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Thom's blog
We Do Have A Mental Illness Problem & It's In the Whitehouse
 Trump, the NRA, and the Republican Party keep talking about mental illness as the core of our problem right now in America. And, indeed, we have a major mental illness problem in our country right now. It's in the White House. Our president is mentally ill, and until we recognize that, acknowledge that, and begin a national conversation about it there can be no healing or reconciliation. His lies, his continuous contradictions, and his erratic behavior both domestically and internationally are all symptoms of his severe mental illness. Many of America's mental health professionals have recognized this, but a serious discussion of the president's mental illness has not yet moved out of the realm of mental health professionals and into our mainstream rhetoric. The media needs to acknowledge that we have a disabled man in the White House, and that his disability is putting all of us - literally, the entire world - at risk. One of the most common understandings in the mental health community is that healing starts with acknowledging the cause of the problem; healing in America will begin when we all acknowledge that Trump's mental illness has torn us apart and poisoned our national and international discourse. -Thom |
Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: America Does Have a Mental Illness Problem... It's in the White House. How Can America Heal With Trump As Our President?
Article: " 25th Amendment Section 4" " Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..." Event: Aug. 24 730p: Portland, Or: Thom Hartmann in "This Land Sings" at the " Alberta Rose Theater". Article: " Goldwater rule" (American Psychiatric Association) by Wikipedia.
Hour Two: Continued from Hour 1: America's Mental Illness Problem...It's In the White House. How Do We Heal With Trump As President?
Hour Three: Thom Vs. former Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA, 7th) on guns, massacres & mental health...- (former) Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA, 7th District) / Attorney / Member-Board of Directors, National Rifle Association (NRA) 
Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). " ...To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years..." |
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.
And, Riane Eisler, President of the Center for Partnership Studies, Social Scientist & Cultural Historian... author of numerous books, will be here to talk abut her latest book, Nurturing Our Humanity (co-authored by Douglas P. Fry)
And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...
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And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Watch & Listen to Thom
We Do Have A Mental Illness Problem & It's In the White House
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