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In It to Win It

(12,250 posts)
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 06:55 AM 2 hrs ago

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" is gaslighting, and they know we know it's gaslighting

That’s the annoying part to me, is that they know we know that they’re obviously gaslighting us with the “TDS” bullshit.

We watched these same people bitch and complain about Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton non-fucking-stop since Obama won in 2008. For what is now 17 straight years, they still whine and nag about Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. STILL IN 2025 and eventually 2026, they have to decorate the White House with insults of Obama, Biden and Clinton.

…and we’re the deranged ones?

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" is gaslighting, and they know we know it's gaslighting (Original Post) In It to Win It 2 hrs ago OP
You can't be a Republican with out being a hypocrite. dem4decades 1 hr ago #1
Would recommend this a million times Cosmocat 1 hr ago #2
They have to know who has Trump Derangement Syndrome. Emile 1 hr ago #3
projection Be Leave On 52 min ago #5
It's their silly attempt to throw back EarlG 1 hr ago #4
No, it goes back further. It was coined by Krauthammer during early DU years. thebigidea 4 min ago #10
It is the first time in American history odins folly 23 min ago #6
Yep, TDS is definitely their tell. nt Trueblue Texan 13 min ago #7
In 1938 SocialDemocrat61 7 min ago #8
Epstein is gonna kill the G O.P. And, good riddance. Joinfortmill 6 min ago #9

EarlG

(23,270 posts)
4. It's their silly attempt to throw back
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 07:58 AM
1 hr ago

what was a fairly effective insult from our side.

We used the term “Obama Derangement Syndrome” (or ODS) to mock conservatives when right-wing media worked themselves up into outrage over things like Obama putting mustard on a burger or wearing a tan suit (yes, there is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to that one).

Now Trump supporters are trying to flip this back on us as if the rampant corruption, lawbreaking, destruction of alliances, cozying up to brutal dictators, and other widely authoritarian actions from their clearly deteriorating president — oh, not to mention that he was literally best friends with the world’s most famous pedophile sex trafficker — are on the same level as wearing a tan suit.

Not sure it’s working, because it seems pretty obvious that if anyone has Trump Derangement Syndrome, it’s the people still supporting this shambles of an administration.

thebigidea

(13,555 posts)
10. No, it goes back further. It was coined by Krauthammer during early DU years.
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 09:04 AM
4 min ago

ODS was just a flip of Krauthammer's coinage.

https://www.deseret.com/2003/12/7/19799473/charles-krauthammer-bush-derangement-syndrome-is-spreading/

He always loved sprinkling in a few words from his psychiatry training to imply Democrats were deranged. But then again, I love him being really fucking dead.

odins folly

(536 posts)
6. It is the first time in American history
Wed Dec 24, 2025, 08:46 AM
23 min ago

That I am aware of, that we have an entire administration of trolls…..

Probably due to bridge infrastructure issues, the trolls were evicted and had to find a new home. Unfortunately it became our government…..

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