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Common Dreams reports
As President Donald Trump continues to behave bizarrely and erratically--attacking his own attorney general, launching into a political tirade during a speech to Boy Scouts, bringing his 11-year-old son into the burgeoning Russia controversy--a professional association of psychoanalysts is telling its members to drop the so-called Goldwater Rule and comment publicly on the president's state of mind if they find reason to do so.
The Goldwater Rule was formally included in the American Psychiatric Association's "Principles of Medical Ethics" following the 1964 presidential campaign, during which a magazine editor was sued for running an article in which mental health professionals gave their opinions on [Republican] presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's psychiatric state. The rule deems public comments by psychiatrists on the mental health of public officials without consent "unethical".
In a recent email to its 3,500 members, the American Psychoanalytic Association "told its members they should not feel bound by" the Goldwater Rule, which some have characterized as a "gag rule", STAT's Sharon Begley reports.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:40AM (15 children)
Every Republican candidate gets assigned one or more of "Evil", "Stupid" or "Crazy". Every single one. Doesn't matter who we nominate, the Narrative is one or more of evil, stupid or crazy. Nice Mormon guy? Evil. Every Democrat's favorite "statesman"? Crazy and Evil. Nice guy reformed drunken frat boy? Evil and Stupid. War hero? Evil. War hero, statesman, cucked but all around good guy? Evil. Popular former Governor of CA? Evil, Stupid -AND- Crazy. Ok, I will give ya Nixon as Evil but he got Crazy too and it is nuts.
So the question you guys should be asking is, "How many times can we use the exact same playbook?" Might I suggest, certain in the knowledge you will ignore reality, that you now know the answer? You cried "WOLF!" as loudly as you possibly could, you yelled, you screamed, you committed punditry, you told everybody and their dog that Trump was the personification of "EVIL!", "STUPID!" and "CRAZY!" And the voters didn't listen. You were pointedly ignored.
But do continue.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @08:24AM (1 child)
As long as the Republicans keep being evil and stupid? We can keep this up for decades! And the fun in voting for clowns just to make a point will vanish once your health insurance, retirement benefits, and VA benefits all disappear, just to stick it to the libtards! Yeeee Ha! (Common clay of the new (old) west. You know, morons.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @05:23PM
Yup, here's your sign.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by tonyPick on Thursday July 27 2017, @09:19AM
Hang on, weren't you also insisting that Trump does look Crazy and Stupid, but that it was all an act [soylentnews.org] and that he's just trolling us all [soylentnews.org]?
So your current argument is that the left is making it up out of their playbook, but it's all true, but it's an act, but they're crying wolf, even though everything is true, because he's doing it on purpose.
You really should try reality for a few days at least, just to see what it's like.
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Thursday July 27 2017, @12:23PM (8 children)
You forgot about Hitler. Every Republican is and always has been Hitler. I know a Republican isn't worth voting for unless he's been called a Hitler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @12:49PM (3 children)
C'mon, be fair. Every Democrat is a Hitler as well.
(Score: 2) by GlennC on Thursday July 27 2017, @01:32PM (2 children)
I think the "Democrats" are more like Mussolini. Gotta keep up the illusion of choice, don't you know.
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @05:12PM (1 child)
actually, if you switch those around you would be accurate. the dems are socialists and the repubs are fascists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @08:48PM
If that was true, and you'd ever been laid off from a job, you'd now likely be a working at a workplace where you are a worker-owner (and not just another voiceless exploited employee at a top-down Capitalist operation).
In 1985, Italy reworked its unemployment insurance law [google.com] such that a worker[1] who had been laid off by a boom-and-bust Capitalist operation could start his own worker-owned cooperative.
[1] Since then, unemployed people are able to take the insurance benefit in a lump sum.
It requires that that be applied to forming a co-op via a group of 10 or more unemployed workers organizing together.
If the Dumbocrats were actually Socialists, this would be a thing in the USA.
N.B. Bernie may like to -call- himself "socialist" but he's actually a Capitalist-friendly Imperialist who, uncharacteristic of USA politicians, simply recognizes the viability of the fiscal multiplier WRT wages.
(Henry Ford had this figured out over a century ago.)
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the repubs are fascists
That part is correct.
What is a fascist? How many fascists have we in the United States? How dangerous are they? -- Vice President Henry Wallace, 1944 [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [thomhartmann.com]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:43PM
This is why you conservative types get no respect or sympathy anymore. You're too blind and stupid, oh well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @05:52PM
To be fair, judging by your voting record, you would support a literal "literally Hitler." Aren't you a neo-nazi?!
(Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 27 2017, @10:30PM (1 child)
You forgot about Hitler. Every Republican is and always has been Hitler.
Hitlery [soylentnews.org]
Hitlery [soylentnews.org]
Hitlery [soylentnews.org]
Hitlery [soylentnews.org]
Hitlery [soylentnews.org]
You were saying?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday July 28 2017, @01:24PM
Hitler is equal opportunity and Hillary can try to live up to that level. I'm just saying for decades you can tell if a Republican is a good Republican if he's called Hitler. I'm not sure that algo works on D party given the Hitlery example provides at least one disproving example.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:40PM
Typical, can't see the naked truth right in front of your face. I understand, when you're a delusional evil person it is very hard to recognize the evil in others.
Obligatory: fuck off
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 27 2017, @05:42PM
So you don't like it when people who are evil and/or stupid and/or crazy get called out for being evil and/or stupid and/or crazy? Too bad: WALUIGI TIME.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday July 27 2017, @06:05PM
Yep. You've got guns. I've got guns. These differences are irreconcilable unless we all decide to follow that one AC's recommendation and using a series of contracts instead of a “violently imposed monopoly.” However, as many of us have noted, even that will devolve into a violently imposed monopoly.
There is only one place to go from here.