SOMEONE CALL A DOCTOR – OUR PRESIDENT IS SICK
empathy, n. Identification with and understanding of another’s feelings, situation, and motives. –Webster’s New College Dictionary
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Unless you’ve been separated from the news since 2017, you’ve no doubt heard of our U.S. President’s “zero tolerance” (zero humanity?) immigration policy, whereby children (including infants and toddlers) are taken from their asylum-seeking mother and/or father at the southern border, resulting in what the New York Times reported as “thousands of migrant parents spending months in agonized uncertainty, unable to communicate with their children and in many cases not even knowing where their children are.”
Let’s call this unconscionable practice what it is:
In June 2018, a federal judge in San Diego directed the federal government to halt the separations and reunite children with their parents, but federal inspectors found that separations continued to occur. Furthermore, according to the N.Y. Times, the total number of separated children is unknown “because of the lack of a coordinated formal tracking system between the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the arm of Health and Human Services that takes in the children, and the Dept. of Homeland Security, which separated them from their parents.”
What is wrong with this morally sick President that renders him incapable of empathy, that blinds him to the needs of others, particularly the ‘least’ of us?
“All children old enough to recognize that they exist as separate (albeit weak and dependent) beings have a strong need to believe that their parents are ultimately good and kind. Parents appear to the child to be omnipotent figures who have everything: food, warmth, love, mobility and so forth. The child desperately needs to feel that these God-like parents are devoted to his or her particular needs and well-being: the consequences of the reverse, for the weak and utterly dependent child, are simply too terrible to contemplate.” — Scott Mann, author, HEART OF A HEARTLESS WORLD
Someone call a doctor — preferably a heart specialist — for our President.
calmkate 2:35 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
psychopaths have NO empathy, he is certifiable … I assure you!
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mistermuse 9:54 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
Like a psychopath in a combiNATION horror movie and realty show.
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calmkate 10:52 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink
oh you have a way with words, nailed it!
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The Whitechapel Whelk 3:58 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
You raised my hopes with that title
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mistermuse 9:58 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
Thank you. It’s good to be appreciated. 🙂
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carmen 7:55 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
I cannot imagine him being anyone’s Valentine. 😦
Now you, on the other hand, mistermuse. . . 🙂
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mistermuse 10:08 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
I can’t imagine him as anyone’s Valentine either….but I can clearly see him as the MAD Hater on Halloween.
Happy Valentine’s Day a day early, Carmen!
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mlrover 8:52 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
He is not my president. I have too much respect for the office to give that man the title. He is on a par with the murderous A. Jackson who killed thousands of Native Americans in one of our country’s most horrific land grabs.
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mistermuse 10:14 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
Right on, mirover! The other day on TV (I forget which program), Trump was reported to have said that Andrew Jackson is one of his favorite presidents. It figures.
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Lisa R. Palmer 11:12 am on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
Grr… this makes me so mad! How is it still happenening? How is it he still has supporters? I cannot even fathom the sadistic depths of those who so freakishly and fanatically encourage him…
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mistermuse 12:54 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
Good question, Lisa. In my opinion, most of his supporters are either willfully ignorant, gullible, or (like many right-wing ideologues and power players) have a stronger ‘financial compass’ than a ‘moral compass.’
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Lisa R. Palmer 8:36 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink
That makes sense I guess. Sad, though… ☹️
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Richard Cahill 1:04 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
Doctor? In my opinion his heart needs a blood clot the size of a cheeseburger.
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mistermuse 6:16 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
In a more charitable vein, how about a heart transplant with a real heart?
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Paulie 1:05 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
Two years into this mess and nothing shocks me (much) anymore. The mind is more boggled by his supporters and enablers, particularly those in Congress who’ve decided to hitch their careers and legacies to this miserable jackass. What drives them? Power? Financial skin in the game? Racism? A little bit of each? Clearly there’s a complete lack of morality and empathy.
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mistermuse 6:22 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
That about sums it up, Paulie. If those who voted for him don’t have buyer’s remorse by now, they never will.
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Elizabeth 2:34 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
His parents didn’t earn parents of the year awards themselves. I don’t think he ever received any love. He certainly acts as if he didn’t.
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mistermuse 6:44 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
Not to ‘disagree,’ Elizabeth, but I think he rec’d love all right — love of power, of domineering wealth, and of being the center of acclaim. A real triple threat, all in one pathetic package.
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Elizabeth 8:36 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink
That is right on the money. He didn’t get the real thing but its counterfeits.
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D. Wallace Peach 5:32 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
He has a narcissistic personality disorder and is incapable of feeling empathy. It’s a real sickness that can turn people into monsters.
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mistermuse 6:47 pm on February 13, 2019 Permalink |
On the money, Diana….monsters who are incapable of seeing themselves as they really are.
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A. Rinum 10:54 pm on February 19, 2019 Permalink |
Forget about differences in political opinion…
I don’t even think we’re on the same page regarding morality…
Children shouldn’t have to suffer because grownups are can’t get along…
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mistermuse 1:21 am on February 20, 2019 Permalink
…or because grownups have forgotten how vulnerable they were as children to circumstances beyond their control or ability to cope (or were so privileged as children that they didn’t have to experience such circumstances).
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D. Wallace Peach 11:31 am on February 20, 2019 Permalink
I used to work as an early childhood mental health counselor, and the trauma these kids are experiencing is outrageous. I wrote a post about the mental health impact on immigrant children, if you’re interested. https://mythsofthemirror.com/2018/06/25/trump-sanctioned-child-abuse/
(Thanks Mr. Muse for letting me share 🙂 )
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mistermuse 11:48 am on February 20, 2019 Permalink |
Thank you, Diana, for the link to your 6/25/18 TRUMP SANCTIONED CHILD ABUSE post, which I read at the time and liked very much. I appreciate the share, and hope readers of this comment will read it too.
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D. Wallace Peach 1:14 pm on February 20, 2019 Permalink
🙂
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chattykerry 8:07 pm on February 14, 2019 Permalink |
It is cruel and unusual punishment – why isn’t that cause for impeachment?
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mistermuse 8:15 pm on February 14, 2019 Permalink |
It is, but unfortunately, Republicans still control the Senate. Hopefully that will change in November 2020, but until then, Robert Mueller is our only hope (and even when his report is completed, it may be kept from the public by the Republican Attorney General).
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barkinginthedark 7:33 pm on March 3, 2019 Permalink |
this is a vile thing. continue…
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mistermuse 11:06 pm on March 3, 2019 Permalink |
What can I say? Vile men do vile things, and it doesn’t get much more vile than taking small children from their parents and traumatizing them.
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Marysa Writes 4:16 pm on March 7, 2019 Permalink |
I’m honestly surprised to find a website of people who are not trump supporters. It feels almost unreal.
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mistermuse 4:56 pm on March 7, 2019 Permalink |
I don’t see many Trump-supporter websites, Marysa — for one thing, I don’t seek them, and if I do run into one, I don’t follow it because I’ve found from past experience that we don’t occupy the same universe or speak the same language, thus we talk past each other, and meaningful dialogue is impossible.
In “real life,” however, engagement is possible. My next-door neighbor is a mild Trump supporter (if you can imagine such a thing), and we get along fine.
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Marysa Writes 5:00 pm on March 7, 2019 Permalink
I’m from Florida, so pretty much everyone I run into is a Trump supporter, and it’s a bit awkward.
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bigskybuckeye 4:01 pm on March 13, 2019 Permalink |
The comments to this post say it all.
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