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California Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff told a shocking story when he appeared Friday on the HBO show "Real Time" with host Bill 
Maher about when he realized his party was in trouble.

The well-known "Trump-Russia collusion" hoaxer acknowledged that his party could possibly lose power in deep blue California, as 
a recent poll showed that 50 percent of those surveyed would consider voting for a Republican for governor in 2026.

He said he believes that rampant crime is an issue, as he attempted to distance himself from the soft-on-crime policies he has 
championed for years.

"So we're going to have to change how we do business in California. We're going to have to address people's legitimate concerns 
about crime," he said after years of supporting controversial bail reform programs.

"I was in South San Francisco two years ago after I had an experience in the city that all too many people had when my luggage 
was stolen out of my car. They tell you don't ever leave your luggage in the car. I never do until the one time I did. And of 
course it got stolen," he said.

Organized theft rings, like flash mobs that target retail outlets, have also become commonplace in California as the penalties 
for theft of items less than $950 have been lowered.

With that in mind, the senator spoke of a conversation he had with a cashier at a local Target store as the host quipped, "You 
went there by yourself, not an assistant?"

"I uh... I think I went there... well yes, I had somebody drop me off at the store," he said as the audience laughed.

"Well, he was honest in admitting it, right?" Maher quipped.

He said that the cashier was "hard to find" just to unlock some common items like shampoo.

"So that's one thing. And then I get to the cashier. The cashier asked me if I wanted one of those Target bags with a little 
bullseye on it. And I said, "yes, that Target bag is going to be my luggage for the next two days,"" he said.

"And she asked me what happened. And I told her and she basically said in not so many words that Democrats are assholes," the 
senator said.

"And I thought, you know, if the cashier in South San Francisco at 10 o'clock at night believes that Democrats are assholes 
because the shampoo is locked up and my stuff got stolen out of the trunk, we've got a major problem that we have to address," he 
said.

WATCH:

https://rumble.com/v6slug1-adam-schiff-reveals-that-his-luggage-was-stolen-in-san-francisco.html

Earlier this month, however, Schiff expressed frustration over the Democratic Party's lack of a "coordinated response" to 
President Donald Trump during an interview with ABC's Jonathan Karl.

"I think the lack of a coordinated response in the State of the Union was a mistake, and frankly, it took the focus off of where 
it should have been, which is on the fact that the president spoke for an hour and 40 minutes and had nothing to say about what 
he would do to bring down costs for American families that were watching that lengthy address, sitting at the kitchen table 
hoping he would offer something to help them afford a new home or pay their rent, afford health care, or afford child care," 
Schiff said.

The lawmaker addressed the critiques by Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, where he called the Democrats" situation "a 
sad cavalcade of self-owns and unhinged petulance."

"They're destroying the economy, and they're making it harder and harder for Americans to afford things. That's where we need to 
keep the focus, that's why we lost the last election, because we weren't laser-focused on the high cost of living and what 
they're doing now is just making it so much worse," Schiff claimed - falsely, according to the most recent economic data.

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was 
a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people 
in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."