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: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:33:06 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:20:57 -0700, Alan says...
> Look up "cloture" and when it can be invoked.
Irrelevant no-sequitur.
Cloture wasn't invoked.
The Democrats caused the shutdown.
If they had not insisted that their pork and the Healthcare provisions that
are set to expire go through, there would be no shutdown.
How DEMOCRATS Backed Themselves Into A Shutdown - MSN
Democrats Voted For A Shutdown. Now They Have To Find A Way Out - The AP
Fact Check: Why Did SCHUMER Shut Down The Government - factually.co
Senate Democrats VOTE DOWN Republican Bill To Keep Funding The Government
Putting It On Path To Shutdown
Democrats Chose A Shutdown-Americans Are Paying The Price
Why Democrats Shut Down The Government - Left Wing The New Yorker
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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."