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Friday, February 14, 2025 5:41 AM

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I picked farming and farmers to make a point that a Signym can't understand about employment and purchases by consumers. because it skirts around the manufacturing story
Fixed it for you.

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Signym, you don't understand manufacturing. Nor farming. You don't even understand that the Kissinger quote you have been misusing for years from you signature is NOT quoting the real Kissinger, but instead is an imaginary version of "Kissinger". You won't understand this, either, but it gets to the heart of what is wrong with Trump/Musk/JDVance/run-of-the-mill-Trumptards:

Trump Appointee Quits Instead of Dropping Eric Adams Charges, Alleges Quid Pro Quo

Adams was indicted on on bribery, wire fraud, and conspiracy charges in September

February 13, 2025

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/eric-adams-trump-p
rosecutor-quits-quid-pro-quo-1235267302
/

After New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on federal criminal charges in September, the man soon embraced Donald Trump in an overt attempt to get the president to overturn his case. As Manhattan federal prosecutors readied to bring the bombshell indictment charging the mayor with destroying evidence and instructing people to lie to the FBI, Trump’s Justice Department issued an order to drop the case, a letter obtained by The New York Times reveals.

Written by U.S. Attorney Danielle R. Sassoon, who was appointed by Trump, and addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the letter states that Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s order to dismiss the case on Monday was “inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts.”

In Bove’s memo, the acting deputy attorney general ordered Adams’ case to be dropped so the mayor could “devote [his] full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior administration.”

Rather than obey the order, Sassoon resigned from her post on Thursday. “I have always considered it my obligation to pursue justice impartially, without favor to the wealthy or those who occupy important public office, or harsher treatment for the less powerful,” she said. “I therefore deem it necessary to the faithful discharge of my duties to raise the concerns expressed in this letter with you and to request an opportunity to meet to discuss them further.”

Sassoon wrote that she recently attended a meeting with her staff, Bove, and lawyers for Adams. There, she said, Adams’ legal team “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed.”

She criticized the “rushed and superficial process” that led to Bove’s order, and noted her office had been “prepared to seek a superseding indictment” against the New York mayor that “would add an obstruction conspiracy count based on evidence that Adams destroyed and instructed others to destroy evidence and provide false information to the FBI, and that would add further factual allegations regarding his participation in a fraudulent straw donor scheme.”

According to the Times, the Justice Department attempted to move the case to Washington’s public integrity section, but the two men that led the unit overseeing corruption cases also resigned.

Last year, authorities searched the home of the mayor’s chief fundraiser and seized Adams’ electronic devices in connection to an investigation into allegations that the mayor’s 2021 campaign laundered illegal donations from foreign governments. The following fall, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York indicted the mayor on bribery, wire fraud, and conspiracy charges. Adams denied the charges and claimed they are politically motivated.

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Friday, February 14, 2025 6:11 AM

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“Five inspector generals that were looking into Elon Musk’s companies were fired by the Trump-Musk administration,” said Texas Representative Greg Casar. “These inspector generals, who are independent, protected by law; they are the people that find the waste, fraud, and abuse … fired because they were looking into Elon Musk.”

“You know what Elon Musk doesn’t seem to be looking into?” Casar continued. “His own contracts.”

“Just last year, Elon Musk was promised $3 billion from close to 100 contracts with the federal government,” Casar said, highlighting the discrepancy that seniors who rely on Social Security are dependent upon $65 a day from the government. “We’re not looking into Elon Musk’s $8 million a day. This subcommittee chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene and the House Republicans is looking into your grandmother’s $65 a day.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/191464/democrats-doge-hearing-elon-musk-r
oast


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Friday, February 14, 2025 7:06 AM

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"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or I am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding."

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis

Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a ‘temporary’ detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps. She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn’t realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn’t handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A. Single. Difference.

So unless you want to tell me that Anne Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y’all can shut up with that “stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

It’s also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

https://thethrillofcompletewrongness.tumblr.com/post/186386484012/yes-
it-is-just-like-the-nazis


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Friday, February 14, 2025 12:44 PM

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“Five inspector generals that were looking into Elon Musk’s companies were fired by the Trump-Musk administration,” said Texas Representative Greg Casar. “These inspector generals, who are independent, protected by law; they are the people that find the waste, fraud, and abuse … fired because they were looking into Elon Musk.”

“You know what Elon Musk doesn’t seem to be looking into?” Casar continued. “His own contracts.”

“Just last year, Elon Musk was promised $3 billion from close to 100 contracts with the federal government,” Casar said, highlighting the discrepancy that seniors who rely on Social Security are dependent upon $65 a day from the government. “We’re not looking into Elon Musk’s $8 million a day. This subcommittee chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene and the House Republicans is looking into your grandmother’s $65 a day.”




Thanks to Newsweek, we have context for the incident:

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-throws-donald-trumps-s
ocial-security-pledge-floor-2002796




You're a fucking lemming.

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Friday, February 14, 2025 12:45 PM

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"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or I am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding."

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis

Hey so remember Anne Frank?



Shut the fuck up.

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Shut the fuck up.

The president was asked during a press conference if he would direct agencies to study the impact these tariffs would have on prices in the U.S.

“No, there’s nothing to study,” Trump replied. “It’s gonna go well.”

“The United States is going to become a very very strong economic, economically, country,” he added.

It was reminiscent of his repeated claims in 2020 that COVID-19 was just “going to go away.”

Trump’s government won’t study anything, they will just tell us everything is going great.
‘1984’ is upon us.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tariffs-nothing-to-study_n_67af1c
13e4b0513a8d76bc1a


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Friday, February 14, 2025 2:10 PM

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Shut the fuck up.

The president was asked during a press conference if he would direct agencies to study the impact these tariffs would have on prices in the U.S.

“No, there’s nothing to study,” Trump replied. “It’s gonna go well.”

“The United States is going to become a very very strong economic, economically, country,” he added.

It was reminiscent of his repeated claims in 2020 that COVID-19 was just “going to go away.”



Oh yeah?

I feel it was reminiscent of your claims, in which Covid wasn't released by a Chinese lab doing gain of function research that Democrats were paying for with US Taxpayer dollars.




Nobody is listening to you anymore, stupid.

The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.

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Friday, February 14, 2025 2:56 PM

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I picked farming and farmers to make a point that a Signym can't understand about employment and purchases by consumers. because it skirts around the manufacturing story
Fixed it for you.


Signym, you don't understand manufacturing. Nor farming...



It's a waste of time exchanging barbs with a halfwit.

Here is where your logic goes haywire

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The point is that food became abundant and cheap (see the word cheap) when the labor input approached zero. The same is true for the manufacturing of any item. To make the item cheap enough to satisfy the most gluttonous consumer means the labor input to make the item has to approach zero.


Follow your logic to its conclusion: By eliminating labor from everything - services and intellectual work as well as farming and manufacturing... you have made it cheap to produce everything (in reality, the cost of production goes to zero, but the capitalist will never give away anything for free). But at that point, nobody has any money to buy.

So, aside from increasing profits for the owners, how does reducing labor benefit everyone else?

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Friday, February 14, 2025 4:07 PM

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Unless we've already invented Star Trek replicators, Second doesn't have a fucking clue what he's talking about, as per usual.

There's a lot of labor that goes into everything he buys. A lot of it slave labor.

You can't have an honest conversation with somebody who thinks that electricity from your wall is Harry Potter magic.

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Friday, February 14, 2025 4:18 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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I picked farming and farmers to make a point that a Signym can't understand about employment and purchases by consumers. because it skirts around the manufacturing story
Fixed it for you.


Signym, you don't understand manufacturing. Nor farming...



It's a waste of time exchanging barbs with a halfwit.

Here is where your logic goes haywire

Quote:

The point is that food became abundant and cheap (see the word cheap) when the labor input approached zero. The same is true for the manufacturing of any item. To make the item cheap enough to satisfy the most gluttonous consumer means the labor input to make the item has to approach zero.


Follow your logic to its conclusion: By eliminating labor from everything - services and intellectual work as well as farming and manufacturing... you have made it cheap to produce everything (in reality, the cost of production goes to zero, but the capitalist will never give away anything for free). But at that point, nobody has any money to buy.

So, aside from increasing profits for the owners, how does reducing labor benefit everyone else?

Signym, if you don't know that the argument you're making is bogus, God help you.

Signym, tell me if you can see where this is going? In 1950, West Virginia had 127,000 coal miners. However, by the end of the 20th century, that number had dropped to fewer than 18,000. In 2022, West Virginia had 10,000 working at coal mines, both miners and other jobs including clerks etc. Nationwide there were 43,000 working all jobs at coal mines.

Signym, I’m pretty sure you remember that Trump promised to bring back coal-mining jobs when he was running in 2016. That didn’t happen because mining engineering was getting very effective at reducing the number of man-hours almost to zero to produce a ton of coal.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+promised+to+bring+back+coal-mini
ng+jobs


Signym, a lot of people in West Virginia voted for Trump because he promised to bring back those coal mining jobs West Virginians missed. But those jobs were terrible back in the day when employment was at its highest:



Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.

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

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Friday, February 14, 2025 4:32 PM

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Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.



Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.



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Friday, February 14, 2025 4:53 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.



Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money. As far as a Trumptard can understand, jobs are only about income for the Trumptards and not about what the job actually accomplishes beyond money. With that kind of small-minded depravity, it is no surprise that Trumptards are shitty at accomplishing anything and also why they steal at work and will cheat or overcharge customers. (Also it is not surprising that 6ix has no job while, for example, my elderly sisters continue working as a nurse and a teacher of blind and deaf students. Their jobs are meaningful to them. 6ix's job was meaningless to him, which pretty much describes every Trumptard and their jobs.)

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

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Friday, February 14, 2025 6:35 PM

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What to Make of the DOJ’s Attempt to Strong-Arm Its Prosecutors Into Dismissing the Eric Adams Charges

A former DOJ attorney takes us inside the absurdity and likely consequences of this week’s legal dispute.

By Dahlia Lithwick | Feb 14, 2025, 4:23 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/eric-adams-charges-dispute
-doj-sdny-resignations.html


Dahlia Lithwick: We actually kind of know a lot of what happened because we’ve got both Danielle Sassoon’s resignation letter and the truly frightening response from Bove. We’re seeing responses from other folks at DOJ. Each of these letters is a love song to the rule of law.

Harry Litman: We know an extraordinary amount, and it’s all exploded into the public. We know that Emil Bove, who is playing the mustachioed villain here, actually in a meeting directed someone to delete notes that they had taken. I’m from DOJ and I spent a lot of time there, so take this with a grain of salt, but this is humongous in DOJ’s history. There are two things that distinguish it to me. The first is: Because of the written record, you see the naked conflict between a good-guy and bad-guy side, between the rule of law and raw politics, because the most unforgettable sentence in all these letters so far has been when Bove said, “Well, we are not looking at the facts and we don’t question the legal theories,” and that of course is the absolute DNA of what happens in the department.

The other aspect is: We’re in free fall here. There are two possible precedents. People think about the Saturday Night Massacre, and then in 2021, the first couple days, the showdown in the Oval Office involving acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen. The lawyers told Trump We’re all gonna resign if you do this, and Trump backed down.

So here we have a cascade of scandals and of very, very senior personnel in the department — the U.S. attorney for the Southern District, a Scalia clerk with impeccable conservative credentials, and her colleague who just filed a blistering letter, a John Roberts clerk with two Bronze Stars — resigning. And then the entire leadership of the vaunted public integrity section too. So this is very high-level stuff. As of now, there’s no stopping point. It’s like the Roadrunner cartoon where they’re just falling off the cliff waiting for the boom at the bottom.

Dahlia Lithwick: Yeah. I want to read just the last couple of lines of the resignation letter from Hagan Scotten, the John Roberts clerk, lead prosecutor on the Adams case, writing to Bove that any federal prosecutor “would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials,” then adding: If no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Harry Litman: White-hot. Right. Wow. Every word.

Dahlia Lithwick: For lawyers, this is screaming.

Harry Litman: An atom bomb across the sky for sure.

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Friday, February 14, 2025 7:55 PM

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Clean your own stables first, Washington DC.

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Eruption In "BleachBit," "Wipe Hard Drive," "Offshore Bank" Searches In DC Suggest Deep State Panic Mode

Internet search trends in the Washington, DC, metro area have been nothing short of stunning in recent weeks, reflecting what appears to be growing panic within the federal bureaucracy as President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) root out corruption in non-governmental organizations (NGO) and federal agencies.

Earlier this week, internet search trends for "Criminal Defense Lawyer" and "RICO Laws" went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington's political elites were in panic mode. The searches coincided with DOGE's efforts to neuter USAID's funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.

Now, more suspicious search trends have erupted among DC residents as DOGE efforts went into beast mode at the end of the week.

"Washington DC searches soar for "Swiss bank" (yellow), "offshore bank" (green), "wire money" (red) and "IBAN" (blue)," WikiLeaks wrote on X late Thursday. (graph)
... the search term "wipe hard drive" across the DC metro has gone absolutely parabolic. (graph)
And "BleachBit" too! (graph)
Searches for "lawyers" have jumped.(graph)
"Statute of limitations" also soared. (graph)

Why on Earth would DC residents panic-search keywords that suggest they are trying to cover up a crime?

[because] The accountability sheriff: Trump & DOGE are in town - and the Deep State criminals who have been misappropriating taxpayer funds for years are in panic mode.

Now DOGE's "Big Balls" member, Edward Coristine, now listed as a "senior adviser" at the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, should focus efforts on those outbound ACH transfers >$1 million in the past few months...



GRAPHS AND MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eruption-bleachbit-wipe-hard-drive
-offshore-bank-searches-dc-suggest-deep-state-panic



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Friday, February 14, 2025 8:16 PM

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Seven times Trump’s DOJ asked Prosecutors to sign documents dropping bribery charges against Mayor Eric Adams and seven times Prosecutors resigned rather than sign. An eighth prosecutor signed to protect others from having to resign:

Order by Trump appointees to drop bribery charges against New York City mayor had drawn protests from career prosecutors

By Corinne Ramey and Sadie Gurman | Feb. 14, 2025 6:57 pm ET

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/another-star-u-s-prosecutor-quits-over-eri
c-adams-case-94858730


The Justice Department asked a judge Friday to dismiss the bribery case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, following a standoff between career prosecutors and top Trump appointees that prompted a wave of resignations and exposed deep divisions over the department’s pursuit of politically sensitive cases.

The filing in Manhattan federal court was signed by Edward Sullivan, a veteran prosecutor in the Justice Department’s public integrity section. He agreed earlier to put his name on it to protect others in the unit, people familiar with the matter said, following an ultimatum from Emil Bove, the department’s acting No. 2 official.

(Bove represented Trump in his election obstruction case, classified documents case, and falsification of business records case. Bove lost the only case, falsification of records, that got to a jury.)

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Friday, February 14, 2025 8:24 PM

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Clean your own stables first, Washington DC.

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Eruption In "BleachBit," "Wipe Hard Drive," "Offshore Bank" Searches In DC Suggest Deep State Panic Mode

Internet search trends in the Washington, DC, metro area have been nothing short of stunning in recent weeks, reflecting what appears to be growing panic within the federal bureaucracy as President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) root out corruption in non-governmental organizations (NGO) and federal agencies.

Earlier this week, internet search trends for "Criminal Defense Lawyer" and "RICO Laws" went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington's political elites were in panic mode. The searches coincided with DOGE's efforts to neuter USAID's funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.

Now, more suspicious search trends have erupted among DC residents as DOGE efforts went into beast mode at the end of the week.

"Washington DC searches soar for "Swiss bank" (yellow), "offshore bank" (green), "wire money" (red) and "IBAN" (blue)," WikiLeaks wrote on X late Thursday. (graph)
... the search term "wipe hard drive" across the DC metro has gone absolutely parabolic. (graph)
And "BleachBit" too! (graph)
Searches for "lawyers" have jumped.(graph)
"Statute of limitations" also soared. (graph)

Why on Earth would DC residents panic-search keywords that suggest they are trying to cover up a crime?

[because] The accountability sheriff: Trump & DOGE are in town - and the Deep State criminals who have been misappropriating taxpayer funds for years are in panic mode.

Now DOGE's "Big Balls" member, Edward Coristine, now listed as a "senior adviser" at the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, should focus efforts on those outbound ACH transfers >$1 million in the past few months...



GRAPHS AND MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eruption-bleachbit-wipe-hard-drive
-offshore-bank-searches-dc-suggest-deep-state-panic



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Friday, February 14, 2025 8:26 PM

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Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.



Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.



We know. Propaganda and their Ideology is more important to them than their very own lives are.

Unfortunately, when the Government isn't funding them, nobody else is.

Because nobody believes in any of their causes.


Prove me wrong. Write these people a big check right now.

How could you allow for the cancellation of Iraqi Sesame Street when you could have saved the show with your billions of Oil Dollars?

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Friday, February 14, 2025 8:33 PM

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I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Criminalized FBI


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...former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes.

These include allegations that at least two of the fired officials, Jeffrey Veltri and Dena Perkins, manipulated the security clearance review process to personally and professionally punish conservatives, COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, and Jan. 6 whistleblowers who reported suspected bureau malfeasance, and retaliated against those who came to the whistleblowers’ defense.

A third, Timothy Dunham, is also alleged to have improperly suspended security clearances.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) read numerous accounts of alleged misconduct perpetrated by these and other officials into the record this morning as the committee considered the nomination of Kash Patel for FBI Director.

One subordinate of the three terminated individuals, a former supervisory special agent in the Security Division, “SecD,” from which Veltri and Perkins hailed, and whom Dunham oversaw, told the committee:

I witnessed abuses committed against multiple employees by FBI senior leaders, particularly by Jeff Veltri and Dena Perkins. I also saw SecD retaliate against five of its own employees for protesting these unlawful practices. Because I spoke out against these abuses, Perkins and Timothy Dunham suspended my security clearance, costing me my job and continuing employment, totaling approximately $700,000 in lost wages and retirement benefits.

Another former FBI official, Marcus Allen, told the committee that Veltri and Perkins “caused the suspension of my security clearance because I questioned whether the FBI Director was truthful to Congress and whether the FBI was obeying the law and Constitution in the January 6, 2021 investigations.” What followed left “financial and emotional damage to me and my family will never be completely restored.”

A third, Special Agent Garret O’Boyle, who has been indefinitely suspended without pay for well over two years in alleged retaliation for whistleblowing, told the committee that Veltri, Perkins, Dunham, and other leadership up to Christopher Wray, are responsible for what happened to me and my family. Ensuring that they no longer work at the FBI is not retribution; it’s responsible leadership.”[ì4]

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


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Friday, February 14, 2025 9:24 PM

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By this time next year, a lot of people are going to feel pretty fucking dumb.

And I assume even more of them will just finally plunge their heads deep inside of the earth one final time and never come up for air again, because to do otherwise might completely and irreparably destroy their Ego.

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

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Friday, February 14, 2025 9:26 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Speaking of holes...

Junji Ito’s Most Disturbing Story



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Saturday, February 15, 2025 4:05 AM

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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.



Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.

I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 7:56 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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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.



Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.

I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?

Maybe Trump should fire these two astronauts?

Astronauts Stuck in Space Refute Donald Trump's Claim

Trump has repeatedly said that Williams and Wilmore were "abandoned" by the Biden administration.

Feb 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/astronauts-stuck-space-refute-trump-claim-iss
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Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore said they wanted to change the rhetoric around their stay on the ISS.

"We don't feel abandoned, we don't feel stuck, we don't feel stranded," Wilmore told CNN. "I understand why others may think that, but we come prepared. We come committed.

"That is what the human space flight program is; it prepares for any and all contingencies that we can conceive of, and we prepare for those.

"So if you'll help us change the rhetoric, help us change the narrative...let's change it to 'prepared and committed' rather than what you've been hearing (from Trump)."

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

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 8:10 AM

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By this time next year, a lot of people are going to feel pretty fucking dumb.

And I assume even more of them will just finally plunge their heads deep inside of the earth one final time and never come up for air again, because to do otherwise might completely and irreparably destroy their Ego.

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6ixStringJack, it could be you feeling dumb. Trump still needs Congressional approval to send your money to Ukraine, but he wants to send money and will probably get approval. Ukraine won't be able to send the money back to Trump until after Russia is defeated, when mineral extraction operations can begin in Ukraine:

'United States of extortion': New Trump Ukraine 'shakedown' called 'cheap mafia' move

By David Badash | February 14, 2025

https://www.alternet.org/trump-ukraine-shakedown/

Just weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump’s administration is not only grappling with a growing colossus of self-inflicted crises, but is now igniting international tensions as well. The administration is pressuring Ukraine to relinquish rights to half of its valuable precious metals — just as Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepare to begin negotiations to end Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine.

“Multiple lawmakers here in Munich told me the U.S. Congressional delegation presented Zelensky with a piece of paper they wanted him to sign which would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral reserves,” Washington Post foreign policy and national security columnist Josh Rogin reported Friday afternoon from the Munich Security Conference.

“Zelensky politely declined to sign it,” he added.

Trump has made it clear he expects Ukraine to hand over the rights to its rare earth minerals, which are extremely valuable.

“Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into motion for electric vehicles, cell phones, missile systems, and other electronics. There are no viable substitutes,” Reuters reported. The news outlet also noted that Trump “said on Monday he wants Ukraine to supply the United States with rare earth minerals as a form of payment for financially supporting the country’s war efforts against Russia.”

“We’re telling Ukraine they have very valuable rare earths,” Trump said. “We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earths and other things.”

Trump’s expected haul: “close to $300 billion,” or more.

“We are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earth,” Trump said Monday, CBS News reported. “They have essentially agreed to do that, so at least we don’t feel stupid.”

The New York Times on Wednesday suggested Kyiv may be willing to play ball with the billionaire businessman.

“President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by Ukrainian officials to appeal to Mr. Trump’s transactional nature.”

Earlier this week Bloomberg reported on Trump’s call with Putin, saying, “European leaders, who were broadly aligned with Washington under Biden, were stunned to learn of the call and some said it appeared to signal that Trump was selling out Ukraine.”

“Trump is skeptical of providing more aid,” Bloomberg continued, “and if he does then he wants the US to be compensated – perhaps in the form of access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was in Kyiv today to work on that part of the deal.”

Garry Kasparov, the internationally famous Russian chess grandmaster and now vice president of the World Liberty Congress, likened Trump’s demand to that of a Mafia don.

“Trump wants to give Russia something for nothing and expects Ukraine to give America something for nothing. Cheap mafia behavior,” he charged.

Olga Lautman, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and researcher of organized crime and intelligence operations in Russia and Ukraine, deemed the move “extortion.”

“This extortion by the [Trump] regime is outrageous. Europe needs to step up asap and help Ukraine,” she urged.

Professor Roland Paris, director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, doubly mocked the administration: “The United States of Extortion. (Can Google update its maps with this new name?)”

The Atlantic’s David Frum, a Bush 43 speechwriter, declared it, “Gangsterism.”

Jay Nordlinger, a senior editor for the right wing National Review, blasted the administration:

“The United States ought to back Ukraine because it is the right thing to do, morally, and, above all, because it is in the hard U.S. interest to do so. To shake down a country that is struggling for its very existence is, to my sense, repulsive.”

The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser called it simply, “A shakedown.”

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

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 8:33 AM

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Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.



Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.



We know. Propaganda and their Ideology is more important to them than their very own lives are.

Unfortunately, when the Government isn't funding them, nobody else is.

Because nobody believes in any of their causes.


Prove me wrong. Write these people a big check right now.

How could you allow for the cancellation of Iraqi Sesame Street when you could have saved the show with your billions of Oil Dollars?

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It's telling that you mentioned Iraq, where Bush tried Regime Change. Saddam Hussein was easier to be rid of than Joe Biden, but then Bush's search for weapons of mass destruction did not find any. Oh, there were claims Bush found them, but no physical evidence. So far, Musk and DOGE has not found physical evidence of the waste Musk claims exists although he keeps claiming he found waste. What next?

What happened next in Iraq was Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2: Dissolution of Entities signed by Paul Bremer on behalf of the Coalition Provisional Authority on 23 May 2003, disbanding the Iraqi military, security, and intelligence infrastructure of President Saddam Hussein.

Order Number 2 released millions of Iraqi employees, who then went on a killing rampage that Bush could not control. Trump might get the same here in America, a rampage he can't control. Who will they kill? In Iraq it was Shia Muslims killing Sunni Muslims and vise-versa. In America it could be Democrats killing Trumptards. I'm sure that will be as mesmerizing as the War in Iraq was for many years on TV news.

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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing

How regime change happens in America

By Anne Applebaum | February 14, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-p
urge/681671
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Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication of the federal civil service, along with its culture and values, and its replacement with something different. In other words: regime change.

No one should be surprised or insulted by this phrase, because this is exactly what Trump and many who support him have long desired. During his 2024 campaign, Trump spoke of Election Day as “Liberation Day,” a moment when, in his words, “vermin” and “radical left lunatics” would be eliminated from public life. J. D. Vance has said that Trump should “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” Steve Bannon prefers to talk about the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” but that amounts to the same thing.

These ideas are not original to Vance or Bannon: In the 21st century, elected leaders such as Hugo Chávez or Viktor Orbán have also used their democratic mandates for the same purpose. Chávez fired 19,000 employees of the state oil company; Orbán dismantled labor protections for the civil service. Trump, Musk, and Russell Vought, the newly appointed director of the Office of Management and Budget and architect of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025—the original regime-change blueprint—are now using IT operations, captured payments systems, secretive engineers, a blizzard of executive orders, and viral propaganda to achieve the same thing.

This appears to be DOGE’s true purpose. Although Trump and Musk insist they are fighting fraud, they have not yet provided evidence for their sweeping claims. Although they demand transparency, Musk conceals his own conflicts of interest. Although they do say they want efficiency, Musk has made no attempt to professionally audit or even understand many of the programs being cut. Although they say they want to cut costs, the programs they are attacking represent a tiny fraction of the U.S. budget. The only thing these policies will certainly do, and are clearly designed to do, is alter the behavior and values of the civil service. Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation.

The destruction of the modern civil-service ethos will take time. It dates from the late 19th century, when Theodore Roosevelt and other civil-service reformers launched a crusade to eliminate the spoils system that dominated government service. At that time, whoever won the presidency always got to fire everyone and appoint his own people, even for menial jobs. Much of the world still relies on such patronage systems, and they are both corrupt and corrupting. Politicians hand out job appointments in exchange for bribes. They appoint unqualified people—somebody’s cousin, somebody’s neighbor, or just a party hack—to jobs that require knowledge and experience. Patronage creates bad government and bad services, because it means government employees serve a patron, not a country or its constitution. When that patron demands, say, a tax break for a businessman favored by the leader or the party, they naturally comply.

Until January 20, American civil servants worked according to a different moral code. Federal workers were under instructions to respect the rule of law, venerate the Constitution, maintain political neutrality, and uphold lawful policy changes whether they come from Republican or Democratic administrations. They were supposed to measure objective reality—evidence of pollution, for example—and respond accordingly. Not all of them were good administrators or moral people, but the damage that any one of them could do was limited by audits, rules about transparency, and again, an ethos built around the rule of law. This system was accepted by everyone—Republican-voting FBI agents, Democratic-voting environmental officers, the nurses at veterans’ hospitals, the air-traffic controllers at LAX.

What precisely replaces the civil-service ethos remains unclear. Christian nationalists want a religious state to replace our secular one. Tech authoritarians want a dictatorship of engineers, led by a monarchical CEO. Musk and Trump might prefer an oligarchy that serves their business interests. Already, DOGE has attacked at least 11 federal agencies that were embroiled in regulatory fights with Musk’s companies or were investigating them for potential violations of laws on workplace safety, workers’ rights, and consumer protection.

The new system, whatever its ideology, will in practice represent a return to patronage, about which more in a minute. But before it can be imposed, the administration will first have to break the morale of the people who believed in the old civil-service ethos. Vought, at a 2023 planning meeting organized in preparation for this moment, promised exactly that. People who had previously viewed themselves as patriots, working for less money than they could make in the private sector, must be forced to understand that they are evil, enemies of the state. His statement has been cited before, but it cannot be quoted enough times: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said at the time. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains … We want to put them in trauma.”

The email Musk sent to most employees in the federal government, offering them a “buyout”—several months’ pay, in exchange for a commitment to resign—was intended to inflict this kind of trauma. In effect, Musk was telling federal workers that he was not interested in what they were doing, or whether they were good at it, or how they could become more efficient. Instead, he was sending the message: You are all expendable.

Simultaneously, Musk launched an administrative and rhetorical attack on USAID, adding cruelty to the hostility. Many USAID employees work in difficult places, risking terrorism and violence, to distribute food and medicine to the poorest people on the planet. Overnight, they were told to abandon their projects and come home. In some places, the abrupt end of their programs, for example those providing special meals to malnourished children, will result in deaths, and USAID employees know it.

The administration has not acknowledged the dramatic real-world impact of this cut, which will, if not quashed by the courts, result in relatively minor budgetary savings. On the contrary, Musk and others turned to X to lie about USAID and its alleged waste. USAID did not give millions of dollars in direct grants to Politico, did not fund the visits of celebrities to Ukraine, did not send $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza, and did not pay $84 million to Chelsea Clinton. But these fictions and others have now been blasted to hundreds of millions of people. Information taken from grant databases is also being selectively circulated, in some cases fed to internet trolls who are now hounding grant recipients, in order to smear people and organizations that had legitimate, congressionally approved goals. Musk and others used a similar approach during the so-called Twitter Files scandal to discredit researchers and mischaracterize their work.

But the true significance of USAID’s destruction is the precedent it sets. Every employee of every U.S. department or agency now knows that the same playbook can be applied to them too: abrupt funding cuts and management changes, followed by smear campaigns. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which safeguards bank customers against unfair, deceptive, or predatory practices, is already suspended. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Education, which mostly manages student loans, may follow. Within other agencies, anyone who was involved in hiring, training, or improving workplaces for minority groups or women is at risk, as is anyone involved in mitigating climate change, in line with Trump’s executive orders.

In addition, Musk has personally taken it upon himself to destroy organizations built over decades to promote democracy and oppose Russian, Iranian, and Chinese influence around the world. For example, he described the journalists of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, who take extraordinary risks to report in Russia, Belarus, and in autocracies across Eurasia, as “radical left crazy people.” Not long after he posted this misleading screed on X, one RFE/RL journalist was released from a Belarusian prison after nearly three years in jail, as a part of the most recent prisoner exchange.

Putting them all together, the actions of Musk and DOGE have created moral dilemmas of a kind no American government employee has faced in recent history. Protest or collaborate? Speak up against lawbreaking or remain silent? A small number of people will choose heroism. In late January, a career civil servant, Nick Gottlieb, refused to obey an order to place several dozen senior USAID employees on administrative leave, on the grounds that the order violated the law. “The materials show no evidence that you engaged in misconduct,” he told them in an email. He also acknowledged that he, too, might soon be removed, as indeed he was. “I wish you all the best—you do not deserve this,” he concluded.

Others will decide to cooperate with the new regime—collaborating, in effect, with an illegal assault, but out of patriotism. Much like the Ukrainian scientists who have kept the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant going under Russian occupation because they fear catastrophe if they leave, some tech experts who work on America’s payment systems and databases have stayed in place even as Musk’s team of very young, very inexperienced engineers has demanded illegitimate access. “Going into these systems without an in-depth understanding of how they work both individually and interconnectedly is a recipe for disaster that will result in death and economic harm to our nation,” one government employee told my Atlantic colleagues Charlie Warzel and Ian Bogost.

Eventually, though, if the assault on the civil service is not blocked, the heroes and the patriots will disappear. They will be fired, or denied access to the tools they need to work, or frightened by the smear campaigns. They will be replaced by people who can pass the purity tests now required to get government jobs. Some will seem silly—are you willing to say “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico”?—and some will be deadly serious. Already, the Post reports, candidates for national-security posts in the new administration are being asked whether they accept Trump’s false claim to have won the 2020 election. At least two candidates for higher positions at the FBI were also asked to state who the “real patriots” were on January 6, 2021. This particular purity test is significant because it measures not just loyalty to Trump, but also whether federal employees are willing to repeat outright falsehoods—whether they are willing, in other words, to break the old civil-service ethos, which required people to make decisions based on objective realities, not myths or fictions.

To show that they are part of the new system, many loyalists will also engage in loud, performative behavior, designed to attract the attention and approval of Trump, Musk, Vought, or their followers. Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., wrote a missive addressed to “Steve and Elon” (referring to Musk and his associate Steve Davis) in which he vowed to track down “individuals and networks who appear to be stealing government property and/or threatening government employees.” If anyone is deemed to have broken the law “or acted simply unethically,” Martin theatrically promised to “chase them to the end of the Earth.” Ostentatious announcements of bans on supposed DEI or climate-change projects will similarly threaten civil servants. Late last month, the Air Force removed videos about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots, the first Black and female Air Force pilots, from a training course. After an uproar, the videos were put back, but the initial instinct was revealing. Like the people asking FBI candidates to lie about what happened on January 6, someone at the Air Force felt obliged to deny older historical truths as well.

Eventually, demonstrations of loyalty might need to become more direct. The political scientist Francis Fukuyama points out that a future IRS head, for example, might be pressured to audit some of the president’s perceived enemies. If inflation returns, government employees might feel they need to disguise this too. In the new system, they would hold their job solely at the pleasure of the president, not on behalf of the American people, so maybe it won’t be in their interest to give him any bad news.

Many older civil servants will remain in the system, of course, but the new regime will suspect them of disloyalty. Already, the Office of Personnel Management has instructed federal employees to report on colleagues who are trying to “disguise” DEI programs, and threatened “adverse consequences” for anyone who failed to do so. The Defense Health Agency sent out a similar memo. NASA, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the FBI have also told employees who are aware of “coded or imprecise language” being used to “disguise” DEI to report these violations within 10 days.

Because these memos are themselves coded and imprecise, some federal employees will certainly be tempted to abuse them. Don’t like your old boss? Report him or her for “disguising DEI.” Want to win some brownie points with the new boss? Send in damning evidence about your colleagues’ private conversations. In some government departments, minority employees have set up affinity groups, purely voluntary forums for conversation or social events. A number of government agencies are shutting these down; others are being disbanded by organizers who fear that membership lists will be used to target people. Even private meetings, outside the office, might not be safe from spying or snooping colleagues.

That might sound implausible or incredible, but at the state level, legislation encouraging Americans to inform on other Americans has proliferated. A Texas law, known as the Heartbeat Act, allows private citizens to sue anyone they believe to have helped “aid or abet” an abortion. The Mississippi legislature recently debated a proposal to pay bounties to people who identify illegal aliens for deportation. These measures are precedents for what’s happening now to federal employees.

And the fate of federal employees will, in turn, serve as a precedent for what will happen to other institutions, starting with universities. Random funding cuts have already shocked some of the biggest research universities across the country, damaging ongoing projects without regard to “efficiency” or any other criteria. Political pressure will follow. Already, zealous new employees at the National Science Foundation are combing through descriptions of existing research projects, looking to see if they violate executive orders banning DEI. Words such as advocacy, disability, trauma, socioeconomic, and yes, women will all trigger reviews.

There are still greater dangers down the road—the possible politicization of the Federal Election Commission, for example. Eventually, anyone who interacts with the federal government—private companies, philanthropies, churches, and above all, citizens—might find that the cultural revolution affects them too. If the federal government is no longer run by civil servants fulfilling laws passed by Congress, then its interests might seriously diverge from yours.

None of this is inevitable. Much of it will be unpopular. The old idea that public servants should serve all Americans, and not just a small elite, has been part of American culture for more than a century. Rule of law matters to many of our elected politicians, as well as to their voters, all across the political spectrum. There is still time to block this regime change, to preserve the old values. But first we need to be clear about what is happening, and why.

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

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 9:45 AM

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This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become:
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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
—Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten, in a letter to acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams

Well, it worked, sort of. New York Mayor Eric Adams cozied up to Donald Trump, paid him a visit at Mar-a-Lago, groveled on an episode of Tucker Carlson, and voilà: On Monday, the Justice Department instructed federal prosecutors to drop all charges—and there were many—against Adams.

The official reasoning given by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was astonishing in its own right, though it would seem hardly scandalous compared with what was to come later in the week: The order to drop those charges was based not on the strength of evidence but on the argument that Adams’ indictment was getting in the way of his implementing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, ICE raids, and general tough-on-crime agenda. The Associated Press rightly called it an “extraordinary deviation from long-standing Justice Department norms.”

Adams, who claimed that the prosecution was the political consequence of his brave disagreement with Joe Biden over funding for migrants and asylees, took a victory lap, declaring that he would “never put any personal benefit above my solemn responsibility as your mayor.” That was, to put it lightly, not very convincing.

But the story didn’t end there. On Friday morning, Trump’s border deportation impresario Tom Homan hauled Adams onto the couch at Fox & Friends for a little conservative TV news hang. There, Homan laid out the quid pro quo that Adams had agreed to in the plainest possible terms:
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“If he doesn’t come through,” Homan said, referring to Adams on his right, laughing, “I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying, ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’ ”
Because evidently we needed more evidence that the Democratic mayor of New York and the Republican Trump administration are engaged in brazen corruption and self-dealing.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-eric-adams-doj-new-y
ork-bondi-fox-friends.html


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

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 10:28 AM

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Marvel’s Brave New World follows an unhinged president who lays waste to Washington.

Harrison Ford’s president Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross transforms into the Red Hulk and promptly lays waste to his surroundings. Columns crumble, cornices are crushed, and even Old Glory gets turned into an offensive weapon as the world’s angriest POTUS swings an enormous flagpole at a military helicopter. The White House is a smoldering ruin, a monument to the destructive power of the president’s fury. But not to worry, a news report reassures us: Next up is “the restoration of normalcy to the White House.”



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

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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.



Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.

I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?

The people in charge at the moment know so little about it, they didn’t know the hundreds of people they fired were responsible for the national nuclear stockpile. Wonderful:

1) Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile

By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen | 8:41 PM EST, Fri February 14, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/inde
x.html


2) Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons

By Geoff Brumfiel | February 14, 2025, 8:05 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firi
ngs-nnsa


Managers were given just 200 characters to explain why the jobs these workers did mattered. In the end, it didn't matter. On Thursday, officials were told that the vast majority of the exemptions they had asked for were denied by the Trump administration.

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How Much Money Has Trump Made Off the Presidency So Far?

Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have been making deals and raking in money ever since Trump won the election, including a cool $40 million to license Melania’s documentary about returning to the White House as first lady.

That’s just one of Trump’s numerous moneymaking schemes since his return to office, which have netted him and his family nearly $80 million so far, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. That includes donations to his future presidential library and a hefty $10 million settlement with Elon Musk’s X. That sum doesn’t include the millions the president and first lady have each netted from “meme coin” cryptocurrency ventures, a blatant means of scamming MAGA supporters.

Melania’s upcoming Amazon documentary may be one of the most obviously corrupt deals. The Journal reports that the first lady, the president, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, all had dinner at Mar-a-Lago in December, where Melania sold Bezos on her movie. Two weeks after that dinner, Amazon agreed to shell out the $40 million, nearly three times as much as the next best offer and the most the company has ever spent on a documentary.

The first lady is reportedly getting over 70 percent of the $40 million, and her agent is trying to sell “sponsorships” to executives and billionaires for the movie, with $10 million as the starting price. In return, these sponsors would get thanked in the credits and be invited to the premiere.

Much more at https://newrepublic.com/post/191543/how-much-money-trump-made-presiden
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Saturday, February 15, 2025 1:19 PM

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How Much Money Has Trump Made Off the Presidency So Far?



Yeah? How much money have the Obama's made?

SPOILER ALERT: Any time either of them go to a function to give a ten minute speech, they make more money than I will make in the rest of my entire life.

Go. Fuck. Yourself.

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Marvel’s Brave New World follows an unhinged president who lays waste to Washington.

Harrison Ford’s president Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross transforms into the Red Hulk and promptly lays waste to his surroundings. Columns crumble, cornices are crushed, and even Old Glory gets turned into an offensive weapon as the world’s angriest POTUS swings an enormous flagpole at a military helicopter. The White House is a smoldering ruin, a monument to the destructive power of the president’s fury. But not to worry, a news report reassures us: Next up is “the restoration of normalcy to the White House.”



One of the last Marvel properties made for all of you fags, and you fags hate it.

Not looking good for Disney.

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Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.



Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.



We know. Propaganda and their Ideology is more important to them than their very own lives are.

Unfortunately, when the Government isn't funding them, nobody else is.

Because nobody believes in any of their causes.


Prove me wrong. Write these people a big check right now.

How could you allow for the cancellation of Iraqi Sesame Street when you could have saved the show with your billions of Oil Dollars?

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It's telling that you mentioned Iraq



Nah bitch.

I'm calling you out.

Where's your money? You fund this bullshit.

Who am I kidding. You won't even send a Fiver Haken's way because you're a broke ass bitch living in his mom's basement.

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 1:28 PM

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Six, to go back to Second's reference to Anne Frank.

Would you inform on a neighbor or a store clerk?

Would you fight to stop your brother from being sent to a camp or yourself with your chronic condition?

Trump can't send the Nations anywhere but he could use the army again, to surround reservations.

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Six, to go back to Second's reference to Anne Frank.

Would you inform on a neighbor or a store clerk?



I don't inform on anybody for any reason. I can sit back and watch millions of other people inform on these criminals who don't belong here though.

DO NOT attempt to emotionally blackmail me.

I do not give one single shit about any of these people.



P.S. Anne Frank's end when caught was eating a bullet. Their end is going back home.

What happens then is even less my problem than them being here in the first place.

GTFO

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Six, to go back to Second's reference to Anne Frank.

Would you inform on a neighbor or a store clerk?



I don't inform on anybody for any reason. I can sit back and watch millions of other people inform on these criminals who don't belong here though.

DO NOT attempt to emotionally blackmail me.

I do not give one single shit about any of these people.



P.S. Anne Frank's end when caught was eating a bullet. Their end is going back home.

What happens then is even less my problem than them being here in the first place.

GTFO

Typhoid, not a bullet, killed Anne Frank. Neither Trumptards nor Nazis are careful about healthcare for their prisoners. Anybody would already know this about 6ix: "I do not give one single shit about any of these people." That seems to be a nearly universal problem among the Trumptards.

Democrats go too far in the opposite direction by caring about everybody, including prisoners, which made it impossible for Joe Biden to do the right thing: hit Trump in the face with a shotgun blast. The Supreme Court said that it was legal for a President to kill a political opponent, but Biden could not do it.

Anne Frank's Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank#Death

How the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling opened the door for a shocking question: Can presidents kill their rivals?

A hypothetical scenario that lets Trump send SEAL Team 6 to assassinate his rivals has raised alarms for what a president could do without legal restraints, Alex Woodward reports

Thursday 04 July 2024 10:22 EDT

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/suprem
e-court-presidential-assassination-trump-b2573324.html


Whether it’s actually not illegal, or it is illegal but Trump just can’t be prosecuted for it, we used to live in a country where there was more respect for the law than contemplating realistic hypotheticals of the president assassinating his political opponents or businessmen such as Jeff Bezos. See below for what Trump did to Bezos.

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How Much Money Has Trump Made Off the Presidency So Far?



Yeah? How much money have the Obama's made?

SPOILER ALERT: Any time either of them go to a function to give a ten minute speech, they make more money than I will make in the rest of my entire life.

Go. Fuck. Yourself.

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Trump threatened Jeff Bezos, major owner of Amazon, and so Amazon paid Trump $40 million. It was extortion by Trump, dear little 6ix:

https://newrepublic.com/post/191543/how-much-money-trump-made-presiden
cy


Jeff Bezos owns a newspaper, The Washington Post, that Trump hates. The Post has gotten very frightened of Trump and very quiet about Trump's misdeeds and so has Jeff Bezos.

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 3:52 PM

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How Much Money Has Trump Made Off the Presidency So Far?



Yeah? How much money have the Obama's made?

SPOILER ALERT: Any time either of them go to a function to give a ten minute speech, they make more money than I will make in the rest of my entire life.

Go. Fuck. Yourself.

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Trump threatened Jeff Bezos, major owner of Amazon, and so Amazon paid Trump $40 million. It was extortion by Trump, dear little 6ix:

https://newrepublic.com/post/191543/how-much-money-trump-made-presiden
cy


Jeff Bezos owns a newspaper, The Washington Post, that Trump hates. The Post has gotten very frightened of Trump and very quiet about Trump's misdeeds and so has Jeff Bezos.



Nobody is worried about any of Trump's alleged misdeeds. Certainly not when you turn a complete blind eye to the daily corruptions of the people you vote in. Those corruptions which will all be exposed in the coming months.

You lost every single court case. You shot at him twice and missed. You lost the Electoral College. You lost every swing state. You lost the popular vote by over 2 Million votes. Even people who voted for Democrats their entire life are now abandoning it.

You are a loser.

The Democratic Party is dead.

The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago does not exist.

You'd better get used to your new reality shitheel.


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Nobody is worried about any of Trump's alleged misdeeds. Certainly not when you turn a complete blind eye to the daily corruptions of the people you vote in. Those corruptions which will all be exposed in the coming months.

The EU did not call emergency meetings about Biden, but there will be a secret meeting about Trump on Monday:

February 15, 2025 4:54 pm CET
By Hans von der Burchard

MUNICH — French President Emmanuel Macron is convening European leaders for an emergency summit in Paris on Monday, according to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

"I'm very glad that President Macron has called our leaders to Paris," Sikorski said, adding that he expects the European leaders to discuss "in a very serious fashion" the challenges posed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

"President Trump has a method of operating which the Russians call razvedka boyem —reconnaissance through battle: You push and you see what happens, and then you change your position. ... And we need to respond," the Polish minister said.

The meeting will take place on Monday, according to two EU officials.

More at https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-convenes-european-emergency-sum
mit-in-paris-on-sunday-polish-minister-says
/

All of Europe is aware that Trump is insane. In America, only half are aware of how crazy Trump is.

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 4:12 PM

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Nobody is worried about any of Trump's alleged misdeeds. Certainly not when you turn a complete blind eye to the daily corruptions of the people you vote in. Those corruptions which will all be exposed in the coming months.

The EU did not call emergency meetings about Biden



When Biden* wasn't spending 95% of his waking hours sleeping in his basement, he was blowing foreign leaders and pissing our money away, literally everywhere.

Nobody gives a fuck, stupid.

What you still haven't figured out is that even if anything you have to say turns out to be right now, NOBODY is going to listen to you anymore.

You are finished. Your opinion means nothing at all outside your echo chamber which is deflating and getting more claustrophobic every day.

You did all of this to yourself. You were warned.

Enjoy the new world that you ushered in.

You deserve it.

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When Biden* wasn't spending 95% of his waking hours sleeping in his basement, he was blowing foreign leaders and pissing our money away, literally everywhere.

Nobody gives a fuck, stupid.

What you still haven't figured out is that even if anything you have to say turns out to be right now, NOBODY is going to listen to you anymore.

You are finished. Your opinion means nothing at all outside your echo chamber which is deflating and getting more claustrophobic every day.

You did all of this to yourself. You were warned.

Enjoy the new world that you ushered in.

You deserve it.

You're not aware of your defects and neither are the Trumptards I know, but the kind of people who talk your way about Biden and Trump were absurd wackadoodles before Trump got into politics. Trump is their kind of person: a guy who goes bankrupt, has money troubles, whose numerous adulterous affairs have destroyed his family, who are being sued frequently, who are gluttonous, drug addicted, alcoholic, all the many other unfortunate things that happen to a maladjusted American.

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 4:38 PM

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My advice to any of the Left-Wingnuts and/or TDS sufferers who really want to do something for the Democratic Party is for every one of them to shut the fuck up and keep their feelings to themselves, for at least the next few months.

When you're going around breaking all of the Elite's Toys like a bull in a china shop, you're bound to accidentally break something that's going to create at least a minor crisis localized to a small area... but maybe he breaks something Really Big?

Or even worse yet, maybe nothing gets broken at all and things in this country really do start to improve for everyone for the first time in about 30 years. By that time, the Trump Administration could very well be sitting at or even above 60% approval.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand that's when some really powerful people push this as further evidence of a "clear mandate" that everything they think is what the people want and they start trying to do some things that we shouldn't be agreeing with like putting the church back in public schools or justifying insane ramp-ups of technological survalience on all US Citizens by telling us it's for our own good and they're only using it to look for illegals (*wink, wink... nudge, nudge...)


There are a lot of really fucking bad things that can come of all of this, Second.

I know this.

But not because of Trump. It has little to nothing to do with Trump.

There's a fucking boulder that's rolling right now and it appears to be picking up speed.

This DOES genuinely concern me, and it makes me question a lot of things right now.

I'm actually starting to have a little bit of actual fear surrounding the furvor of it all right now, and I do hope that it normalizes and doesn't continue to pick up speed for the next 4 years straight. I don't know how far down that mountain actually goes. I'm not an avid history buff, but I'm sure that there are much better comparisons to previous fallen empires than the unimaginative and trite muh Nazi ending.

I watch streamers all the time while I'm doing work on my projects and other things. Some of these guys doing it now are in their mid to late 20's and got their starts doing video game lets plays. Now they're talking politics to MILLIONs of subscribers who have been following them since they were all 12 years old.

Some of these opinions they have I like and agree with very much. Some I don't. But then sometimes I hear them say things that I think are a fucking terrible message to tell a couple of million impressionable young men who may have been in this para-social relationship with these streamers for over a decade, and who genuinely look to these Influencers as friends and role models.


When everything was batshit and nobody who was sane had a voice, this was all fun and games.

But now things are normalizing. Wrongs are being righted.

And at a break neck pace that honestly terrifies me in how terrified I am about the future implications instead of reveling in it like I always thought I would be when and if it finally ever happened.

Because I never forgot. I never had an opportunity to forget because my alignment was always in direct opposition of The Power. Trump 1.0 was 4 years of also being aligned directly against The Power. Trump 2.0 does not appear to be, at least right now.

And, quite frankly, after the last 8 years, the complete lack of pushback and the immediate defanging of the Legacy Media and Democratic Party dumbfounds me. I'm not somebody who is easily shocked, but this has been a very shocking Presidency so far, to say the least.

Trump is not what you should be fearing.

If you're going to fear anything right now, it's the lack of push back that you should fear. You should at least be questioning that. I know I do every day.




But then here you come along and post more dumb legacy media TDS bullshit half a dozen times per day and make me just revel in rubbing your nose in your dogshit. And it is all dogshit. These articles are all written by the very same people you know have been lying to you for decades now and they just keep your mind focused on everything besides the stuff that is actually important.


Seriously man.


You need to stop.

You and everyone else out there like you who is terminally online and can't keep their opinions to themselves.


If you're not there to constantly remind everyone why they hate Democrats so much and Trump starts fucking up, maybe they can actually judge Trump fucking up correctly instead of coming into every situation hot off the heels of having another confrontation with some asshole and their asshole opinions 30 seconds prior.

YOU ARE DOING DONALD TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM FOR FREE.

Stop it.


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Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:01 PM

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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.



Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.

I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?



SECOND: Maybe Trump should fire these two astronauts?

Astronauts Stuck in Space Refute Donald Trump's Claim

Trump has repeatedly said that Williams and Wilmore were "abandoned" by the Biden administration.

Feb 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/astronauts-stuck-space-refute-trump-claim-iss
-2031187


Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore said they wanted to change the rhetoric around their stay on the ISS.

"We don't feel abandoned, we don't feel stuck, we don't feel stranded," Wilmore told CNN. "I understand why others may think that, but we come prepared... prepare[d] for any and all contingencies that we can conceive of, and we prepare for those.



Yep. Including being stuck/ stranded in space. Even the title that you linked said "stuck".


Quote:

NASA Announces Return Date For Astronauts Trapped on ISS
Two American astronauts who have been trapped on the International Space Station since June could return to Earth earlier in March than expected, NASA said Tuesday.

Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to spend eight days on the International Space Station (ISS), but have been there for more than eight months after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft suffered propulsion problems.


https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-announces-return-date-for-astronauts
-trapped-on-iss


They went to space for eight days - and could be stuck until 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4yqepr469o

How Two Stranded Astronauts Are Camping Out in Space
https://time.com/7010425/stranded-astronauts-iss-butch-wilmore-suni-wi
lliams
/

Being left behind was hard, say stranded astronauts

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn1125ne3o

The astronauts say they don't FEEL stuck or stranded, but... they were. Their mission was supposed to last 8 days. Instead it lasted 8 months. Sounds like a version of Gilligan's Island.

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Because NASA rotates space station crews approximately every six months, this newly launched flight with two empty seats reserved for Wilmore and Williams won’t return until late February. Officials said there wasn’t a way to bring them back earlier on SpaceX without interrupting other scheduled missions.
Other scheduled missions? What other missions take priority over bringing your astronauts home?

Back to SIX's original proposal: if you think the Federal employees' work is so important, why don't you pay their salaries?


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My advice to any of the Left-Wingnuts and/or TDS sufferers who really want to do something for the Democratic Party is for every one of them to shut the fuck up and keep their feelings to themselves, for at least the next few months.

When you're going around breaking all of the Elite's Toys like a bull in a china shop, you're bound to accidentally break something that's going to create at least a minor crisis localized to a small area... but maybe he breaks something Really Big?

Or even worse yet, maybe nothing gets broken at all and things in this country really do start to improve for everyone for the first time in about 30 years. By that time, the Trump Administration could very well be sitting at or even above 60% approval.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand that's when some really powerful people push this as further evidence of a "clear mandate" that everything they think is what the people want and they start trying to do some things that we shouldn't be agreeing with like putting the church back in public schools or justifying insane ramp-ups of technological survalience on all US Citizens by telling us it's for our own good and they're only using it to look for illegals (*wink, wink... nudge, nudge...)

There are a lot of really fucking bad things that can come of all of this, Second.

I know this.

But not because of Trump. It has little to nothing to do with Trump.

There's a fucking boulder that's rolling right now and it appears to be picking up speed.

This DOES genuinely concern me, and it makes me question a lot of things right now.

I'm actually starting to have a little bit of actual fear surrounding the furvor of it all right now, and I do hope that it normalizes and doesn't continue to pick up speed for the next 4 years straight. I don't know how far down that mountain actually goes. I'm not an avid history buff, but I'm sure that there are much better comparisons to previous fallen empires than the unimaginative and trite muh Nazi ending.

I watch streamers all the time while I'm doing work on my projects and other things. Some of these guys doing it now are in their mid to late 20's and got their starts doing video game lets plays. Now they're talking politics to MILLIONs of subscribers who have been following them since they were all 12 years old.

Some of these opinions they have I like and agree with very much. Some I don't. But then sometimes I hear them say things that I think are a fucking terrible message to tell a couple of million impressionable young men who may have been in this para-social relationship with these streamers for over a decade, and who genuinely look to these Influencers as friends and role models.

Can you give us some examples?

One thing I've heard is a kind of techno-society, where "they say" technology will be advanced and used for the benefit of people.(uh huh)
Like that?

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When everything was batshit and nobody who was sane had a voice, this was all fun and games.

But now things are normalizing. Wrongs are being righted.

And at a break neck pace that honestly terrifies me in how terrified I am about the future implications instead of reveling in it like I always thought I would be when and if it finally ever happened.

Because I never forgot. I never had an opportunity to forget because my alignment was always in direct opposition of The Power. Trump 1.0 was 4 years of also being aligned directly against The Power. Trump 2.0 does not appear to be, at least right now.

And, quite frankly, after the last 8 years, the complete lack of pushback and the immediate defanging of the Legacy Media and Democratic Party dumbfounds me. I'm not somebody who is easily shocked, but this has been a very shocking Presidency so far, to say the least.

Trump is not what you should be fearing.

If you're going to fear anything right now, it's the lack of push back that you should fear. You should at least be questioning that. I know I do every day.



I agree to some extent. I expected change but not at this pace. I think it's because last time Trump was taking advice from old-time pols. This time, I believe this is coming from Elon Musk. Musk is a bright guy, but I think he's bipolar, and some of his mania- inspired ideas are pretty hare-brained.

The other thing is, "the establishment" ... the blob of transnational financiers, brainless Eurocrats, DC pols, "security agencies", MIC, media, and the endless chain of grifters that the USD feeds .... were doing their best to keep things limping along. Nobody wanted to trigger "the great reset" while "the establishment" was in power. Now that Trump & Co have taken the reins, they have every interest in causing the system to implode ... if they can manage to do it while hanging on to their wealth.

This is something between a revolution and a power struggle of titanic proportions.

Needs thought.


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But then here you come along and post more dumb legacy media TDS bullshit half a dozen times per day and make me just revel in rubbing your nose in your dogshit. And it is all dogshit. These articles are all written by the very same people you know have been lying to you for decades now and they just keep your mind focused on everything besides the stuff that is actually important.

Seriously man.

You need to stop.

You and everyone else out there like you who is terminally online and can't keep their opinions to themselves.

If you're not there to constantly remind everyone why they hate Democrats so much and Trump starts fucking up, maybe they can actually judge Trump fucking up correctly instead of coming into every situation hot off the heels of having another confrontation with some asshole and their asshole opinions 30 seconds prior.

YOU ARE DOING DONALD TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM FOR FREE.

Stop it.

So in addition to being the boy who cried wolf a few thousand times too many, they're also stiffening the pro- Trump crowd and making it impossible for anyone to post LEGITIMATE (i.e. realistic) concerns or disagreements?


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My advice to any of the Left-Wingnuts and/or TDS sufferers who really want to do something for the Democratic Party is for every one of them to shut the fuck up and keep their feelings to themselves, for at least the next few months.

When you're going around breaking all of the Elite's Toys like a bull in a china shop, you're bound to accidentally break something that's going to create at least a minor crisis localized to a small area... but maybe he breaks something Really Big?

Or even worse yet, maybe nothing gets broken at all and things in this country really do start to improve for everyone for the first time in about 30 years. By that time, the Trump Administration could very well be sitting at or even above 60% approval.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand that's when some really powerful people push this as further evidence of a "clear mandate" that everything they think is what the people want and they start trying to do some things that we shouldn't be agreeing with like putting the church back in public schools or justifying insane ramp-ups of technological survalience on all US Citizens by telling us it's for our own good and they're only using it to look for illegals (*wink, wink... nudge, nudge...)

There are a lot of really fucking bad things that can come of all of this, Second.

I know this.

But not because of Trump. It has little to nothing to do with Trump.

There's a fucking boulder that's rolling right now and it appears to be picking up speed.

This DOES genuinely concern me, and it makes me question a lot of things right now.

I'm actually starting to have a little bit of actual fear surrounding the furvor of it all right now, and I do hope that it normalizes and doesn't continue to pick up speed for the next 4 years straight. I don't know how far down that mountain actually goes. I'm not an avid history buff, but I'm sure that there are much better comparisons to previous fallen empires than the unimaginative and trite muh Nazi ending.

I watch streamers all the time while I'm doing work on my projects and other things. Some of these guys doing it now are in their mid to late 20's and got their starts doing video game lets plays. Now they're talking politics to MILLIONs of subscribers who have been following them since they were all 12 years old.

Some of these opinions they have I like and agree with very much. Some I don't. But then sometimes I hear them say things that I think are a fucking terrible message to tell a couple of million impressionable young men who may have been in this para-social relationship with these streamers for over a decade, and who genuinely look to these Influencers as friends and role models.

Can you give us some examples?




Sure. The one that sticks out in my mind right now is a streamer named Asmongold who apparently recently made a transition from streaming games to streaming news from both sides and saying his opinions on everything, sometimes arguing and making fun of people in his chat for TDS. I find it kind of entertaining to have in the background, getting a glimps of the "news" from that lens. I just have YouTube on in the background while I'm working and often I don't bother intervening in the autoplay. He's never somebody I would have searched for or that I go out of my way to watch.

For the most part, I agree with a lot of his takes. But he is pretty young still and talks with the amount of cockiness that would come with being that age and having millions of people following you. There's a certain power you have over people watching you when the only ones that you're conversing with are the ones that are tipping you to get your attention. Imagine having that much power... where even people who hate you are going to give you money so they can shit talk you.

The other day though, healthcare came up and he made a coded joke that I'd heard before, something along the lines of going "Super Mario Bros" on somebody. It was a joke, but yeah... it wasn't a joke at the same time. And if that goes over your head, that was the intention. He's referring to Mario's brother Luigi in the Mario Bros. games.

Truth be told, I don't necessarily disagree deep down either. I've not been shy saying I didn't shed any tears for the CEO of UH when Luigi Mangione did what he did.

But I'm not a role model, and I don't have millions of people listening to my political takes... many of them presumably not even old enough to vote yet.

When you add this on top of some rhetoric I've seen from some of these guys on our current Illegal Alien problem and what we should do to fix it, I think there are some problems out there that nobody is paying any attention to. You see what I post here about Illegals, and some things I've heard have given even me pause. I guess when you stop paying any attention and/or care to an entire generation or two of predominantly white males, you aren't paying attention to who the boys and young men are actually listening to.


First thing's first. I don't want ideas like that proliferating simply because I don't want words that other people use to define who I am, which is what the media always does.

Secondly, my bigger concern is that we've already gone so far the other way that not only isn't there any Leftoid weirdos trying to get people cancelled anymore, but voices like that might actually start getting taken seriously if this all keeps picking up steam.

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One thing I've heard is a kind of techno-society, where "they say" technology will be advanced and used for the benefit of people.(uh huh)
Like that?



No. Not that. These guys are just talking about politics. I'm sure there are young tech-minded guys out there with a ton of followers too, but I wouldn't even watch any of these guys play or talk about games because they're playing new stuff that I don't care about.

My only two real concerns about tech for the rest of my life is going to a cashless society and shifting to a 24/7 surveillance society. And I can see the building blocks for both of these issues already being stacked up.



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When everything was batshit and nobody who was sane had a voice, this was all fun and games.

But now things are normalizing. Wrongs are being righted.

And at a break neck pace that honestly terrifies me in how terrified I am about the future implications instead of reveling in it like I always thought I would be when and if it finally ever happened.

Because I never forgot. I never had an opportunity to forget because my alignment was always in direct opposition of The Power. Trump 1.0 was 4 years of also being aligned directly against The Power. Trump 2.0 does not appear to be, at least right now.

And, quite frankly, after the last 8 years, the complete lack of pushback and the immediate defanging of the Legacy Media and Democratic Party dumbfounds me. I'm not somebody who is easily shocked, but this has been a very shocking Presidency so far, to say the least.

Trump is not what you should be fearing.

If you're going to fear anything right now, it's the lack of push back that you should fear. You should at least be questioning that. I know I do every day.




I agree to some extent. I expected change but not at this pace. I think it's because last time Trump was taking advice from old-time pols. This time, I believe this is coming from Elon Musk. Musk is a bright guy, but I think he's bipolar, and some of his mania- inspired ideas are pretty hare-brained.

The other thing is, "the establishment" ... the blob of transnational financiers, brainless Eurocrats, DC pols, "security agencies", MIC, media, and the endless chain of grifters that the USD feeds .... were doing their best to keep things limping along. Nobody wanted to trigger "the great reset" while "the establishment" was in power. Now that Trump & Co have taken the reins, they have every interest in causing the system to implode ... if they can manage to do it while hanging on to their wealth.

This is something between a revolution and a power struggle of titanic proportions.

Needs thought.




Yeah. Been trying to wrap my head around it for a while now.

I know the Democrats got a drubbing that many of them still refuse to admit to, but it wasn't like Trump got 75% of the Popular vote and had an Electoral College that looked like Reagan's.

Seriously... WTF happened here? It's like all the evil people in the world just shut up instantly, aside from a few insane talking heads that everyone hates like Joy Reid, which I think is also planned.

I'm not buying any of it.


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But then here you come along and post more dumb legacy media TDS bullshit half a dozen times per day and make me just revel in rubbing your nose in your dogshit. And it is all dogshit. These articles are all written by the very same people you know have been lying to you for decades now and they just keep your mind focused on everything besides the stuff that is actually important.

Seriously man.

You need to stop.

You and everyone else out there like you who is terminally online and can't keep their opinions to themselves.

If you're not there to constantly remind everyone why they hate Democrats so much and Trump starts fucking up, maybe they can actually judge Trump fucking up correctly instead of coming into every situation hot off the heels of having another confrontation with some asshole and their asshole opinions 30 seconds prior.

YOU ARE DOING DONALD TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM FOR FREE.

Stop it.

So in addition to being the boy who cried wolf a few thousand times too many, they're also stiffening the pro- Trump crowd and making it impossible for anyone to post LEGITIMATE (i.e. realistic) concerns or disagreements?



Absolutely.

It's like just over half of the country finally dug deep enough to pull out a thorn in their heel they've been driving even further under the skin for 16 years now, and what's left of the Legacy Media and these chronically unhappy Left Wing trolls filling their own heads with bullshit every single day and force feeding it to anyone in the vicinity is like somebody slapping away your tweezers and punching the thorn back deep into your foot.

It has to stop.

Because if it doesn't, nobody is going to see the warning signs when bad things start to happen until it's too late to do anything about it.

We just had 16 years of a progressively worse America by the hands of the Democratic Party. I'll be damned if we let the Republicans do the same thing now.

But we need to filter out the noise.

And the clickbait channels on both "sides" need to be ignored until they shut down.

We can't afford another 4 years with everybody at each other's throats.

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Saturday, February 15, 2025 8:58 PM

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Can you give us some examples?



To add to what I put above when you asked this question, I should make it clear that I'm not putting the extremist talk on immigration from Asmongold. He was the person I named and I attribute the Super Mario Bros. "joke" to him. From what I've heard out of him on immigration, I'm fine with it for the most part. If anything, I think his opinion is far too lax on the issue.


But I did just remember something he said specifically the other day that really got under my skin, especially when it was clear from his reaction to what chat was saying to him that they all agreed with him.

He kept saying that it was time for Fat Camps, with the insinuation presumably being that Americans who are overweight should be put into a facility until they're no longer deemed too fat.


WTF, man?


This is the type of shit right here that I'm talking about.


Yeah. Dudes, especially young dudes, are pissed off that they put fat and tranny people into all of their movies and video games and even their mom's Victoria's Secret catalogue, which back pre-internet days was worth its weight in gold.



But that doesn't mean 5 years later after most of those fat influencers have died from heart attacks and strokes and Trump won and RFK got the spot we all wanted him to that I'm going to sit back and be silent while the government starts rounding up fat people.

Fuck. I'm not going to tolerate them forcing anything on somebody who's fat, other than taking a step way back and not getting in the way of somebody shaming them for it. (ie: "Hate" speech laws need to all go away forever).


And you know what I just thought of?

They're probably going to "incentivize" good eating behavior by making living unaffordable for you if you don't lose the weight. I can almost guaranty you that at some point during the next 4 years that being overweight is going to be something that insurance companies through employers are going to be able to charge a hefty additional fee if they don't join programs and/or lose the weight. Which also means that one day we're all going to be regularly weighing ourself in front of somebody at our jobs in order to maintain the lower premiums. We'll probably also have to have doctors send in information recording the weight of anybody in your family that is on your insurance plan.


That's old hat to us smokers. They did this to us ages ago.

And we told you all back then they would eventually come for you and whatever it was that you did to destroy yourself.


RFK could end up being a trojan horse for a lot of policy changes in the name of health that Americans aren't going to approve of when they happen.

We're all in support of taking the Healthcare and Pharmicutical Industries, the Lobbyists, the Beurucrats and the Politicians involved with them to task.

But I doubt very much that a majority of them are going to be so keen to continue supporting what RFK does when they realize that a good portion of being healthy is self-accountability, and how the Government knows full well that most of us aren't very good at that, or impulse control. And maybe we just need a little nudge or two in the right direction to do the right thing... every second of every day.

How many of them are going to still think it was a good idea when DOGE shits out an offshoot called Quitter's Ink, and they're there to SixSigma your personal life for you...

or else...





I know Winston had a problem with being forced to do his daily exercises in front of the TV every single day he did it. It didn't matter that doing these was how he was raised and he had never once heard a single adult speak out against it.

It was only when he was an adult that he finally understood why nobody ever complained about it even though he knew deep down that more than a few of them hated and resented the hell out of the daily routine. Some probably hated it more than they hated Emmanuel Goldstein, he mused to himself as a child... not realizing how unfunny that joke would be one day as an adult with chronic aches and pains and who had internally stopped caring much about his own well being over a decade ago. Or was it two by now?

Although he couldn't tell you the exact day it happened, or even the circumstances under which it happened all these many years later, it just came out of the blue. And it didn't even matter what day it was, or how many years old he was when it happened anyhow, because it was inevitable. There was nothing otherwise special about the day at all, and it would have came and gone with no regard like any other, but by some random chance... some mildly peculiar set of stimuli paired with his limited life experience up to that point met at a crossroads and a new path of neurons were formed...

And, just like that, something just flipped inside his mind like a light switch. Innocence lost. And without any fanfare or celebration, Winston was an adult. There was no going back. All he could do now, and for the rest of his life was to silently acknowledge this revelation to himself about why he would never complain about the daily required workout regimen to anyone. Not even to himself out loud. And especially, never to a child.

Only 27 minutes left... Just keep that blank face up until this is over and you can leave your bedroom.

And hey... cool down there, killer.

Because you're going to need that blank face again tomorrow morning.

And the morning after that... and the morning after that... and the morn



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Trump open to US troops in Ukraine

The administration of US President Donald Trump is open to the possibility of deploying American troops to Ukraine. However, this would be conditional on the troops guarding rare-earth mineral deposits to which they would gain access, according to NBC News.

According to four American officials, Trump has proposed that Ukraine grant the US 50% rights to rare-earth minerals. The US administration made it clear that it is willing to deploy American troops to protect the minerals if a peace agreement with Russia is reached.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-open-to-us-troops-in-ukrain
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YOU ARE DOING DONALD TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM FOR FREE.

Stop it.

Are you having doubts about Trump? Are you doubting that tariffs can replace the income tax? Ending the income tax gets Trump out of bed in the morning.

Can Trump replace income taxes with tariffs?
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2024/can-trump-replace-i
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The U.S. government is — this isn't original — best thought of as a giant insurance company with an army. Without income and FICA taxes, the government's insurance component will collapse. But think how much better Trump, Musk and I will be when we are not taxed.

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YOU ARE DOING DONALD TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM FOR FREE.

Stop it.

Are you having doubts about Trump?



I'm having doubts about the world we're currently being presented.

I operate on a 3-digit IQ level. You wouldn't understand. Go back to your shrinking echo chamber and leave this conversation to the adults who've moved beyond a Hop-on-Pop reading level.

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YOU ARE DOING DONALD TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM FOR FREE.

Stop it.

Are you having doubts about Trump?



I'm having doubts about the world we're currently being presented.

I operate on a 3-digit IQ level. You wouldn't understand. Go back to your shrinking echo chamber and leave this conversation to the adults who've moved beyond a Hop-on-Pop reading level.

Trump is pressing Ukraine to give the United States half of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, valued at hundreds of billions of dollars, as payment for past U.S. aid to Ukraine, which has included dozens of HIMARS launchers and thousands of rockets for them.

Trump has hinted that he may withhold future aid unless Ukraine agrees to the mineral extortion. “We have to get something,” Trump said, ignoring the benefits of U.S. support for a democracy battling an authoritarian aggressor.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/02/15/two-hapless-russian-d
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I operate on a 3-digit IQ level.

Why are you being so modest? You are a very stable genius, as is Trump: I’m a ‘very stable genius’

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/politics/donald-trump-white-house-fitne
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The attack on USAID portends a war on Medicaid

Feb 16, 2025, 7:00 AM CST

https://www.vox.com/policy/399913/usaid-cuts-medicaid-medicare-welfare
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The Trump administration’s assault on USAID does tell us something broader about Republicans’ view on government spending — specifically, what they might consider to be wasteful spending: programs that help the poor. And the way they have justified the dismantling of USAID — by categorizing it as rife with fraud and mismanagement — may give us a glimpse into how they will approach domestic welfare programs.

Shutting down USAID will have major consequences for millions of people abroad, and it is a warning about antipoverty programs at home. When programs like food stamps or Medicaid are on the chopping block, chances are Republicans are going to turn to the same argument: These programs are wasteful, so why should we fund them?

USAID today. Medicaid tomorrow.

Throughout the presidential campaign, Trump promised not to cut programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but the red flags were hard to miss. “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements,” he told CNBC in March of last year.

And that’s exactly how Trump and his allies are framing their potential attacks on Medicaid now. (Unlike USAID's 0.3 percent of total federal spending, Medicaid is nearly 10 percent of the federal budget, making it a more appealing target for the Trump administration if they’re looking to drastically cut spending.) He recently told reporters that he’ll “love and cherish” Medicaid, but added one caveat: “We’re not going to do anything with that,” he said, “unless we can find some abuse or waste.”

When Trump nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), he said that Oz would “cut waste and fraud within our country’s most expensive government agency.”

“At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you’ve ever heard by FAR,” Musk tweeted last week. “It’s not even close.”

With Musk’s plan to cut some $2 trillion in government spending, it’s clear the road to getting even remotely close to that figure goes through entitlement cuts. Like the attack on USAID, Republicans will say they’re simply targeting fraud and abuse.

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In Graham Greene’s 1955 novel, The Quiet American, Alden Pyle, a CIA agent, reckons he has all the answers to conflict in colonial era Vietnam. Pyle’s ignorance, arrogance and dangerous scheming, intended to bring peace, result instead in the deaths of many innocents and ultimately his own. In today’s too-real, nonfiction world, Donald Trump is Pyle. Except he’s The Noisy American.

He thinks he’s a great deal-maker. He never stops trumpeting his brilliance. Yet his North Korea “deal of the century” was a fiasco. He handed Afghanistan to the Taliban on a plate. Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu runs rings around him. Now Trump-Pyle proposes another rubbish deal – selling out Ukraine. America’s very own surrender monkey is Vladimir Putin’s useful idiot. No matter how officials spin it, Trump’s concessions, made before ceasefire talks with Russia even begin, are calamitous, primarily for Ukraine but also for Europe’s security, the transatlantic alliance, and other vulnerable targets, such as Taiwan. As stated, Trump’s giveaways – accepting the loss of sovereign Ukrainian territory to Russian aggression, denying Nato membership to Kyiv, withholding US security guarantees and troops – are appeasement.

By chatting chummily on the phone for 90 minutes, praising Russia’s “genius” tyrant for his “common sense”, and inviting him to a Saudi summit, Trump rehabilitated a pariah and pulled the rug from under Nato allies. Putin gave nothing back. He thinks he’s winning, on the battlefield, politically and diplomatically. He’s right. Worse, Moscow continues to demand that any lasting deal address “structural issues”. These include Ukraine’s disarmament, non-aligned status, the “denazification” of its leadership, and even its existence as an independent state, which Putin abhors. Russia wants to re-order Europe’s security architecture, shorthand for weakening, dividing and pushing back Nato.

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/15/trumps-betrayal-of-ukraine
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