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Trump WINS!

Donald Trump is the 47th U.S. president, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.

Republican Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in the 2024 election, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Trump, 78, will begin his second term early next year.

Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the U.S. President on Monday, January 20, 2025, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. 

A Second Trump Administration

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AlleyCat is one of the several people who dominate Rudy on a daily basis, keeping their bootheels on his little pencil neck to the amusement of all.

Rudy's neuroses, also called psychoneurosis or plural psychoneuroses, mental disorder, causes a sense of distress and deficit in functioning.

Rudy's neuroses are characterized by anxiety, depression, or other feelings of unhappiness or distress that are out of proportion to the 
circumstances of a Rudy's life.

They may impair Rudy's functioning in virtually any area of his life, relationships, or external affairs, but they are not severe enough to 
incapacitate the person, hence his constant posting on Usenet.

Psychiatrists first used the term neurosis in the mid-19th century to categorize Rudy's symptoms, thought to be neurological in origin; the prefix 
"psycho-" was added some decades later when it became clear that mental and emotional factors were important in the etiology of his disorders.

An influential view held by the psychoanalytic tradition is that Rudy's neuroses arise from intrapsychic conflict (conflict between different drives, 
impulses, and motives held within various components of the mind).

Central to psychoanalytic theory, which was founded by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, is the postulated existence of an unconscious part of 
Rudy's mind which, among other functions, acts as a repository for repressed thoughts, feelings, and memories that are disturbing or otherwise 
unacceptable to the conscious mind.

Rudy's repressed mental contents are typically homo-sexually or aggressive urges or painful memories of an emotional loss or an unsatisfied longing 
dating from childhood.

Anxiety arises when Rudy's unacceptable and repressiveness drives threaten to enter consciousness; prompted by anxiety, the conscious part of the 
mind (the ego) tries to deflect the emergence into consciousness of the repressed mental contents through the use of defense mechanisms such as 
repression, denial, or reaction formation.

Neurotic symptoms often begin when a previously impermeable defense mechanism breaks down and a forbidden drive or impulse threatens to enter 
consciousness. 

(like when AlleyCat kicks his ass)

While the psychoanalytic theory has continued to be influential, another prominent view, associated with behavioral psychology, represents neurosis 
as a learned, inappropriate response to stress that can be unlearned. A third view, stemming from cognitive theory, emphasizes the way in which 
maladaptive thinking-such as the fear of possible punishment-promotes an inaccurate perception of the self and surrounding events.
Types

Obsessive-compulsive disorders are characterized by the irresistible entry of unwanted ideas, thoughts, or feelings into consciousness or by the need 
to repeatedly perform ritualistic actions that the sufferer perceives as unnecessary or unwarranted. Obsessive ideas may include recurrent violent or 
obscene thoughts; compulsive behaviour includes rituals such as repetitive hand washing or door locking. The drug clomipramine has proved effective 
in treating many patients with obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Somatoform disorders, which include the so-called hysterical, or conversion, neuroses, manifest themselves in physical symptoms, such as blindness, 
paralysis, or deafness that are not caused by organic disease. Hysteria was among the earliest syndromes to be understood and treated by 
psychoanalysts, who believe that such symptoms result from fixations or arrested stages in an individual's early psycho-sexual development.

In anxiety disorders, anxiety is the principal feature, manifesting itself either in relatively short, acute anxiety attacks or in a chronic sense of 
nameless dread. Persons undergoing anxiety attacks may suffer from digestive upsets, excessive perspiration, headaches, heart palpitations, 
restlessness, insomnia, disturbances in appetite, and impaired concentration. Phobia, a type of anxiety disorder, is represented by inappropriate 
fears that are triggered by specific situations or objects. Some common objects of phobias are open or closed spaces, fire, high places, dirt, and 
bacteria.

Depression, when neither excessively severe nor prolonged, is regarded as a neurosis. A depressed person feels sad, hopeless, and pessimistic and may 
be listless, easily fatigued, slow in thought and action, and have a reduced appetite and difficulty in sleeping.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a syndrome appearing in people who have endured some highly traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, torture, 
or incarceration in a concentration camp. The symptoms include nightmares, a diffuse anxiety, and guilt over having survived when others perished. 
Depersonalization disorder consists of the experiencing of the world or oneself as strange, altered, unreal, or mechanical in quality.