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Man Arrested In Brutal Cincinnati Mob Attack Now Faces Federal Charges

A man charged in connection with a July 26 mob attack in Cincinnati is now facing an additional 15 years in prison after federal 
prosecutors added a gun charge.

The Justice Department announced Wednesday that 34-year-old Montanez Merriweather had been indicted for illegally possessing a 
firearm as a convicted felon.

Merriweather had already been arrested on local felony charges over the beating of a man and a woman, which was captured on a viral 
video.

"There is no place for violence in our communities," U.S. Attorney Dominick Gerace II said. "Those who commit violent acts can 
expect to be scrutinized and they will be held accountable for violations of federal criminal law."

On the local level, Merriweather faces assault, felonious assault, and aggravated riot charges that carry nearly 30 years in 
prison.

"Violence, in any form and under any circumstance, has no place in a civilized society," said ATF special agent Thomas Greco. "When 
warranted, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, in close coordination with our law enforcement partners, will 
employ the full extent of our legal authority and resources to identify, apprehend, and remove violent offenders from our 
communities."

Video of the attack shows a white man being thrown to the ground and kicked and punched by a group of black people outside of a 
music festival.

After the man stood up, a white woman was punched in the face and appeared to be knocked unconscious.

The video spread quickly online, drawing outrage and condemnation from both state and national leaders.

The FBI launched an investigation into the incident at Attorney General Pam Bondi's direction after Vice President JD Vance 
denounced the violence.

"What I saw, and I haven't seen the full context, but what I saw is a mob of lawless thugs beating up on an innocent person, and 
it's disgusting," Vance said. "And I hope every single one of those people who engaged in violence is prosecuted to the full extent 
of the law. And they will be. They will be so long as law enforcement in the state of Ohio takes their job seriously."

"I don't know the full context. I don't know how the fight started. But the one part that I saw that was really gruesome is you had 
a grown man who sucker-punched a middle-aged woman. And where I come from, at least, when you have a grown man who sucker punches a 
middle-aged woman, that person ought to go to jail for a very long time," Vance declared.

"And frankly, he's lucky there weren't some better people around because they would have handled it themselves. But if they're not 
going to handle it, the cops in Cincinnati, the law enforcement, you've got to prosecute people. We've had way too much lawlessness 
on the streets of great American cities. How many of you all have wanted to go to downtown Akron or downtown Canton or downtown 
Columbus for a meal, but you're worried because the local authorities in these big cities have allowed lawlessness to run wild?" he 
added.

Vance continued, "We have got to make great American cities safe again for families and children. If you want to take your wife or 
your children out for a meal, you shouldn't be worried about street violence. And the only way to destroy that street violence is 
to take the thugs who engage in that violence and throw their a**es in prison."

Some Cincinnati officials have offered a different take, with City Council President Pro Tem Victoria Parks writing in a Facebook 
comment that the victims "begged for that beat down! I am grateful for the whole story."


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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."