TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2026
...brought a question to mind: Just this once, we're going to let you ask us about "mental illness."
Rather, about what used to be called "mental illness." According to the leading authority on the topic, the use of that term is falling into something which sounds like disfavor, with the term "mental disorder" now being used instead.
Quoting from the leading authority:
Most international clinical documents use the term mental "disorder," while "illness" is also common. It has been noted that using the term "mental" (i.e., of the mind) is not necessarily meant to imply separateness from the brain or body.
Just this once, we're going to let you ask us. Rather, we find ourselves with a question for you.
Our question was triggered, mere moments ago, by this banner headline atop the front page of the Washington Post's website:
U.S. closes three gulf embassies as Iran widens strikes
That's the banner at the Post, even as we type. Before we get to the question we're going to ask, we're going to make these admissions:
The decision to attack Iran was made by the sitting president. For the record, we have no way of knowing how this military action will, in the end, turn out.
We don't know where this war will take us. We don't know how it will come to be viewed in the future.
Having made those admissions, we ask you this:
Was it wise to let the person in question be the decision-maker? Was it wise to do so without ever rescinding the ban on discussing the possibility that he has been, and still is, afflicted with some significant set of medical challenges / disorders?
Was it wise to maintain the code of silence around that possibility? In our view, there's no obvious answer to that question, given the difficulty we modern Americans would have had in discussing that particular topic.
At any rate, there sits the banner headline. Was it wise when our own Blue American orgs kept telling us this:
Nothing to look at or talk about! Just keep moving along!
Fake news. David the flipflop troll told me this war was easy and is essentially over. On the other hand, some people say this war on brown people oil has been going on since 1990...
ReplyDeleteUnserious people will get us all killed,,, “By my count, and I’m sure I’ve missed a few, these include outright regime change, assistance to the oppressed peoples of the Islamic Republic, stripping Iran of ‘the ability to project power outside its borders,’ stopping future Iranian-sponsored terrorist attacks while exacting revenge for past ones, preëmptive action against an imminent Iranian threat to attack U.S. forces, preëmptive action to block Iran from building ballistic missiles that could hit the U.S. mainland, and preëmptive action to stop the Iranian nuclear program that Trump had, as recently as last week, claimed was ‘obliterated.’”
ReplyDeleteWhile we have no coherent planning, Iran has planned for this for decades. Stupid fucks gonna do stupid.
Is this some kind of sarcasm or mockery? Surely @3:27 doesn't think Iran's leaders spent decades planning to be assassinated. And, the list, which seems to be intended to be all ridiculous items, actually includes a number of goals that are reasonable and likely to be achieved.
DeleteDavid was almost this stupid after 911 too.
DeleteThe "sarcasm or mockery" are all quotes from the dumbass administration dumbass David the troll.
DeleteWELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?
ReplyDeleteNOEM: Yes
WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?
NOEM: No.
Hey trolls, it's the corruption you stupid fucks.
Appearing on Kelly’s show, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested Trump has gone insane—adding that Trump’s oft-repeated statement about not knowing if he’ll get into heaven raises questions about his state of mind and competency.
ReplyDelete“We need to have a serious conversation about what the fuck is happening to this country, and who in the hell are these decisions being made for, and who is making these decisions,” Greene said.
Hey trolls, it's the front lobal dementia you stupid fucks.
At this point the US has essentially won. We achieved our goal that Iran will not have weapons.
ReplyDeleteNow, the Iranian people may or may not be better off. They may have chaos or a worse leader than the Ayatollah. Or, they might have a peaceful democracy. I wish them luck
Unrelenting jaggoff troll.
DeleteHey David the flip flop troll, you get a woodie when we blowed up a girls school and killed 180 little brown girls? Betcha didn't even need your viagra.
Delete"We achieved our goal that Iran will not have weapons" - do you even read what the fuck you be spouting like a dumb ass 2 y.o.?
DeleteIt's not over, until the billionaires are taxed to pay for it.
DeleteSo it'll never be over?
DeleteHegseth has said it’s just getting started. He loves this shit. As does Trump, who is substituting war for a daily dose of Epstein files. The war will be done when both sides say it is.
DeleteBlue orgs never said “nothing to talk about”. We said “don’t vote for Trump.” We said it loudly and continuously. Red voters selected Trump and now they own what he has done.
ReplyDeleteThere is no law against mentally ill people running for president. It has happened before. But this time we have Russia and a bunch of billionaires corrupting our electoral process. Somerby has ignored that, never discussed it. Why not? Trump is their puppet. Hillary said it and she was right.
Whether or not Trump is crazy, he is providing effective leadership. Look at how well the war is going. Iran's Navy and Air Force are no more. Perhaps half their missile launchers ditto. The evil leadership is gone. Iran's ability to cause random damage in other countries has been minimal than many feared.
ReplyDeleteSo under control the US State Department is telling folks in 12 mideast countries to run for their lives.
DeleteNo, he isn’t effective.
DeleteWhy is David in Cal calling Hegseth a fucking pussy who can't handle a piggy reporter question? I thought Hegseth was a real man, not a fucking pussy David?
DeleteThe idea is to prevent war, not drop a lot of bombs.
DeleteThe US will probably end up losing this war. Delusional claims are not going to save us.
DeleteThe "sarcasm or mockery" are all quotes from the dumbass administration dumbass David the troll.
DeleteIlya is using the all too common practice of criticizing
DeleteTrump for something that didn't happen; something Ilya imagines might happen.
David in Cal is using the all too common practice of praising Trump for something that didn't happen; something David imagines might happen.
DeleteDavid is using something that is too common for Trump cultists: they claim victory when nothing of a kind is in evidence.
DeleteYes, I am making a judgment that Iran will not build nuclear weapons, regardless of what happens internally. Even in the worse case (for us) that the next leader is worse than the Ayatollah, the next leader would not be foolish enough to implement a nuclear arms program.
DeleteSo far, the biggest accomplishment we can boast is destroying a girl's school and killing dozens of kids.
DeleteYou made the same judgement back in June, David. Apparently, that judgement was deficient.
DeleteNow, according to David, we have won the war -- except that embassies have to be evacuated; and, to Trump's surprise, Iran is attacking neighboring countries; and the gulf of Hormuz is closed.
Arma-Get-It-On-Ward Christian Soldiers:
Delete"The U.S. joined Israel in striking Iran early Saturday morning. By Monday evening, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, or MRFF, was “inundated” with complaints, receiving more than 110 grievances from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East, reported independent journalist Jonathan Larsen.
One such note included an anecdote from a noncommissioned officer, who reported that their commander had “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.”
We are so fucked by these clowns elevated to leadership by stupid Nazi cultists like Dickhead.
"The Israeli air force on Tuesday struck the building housing Iran's Council of Experts in the holy city of Qom in an attempt to disrupt the process of appointing a new supreme leader"
Delete"We wanted to prevent them from picking a new supreme leader," the [Israeli] official said.
Now that's what I call election interference! I'm sure Trump is taking notes.
I mean, why should he rely on a bunch of thug Proud Boys when he has the US Air Force at his command?
DeleteIlya -- surely you are aware that the girls' school was not destroyed by US or Israeli forces. Iran is telling the same sort of lies that their client Hamas did when they f*cked something up.
DeleteOn the contrary US and Israeli forces are doing a terrific job of taking out Iran's military assets. Iran's Navy and Air Force are gone, as well as most of the ground-based anti-aircraft. The US and Israel are free to attack whatever target they choose. It's only a matter of time for all or almost all of Iran's missile launchers to be destroyed.
Tragically, during this process Iran missiles will do a certain amount of damage in neighboring countries. Iran doesn't care about aiming at military targets, so all civilians are in danger. I shudder to think what so immoral a regime would do if they had nuclear weapons as well as missiles that could reach Europe.
"Look at how well the war is going...The evil leadership is gone."
DeleteI think Trump should address the American people on this subject. Maybe under a banner that says Mission Accomplished.
Hector, Trump has been careful not to promise that things will go well for the Irani people. He says they have an opportunity, but it's up to them. I hope and think he will sticks to the view, so that if things fall apart Trump doesn't send troops in to fix them
DeleteSpeaking in platitudes is not convincing, David. Neither are the lies coming out of this administration, although there's been no explanation for attacking Iran. To the extent that there was, it was incoherent. Sort of par for the course, I guess.
DeleteIlya -- surely you are aware that the girls' school was not destroyed by US or Israeli forces.
DeleteSurely, I am not -- and neither are you.
I can't take any more winning...
ReplyDelete"When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran..."
Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov
ReplyDeleteWarnings to citizens to evacuate 3 days into this war, when airspace is closed, is a clear sign of ZERO strategy and planning by the Trump admin.
Now Americans have limited options to evacuate at an extremely dangerous moment with no government assistance. This admin is failing its citizens.
I am old enough to remember when dickheads feasted for years on a few minor hiccups in Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal. Fuck them straight to hell
Delete4:56,
DeleteFor the Right, everything is negotiable, except the bigotry.
To think the Trump and his henchmen ever gave a shit about these US citizens is laughable.
Delete"Rubio; the CIA director, John Ratcliffe; and joint chiefs of staff, chair Dan Caine; spoke to the lawmakers behind closed doors in the Capitol ahead of a vote expected later this week in the House of Representatives on a war powers resolution that presents an unlikely opportunity to force Trump to end hostilities against Iran.
ReplyDelete“It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone – the United States or Israel or anyone – they were going to respond, and respond against the United States,” Rubio told reporters at the Capitol.
“We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.”
That is a positively insane statement, equivalent to admitting that the US is renting out half its military and gobs of American taxpayer cash to Israel rather than simply telling Israel, no. And it happened largely through the gatekeeping of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pretending to seek peace while at the same time monetizing their role.
The explanation is going to cause havoc among some of Trump’s base, especially proudly antisemitic activists like Nick Fuentes."
Anti-semites, like Nick Fuentes, are the base of the Republican Party.
DeleteThe look on David in Cal's face, when he's pushed into a cattle car, will make all of his trolling in support of fascists worth it.
This wasn't Rubio making a mistake. Mike Johnson said, on the same day:
Delete“Israel was determined to act in their own defense here with or without American support…if Israel fired upon Iran and took action against Iran to take out the missiles, then they would have immediately retaliated against US personnel and assets."
Rubio's statement was about the exact timing of the attack, not whether to attack. Rubio said that Trump's policy was that the attack now was necessary in order to prevent Iraq from getting nukes. I have no doubt that this is true. Rightly or wrongly, Trump had decided that an attack now was the only way to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
DeleteSo, we had decided to attack. And, we were happy that Israel was joining us in these attacks. The only question was whether the US attacked first or Israel attacked first. We attacked first for the reason given by Rubio.
The Dems will avoid the real questions in order to make Trump look bad. There are two main issues.
DeleteWas it right to go to war? Will we prevail? Events will settle the second question. The first question involves a hypothetical, so it will always be a matter of judgment and spin.
I heard Schumer and Jeffries make the bogus argument that Trump was wrong to attack because there was no imminent threat, that it was a "war of choice". As we know, Trump's justification is not that there was an imminent threat. It was that if we didn't act soon, Iran's military would be so powerful that we would be unable to prevent them from developing nuclear weapons in the nearish future.
And, according to Trump, the only choice was the particular day to schedule the attack, not whether to attack.
So little Marco said that since there was an imminent threat to Iran from Israel, the response from Iran would pose an imminent threat to the US. Then, Trump said that Marco was full of shit. Even if little Marco wasn't full of shit, which he was, under what circumstances would the US not object to any immediate plans by Israel that would put US assets and lives at risk? No, common sense says this: anything coming out of the mouths of this administration requires third party verification. They can't even coordinate their bullshit.
Delete"Rubio's statement was about the exact timing of the attack, not whether to attack."
DeleteSo Israel was forcing our hand and we let it happen. We attacked on their schedule, not ours. We're apparently the junior partner in the relationship.
"I have no doubt that this is true."
Irrelevant. You believe what you're told to believe.
"if we didn't act soon, Iran's military would be so powerful we would be unable to prevent them from developing nuclear weapons in the nearish future."
How nearish? We're in the process of pounding Iran's military capability into a pulp. What would have happened in the 'nearish' future that would have rendered us incapable of exerting our will on them?
And by the way, President Doofus directly contradicted Little Marco this morning, by saying he ordered the attack because he thought Iran was going to attack us first, which, given the size and might of the armada we had assembled, may be the stupidest thing this very stupid man has ever said.
Iran has been months away from a nuclear warhead for thirty or so years. The cushiest job on the planet (albeit carrying some risk) must be Iranian nuclear physicist. They have had a nuclear program for roughly 70 years. Whenever anyone says the Iranians were within a short timeline of threatening the United States, they can be assumed to have an agenda that is not facts based until proven otherwise. Being the most consummate liar in the history of the presidency, Trump can be disregarded.
DeleteHector - According to Trump what would have happened that would have rendered us incapable of exerting our will on them is that they would have built so many weapons that the damage to neighboring countries would be too high. As it is, the US and Israel are winning easily, but the damage caused by Iran - people killed, oil disrupted, visitors forced to leave -- is providing political support for ending out attacks.
DeleteIt should take no time to obliterate their nuclear facilities (we've done it once already, according to Trump) and launch sites and then wash our hands of it, with no remaining Iranian threat to this country. Anything beyond that is adventurism, a costly waste of money and lives, and a form of protectionism to the state of Israel that should not be necessary. They can fend for themselves along with their regional partners.
DeleteWhy should there be any political support for these attacks after the so called Iranian threat to the US has been neutralized, which should take a few short days, not weeks that Trump stated? As usual, Trump is lying about his intentions here. As usual, DiC is carrying water for an administration that has lied to us, and been caught in it, about why this war started.
DeleteAccording to Trump what would have happened that would have rendered us incapable of exerting our will on them is that they would have built so many weapons that the damage to neighboring countries would be too high.
DeletePure gibberish.
No one could have predicted Trump would have a problem with boundaries.
DeleteLOL.
In hindsight, it is hard to see how a couple real estate slum lords could have failed so spectacularly in negotiations
Delete“We were surprised,” Trump admitted, apparently without understanding how fucking stupid this makes his entire team look, that Iran would attack Arab states sitting like ducks in close range from Iran."
ReplyDeleteThe Squirter Strikes Again - & Not in Trumps Diaper
ReplyDelete"Three officials also told CBS News, speaking under condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media outlets, that prior to the attack, there were discussions on the ground about whether the tactical operations center in question should not have been used, as it concentrated too many U.S. troops in a location that wasn’t defendable."
""Whiskey Pete Hegseth claimed that this site was heavily fortified and dismissed the deadly assault by saying, “Every once in a while, you might have one, unfortunately, we call it a squirter, that makes its way through.”"
How fucking weak is the Nazi cult's defense of the felon when it starts out whether or not Trump is crazy...
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to imagine a Republican Party that isn't an amoral dumpster fire, but I keep coming up empty.
ReplyDeleteLet's see: we can't afford SNAP, we can't afford NIH funding young scientists, we can't afford cancer research for children, we have to slash medicaid, this administration has eaten up 12 years of Medicare part A dollars in a year, and tacked on a couple of trillion in debt, servicing the pocketbooks of billionaires as well. But we can spend billions on a war because Trump and his minions said we we're at imminent risk, without showing the data, couldn't wait a minute to consult congress, and cannot get their stories straight about how this all got started. Trump learned something from Bibi: if you are wildly unpopular and facing ever increasing scrutiny, a protracted war can take some of the heat off. But this is different. Israel was brutally attacked. No such trigger here for this conflict, except for what a president responsible for tens of thousands of lies portrays as truth. Not even photos of aluminum tubes this go round.
ReplyDeleteIn order to balance the budget, we need to end the entitlement spending on defense contractors.
ReplyDeleteIn Trump's defense, if your brain was being eaten by syphilis, you too might spend more time talking about the drapes than the country you attacked.
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't Fan Duels posting odds of there being a terrorist attack on U.S. soil in 2026?
ReplyDeleteIt will be planned for when the YouTuber running the FBI is busy chugging beer with the winners of March Madness.
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