Thursday, 20 August 2026

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Talk about going over the precipice 🧗 I was thinking about those people who are labeled psychos. I met a few during my 25 years of service as a social worker. The way I see it, there are various types of psychological imbalances. Imbalances usually involve learning disorders or coping disorders of one sort or another. Those people are the shadows on the street that no one notices. Those shadows can think, see, feel, and touch. They have emotions, and many of them are not lacking in intelligence. Many fear or do not trust the world outside of the world they have created for themselves, and some have their true selves locked up inside in a cocoon of darkness where there is no light, like a black hole 🕳️ and never want to let the outside light in.

Most I worked with were recovering alcoholics and addicts, in need of rehabilitation, a helping hand to be a contributing member of society again. I also encountered a few self-proclaimed spychos.

In my opinion, if Canada is planning to grow in the next few years, my search for capable, talented people would include screening the pool of those who have a mental or emotional challenge that wouldn't keep them from doing their part to build a stronger, more prosperous Canada, and I would start casting my wide net today!

WE NEED MORE REHAB CENTERS IN CANADA 🍁

We need more mental health rehabilitation personnel and facilities, especially in Ontario Health Care, which is currently enacting the middle sequence of the sinking Titanic scene 🚢

With all due respect, Prime Minister Mark Carney 🫡

You, your advisors, and the members of parliament HAVE THE DUTY TO SAVE OUR CANADIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FROM PARALYSIS AND TURNING FROM A PUBLIC SYSTEM THAT PUTS PATIENTS FIRST AND INTO A COLLECTION OF PRIVATELY-HELD ENTITIES WHOSE FIRST CARE IS PROFITS! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? ONTARIO IS CLOSING HOSPITALS AND EMERGENCY ROOMS AND IS NOT HIRING OR RETAINING HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS!

MAKE HEALTHCARE IN CANADA A FEDERAL SYSTEM TODAY!

If you wish to have a healthy workforce.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Psychopath or Psychotic Disorder:

Psychological disorders are health conditions that cause significant changes in a person's thinking, emotional regulation, or behavior. They often lead to distress or trouble functioning in daily life. Common types include anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Effective treatments such as therapy and medication exist,..

Psychotic Disorders: Involve features like hallucinations or delusions, with schizophrenia being a primary example.

Personality Disorders:

Psychopath:

🔹AI Overview

A psychopath is a person with a personality pattern marked by low empathy, weak remorse, bold and selfish behavior, and trouble following social rules. While the media often shows them as violent criminals, many blend in using charm, and the term overlaps closely with Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD)...

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Psychopathy

🔹AI Overview

Psychopathy: is a personality construct marked by a lack of empathy, poor impulse control, shallow emotions, and persistent antisocial behavior. These core traits are often hidden behind superficial charm. While closely related to Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD), psychopathy is a more specific condition

🔹AI Overview

Devious psychopaths: use charm, mimicry, and profound cunning to mask a total lack of empathy or conscience. They manipulate others for personal gain while avoiding suspicion by acting like normal, caring individuals.

Psychopaths that can feel but hide it

🔹AI Overview

Psychopaths do experience some basic physical and goal-oriented emotions like anger, pride, or frustration, but they lack deep emotional empathy and remorse. Rather than hiding rich inner feelings, they often mimic normal emotional responses—a process called superficial charm or masking—to blend into society and manipulate others.

How does one judge an empty shell 🧆 a cocoon 🥐 of deviousness? 👺 or a bag filled with hate and 💩 Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

The Democrats’ one neat trick to try to win a Senate majority

The battle for the Senate in 2026 comes with some fascinating wrinkles: In a trio of races — Idaho, Nebraska and South Dakota — the Democrat has dropped out to help an independent try to win in a red state.

But this strategy has already been attempted in a handful of Senate races in recent years, and it has yet to actually work — at least at the federal level.

So … could it this year?:

It remains unlikely. But history suggests it’s worth it to keep trying. It at least gives Democrats a better shot of depriving Republicans of seats in states where a Democratic nominee probably wouldn’t have a chance at winning. In fact, when this setup has been tried, Republicans have had some of their worst Senate results in recent history in those states...

So we’ve got the worst GOP performance in the last 20 years in Nebraska, in the last 50 years in Utah, and one of the worst ones in the last 30 years in Kansas — despite it being a very good GOP year. ...

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PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2026, 5:00 AM ET - 6 hr ago

- CNN -

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El Niño will upend winter weather in the US. Here’s who will feel it the most

The burgeoning Super El Niño will have major implications for winter weather in the United States. Winter is not only when this El Niño will peak in strength, but also when its influence on global weather is most pronounced.

🌊 Watch the full VIDEO Ask a Scientist about El Niño interview only in the CNN Weather app.

What a typical El Niño winter looks like:
An early winter forecast for this atypical El Niño:

As with winter temperatures, research shows a warming climate has also impacted snowfall over the decades. Annual snow amounts have dropped in nearly two-thirds of the US since 1970, according to Climate Central.

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PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2026, 9:27 AM ET - 2 hr ago

- CNN -

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Why Trump’s plummeting approval ratings are even worse than they look

New data shows Trump’s die-hard followers are vanishing.

VIDEO | Included:

Two recent polls show that President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are dropping as low as they ever have for him. But more striking still are signs that his hardcore base is dissipating — which could affect turnout in the midterm elections and render the MAGA brand less potent over time.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll of adults conducted between Aug. 14-17 found that 33% approved of Trump’s performance and 64% disapproved. As Reuters noted in its write-up of the survey, “Trump’s approval rating, down from 35% in a poll that closed earlier this month and lower than at any point in his current term, has now tied the lowest level of his prior term reached in December 2017.”

There are signs that the accumulated discontent is not just hurting Trump with Americans overall but his most loyal supporters.:

Trump’s plunging approval ratings and his loosening grip on his base might explain part of why his endorsed candidates haven’t been performing as well in recent GOP primaries.

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Aug. 20, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Canada, U.S. negotiators meeting again to finalize trade deal ahead of new tariff deadline

Trade minister back in D.C. as Carney asks provinces to return U.S. booze to shelves

The Latest:

• Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc has returned to Washington as officials from both countries work to finalize a deal that would avert new U.S. tariffs on nearly $30 billion in Canadian goods.

• Prime Minister Mark Carney and his negotiators discussed the prospective deal with his cabinet and the premiers yesterday afternoon.

• Carney asked the provinces to return American alcohol to store shelves, and to not specifically exclude the U.S. from their procurement policies, according to Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston.

• A source with knowledge of the forthcoming agreement said U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum are being lowered from 50 per cent to 25 per cent, and that Canadian officials are aiming to complete the deal by Friday.

• U.S. President Donald Trump also said yesterday he had brokered "a very good deal" with Canada. A statement from the White House said an agreement with Canada is being finalized but did not contain any details.

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August 20, 2026 - Updated6 minutes ago

- CBC -

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