I won’t defend Dr. Phil, but I do debunk incorrect information. Dr. Phil is in fact a real doctor of psychology, although as was noted earlier, he is no longer licensed to practice. He certainly is not a medical doctor, so I don’t know the thinking, other than It’s Fox News, as to why they had him on.
Holy fuck.
Rescinded?
There must be a story behind that.
According to Wikipedia:
You know, just the usual professional pit-falls involved in psychiatry.
ETA: Wiki also says he “voluntarily surrendered” his license in 2006
Come on, please do not call him a psychiatrist. He is a psychologist (at least, in the sense that he has a degree). Psychiatrists are actual medical professionals who are licensed to write prescriptions and usually focus on treating physiological maladies. Psychologists are experts at listening to your personal problems and offering you advice on how to go about stopping having them.
I mean, for the Cheeto-Faced ShitGibbon, having a psychologist try to deal with his problems would not be a sensible approach, because the patient has to recognize that there is a problem and want to get better. A psychiatrist might be able to help (I would prescribe a regimen involving very large hourly dosage of Thorazine), but really, to make him truly functional (not saying that would necessarily be a good idea), one would probably be best advised to refer him to a neurologist – the clumsier the better.
Bonus Question: What do lung cancer, car crashes and pool drownings have in common?
A: THEY’RE NOT FCKING CONTAGIOUS DISEASES, YOU TROGLODYTE. :mad: If the guy next door is dying of lung cancer, that’s sad, but it’s NOT a threat to my health.
Ton Cotton and Dan Crenshaw have introduced a bill to allow people to sue China over the Coronavirus.
A staffer for the Governor of New Mexico tweeted that people who want to reopen businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic are a “death cult.” The state GOP demanded the staffer apologize. The spokesperson for the Governor tweeted, “The tweet in question does not reference any person, group, or organization specifically by name — if someone seems to think it’s about them, I’d say they’ve placed that upon themselves.”
Those idiots seem to be unaware that following their logic, the jackass in the White House should also be sued for the harm caused by the virus in the United States.
I like that the spokesperson operates under the theory of “If you chuck a rock into a pack of wolves, the one who yelps is the one you hit”.
This variety of own goal seems to be a Republican specialty.
A while ago, I saw a comic about a woman of colour befriending a neo-Nazi and helping him get out of that life. One of the first responses - ‘so all Republicans are Nazis, huh?’ Literally nothing in the comic suggested he was a Republican, unless you take the Nazi<=>Republican equivalence as a given.
Does this mean Canadians can sue the US? Lots of our cases come from the States.
I think your parliament will have to introduce their own bill on that.
Gym Jordan wants investigations into governors who issued shut down orders.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the US Congress doesn’t actually have oversight of governors, right?
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And you think Trump and his toadies care about–Hell, even know about–that?
Correct.
The problem is the last the last time this many States and the Feds were in conflict over who had the authority to do what to whom we wound up with 620,000 dead and a whole lot of people maimed for life.
It turns out that Kellyanne Conway isn’t the only right winger nut who believes the COVID-19 had 18 predecessors. I give you Rush Limbaugh.
I guess having that many Americans, or even more, die is one way to celebrate that heritage.
Damn. “People are stupid” is understating the case big time.
“…Shouting into C-3PO’s penis.”
snerk
Uh, guys, while I’m sure that some people calling for the restrictions to be relaxed are just heartless bastards, some folks calling for that are doing so because they want to save lives. Yes, covid-19 kills people. So do the shutdowns. Overreact, and more people die than if you react the right amount. And you ever notice that the people calling for the extreme measures to fight the virus are never volunteering to be the ones to die from their overreactions?
I know that it’s hard to figure out the right amount of reaction. That’s why we have professionals who have been working on that problem for a very long time, and in great detail. Nobody’s listening to them.
Like, at the time that Gov. DeWine of Ohio shut down all schools in the state indefinitely, the CDC’s recommendation was to close down a school for three weeks, if there was a diagnosis of a student or staff member. Shutting down one school at a time, for three weeks, when there’s a diagnosis at that school, is very, very different from shutting down all of them, forever, when there were only five diagnoses in the entire state.