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Trump is Paranoid with a serious Mental illness (Original Post) TNLib Feb 2017 OP
If we are so threatened now... kentuck Feb 2017 #1
ah, only because the media lies, lies, lies. unblock Feb 2017 #2
There is a dual reality developing rather rapidly... kentuck Feb 2017 #6
every so often, there's a "things you must believe in order to be a republican" post unblock Feb 2017 #8
What would be the harm in that? kentuck Feb 2017 #10
Except that it does change them. They may think they're Hortensis Feb 2017 #19
indeed. without a remedy, we could be headed for another dark ages. unblock Feb 2017 #23
It is a disturbing development. kentuck Feb 2017 #24
Thank goodness jayschool2013 Feb 2017 #11
Jade Helm would have made The Bowling Green Massacre look like nothing! world wide wally Feb 2017 #18
And Obama managed to keep us safe with a seriously depleted military!!! displacedtexan Feb 2017 #16
That theme has been repeated. dubyadiprecession Feb 2017 #27
MANY serious mental illnesses. democratisphere Feb 2017 #3
And the people around him aren't doing him a bit of good. lpbk2713 Feb 2017 #4
It's horrible to watch these people. TNLib Feb 2017 #9
like CONway's Bowling Green massacre malaise Feb 2017 #5
The terror lust in this Admin is so fucking whacked BeyondGeography Feb 2017 #7
Yep, waiting to see his tweet about the mosque in Quebec.... Big_K Feb 2017 #12
He IS insane. No doubt in my mind JDC Feb 2017 #13
Not loyalsister Feb 2017 #14
Yeah. AND he doesn't have a bathrobe. (We are SO SCREWN...) n/t TygrBright Feb 2017 #15
Couldn't he steal one from his own hotel? kairos12 Feb 2017 #17
Hey, if I was a WH pool reporter it would have been my followup question. TygrBright Feb 2017 #20
We can only hope Plucketeer Feb 2017 #21
I'm paranoid with a serious mental illness, just look in my medicine cabinet. hunter Feb 2017 #22
Its True! Corporate Media Hates Ratings and Profits! TomCADem Feb 2017 #25
It's just been two weeks yet it feels like two years. JHan Feb 2017 #26

kentuck

(111,106 posts)
1. If we are so threatened now...
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 05:49 PM
Feb 2017

Obama must have done a really great job for eight years? I can't remember this type of paranoia and fear while Obama was President?

unblock

(52,277 posts)
2. ah, only because the media lies, lies, lies.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 05:51 PM
Feb 2017

not reporting the massacre at bowling green, and all over europe.

gotta keep up with the tweets, silly!

kentuck

(111,106 posts)
6. There is a dual reality developing rather rapidly...
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:07 PM
Feb 2017

where the untruth becomes the truth and the truth becomes unbelievable?

unblock

(52,277 posts)
8. every so often, there's a "things you must believe in order to be a republican" post
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:11 PM
Feb 2017

and it gets more and more ridiculous every time.

yet republicans keep going for it.

because they're not evaluating those things for truth or validity. it's just a loyalty test.
parrot this nonsense back, defend it strongly against attackers, and you're a republican. otherwise you're the enemy.

that's how they think.

so it doesn't matter to them how crazy the crap is.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
19. Except that it does change them. They may think they're
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:24 PM
Feb 2017

being clever, just gathering ammo to sling, but over time their brain functions do become affected, they are processing different information differently, and much of this stuff does end up in their bag of knowledge as things they know. Whole frames of knowledge, what they KNOW that does not need to be questioned because it is proven, become based on an accumulated sediment of these lies.

Also extremely alarming, social scientists have found that large numbers of Americans on the right-- AND significant numbers on the left, are becoming extremist in their thinking, nursed along by a constant diet of lies. They are no longer the political people they were 10, 15, 20 years ago. They are people who could elect a disordered, debauched swindler like Trump. And others are people who could insist, and worse--believe--that a good, decent woman is no better than Trump.

kentuck

(111,106 posts)
24. It is a disturbing development.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 08:19 PM
Feb 2017

We don't know what is going to happen but we know one reality will be proven wrong. The one that distorts or does not match up with the facts, will be the first one lost in the wilderness. There is a price to pay for lying to oneself.

jayschool2013

(2,313 posts)
11. Thank goodness
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:48 PM
Feb 2017

I'll be eternally grateful to vigilant patriots who somehow stopped Operation Jade Helm in its tracks and saved God-fearing Americans from gun confiscation, sharia law, FEMA camps and forced gay marriage.

Hallelujah, and praise Jeebus.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
16. And Obama managed to keep us safe with a seriously depleted military!!!
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:11 PM
Feb 2017

Trump said today that the navy was at WWI level readiness. Obama is a miracle worker!!!

dubyadiprecession

(5,720 posts)
27. That theme has been repeated.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 10:23 PM
Feb 2017

Reagan said the same thing about Carter in 1980. Defense spending skyrocketed when he became president.

lpbk2713

(42,763 posts)
4. And the people around him aren't doing him a bit of good.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:05 PM
Feb 2017



They see him as the Emperor with a new suit of clothes.

He'll only get worse. There will be a tipping point.

TNLib

(1,819 posts)
9. It's horrible to watch these people.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:11 PM
Feb 2017

They know he's mentally unfit but they don't care as long they can have their power grab.

BeyondGeography

(39,377 posts)
7. The terror lust in this Admin is so fucking whacked
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:09 PM
Feb 2017

As long as it's conducted by the "right" people. It's insane.

Big_K

(237 posts)
12. Yep, waiting to see his tweet about the mosque in Quebec....
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:50 PM
Feb 2017

Oops! It was a white guy. Move along, nothing to see here.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
14. Not
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:04 PM
Feb 2017

“Trump doesn’t meet DSM criteria [for any disorder]…I wrote the criteria and should know how they are meant to be applied: Personality disorder requires the presence of "excerpt"]clinically significant distress and/or impairment. The armchair, amateur diagnosticians seem either to be unaware of this requirement, or carelessly choose to ignore it.”




https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/2017/02/should-doctors-talk-about-trumps-mental-health/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BioethicsNewsDigest+%28Bioethics+News+Digest+%C2%BB+Bioethics+Research+Library%29

TygrBright

(20,763 posts)
20. Hey, if I was a WH pool reporter it would have been my followup question.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:30 PM
Feb 2017

"How is it possible for a man who owns so many hotels to NOT have a bathrobe?"

Although I might have bagged that one in favor of... "Just how do you KNOW this, Sean? You say you've never SEEN him in one, but... why would you expect that to mean he doesn't have one? Just where and when have you two been hangin' out together...? With Melania gone...?"

No wonder they say journalism's dead.

sadly,
Bright

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
21. We can only hope
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:59 PM
Feb 2017

that some folks with the ability to stop him on the grounds that he's incapable of being president are covertly planning just how they'll go about dismissing the idiot. I say "covertly" cause I don't see any OVERT signs of an ouster being planned. Makes me think of a guy dying of injuries while the individuals in a crowd gathered round leave it to someone else to call for an ambulance.

hunter

(38,322 posts)
22. I'm paranoid with a serious mental illness, just look in my medicine cabinet.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:59 PM
Feb 2017

But I tend to be whimsical and not mean.

As Buckaroo Bonzai says, "Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are."



Trump is mean. He cheats people. Anyone who doesn't sing his praises is his enemy.

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
25. Its True! Corporate Media Hates Ratings and Profits!
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 08:20 PM
Feb 2017

Look at the run-up to Iraq war. The media totally prefers to bore people so they change the channel.

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