Posted on 01/08/2018 5:34:45 PM PST by Kaslin
Boy, it's cold across America.
It's so cold, politicians are picking their own pockets, people are flocking inside the U.S. Capitol just for the hot air, and the outlook for anti-Trumpers has been downgraded from miserable and bewildered to hopelessly depressed.
Here's one reason anti-Trumpers are especially down this winter: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
According to About.com , this woeful malady is triggered by overcast winter weather. Lack of exposure to sunlight can cause low levels of melatonin and serotonin. Low levels of both cause depression-like symptoms.
Lots of people are affected by SAD at this time every year, but, according to Dr. Norman Rosenthal - who, reports Newsweek, was the "first to describe the syndrome" - anti-Trumpers are especially susceptible to SAD symptoms this year.
That's because stress exacerbates SAD symptoms, and anti-Trumpers are under severe stress.
"You know, people are worried, then you hear that the president is going to annihilate North Korea," Rosenthal tells Newsweek. "I think these stressors definitely do register more powerfully."
Anti-Trumpers must also contend with a sizable list of Trump administration accomplishments.
President Trump successfully appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch, a solid conservative, to the Supreme Court, and is the first president to have 12 appellate appointments confirmed by the Senate during the first year of his presidency.
He signed into law the largest tax-reform bill in 31 years - a bill that makes conservatives happy as it makes anti-Trumpers sad.
"In addition to slashing the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent, the landmark legislation cut individual rates for all income tax levels, doubled the child tax credit to $2,000, and dramatically increased the standard deduction," reports the Washington Examiner.
Trump is slowly dismantling ObamaCare, which drove up premiums and deductibles for millions of middle-class Americans. The individual mandate was repealed as part of Republican tax reform.
Repealing the individual mandate is a big first step toward replacing ObamaCare's complexity with more creative health-care reform strategy that addresses the elephant in the living room: massive costs.
That can be accomplished, in part, by introducing a variety of market-based options that give patients more control over the insurance they choose, the dollars they spend and the health-care decisions they make with their doctors.
Another step toward reducing premiums and deductibles - toward extending high-quality insurance and care to the uninsured and needy - is to tackle massive complexity, and there is growing optimism that Trump may succeed in doing so.
Trump is undoing a variety of costly regulations imposed on the country during the Obama administration - many of these regulations impeded economic growth.
According to the Examiner, the Trump administration has "canceled or delayed more than 1,500 regulations in the first 11 months" and "ultimately cut 22 regulations for each new one enacted (last) year, saving taxpayers billions of dollars over the coming years."
In any event, some of Trump's "conservative" successes may be a pleasant surprise to conservatives and libertarians, who were not big Trump supporters (I am in this group), but they are extremely unpleasant to progressives - particularly during this bitter-cold winter.
Their SAD symptoms include increased anxiety and irritability. They are eating less and having difficulty falling asleep. They are craving carbohydrates and packing on weight, eating junk food.
So I empathize with you, my Trump-loathing friends. The only hope for you is that Trump's tax and regulation reforms work so well that America's economy enjoys 4-percent growth again.
We'll be so busy depositing our economic windfall in the bank, nobody will have time to suffer SAD symptoms.
[the outlook for anti-Trumpers has been downgraded from miserable and bewildered to hopelessly depressed.]
Somebody check Glenn Beck for Cheetos.
"Winter lasts forever!"
800 automobiles flooded w wrecked electrical systems by this frozen slush storm from hell. In the Boston area
TO BAD, SO SAD for the anti TRUMPERS.
I actually enjoy winter and even the cold weather that comes with it.
Perfect time for pruning the orchard.
Perfect for cutting and splitting fire wood (I still do it by hand).
Perfect time for doing those little chores that you let slide during the growing and irrigation season.
Perfect time for vehicle maintenance.
About a month ago perfect time for mulching and plowing the fields.
Perfect time for cleaning out the barn and when your done, just sitting and listening to the snow flakes falling (yes you can actually hear them on a still calm evening).
Perfect time for sitting in front of the fireplace with my wife of 40 years and enjoying a good scotch and conversation.
Yes, winter time is SO HORRIBLE.
>>>”You know, people are worried, then you hear that the president is going to annihilate North Korea,” Rosenthal tells Newsweek<<<
I must have mossed that statement from President Trump.
Does Mr. Rosenthal live in North Korea or something?
Ha!
Great list of accomplishments
The Good Lord delivers me plenty of firewood into my yard.
But He doesn't cut it or stack it.
I am SO glad the wifey convinced me to get a log splitter 2 years ago!
Proverbs 29:2 NIV
When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;
when the wicked rule, the people groan.
"You know, people are worried, then you hear that the president is going to annihilate North Korea," Rosenthal tells Newsweek. "I think these stressors definitely do register more powerfully."
If you believe the media, and never question them, and you fall for their lies, then I guess things look pretty bleak.
There's one problem, though.
Trump NEVER said this, at least in the context of just blurting that out arbitrarily.
I cannot fathom the Left. For 50 years we lived in a world of Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD, where the peace was kept because our enemy the Soviets KNEW that if they pushed the button, they too would die.
So now we have North Korea, with a far more rabidly crazy government and dictator, getting nuclear weapons and missiles capable of reaching our cities and this President offers the SAME MAD policy to them... Why is this our President's "fault"???
Do they think no other president would come up with this?
Sure, it puts us ALL in jeopardy, but a logical, fully sane person would realize it is North Korea that puts the world in jeopardy, not the USA.
I thought the Left was FOR non proliferation? I thought the Left was pro-United Nations? So the UN has imposed sanctions against North Korea to prevent them from getting, and now make them get rid of their nuclear weapons.
How can they blame this on Trump?
The only thing I can come up with is they're either insane, or the world's biggest pussies.
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