That’s the face he makes when he’s receiving Clinton’s hog

Can’t be bought when you have been winning at stocks from insider trading.

Ive got a (out) gay republican racist cousin. They sure are something.

Voter fraud. Social media mass manipulation. Scapegoating.

Old tricks but still work.

You could do what some group is doing in TN. Send out reminders that thanksgiving is the 29th. So they show up on the wrong date.

There are literal companies you can hire. They also do it to cancel people or promote beliefs about people.

A good example is that Johnny Depp admitted he hired one against his ex during the public court stuff to make her look bad. Amber Heard. And it worked.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3VnNDMYzttcGgBNQB0BswtH/amber-heard-vs-the-internet-an-organised-smear-campaign

Companies, in this case, owned by Saudi

This stuff sounds like crackpot conspiracy theories. But it’s real. This stuff is reality now.

Hopefully they flip some of those Texas seats. Texans are really get fucked hard by their government officials

Yeah p-hacking is a huge big problem in psychology.

And it’s true. You can use sleazy approaches to get the numbers to give you the results you want. But luckily there are specific guidelines on statistics and if you use them to do p hacking. You won’t get your paper published.

The people who review the papers know what p hacking is.

And it’s also true we mostly use stat software. But.

Before we use the software. We learn to do it by hand. It’s imperative because this is the only way to really learn how to do it properly with software.

People are really intimidated by statistics. And I’m not going to lie and say I found it easy. I didnt.

I had very poor math skills coming in. And I spent at least 20 hours a week outside of class , going over math basics and trying to re educate myself. Because I didn’t even have a strong high school level of math proficiency.

But I wanted to do research so bad. I told myself I was going to learn it. And excel at it. And I did. But it was a lot of frustration and tears on the way. And an incredible amount of additional study hours on a topic that put me in a bad mood. I had to bribe myself with so much ice cream to stay focused.

Also ive never heard of anyone with a PhD getting a psyD later. Are you sure about that ? Not saying you are incorrect, just saying Ive never heard of that.

People sometimes do post-docs after PhDs. That’s just more research tho.

Well a psychiatrist is a medical doctor. They aren’t really trained to counsel you. Except on medications. If you want someone to talk to, you need to see a psychologist. Or masters of social work (counselor). Like psyD. It’s hit or miss with them. It heavily depends on the quality of their education institution.

I think also many people dont know the difference between psychologist and psychiatrist. They often go to the wrong one for their issues. Most people would benefit from going to both. Not an opinion. There is research supporting that.

It’s not uncommon for them to work together for a specific patient.

Psychiatry is not more rigorous. Infact I would argue it requires the least psychology education out of the 3 I mention.

A psychiatrist first goes to med school. Then completes additional residency and training in psychiatry. Which again, is primarily focused on administering tests/batteries and prescribing medications.
And learning how to adjust meds. Which meds should be tried first. Which side effects are normal and which indicates a problem. They have no training on giving talk therapy.
Their only therapy is medications. Some offer talk therapy. Which is a problem because it’s just their own personal biased beliefs about what talk therapy should be.

And it’s true that in some states there are exceptions for PhD to prescribe some mental health drugs. It’s not very common. It’s only a handful of states and there are a bunch of steps to be able to do that.

People like me, who are researchers know a lot about the mind. Cognitive. Memory. Sensory. We know the limits of introspection. We know about cognitive dissonance. We know that culture heavily influence a given experience.

It’s this base knowledge that so many PsyD people lack. Many didn’t even have a bachelor’s in psychology.

And even if they did. They werent able to get into a PhD clinical program because they were not considered good enough. They didn’t have the right experience , grades, or any number of other qualifications. Another gate to PhD programs is you have to learn math statistics and do research. And many people want to be a therapist but don’t want to learn the math or do challenging research.

I know that sounds mean to say but it’s true. And when you don’t develop those skills, you don’t learn how to critically analyze research.

You can’t tell good science from bad science.

You can’t tell the difference between effect size because you don’t even know what that is or how it’s computed.

This is the bigger problem. What you end up with is therapist who use their own flawed intuition and personal theories (as well intentioned as it may be) to make decisions on mental health care for others.

If they had actual training in cognitive psychology, they would know that humans are incredibly biased and we cannot use our own judgement but must, above all else, rely on the scientific method. Everything must be tested.

We are wrong about so much because of how our brains work. (Confirmation bias being the big one). We are incredibly limited in our ability to see bias in ourselves. It’s actually almost impossible.

A good therapist should understand that they are by their human nature, biased.

And that they need to trust scientific evidence based practices.

And they need to be able to evaluate that evidence and update their knowledge as new research and theories are developed.

Ive met psyD people who were taught by research oriented professors. Who learned stats. Learned to evaluate research. But it’s rare. Most psyD programs do not teach clinicians any of that.

Ive also met PhDs who did half assed research and their professors did not promote scientific based methods. The kind of research that never gets published because it’s so poor quality.

But typically it’s psyD programs that produce the lower quality therapist and phD produce the best. As I said, this isn’t a personal opinion. There is research on this topic.

This is why as a prospective student, you have to do a lot of research into the institution you are interested in.

So many psyD institutions are closed all the time or have fasfa money cancelled because a review of their education curriculum shows they aren’t following modern standards.

PsyD people are the ones promoting recovered traumatic memories (not a real phenomena, these are false memories). Promoting split personality (it’s not possible for a human to have two person inside them). And a bunch of other nonsense stuff like that. EMDR comes to mind. Which is pseudoscience wrapped around a legitimate therapy.

They make up b.s conditions like “peter pan syndrome” or “daddy issues” and promote them as being scientific mental health issues when they are cultural/society issues.

Dr. Oz an Dr Phil are prime examples of how so many of these PsyD people operate.

They throw around Freud nonsense as if it explains something complex. It doesn’t.

Freud is not considered scientific by modern standards. None of his theories have held up with scientific investigation. Same for Jung.

You hear anyone say either of those names, run the opposite direction. It’s all made up nonsense.

People are getting charged money for these services from people who are filling their head with nonsense. Making their conditions worse.

Not actually helping them. And charging them money.

The changes are gender based. They aim to disenfranchise women the most. Project 2025.

The BBB got rid of direct plus loans starting 2026. Those are grad school loans that most people use to get any masters or fund PhDs that aren’t fully funded.

So.

Literally every masters degree is impossible now unless you are rich.

I kept telling people it was in the bbb but everyone was worried about the medicaid medicare cuts.

Whole university departments are going to close.

No more doctors. Nurses. Lawyers. Engineers.

No more master level degrees for anyone except Nepo babies.

That’s the plan in project 2025.

Someone needs to slip fentanyl into his drug stash. Please.

So I’m a research psychologist.
We often butt heads a bit with the clinicians (therapist, counselors). Because. A hell of a lot of them do not follow scientific evidence -based methods or treatments. A lot of them don’t even seem to know or understand basic human psychology. It’s honestly scary to talk to them sometimes.

Specifically the designation PsyD is a degree which requires zero research experience. This degree also is a “pay to win” degree.

Meaning you basically pay to attend the program and you get the degree. This is much different than a PhD where you compete for a graduate position and the university pays you to attend. A PhD requires not only 5-6 years of research but a thesis and dissertation that is reviews by a committee.

These positions are very competitive, as you can imagine.

A lot of people who want to be clinical psychologists (the most competitive area in PhD programs) will instead do a PsyD. Many PsyD programs have very low competition or none. They want your money.

Now I need to clarify something. A PhD psychologist doesn’t guarantee high quality evidence -based therapists. And some PsyD programs are evidence based.

But. Mostly. PsyD are lower quality and PhD therapist are higher quality. Someone who does not learn how to do research or understand the statistics, can’t then read research papers and understand them or critically evaluate them. Kind of important, wouldn’t you say ?

There is research on this showing poorer outcomes from PsyD and that they use less evidence based practices.

And lastly we have psychiatrists. Psychiatrist are MDs. Medical doctors. They don’t go to grad school. They are trained only in diagnosing and pharmaceuticals. Because they are medical doctors. They approach mental problems as if they are purely biological (for the most part).

That’s why only psychiatrists can prescribe drugs. Not PsyD, or PhD therapists.

Now I am not clinical. But. I believe strongly, that mental healthcare workers (at any level) should be held to the same standards as medical professionals.

They should not be allowed to use non evidence based therapies. They should not be allowed to create their own definition of a mental disorder. They should be required to follow specific guidelines of approved approaches. Diagnostic and treatments. And if they don’t, they should be sued for malpractice and potentially lose their license.

Because these individuals destroy peoples lives. They do a lot of harm. And they erode the trust in mental health care.

Many do pseudoscience b.s therapies. And charge money for them.

That should be illegal.

We don’t have enough regulations on mental health care. And it’s a bigger problem than people realize.

People with dementia as severe as his , typically show an IQ of around 65-75. It’s highly dependent on healthy adult IQ. So let’s assume he is now sitting in that low range.

Liberals are the majority. .so.

Well I can mostly agree with the idea that things kind of stay the same regardless.

But I think that is over now. Because of the extreme situation that trump has caused, people will not be content just to go back to how it was a year ago.

A breaking point has occurred.

The kidnappings. The genocide. Healthcare. Food stamps. The economy. Tariffs. Cost of everything. Rent and housing costs being so high. Union busting.

The big corps got too greedy.

They could have kept us mostly happy and we wouldn’t have made much of a fuss.

They could have drained us slow. Like they have been. AnD we wouldn’t have made much fuss.

But now they have taken everything left. In one fell swoop. And people are pissed.

So this one is fine then ? https://www.bhamwiki.com/w/File:Banksy_hanged_klansman.png

Faux news.

I worked for blue cross for 11 years. Let them all burn.
They aren’t needed. They literally will just add excessive cost. Just like they do now.

State runs medicare fine (or did before doge). A state department can handle it.

Happened in Thailand. Or basically equivalent.

People do be getting mad sometimes