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Subject: Re: Even Trump Hater Michael Cohen Says All the
From: marika <marika5000@gmail.com>
Organization: Forte - www.forteinc.com
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:52:27 GMT
AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Even Trump Hater Michael Cohen Says All the Trump-Epstein Stories Are COMPLETE Bullshit
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> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/80z17bleVdA?feature=share
Oh how nice
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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."
>