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The answer to what... a good economy that Biden and Harris wrecked?

Is that the ONLY problem we have? No. So tariffs are NOT the answer. But they DID help.

Trump's economy, before the China Flu and Democrat lockdowns.

https://i.imgur.com/4pUvdyN.mp4

Best Economic Optimism in 16 years

480,000 Manufacturing Jobs added since President Trump's election

US job openings rise outnumber the unemployed by 1 million

Economic Growth Has Reached 3 Percent for the First Time in More than a Decade

Opportunity Zones A New Dawn for Economic Opportunity

Unemployment Rate Falls to Lowest Level in Nearly 50 Years

Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Steel into the United States

LARGEST DECLINE IN DRUG PRICES IN NEARLY 50 YEARS

Trump Policies Keep Economic Boom Going As Job Gains of 304000 Surpass Expectations

MORE AMERICANS WORKING NOW THAN EVER BEFORE IN OUR HISTORY

250K JOBS ADDED IN OCTOBER

Manufacturing Confidence at an ALL TIME HIGH

Construction Jobs up more than 300K compared to last year

Food Stamp usage declines for 8 straight months

Middle Class income rises to HIGHEST on record

Consumer Confidence 18 YEAR HIGH

America is now the worlds largest oil producer

Fastest growing pace in 14 years for manufacturers

BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT RECORD LOW

Jobless claims lowest level since 1969

Trump secures 2026 World Cup for the USA

Consumer Confidence Highest in 18 years

Black Business Ownership Under Trump JUMPS 400 PERCENT in ONE YEAR

Youth Unemployment Hits 52 Year Low

Black Support for Trump DOUBLES to 29 percent

RECORD Number of Employed - 63 Percent labor participation

Worker pay rate hits highest level since 2008

Black and Hispanic Unemployment rates hit record low in April

Business Investments up 39 Percent Due to Tax Cuts

Food Stamp Usage Drops Half Million in Single Month

Highest Ever Manufacturer Optimism over 94 Percent

Unemployment claims have fallen to a 45-year low

Trump Economy Explodes Record Number of Americans Employed Stocks Soar

FEB JOBS BLOWOUT 313K

GREAT AGAIN Household Net Worth Pushes Further Into Record Territory

U.S. Consumer Confidence Is at 17-Year High

US homebuilding permits soar to highest level since 2007

Economy to grow at 5.4% rate in first quarter

Roaring: Economic Optimism Index hits 13-year high, credit to tax cuts

U.S. jobless claims drop to near 45-year low

Wages jump to highest level since 2009 - up 2.9%

U.S. Oil Production Tops 10 Million Barrels A Day, First Time Since 1970

Trump Decreases Debt to GDP Ratio - First Time in Over 50 Years!

Jobless claims drop to lowest level in nearly 45 years

Apple to Invest $350 BILLION in US citing Trump Tax Plan

Utilities cutting rates, cite benefits of Trump tax reform

Over 100 companies giving 'Trump Bonuses' after tax victory

Black unemployment rate falls to record low

Trump adds 184,000 manufacturing jobs and continues growth trend

Manufacturing in the U.S. Just Accelerated to Its Best Year Since 2004

Trump Signs Korean Trade Deal

Trump Blocks Chinese Purchase of Qualcomm due to National Security

TRUMP SIGNS TARIFF ORDER ON STEEL AND ALUMINUM

Trump Slaps 30% Tariffs on Solar Panels imported from China

Japan Freezes North Korea's Assets after Trump's Visit

U.S. Trade Deficit falls to 11-month low

Trump Fights for 'America First' as 4th Round of NAFTA Negotiations End

Crude Oil Shipment to India Highlights Expanding Energy Partnership

Trump Blocks China from buying Semi-Conductor company, Lattice

Crude oil shipment from Texas opens new vistas in India-U.S. ties

Argentina agrees to allow first U.S. pork imports in 25 years

Trump orders probe of China's intellectual property practices

New memorandum to protect American IPs from China - Potentially save Billions of dollars and millions in jobs

Coal exports up 60%

China opens rice market for US exports for first time ever

U.S. makes final finding rebar exports from Taiwan

Renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico in order to make better trade deals - May terminate

United States and Mexico finalize sugar trade deal

First U.S. Natural Gas Shipped to Poland

Signed an Arms Deal worth more than $350 billion and various other investment agreements with Saudi Arabia

China, U.S. reach trade agreement on beef, poultry and natural gas

Trump orders a study on abuses of U.S. trade agreements - WTO

Trump slaps tariffs on Canadian lumber imports

Increased tariffs on Canadian lumber by 20% (worth $1 billion)

China buys more U.S. coal, sends North Korea

Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) TERMINATED

Nikki Haley negotiates $285M cut in 'bloated' UN budget

WIC Welfare Participation Hits 17-Year Low

U.S. home sales hit 11-year high

Manufacturing Optimism Reaches Another All-Time High - 94.6%

Economy adds 228K jobs in November

Mining up 28.6% - Leads the Nation in Growth

Broadcom will move back to U.S. - and bring tax money with it

US private sector added 235,000 jobs in Oct - Beats Expectations

Consumer confidence highest level since December 2000

Q3 GDP at 3 Percent - Beats Expectations

Ivanka Trump creates new World Bank initiative to foster Entrepreneurship among Women

Consumer Sentiment in U.S. Surges to 13-Year High

63.1%: Participation Rate Reaches Trump-Era High

Unemployment down to 4.2, wages rise .5%

New entrants from outside the labor market made up 3.2

U.S. Factories Expanding at 13 Year high

Dow posting first eight-quarter winning streak in 20 years

Home builder confidence at 12-year high

Manufacturer confidence at a 20-year high

Tech giants pledge millions to Trump initiative

Q2 GDP up 3.1%

Sales of new U.S. homes rebounded in August

Federal Reserve: Household Wealth in America at record high of $1.7 trillion - Rising property values and 
Financial gain

Surging stock market powers U.S. wealth to $96.2 trillion

Food Stamp Usage Has Fallen Every Month Under Trump

Median Incomes Climbing for First Time Since 2007

Trump has signed a $15 billion relief package for Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey

Jobless claims drop to 240,000 - hottest streak in 43 years

U.S. Consumer Sentiment Rose in August

Recovery Is Finally Trickling Down to Least-Educated Workers

U.S. Job Satisfaction Highest Level Since 2005

American manufacturing expanded in August at fastest pace in six years

Donald Trump Ends Obama Effort to Waive Work Requirements for Welfare

Consumer confidence strengthens in August, second-highest level since late 2000

President Trump Cuts More US Debt for a Longer Period of Time Than Any President

Pennsylvania coal company to open a SECOND coal mine

Summer Youth Unemployment Falls, Level Since 1969

In Trump era, American corporations are seeing their best earnings in 13 years

US trade deficit narrows as exports hit 2-1/2-year high

Milestone for Trump: 1 million new jobs in six months

National unemployment rate at 4.3% (lowest it's been in 16 years)

13,000 jobs being created in WI - largest job announcement in WI history (Foxconn)

Black Unemployment, Lowest Level in 17 Years

Gas prices at a 12-year low

Some states are experiencing their lowest unemployment rates in their histories

Trump Announces $200 Million in Apprenticeship Funding

U.S. has record 6 million job openings, 6.8 million Americans are looking for jobs

CEO confidence highest since 2014

U.S. jobless rate falls to lowest level in 16 years

Trump signs bills that helps Veterans and Police officers by giving them Priority and Training

Government spending as percentage of GDP down

1000s of jobs being created through pact with Saudi Arabia

Executive Order on the Establishment of the American Technology Council

USA's small business confidence is spurring a hiring and spending spree

Alibaba Takes First Step To Fulfilling Jack Ma And President Trump's 'One Million U.S. Jobs' Promise

Slashing job-killing regulations left and right

Creating thousands of more jobs for immigration officers and border patrol

Signed a resolution encouraging women in entrepreneurship and STEM

Executive ordered all federal agencies to create task forces to cut regulations that hurt the economy

US Manufacturing Index at a 33-year high

Coal Miners are WINNING. Cut Regulations/Create Jobs/New Plant

US Economic Confidence Surges To Highest Level Ever Recorded By Gallup

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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."

Added Krauthammer:

"Some clinicians consider this delusion - that Americans can only get their news from one part of the 
political spectrum - the gravest of all. They report that no matter how many times sufferers in padded cells 
are presented with flash cards with the symbols ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, New York 
Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times - they remain unresponsive, some in a terrifying near-catatonic torpor."

(If you don't realize the idea of TDS or BDS is - in no small part - meant in a tongue-in-cheek manner then, 
well, you may well have it.)

Trump allies believe that TDS is worse than ODS or BDS - by a lot. Wrote conservative pundit Bernie Goldberg 
on Real Clear Politics in early 2017:

"Before the election, the victims of TDS routinely compared Donald Trump to Hitler. Guess what. They're still 
doing it. Articles in respectable publications written by professors at elite universities are warning us to 
be on guard, that a Trump presidency could imperil democracy-as-we-know-it and may very well spell doom for 
American civilization.

"On election night, as it became obvious that their worst nightmare was about to come true, some libs 
fainted. Some vomited. Many more threatened to leave the country, but I'm pretty sure none actually did. As 
Donald Trump might say in a tweet: so sad!"

The truth is that TDS is just the preferred nomenclature of Trump defenders who view those who oppose him and 
his policies as nothing more than the blind hatred of those who preach tolerance and free speech. Viewed more 
broadly, the rise of presidential derangement syndromes is a function of increased polarization - not to 
mention our national self-sorting - at work in the country today.

We no longer live around, work around or pal around with people who think any differently than us. We watch 
cable news that affirms what we already think. We read ideological "news" sites that tell us how good our 
side is and how bad the other one is. And on and on and on.

Is it any wonder then that we are increasingly willing to lump those who disagree with us into the 
"deranged" category? To say that those who don't share our views are mentally deficient in some way?

What does it say about a President - and about a country - when the standard response to those with whom you 
disagree is that they must be crazy? Nothing good, for sure. 

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Many clinicians, political commentators, and members of the public have speculated upon the mental health of 
President Donald Trump. Indeed, over 70,000 people self-identifying as "mental health professionals" have 
signed a petition declaring that "Trump is mentally ill and must be removed." In sociological terms, the 
"medical gaze" has been hitherto focused on President Trump, and to a lesser extent his ardent supporters.

However, in recent months, many have been questioning the direction of this "medical gaze." In fact, more and 
more people are suggesting that this "medical gaze" should be reversed and refocused on President Trump's 
most embittered and partisan opponents. Some have even suggested that these opponents are experiencing a 
specific mental condition-a condition which has been labelled "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS).
What does DSM-5 say about "Trump Derangement Syndrome"?

Mental illnesses are officially classified in a dense and dry book published by the American Psychiatric 
Association (APA) known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). 
This book contains 947 pages and lists hundreds of mental disorders; TDS is nowhere to be seen. Similarly, a 
review of scholarly databases such as MEDLINE and Google Scholar reveal no academic papers on this alleged 
syndrome. Officially at least, TDS is not a real, diagnosable, or treatable mental disorder.

That said, medical anthropologists and critical sociologists have convincingly argued that DSM-5 is a flawed 
document. Indeed, social scientists have long recognized that there are numerous "folk categories" of mental 
disorders that are considered real conditions by the general public, even though they are not recognized as 
such in the DSM. These include categories such as "burnout" or "nervous breakdown."

As such, lack of official recognition does not mean that TDS is not a real mental condition.


Lay Understandings of "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

There is no shared lay understanding of TDS, mainly because it is a folk category rather than a professional 
category. As such, there is currently much armchair speculation about the nature and existence of TDS, 
without consensus.

The name itself explicitly suggests a "syndrome," which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as "a 
characteristic combination of opinions, emotions, or behavior." Several commentators have run with this, 
putting forth suggestions about opinions, emotions and behaviors characterizing TDS.

Shared amongst these is a notion that the everyday activities of President Trump trigger some people into 
distorted opinions, extreme emotions and hysterical behaviors. Well-known writer Bernard Goldberg gives 
supposed behavioral examples of TDS among Trump's political opponents, including fainting, vomiting, students 
retreating to "safe spaces" and others demanding "therapy dogs." Political commentator Justin Raimondo 
focuses on opinions, language and cognition, writing in the LA Times that "sufferers speak a distinctive 
language consisting of hyperbole [leading to] a constant state of hysteria... the afflicted lose touch with 
reality."

Such forms of highly emotional reaction could be something akin to the fainting and screaming characterizing 
American Beatlemania in the 1960s. Unlike the Beatles, however, the extreme emotional reaction alleged to 
characterize TDS is not based on adoration and admiration, but on fear and loathing.

Contrariwise, many others ridicule the notion that TDS is anything but a malicious slur term used to 
discredit and delegitimize criticism of President Trump. For example, CNN's Chris Cillizza may speak for many 
when he stated: "The truth is that TDS is just the preferred nomenclature of Trump defenders who view those 
who oppose him and his policies as nothing more than blind hatred." Likewise, Adam Gopnik writes that "our 
problem is not TDS; our problem is Deranged Trump Self-Delusion."

In other words, there are polarized opinions about the nature, reality and existence of TDS.


Conclusion

The wider public may be unaware that psychiatrists and social scientists spend considerable time and energy 
behind closed doors pondering over the existence and reality of mental conditions. This has led the APA to 
revise the DSM five times since 1952, considerably expanding the list of official mental disorders with each 
revision. As far as I am aware, few psychiatrists are currently arguing that DSM-6 should contain TDS as a 
mental disorder.

That said, in its official definition of mental disorder, the DSM-5 states that "a mental disorder is a 
syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion 
regulation, or behavior... mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress in social, 
occupational, or other important activities."

Many have argued that some people have been seriously disturbed and distressed by the policies, speech, 
behavior, and tweets of President Trump, so much so that it has affected their cognitive, affective, and 
behavioral functioning. Such people may need mental health support. As such, further research is necessary to 
investigate the extreme reactions toward President Trump, in the same way that researchers investigate other 
extreme social phenomena, such as Beatlemania or the like. This will shed light on the reality of this 
emerging folk category that has been labelled by many as "Trump Derangement Syndrome."