XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc
From: katt@gmail.com
Check the time-lines.
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 07:25:11 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom says...
> World reacts to US bombing of Venezuela, ?capture? of Maduro
>
> Donald Trump says the US has carried out a ?large-scale
> strike? against Venezuela and captured its president.
>
> Trump's Iraq?
And his Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia?
Iraq:
Congressional Approval?
Regarding military actions in Iraq starting in 2014:
No new specific Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) was passed by
Congress for the 2014 intervention against ISIS.
Obama carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional
approval. In June 2011, U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said that
Obama had violated the Constitution when he launched military operations in
Libya without Congressional approval.
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Syria:
Congressional Approval?
No.
In 2013, a request for authorization for strikes against the Syrian government
was submitted to Congress but never brought to a vote, making it an illegal
strike.
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Pakistan
Congressional Approval?
No.
Military actions, primarily drone strikes and the 2011 raid on the bin Laden
compound, were conducted without a specific vote of approval from Congress for
operations in Pakistan.
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Yemen
Congressional Approval?
No.
Strikes against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and other groups were
conducted without a specific Congressional authorization for the use of force
in Yemen.
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Somalia
Congressional Approval?
No.
Airstrikes and Special Operations raids against Al-Shabaab were conducted
without a specific Congressional vote of approval for military action in
Somalia.
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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."Message-ID:
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