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IcyPeas

(21,910 posts)
Fri Jan 1, 2021, 08:51 PM Jan 2021

Nicholas Sandmann (covington catholic school jerk) tweet questioning his attorney Lin Wood

Lin Wood successfully sued CNN, Washington Post and other media and Nicholas Sandmann made a ton of money. Even he is now questioning his attorney. How can this be the same attorney? 51/50


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Irish_Dem

(47,471 posts)
2. Perhaps Lin went off his meds.
Fri Jan 1, 2021, 08:56 PM
Jan 2021

On meds, he can function well.

Or he had a lot of stressors and is now having an acute episode.
Or perhaps drug use making it all worse.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
7. His former law partners are suing him all over
Fri Jan 1, 2021, 10:57 PM
Jan 2021

Sounds like he's been having an "episode" for years. Told them he's the second coming.
It's always hard to tell the Trump grift from the Trump lunacy.

Irish_Dem

(47,471 posts)
8. Right, I read that, delusions of grandeur, common in manic episode.
Fri Jan 1, 2021, 11:03 PM
Jan 2021

Yes sounds like he has been pretty crazy for some time now.

Right, hard to tell if we are looking at con artists (sociopaths) or psychosis.
Or both.

I did these kinds of evaluations for over 40 years when I was working.
But Trump's minions have more twists and turns than an Agatha Christie novel.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
12. There is treatment available for psychotic mania that involves some powerful Major Tranquilizers
Fri Jan 1, 2021, 11:40 PM
Jan 2021

also known as anti-psychotics. However, the patient must be willing to accept and be compliant with
treatment. One thing that's often overlooked is that an overactive thyroid can cause manic symptoms and that's easily corrected with medication or surgery.

I'd urge Lin to schedule a full physical work-up and choose his best option. Unfortunately, once a
person is in the psychotic mania stage they'll resist until a 3d party like a doctor or judge intervenes.
Been there, done that, never ran for office or became a household name. But I did recover nicely.

nolabear

(41,991 posts)
4. Wood is showing some real signs of a manic episode or psychotic break.
Fri Jan 1, 2021, 09:20 PM
Jan 2021

Q feeds into a common characteristic that people having serious mania or psychosis (and that has levels of severity) have. It sees patterns where there are none and encourages leaps of logic that have no basis in actual reality. I saw one of Wood’s tweets where he featured a photo of Pompeo, his most recent obsession, in a WH meeting and was all excited about connecting the dots about the paintings on the wall. He’s moved on to some minor actor’s suicide (apparently also having had a W-related break if his FB suicide note, also quoted by Wood, is any indication) and some genuinely florid commentary about Epstein, pedophiles, the whole hand basket.

He needs attention. He’s got lives in his hands.

Irish_Dem

(47,471 posts)
15. And now Wood is talking about killing Pence by firing squad.
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 01:45 PM
Jan 2021

He is crossing a line into violent rhetoric.
Time for him to be hospitalized.

nolabear

(41,991 posts)
16. That's very hard to do, but he certainly should have a conversation with SS.
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 03:28 PM
Jan 2021

I assume they could lay down the law on the wisdom of his statements and maybe look into his history. There’s some chance he’s doing the “Im building my future base” bullshit but if that’s it he’s astoundingly stupid and full of hubris thinking he can casually say such things without repercussions.

He’s such a public figure he’d have a hard time acting out on those comments but someone else could certainly do real harm if they are genuinely as florid as he seems and doesn’t have an eye on them. It’s reprehensible action at best. Seems to be going around.

jmowreader

(50,566 posts)
5. The RW conspiracy nuts claimed the US Government had 30,000 guillotines in storage
Fri Jan 1, 2021, 09:21 PM
Jan 2021

Why is it we can't get one when we need it? What do they have, something like a library card system? Check out a guillotine for two weeks, do all your guillotining with it, and return it in the same shape it was in when you got it?

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