Trump Derangement Syndrome - TDS
Dec 31, 2016 10:24:03 #
Justin Raimondo For the Los Angeles Times
The country is in the throes of a major epidemic, with no known cure and some pretty scary symptoms. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, and it’s rapidly spreading from the point of origin — the political class — to the population at large.
In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. President-elect Donald Trump’s every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world.
Trump set up a single phone call with Taiwan’s president, and suddenly TDS patients were insisting that our “One China” policy was no more. But the reality is that telephonic communication isn’t the same thing as official diplomatic recognition. Besides, in their eagerness to highlight Trump’s alleged recklessness, the president-elect’s critics misunderstand our policy. “One China” means that we don’t recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country or China’s sovereignty over Taiwan. We’ve never considered Taiwan a mere province, and the Taiwan Relations Act obligates us to defend the island against attack.
The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim’s vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of hyperbole. Politico recently ran a piece that noted Trump’s supposedly unprecedented decision to continue using his private security force, which provoked former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin to tweet: “A predictable move for a kleptocratic authoritarian who wants to operate outside the bounds of law and basic ethical standards. Even more troubling, he may use the force’s lack of government oversight & presidential veneer to carry-out extralegal acts of force.”
It’s quite a stretch to suggest that a desire to keep trusted lieutenants is actually a sinister plot to create a version of the brownshirts, but such illogical leaps are the pathway to the next stage of TDS: a state of constant hysteria.
Especially when discussing Trump’s views on immigration, hysterical TDS victims assume there’s no difference between the president-elect’s rhetoric (get out!) and his proposed policy (deporting known criminals who are in this country illegally). As Reince Priebus, Trump’s chief of staff, put it: “He’s not calling for mass deportation. He said, ‘No, only people who have committed crimes.’ And then only until all of that is taken care of will we look at what we are going to do next.”
As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. Despite Trump’s expressed desire to “work something out” for the so-called Dreamers — those brought here as very young children — Trump’s critics continue to harp on this issue. Immigration advocate Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, who has a very bad case of TDS, inadvertently revealed this mindset when he said: “Before anyone falls into the trap of believing that Trump is ‘softening’ on immigration, they should remember that we’ve seen this movie before.”
A movie, eh?
In the advanced stages of the disease, the afflicted lose touch with reality. Opinion is unmoored from fact. Life resembles a dark fairy tale in which the villain — Trump — is an amalgam of all the worst tyrants in history, past and present, while the heroes — Trump’s critics — are akin to the resistance fighters of World War II.
TDS victims routinely compare Trump to Adolf Hitler: Time magazine ran an opinion piece that asked “Just how similar is Donald Trump to Hitler?” The answer: “The comparison between Hitler and Trump is so poignant” because “both men represent their personal character as the antidote to all social and political problems.”
Since Hitler has been dead for more than 70 years, though, victims may feel the need for a more potent bogeyman, a tyrant with more currency. And they’ve found one in Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they insist ordered a hacking campaign to help Trump win the election.
The other day, Tucker Carlson of Fox News interviewed TDS-riddled Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Carlson asked for evidence that Putin’s alleged machinations had any effect on the election. Unable to come up with a coherent answer, Schiff morphed into J. Edgar Hoover: “You're carrying water for the Kremlin,” he said, “you're going to have to move your show to ‘Russia Today.’”
If you ask a TDS victim what might help them feel better, they’ll use the word “normalize.” As in, we mustn’t “normalize” Trump. What they’re really saying is that normal means of dealing with him aren’t enough. Which raises the question: If he’s another Hitler, if he’s in league with Putin, then why is assassination out of the question? Poke a TDS victim and you’ll find they don’t think that “solution” is out of the question at all.
This is the final stage of the TDS epidemic: violence against a democratically elected leader. Unless a cure for TDS is found, this is where we are headed.
Los Angeles Times
The country is in the throes of a major epidemic, with no known cure and some pretty scary symptoms. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, and it’s rapidly spreading from the point of origin — the political class — to the population at large.
In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. President-elect Donald Trump’s every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world.
Trump set up a single phone call with Taiwan’s president, and suddenly TDS patients were insisting that our “One China” policy was no more. But the reality is that telephonic communication isn’t the same thing as official diplomatic recognition. Besides, in their eagerness to highlight Trump’s alleged recklessness, the president-elect’s critics misunderstand our policy. “One China” means that we don’t recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country or China’s sovereignty over Taiwan. We’ve never considered Taiwan a mere province, and the Taiwan Relations Act obligates us to defend the island against attack.
The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim’s vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of hyperbole. Politico recently ran a piece that noted Trump’s supposedly unprecedented decision to continue using his private security force, which provoked former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin to tweet: “A predictable move for a kleptocratic authoritarian who wants to operate outside the bounds of law and basic ethical standards. Even more troubling, he may use the force’s lack of government oversight & presidential veneer to carry-out extralegal acts of force.”
It’s quite a stretch to suggest that a desire to keep trusted lieutenants is actually a sinister plot to create a version of the brownshirts, but such illogical leaps are the pathway to the next stage of TDS: a state of constant hysteria.
Especially when discussing Trump’s views on immigration, hysterical TDS victims assume there’s no difference between the president-elect’s rhetoric (get out!) and his proposed policy (deporting known criminals who are in this country illegally). As Reince Priebus, Trump’s chief of staff, put it: “He’s not calling for mass deportation. He said, ‘No, only people who have committed crimes.’ And then only until all of that is taken care of will we look at what we are going to do next.”
As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. Despite Trump’s expressed desire to “work something out” for the so-called Dreamers — those brought here as very young children — Trump’s critics continue to harp on this issue. Immigration advocate Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, who has a very bad case of TDS, inadvertently revealed this mindset when he said: “Before anyone falls into the trap of believing that Trump is ‘softening’ on immigration, they should remember that we’ve seen this movie before.”
A movie, eh?
In the advanced stages of the disease, the afflicted lose touch with reality. Opinion is unmoored from fact. Life resembles a dark fairy tale in which the villain — Trump — is an amalgam of all the worst tyrants in history, past and present, while the heroes — Trump’s critics — are akin to the resistance fighters of World War II.
TDS victims routinely compare Trump to Adolf Hitler: Time magazine ran an opinion piece that asked “Just how similar is Donald Trump to Hitler?” The answer: “The comparison between Hitler and Trump is so poignant” because “both men represent their personal character as the antidote to all social and political problems.”
Since Hitler has been dead for more than 70 years, though, victims may feel the need for a more potent bogeyman, a tyrant with more currency. And they’ve found one in Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they insist ordered a hacking campaign to help Trump win the election.
The other day, Tucker Carlson of Fox News interviewed TDS-riddled Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Carlson asked for evidence that Putin’s alleged machinations had any effect on the election. Unable to come up with a coherent answer, Schiff morphed into J. Edgar Hoover: “You're carrying water for the Kremlin,” he said, “you're going to have to move your show to ‘Russia Today.’”
If you ask a TDS victim what might help them feel better, they’ll use the word “normalize.” As in, we mustn’t “normalize” Trump. What they’re really saying is that normal means of dealing with him aren’t enough. Which raises the question: If he’s another Hitler, if he’s in league with Putin, then why is assassination out of the question? Poke a TDS victim and you’ll find they don’t think that “solution” is out of the question at all.
This is the final stage of the TDS epidemic: violence against a democratically elected leader. Unless a cure for TDS is found, this is where we are headed.
Los Angeles Times
Dec 31, 2016 11:45:04 #
Checkmate wrote:
The country is in the throes of a major epidemic, with no known cure and some pretty scary symptoms.Los Angeles Times[/b]
Our country is not having this problem, only the liberals are having this problem and it does have the earmarks of a mental disorder.
Trump was elected president and many liberals are crying, going to “safe rooms”, trying to be calm with coloring books and Play Doh, and the rich ones said they would leave the country.
It doesn’t sound like healthy mental attitudes of stable adults.
Dec 31, 2016 12:06:43 #
This is what happens when Progressives have major setbacks. They are fuming at a visceral level and are wandering in the wilderness of foolishness and fantasy. I do not wish them well, at all. I want them to stew in their putrid juices of vile hatred until it comsumes them. Hopefully some will remove the stain of their existence from the earth. Offering them any comfort will only reward you with knife in the back so it is wise to give them no comfort or quarter.
Dec 31, 2016 13:26:41 #
travelwp wrote:
Our country is not having this problem, only the liberals are having this problem and it does have the earmarks of a mental disorder.
Trump was elected president and many liberals are crying, going to “safe rooms”, trying to be calm with coloring books and Play Doh, and the rich ones said they would leave the country.
It doesn’t sound like healthy mental attitudes of stable adults.
Trump was elected president and many liberals are crying, going to “safe rooms”, trying to be calm with coloring books and Play Doh, and the rich ones said they would leave the country.
It doesn’t sound like healthy mental attitudes of stable adults.
These libtards call be heard running to the corner of mommies basement, hiding under a blanket with a flashlight and crying to their therapy hamster. God it just 'warms the cockles of my heart'.
Dec 31, 2016 14:05:42 #
Is this like the first person to get Lou Gehrig's disease was Lou Gehrig?
...'cause it's a catchy name TDS... something like jake would make up
...'cause it's a catchy name TDS... something like jake would make up
Dec 31, 2016 17:07:12 #
travelwp wrote:
Our country is not having this problem, only the liberals are having this problem and it does have the earmarks of a mental disorder.
Trump was elected president and many liberals are crying, going to “safe rooms”, trying to be calm with coloring books and Play Doh, and the rich ones said they would leave the country.
It doesn’t sound like healthy mental attitudes of stable adults.
Trump was elected president and many liberals are crying, going to “safe rooms”, trying to be calm with coloring books and Play Doh, and the rich ones said they would leave the country.
It doesn’t sound like healthy mental attitudes of stable adults.
Yep. They should do things like the more stable minded right wingers have done for the past eight years...buy ammo, threaten to use recently purchased ammo, twist everything Trump says in the most negative light possible (wait, they are already doing that,) rant and rave in online forums (wait, they are already doing that,) create fake news websites to spread lies about Trump (wait, they are already doing that,) make repeated references to Trump being a monkey or kin to apes (wait, they are.......
Well this analysis went to crap pretty quickly. Aside from safe spaces, ammo, and coloring books, seems like the libs are now borrowing from the right winger play book pretty effectively!
Maybe the left wingers are now just as stable as the right wingers have been for the past eight years...
Dec 31, 2016 18:15:58 #
mwalsh wrote:
They should do things like the more stable minded right wingers have done for the past eight years... create fake news websites to spread lies about Trump
I think you made that up, send the link.
Dec 31, 2016 18:36:24 #
mwalsh wrote:
Yep. They should do things like the more stable m... (show quote)
I always thought it was the righty's that were absolute bonkers, and the lefty's had their hearts in the right place and their hands on your pocketbook... now it looks like whatever party is out of power, the so-called loyal opposition, is determined to publish the new bat-shit crazy.
Dec 31, 2016 18:48:18 #
green wrote:
I always thought it was the righty's that were absolute bonkers, and the lefty's had their hearts in the right place and their hands on your pocketbook... now it looks like whatever party is out of power, the so-called loyal opposition, is determined to publish the new bat-shit crazy.
And these transitions, where the incoming side has not quit doing it yet, but the outgoing side has already started....well, it just makes for a hysterical, hyperbolic, and hyperventilated world!!!
Dec 31, 2016 19:30:40 #
mwalsh wrote:
both sides want to hit the ground running... the first 100 days!And these transitions, where the incoming side has not quit doing it yet, but the outgoing side has already started....well, it just makes for a hysterical, hyperbolic, and hyperventilated world!!!
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