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AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:21:10 -0500 (EST),  Bradley K. Sherman says...  
> 
>> | Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud
> 
> Doesn't help, when liberal progressive gay, faggot and Drag Queen-loving
> judges are blocking access to records.

I am obviously going to share this idea with some judges 



> 
> Elon Musk Alleges $50B In Fraud At Treasury After Judge Blocks DOGE Audit
> Musk Alleged $50 Billion Is Wasted Per Year In Fraudulent Entitlement Payments
> 
> OK... there's fraud, but...
> 
> ... WHO said that finding "fraud" was DoGE's only "mission"?
> 
> Put their name(s) right here: _______________________________
> 
> Trump?
> 
> Musk?
> 
> Spending $20 million to put on a "Sesame Street" show in Iraq, isn't
> "fraud"? It SHOULD be. Why? EASY way to pocket money, doing "favors" for
> people in countries NOT the U.S.
> 
> Who even THINKS this shit up. Oh... yeah... those wanting to make more
> money on top of their salaries.
>  
> WHO told them they could do that?
> 
> Oh... yeah... BIDEN.
> 
>> | All they've really got is "spending that Elon Musk doesn't
>> | like."
>> | ...
>> <https://www.publicnotice.co/p/despite-the-hype-doge-hasnt-found>
>> 
>> --bks
> 
> publicnotice.co?
> 
> Who the FOOK izzat?
>  
> LOL... an ex-Vox employee... Aaron Rupar. 
> 
> One man's "waste" CAN be that man's "fraud".
> 
> Nobody gives a shit what Aaron Rupar thinks. Mainly, because no one KNOWS
> whop the fuck he and publicnotice.co are, besides the faggots who LOOK
> for shit like that on the Internet.
> 
> Nobodies like Rupar are ALWAYS going to be Trump Derangement Syndrome
> sufferers and Democrat apologists.
> 
> Fuck "fraud"... what does he think about the WASTE?
> 
> More than $900,000 went to a "Gaza-based terror charity" called Bayader
> Association for Environment and Development and a $1.5 million program
> slated to "advance diversity, equity and inclusion in 
> Serbia's workplaces and business communities."
> 
> SERBIA?
> 
> THEY can't afford $1.5 million to pay for it themselves?
> 
> Not when you have people in the U.S. committing FRAUD, laundering or skimming that money.
> 
> Ask Rupar to explain how all these Civil Servants are banking millions of
> dollars on their LOW 6-figure income.
> 
> Fraud:
> 
> More than 16 million people over age 110 collecting Social Security.
> (WHO is pocketing that money? - fraud)
> 
> One person over 360 years old is still on Social Security.
> (WHO is pocketing that money? - fraud)
> 
> 
> 
> ===============================================================================
> 
> "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. 
> 
> =====
> 
> 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." 
> 
>