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: THIS Is Why NPR MUST Be Defunded
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2025 11:27:04 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
We're defunding NPR, finally. I thought it'd be appropriate to maybe read some of the craziest tweets from Catherine Marr, who is
the CEO.
"America is addicted to white supremacy. I do wish Hillary wouldn't use the language of boy and girl. It's erasing language for
non-binary people. Lots of jokes about leaving the US and I get it, but as someone with Cis white mobility privilege, I'm thinking,
I'm staying and investing in ridding ourselves of the specter of tyranny. Horses inspire awe. Horses inspire awe and foster a sense
of identity. More kids should have access to these incredible animals, but most horse spaces are white spaces. Had a dream when
Kamala and I were on a road trip in an unspecified location sampling and comparing nuts and baklava from roadside stands. Woke up
very hungry."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eC1ioLmR1cQ?feature=share
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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."