Mick Williams #fundie

Mick Williams #fundie disqus.com

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Center for Disease Control Bulletin: Trump Derangement Syndrome

First known occurrence: Nov. 8, 2016.

Etiology: Festers in brains of so-called liberal elites.

Route of transmission: Sporulates through social media as primary vector, with fake news media as secondary reservoir.

Cause: Self-inflicted, exacerbated by unwillingness to think for oneself.

Cure: The Bible.

Prognosis: Usually results in terminal liberalism, with poor to zero chance of recovery.

Manifestations: Bizarre, self-defeating behaviors such as: public harassment of conservatives; talk show psychosis; obscene diatribes; humiliating lack of success debating conservatives; desire to flood the country with criminal illegal aliens; hatred of strong economy.

Consequence of infection: Loss of restaurant ownership; delusional belief in furthering the democrat cause when the opposite is true; fear of Rod Serling.

Help: There is little hope of cure outside the Bible. Since TDS sufferers have been programmed to reject the truth, the prognosis is almost 100% negative. Rare individuals have been known to suddenly wake up and fight off out-of-proportion infection in minority groups.

33 comments

old comment by Dunbaratu

There aren't words to express how depressing this phenomenon is. What I mean is this particular pre-programmed defense against evidence exhibited here by Mick Williams that exists in the mind of a cultist. The basic pattern goes like this: Tell the flock that evil people with seductive forked tongues are always out to get their minds and tell them they're wrong. Tell them that these seductive serpents reject "the truth" and often sound quite convincing while they do it and that it's a failing of moral character to allow yourself to be seduced by their words.

Now the cultist is pre-configured to reject all possible rational presentations of evidence that contradict their bubble of bullshit they live in. As soon as someone presents something that is starting to sound reasonable, the cultist detects them as being the 'convincing serpent' archetype and fires back in anger at them for trying to "lie" them out of their belief. The more convincing and reasonable the argument against their delusions is, the more it fits the 'convincing serpent' archetype, so you just can't win. They see it as evil lies *because* it's starting to convince the logical part of their brains and is therefore seductive, and their emotional incentive to reject it all goes into high gear and they just insist the evidence is fake.

I fear for my country now that this fundamentalist cultist pattern is the basis of the political platform running the show. This slavish authority worship with a cult mentality is how dictators start.

old comment by TB Tabby

Trying a little tit-for-tat, eh Mickey? But what you don't realize is that it doesn't apply to our side the way Obama Derangement Syndrome applied to yours. Obama Derangement Syndrome was coined to describe conservatives' habit of blaming Barack Obama for everything bad happening in the world, including things that couldn't possibly be his fault; from economic policies enacted long before he even took office, to terrorist attacks happening halfway around the world, and even natural disasters, supposedly caused by Obama's secret weather machine. Conservatives could scarcely stub their toe on a rock without claiming that Obama must have put it there.

Drumpf, on the other hand...we blame him for colluding with the Russian government, which he did. We blame him for groping and abusing women, which he did. We blame him for giving even more tax cuts to the wealthiest citizens, which he did. We blame him for gutting Medicare and Net Neutrality, which he did. We blame him for damaging America's standing among other countries, which he did. We blame him for emboldening and condoning white supremacists, which he did. And you'd better believe we blame him for tearing refugee children from the arms of their parents and locking them in kennels. He's not only responsible for the evil deeds we condemn him for, but in many cases, he's PROUD of them. Drumpf is an evil, evil man, and to say so isn't deranged, it's the only sane position to hold.

old comment by DarkPhoenix

Am I only one who thought the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" was a term coined by leftists used to describe Donald Trump supporters?
Either way, I don't like the phrase. I don't like the phrase "Obama Derangement Syndrome", either.

The original term was "Clinton Derangement Syndrome", and it was invented to refer to the insane hostility the Beltway media in Washington reacted to Bill & Hilary Clinton, which to be frank, was totally unheard of. It wasn't really a term meant to be thrown at people on the other side, though it was upgraded to that in the last election to explain people who claimed to be Democratic voters but decided to vote for the Green Party or not vote because "principles". This group also gets really angry when it's pointed out they have to take some responsibility for what's going on with the Grophenfurhrer right now.

old comment by Pharaoh Bastethotep

@TB Tabby

Trying a little tit-for-tat, eh Mickey? But what you don't realize is that it doesn't apply to our side the way Obama Derangement Syndrome applied to yours. Obama Derangement Syndrome was coined to describe conservatives' habit of blaming Barack Obama for everything bad happening in the world, including things that couldn't possibly be his fault; from economic policies enacted long before he even took office, to terrorist attacks happening halfway around the world, and even natural disasters, supposedly caused by Obama's secret weather machine. Conservatives could scarcely stub their toe on a rock without claiming that Obama must have put it there.

No need to speak in the past - they still blame everything on Obama.

old comment by Malingspann

Center for Disease Control Bulletin: Trump Derangement Syndrome

First known occurrence: Nov. 8, 2016.

Etiology: Festers in brains of people who see themselves as opponents of the supposedly liberal elites.

Route of transmission: Sporulates through dissatisfaction with current living conditions as primary vector, with Trump tweets as secondary reservoir.

Cause: Self-inflicted, exacerbated by unwillingness to think for oneself.

Cure: Still to be found.

Prognosis: Usually results in terminal nationalism, believing that illegal immigrants that are non-white or/and Muslim are the cause of all American social problems, with poor to zero chance of recovery.

Manifestations: Bizarre, self-defeating behaviors such as: public harassment of non-conservatives; talk show psychosis; obscene diatribes; humiliating lack of success debating realists, but CLAIMING a 100% victory rate; insistence that the country was flooded with criminal illegal aliens under Obama; hatred of 'Obamacare' but support for the ACA.

Consequence of infection: distress that your honest-job working, tax-paying undocumented friend is to be deported since you thought Trump only wanted to deport undocumented that YOU think of as Scary Foreigners; delusional belief in furthering the republican cause when the opposite is true; fear of Hillary Clinton.

Help: There is little hope of finding a cure, although the search is ongoing. Since TDS sufferers have been programmed to reject the truth, the prognosis is almost 100% negative. Rare individuals have been known to suddenly wake up and fight off out-of-proportion infection in minority groups.