Donald Trump is a “puppet” to psychopathic traits that are likely to become even more dangerous if Republicans suffer a bruising defeat in next month’s midterm elections, a leading clinical psychologist has warned.
Dr. Vincent Greenwood, director of the Washington Center for Cognitive Therapy, also believes the president’s danger is underestimated and warrants invoking the 25th Amendment.
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This article has been run every week for the last year.
We get it. He’s old and nutty.
Fucking vote. Get rid of him.
The way to think about Trump is this: imagine it’s 1965 and you’re dealing with a rich horny 19 year old boy from NYC.
His entire frame of reference is that of himself at 19. He never grew up. When you look at him like that, all his antics, behavior, “reasoning” etc. make perfect sense.
19 is optimistic. He’s bragged about being basically the same now as he was in first grade.
Why did I have to open an archive.ph link to access a Daily Beast article?
I mean, props for the archive link and being mindful of those who cannot bypass paywalls, etc. Thank you for the basic posting courtesy, and I mean that. But honestly the archive link belongs in the body, so that people like me who pay attention to sources can see before they click what they’re giving clicks to.
Keep in mind that anything coming out of the archive.today set of archive links is not just an archive, but is also behind what amounts to a link shortener.
Here’s the non-archive link for anyone who uses source as a criterion for choosing whether to read an article:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-80-is-psychotic-and-its-getting-worse-says-cognitive-doctor
Crazy how this gets more attention as the 2 year mark grows closer. Vance is creaming his pants about the 10 years of hell he has planned for women and minorities.
Vance worse then Trump
Need remove Vance first
100%. Ain’t happening though.
No one can do anything, and no one is willing to do anyhting.
The whole administration is illegitimate if we’re being honest, if biden wasn’t a traitor he would have found evidence even with a cursory glance.
Is this headline from 2016?
Doesn’t matter to Republicans though – foreign (Xi, Bibi, Putin) and domestic (Musk, Thiel, etc.) – that just makes him easier to control.
This is all about every benefactor who contributed to Trump’s dodging of prison and reelection getting their payout in one form or another.
And why do blue-collar maga not care, you ask? Well decades of undermining education, increasing their work hours, distracting them with bullshit and sports and identity issues and drugs and the giant propaganda speakers of billions of dollars of money (again foreign and domestic) means it’s very… Very hard for these people to unplug themselves from The Matrix and to see reality for what it is. Trump said, “I love the poorly educated” and “Smart people don’t like me” for a reason of course.
Doesn’t matter to Republicans though – foreign (Xi, Bibi, Putin)
Please, for the love of God, just say “authoritarians” or something. It’s bad enough how much the two party system dominates American politics, culture, and ideology, but trying to impose those stupid categories all around the globe is just childish.
Congress needs an Executive Babysitting Committee where they bring in Trump for questioning and answering to his administration’s crimes every day with a rotating inquisitor. That should occupy him enough to keep him from doing dumb shit because on the weekend he’ll only have energy to go golfing.
He’s not behind the dumb shit he’s doing now. He signs what’s put in front of him and those doing the putting won’t be distracted.
He just wouldn’t show up and they would be too scared to drag him in
I think he misspelled “psychopathic”
Not reading that. Daily Beat is a shitty shitty source.
I don’t disagree with this headline, but I was mainly opening article to see if they addressed the fact that doctors are bound not to diagnose without seeing the patient, so while it is probably true, it’s wrong of doctors to say. Btu seeing the source, no thanks.
Any article that mentions his age in the headline is clickbait bullshit and I ignore it immediately.
All Republicans are opportunists who will gladly use this to their advantage.
It’ll be like Game of Thromes but with a superficilal veil of civility.
Aye. We know.
Morons don’t care because morons think they know better. You’ll find this a common theme thought history’s worst mistakes.
“The clinical psychopath is just…
Not a real thing…
Like, it’s just literally not a real thing. If trump actually had ASPD (anti social personality disorder) he wouldn’t be this evil or do this much damage. And he’d be biochemically incapable of being racist, but he’s definitely fucking racist.
Any doctor talking about psychopath 13 years after it was removed from the DSM shouldn’t be listened to, even if they’re saying what we want to hear
Why are people with ASPD incapable of being racist?
Don’t listen to this person.
The same thing (oxytocin) that causes innate in-group loyalty also makes you hate everyone not in that in-group:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12552-020-09303-2
People with ASPD given oxytocin, start to act “normal”, even though that’s not always positive:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00076/full
Oxytocin does a shit ton of stuff, and there’s a huge range of variation. Shouldn’t need to mention this everytime neurotransmitters and/or hormones come up, but just to be safe: nothing is binary, everything is a spectrum.
But someone with actual ASPD who isn’t just a selfish dick, just doesn’t have it in them to really be racist or judge any demographic with any sort of bigotry.
They have no “us” in-group they’re implicitly loyal too, so everyone else is “them” which make them equal.
Edit:
To be clear that’s about innate in-group loyalty
Again, it’s a spectrum, but plenty of people on it can logically see the value of an in-group and be “ride or die” to a greater extent than a “normal” person, simply because they see it is an obligation they implicitly agreed to.
But the illogical oxytocin based loyalty is how you get shit like perfectly normal parents covering up horrific crimes of their children or ignoring clear warning signs.
ASPD is more like a Vulcan than a Klingon to put it in Fediverse terms. They’re not going to rage out, but if they feel that logically violence is the answer, there’s not the normal hesitation. It just fucking happens, and that is terrifying for people that fall on the normal range of oxytocin spectrum. But still is nothing compared to the violence a normal person would do with glee to “them” regardless of what that label describes.
And they’d 100% believe it was done for the greater good.
It’s what evolution designed us for; tribal warfare. ASPD were the people who could see past tribes and facilitated exchange of goods and ideas.
Not boogeymen. That’s just another “them” story the normies created
I’m surprised we’ve still not moved past the whole ‘saying person has x medical condition as an insult’ thing.
That said, you clearly have acne, and that’s probably why you’re secretly evil or something along those lines.
It’s not even a medical condition…
It’s just human variation. One of an absolute shit ton of different neurotransmitters and hormones that determine our behavior.
Sometimes we have less of them then average, sometimes we have more. Sometimes we have less receptors, sometimes more, sometimes the receptors hold on super long, some times they let go immediately.
Everyone assumes theyre normal and that everyone else is the same, that’s nowhere close to truth, and if anyone was ever just right in the middle average in every aspect of variation…
They’d probably be the most unique human to ever live, the odds of that happening are astronomical.
We’re all unique, even most are “average”
Trump is a malignant narcissist and an argument can be made for those being worse.
He’s a puppet to more than that
