TDS in American Nurses

My mother was a Registered Nurse (RN). She has been gone for 6 years this year, but if she had lived until this April, she would have turned 100. She was the most remarkable woman I have ever known and I can bring the receipts to back up my claim.

She graduated from Columbus (Ohio) West High School during World War II and did so one full year ahead of schedule. She then went on to an accelerated nursing program at The Ohio State University attending year round for 3 years and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. That means at the young age of just 20, she was a Registered Nurse. She could nurse, but she could not drink!

She took the 1935 Florence Nightingale Pledge as she became a nurse:

“I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly to pass my life in purity and to practise my profession faithfully.

I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.

I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling.

With loyalty will I aid the physician in his work, and as a missioner of health, I will dedicate myself to devoted service for human welfare.”

All of this is pretty remarkable showing she was “book” smart, but back in the day, as they say, she was also required to be “practice” smart. She worked as an E.R. nurse, an O.R. nurse, a Public Health nurse, a labor/delivery nurse, an ICU nurse, and she met her husband in a V.A. hospital on his way to becoming a fireman… she pretty much saw and did it all. She wound up retiring a school nurse.

Most people who knew my mother likened her to an angel, and in my entire life I don’t think I ever heard her curse, but I did see her get mad. If she were she still alive today, I can think of a few nurses she might set straight.

Of course, I am referring to nurses recently seen in the news including Alex Pretti, Lexi Lawler, and Malinda Cook.

Alex Pretti, Former ICU Nurse – Minnesota

Lexi Lawler, Former Labor/Delivery Nurse – Florida

“‘DISGUSTING’: Nurse targets Karoline Leavitt’s pregnancy in online rant” – FOX News

Malinda Cook,  Nurse Amethyst – Virginia

“Deranged Nurse FIRED AND FACING Potential Charges For Demanding Liberal Women POISON ICE Agents!” – Black Conservative Perspective

CONCLUSION:

For many years I have been pondering and researching questions about liberalism like;

• Is liberalism an identifiable form of mental illness?
• Is there a correlation between liberals and other recognized forms of mental illness such as sociopaths, narcissists, and border line personality disorders?
• Is it true that many of those housed in state operated insane asylums of the 1960s were liberals let out in the 1970s because of ACLU litigation?
• Are liberals capable of knowing right from wrong? Do they understand hypocrisy?
• Do liberals ever feel remorse after being actually caught doing wrong?
• Are liberals capable of independent thought or are they codependent to the point of needing somebody else to think for them?

I gave my thoughts and research a break, failing to come up with any definitive answer for myself. I did come to a solid conclusion that if our society does not hold everyone accountable, with consequences for wrongdoing, pretty soon everyone will be taking the law into their own hands.

The best example of liberal hypocrisy is their chiming in unison “Nobody is above the law,” when they thought they had Donald Trump on the ropes. And now in 2026, they are stone cold silent since Bill and Hillary Clinton have gone on the lam.

There is a shortage of nurses in the United States. There is a shortage of compassion in the United States. As a nurse, my mother was taught to respect medical doctors and she instilled that same respect in her children.

I’m pretty sure Alex Pretti’s doctor did not clear him to go out to another ICE protest with a broken rib less than 2 weeks after his first unfortunate event. I am also positive, after I saw the videos of Pretti spitting on ICE agents at the first event, he was violating the “Fauci Protocol” from the COVID-19 pandemic. Those two actions alone tell me he was not a very good nurse.

The actions of all three of these nurses shows them violating the oaths of their nursing profession they took before licensure.

My Mom was special as my Mom, but also as a nurse. If you think about it logically, if you go in for any kind of serious surgery whereby your life can end, the doctors and nurses will be the last people you ever see you alive. I have had ten hospital surgeries, two of which were serious taking 4 hours each to complete and put me in the intensive care unit to recover. Had I died during the operation, I would not have wanted people like the three nurses above to be the last people I saw on earth. I also don’t want to worry that they may treat my illness with less capability than their liberal patients, on purpose.

I also have to ask the question, if deportation of illegal aliens is so important to them, why was it not important to them under the Biden or Obama administrations?

To me it smells like Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and nothing more. Hopefully the medical community will have a cure soon.

© 2026 by Mark S. Schwendau

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