Retired Marine And Double Amputee Joey Jones Slams Students Who Claim They Have PTSD From Trump
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Retired Marine And Double Amputee Joey Jones Slams Students Who Claim They Have PTSD From Trump

Nick Givas on October 24, 2018 Retired Marine and double amputee Joey Jones criticized college students who claimed to have post-traumatic stress disorder from President Donald Trump and called their rhetoric “disgusting,” on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday. Co-host Ainsley Earhardt cited a study where researchers surveyed students at Arizona State University after Trump’s inauguration and claimed 25 percent of students…

PTSD & Political Discourse

The hysterical Americana-phobia demonstrated by many in the United States and around the world is reaching a fevered pitch.  What began modestly enough in the summer of 2015 with a kind of bemused indifference, has finally mutated into psychopathic bloodlust.  While the return of a classically American ethos helped thrust Donald Trump into the White…

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Veterans Turn To Marijuana To Ditch ‘Cocktail Of Drugs’ From The VA

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Proposals to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana and open up access to cannabis products for veterans are gaining bipartisan traction despite uncertainty from the Trump administration. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a measure July 13 that would let doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs give patients approval to…

Kentuckians File Lawsuit to Overturn State’s Ban on Medical Marijuana

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grant M. Deltz A Vietnam War Veteren and two other Kentuckians are coming together to file a lawsuit to overturn a ban on medical marijuana in Kentucky. The argument being made by Danny Belcher and his counterparts is that the ban is contradictory to the Kentucky Constitution’s protections on individual liberties…

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“Post-Election Stress Disorder?”: CNN’s Absurd Comparison

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: CNN Compares Post-Election Results to PTSD By Brittni Kates Like her on Facebook, Follow her on Twitter Every day we are finding new ways the progressives are coming out to complain about the election results. We’ve been seeing celebrities coming out to whine about war, although they were silent during…

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Trump: Veterans Who Commit Suicide Not “Strong,” and “Can’t Handle It”

by Josh Guckert In a speech Monday in Herndon, Virginia, Donald Trump discussed the epidemic of military veteran suicides.  His audience was “Retired American Warriors,” a military PAC. When asked about the issue, Trump stated: When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen…

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Buzzfeed Writer Claims Women Get ‘Real PTSD’ Watching Trump Debate

by Blake Neff A senior writer for Buzzfeed News claims she and millions of others women suffered “real PTSD” attacks simply by watching Republican nominee Donald Trump debate against Democratic nominee Hillary Cilnton. Anne Helen Petersen writes about culture for Buzzfeed, and when she watched Monday night’s debate she was deeply upset over what she saw…

Student Leader: Minorities traumatized by Studying too many White People

by Blake Neff College is a “psychologically destructive” experience for non-whites because they end up studying too much about white people, the head of Britain’s national student union said in a recent interview. Malia Bouattia, 28, is the head of the United Kingdom’s National Union of Students (NUS), a massive umbrella organization representing over 95 percent…

What’s The Problem With Trigger Warnings?

by: Avens O’Brien They appear often as small italics at the top of articles, blog posts or other publications: Trigger warning: this post discusses abuse, or violence, or other traumatic events. A trigger warning. The term appears to come from “trauma trigger”, an idea sometimes used in therapy, often referencing post-traumatic stress disorder. The concept…