In today’s episode of “Everything Is the End of the World When a Republican Wins,” former View shouter and longtime Donald Trump antagonist Rosie O’Donnell has once again made headlines — this time by confessing that Trump’s election in 2016 sent her into a full-blown depression spiral complete with booze, overeating, and enough melodrama to keep a soap opera writer employed for years.
Speaking on Chris Cuomo’s podcast (yes, that Chris Cuomo, of CNN-prime-time-turned-internet-obscurity fame), O’Donnell explained how the mere thought of Trump in the White House broke her. Not politically, mind you. Existentially.
“I was very, very depressed. I was overeating. I was overdrinking. … I was so depressed, Chris,” she said, presumably clutching a throw pillow while wistfully staring at a distant wall.
She added that Trump’s victory in 2024 (yes, again) sent her packing — literally — to Ireland, where she’s now living with her non-binary autistic child. And before anyone could ask, yes, she connected that move to something she claims Trump is planning to destroy: services and counseling. Enter stage left: the villain known only as the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Now, look. No one wants to make light of depression, especially when it’s clinical. But when every emotional breakdown is politicized and blamed on whoever happens to be holding a GOP flag that year, it starts to sound less like a cry for help and more like a craving for attention.
And that’s the real problem here. O’Donnell isn’t just explaining her personal struggles — she’s broadcasting them as a cautionary tale about what happens when “the wrong people” win elections. And of course, by “wrong people,” she means anyone to the right of Rachel Maddow.
This, folks, is a textbook example of what modern leftism has become: a rotating cycle of outrage, victimhood, and self-soothing rituals wrapped in identity politics and served up with a side of Chardonnay and a donation link.
It’s not just Rosie. Every time a Republican wins, social media becomes an avalanche of despair memes, “I’m moving to Canada” tweets, and therapeutic screaming into the void. (Remember when Trump won in 2016 and college campuses set up coloring stations and brought in therapy dogs?)
Meanwhile, conservatives? They go back to work. They pick their kids up from school. They grumble, sure, but then they start planning for the next round — like adults.
Because that’s the real divide in America right now. Not race. Not gender. Not even party. It’s the emotional maturity gap.
Conservatives lose an election, and they strategize.
Liberals lose one, and it’s tears, existential crises, TikTok confessionals, and “safe spaces” where people whisper words of affirmation over scented candles.
There’s also this exhausting assumption that if you didn’t spiral into a mental health crisis over a Republican victory, then you’re somehow heartless or uninformed. As if the only acceptable response to a GOP win is collapsing into a pool of your own tears while researching one-way tickets to Europe.
No thanks.
The truth is, no president — not Trump, not Biden, not even the dearly missed Grover Cleveland — can control your destiny. They can influence the economy, foreign policy, and cultural momentum, but they can’t take away your work ethic, your right to speak freely, or your ability to create a good life.
What can ruin those things, however, is wallowing in self-pity, numbing your brain with alcohol, and teaching your kids that elections are life-or-death events instead of just another part of the democratic process.
We’ve got to stop enabling this mentality. Because at some point, being perpetually offended stops being an emotional reaction and becomes a lifestyle choice — one that’s corrosive to both society and the people trapped in it.
So here’s a better idea: accept that not everyone is going to agree with you, acknowledge that sometimes your candidate loses, and then… move on.
Write in a journal. Say a prayer. Help someone in need. Do literally anything other than blaming your wine habit on the electoral map.
And Rosie? If you’re reading this from Ireland, here’s some advice: the next time America elects someone you don’t like, maybe don’t panic-pack your suitcase. Instead, take a walk. Call a friend. Or better yet, just… act like an adult.
It’s time to stop throwing temper tantrums in the name of political heartbreak. The rest of us have real work to do.
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