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: Dow Keeps Doing What the Dow Does
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:43:08 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:12:00 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom says...
> Wharton professor, about Trump:
>
> "He was the dumbest goddam student I ever had."
And became a billionaire, while YOU and Prof. William T. Kelley did not.
Second hand bullshit:
"Professor Kelley told ME 100 times over three decades that 'Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had'."
- Frank DiPrima
Missing context/alternative viewpoints
Several important contextual elements are missing from the original quote:
Potential misinformation/bias in the original statement
While the quote itself appears to be consistently reported, there are several factors to consider:
1) The statement comes to us SECOND-HAND through Frank DiPrima, rather than directly from Professor Kelley
2) The quote's harsh language and absolute nature ('dumbest goddamn student") could reflect personal bias or hyperbole rather
than objective academic assessment
3) Those who benefit from promoting this narrative include:
a) Trump's political opponents who seek to challenge his self-proclaimed genius
b) Media outlets that benefit from controversial coverage of Trump
c) Those who oppose Trump's claims about his academic excellence
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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."