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The Terrifying Danger of Trump’s Deteriorating Mental Health
Is the Mueller investigation pushing him toward the nuclear button?
Don’t be fooled by the happy lull of the Winter Olympics [3].
“We are not in a static situation,” Dr. John Gartner said, at a presentation on presidential mental health and nuclear weapons in Washington on Monday. “We are in a deteriorating situation. And every day that goes by we are at greater risk of total nuclear annihilation.”
The sporting competition in South Korea has governments and leaders spouting bromides of peace and friendship, at least for a couple of weeks. There is talk of reconciliation [4] between North and South Korea, independent [5] of White House wishes.
South Koreans are fascinated by the "Ivanka Trump [6] of North Korea."
All the while, the danger posed by Trump’s control of nuclear weapons continues to grow, says Gartner, founder of Duty to Warn, a group that argues President Trump is not mentally fit for office. He spoke at a National Press Club forum sponsored by Need to Impeach [7], the campaign bankrolled by billionaire investor Tom Steyer.
The unanimous conclusion: Trump is not qualified to make decisions about nuclear weapons.
Airman Trump
Psychiatrist Steven Buser explained how he evaluated nuclear personnel for the U.S. Air Force’s Nuclear Personal Reliability Program. According to PRP standards, “only those military personnel with the highest degree of reliability, trustworthiness, conduct and behavior will be allowed to work in the vicinity of nuclear weapons.”
“What if those same standards were applied to our president?” Dr. Buser asked. “What if President Trump instead was Airman Trump?...Would I feel comfortable in certifying Airman Trump as being safe to be around nuclear weapons?”
“What if I had reliable information that Airman Trump had cyberbullied others regularly on Twitter?” Buser went on. “That he had sexually abusive behavior toward women; that he was prone to erratic personal states; that he showed paranoia about being surveilled by others or unjustly persecuted; and that he had a history of highly distorted, if not untruthful statements.”
“Would I certify Airman Trump as being safe around nuclear weapons? My answer was, absolutely not.”
Dr. Gartner said Trump’s mental health “is deteriorating and is going to continue to get worse.”
“If you watch interviews that Trump did in the 1980s and '90s, he not only spoke in complete sentences, he spoke in polished paragraphs. Compare that to interviews and public speech today: his vocabulary is thin, reasoning is loose. He repeats himself.
He is actually impaired in his ability to complete a sentence or form a thought without derailing into some kind of irrelevancy.”
“When someone begins to deteriorate cognitively, anything that was bad about their personality gets worse,” Dr. Gartner said. “When people are in a state of pre-dementia they become more impulsive, more paranoid, less conscientious, more aggressive, more irritable.”
And eventually, “they begin to become psychotic.”
Malignant Narcissism
The implications for presidential decision-making on North Korea policy are frightening, said Jim Doyle, former systems analyst at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, who specializes in nuclear weapons systems.
The most desirable characteristics in a nuclear decision-maker are “rationality, the ability to weigh actions and consequences,” Doyle said.
“Characteristics that would be undesirable,” he continued, “would be somebody who is impulsive, easily angered and frustrated. Somebody who seeks confrontation, has a high sense of bravado or is vindictive. In addition, it probably would be undesirable to have somebody who didn’t have the ability to empathize or see the situation through the eyes of their potential adversary.”
But a complete lack of empathy characterizes Trump’s malignant narcissism, said Jacqueline West, a psychoanalyst in New Mexico.
“When we say ‘Trump is being narcissistic again,’ we get it that he is egotistical. We get it that he is dominating. What we don’t get is that he’s dangerous.”
The malignant narcissist, she said, “grows up with a tremendous determination to dominate, to win at all costs, and they sacrifice the integration of conscience and the capacity for empathy. He is involved in a ‘kill or be killed’ reality.”
Latest Developments
Dr. Gartner worries that the investigation being conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller “is pushing [Trump] toward pushing the nuclear button.”
“It would solve all of his problems,” Gartner said. “He will not care about the destruction it causes other people. It will be irresistible to transform him from feeling like a victim of a witch hunt to being an omnipotently destructive victor.”
That may sound paranoid to some, but who could deny that fear of Trump’s irrationality has a rational basis, especially in recent developments on the Korean Peninsula, where the president has promised to bring “fire and fury” to if he threatens the United States.
The Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review [9], released earlier this month, articulates a more aggressive interpretation of past U.S. policies with a lower threshold [10] for the use of nuclear weapons.
Despite the Pentagon’s reluctance, Trump has demanded options for a "bloody nose [11]" strike on North Korea.
And most ominously, when Victor Cha, Trump’s hawkish choice to serve as ambassador to South Korea, published an article stressing the United States has no viable military options in North Korea, Trump withdrew his nomination [12].
“A new Korean war is now perhaps more likely than not in 2018,” [13] Stephen Saideman, a scholar of U.S. foreign policy at Canada’s Carleton University.
And Airman Trump has his finger on the button.
By Jefferson Morley
christiefan915 (02-15-2018), Cypress (02-15-2018), domer76 (02-15-2018), ThatOwlWoman (02-15-2018)
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Kenny baby, Alternet is a bullshit website.
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dukkha (02-16-2018)
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I've read at least one historic account of Nixon being monitored by White House insiders.
Nixon reportedly drank heavily during his last days in the white house, and even those closest to him were concerned for their own survival.
I've never been a Nixon fan.
But I believe Nixon was more rational than Trump. Trump is a flake.
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
Leonthecat (02-15-2018), ThatOwlWoman (02-15-2018)
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Dude, please, for the love of God, SHUT.THE.FUCK.UP.
Trump's mental state, no matter how good or bad, pales in comparison to the mental illness known as modern liberalism. PALES.
You idiots want to know why mass shootings are plaguing this once great nation, libs? Look no further than your own bathroom mirror. You see that sick fuck staring back at you? Yeah, that's the source of ALL OUR TROUBLES.
Every life matters
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potato"Fascinating." Spock
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
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Originally Posted by countryboy
What are you some kind of idiot nut case..libs are the problem are you crazy trump is the crazy one you fool you need to shut the fuk up turd brain you red necks are
really the problem you have the highest rate of incest in the USA and want to lower the age of consent to 12 year olds pig
ThatOwlWoman (02-15-2018)
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We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
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It's a complex issue, and clearly not one that a clown like you is capable of grasping.
It's the reason you rape children and happily engage in a TJ donkey show in a passive manner.
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Funny you should mention Nixon. He engaged in using government agencies to punish political adversaries. Trump was a victim of the same type of scandal.
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I don't see Douchebag Donald's mental health deteriorating. It remains what it has always been.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
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"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
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"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
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"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
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Moon beam, deal with the subject. If you can read it, you can understand that there are sources and experts quoted in the story.
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What a fucking horrible post.
christiefan915 (02-16-2018), Kobie (02-16-2018)
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How can this guy give a professional opinion without having an in person interview?
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Ah, Cuntryboy, blaming liberals for everything under the sun. Don't ever change.
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I tend to agree with this ... I hate armchair psychiatrists (and worse, armchair physicians). Without a full exam and workup, in person, nobody can make such a determination.
I hated it when Bill Frist looked at a videotape and said that Terri Schiavo was just fine; I hated it when wingnuts tried to say Obama was a "diagnosed narcissist" (he wasn't); and I hate it when people try to claim Trump has dementia.
Trump probably doesn't have dementia. He's just an idiot.
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