Saturday, October 25, 2025

D.L. Gardner: TDS is Stupid

Last week I read Senator (R-LA) John Kennedy’s new book, “How to Test Negative for Stupid – And Why Washington Never Will.” The title is taken from one of his many witticisms. He’s one of the few people in America who can get away using the word “stupid” due to his transparent persona. That, and the fact that his targets for “stupid” are mostly politicians and those who vote for them.

I’m so glad football and the World Series are on TV again. Neither of these two games involve discrimination. If it weren’t for discrimination TV and Cable news would have very few stories to tell. I resemble the way Kennedy describes his views about discrimination: “I don’t care how much you earn, where you live, what you drive, what color you are, whether you’re fat or thin, tall or short, man or woman, beautiful or average (like me). To a bear, we all taste like chicken.”

I’ve never seen so much extreme discrimination in my life. I’m talking about Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). Evidently it’s highly contagious judging by how many average people suffer for speaking or wearing anything MAGA.

TDS people don’t like anything President Trump does or says. Take Trump’s policy on energy. After 8 years of President Obama’s war on energy and high prices, Trump led America to become the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world. Trump’s leadership benefitted every American with lower energy prices. His policies also lowered CO2 levels until President Biden came in and wrecked everything Trump had achieved. Green people never acknowledged cleaner air during Trump’s first term, but touted Biden’s policies even when they failed miserably.

Finally, President Trump won his way back into the White House and began immediately to restore what Biden had nearly destroyed. Trump described his energy policy as “maximum production, maximum prosperity, and maximum power.”

In a national declaration October 17, 2025, President Trump wrote:

“This month, we continue our crusade to bring back American energy dominance, uplift the American worker, protect the American industry, cherish American resources, and make America the most prosperous country on the face of the Earth.

“NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by the virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 2025 as the National Energy Dominance Month.”

In the meantime, President Trump has ended 8 wars abroad and led a worldwide entourage to Israel to celebrate a Middle East ceasefire and to begin a peace plan supported by nations and leaders around the world. Simultaneously he has continued working with presidents of Russia and Ukraine to end that war. He has also negotiated trade deals with nations around the globe bringing in trillions of dollars (with a T) as well as new manufacturing plants with good paying jobs for American workers.

Still, TDS people including a nearly unanimous Democratic Party deride him and blame him for real and imaginary problems. They can’t even acknowledge his accomplishments when Americans benefit financially, and the people of the world benefit from more peaceful relationships.

America still has problems. TDS is the most discriminatory and destructive problem America suffers from today. No doubt, Senator Kennedy would call that “stupid.”

Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

45 comments:

Anonymous said...

I must agree with Gardner. Some people just refuse to accept Trump as the perfect divine leader and have the gall to find fault with him. They will be cast into the pit.

Anonymous said...

Headline is too long:


D.L. Gardner: is Stupid

Anonymous said...

None of you can name a single flaw about Trump.

Seriously, your comment will get censored even if you try!

Anonymous said...

The enemies of Trump call his supporters chumps, dregs, deplorables, clingers, garbage, etc., all while claiming to be loving and caring.

Malcolm X was only partially right when he claimed that the white liberal is the biggest enemy of black. It would be better stated to say that white liberals are the biggest enemy of all who are reasonable.

Anonymous said...

2:01 sycophant, n parasite, toady, bootlicker, lickspittle, flatterer, fawner etc. Not the same as a supporter or someone who simply voted for Trump because he seemed the better choice.

Anonymous said...

Senator Kennedy is always fun to listen to. Just calls it like he sees it.

Anonymous said...

You're all wrong on that, @1:59 PM, all wrong. Replace the word "Trump" with the word "Israel," however, and you will have uttered the truth.

Anonymous said...

It doesn’t matter if it’s Trump or a handicapable, transgender, Muslim, pleasantly plump, undocumented citizen, unhoused POC conservative. Once these things known as Liberals get together on Reddit and start screeching, all bets are off and they will find something to cry and protest about.

Anonymous said...

I'm almost 70 yrs old, and never in my life have I seen one man that can cause so many people to turn into Howling, Rabid Psychos! This is World Class Entertainment folks...We're gonna miss it when it's over...

Anonymous said...

Trump has not ended 8 wars. That is just another of his many, many lies

Anonymous said...

Yes, the worldwide awakening is happening. It's being noticed everywhere....ironically, due to the one thing we hate the most - social media/information technology. Never has information traveled faster in history than it does today, and it will be the undoing of a certain international community.

People should be preparing for "after Trump's term ends, and he retires", and what the world will become - no one else has the money to survive the lawfare he endured.

Anonymous said...

Excuse me while I go vomit after reading Daniel's extremely unchristian rant.

Anonymous said...

Head of the Louisiana democrat party in 2004. Extreme liberal until hate and contempt was a commodity. Now he acts ignorant and Hams it up. Not a serious person and he will be forgotten as soon as he’s dead….which won’t be long.

Anonymous said...

@6:31 Well said, fellow traveler.

Anonymous said...

Trump Derangement Syndrome was coined by the GOP. I doubt you cared for Obama, or Clinton or Biden.
What is deranged is being so blindly loyal to one party that you allow that party to tell you what to think about every policy.
Our 50 states are diverse in terrain and history.
What is supposed to bind us is our Constitution and the rule of law and to govern our own conduct and words.
I do not think highly of either Trump or the very doddering (to be kind) senator of LA. They both are too damn old to serve as are you and I. One of us , however, doesn't walk in lock step with a political party or faction.

Anonymous said...

6:31 am Never has propaganda and lies travelled faster either.
I'm so glad that in the 7th grade we learned ( in another state) how to check/verify information for accuracy. Even in 1938 Nazi propaganda reached our shores and our Nazi groups were called a Bund. Some American wealthy men and newspaper owners wanted us to join sides with Hitler. We learned "deliberate ignorance" is dangerous. We should be glad Washington , Franklin, and Madison were brilliant. Smallpox threatened to wipe out Washington's army ...he forced troops to be exposed to a small amount of live virus. Few of our party loyal Presidents would please them and few national politicians could give a policy speech without a teleprompter but they could sell ice to eskimos. Try thinking for yourself and use a non-fiction textbook or at least google information on both candidates and their backgrounds and policies to verify their accuracy before you vote. It's called being patriotic. Country first always!

Anonymous said...

If you disagree with Trump, see his lies, and witness him insult anyone like he just did his puppet house speaker by telling the world he has total control of him. You have TDS , even Kennedy is ready to call Trump out. DL will never figure it out .

Anonymous said...

We’re all living through the end of the constitutional republic as we know it. All you boomers that caused this will be dead and gone soon, but your kids and grandkids will suffer because of you. Thanks.

Kingfish said...

Actually the whole "DS" thing started with Bush when the Code Pink crowd went totally nuts over him.

Anonymous said...

Anyone who supports Trump after he released the AI video of him defecating on Americans who disagree with him is deranged. He is a childish, narcissistic vulgarian with dementia.

Anonymous said...

The best thing about trump is just how much he triggers folks, it really is amusing. And they fall for it every single time, I mean they never learn. It’s like Charlie Brown and Lucy with a football. Every. Single. Time. The other great thing about him is how he has outed all the RINOs like little Billy Crawford, McCain, Paul Ryan, the Bushes, Wicker, Guest, it really is glorious. So to all you dimocrats and traitorous RINOs buckle up buttercup you’ve got 3 more years of meltdowns.

Anonymous said...

After marching out the demented do nothing President Biden and his administration's freedom to implement as much left wing garbage as they could, I find it hard that ANYONE could be worse. I"ll take DJT anytime over the libtards.

Anonymous said...

And still your president.

Anonymous said...

How many has he ended? Which president in the last 80 years has ended more?

Anonymous said...

I don't know your age, but whatever group of politicians you support have lied to you repeatedly time, after time, and you continue to support them?? But an AI generated video is too much for you to continue support of Trump?? You sir, ma'am, or madam, can't be taken seriously. Just so you will know, to be lied to is the ultimate disrespect.

Anonymous said...

TDS isnt a real thing. Trump is just a grifting conman and the MAGA right are all uneducated clowns.

Anonymous said...

If Trump contracts dementia how will you know? Really.

Don Drane said...

YOU PEOPLE really need to keep up. Psychiatric manuals are periodically updated.

Some years back PTSS was elevated from Syndrome to Disorder, as it was re-classified as PTSD.

Likewise, I have led the successful effort to relabel TDS as TDD. It's no longer a syndrome. Please get current.

Anonymous said...

/b

Anonymous said...

Bless you heart, @3:03. I'm an old lady, proud that I have never voted for Trump although I previously voted Republican all my life, and I'd vote for a cardboard box before I'd vote for another Republican until the GOP dumps and repudiates him. He is a cancer on this country. Everything he touches dies.

anon said...

Facts: Recovering the nation from an incompetent President takes time. It took Reagan around 22 months to correct the Carter disaster. Trump is having to revive the U.S. from the worst President in history and seems to be succeeding in record time. God bless Donald Trump and all his folks in DC.

Anonymous said...

America hasn’t had a REAL president since Barack Obama left office. The two best economies in my lifetime were under President Clinton and President Obama. Republicans are just miserable for the economy.

Anonymous said...

Trump is not only President of America but also King of the Retards. Trump fans are the ripest bunch for grifting and plundering.

Anonymous said...

10:27 We have a new leader for the goofiest post of the year. Republicans did not care for Clinton, Obama, nor Biden. Republicans did not have a single state, much less 25 states, to try to "legally" keep a candidate off the presidential ballot. In the name of "saving the democracy" Dems worked to deny the US citizenry the option of voting for or against Trump.
10:27 claims to be very kind in stating that Sen. Kennedy is doddering. Sen. Kennedy is one of the sharpest minds in the US Senate.
10:27's statements are self -defeating. Then again, 10:27 has TDS.

Anonymous said...

1:25 left out Andy Taggart as a RINO who was outed by Trump.

Anonymous said...

10:48 doesn't know anything about economics.

Anonymous said...

Say "RINO" and you immediately lose credibility. Those you call RINO are true Republicans - reasonable conservatives, caring for our fellow man and our country. You blind extremist, right wing, MAGA fools need to create your own party.

Anonymous said...

TDS alert on aisle 12:38.

Anonymous said...

Is that the reason the stock market keeps setting new records?

Anonymous said...

"I'd vote for a cardboard box", something you can relate to?

Anonymous said...

I would bet MAGA clowns know what a woman is, that puts them ahead of your kind.

Anonymous said...

If you don't know that the boomers suffered, you need to get somewhere and be quiet.

Anonymous said...

"TDS isnt a real thing", then what did they say you had?

Anonymous said...

RINO is a Rushism. So are you saying Rush Limbaugh was a blind conservative? I think you are a likely a neoconservative RINO. Just as described

Anonymous said...

Maybe, 10:27. But you're the one who just mentioned "governing conduct and words". Which party do you reckon attempts that?


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