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I like the part about no new spending is needed. Should we translate that to we will divert people looking into measles and covid to this?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Oops! Looks like I have an incredibly severe mental health disorder. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to treat it.

Unless… maybe I can bring light or bleach into my body - almost like a cleaning. You know, to stop this disorder? I heard Trump’s team is looking into that. Should be interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I propose that we will follow up to this new disorder. Maybe it can be compromised by learning people how to read, though it has been shown by experience that wearing a diaper remains a necessity for this disorder. Anyone got an idea how we'll push these patients beyond the toddler stage and, of course, allow them to become full-functioning adults who can read and write? /s

(Or even better: How about we set an age limit and a clear prevention against having anyone run for office who may not vote by the law. Come on, America: You can do it!)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Critical Thinking is now a Mental Health Disorder?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Ignorance is strength. Sickness is health.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I had to double check that I am not reading an Onion article

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Depression is the first disease from a second term so why not accept that as fact.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I might have a mental health disorder, but I am cognitively healthier than any of his butt-kissers.

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Psychiatry is and has always been political

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Or, you have eyes and ears.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump has the most fragile ego ever

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please? Please diagnose with it? I will frame that shit, put it on the wall forever.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

You're not going to have anything to hang it with in CECOT

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like good old Generalissimus Stalin. He learns from the best!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Hitler, also. Remember that one of the only books anyone can recall Trump reading regularly is a collected volume of Hitler's speeches.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

If hating what Trump does and represents is a mental disorder, then I am terminal and highly-contagious.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately much of this country has developed a vaccine for this apparently.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is a foot in the door for using the mechanisms of criminal psychiatry to brutalize opposition, not a joke.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kennedy has been talking about putting the "mentally ill" in farming concentration camps since he floated challenging Biden. This is Step 1 to criminalizing political opposition.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Step 1?

I feel like we're already on step 32.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Trumpitis.

It's an allergy to orange shitbags. not a mental healthdisorder!

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