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: More Liberal Lies
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:04:25 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:41:23 +0000, Mitchell Holman says...
> "CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over
> 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre
Over, huh?
They cut less than 8%
The CDC employed 12,820 people last year BEFORE the cuts. (numbers will vary,
according to various websites and dates)
As of September 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
employed approximately 12,820 people. This number reflects a significant
increase of 31.6% since 2010. USAFacts Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Current Employment at the CDC
As of September 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
employs approximately 12,820 individuals. This number represents a 31.6%
increase in staffing since 2010.
Employment Trends
2024 Employment: 12,820 employees
Increase Since 2010: 31.6%
The CDC accounts for about 0.6% of the total federal workforce, which consists
of approximately 2.31 million civilian federal employees.
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So... 11,820 people will disagree that the CDC is over.
Debra Houry, who was among three top leaders who resigned from the agency in
August to protest what they described as the Trump administration's
politicization of science, has been in touch with employees across the agency
and said 1,250 layoff notices were sent. Before this latest round of layoffs,
the agency had about 11,400 employees, Houry said. - MSN.com
Why can't you fuckers stop lying?
The CDC is over?
Hardly
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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."