XPost: alt.politics.democrats, talk.politics.misc   
   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:53:08 -0800,  chine.bleu says...   
      
   > > If Obama halts the Bush wars - "liberal surrender monkey!"   
   > >   
   > > If Obama continues the Bush wars - "look at the expense!"   
      
   > Bush went Congress and got a declaration of war.   
      
   But Buuuush!   
      
   Bush went Congress?   
      
   Put the fucking bottle down! Or is it weed? Vape?   
      
   But Obama!   
      
   SOLELY Obama's Undeclared "Not Wars"   
      
   As requested, here is a breakdown of major military operations, strikes, and   
   "war-like" actions that originated during   
   the Obama administration (2009-2017).   
      
   This list excludes the ongoing costs or fatalities for the wars in Iraq and   
   Afghanistan that began under the previous   
   administration (though it includes the 2014 "re-entry" into Iraq as a new   
   operation).   
      
   New Military Operations (2009-2017)   
      
   Operation/Action - Location - Estimated U.S. Cost - Estimated Fatalities   
   (Militant and Civilian)   
      
   Operation Inherent Resolve (Counter-ISIS) - Iraq and Syria - $11.7 billion   
   (thru 2016) - 25,000+ ISIS fighters; 2,100+   
   Civilians   
      
   Operation Odyssey Dawn / NATO Unified Protector - Libya - $1.1 billion - 1,100   
   - 2,500 (Gaddafi forces/Civilians)   
   Covert Drone Program (Regional Totals) - Pak./Yem./Som. - Unknown (Classified)   
   - 3,000 - 4,000+ (Militants and   
   Civilians)   
      
   Operation Ocean Shield (Anti-Piracy) - Gulf of Aden - $100 million+ (annually)   
   - ~30-50 (Pirates killed/captured)   
      
   Operation Observant Compass (Anti-LRA) - Central Africa - $780 million -   
   Minimal (Focus on defections/capture)   
      
   Got any more unclever quips, nerdo?   
      
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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."   
      
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