From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Trump Shines On The Media and Stupid Liberals... ...Again.
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025 22:49:24 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-05-05 21:41, AlleyCat wrote:
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> On Mon, 5 May 2025 09:04:35 -0700, Alan says...
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>> or public danger
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> Thank you.
Put back the rest of that clause:
'except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia'
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> "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition
>
> All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.
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> "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:
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> "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."