Wow, talk about an unhinged salad?? I never claimed to be a psychologist. I can just read Gartner’s own public record: decades of explicit political activism, founding “Duty to Warn” as an anti-Trump vehicle, repeated failed apocalyptic predictions, and open rejection of the Goldwater Rule. That’s not “expertise,” that’s a guy with a PhD who decided his real job is professional Trump-hater. You can call that “psychological prediction” if it makes you feel better, but the rest of us will call it what it is: partisan performance art. Psychology does have serious methodological weaknesses — heavy reliance on self-report, poor replication, and subjective interpretation. That’s not controversial. It’s why remote “diagnoses” of public figures are treated as junk science by most serious practitioners. But sure, keep swinging that as a gotcha while simultaneously defending one of the field’s most notorious political activists. The Reagan de-institutionalization jab is cute nostalgia for left-wing talking points. Yes, the closure of many psychiatric hospitals had problems (increased homelessness was one outcome). It was also a bipartisan-era response to real abuses and the advent of new psychiatric drugs. Pretending it was some grand right-wing plot to flood streets with the insane is historically lazy. And dragging in Scientologists and Tom Cruise as some kind of own-goal? Peak whataboutism. Now the greatest hits: “Dear Leader,” Hunter Biden’s paintings, chem-trails, and aliens. Classic. When your argument is weak, just throw in maximum non-sequiturs and laugh emojis. Hunter’s art sales were obvious influence-peddling grift — documented by bank records, emails, and witness testimony — but by all means, keep pretending that’s equivalent to a psychologist publicly fantasizing that Trump will out-kill Hitler. Totally the same thing. Here’s the simple truth you’re dodging. John Gartner has every right to be a frothing political activist. He does not have the right to launder that activism as sober clinical judgment. When he does it anyway, he deserves mockery, not deference. Your inability to defend the actual Hitler prediction without descending into conspiracy tangents and personal insults says everything. Feel free to keep “educating” me with more Hollywood Boulevard rants and alien chem-trails. It’s been hilarious....
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