@yourauntemma I think we've had this exchange before. Ive said from the beginning (and despite all those who vociferously insisted over and over he was a malignant narcissitic) that TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATH (who is dementing but that's another thread) and have written extensive 1/

@GoadGatsby WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS INFO LIKELY TO MAKE STEAM COME OUT YOUR EARS
Personally, I don't use but I gotta ask b/as long time SA Counselor & Clinical Neuropsychologist,
What ARE these people so on re weed about? Theres NOTHING abt weed comes anywhere close to t/individual, 1/

relational, marital familial, societal and physical and mental health damage done by alcohol (ism) daily. PERIOD FULL STOP

& Research that was so long denied has found a plethora of bennies.

That's not to say no abuse occurs or is possible, (however, [stick with me here] 2/

I see a variety of WS groups currently abusing [t/great American symbol of home family & motherhood] MILK these days...
Hey, if it's a substance/any substance or something transduced or processes by your chemical brain [neurochemistry baby] use misuse, abuse addiction & 3/

deadly addiction is a thing, A BIG THING including "thought addiction," [we MH profs call this obsession] which seems a likely group DX for folks on the right who are virtually obsessed with weed as if it were Hitler, meanwhile they're tryna convince themselves he had a 4/

rational national plan on repeat. But I digress).
Bottom line: Cannabis Use/Abuse Disorder is far less (note t/word LESS) common, far less damaging both in t/short- & long-term & pop #s for Cannibis Use/Abuse are no where near those of alcoholics & the resulting death maiming 5/

@jwdickerson Please no apologies, I meant nothing by it...I was just thinking out loud.... I'm sorry if it made you uncomfortable!

Many many clinicians, have difficulty distinguishing re: diagnosus between the three because it requires not only a great deal of indepth knowledge re: forensics and behavior, but experience as well. More, most of what people know about (ASPDp) criminal psychopaths comes 1/

from prison populations not the successful psychopaths that are functional enough to routinely get away with crime WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT (these are you long running career Docs, politicians lawyers CEO'S who are typically caught late in life, if at all, and who shock everyone 2/

who thought they were pillars of society or admired for great skills and wealth--sound familiar?). Even folks who study prison populations have a difficult time identifying "successful criminals" out here in the world.
That's just the clinical axis.
We on the whole, 3/

we tend to automatically project our empathy, onto the behaviors of others in order to better understand them. When this occurs, it very often results in misdiagnosis. Then there's the pressure to constantly stay relevant, find new diagnoses and treatments re staying afloat 4/

@KEBrightbill Since 1980-90s WS successful ongoing intentional strategy to blend w/fundamentalist W Christian & infiltrate/integrate/take over these spaces; emerging in homeschooling tied to natural CB, attachment style parenting, Le Leche League, Natural child rearing & ecological mov'nts

Theres not a lot 1 can do abt this either. There are SOME divisions but not as many as one might like to think & there are an infinite number of fuzzy boundaries ie., as in vaccinations. This is a highly fluid & often volatile life stage to navigate married or single & 2/

things are muddy as hell (this is an area I've researched tracked, and personally experienced as part of that natural child birth community). Women are isolated by society and thats a problem on both the right and the left. Women are vilified & looked down on when they do 3/

have kids, and are pilloried if they stay home, go to work, if they breastfeed, for how long or not and are essentially cut off from an elder community that might help them navigate the enormous shift in their lives not to mention having to put up with petulant manbaby 4/

husbands who drag them via their own negative ideals, expections, insecurities fears angers hurts at the sudden usurping of their position as number 1 in a womans life when she has a baby, & especially the first baby. BOTH WHITE SUPREMACY AND FUNDAMENTALIST WHITE CHRISTIANITY 5/

1. Simon Parkes:

800 camps have been built and GITMO remodeled to put the bad guys in.

Many rich people were sworn to Sat*anic worship that goes back to Egypt. Trump was fighting a way of life of these people.

The media issue a scathing, well-documented look at how much money US Catholic dioceses raked in under Trump's pandemic relief initiative, and watch the response in Catholic circles, Catholic media, among many Catholic laity. /1

It's a variant of the VERY SAME response used repeatedly by Catholic leaders to exonerate top-level responsibility for priests abusing minors and going unpunished.

The typical gambit now being used to justify the lavish feeding at the Trump trough: /2

Well, maybe dioceses were grabby and did not need all that money — look at the assets they're sitting on already — but poor, struggling parishes needed that money.

As if a parish is somehow disconnected from a diocese …. As if a parish is not integrally tied to a diocese. /3

As I say, this is a variant of the argument often advanced by Catholic leaders to justify doing nothing when a priest is known to be abusing minors: Well, he's only a hired employee on a contract. What does he have to do with us, with the bishop, with the chancellor? /4

The whole Catholic governing system is set up in a way that totally integrates parishes with dioceses. No parish and no parish priest can possibly function with independence from diocesan structures. Let a parish/parish priest try that, and see how quick the reprisal is. /5

NEW: Before he left office, Trump filed his final financial disclosures with @OfficeGovEthics. I’ve had a read through them. The income he is claiming in respect of his Scottish resorts is entirely divorced from the reality set out in black in white in his UK accounts. Thread 👇

Firstly, Trump lists his income from ‘golf related revenue’ at Turnberry as $9.8m. Which is interesting, given the latest UK accounts for Turnberry's parent company registered losses of £2.3m ($3.1m) for the 12 months to 31 Dec 2019.

Even the turnover in the UK accounts - listed as £19.6m ($26.8m) is a country mile off that income figure listed in Trump's OGE filings. Comparing like for like, even accounting for that weird 'golf related revenue' descriptor, it's not even close.

If you drill down in more detail, and subtract the administrative expenses at Turnberry's parent firm from its turnover in order to get closer to whatever that 'income' figure entails, the number is still £12.5m ($17.2m).

And if you go deeper, and account for the gains the company made in foreign exchanges, and deduct depreciation and amortisation costs, the figure is £9.9m ($13.6m). Still a way off the OGE number.