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So here we are after a truly extraordinary first week of the second Trump administration, and how is the left holding up? Not so well, I’m afraid. It looks as if the forest bathing and other soul-soothing activities didn’t work, and thus after a week of energetic making-America-great-again activity, leftists are sadder and angrier than ever and looking for ways to maintain their fragile emotional equilibrium.
We’re talking about people who believe that men can become women, Hamas jihadis are “resistance fighters,” and Kamala Harris was a competent and compelling candidate, so their mental health wasn’t all that great to begin with. But Trump being so energetic in service of the good and the true has just about sent them around the bend.
Salon.com accordingly offered on Monday an article with the lugubrious title of “Surviving ‘political grief’: You’re not alone, and there is a path forward.” It doesn’t paint a pretty picture if you’re a thoroughly indoctrinated Marxist who is desperately worried about “climate change” and “trans rights,” for everything is going down the drain: “Donald Trump is now the 47th president of the United States. Compared to the horrible things that will happen in America over (at least) the next four years, the weeks between Election Day and his inauguration may be remembered as the good times.”
What horrible things? Well, if everything goes according to plan, inflation will slow, gas prices and taxes will go down, wages will rise, the border will be secured, and numerous illegal and criminal migrants will be deported. What’s not to like? Plenty, if you’re an America-hating leftist, and hordes of the nose-ringed, blue-haired, black-clad masses have a tremendous case of the sads.
Salon’s Chauncey DeVega lamented: “The shadow of Jan. 20, and the cruel coincidence that it fell this year on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s remembrance day, hung over us all. King was among American history’s great defenders of democracy and human rights; Trump is a committed enemy of those values.” This only makes sense when you remember that for the left, “democracy and human rights” means the left winning every election and restricting the speech of those whom it fears and hates. Trump is for a free society with a robust opposition and no restrictions on speech, and so for leftists, “democracy” is under threat.
And so, DeVega tells us, “millions of Americans who voted for Kamala Harris, and who believe in American democracy and the common good, remain collectively stuck in the various stages of grief.” Like all totalitarians, they expect us all to march in lockstep; they’re even sadder because of the fact that some Americans aren’t sad at all: “That grief is made even more painful by the fact that tens of millions of other Americans are jubilant at Trump’s return to the White House and his vows of revenge against ‘the enemy within’ as part making America ‘great again.’” That’s right, Chauncey: he is promising to take action against the people on your side who really did act against our free republic by moving to criminalize legitimate opposition. If you’re weeping for the likes of Adam Schiff and Merrick Garland, you’re no friend of freedom.
DeVega, however, vows that the work to subvert Trump and America-First policies will go on, no matter how hard it is: “It is grinding and emotionally difficult work that often feels futile and can lead to PTSD, substance abuse and mental health issues.” Awww, poor thing. Apparently a typical leftist narcissist, DeVega claims that everyone shares his bad mood: “Considered in the aggregate, America’s public mood is negative, anxious, and discontented.” Even worse, the evil Orange Man Bad has done nothing less than rob life of its very meaning: “this crisis of democracy is also a crisis of the collective ‘life force,’ meaning the sense of purpose and the drive to lead a meaningful life.” Without a trace of irony, DeVega writes about “widespread fear among ordinary people who are trying to survive financial precarity and avoid total household collapse and homelessness,” not seeming to realize that that’s why Trump won.
And so leftists, driven round the bend by Trump, are consulting the priests of their secular religion, only to find them just as depressed: “Many reports suggest an increase in people seeking therapy and counseling. Mental health professionals are also seeking help for their own heightened anxiety and emotional challenges in the aftermath of the presidential election and the heightened demand for their services. Crisis lines have seen an increase in callers.”
Growing up might be a good solution, but these poor people can’t do that without rejecting all the lies they’ve told themselves. They’ve demonized Trump so relentlessly over the last eight years that many leftists truly believe that Adolf Hitler is now sitting in the Oval Office. It’s ridiculous, it’s insane — it’s the left.
We can see the Fools and their all l holding signs in that pictures. Their called Useful Idiots
I can’t even tell if the freak in the front is male of female. All I can tell is that’s it’s deranged and mentally retarded.
Jeff! The freak front and center is 100% male. Look at face shape and features, ears, hairline and large hands.
I’ll take your word for it. Put a beard and pointed cap on that freak and it would be a garden gnome. A gay garden gnome.
Talk about Narcissist ” Drama Queens” they should win an academy award.
LOL Good one. All I can suggest to the sad ones is that they try the “Attacking Anxiety & Depression” home study program. Worked for me, it will work for anyone. It might even turn some of them more conservative, since the program requires one to accept responsibility for how one feels. No finger pointing, please, if one wants to break free of their psych meds. 👍
In a classic “Peanuts” comic strip, Lucy van Pelt opened her psychiatric lemonade stand (The Doctor Is In) to all and sundry. Charlie Brown: “I have deep feeling of depression… what can I do about this?” Lucy: “Snap out of it! Five cents, please.”
I suggest the euthanasia home study program. They’re fascists, after all, and the Nazis were really into that.
Shrinks especially need shrinks. That is why they are shrinks in the first place, because they have psychological problems.
Yes, we could always tell which chicks in college were psych majors by how psychologically screwed up they were. It was kind of a running joke. Every time we encountered a whacked out bitch, we’d say “psych major.” I bet it was the same when you were at Berkeley. Put all the shrinks on couches. I guess Trump brings out their daddy issues.
And anybody who misses the last four years of sabotage and toilet bowl living standards and longs for four more is seriously deranged or too fanatical to acknowledge reality.
The eggs at my local grocery store, which are usually cheap, have ranged from $7. to $30. for the last week. I don’t know what caused the price hike but we both know it’s an after effect caused by Alzheimer Joe’s handlers. It won’t last but nobody is buying them at those outrageous prices. There is a shelf for $4. Cartons but those sold out right away.
I know President Trump will take care of the problem if it doesn’t take care of it soon but damn, I usually eat eggs and potatoes every breakfast. (I have over sixty hot sauces and salsas so it doesn’t taste like I eat the same thing every day.)
“I know President Trump will take care of the problem if it doesn’t take care of ITSELF soon…”
Damn, spell check is irritating.
The egg shortage is being caused by the government telling poultry producers they have to kill their entire flock if any come down with H5N1. This means millions of hens and turkeys are being used for fertilizer.
There is a more balanced approach; either develop an actual vaccine, not the mRNA experimental treatments, but a killed or modified live virus vaccine. Then, inoculate chicks.
The other option, is, let the disease run through the flock. Remove dead ones, keep the resistant ones.
Wild ducks and geese carry the virus… they haven’t all died off, so there will be survivors in the domestic flocks, if they’re allowed to live.
The main problem is, I believe, there’s not enough money in old-style proven methods of creating vaccines. The pharmaceutical bunch would rather play with the more expensive and unproven mRNA stuff.
They’re promoting it for livestock “vaccines” now. Can’t wait to see how the animals react to this new experiment, how many will die unexpectedly, from totally unforseen circumstances….
Would that be the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA?)
If so, President Trump needs to get on those scumbags. Bird flu was a worry that never became a real threat during the Alzheimer Joe regime but the USDA didn’t overreact like this. The minor threat of bird flu was worse during Bidumb’s term as pretend President but chicken farmers took steps to prevent their birds from getting it. OBVIOUSLY the USDA is overreacting so that President Trump can be blamed by Dirtbagocrats in the Minitrue Media and Congress.
The truth is Trump will not be able to lower prices and improve quality of life for Americans because of the 37 trillion dollar debt. Every 100 days it increases by 1 trillion. So the interest to pay each year will be at least 1 trillion dollars.
Trump is talking about wasting probably 1 trillion dollars on an ”Iron Dome” to protect the US.
It shows his ignorance and that of his consiglieri: Tulsi Gabbard,JFK Jr and Donald Trump Jr. The US doesn’t have hypersonic missiles and there is no reason to believe Russia will launch its hypersonic missiles. As for taking over the PANAMA CANAL , it is based on a lie.
The Panama Canal needed improvements,the best offer was by a Chinese company.Part of the Belt and Road Initiative which has spent 7 trillion to 10 trillion dollars in many countries to improve or create INFRASTRUCTURE. A policy called WIN- WIN.
Militarily conquering the canal is imperialism and colonialism. It was given back. International treaties have to be respected. In 2024 the Belt and Road Initiative created a totally new infrastructure in the port of CHANCAY, north of Lima,Peru.
It can handle 1 MILLION containers per year. The idea is to create HIGH SPEED railways to transport them from Peru to Brazil, via Bolivia,
How fast does a container ship full of merchandise travel?
About 30 or 35 miles per hour.
High speed train: 150 miles per hr.
That way bypass the Panama Canal.
It would make the trip of goods to Brazil a LOT shorter than a Chinese ship crossing the canal,then turning down South America to reach Rio de Janeiro.
Then go down to Argentina.
Look at the data.A high speed train across South America to transport merchandise is NOT part of a conspiracy to destroy the US economy. If the US did not exist it would still be created.It makes economic sense for all,China,Brazil,Argentina.
It would be created even if Central America did not exist,was under water.
But Trump and his blind followers will say China is cheating,the railway has to be stopped,America first, impose economic sanctions and secondary economic sanctions on Brazil and Peru,Bolivia to destroy their financial system, throw tens of millions of their
people into extreme poverty if they do not cancel the high speed rail project.
The great thing about DeepSeek,China’s AI app is that it is totally free.
ChatGPT appeared in 2022, and it is free for the BASIC version but there is an advanced version for researchers and scientists ChatGPT Pro. It is $200 per month.
DeepSeek,which is free, includes even the advanced AI equivalent to ChatGPT Pro,no paying $2,400 a year.
Also its language system,LLM is free to copy and researchers and scientists can use it to create their OWN specific artificial intelligence. It has taken AI from the MONOPOLY
of Silicon Valley oligarchs and made it democratic. On the first day of DeepSeek as an app the Silicon Valley Globalists lost
1.3 TRILLION dollars,the value of their stocks went down.
Now poor but brilliant people can use AI to try to cure cancer,diabetes,Alzheimer,etc.They don’t have to pay $2,400 per year to access very very technical,ultra sophisticated information.
China is lying about the quality and efficacy of Deep State…….er………..Deep seek.
Keep racking up the down votes Mr. Idiot.
Spoken like a good Chinese party member.
The only reason it’s free is that it’s taking every bit of data from your phone or computer, watching everything you do, and using it for whatever the CCP needs.
No thanks.
There are many comrades who have no objection whatsoever to the brand of totalitarianism espoused by the mind-boggling mind-crippling China/Woke blend.. Spencer’s post must indeed be a very bitter pill for them to swallow. Or maybe totalitarianism really is cool as long as everyone gets free stuff from the government.
No mention of ideology. Are you saying the people of Peru,Bolivia,Brazil and Argentina are totalitarians?
All have functioning democracies that are less corrupt than what is in the US.
The proof is the US still has NO high-speed rail train system like Japan and China.Instead spending now almost 1 trillion on 800 military bases around the world. Plus on the military-industrial complex.
And the governments and people of Bolivia,Brazil,Peru would prefer spending money on joint high speed railway projects with China because:
The distance from Lima,capital of Peru to Sao Paulo,biggest city in South America,in Brazil ( 22 million ) is
4,400 km. A high speed train system for goods,merchadise and passengers would take 22 hrs at 200 km ( 150 miles) per hour.
The distance from New York to LA is almost the SAME ( 4,500 km) but the train system traveling at 70 miles per hour would take
40 HOURS. Almost 100% MORE the time.
Indonesia recently built the fastest bullet train system in the world, and it only took a few years. It would take America thirty years or more just to conduct the requisite “studies” on such a project. American state and federal governments are enemies of the people.
The President of Bolivia is a socialist or communist.
Actually, that comment shows your ignorance. Everything you wrote is risible so I won’t bother to refute it point by point. That would be like arguing that the sun is hot. It would be pointless. You’re hopelessly inflicted with a hopefully fatal case of TDS.
And a need to lecture and hector us with verbose comments
I can’t tell if that’s an ugly woman or an emasculated man holding up those ridiculous signs. Definitely not someone I would take life advice from.
Looks like it needs a psychiatrist.
I was wondering the same thing. Where do these freaks come from? And why are people who look so freakish always freaks on the inside, too?
And I notice the cops protect anti-American freaks like that but persecute MAGA supporters, concerned parents at school board meetings and pro lifers. Not all police departments of course, but the ones in big, Dirtbagocrat run shit-holes do.
At this point one has to wonder if these cops who live in the S-Hole cities sympathize with the freaks, especially after living there for so long.
Many of them must. They don’t have serve as body guards for freaks and Hamas supporters. They can refuse or even take the day off. And they definitely don’t have to persecute MAGA supporters, pro lifers and parents at school board hearings who object to DEI.
I know my old city of Seattle has trouble replacing all the cops who quit because of the “woke” policies forced on them but I don’t feel sorry for that police department because when I lived there, they were mostly thugs.
On the other hand, I know a few people who despised Bad Orange Man, fell hook, line and sinker for “the science” and every psyop, hoax, and all of the agitprop theater the left had to offer, but now talk like Christian Nationalists and ridicule the left like they weren’t one of them just a few months ago. It’s a sure sign the tides are turning in the culture war, much quicker than I thought possible.
Yes, and insane “woke” hatred and tranny tyranny are being rejected vehemently. Not everybody is stupid and fanatical enough to forget the last four years of sabotage by Alzheimer Joe’s handlers. They can see President Trump has “hit the ground running” and has made countless improvements in only one week.
He fired ALL the J-6 prosecutors today, you know. Those scumbags are in the unemployment line.
They need to do a lot of time
Agreed. The bureaucracy is jam packed with criminals who practiced lawfare against Trump and MAGA supporters during Alzheimer Joe’s term, and that includes his handlers and most of his cabinet members, particularly Myorkis and Garland. Wray, too.
Leftist heads exploding and melting are funnier than old Road Runner cartoons. Being a government dependent loon has to hurt right now.
I’m not even a big Trump fan, no bumper stickers on the car or signs in the yard, he’s just the cultural reaction to WOKE/DEI stupidity.
I laugh every time I drive by the house that resolutely keeps the Harris-Walz sign on the front lawn; it’s kinda crazy.
They might as well have a “make America suck again” sign.
Practical note: Should you or anyone you care about need mental health support, choose carefully. In the UK there is a movement to provide non left mental health support. There is some of that in the USA mostly coming over from the UK,. Some organizations are spreading the word, mostly by word of mouth (email) to find referrals to non leftist mental health providers for those in need. Clergy (vet these, as well) is one alternative.
Try to gently probe a mental health professional prior to engaging, and in worst case scenario where you have no choice, avoid all political. discussions .
For kids: Be very aware that children may be referred to “gender therapists” or physicians who easily prescribe hormones, etc. and aware of such school activities that can divide families. Supervise their internet use.
WTF is that thing holding the signs? It looks like a gay drag queen version of Gordon Gotfried. TDS is a serious brain disorder. After the last four years of Hell, anybody who still has it is seriously deranged and extremely stupid.
“Gilbert” Gotfried.
Spell check strikes again.
conservative Gilbert
Yeah and that guy is hilarious.
TDS is a side effect. The objective is to make you think there is no difference between men and women, especially when it comes to having sex. Trump and most of us are tired of this shit and, as Mr. Spencer points out, they are all in need of some serious mental health treatment along with vasectomies and tubal ligations. Their extinction would be a favor to mankind.
Thanks Mr. Spencer for another amusing but spot on article. I always look forward to your next offering as they are always tremendously informative, wry and meticulously honest.
Nutron’s Protron’s and Morons these bunch as the last ones Morons and w ay too stupid for recovery from their Liberal Ignorance watch way too much Fake News and read the NYT’s
I wouldn’t even try to dispel the “analysis” of RLderanged, but as to the issue with eggs? When you KILL over 100 MILLION Chickens – and contrary to the beliefs of a lot of the libers – where the EGGS originate, you’re going to create a shortage which in turns creates increased prices. And those prices will remain higher to help offset the losses from those 100 MILLION DEAD CHICKENS – they cost a LOT of MONEY – it’s not “chicken feed”!! One might have to wonder if that “chicken virus” was real and don’t put it past the biden bunglers to have done that – they tried to do it to US!!
Our government has told poultry producers they must destroy their entire flock if any birds come down with H5N1. Supposedly, this will “prevent the spread”, although it’s spread by free-flying wild ducks and geese.
Pharmaceutical companies could create a vaccine, old-style, with killed or modified (weakened) virus, and inoculate chicks. They’re presently too enamored of the shiny, new, expensive, unproven mRNA treatments to bother with actually fixing the problem. There’s not enough money making the older effective vaccines.
So, prices for chicken, turkey, and eggs will continue to rise. We get to pay for it twice, too. Taxpayer dollars are paying the poultry farmers to kill their birds, sick or not.
What happens when the totalitarian worshippers of the Left are freed: They want those chains, they need those chains and they are mad a hell hey don’t have those chains!!
After all without those chains, who are they???
People who have to think for themselves. Leftists are like herd animals and lemmings.
“Chauncey DeVega”. Sounds like the name of a Drag Queen Story Hour headliner.