This morning from the prez, a man who despises the free press:
@realDonaldTrump at 7:38 a.m. tweeting from Bedminster, N.J.: “The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick!”
… at 8:35 a.m.: “Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics — and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!”
… at 8:45 a.m.: “…Why aren’t Mueller and the 17 Angry Democrats looking at the meetings concerning the Fake Dossier and all of the lying that went on in the FBI and DOJ? This is the most one sided Witch Hunt in the history of our country. Fortunately, the facts are all coming out, and fast!”
… at 8:49 a.m.: “Too bad a large portion of the Media refuses to report the lies and corruption having to do with the Rigged Witch Hunt — but that is why we call them FAKE NEWS!”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Trump uses every logical fallacy in the book. He fills every tweet with gross mis-characterizations, personal attacks, red herrings, half-truths (and half-falsities), out-and-out lies, relevant omissions, and obfuscations.
Where on earth did Trump go to school; and WHY did they give him a diploma? He’s functionally illiterate. He also cannot separate the TRUTH OF THE NEWS, even news that uses his own quotations, from perceived personal attacks on him. I think he really hates himself because he cannot stand real news content, written and spoken by those who are dealing with the truth, and what it says about him.
It’s only the self-perceived king trying to kill the messenger. CBK
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The walls are closing in.
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Michael J Brocoum This morning I heard something about “the press could start a war.” I wouldn’t put it past Trump to be planning a war and so setting up the argument that, when it comes, the Press will be responsible for it.
Wake up Mitch McConnell and the rest of you GOP boobs. Are you going to wait until the blood begins to spill or some country is blown to kingdom come (because of the Press, of course) to bring the white coats into the White House? CBK
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If he starts jailing journalists, then we go into the streets
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Republican leaders will do whatever they can to please their base and hold on to their offices regardless of the potential damage to society at large. It’s party over politics, pure and simple, and truth be damned.
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If Obama had jailed journalists, would you have been in the streets? He certainly threatened to do so. Obama was no friend of the press.
https://www.businessinsider.com/james-risen-case-obama-journalism-press-freedom-2014-8
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I don’t recall Obama ever calling the American press “enemies of the people.”
I don’t recall political rallies where he called journalists out by name as objects of scorn and derision.
Why do you called to minimize the damage Trump is doing to our society? Why the constant “whataboutism”?
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Obama was certainly at least partly responsible for creating much animus towards the press.
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He never pointed to journalists in the stands and urged the crowds to jeer them. He never singled them out for insults. He never sicced a npmob on them. Watch him do it at every rally this fall. He is loathsome. Obama had intellect and class. Trump has neither.
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dienne77 It’s the First Amendment. It doesn’t matter which president abuses it–it’s dangerous. And then there’s the false equivalence–more “Whataboutism.” But Trump saying that the Press is the enemy of the people is an abuse of his oath of office to uphold the Constitution. Wake up.
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Here’s an article from the horse’s mouth: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/sunday/if-donald-trump-targets-journalists-thank-obama.html
James Risen is no fan of Donald Trump. He’s up to, I believe, five feature-length articles on The Intercept detailing what he believes is the evidence of Russian meddling and Trump administration collusion. Yet somehow he also can look with open eyes at the Democrats. So, no, it’s not “if you blame Democrats, you must love Trump”, as I am frequently accused. It is entirely possible to blame both.
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Dienne,
You don’t blame both. You persistently argue that no matter how awful Trump is, the Democrats are just as bad. Whataboutism.
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dienne77 Hellooooo! Wake up!
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Diane,
Thank you for describing exactly what is wrong with dienne77’s post.
No matter what Trump does, the Democrats are just as bad.
Most of us are able to recognize that Trump is worse than Obama. How does anyone read today’s tweets and decide they better post that Trump is no different than Obama?
Certainly the right wing propaganda is to tell the Trump acolytes that Trump is no different than any politician and it’s just the mean old press who have a double standard.
And that’s exactly what dienne77 keeps posting over and over again.
It’s called normalizing and it’s how fascist leaders take hold.
If Trump starts shooting his enemies in the street — as he says his followers will allow him to do — I have no doubt we will hear “but Obama sent drones so stop criticizing Trump because he’s just doing what other Presidents do and getting attacked for it.”
Something is really wrong here.
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There are many Democrats who are sell-outs. Many I do not like. I would vote for Attila the Hun if he were on the Democratic ticket running against this two-bit bigot.
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Every Democrat who runs for office has flaws, as does every Democratic Socialist and Progressive. Politics is complicated and there isn’t a candidate in history who can claim perfection. Just like none of us are perfect. Look how much good and bad LBJ did. Look at how much good and bad Obama did. Look at how much good and bad Jimmy Carter did. Would dienne77 claim that Trump is no different than Jimmy Carter?
dienne77 tried to normalize Trump’s attack on the media by using an article about LEAKS! The post had nothing to do with leaks — which is a complicated issue. It is not clear to me whether dienne77 is angry that Scooter Libby was prosecuted for outing Valerie Plame to a NY Times reporter in order to punish her husband for telling the truth about the Bush Administration lies about WMD. After all, he did “leak”. As did people like Chelsea Manning. Leak investigations are complicated. But whether you believe that Scooter Libby or Chelsea Manning should be free to leak to the press or not had nothing to do with what you posted.
Trump wasn’t tweeting about leaks. Trump was tweeting about reporters daring to print facts that contradict the “truth” he wants America to accept.
It had nothing to do with leaks. What Trump was doing was saying that reporters are not allowed to print the truth anymore, because the truth is whatever Trump says it is. The rest of us were appalled.
And dienne77 tried to change the subject to leaks. Why? To present the false narrative that Trump’s attack on reporters simply writing facts is no different than investigating the outing of Valerie Plame or investigating leaks of confidential information. But it IS different so why would dienne77 change the subject to whether leaking confidential information to a reporter should or should not be allowed?
Something is very wrong and I don’t understand why dienne77 doesn’t want to discuss Trump’s attacks on the press and instead wants to discuss the completely separate issue of leaks.
Hitler rounded up millions of Jewish men, women and children and systemically exterminated them. Roosevelt rounded up 120,000 Japanese men, women and children and systemically put them into internment camps where over 1,800 died from diseases and old age that might have been prevented if they had not been imprisoned. That does NOT mean that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was no better or no different than Hitler. Unless you are a neo-Nazi looking to excuse abhorrent behavior.
When you are trying to excuse abhorrent behavior, you can claim that the bad things Hitler did were no different than the bad things FDR did. You can claim that the bad things Trump does are just like the bad things Obama did. But is that the truth? Or just an attempt to normalize someone and if so, why the determination to normalize such terrible people?
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There ought to be a song…(hint: Poet),
Dienne in Delusion Land.
The chorus can be la la la la la.
I’m really wondering if Dienne’s name is actually Noris or Natasha.
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“I would vote for Attila the Hun if he were on the Democratic ticket running against this two-bit bigot.”
Thank you for your honestly. Refreshing that you finally admit you don’t give a fig about policy or atrocities, only presentation.
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Dienne,
Yes, I would vote for anyone but Trump. You would vote for Trump. At least we got that cleared up.
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dienne77 I don’t know who wrote “I would vote for Attila the Hun if he were on the Democratic ticket running against this two-bit bigot,” but it wasn’t me. I suppose you missed the point that I agree with, hnowever: that the situation is awful, especially when the Jim-Jones-type cancer is apparently so metastatic. BTW, in case you don’t understand it, in this case, “cancer” is a metaphor for “scotoma” and for the the spread of Trump’s delusional thinking. CBK
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CBK,
I wrote that I would support Attila the Hun vs Trump.
Better the devil I don’t know than the egotistical racist-xenophobe-bully-womanizer that I do know.
That was what I meant when I wrote that I would vote for anyone on the Democratic ticket vs. Trump.
This was in response to some purist saying that Trump was better than…..
I say better than no one.
This man must be contained in 2018 and defeated in 2020.
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Besides, Attila the Hun is dead. We dig up his bones and have him run for president. If he wins, how much damage can a bag of bones do to the world/country vs the damage the TRump does daily?
In fact, the skeleton of someone dead for more than 1,500 years would make a better president than Trump or Pence. At least the skeleton wouldn’t be spouting and tweeting endless lies and stirring up hate and violence.
“Attila united the tribes of the Hun kingdom and was said to be a just ruler to his own people. But Attila was also an aggressive and ruthless leader. He expanded the rule of the Huns to include many Germanic tribes and attacked the Eastern Roman Empire in wars of extraction, devastating lands from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and inspiring fear throughout the late Roman Empire.”
https://www.biography.com/people/attila-the-hun-9191831
Too bad the GOP, Trump and Pence are incapable of being just rulers to their own people.
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Dienne, from the article you linked: “One former Justice Department official told Business Insider the Obama administration’s increased pursuance of leak cases was mostly a product of having so many new tools available at its disposal to track down the leakers. It is also a product, the official said, of a more sensitive world post-Sept. 11, 2001. The official said it was likely to only escalate with future presidencies, as the U.S. continues to grapple with a copious number of global threats.”
So, yes, Obama had a hand in what was probably a long line of executive attempts to jail leakers and quash freedom of the press when it pertained to bona fide state secrets or just CIA screw-ups — did it maybe harder than predecessors thanks to tech tools & Patriot Act. Not good; dangerous to democracy. And hardly the govtl transparency he campaigned on.
Trump is doing something different. He’s broad-brush demonizing the press in a blatant play to insulate his own actions from any sort of public criticism. He can’t stop criticism, so he paints critics & reporters of criticism as liars. Nothing to do with strategic secrets around global threats, or even docts that threaten govtl CYA. No. As usual, it’s all about Trump & his ‘winning’ public image. An utterly venal motive for undermining the govtl transparency necessary to a functioning democracy, & he could care less.
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Thank you, Bethree. Trump’s war on the press is not about protecting government secrets, which is understandable (yes, there are times when lives are put at risk by leaks dealing with national security).
Trump’s war on the press is about protecting his fragile ego. He is putting reporters’ lives at risk for doing their job and reporting what he says.
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bethree5,
Thank you for your cogent post. It is mystifying why anyone would try so hard to change the subject to whether or not leaking to reporters should be prosecuted. The subject isn’t leaking. The subject is Trump’s attack on the press.
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“you don’t give a fig about policy or atrocities, only presentation.”
PRESENTATION?!!!!
Can someone please explain to me how the rabid Trump normalizers can possibly believe that the only thing wrong with Trump is “presentation”? The Trump normalizers like dienne77 attack Trump critics for being so mean to him when Trump just does the same thing that evil Democrats do except his “presentation” is different.
Just like Hitler was no different from FDR except for his “presentation”. They both rounded up groups of people. Sure Hitler exterminated millions and FDR did not, but to the Hitler NORMALIZERS, there is no difference. Just like Trump’s attacks on the free press are no different than investigating leaks. Got it? No difference. So stop criticizing Trump, they say.
This is all about normalizing behavior from Donald Trump that is not normal. Right from the fascist playbook. Shut down all criticism of Trump by claiming it is normal or the Democrats’ fault.
This Russian troll playbook worked well in 2016. And we repeat it at our danger.
Can you imagine Trump continuing with a Republican House and Senate for two more years? Can you imagine Trump’s normalizers insisting that will be NO DIFFERENT when we have already seen two Supreme Court seats falling?
Ask dienne77 whether Neil Gorsuch is different than Merrick Garland and whether Brett Kavanaugh is any different than a Hillary Clinton Supreme Court nominee.
The Trump normalizers don’t answer questions like that because apparently acknowledging the Trump is different — and much worse — than Democrats is not allowed. That isn’t honest debate. It is NORMALIZING Trump regardless of whether what you are posting is the truth.
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He is unhinged – liable to explode us all into oblivion – please, have the double straight-jacket nearby and ready for fitting.
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We need to “Make America sane again.”
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Dump is trying his best to: Make America GRATE.
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I feel sorry for the president. He is a victim of social media addiction.
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And fast food too.
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I don’t feel sorry for Trump. He has a history of defrauding business associates and workers. U.S. banks will not lend Trump money due to his history of avoiding debts by filing for bankruptcy. He depends on Russian oligarchs for loans and is clearly in debt to Putin and his cronies. All of this happened during and long before the explosion of social media.
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Where’s Wayne Barrett when we need him and the army of investigative interns he mentored?
WB: Author of first analysis (Harper Collins,1992) of the dirty workings of Trump’s sick mind, twisted M.O. and rise through a series of failed deals.
Brilliance and dogged reporting we lost with Barrett’s passing on the eve of Trump’s inauguration. In his last year, Barrett castigated the media (mainly air media) for making the run-up to Trump a ratings-chasing circus instead of a serious examination of what was happening and the nightmare it would turn into.
We are reaping the whirlwind of a “democracy,” where politicians depend on corporate contributions (read bribes) ways to keep their incumbencies as voters are distracted via infotainment that passes for news, overdoses of the escapades of sports stars and celebrities inventing outages to further their fame, and the latest revelations of Matt Lauer/Charlie Rose-type titillations that run for a week.
Oh yes, everything will turn around when we overturn the public schools in favor of charters, choices and vouchers that only want what’s purely best for the next generation of children.
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Yeah, there the mainstream media slobbering all over the Clinton emails and Benghazi!!. They failed – to a certain degree – to do their due diligence. But there was still solid, honest reporting that clarified the truth about both, and there were reports — like the House Intelligence Committee unanimous report of Benghazi, that undermined all the right-wing lies and talking points — that made the factual truth absolutely clear.
That did not stop Republicans from continuing their lies, aided and abetted by Fox and Limbaugh, and Breitbart, and Marc Thiessen (I shudder at the mere citation of his slimy name), and the Mercers, and all the rest, including Russia.
The truth has also not stopped Trump from his egregious lying and his supporters from believing them.
Yeah….I’d say we need a rebirth of democratic citizenship education.
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Randi Weingarten was on Firing Line recently. An interesting show. See:
https://www.pbs.org/video/randi-weingarten-j4tlk8/
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Trump is deteriorating fast,. The description of the mental health assessment guide upon which the analysis is being made, is rigorous and genuine.
I am a watcher ,too. I have watched behavior for a lifetime,as a teacher and a playwright, and I have been watching the cognitive decline of my own husband for 4 years.
It is now, rapidly approaching an inability to know what is happening on his own landscape
The behavior of mental deterioration is identical to that described my Dr. Gartner when he talks about senile decline— which BTW is only one small part of the analysis you will hear if you Hear the whole thing.
Trust me. We are watching Trump unravel.
I talked endlessly about observing behavior, that BEHAVIOR Is ALL — and tha we can iINFER from what ice observe, what is UNDENIABLE behavior , AND THAT IS what we need to know.
John Hopkins professor, Dr. John Gartner describes it precisely here.
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Seems so.
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I really wish people would stop blaming Trump’s evil on mental health. Those are two separate things, and it’s unfairly stigmatizing to mentally ill people to associate Trump with them. Mentally ill people are no more likely than the general population to be psychopathic/sociopathic (which are not mental illnesses). If Trump does have a mental illness (which is something only a mental health professional can diagnose, and only after examining him in person), that would not be the cause of his boorish behavior, any more than if he had, say, diabetes.
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Dienne,
Trump’s behavior—his incitement of violence—is way worse than “boorish.”
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It’s deterioration in addition to the raging issues. It’s not an either-or thing.
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The psychiatrist who briefed Congress on Trump’s mental state: this is “an emergency”
The case for evaluating the president’s mental capacity — by force if necessary.
By Eliza Barclay@elizabarclayeliza.barclay@vox.com Updated Jan 6, 2018, 9:02am EST
… “She recently briefed a dozen members of Congress — Democrats and one Republican — on the president’s mental state. And this week, she, along with Judith Herman at Harvard and Robert Jay Lifton at Columbia, released a statement arguing that Trump is “further unraveling.” The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a collection of essays from 27 mental health professionals that Lee edited, was published in October.” …
“Bandy Lee
“The special counsel’s indictments started a crisis — a mental health crisis in a president who is not able to cope well with ordinary stresses such as basic criticism or unflattering news.” …
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/5/16770060/trump-mental-health-psychiatrist-25th-amendment
Perspective
President Trump’s Mental Health — Is It Morally Permissible for Psychiatrists to Comment?
“The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump challenges the APA position that a psychiatrist cannot know enough about a person she has not interviewed to formulate a diagnostic impression. Contrary to the APA, a physician who has not formally evaluated a patient is not making a diagnosis in the medical sense, but rather using diagnostic speculation and terminology informally, with the benefit of education. That characterization applies to the orthopedist or physical medicine specialist speculating on the knee injury of the football player limping off the field and the dermatologist wincing at a stranger’s melanoma in the grocery line as well as to the psychiatrist interpreting Trump’s public statements. Physicians don’t stop knowing what we know when we leave the clinic. Psychiatric terminology has become part of the common parlance, and the authors in Dangerous Case describe and define that terminology much better than, say, Ralph Northam. The question is whether psychiatrists are the ones we should hear it from.”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1714828
Trump is now dangerous – that makes his mental health a matter of public interest
Bandy Lee
“To make a diagnosis one needs all the relevant information – including, I believe, a personal interview. But to assess dangerousness, one only needs enough information to raise alarms. It is about the situation rather than the person. The same person may not be a danger in a different situation, while a diagnosis stays with the person.
“It is Trump in the office of the presidency that poses a danger. Why? Past violence is the best predictor of future violence, and he has shown: verbal aggressiveness, boasting about sexual assaults, inciting violence in others, an attraction to violence and powerful weapons and the continual taunting of a hostile nation with nuclear power. Specific traits that are highly associated with violence include: impulsivity, recklessness, paranoia, a loose grip on reality with a poor understanding of consequences, rage reactions, a lack of empathy, belligerence towards others and a constant need to demonstrate power.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/07/donald-trump-dangerous-psychiatrist
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I very concerned about the future for our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. The negative impacts nationally and internationally are already tremendous. I cannot imagine the problems future American generations will have trying to correct the disasters worldwide that Trump is creating.
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Impeach. He’s a sick moron.
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POTUS bullying everybody in gov and out, like an unhinged mob boss.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/early-lead/wp/2018/08/05/when-trump-attacked-lebron-james-it-had-an-unintended-effect-other-athletes-speaking-out/
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Trump is the Great Satan of fake news. He invented the phrase because he invented fake news.
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I do not know what the Democrats and Independents are doing but the Republicans do know what they are doing. This afternoon I watched C-Span’s interview with Alexandria Smith, Executive Director of the Political Action Committee, America Rising. She was interviewed by James Homan, the National Political reporter from the Washington Post.
Smith says: “The sole purpose of America Rising is to define and defeat democrats. We are the GOP’s premier research organization so we spent countless hours reviewing videos, going out tracking the field reading and producing countless pages of materials, to really shape a narrative on Democratic candidates. In the 2018 cycle we will be playing the same role that we have been from 2013, looking at our Democratic targets, particularly our friends running in the Trump states, the 10 Democratic Senators running, along with a host of other House candidates and state candidates.”
This is the group that targeted Hillary Clinton, with a 5000 page book of opposition research. She describes the process of opposition research as getting as much information as possible from freedom of information requests, following candidates with cameras at political events to capture what they are saying, comparing public remarks with other documents and so on. They are well on the way to getting their narratives together, and Smith clearly enjoys digging dirt. She is on FOX news spinning the narratives in a manner calculated to make every Democrat look more irrational and corrupt that than the President she supports. She started out with a degree in political science, has a law degree, and moved up the ranks from a start organizing college Republicans and young Catholic voters.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?449324-1/newsmakers-alex-smith
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“to really shape a narrative on Democratic candidates.”
Yes, this is what the right wing does best — uses its unlimited money to “shape a narrative” to demonize Democrats that has no basis in reality and turns normal people into devils.
They are at it right now — guess who is evil? The she-devil Nancy Pelosi, who has taken the reigns from Hillary Clinton as the favorite devil incarnate of the right wing.
It’s ironic because when they shape a narrative to red state voters, it is all abut how the evil “left wing” Nancy Pelosi won’t lock up all the African-American and immigrant criminals. Meanwhile, fake progressives are told Nancy Pelosi is owned by the right wing!
And the truth is that some of the “young Dems” who are supposed to be better than Pelosi are far more pro-charter like Hakeem Jeffries (who is a big fan of Eva Moskowitz and appears at her anti-public schools rallies). Some of the new young Dems are far more moderate. But they haven’t been tainted by a propaganda effort to destroy them, so they get a pass.
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Pelosi’s big mistake was that she relied on DFER’s favorite Democrat, George Miller of CA, who pretends to be a progressive but is a pawn of the hedge funders.
She sees Jeffries as the face of the new Dem party, but he is another DFER favorite.
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Brian Kemp, Trump’s endorsed candidate for Governor in Georgia has a good chance of losing. Thank God. His ads are repulsive. Kemp must be worried. MSNBC had a guest who said that Kemp shut down voter registration for 30 hrs. this weekend for “maintenance” (Kemp is currently Secretary of State). Kemp’s name also appeared, this summer, in a declassified Congressional Intelligence report about Russia, immediately after Kushner’s name. The reason-Kemp decided that Georgia, under his leadership, knew more about assessing and securing, from Russian attack, Georgia voting integrity than did the DHS. He sounds like Trump and his story smells to high heaven. If Georgians vote for him, it’s an anti-democracy and pro-Putin vote. But, if the Russians succeed, he’ll be sworn in, regardless of the vote.
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Is Kemp the one who bragged that he was going to buy a “big truck” and go out rounding up immigrants?
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yes, Kemp in Ga bragged about his guns and his truck
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If we had a student this fixated on those he believe are out to get him… spitting repetitive rants to feed.his ego and demeaning others.. obssessed with people more popular than he.. spewing superiority epithets about women, non-white, and those in poverty… and giving rich kids things to be his friend.. and we did nothing
We’d be cited for not referring him
Sorry Dienne.
State law requires we report bullying and abuse.
You re right We are not medical experts which is why we ARE trained to observe, document, and refer. And this is textbook.
This behavior is beyond just stirring up the disenfranchised at rallies…
It’s scary.
It’s neglect if experts do not examine it.
An those watching silently like congress are complicit.
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Donnie Dumpsterfire is still good at being the figurehead and distractor in chief, but he’s not doing that job all by himself. If you have no moral compass and no regard for the lives and rights of others, telling lie after lie is actually very easy to do, especially when they are simplistic screeds aimed at bloated strawmen. Donnie Dumpsterfire is the boy who cried wolf and then while the villiage was out trying to find the wolf, he went back to make sure the gate he unlocked was still open so the whole wolf pack could roam freely thru the distracted villiagers houses and barns. The problem is not so much that Donnie is stupid, which he very probably is not (to the degree he appears to be) it’s that the right wing media sycophants maintain a policy and situational awareness stupidity in his supporters who have been groomed to expect, accept and consume little more than the empty calories of Dumpsterfires sound bites, ones that satisfy their neurological/emotional addiction to fear and oppositional delusions. As I seem to recall Milosevich did much the same thing during his destruction of Yugoslavia.
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Trump’s alma mater, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania has a 9% admittance rate. Speculating on how Trump got in, the case for no tax dollars for private universities is made.
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delusional: “a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary…”
Merriam-Webster
delusional disorder: “Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness — called a ‘psychosis— in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, which are unshakable beliefs in something untrue. People with delusional disorder experience non-bizarre delusions, which involve situations that could occur in real life, such as being followed, poisoned, deceived, conspired against, or loved from a distance. These delusions usually involve the misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. In reality, however, the situations are either not true at all or highly exaggerated.”
Cleveland Clinic
By these definitions, Trump is delusional. And dangerous.
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democracy Trump is delusional. . . not to mention his followers. CBK
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Irony- Yesterday in California, a turban-wearing Sikh man, while posting signs in support of a Republican candidate, was targeted by a couple of guys who told him to go back to his country- the GOP base’s often used refrain. Contemplating the awareness/ intelligence of the 3 men …. .
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Trump’s go-to people for advice: Hannity, Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Larry Kudlow, Stephen Miller, etc. “Mayday mayday mayday!” SOS, SOS! This country is in trouble.
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