But you all bristle at the idea that any negative observations made by trained professionals in the mental health field about trump .... Originally Posted by Munchmasterman... putting aside the effects of isolation with a liquor cabinet...
Have yous accused him of having dementia, Levi?I don't care if he has dementia or not. What I do know is Biden is a dummy. I can ask you the same question why does Trump's lies bother you and Biden's blatant stupidity doesn't? What bothers me about Trump is he hasn't had a wide spread investigation on the crooks in Government.
And if his “gaffs” bothers you, what do yous have to say about Trumps lies (and gaffes).
Amazing how the man managed to survive, lol! Originally Posted by HoeHummer
But you all bristle at the idea that any negative observations made by trained professionals in the mental health field about trump are not part of a complete study and you write it off, out of hand.
So by the same measure. you should give Biden the same deal and wait for a complete examination. I'm sure you know Biden has had a speech impediment since he was a kid.
Oh, that's right. Y'all make fun of them.
Originally Posted by Munchmasterman
Oh NO! not creepy Joe! He's fine! But Trump's a loon!
guess who's back in the news raising concerns about Trump .. and giving Corn Pop a clean bill of health? why Bandy Lee!
this is getting put out there precisely because Corn Pop is now the front-runner and he's more than just a stuttering gaffe reel. they have to cover for him now.
Trump's mental state — not Biden's — is the real concern, mental health professionals say
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-me...223617342.html
Joe Biden and Donald Trump. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP (2), Getty Images (2))
notice the photo .. smilin' Joe and ranting Trump. they'd never use this photo, would they?
Mental health professionals who have expressed concern over what they see as Donald Trump’s declining faculties say that similar fears about Joe Biden’s are overblown.
“A few stumbled words are not the same as the extreme danger that result from a list of signs that Donald Trump has shown,” Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, told Yahoo News, “and none of them apply to Joe Biden.”
Lee edited a collection of essays written by 27 mental health professionals titled “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” which detailed what the authors see as the risks posed by a leader who they regard as mentally and emotionally unfit for the most powerful office in the world.
Yet since Biden’s reemergence as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Lee has been flooded by requests to assess the former vice president’s string of stumbles in public appearances. In response, she published a piece on Medium correcting what she sees as the false equivalence between Trump’s “mental instability” and Biden’s occasional gaffes.
Trump frequently misstates or invents statistics or facts in his speeches, and in remarks last year seemed confused on the birthplace of his own father, saying he was born in Germany. (It was the Bronx.) Biden bungled an appeal for campaign volunteers at a debate last year, and recently shared what appeared to be a false memory of being “arrested on the streets of Soweto,” in South Africa, on his way to visit Nelson Mandela. (He was briefly detained at an airport during an official visit, but not arrested.)
“None of them are catastrophically alarming the way the signs have been with Donald Trump. I think there needs to be a measure of proportion here. On the one hand, we have such mental instability and such great cognitive decline as well as neurological signs that show imminent risk to the entire human civilization, compared with some gaffes perhaps. If we’re not addressing the former, why are we even talking about the latter?”
To be sure, one reason the topic of Biden’s mental capacity has become an issue in the campaign is that he has often struggled to express himself at campaign events and debates. But Biden, who has struggled with a stutter since childhood, has been prone to bouts of inarticulateness for decades.
If he goes on to win the presidency, Biden would be, at 78, the oldest American ever sworn into office. Trump turns 74 in June.
Biden himself has said that discussing a candidate’s cognitive capacity is not off limits.
“It would be a totally legitimate thing for people to say, Let’s look at Biden. He would be the oldest guy to ever be president. See what kind of shape he’s in, mentally, physically and the rest,” Biden told PBS in a January interview.
But another reason for the renewed focus on Biden’s mental acuity is that supporters of his political rivals, Trump and Bernie Sanders, have been promoting it as an issue on social media.
The GOP is already diagnosing Biden with dementia. Full stop. And all he's doing is giving them more material.
This is like an electoral asteroid hurdling towards the Earth, and people are pretending it doesn't exist.
It exists.pic.twitter.com/97R8tdFvKd
Mental health professionals tend to draw a distinction between Biden’s onstage missteps and what some of them regard as Trump’s propensity to bend reality to his purposes.
Biden “digresses and gets tangential, that’s not cognitive decline,” Lynne Meyer, a California psychologist told Yahoo News. “Trump’s cognitive decline or problems are that he doesn’t even seem to have comprehension of reality. That’s what it looks like.”
In 2018, Meyer joined more than 70 other mental health professionals in signing a letter to Trump’s then-physician Randy Jackson requesting that the president be given a mental health evaluation.
“When you see a person that can’t even articulate words, and it doesn’t happen just once and doesn’t remember names — Tim Apple, or whatever,” Meyer said. “I don’t see the same thing with Biden.”
Barbara Kaufman, a psychologist in Maryland, agreed that Trump’s mental condition was a far bigger threat to the country than Biden’s.
“His mental illnesses have much more of an impact and are much more dangerous than what Biden has,” Kaufman said.
In December, Biden made public three pages of his medical history, including his blood pressure (128/84) and cholesterol (126). “Vice President Biden is a healthy, vigorous, 77-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, wrote.
Sanders, who was briefly hospitalized after a heart attack in October, promised to release his medical records before the start of the primaries, but then said he had changed his mind. In December, he released three letters from doctors saying he was in good health. His blood pressure (102/56) was even lower than Biden’s, and both candidates were almost the same height (about six feet) and weight (178 for Biden, 174 for Sanders).
The records Biden released did not address his mental health or questions about cognitive decline.
While Lee emphasizes that Trump’s psyche is the much larger issue, she acknowledges that all those who seek the highest office in the land need to be evaluated in terms of mental health.
“It’s not an absent observation. Some of it may happen with normal decline. Others may be a warning sign, but we don’t know that without an examination,” Lee said. “But still, I would emphasize that I would give attention to the overwhelming danger that we have before us. Until that is addressed, or unless that is addressed, I personally do not wish to hear about Joe Biden.”
Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
Article XXV, Section 4:The DNC doesn't want him awake.
"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President."
Of course Obama was going to endorse the Biden coalition, you would have be brain dead to think he wouldn’t. The entire family will be campaigning for Joe and they will get millions to the polls for the Biden coalition.Wrong as usual. This great Country's end is near, it already has one foot in the grave. It won't matter who the president is now, bank on that.
I do think Biden is in it for one term, he will be selecting a VP who can carry on.
The great leaders end is near, bank on it. Originally Posted by Jaxson66
