Harvard Psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X Lee's take on Trump's Grievance Speech:

[Mike 03]

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She added this at five minutes after 2PM EST

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[Iliyah]

1. Hmmmmmmm, Nancy P is up to something . . .

[leftieNanner]

2. Those who are really in charge

Still consider him their useful idiot. Barr, Bannon, Miller et al.

At some point, even perhaps right now, he will break his bonds and burn it all down.

So many Rs think they can still control him, but he is already far down the path to madness.

This will not end well for him and for them. Hopefully they won't drag us all into the pit with them.

[Pachamama]

3. He even used the word "whacked" and other threatening language

He was ranting and incoherent- laced with lots of sniffing


Very scary and these messages from Bandy Lee is a serious alarm of how bad things are and will become.

[wishstar]

4. Meanwhile the pundits on MSNBC are normalizing his calling good Americans scum and evil

The speech was the most appalling and disgusting and disturbing speech ever given in the White House but you would never know that from Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews, Chuck Todd and the other talking heads including the Wash Post WH reporter who said how much his supporters love it when he goes off script.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

6. "his supporters love it when he goes off script."

Sounds like he's going off his rocker?

[katmondoo]

7. I am disgusted with the media treating this speech as just the usual Trump stuff.

He is mentally unbalance and they treat this as just normal Trump talk. Maybe the media is infected too. I am sick of them all.

[ScratchCat]

8. Well, two days ago

their script was to repeat the nonsensical Gallup pole and claim Trump's approval rating had increased. They're back to re-election mode. The narrative should be "why are serious people not telling him he has to resign?".

[Wednesdays]

10. Did you watch a different MSNBC?

I watched them immediately after the "speech," and they were stunned by what they just witnessed. Tweety went so far as to say that tRump's threats against Romney was "the talk of a dictator."

[generalbetrayus]

24. I agree. I'm listening to Nicolle Wallace right now

and she and her guests are ripping Donald a new one.

[Different Drummer]

5. Kicked, recommended and bookmarked!

DD

[Wednesdays]

9. We really need to implement the 25th Amendment

Because we can't have a fanatic in the White House... let's bring in President Pence!

Oh, wait.

[2naSalit]

13. +1

[Iliyah]

16. 25th Amendment should be trending on Twitter . .

that would set him off even more, well, if he understand what it means.

[Disaffected]

26. 25 45

[blueinredohio]

11. We can have every psychologist and psychiatrist in the world say how crazy he is but

we need someone to step up and stop this craziness before it gets worse.

[ScratchCat]

15. And here is what makes it so bad:

Where is Jeff Sessions?

Where is Dan Coates?

Where is Rex Tillerson?

Where is Don McGhan?

Where is General McMaster?

Where are all the people that Trump has either fired, pushed out or have otherwise resigned over him?

WHERE ARE THESE FREAKING PEOPLE!?!?

They had every opportunity to go to McConnell, Romney, Graham... any Senior GOP congressperson and tell them this man HAS TO BE REMOVED.

But nobody did.

Why?

It.Makes.No.Sense.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. But I wonder - did they go the GOP leaders with their issues? I wouldn't be surprised if they did,

and I wouldn't be surprised if McConnel et. al. told them to go fuck themselves every time they did.

They should all definitely have gone to the press, repeatedly - but perhaps they all felt it was worthless because they knew the Senate would never do anything about it, anyway.

[Skittles]

29. the Senate just bypassed the chance to do just that

they put Trump above AMERICA

[spanone]

12. K&R...

[Demovictory9]

14. Kick

[safeinOhio]

17. My favorite psych prof said

we have a term for this pathology in our field. We say they are fucking nuts.

[H2O Man]

18. Recommended.

[Lonestarblue]

19. The press covered up Reagan's dementia also.

Had the press not stayed silent, Reagan probably would not have won a second term. I’m not sure who was actually running the country during that second term, but Reagan was asleep for much of it. In a book written years ago, Leslie Stahl acknowledged that she and other reporters knew that Reagan was deteriorating mentally, yet they said nothing to the public. Today’s media is doing the same, keeping Trump’s mental instability out of the public eye. I don’t expect them to report that he is mentally unstable because only a doctor can do that, but they need to stop portraying him as a perfectly normal president who just does things differently. The job of oresident is too i,portant to have a psychotic in charge.

[wnylib]

32. You don't know who was running

the country under Reagan? Bush the Elder, and members
of the cabinet.

[renate]

20. I can see why the media don't address it directly

They just can't if they call themselves a news organization. Without any factual evidence, or even a testimonial from a doctor who has examined him personally, they just can't.

What I would love, however, would be one of those CNN specials about the topic of mental illness that focused on the symptomatology that he is demonstrating. Or a documentary about cults, or dictators, or propaganda techniques. I don't see why they don't do that.

[crickets]

25. That would be a masterful way to get around the 'we aren't doctors, but...' conundrum. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

22. One Twitter wag called it

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[malaise]

23. And the ReTHUG party cheered on the madness

with glee

[Willie Wunderlich]

27. Dr. Lee Is From Yale, Not Harvard

Minor semantic issue.

As a psychiatrist who graduated from Harvard Medical School, I should point out that Dr. Lee is a Yale Bulldog.

I happen to agree with her diagnoses of the Sociopath-in-Chief.

[H2O Man]

31. Dr. Lee is outstanding.

She is high among the most important voices in our country today.

[H2O Man]

30. Kick!

I think that this is an important OP/discussion. I also think that everyone should read Dr. Lee's "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" (updated in 2019).