What the Hell Is Wrong With Democrats?
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Have you read this guy's posts? Would you consider him a rational person that wants to engage in honest debate?one of the things I've learned from these boards is that few folks from the left, and they don't have to be far left, find nothing they agree with Trump on. Trump is always wrong, no matter what. We had some like that on blue white and it didn't take long to find those on here.
With some it's impossible to have rational debate as the conversation normally starts with "you are wrong" fascist, racist, MAGA, idiot, moron or some other moniker.
It is entertaining though
I enjoy debate with @LafayetteBear. I know you two go at it, lovingly. And I know he's one of the hate trump posters, but I find he's always been civil with me and I've been able to have some rational conversations. I think he and I could get along outside the board even though he "worst lawyer ever"
This was going on even before 2016 and Trump...
They dont understand much like the Nazi's in Germany that they are the baddies....
Says the people that have fallen for every single hoax about Trump, the right, covid, and the vax....
The far-left is even worse. Ive said many times the extremes of both sides are bad. The far-right doesnt control the Reps these days. MAGA is a moderate populist movement that is made up of mainly center-right Reps to Liberals that are the center-left Dems. The far-left/right are on the same side against the center...
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May 30, 2020 when the WH was attacked and set on fire. DC hadnt burned like that since the Redcoats burned it....
The far-left/right are elitist that look down their noses at the working class. Its not a real fight between left/right, its elite vs common...
I had forgotten how bad the left was.............. It was an INSURRECTION....
- Protests and violence:
Demonstrators marched toward the White House, leading to confrontations with the Secret Service.
- Secret Service response:
The Secret Service reported that more than 60 officers and agents were injured by projectiles like bricks, rocks, and bottles, and some were physically assaulted. A total of 11 injured employees were hospitalized.
- Vandalism and damage:
Protesters threw water bottles and traffic cones, and some set fire to a car and a trash bin. Other federal buildings and monuments were also vandalized.
- White House lockdown:
A temporary lockdown of the White House was initiated as protesters reached the gates.
- Presidential reaction:
President Trump later tweeted that the Secret Service had done a "Great job" and that he felt "more safe" inside. He also threatened protesters with "most ominous weapons," including vicious dogs, if they had attempted to breach the fence.
- Secret Service response:
Defending the leftist violence like always. Meanwhile your panties have been in a big wad since Jan 6 because a bunch of grandma's when into the capital after cops opened the doors and wave them to come inside...
I was wondering how you defended PedoHitler for so long. So yes please explain your defense of him....
Can you remind me of the violence done by the pink pvssy hat wearers?
And while you're at it, can you show me pictures of the 1600 grannies that received pardons?
You're already a big enough joke but if you're now cupping this freak's balls, you are the clowniest of clowns.
LOL.. "honest debate".... Jesus you are a hoot. Sick in the mind from Trump winning, and can't accept the outcome of a democratic election...
HO-LEE-****.....
You're responding to Rosie O'Donnell 2.0 or Ellen Degenerate 2.0. You're fighting a losing battle IMO. You will never convince them that DJT has ever done anything good for this country. That's just not going to happen. If they said anything remotely of the sort, they would have to admit they were wrong. It's just not going to happen.
"find nothing they agree with Trump on. Trump is always wrong, no matter what". You've figured out the key to the universe. There is no good outcome from this.one of the things I've learned from these boards is that few folks from the left, and they don't have to be far left, find nothing they agree with Trump on. Trump is always wrong, no matter what. We had some like that on blue white and it didn't take long to find those on here.
With some it's impossible to have rational debate as the conversation normally starts with "you are wrong" fascist, racist, MAGA, idiot, moron or some other moniker.
It is entertaining though
I enjoy debate with @LafayetteBear. I know you two go at it, lovingly. And I know he's one of the hate trump posters, but I find he's always been civil with me and I've been able to have some rational conversations. I think he and I could get along outside the board even though he "worst lawyer ever"
"you are wrong" fascist, racist, MAGA, idiot, moron or some other moniker. You left out Nazi. The people who throw that word out have never spent one day in the military, or have never spent one hour/day doing anything to help this country.
I support the President and I'm not even German and this is definitely not the 1940's either..
"I had forgotten how bad the left was"
That's our problem. We FORGET. We live and let live.
At some point we need to remember.
May I suggest something to you @m.knox? I'm not trying to overstep my bounds, but just don't reply. IT's an idiot. We all know that.
Not responding drives IT crazy. The one thing IT loves more than hating DJT is replies to IT's dumb a$$ post and IT's AI answers.
I don't have IT on "ignore", but I also will not respond to anything IT post. That drives IT crazy.
You do you, but if you respond to IT, you're just feeding the fire.
I think he has a point.................
https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/opini...me-is-real-these-hysterical-threats-prove-it/
Last month, when I published a column asking “Is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Real?” in The Wall Street Journal, I expected it to spark lively debate.
I didn’t anticipate a live demonstration of the very pathology I’d described.
My column outlined a pattern I see in my psychotherapy practice every week.
I call it “obsessive political preoccupation,” a presentation that resembles an obsessive-compulsive pattern in which one political figure becomes the center of intrusive thoughts, heightened arousal, and compulsive monitoring that takes over a person’s mental bandwidth.
TDS is not an actual diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and I made that clear in my article.
But patients tell me about political thoughts that hijack their day, sleepless nights, irritability, anger and anxiety that spills into work and relationships.
One woman said she couldn’t enjoy a family vacation because “it felt wrong to relax while Trump was still out there.”
I see marriages strained, friendships fractured and daily functioning disrupted by the mere mention of “Donald Trump.”
For many, their anxiety has outgrown politics and become a way of operating in the world, shaping every reaction before they even realize it.
As soon as my column was posted online, the response illustrated my point with almost clinical precision.
I asked if Trump Derangement Syndrome is real: I got the death threats in reply proving it is
https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/opini...me-is-real-these-hysterical-threats-prove-it/
Last month, when I published a column asking “Is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Real?” in The Wall Street Journal, I expected it to spark lively debate.
I didn’t anticipate a live demonstration of the very pathology I’d described.
My column outlined a pattern I see in my psychotherapy practice every week.
I call it “obsessive political preoccupation,” a presentation that resembles an obsessive-compulsive pattern in which one political figure becomes the center of intrusive thoughts, heightened arousal, and compulsive monitoring that takes over a person’s mental bandwidth.
TDS is not an actual diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and I made that clear in my article.
But patients tell me about political thoughts that hijack their day, sleepless nights, irritability, anger and anxiety that spills into work and relationships.
One woman said she couldn’t enjoy a family vacation because “it felt wrong to relax while Trump was still out there.”
I see marriages strained, friendships fractured and daily functioning disrupted by the mere mention of “Donald Trump.”
For many, their anxiety has outgrown politics and become a way of operating in the world, shaping every reaction before they even realize it.
As soon as my column was posted online, the response illustrated my point with almost clinical precision.
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one of the things I've learned from these boards is that few folks from the left, and they don't have to be far left, find nothing they agree with Trump on. Trump is always wrong, no matter what. We had some like that on blue white and it didn't take long to find those on here.
With some it's impossible to have rational debate as the conversation normally starts with "you are wrong" fascist, racist, MAGA, idiot, moron or some other moniker.
It is entertaining though
I enjoy debate with @LafayetteBear. I know you two go at it, lovingly. And I know he's one of the hate trump posters, but I find he's always been civil with me and I've been able to have some rational conversations. I think he and I could get along outside the board even though he "worst lawyer ever"
LB and I used to get along reasonably. We had even agreed to have a beer next time I was in CA as I used to get out his way a bit.
Then Trump won.
That was 9 years ago. Been downhill ever since. Check out the article directly above. I think that might be part of it.
Each side has their bias and preferred party. That's OK and maybe even healthy but you don't offer any constructive opinions about policies. All you've got is a daily onslaught of "pedo, dictator, nazi, racist, etc." I'm a conservative but I have democrat friends and we actually agree on a lot of things. Some of them are even bipartisan criticisms of Trump, Biden, Harris, and Obamacare. Sadly you can't get to that point.
This is an open forum and we are allowed to post what we want but let's not pretend there aren't 15-20 posters on your side of the fence that are worse than me and you say nothing. I have talked policy hundreds of times over the years before you arrived so I don't always feel like re-hashing the same ol' conversations I've had numerous times already with newbs who just joined the board. I've said it a thousand times that my main interest is challenging all the lies that are continually spread by the maga cult, so that's my focus most of the time. I also have conservative friends who are easier to talk policy with because they aren't nearly as annoying as you are. You aren't nearly as bipartisan as you pretend to be and in the times I have engaged with you, it wasn't enjoyable... so maybe take the hint that it's you...
I'm guessing not. Though, it is said that the road to recovery starts with realizing there is a problem. If realized, there may be medication to help.
Here is the second half of the article. The author agrees with me... lol... The problem isn't Trump, it is those that HATE him....
Seriously, read this and tell me if it reminds you of anyone.---------------------------------
Many of the loudest critics merely reacted to my use of the term “TDS,” not to my explanation.
Their retorts, immediate and emotional, displayed the very pattern I described: impulsive, catastrophic thinking driven by feeling rather than reflection.
In trying to disprove the phenomenon, they demonstrated it dramatically.
Two days later I discussed the piece live on Fox News, and the reaction intensified.
The segment was calm and clinical.
But once the clips hit social media, they were stripped of context, paired with heated captions, and fed into outrage feeds.
The surge of emotional messages I received was immediate and relentless.
Some accused me of defending a fascist.
Others called me a “pedophile protector,” and one self-identified therapist suggested I must be a pedophile myself.
Several messages, including voicemails, wished me dead.
These weren’t fringe accounts, but people who publicly describe themselves as compassionate, trauma-informed, or dedicated to mental-health work.
Their reaction is exactly what concerns me as a clinician.
My op-ed warned that emotional reasoning dominates much of our political culture.
Disagreement is treated as cruelty.
Discomfort is treated as danger.
When people fuse their identity to their political emotions, challenging those emotions feels like an attack on the self.
And this pattern appears across the political spectrum.
The critics who condemned the piece reenacted the pattern in real time.
Their outrage became their evidence.
Their feelings became their argument.
They proved my point more clearly than anything I could have written — and that’s why we need to talk about these symptoms openly.
Our society encourages people to “trust their truth,” to follow every impulse and to label ordinary discomfort as harm.
Too many in my profession have encouraged this view.
They now celebrate it — when directed at the “right” targets.
I see the consequences daily, as a patient tells me she’s stopped speaking to her father because he “voted the wrong way,” or a couple avoids family gatherings because a relative supports Trump.
These are educated adults who have adopted the idea that emotional discomfort equals danger.
The backlash I experienced clarified the consequences.
When people show hostility to the point of threatening death the moment their feelings are activated, we’re no longer dealing with political disagreement, but with a profound emotional problem that affects far more than elections.
We need to relearn how to tolerate emotional discomfort.
Feeling challenged doesn’t mean you’re in danger — and never gives you permission to threaten or defame people who see the world differently.
We also need to separate people from their politics.
Your uncle is not a villain because he supports Trump’s policies, and your cousin is not immoral because she votes Democrat.
Finally, we need to restore resilience.
Therapy is supposed to help people regulate their emotions and challenge distorted thinking.
Instead, the language of therapy has drifted into political life and is being used to justify emotional overreactions and excuse impulsive behavior.
These last few weeks made it obvious: TDS isn’t a niche reaction, but part of a national pattern that’s changing how people think, behave and relate to their own families.
If we can’t separate emotion from interpretation, the chaos will continue.
The real emergency isn’t in Washington.
It’s in the way Americans are thinking.
Seriously, read this and tell me if it reminds you of anyone.---------------------------------
Many of the loudest critics merely reacted to my use of the term “TDS,” not to my explanation.
Their retorts, immediate and emotional, displayed the very pattern I described: impulsive, catastrophic thinking driven by feeling rather than reflection.
In trying to disprove the phenomenon, they demonstrated it dramatically.
Two days later I discussed the piece live on Fox News, and the reaction intensified.
The segment was calm and clinical.
But once the clips hit social media, they were stripped of context, paired with heated captions, and fed into outrage feeds.
The surge of emotional messages I received was immediate and relentless.
Some accused me of defending a fascist.
Others called me a “pedophile protector,” and one self-identified therapist suggested I must be a pedophile myself.
Several messages, including voicemails, wished me dead.
These weren’t fringe accounts, but people who publicly describe themselves as compassionate, trauma-informed, or dedicated to mental-health work.
Their reaction is exactly what concerns me as a clinician.
My op-ed warned that emotional reasoning dominates much of our political culture.
Disagreement is treated as cruelty.
Discomfort is treated as danger.
When people fuse their identity to their political emotions, challenging those emotions feels like an attack on the self.
And this pattern appears across the political spectrum.
The critics who condemned the piece reenacted the pattern in real time.
Their outrage became their evidence.
Their feelings became their argument.
They proved my point more clearly than anything I could have written — and that’s why we need to talk about these symptoms openly.
Our society encourages people to “trust their truth,” to follow every impulse and to label ordinary discomfort as harm.
Too many in my profession have encouraged this view.
They now celebrate it — when directed at the “right” targets.
I see the consequences daily, as a patient tells me she’s stopped speaking to her father because he “voted the wrong way,” or a couple avoids family gatherings because a relative supports Trump.
These are educated adults who have adopted the idea that emotional discomfort equals danger.
The backlash I experienced clarified the consequences.
When people show hostility to the point of threatening death the moment their feelings are activated, we’re no longer dealing with political disagreement, but with a profound emotional problem that affects far more than elections.
We need to relearn how to tolerate emotional discomfort.
Feeling challenged doesn’t mean you’re in danger — and never gives you permission to threaten or defame people who see the world differently.
We also need to separate people from their politics.
Your uncle is not a villain because he supports Trump’s policies, and your cousin is not immoral because she votes Democrat.
Finally, we need to restore resilience.
Therapy is supposed to help people regulate their emotions and challenge distorted thinking.
Instead, the language of therapy has drifted into political life and is being used to justify emotional overreactions and excuse impulsive behavior.
These last few weeks made it obvious: TDS isn’t a niche reaction, but part of a national pattern that’s changing how people think, behave and relate to their own families.
If we can’t separate emotion from interpretation, the chaos will continue.
The real emergency isn’t in Washington.
It’s in the way Americans are thinking.
No, the problem is fvcking Trump you crazy person.
Every damn day he gives us new reasons to be disgusted, but rather than focus on his obnoxious level of corruption, you focus on the reaction to it. If you're gobsmacked about why so many people have an angry, visceral reaction to him, maybe YOU are the problem.
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"In yet another gift to corporate criminals, President Donald Trump has reportedly used his executive authority to commute the seven-year prison sentence of a former private equity executive convicted of defrauding more than 10,000 investors of around $1.6 billion.
One victim said they lost their “whole life savings” to the scheme and are now living “check to check.” Another, who described themselves as “an elderly victim,” said they “lost a significant portion” of their retirement savings.
“This money was earmarked to help my two grandsons pay for college,” the person said. “They had tragically lost their father and needed some financial assistance. So this loss attached my entire family.”
'Shamelessly Corrupt': Trump Frees Private Equity Executive Convicted of Defrauding 10,000+ Investors | Common Dreams
President Donald Trump has reportedly used his executive authority to commute the seven-year prison sentence of a former private equity executive convicted of defrauding more than 10,000 investors.
www.commondreams.org
"President Donald Trump pardoned a former Honduran leader sentenced to prison on cocaine distribution charges, a move some Democrats say undercuts the rationale for Trump's aggressive posture toward Venezuela that includes military strikes on alleged drug boats.
Trump said Nov. 28 that he planned to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez. A White House official and Hernandez's attorney, Renato Stabile, confirmed Dec. 2 that the pardon has been issued. Stabile said Hernandez was released early Dec. 2 from a federal prison, where he was serving a 45-year sentence "for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses," according to the Justice Department
.Hernandez was convicted in March of 2024 after a three-week jury trial in New York City. He was "at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world," helping to bring more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., the Justice Department said in a news release last year after his conviction.
Federal officials said Hernandez used bribes from drug-trafficking organizations to "fuel his rise" and then provided "support and protection for his co-conspirators, allowing them to move mountains of cocaine, commit acts of violence and murder, and help turn Honduras into one of the most dangerous countries in the world."
Prosecutor Jacob Gutwillig said during Hernandez’s 2024 sentencing that the former president “corrupted and corroded Honduran government institutions” and protected the drug operation “with the full power of the state.”
Trump pardons cocaine kingpin who ruled Honduras
Trump said Nov. 28 that he planned to pardon the former Honduran leader, and a White House official confirmed Dec. 2 that the pardon had been issued.
www.usatoday.com
Wait, you think it upsets me if you don't respond with your usual stream of countrified profanities and braindead bootlicker talking points?
The old-timers know the real reason you won't respond and it's because I've exposed you for the toothless hayseed you are, lol. Lying is bad Hambone!