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New Yorker: Psychiatrists Should Be Allowed to Call Trump Crazy
NewsBusters ^ | August 26, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 08/26/2017 1:20:08 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Support mental health or I'll kill you!

New Yorker magazine seems to have this deep psychological need for President Donald Trump to be officially called crazy by psychiatrists. That need is so urgent that their August 23 article by Jeannie Suk Gersen on this subject almost exactly echoes their May 22 story by Jane Mayer on the same topic. Both articles urgently plead for the end to the "Goldwater Rule" that wisely prohibits psychiatrists from calling public figures nuts if they hadn't personally examined them. Here is Gersen on the couch relaying her shrink fantasy in Will Trump Be the Death of the Goldwater Rule?:

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KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; goldwaterrule; psychiatrists; trump
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The just want to remove the Goldwater Rule so leftwing shrinks will have permission to call Trump craaaaaazy.
1 posted on 08/26/2017 1:20:08 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Can endocrinologists call him diabetic without examining him too? Can arborists diagnose him with Dutch elm disease?


2 posted on 08/26/2017 1:29:50 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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Oh! You mean like WE were encouraged to call Barky a homo, alien, raghead communist? Like that? Howcum I can’t remember that happening? Howcum all I remember is commie libs having a cow if ANYONE questioned ANYTHING about Barky?


3 posted on 08/26/2017 1:29:58 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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True to form for leftists, anyone in the old Soviet Union who was against the communist party was declared insane.

The so-called anti-fascists are supporters of the murderous communist system, which murdered more than 100 million innocent people during the 20th century alone.

I guess that’s what leftists call “a good start.”

Mark


4 posted on 08/26/2017 1:30:20 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: PJ-Comix

If anyone would know about crazy, it’s the New Yorker.


5 posted on 08/26/2017 1:31:40 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: PJ-Comix

They can call him anything they like so long as it’s “Mr. President”.


6 posted on 08/26/2017 1:33:08 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PJ-Comix

She clerked for Justice Souter. What else do you need to know?


7 posted on 08/26/2017 1:36:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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8 posted on 08/26/2017 1:37:03 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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who has a weaker hold on reality:

the people who thought Clinton had a 98.9 percent chance of winning the election;

or Donald Trump


9 posted on 08/26/2017 1:45:58 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (The CBC: Deceiving Canadians since 1936.)
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Only Trump’s personal physician knows about his mental state and he is barred by ethics rules from disclosing it without Trump’s consent.

There is such a thing as patient privacy. What Democrats don’t really like are Trump’s personal and political views. But that’s different from an assessment of mental instability.

And no one has shown Trump is certifiably crazy to the point where he needs to be removed from office.


10 posted on 08/26/2017 1:49:18 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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The just want to remove the Goldwater Rule so leftwing shrinks will have permission to call Trump craaaaaazy.

No, they want to be able to call every American in public life or private who is not 100% in step with global communism crazy.

They can then go after taking their weapons away from them and have them locked up.

11 posted on 08/26/2017 1:50:13 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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“Crazy” is what the government declares you to be so as to justify putting you in a jail that is not called a jail, but a “mental institution.”


12 posted on 08/26/2017 1:56:11 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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They are the crazy ones.

Never mind the Goldwater rule, medical ethics should not allow them to make public assessments of people in general, and especially of people they don’t even know.


13 posted on 08/26/2017 2:06:21 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You left out those “crazy” people that believe the Bible as truth. They’re laying the groundwork to start rounding up people like me. History proves I’m right.


14 posted on 08/26/2017 2:18:33 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: PJ-Comix

I am an undocumented psychiatrist and I have diagnosed Jeannie Suk Gersen as suffering from severe moral narcissism , delusion and border line personality disorder.


15 posted on 08/26/2017 2:20:24 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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So, if a “Professional” issues a “professional opinion”, and that opinion is documented to be false, out of malice, AND part of a broad attempt to overthrow a valid US election . . .

can we HANG all of the co-conspirators?

#MAGA
#Build the Wall


16 posted on 08/26/2017 2:33:41 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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I guess its only fair, because I believe 95% of psychiatrists are themselves crazy.


17 posted on 08/26/2017 2:54:51 PM PDT by PGR88
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Many years ago did psychological testing on psychiatry resident doctors and on inpatient psych unit patients. There wasn’t any difference.


18 posted on 08/26/2017 3:13:07 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Gun buybacks are one of the most ineffectual public policies that have ever been invented")
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I’m all for having them call him insane just so I can watch them get sued into oblivion.


19 posted on 08/26/2017 3:27:24 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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Psychiatrists are the least respected in the medical specialities. Most are lunatics. Doctor...treat thy self.


20 posted on 08/26/2017 3:31:03 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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