Trumps Presidency 2025

[Edman85]

If Trump doesn't make you deranged, that says something more about the person not deranged.

[romad1]

4 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

..and a way to isolate cult members from those outside of the cult. 

 

My model for the Trump cult is what would the anti-Christ i learned about in Sunday school be doing that he's isnt?   

[chasfh]

25 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

I agree. Yet they also want more babies to be born-although I suspect there are those they'd sterilize without a second thought if they could.

And people wonder why I choose to work with animals. 😉

 

If you're thinking about people of color here, I'm not so sure, at least until they perfect the manufacture of robot janitors and crop-pickers and slaughterhouse workers.

[chasfh]

Just now, Edman85 said:

If Trump doesn't make you deranged, that says something more about the person not deranged.

I think I see what you're going for here, but I would stress that we're not those being deranged by Trump. We are still within normal range. He and his MAGA elite operate completely out of range.

[LaceyLou]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

If you're thinking about people of color here, I'm not so sure, at least until they perfect the manufacture of robot janitors and crop-pickers and slaughterhouse workers.

Good point. 

[oblong]

We've had two sitting members of congress publicly call for the deportation and ban of Muslims.  Not just some Muslims from certain countries.  Muslims in general.

It's out in the open and that's today's GOP.

Some people are ok with it.  If you criticize it then you are "deranged" or something.

 

[CMRivdogs]

From JVL today, it relates to TDS

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Here’s what I can tell you: If we get lucky enough save democracy, then the people who did this to America—the people who excused, and covered, and enabled Trump’s autocratic attempt—will take it as proof that Trump was never a real danger to begin with.

Look how overwrought you were, they’ll say. You spent a decade telling us that Trump was trying to overturn democracy. But the fact that we don’t live in a dictatorship proves that Trump was normal and that we should never listen to you hysterics.

Our success will be used to discredit us, like a quantum theory of suicide:¹ If democracy survives, then that is proof that it was never under threat in the first place.

That’s just something for you to meditate on this holiday season. The people who did this to America will never pay a price. And if we defeat them, our success will be used as an argument against us.

It will be an approximation of our post-COVID experience. The Americans who made it through COVID took their survival as proof that the pandemic was never that serious and the real villains were the people and protocols that saved, and thereby inconvenienced, them.

 

[VegasTiger]

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, acts like a duck...must be Duck Derangement Syndrome.

[Tigerbomb13]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

We've had two sitting members of congress publicly call for the deportation and ban of Muslims.  Not just some Muslims from certain countries.  Muslims in general.

It's out in the open and that's today's GOP.

Some people are ok with it.  If you criticize it then you are "deranged" or something.

 

At the family Christmas party this past weekend, my uncle told me that “Muslims are taking over the country”. “Look at Dearborn!”

[Motown Bombers]

Dearborn voted for Trump. They fell hard for the con job since they can hate gays together. 

[oblong]

47 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

At the family Christmas party this past weekend, my uncle told me that “Muslims are taking over the country”. “Look at Dearborn!”

People around the country think that prayer calls last all day and that’s it’s illegal to eat pork and Sharia Law is the norm. Never mind Dearborn Ham, two breweries, and 3 strip clubs. 

[RatkoVarda]

not only is the Orange pedo turd a rapist and an idiot and an a-hole, he is also destroying the Biden boom

 

[RatkoVarda]

2008 all over again?

 

[Tigermojo]

42 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

not only is the Orange pedo turd a rapist and an idiot and an a-hole, he is also destroying the Biden boom

 

Who knew tariffs were bad?

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Motown Bombers]

Am I deranged for thinking that sounds like a declaration of war on Venezuela?

[gehringer_2]

there are a hundred ways the US could be working within existing norms and institutions to bring US power to bear to remove Maduro with international legal backing. Instead he doing everything humanly possible to be the bad guy and turn Maduro into the victim.

[Tigerbomb13]

He’s deteriorating…fast 

[Tigerbomb13]

Just a complete parody of itself. 

[Motown Bombers]

Stephen Miller and everybody in his orbit are taking advantage of him with his cognitive ability shot. Melania and the kids don't care. 

[gehringer_2]

30 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Am I deranged for thinking that sounds like a declaration of war on Venezuela?

by most definitions a blockade is an Act of War. Maybe a bit greyer if the shipping is sanctioned, depending of whether what international legal standing the sanctions have. There certainly could or should be against Maduro, but even if there are, the Trump admin doesn't care about the regulation playbook.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

35 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Am I deranged for thinking that sounds like a declaration of war on Venezuela?

Not at all. Donald Trump wants to be a war time President like Bush was because he thinks it will make him more popular. Wartime Presidents often start out popular and then see their popularity plummet once the war goes south. In Trump's case, no serious American outside of the kool-aid drinking base see's Venezuela has a threat the way Americans were conditions to see Saddam and Iraq as a threat. On top of that, he has neocons in his administration and big oil executives who are itching for a war to get their hands on Venezuelan oil reserves. It's Iraq all over again and the drugs from Venezuela are the new WMDs.

We just might see Baghdad Don on TV telling us why we have to go to war in the coming weeks with Venezuela and telling us what a great job we are doing in the war once it starts.

[1984Echoes]

11 hours ago, ewsieg said:

Another symptom of TDS is deflecting and going straight to a Hitler comparison.

10 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

There are parallels between post WWI Germany and the US. Germany is a country that had actually just been badly defeated and felt it, in the US the defeat has been economic across the lower 2/3 of the income spectrum but the discontent over it produces the same sense of political alienation. Culturally both countries had moved into a period of increasing cultural coarseness. And much like then the politics of blaming minorities for larger societal failures has increased traction.

 

How about them apples?

[Motown Bombers]

https://bsky.app/profile/asharangappa.bsky.social/post/3ma5grlwsxk2h 

[1984Echoes]

10 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

There are parallels between post WWI Germany and the US. Germany is a country that had actually just been badly defeated and felt it, in the US the defeat has been economic across the lower 2/3 of the income spectrum but the discontent over it produces the same sense of political alienation. Culturally both countries had moved into a period of increasing cultural coarseness. And much like then the politics of blaming minorities for larger societal failures has increased traction.

Although, as for historical examples:

How is MAGA/ ICE/ Oath Keepers/ 3 Percenters any different than Mussolini's Brown Shirts?

Hitler forced Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag and then burned the Reichstag building in order to put marshal law in place.

Trump incited his followers to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, using violence, on January 6th 2021...  in order to install himself as fascist dictator.

I don't see how Trump's coup attempt on January 6th is any different than what Hitler or Mussolini did.

Except failure.

Comparing Trump to Mussolini or Hitler is APT.

Not TDS @ewsieg ... ACTUAL/ FACTUAL/ APT.

Sorry. But TDS applied to a liberal means they are being honest and factual and correct in the assessment of Trump's fascist tendencies and actions and is completely appropriate to compare him to Hitler or Mussolini.

TDS applied to MAGA as Trump Dependency Syndrome is FAR more accurate. MAGA has turned into a bunch of boot-licking liars, lickspittles, purveyors of horse ****, violence-loving fascist ****scum that need to be deported to Siberia.

TDS. Trump Dependency Syndrome. All the sick-minded white trash bigots and bull****ters, kissing Trump's ass no matter WHAT he does. It's ****ing sickening.