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   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...   
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   >> ...just attacked another sovereign nation.   
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   >Like Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia?   
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   >Hail the Black Messiah's quest for world domination by brutal force.   
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   >https://youtu.be/jc7QfnTTdJE   
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   >https://youtu.be/M5qFu3_Jvbk   
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   >https://youtu.be/jc7QfnTTdJE   
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   >Iraq:   
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   >Congressional Approval?   
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   >Regarding military actions in Iraq starting in 2014:   
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   >No new specific Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) was passed by   
   >Congress for the 2014 intervention against ISIS.   
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   >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:   
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   >Congressional Approval?   
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   >No.   
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   >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   
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   >Congressional Approval?   
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   >No.   
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   >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   
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   >Congressional Approval?   
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   >No.   
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   >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   
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   >Congressional Approval?   
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   >No.   
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   >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   
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   >All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.   
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   >"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?   
   >   
   >What does it say about a President - and about a country - when the standard   
   >response to those with whom you disagree is that they must be crazy? Nothing   
   >good, for sure.   
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   >Many clinicians, political commentators, and members of the public have   
   >speculated upon the mental health of President Donald Trump. Indeed, over   
   >70,000 people self-identifying as 'mental health professionals" have signed a   
   >petition declaring that "Trump is mentally ill and must be removed." In   
   >sociological terms, the 'medical gaze" has been hitherto focused on President   
   >Trump, and to a lesser extent his ardent supporters.   
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   >However, in recent months, many have been questioning the direction of this   
      
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