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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.
> 
> 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

Actually finally saw a cybertruck a couple weeks ago here in Alabama. My
word, what an unattractive vehicle

I wonder if Verizon will sue the government if Doge ends up canceling their
contract in favor of Starlink

Merz is now ahead

And Trump said today in his presser with Starmer he is delighted with the
results of the German election. But what can Doge do about it?

> 
> 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." 
> 
>