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: And What Will The Panicans Do?
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 23:49:20 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Wed, 7 May 2025 20:22:25 -0700, Alan says...
>
> On 2025-05-07 20:02, AlleyCat wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 7 May 2025 09:25:14 -0700, Alan says...
> >
> >> But not "by now".
> >
> > I'm gonna PLONK! you, but first... a lesson.
> >
> > "Facetious is an adjective used to describe a manner of speaking or
> > writing that is not meant to be taken seriously, often characterized
> > by a playful or flippant attitude. It can involve making jokes or
> > using sarcasm, especially in situations where a serious tone might
> > be expected. For example, if someone makes a facetious remark during
> > a serious discussion, they might be trying to lighten the mood or
> > inject humor into the conversation."
> >
> > No one SAID there'd be a depression by now, you fucking moron. That
> > was being FACETIOUS.
> Calling out people for their exact words is YOUR thing, PussyGurl.
Only *I* can tell when they're being serious OR flippant.
YOU can't.
Uhhh... ya... when they're being serious. Quit thinking in 2d, rich kid... you won't get laughed at... as much. LOL
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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."