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[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Biggles48]

Holy shit Doc you are fuckin obsessed with this fake news bullshit. I have a feeling the walls of your house resemble that of a serial killer, plastered with every fake news article and conspiracy theory, with hand drawn charts and diagrams. Your feverishly scanning the fake news and pasting every goddamn CNN fake news article and video you can find. On a steroid website. Give me a fucking break.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Biggles48]

You know what we should ALL be obsessed with raising hell about instead of your snowflake fake news? Doctors, big pharma, and the fucking sham of the entire medical industry. You want to throw stones. Your profession is a lie. A big fucking lie and Doctor of Medicine in a title means jack shit anymore. Lets talk about that. What the fuck have YOU done for you country? Become a “doctor”? You’re one of the many many millions in this country who don’t have the nuts or intestinal fortitude to put your ass on the line for anything, but you’ll take a front row seat to throw stones at anyone else who does.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Senorman]

You know what we should ALL be obsessed with raising hell about instead of your snowflake fake news? Doctors, big pharma, and the fucking sham of the entire medical industry. You want to throw stones. Your profession is a lie. A big fucking lie and Doctor of Medicine in a title means jack shit anymore. Lets talk about that. What the fuck have YOU done for you country? Become a “doctor”? You’re one of the many many millions in this country who don’t have the nuts or intestinal fortitude to put your ass on the line for anything, but you’ll take a front row seat to throw stones at anyone else who does.

I think @Michael Scally MD would agree that the medical profession and entire industry is a fucking sham. If you actually did a bit of research before you personally attacked a member who has contributed significantly to this forum, you might find you have some common ground. Does this antagonistic approach suit you in life? Is this how you interact with people on a regular basis? -with respect.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The fact that President Trump lies multiple times a day has become inescapably obvious to all but his most blinkered supporters. In that group of hard loyalists, his inveterate lying doesn’t merit direct refutation, just proper appreciation. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway introduced us to “alternative facts,” which imply that the president does not see the utility of participating in our truth when his “gut” is much more reliably Donald-friendly.

Rather, he operates alongside or above our truth through his own elusive discernment, always confidently doubling down. We, the benighted, are mired in a universe defined by science, history, and direct observation that clearly can no longer be trusted, since it is offered via “the enemy of the people” or “fake media” who, when challenging the president, deserve derision and dismissal.

Pathological lying, however, creates a dangerous reality that is important to recognize. Going beyond isolated falsehoods within the context of a shared reality, lying that comes from pathology creates an “alternative reality,” which comprises those “alternative facts.” And the more the creator believes his own lies, because of delusions, paranoia, or some other overwhelming emotional need, the more convincing they will be to vulnerable segments of the population.

Thus we find ourselves in worlds-apart perspectives that elude reality-based problem solving: It is the sound of one hand clapping. Understanding why Trump lies is even more important, because once we fall into a malignant normality that defies healthy dialogue, we are deprived of the meeting ground of shared consensual reality.

Absent a thorough neuropsychiatric evaluation of the president, we may not know for years whether Trump asserts untruths out of a profound psychopathic personality structure or the intractable but historically successful habit of the chronic used car salesman or carnival barker. What we do know is that, if he falls in the former category, the public should be aware of the dangerous implications of his staying in power another two years.

Mental health professionals analyze and interpret human behavior patterns in many ways outside of the more rigorous technical task of diagnosing, which usually requires a personal examination. In Trump’s situation, we have a lot more information about his dangerousness than almost any of the patients we have seen, given the voluminous high-quality data on him, including numerous personal accounts as well as observations in real time. For example, multiple sources generally agree that the president has lied an astounding 7,645 times during 710 days in office.

We know, at least, that his lying is of a pathological level. Pathological lying may arise in individuals who feel intolerably inadequate, and the ability to gain an “upper hand” by cheating others fulfills the need for power and denial of the painful feelings of smallness and weakness. Nothing, not relationships nor duty, overrides the inner need to posture successfully, to show the world one is not what one in fact fears himself to be.

If targets for exploitation are available — the powerless refugees, those with disabilities, or disenfranchised minorities — such an individual relishes his ability to debase and humiliate those external embodiments of his feared inner self. We indirectly glimpse his insecurity in his thin-skinned defensive protests about his “big brain,” “best memory,” and assertion “I’m a technology expert,” etc. These are tips of a much larger iceberg that likely reaches a depth unfathomable for most normal people.

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As psychiatrists who have called attention to the president’s mental impairments, we have been asked many times, “Does Donald Trump know he is lying? Is he just a great actor playing a clever role at a fortuitous time, or does he believe his lies and so can deliver them smoothly, without an internal hitch?” We have a good guess as to where his delusions end and his conscious fights for survival of the self begin, but only a full neuropsychiatric evaluation by appropriately trained professionals, hopefully with the help of standardized scales, will help us to qualify and quantify these manifestations.

What we can say beyond doubt, however, is that he is unimpeded by empathy, duty, or shame and is wedded, in dangerous ways, only to what nurtures his exaggerated self-image. If he merely trafficked in condos and apartment buildings, he would threaten only credulous buyers. As things stand, his disregard for truth imperils our country and the world.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

BULLY OF A GOOD TIME
https://claytoonz.com/2019/01/21/bully-of-a-good-time/

There has been much debate back and forth for who is to blame for the confrontation this weekend at the nation’s capital between Native Americans, students from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School, and Hebrew Israelites.

Initially, the majority of angry comments were directed at the Catholic students wearing MAGA hats. After viewing several videos of the incident, the blame lands squarely on them, but also on the Hebrew Israelites.

It’s clear from the video that Nathan Phillips, a Vietnam veteran taking part of an Indigenous Peoples March, attempted to defuse the tension between the two groups. He was walking between the students toward the top of the steps of the Lincoln Memorial when he came face to face with Nick Sandmann, a MAGA hat-wearing student from the Catholic school. Sandmann refused to move and Phillips wouldn’t walk around him.

Sandmann argues that his group didn’t do anything racist or to provoke the Native Americans. In the video, you can hear the students chanting. Sandmann says they received permission from their chaperones to sing “school spirits chants.”

Did those chaperones give them permission to do the tomahawk chop? Did they give one of the students permission to strip to his underwear and jump around like a primate? Do their school chants sound eerily similar to the chants Mr. Phillips was singing? What is his excuse for not stepping aside for an elderly man? While not casting all the blame on his group, I’m not buying Sandmann’s excuse. Just like Donald Trump, he’s a liar. Sandmann is upset that he’s coming off as a creepy little bastard for staring and smiling in Mr. Phillips’ face. Maybe in the future, he shouldn’t act like a creepy little bastard.

Donald Trump, and his “Make America Great Again, campaign is to blame for this atmosphere. It’s to blame for his followers’ public displays of racism.

Trump has repeatedly exhibited racism by calling Senator Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas.” Last weekend, probably out of sheer boredom, he invoked Wounded Knee and Bighorn in another attack on the senator.

Trump is a bully. His specialty is bullying women and minorities. Just like most bullies, he’s a coward. These students are learning from Trump, as they cowardly bullied Mr. Phillips and the other Native Americans while they were in a large group.

MAGA is about making America worse. MAGA represents bullying, racism, hypocrisy, and lies. MAGA bullies get upset over commercials that encourage and end to bullying. MAGA bullies find bullying hilarious. MAGA bullies breed and make little bullies who then go on to national monuments to bully minorities. MAGA bullies chant Trump’s name at minorities because he is such a racist, his name has now become a racist slur.

Kids, the future of this nation, bullying minorities in a racist fashion is not making America great again. The Parkland survivors are the youth who will make America great again. The Covington kids will be another ugly chapter of the Trump era in future history books.

You can analyze the videos all you want to find the bullies, but as soon as someone puts on a MAGA hat, they’ve joined the club.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Biggles48]

I think @Michael Scally MD would agree that the medical profession and entire industry is a fucking sham. If you actually did a bit of research before you personally attacked a member who has contributed significantly to this forum, you might find you have some common ground. Does this antagonistic approach suit you in life? Is this how you interact with people on a regular basis? -with respect.

Yeah I was probably out of line. I guess Im just tired of the bashing left and right and losing patience with wingnuts, propaganda and fake news. I deserved a scolding. But goddamn...

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Swiper]

Funny how you “liked” my post accidentally but then unliked it yet you don’t have the balls to reply because you say I’m on ignore. how did you see my post to “like” it? you phony

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[Senorman]

Yeah I was probably out of line. I guess Im just tired of the bashing left and right and losing patience with wingnuts, propaganda and fake news. I deserved a scolding. But goddamn...

It's definitely polarized out there man.

Please google Scally. You'll quickly see that he did "put his ass on the line" and paid dearly for it. -Cheers.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Whenever Rudy Giuliani gives a round of interviews to defend President Trump in the Russia scandal, there’s a good chance he’ll blurt out something that implicates his client in new wrongdoing or admit that Trump has been repeatedly lying about some element of the case. On Sunday he was at it again: ...

We’ll try to sort through the changing stories about the Trump Organization’s efforts to put together a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow while Trump was running for president, but here’s what’s most vital to understand: You don’t have to believe the absolute worst version of this scandal, where every accusation reveals an actual crime, to admit that Trump was and is both deeply corrupt and utterly dishonest.

That is the thread that binds nearly every element of the sprawling Russia scandal: corruption and dishonesty, over and over again.

With this statement by Giuliani (which, who knows, he might contradict by day’s end), we now have four different versions that the president and his representatives have told about his pursuit of a Moscow deal during the campaign.

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This is the approach Trump has taken to the presidency as well: Why should I lose opportunities to make money just because I’m president?

The full story of the Moscow deal is still coming into focus, but the things we know already that are no longer in dispute are spectacularly damning. To repeat: Trump was running for president and proposing to change U.S. policy in ways favorable to Russia while simultaneously seeking the Russian government’s help to arrange a business deal that could have made him hundreds of millions of dollars. And he lied again and again to conceal that fact from the American public.

Did he also commit crimes along the way? Maybe, maybe not. But even if it turns out that he didn’t, Trump’s profound corruption is not in question.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

It's definitely polarized out there man.

Please google Scally. You'll quickly see that he did "put his ass on the line" and paid dearly for it. -Cheers.

Ignore feature works well. Thanks for the reply.