TDS & ME!

Oh oh. Trump Derangement  Syndrome!

The Don worm has attacked my brain though I avoid using the “I” word when posting to my blog But There’s More. However, admitting there’s a problem is the start of the 12-step cure to which I am committed, resolution uno, for 2026!

The first multi-year syndromic episode hit me with Trump’s first term in office; the second began to flower at noon, January 20, 2025 when DJT agreed to defend the Constitution and was thereupon visited upon the American people and the rest of the world for another four years — assuming accident or ill health doesn’t get him him first.

Trump delights in making everyone left-of-right crazy. It is the epic success of Trump redux. The murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle (Singer) Reiner caught his attention: mock sorrow tastelessly tempered by the Don’s claim that the Reiners were long-suffering TDS victims! TDS is more infectious than measles, genital herpes sores, crab lice or JD Vance who, we just learned, has been a conspiracy theorist for over a decade! The Wiles of Susie so informed us.

TDS affective disorder (TD-SAD) includes — but is by no means limited to — Trump’s xenophobia, hatred of anyone not pale white; gender affirmation care (regardless of age or status), environmental depredation, summary executions at sea (x 2 that we know of), the Democrat affordability hoax, inflation denial, the Epstein files, the Don's fixation on blondes and  boat-bombings; daily servings of revenge, retribution and recklessness.

TDS has infected more left-leaning brains than fear of rats, roaches, the Q train or loudmouth Laura Loony, a Darkling of the Fringe. Like Covid, no one really knows exactly how TDS infected our brains. Maybe most of us thought we’d just ride it out. Then, oh my god, Trump’s term is only 25% over. Is there a cure for TSD? I have tried Woody Allen movies, tapioca and may stock up on hydroxychloroquine. It can’t cure Covid but if it can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch maybe it’ll fix TDS.

This brings us to the flat earth proponents, which apparently includes most if not all of the entire Cabinet. Contrary to over two millennia of scientific consensus based on multiple confirming lines of evidence that our earth is roughly spherical, flat earth beliefs are classified by experts in philosophy and physics as a form of science denial. It took experts to tell us that! Flat earth groups of the modern era date from the middle of the 20th century; some adherents are serious and some are not. Some are likely Trumpeters. Others are just wacko. Some may be hiding under the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom while waiting for the completion of the new East Wing Ballroom.

TDS won't dry up your vital body fluids but will drive you bonkers until he's gone.