I have concluded that Trump Derangement Nation is an actual madhouse. These people cannot distinguish truth from lies because they have committed the fatal mistake of believing their own bullshit.
So should Trump Devotion Syndrome. Make critical thinking great again. It's high time nobody trusts our government, and government should be afraid of the citizenry...
When I read the sub-title to this article in my email. -" The Democrats are in a hell of their own making", I thought it was hyperbole.
Sasha has documented a mass psychosis of hate - after watching the hate filled pure insanity of the video clips, one realizes that this is a serious problem. You can hear echoes of the Nazi filled rallies preaching hatred of the jews or the cries of "Give us Barabbas"
Sadly, it's not clear what can turn these hate filled people and groups around.
Yes Texyz, you are correct; only Jesus Christ is the answer. But don't forget one must be drawn to Jesus as their Christ by God the Father.
The statement that one must be drawn to Jesus as Christ by God the Father first is a central teaching in the Gospel of John, particularly in John 6, which declares, "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day". This verse emphasizes that the initiative for coming to Christ originates with God the Father, not with human effort or will. The drawing is not merely an invitation or a gentle persuasion, but a divine action that enables the individual to respond to Christ. This concept is reinforced by Jesus' repetition of the principle in John 6, stating, "Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father".
The drawing by the Father is understood as a work of grace that precedes faith and is essential for salvation. It is not a passive beckoning but an active, sovereign work of God that creates the inner disposition necessary to believe. This divine initiative is necessary because, in their natural state, people are spiritually incapable of seeking God on their own; they are described as unwilling and morally unable to come to Christ. The Father's drawing is not irresistible in the sense of forcing a person against their will, but it is a powerful, effective act that overcomes human resistance and opens the heart to receive Christ.
The process is not dependent on human wisdom, effort, or external incentives, but solely on God's sovereign grace. This truth underscores that salvation is entirely a work of God, initiated and completed by Him, and that the decision to draw someone to Christ rests solely with the Father.
Well spoken, a treatise on Reformed Theology in the tradition of Calvinism. It brings to my mind the first RC Sproul book I read, "Chosen by God." In conclusion, it will be the prayers of the saints, inspired by the Father's will, that continue to be offered for our leaders and our country.
During Trump's first administration, I watched how the Russia Hoax was strangling his presidency. I watched the high drama of Nancy Pelosi carrying the impeachment papers into the House of Representatives. I heard Trump's voice crack as he described the pain of it all affecting himself and his family during the day of prayer. Yet, in my bible study, I was the only one who prayed for him and our country after the others read off their list of the sick and hospitalized. I had heard God, the Holy Spirit, beckoning me to pray for President Trump. And that's the way it is done.
For the Biblically literate, we, (humanity), were forewarned in Biblical prophecy these current events would come to pass centuries before we began seeing them on a daily basis. For those who still believe "we can fix this" through politics, no, we can't; because it's not a temporal battle. It's an on-going spiritual war that began long before any of us existed, coming to its climax in our time - right here on planet earth. We can only choose a "side" to support and work with in this final battle. Satan is on a fast-track to the Bottomless Pit and the Beast of Revelation and the False Prophet will burn for eternity in the Lake of Fire.
But there is no "fence sitting" now or “do-overs” later. We must each actively choose the side of light and good, of YHVH/God and Jesus Christ; or we default to the other side of darkness and evil and Satan. Therefore, if you haven't actively chosen Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God...then you are automatically in default. For each of us, today, there are no other options; I have made my choice and His name is Jesus (Yeshua); I pray each of you who read this comment will make the correct choice. Eternity is a very long time to regret a wrong choice.
There is no God but YHVH - and - Yeshua is His Messiah:
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with that person, and they with me. To the one who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with Me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” [Revelation 3: 20-21]
FYI: There are two (2) sins Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) will not forgive: (1) Denial (blasphemy) against the Holy Spirit. [Matthew 12:31] and; (2) Receiving the MARK OF THE BEAST. [Revelation 14:9]
After the shooting in Minnehaha last week, nonbelievers were mocking 'thoughts and prayers', ..a typical default for them.
The irony is, had they not eliminated GOD from schools, courthouses, and society in general, mocking Christianity for 60 yrs now, most of these shootings would not be happening. The more God-less they make America, the more psychotic we become as a nation.
Acceptance and obedience to God's authority makes for a very happy society. Simple American history verifies that....then, vs now.
"Even those who seem semi-sane, like Rahm Emanuel, will buckle under the question of “gender affirming care.” Wow, that's a misplaced statement. I believe he was the one to say "never let a crisis go to waste." Look into this guys eyes closely and tell me he's not either a demon or demon possessed. This is a spiritual/supernatural battle and the U.S.'s and the world's fate teeters in the balance on the winner.
Yep, and I discovered its actually 'Biblical'. In II Corinthians 4:3-4 and II Thessalonians 2:10-11 ...and numerous other places, the Bible explains that those who refuse to believe in the one true God, they will become 'blinded ' to the truth (supernatural, eh). After living in unrepentant sin for years or decades, worshipping the false gods of money, self, pleasure, and power...people have become reprobate and prideful in their false belief system, always 'justifying' their sin.
I just quoted Milton’s classic Satanic explanation of his attempted deicide (which Gene Roddenberry famously popularized in Star Trek: TOS):
“Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven”.
That lust for power explains why Marxists, radical Islamists, and other totalitarians so cynically drive their subjects down the road to the hell of serfdom.
That self-delusion goes back to ancient times. Isaiah, in the 14th chapter of his book of observations and prophecies, recounts in the verses 13 and 14 the ultimate vanity of Lucifer as he vowed to become equal to God the Creator, which of course was and is total BS. But the TDS insanity of the current Totalitarian Left is nothing other than the same twisted, reality-denying declarations that have never and will never result in anything good.
I can tell when he stretches the truth....."D.C. is the safest it's ever been" (I don't know if he said this, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did or will). D.C. was probably safer in the 1950's....after WWII and before the crazy 60's, 70's and later. I don't know that for a fact, but I bet it was safer in the 1950's. I also don't know if he just meant for the 3 week period he's been cracking down on crime - maybe it has been the safest (3 weeks) ever in D.C. What I care about more is he's STOPPING VIOLENT CRIME IN D.C.!! Now, maybe I'll go visit for the first time.
There is an important Rule of Evidence that allows the jury to give heightened credibility to "admissions against interest." An example might be a person admitting to something that would cost him money or political influence.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's praise of Trump's law enforcement policy and its effectiveness in reducing crime so quickly is a perfect current example.
Some of us have not escaped the violent crime. My brother was murdered in a street robbery in D.C. His killer has never been found. I was born there, grew up there, moved away, and came back. It was fairly safe when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies. I’d say D.C. stopped being “safe” in the 80’s, coinciding with the crack epidemic. Now, even the nice neighborhoods are dangerous at night, but Capitol Hill has always been a targeted neighborhood for robberies and rape, even in the 70’s. Trump is not exaggerating about a need to clean up the city. TDS just stops people from hearing the truth.
Crime exists everywhere. As Gavin Newsome pointed out to Speaker Johnson recently, Louisiana has 19.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 people. California had 5.1. Why isn't trump sending the National Guard to LA? Josh Hawley's Missouri has 9 murders/100,000; Sarah H. Sanders's Arkansas has 7.4/100,000.
Crime exists everywhere. As Gavin Newsome pointed out to Speaker Johnson recently, Louisiana has 19.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 people. California had 5.1. Why isn't trump sending the National Guard to LA? Josh Hawley's Missouri has 9 murders/100,000; Sarah H. Sanders's Arkansas has 7.4/100,000.
I lived outside of D.C. from 1986 to 1995 and had to drive into the District for business every day. I heard about the crime daily on the news and it was discussed in conversation all the time. Even back then it was a known problem.
The one factor you and Newsom left out, were the cities where this crime is happening. In Missouri, the crime stat is from St. Louis, one of the most crime ridden cities in America. And if you look honestly at the places Newsom cherry picked, you will see those cities have been run predominantly by Democrats. New Orleans is the city driving those numbers in LA.
The top five crime infested cities currently in America are:
Baltimore
Los Angeles
St. Louis
Philly
Chicago
ALL of those cities are run by Democrat mayors and have been for years if not decades.
A couple weeks ago Rupa did a segment on TheFP about crime in Ottawa and another online troll like you, maybe it was even you under another alias, said he lives in Ottawa and never sees a problem.
Do you know why you don’t see a problem?
Because you are the problem.
You undoubtedly believe “safe supply” and safe injection sites save lives and these sites don’t bring an increase in crime and filth.
I’m 100% certain you would say there is no issue even as you are hacked to death in an alley.
Violent crime is like lightning. On one level a rare event -- unless it happens to you or to someone you know or of whom you have knowledge. When rare events happen to enough people, there is an unshakeable perception that -- just maybe-- they're not so rare after all. Statistics -- an increasingly abused tool -- mean nothing. And what did or did not happen to you is worse than irrelevant.
Crime exists everywhere. As Gavin Newsome pointed out to Speaker Johnson recently, Louisiana has 19.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 people. California had 5.1. Why isn't trump sending the National Guard to LA? Josh Hawley's Missouri has 9 murders/100,000; Sarah H. Sanders's Arkansas has 7.4/100,000.
New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Little Rock, LA., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Denver, Detroit,Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Sante Fe,Camden, NYC, Boston, Memphis, Washington DC, Birmingham,Kansas City, Virginia Beach, All democrat run cities
Terrific Sasha. I am old enough to remember watching the Manson girls live on television. Pure evil, because they didn't even recognize the evil. The videos of those today praying for the death of Trump depicts that same evil. BTW, thanks for the Del Shannon, a little before your time, but not mine.
When I watch these deranged TDS sufferers salivating over their fantasies that the alleged death of Trump might actually be true, I see them as mini-embodiments of the same extreme narcissistic/psychopathic personality type archetypically created by Heath Ledger in his role as The Joker in the movie, "The Dark Knight". If you want to conceptualise it as a "mental health" problem it is a personality disorder with very serious underlying structural distortions to the various components and drives of a normal personality, to the degree that the person becomes "fragmented" rather than just unbalanced like a relatively normal person with some neurotic traits. This type of personality disorder has been normalised in the on-line world inhabited by many woke Dem TDS types. There are loose cannons everywhere ready to be triggered to explode at any time. It is truly a mental health epidemic.
I live in the world of AWFL......Affluent White Female Leftists.......and there is NO WAY to convince them of their derangement. They think they are better than you, more virtuous, and therefore correct. I firmly believe that there is a DIRECT correlation with race, education level, gender and income with the increase of TDS. The richer and more educated, white and female......the more DERANGED.
I know quite a few AWFLs. They can't change. I think that's why The Handmaiden's Tale Is so popular with them. They WANT that to happen - it will prove them right about Trump.
Like or hate Trump, we should be grateful he ran for President in 2016.
Trump has been able to bring to light what Democrats had in their minds for DECADES. Their irrationality had hidden for many years. This included the media.
What’s amazing is Democrats are doubling down on insanity. When you are insane it’s pretty tough to think rationally.
RINO's out themselves. They are the ones who favor war, onerous taxes and subsidies to countries where they receive laundered money to keep it all going.
Sasha, you are at the top of your game with this one. Incredible. Layered historical context, insightful political analysis, and popular cultural videos to punctuate your points.
Using the techniques of Gonzo journalism, you weave your own story into the narrative. Unlike many other writers that sell pure outrage as their main product, you keep your calm, even though the emotion comes through in your voice. You have experienced significant loss in experiencing this story and you keep going, painting a clear picture of exactly what happened, mass delusion, mass psychosis, mass insanity. This story needs to be told.
I said to my Democrat friend, "There are some people in your camp who actually tried to sell the idea that Trump asked the Russians for help winning the 2016 election, and that he did it in front of thousands of people on national TV."
She floored me with, "I saw that clip. That's what he did."
I don't even know where to begin on how ridiculous that idea is, not that anything I said would have dissuaded her. It became apparent over the course of the discussion that she *really believed* that Trump is like a Batman villain, monologuing his nefarious plans to the public. These people seem to have mastered a kind of temporary insanity. What's truly weird is that they seem to be able to turn it on and off, and they only turn it on for Trump. They choose to believe the fantastic, and they are not just pretending to believe it for rhetorical reasons. They're serious.
It's a chicken-egg conundrum. Is the TDS a symptom, or a cause?
This subject truly fascinates me. When you pair these beliefs with the fact this is the guy we watched on the Celebrity Apprentice, it’s just jaw dropping. And I wonder if TDS exists on a spectrum - like can people with average TDS recognize others with severe cases? Like, “oh I think he’s uncouth and racist, but draw the line at Russian asset.” Is that like a thing? I can’t get any of them to tell me.
We were told that "the missing emails" were about "wedding plans and yoga schedules".
IF the Left had any mental capacity AT ALL, they would have blown off Trump's remarks and said, "those emails are just about wedding plans and yoga schedules. There isn't any there there and Russia wouldn't be interested".
But that's not what they did.
If any "dirt" could be found in the "missing emails" then it proves that Darth Vagina had lied to the American people about her email server. The fact that the left went so apoplectic about Trump's joke demonstrates THAT THEY KNOW that she is a liar and is corrupt.
Anyone pushing the story that "Trump invited Russia to interfere on television" is simply demonstrating that they were not up to date on the current events at the time, are easily misled and have no clue how computers and the internet works
All it would have taken was one Democrat. One Democrat. A city council member in Corona, New Mexico. A cub reporter at a newspaper in Fontana, California. Just one Democrat to step forward and say, "The missing emails are just about wedding plans and yoga schedules. Trump is just stupid to bring them up." And the whole thing dies before it even started.
We have been put through nine years of hell because not one Democrats cannot process the word "missing".
This shows you that the entire Leftosphere is a cult and every member has lost the capacity for critical thinking.
Nine years of the Left using anything "Russian" as a pejorative has made Putin to see that coexistence with the West is impossible and is a contributing factor to the war in Ukraine. A million people have been killed because the Left cannot understand the word "missing"
The difficulty is it is now obvious that these people cannot ever have power again. I say that with all sincerity. And they are despondent now for the same reason- they feel the same way about us. I see no way to resolve this divide. The only hope I have is that when it finally pops, the sane ones are in control of the military.
But we can’t let the pendulum swing too far or the great middle will drag it back. The middle is what elected Trump and will elect Vance or Rubio. The press will do everything it can to scare the public; the Republicans job is to not play into their hands.
Lefty ideologues are as honest as they are intolerant. Only their truth is truth, only their virtue is virtuous, only their progressivism progress. To differ from them is hatful, which makes them hateful. Humorless and malevolent, they'll make good revolutionaries. All that's needed is some luck; some guillotines and old scores will begin to get tallied.
When the Democrats came into power, they funded al Qaeda, betrayed Qaddafy and cheered when he was murdered.
World leaders, including Putin, understand that unless there is an ironclad guarantee that no Democrat ever again is allowed to ascend to the White House that it is pointless to negotiate with the US.
There is even a meme of Jamie Raskin floating around saying that the Democrats will retaliate against any country that negotiated with Trump if they ever get back in power.
Stone, your second to last paragraph pretty much captures the moment:
"But until they find their way out of mass psychosis, we should do everything we can to keep them as far away from our schools and our government as possible."
I do not believe that the Left will recover in my lifetime, which is OK by me. Actions have consequences. Never has a bunch in modern American history so richly deserved to reap that which they have sown.
Same. They MUST lose for a generation. I say that as a former Dem of 20 yrs. They haven't learned, and they need to be kept away from power as long as possible.
Their "Russia, Russia, Russia " obsession has made Putin understand that coexistence with the West is not possible and is a contributing factor to the war in Ukraine. But the Left is totally irresponsible and cannot conceive of their culpability
But roughly half the country will continue to vote Democrat no matter what, so the left doesn't need to recover its sanity. Half the country will vote for a continuation of leftist insanity out of ignorance or brainwashing. I would be more optimistic if the MSM and cultural and academic institutions started telling the truth, but I haven't seen much of a change.
I think that half has shrunk drastically. Maybe I’m mistaken, but I know a lot of recently former democrats. I don’t know any recently former republicans. We need multiple viable options at the ballot box. I’m not seeing many if any of those churning out of the Democrat side. Hopefully they get CRUSHED in the midterms hard enough to wipe out most of the current crop. They were all complicit in what we’ve been forced to endure: the mass illegal immigration, the cooked crime stats, the gender crap, and everything else they put upon us. Unless they get some real candidates and reasonable ideas, hating Trump is the only thing that resonates with anyone.
The Left will continue to double down on insanity until they reach the point where insanity costs them everything. This happened within living memory, when the Dems, frustrated by their loss to Nixon in 1968, went full-on crazy in 1972 - and lost 49 states, and lost the popular vote by an astonishing 16 points. At that point, the adults took back the steering wheel, resulting in Carter and later Clinton
In the present circumstances, I don't think there are any adults left to veer the Dems back to sanity. So the Left either bludgeons and cheats and cries its way to an extremely narrow and unstable victory that could plunge the country into something far worse, or Dem support continues to fade until the whole party goes the way of the Federalists and the Whigs.
I'd say this is a coin toss. I'm buying ammunition just in case.
The Whig Party supported slavery and as a result, dissolved in 1854. Out of its ashes, the (anti-slavery) Republican Party was born (that same year). Once you support slavery, there’s no turning back. It’s a black/white moral question. Are there positions D’s now support that liken them to the former Whigs?
That's one of the gotchas of free will. Having it does not mean that one will choose wisely. Do the best with like-minded folks for the nation and also with the few who finally achieve an "aha" moment. The others? Leave them to banging on their pots and pans and screaming at the sky, keeping them -- as That TERF Owl and Stone have suggested -- as far away from the levers of power as possible.
You cannot talk to these people with TDS. I have relatives who are lost to the syndrome. When I am with them I never engage in political discussion. They want to talk about Trump to convince others that they see the truth and they want validation for their beliefs. There is no response I can make that challenges what they believe. They must find their own way back into the world choosing light over darkness.
I actually had a bit of a breakthrough with someone who called the National Guard the gestapo. She said “I have to remember, it’s about the policies not the man.” I was very encouraged by that. If she talks policy then we can have a reasonable discussion of our differences, but most of them just say some variation of “but Trump…”
I joked that the entire Democrat platform in 2024 (and 2020, and 2016) consisted of just eight words: "But Trump, But Trump; But Abortion, But Abortion!"
👏👏👏 A tour de force that rocked from start to finish, Sasha! The Democratic Party is destined to lose in 2026 and 2028 without question. I have no doubt at all that J.D. Vance will be the next President of the United States. Who are the Dems gonna run against him? Cory Booker? AOC? Pete Buttigieg? Please! He’d crush any of those buffoons! The Democrats just shot themselves in the foot yet again with their totally insensitive reaction to and failure to read the room after, the horrific shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Instead of consoling the victims and their families and admitting gender dysphoria and gender-affirming care were the cause of this, they mocked those who offered their thoughts and prayers and accused those who pointed out this truth of transphobia.
Jacob Frey, Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan are all completely nuts and not fit to serve in public office. The entire DFL needs reform and to be purged of all the socialist radicals in its ranks. Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Paul Wellstone are rolling over in their graves at what the DFL has become. As to Trump Derangement Syndrome, it has absolutely driven the Democratic Party and many ordinary Americans mad. They hate him so much because of mainstream media propaganda and being whipped up into a frenzy by Democratic politicians who don’t run on a real policy platform so they need to do their whole “orange man bad!” routine and fear monger about whatever boogie man they want us to be sacred of now be it white supremacy, January 6th, Project 2025, or Elon Musk. They oppose popular things Trump is doing things that everyone likes like the DOGE, the MAHA initiative, the review of American history museums, making peace between countries, and the federal takeover of Washington D.C. among other things.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is out of control and it’s destroying the left. The more they obsess over Trump, the more they don’t focus on the issues that most Americans care about and lose elections. They won’t be winning another election for a long time to come. Hollywood is dying and is a shell of its former self. Network TV is irrelevant as evidence by the unfunny Stephen Colbert being fired and the obsolete Late Show being cancelled. The mainstream media’s audience is minuscule and their influence continues to wane. I can’t wait to see Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, and John Oliver go next. Colbert, Trevor Noah and James Corden have already gotten canned for their unfunny garbage shows. Late night TV is dead and can never be revived. Johnny Carson, Jack Paar and Steve Allen are all gone and can never be replaced.
Donald Trump is made out to be Hitler incarnate when he’s far from it. The Democratic Party is dead as a door nail. Even many of its supporters would admit it. The days of great Democrat politicians like Al Smith, John Nance Garner, FDR, Harry S. Truman, Henry Wallace, Cordell Hull, Alben Barkley, Adlai Stevenson, JFK, RFK, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Birch Bayh, Frank Church, Emanuel Celler, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Tom Harkin, and Bob Kerrey are over. Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm have been replaced by the likes of Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Summer Lee. Mike Mansfield and Carl Hayden have given way to Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff. The old Democratic Party that was reasonable and pragmatic is never returning.
Please tell me how to get the TDS victims in my life to read this. The fact is, they won't. Preaching to the choir is feel good stuff for the well. Those experienceing this psychosis will never hear what they need to hear. Trump needs only to succeed. It won't change the sick minds who wish for his, and America's failure but it will give those who are not deranged, a feeling of hope. Not the false hope of the Obama era, but a true hope for America with common sense once again.
I see Sasha's writing as more like documenting history, than preaching to us. She puts it in context. People with TDS can only be helped if they come out of it on their own. It's how I got out.
Trump simply represents the return to common sense. A belief that ....
...our borders should be secure, people who commit crimes should actually be punished, girls shouldn't be forced to dress with boys in locker rooms, our country should fully utilize our natural energy resources, DEI (or any program that forces people to choose one race or gender over another) is inherently discriminatory, school teachers should focus on teaching our kids reading-writing-and arithmetic and not focus on teaching kids to hate America, our foreign policy should always focus on whether it puts the needs and security of the American people first, etc.
There was a time when every Democrat (the JFK years) would 100% agree with every statement in the paragraph above. All of them. But now the Democrats and elites (sorry for the redundancy) have become so brainwashed with hate, they are fighting these commonsense beliefs.
I thank God every day that Trump has the confidence, the balls, and the fortitude to fight for commonsense again. Even though he knows it might kill him.
HL3, unlike Democrats, Trump supporters are not required to agree with everything their candidate does. Trump is not an advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, and many of his supporters are dubious about the government taking a stake in private companies.
The only thing more humorous about you than your feeble attempts to disguise your TDS behind a thin veneer of constant equivocation is your belief that you understand anything about the modern Republican party.
2016 primary I was ABT (Anyone But Trump). The only reasons I voted for him 1. To watch Democrats head explode, 2 The idea of Hillary in the Oval office scared The Hell Out Of Me. I mean REALLY REALLY Bad Person.
Imagine my surprise on (Fall 2017) discovering Donald Trump was/is a very good CENTER/Right Republican President!
Sasha, that did it. I will find a way, somehow, to become a paid subscriber.
It doesn't matter that we don't agree on everything, I don't agree with ANYONE on EVERYTHING, even Trump. But you have shown that it still can be done, people can let different views be discussed, agree to disagree, be open to facts not aligning with their political beliefs. It's so refreshing, does my heart as well as mind good.
I hope some of your FP colleagues eventually realize that allowing a little light in will assist in growth.
So when “no one mourns the wicked” is trending do they not see the irony of that? The whole story of “Wicked” is how a good person can be framed as wicked by mob thinking and spin. Hello? The people with TDS are smug citizens of “Oz” and the proverbial crazy villagers with the pitchforks and torches screaming “kill the beast”! How do they not see it in themselves?
Sheer brilliance.
I have concluded that Trump Derangement Nation is an actual madhouse. These people cannot distinguish truth from lies because they have committed the fatal mistake of believing their own bullshit.
TDS should be classified as a DSM-V psychological disorder. Its patients are part of a human centipede of slop. Here are the symptoms to make a diagnosis: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/trump-derangement-syndrome-diagnosis-dsm-v
I used to be joking when I said that but I'm not joking anymore.
So should Trump Devotion Syndrome. Make critical thinking great again. It's high time nobody trusts our government, and government should be afraid of the citizenry...
When I read the sub-title to this article in my email. -" The Democrats are in a hell of their own making", I thought it was hyperbole.
Sasha has documented a mass psychosis of hate - after watching the hate filled pure insanity of the video clips, one realizes that this is a serious problem. You can hear echoes of the Nazi filled rallies preaching hatred of the jews or the cries of "Give us Barabbas"
Sadly, it's not clear what can turn these hate filled people and groups around.
Maybe a "Gray Champion".
It hit like a sledgehammer even in the transcript!
Only their embrace of JesusChrist will truly turn them. But they must recognize their sin, repent of it, and die to self, die to PRIDE.
Yes Texyz, you are correct; only Jesus Christ is the answer. But don't forget one must be drawn to Jesus as their Christ by God the Father.
The statement that one must be drawn to Jesus as Christ by God the Father first is a central teaching in the Gospel of John, particularly in John 6, which declares, "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day". This verse emphasizes that the initiative for coming to Christ originates with God the Father, not with human effort or will. The drawing is not merely an invitation or a gentle persuasion, but a divine action that enables the individual to respond to Christ. This concept is reinforced by Jesus' repetition of the principle in John 6, stating, "Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father".
The drawing by the Father is understood as a work of grace that precedes faith and is essential for salvation. It is not a passive beckoning but an active, sovereign work of God that creates the inner disposition necessary to believe. This divine initiative is necessary because, in their natural state, people are spiritually incapable of seeking God on their own; they are described as unwilling and morally unable to come to Christ. The Father's drawing is not irresistible in the sense of forcing a person against their will, but it is a powerful, effective act that overcomes human resistance and opens the heart to receive Christ.
The process is not dependent on human wisdom, effort, or external incentives, but solely on God's sovereign grace. This truth underscores that salvation is entirely a work of God, initiated and completed by Him, and that the decision to draw someone to Christ rests solely with the Father.
Well spoken, a treatise on Reformed Theology in the tradition of Calvinism. It brings to my mind the first RC Sproul book I read, "Chosen by God." In conclusion, it will be the prayers of the saints, inspired by the Father's will, that continue to be offered for our leaders and our country.
During Trump's first administration, I watched how the Russia Hoax was strangling his presidency. I watched the high drama of Nancy Pelosi carrying the impeachment papers into the House of Representatives. I heard Trump's voice crack as he described the pain of it all affecting himself and his family during the day of prayer. Yet, in my bible study, I was the only one who prayed for him and our country after the others read off their list of the sick and hospitalized. I had heard God, the Holy Spirit, beckoning me to pray for President Trump. And that's the way it is done.
For the Biblically literate, we, (humanity), were forewarned in Biblical prophecy these current events would come to pass centuries before we began seeing them on a daily basis. For those who still believe "we can fix this" through politics, no, we can't; because it's not a temporal battle. It's an on-going spiritual war that began long before any of us existed, coming to its climax in our time - right here on planet earth. We can only choose a "side" to support and work with in this final battle. Satan is on a fast-track to the Bottomless Pit and the Beast of Revelation and the False Prophet will burn for eternity in the Lake of Fire.
But there is no "fence sitting" now or “do-overs” later. We must each actively choose the side of light and good, of YHVH/God and Jesus Christ; or we default to the other side of darkness and evil and Satan. Therefore, if you haven't actively chosen Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God...then you are automatically in default. For each of us, today, there are no other options; I have made my choice and His name is Jesus (Yeshua); I pray each of you who read this comment will make the correct choice. Eternity is a very long time to regret a wrong choice.
There is no God but YHVH - and - Yeshua is His Messiah:
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with that person, and they with me. To the one who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with Me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” [Revelation 3: 20-21]
FYI: There are two (2) sins Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah) will not forgive: (1) Denial (blasphemy) against the Holy Spirit. [Matthew 12:31] and; (2) Receiving the MARK OF THE BEAST. [Revelation 14:9]
With all respect Texyz, an appeal to the supernatural is not a response to irrationality, but a continuation.
After the shooting in Minnehaha last week, nonbelievers were mocking 'thoughts and prayers', ..a typical default for them.
The irony is, had they not eliminated GOD from schools, courthouses, and society in general, mocking Christianity for 60 yrs now, most of these shootings would not be happening. The more God-less they make America, the more psychotic we become as a nation.
Acceptance and obedience to God's authority makes for a very happy society. Simple American history verifies that....then, vs now.
"Even those who seem semi-sane, like Rahm Emanuel, will buckle under the question of “gender affirming care.” Wow, that's a misplaced statement. I believe he was the one to say "never let a crisis go to waste." Look into this guys eyes closely and tell me he's not either a demon or demon possessed. This is a spiritual/supernatural battle and the U.S.'s and the world's fate teeters in the balance on the winner.
No respect there for those who believe in a higher power. Interesting that so many of us who do are not in the crazy camp.
Yes indeedy. Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
Yep, and I discovered its actually 'Biblical'. In II Corinthians 4:3-4 and II Thessalonians 2:10-11 ...and numerous other places, the Bible explains that those who refuse to believe in the one true God, they will become 'blinded ' to the truth (supernatural, eh). After living in unrepentant sin for years or decades, worshipping the false gods of money, self, pleasure, and power...people have become reprobate and prideful in their false belief system, always 'justifying' their sin.
I just quoted Milton’s classic Satanic explanation of his attempted deicide (which Gene Roddenberry famously popularized in Star Trek: TOS):
“Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven”.
That lust for power explains why Marxists, radical Islamists, and other totalitarians so cynically drive their subjects down the road to the hell of serfdom.
That self-delusion goes back to ancient times. Isaiah, in the 14th chapter of his book of observations and prophecies, recounts in the verses 13 and 14 the ultimate vanity of Lucifer as he vowed to become equal to God the Creator, which of course was and is total BS. But the TDS insanity of the current Totalitarian Left is nothing other than the same twisted, reality-denying declarations that have never and will never result in anything good.
Very well
Can you tell when Trump lies?
I can tell when he stretches the truth....."D.C. is the safest it's ever been" (I don't know if he said this, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did or will). D.C. was probably safer in the 1950's....after WWII and before the crazy 60's, 70's and later. I don't know that for a fact, but I bet it was safer in the 1950's. I also don't know if he just meant for the 3 week period he's been cracking down on crime - maybe it has been the safest (3 weeks) ever in D.C. What I care about more is he's STOPPING VIOLENT CRIME IN D.C.!! Now, maybe I'll go visit for the first time.
There is an important Rule of Evidence that allows the jury to give heightened credibility to "admissions against interest." An example might be a person admitting to something that would cost him money or political influence.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's praise of Trump's law enforcement policy and its effectiveness in reducing crime so quickly is a perfect current example.
There are innumerable lies. I have been to DC several times. Never had any problem with violent crime.
Some of us have not escaped the violent crime. My brother was murdered in a street robbery in D.C. His killer has never been found. I was born there, grew up there, moved away, and came back. It was fairly safe when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies. I’d say D.C. stopped being “safe” in the 80’s, coinciding with the crack epidemic. Now, even the nice neighborhoods are dangerous at night, but Capitol Hill has always been a targeted neighborhood for robberies and rape, even in the 70’s. Trump is not exaggerating about a need to clean up the city. TDS just stops people from hearing the truth.
I was attacked by 3 young blacks at the base of the Washington monument in 1984,you never saw a white boy run so fast.
Sorry to hear about your brother's murder.
Thank you.
See if I got this straight.....crime only exists when you witness it?
Yes, he’s a Democrat, gaslighting is all he has.
Just part of the endless stream of lies.
Crime exists everywhere. As Gavin Newsome pointed out to Speaker Johnson recently, Louisiana has 19.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 people. California had 5.1. Why isn't trump sending the National Guard to LA? Josh Hawley's Missouri has 9 murders/100,000; Sarah H. Sanders's Arkansas has 7.4/100,000.
According to the questioning and inference by NWCitizen, that would appear to be the logic
So your position is that your experience is the truth and people living in Anacostia are imagining the crime???
Crime exists everywhere. As Gavin Newsome pointed out to Speaker Johnson recently, Louisiana has 19.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 people. California had 5.1. Why isn't trump sending the National Guard to LA? Josh Hawley's Missouri has 9 murders/100,000; Sarah H. Sanders's Arkansas has 7.4/100,000.
I lived outside of D.C. from 1986 to 1995 and had to drive into the District for business every day. I heard about the crime daily on the news and it was discussed in conversation all the time. Even back then it was a known problem.
The one factor you and Newsom left out, were the cities where this crime is happening. In Missouri, the crime stat is from St. Louis, one of the most crime ridden cities in America. And if you look honestly at the places Newsom cherry picked, you will see those cities have been run predominantly by Democrats. New Orleans is the city driving those numbers in LA.
The top five crime infested cities currently in America are:
Baltimore
Los Angeles
St. Louis
Philly
Chicago
ALL of those cities are run by Democrat mayors and have been for years if not decades.
Playing the old copy and paste game again NW? Pathetic. It's all you have.
"I have been to DC." Oh, a tourist. That totally discounts the deaths endured by the actual residents of DC from unchecked crime.
Hearing what you said with the tone of Gayle King defending herself as an "astronaut." "HAVE YOU BEEN?"
A couple weeks ago Rupa did a segment on TheFP about crime in Ottawa and another online troll like you, maybe it was even you under another alias, said he lives in Ottawa and never sees a problem.
Do you know why you don’t see a problem?
Because you are the problem.
You undoubtedly believe “safe supply” and safe injection sites save lives and these sites don’t bring an increase in crime and filth.
I’m 100% certain you would say there is no issue even as you are hacked to death in an alley.
You are just another facet of mental illness.
Violent crime is like lightning. On one level a rare event -- unless it happens to you or to someone you know or of whom you have knowledge. When rare events happen to enough people, there is an unshakeable perception that -- just maybe-- they're not so rare after all. Statistics -- an increasingly abused tool -- mean nothing. And what did or did not happen to you is worse than irrelevant.
Crime exists everywhere. As Gavin Newsome pointed out to Speaker Johnson recently, Louisiana has 19.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 people. California had 5.1. Why isn't trump sending the National Guard to LA? Josh Hawley's Missouri has 9 murders/100,000; Sarah H. Sanders's Arkansas has 7.4/100,000.
New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, Little Rock, LA., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Denver, Detroit,Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Sante Fe,Camden, NYC, Boston, Memphis, Washington DC, Birmingham,Kansas City, Virginia Beach, All democrat run cities
And again. You aren't very bright, are you?
Wow- several whole times?
You have no credibility on this issue. You can't tell when your leaders are lying to you. Or you help them lie.
There isn't a Democrat alive that doesn't fall into 1 of those 2 categories.
1. You were duped by your leaders into believing that Biden was "sharp as a tack" for months, if not years, while everyone tried to tell you.
2. You knew, and helped them sell the lie.
There is no Option 3. Either way, you don't deserve a voice in national government anymore, and never will again.
Still the same stupid AWFL you were 6 months ago.
Let’s see:
Sexist? Check
Racist? Check
Classiest? Check
He did hang out with racists like Sharpton for example.
Can you cite one politician, living or dead, of any party who does not lie?
George Washington
You obviously haven't been subjected to the deconstructionists.
Laughable. Of course he “lies”. Nobody can possibly win on the truth.
Terrific Sasha. I am old enough to remember watching the Manson girls live on television. Pure evil, because they didn't even recognize the evil. The videos of those today praying for the death of Trump depicts that same evil. BTW, thanks for the Del Shannon, a little before your time, but not mine.
When I watch these deranged TDS sufferers salivating over their fantasies that the alleged death of Trump might actually be true, I see them as mini-embodiments of the same extreme narcissistic/psychopathic personality type archetypically created by Heath Ledger in his role as The Joker in the movie, "The Dark Knight". If you want to conceptualise it as a "mental health" problem it is a personality disorder with very serious underlying structural distortions to the various components and drives of a normal personality, to the degree that the person becomes "fragmented" rather than just unbalanced like a relatively normal person with some neurotic traits. This type of personality disorder has been normalised in the on-line world inhabited by many woke Dem TDS types. There are loose cannons everywhere ready to be triggered to explode at any time. It is truly a mental health epidemic.
I live in the world of AWFL......Affluent White Female Leftists.......and there is NO WAY to convince them of their derangement. They think they are better than you, more virtuous, and therefore correct. I firmly believe that there is a DIRECT correlation with race, education level, gender and income with the increase of TDS. The richer and more educated, white and female......the more DERANGED.
I know quite a few AWFLs. They can't change. I think that's why The Handmaiden's Tale Is so popular with them. They WANT that to happen - it will prove them right about Trump.
Absolutely correct. I am surrounded by the same crowd.
what will they do for their life
And pharma hasn't got an advertised-on-tv chemical to fix it.
They do, but their "cure" is worse than the disease. See my post above.
Cluster B
"It is truly a mental health epidemic"
Like the epidemic of school shooters, I suspect many of the TDS crowd are long term SSRI users. These drugs are literally scrambling people's brains.
Tucker Carlson took a break this week from bashing Israel to interview a young psychiatrist about SSRI's. Very frightening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnhT77W9mtQ
Del Shannon not "before my time" either! Great song choice, Sasha. ❤️
Ahhh, but they did recognize the evil. They merely
Substituted and rationalized the emotional and justified the evil. Exactly like SS, SA, Zealots, Anarchists, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, et. al.
Like or hate Trump, we should be grateful he ran for President in 2016.
Trump has been able to bring to light what Democrats had in their minds for DECADES. Their irrationality had hidden for many years. This included the media.
What’s amazing is Democrats are doubling down on insanity. When you are insane it’s pretty tough to think rationally.
Don't discount him outing a bunch of RINOS
RINO's out themselves. They are the ones who favor war, onerous taxes and subsidies to countries where they receive laundered money to keep it all going.
$780B big guy cut every year.
I sure hope so. They are worse than the Dems frankly.
yup
And the definition of insanity is….well, we all know how to complete that statement
Sasha, you are at the top of your game with this one. Incredible. Layered historical context, insightful political analysis, and popular cultural videos to punctuate your points.
Using the techniques of Gonzo journalism, you weave your own story into the narrative. Unlike many other writers that sell pure outrage as their main product, you keep your calm, even though the emotion comes through in your voice. You have experienced significant loss in experiencing this story and you keep going, painting a clear picture of exactly what happened, mass delusion, mass psychosis, mass insanity. This story needs to be told.
Phenomonal job.
You are the best!
You Rock!
Thank you.
I said to my Democrat friend, "There are some people in your camp who actually tried to sell the idea that Trump asked the Russians for help winning the 2016 election, and that he did it in front of thousands of people on national TV."
She floored me with, "I saw that clip. That's what he did."
I don't even know where to begin on how ridiculous that idea is, not that anything I said would have dissuaded her. It became apparent over the course of the discussion that she *really believed* that Trump is like a Batman villain, monologuing his nefarious plans to the public. These people seem to have mastered a kind of temporary insanity. What's truly weird is that they seem to be able to turn it on and off, and they only turn it on for Trump. They choose to believe the fantastic, and they are not just pretending to believe it for rhetorical reasons. They're serious.
It's a chicken-egg conundrum. Is the TDS a symptom, or a cause?
Their insanity is not temporary
Thank you.
This subject truly fascinates me. When you pair these beliefs with the fact this is the guy we watched on the Celebrity Apprentice, it’s just jaw dropping. And I wonder if TDS exists on a spectrum - like can people with average TDS recognize others with severe cases? Like, “oh I think he’s uncouth and racist, but draw the line at Russian asset.” Is that like a thing? I can’t get any of them to tell me.
Here's the thing .....
We were told that "the missing emails" were about "wedding plans and yoga schedules".
IF the Left had any mental capacity AT ALL, they would have blown off Trump's remarks and said, "those emails are just about wedding plans and yoga schedules. There isn't any there there and Russia wouldn't be interested".
But that's not what they did.
If any "dirt" could be found in the "missing emails" then it proves that Darth Vagina had lied to the American people about her email server. The fact that the left went so apoplectic about Trump's joke demonstrates THAT THEY KNOW that she is a liar and is corrupt.
Anyone pushing the story that "Trump invited Russia to interfere on television" is simply demonstrating that they were not up to date on the current events at the time, are easily misled and have no clue how computers and the internet works
And here I thought the thing was far simpler...
Like the ridiculousness of Trump choosing coded phrases at rallies to communicate with his Russian co-conspirators when he has a cellphone.
All it would have taken was one Democrat. One Democrat. A city council member in Corona, New Mexico. A cub reporter at a newspaper in Fontana, California. Just one Democrat to step forward and say, "The missing emails are just about wedding plans and yoga schedules. Trump is just stupid to bring them up." And the whole thing dies before it even started.
We have been put through nine years of hell because not one Democrats cannot process the word "missing".
This shows you that the entire Leftosphere is a cult and every member has lost the capacity for critical thinking.
Nine years of the Left using anything "Russian" as a pejorative has made Putin to see that coexistence with the West is impossible and is a contributing factor to the war in Ukraine. A million people have been killed because the Left cannot understand the word "missing"
The difficulty is it is now obvious that these people cannot ever have power again. I say that with all sincerity. And they are despondent now for the same reason- they feel the same way about us. I see no way to resolve this divide. The only hope I have is that when it finally pops, the sane ones are in control of the military.
But we can’t let the pendulum swing too far or the great middle will drag it back. The middle is what elected Trump and will elect Vance or Rubio. The press will do everything it can to scare the public; the Republicans job is to not play into their hands.
Yup. The pendulum NEVER stops in the middle. I'm actuarially unlikely to se it but I have a child and grand children.
When Trump was asked if he would run again in 2028, his answer was, "Probably not." Gotta love the way he trolls the left.
Lefty ideologues are as honest as they are intolerant. Only their truth is truth, only their virtue is virtuous, only their progressivism progress. To differ from them is hatful, which makes them hateful. Humorless and malevolent, they'll make good revolutionaries. All that's needed is some luck; some guillotines and old scores will begin to get tallied.
After the invasion of Iraq, Gaddafy made nice.
When the Democrats came into power, they funded al Qaeda, betrayed Qaddafy and cheered when he was murdered.
World leaders, including Putin, understand that unless there is an ironclad guarantee that no Democrat ever again is allowed to ascend to the White House that it is pointless to negotiate with the US.
There is even a meme of Jamie Raskin floating around saying that the Democrats will retaliate against any country that negotiated with Trump if they ever get back in power.
Stone, your second to last paragraph pretty much captures the moment:
"But until they find their way out of mass psychosis, we should do everything we can to keep them as far away from our schools and our government as possible."
I do not believe that the Left will recover in my lifetime, which is OK by me. Actions have consequences. Never has a bunch in modern American history so richly deserved to reap that which they have sown.
Same. They MUST lose for a generation. I say that as a former Dem of 20 yrs. They haven't learned, and they need to be kept away from power as long as possible.
I agree.
Their "Russia, Russia, Russia " obsession has made Putin understand that coexistence with the West is not possible and is a contributing factor to the war in Ukraine. But the Left is totally irresponsible and cannot conceive of their culpability
But roughly half the country will continue to vote Democrat no matter what, so the left doesn't need to recover its sanity. Half the country will vote for a continuation of leftist insanity out of ignorance or brainwashing. I would be more optimistic if the MSM and cultural and academic institutions started telling the truth, but I haven't seen much of a change.
I think that half has shrunk drastically. Maybe I’m mistaken, but I know a lot of recently former democrats. I don’t know any recently former republicans. We need multiple viable options at the ballot box. I’m not seeing many if any of those churning out of the Democrat side. Hopefully they get CRUSHED in the midterms hard enough to wipe out most of the current crop. They were all complicit in what we’ve been forced to endure: the mass illegal immigration, the cooked crime stats, the gender crap, and everything else they put upon us. Unless they get some real candidates and reasonable ideas, hating Trump is the only thing that resonates with anyone.
The Left will continue to double down on insanity until they reach the point where insanity costs them everything. This happened within living memory, when the Dems, frustrated by their loss to Nixon in 1968, went full-on crazy in 1972 - and lost 49 states, and lost the popular vote by an astonishing 16 points. At that point, the adults took back the steering wheel, resulting in Carter and later Clinton
In the present circumstances, I don't think there are any adults left to veer the Dems back to sanity. So the Left either bludgeons and cheats and cries its way to an extremely narrow and unstable victory that could plunge the country into something far worse, or Dem support continues to fade until the whole party goes the way of the Federalists and the Whigs.
I'd say this is a coin toss. I'm buying ammunition just in case.
The Whig Party supported slavery and as a result, dissolved in 1854. Out of its ashes, the (anti-slavery) Republican Party was born (that same year). Once you support slavery, there’s no turning back. It’s a black/white moral question. Are there positions D’s now support that liken them to the former Whigs?
The Whig Party opposed Jackson. After Jackson left, they had little to run on and survived on fumes for a decade before collapsing.
The Democrats have devolved into the anti-Trump Party and their countdown clock started in 2020
That's one of the gotchas of free will. Having it does not mean that one will choose wisely. Do the best with like-minded folks for the nation and also with the few who finally achieve an "aha" moment. The others? Leave them to banging on their pots and pans and screaming at the sky, keeping them -- as That TERF Owl and Stone have suggested -- as far away from the levers of power as possible.
As always, brilliant
Thank you Sasha
You cannot talk to these people with TDS. I have relatives who are lost to the syndrome. When I am with them I never engage in political discussion. They want to talk about Trump to convince others that they see the truth and they want validation for their beliefs. There is no response I can make that challenges what they believe. They must find their own way back into the world choosing light over darkness.
I actually had a bit of a breakthrough with someone who called the National Guard the gestapo. She said “I have to remember, it’s about the policies not the man.” I was very encouraged by that. If she talks policy then we can have a reasonable discussion of our differences, but most of them just say some variation of “but Trump…”
I joked that the entire Democrat platform in 2024 (and 2020, and 2016) consisted of just eight words: "But Trump, But Trump; But Abortion, But Abortion!"
I've walked away from relationships because everything had to be about Trump, even the weather.
👏👏👏 A tour de force that rocked from start to finish, Sasha! The Democratic Party is destined to lose in 2026 and 2028 without question. I have no doubt at all that J.D. Vance will be the next President of the United States. Who are the Dems gonna run against him? Cory Booker? AOC? Pete Buttigieg? Please! He’d crush any of those buffoons! The Democrats just shot themselves in the foot yet again with their totally insensitive reaction to and failure to read the room after, the horrific shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Instead of consoling the victims and their families and admitting gender dysphoria and gender-affirming care were the cause of this, they mocked those who offered their thoughts and prayers and accused those who pointed out this truth of transphobia.
Jacob Frey, Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan are all completely nuts and not fit to serve in public office. The entire DFL needs reform and to be purged of all the socialist radicals in its ranks. Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Paul Wellstone are rolling over in their graves at what the DFL has become. As to Trump Derangement Syndrome, it has absolutely driven the Democratic Party and many ordinary Americans mad. They hate him so much because of mainstream media propaganda and being whipped up into a frenzy by Democratic politicians who don’t run on a real policy platform so they need to do their whole “orange man bad!” routine and fear monger about whatever boogie man they want us to be sacred of now be it white supremacy, January 6th, Project 2025, or Elon Musk. They oppose popular things Trump is doing things that everyone likes like the DOGE, the MAHA initiative, the review of American history museums, making peace between countries, and the federal takeover of Washington D.C. among other things.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is out of control and it’s destroying the left. The more they obsess over Trump, the more they don’t focus on the issues that most Americans care about and lose elections. They won’t be winning another election for a long time to come. Hollywood is dying and is a shell of its former self. Network TV is irrelevant as evidence by the unfunny Stephen Colbert being fired and the obsolete Late Show being cancelled. The mainstream media’s audience is minuscule and their influence continues to wane. I can’t wait to see Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, and John Oliver go next. Colbert, Trevor Noah and James Corden have already gotten canned for their unfunny garbage shows. Late night TV is dead and can never be revived. Johnny Carson, Jack Paar and Steve Allen are all gone and can never be replaced.
Donald Trump is made out to be Hitler incarnate when he’s far from it. The Democratic Party is dead as a door nail. Even many of its supporters would admit it. The days of great Democrat politicians like Al Smith, John Nance Garner, FDR, Harry S. Truman, Henry Wallace, Cordell Hull, Alben Barkley, Adlai Stevenson, JFK, RFK, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Birch Bayh, Frank Church, Emanuel Celler, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Tom Harkin, and Bob Kerrey are over. Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm have been replaced by the likes of Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Summer Lee. Mike Mansfield and Carl Hayden have given way to Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff. The old Democratic Party that was reasonable and pragmatic is never returning.
Careful. Thar be dragons below the presidential level.
Please tell me how to get the TDS victims in my life to read this. The fact is, they won't. Preaching to the choir is feel good stuff for the well. Those experienceing this psychosis will never hear what they need to hear. Trump needs only to succeed. It won't change the sick minds who wish for his, and America's failure but it will give those who are not deranged, a feeling of hope. Not the false hope of the Obama era, but a true hope for America with common sense once again.
I see Sasha's writing as more like documenting history, than preaching to us. She puts it in context. People with TDS can only be helped if they come out of it on their own. It's how I got out.
Trump simply represents the return to common sense. A belief that ....
...our borders should be secure, people who commit crimes should actually be punished, girls shouldn't be forced to dress with boys in locker rooms, our country should fully utilize our natural energy resources, DEI (or any program that forces people to choose one race or gender over another) is inherently discriminatory, school teachers should focus on teaching our kids reading-writing-and arithmetic and not focus on teaching kids to hate America, our foreign policy should always focus on whether it puts the needs and security of the American people first, etc.
There was a time when every Democrat (the JFK years) would 100% agree with every statement in the paragraph above. All of them. But now the Democrats and elites (sorry for the redundancy) have become so brainwashed with hate, they are fighting these commonsense beliefs.
I thank God every day that Trump has the confidence, the balls, and the fortitude to fight for commonsense again. Even though he knows it might kill him.
Common sense ie whatever Trump says MAGA agrees like socialism aspects like government owning parts of businesses ie Intel.
HL3, unlike Democrats, Trump supporters are not required to agree with everything their candidate does. Trump is not an advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, and many of his supporters are dubious about the government taking a stake in private companies.
Ask their congressmen they are forced to agree 100% with EVERYTHING he does currently otherwise they get primaried try again.
The only thing more humorous about you than your feeble attempts to disguise your TDS behind a thin veneer of constant equivocation is your belief that you understand anything about the modern Republican party.
I do not disguise me being a liberal everyone knows it. I dont like people who claim they are independent but EVERYTHING they say is not
You're a joke. Nothing more or less. And you get less funny every time.
The people in these clips do seem Manson-level psycho. It’s extraordinary. I missed this whole episode. I didn’t realize it was this bad.
PS I loved the childhood photo.
"The Trump They Invented Never Existed"
2016 primary I was ABT (Anyone But Trump). The only reasons I voted for him 1. To watch Democrats head explode, 2 The idea of Hillary in the Oval office scared The Hell Out Of Me. I mean REALLY REALLY Bad Person.
Imagine my surprise on (Fall 2017) discovering Donald Trump was/is a very good CENTER/Right Republican President!
Sasha, that did it. I will find a way, somehow, to become a paid subscriber.
It doesn't matter that we don't agree on everything, I don't agree with ANYONE on EVERYTHING, even Trump. But you have shown that it still can be done, people can let different views be discussed, agree to disagree, be open to facts not aligning with their political beliefs. It's so refreshing, does my heart as well as mind good.
I hope some of your FP colleagues eventually realize that allowing a little light in will assist in growth.
Bravo.
So when “no one mourns the wicked” is trending do they not see the irony of that? The whole story of “Wicked” is how a good person can be framed as wicked by mob thinking and spin. Hello? The people with TDS are smug citizens of “Oz” and the proverbial crazy villagers with the pitchforks and torches screaming “kill the beast”! How do they not see it in themselves?