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On 04 Jul 2025, AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> posted some
news:MPG.42d236372c20783698bc2e@news.eternal-september.org: 

> 
> How many illegal immigrants being deported by the new administration
> would you find objectionable, Mr. Melnick? I'll ask you, a million.
> 
> I think a million would be a disaster.
> 
> 2 million?
> 
> I think that is enough that would have severe negative ramifications
> for the United States. 
> 
> I'm not rating what Trump intends to do. I'm rating exactly what
> President Barack Obama DID. I would really appreciate it if you would
> go out on social media and say that the President Obama did a horrible
> disservice to those people he deported and he's as wrong-minded as
> every other Republican who said we've got to secure the border because
> you can't have one being OK and the other one not being OK.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hgLkQBqdPSE?feature=share

It's so damned funny to see the responses where it was okay for a lefty
to do something that Trump is condemned for.  Totally illogical in most
cases.

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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." 
>