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Analyzing the Trump effect: Is America having a nervous breakdown?
SF Chronicle ^ | Aug 9, 2018 | Joe Garofoli

Posted on 08/09/2018 7:06:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA

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To: BenLurkin

Folks, do you have the uncontrollable to beat people over the head who disagree with you? Redistribute wealth? Tear down walls and ban ICE? Chase conservatives out of restaurants? Try new #walkaway, the only sure cure. A product of the Russbot Corp.


41 posted on 08/09/2018 10:31:40 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: 11th_VA

Not America, just the democrats.


42 posted on 08/10/2018 12:22:16 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: 11th_VA

Most psychologists are mentally disturbed individuals who go into it to try to figure out why they are so screwed up themselves.


43 posted on 08/10/2018 2:23:52 AM PDT by Hugin ("I fear for Hugin that he will not come back, yet I tremble more for Munin.")
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To: angry elephant

I, too, have often wondered if there are more liberals seeking psychological help than conservatives, in general, even before the bogus “Trump syndrome.”

Perhaps the development of personal and religious values, rather than blaming others, is the basis of (conservative) and emotional good health.


44 posted on 08/10/2018 5:03:28 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: 11th_VA

YOU MEAN DEMOCRATS are suffering from trump derangement syndrome,,don’t put Patriotic Americans in that pot.
I think what is happening is Democracts are addicts,living me smokers,gamblers,drug addicts and President Trump has put them in withdrawal after being exposed to the truth


45 posted on 08/10/2018 5:19:40 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: 11th_VA
I think the San Francisco Chronicle missed the point: much of that Trump Derangement Syndrome is being ginned up by the Establishment Media itself because of the MSM's anger over Hillary Clinton losing to Donald Trump.
46 posted on 08/10/2018 5:21:40 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: vette6387

My annual medical meeting is in SFO in a few months, right down in the Mission District.

I will file a complete FReport when I get back.

Last there in 2013, it was unpleasant, but not too dangerous for a Brooklyn boy.


47 posted on 08/10/2018 5:25:33 AM PDT by Jim Noble (p)
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To: 11th_VA

Reading the comments at the bottom of the article. Ramon is hilarious! He is going to be so sad come November when the Dim bulbs are handed their rears in the election. We need to give the Dims a reality check big time! Big League, Yuge!!!!!


48 posted on 08/10/2018 5:28:31 AM PDT by southernindymom
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To: 11th_VA

Nothing in San Francisco is good, especially a conference of shrinks


49 posted on 08/10/2018 5:34:37 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12) Sanctuary is Sedition)
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To: 11th_VA

Perhaps leftists will start taking their nihilism to its logical conclusion.


50 posted on 08/10/2018 5:56:58 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: 11th_VA

None of them should be allowed to supervise people or employees.


51 posted on 08/10/2018 6:06:22 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: 11th_VA

Republicans gather the facts and then make decisions logically based upon those facts. If they see that it will work they will believe in it.

Democrats are emotional decision makers and thus they make a decision and then look for the facts to support their decision. They are blind to any facts that do not support the decision the made emotionally and fell in love with... “Love is blind.” They will attack any messenger who even asks a question, the answer which provides facts which refute their decision. The the Democrat philosophy is “I will see it only if I believe it.”


52 posted on 08/10/2018 6:21:31 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Thus, it’s not “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus...”

It’s “Republicans are from Earth, Democrats are from the Moon!!!”


53 posted on 08/10/2018 6:24:08 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

This is why the response.... “You are entitled to your feelings, but you are not entitled to your facts” really frustrates emotional Democraps.


54 posted on 08/10/2018 6:25:56 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: BenLurkin
Great point, BenLurkin, and that is 100% at the root of their rage. Dan Bongino spent a show a month or two ago discussing just how and why we see this dynamic.

Not only did the Left think that after 8 years of Barack Obama that they had crushed conservatism, embedded Leftism into the government at all levels, planted and nourished the huge Obamacare bureaucracy, and weakened the material readiness and eroded the leadership in the military, they thought they were going to get eight more years to entrench those Leftist things and buttress the judiciary and Supreme Court with their own extreme leftist judges.

They completely thought they had things well in hand.

Then, in a single 24 hour period on November 8, 2016, like the British Army at Yorktown, "the world turn'd upside down" for them. They thought, arrogantly, the American political landscape was all theirs, then...she lost. Badly. And they lost to Donald Trump, a man in their view who was, an uncouth, uneducated, unstable, corrupt, inexperienced, stupid, and rash man. Even worse, he actually DID love his country, something that really sticks in their craw.

And their hubris was all duly recorded and public, this clip captures it best: Video Collage: DONALD TRUMP WILL NEVER BE ELECTED PRESIDENT!

After being elected, Trump has had victory after victory, some very obvious, and some not so obvious (those were worse, the ones that only percolated into their consciousness over time, because their normal irrational defenses were unprepared to filter out that kind of truth for them!) and he may be able to replace up to three Supreme Court justices before the end of HIS FIRST TERM!

EVEN WORSE, the Republicans finally grew a pair, and began using their OWN rules that THEY implemented when they were in power (regarding a simple majority in the approval of judiciary picks that they were publicly and explicitly warned against with the advice "you won't be in power forever") to approve a record number of conservative judges as a way to undo the concerted effort by the Obama administration to poison that well FOREVER.

He publicly repudiated their global warming religion and withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord, on a GLOBAL stage in a Rose Garden speech characterized it as a "wealth redistribution scheme" which made their collective heads explode!

And the economy caught fire and is fueling a great economic engine, belying the Obama claim that the 'new normal' would be 1-2% GDP growth, impossible to consider otherwise, and in response to Trump's claim he would bring manufacturing jobs back to America with this classic quote (from Obama himself) directed at then candidate Trump:

“Well, how exactly are you going to do that? What exactly are you going to do? There’s no answer to it," Obama said. "He just says, 'Well, I’m going to negotiate a better deal.' Well, what, how exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually the answer is, he doesn’t have an answer.”

But the worst, the ABSOLUTE worst for them is the Obama Spying Scandal which is now composed of three major scandals:

ONE: The Information Laundering Scandal (to be used to set up Trump)

TWO: The Human Intelligence and Signal Intelligence Abuse Scandal

THREE: The Frame-up of Donald Trump

They had him cold (they thought). They HAD him. Trump was toast. He was going down. He was 100% going to be impeached. And now, this whole scheme to frame him and bring him down is going to completely backfire and immolate them and their party, and THEY did it to themselves.

Have you ever seen the Evandar Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson fight? Mike Tyson was so sure he was going to win. He thought he was the better fighter. He thought he was going to beat Holyfield handily. And as the fight went on and on, and he became more and more infuriated and frustrated, he began to resort to dirty tactics resulting in him losing absolute control of himself and biting off part of Evander Holyfield's ear.

That, in a nutshell, is a microcosm of the Left today. Trump and Conservatives are Evander Holyfield. The Leftist Media, political machine, and The Swamp, are Mike Tyson.

All they have left now is irrationality and violence.

55 posted on 08/10/2018 6:27:34 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: dsc

“I think that lefties patronize shrinks more than conservatives do.”

This is true even at the VA Hospital psychiatric ward. Also, as a percentage of veterans, women use the services far, far more than men... It’s the left brain, right brain thing.

Liberals are in their right emotional brain as their logical left brain left them... appropriately called “leftists”


56 posted on 08/10/2018 6:32:01 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: 11th_VA

YOU MEAN DEMOCRATS are suffering from trump derangement syndrome,,don’t put Patriotic Americans in that pot.
I think what is happening is Democracts are addicts,living me smokers,gamblers,drug addicts and President Trump has put them in withdrawal after being exposed to the truth


57 posted on 08/10/2018 6:36:35 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Karliner

I’m now reading the collection of articles by psychologists and psychiatrists “A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump “ – July 26, 2016

I’ve been attending psychiatric training programs on narcissism and reading many books on the subject.

Bottom line is that the Democrats and liberals confuse good leadership qualities with narcissism.


58 posted on 08/10/2018 6:52:15 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: 11th_VA
Speakers at the conference, which has drawn 11,000 psychologists from around the country

Can we ship them all to Siberia permanently?

59 posted on 08/10/2018 6:54:31 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: tired&retired

A study published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that when a group is without a leader, a narcissist is likely to take charge. Researchers have found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups.

Freud considered “the narcissistic type... especially suited to act as a support for others, to take on the role of leaders and to... impress others as being ‘personalities’.”: one reason may be that “another person’s narcissism has a great attraction for those who have renounced part of their own... as if we envied them for maintaining a blissful state of mind—an unassailable libidinal position which we ourselves have since abandoned.”

According to the book Narcissism: Behind the Mask, there are four basic types of leader with narcissists most commonly in type 3 although they may be in type 1:

1. authoritarian with task oriented decision making
2. democratic with task oriented decision making
3. authoritarian with emotional decision making
4. democratic with emotional decision making

Donald Trump is the most strategic individual I have ever observed. He definitely fits in group 1 and not group 3.

It has often been said that the best type of government is a benevolent dictatorship. It’s how most families are run as you can’t allow the children to make the decisions.


60 posted on 08/10/2018 7:02:43 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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