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: Thank You, Democrats, For The Shutdown
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:53:43 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
Democrats have given President Trump the perfect opportunity to shrink EPA
down to a more appropriate size - 10% of what it was under Biden. The vast
majority of meaningful environmental protection is done now by the states.
The Environmental Protection Agency will furlough nearly 90% OF ITS WORKERS if
Democrats keep the government shut down, Lee Zeldin reveals
Wow - Democrats are now defunding ENVIRONMENT. Chuck Schumer is damaging the
left's own cause!
"If there was a total lapse of funding at EPA, no carryover funding, the lapse
plan has a furlough of up to 89% of the agency."
"There has been carryover funding that's allowed us to continue to fulfill our
statutory obligations, and to also pursue this deregulatory agenda to get our
work done and to fulfill the president's priorities and his demands of our
agency."
"But now, as this Democratic shutdown continues, Democrats continue to refuse
to vote to reopen this government - these furloughs are going to kick in even
at an agency like the EPA where you have the carryover funding."
https://x.com/i/status/1976635705351663973
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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."