Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too? by 6ixStringJack

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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

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UPDATED: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 11:07
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Monday, January 20, 2025 8:20 AM

The entire atmosphere surrounding all of this is completely different than it was in 2016 and 2020.

Things just kind of feel normal again.

It's like all the loudest voices either screamed themselves out or they aren't being platformed anymore and/or we just finally, collectively tuned them out for a change.

It's kind of nice, innit?

Happy Inauguration Day!

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Monday, January 20, 2025 8:34 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

early 90s and mid 90s were ok, the Soviets had collapsed but Bush senior and Clinton and Bush junior wasted it

Today?
Millions of illegals in the USA and Europe, the Europeans have more of the islamist types

I see a lot of smoke and ash and flickers of fire still blowing in California LA

the Technocracy takes over, Lindsey Graham, Mike Johnson and other RINOs on tv made out to be these fake Ronald Reagan characters

NYC public transport looks terrible

and some people wanting cities fixed, with live feeds of mass shootings in Chicago

yeah maybe its a nice song to whistle or play your guitar or karaoke

and remember when Scorpions, Ralph Riekermann admits he attended snuff parties, where guest paid over $100K to watch a live murder?

this was at a time when Weinstein rumors were breaking and stories of David Cameron placing his genitals in the mouth of a dead pig after joining Oxford University Masonic Rome Babylon pagan Occult society.

people didnt give it a lot of credibility and thought maybe Ralph Rieckermann was coming of some drugs or something

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Monday, January 20, 2025 9:30 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Scorps were a bit before my time. I remember being around 11 or 12 and hearing Winds of Change for the first time on a long gone Hard Rock station and loved it. I was the oldest brother and cousin and didn't really have anybody older than me influencing me into music, so I pretty much listened to pop crap until I was in Jr. High and then my tastes went all over the map.

I know nothing about the lead singer or any Eyes Wide Shut parties they went to, but I'm not surprised to hear it.

But I wasn't asking you about the current state of the world. We know that's been fucked for quite a while.

I was just asking you about the temperature of the moment is all.

It seems a hell of a lot cooler than the last two election cycles were. I don't see all the hate and panic and crazy talk. I'm not saying all of that doesn't still exist, but outside of inflicting the two Goobers upon myself here, it hasn't encroached upon my bubble even by accident this time. It felt like you were drowning in it for the last 8 years.

Things are pretty normal.

It just doesn't feel normal because nothing has been normal for so long now.

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Monday, January 20, 2025 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The entire atmosphere surrounding all of this is completely different than it was in 2016 and 2020.

Things just kind of feel normal again.

It's like all the loudest voices either screamed themselves out or they aren't being platformed anymore and/or we just finally, collectively tuned them out for a change.

It's kind of nice, innit?

Happy Inauguration Day!

For Trumptards, their reality is one hallucination after another painted on their brains. Trump is the greatest artist they have known. He makes them feel elevated and significant. But in actuality, Trump is an old fat con man and they are angry poor white trash. Trump can't change actuality, but his Trumptards won't notice because of their hallucinations.

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Monday, January 20, 2025 2:40 PM

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As 6ixStringJack writes: "Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?"

Yes, Trump publicly gave Trumptards a blowjob, today.

Highlights:

• Trump declares an emergency at the southern border even though there's patently no emergency.

• Trump reinstates "Remain in Mexico," but can he do that without Mexico's cooperation?

• He's going to tell everyone in his administration to bring down prices. Um, sure.

• He's declaring a national energy emergency. What emergency?

• The Green New Deal is dead.

• Trump lies yet again that tariffs are a tax on foreign nations.

• No more government censorship! Not that there ever was.

• Law and order! But crime is at a historic low already.

• No more pronoun nonsense. We have men, women, and nothing in between.

• He's seriously planning to change "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America."

• Also, Denali will be renamed back to Mt. McKinley.

• And Panama is treating us unfairly so we're going to take the canal back.

• This comes minutes after saying his deepest wish is to be known as a unifier and peacemaker.

• From this day forward America will be a free and sovereign nation. What?

https://jabberwocking.com/the-shortest-possible-recap-of-donald-trumps
-inauguration-speech/

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Monday, January 20, 2025 5:03 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Most Democrats Think Their Party Sucks, Feel "Burned Out": CNN Poll

A 58% majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say that the Democratic Party needs major changes, or to be completely reformed, up from just 34% who said the same after the 2022 midterm elections, when the party retained control of the Senate but lost the House. Over that time, the share of Republicans and Republican leaners who feel the same way about the GOP has ticked downward, from 38% to 28%. -CNN

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Monday, January 20, 2025 7:20 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Second just can't help himself.

I wasn't asking you, Goober.

Nobody cares about your opinion.

P.S. I was going to post a list of first-day executive orders that he signed, but it looks like Kevin Dump was on top of it. I'll leave his list up there because it's funny.

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Monday, January 20, 2025 7:21 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Most Democrats Think Their Party Sucks, Feel "Burned Out": CNN Poll

A 58% majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say that the Democratic Party needs major changes, or to be completely reformed, up from just 34% who said the same after the 2022 midterm elections, when the party retained control of the Senate but lost the House. Over that time, the share of Republicans and Republican leaners who feel the same way about the GOP has ticked downward, from 38% to 28%. -CNN

Yup.

And the Democrat party has absolutely nobody they can run in 2028.

They're going to have to spend 4 years grooming somebody for the role. Nobody will vote for any known Democrat for President.

Oh... And the Senate map looks so bad for them that Democrats won't control it again until my old man's a great grandfather.

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Monday, January 20, 2025 7:28 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Joe Biden* knows they're blowing...

Biden pardons his family members minutes before Trump takes over the White House

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3293098/biden-pard
ons-family-members-last-minute/

So.... He pardons his family. He pardon's Fauci. He pardon's Liz Cheney. He pardon's all the neocons. He pardon's everyone involved in his J6 commission.

These are all preemptive parons too, mind. Meaning that he just made it so we can't put actual criminals on trials for their crimes against humanity.

I think Trump should disregard this.

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Monday, January 20, 2025 8:28 PM

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Trump’s Real Inaugural Address

The president delivered his true message after the main event.

Given the limited space in the rotunda, an overflow room was set up in the Capitol Visitor Center. It was for the dignitaries who didn’t quite carry the statesmanlike import of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, whose company is presently operating domestically in violation of federal law. Gov. Ron DeSantis was obviously in the overflow room.

But this crowd ended up getting the real speech after the overworked formality Trump was forced to read off of the teleprompter. Still only an hour into his second presidency, Trump was cooking, in an uninterrupted riff about whatever was on his mind.

According to Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and first lady Melania Trump forced him to take out some of the more “controversial” elements of his Inaugural speech that he wanted to keep in—like celebrating the Jan. 6 “hostages.” The president reiterated his belief that the 2020 election was “rigged” and thought that he should’ve won California. He talked about some parts of the border wall that would dissolve if hit with acid and that people would climb in “like rabbits” if not built with the proper materials. He kept breaking, from whatever it was he was doing, to converse with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Most importantly, he was having a good time.

“This was a better speech than the one I made upstairs,” he told the overflow crowd, an observation that was somehow both fully true and wholly false.

The sense that this speech overshadowed what came before was, on the whole, quite familiar. Each thing that Trump says will be surpassed by something he says 10 minutes later, rendering the original event as good as dead. This was before Trump had even stopped by the Capitol One Arena to visit yet another overflow crowd, or settled into the Resolute desk at the White House, or attended several inaugural balls. More would be said, and what was said immediately before that would recede into memory.

In short, welcome back to President Blowhard blowing his Trumptards 24/7.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-inauguration-day-spe
eches-rotunda-golden-age-hmm.html

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Monday, January 20, 2025 8:34 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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In short, welcome back to President Blowhard blowing his Trumptards 24/7.

Well you've done nothing but bitch and whine about Trump for the last 4 years when he wasn't President.

I'm looking forward to seeing you implode these next 4 years.

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Monday, January 20, 2025 8:49 PM

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Originally posted by second:
In short, welcome back to President Blowhard blowing his Trumptards 24/7.

Well you've done nothing but bitch and whine about Trump for the last 4 years when he wasn't President.

I'm looking forward to seeing you implode these next 4 years.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Trump makes Trumptards' dangling parts tingle. Trumptards hate to be called Nazis and Racists because they understand those words mean they are being viewed as contemptible and Trumptards are certain that is unfair. When Trump is attacked, Trumptards have the same reaction: it is unfair. Trumptards will never understand the contempt for them is justified, no more than the slave owning Confederates and Jew killing Nazis could understand why they were attacked despite their marvelous achievements and wonderful personalities.

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Monday, January 20, 2025 11:00 PM

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Scott Aaronson writes on January 20, 2025:

My view of Trump is the same as it’s been for a decade — that he’s a con man, a criminal, and the most dangerous internal threat the US has ever faced in its history. I think Congress and Merrick Garland deserve eternal shame for not moving aggressively to bar Trump from office and then prosecute him for insurrection — that this was a catastrophic failure of our system, one for which we’ll now suffer the consequences. If this time Trump got 52% of some swing state rather than 48%, if the “zeitgeist” or the “vibes” have shifted, if the “Resistance” is so weary that it’s barely bothering to show up, if Bezos and Zuckerberg and Musk and even Sam Altman now find it expedient to placate the tyrant rather than standing up for what previously appeared to be their principles — well, I don’t see how any of that affects how I ought to feel.

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The third plotline was the end of TikTok, quickly followed by its (temporary?) return on Trump’s order. As far as I can tell, Instagram, Twitter/X, and TikTok have all been net negatives for the world; it would’ve been far better if none of them had been invented. But, OK, our society allows many things that are plausibly net-negative, like sports betting and Cheetos. In this case, however, the US Supreme Court ruled 9-0 (!!) https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf that Congress has a legitimate interest in keeping Chinese Communist Party spyware off 170 million Americans’ phones — and that there’s no First Amendment concern that overrides this security interest, since the TikTok ban isn’t targeting speech on the basis of its content. I found the court’s argument convincing. I hope TikTok goes dark 90 days from now — or, second-best, that it gets sold to some entity that’s merely bad in the normal ways and not a hostile foreign power.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8583

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Monday, January 20, 2025 11:06 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
In short, welcome back to President Blowhard blowing his Trumptards 24/7.

Well you've done nothing but bitch and whine about Trump for the last 4 years when he wasn't President.

I'm looking forward to seeing you implode these next 4 years.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Trump makes Trumptards' dangling parts tingle. Trumptards hate to be called Nazis and Racists because they understand those words mean they are being viewed as contemptible and Trumptards are certain that is unfair. When Trump is attacked, Trumptards have the same reaction: it is unfair. Trumptards will never understand the contempt for them is justified, no more than the slave owning Confederates and Jew killing Nazis could understand why they were attacked despite their marvelous achievements and wonderful personalities.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Dude... I've thought about Trump maybe twice since I voted for him.

You think about Trump more in 3 hours than I do in any given year.

Grow up, will ya?

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 12:29 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Also, nobody cares about you going around calling everybody racists and Nazis anymore either, buddy. You played that out until those words were meaningless, which is something I've been warning you about for years.

That's all part of what this thread is about.

You are done. Your fake little personality you built here for yourself is nothing but a yapping little dog with no teeth in 2025.

You're struggling even to find news stories today that tell you anything you want to hear anymore.

So have fun making more meaningless noise for another 4 years.

All you're going to possibly do is convince other people to go even further to the Right every time you open your mouth.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 8:05 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Dude... I've thought about Trump maybe twice since I voted for him.

You think about Trump more in 3 hours than I do in any given year.

Grow up, will ya?

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Back when Nixon was running his mouth about Vietnam, he couldn't say more than a thousand words before he misconstrued the situation. I was expert on that war, so I knew what Nixon didn't want to understand. Trump can't go more than a sentence before he does the same thing as Nixon did, misunderstand an excruciatingly simple concept. Well, simple for me because I am expert in the energy business, but not for you or Trump.

From Trump’s speech:

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The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices. That is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.

America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it. We’re going to use it.

We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world.

We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it.

This is absurd stuff. U.S. energy production is thriving; in recent years we’ve become a net energy exporter, something that last happened when Dwight Eisenhower was president:

There’s much more I could say about Trump’s energy delusions. And I will, eventually; despite everything, economic life does go on.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-time-for-wonkery

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 8:08 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

lol

Fuck off dude. You don't know shit about shit.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 4:10 PM

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lol

Fuck off dude. You don't know shit about shit.

You think little guys like yourself are in charge. Wrong, but Trump is not gonna explain it to you. These big guys are in charge:

In Trump’s America, the Oligarchy Is Done Pretending to Care About You

The world’s richest people are done feigning concern. Trump can do whatever he wants, and they can, too

By Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng | January 21, 2025

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-oligarch
s-musk-bezos-zuckerberg-1235242625/

Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term on Monday before the world’s richest people. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg were seated closest to Trump. They smiled. They laughed. They thumbs-upped. They loved it.

Trump is going to make a spectacle out of punishing immigrants and fleece the poor while he and his family cash in on the presidency like America has never seen. Days before his inauguration, Trump launched a meme coin and became a crypto billionaire overnight, prompting his wife, Melania, to announce her own meme coin, too.

America’s oligarchs get it. They are done pretending to care. Trump can do what he wants, and they can, too.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 9:28 PM

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Donald Trump Is at War with America
He sees himself as a wartime president.

By Jonathan V. Last | Jan 21, 2025

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-is-at-war-with-america

"I don’t think there’s any way to read yesterday except as President Trump decided that with the Republican party fully subservient to him, he can subjugate the other remaining power centers in American life. He can finally be a wartime president. It’s just that he’s going to war against America."

Trump's war with America is unprecedented, "Or at least: We haven’t had a president view Americans this way since Reconstruction."

Trump made it clear during the inauguration that he's "governing not for all Americans — and not even just for the benefit of 'his' voters — but as an attack on the half of America that opposed him."

Trump "believes that Democratic voters should not be bargained with or bribed, but intimidated, punished, subdued — and rendered unable to oppose him in his quest for total power."

Trump is going to use all the power at his presidential fingertips to ensure everyone falls in line. This includes using the courts, government bureaucracy, and mob rule to get what he wants. Trump released the J6 rioters, even the violent ones, for a purpose: "The message is unambiguous: Trump wants supporters who engage in street violence on the loose. He wants a paramilitary arm for which he has plausible deniability."

"Freeing those convicted of violence is a go-ahead signal for future violent acts and an implicit promise that Trump will take care of those who fight on his behalf."

The target of Trump's power campaign is anyone who lives in a blue state. "Trump understands that blue states are the last bastions of meaningful popular opposition to his rule, so he will use the federal government to subdue them. That’s what deportations — and tariffs — are for. These are executive powers which can be used in highly-targeted ways to hurt on local economies."

"If you live in a blue state, President Trump is going to use the power of the federal government to make your life harder." If you think that sounds paranoid, here’s Speaker Mike Johnson explaining that he intends to use federal disaster aid to extract concessions from the state of California.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/speaker-mike-johnson-california-wildfir
e-aid_n_678d411ee4b0a4bfc4309304

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 10:27 PM

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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

Things just kind of feel normal again.

This feel "normal" to you? Trump pardons would-be murderer as reward to Libertarian Movement for campaign support

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump wrote

I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross. The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!

Jan 21, 2025, 6:12 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113869112741612092

Ulbricht is the founder of Silk Road, an online platform for large-scale transactions by drug traffickers and other criminals with a need for secrecy. Now, maybe you think that's OK because drugs shouldn't be illegal in the first place. Mileage will vary. But Ulbricht was also accused of contracting to have people killed — though he was duped and the murders never took place. He was NOT tried on contract killing charges. After Ulbricht received two life sentences on the drug charges, it didn't seem worth charging him for the failed killings. Still, as an appellate court noted, he certainly tried to kill: https://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/ULBRICHT-ca2-20170531.pdf

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DPR [Ulbricht's handle, "Dread Pirate Roberts"] connected with Redandwhite, who was FriendlyChemist’s supplier, and wrote that “FriendlyChemist is a liability and I wouldn’t mind if he was executed.” After negotiating the logistical details of the murder, Ulbricht agreed to pay Redandwhite $150,000 in Bitcoins to kill FriendlyChemist. DPR paid Redandwhite, who later confirmed that he had received the payment and carried out the murder, and sent what appeared to be a photo of the dead victim to DPR. DPR replied that he had “received the picture and deleted it,” and thanked Redandwhite for his “swift action.”

....Later, DPR ordered four other murders through Redandwhite.... One of the government’s expert witnesses was able to link the payments for all five murders to Bitcoin wallets located on Ulbricht’s laptop.

....At the sentencing hearing, the district court resolved several disputed issues of fact. For example, because Ulbricht contested his responsibility for the five commissioned murders for hire, the district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht did in fact commission the murders, believing that they would be carried out. The district court characterized the evidence of the murders for hire, which included Ulbricht’s journal, chats with other Silk Road users, and the evidence showing that Ulbricht actually paid a total of $650,000 in Bitcoins for the killings, as “ample and unambiguous.”

Bygones. Ulbricht is free now, solely because libertarians supported Trump and this is the payoff they asked for. That's how our president operates, ladies and gentlemen.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 11:14 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Somebody is soooooo angry today.

Get fucked dude. You were miserable when Joe* was in office.

The next 4 years are your personal hell revisited.

This will be very enjoyable to watch.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025 11:24 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Somebody is soooooo angry today.

Get fucked dude. You were miserable when Joe* was in office.

The next 4 years are your personal hell revisited.

This will be very enjoyable to watch.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I'm not angry. Not even feeling like I lost. 6ixStringJack, you can't read my mind. Even Trumptards in the room with me cannot detect the disappointment they are compared to normal humans. Instead of making something out of life, the Trumptards wait for a lucky lottery ticket or Trump to fix life for them. Rather than try to understand Trump for what he is, they hallucinate an unsupportable interpretation of Trump's purpose. Trumptards are failures in ways they can't comprehend and that is sad for them, but not for me.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 6:13 AM

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Conservative George Will reviews Monday’s inaugural address — “memorable for its staggering inappropriateness.”

Of the national “energy emergency” Trump declared, he notes that, adjusted for inflation, gas cost less Monday than it did 70 years ago, in 1955. Monday’s average price of a gallon of gasoline ($3.12) was less than 70 years ago ($3.41, which is 29 cents in 1955, adjusted for inflation).

https://andrewtobias.com/things-now-okay-to-do/

Those who today recoil against an exuberant urban vulgarian should accept that popular sovereignty is not the sovereignty of good taste. Stephen Kotkin has some advice for the recoilers.

The day after the election last fall, Kotkin, of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, conversing with Justin Vogt of Foreign Affairs, expressed impatience with those who say of Trump, “That’s not who we are.” Kotkin asked, “Who’s the ‘we’?” Trump, he said, is not “an alien who landed from some other planet”:

“This is somebody the American people voted for who reflects something deep and abiding about American culture. Think of all the worlds that he has inhabited and that lifted him up. Pro wrestling. Reality TV. Casinos and gambling, which are no longer just in Las Vegas or Atlantic City, but everywhere, embedded in daily life. Celebrity culture. Social media. All of that looks to me like America. And yes, so does fraud, and brazen lying, and the P.T. Barnum, carnival barker stuff. But there is an audience, and not a small one, for where Trump came from and who he is.”

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 7:48 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

We loved the inaugural address.

We don't recognize the authority or intelligence of any of your so-called scholars.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 7:52 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Somebody is soooooo angry today.

Get fucked dude. You were miserable when Joe* was in office.

The next 4 years are your personal hell revisited.

This will be very enjoyable to watch.

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I'm not angry. Not even feeling like I lost.

Yes you are. You are always angry. All the time. Every day. You hate your life and your family hates you.

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6ixStringJack, you can't read my mind.

I don't need to. It's not only easy to tell that you are a chronic liar about yourself and whenever you rip off somebody else's words and try to pawn them off as your own in lieu of having any ability to think for yourself. It's easy to tell that you are a very unhappy person.

Nobody invents a billionaire oil tycoon character with all the money in the world to go on adventures, but chooses to stay at home doing nothing but posting political propaganda 12 times per day, 24/7/365, on an ancient website about an ancient show that only has 5 regular posters which you get a lot of pleasure out of harassing and judging.

That's the saddest thing I've ever heard of. The only thing sadder than that would be if you were actually a billionaire oil tycoon and this was what you chose to do with what little is left of your life everyday.

You are the saddest person I have ever known.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 9:42 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Trump’s order revokes one President Johnson signed on September 24, 1965.

• LBJ's order gave the Secretary of Labor the authority to ensure equal opportunity for people of color and women in federal contractors’ recruitment, hiring, training, and other employment practices.

• It required federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination and take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity "based on race, color, religion, and national origin."

• The order came more than a year after Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and just months after he signed the Voting Rights Act following violent attacks on voting rights advocates in Selma, Alabama.

• Segregationists during Johnson's time opposed the executive order.

• Conservatives (i.e. Angry Poor White Trash) since have voiced opposition to it, over claims it forced federal contractors to adopt an anti-white "quota system" for employees.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-dei-lbj-rollback

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 9:54 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Trump’s order revokes one President Johnson signed on September 24, 1965.

Oh yeah. Is that what one of your "Constitutional Scholars" told you? The same ones that told you the 14th Amendment was going to save you from a 2nd Trump term, one would suppose.

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• LBJ's order gave the Secretary of Labor the authority to ensure equal opportunity for people of color and women in federal contractors’ recruitment, hiring, training, and other employment practices.

And now they will.

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• It required federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination and take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity "based on race, color, religion, and national origin."

Affirmative Action is a Democrat dog whistle used to obfuscate their racism. It always has been since day one, but most folk just didn't really notice it until recently.

It doesn't work anymore because it's blatant. Not only has it been out in the open for years now.... Not only has it been celebrated out in the open for years now... but until recently, you could have your life ruined online if you said anything about it. And on top of all this, now we know that the results of such practices have been devastating in both the public and private sectors.

Before, these things could be explained away because they were low key and moved at a snail's pace. But you went absolutely bonkers with it after George Floyd died and you woke everybody up.

Whoops.

You already got the 2nd Trump term that you were convinced was never going to happen out of it.

You want to keep going down that rabbit hole and see what other prizes await you, be my guest.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 10:22 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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You already got the 2nd Trump term that you were convinced was never going to happen out of it.

You want to keep going down that rabbit hole and see what other prizes await you, be my guest.

You seem to have forgotten that I said the election was 50/50. Also, I was certain Trump would win in Texas, where I live, because the state is overloaded with Angry Poor White Trash who "know" deep inside themselves that they can't get ahead, through no fault in themselves, because of anti-white racism. They truly can't get ahead because they are inadequate workers with mental illnesses, but that is too painful for them to acknowledge. Trump tells them it is not their fault and he can fix it for them. Ha! Ha! These Trumptards are suckers and stupid, not just mentally ill.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 10:54 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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You already got the 2nd Trump term that you were convinced was never going to happen out of it.

You want to keep going down that rabbit hole and see what other prizes await you, be my guest.
You seem to have forgotten that I said the election was 50/50.

I haven't forgotten that you've said that. What you say doesn't mean shit. We've already established this hundreds of times over by now.

I haven't forgotten that you've been wrong about that every time you've said that, since the vote was more than 2 Million + for Trump.

I haven't forgotten all of the context involved that makes Trump's win look much, much, much worse for Democrats than you're pretending right now that it is. You've seen all that math. I was laying it out for you every day in the elections thread.

One big one that you always need to keep in mind is that in order for Democrats to actually win a Presidential election not only do they need to take back those 2 Million votes, but they're going to need to grab about 5 Million more additional ones above and beyond that like they have historically needed in order to win the Electoral College.

So either you are dumb, or you think that I'm dumb, which makes you the dumb one.

Figure it out dude.

I'm really tired of your propaganda and bastardized statistics every day.

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Also, I was certain Trump would win in Texas, where I live,

Oh. You were, were ya? Wow.

I called that Trump would win every swing state and the Popular vote by at least 1 Million votes.

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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 11:07 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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So either you are dumb, or you think that I'm dumb, which makes you the dumb one.

You are not only dumb but crazy. Same as Trump. The Europeans keep operating as if Trump is sane and smart but they would be wiser to tell him to eat shit and die, you fat insane motherfucker:

Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe

What a single phone call from the president-elect did to an unswerving American ally

By Anne Applebaum | January 18, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/trump-greenl
and-crisis-denmark-europe/681371/

What did Donald Trump say over the phone to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on Wednesday? I don’t know which precise words he used, but I witnessed their impact. I arrived in Copenhagen the day after the call—the subject, of course, was the future of Greenland, which Denmark owns and which Trump wants—and discovered that appointments I had with Danish politicians were suddenly in danger of being canceled. Amid Frederiksen’s emergency meeting with business leaders, her foreign minister’s emergency meeting with party leaders, and an additional emergency meeting of the foreign-affairs committee in Parliament, everything, all of a sudden, was in complete flux.

The result: Mid-morning, I found myself standing on the Knippel Bridge between the Danish foreign ministry and the Danish Parliament, holding a phone, waiting to be told which direction to walk. Denmark in January is not warm; I went to the Parliament and waited there. The meeting was canceled anyway. After that, nobody wanted to say anything on the record at all. Thus have Americans who voted for Trump because of the putatively high price of eggs now precipitated a political crisis in Scandinavia.

In private discussions, the adjective that was most frequently used to describe the Trump phone call was rough. The verb most frequently used was threaten. The reaction most frequently expressed was confusion. Trump made it clear to Frederiksen that he is serious about Greenland: He sees it, apparently, as a real-estate deal. But Greenland is not a beachfront property. The world’s largest island is an autonomous territory of Denmark, inhabited by people who are Danish citizens, vote in Danish elections, and have representatives in the Danish Parliament. Denmark also has politics, and a Danish prime minister cannot sell Greenland any more than an American president can sell Florida.

At the same time, Denmark is also a country whose global companies—among them Lego, the shipping giant Maersk, and Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic—do billions of dollars worth of trade with the United States, and have major American investments too. They thought these were positive aspects of the Danish-American relationship. Denmark and the United States are also founding members of NATO, and Danish leaders would be forgiven for believing that this matters in Washington too. Instead, these links turn out to be a vulnerability. On Thursday afternoon Frederiksen emerged and, flanked by her foreign minister and her defense minister, made a statement. “It has been suggested from the American side,” she said, “that unfortunately a situation may arise where we work less together than we do today in the economic area.”

Still, the most difficult aspect of the crisis is not the need to prepare for an unspecified economic threat from a close ally, but the need to cope with a sudden sense of almost Kafkaesque absurdity. In truth, Trump’s demands are illogical. Anything that the U.S. theoretically might want to do in Greenland is already possible, right now. Denmark has never stopped the U.S. military from building bases, searching for minerals, or stationing troops in Greenland, or from patrolling sea lanes nearby. In the past, the Danes have even let Americans defy Danish policy in Greenland. Over lunch, one former Danish diplomat told me a Cold War story, which unfolded not long after Denmark had formally declared itself to be a nuclear-free country. In 1957, the U.S. ambassador nevertheless approached Denmark’s then–prime minister, H. C. Hansen, with a request. The United States was interested in storing some nuclear weapons at an American base in Greenland. Would Denmark like to be notified?

Hansen responded with a cryptic note, which he characterized, according to diplomatic records, as “informal, personal, highly secret and limited to one copy each on the Danish and American side.” In the note, which was not shared with the Danish Parliament or the Danish press, and indeed was not made public at all until the 1990s, Hansen said that since the U.S. ambassador had not mentioned specific plans or made a concrete request, “I do not think your remarks give rise to any comment from my side.” In other words, If you don’t tell us that you are keeping nuclear weapons in Greenland, then we won’t have to object.

The Danes were loyal U.S. allies then, and remain so now. During the Cold War, they were central to NATO’s planning. After the Soviet Union dissolved, they reformed their military, creating expeditionary forces specifically meant to be useful to their American allies. After 9/11, when the mutual-defense provision of the NATO treaty was activated for the first time—on behalf of the U.S.—Denmark sent troops to Afghanistan, where 43 Danish soldiers died. As a proportion of their population, then about 5 million, this is a higher mortality rate than the U.S. suffered. The Danes also sent troops to Iraq, and joined NATO teams in the Balkans. They thought they were part of the web of relationships that have made American power and influence over the past half century so unique. Because U.S. alliances were based on shared values, not merely transactional interests, the level of cooperation was different. Denmark helped the U.S., when asked, or volunteered without being asked. “So what did we do wrong?” one Danish official asked me.

Obviously, they did nothing wrong—but that’s part of the crisis too. Trump himself cannot articulate, either at press conferences or, apparently, over the telephone, why exactly he needs to own Greenland, or how Denmark can give American companies and soldiers more access to Greenland than they already have. Plenty of others will try to rationalize his statements anyway. The Economist has declared the existence of a “Trump doctrine,” and a million articles have solemnly debated Greenland’s strategic importance. But in Copenhagen (and not only in Copenhagen), people suspect a far more irrational explanation: Trump just wants the U.S. to look larger on a map.

This instinct—to ignore existing borders, laws, and treaties; to treat other countries as artificial; to break up trade links and destroy friendships, all because the Leader wants to look powerful—is one that Trump shares with imperialists of the past. The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has also crowed over the alleged similarity between the U.S. desire for Greenland and the Russian desire for territory in Ukraine. Lavrov suggested a referendum might be held in Greenland, comparing that possibility to the fake referenda, held under duress, that Russia staged in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

Of course, Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims, sometimes picking up ideas from the last person he met, sometimes returning to obsessions he had apparently abandoned: windmills, sharks, Hannibal Lecter, and now Greenland. To Danes and pretty much anyone else who makes plans, signs treaties, or creates long-term strategies using rational arguments, this way of making policy feels arbitrary, pointless, even surreal. But it is also now permanent, and there is no going back.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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