Elections; 2024 by THG

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Elections; 2024

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Sunday, December 15, 2024 9:37 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Then, using the same logic right back at you, I look forward to you not complaining one single time about anything for the next 4 years. Yanno... because you are a saint, you've got everything figured out, and everything you've ever said or done in life is God's work.

Looking forward to the next time you post in 2028.

See Ya! Wouldn't want to be ya!

6ix, by now, you should be well aware that I am judgmental. Even God does not rise to my standards:
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

Trump is substandard as a person, but perhaps I expect too much:

Donald Trump’s vision for America

Donald Trump's agenda is taking shape. Apparently he plans to ditch the post office, deregulate the banks, ban polio vaccines, bomb Iran, eliminate daylight saving time, and gut the FBI. I don't really remember any of that stuff from the campaign, but I guess it must have been what we all voted for.¹

Good times are coming, my friends. Good times.

¹Well, 29.7% of us, anyway.

https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trumps-vision-for-america/

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Sunday, December 15, 2024 9:50 AM

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Why did ABC News roll over for Donald Trump?

Dean Baker @DeanBaker13
This isn't hard, ABC News made a campaign contribution to Donald Trump. It is that simple.
8:55 PM • Dec 14, 2024

The topic here is a defamation suit Donald Trump filed against ABC News last March. It's one of the zillions that Trump files regularly and loses just as regularly. But for some reason, only a few days before Trump would have been forced to sit through a damaging deposition, ABC caved and agreed to pay Trump $15 million plus $1 million in legal fees.

This might make sense if ABC had a disastrously weak case and just needed to pull the plug. But they didn't. Trump had sued over an interview George Stephanopoulos did with Rep. Nancy Mace where he repeatedly asked how she could support a man who had been found "liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll case. Trump protested that the jury found him liable only for sexual abuse, but the judge later clarified this:

Quote:
The label “rape” as used in criminal prosecutions in New York applies only to vaginal penetration by a penis. Forcible, unconsented-to penetration of the vagina or of other bodily orifices by fingers, other body parts, or other articles or materials is not called “rape” under the New York Penal Law. It instead is labeled “sexual abuse.”

....[This] definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of “rape” in common modern parlance.... The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was “raped” within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump “raped” her as many people commonly understand the word “rape.” Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.... The proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm.

Sorry for the long excerpt, but I wanted to provide judge's full context. In short: Trump was not liable for rape under New York's stringent legal requirements, but he did rape Carroll as the term is commonly understood in modern usage.

It doesn't matter if the judge was right about this. It's what he wrote in an "official public proceeding," which means it's privileged and can be freely quoted as long as the source is noted. Stephanopoulos would have argued he did exactly that when he explicitly said, "the judge affirmed that it was rape."

Would he have prevailed? That's impossible to say, but he sure seems to have a strong case. The jury found that Trump had jammed his fingers into Carroll's vagina; a judge said that met the common definition of rape; and Stephanopoulos then cited the judge.

So why did ABC roll over with barely an effort to defend itself? It's a good question. It might have to do with the fact that ABC is owned by Disney, which recently fought with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for over a year and eventually paid a stiff price. Maybe they weren't up for another mud wrestling bout with the MAGA crowd.

But one way or the other, their decision seems to have been based on fear, not legal weakness. They were afraid of the retribution Trump might be able to mete out as president. And in this they aren't alone. Trump's revenge-based MO has proven remarkably effective. It's not clear what it will get him in the long run, but in the short run it's already earned him groveling fealty from politicians, foreign leaders, corporate CEOs, and now a major media outlet. This is unique—and uniquely chilling—in American presidential history.

And anyway, how big a deal is a $15 million contribution settlement? For Disney—net profit in 2024: $7.6 billion—it's barely noticeable. Best to just stay safe and write the check.
https://jabberwocking.com/why-did-abc-news-roll-over-for-donald-trump/

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Monday, December 16, 2024 8:00 AM

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Steve Bannon Is Already Claiming Trump Can Run Again in 2028

WHO’S GONNA STOP ME?

The political strategist says the Constitution doesn’t count in this case.

By David Gardner | Dec. 16 2024 5:51AM EST

https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-is-already-claiming-trump-c
an-run-again-in-2028/

According to the Trumptards, three non-consecutive terms are okay. That's not what the Twenty-Second Amendment says, but since when have Trumptards cared? Or even understood?
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-22/
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 8:53 AM

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Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All

Dec 16, 2024

In some areas, the election looked like a red wave; compared with four years ago, the presidential vote swung to the right by about 10 points in some of the most populous blue states, such as New York, California, and New Jersey. But down-ballot races offer a solid case for Democratic optimism. The party label appeared to be far less of an albatross for Democratic congressional candidates than it was in strong Republican years such as 2010 and 2014. In the Senate this year, although Republicans flipped four seats, Democratic candidates prevailed in four battleground states that Kamala Harris lost to Trump. And according to the Cook Political Report’s David Wasserman, Democrats could have retaken the House majority with only 7,309 more votes across three congressional districts.

Democrats also held their own in state-legislative races. They made gains in Wisconsin and broke a Republican supermajority in North Carolina, although they lost ground elsewhere. Overall, the party retains significantly more power in state capitols than it did when Trump first took office in 2017. “There could have been a red wave in the states, and there wasn’t,” Heather Williams, the president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, told me. “I genuinely see this election as defying odds.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maybe-democrats-didn-t-do-so-b
adly-after-all/ar-AA1vWGVr

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Monday, December 16, 2024 10:13 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All

Make no mistake. Democrats did terribly.

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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 10:16 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
Why did ABC News roll over for Donald Trump?

Dean Baker @DeanBaker13
This isn't hard, ABC News made a campaign contribution to Donald Trump. It is that simple.
8:55 PM • Dec 14, 2024

The topic here is a defamation suit Donald Trump filed against ABC News last March. It's one of the zillions that Trump files regularly and loses just as regularly. But for some reason, only a few days before Trump would have been forced to sit through a damaging deposition, ABC caved and agreed to pay Trump $15 million plus $1 million in legal fees.

This might make sense if ABC had a disastrously weak case and just needed to pull the plug. But they didn't. Trump had sued over an interview George Stephanopoulos did with Rep. Nancy Mace where he repeatedly asked how she could support a man who had been found "liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll case. Trump protested that the jury found him liable only for sexual abuse, but the judge later clarified this:
Quote:
The label “rape” as used in criminal prosecutions in New York applies only to vaginal penetration by a penis. Forcible, unconsented-to penetration of the vagina or of other bodily orifices by fingers, other body parts, or other articles or materials is not called “rape” under the New York Penal Law. It instead is labeled “sexual abuse.”

....[This] definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of “rape” in common modern parlance.... The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was “raped” within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump “raped” her as many people commonly understand the word “rape.” Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.... The proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm.
Sorry for the long excerpt, but I wanted to provide judge's full context. In short: Trump was not liable for rape under New York's stringent legal requirements, but he did rape Carroll as the term is commonly understood in modern usage.

It doesn't matter if the judge was right about this. It's what he wrote in an "official public proceeding," which means it's privileged and can be freely quoted as long as the source is noted. Stephanopoulos would have argued he did exactly that when he explicitly said, "the judge affirmed that it was rape."

Would he have prevailed? That's impossible to say, but he sure seems to have a strong case. The jury found that Trump had jammed his fingers into Carroll's vagina; a judge said that met the common definition of rape; and Stephanopoulos then cited the judge.

So why did ABC roll over with barely an effort to defend itself? It's a good question. It might have to do with the fact that ABC is owned by Disney, which recently fought with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for over a year and eventually paid a stiff price. Maybe they weren't up for another mud wrestling bout with the MAGA crowd.

But one way or the other, their decision seems to have been based on fear, not legal weakness. They were afraid of the retribution Trump might be able to mete out as president. And in this they aren't alone. Trump's revenge-based MO has proven remarkably effective. It's not clear what it will get him in the long run, but in the short run it's already earned him groveling fealty from politicians, foreign leaders, corporate CEOs, and now a major media outlet. This is unique—and uniquely chilling—in American presidential history.

And anyway, how big a deal is a $15 million contribution settlement? For Disney—net profit in 2024: $7.6 billion—it's barely noticeable. Best to just stay safe and write the check.
https://jabberwocking.com/why-did-abc-news-roll-over-for-donald-trump/

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Trump never touched this woman.

It was a civil case with a hand picked anti-Trump democrat judge and a handpicked Democrat voting jury.

My advice to Trump and all Republicans is to refuse to ever show up on any of these networks again.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 10:16 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Then, using the same logic right back at you, I look forward to you not complaining one single time about anything for the next 4 years. Yanno... because you are a saint, you've got everything figured out, and everything you've ever said or done in life is God's work.

Looking forward to the next time you post in 2028.

See Ya! Wouldn't want to be ya!

6ix, by now, you should be well aware that I am judgmental. Even God does not rise to my standards:

Oh. We know. We know.

And nobody cares.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 6:59 AM

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What really happened in 2024?

By Kevin Drum | December 16, 2024 – 10:49 am

https://jabberwocking.com/what-really-happened-in-2024/

Here's the vote for president in California for 2020 and 2024:

It's easy to see what happened here. Donald Trump gained no traction at all, but two million Democratic voters from 2020 didn't bother to show up and vote for Kamala Harris. Why? There are two obvious theories:

• They didn't like Kamala much.

• They knew she’d win the state easily so they just didn't bother.

For what it's worth, in final polling before the election Trump gained a couple of points compared to 2020, which turned into a 1% increase in his vote. Harris lost a couple of points, which turned into a 17% drop in her vote. This points in the direction of laziness/strategic voting.

Was this a problem with Harris in particular or with Democrats in general? Here's the House vote over the past couple of decades:

The Democratic share of the vote was down this year, so maybe it really is a D problem. But there's evidence this is mostly strategic. Here's the number of seats Democrats have won:

It was up! Democrats voted where they needed to but skipped out where a seat was uncompetitive. In the end, the Democratic share of the California delegation reached an all-time record aside from the blowout year of 2018.

I don't have a big axe to grind here. I just want to know: Was there a specific problem with Kamala Harris this year or is there a widespread problem with the Democratic brand in general? Honestly, I see evidence both ways. You really can't ignore the fact that every single state (in fact, every single county) shifted red. On the other hand, Harris lost by only 1.5% of the vote nationwide, while House Democrats gained 0.6% of the national vote compared to 2022 and picked up two seats. It's the same dynamic that played out in the deep-blue state of California.

It's just a genuine mystery. Trump really did pick up support compared to 2016, but then again, so did Harris by a little bit. Trump mainly picked up support from the third-party vote, not from Democrats.

I'm still not sure what to think, and it's going to be months before we have more reliable data to dive unto. Until then, we're fumbling around in the dark. But if I had to pick a story right now, it would be this:

1. Overall, Democrats ran about even compared to 2022. There's little sign that the party's brand is in serious trouble.

2. However, the Trump/Harris race clearly exposed dissatisfaction with the Biden/Harris administration. That needs to be investigated.

3. One way or another, the answer is mostly going to lie with Hispanics, who deserted Harris in droves.

4. We are still, basically, a 50-50 nation.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 8:37 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

You keep telling yourselves fables.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 2:36 PM

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You keep telling yourselves fables.

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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur

This is no fable. It is happening only because of Trump's "win":

It’s notable that Catholic Charities has complied with Wisconsin’s tax law since 1972. The fact that it now seeks an exemption after paying the taxes for 52 years suggests that preexisting law does not favor the church’s position — and that the church’s lawyers now think they can win, after Trump is President and orders his handpicked Supreme Court justices to vote the way he wants. Trump doesn't give a damn what the law says, and his Trumptard justices hold the law in only slightly less contempt than Trump does.

The Court announced last Friday it will hear Catholic Charities.

https://www.vox.com/scotus/391420/supreme-court-catholic-charities-wis
consin-workers-religion

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 5:51 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You keep telling yourselves fables.

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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur
This is no fable.

Yes. It is.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 6:48 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Favoribility of US Leaders (December 17th, 2024):

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

Politician / Favorable / Unfavorable / Spread
Joe Biden / 40.8 / 54.3 / -13.5
Donald Trump / 49.0 / 47.6 / +1.4
Kamala Harris / 45.5 / 49.5 / -4.0
Mike Johnson / 28.0 / 37.0 / -9.0
Hakeem Jeffries / 30.0 / 31.0 / -1.0
Chuck Schumer / 29.7 / 43.0 / -13.3
Mitch McConnell / 21.7 / 59.3 / -37.6

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 7:27 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Favoribility of US Leaders (December 17th, 2024):

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

Politician / Favorable / Unfavorable / Spread
Joe Biden / 40.8 / 54.3 / -13.5
Donald Trump / 49.0 / 47.6 / +1.4
Kamala Harris / 45.5 / 49.5 / -4.0
Mike Johnson / 28.0 / 37.0 / -9.0
Hakeem Jeffries / 30.0 / 31.0 / -1.0
Chuck Schumer / 29.7 / 43.0 / -13.3
Mitch McConnell / 21.7 / 59.3 / -37.6

Trump deserves his popularity. Here is an example:

I had previously read the Trump tweet below and thought that this is why Trump is so popular. That says a lot about me and my reading comprehension at high speed. I misunderstood Trump. I should have read that tweet a lot slower and considered the implications of what Trump wrote. But at first glance Trump is brilliant:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER. We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy. They can go find another "sucker!" There is no chance that the BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, and any Country that tries should wave goodbye to America.

There’s a lot that’s foolish about that rant, starting with the idea that foreign governments can simply replace the dollar by decree (although others, like Vladimir Putin, share the same misconception.) I’ll write a future post about why that’s not at all how it works.

There are also delusions of grandeur: Trump clearly imagines that America holds all the cards when it comes to a possible trade war, and I fear that he and the rest of us will soon get an object lesson in the limits of U.S. trade leverage.

But what’s really bizarre about Trump’s rant is that given his views about trade, he should want to see the dollar lose its special role.

Much More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/from-exorbitant-privilege-to-invinc
ible

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 7:43 AM

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'Disaster': Trump allies said to be mulling 'one of the dumbest ideas anyone could have'

December 18, 2024 7:11AM ET

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fdic-2670487557/

“This has as much logic as asking if Trump can abolish Wednesday, and split it between Tuesday and Thursday,” said Aaron Klein, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former Treasury Department official who helped craft the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 1:01 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Favoribility of US Leaders (December 17th, 2024):

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

Politician / Favorable / Unfavorable / Spread
Joe Biden / 40.8 / 54.3 / -13.5
Donald Trump / 49.0 / 47.6 / +1.4
Kamala Harris / 45.5 / 49.5 / -4.0
Mike Johnson / 28.0 / 37.0 / -9.0
Hakeem Jeffries / 30.0 / 31.0 / -1.0
Chuck Schumer / 29.7 / 43.0 / -13.3
Mitch McConnell / 21.7 / 59.3 / -37.6
Trump deserves his popularity. Here is an example:
...

But what’s really bizarre about Trump’s rant is that given his views about trade, he should want to see the dollar lose its special role.

Fuck that little gremlin Krugman.

You're still listening to him after how often he's mislead you?

Don't worry. He's going to die of old age soon too and he won't be able to poison your mind with his bullshit anymore.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 1:04 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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'Disaster': Trump allies said to be mulling 'one of the dumbest ideas anyone could have'

December 18, 2024 7:11AM ET

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fdic-2670487557/

“This has as much logic as asking if Trump can abolish Wednesday, and split it between Tuesday and Thursday,” said Aaron Klein, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former Treasury Department official who helped craft the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010.

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You guys are the ones in the cult, so the rest of that article can be thrown directly into the trash bin.

Would you like to try another article on this topic written by people who aren't cultists?

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 6:23 PM

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You guys are the ones in the cult, so the rest of that article can be thrown directly into the trash bin.

Would you like to try another article on this topic written by people who aren't cultists?

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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur

The tech bros who helped put Trump back in power expect many favors in return; one of the more interesting is their demand that the government intervene to guarantee cryptocurrency players the right to a checking account, stopping the “debanking” they claim has hit many of their friends.

The real reason banks don’t want to be financially connected to crypto is that they believe, with good reason, that to the extent that cryptocurrencies are used for anything besides speculation, much of that activity is criminal — and they don’t want to be accused of acting as accessories.

British authorities recently broke up a big money-laundering scheme involving cocaine kingpins and cryptocurrency. Howard Lutnick, Trump’s choice for Commerce secretary, has close ties to Tether, the company that is at the heart of the scheme the UK just uncovered and is rumored to play a large role in money laundering in general.

We’ll see what happens. But what Musk and Andreesen are demanding could be seen as a call for the U.S. government to intervene to make life easier for criminals. And if you think such a thing would be inconceivable under the second Trump administration, you haven’t been paying attention.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-for-criming

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 6:49 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
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You guys are the ones in the cult, so the rest of that article can be thrown directly into the trash bin.

Would you like to try another article on this topic written by people who aren't cultists?

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"My only fear of death is coming back to this bitch reincarnated." ~Tupac Shakur
The tech bros who helped put Trump back in power expect many favors in return; one of the more interesting is their demand that the government intervene to guarantee cryptocurrency players the right to a checking account, stopping the “debanking” they claim has hit many of their friends.

Personally, I'm hoping he pulls the rug on them and Bitcoin crashes.

That would be a huge fuck you to the bad guys after taking their money and would only make Trump even more popular than he already is right now. These people got rich screwing over everyone else, so it would be poetic even.

Oh! They demand, huh? It sounds like they don't have any power or leverage in this situation. It's honestly pathetic watching them pretend that their begging has fangs attached.

What exactly could they do if he reneged on every promise he made them for their crypto money? They have very little support in the public, and probably even less support in the government.

Maybe if Trump was apprehensive of some sort of physical retaliation from these criminals directed upon himself or his family he should just have them all thrown in prison for all the times they got richer pulling the rug out from other people.

This would make him even more popular. Especially among the Independent and sway voters that the Democrat party already isn't likely to get back any time soon.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 6:54 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

You see what I did there, Second?

Trump is not even President yet and I'm already calling out bad guys that he has associated himself with.

4 years of Joe Biden* being President and you couldn't bring yourself to do that once, no matter how bad they got. And they got bad...

The only time I've ever heard you shit-talk anybody with a (D) attached to their name is when you threw a temper tantrum and accused Joe Biden* of being drunk at the debate. Yanno... because you still can't bring yourself to admit you were lied to every single day by the media about Joe Biden*'s mental faculties. Not even after they knew it was so bad they replaced her with somebody arguably stupider when they forced Joe* out and gave you Harris.

Even Ted somehow managed to momentarily break free of the programming and speak up against CRT being taught in schools.

Even fucking BLM spoke out when Joe Biden* was thrown in the trash and Harris was forced on Democrat voters without any primary.

I find it quite funny when you label other people in a cult everyday, yet it is you that consistently exhibits cult-like behavior, such as this, everyday.

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Thursday, December 19, 2024 10:21 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I find it quite funny when you label other people in a cult everyday, yet it is you that consistently exhibits cult-like behavior, such as this, everyday.

I should insult you by pointing out that this is another "I'm rubber. You're glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you" scenario, but what good would that do? I will get to the real point about Trumptards:

The Chaos Monkeys Have Already Taken Over the Zoo
The peddlers of misinformation are high on their own supply

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-chaos-monkeys-have-already-take
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The news of the moment is the looming prospect that the federal government will shut down over the weekend. (All credit for the shutdown will go to Trumptards such as Elon Musk, if the shutdown happens.)

We’ll have to see how much damage this does, but it’s already clear that assuming the worst happens — and it’s hard to see how it won’t — this will be the dumbest shutdown ever. I’d say that the incoming Musk administration (so far Musk, not Trump, appears to be calling the shots) is trying to hold itself up for ransom, but it doesn’t even rise to that level. This isn’t like 1995, when Newt Gingrich shut down the government in an attempt to extract cuts in Medicare and Medicaid — a move that seemed (and was) a foolish act of petulance, but at least had a ghost of motivation.

No, Musk is demanding — apparently successfully — that Republicans in Congress renege on a deal they had already agreed to, a continuing resolution that would keep the federal government going for the next few months. Why? Because, Musk says, of the outrageous provisions in that CR.

Except none of the items Musk is complaining about are actually in the bill. No, Congress isn’t giving itself a 40 percent raise. No, the bill doesn’t fund a $3 billion stadium in Washington. No, it doesn’t block future investigations into the Jan. 6 committee. No, it doesn’t fund bioweapons labs.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/elon-musk-false-claims-cr-001
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In a barrage of posts on X Musk pushed misinformation about a more or less routine, place-holding bill that was basically a way to keep the ship of state afloat until Trump takes charge. Maybe this was in part a power play, an attempt to make Republicans in Congress show fealty to a man who clearly imagines that he’s the real president — and Trump, by meekly endorsing Musk’s position, did in fact convey the impression that Musk is leading the guy who is supposed to be in charge by the nose. But this political theater will have real consequences, for America, for Trump, and for Musk himself.

Musk has asserted that shutting the government down for a month would do no harm. And it’s true that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid funding — which is where the bulk of the money goes — will continue. But many services people rely on will be disrupted, especially if the shutdown goes on for more than a month, which seems all too likely given Republicans’ razor-thin House majority and the dominance of misinformation in many members’ thinking.

Maybe Musk himself doesn’t expect to experience any hardship, but put it this way: I’m glad that I won’t need to renew my passport any time soon, that I don’t expect to be trying to get through airport security for a while, and especially glad that I don’t rely either on food stamps or on small business loans. For all of these things have been disrupted in past government shutdowns.

Do Musk and Trump know any of this? Almost surely not.

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Thursday, December 19, 2024 5:13 PM

THG

I haven't heard, is president Musk pushing for Kennedy?

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Thursday, December 19, 2024 6:45 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Have you heard that the Georgia case just fell apart and that Fani Willis might be going to prison herself?

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Thursday, December 19, 2024 6:46 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I find it quite funny when you label other people in a cult everyday, yet it is you that consistently exhibits cult-like behavior, such as this, everyday.
I should insult you by pointing out that this is another "I'm rubber. You're glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you"

No. It's not.

The reasons were well laid out.

You are a cultist.

And your cult is losing members every single day.

Including in the Legacy Media. It's why Ted hasn't posted a Legacy Media article for weeks and has reduced himself to watching nothing but YouTube clickbait bullshit videos. The kind I warned him against watching leading up to the election because they were lying to him.

This is the main problem with the education system in the US. Unless you learned critical thinking skills outside of school, they were beaten out of you by the time you got your diploma.

So without that, Ted's only option is to find anybody who's still telling him what he wants to hear and getting behind them.

Also cult-like behavior.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 8:46 AM

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The Ghost of Banking Panics Future
Making financial crises great again

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-ghost-of-banking-panics-future

One benefit of the rise of streaming is that you can get through holiday season watching movies at home other than endless reruns of “It’s a wonderful life.” If you do find yourself viewing the old chestnut, however, you should be aware that it’s an unrealistic fantasy.

I’m not talking about an angel getting its wings every time a bell rings and all that. True, I haven’t seen any evidence for that claim, but then I haven’t seen any evidence against it either.

No, I’m talking about the bank run at the heart of the plot, which could not have happened at the time the movie was set. For the events in “It’s a wonderful life” take place just after World War II, and by then deposits at thrift institutions like Jimmy Stewart’s bank were covered by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, so his customers would not have been worried about losing their life savings. FSLIC itself went bankrupt in the 1980s — more about that later — but depositors’ money was protected from the savings and loan crisis, and it was folded into the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which covers commercial banks.

Now, however, the incoming Trump administration reportedly wants to abolish the FDIC and weaken bank regulation in general. And that could eventually lead to very bad things.

Bank runs were quite common before the creation of FSLIC and the FDIC — audiences when the movie came out in 1946 still had vivid memories of the huge bank runs of the 1930s. And this was far from the first time bank runs had a devastating effect on the real economy.

In particular, we know that Donald Trump has a thing about the 1890s, when men were men, tariffs were high, businesses were free to pollute the air and water, and nobody knew what went on in meatpacking plants. But you can bet your Bitcoin that he’s never heard of the Panic of 1893, a huge wave of contagious bank runs that was catastrophic for industrial production and employment:

Economists actually understand bank runs pretty well. When the 2008 financial crisis struck after generations without such crises (in the United States), monetary economists could be found wandering the halls muttering “Diamond-Dybvig, Diamond-Dybvig,” after a classic 1983 analysis by Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, who pointed out that banks offer their depositors immediate access to their cash while investing most of the money in “illiquid” assets like loans that can’t be quickly sold, or at least only at fire-sale prices. (Diamond and Dybvig eventually won a Nobel Prize for their work.)

Normally the illiquidity of most bank assets isn’t a problem, because on any given day only some of a bank’s customers want cash, while others are making deposits, so it’s OK to hold limited amounts of ready cash.

But if for whatever reason depositors fear that a bank may be about to fail, they will rush to pull out their money — and their fears can turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy, because a bank trying to raise money in a hurry can go bankrupt even if it would have been solvent if it had had time to sell at a more deliberate pace. And since the collapse of one bank can cause fears about other banks, bank runs can be contagious.

Deposit insurance made old-fashioned bank runs a thing of the past; I’ll talk about recent crises in a minute. But from the beginning it was obvious that protection for depositors had to come with strings. Otherwise banks could play heads I win, tails taxpayers lose: attract funds by offering attractive interest rates, then invest in potentially high-yielding ventures that could also easily go bad. Depositors wouldn’t worry, because they were protected; bank owners would get rich if they were lucky, just walk away if they weren’t.

So deposit insurance had to be accompanied by things like capital requirements that forced bank owners to put their own money at risk and restrictions on the kinds of investments they were allowed to make.

Concerns that unregulated banks would gamble with depositors’ funds weren’t purely hypothetical. The interaction between deposit insurance and deregulation of savings banks in the 1980s turned a modest-sized problem into a huge mess that eventually cost taxpayers around $130 billion — adjusting for inflation and economic growth since then, that’s the equivalent of around $650 billion today.

Still, thanks to deposit insurance we went from the 1930s to 2008 without major banking crises. What happened in 2008?

The answer, which most economists, myself included, unfortunately didn’t recognize until after the fact, was that by 2008 much of the financial system had been taken over by “shadow banking” that functioned a lot like ordinary banking but lacked both guarantees and effective regulation. For example, firms like Lehman Brothers were in effect using overnight borrowing to finance purchases of mortgage-backed securities, creating the conditions for something that was the functional equivalent of a Diamond-Dybvig bank run even though it didn’t involve bank deposits.

And when the runs came, the results were a lot like those of 19th-century “panics.” We managed to avoid a full replay of the Great Depression thanks to a combination of bailouts and fiscal support, but it was still ugly, and the crisis was followed, appropriately, by tightened regulation of finance in general.

But now the incoming Trump administration seems eager to deregulate the financial industry. We’re hearing about the possibility of abolishing the FDIC. Deposit insurance would supposedly remain, although it would be absorbed into the Treasury Department. But the FDIC has a lot of institutional experience in bank regulation, which would presumably be lost. And this comes amid a general push to loosen financial regulation, indeed regulation of all types.

I have no idea how far this stuff will go, although Wall Street types are clearly eager to start taking dangerous risks again.

But it does seem like a reasonable guess that panics, along with pollution and polio, are well-positioned to make a comeback.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 9:08 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I find it quite funny when you label other people in a cult everyday, yet it is you that consistently exhibits cult-like behavior, such as this, everyday.
I should insult you by pointing out that this is another "I'm rubber. You're glue. What you say bounces off me and sticks to you"

No. It's not.

The reasons were well laid out.

You are a cultist.

And your cult is losing members every single day.

Including in the Legacy Media. It's why Ted hasn't posted a Legacy Media article for weeks and has reduced himself to watching nothing but YouTube clickbait bullshit videos. The kind I warned him against watching leading up to the election because they were lying to him.

This is the main problem with the education system in the US. Unless you learned critical thinking skills outside of school, they were beaten out of you by the time you got your diploma.

So without that, Ted's only option is to find anybody who's still telling him what he wants to hear and getting behind them.

Also cult-like behavior.

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Color me shocked.

Resident dipshit didn't quote reply me with unrelated nonsense.

It's because he knows he's in a cult.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 9:10 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Why don't you start a Tick Tock to Polio thread, idiot?

Hey Jaynez. Why don't you put Second's prediction that Polio is making a comeback in the predictions thread?

You people are so fucking dumb and easy to lead around.

I'm so glad we don't have to put up with any of you anymore.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 11:04 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I find it quite amusing that the media and idiots from The Squad are all parroting each other, trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Musk right now.

Pathetic.

I wonder if any of them even realize how transparent they are. None of them are half as clever as they imagine themselves to be.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 1:14 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I find it quite amusing that the media and idiots from The Squad are all parroting each other, trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Musk right now.

Pathetic.

I wonder if any of them even realize how transparent they are. None of them are half as clever as they imagine themselves to be.

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Trump wants to suspend, or even eliminate, the debt ceiling. In contrast, Musk wants to limit spending, meaning NOT raise the debt ceiling. Until either Trump or Musk decides to accept what the other wants, the government will shutdown. Until the ALL Republicans in Congress (I mean every last one of them because otherwise Republicans don't have the votes to pass anything) decide whose opinion about the national debt they are following, Trump or Musk, the government stays shutdown.

“Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling,” Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social early Friday morning. “Without this, we should never make a deal.”

The debt ceiling is the limit — set in law — of how much new debt the US government can issue. If it is not raised or suspended in time, the country would default on its debt; it is widely believed economic turmoil would then ensue. Republicans have used the threat of a debt default to try to force Democratic presidents into policy concessions, and Trump fears Democrats will try something similar against him in 2025. So he wants the debt ceiling suspended right now — or even abolished entirely.

This was an unexpected turn of events because the initial bipartisan deal just didn’t address the debt ceiling at all: It merely funded the government for three more months, as well as included several other provisions that had won bipartisan backing.

https://www.vox.com/politics/392184/trump-musk-congress-spending-debt-
ceiling

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Friday, December 20, 2024 1:23 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I find it quite amusing that the media and idiots from The Squad are all parroting each other, trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Musk right now.

Pathetic.

I wonder if any of them even realize how transparent they are. None of them are half as clever as they imagine themselves to be.

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Trump wants to suspend, or even eliminate, the debt ceiling. In contrast, Musk wants to limit spending, meaning NOT raise the debt ceiling. Until either Trump or Musk decides to accept what the other wants, the government will shutdown. Until the Republicans in Congress decide whose opinion about the national debt they are following, Trump or Musk, the government stays shutdown.

The government has shut down 10 times since 1980 and neither Trump nor Musk had anything to do with it. Democrats were to blame for the 2018 shutdown.

https://www.history.com/news/us-government-shutdowns-facts

SPOILER ALERT: Nobody cares about 800,000 DEI hires getting furloughed.

Fuck 'em.

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The debt ceiling is the limit — set in law — of how much new debt the US government can issue. If it is not raised or suspended in time, the country would default on its debt; it is widely believed economic turmoil would then ensue. Republicans have used the threat of a debt default to try to force Democratic presidents into policy concessions, and Trump fears Democrats will try something similar against him in 2025. So he wants the debt ceiling suspended right now — or even abolished entirely.

So as a Democrat you're going to pretend to care about the deficit in 2024?

That's rich.

What the fuck do we even have a debt ceiling for when Democrats always blow the budget and raise it every year anyhow?

$36 Trillion+ debt given to us by Democrats so far? It doesn't appear that the Debt Ceiling is made out of anything other than air.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 1:33 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Are you losing your mind yet, Second?

I'm really looking forward to watching your steep mental decline over the next 4 years.

Need any drugs?

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Friday, December 20, 2024 1:44 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

The government has shut down 10 times since 1980 and neither Trump nor Musk had anything to do with it. Democrats were to blame for the 2018 shutdown.

https://www.history.com/news/us-government-shutdowns-facts

There was a spending bill in Dec 2018 that Trump vetoed because it did not include $5.7 billion for a Texas-Mexico Wall. After Trump stalled for a month, he signed the bill, ending the shutdown but never getting his $5.7 billion. A month-long Trump tantrum that was all sound and fury signifying nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932019_United_States_federal_
government_shutdown

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Friday, December 20, 2024 3:00 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Right. Exactly.

Democrats created the 2018 shutdown.

They also did it by going against the will of the American People and doing whatever they can to stop anybody from keeping the fucking aliens out. One of the top 3 reasons why you lost in November.

Since National Security is ONE of the ONLY jobs that our Federal Government has, it says a lot that they're $36 Trillion in debt and there is no such thing as national security in America because of Democrats.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 6:15 PM

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Right. Exactly.

Democrats created the 2018 shutdown.

They also did it by going against the will of the American People and doing whatever they can to stop anybody from keeping the fucking aliens out. One of the top 3 reasons why you lost in November.

Since National Security is ONE of the ONLY jobs that our Federal Government has, it says a lot that they're $36 Trillion in debt and there is no such thing as national security in America because of Democrats.

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Trump waited 36 days before signing a bill. During the wait, the government was shutdown. All Trump had to do to end the shutdown was pick up a pen and sign the paper that was on his desk. The shutdown was all Trump's fault.

There is a $36 trillion debt because more than a $1 trillion in taxes are not collected each year. The IRS only collected $750 per year from Trump, so I'm pretty sure its his fault that his taxes haven't been paid, not the fault of the IRS.

Trillion dollars in unpaid taxes per year
https://www.google.com/search?q=trillion+dollars+in+unpaid+taxes+per+y
ear

Trump paid 750 dollars in taxes per year
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+paid+750+dollars+in+taxes+per+ye
ar

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Friday, December 20, 2024 6:21 PM

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The target of dozens of death threats linked to the MAGA movement made a public plea to Republicans to halt Donald Trump’s vow of retribution Friday.

Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and his family have been hit by many “credible” threats that have been investigated by law enforcement.

“People are in jail for wanting to kill me and my kids," he wrote for MSNBC Friday. "I spent $315,000 this past Congress on personal security to protect myself and my family. I know the consequences of dissent."

Swalwell began receiving threats after speaking out on issues including gun control and investigations into Trump.

And he fears that now that Trump is returning to power, and has nominated Kash Patel — a man who has openly called for retribution — to head the FBI, the threats will worsen.

More at https://www.rawstory.com/eric-swalwell-trump-2670649419/

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Friday, December 20, 2024 7:17 PM

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Trump insisted that any deal to keep the government open must include a two-year suspension of the U.S. debt limit. Friday’s passage — without Trump’s debt limit hike — served as a reminder to the incoming president of just how difficult it is to control the notoriously fractious House Republican caucus. If the bill passes the Senate in its current form, Biden is expected to sign it into law quickly. (If Trump were President, he wouldn't sign and the government would shut down for Xmas.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/20/government-shutdown-house-speaker-trum
p-vote.html

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If Less Than 115,000 Votes Had Switched in Three Battleground States, Harris Would Have Beaten Trump

The Electoral College’s count Tuesday confirms that Trump fell dramatically short of a “massive mandate.”

By John Nichols | December 20, 2024

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/three-battleground-states-d
efeated-trump/

Dave Wasserman, the well-regarded number cruncher for the Cook Political Report, noted, “the 2024 election was decided by 229,766 votes across Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin out of about 155.2 million cast nationally.”

If the Harris campaign had mobilized more base voters in those states—rather than squandering precious time on Republican-outreach events with Liz Cheney—they might well have made up the difference. Or, if they could have developed strategies to get just 114,884 working-class Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania voters to shift from Trump to Harris, the Democrat would have prevailed.

That’s roughly the number of people that a pair of Taylor Swift shows drew in Philadelphia this year. In Wisconsin, historically the most closely contested of the battleground states, a shift of less than 15,000 votes would have given the state to Harris.

It’s not uncommon for presidents to boast that they have more support than is actually the case, and it’s certainly not Trump’s first time doing so. Countless presidents have peddled a fantasy of broad popularity in order to gain an advantage in the wrangling over Cabinet picks and policy initiatives.

But the voters did not hand Trump a massive mandate.

Rather, they produced a result so close that, with just a slight shift of votes, the Electoral College would have made a Democrat the 47th president of the United States.

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Saturday, December 21, 2024 8:08 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

False.

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Saturday, December 21, 2024 9:38 AM

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False.

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The Republicans in the House of Representatives are already running for reelection. Their first step to stay in power was to give Trump a big defeat, today:

Congress averts shutdown after House GOP drops Trump’s debt limit demand
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/politics/house-senate-vote-shutdown-bil
l/index.html

Trump won the election by a few thousand votes in the right places. The Republicans in the House of Representatives know that, which is why they didn't give a shit what Trump wants if it doesn't align with what they want. Obeying random commands arising from Trump's mental illness is NOT their top priority.

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Saturday, December 21, 2024 6:29 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
False.

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The Republicans in the House of Representatives are already running for reelection. Their first step to stay in power was to give Trump a big defeat, today:

Also untrue.

The original bill was 1,547 pages of bullshit and pork.

All Democrats got to go home with on Christmas was a 118 page bill.

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Trump won the election by a few thousand votes in the right places.

Get fucked, stupid.

We're talking multiples more votes than Joe Biden winning the electoral college with 44,000 votes over 3 states 4 years ago.

You treated that as a total mandate. Wide open borders for 4 years. EV mandates. Blanket censorship. College debt repayment. 2 new wars by proxy. Hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars flushed down the drain in Ukraine and both sides of the Israel/Palestine conflict. You even passed laws removing gas stoves from future American's lives.

Not enough for you?

How about the Harris Coronation, instead of letting you decide via primary who was going to lose to Trump?

Democrats have walked around the last 4 fucking years like they had a mandate.

ON EVERYTHING.

It will be fun watching you cry for the next 4 years now. Especially when you present articles like this making a weak case that pales in comparison to the exact opposite argument for Trump 4 years ago that you completely ignored all this time while Democrats swung their dicks all around and did whatever they wanted to like they own the place.

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The Republicans in the House of Representatives know that, which is why they didn't give a shit what Trump wants if it doesn't align with what they want. Obeying random commands arising from Trump's mental illness is NOT their top priority.

You've got your story here all wrong because you've made the conscious choice to continue watching brainrot Lefty media that you've seen lie to you time and time and time again.

So I'm not even going to bother arguing you on this non-issue again. Get yourself an education.

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Sunday, December 22, 2024 6:26 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You've got your story here all wrong because you've made the conscious choice to continue watching brainrot Lefty media that you've seen lie to you time and time and time again.

So I'm not even going to bother arguing you on this non-issue again. Get yourself an education.

I can see why Trump got your vote. Trumptards and Trump are crazy and don't know it:

Using only his mouth, Trump will remove illegal aliens and take control of the Panama Canal

22 Dec 2024

United States President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to demand control of the Panama Canal after accusing Panama of charging excessive rates on US ships passing through one of the busiest waterways in the world.

“Our Navy and Commerce have been treated in a very unfair and injudicious way. The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Saturday.

“This complete ‘rip-off’ of our Country will immediately stop.”

The US largely built the canal in 1914 and administrated territory surrounding the passage for decades. But Washington fully handed control of the canal to Panama in 1999 after a period of joint administration.

Trump also hinted at China’s growing influence around the canal, which connects the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.

“It was solely for Panama to manage, not China, or anyone else,” he said. “We would and will NEVER let it fall into the wrong hands!”

The post was an exceedingly rare example of a US leader saying he could push a sovereign country to hand over territory.

“It was not given for the benefit of others, but merely as a token of cooperation with us and Panama. If the moral and legal principles of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, and without question,” Trump said.

Last month, Trump said he would impose tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports on day one of his administration and that the measures would remain until the “invasion” of undocumented migrants and drugs came to an end.

“Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long-simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power, and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price!” he posted on his Truth Social platform.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/22/trump-threatens-to-take-back
-control-of-panama-canal-over-ridiculous-fees

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Trump’s going to:

. . . give them great healthcare at a fraction of the cost (after 9 years’ hard work, he has a concept of a plan) . . .

. . . drive down the cost of groceries by: (1) adding tariffs to the price of the food we import; (2) deporting low-wage workers who bring to market the food we produce here . . .

. . . reduce the deficit by lowering taxes on the uber-wealthy and further strangling the IRS.

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Sunday, December 22, 2024 7:22 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump’s going to:

. . . give them great healthcare at a fraction of the cost (after 9 years’ hard work, he has a concept of a plan) . . .

. . . drive down the cost of groceries by: (1) adding tariffs to the price of the food we import; (2) deporting low-wage workers who bring to market the food we produce here . . .

. . . reduce the deficit by lowering taxes on the uber-wealthy and further strangling the IRS.

Lifted word for word from Andrew Tobias here:

https://andrewtobias.com/lets-form-a-shadow-cabinet/

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Sunday, December 22, 2024 10:50 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump’s going to:

. . . give them great healthcare at a fraction of the cost (after 9 years’ hard work, he has a concept of a plan) . . .

. . . drive down the cost of groceries by: (1) adding tariffs to the price of the food we import; (2) deporting low-wage workers who bring to market the food we produce here . . .

. . . reduce the deficit by lowering taxes on the uber-wealthy and further strangling the IRS.

Lifted word for word from Andrew Tobias here:

https://andrewtobias.com/lets-form-a-shadow-cabinet/

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But 6ix missed the point that Trump has no plans, after 9 years. He won't have a plan in his lifetime. Check the internet for Trump's plans and 6ix won't find them, unlike the above quote. But what he will find is Trump bloviating. Trump's past is his future:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bloviating+Trump

05/29/2012 - Donald Trump 'bloviating ignoramus'

George Will on Sunday blasted Donald Trump during an appearance on "This Week" as he questioned why Mitt Romney would host a fundraising event with someone who continues to give credibility to birtherism.

https://www.politico.com/video/2012/05/george-will-donald-trump-blovia
ting-ignoramus-012196

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White Gen Xers and Political Nihilism

Posted on Friday, Dec 20, 2024, 6:00AM by Mindy Clegg

Generation X was raised amid the dismantling of the New Deal and as adults, we have lived through the consequences. The cost of raising a child has risen, and there are far fewer resources for the elderly, so many Gen Xers are feeling this “sandwich” squeeze of caring for both their children and their parents. However, Gen X was told we could not depend on larger institutions to help us. Much of the popular culture we grew up with reinforced the message that institutions fail us and can’t be depended upon. These institutions that benefited their parents have completely eroded for our generation. In that light, it seems understandable that some might vote for the bomb thrower over a problem solver — at least I’ll get a tax cut, the thinking goes. But I doubt finishing the destructive job started during the Reagan era will solve the many problems our generation or younger cohorts face. Political nihilism rarely works for those who vote for it, only deepening the crisis . . .

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/12/we-care-a-lot-white-gen-
xers-and-political-nihilism.html

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Donald Trump, U.S. President-Elect:

"I went on groceries.
It's a very simple word, groceries.
Like almost, you know, who uses the word?
I started using the word, the groceries.
When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs,
they would double and triple the price over a short period of time.
And I won an election based on that.
We're going to bring those prices way down."

There's nothing he can do to lower (grocery) prices from where they are. He can slow the rate of incline, but if prices actually go down, we're in a deflationary situation and that is much more scary for the economy . . .

https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/video/2024/12/whats-behind-tru
mps-backpedaling-on-his-promises-to-lower-prices

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Sunday, December 22, 2024 3:48 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quit spamming your TDS all over the boards and grow up.

You've now complained more about Trump winning before he was inaugurated than I did about Joe Biden* in 4 years.

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Kamala Harris received a 1.4% lower share of the presidential vote than the recent Democratic average while House members did 0.97% worse. And this is entirely due to losses among Hispanic voters. 2024 was a fairly routine loss.

https://jabberwocking.com/breaking-voters-who-dont-like-democrats-didn
t-vote-for-democrats/

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Monday, December 23, 2024 7:07 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
2024 was a fairly routine loss.

Uh huh.

Nothing routine about the destruction of the Democrat Party.

And you've got not one single known person in the Democrat Party that can run against JD Vance in 4 years.

You'd better find somebody.

From November 29th:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Enough time has passed since I last tracked this, even if there's still not enough new votes counted to really justify it.

I shouldn't be surprised that the last few hundred thousand cheat votes they're pulling off of pallets in the blue states are breaking significantly harder for Harris than for Trump compared to the votes counted nationwide up through November 22nd.

POPULAR VOTE:

76,917,038 for Trump (50.0%) / 74,441,439 votes for Harris (48.4%).

Total votes counted: 151,358,477

Trump's lead: 2,475,599

COMPARED TO THE 2020 ELECTION:

The 2020 results were 74,223,369 for Trump and 81,282,916 votes for Biden*

The total EXACT vote count in 2020 was 155,506,285.

The total amount of votes less in 2024 compared to 2020 is down to only 4,147,808 now.

Trump now has 2,693,669 more votes than he did in 2020.

Harris now has 6,841,477 less votes than Biden* did in 2020.

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Donald Trump Says Buying Greenland is 'Absolute Necessity'

Back in 2019, Trump famously sought to purchase Greenland, citing its vast natural resources.

President-elect Donald Trump, in a bold statement on Monday, reignited his interest in Greenland, asserting that the United States must "own and control" the island for national security and global freedom. The comments came as Trump announced his pick for the next US ambassador to Denmark, PayPal cofounder Ken Howery, who Trump described as the perfect choice to represent American interests.

"For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," Trump wrote on Truth Social, reaffirming his desire to bring the island under US control.

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/116591963.cms

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Monday, December 23, 2024 8:14 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I'm down with it.

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