Cleanup in Aisle Lunatic (h/t romad1)

[romad1]

17 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Consolation prize: clink on the link in the preview and see the actual original study results. Or just click on this link here: https://conservativestudy.redassociates.com/

Oh, very interesting.  They methodologied the crap out of this.  Enjoying that aspect. 

[Tigerbomb13]

WTF??

[chasfh]

6 hours ago, romad1 said:

Oh, very interesting.  They methodologied the crap out of this.  Enjoying that aspect. 

Forty-five hundred people, they surveyed. That's not cheap.

[romad1]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Forty-five hundred people, they surveyed. That's not cheap.

the wife who worked for all those years at GAO geeked out over it.  

[romad1]

4 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

WTF??

The cranks, man...they waste so much time. 

Edited June 27 by romad1

[smr-nj]

4 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

WTF??

This is absolutely infuriating.  🤬

[chasfh]

Looks like we are moving into the Terrorizing Public Officials Phase of our national decline.

[romad1]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

The cranks, man...they waste so much time. 

I will bet you that a competent investigator could find the person based on clues provided in all the discourse with the law enforcement types. 

[chasfh]

"Burn it all down." 

 

[Tigerbomb13]

“I’m not here to help people, I’m here to own the libs”. 

[oblong]

That's why when they say "TDS" what they're doing is pointing the finger at themselves.  TDS is just truth telling about the evils of a man and his supporters.  "owning the libs" is their policy handbook.

[romad1]

I've seen this "Sean Davis" character from back in the day when I had a Nazi guy who owns a Nazi car company and a Nazi space company micro-blogging site account. 

He's not doing well. 

[pfife]

That dude is a ballbag

I blocked him way early in my twitter era.   But still wonder who funds the Federalist 

[romad1]

26 minutes ago, pfife said:

That dude is a ballbag

I blocked him way early in my twitter era.   But still wonder who funds the Federalist 

Oh, I remember that.  

[romad1]

 

[oblong]

he blcoked me on twitter because I told him he looked like Subway Jared.

[chasfh]

On 6/29/2026 at 10:49 AM, oblong said:

That's why when they say "TDS" what they're doing is pointing the finger at themselves.  TDS is just truth telling about the evils of a man and his supporters.  "owning the libs" is their policy handbook.

My god, can I just tell you how sick to death I am of this “Trump Derangement Syndrome” horse****? The whole thing is simply a cheap rhetorical trick designed to dismiss political opponents by pathologizing dissent. 

By using that phrase, Trumpers are trying to frame legitimate criticism as a literal psychological affliction, implying that the critic’s brain must be malfunctioning, because what else could possibly explain why someone wouldn't support him? These people cast anyone with opposing views as an statistical outlier, by framing our dissent as so rare it must be some private delusion, some deviation from reality shared by literally everyone in which Trump is a flawless leader.

And sure, I would agree that if a tiny fraction of a population were to view a person or event wildly differently than the entire rest of the world, you could arguably make the case that they're suffering from a shared delusion or a localized conspiracy. But when millions of completely unrelated citizens all observe the exact same behaviors and independently reach the same critical conclusion, the "outlier" math completely collapses. We are no longer looking at a psychological anomaly. We are looking at a massive and undeniable dataset. 

So to protect their delicate snowflake sensibilities from this reality, the Trumpers’ main defense against criticism on a mass scale is to claim it must be all a coordinated conspiracy. They lean heavily into labels like "mainstream media narrative," "deep state," "echo chambers." It’s an argument that assumes nobody is capable of thinking for themselves, implying that more than a hundred million American adults are mindless drones simply repeating what they’ve been told to think. These Trumpers even claim actors are paid to dissent publicly because, you know, ordinary people would never do anything like that, right?

But the reality tells a different story. When an independent voter in Ohio, a conservative constitutional lawyer in Washington, an international trade diplomat in Brussels, and hundreds of millions of others all watch the exact same unedited footage of a press conference and arrive at the identical conclusion completely on their own, that isn't coordination. It’s consilience, the term for when the evidence presented points independent thinkers toward the exact same truth. These thinkers don’t call each other to get their stories straight. They don’t sync their narratives. They simply look at the evidence and apply basic logic to arrive at the same conclusion, independently and en masse. 

Not for nothing, using pop psychiatry to pathologize political dissent is a dark and dangerous strategy of despotic regimes. It is exactly how Soviet Russia used “Sluggish Schizophrenia” to lock up political dissidents, and how virtually every authoritarian regime in modern history has sought to twist the idea of mere disagreement into a conclusion of pathological psychosis.

But make no mistake: it is nothing like a "syndrome" when millions of people around the globe independently call a spade a spade. It’s just open eyes and basic sanity. “Trump Derangement Syndrome” does not pass even the most basic of smell tests. So get out of here with that ****, you Trumpers.

[Tigerbomb13]

When I see people reply with that, it just occurs to me that they don’t have the intellectual capacity to reply to any criticism. 

[CMRivdogs]

Folks that usually post that have their own case of Trump Delusional Syndrome. Unfortunately there is no known cure

[romad1]

1 hour ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

When I see people reply with that, it just occurs to me that they don’t have the intellectual capacity to reply to any criticism. 

a lot of people or AI bots on social media are just repeating the instructed instructions. 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[smr-nj]

omg

[LaceyLou]

 But of course nobody respects Christianity as much as he does. 

[GalagaGuy]

[chasfh]

This is definitely going to survive several media cycles, mainly because people on both sides LOVE to contemplate this exact kind of thing.

How would you handicap the odds of the president weighing in on this incident on his Trump Social platform, and then inviting the slapper to the White House and/or the Republican Midterm Convention? He might even be invited to speak at the latter.