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The Binky Doctor wrote:
> In article <1839d5150566ee6a$177330$748691$20dd2a6e@news.thecubenet.com>,
> Rudy Canoza  <rudy.c@kone.net> wrote:
>> The Binky Doctor wrote:
>       ^^^^^<-PAedophile talker noted
>>> In article <MPG.4274dbeae8e4da0d98bc22@news.eternal-september.org>,
>>> AlleyCat  <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:48:09 -0700,  Rudy Canoza says...
>>>>
>>>>>    the Founders are rolling in their graves.
>>>>
>>>> Ohhhh... no they're not. They're cheering Trump on, knowing he's the
>>>> first President, since Reagan, to follow what THEY wanted
>>>> for America.
>>>>
>>>> Oh... YOU think they WANTED MS-13 gang members here?
>>>>
>>>> The Founders never had this come up, stupid, so how could they be
>>>> bothered by beaners coming here illegally?
>>>>
>>>> Here's a question you'll never answer, because it'll expose the real
>>>> reason you're arguing to keep gang members and illegal alien
>>>> criminals in country:
>>>>
>>>> Why do you CARE what happens to these people?
>>>>
>>>> Because you're a psycho who hates Trump and you know that getting and
>>>> keeping as many beaners as you can, is the ONLY way you
>>>> might ever win Congress or the Presidency again.
>>>>
>>>>
>> ===============================================================================
>>>>
>>>> "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."
>>>>
>>>
>>> What does this have to do with Canadian politics?
>>>
>>>
>> F*k off, binky.
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> 
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