Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive
A little-known senator from the state to our south — Arizona, for the geographically impaired — has drafted a bill for the 2026 legislative session in which it is proposed we study “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Why do some people, she wants to know, react so negatively to Donald Trump?
Sen. Janae Shamp’s quixotic quest calls for the Arizona Health Department to research TDS, including its “origins, manifestations, and long-term effects on individuals, communities, and public discourse.”
It points out what a great country we live in, and how Trump has clearly made it beautiful again, yet some still suffer “political anxiety and bias … undermining civil discourse in Arizona and beyond.”
This “irrational animus” has resulted in two assassination attempts on President Trump, the bill asserts, calling TDS a “dangerous escalation” of hatred. People fall ill with it, not unlike the picture below.
This bill probably won’t become law because Arizona’s Democrat governor — Katie Hobbs — suffers from TDS herself. But, Nevada has a Republican governor. Maybe we should try her bill out here.
We could start by rounding up people with the most serious cases — Sen. Jacky Rosen and Rep. Dina Titus come to mind. We could shoo them into an ambulance at the next anti-ICE rally and take them to St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center. With luck, we’ll get inside those brains and understand what’s wrong. Maybe develop a pill to cure it.
It’s worth a shot. Who’s with me?
SOMETHING’S BURNING
The Walls are closing in on Rep. Ilhan Omar and how she went from negative net worth to a multi-millionaire while in government service.
The New York Post, over the holidays, carried a piece on the strange goings on with Rep. Omar’s pocketbook:
“Omar (D-MN) went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year — as a massive, up to $9 billion fraud scheme involving the Somali community in her district unfolded right under her nose in Minnesota.”
Here’s a recap of the thick smoke in the air:
- — In the massive Minnesota fraud case involving the Somali community, 90 people have been charged so far, including at least three people with direct ties to Ms. Omar.
— Ms. Omar introduced the MEALS Act in Congress in 2020, relaxing oversight of government-sponsored children’s meals programs during the pandemic, which critics say allowed fraudsters to claim they served millions of meals without verification, while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies.
— Omar’s husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, launched Rose Lake Capital in 2022, a venture capital management firm. The company saw its reported value go from nearly zero in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million in just a year. It claims to have amassed an astonishing $60 billion in assets under management.
— Omar and her husband bought a vineyard in California called estCRU, LLC. It failed during the pandemic and was sued by an investor who claimed he was swindled out of $900k. It was settled out of court. In 2023, the vineyard was claimed to be worth $15,000 to $50,000. But in 2024, it suddenly became worth $1-5 million.
There’s gotta be a fire in there somewhere.
(Sherman R. Frederick is a longtime Nevada journalist and a member of the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame. You can read more from him at shermanfrederick.substack.com.)
