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The deranged teacher who threatened to murder supporters of President-elect Donald Trump has resigned her position.
Annie Dunleavy, a special education teacher in Cheshire, Connecticut, threatened the violence in a video that went viral on TikTok after Trump’s crushing popular- and electoral-vote defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Severely afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), Dunleavy now says she didn’t mean to threaten violence. Instead, she told a television reporter, she only meant to say that Trump supporters had better not think that the election results sanction violence against women.
Dunleavy likely thought that because of unhinged hate-Trump propaganda and the supposed war on “women’s rights” that was Harris’ main campaign schtick( along with calling Trump the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler).
The Threat
In the video that ended her teaching career, a clearly unhinged Dunleavy, peering out from behind glass like a patient confined in Bedlam, unleashed a torrent of scatological invective.
“People of color, and poor people, and gay people, and all the people that I care about aren’t going to be safe in America,” she said. “Neither the f*** are you guys,” she warned.
Just because you won doesn’t mean we don’t remember who the f*** you voted for. You’re not in the clear. And just please, please, don’t test your gangster on me, because you will end on a stretcher, gone, forever. So serious. Nobody f***ing talk to me unless you wanna swing. If you wanna fight, text me, call me, whatever. Anybody else, stay the f*** out of my face.
And if you voted for Trump, literally, please delete me, block me, get rid of everything of me. Or step to me, so that I know what’s up. And I can handle you how I see fit.
Uproar ensued.
“It is immediately clear that it will be impossible to conduct business as usual for our students and staff without temporarily removing the teacher from the building, so we have done so until the outcome of the investigation,” Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Solan said.
GOP state Senator Rob Sampson wrote to Solan.
“The hostile language and clear threats expressed in this video undoubtedly raise questions about her judgment and her ability to foster a safe, inclusive environment for all students,” he wrote. “Parents are deeply worried about the potential threat she may pose to their children and the broader school community, including fellow teachers and staff.”
In a separate statement at his website, Sampson wrote that “incidents like this reveal a troubling hypocrisy from the radicalized political left, which frequently accuses those on the right of bigotry and intolerance without evidence.”
Won’t “Go Down Without a Fight”
Dunleavy’s subsequent television interview suggests that she had a full-blown case of TDS. The former teacher actually believed the election result meant women faced violence.
A television reporter read Dunleavy’s murder threat back to her. Like her candidate for president, Dunleavy is childless.
“It sounds very extreme and again, I was in a moment of high emotions and I shouldn’t have ever posted the video,” she replied, eventually sobbing uncontrollably:
But … the message I was trying to get across and it came off very wrong, was you know, if this is going to give people the almost permission in their minds to enact violence against women or anybody, I wanted to basically just say, like I’m not going to go down without a fight.
I mean, you know, it’s my life’s dream to be a teacher. I consider those kids my kids because I don’t have any of my own. And they fill that for me. … It’s so fulfilling. It’s so rewarding. And I really, I know that what people see right now, I don’t look like that person, but I truly would do anything to help any child in trouble and any family in need.
Not a One-off
Dunleavy’s reaction to Trump’s victory isn’t unusual.
As The New American reported in its original story about her, women are shaving their heads to protest the election result, although what sporting a cue ball will do to advance the sisterhood’s cause is unclear.
As well, TDS-afflicted women are taking to video to tell others to refuse to have sex with men and even divorce their husbands.
A poor fellow posted an unverified story about his wife’s reaction to his vote. “I voted for Trump, my wife sent me divorce papers,” he wrote. “What do I do?”
Continued the unidentified man:
I don’t even know what to say. I’m shocked I married somebody willing to throw away our entire life over politics. Last week we were happy, today we’re getting divorced.
The wife threatened to report the man’s parents to the government because they receive disability, yet the father fixes cars for cash to make some pork-chop money.
“She wants me to buy her out of the house, we have $300k in it plus built a 4-bay garage since we bought it 3 years ago,” the man wrote:
I can’t afford that.
When I told her this as she was packing her things she said “I guess you’re finally going to really know how it feels to be f****d by a Democrat.” ETA: her name is on the deed but not the mortgage. I’m not confident that I can reason with her. What do I do? Where do I start? How do I fix this? Is anybody else experiencing this in the wake of election results?”
Women X users similarly afflicted with TDS told the man he got what he deserved.
In 2020, data from Pew research showed that 56 percent of women ages 18 through 29 are mentally ill, while almost 40 percent ages 30 to 49 suffer mental illness.
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Given the sisterhood’s reaction to Trump’s victory, those data likely haven’t changed.
