Why psychiatrists are alarmed by Donald Trump’s mental decline

Phantasmal said:
Books about him claim he was never very smart.
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Agreed on smartness. He has the gift of gab*, but also the morals of a male rabbit. He was fortunate enough to be born into money. Americans replaced the British royalty which was defined by blood to a monetary royalty defined by wealth.

*a gift which seems to be fading as his memory fails.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Agreed on smartness. He has the gift of gab*, but also the morals of a male rabbit. He was fortunate enough to be born into money. Americans replaced the British royalty which was defined by blood to a monetary royalty defined by wealth.

*a gift which seems to be fading as his memory fails.
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Not the gift of gab, but Trump is a first-rate conman who reads an audience very well. He has no use for facts. He knows so few of them.
He feeds an audience what they want to hear, even diverting, often clumsily, from a subject he was talking about.
I wonder how smart he is because of his limited vocabulary and lack of interest in learning. However, he has followed the blueprint to a dictatorship very well. The plot is to make make people distrust institutions, academia, government, politicians, and government agencies. Once you blame all them for what's wrong, you are open to what remains: a wealthy conman who wants complete power. He is a serious threat to the american system.
 
Nordberg said:
Not the gift of gab, but Trump is a first-rate conman who reads an audience very well. He has no use for facts. He knows so few of them.
He feeds an audience what they want to hear, even diverting, often clumsily, from a subject he was talking about.
I wonder how smart he is because of his limited vocabulary and lack of interest in learning. However, he has followed the blueprint to a dictatorship very well. The plot is to make make people distrust institutions, academia, government, politicians, and government agencies. Once you blame all them for what's wrong, you are open to what remains: a wealthy conman who wants complete power. He is a serious threat to the american system.
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He used to read them well. Nowadays he seems to ramble a lot and repeat the same BS over and over again.

I doubt he was ever very smart and his cognitive abilities seem to be deteriorating.

Agreed on following a blueprint for dictatorship. Worse is that the MAGAts are letting him do it.

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Nordberg said:
Not the gift of gab, but Trump is a first-rate conman who reads an audience very well. He has no use for facts. He knows so few of them.
He feeds an audience what they want to hear, even diverting, often clumsily, from a subject he was talking about.
I wonder how smart he is because of his limited vocabulary and lack of interest in learning. However, he has followed the blueprint to a dictatorship very well. The plot is to make make people distrust institutions, academia, government, politicians, and government agencies. Once you blame all them for what's wrong, you are open to what remains: a wealthy conman who wants complete power. He is a serious threat to the american system.
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:hand: :hand: :hand:

Sometimes don't you feel simpatico with the more educated Germans in the 1930s who saw the rise of Nazism and despaired for their country? The ones with money and/or strings to pull fled before they were purged. Others weren't so lucky. It's happening now in America.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
:hand: :hand: :hand:

Sometimes don't you feel simpatico with the more educated Germans in the 1930s who saw the rise of Nazism and despaired for their country? The ones with money and/or strings to pull fled before they were purged. Others weren't so lucky. It's happening now in America.
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Initially, Hitler gave hope to the German people devasted by the loss of a generation of men in WWI and hit by the double financial whammy of the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression.

Even Pastor Martin Niemöller was an initial supporter until he realized the direction the dictatorship was heading. The rise of the Third Reich is an example of Lord Acton's comment "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Donald Trump is seeking absolute power and he's slowly getting it with the full support of the MAGAt Congress.

@Cypress might appreciate this since Lord Acton is a moral absolutist while, like Archbishop Creighton, I tend to be a moral relativist.
This letter is part of a larger conversation about how historians should judge the past. Mandell Creighton, an Archbishop of the Church of England, objected to what he saw as a modern tendency to be unnecessarily critical of authority figures. When Creighton wrote about the past, he tended toward a moral relativism that was uncritical of past leaders (for example, glossing over past popes' corruption or abuse).

Lord Acton disagreed. Although he was Roman Catholic, he could not ignore popes' corruption or abuse. He argued that all people -- past or present, leaders or not -- should be held to universal moral standards.
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Cannes, April 5, 1887

Dear Mr. Creighton,

{1}The point is not whether you like the Inquisition . . . but whether you can, without reproach to historical accuracy, speak of the later mediaeval papacy as having been tolerant and enlightened. What you say on that point struck me exactly as it would strike me to read that the French Terrorists were tolerant and enlightened, and avoided the guilt of blood. Bear with me whilst I try to make my meaning quite clear....

...{7}I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility [that is, the later judgment of historians] has to make up for the want of legal responsibility [that is, legal consequences during the rulers' lifetimes]. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. That is the point at which . . . the end learns to justify the means. You would hang a man of no position, . . . but if what one hears is true, then Elizabeth asked the gaoler to murder Mary, and William III ordered his Scots minister to extirpate a clan. Here are the greater names coupled with the greater crimes. You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them, higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science. . . .
 
gmark77 said:
Once again, your hypocrisy is shown and you whine.
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You have yet to address either the subject of the thread or my posts.

gmark77 said:
Maybe if you don't want to whine so much, you could DO BETTER. Ya think? Maybe actually READ the book you want to quote, or NOT be a hypocrite.
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Do better? Son, I'm kicking your ass up one side of the board and down the other.

gmark77 said:
You know...as your favorite Slovenian Soft-Core Porn Actress/Einstein Visa Holder Melania Robotica says "Be better"
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And off into fantasy land because you lack the wits to deal with what is written.

As I pointed out, you're just not smart. This can't be a surprise. You've known all your life that you're a lot slower than most people.
 
Uncensored2008 said:
You have yet to address either the subject of the thread or my posts.



Do better? Son, I'm kicking your ass up one side of the board and down the other.



And off into fantasy land because you lack the wits to deal with what is written.

As I pointed out, you're just not smart. This can't be a surprise. You've known all your life that you're a lot slower than most people.
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BE BEST – The White House

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Uncensored2008 said:
You have yet to address either the subject of the thread or my posts.

Do better? Son, I'm kicking your ass up one side of the board and down the other.

And off into fantasy land because you lack the wits to deal with what is written.

As I pointed out, you're just not smart. This can't be a surprise. You've known all your life that you're a lot slower than most people.
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Random words. No apparent coherency.
 
gmark77 said:

BE BEST – The White House

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Are you utterly incapable of posting anything coherent?

Bandy Lee is a clown - a buffoon who should be stripped of her credentials as she was stripped of her position. (yes, this is the subject of the thread.)

{
The psychiatrist who lost her Yale University position after tweeting that Alan Dershowitz, who defended former president Donald Trump during his first impeachment, may have “shared psychosis” has lost her court appeal.

The controversy invoked the American Psychiatric Association’s Goldwater rule. It’s named for Barry Goldwater—that earlier Republican presidential candidate whose psychological fitness was impugned by psychiatrists in the media.}

www.insidehighered.com

Yale professor who diagnosed Dershowitz in tweet loses case

A professor lost her—“voluntary,” as Yale puts it—position after tweeting about the two. The courts have dismissed her lawsuit.
www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com

Anyone quoting her has zero credibility. @moon / @Guno צְבִי is a brainless hack who is laughed at by the board - for good reason.
 
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