Republicans want to classify ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ as a mental illness
www.independent.co.uk
Symptoms of the faux illness include ‘Trump-induced general hysteria’ where a person struggles to distinguish between ‘legitimate policy’ and ‘psychic pathology’
  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Michigan Republicans

    probably worth noting that their Governor is Tim Walz, the VP candidate from the last election. One of the few Democratic Party members who is in the news constantly for criticism of the current President.

    Not that this has a chance to pass because the DFL controls the State Senate and the Governors office, but I be its a political ploy so they can say then need to remove Walz because he is mentally unsound.

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I wonder if those who believe in TDS would also believe in Trudeau Derangement Syndrome where one feels compelled to put “F🍁CK TRUDEAU” flags on everything. Realistically these people probably know nothing about Canadian politics though

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      all the children are starting to come home for spring break.

      my advice, ignore them. they’ll go back to college in a few months.

      • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        my advice, ignore them. they’ll go back to college in a few months

        I wasn’t going to say anything, but since you’re so smug - spring break doesn’t last a couple of months. I’m not even a college kid and I know that.

        edit: downvote all you want, doesn’t make my point any less valid.

        I don’t see your point. College kids do what? Respond against Trump? I would guess most of us here aren’t kids. Do you know where you are?

      • P1k1e@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Nah they know about it, let no conservative tell you their Christian. To be Christian is to aspire to be like Christ, very few self proclaimed Christiana can claim that

    • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s another “every accusation is a confession” - he’s accusing people who hate him of having this, but really it’s the ones who are obsessed with loving him that are deranged.

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Not him, but a bunch of other people on his political party.

      It does feel a little like an attempt to legitimise it, so that criticisms are flipped off as mental illness, and/or an opportunity for institutionalising/excluding political opponents for much the same reason.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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      2 months ago

      5+ years back Trumpettes threw around the label TDS at Trump detractors, saying they couldn’t see reality due to their rage…

      Whatever you call it, however you see it, there is significant mass psychosis associated with our nutcase-in-chief.

  • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Conservatives are wild. I don’t know if they intentionally do it but their behavior is absurd. Obsessed with Obama’s birth certificate, LeTs Go BrAnDoN, and even super whacky shit like QAnon and trying to prove Michelle Obama is a man. They hate “mainstream media” yet Fox News is one of the biggest networks. They’re all about merit yet discount anything AOC says, who’s smart and studied, because she bartended. And now they want to turn the tables, claim they are and have always been normal, and it’s people who disapprove of Trump who are deranged. It makes no sense.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      All of that? That’s the point. That’s exactly how they want us to feel: confused, hurt, isolated. They will gladly say something incredibly hypocritical and then just smile a shit-eating grin when you call them out, because we both know there’s nothing that can be done short of violence and that’s when they’ve “won.”

      But in all honesty, violence actually is an answer, and a proper one to bullshit like this. I don’t give a fuck if you could call it assault if someone is literally taunting and threatening me when I haul off and beat their ass.

      Do it. Make them scared of violent revolution and reprisals.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      People keep posting that Sartre quote about anti-semites, but that’s the point.

      It’s not about the actions, it’s about who is doing them.