Bodies of murdered babies, children, women and men were still on the ground wrapped in blue blankets and tarps in Kibbutz collectives and villages across southern Israel yesterday when Donald Trump took the stage at a campaign rally in West Palm Beach and made his first public comments after the onslaught of Hamas militants on Saturday that killed more than 1,200 Israeli citizens. True to form, he blamed the carnage on Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, whom he called “a jerk.”
". . . abject narcissism and psychosis" : In common conversation that phase would be taken as hyperbole, for effect. In the dangerous case of Donald Trump, however, that is an accurate description of Donald Trump's mental condition right now. Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee wrote a good book about it, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump". Her Ivy League university fired her for it. The guy is dangerously unhinged.
Thanks Bob, a slight correction is that Prof. Lee edited both editions and herself contributed essays, and I believe Yale came up with some of what they characterized as justifications for terminating her employment, but sure look like "excuses," since the "Goldwater Rule" could well be overridden by her professional "duty to warn."
Bandy Xenobia Lee is an American psychiatrist whose scholarly work includes the writing of a comprehensive textbook on violence.[2] She is a specialist in public health approaches to violence prevention who consulted with the World Health Organization[3] and initiated reforms at New York's Rikers Island Correctional Facility.[4] She helped draft the United Nations chapter on "Violence Against Children,"[5] leads a project group for the World Health Organization's Violence Prevention Alliance,[6] and has contributed to prison reform in the United States and around the world.[7] She taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School from 2003 through 2020.
In 2017, Lee organized a conference at Yale on the mental health of Donald Trump with the participation of other psychiatrists including Robert Jay Lifton and Judith Lewis Herman.[8] Following the conference, in March 2017, the American Psychiatric Association released a statement reaffirming the Goldwater rule that restricts comments related to the mental health of public figures without their consent or evaluation.[9] Lee characterized the statement as silencing concerns raised by psychiatrists about the Trump presidency.[10]
Lee reconvened the conference the following month,[11] and later in the year edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a collection of essays warning about the dangers of Trump's mental instability that became a New York Times bestseller.[12] It was reported that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly secretly consulted the book as a guide for dealing with Trump[13][14] Using this book as an "owner's manual,"[15][16] Kelly was able to intervene to block Trump from ordering the use of nuclear weapons.[17][18]
In 2017 and 2018, Lee met with over fifty U.S. Congress members who considered the 25th Amendment[19][20][21] and in 2019 held an interdisciplinary conference at the National Press Club, which discussed impeachment and was broadcast in full by C-SPAN.[22][23]
In 2020, Yale University fired Lee from her voluntary medical faculty position for allegedly breaking the Goldwater rule in her speech regarding Alan Dershowitz and Trump.[24] Lee sued Yale for violating her academic freedom,[25] but the suit was dismissed in August 2022.[26] Lee subsequently filed for an appeal,[27] and on June 20, 2023, the appellate court upheld the previous ruling against her.[28]
In August 2022, Mother Jones published an article titled "The Psychiatrist who Warned Us that Donald Trump would Unleash Violence was Absolutely Right."[29] It argues that the events of January 6th are Lee's "vindication."[30]
Early life and education
Bandy Lee was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She is of Korean descent. Her mother was Inmyung Lee. As a teenager, Lee volunteered in Harlem as a tutor for homeless African-American children.[31] Her grandfather was Geun-Young Lee, a physician who treated patients in need of care after the Korean War,[32] who Lee says inspired her with a belief that practicing medicine also involves social responsibility.
Lee received her M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1994 and a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from Yale Divinity School in 1995.[33] Lee completed her medical internship at the Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. During her medical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Lee was designated as the chief resident. She was then a research fellow at Harvard Medical School.[34] Upon completion, she was offered a faculty position at Harvard University but turned it down to return to Yale.[35]
Early life and education
Bandy Lee was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She is of Korean descent. Her mother was Inmyung Lee. As a teenager, Lee volunteered in Harlem as a tutor for homeless African-American children.[31] Her grandfather was Geun-Young Lee, a physician who treated patients in need of care after the Korean War,[32] who Lee says inspired her with a belief that practicing medicine also involves social responsibility.
Lee received her M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1994 and a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from Yale Divinity School in 1995.[33] Lee completed her medical internship at the Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. During her medical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Lee was designated as the chief resident. She was then a research fellow at Harvard Medical School.[34] Upon completion, she was offered a faculty position at Harvard University but turned it down to return to Yale.[35]
Career
Lee studied the anthropology of violence in East Africa as a fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health[36] and co-authored academic papers on Côte d'Ivoire, Tanzania, and Rwanda. She is a specialist in violence prevention programs in prisons and in the community[33] and worked for several years in maximum security prisons in the United States [31] where she was instrumental in initiating reforms at New York's Rikers Island jail complex.[33] She has consulted with five different U.S. states on prison reform.[33]
Lee was director of research for the Center for the Study of Violence and with Kaveh Khoshnood, founded Yale University's Violence and Health Study Group.[36] She heads a project group of the Violence Prevention Alliance for the World Health Organization[33] that contributes to increasing the evidence base on interventions that work to prevent interpersonal violence in low- and middle-income countries.[37] She helped draft United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's chapter on "Violence Against Children"[38] and is the author of the textbook, Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures.[2] ****** There's much more in Wiki article for those interested.
this so-called "Goldwater Rule" was always ridiculous. it was meant for a very different time and place, aside from the fact that TFF is OBVIOUSLY crazy.
and Yale made a serious...uhhh...miscalculation. if Yale had a proper body for investigating cases in which academic freedom is at stake, Yale might have had a defensible (if very dicey) decision. but it doesn't, so her termination is bullshit. she won't lack for job offers, but it looks like she digs New Haven...I sure don't.
I think liking or not liking a small city that essentially exists as an extension of a college/university is a paradigm case of subjective judgments and unfathomable emotional, cultural and intellectual affinities, I know I would go bonkers in some perfectly nice, friendly college towns with some excellent academic programs in Minnesota, like Northfield 50 miles south of the Twin Cities, with Carleton and St. Olaf (both decent schools, both serve to draw in all kinds of touring concert events and speakers) while other people live there for a month or so and that' it! They connect with the place and there's no point in wondering why, different strokes for different folks. They live there for years and years as happy as, well, humans can expect to be given inevitable ups and downs of life.
It's like jobs, right now my girlfriend of some 25 years is working the first of two weekend shifts at a women's shelter in the West Metro, ten years there as of May 2023 - I would not be able to deal with continual "women and children in crisis having to book out of their homes due to abusive husband /boyfriend who has threatened x y and z if they don't "etc. etc. etc.
I would only want to track down the abuser and arrest them or sue them or MAYBE in some extraordinary cases, see myself counseling them, but what she does would burn me out in a very few months.
And not one word in the corporate media either about the substance of this vile display of unfit inhumanity nor the delivery - slurred speech, hesitations, misused words, etc. Every day the signs of dementia become more obvious. Do we have to wait until he takes the stage and just babbles while drooling and snorting before the corporate media will comment?
Should be, will never be. They need to keep him in the game. And they need to preserve what they most cherish - access to Republicans and those that donate to them.
TFG has never been much of a master of the English language, but his deterioration is obvious. And as the pressure mounts on his legal troubles, it will become even more pronounced. If he takes the debate stage against Biden, it will make Biden look like a brilliant young man. Even though the corporate media will still talk about how Biden is too old...
Trump identifies with dictators and terrorists. He's an organized crime boss, and will forever be a dark and dangerous threat to the USA and the civilized world.
From the expected Trumpeting: "They’re all very smart. — The press doesn’t like it when I say that. I said that President Xi of China — 1.4 billion people. He controls it with an iron fist. — I said, ‘he’s a very smart man.’ They killed me the next day.”
Just FYI, there's been talk of showing Xi the door, ir its equivalent in China.
It would be excellent if I could recall which day, or better yet, which publication. I read widely about politics and as an 80-something cannot tell you what came from where. I will say that the only junky pub I read is the NYPost, and I am ashamed of myself. I can say, with surety, that Xi having difficulties did *not* come from the Post. (Plus, since his divorce from Wendy Deng, old Rupert no longer gives a fig about China ...)
Margo you're great! And I briefly scan the NY Post for one thing because I follow "what they're lying about and how they package the lies," but like you it's not anything I would recommend, they are pretty inane and trivial along with the wingnut slant that emerges.
EDIT - But even though the NYPOST can fairly be described in case after case as "inane trivia," some of the celebrity gossip material transcends that from time to time, and gives us particular insights into perennial human dramas, plus maybe some weird psychodrama, schadenfreude - for better or worse - I tend to almost always root for the tormented creative types (if they really ARE creative) to fight their inner demons and win out. With Trump, there's never going to be any Ophelia lamenting, "O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!"
Maybe something adapting Hamlet's introspection: "O what a rogue and peasant slave this clueless mook has always been, I warned ya but ya wouldn't listen, damn it!" *****
And the GOP's continuing descent into something like dangerous waking hallucinations - now that the writers are working again with better conditions, I hope for something brilliant about this entire farrago of preposterous chicanery,
- films, plays, you name it! Conceptual art, if it really is original and not "tragically hip," etc.
"The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poet unlimited."
– William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Polonius, who likes to hear himself talk, announces the arrival of the troupe of traveling actors in this comical way.
I like it a few lines later, when Polonius talks about "playing Caesar," which was a laugh line, since (obviously) the same actor played BOTH. and then there's the additional irony of Polonius getting "stabbed in the capitol" not long after he talks about playing Caesar.
I know...in modern dress versions, he sometimes gets shot, but it's the same guts that get lugged.
without Shakespeare, life is much, much more pathetic. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, Richard.
I didn't understand Polonius very well in the usual AP high school English course, dismissed him as simply a futzing fuddy-duddy blathering away to no purpose, but he does at least have some empathy mixed in with the endless prolixity, and the ironies you mention are one more thread in an astounding dramatic fabric, for sure!
I also realized yesterday I could stand to read it again,* it's been a few years. I also like a large part of some filmed versions that some critics have panned - if you think immediately of the casting with Mel Gibson, Alan Bates, Glenn Close, and Helen Bonham-Carter, that's one of them. I have to banish Mel G.'s rwnj ranting political bilge and bigotry to actually enjoy what he does with it, of course, but it only makes it all the more sad that a really talented actor would have absorbed the toxic politics and religious lunacy he has done.
Just a mistake to assume fine skills in this or that art transfers to being a tolerant and compassionate human being, what a shocker that is!
Hey, but first THIS just showed up today, wasn't there yesterday. Mrs Dalloway.
Hamlet, Preface and explanatory notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A., arranged for a performance at
the Princess Theater, January 10, 1859. Preface is cool.
Kean definitely realizes how uniquely gifted Shakespeare was and enthusiastically lays on the praise.
Astounding revelations that might somehow "prove" Bacon wrote the plays and sonnets, De Vere wrote them, some other candidate did, Queen Elizabeth, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Ford, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, and John Webster collaborated on them, wouldn't change how stupendous they are collectively and in specific cases. A damn good thing, too!
the RSC and Cambridge University Press published a series of books of essays by actors on their roles called "Players of Shakespeare." in volume 1, Tony Church has a wonderful essay on playing Polonius twice in two very different productions ('65 and '80), the first time as an evil, scheming scumbag who definitely colluded in old Hamlet's murder. the second time, he played him as a slightly overage but once very bright counselor and a deeply caring father. he loved doing it both times and considered them equally valid in the context of those two productions. I agree with him that in the context of a particular production, Shakespeare gives you LOTS of room to interpret. I personally dislike the version with Mel Gibson, despite the superb cast (minus Mel, who is a very limited actor when things get too "classical"), mostly because of Zeffirelli's limitations, which were considerable. and oh yeah..my e-mail is "davol2449@gmail.com"
I refuse to discuss the so-called "authorship issue." if you think about the effort that would have been involved in such a coverup gives me a headache.
I saw an English production from 2018 with Andrew Scott. I know this play better than I know myself and couldn't count how many times I've seen it, but this was absolutely revelatory. I have a link for it (actually, I have the whole thing), and if you send me your e-mail address, I'll send it to you. you won't be sorry.
Oh, gosh, Margo, I'm not quite 80 yet but I operate for information out there the same way you do and I cannot remember because I'm covering a ton of stuff in between doing other things. An I don't quote junk either and I'm quite sure there's more underneath and I'd really like that to be the case.
Maybe because the Chinese economy has been over-heated, they built a hellacious amount of real estate (on CHINESE SCALE, don't forget!) and it wasn't being maintained, shoddy construction standards, plus some other "Let a Thousand Profiteers Profit" schemes have been exposed.
But they are ultra-secretive, not in some "Orientalist" sense that stereotypes Asians, but from the politics of an authoritarian state.
I know exactly how you feel. in the course of a day, I might read from ten different publications, but by evening I couldn't tell you what appeared where.
I saw some of his unhinged rally on a podcast I watch. He sounded more mentally unstable then he has been. If that’s even possible. He has zero empathy. It’s all about him. Do his MAGA fans ever get tired of his constant whinging? He is despicable!!!
I agree with you. I was not happy seeing Blinken standing near Bibi on the podium. Bibi has no right to be PM. In fact, I would not be depressed if he was dropped right smack in the middle of Gaza. So harsh for me to say but I am very VERY sick and nauseated by the likes of him, the R Party, and Fake 45! Speaking of F45, wrap him in a Straitjacket and a muzzle and haul his ass to Guantanamo for life!!
I'm with you. Death for death everywhere now. Children. But "out there" what you and I think can get you hurt right now. A major donor is trying to get Harvard to release the list of students who came out for Palestine yesterday. Larry Summers, to his credit, says this is Joe McCarthyism, making lists and publishing them. We are in terrifying times with very little sanity around. And Bibi pressing death and destruction as many more Israelis start pointing their finger at him as to why this happened. As another headline said, this is why populism will not work and will only endanger the country who has it in high ascendance.
We all know what a steaming pile of shit that man is, and yet he manages to get stinkier and sink lower. Nobody is surprised, but how disgusting. I’ve never wished anybody dead before. Although actually, I would rather see him in a super Max sharing a cell with Bubba.
The situation in Israel just is breaking me and everybody I know it is tragic. It is heart rending. My Facebook feed is just photo after photo a beautiful young butchered people. And he just has zero respect we know why but still it’s disgusting. Even more disgusting? He won’t lose one of his base. Because he’s attracted Nazis and the antisemites they’re delighted.
I wonder if anyone can confirm something I heard a few minutes ago. Jack Smith supposedly included in his filings that the DOJ knows why Trump took the documents and intends to prove it in court. Although proving motive isn't necessary to a conviction juries like to know why criminals commit crimes. I got this in a Facebook message from a news outlet called Vice which I have never heard of, so I'm a little suspicious.
It doesn't provide the specific motive which I assume Smith is holding back as long as he can.
Mmmm, let's see: (1) to show off/boast (as he's already done); (2) to sell documents to our adversaries to the highest bidder; (3) souvenirs of his term in the White House; (4) "They're mine!"
Could go to both mens rea and any connected intent issues? But you're exactly right about juries, naturally want to have a coherent story laid out - Trump is such a goofball, crawling with psychopathological symptoms, not sure if that helps constructing a "narrative arc" or not!
"Mens rea refers to criminal intent. The literal translation from Latin is "guilty mind." The plural of mens rea is mentes reae. Mens rea is the state of mind statutorily required in order to convict a particular defendant of a particular crime. Establishing the mens rea of an offender, in addition to the actus reus (physical elements of the crime) is usually necessary to prove guilt in a criminal trial. The prosecution typically must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the offense with a culpable state of mind. Justice Holmes famously illustrated the concept of intent when he said “even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
The mens rea requirement is premised upon the idea that one must possess a guilty state of mind and be aware of his or her misconduct; however, a defendant need not know that their conduct is illegal to be guilty of a crime. Rather, the defendant must be conscious of the “facts that make his conduct fit the definition of the offense." See: Staples v. United States, 511 US 600 (1994).
Applying Mentes Reae
If a statute specifies a mental state or a particular offense, courts will usually apply the requisite mental state to each element of the crime. See: Flores-Figueroa v. United States. Moreover, even if a statute refrains from mentioning a mental state, courts will usually require that the government still prove that the defendant possessed a guilty state of mind during the commission of the crime. For example, the Supreme Court of the United States instructed that federal criminal statutes without a requisite mental state should be read to include “only that mens rea which is necessary to separate ‘wrongful from innocent conduct.'" See: Elonis v. United States.
Mental states are usually organized hierarchically by the offender’s state of blameworthiness. Generally, the blameworthiness of an actor’s mental state corresponds to the seriousness of the crime. Higher levels of blameworthiness typically correlate with more severe liability, and harsher sentencing.
Historically, states categorized mental states into crimes which required "general intent" and "specific intent." However, due to the confusion that ensued over how to describe "intent," most states now either use the Model Penal Code's (MPC) four-tiered classification, or the malice distinction. ***** Excerpted from a longer article,
Spot on! This morning on the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC-FM) the guest being interviewed pointed out that Netanyahu had the temerity to publicly thank and praise Joe Biden for his support. Therefore trumpty had to seek vengeance by disparaging and attacking him. He is correct about Russia not attacking Ukraine had he won in 2020. He'd have served them up to Putin on a platter to get even with Zelensky.
mp, your question may have been rhetorical, but seeing as you asked..
he threw red meat of just the right type to each ravenous type of beast to make them take him in as leader of their pack.
the kremlin, thru cambridge analytica, scl group, brad parscale, and facebook knew *exactly* what region of beasts like what type of red meat. one of the data miners boasted they had 5000 bits of information on the makeup of *each* voter. they knew which color of print to use on ads that showed in a particular region.
thats how they pulled the disparate cult members together. thats why pro-lifers will look the other way when a gun nut like kyle rottenhouse kills two ppl and gets away with it. thats why climate deniers will stand beside flat-earthers who stand beside anti-vaxxers who stand beside muslim/jew/china/younameit-haters and so on.
youre right in pointing out the electoral college was the major focus of the data mining analyses. the kremlin concentrated on just the crucial regions to hit with just the right type of ads to win those electoral college regions. they told the trump campaign to throw the right type of red meat that that particular region loved to get, be it gun rights, fracking, coastal flooding, or coal mining.
they knew to tailor their ads to play on hunting or personal protection, job security, property rights, and big wheel trucks that roll coal (of course flying huge trump flags).
oh my you got me going on another rant, jds. owell, what can i say.
"Donald Trump's influence over the Republican party is eroding faster than his net worth."--Mary Trump
I live for the day when Donald J. Trump is completely irrelevant.
I live for the day when he is referred to as "the late former president, Donald Trump."
I live for the day when he's referred to as "the incarcerated former president, Donald Trump."
shee...I misread and saw "incinerated"...it's 3:27 am. 😂
That works too.
😆😆😆
AMEN!
I live for the day that he and all of his Putinistas in Congress are brought to justice and removed from participating in government permanently.
AMEN!
me, i want to dance on his grave.
i hate what hes done to this country so much.
I llive for the day he is Shanked in the shower at Rikers
AMEN!
drumpf is circling the drain of abject narcissism and psychosis. He’s so deranged there are no words!
". . . abject narcissism and psychosis" : In common conversation that phase would be taken as hyperbole, for effect. In the dangerous case of Donald Trump, however, that is an accurate description of Donald Trump's mental condition right now. Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee wrote a good book about it, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump". Her Ivy League university fired her for it. The guy is dangerously unhinged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9__k6ivm7E
^^^^^
23 minute interview with Mary L. Trump and Bandy X. Lee...
Two Mental Health Experts Assess the World’s Most Dangerous Man
For more of similar, please visit: BANDYLEE.COM
Transcript
Follow along using the transcript.
Thanks Bob, a slight correction is that Prof. Lee edited both editions and herself contributed essays, and I believe Yale came up with some of what they characterized as justifications for terminating her employment, but sure look like "excuses," since the "Goldwater Rule" could well be overridden by her professional "duty to warn."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy_X._Lee
EXCERPT:
Bandy Xenobia Lee is an American psychiatrist whose scholarly work includes the writing of a comprehensive textbook on violence.[2] She is a specialist in public health approaches to violence prevention who consulted with the World Health Organization[3] and initiated reforms at New York's Rikers Island Correctional Facility.[4] She helped draft the United Nations chapter on "Violence Against Children,"[5] leads a project group for the World Health Organization's Violence Prevention Alliance,[6] and has contributed to prison reform in the United States and around the world.[7] She taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School from 2003 through 2020.
In 2017, Lee organized a conference at Yale on the mental health of Donald Trump with the participation of other psychiatrists including Robert Jay Lifton and Judith Lewis Herman.[8] Following the conference, in March 2017, the American Psychiatric Association released a statement reaffirming the Goldwater rule that restricts comments related to the mental health of public figures without their consent or evaluation.[9] Lee characterized the statement as silencing concerns raised by psychiatrists about the Trump presidency.[10]
Lee reconvened the conference the following month,[11] and later in the year edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a collection of essays warning about the dangers of Trump's mental instability that became a New York Times bestseller.[12] It was reported that White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly secretly consulted the book as a guide for dealing with Trump[13][14] Using this book as an "owner's manual,"[15][16] Kelly was able to intervene to block Trump from ordering the use of nuclear weapons.[17][18]
In 2017 and 2018, Lee met with over fifty U.S. Congress members who considered the 25th Amendment[19][20][21] and in 2019 held an interdisciplinary conference at the National Press Club, which discussed impeachment and was broadcast in full by C-SPAN.[22][23]
In 2020, Yale University fired Lee from her voluntary medical faculty position for allegedly breaking the Goldwater rule in her speech regarding Alan Dershowitz and Trump.[24] Lee sued Yale for violating her academic freedom,[25] but the suit was dismissed in August 2022.[26] Lee subsequently filed for an appeal,[27] and on June 20, 2023, the appellate court upheld the previous ruling against her.[28]
In August 2022, Mother Jones published an article titled "The Psychiatrist who Warned Us that Donald Trump would Unleash Violence was Absolutely Right."[29] It argues that the events of January 6th are Lee's "vindication."[30]
Early life and education
Bandy Lee was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She is of Korean descent. Her mother was Inmyung Lee. As a teenager, Lee volunteered in Harlem as a tutor for homeless African-American children.[31] Her grandfather was Geun-Young Lee, a physician who treated patients in need of care after the Korean War,[32] who Lee says inspired her with a belief that practicing medicine also involves social responsibility.
Lee received her M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1994 and a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from Yale Divinity School in 1995.[33] Lee completed her medical internship at the Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. During her medical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Lee was designated as the chief resident. She was then a research fellow at Harvard Medical School.[34] Upon completion, she was offered a faculty position at Harvard University but turned it down to return to Yale.[35]
Early life and education
Bandy Lee was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. She is of Korean descent. Her mother was Inmyung Lee. As a teenager, Lee volunteered in Harlem as a tutor for homeless African-American children.[31] Her grandfather was Geun-Young Lee, a physician who treated patients in need of care after the Korean War,[32] who Lee says inspired her with a belief that practicing medicine also involves social responsibility.
Lee received her M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1994 and a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from Yale Divinity School in 1995.[33] Lee completed her medical internship at the Bellevue Hospital Center in New York. During her medical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Lee was designated as the chief resident. She was then a research fellow at Harvard Medical School.[34] Upon completion, she was offered a faculty position at Harvard University but turned it down to return to Yale.[35]
Career
Lee studied the anthropology of violence in East Africa as a fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health[36] and co-authored academic papers on Côte d'Ivoire, Tanzania, and Rwanda. She is a specialist in violence prevention programs in prisons and in the community[33] and worked for several years in maximum security prisons in the United States [31] where she was instrumental in initiating reforms at New York's Rikers Island jail complex.[33] She has consulted with five different U.S. states on prison reform.[33]
Lee was director of research for the Center for the Study of Violence and with Kaveh Khoshnood, founded Yale University's Violence and Health Study Group.[36] She heads a project group of the Violence Prevention Alliance for the World Health Organization[33] that contributes to increasing the evidence base on interventions that work to prevent interpersonal violence in low- and middle-income countries.[37] She helped draft United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's chapter on "Violence Against Children"[38] and is the author of the textbook, Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures.[2] ****** There's much more in Wiki article for those interested.
this so-called "Goldwater Rule" was always ridiculous. it was meant for a very different time and place, aside from the fact that TFF is OBVIOUSLY crazy.
and Yale made a serious...uhhh...miscalculation. if Yale had a proper body for investigating cases in which academic freedom is at stake, Yale might have had a defensible (if very dicey) decision. but it doesn't, so her termination is bullshit. she won't lack for job offers, but it looks like she digs New Haven...I sure don't.
but now I'm gonna watch the video...
I think liking or not liking a small city that essentially exists as an extension of a college/university is a paradigm case of subjective judgments and unfathomable emotional, cultural and intellectual affinities, I know I would go bonkers in some perfectly nice, friendly college towns with some excellent academic programs in Minnesota, like Northfield 50 miles south of the Twin Cities, with Carleton and St. Olaf (both decent schools, both serve to draw in all kinds of touring concert events and speakers) while other people live there for a month or so and that' it! They connect with the place and there's no point in wondering why, different strokes for different folks. They live there for years and years as happy as, well, humans can expect to be given inevitable ups and downs of life.
It's like jobs, right now my girlfriend of some 25 years is working the first of two weekend shifts at a women's shelter in the West Metro, ten years there as of May 2023 - I would not be able to deal with continual "women and children in crisis having to book out of their homes due to abusive husband /boyfriend who has threatened x y and z if they don't "etc. etc. etc.
I would only want to track down the abuser and arrest them or sue them or MAYBE in some extraordinary cases, see myself counseling them, but what she does would burn me out in a very few months.
And not one word in the corporate media either about the substance of this vile display of unfit inhumanity nor the delivery - slurred speech, hesitations, misused words, etc. Every day the signs of dementia become more obvious. Do we have to wait until he takes the stage and just babbles while drooling and snorting before the corporate media will comment?
Not. One. Word. It should be the lead story on all 3 networks.
Should be, will never be. They need to keep him in the game. And they need to preserve what they most cherish - access to Republicans and those that donate to them.
It's been mentioned on MSNBC.
but as an "opinion" station, MSNBC is easily dismissed, just as we dismiss Fox. I'm not suggesting they're equivalent, but a LOT of other people do.
"Mentioned" is a good start, but not nearly enough.
hence the bullshit status of this "Goldwater Rule."
but it IS true that nobody mentions TFF's inability to speak for two minutes without 1)lying and 2)mangling the English Language.
TFG has never been much of a master of the English language, but his deterioration is obvious. And as the pressure mounts on his legal troubles, it will become even more pronounced. If he takes the debate stage against Biden, it will make Biden look like a brilliant young man. Even though the corporate media will still talk about how Biden is too old...
Trump identifies with dictators and terrorists. He's an organized crime boss, and will forever be a dark and dangerous threat to the USA and the civilized world.
If he ever came in contact with a real Mafia Boss, he'd wet himself and run like hell....he's a wannabee and he isn't one!
He's probably pissed one off at one time or another. Remember, he never pays his bills. Hmmm.
My loathing for this vile creature, and anyone who enables him in any way, incteases exponentially every day.
From the expected Trumpeting: "They’re all very smart. — The press doesn’t like it when I say that. I said that President Xi of China — 1.4 billion people. He controls it with an iron fist. — I said, ‘he’s a very smart man.’ They killed me the next day.”
Just FYI, there's been talk of showing Xi the door, ir its equivalent in China.
Oh, Margo, elaborate. "There's been talk" part. Who's saying that? That would be excellent.
It would be excellent if I could recall which day, or better yet, which publication. I read widely about politics and as an 80-something cannot tell you what came from where. I will say that the only junky pub I read is the NYPost, and I am ashamed of myself. I can say, with surety, that Xi having difficulties did *not* come from the Post. (Plus, since his divorce from Wendy Deng, old Rupert no longer gives a fig about China ...)
Margo you're great! And I briefly scan the NY Post for one thing because I follow "what they're lying about and how they package the lies," but like you it's not anything I would recommend, they are pretty inane and trivial along with the wingnut slant that emerges.
EDIT - But even though the NYPOST can fairly be described in case after case as "inane trivia," some of the celebrity gossip material transcends that from time to time, and gives us particular insights into perennial human dramas, plus maybe some weird psychodrama, schadenfreude - for better or worse - I tend to almost always root for the tormented creative types (if they really ARE creative) to fight their inner demons and win out. With Trump, there's never going to be any Ophelia lamenting, "O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!"
Maybe something adapting Hamlet's introspection: "O what a rogue and peasant slave this clueless mook has always been, I warned ya but ya wouldn't listen, damn it!" *****
And the GOP's continuing descent into something like dangerous waking hallucinations - now that the writers are working again with better conditions, I hope for something brilliant about this entire farrago of preposterous chicanery,
- films, plays, you name it! Conceptual art, if it really is original and not "tragically hip," etc.
"The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poet unlimited."
– William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Polonius, who likes to hear himself talk, announces the arrival of the troupe of traveling actors in this comical way.
I like it a few lines later, when Polonius talks about "playing Caesar," which was a laugh line, since (obviously) the same actor played BOTH. and then there's the additional irony of Polonius getting "stabbed in the capitol" not long after he talks about playing Caesar.
I know...in modern dress versions, he sometimes gets shot, but it's the same guts that get lugged.
without Shakespeare, life is much, much more pathetic. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, Richard.
I didn't understand Polonius very well in the usual AP high school English course, dismissed him as simply a futzing fuddy-duddy blathering away to no purpose, but he does at least have some empathy mixed in with the endless prolixity, and the ironies you mention are one more thread in an astounding dramatic fabric, for sure!
I also realized yesterday I could stand to read it again,* it's been a few years. I also like a large part of some filmed versions that some critics have panned - if you think immediately of the casting with Mel Gibson, Alan Bates, Glenn Close, and Helen Bonham-Carter, that's one of them. I have to banish Mel G.'s rwnj ranting political bilge and bigotry to actually enjoy what he does with it, of course, but it only makes it all the more sad that a really talented actor would have absorbed the toxic politics and religious lunacy he has done.
Just a mistake to assume fine skills in this or that art transfers to being a tolerant and compassionate human being, what a shocker that is!
Hey, but first THIS just showed up today, wasn't there yesterday. Mrs Dalloway.
*https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71865/pg71865-images.html
Hamlet, Preface and explanatory notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A., arranged for a performance at
the Princess Theater, January 10, 1859. Preface is cool.
Kean definitely realizes how uniquely gifted Shakespeare was and enthusiastically lays on the praise.
Astounding revelations that might somehow "prove" Bacon wrote the plays and sonnets, De Vere wrote them, some other candidate did, Queen Elizabeth, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Ford, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, and John Webster collaborated on them, wouldn't change how stupendous they are collectively and in specific cases. A damn good thing, too!
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/27761/pg27761-images.html
the RSC and Cambridge University Press published a series of books of essays by actors on their roles called "Players of Shakespeare." in volume 1, Tony Church has a wonderful essay on playing Polonius twice in two very different productions ('65 and '80), the first time as an evil, scheming scumbag who definitely colluded in old Hamlet's murder. the second time, he played him as a slightly overage but once very bright counselor and a deeply caring father. he loved doing it both times and considered them equally valid in the context of those two productions. I agree with him that in the context of a particular production, Shakespeare gives you LOTS of room to interpret. I personally dislike the version with Mel Gibson, despite the superb cast (minus Mel, who is a very limited actor when things get too "classical"), mostly because of Zeffirelli's limitations, which were considerable. and oh yeah..my e-mail is "davol2449@gmail.com"
I refuse to discuss the so-called "authorship issue." if you think about the effort that would have been involved in such a coverup gives me a headache.
I saw an English production from 2018 with Andrew Scott. I know this play better than I know myself and couldn't count how many times I've seen it, but this was absolutely revelatory. I have a link for it (actually, I have the whole thing), and if you send me your e-mail address, I'll send it to you. you won't be sorry.
Oh, gosh, Margo, I'm not quite 80 yet but I operate for information out there the same way you do and I cannot remember because I'm covering a ton of stuff in between doing other things. An I don't quote junk either and I'm quite sure there's more underneath and I'd really like that to be the case.
Maybe because the Chinese economy has been over-heated, they built a hellacious amount of real estate (on CHINESE SCALE, don't forget!) and it wasn't being maintained, shoddy construction standards, plus some other "Let a Thousand Profiteers Profit" schemes have been exposed.
But they are ultra-secretive, not in some "Orientalist" sense that stereotypes Asians, but from the politics of an authoritarian state.
I know exactly how you feel. in the course of a day, I might read from ten different publications, but by evening I couldn't tell you what appeared where.
I saw some of his unhinged rally on a podcast I watch. He sounded more mentally unstable then he has been. If that’s even possible. He has zero empathy. It’s all about him. Do his MAGA fans ever get tired of his constant whinging? He is despicable!!!
they love it that he hates what they hate.
Apaprently not.
Yeah, but he forgot the main point, which is .....(drum roll)....(Souza March)....(fireworks display).....WHAT ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN?!!!!!
Or Hillary’s emails?!
Bengahzi!!!!!
And George Soros
He's back at the party where Obama roasted him.
As a Jew, I must admit, the 24/7 PR campaign by the Israeli gov and the MSM feels like
a whitewashing of a one sided slaughter that hasn't yet begun. I don't need
Bibi's pictures of dead Israeli babies any more than I want to see Gaza's infants
crushed in the rubble from constant F 16 attacks. Everybody knows what's going on.
Humans deserve humanity, not blind retribution.
I agree with you. I was not happy seeing Blinken standing near Bibi on the podium. Bibi has no right to be PM. In fact, I would not be depressed if he was dropped right smack in the middle of Gaza. So harsh for me to say but I am very VERY sick and nauseated by the likes of him, the R Party, and Fake 45! Speaking of F45, wrap him in a Straitjacket and a muzzle and haul his ass to Guantanamo for life!!
Greatest idea so far! Bibi will probably be fired when this war ends...if it ever does!
Hezbollah will enter into the war, I’m afraid.
I'm with you. Death for death everywhere now. Children. But "out there" what you and I think can get you hurt right now. A major donor is trying to get Harvard to release the list of students who came out for Palestine yesterday. Larry Summers, to his credit, says this is Joe McCarthyism, making lists and publishing them. We are in terrifying times with very little sanity around. And Bibi pressing death and destruction as many more Israelis start pointing their finger at him as to why this happened. As another headline said, this is why populism will not work and will only endanger the country who has it in high ascendance.
We all know what a steaming pile of shit that man is, and yet he manages to get stinkier and sink lower. Nobody is surprised, but how disgusting. I’ve never wished anybody dead before. Although actually, I would rather see him in a super Max sharing a cell with Bubba.
The situation in Israel just is breaking me and everybody I know it is tragic. It is heart rending. My Facebook feed is just photo after photo a beautiful young butchered people. And he just has zero respect we know why but still it’s disgusting. Even more disgusting? He won’t lose one of his base. Because he’s attracted Nazis and the antisemites they’re delighted.
One way ticket to Iran.
Or Russia.
Iran, there are no hookers there....
Or Palookaville!
I live for the day when he is gone - inside a hospital for the criminally insane or maybe done in by KFC and diet Cokes.
I wonder if anyone can confirm something I heard a few minutes ago. Jack Smith supposedly included in his filings that the DOJ knows why Trump took the documents and intends to prove it in court. Although proving motive isn't necessary to a conviction juries like to know why criminals commit crimes. I got this in a Facebook message from a news outlet called Vice which I have never heard of, so I'm a little suspicious.
It doesn't provide the specific motive which I assume Smith is holding back as long as he can.
Vice just sold themselves to Saudi Arabia. They were a reputable media outlet.
I hadn’t heard this. What a shame.
They did??? Then I take back what I said!
I saw that intriguing little line around as well but no details.
Vice is a legitimate news source.
Mmmm, let's see: (1) to show off/boast (as he's already done); (2) to sell documents to our adversaries to the highest bidder; (3) souvenirs of his term in the White House; (4) "They're mine!"
Could go to both mens rea and any connected intent issues? But you're exactly right about juries, naturally want to have a coherent story laid out - Trump is such a goofball, crawling with psychopathological symptoms, not sure if that helps constructing a "narrative arc" or not!
"Mens rea refers to criminal intent. The literal translation from Latin is "guilty mind." The plural of mens rea is mentes reae. Mens rea is the state of mind statutorily required in order to convict a particular defendant of a particular crime. Establishing the mens rea of an offender, in addition to the actus reus (physical elements of the crime) is usually necessary to prove guilt in a criminal trial. The prosecution typically must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the offense with a culpable state of mind. Justice Holmes famously illustrated the concept of intent when he said “even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
The mens rea requirement is premised upon the idea that one must possess a guilty state of mind and be aware of his or her misconduct; however, a defendant need not know that their conduct is illegal to be guilty of a crime. Rather, the defendant must be conscious of the “facts that make his conduct fit the definition of the offense." See: Staples v. United States, 511 US 600 (1994).
Applying Mentes Reae
If a statute specifies a mental state or a particular offense, courts will usually apply the requisite mental state to each element of the crime. See: Flores-Figueroa v. United States. Moreover, even if a statute refrains from mentioning a mental state, courts will usually require that the government still prove that the defendant possessed a guilty state of mind during the commission of the crime. For example, the Supreme Court of the United States instructed that federal criminal statutes without a requisite mental state should be read to include “only that mens rea which is necessary to separate ‘wrongful from innocent conduct.'" See: Elonis v. United States.
Mental states are usually organized hierarchically by the offender’s state of blameworthiness. Generally, the blameworthiness of an actor’s mental state corresponds to the seriousness of the crime. Higher levels of blameworthiness typically correlate with more severe liability, and harsher sentencing.
Historically, states categorized mental states into crimes which required "general intent" and "specific intent." However, due to the confusion that ensued over how to describe "intent," most states now either use the Model Penal Code's (MPC) four-tiered classification, or the malice distinction. ***** Excerpted from a longer article,
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mens_rea
Those hoping
Donald Trump
can pull it off.
Vladimir Putin.
Xi Jinping.
Viktor Orban
AND
Lenoard Leo lurking and toiling in the Shadows.
AND OF
Course a large number of corrupt and criminal legislators and religious kooks.
VOTE!!!!!!!
Spot on! This morning on the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC-FM) the guest being interviewed pointed out that Netanyahu had the temerity to publicly thank and praise Joe Biden for his support. Therefore trumpty had to seek vengeance by disparaging and attacking him. He is correct about Russia not attacking Ukraine had he won in 2020. He'd have served them up to Putin on a platter to get even with Zelensky.
How could that demented egomaniac ever have gained so much power or so many followers?
mp, your question may have been rhetorical, but seeing as you asked..
he threw red meat of just the right type to each ravenous type of beast to make them take him in as leader of their pack.
the kremlin, thru cambridge analytica, scl group, brad parscale, and facebook knew *exactly* what region of beasts like what type of red meat. one of the data miners boasted they had 5000 bits of information on the makeup of *each* voter. they knew which color of print to use on ads that showed in a particular region.
thats how they pulled the disparate cult members together. thats why pro-lifers will look the other way when a gun nut like kyle rottenhouse kills two ppl and gets away with it. thats why climate deniers will stand beside flat-earthers who stand beside anti-vaxxers who stand beside muslim/jew/china/younameit-haters and so on.
there. you asked.
sorry for the ranting answer, mp.
You left out the Electoral College.
yes, jds,
youre right in pointing out the electoral college was the major focus of the data mining analyses. the kremlin concentrated on just the crucial regions to hit with just the right type of ads to win those electoral college regions. they told the trump campaign to throw the right type of red meat that that particular region loved to get, be it gun rights, fracking, coastal flooding, or coal mining.
they knew to tailor their ads to play on hunting or personal protection, job security, property rights, and big wheel trucks that roll coal (of course flying huge trump flags).
oh my you got me going on another rant, jds. owell, what can i say.
Rant on my friend! Evil geniuses they were and are!
Citizens United and the nra arming every f**kwad in sight....