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: Fetterman's Almost There - If He Renounces His Party Membership, THEN I'll Say He's "There"
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:53:09 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
How pathetic that it has become an act of courage for a Democrat politician to
say, "Trump, and those who support him, are NOT Hitler, Nazis or fascists."
Who knew that John Fetterman would become virtually the lone Democrat voice of
reason in Congress?
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John Fetterman brings the Kennedy Center to complete silence as he delivers
this emotional message on stage:
"I'm the only Democrat in my family." (LOL... must have done it for a woman)
"I grew up in a conservative part of Pennsylvania. And I grew up... and I know
and I love people who voted for President Trump. But, they are NOT fascists,
they're NOT Nazis, they're NOT trying to destroy the Constitution. And that a
part of another thing... I REFUSE to call people Nazis or fascists. I would
never compare anybody - anybody to Hitler."
"And that kind of extreme rhetoric is going to continue... we're going to be
more likely and resulting in extreme kind of outcomes, and political violence
and doing all these kinds of things."
"Like Charlie Kirk... all I could say is let people grieve - give people the
space. I'm not going to use that terrible thing and that assassination to make
my argument and try to put out my views."
"It's like, my God... he's a father that had his neck blown out by a bullet.
And now people have forgotten: President Trump was in my state - was shot in
the head. Could you imagine where our nation would be if he were hit in the
same way as Kirk? WE really got to turn the temperature down."
"And we can agree to disagree on these kinds of things..."
Too bad all DemocRATS can't think like him.
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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."