Cont: Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness' say psychiatry experts at Yale... Pt 3

Stacyhs said:
Wait....I thought it was '"academic ********" but now you want to use the Moral Judgment Interview from the very same source?
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Well sure...if she is actually using Kohlberg’a theories as the basis of her statement, then I would expect her to have actually, you know, used the tool on a sampling of Trump supporters. Otherwise, it’s academic BS; more remote assessment of people she’s never met.

To delve a little deeper, the majority of the audience for her statement has never heard of Kohlberg and his theories about moral judgement. I’d wager you’d never heard of it until blutoski brought it up in another thread. I think you are using Kohlberg as window dressing to make her statement seem more serious. I call BS on that: she is stereotyping a group of people based on her biases -plain and simple. If you understood anything about Kohlberg’s theories, you would understand what a misapplication it is to use it in the way that you assert she did.
Heheheheh....yeah....we've had pages and pages of that self-righteous stance. But, in the immortal words of Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Toodles!
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To quote a popular song from a few years later...”I’ve heard that song before.”
 
An interview with another shrink:
I think he is the least free man. You and I have some degree of choice about how we're going to behave and react to the world around us; we are complex and we make complex decisions because we have a conscience and we care about the effects of our actions on others. Donald Trump, in contrast, is very simple. Everything he says or does is for himself, either to have power over others or to hurt them in revenge against their disagreeing or standing in his way. Because he has shown himself to be incapable of either conscience or empathy, he is basically a predator, lacking the most essential parts of our humanity.

Despite this, he has two techniques that have allowed him to be successful in business and politics: He is a bully, and he lies continuously. Repeating his lies over and over is like the "big lie" technique made famous by Hitler. It works because when a lie is endlessly repeated, even decent people assume there must be some truth in it.
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https://www.salon.com/2020/04/09/dr...if-he-werent-president-he-would-be-in-prison/
 
xjx388 said:
“Another shrink,” turns out to be one of the same ol’ shrinks who make the rounds. It would be something if a new voice popped out of the woodwork.
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Really? That there are the voices there are causes you no impulse to consider that there may be reason for concern?

How many such voices would you require? Would more folk raising alarums result in your resetting your expectations for yet more?

Consider for a moment those 1000 prosecutors who signed a letter stating that they considered evidence against Trump sufficient to warrant indictment. After the impeachment saga result, it's clear Republicans will not let such competent opinion sway them.

If but a fraction of what is written and said by *professionals* on Trump would have been directed at Obama, how would your tune have sounded? We can be sure Republicans and their supporters would have collectively screeched and howled.
 
And it's getting to be a moot point.

The OP in this thread was claiming out that Trump has a mental condition would lead him to act in a way that's dangerous.

His response to COVID-19 has certainly demonstrated some really bizarre behaviour and also some actions that have made the situation worse, which will lead to the needlessly avoidable deaths of thousands of Americans.

Without his bizarre behaviour, it might be difficult to claim he wasn't just utterly callous. With it, the simplest explanation is some form of mental illness. I'm going for some type of dementia, on top of almost textbook NPD.
 
Lurch said:
Really? That there are the voices there are causes you no impulse to consider that there may be reason for concern?

How many such voices would you require? Would more folk raising alarums result in your resetting your expectations for yet more?

Consider for a moment those 1000 prosecutors who signed a letter stating that they considered evidence against Trump sufficient to warrant indictment. After the impeachment saga result, it's clear Republicans will not let such competent opinion sway them.

If but a fraction of what is written and said by *professionals* on Trump would have been directed at Obama, how would your tune have sounded? We can be sure Republicans and their supporters would have collectively screeched and howled.
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It doesn't take much. One Republican showed up at a pizza parlour with a firearm because 'some anonymous guy on the internet' said there was a pedophile dungeon in the basement.
 
How can anyone watch one of Dear Leader's press conferences without concluding that he is truly insane? Right now -- at an event intended to provide the latest information about the pandemic that's killing thousands of Americans -- he's ranting about states that wanna take your guns, how he saved us from nuclear war with North Korea, how his good friend Putin helped him save zillions of American jobs, and how if Biden is elected Iran (or maybe China, it wasn't clear) "will own us." This isn't conservatism; this is madness.

A journalist's view:
Psychologists warn of the deadly consequences of the "silent partner" in abusive homes. When a father beats or sexually assaults a child, the family will often react by refusing to discuss the abuse, allowing silence to enable the predator and protect against confronting a reality that is too painful and frightening.

The United States of America is now an abusive household. Donald Trump is the lunatic authority figure stalking and traumatizing the victims — the American people — while the Democratic Party, along with the mainstream media, act as the silent partner.

It becomes increasingly evident, with Trump's every social media post, public utterance and policy directive, that our president suffers from a severe form of mental illness. His insanity threatens millions of lives, and has become particularly dangerous during the most devastating public health crisis in the last 100 years.

For all the criticism that Democrats and pundits advance against Trump, their refusal to state the obvious forces the American public to feel as if we are the ones confined to a mental institution. It also emboldens Trump, even as he prioritizes his fragile ego, his compulsion to appear infallible and political expediency above the lives of countless human beings.
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https://www.salon.com/2020/04/18/tr...e-for-leading-democrats-to-say-that-out-loud/
 
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Belongs here too...

"If I wasn't elected maybe the world would be over."
 
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What astounds me is that the US nominally possesses a few mechanisms by which to remove a mad leader. But collectively the country is in a kind of stupor, as though it has a divinely ordained King who is beyond the reproach of mortal Man.
 
The Dems tried to get rid of him by impeaching him. But the real enablers here are the Republicans led by Mitch McConnell.
 
I wonder if it's also a limitation of the two-party system. It allows a corrupt party to wield roughly half the parliament/congress/senate power and thus obstruct impeachment and other counter-corruption attempts.
 
Is anybody going to contend that suggesting using disinfectant intraveinously is the act of a sane man?

(this should be good...)
 
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3point14 said:
Is anybody going to contend that suggesting using disinfectant intraveinously is the act of a sane man?

(this shold be good...)
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I'll bite.....

He's not insane, just ignorant.

He sees that disinfectant is effective at killing Coronavirus. People with Coronavirus need to have it killed so why not see whether "disinfectant" can be introduced into the human body.

Maybe it's not literally a name-brand disinfectant but maybe some medically-safe substance that does a similar job. Maybe he's just suggesting that the scientific Poindexters take a lead from a real-world can-do guy like himself and investigate some out of the box alternatives because whatever they're doing isn't working fast enough for the Great American People.

I can see, many months or years down the road, that there possibly may be a treatment for Coronavirus which chemically attacks the Coronavirus in-situ, a bit like a disinfectant. President Trump will proudly proclaim that it's his brilliant idea and that he has the greatest mind of all time ignoring the minor details that:

  • The treatment was under development months before his ridiculous utterances
  • The treatment isn't a disinfectant, it's a poorly chosen analogy to try and educate the scientifically illiterate and hard of understanding - like President Trump
  • It isn't injected, it's administered by other means
  • The development of, testing of and distribution of the treatment wasn't inspired or helped by President Trump in any way, shape or form
 
Trump is getting stupider, crazier, or both. If the White House staff don't hide the bleach and detergent he's going to injure himself. The days of relying on the Mr Yuk stickers are over.
 
bruto said:
Just remember, though, that he's not dangerous. Oh no.
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You can't know that! You haven't examined him!!


Just cos a man who, sincerely, you'll note, claims to be an expert in everything has just suggested intravenous strong cleaning agents as a medical procedure that doesn't make him ******* crazy, it just means he...


No, I can't do it. I can't find any way to end that sentence. Someone else will be along in a minute to do it for me, probably. Although maybe this is even a little too difficult to rustle up an ad hoc defence in a hurry. They might need a while.
 
bruto said:
Just remember, though, that he's not dangerous. Oh no.
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ya i know rite? Yes, it's theoretically possible he's just pretending to be going crazy and demented. For what purpose, I do not know. Seems an odd thing for a narcissist to be doing, but yes, it's possible.

Occam's razor, though.
 
3point14 said:
You can't know that! You haven't examined him!!


Just cos a man who, sincerely, you'll note, claims to be an expert in everything has just suggested intravenous strong cleaning agents as a medical procedure that doesn't make him ******* crazy, it just means he...


No, I can't do it. I can't find any way to end that sentence. Someone else will be along in a minute to do it for me, probably. Although maybe this is even a little too difficult to rustle up an ad hoc defence in a hurry. They might need a while.
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Safe-Keeper said:
ya i know rite? Yes, it's theoretically possible he's just pretending to be going crazy and demented. For what purpose, I do not know. Seems an odd thing for a narcissist to be doing, but yes, it's possible.

Occam's razor, though.
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No doubt his supporters would say that he wasn't directly advocating injecting cleaning products or placing UV sources in the lungs, he was suggesting that scientists maybe think outside the box and explore ways to directly attack Coronavirus chemically or with radiation.

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are effective treatments for cancer so why not explore their use in the fight against Coronavirus ?

President Trump is a visionary whose job it is to provide the vital catalyst to the people working to address Coronavirus, not to work through the minutiae of each particular thread. That's not to say that he couldn't do exactly that - after all his uncle was an MIT professor and those around him are continually amazed by his intellect and knowledge - but his responsibilities are so broad that it would be irresponsible for him to concentrate on just one thing.

;) :rolleyes:
 
3point14 said:
You can't know that! You haven't examined him!!


Just cos a man who, sincerely, you'll note, claims to be an expert in everything has just suggested intravenous strong cleaning agents as a medical procedure that doesn't make him ******* crazy, it just means he...


No, I can't do it. I can't find any way to end that sentence. Someone else will be along in a minute to do it for me, probably. Although maybe this is even a little too difficult to rustle up an ad hoc defence in a hurry. They might need a while.
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Let me help...

You're forgetting that he has to be taken seriously, but not literally. So, when another speaker points out that bleach or isopropyl alcohol are effective disinfectants for the corona virus, and Trump then says "let's inject ourselves with disinfectants", he is not actually talking about the two disinfectants that were just mentioned in front of him, and that are probably the only two disinfectants he could name if you asked him; no, because that would be ******* crazy and we start from the irrefutable assumption that Trump is not ******* crazy. So it then becomes our responsibility to replace what we thought was a clear reference to bleach and isopropyl alcohol with a reference to something that makes some kind of sense, and which we should have known was what he really meant if only our mental processes were as deep as his.

HTH.
 
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