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Susan Linehan's avatar

well, it IS a matter of right and wrong. It is wrong to put kids in a position of facing a risk of preventable death.

War Powers Act? Not only is this not what the Act does, but he's already broken it--way more than 48 hours to report to Congress.

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Karen Katzenyammer's avatar

Not Normal... This meme and the comment from Hegseth should upset every American down deep into our souls. So Trump, who is begging for the Pulitzer Peace Prize is declaring war on Americans as well as foreign countries? I read a great article in the Guardian by Sydney Blumenthal about this insane idea Trump is worthy of any such honor.

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Manqueman's avatar

Re Pulce and Bessent: I keep saying that the entire party is made up of insane people, although the pathologies vary.

It sounds crazy, hyperbolic — and just keep providing proof belying the sense of hyperbole. Indeed, nearly all of today’s post offers examples making my case.

As for CBS News, I’m so old I remember when Sunday morning shows ran interviews live and obviously unedited. I say knowing that the interviews won’t be edited will keep both sides on their toes maybe. And even if not, it’s not like it’ll make their journalism significantly worse. Come on. They and their peers have been failing and harming the nation for decades. This won’t make any difference that matters.

BTW: war dot gov went live days ago.

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noeire's avatar

Yes, they have been failing and harming US for decades. Although, it WILL matter.

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Manqueman's avatar

If you’re referencing my dis of the establishment media, the harm’s already been done over the course of most fifty years.

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Kim's avatar

I keep thinking of a generation of children exposed to these numbskulls as "leaders."

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Karen Clark's avatar

Remember MUSK BLACK EYE? haha. Delivered by Treasury Secretary too!

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xaxnar's avatar

“Only the best people” and other lies.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Trump's meme with the

reference to Apocalypse

Now and the actual line

of smelling napalm in the

morning in the movie?

Perhaps MSM should

show the photos of that

little girl, bathed in

napalm, running,

screaming on fire. There

ya go Trump and crew.

Truth to corrupt power.

Bessent is upset. Poor

baby. Billionaire going to

duke it out with another

toady. Trump would pay

big bucks to see it

happen on Rose Garden

patio.

Are we happy yet?

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mugseyfromdownunder's avatar

Speaking of pathologies, the meteoric rise of Florida's Ron DeSantis-appointed Surgeon-General, Dr Joseph Ladapo - whilst par for the Cuckoo's Nest - is intriguing to say the least.

The wiki entry for Nigerian-born US citizen refers to his memoir as mentioning child sexual abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ladapo

If based in fact, this aspect of Dr Ladapo's history resonates with personal observations (though I'm a retired clinical psychologist they are nonetheless anecdotal) of survivors of CSA with needle phobias being also full-blown anti-vaxxers.

It's possible that the puncturing of the body by the needle symbolises sexual violation (if not rape) for certain victims, triggering traumatic memories of a powerless and terrifying situation of violence against the self with no redress especially where threats to others may also be present.

That this medically qualified adult survivor might also free-associate an experience of utter powerlessness to slavery is not beyond the logic of cognitive features of sexual abuse trauma, just as the compensations of power may prove grist for evangelising tendencies that spring from a trauma-related compulsion to protect the whole world from institutionalised oppression.

Unconscious or otherwise, acting out is not healing, however.

If one considers the familial/social/medical context of administration of vaccines to occasionally terrified and protesting infants/children needing reassurance and comfort by parents and caregivers, the 'needle hypothesis' is not altogether far-fetched and - given its potential to explain such idées fixes - might bear closer investigation, given the dangers of promoting chronically traumatised and deluded professionals into powerful positions of responsibility for the health of millions of Americans.

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