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Burt Kloner's avatar

anyone else see trumps presser? what a pile of sh*t! immediately blaming others including the air traffic controllers with more hate...classic example of mental illness taking over.

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Frank Downey's avatar

No. As a person with an actual mental illness, I get so tired of this. Being a complete asshole is not a mental illness, it's being a complete asshole.

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Burt Kloner's avatar

this guy covers both bases at the same time

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Andrew's avatar

YouтАЩre missing the point.

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ArcticStones's avatar

I hear you, Frank. Even more bothersome, at least to me, is the way the news media link or explain away mass shooters as being a problem of "mental illness". That stigmatizes a large percentage of Americans who do struggle with mental illness тАУ without having any tendencies to violence.

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Paleo's avatar

HeтАЩs a sociopath. Which is a combination of the two.

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Zero Cool's avatar

This is why I get tired of hearing stories of psychiatrists making assessments of Trump's diagnosis without having any scientific evidence or history evaluating him at a one-on-one meeting. Same goes for psychologists.

Sure, Mary Trump knows Trump better than other psychologists. However, making a random assessment at face value is short-sighted and doesn't do anyone any good.

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michaelflutist's avatar

Narcissism is a type of mental illness, though, right? I totally get your point, though.

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Paleo's avatar

He lies the way other people breathe. But he appears before the cameras almost everyday to try and narrative. What a novel approach. After the previous four years I thought a president was legally barred from doing that.

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JanusIanitos's avatar

Not to defend our officials' wholly insufficient media strategy, but there is a caveat here in that something about this turd functionally short circuits the way the media covers things and he can get wall-to-wall coverage of anything at any time. We cannot get that. Normal republicans can't either.

We still need to try way harder, to be clear.

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LiberalBuffalo's avatar

Both Paleo and yourself are true. It's absolutely mind bending how Trump gets exactly what he wants from the media on a literal hourly basis.

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