@edg

Or Frist.. whatever his name was. The Dr-congress person who diagnosed Terry Schiavo, the brain dead woman over the internet. Remember that fiasco when Bush called congress back to overrule the courts?

The number of new drugs that make the market is criminal. Take the new drug for psoriasis. Sure it may make it feel better, but it could cause a heart attack too. Lots of drugs with this side effect.

I recently took one that caused me to bleed underneath my skin if I bumped my hand on anything. Looked up its side effects. "Warning: this drug may damage the liver. Ya think? How about the psychiatric drugs that causes suicidal ideation? Took one of them back in the 80's and started thinking of ways to kill my self. Fun times.

Dr. Bandy X. Lee has apparently not learned that remote diagnosis by Internet is frowned upon by psychiatric professionals. She should be ashamed of herself and Yale should take her to task. Throwing around glib diagnoses based on political prejudice without ever having met the subject or conducted an actual evaluation disqualifies her as a serious practitioner.

@Big Al

I have unofficially diagnosed Trump to have the "totally whacked out" disease, a little known disease that usually afflicts only rich narcissistic sociopathic sort of billionaires who think playing golf is a job function and sending out tweets is comparable to writing well thought out policy papers.

Iow, I don't think it takes a psychiatrist or a doctor to realize that the dude is unfit for office. Those that can't figure that out are blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night.

To the naysayers, come on, it's clear he should be nowhere near the white house let alone living in it.

@mimi the democratic party, but I agree, and I'm a vet as well. Of course it won't solve the bigger problem which is our government being controlled by an oligarchy/plutocracy, but his big mouth has gone well too far and there is no end in sight. This vet supports this effort. He is unfit for office and should be removed. Just because Pence would be next does not mean that action should not be taken, he is what he is. Clinton may have brought us to the same point relative to world affairs but she's not in that chair, he is. He is committing war crimes when he says things like he does, threats of aggressive war are against the UN Charter and the use of nuclear weapons is and always will be illegal and immoral.

I support also that group for a long time. They are refreshingly sane in all this hoopla-messy world.

mimi

The President of the United States is an unstable man. He is not well.

Earlier tonight, Trump tweeted that his nuclear button was "much bigger & more powerful" than Kim Jong Un's. Sixteen minutes later, he tweeted about announcing winners in a "corrupt media" award show next Monday.

Look, It's past time Congress stop this madness. It's long past time Twitter takes responsibility and stops his dangerous threats.

But the truth is, it is unlikely either will. That job is up to us. And that means fighting this unstable, unfit, unwell president every day, every time he puts our nation at risk. But we can't do it alone.

Chip in .... to help us elevate the voices of veterans willing to stand up to Trump, and to encourage Congress to keep our nation safe from Donald Trump.

There are a lot of people making jokes about this on the internet right now, but it's no laughing matter. It's up to all of us to act.

All my best,

Jon Soltz
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman
VoteVets

I can't understand why so many go on and on about past Presidents and past wanna-be Presidents complaining how they were so very bad, no, badder even, and so much more dangerous, most deceivingly dangerous, and why they are boiling over and bubbling up all the time about them, THEM, who have NO power anymore, but the current President in power, oh no, he gets a pass. Great.

I mean, tell me why.

@mimi

$$Chip$$ in .... to help us elevate the voices of veterans willing to stand up to Trump, and to encourage Congress to keep our nation safe from Donald Trump.

How much money for how many veterans standing up to Trump will it take to get him out of office? How much to get congress to do it instead? Every one of them can already see that he's a danger to the country and the world, yet the republicans won't do anything until they get everything they want and even if they do something, we're stuck with Pence. Most of the things Trump is doing is the republicans wet dreams. Rolling back every regulation that protects us has been dreamed of since they were put in place.

I support also that group for a long time. They are refreshingly sane in all this hoopla-messy world.

mimi

The President of the United States is an unstable man. He is not well.

Earlier tonight, Trump tweeted that his nuclear button was "much bigger & more powerful" than Kim Jong Un's. Sixteen minutes later, he tweeted about announcing winners in a "corrupt media" award show next Monday.

Look, It's past time Congress stop this madness. It's long past time Twitter takes responsibility and stops his dangerous threats.

But the truth is, it is unlikely either will. That job is up to us. And that means fighting this unstable, unfit, unwell president every day, every time he puts our nation at risk. But we can't do it alone.

Chip in .... to help us elevate the voices of veterans willing to stand up to Trump, and to encourage Congress to keep our nation safe from Donald Trump.

There are a lot of people making jokes about this on the internet right now, but it's no laughing matter. It's up to all of us to act.

All my best,

Jon Soltz
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman
VoteVets

I can't understand why so many go on and on about past Presidents and past wanna-be Presidents complaining how they were so very bad, no, badder even, and so much more dangerous, most deceivingly dangerous, and why they are boiling over and bubbling up all the time about them, THEM, who have NO power anymore, but the current President in power, oh no, he gets a pass. Great.

I mean, tell me why.

@mimi Just remember that before you try screaming anti-Trumpism in front of our Amerikkkan Stasi. Besides, I come (here) to bury Trump, not to praise him--but ya gotta know your enemy.

I support also that group for a long time. They are refreshingly sane in all this hoopla-messy world.

mimi

The President of the United States is an unstable man. He is not well.

Earlier tonight, Trump tweeted that his nuclear button was "much bigger & more powerful" than Kim Jong Un's. Sixteen minutes later, he tweeted about announcing winners in a "corrupt media" award show next Monday.

Look, It's past time Congress stop this madness. It's long past time Twitter takes responsibility and stops his dangerous threats.

But the truth is, it is unlikely either will. That job is up to us. And that means fighting this unstable, unfit, unwell president every day, every time he puts our nation at risk. But we can't do it alone.

Chip in .... to help us elevate the voices of veterans willing to stand up to Trump, and to encourage Congress to keep our nation safe from Donald Trump.

There are a lot of people making jokes about this on the internet right now, but it's no laughing matter. It's up to all of us to act.

All my best,

Jon Soltz
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman
VoteVets

I can't understand why so many go on and on about past Presidents and past wanna-be Presidents complaining how they were so very bad, no, badder even, and so much more dangerous, most deceivingly dangerous, and why they are boiling over and bubbling up all the time about them, THEM, who have NO power anymore, but the current President in power, oh no, he gets a pass. Great.

I mean, tell me why.

@hecate Brilliant!

in March of 2005, Bill Frist, a US senator, and also a doctor, walked out onto the Senate floor, and there soberly intoned that he had looked into a tube, and thereby concluded that the brainless Terri Schiavo would soon leap out of bed, to laugh and dance and play, and even learn the cello, everyone laughed and called him names. The term "fristing" entered the language, to denote boobs who looked into tubes and there divined serious medical conditions, or lack thereof.

Thirteen years on, fristing is just another part of the politics.

Here in the Hairball-Free Zone of California, psychotherapists are not supposed to divulge to anyone any patient particulars unless the person basically flourishes an ax and says he is leaving the office now to bury it in the head of the guy selling flowers down in the lobby—and you believe him.

There is, however, the "grocery store exception," whereby if the patient is encountered somewhere outside the therapy session, like, say, in the Bezos Whole Foods, and there commences unsane babble, that is not covered by the psychotherapist/patient privilege, and so the brain-worker can basically repeat it to anyone, if s/he wants.

I guess all these fristians hand-wringing about The Hairball are proceeding pursuant to the "grocery store exception." When The Hairball chunders onto a television or a twitler, that is like being harangued by him on the street. So anyone can say anything about it to anyone at all.

These brain-people, also, are not—any of them—actually treating The Hairball. Which has to make their patients, stuck paying the insane rates, wonder why they should have to continue to come in and lay on the couch, and pay all the money, when, with The Hairball, their doctor can just look at a tube, and then pronounce the guy fifteen kinds of Danger crazy.

Fristing predates the tubes, of course, but traditionally, among the Americans, it was primarily a domain of the reporters. On December 11, 1861, for instance, the Cincinnati Commercial led with the headline GENERAL SHERMAN INSANE.

The reporters did not like Sherman. Because Sherman wanted to shoot the reporters. But Grant never let him. Grant was a party-pooper.

The Hairball, he also would like to shoot the reporters. And there is no Grant to stop him. But, The Hairball hasn't shot any reporters. Yet. Still, his reign is young.