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: Why Is It So Easy For Trump To Troll The Media And The Faggots Who Believe Them?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:30:57 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:35:43 +0000, Lee says...
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> Trump Mocked After Claiming Flights
> From LA to San Francisco Cost $2:
> This Is 'Why Trump Airlines Failed'
> Jun 10 2025
Troll bait taken eaten.
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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."