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Count America In On "Trump Derangement Syndrome"Rudy Giuliani and his lawyers are suggesting that the reason a search warrant was issued for his premises and computers is Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Yeah.
A lot of us are suffering from that. Its normal and predictable. Arguably, its a sign of good mental health. It means your psychological alert and defense systems are actually working.
Theres an arsonist and a burglar both actively working the neighborhood just down the street from where we live here in Portland. The arsonist has set several peoples homes outdoor furniture on fire, and nearly lit up a house.
The burglar has broken into a couple of houses, including one that was occupied, mostly to steal computers, and last week he stole somebodys car from the driveway of an occupied house just down the street from us. I saw it happen, not realizing what was going on but totally baffled as to why anybody would peel out of a driveway and speed down a residential street at 50 or 60 miles an hour.
At the moment, my neighbors and I are suffering from arsonist and burglar derangement syndrome. Its absolutely normal, when youre presented with a real threat in your environment, to feel a little deranged. Were staying in closer touch with each other, upgrading security systems, and having more frequent conversations with the police.
(This isnt unique to Portland, by the way. With a massive unemployment crisis caused by Trumps criminal response to the coronavirus combined with 40 years of Reaganism gutting the middle class and exacerbating homelessness, every town in America is experiencing a surge in this kind of crime.)
Similarly, it shouldnt surprise anybody that millions of Americans wont feel safe, but will continue to feel deranged, until Donald Trump and his authoritarian, democracy-hating, white-supremacist, gun-fetishist followers no longer play any kind of meaningful role on the American political scene and he and his criminal buddies are held to account.
After all, he couldve responded to the coronavirus back in January when he told Bob Woodward how lethal it was, but he chose not to. It was just too much trouble, plus, as weve seen in numerous news reports, he realized in April that it was mostly killing Black people and mostly creating chaos in Blue states.
As a result, over half-a-million Americans are dead; thats probably a few million American families who are feeling a bit deranged. People have lost their parents and grandparents, their children and siblings, their neighbors and loved ones to a disease that could have been controlled here in the United States as it was in Australia, Taiwan and South Korea were it not for an incompetent Con Man in the White House.
Trump nearly started a nuclear war with North Korea, and then went over there a couple of times to kiss one of the most maniacal dictators on Earths ass.
He sucked up to the butcher of Saudi Arabia, bragging that he blocked the investigation into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and thus saved [Muhammed Bone Saws] ass.
He insisted that Americas own intelligence agencies were lying, and Russia and other countries that were friendly to him could do no wrong.
He and his family expropriated money from pretty much anything that moved, as theyve had a history of doing for decades.
Were now discovering massive overpayments to various Trump properties around the world from our federal government; he violated the Emoluments Clause a core pillar of our constitutional form of government as if it were some kind of a joke.
He conned his followers out of hundreds of millions of dollars, and continues to con them with the Big Lie that election fraud is the reason why Joe Biden is in the White House and Democrats run the Senate.
He surrounded himself with criminals, actual traitors, neer-do-wells, and outright grifters.
His guy DeJoy is still bent on destroying our Post Office because Trump thought it would help him win the 2020 election, and ruining and then privatizing it can make big bucks for GOP donors.
He did everything he could to destroy Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid and threw several million people off their insurance coverage. He severely damaged the Social Security Administration.
He tore children apart from their parents, several of those children dying as a result, and cranked up hatred against non-white people to the point that elderly Asians are being assaulted in our streets and other minorities are frightened to go out in public.
He spit in the face of decency and both American tradition and law when he made fun of people with mental and physical disabilities, and explicitly told police that they should rough up suspects who are supposed to be presumed innocent until tried and judged guilty.
He referred to actual Nazis as very fine people, and encouraged the politics of fear and hatred as a sick way of enhancing his own political power.
He has repeatedly been charged with assault and rape, and then offered as his defense that the women who accused him werent sufficiently attractive for him to have bothered raping.
The women we know for sure he did have extramarital sex with, he paid several hundred thousand dollars to keep quiet, a felonious violation of campaign finance laws that wouldve landed anybody else (and did land his lawyer, Michael Cohen) in prison.
On January 6th he tried to end our democratic republic and turn it into a strongman authoritarian state like Turkey or Russia, leading to the death of four protesters and three police officers.
And so far, hes been held accountable for none of it, although most Americans are hoping and praying that his apparent immunity will soon end. But, for the moment, the political arsonist and burglar Trump and his grifter family are all still at-large.
Youd have to be abnormal not to have Trump Derangement Syndrome right now.
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Celerity
(43,352 posts)speaking in a literal manner.
ancianita
(36,055 posts)Trump Innoculation System that heals a sick body politic with demRNA vaccine.
Backseat Driver
(4,392 posts)Locating the root cause of the dis-ease and a cure is quite another thing; YRMV (Your research may vary). It used to be an intermittent thing; however, daily flare-ups of clearly systemic metabolic and neurologic problems are now quite common.
ProgressivesUnite
(1 post)The High Crimes and Treason article was made for this situation !
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)It's my boilerplate response to Facebook trolls accuse me of having it:
There are two varieties of TDS - Type 1 is the most virulent form and is acquired by a steady diet of Fox Noise, BreitBart, WorldNut Daily, OAN, etc, etc. Its probably incurable. Symptoms include science denial, ammosexual tendencies, gun-humping, caps-lock typing, excessive exclamation marks, bigotry, homophobia, circular logic and the inability to comprehend that anyone who bankrupts a casino, sucks up to dictators, is a tax cheat, lies like other people pee, and is a misogynist, a bigot, and possible rapist (among other things), was a really shitty choice to elect to the office of President.
Type 2 went away at noon on 20 January 2021, when Joe Biden was sworn in as President. Actually it will probably last a little longer until the former occupant of the Oval Office is put into handcuffs, leg irons, and an orange jumpsuit. But it was totally curable by voting and getting rid of him and the people who enabled him.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Likewise, the flare of an iteration of the Syndrome were his place to be taken by Moscow Mitch, Barr, or any of several others. I must confess, I do not see a wish of my part to be separated from any of them, but rather for the madman's strength and single-mindedness.
Is that so wrong?
MiHale
(9,722 posts)I truly believe he will never suffer any repercussions. Yeah hell lose some money but its a fantasy to think well see him arrested, detained and jailed.
ShepKat
(383 posts)Trump derangement syndrome to be the MAGAts who follow him as their messiah. We have all our marbles, they don't. ESPECIALLY the Q people like stefaniQ.
calimary
(81,261 posts)I envision them all mindlessly following him and his lame-ass lying "promises" and "claims" - straight over a cliff.
Preferably a high cliff.
and they can fall off that cliff, as long as they take their mindset with them
right into a tar pit
ShepKat
(383 posts)Isn't it.... *thinking.... DU is 20 ??
judesedit
(4,438 posts)Also, as a listener to your radio show, please call it Fox "so called" News for the foreseeable future. It is infotainment for bigots. Thank you for all you do to try to educate people.
intheflow
(28,466 posts)with Draptomania. Samual Cartwright, a physician and slave holder, diagnosed enslaved people who tried escaping to freedom as being mentally ill, of having draptomania.
Especially when you jumped in with, "Its normal and predictable. Arguably, its a sign of good mental health. It means your psychological alert and defense systems are actually working."
The more things change with racists, the more they remain the same.
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)calimary
(81,261 posts)Aussie105
(5,395 posts)was a self generated description by the GOPers and Trump tragics to describe their own mental state, their dislocation from reality.
Apparently however, they used it to describe those who didn't follow their mantra of 'Trump uber alles'.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)That's a great way to look at it.
These "conservatives" don't want things to remain as they are or go back to a different time, they want to transform the basis of American Democracy and change the country forever.
Justice matters.
(6,928 posts)Lyrics:
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Lock him up.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)His supporters are sad morons. 🙄