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Thursday 2nd of October 2025

2020 Presidential election I was somewhat demoralized because I thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with — detached from reality. … There was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. William Barr, testimony presented to the Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the United States Capitol concerning Trump's professed belief in allegations of widespread voter fraud and vote flipping by machines from Dominion Voting Systems, which Barr called “bullshit”  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Afghanistan War The VA augmented its mental-health hotline in case Afghanistan veterans began to see their interpreters beheaded on social media. citation George Packer, Atlantic Monthly, March 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say ….Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star…. ….to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius…. and a very stable genius at that! @realDonaldTrump 4:27 AM - 6 Jan 2018 4:30 AM - 6 Jan 2018 on his mental stability and fitness for office © 2018 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy headline, Breitbart News, December 8, 2015 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say The way to remove anxiety is to accept everything. If you make judgments about things, you are limiting your vocabulary. Jeff Koons © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say Mental illnesses  are global Mass shootings are American Placard, London, England, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say We have not done a very good job of making sure that people that have mental reasons for not being able to handle a gun getting their name into the FBI files and we need to concentrate on that. Chuck “the Schmuck” Grassley, Republican Senator from Iowa and lead sponsor of standalone legislation that made it easier for people adjudicated to be seriously mentally ill to buy guns and not have their name added to FBI files, commenting on the killing of 17 and wounding of 14 at a Parkland, Florida, high school by a mentally ill ex-student armed with a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle he legally bought off-the-rack at a local gunshop  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Memory It turns out that the leading cause of early-onset dementia is being deposed. Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, February 13, 2024, referring to Ivanka, Eric and Donald Trump Jr's claims to not remember when being questioned under oath about business practices of the Trump Organization © 2024 Kwiple.com
Mental health Being nuts is its own reward. Roseanne Barr © 2018 Kwiple.com
Mental health Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jump suit. John M. Dowd, Trump's former lawyer, doubting Trump is mentally capable of testifying to Speclal Counsel Robert Mueller without lying  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Mental health I can’t be the only foreigner in the US who has been chided for not having a therapist by someone who — choosing my words carefully here — seems to be getting uneven results from theirs. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, April 8, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Mental health I like running against people who are weak mentally. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Mental health “I've been a big supporter of mental health,” Biden said at a Friday campaign event in Delaware, as first reported by Politico. “I'd recommend the people who believe it maybe should take advantage, while it still exists, of the Affordable Care Act.” Joe Biden on QAnon believers, Business Insider, September 6, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
National security The line between legitimate national security concerns and outright paranoia is perilously thin. Edward Luce, Financial Times, September 19, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage A little over a month after his inauguration, on Feb. 28, 2017, President Trump signed HJ Resolution 40, a bill that made it easier for people with mental illness to obtain guns. CBS News then asked the White House to release the photograph of Mr. Trump signing the bill, making the request a total of 12 times. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders finally responded to repeated emails and phone calls with a one-line note on April 19, 2017, writing to CBS News, “We don't plan to release the picture at this time.” CBS News. February 15, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Public discourse She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it’s — and I own a big building there — it’s no —I shouldn't talk about this but that’s OK. I don’t give a damn because this is what I’m doing. I should say it's the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can’t do that. I don’t care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, “What do you think you lost?” I said, “Probably two, three billion. That’s OK, I don’t care.” They say, “You think you’d do it again?” And that’s the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don’t know if you know.  Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of  all, that he was treated worse than any other presi-. ident. I said, “Do that study again, because I think there’s nobody close to Trump.” I even got shot!  And who the hell knows where that came from, right? Donald Trump, Potterville MI, August 29, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing those adjudicated to be seriously mentally ill to buy guns is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too. Roseanne Barr © 2018 Kwiple.com
Selfie I didn't take seriously how troubled she was. When she was six, she called Camarillo State Psychiatric Hospital and asked what to do if you think you're going crazy. That should have triggered something in me other than amusement. Joan Didion on the death of her adopted daughter © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm cognitively there. Donald Trump, boasting about “acing” the 10-minute Montreal Cognitive Assessment test to detect incipient cognitive impairment, which he believes proves he has a high IQ  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald's pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he'll never sit for. At this point, we can't evaluate his day-to-day functioning because he is, in the West Wing, essentally institutionalized. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  [2020] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He knows he’s not that smart, he knows he’s not that rich, he knows that he’s not that good. And so, if you go and attack him  for the things he knows he is not deep down, it makes him crazy. Donald Trump portrayed by George Conway © 2023 Kwiple.com
Sterilization By the end of 1920, of the 3,233 sterilizations for insanity  or feeblemindedness performed to that date throughout the United States, 2,558, or seventy-nine percent, had taken place in California. Joan Didion, Where I Was From  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I've said we need to build more gallows.  If we try some of these high-level criminals, convict them and use a newly built set of gallows, it'll make an example of these traitors who have betrayed our country. Wendy Rogers, Republican state senator from Flagstaff, AZ, fantasizing about hanging poitical opponents in a speech zoomed to the white nationalist American First Political Action Conference in Florida on February 25, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Wannabe autocrats say The mentally deranged people, Jack Smith should be considered mentally deranged and he should be thrown out of the country. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com