XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.trump   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   AlleyCat   wrote:   
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   >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?   
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   >   
   >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.   
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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."   
   >   
   >============================================================================   
   >   
   >"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   
      
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