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Tiffany Torres Williams's avatar

I always assumed TDS was a way of Trump voters owning themselves for how grossly obsessed they are with him.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

You're right, the real derangement is the psychotic sycophancy he inspires in MAGA fans.

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Jude Johnson's avatar

I think this was your first "more than halfway true" post. Spot on.

This lard bucket of feces ruined the lives of people in my freshman class of college: they had to drop out because he bankrupted their families by not paying for work on his Jersey casinos. Yeah, I've had progressive TDS (Trump Disgust Syndrome) since 1976. Then the slimeball actually came out to a golf tournament my husband played in and proceeded to openly cheat in front of everyone. (They guy who invited him ended up getting blown up in a car bomb in the club's parking lot later; if you saw 20/20 last week, that was him. Only the best people, you know.) I met "it" at the tourney dinner and almost threw up right there. He was cheating on wife #1 with eventual wife #2 at the time. As we said in those days, "Gag me with a spoon."

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Wow, you have some real Trump experience. This is why for 8 years I've been writing essays and comedy about him being the worst person. He's an awful person.

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Jude Johnson's avatar

Same -- and thank you.

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Tim Toaster's avatar

Anybody ever remember a president of the United States telling people that they can’t celebrate a holiday

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Trump sucks up our attention like a sociopathic black hole.

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Tim Toaster's avatar

Well, he insists on it by calling the news every day & saying something ridiculous.

Because Trump doesn’t know history, he wants nobody to know history

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

We're lucky Trump doesn't read, is the poster boy of Dunning-Kruger ignorance, and is too incurious about the world to figure out how government really works.

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Julie O's avatar

I do enjoy your comedy. But after reading this, I see your strength lies in serious commentary. Thanks for putting into words how I've been feeling but unable to express because I'm so overwhelmed! The constant daily deluge of his shitstorm is suffocating.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

I like to think if people can't handle me at my most sophomoric, juvenile comedy, they don't deserve me at my most serious, erudite commentary lol Thanks for following my work! :D

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Julie O's avatar

😂👍🏻

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JLBW's avatar

Well, hot damn! If this isn't the best thing I've read in a long time...

Thank you!

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Thank you for the kind words! :D

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D. Joan Lockwood's avatar

Well said!

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Thanks! :D

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ElaineD's avatar

Call me an uneducated Canadian on US politics, but.. WHY is this man not being impeached? I'm sorry, but I just don't fuck'n get it. I didn't get how he was allowed to run for this office in the first place!

I find it abso-fuck'n-lutely unbelievable that this 🍊💩 is signing all these orders, then just hitting the fuck'n golf course!

I find it abso-fuck'n-lutely outrageous that all these politicians are just bowing down to this asswipe!

I listen to a lot of talk, but sure ain't seeing any action.

(If I'm this fuck'n upset, I feel for all you down there that feel as I do!)

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Lori's avatar

I don't understand it either. He's committed way more crimes than the immigrants.

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Lisa Pearce's avatar

I absolutely LOVE the new word I learned just now..."pavlovianized"...how apt a description is that for the magats?! Thank you, please keep writing!

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Christie's avatar

His “derangement” is textbook classic narcissism. For some reason as a society, we can’t get enough of the narcs.

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Lori's avatar

Don't forget about him saying he hated Taylor Swift in all caps in the middle of the night. I can't imagine any 78 year old man that I know, acting like that, let alone, writing it!! He's out of his mind. Needs to be impeached.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

He might descend so deep into madness that he gets impeached a third time :D

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Marianne Cromarty's avatar

He is malignant to the extent that every time he is mentioned hate starts to crop up like a disease. Even if you hate him, he evokes that hate because of what he is! If people follow him and like him they become hateful and hostile towards those who hate him! He’s built an army of haters who are actually dangerous because he spreads dangerous misinformation and lies and hate. He convinces others to do his dirty work through his lies and deception! He is completely evil.

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Lori.'s avatar

I agree. Totally. It is a bottomless pit of madness. I was so hoping he would have disappeared.

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Lyndsay's avatar

The man is a National embarrassment

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Ilene Fischer's avatar

Well said

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Deborah Grace Steward's avatar

Not comedy - commentary - and right on point!

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Ani Weaver's avatar

This post doesn't seem like comedy.

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The Halfway Cafe's avatar

Occasionally I write serious articles! That's why I call my Substack "The Halfway Café" to differentiate just slightly from my satire brand "The Halfway Post" :D

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