Harvard Psychiatrist Declares Trump a "Sociopath" and "A Very Sick Individual."

PkrBum wrote:https://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-donald-trumps-first-100-days/

A  new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of President Trump’s first 100 days in office.

The report is based on an analysis of news reports in the print editions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, the main newscasts of CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC, and three European news outlets (The UK’s Financial Times and BBC, and Germany’s ARD).

Findings include: Trump has received unsparing coverage for most weeks of his presidency, without a single major topic where Trump’s coverage, on balance, was more positive than negative, setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president.

PkrBum wrote:Don't worry... we'll all play by the same rules and standards soon.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laguna-arrest-20170823-story.html

Police said R.C. Maxwell was “peacefully” speaking with a group of people at Main Beach Park when the counter-protester punched him.

Maxwell, a black Trump supporter, told The Times he went to speak with counter-protesters “trying to find commonalities” and was explaining his views when he was attacked. He said he was also pepper-sprayed and choked.

The confrontation was captured on video that was posted to social media. Link

Floridatexan wrote:

PkrBum wrote:Don't worry... we'll all play by the same rules and standards soon.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laguna-arrest-20170823-story.html

Police said R.C. Maxwell was “peacefully” speaking with a group of people at Main Beach Park when the counter-protester punched him.

Maxwell, a black Trump supporter, told The Times he went to speak with counter-protesters “trying to find commonalities” and was explaining his views when he was attacked. He said he was also pepper-sprayed and choked.

The confrontation was captured on video that was posted to social media. Link

An anecdote that has nothing to do with the subject.  No surprise.

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Floridatexan wrote:

PkrBum wrote:Don't worry... we'll all play by the same rules and standards soon.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laguna-arrest-20170823-story.html

Police said R.C. Maxwell was “peacefully” speaking with a group of people at Main Beach Park when the counter-protester punched him.

Maxwell, a black Trump supporter, told The Times he went to speak with counter-protesters “trying to find commonalities” and was explaining his views when he was attacked. He said he was also pepper-sprayed and choked.

The confrontation was captured on video that was posted to social media. Link

An anecdote that has nothing to do with the subject.  No surprise.

A criminal act is not civil discourse.

It's amazing how quickly and completely comrades absorb leftist mantra.

PkrBum wrote:
A criminal act is not civil discourse.

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Floridatexan wrote:

PkrBum wrote:Don't worry... we'll all play by the same rules and standards soon.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laguna-arrest-20170823-story.html

Police said R.C. Maxwell was “peacefully” speaking with a group of people at Main Beach Park when the counter-protester punched him.

Maxwell, a black Trump supporter, told The Times he went to speak with counter-protesters “trying to find commonalities” and was explaining his views when he was attacked. He said he was also pepper-sprayed and choked.

The confrontation was captured on video that was posted to social media. Link

An anecdote that has nothing to do with the subject.  No surprise.

A criminal act is not civil discourse.

It's amazing how quickly and completely comrades absorb leftist mantra.

Tell us again why people who are willing to combat hate groups like the KKK, neo-Nazis, and Skinheads, etc., are the bad guys.  And while you're at it tell us what this has to do with a Harvard psychiatrist claiming Trump is fucking mad and dangerous .... LOL

PkrBum wrote: What would MLK have said?

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Wordslinger wrote:

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Floridatexan wrote:

PkrBum wrote:Don't worry... we'll all play by the same rules and standards soon.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laguna-arrest-20170823-story.html

Police said R.C. Maxwell was “peacefully” speaking with a group of people at Main Beach Park when the counter-protester punched him.

Maxwell, a black Trump supporter, told The Times he went to speak with counter-protesters “trying to find commonalities” and was explaining his views when he was attacked. He said he was also pepper-sprayed and choked.

The confrontation was captured on video that was posted to social media. Link

An anecdote that has nothing to do with the subject.  No surprise.

A criminal act is not civil discourse.

It's amazing how quickly and completely comrades absorb leftist mantra.

Tell us again why people who are willing to combat hate groups like the KKK, neo-Nazis, and Skinheads, etc., are the bad guys.  And while you're at it tell us what this has to do with a Harvard psychiatrist claiming Trump is fucking mad and dangerous .... LOL

They are off the rail and you're yielding them legitimacy. While we can all condemn Nazis or kkk... you can't condemn a group that uses violence indiscriminately. For fucks sake... they sucker punched a black man... how is that ok with you? Or the Berkley free speech demonstration? What would MLK have said? Y'all better find better role models sparky.

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Floridatexan wrote:

PkrBum wrote:Don't worry... we'll all play by the same rules and standards soon.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laguna-arrest-20170823-story.html

Police said R.C. Maxwell was “peacefully” speaking with a group of people at Main Beach Park when the counter-protester punched him.

Maxwell, a black Trump supporter, told The Times he went to speak with counter-protesters “trying to find commonalities” and was explaining his views when he was attacked. He said he was also pepper-sprayed and choked.

The confrontation was captured on video that was posted to social media. Link

An anecdote that has nothing to do with the subject.  No surprise.

A criminal act is not civil discourse.

It's amazing how quickly and completely comrades absorb leftist mantra.

Tell us again why people who are willing to combat hate groups like the KKK, neo-Nazis, and Skinheads, etc., are the bad guys.  And while you're at it tell us what this has to do with a Harvard psychiatrist claiming Trump is fucking mad and dangerous .... LOL

They are off the rail and you're yielding them legitimacy. While we can all condemn Nazis or kkk... you can't condemn a group that uses violence indiscriminately. For fucks sake... they sucker punched a black man... how is that ok with you? Or the Berkley free speech demonstration? What would MLK have said? Y'all better find better role models sparky.

Right -- if a liberal punches out a Nazi you whine and whine.  But nothing but silence if it's the other way around.  We've got your number my fascist friend ...

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:

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Floridatexan wrote:

PkrBum wrote:Don't worry... we'll all play by the same rules and standards soon.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-laguna-arrest-20170823-story.html

Police said R.C. Maxwell was “peacefully” speaking with a group of people at Main Beach Park when the counter-protester punched him.

Maxwell, a black Trump supporter, told The Times he went to speak with counter-protesters “trying to find commonalities” and was explaining his views when he was attacked. He said he was also pepper-sprayed and choked.

The confrontation was captured on video that was posted to social media. Link

An anecdote that has nothing to do with the subject.  No surprise.

A criminal act is not civil discourse.

It's amazing how quickly and completely comrades absorb leftist mantra.

Tell us again why people who are willing to combat hate groups like the KKK, neo-Nazis, and Skinheads, etc., are the bad guys.  And while you're at it tell us what this has to do with a Harvard psychiatrist claiming Trump is fucking mad and dangerous .... LOL

They are off the rail and you're yielding them legitimacy. While we can all condemn Nazis or kkk... you can't condemn a group that uses violence indiscriminately. For fucks sake... they sucker punched a black man... how is that ok with you? Or the Berkley free speech demonstration? What would MLK have said? Y'all better find better role models sparky.

Right -- if a liberal punches out a Nazi you whine and whine.  But nothing but silence if it's the other way around.  We've got your number my fascist friend ...

PkrBum wrote:For fucks sake... they sucker punched a black man.

PkrBum wrote:He's working/negotiating with the dems. What else do you want?

While Sykes has come a long way toward making sense of what happened, he is still somewhat bewildered by Trump’s decisive capture of the movement. From Sykes’ perspective, it was a hostile takeover, constituting a “repudiation of the conservative mind.” As Sykes writes in the book, Trump had tapped into “something disturbing that we had ignored and perhaps nurtured — a shift from an emphasis on freedom to authoritarianism and from American ‘exceptionalism’ to nativism.”

At some point, conservative talk radio hosts discovered that traditional news sources make perfect foils. So the talkers pounced, and kept pouncing, until, Sykes writes, “We had succeeded in convincing our audiences to ignore and discount any information whatsoever from the mainstream media.” He regrets that this strategy of delegitimization served to “destroy much of the right’s immunity to false information.”

Sykes devotes a substantial section of How the Right Lost Its Mind to the ascendance of “Alt-Reality” propaganda, how it nurtured “Post-Truth” politics, and its role in Trump’s electoral triumph.

It’s a chilling read. A sizable chunk of the American electorate is astonishingly susceptible to fabrications, even patently absurd ones. In Sykes telling, things got so weird during last year’s campaign that a cottage industry of fake fake news sprung up. Pranksters began fashioning reports just to test the limits of credulity. One tweeted out a contrived Clinton Foundation expense report that showed payees like ‘Sharia Law Center’ and ‘Bill Ayers,’ to see if the Twitterverse would bite. (Spoiler alert: the pranksters were unable to detect any limit to credulity.)

President Trump has, in a stroke of propaganda genius, co-opted the term “fake news,” applying it to legitimate media outlets that he considers unfriendly. In our conversation, Sykes noted that for each of his op-eds, The New York Times assigned a fact-checker. When he hears the president call the Times a “fake news joke,” he remembers the extreme rigor the paper has subjected his work to.

Toward the end of his book, Sykes urges fellow conservatives to “confront the conservative media that boosted and enabled Trumpism and created a toxic alternative reality bubble.” I asked him what non-conservatives might do to help. Because false beliefs are protected by extremely stubborn psychological barriers, Sykes thinks only “still-trusted conservative voices” have the power to stop the madness. “The right’s going to have to clean up its own house.” He laments that, as of now, “We’re not seeing a lot of that.”

“The damage to the political culture is so deep. If you have millions of Americans that learn to accept lies … that’s a degradation that is hard to come back from.

“Everything that’s happening now that’s bad,” he adds, “will get worse.”

He spends an entire chapter of How the Right Lost Its Mind chiding Limbaugh for his support of Trump and various other hypocrisies. At one point during our conversation, in an almost sympathetic tone, Sykes says that Hannity is “dumb as a box of rocks.”

Sykes alludes to his low moments, when he might have been confused with a Limbaugh or a Hannity, in the introduction of How the Right Lost Its Mind, wondering, “Did we — did I — contribute to this prairie fire of bigotry and xenophobia that seemed to grip so many on the right?”

Instead of decisively countering those who made bizarre, ugly assertions about, say, President Obama’s nativity or religious beliefs, “we simply rolled our eyes, because we were allied with them. They were still our friends. And then, suddenly, you realize, ‘This is who we are?’”

Sykes is glad to be free of the tribal pressures that came with having to maintain an audience. “I have not had one day when I regretted not being on the air. Because I don’t want to have to think about ‘What’s the backlash on all of this?’”

Tribalism is, Sykes believes, at the root of the right’s debasement. “For many conservatives, a willingness to ignore, rationalize or defend lies has become a test of tribal loyalty,” he writes in How the Right Lost Its Mind.

zsomething wrote:An insane party gets an insane candidate.

This conservative is dismayed that his party has lost its damn mind.

While Sykes has come a long way toward making sense of what happened, he is still somewhat bewildered by Trump’s decisive capture of the movement. From Sykes’ perspective, it was a hostile takeover, constituting a “repudiation of the conservative mind.” As Sykes writes in the book, Trump had tapped into “something disturbing that we had ignored and perhaps nurtured — a shift from an emphasis on freedom to authoritarianism and from American ‘exceptionalism’ to nativism.”

At some point, conservative talk radio hosts discovered that traditional news sources make perfect foils. So the talkers pounced, and kept pouncing, until, Sykes writes, “We had succeeded in convincing our audiences to ignore and discount any information whatsoever from the mainstream media.” He regrets that this strategy of delegitimization served to “destroy much of the right’s immunity to false information.”

Sykes devotes a substantial section of How the Right Lost Its Mind to the ascendance of “Alt-Reality” propaganda, how it nurtured “Post-Truth” politics, and its role in Trump’s electoral triumph.

It’s a chilling read. A sizable chunk of the American electorate is astonishingly susceptible to fabrications, even patently absurd ones. In Sykes telling, things got so weird during last year’s campaign that a cottage industry of fake fake news sprung up. Pranksters began fashioning reports just to test the limits of credulity. One tweeted out a contrived Clinton Foundation expense report that showed payees like ‘Sharia Law Center’ and ‘Bill Ayers,’ to see if the Twitterverse would bite. (Spoiler alert: the pranksters were unable to detect any limit to credulity.)

President Trump has, in a stroke of propaganda genius, co-opted the term “fake news,” applying it to legitimate media outlets that he considers unfriendly. In our conversation, Sykes noted that for each of his op-eds, The New York Times assigned a fact-checker. When he hears the president call the Times a “fake news joke,” he remembers the extreme rigor the paper has subjected his work to.

Toward the end of his book, Sykes urges fellow conservatives to “confront the conservative media that boosted and enabled Trumpism and created a toxic alternative reality bubble.” I asked him what non-conservatives might do to help. Because false beliefs are protected by extremely stubborn psychological barriers, Sykes thinks only “still-trusted conservative voices” have the power to stop the madness. “The right’s going to have to clean up its own house.” He laments that, as of now, “We’re not seeing a lot of that.”

“The damage to the political culture is so deep. If you have millions of Americans that learn to accept lies … that’s a degradation that is hard to come back from.

“Everything that’s happening now that’s bad,” he adds, “will get worse.”

He spends an entire chapter of How the Right Lost Its Mind chiding Limbaugh for his support of Trump and various other hypocrisies. At one point during our conversation, in an almost sympathetic tone, Sykes says that Hannity is “dumb as a box of rocks.”

Sykes alludes to his low moments, when he might have been confused with a Limbaugh or a Hannity, in the introduction of How the Right Lost Its Mind, wondering, “Did we — did I — contribute to this prairie fire of bigotry and xenophobia that seemed to grip so many on the right?”

Instead of decisively countering those who made bizarre, ugly assertions about, say, President Obama’s nativity or religious beliefs, “we simply rolled our eyes, because we were allied with them. They were still our friends. And then, suddenly, you realize, ‘This is who we are?’”

Sykes is glad to be free of the tribal pressures that came with having to maintain an audience. “I have not had one day when I regretted not being on the air. Because I don’t want to have to think about ‘What’s the backlash on all of this?’”

Tribalism is, Sykes believes, at the root of the right’s debasement. “For many conservatives, a willingness to ignore, rationalize or defend lies has become a test of tribal loyalty,” he writes in How the Right Lost Its Mind.

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