: sometimes we (and I specifically include myself) laugh nastily at mental illness.

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I’ve actually been relying on descriptions of these tv interviews and now that I watch one it’s making me kind of sick.

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I know it’s compelling to watch Sam’s bizarre interviews right now...but I’m actually concerned that someone I’ve known a long time is not okay...

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[MaryMagdaline]

1. He was involved in a cult to destroy my country

I'll reserve my sympathy for dreamers, uninsured, people on food stamps and elderly freezing to death in states where his buddy proposes severe cuts to heating subsidies.

ESAD

[poboy2]

2. Agree. Some may want to go high, but that time has LONG past. -eom

[Leith]

16. We Can Also Reserve Our Sympathy for Someone Who...

does not love and defend a sewer rat like Roger Stone.

[MaryMagdaline]

18. Sewer rat ... 👌

[flibbitygiblets]

3. Then maybe his LAWYER needs to ask for a competence hearing?

Not a bunch of laypersons?

MAYBE he's lost his mind. MAYBE he's on drugs. MAYBE he's just a complete asshole. Some measured compassionate consideration maybe in order, however, let's not be so quick to just diagnose.

BTW, do we extend the same courtesy to everyone, including Donald Trump who reportedly goes off the rails pretty much daily? Or just this guy?

[GusBob]

4. Says some random twitter fuck named Popehat

We should take him seriously, why?

[Squinch]

5. Same reason we should take you seriously.

[John Fante]

6. Sympathy for a racist right-wing POS? Not in this life:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/trump-advisers-racist-facebook-posts-2015-7

[TomSlick]

7. Nah, he's just a brave drunk.

He will be less brave tomorrow when hung-over.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I was 12 when Nixon resigned and I felt sorry for him

since he cried on TV and it was sad to me. My parents told me, "You would feel sorry for Hitler". They STILL remind me of this in fact. Today I felt sorry for Nunberg for about 10 seconds when Joan Walsh commented to Erin Burnett (CNN) that someone close to him should stop him and help him since he obviously is in bad shape. Ari Melber and a lawyer/guest tried to talk to him with some compassion for the same reason. I guess I am getting less sympathetic than I was when I was 12.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. Thats a line I sorta use when some f$&#stick like Billy Graham eats dirt

Where were the bin Laden euologists when he caught one with his mouth?

Why does a monster become less of one when he croaks?

Similarly, I have no sympathy for a racist creep like Nunboy, who prostituted himself at the feet of the reigning world’s worst human for over 4 yrs......howEVER......

It was sad to see any human being (Nunberg barely achieving said status) unravel like that, but BOY howdy, am I hoping to see the day when Fatso losesit in some very public manner

[Hortensis]

9. Prevalence of personality disorders ALONE among

Americans has been measured at 9.1%. That's 1 out of every 11 people we've ever known. The various obsessive types, the suspicious schizoid types, the lying, manipulative, troublemaking types. Basically, the sort people always talk about, wondering what on earth made them "behave that way."

That's a lot of people. Plus, a lot more people merely display strong traits of without being severe enough to be diagnosable, and there are, of course, other mental disorders.

Don't know how many here have noticed it, but anyone who's aware of personality and other disorders short of insanity would have trouble NOT suspecting a significantly higher prevalence among the kind of people Republicans have been finding on their ballots or have been appointed to office these days, among the Republican candidates for president in 2016 (Trump was not the only strange person on that stage), and of course in the Trump campaign and administration.

This guy may have been drunk, he may have been coked up today, but it also seems likely there's something else wrong with him. If he had a personality disorder, it'd be from the same large cluster of possible traits that Trump and Gingrich (the ex-speaker-turned-fake-cancer-cure-grifter) probably fall into. Constant craving for attention, narcissism, histrionic behaviors, and lack of conscience are also possible traits in that cluster.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. not feelin it...

S.E. Cupp??

Naw.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. Mentally challenged SE Cupp should recognize the face of not okay every day when she puts on

her makeup

[Johnny2X2X]

12. Bipolar

He said he was taking meds for depression. His behavior and mannerisms reminded me of the bipolar people I have in my life. He’s not making rational decisions right now. He’s going to crash soon though and really need help then.

Thy being said, this guy participated willingly in the overthrow of our Democracy.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Maybe he's not mentally ill. Maybe he's very sane and he's losing his shit because he finally

understands how much trouble he's in.

But I get it. He's white and everyone is going to assume that he's mentally ill, rather than recognize that he's dealing with enormous pressure and he's afraid. That's a normal reaction, but not one that many white, privileged people in power have ever had to face.

[D23MIURG23]

15. Whatever. I might have empathy if he didn't help elect America's dumbest criminal president.

Until that Putin fellating cheeto gets a jumpsuit to match his skin tone I'll only have schadenfreude. Enjoy explaining your on-the-air cocaine binge to Mueller and the grand jury, numbnuts. Don't let the cell door hit you in the ass.

[meadowlander]

17. Extreme stress prompts extreme behaviour.

You can't divorce that behaviour from the context of the thing causing the stress.

I feel sorry for the guys in The Tell-Tale Heart and Crime and Punishment but that doesn't mean they're not murderers who should go to prison for a long, long time.

[CakeGrrl]

19. I don't think it's funny, but no sympathy. He chose his path.

My sympathy is for the people who are suffering due to the policies of this criminal, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, nativist administration.