From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Poor Rich Kids And Liberals... They Have Zero Senses of Humor And It's Reflected In Their Hate for Someone They're Simply Jealous Of
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:33:59 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:20:10 -0700, Alan says...
> > "The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more
> > places," Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would
> > be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.
> >
> > Laughter rings out.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > Because it was a joke, and EVERYONE in the room knew it.
> Your type always says its a joke until it actually happens...
When it DOES happen? Only THEN, can you gloat.
> ...then you say it isn't actually a big deal.
There you go again... thinking yu know everything... being a mind-reader.
Future-boy gets what he deserves.
PLONK!
> ICE is now imprisoning US citizens who show PROOF of citizenship, Pussey.
One?
> You just believe it can't happen to you, so you're fine with it.
I was WAY more afraid of that happening when Obama and Biden were in THEIR reigns of terror.
People were going to jail for being Catholic and speaking at school board meetings.
Has THAT happened under Trump?
Nope.
PLONK!
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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."