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Why Ted Cruz’s Facial Expression Makes Me Uneasy
Psychology Today ^ | Posted Jan 01, 2016 | Richard E. Cytowic M.D

Posted on 02/05/2016 9:31:04 AM PST by entropy12

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To: zerosix

The first state to legalize abortion should have been expelled from the Union—because a state that legalizes murder is not a republic. Only states with a republican form of government may belong to the Union.


181 posted on 02/05/2016 10:55:25 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
Amen!

That's why took a phony, lying case to the Supreme Court, knowing that idiots like Brennan would find some "penumbra" to not only make abortion, they forced all states to go along (the only time I ever heard or knew of the word "penumbra" used was related to eclipses)!

That's exactly how liberals get everything done, they know the people will not vote in favor of it, and the legislatures don't dare vote for it, so they know they were able to get some liberal stiff into a judge's position, who will "order it done" and then wait as one by one court lawsuit cases get bumped up the hill to finally reach the U.S. Supreme Court!

Of the few states "honoring gay marriage," only one had actually put it to a vote of the people! The other states had it imposed on them by a judge!

Shakespere was right!

182 posted on 02/05/2016 11:11:54 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: zerosix

Brennan was the real brains behind Roe v. Wade. He didn’t want to take the heat for it, being a “Catholic,” so he got Blackmun to take it.

When Brennan died, a “Catholic” priest, Fr. Milton Jordan, of the Archdiocese of Washington, stood by the coffin in the lobby of the Supreme Court, and said, “Bill Brennan left the world a better place than he found it.”

If I had been archbishop of Washington, Jordan would have been suspended for at least a year—to give him time to become a Catholic.


183 posted on 02/05/2016 11:23:41 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
So sad isn't it.

You look at all the phony "Catholics" who support abortion, "gay marriage," gays adopting children, pro-homosexual non-discrimination and anti-bullying laws that are purely designed to promote the homosexual lifestyle, and you wonder, who are those Catholic institutions, schools and clergy supporting them?

184 posted on 02/05/2016 11:34:38 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: 20yearsofinternet

I have no idea whether it has merit or not, but Ted Cruz’s expressions freak me out sometimes too. I think it’s the permanent “watching puppies burn to death” sadness he wears across his brow at all times.


I couldn’t agree more. The guy is not appealing and I think it got worse after hanging around with Glenn Beck.


185 posted on 02/06/2016 8:30:07 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Bob434

Except how do you know that they used a representative sample of elections?

I’m not saying there is nothing to it, but the left wants to do quite a few things, including declaring conservatives unfit adults, and they want “scientists” to do that.

Every now and then I see something from the left saying that they need psychology to reveal the pathology of Bible-believing Christianity and conservatism.

Maybe they can’t get that in one fell swoop, but these sorts of hit pieces will do just fine.

Really, there is no words to describe the lack of integrity and justness by the left.

How many Democratic politicians could similar “scientific” analyses be launched against?

The left will never do THAT, though.

The entire point of this “analysis” is to attack Bible-believing Christians and conservatives.

It is sheer politics, no matter what this lying doctor says.

It’s the left elevating personal opinions to objective status in order to advance their agenda while disingenuously denying they’re either one.

While this doctor says he’s “not a Democrat,” I believe he’s intentionally not being fully forthcoming. He didn’t say he was a Republican, did he? He might be:

A very moderate Republican who is practically a Democrat.

Unregistered, but votes Democrat.

Registered to a third party. Perhaps he’s even a Socialist.

A registered Democrat despite what he says.

He wrote this not to write an article on neurology, but to smear Bible-believing Christians.

I’m sure this can be seen in the reaction of the left. I also saw this article on Mediaite. The liberals commenting on this have the predictable reaction: the man is doctor and is just using objective science.

http://www.mediaite.com/weird/neurologist-analyzes-why-cruzs-strange-smile-disturbs-and-unsettles/


186 posted on 02/06/2016 6:00:26 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Make this Unborn Children and "The Center for Medical Progress" Awareness Week)
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To: entropy12; All

The doctor apparently supports homosexuality:

http://www.thedccenter.org/images/Fall20007Fundraiser.pdf

This is an “LGBT” fundraiser and the location for it is listed as the home of this doctor and another man, who, it turns out, is the doctor’s “husband”:

“MY HUSBAND AND I HAD A CHOICE of marrying in either California or Massachusetts in July 2008 — the only two states where it was then legal. The West won and we set off, not knowing that we would be one of only 18,000 same-sex couples to marry in the big blue state before Proposition 8 foreclosed that option four months later.”

https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/the-night-i-danced-with-liberace

He says, though, that “he’s not a Democrat.”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/richard-e-cytowic-md

His Psychology Today article:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-fallible-mind/201601/why-ted-cruz-s-facial-expression-makes-me-uneasy


187 posted on 02/06/2016 6:20:31 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Make this Unborn Children and "The Center for Medical Progress" Awareness Week)
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To: entropy12
The author's smile seems just as questionable:


188 posted on 02/06/2016 6:25:13 PM PST by Faith Presses On (Make this Unborn Children and "The Center for Medical Progress" Awareness Week)
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To: Faith Presses On

My wife will confirm, I am to the right of Attila the Hun on hetero-sexuality.

If you use your brain in properly, you might understand the article is NOT about homosexuality. The context is this doctor’s claimed expertise as a qualified psychiatrist, which you are not, and so his opinion on Ted Cruz’s facial characteristics has 10,000 times more credibility than you because are basically uneducated in this field of study.

What you are doing is using the tactics used by liberals, which is when they can not respond in context, they bifurcate into ad hominem about the person. I have a feeling you may not understand what ad hominem means, so here is the explanation:

An argument or reaction directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.


189 posted on 02/06/2016 9:22:50 PM PST by entropy12 (Trump is the only one not bought off by ultra-rich donors.)
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To: entropy12

I was surprised by your post for a second until it came to me that you were likely a Trump supporter, and a die-hard one at that. So I looked it up and saw that for myself, including your remarks referring to Cruz as “Rafael.”

I’ll tell you that I support Cruz as my first choice, but I also support Trump. I’ve argued here for Trump and Cruz and their supporters to tone down their attacks on each other, and I’ve also criticized Cruz. I see quite a lot in him to distrust. But I also do in the other candidates, including Trump. I don’t believe we can change our country just by changing the leader. That’s the wrong approach to begin with. I was a liberal into in my thirties, and liberals look at things in that top-down way, and exalt their leaders as messiahs. Instead we have to work first to change the country and the culture. Then our leaders will have more to work with.

On your “feeling” that I don’t know what “ad hominem” means, you’re incorrect.

And do you know that probably the most common reason why people accidentally use logical fallacies is that there are properly logical reasons for arguing things that are very similar to these fallacies?

For example, it is not an “ad hominem” attack to question if someone has a hidden agenda and is not being impartial. That includes so-called “experts,” whose biases can and do get the best of them frequently.

I would truly be shocked if you say you don’t question the impartiality and possible hidden motives behind the opinion of recognized sometimes. Do you question psychiatrists on other things, including their take on homosexuality? Do you or will you question them when they attack Trump, his supporters and conservatives in general for being mentally unfit? I can think of a whole host of issues where Bible-believing Christians and conservatives challenge medical professionals (does a twenty-week-old fetus feel pain?), scientists (intelligent design and global warming), politicians (who spend their time studying issues and have info the public isn’t privy to), educators, and journalists.

So do you relinquish your right to speak out because people in these fields likely have more education and experience in them than you do? Will you, for instance, not criticize the media for the job they do because you presumably don’t have an education in journalism?

We should be consistent, and not shifting around in the winds according to whether or not a type of attack is leveled at our favored candidate, or an opponent.

Right now, I’d have to believe you would have a polar opposite reaction to this piece if it was about Trump, as it easily could have been, and not Cruz. On the other hand, if it was something similar about Trump, or even Hillary Clinton, for that matter, I would judge it on its merits.

On neurology, actually I do know quite a lot on psychology and psychiatry and some on neurology. God gave me a knack for these subjects, and I’ve been following them for years. I’ve run across different articles on facial expressions before, in fact.

But I also know a political hit piece and PURE PROPAGANDA dressed up and pretending to be just “objective science” when I see it, and that’s what this is.

Is his list of people who dislike Cruz “scientific” or political? He quotes Establishment Republicans (and in the case of Peter King, a New York congressman who is stridently a Catholic defender, while Cruz is evangelical) and Cruz’s college roommate who is a Hollywood screenwriter. And he approvingly quotes the screenwriter who is having to “apologize” for not killing Cruz when he had the chance.

Of course, liberals agree that murder is wrong, but there is that exception when someone is so evil they deserve it, so that must be what liberals are claiming. This is much like people on Twitter calling for Trump’s assassination, without any penalty leveled against them for doing so. Yet in this case, it is a doctor making a claim based on “science” who agrees that killing Cruz would have been a morally good thing to do, if it could have been known he’d run for President. The left considers both Cruz and Trump to be Hitler, and have said as much, and they (and the rest of the Republican candidates) will be treated as such. In this primary season, Cruz and Trump are indistinguishable to liberals, while in the general election, all Republicans will be Cruz and Trump to the left.

The doctor also references “the Germans,” who don’t like Cruz. I would imagine he’s only talking about the Germans who dislike Cruz, though, which would mostly be any we would call liberal.

Something like this should be hit, and hit as hard as possible, because it’s absolutely unprincipled. It’s like Russian doctors testifying to the “mental illness” of those who are enemies of the political regime

It was such a political hit piece that the author lamely added that he “wasn’t a Democrat,” though everything in this article supports just such a conclusion, so that if he “isn’t a Democrat,” we should take that as only some technicality, for it’s clear that whatever the true case may be, he fully supports and works for all the agendas that Democrats do.


190 posted on 02/07/2016 6:36:17 AM PST by Faith Presses On (Make this Unborn Children and "The Center for Medical Progress" Awareness Week)
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To: Faith Presses On
I love you as a FReeper but please write something shorter. Your post exceeded my limits of patience. Best luck to Rafael Edward Cruz (his REAL name).


191 posted on 02/07/2016 10:19:31 AM PST by entropy12 (Trump is the only one not bought off by ultra-rich donors.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Also, On the subject of Trump’s facial expressions, there is definite need for improvement. He also needs to throw fewer insults at others. Because there is no need for them.

The main reason Trump has resonated with voters is because he is NOT in the pockets of rich donors, and brought up politically taboo subjects of Illegals flooding in from Mexico border, and banning UN-vetted Muslims.


192 posted on 02/07/2016 10:47:21 AM PST by entropy12 (Trump is the only one not bought off by ultra-rich donors.)
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