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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/definition/con-20025568
We need to start calling this out.
Our Democratic leadership needs to raise a warning flag.
The media needs to discuss the potential ramifications of his illness.
We are already witnessing the symptoms.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)NPD sounds like the latest gimmicky condition. I think using the term "having Mental Health issues" may be a more apt way of describing the President's current mental health status.
And I agree, we should start prodding our Congress critters to invoke the 25t Amendment...
Girard442
(6,083 posts)"The court filings would have to use language like, 'cognitive deficits' or 'inability to process information so as to arrive at a rational plan of action', or 'self-destructive tendencies' but we know what they really mean is 'fucking nut case!' "
I'm not worthy, but still.
unblock
(52,309 posts)they could rather easily make a case based on npd, pathological lying, bipolar or other mood disorder, etc.
it's more a matter of having the will to do it. the republican party doesn't want that political disaster on their hands, they don't want to be seen as defying the will of their own voters nor as having put a crazy person on the nuclear trigger.
furthermore, his cabinet is the least likely group to do this, given that donnie surely screened them out primarily based on personal loyalty to him.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)tblue37
(65,483 posts)Initech
(100,099 posts)Is a fucking popularity contest.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)(Congress & Senate) could also use to remove the President from office. So only Cabinet level officials can invoke the 25th Amendment?
How many taxpayers voted for these Cabinet members?
66ty6
(12 posts)the same sort of cold, calculating hateful bigoted prick that Pence is. We have to be careful
what we wish for.
mopinko
(70,198 posts)no messy trial. no iffy outcomes.