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: Re: Oh, Lakehouse Rich Boy! You Forgot To Rationalize Your Wrong Answerrrrr
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:13:35 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:14:51 -0700, Alan says...
> On 2025-08-12 07:59, AlleyCat wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 16:22:14 -0700, Alan says...
> >
> >>
> >> On 2025-08-07 09:41, AlleyCat wrote:
> >>>
> >>> President Trump has ordered the Department of Commerce to
> >>> immediately...
> >
> >> ...break the law.
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > Q: Who controls the census and who can change the way it's taken?
> >
> > The PRESIDENT and Department of Commerce: THE PRESIDENT, through the Secretary of Commerce, oversees the Census Bureau and CAN
> > ISSUE EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
> >
> Look!
>
> Phil can't stop himself from replying multiple times to the same post!
Look!
Lakehouse rich boy has no argument, so he whines about articles being posted more than once.
I'll do what I want, pussy, and there's STILL nothing you can do about it.
Do you REALLY think you gain "followers" to your side, because you whine about cites and the number of times I post something?
Even if you did...
... I DO NOT CARE!
LOL
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 16:22:14 -0700, Alan says...
>
> On 2025-08-07 09:41, AlleyCat wrote:
> >
> > President Trump has ordered the Department of Commerce to
> > immediately...
> ...break the law.
Nope.
Q: Who controls the census and who can change the way it's taken?
The PRESIDENT and Department of Commerce: THE PRESIDENT, through the Secretary of Commerce, oversees the Census Bureau and CAN
ISSUE EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
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The U.S. Census is mandated by the Constitution and is controlled by several branches of the federal government, each with a
different level of authority.
Who Controls the Census
The U.S. Census Bureau, a federal agency within the Department of Commerce, is the entity responsible for conducting the census.
The Director of the Census Bureau is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Who Can Change the Way It's Taken
The authority to change the census process is distributed among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches:
Congress: According to the Constitution, Congress has the primary authority to direct the manner in which the census is taken.
Congress passes the laws (Title 13 of the U.S. Code) that govern the census, including its funding, and can add or remove
questions.
The President and Department of Commerce: The President, through the Secretary of Commerce, oversees the Census Bureau and can
issue executive orders. However, these actions are often challenged and are subject to the laws passed by Congress and rulings by
the courts.
The U.S. Supreme Court: The Supreme Court has the power to rule on the legality of census-related policies and questions. For
example, the Court has blocked attempts to add certain questions to the census when it found the rationale for the addition to be
insufficient.
In summary, while the Census Bureau manages the day-to-day operations, Congress holds the ultimate legal authority to change the
census process, with significant checks and balances FROM THE PRESIDENT and the Supreme Court.
WHEN are you going to stop sucking at this, lakehouse rich boy?
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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."