A Facebook “influencer” whom I had never heard of before somehow invaded my Facebook feed with this:
“All the news channels yesterday were full of tributes to Dolly Parton. Of course, it’s sad that she died and I was aware of many of the wonderful things other than the music and performances she gave us. What surprised me was how refreshing it was to see this in review against the against the constant chronicle of the cruel, corrupt, inane, buffoonish, disgusting lying narcissist who is usually dominating the news.”
I responded that he needs to get help, because being compelled to express hatred for the President of the United States in discussing completely unrelated topics is the definitive symptom of crippling Trump Derangement. I expect his post to attract dozens of “likes” and “loves.”
This is monomania, a mental disorder.
Ethics Alarms 
“I responded that he needs to get help“
Bravo India November Golf Oscar…duty to confront!
PWS
Maybe someone, not me, could vandalize her car with a bumper sticker reading “I don’t have to know things to be smart. I have words.”
Indeed. Injecting Trump into topics that have nothing to do with him is certainly on a list of symptoms for Trump Derangement.
Jack wrote, “…being compelled to express hatred for the President of the United States in discussing completely unrelated topics is the definitive symptom of crippling Trump Derangement.”
Amen to that!
There are a slew of commenters over on Jonathan Turley’s blog that bring their hatred if Donald Trump into absolutely every comment they make regardless of the topics Turley choses. It’s all pure deflection from internet trolls.
One of the worst commenters that engages in this TDS deflection behavior is someone called “enigmainblackcom“. I’ve had a few conversations with this TDS sufferer about his obvious deflections. My last interaction with this TDS troll was on a recent Turley post about Rahil Prakash, who was the lying pollster at Median Strategies, where enigmainblackcom tried to call Turley a “hypocrite” for posting about Rahil Prakash’s publicly admitted polling lies and not posting about Donald Trump’s perceived lies. My reply to enigmainblackcom’s comment was…
To which the TDS suffering commenter replied like a typical troll…
One of the more humorous replies to enigmainblackcom’s obvious TDS deflection was…
Also, this TDS suffering enigmainblackcom troll, aka moron, literally doesn’t know the difference between hypocrisy and a double standard. Even after I specifically pointed out that what Turley did was not hypocrisy, as enigmainblackcom claimed, but could be described in a trolling deflection as a double standard. This moron actually doubled-down on his hypocrisy claim, so I ended this particular conversation with this reply, in part…
Trump is truly allowed to reside in the brains of TDS sufferers rent free, it really is a crippling and unhealthy psychological obsession.
Thank you, yes.
“Do you wake up every morning hating life because Donald Trump exists? Do you find ways to insert a disparaging remark or comment about Trump into every conversation? Do you hold Trump to a different standard than you hold the people running against him? Does your evidence consist entirely of Democratic Party Talking Points? Do you wish death upon anyone who voted for him even if they gave birth to and raised you? Do you endorse the violent defiling and murder of the children of people who agree with some of his policies? If Dolly Parton’s final words had been, “Hail, Trump!”, would you be dancing on her grave?”
“Our extensive de-programming course will cure you. You will spend time walking in the outdoors, seeing the trees, smelling the flowers and feeling the warmth of sunshine on your skin. You will be separated from social media and all devices that connect to it. Instead, you will be given extensive courses in American history, Civics, debate tactics, economics and critical thinking. Your evenings will be spent viewing films and listening to music made before 2000.”
“Please call 1-800-TDS-HELP now”
love it
A thought experiment: Once Trump is off the stage, or at least no longer in office, who will the Trump Deranged direct their venom toward? Is there anyone else in the public sphere who will be capable of setting of the Trump Deranged the way the Donald does? I guess Charlie Kirk would have filled the bill. He seemed to drive lefties nuts. Tucker Carlson has revealed himself as an imposter. I suppose J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio could slide in there, but they’d be more analogous to George W. Bush. They wouldn’t leave the Trump Deranged absolutely unhinged. I just don’t think there’s anyone out there who combines the gaucheness and swagger and crassness and wealth and doesn’t give a tinker’s damn of Trump. He’s really a one-off. An American original like Bugs Bunny or Yosemite Sam, a creation. The Trump Deranged are going to miss him when he’s gone. There will be a large void to fill.
It’s simple, they will link any conservative political candidate or politician to Trump or being like Trump for the foreseeable future.
Remember all the ridiculous Hitler comparisons over the last 20 years, if someone puts their pants on one leg at a time like Trump does then they are exactly like Trump. They will sling around Trump accusations like they did Hitler accusations until those accusations aren’t effective.
Precisely. There’s always a Hitler. It was George W. Bush, it was John McCain who was Bush-adjacent, it was Bob Dole who was too old and disabled, it was Mitt Romney who wore special underwear, followed a wierd religion and had binders full of women. It was Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Mike Pence, JD Vance and everyone in between.
If Tom Hanks, beloved television and movie icon that he is, were to run as a Republican, he would become the most hated man in America overnight.
I agree. However, I’m wondering whether there’s anyone out there who could drive lefties over the edge the way Trump has. I don’t think there is. He’s really sui generis.
“All the news channels yesterday were full of tributes to Dolly Parton. Of course, it’s sad that she died and I was aware of many of the wonderful things other than the music and performances she gave us.”
Not even a sincere comment. Weak, lame – just so obviously using the death of a country music icon as a lead-in to a TDS rant.
What an a-hole.
Alternate response:
“Everyone: RIP Dolly Parton
“Poster: Boy, I’m glad nobody is talking about Trump. I’m sick of always hearing about him.
“The rest of us are sick of hearing about Trump too, so how about you be the change you want to see in the world? Go touch grass.”