Tag Archives: mental illness

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Extremist anti-LGBTQ pastor Kevin Swanson declared on his radio program today that the Supreme Court should immediately reverse its Roe v. Wade and Obergefell decisions before God unleashes his judgment on America in the form of Hurricane Irma. Swanson, who just last week said that Hurricane Harvey was the judgment of God on …

Raw Story reports: President Donald Trump on Monday defended his decision to pardon former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio by citing applause from one of his rallies — and then attacked former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. “Well, a lot of people think it was the right thing to do and actually in the middle of a hurricane, even though …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is pointing fingers over Charlottesville. Who is he blaming? Dem. Governor Terry McAuliffe and Charlottesville mayor Michael Signer. In a Sunday appearance on Fox & Friends, Gohmert called for a Department of Justice investigation on McAuliffe and Signer because…um…who knows, exactly? “The way forward’s not gonna be easy,” Gohmert said. “And I think the …

The Hill reports: A House Democrat introduced a resolution on Friday suggesting that President Trump undergo a physical and mental health exam to help determine whether he is fit for office. Rep. Zoe Lofgren’s (D-Calif.) resolution specifically calls on Vice President Pence and Trump’s Cabinet members to “quickly secure the services of medical and psychiatric professionals” to “assist in their …

The Hill reports: President Trump at a Tuesday evening rally floated the idea of someday being on Mount Rushmore before turning to attack the press corps. During a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump turned to a routine talking point, saying “every president on Mount Rushmore believed in protecting American industry.” But the president quipped that if he jokingly suggested he …

Speaking at his campaign rally in Youngtown, Ohio tonight, Trump told the crowd, “Sometimes they say, ‘He doesn’t act presidential.’ And I say, with the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that’s held this office. That I can tell you. It’s real easy.” Points for mentioning that Lincoln is dead, unlike …

STAT News reports: A leading psychiatry group has told its members they should not feel bound by a longstanding rule against commenting publicly on the mental state of public figures — even the president. The statement, an email this month from the executive committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association to its 3,500 members, represents the first significant crack in the …

“He is unashamed in standing up for increasing an awareness of God in the United States. He recognizes how important that is and that that is a basis of Western civilization. As a believer in Jesus Christ, I could not be more happy with what I am seeing coming out of the Trump White House. This is beyond my wildest …

The New York Times reports: Florida has agreed to pay $1.1 million in legal fees to lawyers who sued the state over a 2011 law that barred doctors from talking to patients about gun ownership, according to a gun control organization involved in the case. The organization, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said Gov. Rick Scott of Florida …

The Wrap reports: MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski called President Trump a “narcissist” and said it’s possible that he’s “mentally ill in a way” on Thursday, but her fiancee and co-host Joe Scarborough was having none of it. His tapered down behavior comes on the heels of criticism from rival Sean Hannity “I said it months ago… he’s not …

Yesterday Alex Jones threaten to “beat the goddamn ass” of “fairy cocksucker” Rep. Adam Schiff. Today Jones exploded in rage over Steve Bannon’s booting from the National Security Council and called for Trump to order a preemptive nuclear strike on China. Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Jones said that China is using the Korean standoff to prepare for …

Remember when “greatly trusted” Trump source Alex Jones diagnosed Hillary Clinton with Parkinson’s Disease? And how every teabagger site in the nation launched their own “Sick Hillary” medical claims? Keep that in mind when you read this admittedly far-fetched speculation from New Republic. An excerpt: The symptoms of neurosyphilis are protean, varying widely from one individual to another. Commonly recognized …

The Week reports: President Trump declared during his Thursday press conference: “The leaks are real. The news is fake.” Trump was insisting that the leaks that informed the media’s reports on Trump’s campaign aides’ alleged contact with senior Russian intelligence officials were “real,” but the resulting reports on those very “real” leaks were “fake.” A reporter later asked Trump to …

CNN reports: The Republican-led House voted Thursday to repeal an Obama-era Social Security Administration regulation to keep people with severe mental illnesses from buying guns. The vote was 235-180. “The Social Security Administration not only overstepped its mission with this regulation, it discriminated against certain Americans with disabilities who receive Social Security benefits. The agency should be focused on serving …

The Toronto Star reports: There is an elephant in the election. It was tiptoed around for a full year by Republicans and Democrats and the media alike. And then, on Wednesday, Michael Bloomberg hoisted it onto the stage of the Democratic National Convention. His plea for Hillary Clinton: “Let’s elect a sane, competent person.” The compliment barely disguised an extraordinary …

A mentally ill 22 year-old college student in Santa Barbara, California is dead after killing six people in what police are calling “premeditated mass murder.”  The shooting spree came after the killer posted a chilling YouTube clip titled “Retribution” in which he declared himself to be a virgin and vowed to murder the women who had rejected him Gunfire erupted …

The man has been restrained by fellow passengers and FBI agents are waiting at the United terminal. Flying really does seem to push unstable people over the edge, especially lately.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: A video emerged Monday depicting a bizarre incident at a San Francisco BART station last month, with a naked man accosting several passengers and doing flips, handstands, the splits and other gymnastic maneuvers on the BART turnstiles. The video, recorded May 10 by a BART station agent at the 16th Street Mission Station, shows the …

“I am the victim of my own moods, more than most people are perhaps, in as much as I have a condition which requires me to take medication so that I don’t get either too hyper or too depressed to the point of suicide. I’d go as far as to tell you I attempted it last year. I took a …