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Re: And Guess What, Faggots... We STILL Have Our King!

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On 2026-03-31, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
> On 2026-03-30, Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null> wrote:
>> On 2026-03-30, AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Y'all did a GREAT job ensuring us that we have "NO Kings" in our White House, 
>>> because there still isn't.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> We now have a list of the NO KINGS (and OTHER protests) financiers:
>>>
>>> - Arabella: $79M
>>> - Warren Buffet: $16M
>>> - Ford: $51M
>>> - Rockefeller: $26M
>>> - Soros: $72M
>>> - Tides: $45M
>>>
>>> $294,487,641
>>>
>>> These numbers are cumulative and not meant to represent THIS weekend's figures 
>>> only. 
>>>
>>> LOL... $300 to accomplished what had already been, is now and ever shall be, 
>>> Amen!
>>>
>>> Harris-style explanation of the spreadsheet data.
>>>
>>> "We must look at the spreadsheet not just as a collection of cells and 
>>> numbers, but as a narrative of what has been, so that we can understand that 
>>> the ledger of today is often just the ghost of the transactions of yesterday, 
>>> unburdened by the reality of the people actually standing on the pavement 
>>> right now."
>>>
>>> LOL
>>>
>>>=============================================================================
>>>
>>> "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 TDS'ers.
>>>
>>> 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."
>>
>> A “No Kings” protest in England—interesting choice of venue.
>>
> ROTFLMAO!!
>
> It's right up there with "Queers For Palestine" protests.
>

Which may be the only thing that...Trumps.. it.

Sorry, I always intend my puns.

-- 
Tom Mix

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And Guess What, Faggots... We STILL Have Our King! AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> - 2026-03-30 16:38 -0500
  Re: And Guess What, Faggots... We STILL Have Our King! Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null> - 2026-03-30 23:51 +0000
    Re: And Guess What, Faggots... We STILL Have Our King! pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2026-03-31 13:34 +0000
      Re: And Guess What, Faggots... We STILL Have Our King! Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null> - 2026-03-31 19:05 +0000
      Re: And Guess What, Faggots... We STILL Have Our King! Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> - 2026-04-04 11:14 -0600

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