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 23:43:09 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:21:50 -0700, Alan says...
>
> On 2025-10-10 11:40, AlleyCat wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 15:40:32 -0700, Alan says...
> >
> >> ... explain how the Democrats caused a shutdown when the Republicans have
> >> the votes necessary to pass a budget.
> >
> > They didn't, you stupid fuck.
>
> You said they did.
I was saying they didn't have the votes, you stupid fuck.
> >> This is on the Republicans and you know it.
> >
> > No, mind-reader... we don't know it.
> >
> > This is on the Democrats and you know it.
> >
> > THEY are the ones holding out for the pork THEY want in the budget, which
> > includes continuing Healthcare money, which WILL "allow" illegals to take
> > advantage of and get FREE medical care.
> They literally cannot "hold out" if the Republicans want to pass a budget.
You fucking moron.
> There is nothing they can do to stop it.
OK... once more for the man with the brain of a 4 year old.
Written just for you, 4 year old. See if you can follow the bouncing ball.
So, you know how there are different groups of people in the government, like
the Democrats and the Republicans? And they have to work together to make
decisions for the country?
Well, sometimes they might not agree on things, and that's okay. But if they
don't agree on something important, like how to run the government or how to
spend money, it can cause problems.
In the United States, the government is divided into three branches: the
President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. The Senate and the
House of Representatives are like two teams that have to work together.
Imagine you're playing with your friends, and you all have to decide what game
to play. If you can't agree on a game, you might not be able to play any game
at all.
In the government, if the Democrats and Republicans can't agree on something,
it can cause a "shutdown." That means that some parts of the government might
not be able to work properly, and some people might not get paid.
Now, you asked about something called a "super majority." A super majority is
like a special vote that requires more than half of the people to agree. It's
like if you and your friends were voting on what game to play, and you needed
3/4 of your friends to agree on a game before you could play it.
In the Senate, there are 100 people, and they need 60 people to agree to stop
a special rule called "filibuster." If they can't get 60 people to agree, it
can be hard for them to make decisions.
If the Republicans are in charge of one part of the government, like the
Senate or the House of Representatives, and they don't have a super majority,
they might not be able to pass laws or make decisions on their own.
But, if the Republicans and some Democrats work together, they might be able
to find a way to make decisions and avoid a shutdown. It's like if you and
your friends worked together to decide on a game, and you found one that
everyone likes!
So, to summarize: if the Republicans don't have a super majority, it can be
harder for them to make decisions, and it might cause problems like a
government shutdown. But, if they work together with other groups, they might
be able to find a solution!
There, faggot child.
The Democrats voted and they got enough votes up to where there was no super-
majority.
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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."