From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: So Much Written... So Little Said
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:48:37 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 18:37:28 -0700, Alan says...
>
> On 2025-08-16 18:18, AlleyCat wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:34:09 -0700, Alan says...
> >
> >>> Where I live helicopters to the Hamptons are a daily event all
> >>> year long. Fortunately most of them fly over the ocean on their
> >>> trips delivering rich elite from NYC to East Hampton. Billy Joel
> >>> used to take one round trip to MSG but stopped and now takes the
> >>> L.I.R.R. As crazy as it sounds. But most of the elite, left
> >>> wingers going to their horsey shows, fly in the bird.
> >>
> >> I'm sure that's true, so wouldn't you rather they travel in
> >> something that is much quieter?
> >
> > That, and the 1000s of aircraft Joby has, will lower the globe's
> > temperature 2°C.
> This isn't about saving the planet.
Liar.
Joby is a California-based company building quiet, all-electric aircraft to connect people like never before. With up to 100 miles
of range and the ability to take off and land vertically, the Joby aircraft will change the way we move while reducing the acoustic
and CLIMATE FOOTPRINT OF FLIGHT.
Why you lie so much?
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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."