Release of Mary Trump's tell-all book moved up to next week

[sneakypete]

It actually is about personal responsibility and strength of will/character.   And as for those "studies" done, much like many of the studies done by so-called ""experts"" on Covid-19, opinions vary.  And yet "you" double down.

For instance... studies that deemed alcoholism as a disease are not based in scientific fact.

@XenaLee

Since you seem to be a slow learner:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=DISEASE

dis·ease
/dəˈzēz/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: disease; plural noun: diseases; noun: dis-ease; plural noun: dis-eases

   

a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.

Addiction is a chemical compulsion that people are born with.  Get someone not brain damaged to explain this concept to you.

But it did, as intended, relieve some of the responsibility (there's that word again) for alcoholics, since it removed the factor of their "choice".

NO ONE is "responsible" for BEING an alcoholic,drug addict,homosexual,heterosexual,etc,etc,etc. They ARE responsible,however,for their ACTIONS.

ACTIONS are illegal or immoral,or even both,depending on your own particular POV.

Just like YOUR COMPULSION to hang tags on people and accuse them of thought crimes.

 

You've heard the term "enabler"?  Well, when the ""experts"" deemed alcoholism a disease, they effectively enabled alcoholics to remain alcoholics by making them victims of a disease that was presumably 'out of their control'.

You are flat-out nuts. More than half the family I grew up in were alcoholics,and not a single damn one of them ever asked for or wanted "approval" from anyone.

I have never known a "professional drunk" that did. They are all too busy trying to please their inner demons to worry about what anyone thinks.

If ANYTHING,on a subconscious level they were allowing their "inner bleep" to come out in the hope that somebody would stop them by having them arrested and forced into rehab.

They,like all addicts everywhere,know they need help to stop,but what is driving them does not want them to stop. It is a life-long battle they have to fight,and there IS no such thing as a cure.

Truth to tell,in the past doctors and courts have turned drunks into drug addicts by giving them narcotics to reduce their craving for alcohol. Thankfully,this sort of thing no longer happens.

I'd call that victimization.   
 

Un,huh! YOUSA VIC-TUM,ain't ya?

BTW,in case you are wondering,I am neither an alcoholic or a drug addict,despite drinking tanker cars of whiskey and taking huge amounts of drugs. I did it all for FUN,not to satisfy any compulsion,and one day I just decided it had quit being fun,and flat out quit that same day. Never had any mild desire to get drunk or high a single day since,and I quit sometime in the early 80's.

And it didn't have  a damn thing to do with strength of character or "finding Jesus". I was just lucky enough to be born without those compulsions.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Mary Trump slams Ivanka in new interview: 'She doesn't do anything'
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mary-trump-slams-ivanka-in-new-interview-she-doesnt-do-anything/ar-BB16P9BS?ocid=ientp

Mary's hate has just flung her over the shark. ---  Should've sidestepped this question, Mare....   


     

[PeteS in CA]

Mary's hate has just flung her over the shark. ---  Should've sidestepped this question, Mare....   
...

She jumped, fell short, but the shark refused to eat her.

[truth_seeker]

What in the eff, is the intended point of arguing that the "disease theory" of addiction is not valid?

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, published in 1939, points to it. Other 12 Step Programs have mirrored it, since.

The resulting successful program has helped millions, ail over the world ever since.

Costly Treatment programs refer their patients to AA.

Other alternatives have mostly fallen by the wayside (Rational Recovery; Moderation Management).

Many churches have "Recovery ministries, using the AA model.

From my first days, I was fascinated by AA, studied, made friends, etc.





If the "disease" word is the hang-up, try disorder, condition, malady, etc.

I remember when my father was told his youngest daughter had depression. He initiially denied it. Somebody made him resent the implication it might be his fault.

Later he realized she needed her meds, to correct stuff in her brain.

Today science and religion readily accept brain chemistry and electricity issues.

[Hoodat]

What in the eff, is the intended point of arguing that the "disease theory" of addiction is not valid?

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, published in 1939, points to it. Other 12 Step Programs have mirrored it, since.

The resulting successful program has helped millions, ail over the world ever since.

The one thing that stands out about the Big Book is that it was written after the first 100 had recovered.  Emphasis on 'recovered'.  Not 'in recovery'.  Not 'recovering'.  But 'recovered'.  Being reborn spiritually as a result of the steps.  The closest thing I know to being 'born again', becoming a new creation, having a renewed mindset.

I personally knew some of the people who wrote the NA basic text.  Can't say that any of them had recovered when they wrote it, nor many years later.  Bottom line, I got 'clean' in NA, but I got 'sober' in AA.

[roamer_1]

Today science and religion readily accept brain chemistry and electricity issues.

To a bloody fault.

[Gefn]

This should possibly have its own separate divide

I’ll let more sagacious mods decide.

Mary Trump’s Book on President Sold Record 950,000+ Copies On First Day of Release

Mary L. Trump’s tell-all book on her uncle President Donald Trump sold more than 950,000 copies in its first day of release.

Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man sold more than 950,000 “through Tuesday, July 14” — the book’s first day.

“The combined sales figure includes pre-orders and first day sales of print books, ebooks, and e-audiobooks in the U.S., and is a company record,” Simon & Schuster declared, adding that its “ordered a 14th printing of the book that, when completed, will bring the number of hardcover copies in print to more than 1,150,000.”

In a statement, Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp said, “There is only one word that can be used to describe the sales of Mary Trump’s memoir and that word is HUGE.”

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/mary-trumps-book-on-president-sold-record-950000-copies-on-first-day-of-release/

[FeelNoPain]

This should possibly have its own separate divide

I’ll let more sagacious mods decide.

Mary Trump’s Book on President Sold Record 950,000+ Copies On First Day of Release


https://www.mediaite.com/trump/mary-trumps-book-on-president-sold-record-950000-copies-on-first-day-of-release/

Dayum!
Uncle Donald should have opened his wallet, so niece Mary wouldn't have had to get paid by putting her foot to his ass. 

[aligncare]

Remember that every president had their own crazy tell-all relative who wrote a book or embarrassed the president with their behavior. With just the least effort I can think of Patty Reagan and Ron jr., Billy Carter, Roger Clinton. So Trump’s got Mary Trump who, in dim light, could pass as Marty Trump.

[FeelNoPain]

Remember that every president had their own crazy tell-all relative who wrote a book or embarrassed the president with their behavior. With just the least effort I can think of Patty Reagan and Ron jr., Billy Carter, Roger Clinton. So Trump’s got Mary Trump who, in dim light, could pass as Marty Trump.

Don't sell our current president short. No one delivers like 45.

None of those other rank amateurs had books by an ex-NSA sell 780,000 copies during it first week, a book by a niece sell 950,000 copies (whew!) its first day, and waiting in the wings, a sure to be blockbuster book by his personal lawyer to be published in time for the Christmas buying season!

I wonder if Trump will send a tweet bragging about his tremendous book sales. 

[Gefn]

I just realized that sales record does not take into consideration books like ebooks. (kindle) and audio books like Audible and other platforms.

Amazon is saying on their website now if you order the book today, it could be a month before you get a copy. They’ve sold out.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Don't sell our current president short. No one delivers like 45.

None of those other rank amateurs had books by an ex-NSA sell 780,000 copies during it first week, a book by a niece sell 950,000 copies (whew!) its first day, and waiting in the wings, a sure to be blockbuster book by his personal lawyer to be published in time for the Christmas buying season!

I wonder if Trump will send a tweet bragging about his tremendous book sales. 

I think we should start putting red checks by the avatars of the Biden/Marxist supporters around here @aligncare   

[catfish1957]

I think we should start putting red checks by the avatars of the Biden/Marxist supporters around here @aligncare

Didn't know youl like to wear Brown Shirts.  Plus it hasn't gone unnoticed that you tend to put that label on anyone not in lock step with the  Orange Leader.  Does that include me? Can we assign orange checks to people like you here, who have ZERO ability to disagree with anything POTUS says or does?

Just wondering.......

[GrouchoTex]

I think we should start putting red checks by the avatars of the Biden/Marxist supporters around here @aligncare

Somehow, I am not surprised.......

[Right_in_Virginia]

Somehow, I am not surprised.......

 

[aligncare]

I think we should start putting red checks by the avatars of the Biden/Marxist supporters around here @aligncare

Red check not enough 

Mueller, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Rosenstein, Steele, Mifsud, McCabe thank you for supporting their illegal resistance  @FeelNoPain

[GrouchoTex]

Remember that every president had their own crazy tell-all relative who wrote a book or embarrassed the president with their behavior. With just the least effort I can think of Patty Reagan and Ron jr., Billy Carter, Roger Clinton. So Trump’s got Mary Trump who, in dim light, could pass as Marty Trump.

This is true.

[catfish1957]

Red check not enough 

@FeelNoPain

Bullshit....  Name one Biden supporter here at TBR..  Put up or shut up.

[aligncare]

Bullshit....  Name one Biden supporter here at TBR..  Put up or shut up.

I didn’t mention Biden, you did, and I believe also RIV did.

[corbe]

   I've moved on from Biteme I'm firmly in the Jared Kushner camp now.

[Cyber Liberty]

Don't sell our current president short. No one delivers like 45.

None of those other rank amateurs had books by an ex-NSA sell 780,000 copies during it first week, a book by a niece sell 950,000 copies (whew!) its first day, and waiting in the wings, a sure to be blockbuster book by his personal lawyer to be published in time for the Christmas buying season!

I wonder if Trump will send a tweet bragging about his tremendous book sales. 

It's amazing how many jollies you can get watching somebody slip on a banana peel, when you really hate the person.  Your amusement at the tell-alls doesn't surprise me, but you have to try harder if you want to be the Number One Trump Hater of TBR.

Most thinkers tend to be less predictable.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Didn't know youl like to wear Brown Shirts.  Plus it hasn't gone unnoticed that you tend to put that label on anyone not in lock step with the  Orange Leader.  Does that include me? Can we assign orange checks to people like you here, who have ZERO ability to disagree with anything POTUS says or does?

Still just throwing out insults hoping one sticks ---   

Just wondering.......

You're not "wondering" @catfish1957 --- you're spewing your usual shit at me.   The act of wondering involves higher level thinking and ... well ... let's just say your cupboard is bare. 

 

[GrouchoTex]

I don't know.
The thing that is frustrating to me, it seems as if no dissent is tolerated at times, by some.
I have been disappointed in every President, and all politicians,  at one time or another.

The farther left they've went, the higher the disappointment.

Some say if we criticize here on this forum, we are helping the left, adding fuel to the fire, or worse, in cahoots with the left.
I disagree.
It is not as if we are shouting it from the rooftops, changing the hearts and minds of the swing voters.
If we can't speak our minds here on this forum, where can we?
I leave it here, and generally do not talk about politics outside of this forum.

I wasn't in the Trump camp, due to a lot of stuff he said, but I will say I am in it now.
His actions (not words) have shown me that he is a 10th amendment guy, letting the states handle their own affairs, for better or worse, but I believe that is what a POTUS should do.
I like the deregulation going on, also.
Judicial picks are good. The problem is that conservatives in general do not mark in lock-step on the courts like liberals do.
It appears that the best we can do on the courts is find the most conservative for the positions, but it will always have mixed results.
Conservatives are not robots, like the liberals.

My main criticism is that the debt keeps soaring.
I know he doesn't allocate the money, but I'd like to see a veto used now and again.
Rand Paul seems to be the only one in DC talking about this lately.

I give him high marks, but not 100%, but I've never given a politician 100% yet.
 

[Applewood]

I just realized that sales record does not take into consideration books like ebooks. (kindle) and audio books like Audible and other platforms.

Amazon is saying on their website now if you order the book today, it could be a month before you get a copy. They’ve sold out.

I expected this book would be a best seller.  People love dirt on the rich and famous.  How much influence it will have on the election -- who knows?  Maybe it will persuade independents and undecideds one way or the other, but I'm guessing for those who have already made up their minds -- it won't change a thing.

[catfish1957]

Still just throwing out insults hoping one sticks ---   

You're not "wondering" @catfish1957 --- you're spewing your usual shit at me.   The act of wondering involves higher level thinking and ... well ... let's just say your cupboard is bare. 

 

Bare Cupboard?  LMAO...  More like an episode of "The Truth Hurts" in your case, and on your behalf.  You're lack of any critical thought on DJT's shortcomings has ravaged your credibility here anyway.  And you call accuse me of "lack of higher thinking". That's a laugh coming from someone who rides shot gun on the Short Bus. 




Come back to me when your friend here  gives  you your  new set of  talking points.