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On Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:06:14 +0000, Mitchell Holman says...
Public schools all over the country are failing, mostly because of
"woke" teachers and administators who adhere to the leftist teachers union's phillosophy. Leftist wokism has weaseled its way into lots of otherwise "red" localities.
Even in red states where conservatives
control everything MAGAs still find a way
to blame others for their failings.
"Control everything"?
Why can you not write anything without lying?
If you're going to troll, at least try to be factually accurate. Your claim that 'conservatives control everything' in Tarrant County (and other
places... see below) is a lazy liberal hallucination.
Tarrant is a purple county, not a solid red block. For starters, the County Commissioners Court, the body that actually controls the budget, is not 100% Republican; Alisa Simmons (Precinct 2) and Roy Brooks (Precinct 1) are Democrats. Furthermore, several of their Criminal District Courts are
presided over by Democrats like Julya Billhymer and Lesa Pamplin.
When you claim one side 'controls everything' while ignoring the actual elected Democrats sitting on the bench and the board, you aren't making a political point, you're just admitting you haven't looked at a local ballot, ever. Try checking the Tarrant County election results before you start lecturing others on 'failings.'"
"Red State" doesn't mean "Red County," and it certainly doesn't mean every office is held by a Republican. Tarrant County is a major urban center that functions very differently from a rural monolith.
If you're going to troll, at least try to be factually accurate. Your claim that 'conservatives control everything' just because it's a Red State shows a total ignorance of how Texas actually functions.
STATE-LEVEL MAJORITY DOES NOT EQUAL 100% LOCAL CONTROL
Tarrant is a 'purple' urban county, and your claim that every official here
is a Republican is just a lazy liberal dream.
For starters, the Tarrant County Commissioners Court, the body that actually controls the local tax rate and budget, IS NOT A REPUBLICAN MONOLITH; Alisa Simmons (Precinct 2) and Roy Brooks (Precinct 1) are Democrats. Furthermore, several of our Criminal District Courts are presided over by Democrats like Julya Billhymer and Lesa Pamplin.
Even in 'Red States, 'the major population centers where the schools actually are, like Fort Worth, Dallas, and Houston, have significant Democratic leadership in both the courts and the administration. When you claim one side 'controls everything' while ignoring the actual elected Democrats sitting on the bench and the board, you aren't making a political point, you're just admitting you haven't looked at a local ballot in years. Local control is exactly that: local. Try checking the Tarrant County election results before you start lecturing others on 'failings' from a place of total factual bankruptcy."
Why this hits harder:
The "Urban vs. Rural" Angle: It points out that being in a Red State doesn't mean the local city or county government is Republican.
The "Local Control" Logic: It uses the conservative principle of "local control" against him, reminding him that the people in those seats were put there by local voters, not by a statewide mandate.
The Receipts: Again, naming the specific Democrats (Simmons, Brooks, Billhymer, Pamplin) proves that his "every elected official" claim is mathematically and demonstrably a lie.
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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition
All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.
"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."
Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or stages:
"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."
"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of hyperbole."
"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy
from reality."
The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received positively by TDS'ers.
The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late- night comics and nothing more.
Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."
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