Sadism as Official Policy

You voted for sadism back in November 2024

“The 37-year-old mother of three was parked in her SUV and began driving forward as another ICE agents tried to open her door—turning the vehicle away from Ross, who was standing near the driver’s side. Within hours, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Vice President J.D. Vance accused Good of being a domestic terrorist and a “brainwashed far-left insurrectionist” who caused her own death. President Trump insisted in a TruthSocial post that the agent acted in self-defense, stating that Good had run over the officer and needed hospitalization.” (Between the Lines)

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Chris Van Hollen

“This is a sadistic policy being imposed by Russ vote and Donald Trump and Republicans depriving 40 million Americans of food nutrition assistance to keep paying for their billionaire buddies tax cuts. I looked up in Webster’s the the definition of sadism and the definition is to delight in cruelty.

That’s really sick.

But that’s exactly what Donald Trump and Russo and Republicans are doing. They’re delighting in cruelty and they’re using 40 million Americans and 16 million of them kids for their perverse purposes at this moment. Our message is pretty simple. You don’t have to do it. In fact, the law says you should spend the money to make sure that we feed hungry Americans.”

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Sadism

“Sadism is a personality trait, broadly defined as the tendency to experience pleasure from other people's physical or psychological suffering (e.g., O'Meara, Davies, & Hammond, 2011). Sadistic traits are continuously distributed in both community (Buckels, Jones, & Paulhus, 2013) and forensic (Mokros, Schilling, Weiss, Nitschke, & Eher, 2014) samples, and span from the enjoyment of embarrassing others to the enjoyment of committing torture and murder (MacCulloch, Snowden, Wood, & Mills, 1983). It is undisputed, and unsurprising, that individuals with high levels of sadistic traits are more likely to behave antisocially. These individuals get pleasure from being cruel to others, so they are more likely to behave in this way, both online and offline.”(Ferguson, White, Cherry, Lorenz, & Bhimani, 2003; Sest & March, 2017).