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: Revenue That We'll MISS Out On, And NOT "Lose", Will Not Hurt Florida At All
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:23:23 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:50:33 -0700, Alan says...
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> On 2025-04-22 20:32, AlleyCat wrote:
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> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:54:22 -0500, -hh says...
> >
> >>> Yes, that looks like the same one.
> >>
> >> FYI, the hits keep coming: the Institute of International Finance (IIF)
> >> said today that Trump?s policies mean the US economy may fall into a
> >> Recession and shrink by 0.8% in Q3 and 0.3% in Q4 2025 (slightly over 1%
> >> for 2025)?
> >
> > OMG!
> >
> > It's 1929 all over again!
> >
> > I'd settle for 2009, but we all know Democrats fuck the economy much worse.
> Keep trying to tell yourself that...
Don't have to... it was in all the papers.
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Biden presided over the worst inflation since the 70s.
Near Double-Digit Inflation:
The highest inflation in 40 years ultimately doomed the bid by the Democrats to retain control of the White House.
The yearly rate of inflation rose from a scant 1.4% - a level considered precariously low - when Biden took office in January
2021 to a peak of 9.1% in the middle of 2022. It was the worst outbreak of inflation since the early 1980s.
Mortgage rates soared. Home sales sank, builders scaled back construction and an already acute housing shortage got worse.
Gas prices nearly doubled.
In 2022, Wall Street suffered its worst year since the 2008-'09 (Democrat) financial crisis.
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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."