No doubt, @po18guy meant TDS, an epithet used recently by Trump boosters, and not with much charity. TDS stands for Trump Derangement Syndrome. Of course, no one that I recall ever spoke of ODS, Obama Derangement Syndrome, but it surely ran rampant when President Obama was elected.
I don’t think I could post pictures of the signs and memes created about Obama without being banned from this forum. And the ‘psychological community’ has also called Trump’s mental health into question, should we disregard that but still listen to anyone claiming TDS is somehow a psychological condition (something that usually takes decades to be recognized)?
I guarantee you that 90 percent of them had made arrangements to attend before Trump made his announcement that he would be appearing, which came out the day before the March. People rent buses, reserve seats on them, get permission slips from students’ parents etc well before that. In addition, many people go to this March every year or almost every year, and those who have been before know that the crush of people means that very few of them were going to see President Trump looking any bigger than an ant, if they could even see him at all because only so many people will fit in the space to view that stand - many people are meeting up at different locations nowhere near it.
I’ve seen some lowbrow hate-laced stuff on Obama, sure, but most was regarding his actions and never anything like what we’ve seen these past three years. You ask most why they hate Trump so much and you get insulted or screamed at if not attacked. Most on the left have become a caricature of their former selves and behave to a large degree like the children I worked with in residential mental health.For the record that’s how the right looks as well. Perhaps you shouldn’t start with the assumption by asking why they hate Trump. I wonder how your interaction would differ if you asked “what has Trump done that you find so objectionable”. I’d … probably have pen and paper handy.
Huh? That’s not the America I live in. It sounds like right-wing media hype; find some rage somewhere and say it’s everywhere. Where do you get your US news?
@ProVobis
When have there been anti-Trump riots? I don’t mean protests, but rock throwing, building burning, car overturning, tear gas, pepper spray, casualties, violence, curfews, martial law, etc. There have been acts of violence perpetrated by right wing extremists, and the draft dodger in the White House won’t speak out against them.
Is it? Can you cite the source? Is it in the DSM? Or is it on a blog somewhere?
To clarify, I meant more that you were pressuring the OP to take the post down because the author, and leaving it up would be “wrong”. I didn’t really mean abortion.
Amen. People didn’t book airplane tickets to see Trump (who didn’t even publicly tell anyone that he would be that until two days before the March).
Interesting to see how liberals who identify as Catholic react to Pro Life President Trump who is at odds with their liberal political ideology. I think another factor is how liberal left feminism has taken hold within Catholicism to the point where the ‘feelings’ of the mother are equal to or even more important than the life of the child.