TDS is mutating! Call it Trumupu (pronounced True - moo - poo).
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...rat-trump-musk-putin-paranoia-merge-into-one/
FOR ONE LEADING DEMOCRAT, TRUMP PARANOIA, MUSK PARANOIA, AND PUTIN PARANOIA MERGE INTO ONE. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is one of the Democrats urging his party to resist President Donald Trump more aggressively across a broad range of issues. “Mr. Murphy has seemed to be everywhere, all at once, since Inauguration Day,” the New York Times recently wrote, “staging a loud and constant resistance to Mr. Trump at a time when Democrats are struggling to figure out how to respond to him.”
Murphy has exhibited the usual Resistance obsessions, focusing furiously on Trump, Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk, and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. And now, as he devotes his energy to trying to stop the president’s effort to bring peace to Ukraine, Murphy has combined all those fixations into a sort of grand unified theory of Trump — what he calls the “bigger story.”
Murphy explained the theory in an appearance on CNN on Sunday. Trump and Musk, he said, are scheming with Putin to “transition America into a kleptocratic oligarchy” to “steal our data, to steal our Medicare, to steal our Medicaid.” Huh? Here’s the complete quote, beginning with Murphy’s assessment of the contentious Oval Office meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:
The entire pretext for that meeting was an attempt to rewrite history in order to sign a deal with Putin that hands Putin Ukraine. That is disastrous for U.S. national security. That means that China will be on the march. Putin may not stop. America may be at war with a nuclear power. And for what? For what? It appears as if America is trying to align itself with dictators, that Donald Trump wants us to have our closest relationships with despots all around the world, because that makes it easier for him to transition America into a kleptocratic oligarchy, where Elon Musk and Donald Trump rule and steal from the American people. If we were allied with democracies, that would be harder. But if the United States’s closest partner is Russia, then it makes it a lot easier for Donald Trump, Elon, and their billionaire pals to steal from the American people, to steal our data, to steal our Medicare, to steal our Medicaid in order to enrich themselves.
Can’t you see it? It all fits together if you just look at it the right way. When Murphy finished, the CNN host, Dana Bash, diplomatically said, “There was a lot there.”
Without any psychiatric training, it would be unfair to suggest the senator exhibited some signs of particularly fevered thinking, of, say, apophenia, the phenomenon by which “a person inclined to believe conspiracies may tie together unrelated information and events, weaving together a narrative that is in line with what they perceive as truth,” as described by Psychology Today. But it does appear that Murphy believes he has discovered a pattern of relationships between things, such as Medicaid and Ukraine, that are not in fact related. You might not see it, but Murphy does. Maybe it would be OK to say he appears to suffer from political apophenia. (Just to be clear, hopefully, most people can agree that, for example, long-standing efforts to curb the skyrocketing costs of Medicare and Medicaid are not a Kremlin plot.)
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...rat-trump-musk-putin-paranoia-merge-into-one/
FOR ONE LEADING DEMOCRAT, TRUMP PARANOIA, MUSK PARANOIA, AND PUTIN PARANOIA MERGE INTO ONE. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is one of the Democrats urging his party to resist President Donald Trump more aggressively across a broad range of issues. “Mr. Murphy has seemed to be everywhere, all at once, since Inauguration Day,” the New York Times recently wrote, “staging a loud and constant resistance to Mr. Trump at a time when Democrats are struggling to figure out how to respond to him.”
Murphy has exhibited the usual Resistance obsessions, focusing furiously on Trump, Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk, and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. And now, as he devotes his energy to trying to stop the president’s effort to bring peace to Ukraine, Murphy has combined all those fixations into a sort of grand unified theory of Trump — what he calls the “bigger story.”
Murphy explained the theory in an appearance on CNN on Sunday. Trump and Musk, he said, are scheming with Putin to “transition America into a kleptocratic oligarchy” to “steal our data, to steal our Medicare, to steal our Medicaid.” Huh? Here’s the complete quote, beginning with Murphy’s assessment of the contentious Oval Office meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky:
The entire pretext for that meeting was an attempt to rewrite history in order to sign a deal with Putin that hands Putin Ukraine. That is disastrous for U.S. national security. That means that China will be on the march. Putin may not stop. America may be at war with a nuclear power. And for what? For what? It appears as if America is trying to align itself with dictators, that Donald Trump wants us to have our closest relationships with despots all around the world, because that makes it easier for him to transition America into a kleptocratic oligarchy, where Elon Musk and Donald Trump rule and steal from the American people. If we were allied with democracies, that would be harder. But if the United States’s closest partner is Russia, then it makes it a lot easier for Donald Trump, Elon, and their billionaire pals to steal from the American people, to steal our data, to steal our Medicare, to steal our Medicaid in order to enrich themselves.
Can’t you see it? It all fits together if you just look at it the right way. When Murphy finished, the CNN host, Dana Bash, diplomatically said, “There was a lot there.”
Without any psychiatric training, it would be unfair to suggest the senator exhibited some signs of particularly fevered thinking, of, say, apophenia, the phenomenon by which “a person inclined to believe conspiracies may tie together unrelated information and events, weaving together a narrative that is in line with what they perceive as truth,” as described by Psychology Today. But it does appear that Murphy believes he has discovered a pattern of relationships between things, such as Medicaid and Ukraine, that are not in fact related. You might not see it, but Murphy does. Maybe it would be OK to say he appears to suffer from political apophenia. (Just to be clear, hopefully, most people can agree that, for example, long-standing efforts to curb the skyrocketing costs of Medicare and Medicaid are not a Kremlin plot.)
