Stage four of Trump Derangement Syndrome: Identifying the progress of a disease
Like AIDS three decades ago, Trump Derangement Syndrome is a new ailment, whose full course of development is as yet unknown. But after a year since TDS exploded on the scene in early November 2016, we can observe the progress of the disease through four stages in certain acute sufferers. This offers hope that we may start to predict how the affliction may spread or, alternatively, extinguish itself, should the rate of transmission to others be slowed by factors we may be able to identify.
Progressives love to adopt what they call a "public health perspective" on things they oppose, such as possession of a firearm. This results in pediatricians asking parents if they have a gun in their house, among other oddities. Two can play that game. It is time to face the mass psychosis that has swept the at-risk population of the nation since the election of Donald Trump as president.
It is pretty clear that the first stages of TDS include:
1. Denial. Attributing Trump's electoral victory to Russian "hacking" is the most common manifestation, but another common manifestation of the syndrome is Electoral College denial ("Hillary won a majority of votes, so she should be president").
2. Anger at Trump-supporters. Disparagement of Trump voters as unworthy fools whose misguided thoughts brought us a disaster. This is matched by anger at Trump-supporters among political commentators.
3. Shunning of former colleagues with the bad taste to support Trump. In fairness, this is a two-way street, as Kurt Schlichter quips:
As 2017 comes to a close, tumbleweeds roll down the empty Lido Deck while the Republican base answers the question, "What if Conservative, Inc., gave a cruise and nobody came?"
4. Conversion. As the first three factors combine, and if no countervailing thoughts are allowed entry into the TDS sufferer's brain (for reasons we do not understand yet), we get signs of actual ideological conversion. Once the virus of liberalism reaches the brain, progress can be devastating.
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The GOP tax bill's bringing out my inner socialist. The sex scandals are bringing out my inner feminist. Donald Trump and Roy Moore are bringing out my inner liberal.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 21, 2017
And this from Max Boot, who suddenly discovered "white privilege" because of Donald Trump. (No kidding!) Writing in Foreign Policy:
[I]t has become impossible for me to deny the reality of discrimination, harassment, even violence that people of color and women continue to experience in modern-day America from a power structure that remains for the most part in the hands of straight, white males. People like me, in other words. Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted [sic] from my skin color and my gender – and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it.
This sounds obvious, but it wasn't clear to me until recently. I have had my consciousness raised. Seriously. ...
The larger problem of racism in our society was made evident in Donald Trump's election[.]
Is there any recovery possible when TDS reaches this late stage? Does it permanently disable perception and logic?
My hopeful prognosis is that remission is possible. Jonah Goldberg, for example, despite early disdain for Trump and membership in the National Review editorial staff, has retained his ability to make distinctions and even find praiseworthy actions by President Trump on occasion.
The coming year, with the likelihood of prosperity fired by deregulation and tax reform, will be a test. I expect those NeverTrumps who have not developed an immune reaction in the cerebral cortex will recover, while those unable to get beyond their own failure to understand Trump's electoral victory and subsequent triumphs will lapse further into their illusions.
Eventually, they will come to admire Rosie O'Donnell, which ought to be the marker for the terminal stage. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/12/stage_four_of_trump_derangement_syndrome_identifying_the_progress_of_a_disease_.html
The silly invented "TDS" would be like claiming a teacher who gave a wildly incompetent and unprepared student an "F" on a test had "Bad Student Derangement Syndrome" in order to excuse the horrible grade. Most Americans have eyes and ears that allow them to watch and listen to what this President says and does on a daily basis and most have given him an "F" so far as President which is why he has such a low approval rating. Trying to dismiss that grade just because you want the "F" to be the new standard for achievement because your own grades are as low and you refuse to study is just sad.
Donald Trump Says He's Signed More Laws Than Any President Since Truman. Here's the Truth.
President Trump falsely claimed on Wednesday he had signed more legislation than any president since Harry Truman.
“We had a lot of legislation pass. They were saying that if we got this one done, we would have succeeded with legislation. But I believe we have – and you’ll have to ask those folks, but I think they know the real answer,” Trump said in remarks to first responders in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Wednesday.
“We have more legislation passed, including the record – was Harry Truman. That’s a long time ago. And we broke that record. So we have a lot done.”
But GovTrack.us, a website that tracks legislation in Congress, begs to differ. In a report issued on December 21 — less than a week before Trump made his remarks in Florida — found that, on that day, his 336th day in office, Trump had signed 94 bill into law, the fewest of any president since Dwight Eisenhower.
Trump is a serial liar, and as such is a menace, and needs to be removed from office.
Skirting the CoC [ph]
Here at NT, we are basically creating an idiot factory.
Trump made his comment about signing the most bills into legislation on Dec 27. And he was referring to the entire year. He has NOT signed the most bills into law for a first year president. Recently, both Clinton and GW Bush had more.
Over the past 24 to 48 hours I have REPEATEDLY seen people say they don't care if Trump is a liar , thief, pervert, scoundrel, bully, moron, whatever, as long as he keeps doing what he is doing.
His claims to fame are unemployment has gone down, the stock market has gone up, and ISIS has been rolled back.
ALL OF THOSE three items were well underway during the Obama administration.
I can remember back to last year when Trump said the Mosul operation in Iraq would fail because the coalition had given up the element of surprise. Despite his pessimism, the operation begun under the previous administration succeeded and preceded the defeat of ISIS in Raqqa ,Syria , another operation that had been planned and greenlighted under the previous administration.
When Trump started his first month in Feb 17, the unemployment rate was 4.7% . At the end of November the unemployment rate was 4.1%, a drop of .6 percent over the course of the year. Over Obamas' last 7 years in office, the unemployment rate fell an average of .7 percent per year for each of those 7 years.
The stock market increased dramatically under President Obama , and it has been better under Trump. Over the long run, it always goes up.
Bull market in stocks is 103 months old. Trump owns 11 …
Oct 11, 2017 · President Trump often brags about the stock market ... Bull market is 103 months old. Trump owns 11 of them . .. The bull market in stocks started in March 2009 , ...
The majority of Americans do not swallow Trump's bullshit whole.
His base of deplorables wallows in his bullshit.
Newstalkers is suffering badly from having a group of people here now who are wallowing in trump's bullshit, even to the point of bragging about their ignorance.
Like I give a fuck.
Don't care if you do. Just pointing out nuttinss similarities.
Not passing laws on those of us in America serfdom is a bad thing? The fewer laws regulating the people the better, I would think. I do like that he has eliminated massive ridiculous regulations, by better than 2 to 1 as promised...22 - 1. Awesome!!
Amazing. An article on TDS and all the sufferers come out to provide real world, real time examples.
ODS.
Leave it to y'all and the Stinker to compare effect of AIDS to the effect of an opinion.
Leave it to y'all and the Stinker to compare effect of AIDS to the effect of an opinion.
I have to agree. From the first line it was obvious this was just another edition of the daily "Liberals are Dirty Stinky Rats" series that has been running constantly on social media since its inception. This is exactly the same kind of dim wittered Democrat bashing we used to see on NV daily seeded by Cornhusker4Palin and AddictedToMe. Contrarily, I sincerely believe that expressing a healthy bit of sarcasm towards The King of Vulgaria is akin to being about the worst thing possible to your run of the mill sort of low born Vulgarians. The sort we see nodding and giggling at such tripe both here and on other way out there right wing hit pieces on social media. The so called conservative movement really boils down to, "Liberals are mean baby killers and commies", for small minded small r republicans who make up what used to be The Grand Old Party of Lincoln which is now known merely as, "the gop". The small g gop has shown their hands and they are dirty filthy nasty. The gop has nothing to offer except demonizing their ever more legionous opposition. What does it portend for the gop that 90% of younger folks think they are full of shit? Long term failure. Nobody takes this kind of shit seriously. All this ammounts to is trolling over half of the American People. Bad Stuff!
Ha! As oppposed to Democrats, exposed as the liars and cheats they are, espeically during the last election! How does the verse go? 'And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, but not notice the beam in your own eye?' yes.
Remembering seeds like these is what will make my participation in the next civil war so enjoyable.
Then you will get your butt kicked and wont be happy any more. That should take less than 10 seconds.
the "next" civil war has already fought... didja miss the memo?
we the people -VS- the new global /liberal world order
we took our country back!
and... we will be keeping it
my guess is around 30% of the left are terminally ill and will never recover. I would be OK with giving them handicap parking spots at the malls and such.. just sayin