| second: In 2025 Trump officials floated the idea of forcibly converting holdings of short-term Treasuries into long-term loans. And the main architect of this scheme was none other than Stephen Miran, who Trump appointed to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. No one, including me, knows whether any of these destabilizing possibilities will come to pass. But in the past, when policy and policymakers were sane and rule of law prevailed, investors could and did rule out the possibility that U.S. policy would turn wildly irresponsible. Now we have an administration that casually ripped up three generations’ worth of solemn trade agreements, has threatened to seize allies’ territory, and more. Who’s to say that one of these days Trump might not declare a Liberation Day on U.S. debt? It may not be the most likely outcome, but it’s no longer in the realm of the inconceivable. [go to link] |
| second: The most damning indictments often come from unexpected sources. Last week in Brussels, Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister and one of Europe’s most vocal Trump supporters, pulled aside his fellow European leaders to share what he’d witnessed during a private meeting with the American president. The word he used to describe Trump’s demeanor? “Dangerous.”
Let that sink in for a moment. This isn’t coming from some liberal European bureaucrat or a member of the so-called “deep state.” This is a man who spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference praising Trump, who’s consistently defended the president’s approach to Ukraine, and who proudly posted about his access to Mar-a-Lago on social media. When someone who’s been in your corner starts warning others about your “psychological state,” you’ve crossed a threshold that should terrify us all. . . . [go to link] |
| second: What I mean to say is 6ixStringJoker is a flaming Nazi gasbag. His rage is beyond control. |
| 6ixStringJack: Stop calling people Nazis, you fucking moron. It's the entire youth of your party that hates Jews. You are the party of Nazis. |
6ixStringJack: You've had one of those before, right? That's no big deal at all. Maybe you get a little chill when they first put the thing on you with the jelly or whatever, but they basically just move that thing around and maybe tell you to roll this way or that during the middle of it. Should be a piece of cake, Brenda.  When do you do that? |
| second: 6ixStringJoker wrote "You are the enemy of the people." Substitute the word 'Jew' for 'You' and it becomes obvious Joker is a Nazi. |
| Brenda: I was quite pleased with that after all my freaking out. Nice man. Even asked me if I was okay with the ultrasound. I'll get it done and go from there. I will sleep better tonight for sure. |
| 6ixStringJack: We've been watching the illegal murderers and rapists murder and rape our citizens for years now and you never gave a single shit any time it happened. Nobody gives a flipping fuck about your brainwashed fuck heads out there committing suicide by cop right now. You are the enemy of the people and the vast majority of Americans see that now. America and Americans hate you. |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut up faggot. |
| second: Trump’s Goon Squads Will Kill Again.
There’s a fundamental shift in this Trump administration’s governing philosophy—and it’s going to get more people killed. [go to link] How do you stop someone from killing someone else? In most societies, we do so with warnings, promises, and contracts. We make laws to make ourselves feel safe. It’s important to feel safe, because reality is terrifying. In Minneapolis this weekend, we saw reality: a group of men with guns, in a semicircle, firing a barrage of shots into a man’s body lying on the ground. The laws that were supposed to protect Alex Pretti—the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, multiple state and local and national statutes on use of force—failed. |
| 6ixStringJack: Stress test looking normal sounds great, Brenda. Congrats. Ultrasound should be a piece of cake compared to that. Get some sleep tonight. |
| second: President Donald Trump’s military occupations of American cities have already cost taxpayers half a billion dollars, according to a new report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. This unprecedented militarization of America could cost more than $1 billion this year if current domestic deployments continue. [go to link] The cost of the D.C. occupation, alone, is projected to exceed $660 million this year if it runs through December, as is expected by the CBO. While that deployment was supposed to address supposed surging crime, troops were repeatedly tasked with rousting the homeless, cleaning up parks, and painting over graffiti. Trump even advanced baseless claims that U.S. forces battled members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua on the streets of the capital. [go to link] |
| second: The FBI searched an election office in Georgia’s Fulton County outside Atlanta on Wednesday, pursuing U.S. President Donald Trump’s false claims that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voting fraud. [go to link] At his convenience, Trump will announce that he "won" in 2020 and the FBI has "proof". He will then file $1,000,000,000 lawsuits against his many enemies, claiming he will "win" those, too, even if he has to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court! |
Brenda: Stress done and everything looks normal but the cardiologist still wants another test done. Ultrasound on my heart. UGH! At least he called me young lady.  |
| second: The correct response to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau was not better training for the guards.
[go to link]
. . . the U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security, in its language and images in press releases and on social media, is directly aping Nazi propaganda.
It’s a process.
The death camps were launched after almost a decade after the Nazi concentration camp system was first created. Before, during, and after the Nazi era, other concentration camp systems have existed around the world.
Concentration camps involve the mass detention of civilians without due process on the basis of political, racial, ethnic, or religious identity. And that is where we’re at right now. . . . |
| Brenda: Stress test today. ACK! |
| second: Why disgraced Rush Hour director Brett Ratner was the only man for the Melania Trump documentary. The director, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, lost a lucrative production deal during the #MeToo era. Now, as Kevin E G Perry reports, he is plotting a Hollywood comeback with an expensive documentary about the First Lady and Trump-backed plans to revive his most famous franchise. He is set to direct Rush Hour 4, a sequel to his blockbuster action-comedy trilogy, which Paramount greenlit after President Donald Trump personally requested it. [go to link] |
| second: 6ixStringJoker, there is no evidence that Selena Gomez "flipped" or changed her political stance. Instead, she has continued her vocal advocacy for immigrant rights, expressing distress over immigration crackdowns. She faced criticism, including calls for her deportation from a former political candidate, for a tearful Instagram post regarding undocumented immigrant arrests. But I expect 6ixStringJoker to continue insisting that up is down and evil is good because that is what Trumptards do. |
| second: On Monday India and the European Union concluded negotiations on a breakthrough free trade agreement. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission — the EU’s executive branch — called it “the mother of all deals.” That description is somewhat over the top. Yet the agreement is in fact historic and important in ways that go beyond economics. For it shows that the world is becoming ever more estranged from an erratic, abusive United States. In other words, other countries are moving, step by step, toward an economic divorce from America.
Unlike Donald Trump, who thinks of international trade as a zero-sum game, the Europeans and the Indians understand that a free trade agreement between them is a very good deal for both parties. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Your little J6 narrative is precicely the reason why you lost Selena Gomez. She woke up and realized what an asshole she looked like talking about what tiny little thing happened one day 5 years ago when we see nothing but chaos in the streets brought about by your cult every single day and she couldn't live with that anymore. |