The Atlantic - "The Mind of Donald Trump"

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  1. AFM

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    More of the meaningless chart. It is the real median household income which is the best indicator of the increase of the standard of living. And capitalism maximizes the rate of increase of that metric.
     
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    Social justice promotes injustice - by definition.

    The vote Bernie movement has and will continue to fail. The reasons are economic.

    And again social justice is injustice by definition. Social justice policies result in low economic growth and increased under/unemployment which regressively affects low income citizens and inhibits their ability to move up economically.
     
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    If he's not a patient he is not under the doctor's care.....if he's not under the doctor's care he is not a patient...
     
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    Funny how his idiot supporters screamed about Clinton's bout with an illness but don't think MENTAL illness is a real disease.

    It is.

    ...and just like the nation should know what the physical health of the President is it is even more important to know their mental health...

    What they DO and SAY is important and mental health affects what they DO and say......seems Trump supporters don't think mental health is important since they accept him as he is, batshi! loony....they think that's normal...
     
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    Most psychologists are worthless, nothing more than ideologues claiming they are who is to tell everyone how to act correctly to their own standards.
     
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    You aren't the only person who still claims the Vietnam War was right and that even when the intelligence community finally admitted they lied about N. Vietnam attacking one of your ships, you are absolutely are certain they did - and clearly insist Saddam Hussein really did have WMDs. The diving research continuing the Spanish really didn't sink the USS Maine and they are lying when they claimed the Lusitania was carrying weapons also are all lies. Since you any claims justifying any war are always true to you, it is no surprise that day and night you post messages urging war against Russia.

    People who lock step believe everything government says, particularly if towards war, are common as dirt. You would never dare question "patriotic public servants." Even if they admit they had not told the truth, you are certain what they first said absolutely is true and anyone who disagrees is a traitor in your book by your messages.

    Tell us against the opinion of "17 intelligence agencies." More important, tell us your strategy of winning war with Russia. This should be interesting.
     
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    No, Hilary Clinton lost, so no war with Russia as she promised. You can HOPE for it with Trump and accordingly thank Republicans, but you aren't really going to get nuclear war with Clinton's defeat.
     
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    Hmmm,interesting and you might have a real insight. How did you get the computer and Internet access for free? Are you posting from a library? Eat roadkill and out of trash cans, hunt your own food.

    You don't understand the "Hierarchy of Needs." It tells his theory of priorities in life, but not how to obtain those needs. You wrongly assert none have relevancy to money. Its just one of endless worthless words psychologists try to sell for their own profit.
     
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    Proof positive of the utter ignorance of lefties which is what this survey represents.

    BTW Your source "civis" is polluted.

    From their site: "The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has helped millions of Americans secure health insurance"
    https://www.civisanalytics.com/blog/category/news-and-insights/
     
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    My money says, if Sanders had been the dem candidate, trump would be back on his reality show. In hard times, created by neoliberalism, working people can no longer afford to be republicans, and come to their senses long enough to prosper once again.

    We have seen two basic economic models and what they each produced. The FDR model, which helped to create the largest middle class in world history, and corrected disparity in income, allowing more workers to prosper by their work, and the neoliberal model, as seen in the gilded age, and which returned again beginning in the 80s. So what did each produce for working people? Well, that is clear. Which one helped working americans, corrected some of the income disparity, and saw the rise of the largest middle class? Oh, the FDR way of doing things. Which model reversed what the FDR model did for the middle, and reversed the disparity in income to favor the top, and gave us open borders free trade, slave labor globalism and the destruction of working people? Oh, the mode; we have been under, neoliberalism, since it came back from the gilded age with Reagan and bush. That is what I like about history and living under both models They reveal the truth of what conservatism creates and what FDR progressivism created. And for average people, the FDR way of thinking wins hands down. Yes, having lived under both models reveals just how screwed up the neoliberal model is, unless you are in the top dog's camp. Which most con voters are not, and yet for some reason they confuse the smell of a rose with the smell of pig **** Now how they think pig **** smells like a rose is a mystery to me But they keep telling us that their neoliberal pig **** is a rose. I guess they have lost all sense of smell? .
     
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    The FDR model was initially based on Stalin's Soviet Union policies. Those policies turned a recession into a Great Depression.

    The supply side economic policies created economic growth of ~ 4%. Which would you rather have.

    What is the basis for your post ?? It completely distorts and reverses the reality of the actual economic history of the US.
     
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    How many times has this psychologist treated Donald Trump ?? Zero. Enough said.
     
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    Who did this Psychiatrist vote for?
     
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    Who cares ... ?
     
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    Oh yeah, 62% of Americans are ignorant about politics and are fools to want to dump an archaic Electoral College that is not the least bit "democratic". In California, 300,000 votes elect an EC-member, and in Idaho it only takes half that amount. As shown here.)

    And you are the only one who sees political matters fairly and without inherent bias of the Electoral College?

    What planet do you live on ... ?
     
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    AN AMERICAN PLAGUE

    Once again you are harping upon "the money" as if it were a fixation.

    The outcome of a market-economy is that for Supply to meet Demand, labor is required. That labor is justly or unjustly remunerated by Income, which when taxed becomes Wealth.

    And it is economists researching the available data who have brought to our attention the Inherent Unfairness of America's system of taxation instituted by Reckless Ronnie in the 1980s. But people like you are oblivious to the facts. Because, after all, what only matters is, "Who's got da muney!"

    Here is who:
    [​IMG]

    And you remain totally insensitive to the inherent unfairness (aka Income Disparity) that plagues America. So look at the above info-graphic at what happened as of 1980 to the distribution of Wealth in the USA ...
     
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    With the above sort of lamentable comment, it looks like you need one ...
     
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    Anyone ever heard of a SLUMS exam?
     
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    A POTUS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL PROBLEMS????

    The man is and always has been mentally afflicted since his youth. See here:
    Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness', say psychiatry experts at Yale conference
    - excerpt:
    We were warned. But within the euphoria of a National Election, and the help of a woefully biased Electoral College, he lost the popular-vote but got elected anyway. So, for this and the next three years you/me/everybody is going to have to put up with his illness.

    (Remember, this is the guy with his finger on the Nuclear-War Button ...)
     
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    What silly nonsense.

    Moving right along ...
     
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    Yeah, right - it's all about the muney! For those who cannot look beyond the dollar-sign, ignorance of the facts is bliss.

    Median Household Income means diddlyshat when a nation has had permanently since the 1960s around 15% of its population incarcerated below the Poverty Threshold. See this history since 1990 here:
    Poverty rate in the United States from 1990 to 2015

    And on an international scale of comparison, the US has nothing to crow about:
    [​IMG]

    Is that above a result of which we can be proud compared to other nations ... ?
     
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    Foolishness. The EC thwarts a few states with a higher population density from tyrannically ruling the rest of Geographic America. America is not a democracy it is a representative republic the EC allows geograhpic America to have an equal vote.
     
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    The injustice of "social" justice is clear and easy to understand. The inability to do so indicates ideological but not rational thinking.
     
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    The above is a prime example of how to "lie with statistics."

    And of course the poverty rate (which is a politically defined term) was steadily declining until the war on poverty legislation was implemented by LBJ in the 60's. Now we have gov imposed poverty rate stuck at ~ 15%. Had the gov stayed out of it capitalism would have resulted in a continual drop in the poverty rate - the best example of that is the welfare reforms of the Bill Clinton Presidency.
     
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    Al Sharpton captured the role of Black Americans in the DP perfectly in 2003.

    "The Rev. Al Sharpton cautioned the Democratic Party that it can't treat black voters as its "mistress" ... The fiery New York preacher and Democratic presidential candidate told a dinner for executives from minority construction companies Saturday that the patience blacks have for the party was about at an end.
    "We must not be in a relationship with a Democratic Party that takes us for granted. We must no longer be the political mistresses of the Democratic Party," ...
    "A mistress is where they take you out to have fun but they can't take you home to mama and daddy. Either we're going to get married in 2004 or we're going to find some folks who ain't ashamed to be seen with us," he said." Bob Lewis, "Sharpton: Black Voters Tired of Being Democratic Party's 'mistress'," Associated Press, 9/7/2003.
    http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAOJMONAKD.html

    It has taken a long time, but Black Americans finally get what the DP has done to them.
     

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