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On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:45:31 -0400,  Governor Swill says...  

> "Approximately 42% of US farm workers are estimated to be undocumented

Hmmmm... if memory serves me right... the opposite of undocumented, is documented, proving Yak correct.

Hmmmm... if memory serves me right... the opposite of approximately 42%, is approximately 58%, which is a majority, proving Yak 
correct.
 
"Working the fields. You do realize that "MOST" field workers are legal, don't you?"

Hmmmm... if memory serves me right... "most" is a synonym of majority, proving Yak correct.

IS "most" a synonym of majority?

Yes, "most" is very often used as a synonym for "majority" especially in common language.

Both words refer to the largest part or number of a group.

However, there's a subtle distinction in formal usage: (do NOT get your hopes up)

Majority: Strictly means more than half (over 50%) of a countable group. For example, "The majority of voters chose the incumbent" 
implies more than 50% voted for them.

Most: Can mean "the majority of, " but it can also imply "nearly all" or "the greatest quantity/amount, " which might be more than 
just over 50%. For example, "Most people enjoy ice cream" doesn't necessarily mean exactly 50.1% enjoy it, but rather a very large 
proportion.

Also, grammatically:

"The majority of" is typically used with countable nouns (e.g., "the majority of students").

"Most of" can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns (e.g., 'most of the students" or 'most of the water").

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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."