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Title: Trump's mental health poses 'existential threat' to the world
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Independent
URL Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w ... h-goldwater-rule-a7746176.html
Published: May 20, 2017
Author: Lucy Pasha-Robinson
Post Date: 2017-05-20 09:41:02 by Willie Green
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Views: 8292
Comments: 24
Donald Trump’s mental health poses an "existential threat" to the world because of his power to launch nuclear weapons at any time and for any reason, a leading psychiatrist has warned. John Zinner said the US President's inability to feel guilt makes us all “vulnerable” to his “inner rage”. He believes Mr Trump suffers from a fundamental self-esteem problem, which could lead to serious consequences. The American Psychiatric Association states it is unethical for members to speculate over the mental health of a public figure from a distance under the Goldwater rule. However, the clinic professor from George Washington University told The Times he felt he had a duty to society to speak out. “We are facing an existential threat from Donald Trump because of his unfettered authority to launch nuclear weapons at any time and for any reason,” he said. “[He] has a particular kind of character that’s very well known, especially by psychoanalytically orientated mental health people. What it involves is a fundamental self-esteem problem; an insecure self-esteem, side by side with a sense of grandiosity. So the person has a very contradictory image of themselves.” He also claimed the former real estate mogul has “an extreme sensitivity to slights”, saying: “He can’t take criticism, and blames others, as he’s doing right now, blaming his staff for all the things that he did. His other reaction is rage.” Dr Zinner is not the first psychiatrist to break the Goldwater rule, something that has divided medical opinion since Mr Trump’s inauguration. The American Psychological Association issued a statement regarding their version of rule during the 2016 presidential campaign, after a number of media outlets asked them to weigh in on Mr Trump’s psychological fitness to become president. “Our Code of Ethics clearly warns psychologists against diagnosing any person, including public figures, whom they have not personally examined,” President Susan McDaniel wrote at the time. The clause, dating back to 1973, was named after the 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Over 2,000 psychiatrists responded to Fact magazine’s 1964 survey asking if Mr Goldwater was psychologically fit for the presidency in their estimation. The majority said he was not and the magazine published nearly 40 pages of the psychiatrists’ responses shortly before the election. Mr Goldwater lost and subsequently sued the now-defunct magazine for libel and won. Trump's inability to feel guilt leaves us all 'vulnerable'
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
He dares to stand up to progressives and their world destroying ideology and Nazi ways(Even Stalin would be impressed). Progressives are the borg of politics. Join or die, its your choice. If only we had elected Barry Goldwater back then many of the ills of today would not be here. If you are looking for government and especially federal govenrment for answers you are lost and have no clue.
WE wouldn't be here either... NONE of us...
Oh please. That was LBJ's over the top crap. Don't forget who sent our boys to Vietnam and then control the war through politics from halfway around the world. Im sorry that your life evolves around government handouts but the rest of the hard working world works just fine with out.
Who about that one? Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. He nailed it. How about this It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious crew seem to believe that progress in this country is best served simply and directly through the ever-expanding gift power of the everlastingly growing Federal Government. One thing we all know, and I assure you I do: that's a much easier way to get votes than my way. It always has been. It's political Daddyism, and it's as old as demagogues and despotism. Yep Nailed it again.
You do realize Goldwater is jewish? So the KKK are so racist they would rather vote for a jewboy instead of one of their own?
Actually, Goldwater was Episcopalian his entire life.
"Goldwater's parents were married in an Episcopal church in Phoenix; for his entire life, Goldwater was an Episcopalian, though on rare occasions he referred to himself as "Jewish".[12] " He was Jewish and thats all the klan had to know. Whether he converted is irrelevant.
Goldwater wasn't Jewish PERIOD. And he didn't convert. Goldwater's father was Jewish, but his mother, Hattie "JoJo" Williams, was a Gentile... an Episcopalian from a New England family in Rhode Island... And they were married in an Episcopal church. And according to Orthodox Jewish Law... Jewishness is matrilieal... Goldwater's mother wasn't Jewish... So Goldwater wasn't Jewish. PERIOD.
Well I would take the Goldwaters word over yours any day. His father was Jewish and his mother was Christian. They raised him as a Christian but he never forget his Jewish ancestry. He even called himself Jewish at times. Truth hurt?
It doesn't matter what Barry said on those rare occasions where it might have been politically convenient to claim he was a jew because he wasn't. Barry's mother wasn't Jewish, so Barry wasn't Jewish. And you don't have to take my word for it when GOD HIMSELF said so in Deuteronomy 7:3-4. Barry's father intermarried with the daughter of a Gentile against God's will... and she turned him into an Episcopalian, just like it says in the Bible... Episcopalians are not Jews because according to the Jews, Jesus isn't God... And Barry was Episcopalian... PERIOD.
So his own words mean nothing about himself? You're talking klan and the name Goldwater. Im sure they will take the time to go look up and see if he is Christian or not. LOL This way back before they had internet. Im sure the bias newspapers where not saying anything that would make you think he was anything but Jewish because most Americans would not vote for him if they believed he was Jewish(which they didn't).
LBJ was for the Civil Rights Act.
#19. To: Willie Green (#18)
LBJ is a POS that I believe had JFK murdered. He has forever destroyed America with his crazy war called Vietnam. The man is evil. When it got tough he quit!! Oh and im from Texas. His civil rights was destroy the black family and make hard working Americans pay for it. He is the biggest dick ever voted into office. To this day we have blown more money on the failed war on poverty than any program in history. What we got for it is a higher poverty rate, a destroyed black family and inner city that no one dare live in. I believe we could have run the government for 2 decades on what was spent on failed civil rights/ poverty / fucked up society!!!!
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#2. To: Justified (#1)
If only we had elected Barry Goldwater back then many of the ills of today would not be here.
#3. To: Willie Green (#2)
#4. To: Justified (#3)
#6. To: Willie Green (#4)
#7. To: Justified (#6)
#8. To: Willie Green (#7)
#9. To: Justified (#8)
#12. To: Willie Green (#9)
Actually, Goldwater was Episcopalian his entire life.
#14. To: Justified (#12)
That means, in order to be a hereditary Jew, your mother had to be Jewish.
#15. To: Willie Green (#14)
#16. To: Justified (#15)
Deuteronomy 7:3-4
3 You shall not intermarry with them, neither giving your daughters to their sons nor taking their daughters for your sons. 4 For they would turn your sons from following me to serving other gods, and then the anger of the Lord would flare up against you and he would quickly destroy you.
#17. To: Willie Green (#16)
#18. To: Justified (#17)
Goldwater was against it.
The Klan hated LBJ & supported Goldwater.
They didn't give a damn about his last name.
They hated blacks worse than jews.
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#20. To: Willie Green (#18)
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