Posted on 12/15/2025 8:40:03 AM PST by Red Badger
* When politics consumes every waking hour, something closer to home is usually being avoided.
* Activism becomes dangerous when it replaces responsibility instead of living alongside it.
* Rage aimed outward often masks chaos that no one wants to confront inward.
* You can scream about saving the country and still fail to notice your own family falling apart.
* Obsession is not conviction, and it doesn’t make anyone a better parent.
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BRIEFING
Jett here. Politics didn’t just get louder over the last decade; it got uglier, meaner, and way more personal. But when Trump came down that escalator, he didn’t start the fire; he exposed it. Let’s get into it.
Trump didn’t invent political rage; it’s always been simmering beneath the fake, polite surface. He challenged a power structure that had been protected for generations, and when that structure felt threatened, the mask came off. What poured out was anger, desperation, and a scorched-earth need to crush an outsider. Careers were sacrificed. Friendships detonated. Families split in half.
The mainstream media played a central role in all of this. They fed the American public a steady diet of hysteria, lies, and historical illiteracy that convinced millions that Trump was “literally Hitler.” They said borders were “racist,” and words were violence. Absurd claims became moral law. And once people swallowed that hooey, something darker set in: Stage 5 TDS. Total emotional capture and rage without brakes.
That obsession didn’t just live online. It followed people home. It consumed time, energy, attention, and perspective. You see it again and again with these high-profile Trump haters. Endless interviews. Constant rage posting. Trump as the centerpiece of their very existence. And quietly in the background, families unraveling, kids struggling, addictions spiraling, and relationships breaking under the weight of neglect, chaos, and political obsession.
Which brings us to the late Rob Reiner.
Reiner became one of Hollywood’s loudest anti-Trump voices, to the point where activism seemed to replace everything else in his life. The career faded into the background, while his Trump hate became the new mission. And now, in the wake of he and his wife’s stabbing murder, likely committed by his drug-addicted son, it forces an uncomfortable but necessary question: At what point does political obsession replace responsibility at home?
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Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, according to multiple sources who have spoken with family members. Police have not yet confirmed the account.
On Sunday, Dec. 14, at about 3:30 p.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) was called to a home to provide medical aid, the LAFD told PEOPLE. Upon arrival, they found a man, 78, and a woman, 68, dead. Sources confirm the victims were Rob and Michele.
Police say Nick, 32, is alive and being questioned. No arrests have been made.
You can’t help but wonder… is a culture of nonstop political rage pulling people away from the things that actually need their attention, patience, and care? Parenting, healing, addiction, broken bonds, real life, none of this stuff disappears just because Trump obsession takes over your entire identity. The family troubles fester and become worse.
And when these same troubled, distracted, and rage-filled people also claim absolute “moral authority” over how the country should be run and how people like you and me should vote, while their own lives are a total shit show, it raises a question that can’t be dismissed: How can you know what’s best for me when you can’t even hold your family together?
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Wow Rob Reiner’s son did 17 rehab stints while still in his teens. I can’t believe Rob Reiner was so insanely political. How can you claim to have absolute knowledge about what is best for everyone else when your family is a complete disaster?
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Rob Reiner's son did 17 rehab stints while still in his teens.
I can't believe Rob Reiner was so insanely political.
How can you claim to have absolute knowledge about what is best for everyone else when your family is a complete disaster?
10:53 PM · Dec 14, 2025 · 121.9K Views
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Is politics becoming a refuge from reality? A place to pour anger so you don’t have to confront what hurts closer to home.
According to Reiner’s son Nick, he was never able to truly bond with his father because Rob was always busy. The article dates back nearly a decade, right as the Trump phenomenon was ramping up and as Reiner was beginning what would become a long, consuming descent into Stage 5 TDS.
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In an interview with BUILD Series posted on May 5, 2016, Nick shared how making Being Charlie brought the pair closer together after the two failed to “bond” a lot when he was a child.
Sadly, this isn’t just about one family or one left-wing ideology. The same pattern shows up with other prominent Trump haters like Robert De Niro, Rosie O’Donnell, George Conway, and countless others. Each has highly public, deeply troubled home lives, yet all the public ever hears is “Trump, Trump, Trump.” This is what happens when politics stops being civic engagement and turns into emotional possession. And the cost of that kind of obsession is far higher and far more damaging than most people are willing to admit.
DEBRIEFING
What happened to the Reiner family is horrific.
But pretending this story exists in a vacuum would be dishonest. For more than a decade now, politics has stopped being something many people engage with and turned into something that consumes them. Trump didn’t invent that sickness, but he exposed it.
We’ve watched it play out again and again. Careers hollowed out and reputations reduced to memes and punchlines. And families quietly unraveling in the background while the public TDS performance never stops. When every waking thought, interview, post, and appearance revolves around one man, something else is being neglected.
For many on the left, political obsession has become a convenient place to pour energy that might otherwise be spent dealing with real-life pain, dysfunction, or fear closer to home. It’s easier to fight a villain on TV than to sit with a child who’s hurting. Easier to rage at voters than to confront your own family that’s falling apart.
Stage 5 TDS doesn’t just rot public discourse. It corrodes judgment, perspective, and priorities. It convinces people that yelling into the void is moral, while tending to the mess in their own lives can wait. And the longer that imbalance goes unchecked, the higher the cost becomes.
NOW YOU KNOW
When rage politics takes over, families don’t survive.
You can know our child is in danger and do everything you can think of to help and have it still not work out. I’ve seen it up close, not my family but up close.
The problem with rehab is that it doesn’t treat the underlying problem, which isn’t the drug, but a problem inside the mind that leads to the drug in an attempt to cope with the mental pain. Also, very successful parents can make children feel inadequate, leading to personality problems.
Romy and Michelle?
I don’t know how much time Reiner took with the political stuff. An “X” posting or putting up money for an organization doesn’t take that much of you personally, especially if you are wealthy. I have known people with family problems and similarly difficult children who “did everything right”.
Sometimes it is genes, sometimes it exposure to drugs out of the parents’ sight that changes the trajectory, sometimes it is a malacious outside actor, sometimes it is just a bad kid.
The fact that adult children were both at the parents’ house tells me that they were not neglected, nor had the parents “given up” on them.
That said, the syndrome the article writer describes is not unknown. One-hundred and fifty years ago, in Dickens’ “Bleak House”, the comic character Mrs. Jellyby exhibited an extreme version of this, driving her family into bankruptcy, and driving everyone crazy because of her obsession with the poor people in Borrioboola-Gha, while her children are in rags, and the house is a mess. When it turned out that teh man running the project was stealing all the money, she immeditely pivoted to get women in Parliament, without even acknowledging tht all her efforts were for naught.
When the dust settles, you will likely find out that the apple didn’t fall far from the tree, Rob Reiner’s son had probably been on psychotic drugs and receiving extensive counseling for years, when you take an unstable person, pump them full of psychotic drugs and put them thru extensive counseling, what do you expect ?? A violent crazy person, who eventually will kill the people who put him thru torture.
One devastating result of hearts turning from trusting in the Lord has been the utterly destructive Women's Movement, the justification for the almost wall-to-wall rebellion of women from their God-given domestic roles, the erosion of the family and society, the Slaughter of the Innocents, and the rise of the Radical Left.
"TDS" and parricide are some of the fruits of this poisons tree.
Correction: "Reiner himself had one year left after Trump was elected."
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He fantasized about how perfect life would be after the old white men died.
Son got the message.
Ironically it is Trump who is trying to curtail drugs into the US.
That said, having one's throat slit is a terrible, horrible way to die, especially if it's at the hand of one's one son.
President Trump's response:
Just think if Reiner’s last name was Gurr
I feel very sorry for the family...I did not pay much attention to Reiner, but having dealt with a schizo sister (my hub banner from our home @35 yrs ago)...it is likely the whole family has had to deal with drama for many years.
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This guy was a Hypocrite times 10. Mansions in Brentwood and Malibu.
I think that’s really in poor taste.
There were leftist posts about Charlie Kirk’s murder that I reported that didn’t read much differently.
Hard times make strong men: We should have some maturing into manhood circa 2050.
Of course, Mr. President. It’s all about you.
Something similar happened with the writer Paul Auster and his family. In his case, it was his granddaughter and drug addicted son who died while Auster was hectoring the country about politics.
But in LA’s higher circles even parents who aren’t obsessively political have messed up kids. Also, we only saw one side of Reiner — the political. People who knew him said that in a lot of ways he was a decent guy.
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Some people are missing the point. Happiness and Peace eluded Rob Reiner.
Yes. We dealt with a violent schizophrenic, drug abusing relative in our family - I was sure he was going to kill my aunt who kept letting him return home, over and over again.
He refused to take his meds and went out looking for fights.
She was finally able to get him into a locked facility, but it took a lot of time and money to do this.
Yes, it's supposed to be a Dickens world out there. The Yin and Yang of bounty and hardship.
From a leftist democrat perspective, it's the result of failing to get an abortion. (Not a perspective I share, but it is self evident within their doctrine)
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