WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2026
...our journalists refuse to perform: It's very, very hard keep pace with the madness of the present day.
The constant flooding of the zone is stunningly effective. We're thrilled to see this stark citation in Michelle Goldberg's new column:
The Resistance Libs Were Right
For the last decade there’s been a debate, among people who don’t like Donald Trump, about whether he’s a fascist.
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It’s striking how much the arguments that Trump is not a fascist have suffered in just the first few days of this year, in which we’ve plunged to new depths of national madness.
We've plunged to "new depths of national madness," Goldberg writes. Her formulation is colloquial, but it's also stunningly accurate.
We'll add a further thought:
Plainly, the driver of this national madness sits in the Oval Office. And at this point, does anyone doubt that the sitting president's form of "madness" does, in fact, involve diagnosable medical infirmities?
The safer way to picture this "madness" is as a form of cognitive decline. Our journalists will sometimes dare, though very rarely, to directly suggest some sort of cognitive issue.
Almost no one will ever suggest the presence of a (serious) "personality disorder." That's the technical medical term for what is sometimes still referred to as a type of "mental illness."
Our own guess would be that the president may be suffering some sort of cognitive decline, layered on top of the circumstance his niece described in her 2020 book. With apologies, here's her assessment again:
MARY L. TRUMP, PH.D. (pages 12-13): I have no problem calling Donald a narcissist—he meets all nine criteria as outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)—but the label only gets us so far.
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A case could be made that he also meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, which in its most severe forms is generally considered sociopathy but can also refer to chronic criminality, arrogance, and disregard for the rights of others...
The fact is, Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he’ll never sit for.
With apologies, there it is again! But as our nation unmistakably "plunge[s] to new depths of national madness," and as the president's behavior seems to become more erratic and more manic, our journalists and our academics still refuse to go there.
They insist on averting their gaze from these medical possibilities! As we experience new depths of national madness, we'd say that this is one of the great abdications of duty in the history of that pair of Blue elites.
The madness is general over America, and we all know where it starts. Then too, there is the difference between the kinds of representations to which we the people are exposed in our dueling pair of America.
Red Americans hear the darnedest things—but is it possible that those representations are sometimes true? We refer, for example, to yesterday's exchange between the Fox News Channel's Dana Perino and Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security’s primary spokesperson.
The exchange was triggered by Joe Rogan's use of the G-bomb—"Gestapo." As reported by Mediaite, Perino tossed this question at McLaughlin, and McLaughlin replied with a specific number:
PERINO (1/13/26): So I know you and I talk a lot about communications and PR, and how would the department respond to that concern that he raised?
MCLAUGHLIN: Well, this answer is very straightforward. If Tim Walz or Mayor Frey would let us in their jails, we wouldn’t have to be there at all.
Currently, there are 680 criminal illegal aliens, Dana. That includes murderers, that includes rapists, child pedophiles—people who, whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, you would never want these people on your streets or as your neighbors.
That’s the people who we are targeting, and we are trying to get out of Minneapolis. Because we don’t have state and local law enforcement’s cooperation, we do have to have a physical presence on the ground there.
That's the sort of thing Fox viewers hear all the time—but how about it? Are there really 680 "criminal illegal aliens"—whatever that phrase is supposed to mean—currently housed in Minnesota's prisons and jails?
If so, how many of those 680 "criminal illegal aliens" are murderers, rapists, child pedophiles and the like? Because McLaughlin made it sound like The Minnesota 680 are pretty much all cut from that cloth.
Such claims are made on Fox all the time. Blue America's journalists never report or fact-check these claims, which may sometimes even be accurate.
There seem to be two basic rules in play as we continue to "plunge to new depths of national madness:"
Our journalists won't discuss the president's medical state. And our journalists refuse to report what happens on the Fox News Channel.
"New depths of national madness?" Goldberg gets it right!
ReplyDelete"We've plunged to "new depths of national madness," Goldberg writes."
Good. Democrat squealing is good.
Squeal harder, Democrats, so that we know things are going well.
And, as usual, thank you Mr. President for draining the swamp. Keep draining the swamp, please.
Troll.
DeleteHighly trained and vetted nazis, only the best nazis.
ReplyDelete://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis
"“OK. And what location is your preference?” After some dithering, I settled on my home state of New York. That was the last question; the entire process took less than six minutes. The woman took my résumé and placed the form she’d been filling out on top. “They are prioritizing current law enforcement first. They’re going to adjudicate your résumé,” she told me. If my application passed muster, I’d receive an email about next steps, which could arrive in the next few hours but would likely take a few days. I left, thanked her for her time, and prepared to hear back never."
The agent took the opportunity to gush about ICE’s new state-of-the-art semi-automatic tasers and brand-new pepper-ball guns. “It’s mostly very liberal cities—San Francisco, Los Angeles—where groups will come and try to stop ICE officers from arresting somebody. They’re like, ‘We’re going to form a human wall against you,’ ” he said. “When they do that, you can just pop ‘em up. Let them disperse and cry about it.”
When Donald Trump took office, ICE numbered approximately 10,000. Despite this event’s lackluster attendance, their recruitment push is reportedly going well; the agency reported 12,000 new recruits in 2025, which means the agency has more new recruits than old hands. That’s the kind of growth that changes the culture of an agency.
Trolls, do go yawn about professionalism. So boring.
Cognitive decline??? If I could correctly identify the cartoon of a giraffe, I’d be bragging about my genius IQ as well. Then again, we haven’t seen the results of that test.
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DeleteAlso, Tricia McLoughlin seems to be unable to open her mouth without spilling an exaggeration. Until she shares hard data, there's no reason to accept what she says as being accurate.
ReplyDeleteCBS New has tweeted that Ross was treated for internal bleeding. He was released from the hospital that night so it could mean heavy bruising. This info came from two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
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Ignorant troll. Go play in the sewers where your ilk hang out. We all saw the video you refuse to comment on, nasty asstroll.
DeleteAnonymouse 4:48pm, oh, yeah, you know how I refuse to comment on things. You’re really getting loopy.
DeleteRight just read it. He was evaluated. They found nothing. There's no mention of a CAT scan or anything. There are no pictures of any bruises. Are you following me, Cecelia? Or should I lay it out in simpler terms? Yes, they sent him to the hospital to provide a fig leaf for their blatant lie.
DeleteIlya, actually, you’re following me by reading a post I made. No one made you do that and I specifically said that the injuries could have been bruising. As to you declaring the information to be a ruse, we’ll run that up the flagpole as we do with all your declarations.
DeleteThese fucking clowns have seen the same videos but only comment on ones doctored to their liking. Fuck all of them. What would the Trannysorostroll do with the truth?, ignore it like a troll bitch. Fuck em.
ReplyDeleteThese fucking clowns have seen the same videos but only comment on ones doctored to their liking. Fuck all of them. What would the Trannysorostroll do with the truth?, ignore it like a troll bitch. Fuck em.
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