"President Donald Trump’s mental health might lead to the extinction of the human species, the Yale psychiatrist briefing lawmakers on the president's psychological state told Newsweek on Friday. If it were possible, Dr. Bandy Lee said, "we would be declaring a public health emergency that needs to be responded to as quickly as possible.” “As more time passes, we come closer to the greatest risk of danger, one that could even mean the extinction of the human species,” she said. “This is not hyperbole. This is the reality.” “Would someone from [North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un's] depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!" the president tweeted on Tuesday night. What Lee would say is that a history of violence—like Trump’s “verbal aggressiveness, history of boasting about sexual assault, history of inciting violence at his rallies, and history of endorsing violence in his key public speeches”—is the best predictor of future violence. “He has also shown an attraction to violence and powerful weapons," she said, including nuclear weapons. "He has also repeatedly taunted a hostile nation." Lee said she’d received death threats since hosting a conference in April on the ethics of warning the public about dangers posed by mentally ill public figures. "I notified campus police and I changed my means of getting around," she said." https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-could-destroy-entire-human-133625198.html
We're a Culture of Fear. Literally addicted to it. After generations of Cold War doomongering, that had along with it all the other Politics of Fear stuff (and news reporting like crime fearmongering) it's so ingrained in US we're a sick sick people. You see it everywhere, like with conservatives they've been infected with an outlandish FEAR of every possible threat even the tiniest tinpot dictator even though we're the only threat to this planet; that kind of fear running policy in US therefore becomes an ultimate threat. Then you have the global warming left. Same stuff. Nope, the world wont merely be a few degrees suckier nope it the END OF EARTH.
Just look at the 2012 scene. No where did the Mayans write anything about the what the long count meant, yet we turned it into the ultimate doomsday prophecy. Then the lists go on and on like high power lines causing cancer (yet people use magnets for therapy), Y2K, killer bees apocalypse, the annual The World Ends On This Date day, BP disaster was Literally The End Of The World, ZOMG IRAN / NK IS GODZILLA, Red Scare v2.0, and so on.
So here we have her referencing a situation (NK) driven by this kind of fear addiction, and then this report that drips with the very same stuff.
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