Trump Neurosis Thread

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Jamie Raskin Enlists Shrinks to Help Democrats Cope with ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’

To that I would say...

Stop trying to annex Austria Greenland and import tax Canada into submission and maybe my NEOliberalism (the globalist part) will stop making deranged assumptions and comparisons.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

There was show on Comedy Central that people just thought was hilarious called "Crank Yankers."

That show made my skin crawl. I can't handle watching people being deliberately trolled for television entertainment. I don't care if they call them afterward, pay royalties, and get a release for the legal department, it's not entertaining. It's not funny to laugh at other people's reaction to someone's temporary treatment of them.

And that's kinda how Trump is for me. He does things that make people laugh at other people's discomfort or being screwed with.

Could it be another business tactic ploy to start by going after the moon to get some lesser concession, probably, but in the mean time the world is left to twitch over it.

In a zero sum game of what's beneficial to peace, and things that make angels weep tears of humility and joy, being the crank caller, and increasing hostility of rhetoric and righteous posturing takes the planet away from the balance point.

Denmark didn't even take him seriously, and I think he freaked them out. I dont like reading about Denmark's now genuine concern they are dealing with an absolute lunacy corrupted former ally.

Projecting the air of an aspiring Vladamir Putin is not the America I wanted to see. And TBPH we would deserve the hellfire of worldly sanctioned judgement if we ever take up arms against a former NATO ally, Denmark, and just take Greenland by force. As is nauseatingly left on the table.

As of now, Trump is being the crank caller upon the world, making the world deliberately upset by pushing buttons, and I can only hope he has a legal department to follow after him and make every know it's just a show.

Or even his true love note to America... if relationship songs could be applied politically..

[Blaine91555]

That's why this thread helps me. No additional thread creation needed. Just keep adding to it like an online diary.

Please keep in mind that this is not the ATS Mud Pit and avoid the mud. Mud is not wanted or allowed here. I just thought it best to say that to set the tone before anyone gets the idea that mud will be allowed. Also, keep in mind that opinions about each other are never allowed. Keep it clean.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

A good reason why I put it from the perspective of reaction/emotion, or through a deliberate "TDS" lens. The goal being to imply hyperbole. Overreaction. More or less convey the process that goes into my version of "TDS."

Trump always asks for 10 to get to 3. Cooler heads prevailed last time. And he shakes enough evil democrat hands (however insincerely) to assume it will be more of that.

I'm currently trying to ignore his autocratic purge/power consolidation. I know federal agency heads, and inspector generals don't exactly have the most honest of track-records, but the feel is he's getting rid of anything that ever did, or could ever oppose him under the guise of waste and inefficiency.

So instead of seeing a much needed draining of an incestuous swamp, as others do, I see a prelude to something closer to an autocratic imperialist hellscape.

Can't be helped, but I will try my best to handicap my own bitching while keeping it respectful.

[sahgwa]

A good reason why I put it from the perspective of reaction/emotion, or through a deliberate "TDS" lens. The goal being to imply hyperbole. Overreaction. More or less convey the process that goes into my version of "TDS."

Trump always asks for 10 to get to 3. Cooler heads prevailed last time. And he shakes enough evil democrat hands (however insincerely) to assume it will be more of that.

I'm currently trying to ignore his autocratic purge/power consolidation. I know federal agency heads, and inspector generals don't exactly have the most honest of track-records, but the feel is he's getting rid of anything that ever did, or could ever oppose him under the guise of waste and inefficiency.

So instead of seeing a much needed draining of an incestuous swamp, as others do, I see a prelude to something closer to an autocratic imperialist hellscape.

Can't be helped, but I will try my best to handicap my own bitching while keeping it respectful.

Hey! At least you admit you have a problem, that's the first step to getting help and trying to solve it.
You admit you have a psychological hangup or TDS issue; this thread is your way of going and getting a clean fix instead of worrying about dirty needles.
Eventually you need to wean off the obsession and emotional hit you get from being angry or depressed about it, and just come to Acceptance.
I wish you luck.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I am aware, I might need Jamie Raskin's MAGA psychiatrist to help me cure my irrational obsessive apprehension with everything he does.

Shouln't be much different than a scientologist thetan auditor. They'll just gaslight you by the hour and tell you have an unconcsious preoccupation that is manufactured by THE EVIL LORD XENU The Mainstream Media, Barrack Obama, some Swiss guy, and The Rand Coorporation.

Honestly the suggestion it's actually a mental disease in need of counseling is both insulting and super cult-like. He earned it. He encouraged and wanted it. If anything I should be counseled for falling into a baited trap and not rising above his splendid display.

I don't think I need help.

Anyway, the purpose of the self-deprecating approach is to present a contentious opinion (and bias observations) in a politically hostile environment while attempting to diffuse the offensive/defensive nature talking about Trump comes with. He (as a topic) has cultivated a predatory environment and this works in a diplomatic way to diffuse any inherent raised blood pressure, hostility, and more successfully convey my point.

[UltraBudgie]

Anyway, the purpose of the self-deprecating approach is to present a contentious opinion (and bias observations) in a politically hostile environment while attempting to diffuse the offensive/defensive nature talking about Trump comes with. He (as a topic) has cultivated a predatory environment and this works in a diplomatic way to diffuse any inherent raised blood pressure, hostility, and more successfully convey my point.

The trump-biden-trump sandwich has actually greatly decreased my stress and angst about politics. Who cares if you like the sandwich once you realize the bread is poisoned?

When does a dream become a nightmare?

Edit: External link. Olsen Warning. NSFL.

[Anna]

To that I would say...

Stop trying to annex Austria Greenland and import tax Canada into submission and maybe my NEOliberalism (the globalist part) will stop making deranged assumptions and comparisons.

Oh no. It's not so deranged. Greenland takes Trump's threats seriously and is preparing the defense:



I think Russians are already contemplating how to help the poor citizens of Greenland. One way to do it is by grasping Alaska. 

[putnam6]

Generally its not good for your mental health to daily hang on the words of any politician.

Generally, the Left's control of the socio-political climate in the US the last 12 of 16 years has been the perfect fertilizer for Trump's rise, fall and redemption. Love and Marriage you can't have one without the other.

Who made who?  

If the left dialed back the TARGETING during Trump's first term, he probably would have organically lost more support, instead the left sold out and piled on, and gave us the huge pendulum action swing left with Biden. Now here comes the pendulum swing hard back right. The Left screamed OMB so hard and long it lost any meaning. Screaming over every Trump comment reinforces exactly what helped him get elected

Generally, if you leave an administration alone with enough rope they will hang themselves sooner or later. As the Biden administration did, their constant blaming of Trump and lauding the cases against him set themselves up for this huge blowback we are now seeing. 

Trump throws out comments to the left, like the trope of ole west varmints making a person dance by shooting at thier feet.


Then as they act shocked horrified and indignant, besides much of what he says or does is fishing for that exact reaction. 

as for Greenland and the Arctic every think tank suggests the US militarily is woefully behind Russia and China is nosing around too.

Conventional logic and wisdom suggest the US needs to make counter-moves, we could use bases in the Arctic. Is it such a reach that Trump floats acquiring Greenland but settles for perhaps building a base or 3?

search do we need the navy in the Artic

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Conventional logic and wisdom suggest the US needs to make counter-moves, we could use bases in the Arctic. Is it such a reach that Trump floats acquiring Greenland but settles for perhaps building a base or 3?

search do we need the navy in the Artic

And we have Alaska and a friendly relationship with Canada (for now), Greenland doesn't really counter Russian and Chinese incursions over Alaska's many archipelagos. Maybe IF WE ARE NICE Canada will let us build an Alert type base on steroids? The other side of Baffin Bay works too.

The strategic purpose of Greenland is Danish oil. They used to extract it but then climate change made them reconsider. For the sake of emaciated polar bears. Now we have the climate denial administration. The Northwest of Greenland rivals Saudi Arabia in oil reserves. Drill baby drill.

I was fine with doing that on The North Slope of Alaska. Frack Montana and North Dakota. Turn West Texas into an earthquake hazard, we don't need Greenland.

If I was Denmark I would call the bluff. I'd offer it on condition no petroleum is ever extracted from its soil and see if Trump still wants it. Like buying a homeless person their "water" instead of giving them change for "water."

If the left dialed back the TARGETING during Trump's first term, he probably would have organically lost more support, instead the left sold out and piled on, and gave us the huge pendulum action swing left with Biden.

The only reason he lost 2020 (contrary to all conspiracy) was because a stir crazy lockdown got temporarily distracted by a happy black drug addict killed by an angry racist white cop. That was the "organic" defeat.

And interesting because it was nothing Trump actually did that lost him support. What he does, and people like me bitch about, gains him support. Made great gains in the black electorate that voted against him previously.

I compare Trump's 1st term to Clinton's 2nd term. Pelosi as a democrat Kenneth Starr leading the witchhunt for any reason they could get him for.

Remember when cheating on your wife for a politician wasn't something that could be brushed off? Especially lying about being a cheating philanderer. You could once be impeached for lying that you sleep with mistresses. I'm gonna guess Clinton and Trump rank near each-other on the list of marital infidelity.

You could also argue that it was influenced by a republican inability to deal with a spiteful witchhunt that takes up almost an entire term when it happens to them.

The Pendulum swings though. And it is partly my role (as the varmint being shot at) to help swing that back by midterms. A free society will only take it so far. Now it's on the new and improved right, with all slack possible, to slowly hang themselves, and let me provide the political commentary, after the shock towards his purge-happy administration wears off.

The CEO gotta shake things up, I guess. Pretty soon, we'll be as well oiled as a Trump Shuttle.

The trump-biden-trump sandwich has actually greatly decreased my stress and angst about politics. Who cares if you like the sandwich once you realize the bread is poisoned?

The bread has ergot fungus that causes mass hallucinations, and the luncheon meat was past its expiration date. And I haven't developed a resistance to either food poisoning or LSA yet.

It was and is an unpleasant sandwich all around.