(Jack) “Thompson first met Janet Reno in November 1975, when he applied for a job as an assistant state’s attorney in Miami-Dade County, Florida, but was not hired.[15] In 1988, he ran for prosecutor against then-incumbent Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno, after she had declined his request to prosecute Neil Rogers.[16] Thompson gave Reno a letter at a campaign event requesting that she check a box to indicate whether she was homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Thompson said that Reno then put her hand on his shoulder and responded, “I’m only interested in virile men. That’s why I’m not attracted to you.”[17][18] He filed a police report accusing her of battery for touching him. In response, Reno asked Florida governor Bob Martinez to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate.[19] The special prosecutor rejected the charge, concluding that it was “a political ploy”. Reno was ultimately re-elected with 69% of the vote. Thompson repeated allegations that Reno was a lesbian when she was nominated as U.S. Attorney General, leading one of her supporters, lieutenant governor Buddy MacKay, to dismiss him as a “kook”.[17]
In 1990, after his election loss, Thompson began a campaign against the efforts of Switchboard of Miami, a social services group of which Reno was a board member. Thompson charged that the group placed “homosexual-education tapes” in public schools. Switchboard responded by getting the Supreme Court of Florida to order that he submit to a psychiatric examination. Thompson did so and passed. Thompson has since stated on more than one occasion that he is “the only officially certified sane lawyer in the entire state of Florida”.[20]”
Sanity has little bearing on whether someone’s an asshole. And Thompson most certainly is an asshole.
We should petition the DSM to include Anti social asshole disorder NOS.
Seems like he doesn’t have any interest in morals. How can there be a conflict?
Age and gender are only two factors; others are education level, income, location and social class. For the location I live in, median male age of death is 81, but when the other factors are taken into account the median age of death for my cohort is close to 90 (No consolation when you have chronic health problems though) which is why I was offered a completely crap annuity rate for my pension fund.
Personally I think all candidates for national or state level politics should have psychological evaluations, especially for psychopathy, and these should be public. It might lead to electors having to decide which psychopath to vote for but at least it would be an informed choice.
Because anything anti-Trump is pro-Hillary, I suppose.
“Now we should go in, we should stop this guy [Gaddafi], which would be very easy and very quick. We could do it surgically” -Donald Trump, 2011
I just bet he does.
Welcome to Boing Boing, btw.
Congratulations! You’ve won the “best accidental hyperbole of the year” award!
I’m not sure which article you read. This one doesn’t say anything like that at all:
Huh?
“I will say this: I think Turkey can do a lot against ISIS, and I would hope that if I’m dealing with them, they will do much more about ISIS,” Trump said, using a term for the Islamic State.
Welcome to BoingBoing, nomorewar! It’s a shame that you misread the article entirely, referenced the wrong article, and decided to use your first post to copy-paste a bunch of lies from Breitbart. But hey, trolley where you can, right?
That is good, but this article fills out the picture and comes from a third party.
It is remarkable that in nearly an hour of reading BoingBoing they’ve managed to witness the transition from being anti-war to neocon Hillary bots. I have been feeling like invading Iraq again (love that Bush Doctrine) and catching up on my Leo Strauss thanks to BB, though I still kind of miss when we were all Marxists.
Yeah, but now Erdogan is doing things that hurt Trump, so that could change.
Which just emphasizes the problem… that as President, Trump would be quite likely to act based on what’s good for Trump’s interests, which is not necessarily in line with the country’s interests.
He was friendly with Ghaddafi before he started talking about “surgically” removing him, too.
Hence the sock puppet memes.
Great idea! Trump will get Dr. Nick.
As it happens he just got the closest real-world equivalent.
Pity, the 20th century might not have been such a cesspit. Alternative realities…
We are all Marxists, for some subset of Marxism. “The art of the deal” is actually a neo-Marxist critical review of Hegelian dialectic, as those sniffy academics would know if they only read it.
Have you noticed how you never see Trump and Slavoj Žižek in a room together?
They’re not financial conflicts of interest; they’re creating an alternative reality to act as a critique of…
badum-tish
late stage capitalism.
