{"id":44,"date":"2006-01-16T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/wordpress\/44"},"modified":"2006-01-16T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T15:41:03","slug":"bush-derangement-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/44","title":{"rendered":"Bush Derangement Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst browsing the comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2006_01\/008012.php\">this post over at Washington Monthly<\/a> (via a link from Atrios), regarding Bush Administration saber rattling on Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, I come across clues that there&#8217;s another catch-phrase making the wingnut rounds&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your BDS is showing. If you don&#8217;t like Congress not asserting it&#8217;s powers over the President in war-time, elect a Dem majority. Otherwise, please kindly have a nice cup of STFU.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When an American city is smoking, radioactive ruin, I will trot out the 100,000 BDS posts from 2003-2006 to show how liberals brought on the appeasement conditions that allowed it to happen. I will prominently display your posts the most and in largest font!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. BDS<br \/>\n2. America-hatred<br \/>\n3. Israel-hatred<\/p>\n<p>Scratch a leftist and you&#8217;ll find all three. Rational thought, uh no.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somebody finally asks&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is &#8220;BDS&#8221; some new acronym being traded amongst the semi-literate online wingnuts, these days?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which our little wingnut responds&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BDS is Bush Derangement Syndrome which 99.999% of liberals suffer from. It&#8217;s totally irrational hatred of George W. Bush which clouds all rational thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And speaking of rational thought&#8230;this is what he posted later. Remember, this is a thread about Bush administration saber rattling over Iran&#8217;s nuclear program&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I will agree that trying to impose our values on those religious idiots(Shia and Sunni) in Iraq is not going to work in the short-term. I&#8217;m for all out civil war, let a few million be killed and then we&#8217;ll side with the winner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush Derangement Syndrome: <em>Characterized by genocidal and sociopathic impulses, gross inability to determine right from wrong or distinguish between true and false. Caused by prolonged uncritical and unconditional support of the Bush Administration&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst browsing the comments on this post over at Washington Monthly (via a link from Atrios), regarding Bush Administration saber rattling on Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, I come across clues that there&#8217;s another catch-phrase making the wingnut rounds&#8230; Your BDS is showing. If you don&#8217;t like Congress not asserting it&#8217;s powers over the President in war-time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}