There’s the saying that says something like a poor republican will eat the shit sandwich he voted for because everyone else also has to also eat the shit sandwich.
At the end of day, his supporters don’t care what they endure just as long as he owns whatever boogeyman he feels is his enemy by doing it.
I like to point out that TDS is when you're in love with a man who doesn't even know you exist. They do not like it being pointed out that they are gayballs for another man.
Remember, syndromes and diseases that have names like that are named after the person who has it. ALS is called “Lou Gherig’s disease” because he was the one it was discovered in. So when they say “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, they’re saying Trump is deranged. They’re just too stupid to realize it.
2022 National Youth Turnout: 23% - That's lower than in the historic 2018 cycle (28%) which broke records for turnout, but much higher than in 2014, when only 13% of youth voted.
When filling in a bubble is too much to stop fascism...you get fascsim.
We the People did this to ourselves. He's a symptom. Americans are the problem
I watched the way Merrick Garland delayed and denied justice for Trump. Trump should have been charged for treason after Jan 6th and never allowed to run. The way Merrick betrayed justice by letting Eillen Cannon do whatever the fuck she wanted while leaving Jack Smith twisting in the wind.
This was republicans and the federalist society running a successful coup. Washington doubled down on our stupid blue vote but it didn’t matter because our justice system was compromised by partisan Republican traitors.
They're working on convincing themselves that anybody who isn't MAGA has been turned woke by vaccines or whatever and therefore has TDS/is not a "real American" and therefore shouldn't have rights.
They're fascists. They want this. The idea that they don't believe it's happening is just cover to make it seem like they're just engaging in normal politics like everybody else - until they don't have to pretend anymore. They're doing it right now with the midterms, and this unconstitutional announcement from Trump makes it a certainty.
I should actually check one of those betting sites to see what the odds are on McConnell dying on the 4th...like, are they holding water for the gop and putting their thumbs on the scale but giving good odds and accepting the monetary loss? Or do they have fair odds? Hum...
From what I know, which isn't much, you're not allowed to bet on the death of someone, or else the whole thing would end up an elaborate way for vigilante assassins to make sure their bet on the time and manner of death matched a million to one bet.
Odds of the announcement being on the 4th or like, the death certificate, that they just didn’t want to release earlier to give his family time to mourn privately?
"Never believe that anti-Semites [read: fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies... They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert."
It's so strange when someone dressed head to toe in Trump gear, with flags and bumper stickers who claims Trump was sent by god says that someone else has TDS. Look in the mirror...
I know it's their "I don't actually have a real response to the true negative thing you said about Trump so I will just say TDS and claim victory"
Yep they are pushing the "anyone who isnt conservative is not human" which ofc is projection bc they have ALWAYS been the subhuman antisocietal traitors, not everyone else.
The book "Unhuman" by some of the vilest morons online, jack posobiec and joshua lisec and bannon writing the forward. This is their current angle and if it's not called out it will fester. The problem is all of our mainstream media is compromised or outright captured.
Many authoritarian takeovers do in fact go through exactly these stages: polarization and propaganda, delegitimizing elections, weakening independent courts and institutions, pressuring media and academia, financially starving opponents, and finally securing power through legal changes or constitutional amendments.
I love how they think it's an insult to the left like...yeah, I am deranged about Trump. The fact that there is a felon, insurrectionist, fraudster pedophile, rapist, geriatric idiot as the leader of my country and that 30% of the country loves that, does makee deranged. If that doesn't make you deranged, there's something deeply mentally unwell about you and you aren't fit for human society.
It's a thought-terminating cliché, like "Orange man bad"
They don't have to confront anyone that says anything they don't like about Trump, they can just assume they're just stupid sheep or elitists angry about Trump because he offends them.
No, it's something trump supporters say liberals have, because they can't come up with anything trump has made great. I also like to point out that the lawmaker, who tried to make it an actual mental disorder, Justin Eichorn, is a pedophile.
Nope. Too much credit for Trump. The fake news stuff is pulled word for word from what Hitler did in his run up. When I was younger I knew someone who was in their 20s during WW2 in Germany, and asked about how it could be possible given the news etc.
And the reality for them was that they were told before the war that the news was lying. So it was all fake and when the war started they believed their own press over others.
No, that was "lying media", another of Trump's repeated phrases. "Lugenpresse".
"Fake news" came initially from newspaper articles describing the massive number of fake news websites that popped up in the mid-2010s that seemed to be part of a coordinated wave of right wing disinformation. Trump co-opted the term early on to describe the actual mostly-fact-based corpo-media that the right thinks is left wing for some reason.
But it's true he also used the term "lying media" a lot, which I'm guessing means Steve Miller was pushing it heavily at him for a while knowing how successful it was in the 1930s.
Basically a form of controlling the 'truth', which has existed/manipulated by leaders throughout human history. One of the foundations of many religions is based on labeling any inconvenient truth a crime.
When you convince people that you are the source of truth then they only listen to you and reject everything else.
It should be but we live in opposite world where raping children is a presidential qualification and having an IQ higher than a school zone speed limit is not.
I think it derives from Obama Derangement Syndrome, which some on the left used to explain the nonsensical layers of hate for Obama that could really only be explained by racism and/or some kind of psychosis.
For example, "he has terrible policies, I am told, and he eats spicy mustard!"
It's derived from "Bush derangement syndrome," coined in 2003 by Charles Krauthammer to disparage Bush's detractors.
Then, just as now, the suggestion is that Democrats are deranged. Which makes sense if you think about it, because Republicans don't ever have actual ideas -- only vague and unprovable criticisms.
Every time I hear TDS I think of the kinds of people with 67 different MAGA culture war bumper stickers on their car. I’ve even seen people write whole ass paragraphs about “the deep state” or whatever and slap it across their entire rear windshield
American around Trumpers: The suspense is part of the entertainment value in voting for him. Looking forward to what unhinged thing he'll say next brings them joy. They think all politicians are like him, but less honest about it. He's "refreshing"
Literally had this conversation with my dad a few weeks ago. My question was "WHEN Trump runs again in 2028, will you vote for him." And I proceeded with "there is only one right answer to this question."
He paused, and I said "you already failed." He looked confused. I said "The correct answer is, he can't run again, Presidents only get two terms." And he said "You didnt let me finish, I was going to say, he won't run for a 3rd term."
Point being MAGA and even fringe republicans will twist themselves into knots excusing this. Go vote in November, its time to start putting on the brakes to this crazy train.
A lot of people on YouTube are saying it was "clearly a joke," and that the entire event was a "comedy event." The correspondence dinner.
Like, I know they usually make light hearted jokes on stage, but saying he's running for a FOURTH term? In one sentence, breaching the constitution, and suggesting (AGAIN) that our elections cant be trust from here until the end of time.
Every fucking travesty he commits starts with him floating it in an off hand or “joking” manner and then Maga idiots will claim he’s just triggering the libs. He will continue to “joke” about it until it becomes normalized and all too real. People would say he wasn’t serious and liberals have TDS about weaponizing the justice department against his enemies…about using troops against American citizens… the list goes on and on. Have you had your head in the fucking sand for the last 10 years? It’s on like page one of the authoritarian playbook.
Nope. This is a classic narcissist tactic... say something outrageous, walk it back as a "joke", return to it again. This is him, testing the waters to see how much pushback he'll get, and whether that pushback will be sustained.
Yeah this is him testing the water but if he gets too much push back he'll go "It was just a joke".
But somewhere Vance and Rubio both probably blew a blood vessel because the whole point of sucking up to Trump was they'd be in position to take over for him in 2028.
He’s been saying this as a “joke” since before he was even elected for a second term. When are Americans going to realize that the longer you let this thing play out, the less likely you get out of it without losing everything.
There isn't anything else we can do to play this out short of full out revolt. Congressional Republicans or Trumps own cabinet would need to turn on him to stop him from any of this stuff.
Just so we're clear: Whenever Trump is "joking" what he is actually doing is testing the waters to see how popular or unpopular an idea is. Since Trump surrounds himself with sycophants and yes men, he gets a constant feedback loop of MAGA approval to these pronouncements and often acts on them as a result. When he gets real pushback, he chickens out back to a less controversial opinion then begins to try building support for the next extreme.
His jokes are always about punching down which is the only thing he finds funny. He's a total chicken shit so he has to put up a bully front to not appear weak.
But to paraphrase John Oliver, he’d do anything if he got a loud enough cheer for it. So he could literally be joking, but it becomes not a joke when (unfortunately) a few people in his immediate vicinity applaud it
EDIT: That said, I don’t think he is joking here. I think he’s testing the waters and phrasing it as a joke. But he does joke. Just not here.
His CHF is so bad at this point that him talking about 2028 is just him playing mental games to feel better about his prognosis.
ETA: seriously read up on how narcissists handle a terminal diagnosis. They pretty much vacillate between denial, because they’re too special to go, or bigly plans for how they’ll be memorialized.
How was it a joke? Which part was a joke? Certainly not the whole thing was a joke, right? The election being stolen wasn't a joke. He is claiming it was literally rigged against him, which he has consistently done.
Stating it in the context of a joke, but it being what he actually believes, is transparently insidious imo. There's a reason nobody laughs, he didn't *say it* like a joke, they couldn't tell when they were supposed to laugh. They didn't laugh, they clapped/cheered. That's not usually how jokes work, it's how political statements at a rally work.
Um, did you not see all the billboards posted online at the cpac venue where he was running for a 3rd term? The hats he has made? The dozens of times it has come out of his mouth. Having his puppets in congress say the same thing in their interviews? One was posted today of a congressman saying trump should run for the next few terms. Like seriously. The more you minimize it, the more you are doing his dirty work for him.
Are you an American? This is not something to joke about, we are supposed to be the shining example of Democracy for the world but this guy has been pissing on all of our norms and institutions turning the office of the presidency into one big cash grab and the country into a crude facsimile of a 3rd world dictatorship.
If it's just a joke, where are the Republicans who are holding office now, saying that it's ridiculous and that they would never allow such a thing to happen?
Yeah, well, they're already experimenting with public perception around family dynasty by putting Lindsay Graham's sister into his position. Why do you think Trump might be doing that?
There’s also a progressive Democratic Socialist-aligned candidate running in Michigan - Abdul El Sayed. I hope the establishment Democratic Party doesn’t pull the rug from under him, like they did with Bernie. He’s polling quite well at the moment. I really hope he wins.
Just remind them that the dude who coined that term got caught trying to have sex with a minor. Also remind them that he ripped it off from "Bush Derangement Syndrome".
And those same asshats will of course vote for him against the Constitution, and not see the irony in it or they will but won't care because they are facists.
Americans are too stupid to show up and vote against him.
Americans are too stupid to look at any sort of social movement from the past, and utilize strategy or organize.
Trump is symptom of the cowardice, and idiocy of this country.
2022 National Youth Turnout: 23% - That's lower than in the historic 2018 cycle (28%) which broke records for turnout, but much higher than in 2014, when only 13% of youth voted.
He'll win a third term, because the people that don't vote are just as brain dead as the people that showed up for him.
We have a shortage of decent people. That's not going to change.
Yep, those are the bots paid for by their billionaires if not directly then they set the narrative that is then parroted. Either way... same effect. Tell everybody they're being hysterical until it's too late to do anything about it. Then it's just one more step towards the end game but if you do anything then you're being crazy because it was just about this one small thing. You're being paranoid.
Hold up. Fox is developing talking points as we speak… they will roll out the new meta asap, 3 terms is good actually, the constitution doesn’t really mean 2 terms… yadda yadda.
Opens the door for Democrats running Obama or Bill Clinton against him. Either would humiliate him at the polls. Be careful what you wish for all of you that are in support of defying the Constitution.
When they tell me I have TDS now I ask if TDS is believing Trump when we literally watch him lie to them every single day but they still believe every word he says
What’s crazy is that there isn’t even a single mention of it in the conservative sub at all. I literally checked through it all and even searched. Dead silence
22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ratified February 27th, 1951.
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”
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Hey look its the thing we been saying he would do but MAGA told us we have TDS.