A Mental Health Facility.
Reiner said we have one year left after Trump was elected.
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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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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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?
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.
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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.
Sadly, Rob Reiner should have been more concerned
about his dangerous son rather than being worried
and obsessed with President Trump.
But now it’s too late 😲 of course.
Another interesting tidbit not yet discussed:
“In 1997, Reiner and Singer founded the I Am Your Child Foundation,
and in 2004, they established Parents’ Action for Children, a nonprofit organization with a dual purpose: 1) to raise awareness of the importance of a child’s early years by producing and distributing celebrity-hosted educational videos for parents, and 2) to advance public policy through parental education and advocacy.[49]”
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Reiner
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You can’t make up this stuff.
“No arrests have been made.”
Nick arrested.
“You can scream about saving the country and still fail to notice your own family falling apart”
This reminds me of Robert De Niro’s grandson dying of a drug overdose.
Did De Niro not know that kid was in danger?
TDS consumes people and spills over to harm others. It’s sad, really.
“producing and distributing celebrity-hosted educational videos for parents”
Can you imagine a WORSE bunch of people to expound on parenting than celebrities?
The therapies for mental health disorders are more often than not ineffective and lacking. However when people try to use politics as therapy, it usually harmful for the individual and society.
He probably confessed............
The left needs to understand , their open endorsement of violence and crime wont only send looney liberals after republicans…. The loonies will think its a viable solution to any personal issues they have, maybe even with each other.
All fair, but also the oldest story around. Raising your kids in a community of excess privilege is beyond tough, given how many of their peers are so troubled and so into drugs.
Son was a boy during the “Participation Trophy” era during which boys were taught to hate manhood.
Good times make weak men
Weak men make hard times
TDS is a common mental disease, but his was one of the most extreme.
He actually predicted timing of his death pretty well.
Meathead aka F’head.
Hollywood filth.
Hate and Anger lead to the Dark Side. Rob Reiner was seduced by the Dark Side. His every waking moment was consumed by it. I know people like this. Soon they become so angry that they lose control. Any slight causes them to blow up because anger is their default setting.
If you ever wonder how the Nazis could have made concentration death camps acceptable, look around. These people exist today. They would gladly put people away for WrongThink. They find political violence acceptable. The ends justify the means in their world.
Interesting thread. This was exactly what I first thought about when I saw the news posted here last night.
was never able to truly bond with his father because Rob was always busy.
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Is that a good excuse?
What if Dad was frequently deployed in the military?
Or had to work two or three jobs because mom was dead?
Or ...
And there are Dads you don’t want to bond with.
That is if you even know who your Dad is. Or do you bond with Mom’s current boyfriend?
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