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   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 13:56:48 -0800,  Alan says...   
      
   > ...just attacked another sovereign nation.   
      
   Like Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia?   
      
   Oh... and if you want to whine about Maduro?   
      
      
   Leaders Deposed By Obama:   
      
   Leader, Country, Status, Congressional Approval?   
      
   Muammar Gaddafi          Libya          Killed          No   
   Hosni Mubarak            Egypt          Resigned        No   
   Viktor Yanukovych        Ukraine        Fled            No   
   Mohamed Morsi            Egypt          Ousted          No   
   Zine El Abidine   
   Ben Ali                  Tunisia        Fled            No   
   Manuel Zelaya            Honduras       Ousted          No   
   Blaise Compaoré          Burkina Faso   Resigned        No   
      
      
   Foreign leaders who were deposed or removed from power during the Obama   
   administration, along with the specific actions taken by his administration in   
   each case.   
      
   Muammar Gaddafi (Libya, 2011)   
      
   Status: Deposed and killed.   
      
   U.S. Action: The administration authorized military participation in a NATO-   
   led air campaign that targeted Gaddafi's forces and infrastructure, which   
   directly aided the rebel groups that eventually captured and killed him.   
      
   Congressional Approval?   
      
   No.   
      
   =====   
      
   Hosni Mubarak (Egypt, 2011)   
      
   Status: Deposed (resigned).   
      
   U.S. Action: After initial hesitation, the administration publicly called for   
   an "orderly transition" to begin "now" and privately pressured Mubarak to   
   resign as mass protests grew and the Egyptian military withdrew its support   
   for him.   
      
   Congressional Approval?   
      
   No.   
      
   =====   
      
   Viktor Yanukovych (Ukraine, 2014)   
      
   Status: Deposed (fled the country).   
      
   U.S. Action: The administration supported the pro-Western protesters and the   
   opposition leaders. After Yanukovych fled following a violent crackdown, the   
   U.S. immediately recognized the new transitional government as legitimate.   
      
   Congressional Approval?   
      
   No.   
      
   =====   
      
   Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisia, 2011)   
      
   Status: Deposed (fled the country).   
      
   U.S. Action: The administration did not take military action but publicly   
   supported the "aspirations" of the protesters and praised the "courage and   
   dignity" of the Tunisian people after Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia.   
      
   Congressional Approval?   
      
   No.   
      
   =====   
      
   Mohamed Morsi (Egypt, 2013)   
      
   Status: Deposed (military coup).   
      
   U.S. Action: The administration did not intervene to stop the military from   
   ousting Morsi (who had been elected after Mubarak) and notably avoided   
   officially labeling the event a "coup," which allowed U.S. aid to Egypt to   
   continue under law.   
      
   Congressional Approval?   
      
   No.   
      
   =============================================================================   
      
   "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."   
      
   ============================================================================   
      
   "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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