Anyway, I read Biden took away intelligence briefings from Trump, not that he might read them but god knows who he'd sell them to

 

Attaboy.
Jump on the dog pile.

The despicable handlers say "LOOKIT!! LOOKIT OVER HERE!! SEE WHAT THAT RASCAL IS DOING NOW!!"

And while all y'all are looking they slip another bit of pork in their pockets or give something to a group they owe. You know, for getting them back the oval office.

Sheep. Its what despicables are raising.

 

There, there, there!

Have you misplaced the pity party thread again?

Thinskin

 

Psychoanalyst Justin Frank: Capitol riot was a source of incredible pleasure' for Trump


Rioters clash with police trying to enter Capitol building through the front doors. (lev radin / Shutterstock.com)


https://www.rawstory.com/is-trump-mentally-ill-2650512635/

 

Couple of quick questions.
Don't fret stumbler or the despicables, these are purely rhetorical questions and you don't need to respond.

1) Estimates are that at least 100,000 Trump supporters were present in DC on January 6th but fewer than 1,000 actually rioted and broke into the capitol. Why? What was trump's plan for the other 99,000 supporters?
2) Not one shred of evidence to show what Trump's plan was once the capitol was taken. How does one plan and execute a coup without a plan beyond take the capitol?
3) What was the code Trump used on January 6th that told supporters to rush the capitol?

 

One way to spot those conservative/Republicans still suffering from shared delusions with Trump is they think they see 100,000 people at a rally when its actually more like 30,000 max. That's one sure sign. Its a way they blur the lines.

Republicans are blurring the line between political fantasy and reality with deadly effect: mental health experts

https://www.rawstory.com/political-fantasy/

 

Psychiatrist James Gordon explains how we begin to heal America's collective trauma

https://www.rawstory.com/americas-collective-trauma/

 

Actually this refers to conservative/Republicans that followed Trump and his QAnon domestic terrorists all the way to committing treason against the United States of America because they have a shared psychosis with their Chosen One.

QAnon followers are drawn to conspiracy theories by these personality traits -- according to psychologists

https://www.rawstory.com/qanon-conspiracy-2650621401/

 

It follows the despicable agenda or it gets the bucket of water again.....

 

Expert on Trump's real legacy: A mental health pandemic that rages unabated

Bandy X. Lee, DC Report @Raw Story




https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mental-health-2650695246/

 

I warned of Trump's psychological danger — and Americans suffered for the failure to stop him

Bandy X. Lee, DC Report @Raw Story


Bottom-feeders' are propping up 'crazy old uncle' Trump so they ...
www.rawstory.com


In the recent escalation of anti-Asian violence, there are important immediate causes and then more enduring societal ones.

In March 2020, I wrote in Raw Story: "The greatest risk factor of disease and death is not being considered, and that is Donald Trump. If he continues in this presidency, he is on course for having three main effects: First, he will make a deadly pandemic much worse. Second, he will stoke divisions between 'believers' and 'unbelievers' in his alternative reality. And third, he will vastly augment suffering, which he will … direct into widespread violence … by calling the novel coronavirus 'Chinese virus,' simultaneously deflecting blame and creating new targets for attack."

As his presidency continued full-term, without repudiation or any reckoning for the violence he has incited, Asian-Americans have become victimized. Mental health professionals have since the beginning warned of his psychological dangerousness, among which is his tendency to project his own unacceptable actions onto others, as he did when he scapegoated Asians through derogatory phrases such as, "Chinese virus" and "Kung flu."

Just as his dehumanization of immigrants and desperate migrants led to unprecedented hate crimes and mass shootings, we have seen a more than an 800 percent increase of reported verbal and physical assaults over the course of a year, which is most certainly a gross underestimate. Furthermore, the recent mass murder at the Georgia spas made clear that Asians, particularly women and elders, are not safe.

Meanwhile, we now know that Donald Trump was responsible for at least 40 percent of the now 560,000 Covid-19 deaths, according to a Lancet report; that up to 97 percent of the deaths were unnecessary, according to a Columbia University report; and that all deaths beyond a hundred thousand "could have been mitigated," according to the former White House coronavirus response coordinator. This immense suffering has been displaced onto Asian-Americans as scapegoats, through the former president's unique, pathological ability to read his followers and to re-channel blame for his own failures onto others.

The Trump presidency was a public health emergency from the start, and violence is a societal and cultural disorder, more than an individual one. Individual circumstances may vary, but of greater significance is the cultural shift that pushes vulnerable individuals into violence where previously they may not have been. The January 6 insurrection, the mass killing of Asian-Americans, and the reign of white supremacist terrorism and intimidation are all interrelated and exacerbated as the result of a former president being so "successful" in avoiding accountability for his actions.

After two impeachment acquittals—which he and his followers interpret as exonerations—and no other prosecutions yet in sight, he is well-positioned to continue to inspire responses that make the pandemic worse, to embolden those who subscribe to his version of reality where he never fails and is never responsible, and to redirect the suffering of the populace against his targets of choice. We need vigorous delegitimizing of his actions and influence, to curtail a violent culture that will give rise to epidemics of violence, including anti-Asian violence.

Societally, we need to recognize that the deadliest violence occurs through societal structures, not through individual actions. Structural violence, be it economic inequality, sexism, or racism, is responsible for more than 10 times all the suicides, homicides, and deaths from civil strife or wars combined—that is, all deaths from behavioral violence, year after year. Structural violence such as racism is also the most potent stimulant of behavioral violence, giving rise to epidemics of hate crimes, murders, and acts of terrorism.

We must call out these cultural forces that threaten safety and our collective thriving. We must hold leaders responsible for their destructive rhetoric, and oppose legislation that disadvantages minority groups, such as voting restrictions, which is essentially the usurpation of the people's voice.

Asian-Americans have been self-silencing and silenced, alternately valorized or feared and othered. They have, in general, tried to fit in with the dominant culture in order to secure safety and survival, but this is a false sense of security through compliance and collusion.

Striving for true unity in diversity, not by conformity but by emphasizing our common humanity, equality amid differences, and justice for all will benefit all of society. African-Americans have a long history of such struggles, meeting oppression and hate with nonviolent strength, humanity, and compassion. We need to emphasize how much we have to learn from and are interdependent with all non-dominant groups and join forces. African-American struggles are also Asian struggles. Native American struggles are also Asian struggles. Latinx-American struggles are also Asian struggles. And so on.

In order to heal from the societal sickness that starts in the mainstream white American culture but spreads through the externalization and projection of its problems, and the generation of inter-generational trauma for non-whites, we need first to name our wounds and affirm our diverse identities. By embracing and drawing upon our cultural roots of who we are, and by cultivating a sharing of our uniqueness and commonality in working through the suffering we feel in our lives, we can help all of us, including the dominant class, to heal.

The World Mental Health Coalition, which is dedicated to promoting societal mental health, has recently launched a Project for National Healing with a series of Truth and Reconciliation Town Halls. Its inaugural town hall was held on March 13, 2021, with the theme: "Racism, White Supremacy, and Societal Mental Health." We need concrete steps to call out the societal problems that the four years of Donald Trump's presidency have represented, magnified, and spread. At the same time, we are called to share the gifts of our unique backgrounds as Blacks, Latinx, Native Americans, and Asians, as part of the life-affirming restoration that must occur.

https://www.rawstory.com/is-donald-trump-crazy/

 

President Trump is the best President I have ever seen and he exposed how corrupt politicians are and they turned on him
The media and politicians wqnt us divided and the sheep follow
I can say without a hesitation that obiden is definitely mentally ill.. so sad what happened and this rigged election

 

Spoken like a true Trump cult follower that followed him all the way to treason against the United States of America. Trump is without doubt the most mentally ill, stupid and ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and deadly president in US history. And its not even close.

 

Spoken like a true idiot who is completely uneducated...
A cult lol probably racist next .. its ok for you to say something stupid and probably never served our Country , probably haven't seen what they have taken from Americans already
So you agree with the ridiculous border crisis and stopping the wall from being built, but accept the fence around the capital ... if you cannot see the witch hunt from day one against President Trump then you are a special idiot ..
If you think for a minute obiden isn't part of China then again you are a special kind of stupid..
And for myself yes I am a former Marine , I have served and fought for my Country and unfortunately it allows idiots like you to voice your opinion and Bash President Trump

 

Yes it is obiden 100%

 

Psychiatrist says Trump's 'glaring psychological problems' were misinterpreted and led us to disaster

Donald Trump, Jr with Donald Trump and Eric Trump (Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com)


Dr. Bandy X. Lee was interviewed by Prof. Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History (UNC Press, 2020), a history of the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. She is the editor of Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights, 2015) and with Abu-Jamal a special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy, titled The Roots of Mass Incarceration in the US: Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor(Routledge, 2014). She teaches 20th Century U.S. history and the history of social movements at Baruch College (CUNY) and hosts "A New Day" on WBAI. She interviewed Dr. Lee, forensic psychiatrist and author of Profile of a Nation, for her "Race, Class, and Revolution" class at MayDay Space in New York. This is a two-part series. The first part of the interview series can be read here.

Where does politics begin and psychiatry end in assessing social problems?

As you know, we just experienced hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, the near-loss of our democracy, and traumatization of a nation as a result of a president's mental unfitness, and so we cannot say the two areas are always separate. If the psychological dangers and unfitness were addressed earlier on, as would have been routine for any other job, we may have avoided these predictable consequences. Mental health issues do not stop at the political realm, and a high political office does not make one immune from mental problems.

At the same time, just as political matters should not be labeled as psychiatric, psychiatric issues should not be labeled as political. Politicians are supposed to consult with experts in areas that exceed their ability to handle—and not pretend that it is politics as usual—just as mental health experts should not comment on areas outside their expertise. Mislabeling can lead to catastrophes, as we have seen under Donald Trump, when glaring psychological problems were interpreted as political strategy or "3-D chess."

We associate Nazism or Stalinism with certain countries, while portraying Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, or Pol Pot as such exceptional "monsters" that they would never be replicated on our soil, when the psychological characteristics they display are quite common—and it was handing them power that was exceptional. If we fail to understand the personality types that relentlessly seek but cannot handle power, which transforms them into grotesque megalomaniacs who run their countries to the ground, we will forever be vulnerable to them. We need to engage those who are best poised to detect these signs early, before they entrench themselves in the political structure, and that would be mental health experts.

Didn't Barack Obama deploy more structural violence against immigrants than all previous American presidents? Why not focus on this? Isn't talk about sociopathy a distraction from the real problems?

Absolutely, we need to consider the larger context—but the two are interlinked. When present, we need to point out elements of pathology in the culture that push individuals into violence, even when they may not have initially been inclined. George W. Bush might be another example of someone who was not a dangerous personality, but he was used for dangerous purposes. When I was asked to comment on the Iraq War at the World Economic Forum, I focused not on him but on our nation as suffering from a "narcissistic personality disorder" writ large. I called out Donald Trump because he is a dangerous personality, but he was simultaneously also the personification and instrument of a dangerous culture. People have asked me to comment on Joe Biden, but I have not, since he exhibits no concerning signs of relevance to doing his job, although whether he can refrain from the pressures of our violent military-industrial complex remains to be seen.

How is it helpful to discuss disorder, whether in an individual or in a society? Disorder by definition leads to destruction, no matter the stated intentions, whereas healthy, rational, and well-informed choices are always life-affirming, occasional human errors or accidents notwithstanding. Disorders can be more pernicious than criminality alone, since simple criminality at least benefits the self. It is when criminal-mindedness combines with pathology that all manner of atrocities become possible, for even the actor who is supposedly "benefiting" will eventually destroy oneself.

Prevention is critical, since, once pathology spreads, the ability to recognize that something is wrong is gone, too. This is where mental health professionals have an important role, for we have an independent duty to warn authorities and the public, as part of our responsibility to society, if the relevant people are not recognizing the dangers. One of the reasons why the American Psychiatric Association's silencing of mental health experts under the Trump administration was so alarming was because it stripped the public of its one defense against victimization—and this was after it looked the other way throughout Barack Obama's presidency when psychiatrists were constantly diagnosing him incorrectly with "narcissistic personality disorder" on Fox News. It also said nothing about those who incorrectly diagnosed Trump—as long as the diagnosis was favorable. It only aggressively shut down conscientious mental health professionals who were not unethically diagnosing but responsibly alerting about the dangers, since we were inconvenient to a dangerous government.

Recently there have been individuals who have been very destructive in social movement organizations locally. Some believe these individuals are on the NPD spectrum. How should we address these problems in social movements?

There is an epidemic of narcissistic and sociopathic personalities in our culture, even more disproportionately in leadership positions. This is a ubiquitous problem that is compromising organizational goals, hurting associates, and harming society. While psychological issues are understandably a difficult topic in the social movement world, where we often believe we ought to focus on social and economic problems and not make "ad hominem attacks," we must recognize this is a real problem. We need to be informed, recognize red flags, and set boundaries for our daily protection.

Why is it so difficult to address these issues in our organizations internally?

First, the most dangerous personalities disguise themselves so well that an early scholar called the condition a "mask of sanity." Even if you recognized them, they are intimidating, and so you end up coddling and protecting them, rather than exposing or holding them accountable, especially if you wish to avoid their cruelty, wrath, and vindictiveness. We need systematic provisions against them, both in government as well as in private organizations.

What is the value of psychiatry, despite its politics?

Politics, media companies, and corporations are making use of psychological knowledge more than ever to control people's behavior for profit. Citizens would do well to educate themselves, and mental health professionals to share their knowledge with the public, not just to serve the wealth and power that hire them. The CIA, the FBI, and the courts all make use of psychiatrist evaluations, most of the time without personal interviews, and the public should not be deprived of psychiatric assessments, especially when a nation's own president is posing a danger—which is arguably even greater than that of a foreign leader.

Follow Dr. Lee at bandylee.com.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-psyche/

 

Trump's psychosis is still an 'enormous danger': Former Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes


[MSNBC]


For at least the past five years, some of America's and the world's foremost mental health experts have attempted to warn the public that Donald Trump was (and is) a dire threat to public safety.

Based on Trump's public behavior and other available information, these experts warned that he appears to be a malignant narcissist, a pathological liar who is obsessed with violence, easily manipulated by praise and other ego-stroking behavior, indifferent to the suffering of other human beings, anti-social and anti-human in his values and behavior, irresponsible and impulsive and in total quite likely a sociopath or perhaps a psychopath.

This article first appeared in Salon.

Collectively, these mental health experts predicted that Trump's many apparent pathologies would lead to destruction and suffering for the American people and the world.

They were almost entirely correct: Donald Trump undermined and destabilized American society and democracy. He made negligent and irresponsible choices, bordering on outright sabotage, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. These choices may have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and shortened the average lifespan of the American people by several years. He colluded with a hostile foreign power to subvert a presidential election. He attempted a coup which included an attack by his followers on the U.S. Capitol. He very nearly destroyed the American economy and presided over a regime of profound corruption. He inspired and encouraged right-wing terrorism and other political violence. He leads a political cult. He was impeached twice — which is unprecedented in American history — for his various crimes against the Constitution and the country.

Instead of being publicly praised and rewarded for their truth-telling and their attempts to warn America and the world, many of these mental health professionals have endured death threats and other retaliation. At least one of these truth-tellers, psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee — editor of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" — lost her position at an elite university, in large part because she continued to warn the public about Donald Trump and his movement's escalating danger to public safety.

Many Americans, including the country's political elites, would prefer to throw the Age of Trump down the memory well. But such acts of organized forgetting will not save them from the Trump-controlled Republican Party's escalating assaults on American democracy. Forgetting that mental health professionals predicted the Trump nightmare and all it has wrought is an integral part of this campaign of national amnesia.

Most importantly, Donald Trump is incapable of letting America or the world forget about him. Trump's apparent mental pathologies drive him to seek revenge against his perceived enemies and others he believes have wronged him.

To that end, Trump still appears to be hatching half-baked schemes to remove Joe Biden from the presidency, even flirting with promises by his allies that he will somehow be "reinstated" as president later this year. Trump's followers, who comprise at least half of all Republican voters, have been convinced that he is still the legitimate president and that Biden is a usurper. Christian fascists and antisemitic QAnon conspiracy believers (two groups that overlap extensively) are among Trump's most ardent supporters.

Mental health professionals predicted such an outcome as well. They understand that Trumpism was not an acute disease that would magically disappear once Donald Trump was no longer president. Instead, Trumpism is a potentially lethal, chronic and long-lasting disease of the nation's mind, body and spirit.

In an effort to assess Donald Trump's continuing danger to American society and democracy, I recently spoke with Dr. Lance Dodes, whom I have interviewed on numerous occasions. Dodes is a retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a training and supervising analyst emeritus at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is among the foremost voices who attempted to warn the American people and the world about Donald Trump's dangerous behavior.

In this conversation, Dodes warns that Donald Trump appears to be a psychopath and that his dangerous behavior will only get worse. He argues that Trump's delusional beliefs fuel the Republican Party's detachment from reality, as shown through the Big Lie, conspiratorial thinking, the right-wing propaganda media and other anti-democratic beliefs and behavior. At the end of this conversation, Dodes once again expresses the view that Donald Trump believes himself to be a type of god, and that if he somehow returns to power may actually try to create an authoritarian police state.

This conversation has been edited, as usual, for length and clarity.

Are Trump's followers addicted to him? What would withdrawal look like for them and the country as a whole?

I don't like to use the word "addiction" because it has a particular meaning. I would describe Trump's most extreme devotees as members of a charismatic cult. Such cults unconditionally worship a charismatic leader who is often delusional with a grandiose, psychotic belief in his perfection, like Trump. The followers close themselves off from accurate or rational information in order to protect their connection to the godlike cult leader and to avoid questioning his delusional views, which would cause them to be shunned or expelled from the group.

What would an intervention look like for these people? You cannot help people become healthy and well if they do not want to. I fear America will be sick with Trumpism for a long time.

Trump's followers don't believe they need any help. Having been conned into the leader's delusion of being a god, they believe that so long as they are following his perfect lead they could not possibly be wrong. It's important to be clear, though, that this description of Trump's most rabid followers likely does not apply to the Republicans in Congress who support Trump. Rather than being members of the Trump cult, they likely simply lack a decent conscience, immorally protecting their seats in Congress rather than the country or democracy.

From the Big Lie to the QAnon conspiracy theory to lies and disinformation more generally, Republicans and Trumpists believe things that are demonstrably not true and literally outside of existing reality. Is this a public mental health emergency?

It certainly is a public mental health emergency, and one that has occurred many times in human history. Followers adopt the belief system of a populist tyrant which becomes the new permitted reality, spreading to others who are swept up by their need to be included. That belief system, however fantastical or delusional, remains accepted truth until it is finally shown to be false. Those who have been conned into believing the tyrant's lies find comfort in their conviction that they know the truth, enabling them to feel superior to doubters.

There are all these stories about Trump wandering around Mar-a-Lago, going to people's weddings and giving speeches where he airs his grievances and shares lies and conspiracy theories about how he was betrayed and so on. He continues to rage at his "enemies" and to be gripped by paranoia and out of touch with reality more generally. What do you see in his behavior?

If there is someone who is ranting and raving about things that are obviously and demonstrably false yet insists that they are true, that is by definition delusional. If Trump were not a former president, he would be easily seen to be psychotic. Because he is a former president and has a cult following, we are expected to wonder if his behavior can be explained some other way.

Can you elaborate more on your observation that Trump is behaving as though he were psychotic?

He has been delusional for years, from the start of his presidency, when he claimed he had large crowds at his inauguration. But it's important to add that beside being delusional, Trump's behavior also reflects his deeply severe character disorder, his sociopathy. A person, after all, can be delusional and no danger whatsoever to anyone else. But the fact that Trump is a sociopath, a person without a conscience who is incapable of recognizing the inherent worth of other human beings, makes him the enormous danger he is. Trump has the worst of all worlds, one might say, psychotically grandiose and utterly uncaring about the harm he causes others. He is basically psychologically the same as the many infamous, cruel tyrants we know from recent and remote history.

Could Donald Trump's children or other members of his inner circle force him to get medical help?

Unfortunately, Trump's psychosis is not the type treatable with medication, and the severity of his character disorder means he would never be capable of engaging in introspection.

Donald Trump clearly needs narcissistic fuel from his followers and other sources of attention. What does such a need do to a person's mind? And what happens when they are denied it?

If Trump is charged and arrested for his alleged crimes and his base of support crumbles, he could not accept going to jail. He would be more likely to flee the country, perhaps buy himself a remote island that is controlled by a friendly dictator and declare himself king.

You and other mental health professionals spent years warning the American people and the world about Trump's apparent mental pathologies and the danger he represented. Almost all of your predictions came true. As a thought experiment, what would America now look like if those warnings had been heeded and then acted upon?

Trump would not have been elected president. If elected, he would have been quickly removed from office as a clear danger to the nation and to democracy.

What would happen if Donald Trump somehow became president again or otherwise assumed a position of national power?

Trump has already told us what he would do. When he was running against Hillary Clinton, he said that he wanted to "lock her up" in prison. That's what Trump would try to do if he were back in power. He seeks to be the same as the leader of North Korea, imprisoning or killing people if they dare to oppose him. With more power he is only going to get worse — more enraged, more paranoid, more psychotic, more violent and more dangerous. If he could, Donald Trump would turn America into a police state.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-psychosis/

 

Trump is saying he will be president in August
Either he is DELUSIONAL or actively plotting a Coup

 

Both. Trump's delusions are and always have been obvious. In fact he managed to corrupt the entire federal government to make his delusions seem real. But at the same time he still believes he can become dictator for life and communicates that to his cult followers who have already proven they are violent and deadly. They will do anything to try and make his delusions seem real because they share his psychosis. And Trump continues to try and incite them to violence.

And there are other interesting observations by the psychiatrist you quoted Dr Lance Dodes who was a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Very early on Dr Dodes was saying its a very big mistake to just broadcast Trump's speeches and statements because Trump is a master at misdirection and anyone who listens to him can hear him say what they want to hear because he constantly contradicts himself. Dr Dodes said the press and others need to provide a transcript of Trump's statements. Because the press would routinely go through what Trump was saying and pick out tiny pieces of it and try to make sense of that. While if you read the entire transcript Trump was babbling nonsense. Completely delusional and detached from reality.


And Dr Dodes also pointed out something that was just so simple and obvious. As Dr Dodes said normal people lie to try and gain some kind of advantage, But in Trump's case his lies are very often dangerous and destructive for him. And yet he can't stop. And that is how we know we are dealing with psychosis.