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William Seger

(12,119 posts)
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 09:53 AM Friday

Well, I'm glad I got THIS off my chest

I have a YouTube that I only use for harassing #rump cultist, and I've been using it a lot this past week. I've received surprisingly few replies, and most of them have just been accusations of "TDS." I finally had enough of that and posted the following reply to the last one:

If you DO NOT have what trump cultists call TDS, that means you refuse to recognize or just don't care that he is an obnoxiously self-obsessed and vindictive, malignant narcissist; the most prolific and BLATANT pathological liar American politics has ever seen; a racist and xenophobic bigot; a sociopath who has lied and cheated his way through every aspect of his life, including cheating his way into college and out of the draft, cheating contractors and cheating on taxes and loan application in his businesses, creating a fake university and a fake charity, cheating on all three of his wives, and he even cheats at golf. He's a misogynist and an unregistered sex offender; a twice-impeached and 36-count convicted felon who ran out the clock on many more certain convictions. He's a seditionist who tried to overturn his ego-crushing election loss with fake electors and a lie-driven riot, and who pardoned over 1500 seditionists who attacked the Capitol, including ones who injured 140 policemen and wanted to hang Pence for not caving into a lawless rejection of the valid electors. And most importantly, he's a wannabe fascist dictator who ignores the Constitution and has already usurped significant Constitutional powers from a complacent Republican Congress, including charging tariffs, deciding how tax money is spent, killing or decimating departments and programs, and starting a war. He created the most unqualified cabinet in history, and we have since found that many of them are indeed dangerously incompetent — especially his Secretary of War Crimes and Secretary of Weaponized Justice — and he embarrasses them, himself and our country by having meetings where he goes around the room demanding praise. His narcissism is a serious weakness that makes him easy to manipulate by people like Putin and anyone who wants favors like pardons, and it also causes him to take credit for things he had nothing to do with while NEVER taking responsibility for ANYTHING. He destroyed an historic part of OUR presidential mansion to create a vanity royal ballroom, and wants that and a dozen other things around Washington named after himself. He won 2024 by a thin margin, but he thinks he is only president of Republicans, while he calls Democrats "garbage" for not supporting him. He insults journalists for asking questions that expose his failures and mendacity while calling facts "fake news" and lies "alternative facts." He and his family openly commit "pay-to-play" that he spent 6 years unsuccessfully trying to pin on the Bidens, and they are now $1.4 billion richer than they were in January. And now, since his re-election, he's showing unmistakable signs of a mental illness called power psychosis, which is characterized by delusions of grandeur, delusions of infallibility, delusions of never being held accountable, delusions of unchecked power, and paranoid delusions. He is an awful president because he is an awful human being. If you DO NOT have this TDS, what the hell is wrong with YOU!? If you've lost friends and alienated family members because of your support for Trump, it's because they're wondering that same thing, and accusing THEM of derangement just makes it worse.


After all that typing, from now on, I'm going to repost that on every "TDS" reply I get. I know I only hit the highlights, but it was getting too long.
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jfz9580m

(16,359 posts)
3. That's some awesome fluid prose
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 10:33 AM
Friday

I want to re-read it though because it sounds a tad flattering .

After all that typing, from now on, I'm going to repost that on every "TDS" reply I get. I know I only hit the highlights, but it was getting too long.


I try that sometimes…reposting the same things when they are things I feel should be seen. But I worry I would be taken for a bot.
I am planning on improving the writing in DU posts going forward. I should put more thought into them.

I had an existential crisis over alarm that I could be mistaken for whatever an influencer is and then realized with relief that no, there is a term for what I am is a “grassroots activist”. Now if I could only figure out how that applies these days to my tangled path.

My mom used to write letters to the editor. But this is something more complicated, but at least I have started finding my feet.

BOSSHOG

(44,348 posts)
4. Excellent letter William Seger
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 11:35 AM
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Way too many words for a trump supporter to read let alone comprehend. Highlighting the incredible chasm between us and them. THANK YOU for your efforts on our behalf.

PatSeg

(51,726 posts)
7. Very effective
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 11:56 AM
Friday

If you plan to use it again however, I suggest you break it into several paragraphs. It is hard to read and you could lose a few readers after the first few sentences.

Of course, as others have mentioned, it is possible most MAGATs wouldn't read more than a few words, if that. They usually read just enough to start or prolong a fight.

Gaugamela

(3,128 posts)
8. The cult thinks WE'RE the ones with TDS. Cult members always accuse
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 11:59 AM
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the “normies” of being brainwashed by some kind of indoctrination or religion.

FakeNoose

(39,784 posts)
9. Well this is an awesome reply, but I doubt they will read it
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 12:14 PM
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From now on you'll be targeted and tormented by some hideously demented people.
I know your intentions are good, but you might want to quit Youtube after this.
(We'd all understand if you do.)

William Seger

(12,119 posts)
18. That might not be far from wrong, given how hard it is to avoid thinking about what he's done
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 08:42 PM
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... and so afraid of what he'll do next that I spend way too much time checking the news.

ybbor

(1,696 posts)
11. Brilliant!
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 12:24 PM
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I want to send it to my in-laws, and, unfortunately, a couple of siblings.

Bravo!!!

1WorldHope

(1,814 posts)
12. I'm glad you got it off your chest too. It's all over mine. 😜
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 12:25 PM
Friday

Keep planting those seeds. Eventually, something has to grow.

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