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President Donald Trump’s mental health might lead to the extinction of the human species, the Yale psychiatrist briefing lawmakers on the president's psychological state told Newsweek on Friday.
If it were possible, Dr. Bandy Lee said, "we would be declaring a public health emergency that needs to be responded to as quickly as possible.”
“As more time passes, we come closer to the greatest risk of danger, one that could even mean the extinction of the human species,” she said. “This is not hyperbole. This is the reality.”
“Would someone from [North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un's] depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!" the president tweeted on Tuesday night.
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What Lee would say is that a history of violence—like Trump’s “verbal aggressiveness, history of boasting about sexual assault, history of inciting violence at his rallies, and history of endorsing violence in his key public speeches”—is the best predictor of future violence. “He has also shown an attraction to violence and powerful weapons," she said, including nuclear weapons. "He has also repeatedly taunted a hostile nation."
Lee said she’d received death threats since hosting a conference in April on the ethics of warning the public about dangers posed by mentally ill public figures. "I notified campus police and I changed my means of getting around," she said.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: infolurker
One time, Nixon was overheard to remark he could "get up, walk to that (red) phone and in thirty minutes 150 million will be dead".
It not the presider with this terrible power, its the Military Industrial Complex.
The Pentagon issues those orders.
originally posted by: StallionDuck
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: infolurker
One time, Nixon was overheard to remark he could "get up, walk to that (red) phone and in thirty minutes 150 million will be dead".
It not the presider with this terrible power, its the Military Industrial Complex.
The Pentagon issues those orders.
actually... the PoTUS can call that strike anytime he wants to. He has the codes.
originally posted by: StallionDuck
I didn't know people actually still believed Psychiatry was a valid profession, lol.
Damn which doctors, the lot of them! I don't want anything to do with their voodoo whoodoo.
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: StallionDuck
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: infolurker
One time, Nixon was overheard to remark he could "get up, walk to that (red) phone and in thirty minutes 150 million will be dead".
It not the presider with this terrible power, its the Military Industrial Complex.
The Pentagon issues those orders.
actually... the PoTUS can call that strike anytime he wants to. He has the codes.
The military launches the missiles, or not.
MAD is a deception. The PTB will never destroy all they have worked so hard to build. The World is perfectly enslaved to them, they are as happy as pigs and mud. They sell you the fear of nukmageddon to keep you in line.
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: StallionDuck
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: infolurker
One time, Nixon was overheard to remark he could "get up, walk to that (red) phone and in thirty minutes 150 million will be dead".
It not the presider with this terrible power, its the Military Industrial Complex.
The Pentagon issues those orders.
actually... the PoTUS can call that strike anytime he wants to. He has the codes.
The military launches the missiles, or not.
MAD is a deception. The PTB will never destroy all they have worked so hard to build. The World is perfectly enslaved to them, they are as happy as pigs and mud. They sell you the fear of nukmageddon to keep you in line.
Only the President can direct the use of nuclear weapons by U.S. armed forces, including the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP). While the President does have unilateral authority as commander-in-chief to order that nuclear weapons be used for any reason at any time, the actual procedures and technical systems in place for authorizing the execution of a launch order requires a secondary confirmation under a two-man rule, as the President's order is subject to secondary confirmation by the Secretary of Defense. If the Secretary of Defense does not concur, then the President may in his sole discretion fire the Secretary. The Secretary of Defense has legal authority to approve the order, but cannot veto it.[1][2][3] The Secretary of Defense succession plan designates numerous individuals that may serve after a President removes his or her predecessor.[4] Traditionally, a civilian United States officer must countersign a Presidential order or resign.[5]
If the Secretary of Defense does not concur, then the President may in his sole discretion fire the Secretary.
It is the long-held position of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association that it is both unethical and extremely irresponsible for mental health experts to render professional verdicts based only on casual observation.
There’s a backstory to this rule......... The short of it is this: A 1964 survey of psychiatrists found that almost half of its respondents believed GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater was mentally unfit to be president. They called him a "dangerous lunatic," "paranoid," a "counterfeit figure of a masculine man,” and so on. Goldwater went on to lose the election, but he won his defamation lawsuit against the now-defunct Fact magazine, which published the psychiatrist survey. The American Psychiatric Association's president called the entire incident a "very public ethical misstep," and the group moved to institute a code, known commonly as the Goldwater Rule, stating that psychiatrists are to refrain from offering long-distance diagnoses.