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: LOL - Moron Thinks The President Causes Government Shutdowns - Democrats, Generally-Speaking, Shut Down The Government Because Of Their Hate And For Their Trump Derangement Syndrome
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 14:14:19 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:57:43 -0400, Governor Swill says...
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:00:24 -0400, NoBody wrote:
>
> >Now your turn to answer a question: How could Trump stop a shutdown
> >that is happening because the Democrats refuse to do their jobs?
>
> By ending the shutdown so Democrats can go back to doing their jobs.
HOW can Trump end the shutdown, dork, when HE doesn't have a fucking vote?
Trump's not going to give in to the DEMOCRATS who caused the shutdown in the
first place, with their bullshit pork and Healthcare provisos.
The Democrats are still trying to BUY votes, from the illegals that are still
here. No, the illegals aren't SUPPOSED to be able to vote, but that matters
not. If there ARE provisos in the Healthcare bills that will provide "extra"
funding to allow illegals access TO Medicare and Medicaid, the LEGALS will
vote for whomever is pushing for that access.
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Let's analyze the statement:
"HOW can Trump end the shutdown, dork, when HE doesn't have a fucking vote?"
This statement is correct. During a government shutdown, THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT HAVE THE POWER TO UNILATERALLY END THE SHUTDOWN.
The President can propose a solution, but ultimately, IT REQUIRES A VOTE FROM CONGRESS TO PASS a new appropriations bill or
continuing resolution.
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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."