Trump Fatigue Syndrome

by | May 26, 2026 | Executive Branch, Musings, Politics | 107 comments

It's All So Tiresome

In a Washington Post column entitled The Delusional Dean, published December 5th, 2003, political pundit and erstwhile psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer coined the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome,” a tongue in cheek psychiatric diagnosis he defined thusly:

Bush Derangement Syndrome: the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency – nay – the very existence of George W. Bush.

Having lived through the era, it neatly described a large contingent of the media and political class, whatever one may have thought of Bush. Given the spasmodically histrionic reactions to the policies, the presidency – nay – the very existence of Donald J. Trump, it should come as little surprise the term was resurrected as Trump Derangement Syndrome. From the moment he descended from a gaudy, golden escalator 11 years ago next month, Trump has captivated the media and political class – both his detractors and supporters alike – as no other president has within my lifetime, if not in history (Obama being the closest contender).

Which brings me to the titular topic. I am so goddamn weary of our entire politics, public discourse, and popular culture revolving around Donald Trump. 11 years in and I feel as if I’ve been reliving day 1 of the 2016 campaign like Bill Murray’s Phil Connors in Groundhog Day. Lacking Mr. Krauthammer’s aptitude for word and pen, if I were groping for a definition of Trump Fatigue Syndrome, it would be something along the lines of: “An acute malaise caused by total exhaustion in reaction to daily references to Donald J. Trump in every form of news, opinion, and popular media since June 16th, 2015.”

I’ll confess that even pre-politics, I’ve simply never found Donald Trump all that entertaining. It’s not that I had a particularly strong objection to the man himself, I simply wasn’t interested in his TV shows and found his carefully curated, ostentatious, larger-than-life public persona silly. When he announced his candidacy, I suspected it was a public relations grab. When it became obvious he was a serious candidate, I was intrigued by the possibility of a political outsider having a realistic chance for the first time since Ross Perot. When he won, I knew he would never be a reflection of my political preferences, but was cautiously optimistic that he may shake things up in D.C. And then, something completely expected happened. Hampered by the very political system he campaigned on reforming and having filled his cabinet with old guard GOP apparatchiks, his agenda was mostly stymied, and he accomplished little that any generic Republican or Clinton-era Democrat wouldn’t have in the same office.

And that’s where the fatigue sets in. Despite the breathless takes from his detractors and supporters alike at his every utterance and emanation, there just really isn’t anything particularly interesting about Trump from a policy standpoint. Good or bad, he hasn’t proposed or enacted a single policy, nor signed a single piece of legislation, that’s outside the scope of previous executives or acceptable public discourse. Under his leadership, the deficit and debt have increased by about the average of modern presidents. He’s nibbled at regulations and tax rates like every Republican since Reagan, while pursuing a protectionist, pro-union industrial policy reminiscent of the pre-Clinton Democratic party. If this is the stuff that gets people in the mood for political assassinations, then I’m certain nukes would be flying on my first day in office if I were ever elected.

Failing to have a strong reaction one way or the other to Trump will, somewhat ironically, earn a charge of Trump Derangement Syndrome from his supporters, or Trump cultism from his detractors. The standard explanation for this phenomenon is the increasing polarization of politics, and while that’s undeniably happening, I think it’s a facile and insufficient one. Anecdotally, it’s been my experience that when discussing policy in isolation, you will have a very different result than discussing the very same policy once Trump is involved one way or the other. This could range from historically protectionist union organizers discovering the perils of tariffs, to Trump’s non-interventionist wing defending military action in Venezuela and Iran. Political hypocrisy is nothing new, of course, and you could argue the same thing happened with Obama’s anti-war wing coming around to applaud the intervention in Libya, for instance. But the intensity of the fervor and rapidity of the shift in policy support seems magnified. Nobody shot at Joe Biden or Barack Obama, nor assassinated left wing media figures, in the times punctuating Trump’s two terms. Being neither offended by, nor enamored of, Trump’s brash style, perhaps I simply find him easier to ignore than some others do. I’m clearly the outlier.

The unfortunate TFS sufferer will seek in vain for a respite in the mindless indulgences of pop culture. Ham-fisted references to Trump, or poorly concealed didactic moral allegories for he and his policies, abound nearly inescapably in all forms of popular media. Woe to you who indulge in social media. I don’t know how you can stand it. Where you fall on the pro/anti Trump spectrum may even affect your ability to get laid.

It would be nice to think we only had 2 and a half years left on this ride – that the Trump obsession would end with his final term in office. But if the Biden intermission taught us anything, it’s that Trump will continue to command the media and the public’s attention for as long as he lives. The symbiosis is just too powerful. At 79 years of age, nature will eventually, mercifully, impose its own limitations. I genuinely wonder what will happen then. So many people have invested so much of their lives and self-identity into Trump in one way or another, it’s hard to imagine the trance breaking that easily.

It’s all so tiresome.

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107 Comments

  1. DEG

    It’s all so tiresome.

    Yes

  2. rhywun

    Yeah, I never gave him two seconds thought before he ran for president. Never watched that TV show he did, for example.

    I suspect the histrionics was ginned up by the hive mind specifically because they were afraid he would upset the grift they have been running for decades – which obviously did not happen in round 1 and is only slightly happening now in round 2.

  3. Evan from Evansville

    “But the intensity of the fervor and rapidity of the shift in policy support seems magnified. Nobody shot at Joe Biden or Barack Obama, nor assassinated left wing media figures, in the times punctuating Trump’s two terms.”

    Parsimony? Those assured of the continuation of their power got it taken away. ‘Snatched.’ Stolen! The petulant children in ex-power are terrified of this. Their current status. Future status. Their legacy. Rug gets pulled under ya? Flail and grab whatever you can.

    Blue Useful Idiots are fighting the IPCC’s admission the global warming(!) shit was all bullshit, and no one cares. Why? Far too much of themselves is *already invested* in it. Self-flagellation w their ‘carbon footprint’ sins.

    Same with anti-Trump. To even have an open mind? Political, social, cultural heresy. It’s all fucking religious ‘thinking,’ w ‘experts’ as the new clergy.

    Easiest example with me? Try converting me *away* from the Cubs. I wouldn’t (willingly) convert, and any forced conversion would be saddled with inner spite and malice. That’s how people are with their religious leaders. Bringers of Light, they are. (At least that one! *swoooooon!*) /ev pukes

    • Pat

      Same with anti-Trump. To even have an open mind? Political, social, cultural heresy. It’s all fucking religious ‘thinking,’ w ‘experts’ as the new clergy.

      Bingo. This all came to a head during a discussion with a relatively non-political acquaintance of mine whose entire politics, such as they are, amount to opposing Trump on any given issue. I’m able to avoid getting mired in the partisan politics since I’m not neatly within the D or R camps, but Jesus fuck does it get old. “He’s literally a convicted felon!” Yeah, and maybe I’m a Chinese jet pilot

      • rhywun

        +3 felonies a day

      • Fourscore

        My oldest best friend, circa 2020, sat down next to me and quietly told me Trump was going to jail. I said “I don’t think so”. He rattled off a bunch of worn out declarations and accusations that the Demos had been using, as if they were punishable facts.

        Last year when he and his wife visited they quoted Trump saying things that had already been discarded, as if they were somehow relevant.

        My distaste is the BS and overspending, using the military without congressional approval and his own party is afraid to challenge him.

    • Tres Cool

      Don’t you remember when those guys were alleged to have plotted to shoot Obama?

      Barack Obama assassination plot in Denver

      I’m sure the FBI wasnt involved with that at all.

      • Tres Cool

        “Although their suspected white supremacist affiliations led federal authorities to investigate possible ties to a larger group, authorities later downplayed the trio as drug addicts who had little chance of carrying out the plot. The three men were charged with drug and weapons charges, but did not face federal charges of threatening a presidential candidate.”

  4. Fourscore

    It was so tiresome to watch/hear him boast of the great things the tariffs were going to do. Adam Smith other economists were twisting in their graves. Yet Trump kept pursuing tariffs as a punishment of other countries. Navarro has mostly gone away but still pops up on occasion wanting more tariffs. Trump’s economic ignorance carried over to his love of them versus us in his foreign policy.

    • Chafed

      So true. I completely forgot about Navarro. The administration is clearly keeping him away from the press.

  5. Shpip

    Back in the ’80s, when Donald was busying himself with fucking up the USFL, the comic strip Bloom County described him as “a rube with too much loot.”

    But it was nice back in ’16 to have someone call out the mealy-mouth mediocrities on both sides of the aisle for what they were.

    If any other Republican had the stones to say “The Democrat Party is a gaggle of ugly women and effete men,” he might’ve won with ease. Especially since a politician’s wife decided to get uppity and rig the party apparatus into nominating her. But Donnie was the only one to say it, and it played well in Peoria.

    Now we’re here, for better or worse.

    • Pat

      *chef’s kiss*

  6. Derpetologist

    Trump’s greatest accomplishment was preventing Hillary from becoming president. He’s also been useful in goading the left into supporting all kinds of bug fuck nutty batshit craziness.

    Speaking of that, this video on the stupidity of trying to balance the budget by taxing the rich loses its oomph when the case is made by a man pretending to be a woman.

    Yes, it’s a video made by the before place.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0x1gA3Z83Y

    ***
    Jessica Riedl (formerly Brian Riedl) was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who focused on budget, tax, and economic policy.
    ***

    [head desk]

    https://manhattan.institute/person/jessica-riedl

    At least the fat guy strip tease at the LP convention was comic relief.

  7. rhywun

    I have a vivid memory of riding the R train in NYC to work on – checks notes – November 9, 2016 and some crazy old bat was already ranting about you know who. I guess that was after a whole summer of endless pussy hats and other mindless agitprop. The seething hatred was there from Day One and has not let up one bit.

    • UnCivilServant

      I can abstract that the attitude exists, but I can’t get my head around it. I do not really understand these people.

    • R.J.

      The seething hate has always been there. It took COVID and TDS to make it visible to us. I think it was a shock, just how many were filled with hatred.

      • dbleagle

        Common it was the R train. Who TF wants to take a local through Brooklyn?

      • rhywun

        Who TF wants to take a local through Brooklyn?

        Residents of Bay Ridge? There is an option to transfer to the N train at 59th Street but if your destination is Jersey City that’s useless because the N train skips lower Manhattan.

      • rhywun

        Huh. I didn’t know they had a song that wasn’t THAT song. Or that they were from New York.

      • dbleagle

        Monthly I would get on the R at the end of the line after grocery shopping at Ft Hamilton and would jump on the N at 59th.

        The creepy thing was taking the R late at night. You would have to get off at 59th and wait for sometimes 30 min for the R to come up from the end of the line (96th?) at 59th then head back to end.

  8. Evan from Evansville

    Trump’s biggest strength is at least a foot blocking the Lefty train. The People are seeing more of the fraud and never-ending double-down the DNC is pulling. (Esp on trans.) Making fun of certain things is becoming more ‘okay.’

    I read the news and am thoroughly unaffected. (I dislike higher gas, but, I did back when, too. (I don’t like any of the Iran business, but again, that doesn’t affect me. *shrug*))

    The cultural madness may be losing power. A Vance/whatever successor could further that. (Could further many things, sadly.) The econ battle won’t even begin until a Big Event forces it. The world will eventually burn again. (In new and exciting ways!)

    So it goes. *kicks pebble*

  9. Sean

    “Drain the swamp!”

  10. Sean

    I crave new X-files episodes.

    • UnCivilServant

      Only if they’re 90’s episodes and not the result of the insudtry as it stands today.

      • Pat

        I steadfastly refused to watch the reboot, and don’t consider season 9 canon.

      • Threedoor

        The monster of the week episode of the first batch or reboot was good.

        I didn’t go further than that.

    • rhywun

      wut?

      Why?

      • Chafed

        Sean is drunk and nostalgic.

      • Sean

        Spot on, Chafed.

    • Brochettaward

      They were going to make a new X-Files series.

      Made by a black man. With black characters.

      Basically, black X-Files.

      Doesn’t it sound great?

  11. Fourscore

    The next president will be worse, building on the previous administration(s)

    Trump can hardly finish a sentence without blaming Biden, the entire present administration has jumped on the bandwagon. Where were they when Good Ol’ Joe was stumbling around, incoherent a lot of the time?

    • Pat

      The next president will be worse, building on the previous administration(s)

      Given the sorry ass state of the current Democratic party lineup, I suspect we may just see a president Vance, and I trust that smarmy fuck about as far as I could throw him.

      • rhywun

        And yet he will/may be a zillion percent better than anyone Team Other will puke up.

      • Pat

        Newsom seeming to be their great white hope, I concur.

      • rhywun

        I’m not sure that Newsome is even radical enough to please the base these days. Didn’t he backpedal on the party’s support for males dominating female sports?

      • Evan from Evansville

        As of now, Iran, the economy, or something else very big would need to dramatically change for Blue to even slightly feel positive about ’28. I anticipate one, all, or all+ something else to occur between now and then.

        Fuck, I’m kinda 50-50 on Trump *surviving* this term. And, we all know it, there’d be extensive celebration, a hive-mind explosion of positive energy, and running the only play they know, Dems would strangle democracy further to ‘Protect our vital institutions in face of this drastic action against a sitting politician…’ and ensure nothing can ever take the power they seize to smother any further attempt to ‘usurp’ their ‘proper authority.’

      • dbleagle

        I would take the under on the MSM calling Vance “worse than Trump” in under 7 days.

      • Pat

        Within 30 seconds of Trump departing this mortal coil, he will become a respected elder statesman, in stark contrast to L-I-T-E-R-A-L-L-Y H-I-T-L-E-R Republican running to replace them, just as every former Republican president since Reagan. Did I mention that it’s all. So. Fucking. Tiresome?

      • Brochettaward

        The real bet is how many years into the next Republican presidency before Trump gets painted as the elder statesmen (he’s going to live a while after he leaves office despite his age much to the chagrin of his enemies) like Bush The Lesser.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Reagan never was. Still isn’t. The commies are still lying that Reagan closed the nuthouses bullshit.

    • DrOtto

      Newsome will say whatever he thinks he needs to say to win.

      • rhywun

        That is true. He might be the least principled politician I’ve ever seen.

      • Tres Cool

        + French Laundry

      • Chafed

        He already is.

  12. DrOtto

    I had a conversation 2 weeks ago with a good friend who has absolutely lost it over Trump. It was heartbreaking in a way. My advice to him was to do what I have been doing since forever, which is to pay attention to my wife and kids and put my head down and go to work to provide for my family. Paying too much attention to politics is not a good thing. Of course I was the bad guy in the conversation for not more actively despising Drumpf and opposing fascism in all it forms. He is convinced Trump will not leave office after his term is up. I remember similar scenarios laid out by my dad when Bush was in office “he’s gonna suspend the constitution and appoint himself ruler.” It’s hard to watch otherwise smart people behave like this because of someone they don’t even really know.

    • Pat

      Of course I was the bad guy in the conversation for not more actively despising Drumpf and opposing fascism in all it forms.

      Same.

      It’s hard to watch otherwise smart people behave like this because of someone they don’t even really know.

      That’s it in a nutshell. Trump has made otherwise sane people lose their everloving fucking minds, and I’m not really sure how they’ll cope when he’s gone.

      • Evan from Evansville

        “Trump has made otherwise sane people lose their everloving fucking minds…”

        Their faith in The State was questioned. They bark loudest when things poke too close to home. Everything’s too close to home because they’ve ‘accepted’ the feelgoodery at face value.

        Their faith is being questioned. Of course, they froth. People don’t react ‘sane’ when their belief is challenged.

        What I most desire? For Lefties to get *pissed* they’ve been played! ANGRY! I’ll be thrilled if they start to question themselves, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, here. Get pissed your clergy entrusted the US to the Man Who Wasn’t There.
        And at the Media who refused to show Biden’s further descent into senility! My parents were both reporters /columnists! Their profession! The shame! But oh, no.

        Their belief runs further. It’s really sad. (Our polite agreement to keep quiet over politics remains, valued by both.)

    • Tres Cool

      Other than (kinda) wreck the DNC, Trump broke up the Clinton/Bush dynasty.
      From 1990 on there was either a Clinton or a Bush on the ticket for president.

      • dbleagle

        Point of order. A Bush or Clinton was on the Prez ticket since 1980. ‘Ol Man Bush was the VP slot to RR on the 1980 and 1984 tickets.

    • Brochettaward

      The presidents in my lifetime have all been pretty shitty. I was born right at the end of Reagan and I have to say Clinton was probably the best? At least when reigned in and forced to work with the GOP after ’96.

      When the culture has been degraded to the extent it has I don’t think you can really vote your way into a better situation. It really feels like everyone has just gotten dumber as I’ve gotten older. Even the older people?

      • Evan from Evansville

        President Clinton *inherited* the best time to be president. He was ‘great.’ Mostly, cuz he didn’t do anything. The ’94 wave prevented universal healthcare and any real big domestic policy. He gets credit for charismatically falling into:

        a) the end of the Soviets and the Cold War
        b) the rise of the internet and the microchip revolution
        c) credit for not starting too much foreign shit (Kosovo I know of, I’m sure there’s more, but pretty dormant(?)

        Damn. And, yep. Lost Congress, any ability to ‘push’ much. Best decade to grow up in. Trump’s #2. As a brake, alone.

      • creech

        Politics follows culture changes, so we got to find ways to swing the culture back toward liberty. Not impossible but haven’t put our fingers on the right words/actions yet.

      • Brochettaward

        Liberty hasn’t been valued for a very, very long time. And I’d say for a pretty small percentage of the country’s history. Even when it did you always had pretty glaring contradictions.

        Regardless, when I look at where we are it’s less about policy and more about the fact that we’ve just become really, really fucking stupid. It’s hard to have conversations of any substance on modern politics. Forget about the past. I meet ‘kids’ as in people who are like 20 and they don’t even know fuck all about anything. The ones who think they’re in-tune spew conspiratorial nonsense about them that’s half commie gobbledygook. They don’t trust the powers that be, but they don’t really know enough about the actual events that take place to even articulate what it is they don’t trust. It’s something vague. A shadow of a shadow that they perceive, Then you get the detached ones who just don’t follow politics at all and live.

        Then you have the boomer class who are more traditionally Democratic or Republican. They grew up basically believing authority figures at a time when things seemed smoother and that seemed acceptable. Only now the media landscape is all fractured and there’s too many voices telling them what to think and it’s frying their brains. People say Trump believes whatever the last person he spoke to talked him into five minutes ago, but that’s true of most of the older people I meet (as long as it somewhat coincides with their already preconceived notions of how things are).

        We didn’t get here overnight and it’s not going to be fixed overnight. It’d take something pretty drastic to snap things back culturally.

        In the meantime, we’re stuck debating about abortions and what percentage of the third world should be allowed to come here and vote Democrat.

    • Gustave Lytton

      opposing fascism in all it forms

      Hard to do that when the modern Democratic Party, at least pre DSA overt commies, is the standard bearer for fascism with the Republican Party as the make fascism work crowd.

  13. Chafed

    Great article Pat. I agree with all of it.

  14. Evan from Evansville

    Guardian: “Stripteases, ecstatic embraces and a dog in a dress: the full-on photos celebrating queer dancefloors worldwide”

    Ya know. If you’re trying to be ‘accepted,’ wouldn’t you want to *pass?* Like. So no one thinks you’re weird? Isn’t that the goal?
    Narrator: No. It isn’t.

    There is some late-70s tit shown. The writing is… wow. Someone went to a big smart journolisting school, majored in ‘amorphous bullshit:

    “I wanted the protest images side by side with the party images – the rage then the release
    “The book is fluid and feelings-led,” explains Abraham. “I wanted it to feel like a night out.” The image selection – ranging continents, decades and styles – is cacophonous. Film stills, studio portraits, and even a Grindr screenshot take readers on a nonlinear dance through scenes of queer sociality.”

    “I show people fucking around the world in history. <– There ya go. Pay me. *extends hand* See. It's HISTORICAL. That makes it fancy.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I kept typing and added a pretty blue joke. Let’s just say this was involved: I’ll burn money in front of her. Money I promised to trans-Palestinian rain-forest refugees. (If she cries more, she’ll have more to quench the flames!)

      That’ll do.

  15. Brochettaward

    I’ve been coming up with my Glibertarian enemies list. Due to seconder fatigue.

  16. JaimeRoberto feckful & gruntled

    My sister thinks Trump will use a war to suspend elections. She at least acknowledged that it’s what Zelenskii did in Ukraine. I pointed out that we had elections during the Civil War, WW2, Viet Nam, and Iraq (and probably others that I missed) so it seems unlikely. “Well I think he’s going to try.”

    Now I could see a reporter asking Trump if he plans to cancel elections because of the conflict in Country X, and I could see him answering with something like “I don’t know. It’s something we have to consider, blah, blah, blah.” But I wouldn’t take it seriously.

    • Brochettaward

      There was an election in 1864. Just one where habeas corpus had been suspended and Lincoln’s secret police forces had shut down criticism of him in the North. And not just criticism of the war. Not that there’s any actual justification for wartime powers in the Constitution. Even laying siege to the seceding states occurred without Congressional approval despite the constitution 100% vesting that power in Congress. I’m getting sidetracked on Lincoln’s tyranny, but…

      We just got done with 4 years of the Dems claiming the 2016 election was stolen because of Russian troll farms posting memes online with dozens of views (won’t wade into 2020 again). Think about what voting was like in an election where there was a no-shit secret police (fuck the pleas of the apologists) who at least implicitly were used to threaten even Congress. Where newspapers were dismantled. Where people were arrested and deported for daring to question Lincoln’s tax policies. Where there was a draft. where Lincoln had blatantly defied the Supreme Court in a case that never gets cited the way we always here about Andrew Jackson when this shit comes up.

      Yes, this is an excuse to just rant about what a piece of shit Honest Abe actually was.

      • Brochettaward

        Christ, Lincoln arrested a huge chunk of state legislature of Maryland at one point. Despite the orders of a judge not to. Because they threatened to talk about seceding. Maryland was not a slave state and was not going to join the confederacy. Kind of puts the whole it was about slavery thing into context. 13k journalists and political opponents were arrested with the suspension of habeas corpus.

        And Lincoln had Seward color code all opposition ballots. Which were then taken to a neutral site to be counted. Nominally.

        Lincoln issued posters throughout the north asking people to report anyone advocating peace to his secret police. In Baltimore people carrying the opposition ballot were arrested.

        He refused mail services to 100 papers who were critical of him. Censored telegraphs.

        But yes there was an election. One that historians insist was on the up and up. And Lincoln had the nerve to accuse the Democrats of the day of forging ballots and election fraud only so dipshits in the media would bring this up in 2020.

        Burned some papers to the ground.

        Yea, but there was an election.

      • Ted S.

        Maryland wasn’t a slave state?????

      • Tres Cool

        Forget it he’s rolling…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        No doubt, I haven’t seen him so fired up since the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

  17. PieInTheSky

    I do not like trumpy as a person character or politician. but the sad state of affairs is that he may end up as good as it gets in the current late stage democracy context. Even sadder is that a better president would probably achieve not that much as the deep cathedral etc cannot be cleansed. So enjoy the collapse hashtagblackpill

    • Brochettaward

      We are entering a key moment in human history and evolution. It’s easy to see scenarios where true innovation is required from democratic “leadership.” Forward thinking. A rethink of the entire social order may be required. It’s a time when real leadership is needed.

      We’re stuck with a class of retards fixated on tribalistic identity politics.

      AI is going to cause a shitstorm. Not sure how long it will take, but it will make upheavals of the past look minor and I don’t think anyone has answers to what the future will look like. We will end up with a top down solution and I don’t trust our current class of Top Man to even come close to coming up with something workable.

    • PieInTheSky

      so early not even the tags work

    • PieInTheSky

      Also we saw that in yesterdays morning links already.

      you can’t even first a guardian link. sad.

    • rhywun

      Anything in the Guardian is guaranteed to be the stupidest thing you will read until the next thing you see in the Guardian.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, Sean, U, homey, Ted’S., Stinky, and Bro, and good afternoon, Pie!

      • UnCivilServant

        Morning.

        I hate phone interfaces. I went to reply and the image moved, so my finger hit “log out?” and delayed normal morning pleasantries

      • Gender Traitor

        Are you the only one waiting for an appointment? Maybe there’s a chance you’ll get in early.

      • UnCivilServant

        My appointment is for 7.

        The lab opens at… 7

  18. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    whats goody

    /been awake since 0300….

    • UnCivilServant

      I have no idea. About to hit the road.

      • Tres Cool

        Safe travels. May the road rise to meet you or however that goes.

      • UnCivilServant

        It was only to the site where I have a 7am appointment for a blood draw. I fogured hospitals are difficult to navigate, but the lab was right next to the main entrance.

        So now my wait is self-inflicted.

  19. Ted S.

    We may not be interested in the TDS people, but they’re certainly interested in us.

  20. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Trump: A lying, corrupt, shitbag pol who’s slightly more palatable than the other lying, corrupt, shitbag pols. He’ll be replaced by some leftie (probably) or rightie (hopefully but I doubt it) who’s just as bad or worse. Meet the new boss, actually not the same as the old boss but just as bad.

    • juris imprudent

      …when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. — B. Franklin

      • Fourscore

        Tree of liberty needs refreshing…

  21. UnCivilServant

    Who’s the supplier for medical waiting room chairs? I swear tgey all order out of the same catalog.

    • Gender Traitor

      Probably this outfit. I’m pretty sure we get their catalog at my office, too.

      • UnCivilServant

        Their site really isn’t designed for phones.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Not sure but I think the backrooms in all the emergency departments buy theirs on firesale from various prisons. It’s like it’s specifically designed to murder your back.

    • UnCivilServant

      “Nobody takes us seriously!”

      “Here’s some rules that may help our image.”

      “You’re not the boss of me!”

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Libertarians getting fixated on relatively unimportant minutiae? Say it ain’t so.

    • juris imprudent

      Look, weird ideas should be enough, we don’t have to look like a bunch of weirdos too, do we?

      • R.J.

        <==

    • Rat on a train

      Did they end up mandating freak attire?

  22. Gender Traitor

    ***SIGH!!!*** One of my other first stops on the Interwebs each weekday morning is a local TV station’s traffic page. Didn’t even have to navigate that far – the site’s top headline is that the interstate I take to work is closed for a semi wreck right next to where I get on. Don’t know if it includes my entrance or stops just before it. I may have to leave extra early today. 😒

  23. Sean

    Cornyn out.

    #MAGA

    /on topic

    • Rat on a train

      Are Cornyn supporters going spiteful?

      • Ted S.

        Is Paxton one of those dirty JOOOOOOOOOOOOS?

      • R.J.

        What Cornyn supporters?

  24. Fourscore

    Woe is me! Bear got inside the fence to one hive. I’m not a happy camper.

    • R.J.

      Oh no!

  25. Gdragon

    As a cheap metaphor I think that political discourse has largely become a giant game of “There Ain’t No Flies On Us!”. Both teams are convinced that if they stop yelling that phrase so loudly they are gonna “lose” but other than a bunch of yelling very little is actually accomplished in the end.