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   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:42:00 +0000,  Lee says...   
      
   > Trump says he'll sign an executive order   
   > restricting states' ability to regulate AI   
   > Dec 8   
      
   Has any President ever signed into law, a national law, something that would   
   prohibit states from passing their own laws on the subject?   
      
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   The Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965, signed into law by   
   President Lyndon B. Johnson, prohibited states from regulating cigarette   
   labeling and advertising.   
      
   The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), signed into law   
   by President Gerald Ford, preempted state laws that relate to employee benefit   
   plans.   
      
   The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore   
   Roosevelt, prohibited states from regulating meat inspection.   
      
   The Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, signed into law by President Jimmy   
   Carter, completely preempted state laws regulating airline routes, rates, and   
   services.   
      
   The Federal Communications Act of 1934, signed into law by President Franklin   
   D. Roosevelt, which gave the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broad   
   authority to regulate interstate and foreign communications, effectively   
   preempting state laws.   
      
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   So... when Barack Obama did this... it was OK?   
      
   One law for all 50 states.   
      
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   Another notable instance is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act   
   (ACA), also known as Obamacare, which President Barack Obama signed into law   
   on March 23,2010.   
      
   The ACA included a provision, known as the 'minimum coverage provision" or the   
   "individual mandate," which required individuals to purchase health insurance   
   or face a penalty.   
      
   The ACA ALSO INCLUDED A PROVISION THAT PROHIBITED STATES FROM PASSING THEIR   
   OWN LAWS that would exempt residents from the individual mandate.   
      
   Another example is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection   
   Act of 2010   
      
   The Dodd-Frank Act preempted state laws regarding some consumer financial   
   products.   
      
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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."   
      
   Added Krauthammer:   
      
   "Some clinicians consider this delusion - that Americans can only get their   
   news from one part of the political spectrum - the gravest of all. They report   
   that no matter how many times sufferers in padded cells are presented with   
   flash cards with the symbols ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time,   
   Newsweek, New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times - they remain   
   unresponsive, some in a terrifying near-catatonic torpor."   
      
   (If you don't realize the idea of TDS or BDS is - in no small part - meant in   
   a tongue-in-cheek manner then, well, you may well have it.)   
      
   Trump allies believe that TDS is worse than ODS or BDS - by a lot. Wrote   
   conservative pundit Bernie Goldberg on Real Clear Politics in early 2017:   
      
   "Before the election, the victims of TDS routinely compared Donald Trump to   
   Hitler. Guess what. They're still doing it. Articles in respectable   
   publications written by professors at elite universities are warning us to be   
   on guard, that a Trump presidency could imperil democracy-as-we-know-it and   
   may very well spell doom for American civilization.   
      
   "On election night, as it became obvious that their worst nightmare was about   
   to come true, some libs fainted. Some vomited. Many more threatened to leave   
   the country, but I'm pretty sure none actually did. As Donald Trump might say   
   in a tweet: so sad!"   
      
   The truth is that TDS is just the preferred nomenclature of Trump defenders   
   who view those who oppose him and his policies as nothing more than the blind   
   hatred of those who preach tolerance and free speech. Viewed more broadly, the   
   rise of presidential derangement syndromes is a function of increased   
   polarization - not to mention our national self-sorting - at work in the   
   country today.   
      
   We no longer live around, work around or pal around with people who think any   
   differently than us. We watch cable news that affirms what we already think.   
   We read ideological "news" sites that tell us how good our side is and how bad   
   the other one is. And on and on and on.   
      
   Is it any wonder then that we are increasingly willing to lump those who   
   disagree with us into the "deranged" category? To say that those who don't   
   share our views are mentally deficient in some way?   
      
      
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