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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 01:07 PM Jun 2018

Renowned Economist Jeffrey Sachs Rips Trump As A Gibbering, 'Delusional' Threat

He calls for removal of the president using the 25th Amendment.
POLITICS 06/01/2018 10:49 pm ET Updated 1 hour ago By Mary Papenfuss

American economist Jeffrey Sachs has written a scathing takedown of President Donald Trump, calling him a delusional, psychopathic “threat to the nation and the world.”

He might be a “Manchurian Candidate” who is working as a “stooge” for some foreign power to destroy the U.S., Sachs wrote on CNN’s website Friday, referring to the spy movie thriller.

“Much more likely, Trump is just mentally unstable and narcissistic,” he added, calling the new announcement of tariffs on exports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union part of a “psychopath’s trade war.”

The “real answer” is to remove Trump from office using the 25th Amendment to replace him, Sachs concludes.

“Trump is unwell and unfit to be president. He is a growing threat to the nation and the world.

“The emperor had no clothes. This president has no sense,” he concluded.



https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeffrey-sachs-slams-delusional-psychopathic-trump_us_5b11e510e4b0d5e89e1fc756
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Renowned Economist Jeffrey Sachs Rips Trump As A Gibbering, 'Delusional' Threat (Original Post) workinclasszero Jun 2018 OP
Ah Yes, Jeffrey Sachs Me. Jun 2018 #1
Schadenfreude workinclasszero Jun 2018 #2
Well I'm sure more guns & Jesus will fix the problem any time now. flibbitygiblets Jun 2018 #3
Has A Cure For Stupid Been Put on The Market? Me. Jun 2018 #6
It takes the total insanity and incompetence PatSeg Jun 2018 #5
Quite strange, this... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #8
Actually WE've Met His Ideal Candidate Me. Jun 2018 #12
He seemed conflicted.... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #16
Talk About Backhanded Me. Jun 2018 #19
Yes - his page on Wikipedia seems very white/washed. As someone mentioned in the talk section erronis Jun 2018 #13
Thanks for pointing that out. It is pure publicist-speak. KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2018 #18
Renowned by whom? He is a fan of shock therapy economics. LisaM Jun 2018 #10
How Could I Ever Forget That Me. Jun 2018 #11
Amazing how it took a Harvard educated scholar 2 years to realize what we all knew here. OnDoutside Jun 2018 #15
Wow not fooled Jun 2018 #4
K and R Quixote1818 Jun 2018 #7
Trouble is, using the 25th Totally Tunsie Jun 2018 #9
In MJ terms, the Eddie Glaude of economists. In theory, renowned. In practice, not so much. OnDoutside Jun 2018 #14
No shit Jeffrey ismnotwasm Jun 2018 #17
I've known that for over a year. triron Jun 2018 #20

Me.

(35,454 posts)
1. Ah Yes, Jeffrey Sachs
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 01:21 PM
Jun 2018

Does he still think HRC would be a disaster?

Jeffrey Sachs Blames Hillary Clinton for Our National Security Woes….

Even more dramatically, Sachs places the blame squarely at Hillary Clinton’s feet when he writes that her record “explains much of our current security danger.”

https://fpif.org/jeffrey-sachs-blames-hillary-clinton-national-security-woes/

“There’s no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex. The idea that she is bad on the corporate issues but good on national security has it wrong. Her so-called foreign policy “experience” has been to support every war demanded by the US deep security state run by the military and the CIA.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-is-the-candidate_b_9168938.html

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. Schadenfreude
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 01:31 PM
Jun 2018

Watching stupid bastards that savaged Hillary getting Trump's knife in the back like Comey and this asswipe apparently.

And idiot hog farmers in Iowa as well, all GOP voting idiots!

So who will they vote for in the midterms?

Yeah...

PatSeg

(47,770 posts)
5. It takes the total insanity and incompetence
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 02:18 PM
Jun 2018

of the Trump administration to bring out sanity and reason from some. Kind of a snake pit effect.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,501 posts)
8. Quite strange, this...
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 02:50 PM
Jun 2018

his Wikipedia page appears to be white-washed of any political affiliation, except for this:
(snip)

In 2011 Sachs called for the creation of a third U.S. political party, the Alliance for the Radical Center.

He seems convinced both Hillary and Bill are hard-core neocons and even blames Bill in part for the Iraq war.

Makes one wonder who Jeffery would see as his ideal candidate......

Me.

(35,454 posts)
12. Actually WE've Met His Ideal Candidate
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 03:29 PM
Jun 2018

he was quite slavish about him. And one has to wonder from where his credibility is garnered, I've seen him on a number of shows and people listen like he has something valuable to say when it's all the same whohaw

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,501 posts)
16. He seemed conflicted....
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 05:33 PM
Jun 2018
Jeffrey Sachs: I'll 'probably' vote for Hillary Clinton
The top economist and Bernie Sanders adviser says if he votes for Clinton it will be done "holding my nose"
30 Jul 2016 08:23 GMT

See: https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2016/07/jeffrey-sachs-vote-hillary-clinton-160729132226121.html
(snip)
So as the campaign against Republican nominee Donald Trump heats up, will those who supported the Sanders campaign vote for Clinton to keep the billionaire businessman out of the White House?

In a special interview, we speak to Sanders adviser and leading economist Jeffrey Sachs.

Sachs says both Clinton and Trump are “dangerous” in their own ways, but he would “probably” vote for Clinton. “I probably will, but if I do, it will be holding my nose,” the economist told Mehdi Hasan.

Sachs also comments on the rise of Donald Trump, saying he believes it is fuelled by “the same phenomenon that fuelled Brexit, the same phenomenon that is fuelling a lot of anti-immigrant, working-class parties all through Europe”.

In some of his post-election interviews, he wished tRump well with some of his goals but didn't call him for all his BS and lies. Now, he seems willing to do that with gusto. WTF?

Why is it that so many of us commoners saw this administration as a certain disaster even before tRump was nominated and yet so many "experts" were willing to give him a free pass and allow him to be elected?

Perhaps it was a fear of populist backlash that might reduced their damned book sales....

...... .......

erronis

(15,470 posts)
13. Yes - his page on Wikipedia seems very white/washed. As someone mentioned in the talk section
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 04:08 PM
Jun 2018

it seems like it was written by a publicist. Well, isn't that what Sachs is, mainly?

I'm too lazy to run through the revision history to find a bunch of cited links that were removed at some point. I'm sure there is a good way to dig more about this new-found wisdom that seems to be coming from a lot of former "conservative" pundits.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,501 posts)
18. Thanks for pointing that out. It is pure publicist-speak.
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 05:41 PM
Jun 2018

By removing any partisan hints from his bio, that's the best way to insure maximum book sales and attendance at his conferences.

..........

LisaM

(27,863 posts)
10. Renowned by whom? He is a fan of shock therapy economics.
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 02:54 PM
Jun 2018

He also engineered Bernie's train wreck of a Vatican trip.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
11. How Could I Ever Forget That
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 03:25 PM
Jun 2018

and what was the thinking behind it as it never made sense to me.

not fooled

(5,807 posts)
4. Wow
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 02:16 PM
Jun 2018

Seeing this formerly anti-HRC guy come right out and basically humiliate himself by stating that Door #2 has turned out to be a disaster just shows how bad things are.

Of course, anyone who bothered to inform themselves about donnie's chaotic, racist, failure-ridden and criminal history would have known how all this would turn out. Like the majority who voted for HRC.



Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
9. Trouble is, using the 25th
Sat Jun 2, 2018, 02:54 PM
Jun 2018

leaves us with pence. trump may be a moron, but pence is calculating and manipulative.

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