CONTEMPT

 

DEMENTIA DON

Doctors are warning of Trump’s dementia—it’s time corporate media report on this!

There is a Duty To Warn!

 

DEAN OBEIDALLAH

APR 30, 2024

 

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When more than 500 licensed mental health professions—including best-selling authors and well-respected psychologists—sign a petition warning that Donald Trump has clear signs of dementia, you would think corporate media would cover the story. But of course that would conflict with the corporate media’s non-stop narrative that President Biden is the one with cognitive issues.

But thankfully that has not deterred Dr. John Gartner--the founder of “Duty to Warn” and a prominent psychologist who was a contributor to the New York Times bestselling book "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President"—from raising alarm bells.  In fact, Dr. Gartner reached out to me a few weeks ago via Twitter (now X) to share his work. It was jaw-dropping. 

Consequently, I interviewed Dr. Gartner on my SiriusXM radio show last week to discuss why hundreds of mental health professionals are so deeply alarmed by what they are seeing with Trump. It was so compelling I wanted to share both what he warned and the video of the interview (below) so you can watch it for yourself—as well as hopefully share it with friends.

For starters, Dr. Gartner began raising red flags about Trump’s mental health back in 2017. As the Doctor explained in our interview, at that time, he was warning America that based on his expertise, Trump suffered from “malignant narcissism,” adding, “which was actually designed to explain Hitler.” Gartner believed that Trump manifested all four components of that condition:  Narcissism, paranoia, “constant feeling of being persecuted—which “justifies his harming other people,” and “anti-social lying.”

However, after Trump lost in 2020, Gartner—along with the other mental health professionals who joined him informing the public about Trump—"all took off our uniforms and went home.” He has since been focused on his work and writing a book on psilocybin therapy.

But with Trump back in the spotlight, Gartner saw deeply alarming new symptoms prompting him to jump back into action. To put it bluntly, Gartner stated that with today’s Trump: “We see clear signs of dementia.” 

The Doctor explained that since Trump left office, there has been an obvious acceleration in his cognitive deterioration. For example, “now he can't get through a rally without committing one of these” tell-tale signs of dementia, such as saying the incorrect word or “combining or mixing up people and generations.”

We’ve seen this, as the Doctor noted, with Trump repeatedly confusing who he ran against in the past, such as Trump stating, “With Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn’t be won.” (Obviously, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016.) And during the primary, Trump kept repeating that his opponent Nikki Haley was in charge of Capitol security on Jan 6. (Haley never had any connection Capitol security.)

Gartner explained that this wasn’t Trump simply saying the wrong name in both cases. Rather, Trump “literally was confusing the people,” adding, “he was literally merging them into one person” as in the case of Obama and Biden.

Gartner then offered a recent and very glaring “example of demented speech” by Trump. This came just a few weeks ago when Trump spoke of the famed Civil War battle at Gettysburg—that took place between July 1-3,1863, and killed an estimated 51,000 people.  Gartner read the actual words Trump told the audience about that brutal fight: “Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was," adding, "It was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways—it represented such a big portion of the success of this country."

Trump then jumped to talking about Confederate General Robert E. Lee and how he was now “out of favor” and told his troops to never fight uphill, only downhill with Trump claiming Lee said, “Never fight uphill, me boys!” (Historians deny Lee ever said such a thing.)  

Trump continued, “Gettysburg, wow—I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch." 

Gartner explained that Trump’s Gettysburg speech is an example of what “people do with dementia when they draw a blank.”  He continued, “One. They use a lot of superlative words as filler words. Oh, ‘great, marvelous, wonderful’ because they don't know what's going on.” He added, “The other thing they do is they make up stories because nature abhors a vacuum.”

As to Trump’s line about “looking and watching,” Gartner explained, “he's actually describing is what he's doing right now, because that's all he can do: He's just looking, and he's watching.”

The Doctor added that while Biden shows traditional signs of aging, such as forgetting names, in contrast, “Trump is making the kind of memory errors we only see in dementia.”

But it’s not just Gartner raising alarm bells. Others who have signed the “Duty To Warn” petition are doing the same, such as psychologist Michael Tansey, Ph.D. who wrote about Trump, “Recent shocking video displayed what appears to be signs of a serious advancing dementia which have worsened in recent months. That will inflame his underlying psychological vulnerability to rogue rage, extreme recklessness, and impulsive and violent action.”

And Dr. Michael Bader, a psychologist, explained, “This is not just ‘rambling.’ Trump evidences a type of cognitive impairment seen in dementia.” He highlighted Trump’s symptoms that led to this conclusion: “word salad (incoherence), ‘loose associations’ (a lack of connection between ideas), impairments of memory, and language problems (mis-pronouncing words or making up words that don't exist).”

Alarmingly, as Gartner warns, Trump will only get worse—especially given the stress of the campaign and his criminal woes. “Now we're noticing deterioration almost every day,” marked by Trump becoming more erratic, impulsive and with increasingly incomprehensible speech, Gartner noted. He added, “I honestly believe that if Trump were to get reelected that he would become completely incapacitated in office.”

At this point Gartner—and the other mental health professionals—simply want corporate media to cover this issue so that voters can have all the facts before November. However, up until now Gartner notes that “the media keeps helping Trump by editing out those parts out that show his cognitive decline from TV coverage.”  Once again, it is up to us to get the word out because corporate media doesn’t want to damage their cash cow Trump. Like Dr. Gartner, we, too, have a duty to warn about Trump’s dementia.

 

LOSERS AND TRAITORS ALL

 

NEW INC. MAGAZINE COLUMN FROM HOWARD TULLMAN

 

Google's CEO Sends the Perfect Message

Sundar Pichai made it very clear to employees that they are free to express their opinions--but the workplace isn't going to serve as their forum. Business owners would be wise to follow his example. 

 

EXPERT OPINION BY HOWARD TULLMAN, GENERAL MANAGING PARTNER, G2T3V AND CHICAGO HIGH TECH INVESTORS @HOWARDTULLMAN1

APR 30, 2024

 

Thank goodness for Google and particularly for Sundar Pichai, its straightforward, honest, and gutsy CEO. He stepped up bigtime to put a stake in the ground and let his arrogant and over-entitled employees know their place and what's what.

Google's computers can do many things, but they can't stand on principle. That requires a real leader. For a modest, soft-spoken and thoughtful guy, he's emerged as a shining and forceful example of how to succinctly handle the current crisis in our companies and our colleges concerning disruptive student and employee protests that know no reasonable bounds. These people are perfectly happy to attack and suppress other people's speech in the name of whatever cause they're pushing today.  But they don't seem to understand that it's much easier to "fight" for some abstract principles than it is to live up to them each day, which they aren't doing.

Their performative and destructive gestures are expressly and aggressively designed not simply to express an opinion, but to interrupt, harass and interfere with the daily lives, business, travel, and education of thousands of other students and faculty, employees and customers, and commuters and civilians across the country. People who are simply hoping to be left alone in their companies, schools, airports, highways, and communities. We've been warned in the past that the crap being fed to the current generation of college students by clueless professors and feckless administrators would soon spread to our companies and that we needed to be prepared for the onslaught. We should have paid more attention.

We're in a moment marked by duplicity, weasel words, and abject hypocrisy among far too many corporate and government leaders. Especially in the words and inactions of two-faced, DEI-saturated university presidents of elite institutions like Columbia, Harvard, or MIT. They keep trying to split hairs, divine and define non-existent contexts, and generally pray that they'll somehow keep their jobs if they can only keep the peace on their campuses for a little while longer.

Pichai, on the other hand, spoke up. Clearly, concisely, dispassionately and with admirable conviction, he set a high bar for the rest of us, but not one that is unduly complicated. He described Google as a "workplace" and a business with clear policies and behavioral expectations.  Most importantly he said that it was "not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics."

I've previously said much the same thing about not bringing the bullshit into the business. The badly misunderstood idea that the 1^st Amendment entitles idiots to express themselves in private homes, businesses or religious institutions cannot be further extended and inflated to mean that companies must permit these morons to use and abuse corporate forums for their own purposes. Senior management, not the HR department or the DEI dullards, needs to step in. You can stand for certain things without having to stand for everything that anyone cares to act out and demonstrate on your premises, and in your name. If you don't draw the red lines early, clearly, and often as to what's appropriate within your business -- whatever kind of business it is -- then there's no end to the problems you're inviting. And, subsequently, no end to the damage that could be caused to your organization, to the morale of your people, and to your own reputation. 

This whole area is one very slippery slope. As you might expect, no good deed goes unpunished because no one is pure enough for these unhappy and puritanical polemicists. I have tried and suggested that reasonable people (and that may have been my first mistake) could come to appreciate and understand that there are some matters that are appropriate for conversation and discussion in the office; others simply aren't. But it's far too easy for the lines between inside and out to get bent and blurred. Amazon had a similar issue when some employees objected to the company selling books they deemed to be negative towards trans people. When external concerns get pulled into the business environment and interfere with operations, attitudes, and interpersonal relationships at work, it becomes an ever-bigger can of worms, where no one, even with the best of intentions, can ever win. 

Another approach is to try and help inform and educate team members so that they are at least in a position to evaluate and weigh the various claims, assertions and lies that they are being confronted with by protestors and corrupt news media as well. The idea of "second-sourcing" - taking at least a moment to check out/confirm the latest factoid, rumor or news hit before jumping fully into the pool - was a seemingly obvious concept which sadly and largely gave way to the "hurry up" world we now live in. No one really has enough time for anything or is willing to spend what time they do have trying to get to a better understanding of what's actually happening around them. Having a simple and readily available "second source" - to look for just a moment before you or your people waste time leaping down another rabbit hole - seems to be a worthwhile investment. After all, how much is it worth to know the truth?

We're now living in a world where everyone's their own expert on everything. As the Chicago traders used to say, until you have a position and something concrete and meaningful on the line, all you have is an ephemeral opinion, subject to change, and relatively worthless. Managers of large institutions, and especially public technology businesses, are not typically encouraged by their boards or investors to stand out on disputed and controversial issues or to raise their voices above the consensus. But true leaders understand that -- whatever the risks may be -- certain core ideas and principles are worth promoting and protecting.  

Principles and solid beliefs are far more valuable and substantial than mere opinions. They're worth standing up for, taking risks where required, and even making sacrifices for - if those become necessary. Sundar Pichai had the guts to stand up and draw a line.  He made Google a leader in the battle to take back control of the conversation. He made it clear that the office isn't the proper venue for these complex and painful matters. We should all thank him for his honesty, courage, and leadership.

A SCHOOL WITH GUTS - NOT LIKE THE WEAKLINGS AT NORTHWESTERN

 

UN - UNANIMOUS - HE IS AN ASSHOLE

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene is the sort of clod who could accidentally lock herself out of a moped.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is the sort of clod who could accidentally lock herself out of a moped. 

Flatulent Fraud

 

TRUMP WILL SELF-DESTRUCT

 

CLARENCE NEEDS TO QUIT - HE'S A CORRUPT CROOK

 

THIS CROOK COULDN'T RUN A DAIRY QUEEN

 

Gaza ‘solidarity encampment’ shakes up Northwestern campus but leaves no clear winners

 

Gaza ‘solidarity encampment’ shakes up Northwestern campus but leaves no clear winners

Jewish students unnerved, but defiant; pro-Palestinians enjoy growing numbers, but demands unmet; university head avoids punishing violators but still accused of ‘genocide’ by demonstrators

 

By JACOB MAGID 

FOLLOW

26 April 2024, 5:09 pm

 

EVANSTON, Illinois — The crowd of several hundred Northwestern University students at the newly established “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” erupted in cheers Thursday morning as an approaching car loudly honked in apparent support of their cause.

But then the vehicle turned onto the road adjacent to the suburban Chicago school’s quad, entering the pro-Palestinian protesters’ line of sight, where it could be identified as a firetruck.

The honking, therefore, was likely more a case of standard procedure for clearing a congested street when responding to a 9-1-1 call than an endorsement of the protesters’ key demand that the university divest from Israeli institutions.

And so it seemed like an apt snapshot for a day in which no side really came out and victories were at best imagined.

Because while the protesters managed to balloon from several dozen at 7 a.m. to a crowd of well nearly 1,000 by nightfall, a school administrator speaking to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity said the chances of the students’ demands being met remained close to nil.

As for Jewish students on campus, they might have been able to take initial solace in the university’s decision to bar the tents erected at the start of the protest, but that ordinance went largely unenforced. By midnight, the number of outlawed tents had swelled to roughly 80, and anti-Israel chants rang out from similarly unapproved megaphones on repeat.

 

“Hey, hey. Ho ho. Israel has got to go!”

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”

“Long live the Intifada!”

In a correspondingly no-win situation was Northwestern President Michael Schill, who is still in his first year on the job. The 65-year-old legal scholar is trying to prevent the campus from descending into the type of chaos seen through the past week at Columbia University. There, his counterpart dispatched the NYPD to clear an anti-Israel encampment in what led to the arrests of over 100 students and the sparking of a national protest movement.

Ostensibly recognizing that another aggressive crackdown would not calm the campus temperature, Schill withheld enforcement of the updated code of conduct.

This did not shield him from the anti-Israel protesters’ chants of “Schill, Schill, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide!”

Masking their identities

The protest was well organized from the outset, with organizers donning yellow traffic vests and effectively communicating with participants via megaphones and social media.

Participants were instructed to form a ring around the encampment to serve as human shields if campus police — who were at the site periodically throughout the day — were ordered to try and remove the tents. This was enough to thwart one such directive in the morning, which led to a minor scuffle, and authorities didn’t try again for the rest of the day.

Student groups supporting the action sponsored water and snacks for participants, many of whom skipped class to stay at the encampment all day. Nearly 100 were still on site Friday morning, receiving “arrest training” to be ready for the event that police would move in a second time.

Organizers pledged to remain on Deering Meadow quad until the university condemned what they said has been its censorship of pro-Palestine speech and ceased all academic partnerships and investments in Israeli groups and companies.

Nearly all protesters covered their faces with either COVID masks or Palestinian keffiyehs, which several participants said were designed to prevent them from being identified.

 

They were also all coached not to speak with the media, and each of the many journalists on campus was diverted to one of the organizers.

This writer was repeatedly refused interviews when identifying as a Times of Israel reporter. “Since that’s an Israeli propaganda tool, that’s not going to have a place here,” one of the organizers said.

Nonetheless, the mood on the quad was light for much of the day. Music blasted from loudspeakers; some participants learned and performed the dabke Palestinian folk dance; incenses were passed around at one point in the afternoon.

 

Curious onlookers stopped to take pictures before continuing to their classes at the surrounding lecture halls.

 

How representative?

The protest was located on south campus, where humanities majors are largely based. Students in this half of the university were said to be more politically active, with sympathies leaning more toward the Palestinian side of the conflict. North campus largely houses STEM students, who were said to generally be more indifferent about such issues.

Still, students were split over how representative those occupying the quad were of the broader campus position on the war in Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more broadly.

Firmly pro-Israel students insisted the encampment amounted to a vocal minority.

“I think a lot of these people aren’t even Northwestern students,” said senior Josh Miller.

A handful of older local Evanston residents were seen waving Palestinian flags on the outskirts of the encampment, which also housed graduate students and faculty. One participant wearing a sweatshirt featuring Hamas spokesperson Abu Obeida said he was “affiliated” with the university and declined to elaborate.

One onlooking Jewish student who asked to remain anonymous told The Times of Israel in the morning that most people on campus don’t have an opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But as the crowd expanded to nearly 1,000 people around sunset, he reached back out to correct his stance, saying that even though the overwhelming majority of Northwestern’s 8,000 undergraduates were not protesting on Thursday, a majority do care enough to have an opinion on the issue.

What do we want?

Indeed, over 2,300 Wildcats signed onto a resolution listing the protesters’ demands that was passed — in a 20-2 vote on Wednesday night by the student legislative body. (The two nay votes were Hillel and college Democrats; nine members abstained.)

“I was surprised that [so many] signed the petition. I thought this campus was lame and that nobody did activist stuff, but I guess they do!” said a junior who supported the protest but asked only to be identified by his first name, Dylan.

He noted that there was more of a focus at the encampment on calls for divestment from Israel than for a ceasefire in Gaza, and figured that this was because Northwestern has virtually no sway over the warring parties.

“They do, however, have a choice whether or not to cooperate with companies in Israel or support partnerships with them,” said Dylan, who had to speak up to be heard over an organizer’s megaphone and the media helicopters flying overhead.

When asked whether divestment from Israel is an end in of itself, he said it was not. “It’s a means to an end. I guess a ceasefire is the end.”

 

“If Northwestern divested and there was a ceasefire, I think the protest would end,” he said.

Pressed on whether the ceasefire should be part of the potential hostage deal currently being brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the US, Dylan said, “No, I don’t even think that Hamas has to be part of an agreement for [Israel] to agree to stop indiscriminately bombing.”

“Part of what Hamas wants is a ceasefire and maybe also an end to the occupation,” Dylan said, apparently unaware of or indifferent to Hamas’s declared goal of destroying Israel and its invasion and massacre on October 7. “The hostages are their leverage, and I do think they should be released if there is a ceasefire,” he added.

‘Uncomfortable’

Multiple Jewish students acknowledged being distressed over the day’s protest.

“Today, I feel uncomfortable and unsafe,” said junior Eden while standing just several feet away from the ring of anti-Israel students surrounding the tents.

“Yet I can’t help but stand here and just watch — watch all these people who heard that I was Jewish and and am not in support of this as they stare at me all of the time,” she added.

“There are a lot of people who aren’t forthcoming about their support for Israel… I do tell people I am, because I’m proud of it,” Eden said.

Later in the afternoon, she and another student joined an older Jewish local resident who had been jogging around the encampment since the morning wearing a white t-shirt with an Israeli flag.

While Northwestern has a sizable Jewish population, the subset of Modern Orthodox students is smaller.

Yarmulke spottings are accordingly rarer, save for the campus’s longtime Chabad rabbi, who was seen watching the protest from the other side of the quad with a group of Jewish students.

Later in the day, though, this reporter caught up with Jeremy Berkun, who was making his way through Deering Meadow en route to class at the music school.

He said he was choosing to wear a yarmulke Thursday, even though he doesn’t typically do so as a Conservative Jew, so that his Modern Orthodox friends wouldn’t be alone in donning them during this more tense period on campus.

“I have had a few instances of my friends getting their mezuzahs taken off their doors last semester,” Berkun said.

 

Along with his more religious “brothers,” he said he also has a friend who was leading the anti-Israel protest.

“I’ve had a lot of discussions with him about how we both think violence is bad, but he posted that he supports ‘the resistance’ the day after October 7,” Berkun, a sophomore, said sadly.

But not going anywhere

As Berkun walked through campus, he was greeted warmly by Jewish and non-Jewish friends.

“I don’t think I would ever reconsider coming here. I think this is the perfect place for me. No matter where I was going to be in this country, I was always going to have some problems on campus. It was just a matter of where.”

“If I was at Columbia, Yale or Michigan, I’d have the same problems I’m dealing with now. It’s just a question of how I deal with them, and that’s by being with my Jewish community, being with Hillel, being with Chabad,” he added.

Freshman Maia Egnal described a similar sense of comfort at Northwestern even while acknowledging the uncomfortable, “antisemitic” nature of the day’s protest.

“I have not seen these people who are out there today protesting loss of civilian life in other places,” she lamented during an interview at Northwestern Hillel, a block away from the encampment.

“I’ve been horrified, horrified, horrified to see the loss of Palestinian life during this war, but I wouldn’t say that Israel doesn’t deserve to exist over this, the same way I didn’t say America didn’t deserve to exist over the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq,” said Egnal who is involved in the school’s J Street U chapter, which advocates for a two-state solution.

She discussed sometimes feeling isolated — particularly since October 7 — between some of the more hawkish students at Hillel who have branded calls for a ceasefire “antisemitic” and those at the encampment who “don’t believe Israel should exist.”

“Nonetheless, I love my Jewish life here,” Egnal said. “My younger sister was just choosing where to go to college, and I told her that if she came to Northwestern, she would have a vibrant Jewish life here. She’s committing here today.”

“I will never tell a Jewish student not to come here, and I think that is probably the attitude of every Jewish student here. Overwhelmingly, I know that this building will always support me.”

 

‘Jewish life is thriving’

Downstairs, some 150 students were taking advantage of the Passover lunch Hillel was providing throughout the holiday.

While a large group of them ate, campus rabbi Jessica Lott shared a few words about the importance of having both pride and empathy at this moment.

“We serve students across the political spectrum, including ones who have been involved in the protest,” Lott said, adding that she had originally scheduled to meet on Thursday with one of the organizers for a religious lesson, which was canceled “because she needed to be there [at the encampment] today and I needed to be here today.”

The campus rabbi adamantly rejected the notion that the anti-Israel activity was fundamentally changing life on campus for Jewish students.

Hillel hosted hundreds of students for Passover seders earlier this week, and there were more students than ever asking for help to host their own seders in their apartments, she said, rejecting the suggestion that this was a reaction to October 7 and its aftermath.

“They’re all excited to do this and see it as part of adulting. We do it every year, and it has been a growing program. It’s growing because it’s fun. Regardless of what’s happening outside,” she said.

“Jewish life on campus is thriving, and students are finding a way to make their own sense of what’s going on,” Lott added, suggesting that while Thursday was certainly no win for Jewish students, they would do just fine regardless.