Again, such a post is signature significance for Trump Derangement. No one who isn’t clinically ill with this cerebral malady would ever post such crypto-libel. It might as well have read “I am not a cannibal” or “I am Marie of Romania.” There is no evidence, none, that Donald Trump is a pedophile, yet the Trump Deranged believe it anyway. What did Donald Trump ever do to justify this delusion? How does beating Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College translate into likely pedophilia?
Now, the long-time friend who posted this today is an actor, and a communist (he’s one of those who says, “Real Communism has never been tried”) but he’s not an idiot. He’s serious and informed. Yet I would no more post a statement on Facebook that is that batty than I would announce that I am the reincarnation of Mae West. My friend only did it, presumably, because he is certain that none of his friends will think less of him for doing so, and that most of them will agree with him.
Ethics question: Should friends let friends make fools of themselves even if most of the people in their bubble don’t realize it? Isn’t this like noticing that a friend has a big piece of spinach on a front tooth? The problem is that someone who posts something this stupid isn’t likely to listen to reason, logic, or rational analysis. Are friends obligated to try to alert friends when they are behaving foolishly in public even though the likely result is losing that friend?
Ethics Alarms 
You should tell him that Biden is no longer in office and the allegation made by his daughter that he showered with her has not been proven.
Chris wrote, “You should tell him that Biden is no longer in office and the allegation made by his daughter that he showered with her has not been proven.”
I’d change the last word in that to “disproven” because that’s the core of the Trump is a pedophile claims, it hasn’t been disproven. They smear Trump as if it’s fact because it hasn’t been disproven. They do this all the time with Trump. Yes I know, it’s morally bankrupt propaganda trolling.
Trump as if it’s fact because it hasn’t been disproven.
I wonder: is the power to smear one of the only tools available to the powerless? Maybe you cannot take any concrete action but acidic ridicule and devious insinuation are at your disposal.
It is “lashon hara” on amphetamines …
It is odd to think about: just a short while back the Nation was in the grip of DEI activism. Even the corporations were presenting it as a rule. It was everywhere, and the ‘deranged’ and the ‘deviants’ were give a certain voice and power, weren’t they? Then, it was all taken away. There was a reversal. Just imagine how those transvestite storyteller readers felt!
Obviously, that fifty percent of the nation that did not vote him in will, soon enough, come like empowered lions 🦁 roaring back into the social sphere to effect their bizarre will. Presently though, they do not have tangible power, so they use what they do have: a twisting of truth, a twisting of perception, a deliberate distortion of ‘reality’ that they believe will ultimately serve their purposes.
Steve: Your idea is well taken. My goal was to show that the tweet could be interpreted quite differently and that allegation must be proven before it is a fact. This I believe is how to deal with such idiotic tweets.
None of these people asked why Letitia James and Alvin Bragg were kept out of the loop.
I’d ask him something simple…
I’ve done this kind of thing a few of times with Facebook friends suffering from TDS and it usually doesn’t create friction, at least not very much. Sometimes they just delete the comment, sometimes they ignore my comment, and sometimes they’ll post a link to someone else’s opinion, as if that’s some kind of proof.
Something like that might be worth a try.
Are friends obligated to try to alert friends when they are behaving foolishly in public even though the likely result is losing that friend?
First, this manifestation of TDS is a complex psycho-political and social-psychological phenomenon so the best tools to examine it are nearly psychiatric ones.
Second, Epstein was sort of, but not quite, a pedophile, and those pictures and videos of Trump whispering in Epstein’s ear and him laughing, can be read, will be read, as they need to be read by those arming their contempt and hatred for the man. It is a mass-phenomenon this sharing of hatred. On one hand, sure, there are ‘sound reasons’ (he is a man who never should have sought and be given the presidency). But then there are a whole set of ‘underground’ motives for literal hatred of him.
I am uncertain where it all began, but the porn industry feeds upon unrestrained sexual appetite and the US has been a or the primary generator for the business of selling sexual obsessions. It constantly borders on pedophilic content and for that reason stimulates biological-psychological desire.
The imagery has extended everywhere, and though Trump himself might have no relation to it, he has himself declared his own desires or lusts publicly. You cannot quite call him a “perv” but he is right there on the border of it. Which is a fitting result when, as has happened, the purpose of sexuality is no longer what Nature demanded it be, but just another pastime.
Factually, the entire nation and certainly its youths are directly being perverted by strange currents of sexual fantasy. It is one of the “tools” of insidious demoralization.
I would suppose that because the Trump Deranged so obviously psychologically project their own dark content onto the ‘screen’ of Trump, and because projection is most often unconscious, that America’s sexual dysfunction and ‘disorder’ is definitely projected onto this truly bizarre personality, a psycho-social phenomenon really, named Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues screwing everything up. No deportations of scale will ever be completed, he screwed that up by the brazen, useless spectacles of Minnesota. No major industries are being brought back to rebuild America’s base. There are no mass programs to help the peoples in his mid-western base to rebuild their lives. But there is a ‘war’ that was begun apparently by the order of a foreign regime (appearance is everything) which, if the analysts are correct, is having and will have negative effects soon enough for Americans, not to speak of Asia and other places. And finally they say the status of the petrodollar system might not recover (?) And there continues to develop a contempt for the man that is developing a very sharp point among those who were dedicated supporters. And the buffoon Trump doesn’t repair damage, he makes it worse by insulting them.
Adios House, adios Senate. Thank you Don Señor Trumpo for your stunning accomplishments.
The ‘Biden’ administration and the anti-Trump DOJ had access to the full, unredacted Epstein files for at least 8 years when they were trying to impeach Trump. Instead of charging him with child porn or molestation they charged him with the following.
(1) Trying to investigate Ukranian fraud involving US taxpayer money.
(2) Borrowing money from a bank and paying it back on time.
(3) Not writing a title for a hush money payment in the ledger or memo line on the checks that the prosecutor wanted.
(4) Stating that the 2020 election was rigged. Even people like the Democratic Senate candidate, James Talarico admit that the elections in blue states (the states mentioned were Maine, Massachussetts, Illinois, and California) are rigged. No one is trying to remove him from office for implying his Democratic colleagues in Congress are there because of rigged elections.
(5) Raping a woman decades ago in broad daylight in the middle of a busy department store with no witnesses or evidence and this is allowed despite the statute of limitations expiring. When you have to pass a state law specifically to allow a person to sue a politician for rape and that person proceeds to state that they fantasize about being raped by powerful men, that being raped by Donald Trump wasn’t unpleasant at all, but they were mainly disappointed in the rape because it wasn’t as sexy as they had hoped…it does raise some doubts. When someone else tried to use the law to sue a state politician for rape, the prosecution was denied, basically stating that this law only allowed people to sue Donald Trump.
When the above 5 scenarios take place, but no one even tries to smear Donald Trump with pedophilia charges involving Epstein evidence, it is clear that there is NO evidence of sexual impropriety by Trump involving Epstein (note the qualifier).
Trump’s an extremely fastidious guy. I can’t imagine him getting into the Epstein scene. I’m pretty sure being the sport fucker he was in his younger days, he was fully aware of the risks of statutory rape and governed himself accordingly.
I live and move and have my being among the Trump-deranged, “fine people” who say these things all the time, and whom I otherwise love. I regard TDS as a subset of Tourette syndrome. I politely ignore these outbursts. They are essentially involuntary.