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On Fri, 23 May 2025 12:12:17 -0700,  Alan says...  

> > How so?

> How about an executive order in direct violation of your constitution?

Yeah... how about it? 

How many laws did your faggot of a Prime Minister break, when he froze bank accounts?

How about O B A M A?

If Trump and Co. are "allegedly" in violation of our Constitution... we can argue all day long, but it doesn't matter, unless the 
Supreme Court makes rulings.

Just a few:

The Chrysler Bailout (2009):

Alleged Violation: Critics argued that the Obama administration's handling of the Chrysler bailout, by pressuring secured 
creditors to accept less than junior creditors (like labor unions), violated the Constitution's Takings and Due Process Clauses. 
This was seen by some as an illegal subversion of bankruptcy law and a form of "crony capitalism."


Affordable Care Act (ACA) Implementation (Ongoing):

Alleged Violation: While the Supreme Court largely upheld the ACA's individual mandate as a tax in NFIB v. Sebelius (2012), 
critics continued to argue that various aspects of its implementation and subsequent modifications by executive action 
constituted constitutional overreach. For example, some argued that the mandate itself overstepped Congress's Commerce Clause 
authority, though this was rejected by the Supreme Court when it upheld the mandate under the taxing power. Additionally, the 
Supreme Court ruled that the ACA's Medicaid expansion was unconstitutionally coercive to states (violating the Spending Clause) 
when it threatened to withhold all existing federal Medicaid funding from states that opted out, though this provision was 
severable.


Political Profiling by the IRS (2010-2013):

Alleged Violation: The IRS was criticized for targeting conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, using keywords like 
"Tea Party" and "Patriots." Critics alleged this violated equal protection and other constitutional and administrative law 
provisions.


Recess Appointments (2012):

Alleged Violation: President Obama made several "recess appointments" to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) during brief 
"pro forma" Senate sessions. Critics argued that these sessions did not constitute a "recess" as intended by the Constitution's 
Recess Appointments Clause, thereby circumventing the Senate's advice and consent role.


Military Intervention in Libya (2011):

Alleged Violation: Critics argued that President Obama's decision to launch military action in Libya without explicit 
congressional authorization constituted a violation of the War Powers Clause (Article I, Section 8), which grants Congress the 
power to declare war.


Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Executive Action (2012):

Alleged Violation: Critics, particularly conservatives, argued that DACA, which provided temporary relief from deportation and 
work permits to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, exceeded the President's executive authority and usurped 
Congress's plenary power over immigration.

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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."