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Friday, February 28, 2025 7:16 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Zelensky Commits Suicide on Live TV




Yup. That about sums it up.

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Friday, February 28, 2025 7:17 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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If I call somebody a Nazi, I am splitting their fucking head open as I do it, little Nazi 6ix. And I won't ask them for a final statement before I do it:



Come split my head open then, pussy.

What? You don't know where I live? Why not? I've known your address for years now.


You're a simple-minded, weak little cunt of a half-man.

Nobody cares about anything you have to say about any topic. Everybody you know hates you.

And you'd better consider yourself lucky that you'll never meet me in person because I'd put you right into the fucking ground.

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6ix is feeling all-powerful because this is the Golden Age for Nazis. Sieg Heil Mein Führer Trump!



I welcome four more years of your idiocy.

You and those like you will ensure that everyone remembers why they should never vote for the Democratic Party again.





Meanwhile... Do feel free to drop by at any time to call me a Nazi to my face.

I very much look forward to finally meeting you.

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Friday, February 28, 2025 7:20 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


SECOND, don't you realize that by now everyone* knows you're absolutely fucking nuts? (*Except THUGR, bc he's naive.)

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


AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


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Friday, February 28, 2025 8:29 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, don't you realize that by now everyone* knows you're absolutely fucking nuts? (*Except THUGR, bc he's naive.)



Did you catch the fact that he finally admitted to himself and to everyone else that the world he thought he was living in 6 months ago no longer exists when he told me the following...

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6ix is feeling all-powerful because this is the Golden Age for Nazis. Sieg Heil Mein Führer Trump!


Note that he didn't say I "think" or that I "believe" this. He says that I am feeling all-powerful BECAUSE this IS the Golden Age for Nazis".

It's not, of course, the "Golden Age for Nazis".

But it is something entirely different than it was 6 months ago, nonetheless. Just like I've been saying all along.

And this right here was the proof anyone needed to know that Second is very well aware of the fact that he's playing the game on a much different terrain than he has been for the last 12 or so years. And even if he won't admit it to himself, he's terrified right now.

Why is he terrified? Because he's wrapped up his personality so deeply with his party and what he believes to be his ideological belief system that he no longer even knows where one ends and the next begins. And he's smart enough to know that a very large part of him will now simply disappear into the ether if he were to let it all go today. Which is something else I've been warning him against for years now.

He is not adapting well at all to his new disadvantageous position, and he is not putting in any effort into learning anything at all about his new surroundings, or trying to figure out why he ended up this deep in the weeds... Choosing instead, of course, to bury his head so deeply up his own asshole this time that he's liable to end up looking like a cross between an M.C. Escher and an H.R. Geiger painting by the time he's finished.



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Friday, February 28, 2025 8:59 PM

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Meanwhile... Do feel free to drop by at any time to call me a Nazi to my face.

I very much look forward to finally meeting you.

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What is your address? Later you'll be writing about giving out your address: I love to dismiss my horrible decisions by saying "yeah that was a weird time in my life" as if the rest of my existence hasn’t been absolute clown shoes
https://x.com/Royotathon/status/1374765085919342594

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 28, 2025 9:13 PM

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He is not adapting well at all to his new disadvantageous position, and he is not putting in any effort into learning anything at all about his new surroundings, or trying to figure out why he ended up this deep in the weeds... Choosing instead, of course, to bury his head so deeply up his own asshole this time that he's liable to end up looking like a cross between an M.C. Escher and an H.R. Geiger painting by the time he's finished.



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

What change is in the air? I've gotten richer and happier and will be paying lower taxes and selling more fuel while the Trumptards have painted swastika-shaped targets on themselves.

The Trumptards I know are no more prosperous or energetic than they were a year ago. Their situation in life has not materially improved. But they feel free to openly be the Nazis and racists they always were. They are drinking more alcohol, smoking more, and loudly expressing their mental illnesses and evil plans to be more horrible than ever before because Trump will back them 1,000%. If Trump goes ahead with his tax, tariff and foreign policy plans, Trumptards will end poorer than they were, which is fine with me.

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 28, 2025 9:20 PM

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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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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, don't you realize that by now everyone* knows you're absolutely fucking nuts? (*Except THUGR, bc he's naive.)

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


AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


I am sure that Trump made a big mistake today. Signym won't know that but Signym still uses as a signature a fake quote that Kissinger didn't say. For what Kissinger really said, which means the opposite of Signym's fake signature: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/56470/did-henry-kissinger
-say-it-may-be-dangerous-to-be-americas-enemy-but-to-be-am


Trump’s Angry Meeting With Zelensky Prompts Reactions Worldwide

The responses were indicative of the shocking nature of the meeting.

By John Haltiwanger | February 28, 2025, 5:43 PM

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/28/trump-zelensky-white-house-meetin
g-ukraine-global-reaction/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921


U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held an extraordinarily contentious meeting at the White House on Friday. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance tag-teamed Zelensky on their own turf, lambasting the Ukrainian leader as they pressured him to embrace diplomacy with Russia.

The meeting became especially heated after Zelensky underscored the Kremlin’s history of unreliability when it comes to respecting international agreements—pointing to Russia’s violation of a 2019 cease-fire with Ukraine. Vance then jumped in to scold Zelensky, saying, “I think it’s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.”

The U.S. leaders accused Zelensky of being ungrateful for the aid Washington had provided to Ukraine. Zelensky was visiting Washington to sign a minerals deal, which Trump said will help recoup the U.S. for the assistance it’s given to Ukraine. But after the war of words in the Oval Office on Friday, the White House said the agreement was not signed and its future is now uncertain.

Trump’s and Vance’s handling of the meeting prompted swift, widespread criticism and a wave of messages of support for Ukraine and Zelensky from many corners, including Democrats, Ukraine’s European allies, and even some of Trump’s former advisors. Meanwhile, some of Trump’s Republican allies praised his and Vance’s actions as demonstrating “America First” leadership.

The reactions were indicative of the shocking nature of the meeting and just how drastically the United States’ approach to the Ukraine war—and foreign relations more generally—has shifted since Trump re-entered the White House a little over a month ago.

Former Trump advisors and Democrats slam the president

John Bolton, who served as national security advisor in Trump’s first administration (and has since become a frequent critic of the president), ripped into the commander in chief and his vice president over Friday’s events.

“Trump and Vance have declared themselves to be on Russia’s side in the Russo-Ukraine war,” Bolton said on X. “This is a catastrophic mistake for America’s national security. And let’s be clear: Trump and Vance now personally own that policy. It is not the view of a majority of Americans of either or no political party.”

H.R. McMaster, who also served as a national security advisor in the first Trump administration, said it’s “impossible to understand” why Trump and Vance “seem determined to put more pressure on President Zelensky while they seem to be coddling Putin—the person who inflicted this terrible war in Ukraine.”

Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a post on X said the “outrageous display” from Trump and Vance was “disgraceful” and “downright un-American.” Shaheen accused Trump of siding with “a murderous thug, Putin, over our democratic ally, Ukraine.”

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who also sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is among the most outspoken Democrats in the upper chamber when it comes to foreign policy, said the meeting was an “utter embarrassment for America.”

Europe lines up behind Zelensky

World leaders also quickly chimed in on Friday, expressing solidarity with Kyiv in what could be viewed as veiled swipes at Trump and his America First approach to global affairs.

“We should respect those who have been fighting since the beginning,” French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday in Portugal following the fireworks at the Trump-Zelensky meeting. Macron, who met with Trump at the White House earlier this week—and fact-checked the U.S. leader to his face on European support for Ukraine—also emphasized the importance of remembering that Russia is the “aggressor.”

“Ukraine, you’ll never walk alone,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said via X. In a similar post, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, “Ukraine, Spain stands with you.” Friedrich Merz, the likely incoming German leader, also said he stands with Zelensky before adding that the “aggressor and victim in this terrible war” must never be confused.

The top diplomats for the Netherlands and Germany issued similar messages of support for Kyiv and the Ukrainian president.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised Zelensky for his “dignity” and said the bloc will continue working with him “for a just and lasting peace.”

This all comes as Europe ramps up discussions on how to confront a world in which the U.S. pulls back and won’t guarantee that it will come to the defense of allies, amid sharp criticism from the Trump administration aimed at the EU and NATO.

“The only obstacle to peace is the decision by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to continue his war of aggression. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine. Estonia’s support for Ukraine remains unwavering. It is time for Europe to step up. We do not need to wait for something else to happen; Europe has enough resources, including Russia’s frozen assets, to enable Ukraine to continue fighting,” Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said in a statement to Foreign Policy on Friday.

Republicans praise Trump

But not all of the reactions to Friday’s Oval Office meeting were negative. A number of Republicans, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, hailed Trump for his performance at the meeting—characterizing it as a fierce defense of the American people.

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a close ally of Trump’s, in an appearance on Fox News said he told the president that the meeting with Zelensky was possibly the “best television” he’s ever seen. “I think that Moscow is more afraid than ever,” Graham said.

Special government employee Elon Musk reacted by sharing a post on X, which he owns, with four U.S. flag emojis.

Russia looks on with glee

Meanwhile, Russia appears to be quite pleased with how Zelensky’s trip to Washington played out. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Trump and Vance displayed marvelous “restraint” by not slapping Zelensky, whom she referred to as a “scumbag.”

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Putin’s, in a post on X said, “The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office.” Medvedev added that Trump was “right” to warn Zelensky that “the Kiev regime” is “gambling with WWIII.”

Amid Trump’s rhetorical attacks against Zelensky in recent days, Ukrainians have rallied around him. This trend appears poised to continue following the remarkably testy Oval Office exchanges with Trump and Vance. Ukrainian parliament member Kira Rudik on Friday said she can’t imagine the “pressure” Zelensky is under, wishing him “wisdom” and the “knowledge his country is behind him.”

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 28, 2025 9:58 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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SECOND, don't you realize that by now everyone* knows you're absolutely fucking nuts? (*Except THUGR, bc he's naive.)



Did you catch the fact that he finally admitted to himself and to everyone else that the world he thought he was living in 6 months ago no longer exists when he told me the following...

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6ix is feeling all-powerful because this is the Golden Age for Nazis. Sieg Heil Mein Führer Trump!


Note that he didn't say I "think" or that I "believe" this. He says that I am feeling all-powerful BECAUSE this IS the Golden Age for Nazis".

It's not, of course, the "Golden Age for Nazis".

But it is something entirely different than it was 6 months ago, nonetheless. Just like I've been saying all along.

And this right here was the proof anyone needed to know that Second is very well aware of the fact that he's playing the game on a much different terrain than he has been for the last 12 or so years. And even if he won't admit it to himself, he's terrified right now.

Why is he terrified? Because he's wrapped up his personality so deeply with his party and what he believes to be his ideological belief system that he no longer even knows where one ends and the next begins. And he's smart enough to know that a very large part of him will now simply disappear into the ether if he were to let it all go today. Which is something else I've been warning him against for years now.

He is not adapting well at all to his new disadvantageous position, and he is not putting in any effort into learning anything at all about his new surroundings, or trying to figure out why he ended up this deep in the weeds... Choosing instead, of course, to bury his head so deeply up his own asshole this time that he's liable to end up looking like a cross between an M.C. Escher and an H.R. Geiger painting by the time he's finished.





What change is in the air? I've gotten richer and happier and will be paying lower taxes and selling more fuel



We wouldn't care nor would we be impressed if any of the lies you tell about yourself everyday were true.

As for what change is in the air, read the post you just quoted over and over again to yourself until you figure that one out, stupid.

You only prove my points more with every reply you make.



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Friday, February 28, 2025 10:04 PM

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Meanwhile... Do feel free to drop by at any time to call me a Nazi to my face.

I very much look forward to finally meeting you.

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What is your address? Later you'll be writing about giving out your address: I love to dismiss my horrible decisions by saying "yeah that was a weird time in my life" as if the rest of my existence hasn’t been absolute clown shoes



Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.

Meanwhile, how about you just give me your address over this unsecure relic of a website where nobody needs to even log in to see all of Your constant death threats against the US President.

I kid. I kid...

That was a rhetorical question for more than one reason.

Most importantly because I already have your address.




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Friday, February 28, 2025 11:11 PM

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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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Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.

You don't have to remind me every time you write that you are dickhead but you can't stop yourself. Neither can Trump:

January 6 prosecutors demoted to entry-level jobs
Trump's prosecutor demotes senior prosecutors because Trump is a dickhead. (But we already knew Trumptards and Trump are dickheads. They don’t want a day to go by without reminding us.)

Trump attack dog Ed Martin, US Attorney for Washington DC, has demoted seven prosecutors in the DC office:

The prosecutors are among a larger group targeted for “retribution” by President Donald Trump...because of their roles in Jan. 6 Capitol seditious conspiracy and riot cases and others, including ones involving Trump allies such as advisers Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Navarro, according to eight people close to the office, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The seven prosecutors were notified by email Friday morning of their immediate removal from high-ranking supervisory or senior roles.... They were reassigned to misdemeanors or early case assessment screening in D.C. Superior Court, the people said.

These people didn't even do anything to Trump. They just got assigned to January 6 cases and then did their jobs prosecuting them. But no matter. Maximal revenge anyway.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/28/7-dc-prosecutors-de
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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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Friday, February 28, 2025 11:27 PM

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


Trump is killing off civil rights protections of all kinds

Recently "The President's Own" Marine Corps band was scheduled to begin a series of concerts featuring high school musicians of color who competed for spots. But merely performing with young Black musicians was too much for Trump's anti-DEI sensibilities. The concerts have been canceled.

Conservatives no longer want to admit even "yes, but" about racism. Instead, they want to flatly deny that women and minority groups suffer any possible discrimination at all. The result is the decimation of civil rights and EEO offices even though the relevant laws are still on the books:

It has long been on some conservatives’ wish list to kneecap the external civil rights work of the Labor Department’s contract compliance office, which for decades has audited the nation’s largest contractors — including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Deloitte — to ensure fair pay and hiring.

Plans obtained by The Post show the office will maintain 50 employees to enforce discrimination law for veterans and workers with disabilities, but it will no longer be staffed to audit companies for pay and hiring disparities for women and minority workers.

There you have it. Vets and disabilities? Sure. Women and Black people? Fuhgeddaboutit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2025/02/26/presiden
ts-own-marine-band-cancels-concert
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/28/doge-trump-civil-righ
ts-office-closing-eeoc
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Friday, February 28, 2025 11:32 PM

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Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.

You don't have to remind me every time you write that you are dickhead but you can't stop yourself.



I'M the dickhead?

I can't stop myself?




Jesus Christ dude...

From from more calls for assassination to yelling NAZI!!! in my face with a bullhorn to this?

You almost have me feeling sorry for how thoroughly I've destroyed your psyche today.

You Leftard extremists sure are good at the victimhood thing.

If I hadn't already backed off and tried to make peace with you only to immediately regret it half a dozen times over the years already, I'd probably be doing that right now.

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 6:05 AM

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Originally posted by second:
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Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.

You don't have to remind me every time you write that you are dickhead but you can't stop yourself.



I'M the dickhead?

I can't stop myself?




Jesus Christ dude...

From from more calls for assassination to yelling NAZI!!! in my face with a bullhorn to this?

You almost have me feeling sorry for how thoroughly I've destroyed your psyche today.

You Leftard extremists sure are good at the victimhood thing.

If I hadn't already backed off and tried to make peace with you only to immediately regret it half a dozen times over the years already, I'd probably be doing that right now.

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

6ix, you are locked in the insane asylum but insisting you and all the inmates are the only sane people. The staff takes care of all your needs, proving you are sane and smarter than they are. You don't have to work or pay because the asylum staff handles it all you, but you are not happy with the quality of service and the available TV shows and movies. You voted for a different President with the expectation of better treatment where you are locked up. (And better entertainment from Hollywood, which you despise.)

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

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 6:07 AM

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The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky

He simply likes Vladimir Putin better.

By Jonathan Chait | February 28, 2025, 5:24 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/zelensky-trump-pu
tin-ukraine/681883
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Of the many bizarre and uncomfortable moments during today’s Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky—during which Trump finally shattered the American alliance with Ukraine—one was particularly revealing: What, a reporter asked, would happen if the cease-fire Trump is trying to negotiate were to be violated by Russia? “What if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head right now?” Trump spat back, as if Russia violating a neighbor’s sovereignty were the wildest and most unlikely possibility, rather than a frequently recurring event.

Then Trump explained just why he deemed such an event so unlikely. “They respect me,” he thundered. “Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt, where they used him and Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia, you ever hear of that deal? … It was a phony Democrat scam. He had to go through it. And he did go through it.”

Trump seems to genuinely feel that he and Vladimir Putin forged a personal bond through the shared trauma of being persecuted by the Democratic Party. Trump is known for his cold-eyed, transactional approach, and yet here he was, displaying affection and loyalty. (At another point, Trump complained that Zelensky has “tremendous hatred” toward Putin and insisted, “It’s very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hate.”) He was not explaining why a deal with Russia would advance America’s interests, or why honoring it would advance Russia’s. He was defending Russia’s integrity by vouching for Putin’s character.

In recent years, the kinship between Trump and Putin has become somewhat unfashionable to point out. After Robert Mueller disappointed liberals by failing to prove a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, conventional wisdom on much of the center and left of the political spectrum came to treat the scandal as overblown. But even the facts Mueller was able to produce, despite noncooperation from Trump’s top lieutenants, were astonishing. Putin dangled a Moscow building deal in front of the Trump Organization worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and Trump lied about it, giving Putin leverage over him. Trump’s campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was in business with a Russian intelligence officer. Russia published hacked Democratic emails at a time when they were maximally useful to Trump’s campaign, and made another hacking attempt after he asked it on television to find missing emails from Hillary Clinton. The pattern of cooperation between Trump and Putin may not have been provably criminal, but it was extraordinarily damning.

Conservatives have invested even more heavily in denying any basis for the Trump-Russia scandal. A handful of MAGA devotees have openly endorsed Russian propaganda, but more Republicans have explained away Trump’s behavior as reflecting some motivation other than outright sympathy for Moscow: He is transactional, he is a nationalist, he admires strength and holds weakness in contempt.

And it is all true: Trump does admire dictators. He does instinctively side with bullies over victims. He does lack any values-based framework for American foreign policy. But many Republicans who acknowledged these traits nonetheless believed that Trump could be persuaded to stay in Ukraine’s corner. They were wrong. The reason they were wrong is that, in addition to his generalized amorality, Trump exhibits a particular affection for Putin and Russia.

Immediately after Zelensky left the Oval Office, Trump posted to Truth Social, “I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved.” The clear implication is that the United States will cut off its support for the Ukrainian war effort. Trump’s allies have already tried to foist the blame for that momentous decision onto Zelensky. Trump “felt disrespected” by the Ukrainian leader’s body language and argumentative manner, White House officials told Fox News. “Zelensky was in a terrible position,” National Review editor in chief Rich Lowry acknowledged on X, “but he never should have gotten sucked into making argumentative points.” And, he added, “he should have worn a suit.”

All of this ignores the much more plausible explanation of what happened today: It was a setup. Trump and Vance appear to have entered the meeting with the intention of berating Zelensky and drawing him into an argument as a pretext for the diplomatic break. Why should anyone have expected anything different? Trump has been regurgitating Russian propaganda, not only regarding Ukraine, since before Zelensky even assumed office. He defended Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2018 (the year preceding Zelensky’s election), has repeatedly refused to acknowledge Russian guilt for various murders, and has even stuck to Russian talking points on such idiosyncratic topics as the Soviets’ supposedly defensive rationale for invading Afghanistan in 1979 and their fear that an “aggressive” Montenegro would attack Russia, dragging NATO into war.

In the past few weeks, Trump has made very little effort to conceal his pro-Russian tilt. He called Zelensky a dictator, and when asked if he would say the same about Putin, refused, insisting, “I don’t use those words lightly.” (No president in American history has used words more lightly than Trump.) He said Ukraine “may be Russian someday” and blamed Ukraine for starting the war. The U.S. even joined Russia, North Korea, and a tiny bloc of Russian allies to vote against a United Nations resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The less damning explanations for Trump’s pattern of pro-Russia positions have all collapsed in the face of evidence. One line of defense, hauled out by Republican hawks to explain away Trump’s consistent efforts to undermine NATO, is that Trump actually wants to prod Europe into spending more on its own defense. Like a tough football coach, he is merely berating his team to become the best version of itself.

Except when European countries declared themselves ready to increase their defense spending to 2 percent of GDP, the level Trump claimed to have wanted, he upped the demand to 5 percent. More recently, he advocated for the election of the right-wing, pro-Russian, anti-NATO AfD party in Germany. That is a strange thing to do if your goal is to push allies to stand up for themselves against Russia, but a perfectly sensible position if your goal is to undermine the anti-Russia alliance.

Republican Russia-hawks hoped they could bring Trump around by getting Ukraine to sign a deal handing over a portion of its mineral wealth to the United States. Instead, Trump announced that the mineral deal was dead. This, too, would be a strange move if his motives were purely transactional, but a very understandable one if his motives were to abandon Ukraine to Putin’s tender mercies.

Even today, Trump’s bullying commenced well before Zelensky had opened his mouth. Trump greeted his counterpart on the White House driveway with condescending mockery, pointing at him and telling onlookers, “He’s all dressed up today,” like Bill Batts in Goodfellas belittling Joe Pesci’s character. (“Hey, Tommy, all dressed up!”) Zelensky’s attire—the Ukrainian president wears military attire, not a suit, to remind the world that his country is at war—has been a fixation on the right, and conservatives have seized upon it as a pretext to blame him for Trump’s anger. Oddly, they did not seem to mind that Elon Musk showed up at the White House this week in a T-shirt and baseball cap.

Might Zelensky have gotten a different outcome by taking Trump’s abuse and stream of lies with more self-abasement? Sure, it’s possible; if you reason backwards from a bad outcome, any different strategy is almost axiomatically smarter. Zelensky had no good options at the White House. He walked into an ambush with a president who empathizes with the dictator who wants to seize Ukraine’s territory. Everyone who spent years warning about Trump’s unseemly affinity for Putin had exactly this kind of disastrous outcome in mind.

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

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Trump has almost no supporters over Ukraine

Are you interested in who supports whom after Friday's revenge fest in the Oval Office? Here's the scorecard:

Supports Trump
Russia
Hungary

Supports Ukraine
Moldova
Spain
Norway
Czechia
Netherlands
Estonia
Poland
Canada
Germany
France
UK
Australia
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Austria
Latvia
Lithuania
Portugal
Iceland
Ireland
Belgium
Romania
Croatia
Slovenia

That's 25-2, with Italy remaining neutral.

https://jabberwocking.com/trump-has-almost-no-supporters-over-ukraine/

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Trump’s Disgrace

While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing.

By David Remnick | March 1, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/trumps-disgrace

It was one thing to anticipate this prolonged political moment; it has been, these past weeks, quite another to live it. Each day is its own fresh hell, bringing ever more outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold. Since beginning his second term, six weeks ago, Donald Trump has commandeered public attention to such an extent that it is hard to recall that there was ever a time when an American President went about his first weeks in office in a frenzy of activity characterized not by threat, chaos, and corruption but by discipline, competence, and compassion.

Yet there was such a time. On the overcast morning of March 4, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt arrived at the U.S. Capitol to deliver his first Inaugural Address. The country was in a general state of misery. Since the start of the Depression, in late 1929, one out of three American workers had lost his job. Countless schools were shuttered. Banks were collapsing. Edmund Wilson, reporting for The New Republic, wrote that “there is not a garbage-dump in Chicago which is not diligently haunted by the hungry.”

Roosevelt, having defeated Herbert Hoover in the popular vote by eighteen points, could honestly boast of a mandate and understood its meaning. As he said in his speech at the Capitol, the demands of the “stricken” electorate were clear: “This nation asks for action, and action now.” Before the notion of a President’s “first hundred days” was ever codified, he set off on a tear of executive orders and legislative initiatives. Roosevelt, with the support of enormous Democratic majorities in Congress, quickly saved the national banking system, took the U.S. off the gold standard, paid out significant relief to the poor, and created federal agencies that not only provided work to the jobless but helped revive the country’s economy and infrastructure for decades to come.

It has not taken Trump a hundred days to match Roosevelt’s New Deal for its speed, its “muzzle velocity,” as Steve Bannon, Trump’s formerly incarcerated court philosopher, has put it. But, while Roosevelt set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing. In record time, he has brought shame and disorder to the country. Where F.D.R. set out to build and to comfort, Trump has set out to fire countless civil servants, punish his adversaries, and threaten the press. He has cast aside essential climate actions, humiliated undocumented immigrants and trans men and women, coddled dictators, and unnerved allies. F.D.R. appointed Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, and other formidable advisers to his first Cabinet; Trump has empowered extremists distinguished principally by their conspiracy thinking, sycophancy, and incompetence.

F.D.R. created the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority; Trump has deputized Elon Musk, who has billions of dollars in contracts with multiple federal agencies, to freeze federal funding for programs that millions of Americans depend on and to fire thousands of workers in vital government agencies. “We will make mistakes,” Musk said in the White House, flashing a smile of privilege and malice. So far, these little goofs include, but are not limited to, momentarily laying off people who oversee the nuclear-weapons stockpile and cancelling Ebola-prevention measures.

Roosevelt, in his time, led the conquest of global fascism and the rescue of Europe. On matters of foreign policy, Trump has rapidly made common cause with autocrats from Budapest to Beijing and has made it clear to our European allies that when they come to Washington they had best flatter his ego and bear gifts, such as an invitation to visit King Charles. In the Oval Office on Friday, Trump nakedly sided with Russian aggression, berating the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, for failing to show him sufficient gratitude and respect and for “gambling with World War Three.” Zelensky is a hero of historic scale, brave beyond measure; Trump’s behavior was disgraceful. He and his Vice-President, J. D. Vance, deliberately tried to intimidate Zelensky with all the finesse of a couple of small-time hoods. The incident was both shocking and inevitable, all in line with the over-all temper of Trump’s Presidency—the threats, the firings, the multiple doge fiascoes, the proposal to cleanse the Gaza Strip of two million Palestinians.

Is this really what Trump’s supporters voted for? How does the decimation of American values, institutions, and commitments bring down the price of eggs?
Writing in Foreign Affairs, Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way make a painstaking and convincing case that most autocracies that have emerged since the end of the Cold War retain certain democratic features, particularly elections, but weaponize the state, purging it of perceived enemies. This sort of “competitive” autocracy—like Erdogan’s Turkey and Orbán’s Hungary—is, the authors argue, what is now taking shape in Washington. To minimize the unending fusillade of Trump’s first weeks in office, to choose to turn away, to shut off the news, is to indulge in self-soothing.

There is no guarantee that Trump’s perverse momentum will slow, or be derailed, of its own accord. He has the unwavering support of his MAGA base, the cowed compliance of his congressional caucus, and the backing of multibillionaires such as Jeff Bezos, who would rather diminish the vitality of his newspaper than risk the dinner invitations of the sovereign.

And yet the current torrent, fuelled by years of planning in right-wing circles and by Trump’s demagogic energies, is hardly unstoppable. Will working-class and middle-class Americans tolerate the self-indulgence and the corruptions of Trump’s favored billionaires while their own interests go unaddressed? Will Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is currently being tested by an outbreak of measles in Texas, have the public’s trust in the event of another pandemic? We have already seen how at least some courageous judges, governors, and law-enforcement officials have refused to bow down to the politicization of the law, or, as Levitsky and Way put it, the weaponization of the state.

Roosevelt, at the start of his Inaugural Address, said that there was no need “to shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.” In our time, the crisis resides in the Oval Office. Whether there is a mandate for what is being practiced there will be made clear in the months to come––in Congress, in the courts, in the press, in the streets, and, eventually, at the ballot box. Fear itself was the singular enemy in Roosevelt’s time. It remains so today.

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 8:13 AM

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It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrated explicit hostility towards Ukraine and aligned its rhetoric and policy with Russia.

The animosity culminated today when U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky at a meeting in the Oval Office.

After a hostile meeting, Zelensky left the White House. Trump reportedly ordered the Ukrainian delegation out.

Let this sink in. The president of a battered Ukraine, an ally of the U.S., became the first world leader in history to be kicked out of the White House. Not a dictator, not a disgraced politician — the president of Ukraine, a country suffering from the worst invasion in the 21st century. The country that the U.S. administration swore to bring peace to.

In an ugly exchange, the president and vice president joined forces to admonish Zelensky for “not being grateful” enough for the help Ukraine was getting.

To that, Zelensky reminded them that he had thanked the American people multiple times, including earlier that day. But it appears that gratitude to the American people isn’t what Trump and Vance were looking for — they wanted him to grovel and prostrate himself in front of Trump. Kiss the ring.

For sure, Zelensky could have done a better job composing himself and restraining his reactions, but it’s fair to say that he was put in a situation he couldn’t win. If he let Trump and Vance — and apparently, it takes two of them to win a verbal argument against one non-native English speaker — continue their line of attack on Ukraine, unchecked, he would be seen as weak both at home and abroad. Weakness is something a country at war can’t afford to project.

Trump didn’t get into the same kind of arguments with other world leaders who publicly disagreed with him during recent meetings. He smiled and shrugged when French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer corrected him and Vance on their provocative and false statements about Europe.

Will Trump and Vance hit Vladimir Putin with the same attitude they showed towards Zelensky and scold the Russian leader for attacking Ukraine? By now, we’ve seen enough to know for sure that they won’t. If any ring-kissing happens in their meeting with Putin, the ring will be Russian.

During the heated exchange in the Oval Office, Trump even complained that Zelensky has “hatred” for Putin — the man who ordered an invasion of his country, killing thousands of civilians — saying it would be “tough” for him to “make a deal with that kind of hate.”

After the meeting, Trump claimed that Zelensky didn’t want peace. That’s a dangerous lie.

Let’s be clear. There is only one force in the world that can bring peace unilaterally, at any moment: Russia. Putin can order his troops to leave Ukraine and end the war any minute he wants. But Putin doesn’t want peace, he wants Ukraine.

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/28/putin-doesnt-want-peace-he
-wants-ukraine
/

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 8:58 AM

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Musk In Your Computers: An Interview With Nathan Tankus on risks to democracy nobody even thought about

By Paul Krugman | Mar 01, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-your-computers-an-interview

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 9:12 AM

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Senate Republicans
One neat trick to make all the pain go away …

What if we told you that Republicans could make the deficit impact of these tax cuts all disappear, on paper, with one neat accounting trick? With apologies to the Surge’s editors, yes, we will be devoting an entry to the debate over “current law” versus “current policy” baselines. It’s important! In the House’s budget, Republicans used a “current law” baseline—as is standard—to score their agenda. This means that since, under current law, the 2017 Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of this year, it would add ~$4.5 trillion to the deficit to extend them another decade. That has two effects. First, it means that Republicans will want to make cuts elsewhere (like to Medicaid) to mitigate the paper impact of their tax cuts, and it means the tax cuts will likely have to be temporary again. Plus, Republicans have little breathing room to cut taxes deeper. What Senate Republicans insist on doing instead is using a “current policy” baseline to score their proposal. In their view, since the existing tax rates are current policy, then extending them another 10 years doesn’t “cost” anything. This sleight of hand would mean Republicans don’t need to work themselves into a sweat trying to find offsetting spending cuts, could use the extra space to achieve some of Trump’s new tax goals like “no tax on tips,” and could make this next round of tax cuts permanent—a top goal of the administration. The issue with this? Well, it would disguise a new $4.5 trillion deficit impact, and many House conservatives still want to make deep spending cuts. Plus, it would have to get by the Senate parliamentarian, unless Republicans just ignore her. But! If this is the path of least resistance, it’s where Republicans will end up.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/trump-zelensky-meeting-van
ce-ukraine-republicans-musk.html



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Saturday, March 1, 2025 12:07 PM

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Trump to pardon Pete Rose for tax cheating (Trump has cheated, too)

After being kicked out of Major League Baseball, Rose was convicted of falsifying his tax records, a federal crime. He spent five months in prison after being sentenced to seven months.

https://www.scrippsnews.com/sports/in-memory-of-pete-rose-president-tr
ump-to-issue-posthumous-pardon


In 2017 the Philadelphia Phillies canceled a ceremony to honor Rose after allegations surfaced that he had had a sexual relationship with a girl before she turned 16. He said she was 16. (Trump has done that, too)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-pardon-baseball-gr
eat-pete-rose-2025-03-01
/

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 12:19 PM

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It Was an Ambush

Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

By Tom Nichols | 11:13 a.m. ET on March 1, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/ukraine-us-relations
-trump/681880
/

Leave aside, if only for a moment, the utter boorishness with which President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance treated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. Also leave aside the spectacle of American leaders publicly pummeling a friend as if he were an enemy. All of the ghastliness inflicted on Zelensky should not obscure the geopolitical reality of what just happened: The president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally, so that he can soon make a deal with the dictator of Russia to sell out a European nation fighting for its very existence.

Trump’s advisers have already declared the meeting a win for “putting America first,” and his apologists will likely spin and rationalize this shameful moment as just a heated conversation—the kind of thing that in Washington-speak used to be called a “frank and candid exchange.” But this meeting reeked of a planned attack, with Trump unloading Russian talking points on Zelensky (such as blaming Ukraine for risking global war), all of it designed to humiliate the Ukrainian leader on national television and give Trump the pretext to do what he has indicated repeatedly he wants to do: side with Russian President Vladimir Putin and bring the war to an end on Russia’s terms. Trump is now reportedly considering the immediate end of all military aid to Ukraine because of Zelensky’s supposed intransigence during the meeting.

Vance’s presence at the White House also suggests that the meeting was a setup. Vance is usually an invisible backbencher in this administration, with few duties other than some occasional trolling of Trump’s critics. (The actual business of furthering Trump’s policies is apparently now Elon Musk’s job.) This time, however, he was brought in to troll not other Americans, but a foreign leader. Marco Rubio—in theory, America’s top diplomat—was also there, but he sat glumly and silently while Vance pontificated like an obnoxious graduate student.

. . . the strategic reality is that this meeting is a catastrophe for the United States and the free world. America’s alliances are now in danger, and should be: Trump is openly, and gleefully, betraying everything America has tried to defend since the defeat of the Axis 80 years ago. The entire international order of peace and security is now in danger, as Russian autocrats, after slaughtering innocent people for three years, look forward to enjoying the spoils of their invasion instead of standing trial for their crimes. (Shortly after Trump dismissed Zelensky from the White House, Putin’s homunculus, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, posted on X: “The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office.”)

Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy, the beginning of a long-term disaster that every American, every U.S. ally, and anyone who cares about the future of democracy will have to endure. With the White House’s betrayal of Ukraine capping a month of authoritarian chaos in America, Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 12:51 PM

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Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.

You don't have to remind me every time you write that you are dickhead but you can't stop yourself.



I'M the dickhead?

I can't stop myself?




Jesus Christ dude...

From from more calls for assassination to yelling NAZI!!! in my face with a bullhorn to this?

You almost have me feeling sorry for how thoroughly I've destroyed your psyche today.

You Leftard extremists sure are good at the victimhood thing.

If I hadn't already backed off and tried to make peace with you only to immediately regret it half a dozen times over the years already, I'd probably be doing that right now.

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6ix, you are locked in the insane asylum but insisting you and all the inmates are the only sane people. The staff takes care of all your needs, proving you are sane and smarter than they are. You don't have to work or pay because the asylum staff handles it all you, but you are not happy with the quality of service and the available TV shows and movies. You voted for a different President with the expectation of better treatment where you are locked up. (And better entertainment from Hollywood, which you despise.)



I'm the king of my castle, bitch.

I don't watch movies or TV shows.

Looks like your TDS is flaring up pretty bad today, huh?

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 12:53 PM

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It Was an Ambush

Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.



It's about time somebody asked the child rapist if he owns any suits.

Fuck Zelensky. Fuck Ukraine.

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 12:55 PM

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Senate Republicans
One neat trick to make all the pain go away …

What if we told you that Republicans could make the deficit impact of these tax cuts all disappear, on paper, with one neat accounting trick? With apologies to the Surge’s editors, yes, we will be devoting an entry to the debate over “current law” versus “current policy” baselines. It’s important! In the House’s budget, Republicans used a “current law” baseline—as is standard—to score their agenda. This means that since, under current law, the 2017 Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of this year, it would add ~$4.5 trillion to the deficit to extend them another decade. That has two effects. First, it means that Republicans will want to make cuts elsewhere (like to Medicaid) to mitigate the paper impact of their tax cuts, and it means the tax cuts will likely have to be temporary again. Plus, Republicans have little breathing room to cut taxes deeper. What Senate Republicans insist on doing instead is using a “current policy” baseline to score their proposal. In their view, since the existing tax rates are current policy, then extending them another 10 years doesn’t “cost” anything. This sleight of hand would mean Republicans don’t need to work themselves into a sweat trying to find offsetting spending cuts, could use the extra space to achieve some of Trump’s new tax goals like “no tax on tips,” and could make this next round of tax cuts permanent—a top goal of the administration. The issue with this? Well, it would disguise a new $4.5 trillion deficit impact, and many House conservatives still want to make deep spending cuts. Plus, it would have to get by the Senate parliamentarian, unless Republicans just ignore her. But! If this is the path of least resistance, it’s where Republicans will end up.



Seriously dude.

After the last 4 years, nobody wants to hear one fucking word out of you about money.

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 12:56 PM

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It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.



A majority of American People said Fuck Ukraine.

Get over it.

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Saturday, March 1, 2025 12:57 PM

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Trump has almost no supporters over Ukraine

Are you interested in who supports whom after Friday's revenge fest in the Oval Office? Here's the scorecard:

Supports Trump
Russia
Hungary

Supports Ukraine
Moldova
Spain
Norway
Czechia
Netherlands
Estonia
Poland
Canada
Germany
France
UK
Australia
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Austria
Latvia
Lithuania
Portugal
Iceland
Ireland
Belgium
Romania
Croatia
Slovenia

That's 25-2, with Italy remaining neutral.

https://jabberwocking.com/trump-has-almost-no-supporters-over-ukraine/



Sounds like Ukraine has all the help they need then.

Good luck.

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A Secretive Movement Known As '#AltGov' Is Openly Rebelling Against Trump And Musk From Inside Our Federal Agencies 2025 - 06:20 AM

Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,

We have a government that is literally fighting against itself. The federal workforce has always been more liberal than the population as a whole, but in recent years things have gotten really bad. Prior to this year, Democrats had been in control of the White House for 12 of the past 16 years. Over time, leftists that were hired for key positions just kept hiring more leftists underneath them. In fact, it got to a point where DEI policies at various agencies essentially institutionalized the systematic hiring of leftists. By the end of the Biden administration, leftist domination of most of our federal agencies was virtually complete. But now we have a new administration that most of our leftist federal workers absolutely detest. Many of them have absolutely no intention of cooperating with the new administration, and some of them have started to openly rebel against it.

A secretive movement known as “#AltGov” has become the epicenter of that rebellion. Those that are involved primarily communicate through anonymous social media accounts and an encrypted messaging app…

Calling itself #AltGov, the network has developed a visible, public-facing presence in recent weeks through Bluesky accounts, most of which bear the names or initials of federal agencies, aimed at getting information out to the public – and correcting disinformation – about the chaos being unleashed by the Trump administration.

With 40 accounts to date, their collective megaphone is getting louder, as most of the accounts have tens of thousands of followers, with “Alt CDC (they/them)” being the largest, at nearly 95,000 followers.

The network has also formed a group and a series of sub-groups on Wire, the encrypted messaging app, to share information and develop strategies – as played out on Saturday.


Most people don’t realize this, but the “#AltGov” movement was very active during the first Trump administration.

Of course during the Biden administration it went away, because the leftists inside our federal agencies saw no need to rebel against Joe Biden.

But now it is back with a vengeance…

“#AltGov dates from the first Trump administration, but it’s even more needed now,” said an employee at Fema, the disaster response agency, who requested anonymity to avoid being targeted at work. She recently launched an #AltGov Fema account on Bluesky. With nearly 13,000 followers, the account says it’s dedicated to “helping people before, during, and after (this democratic) disaster”.

One member of the group that has dared to go public with her identity has explained what the purpose of “#AltGov” actually is…

The network is aiming to “expose harmful policies, defend public institutions and equip citizens with tools to push back against authoritarianism,” Lynn Stahl, a contractor for the Department of Veterans Affairs and member of the group, told the Guardian.


I have no problems with people exposing what's going on internally, as long as they're honest and provide objective context. That's how errors are caught.

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In other words, they want to use their positions inside the federal government to oppose the Trump administration any way that they can.

If it sounds like this is gross insubordination to you, that is because it is gross insubordination.

And we are already seeing the results.

Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the FBI to deliver all documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to her office, and they told her that they had done so.

But now it turns out that they had secretly held back thousands of documents, and Pam Bondi is extremely upset…

Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a fiery letter to FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday accusing federal investigators in New York of withholding thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents she has vowed to make public.

Bondi said she had requested the full Epstein case file before Patel was confirmed as the head of the FBI and received about 200 pages of files — far less than the number of pages released last year in a civil lawsuit connected to Ghislaine Maxwell, the trafficker’s former lover and convicted accomplice.

“I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents,” Bondi wrote. “Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.”


Unfortunately, many of the documents that Bondi wants may no longer exist.

FBI whistleblower Garret O’Boyle has revealed that operatives inside the FBI have been working feverishly to destroy sensitive files…

“There are FBI servers,” said ex-agent-turned-whistleblower Garret O’Boyle, “and people inside the FBI have been working night and day to destroy files on these servers.”

“No idea on what it is — I can only speculate — but you mentioned the Epstein list,” he added. “I’d imagine it’s cases like that.”


Now that Kash Patel has finally been confirmed, he is moving quickly to try to get control of the agency, but it appears that many FBI agents have no intention of obeying his lawful orders…

“Last week, right out of the gate, Kash Patel said 500 people were going to Alabama,” O’Boyle said, explaining that they would still be “headquarters personnel, but in Alabama.”

The other 1,000 agents, he said, were sent out to the field nationwide.

“Already, people are saying, we are not going to comply with that,” O’Boyle told Johnson. “We are going to make it seem as if we transferred—we’re going to do what they call ‘paper transfers’—and we’re not going to obey these lawful orders.”

But insubordination and obstruction should result in being fired.

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What a mess.

If this sort of insubordination persists, more agencies may have to be almost entirely dismantled just like USAID was.

Sadly, many workers that were fired at USAID and other federal agencies are now conducting wild protests…

Dozens of the protesters crammed into the lobby of the office of Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, but they were eventually tossed out by security. They also tried to get into the district office of Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, but they were pushed out by staffers.

“It’s been an emotional roller coaster. Like I said, I came to USAID intending on staying there for as long as I could. I really loved the work that we were doing,” said one unnamed former USAID worker to WCSH-TV.

“And now I don’t know what to do,” she added. “And I have cried every day. I think that that’s normal. I have a 15-month-old at home, and I’m looking at him and thinking, ‘What’s this country that we’re now living in?'”

She's more worried about politics than paycheck? Must be nice!

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On Thursday, USAID employees that have been let go were given approximately 15 minutes to clear their personal belongings out of their former workspaces…

USAID employees clutching backpacks and wheeling suitcases full of their belongings trickled out of the now-shuttered agency’s headquarters on Thursday morning after the Trump administration gave them 15 minutes to clear out.

Outside the building in downtown Washington, D.C., a line of demonstrators broke into applause and cheers as each employee left the building. Bouquets of flowers for employees stood nearby, alongside a sign reading, “You and your mission mattered!”

Samantha Power, USAID’s administrator, greeted and hugged supporters down the line before she disappeared through the doors of the agency.


Of course this is just the beginning.

The cuts are only going to get deeper in the weeks ahead.

For example, the Trump administration has announced that 120 IRS offices will be permanently shut down…

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to shut down more than 120 IRS offices that provide taxpayer assistance as part of a broader effort to reduce the federal government’s footprint and cut costs.

The decision, outlined in a letter from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) obtained by The Washington Post, comes at a crucial time—right in the middle of the federal tax filing season, which ends on April 15.


And President Trump has instructed those running our federal agencies “to turn in a plan for ‘large-scale’ headcount reductions” by March 13th…

The Trump administration directed federal agency heads Wednesday to turn in a plan for “large-scale” headcount reductions by March 13 — as the president told his first cabinet meeting he wanted to purge government workers who are “scamming our country.”

The memo, sent jointly by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM), tells agency leaders to work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to make cuts to the “bloated, corrupt federal government” by methods including firing “underperforming employees,” closing unneeded regional offices and not renewing contracts.

The memo comes after DOGE overseer Elon Musk threatened twice to fire government employees who didn’t respond to an email asking for five things they did in the last week.


Ouch.

So how many federal workers could eventually lose their jobs?

Well, Trump just said that a million federal workers could potentially be “on the bubble”…

President Donald Trump warned that one million or more federal employees are now “on the bubble” because of their failure to respond to an email demanding they justify their jobs.

In a wild monologue during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, the president jumped in after Elon Musk responded to a question from a pool reporter about the fates of those who failed to respond to the email sent Saturday by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — which asked federal employees to list five bulletpoints of items they accomplished in the last week. Despite having previously warned federal employees that failure to respond would be considered a resignation, Musk softened his position — in response to the pool reporter asking whether those million-plus employees who blew off the email demand would be terminated.

“We’re going to send another email,” Musk said. “But our goal is not to be capricious or unfair. We want to give people every opportunity to send an email. And the email could simply be ‘What I’m working on is too sensitive or classified to describe.’ Like, literally just that would be sufficient. You know, I think this is just common sense.”


We have never seen anything like this before.

It shall be very interesting to see how all of this plays out.

On top of everything else that is going on, a potential government shutdown is looming in the middle of next month…

Congress is barreling toward a deadline to avert a government shutdown in just over two weeks, with Democrats and Republicans at odds over whether there should be guardrails on President Trump’s ability to withhold funding approved by Congress.

Democrats want to insert language in the funding bill to ensure that the administration implements the spending directed by Congress, a reaction to Mr. Trump and top adviser Elon Musk’s work to downsize large swaths of the executive branch. But Republicans have made it clear that they won’t accept those terms.

Government funding expires on March 14, and keeping the government open past the deadline will likely require bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. Republicans control 53 seats in the Senate, but a funding measure requires 60 votes for passage. In the House, Republicans are operating with a razor-thin majority and a divided conference in which conservatives regularly vote against government spending bills.


In my entire lifetime, we have never seen this much chaos in Washington.

And of course the chaos in Washington is just one element of the “perfect storm” that is raging all around us.

I do not believe that our society will be able to handle what is about to happen.

I would encourage you to make your plans accordingly.





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Not anymore.

Trump thanks you for your service, Mr. Snyder.

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The president of a battered Ukraine, an ally of the U.S....


Ukraine is not an ally. Ukraine is a PROXY. And Ukraine is getting what most American proxies get: USED UP and abandoned, if not outright assassinated.

He should have listened to Kissinger.


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The president of a battered Ukraine, an ally of the U.S....


Ukraine is not an ally. Ukraine is a PROXY. And Ukraine is getting what most American proxies get: USED UP and abandoned, if not outright assassinated.



This.



I am not being hyperbolic about Zelensky's survival chances right now.



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DOGE wants the IRS to check if you’re eligible for the vast riches of SNAP

Elon Musk's gang of libertarians will NOT target tax fraud among high-income taxpayers. This could produce hundreds of billions of dollars, but for precisely that reason Republicans have always been furiously dead set against it. Rather target Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly known as food stamps.

https://jabberwocking.com/50488-2/

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DOGE wants the IRS to check if you’re eligible for the vast riches of SNAP



This doesn't sound like an unreasonable request. Especially given that computers can do it automatically once the system is in place.

In fact, if everything were streamlined, getting benefits could be much easier for those who are forced to jump through hoops every year, faxing and mailing a bunch of documents they shouldn't have to because the IRS already knows all of this information.

You could very easily eliminate 100% of the fraud and eliminate 80% of the workforce distributing SNAP benefits, while also making the system work much better for the people who need the benefits.




Because the way the system is right now is absolute bullshit.

Why make people jump through hoops to get benefits and just hope that a bunch of them are too busy or stupid or lazy or just downright ignorant to how to get them in the first place? Purposefully making every one of these processes which all involve dealing with different agencies as difficult as possible to dissuade people who need the benefits to go and seek them out is the only reason we do things the way that we currently do. That or sheer incompetence, compounded every year over the span of more than half a century.

Why the hell should somebody have to keep going to one government office building to get a printout of the taxes they earned in the previous year only to have to mail that in or fax it to another government office and then wait weeks for them to finally get around to processing you, other than purposefully putting roadblocks in the way for a lot of people? Why do that when it can all be done online without any employees as middle men? Why not use tax filings to determine all benefits automatically?

You want to make that fair and make that work? Have it all linked directly to the IRS and your SS#. Then all the elected suits can get together with the economists and figure out exactly what the rules are when it comes to distributing these things as well as the thresholds and the amounts, and factoring in for kids and all the other bullshit. Make it all automatic. BAM! You just cut the salaries of tens of thousands of people out of the budget forever, ensured that the people who need the benefits are getting them, and you've eliminated 100% of the fraud.

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
DOGE wants the IRS to check if you’re eligible for the vast riches of SNAP



This doesn't sound like an unreasonable request. Especially given that computers can do it automatically once the system is in place.

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

My God, 6ix. You avoid the idea that DOGE could put the same effort (or less) into auditing billionaires' tax returns, resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars per year in revenue from wealthy tax cheaters.

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A few headlines, because I just have to.

S.E.C. halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions

The Trump Administration Is Playing With Fire in Germany

Trump’s AG Is Disbanding Anti-Corruption Teams created in 2022 to target Russian oligarchs

Trump Welcomes Russian Oligarchs With $5 Million Golden Card

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Maureen Dowd: Rootin’ for Putin

More about those headlines at https://andrewtobias.com/what-to-do-about-our-debt-and-our-dictator/

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A few headlines, because I just have to.

S.E.C. halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions

The Trump Administration Is Playing With Fire in Germany

Trump’s AG Is Disbanding Anti-Corruption Teams created in 2022 to target Russian oligarchs

Trump Welcomes Russian Oligarchs With $5 Million Golden Card

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Maureen Dowd: Rootin’ for Putin

More about those headlines at https://andrewtobias.com/what-to-do-about-our-debt-and-our-dictator/

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Rootin' for Putin

And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.

We're done with all of you.

You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
DOGE wants the IRS to check if you’re eligible for the vast riches of SNAP



This doesn't sound like an unreasonable request. Especially given that computers can do it automatically once the system is in place.

In fact, if everything were streamlined, getting benefits could be much easier for those who are forced to jump through hoops every year, faxing and mailing a bunch of documents they shouldn't have to because the IRS already knows all of this information.

You could very easily eliminate 100% of the fraud and eliminate 80% of the workforce distributing SNAP benefits, while also making the system work much better for the people who need the benefits.




Because the way the system is right now is absolute bullshit.

Why make people jump through hoops to get benefits and just hope that a bunch of them are too busy or stupid or lazy or just downright ignorant to how to get them in the first place? Purposefully making every one of these processes which all involve dealing with different agencies as difficult as possible to dissuade people who need the benefits to go and seek them out is the only reason we do things the way that we currently do. That or sheer incompetence, compounded every year over the span of more than half a century.

Why the hell should somebody have to keep going to one government office building to get a printout of the taxes they earned in the previous year only to have to mail that in or fax it to another government office and then wait weeks for them to finally get around to processing you, other than purposefully putting roadblocks in the way for a lot of people? Why do that when it can all be done online without any employees as middle men? Why not use tax filings to determine all benefits automatically?

You want to make that fair and make that work? Have it all linked directly to the IRS and your SS#. Then all the elected suits can get together with the economists and figure out exactly what the rules are when it comes to distributing these things as well as the thresholds and the amounts, and factoring in for kids and all the other bullshit. Make it all automatic. BAM! You just cut the salaries of tens of thousands of people out of the budget forever, ensured that the people who need the benefits are getting them, and you've eliminated 100% of the fraud.

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My God, 6ix. You avoid the idea that DOGE could put the same effort (or less) into auditing billionaires' tax returns, resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars per year in revenue from wealthy tax cheaters.



That's not what I'm doing.

I'm just dismantling idiot news articles written by people with an agenda.

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Rootin' for Putin

And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.

We're done with all of you.

You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.

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Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.

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Russian Lawmaker Predicted the Trump-Vance Ambush of Zelensky

On Thursday, State Duma member Oleg Morozov guessed that “Daddy” Trump would “flog” Zelensky at the White House. WHO’S YOUR DADDY?

By Julia Davis | Mar. 1, 2025 3:09AM EST

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-lawmaker-predicted-the-trump-van
ce-ambush-of-zelensky
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The disgraceful spectacle of President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance taking turns insulting the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a White House meeting on Friday was a welcome sight for pro-Kremlin propagandists in Moscow. They’ve described it as an ambush, designed as a way for America to part ways with Ukraine—and they couldn’t be happier with the way this setup played out.

Appearing on Friday’s breaking news broadcast on channel Solovyov Live, political scientist Alexander Voskoboinikov noted that Trump “simply lured [Zelensky] to the White House for this meeting. I can’t explain it any other way. What happened there was a pre-planned operation that was meant to show the whole world that Americans are getting out of this situation. At least, this is what they are demonstrating.”

Host Sergey Karnaukhov giddily described these events as “incredible,” his voice trembling with excitement. He said, “Zelensky got what he deserved. This is his fate. The trial of history started before our very eyes.” At the conclusion of the broadcast, the channel aired a new crowdfunded commercial that began broadcasting in late February. It started with the words, “We are one step away from victory. This is the moment of truth… It’s now or never.”

One day earlier, Zelensky’s Oval Office ambush was predicted by State Duma member Oleg Morozov on 60 Minutes, a state TV show. Morozov said that the meeting would be a lesson in humiliation, designed to condition Zelensky to capitulate to the United States—and later to Russia. The lawmaker said that the Ukrainian president was flying to America “to sign an act of capitulation,” referring to the rare earth mineral deal Trump was determined to get as a “payback” for previous aid to Ukraine. Describing Trump as Zelensky’s “Daddy,” Morozov predicted, “They will rub his nose into everything, like a messy puppy… Then he will sign whatever he is told to sign.” Host Evgeny Popov chimed in, “But first, Daddy will flog him.”

During the same show, Vitaly Tretyakov, Dean of the Higher School of Television at Moscow’s State University, praised Trump by explaining, “I really like what he is doing right now… I like his revolutionary approach… He did our job for us that we did not dare to do.”

Popov pointed out that Trump is strangling America’s friends and allies. Tretyakov noted, “He is pursuing policies that are beneficial for Russia.” He surmised, “With respect to Ukraine, he is ready to give Russia everything it wants to take.”


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Elon Musk argued that Social Security is an insidious ploy.

Candidate Donald Trump promised not to touch Social Security if elected. But President Musk made no such promise and is already spouting lies to justify cutting Social Security benefits and privatizing the program:

The billionaire argued Friday on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that the United States government is “one big pyramid scheme” before blasting Social Security as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”

When asked to clarify, Musk said, “Well, people pay into Social Security and the money goes out of Social Security immediately, but the obligation for Social Security is your entire retirement career. If you look at the future obligations of Social Security, it far exceeds the tax revenue.”

While President Musk is right that Social Security has always been a pay-as-you-go system and that when the trust fund runs out, it will only be able to pay ca. 78% of current benefits, that doesn’t make it a Ponzi scheme.

What President Musk is doing is engaging in a Ponzi scam, gaslighting Americans into believing that they can’t trust the Social Security system enough to fix it. He wants to scam Americans who paid into the program and Americans who depend on it. Don’t fall for his scam.

More at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-social-security-ponzi-scheme_
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SECOND, have you ever considered NOT sounding like a broken record?

This is what your posts are about (scrolling up)

Musk evil
Russia Russia Russia
Trumptards Nazis evil rapist
DOGE taking money away from poor people
China
Russia
Russia
Russia
Russia
DOGE taking money away from poor people
Ukraine RUSSIA! RUSSIA!

.... and more of the same.

And BTW Social Security IS a Ponzi scheme. The people who are paying into it now are paying for current retirees, NOT paying into their own accounts. It's a better-funded Ponzi scheme... the fund actually makes money by buying Treasuries ... but it doesn't operate like most people think.

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SECOND, have you ever considered NOT sounding like a broken record?

Trump kills elite tech group because it’s too woke

18F, far from being "GSA's tech arm," is a small, elite group of coders that helps other federal agencies roll out better projects. By all accounts they did a top notch job. At the time they were let go, they say, they were working on "including improving access to weather data with NOAA, making it easier and faster to get a passport with the Department of State, supporting free tax filing with the IRS, and other critical projects with organizations at the federal and state levels."

In other words, 18F was "the gold standard of civic tech," exactly the kind of bang-for-the-buck group that Musk claims the government needs more of. But they're gone.

The lesson is pretty obvious here: It doesn't matter how good a job you do. If your group has a reputation for being LGBT or trans friendly, or even just too woke in general, you can lose your job. Welcome to Donald Trump's government.

Details about how Musk became aware of 18F are at https://jabberwocking.com/trump-kills-elite-tech-group-because-its-too
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How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency

By Evan Halper, Hannah Natanson | March 2, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/02/doge-nuclear-worker
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Amid the tumult of mass firings, the Trump administration’s dismissal of workers who maintain America’s nuclear weapons delivered perhaps the greatest shock. These are people with highly sensitive jobs, the Energy Department would later acknowledge, who should have never been fired.

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Quote:

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Rootin' for Putin

And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.

We're done with all of you.

You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.

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Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.



We reject your ASSessment, and you can go fuck yourself.

Your old world is dead. You'd better adjust to the new one quickly.

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And BTW Social Security IS a Ponzi scheme. The people who are paying into it now are paying for current retirees, NOT paying into their own accounts. It's a better-funded Ponzi scheme... the fund actually makes money by buying Treasuries ... but it doesn't operate like most people think.



I love how his argument about SS not being a Ponzi scheme laid it out exactly like a Ponzi scheme.

I think Second's real problem here is that he doesn't understand what a Ponzi scheme is.

Just like Insurance of any kind, and most of the way our government works, it is a Ponzi scheme.

It's just the one I hope is still there for me one day, because NGL I'm not going to be able to survive long without it. It was doomed to fail from the beginning. It's just my luck that it won't be there for me.

My entire working career all I ever heard about was how much better the place was to work 5 years before I started there before the eventual layoffs. And when I die the social security net that's existed for 100 years won't be there either.

That sounds about right.

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Rootin' for Putin

And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.

We're done with all of you.

You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.

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Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.



We reject your ASSessment, and you can go fuck yourself.

Your old world is dead. You'd better adjust to the new one quickly.

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

The Confederates had no idea that slavery was wrong. The slaves deserved it. Nazis? No idea that expelling Jews from Europe was wrong. The Jews deserved it. The Russians invading Ukraine couldn't be wrong because the Ukrainians were Nazis. They deserved it. I've noticed all through history that the bad guys were convinced they were good guys. Even the God in the Bible could not persuade bad guys to recognize their own behavior as wrong. God's patience with stubborn fools is not Infinite, which is why the Bible is filled with stories of bad guys being slaughtered, even burnt alive. Outside the Bible, good people aren't as quick as God to slaughter the bad guys but given time the good guys will lose their patience and kindness. They will burn Atlanta, firebomb Dresden and drop nukes on Nagasaki.

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

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 4:58 PM

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Rubio Melts Down on Air Over Accusation U.S. Is ‘Placating Putin’
(See the video for why squeaky Rubio should not be President. Same for daffy-duck Trump)

The secretary of state could not contain his fury as he sparred with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos.

By Maurício Alencar | Mar. 2 2025 1:16PM EST

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rubio-melts-down-on-air-over-accusation-
us-is-placating-putin
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“The president is basically saying, there’s this horrible war,” Rubio said. “It’s been going on for three years. It is a bloody stalemate, a meat grinder-type war, and he wants it to end. How does it end? It’s very simple. The only way it ends is if Vladimir Putin comes to a negotiating table.”

“Right now, President Trump is the only person on earth who has any chance whatsoever of bringing him to a table to see what it is he would be willing to end the war,” he added.

But just moments later, Rubio admitted that the Trump administration had no idea what Putin’s demands were for a peace agreement to be made, despite several talks between American and Russian officials over the last month.

This includes at least one conversation held on the phone between Trump and Putin as well as a long and intimate meeting between the Russian leader and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow in February.

Rubio also met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Saudi Arabia.

“Maybe…their demands will be unreasonable,” Rubio speculated. “We don’t know, but we have to bring him to the table.”

Rubio even suggested that peace may not be possible as he surprisingly claimed that Americans had not negotiated with Putin since before Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022, despite engagements in the last month.

“I’ve said from the very beginning, maybe they don’t want to deal either. We don’t know, but we haven’t talked to them in three years,” he said.

The interview became more fiery after Stephanopoulos asked Rubio why Trump officials refused to call Putin a “dictator” when they had so readily made the same claim about Zelensky.

“We’ve spent three years calling Vladimir Putin names. That’s not the point,” he said.

“We all understand that Putin is not going to be an easy negotiator,” he added. “In this regard. We all get that, but we have to start the process to see if something is even possible. And I honestly am puzzled. I just don’t understand!”

The secretary of state had lost his temper by the time he made a bold comparison between Trump’s treatment of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and former President Joe Biden’s treatment of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

“The Biden administration berated Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis put all kinds of conditions and pressure on them to try to get a cease fire. In this particular case, we’ve been nice by comparison, and all we’re trying to do here is figure out whether a peace is possible,” he claimed.

But the interview’s climax came when the ABC News presenter pointed to Senator Lisa Murkowski’s comments slamming Trump.

“Even some of your Republican allies are puzzled by the steps that President Trump has taken to placate Vladimir Putin,” Stephanopoulos began.

“Which steps has he taken?” Rubio snapped back. “Which ones? Are we arming the Russians?”

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

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 5:29 PM

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Rootin' for Putin

And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.

We're done with all of you.

You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.

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

Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.



We reject your ASSessment, and you can go fuck yourself.

Your old world is dead. You'd better adjust to the new one quickly.

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

The Confederates had no idea that slavery was wrong. The slaves deserved it. Nazis?



Shut the fuck up, stalker faggot.

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 5:40 PM

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Shut the fuck up, stalker faggot.

So sorry to be giving you the news:

The Krasnov file, so to speak. A thoughtful assessment of its credibility from “a former CIA Russia specialist who served in Moscow right about the time Trump first visited.”

He concludes:

One key misconception about espionage is the idea that ‘kompromat’ is the primary tool of recruitment. While kompromat can play a role, coerced agents are often unreliable and difficult to control. A much more effective intelligence relationship is one in which the collaborator sees mutual benefit. Trump’s rhetoric and actions in recent years — his reluctance to criticize Putin, his efforts to weaken NATO, and his alignment with Russian disinformation campaigns — do not suggest someone acting under duress. Instead, they suggest someone who, for his own reasons, has fully embraced the Russian position.

Whether or not Trump was recruited in 1987 may ultimately be less important than the fact that today, he is aligned with Putin’s interests. Whatever the origins of that alignment, its current reality is undeniable.

https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/a-deeper-look-at-claims-by-kgb-
officer


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

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 5:41 PM

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Shut the fuck up, stalker faggot.

So sorry to be giving you the news:



Don't care about your propaganda.

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Sunday, March 2, 2025 6:06 PM

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Don't care about your propaganda.

You don't care that Musk is growing nuttier and sicker as revealed by his nonstop tweeting?

You Can See When Elon Musk Actually Sleeps by Analyzing His Tweets, and It's Terrifying

Brain fog, mood swings, paranoia... sound familiar?

By Noor Al-Sibai | Mar 2, 6:45 AM EST

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tweets-sleep

Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia.

As flagged by politics and sports analyst Nate Silver, a graph compiled by The Economist that tracked Musk's tweets from 2014 until November 2024 illustrated in stark detail how frequently the billionaire posts — and, since it's not (yet) possible to tweet while sleeping, how incredibly little sleep he gets.

With tiny red dots, the graph not only charted the Tesla and SpaceX owner's prolific posting output by date, but also by time of day. As his tweeting has become more and more frequent in recent years, so too has his short window of "off" hours when he's presumably slumbering.

Unsurprisingly, those gaps in tweet times also grew shorter and more erratic after he purchased Twitter in the fall of 2022, as the graph makes clear. That was also, as The Economist noted, when he began to delve seriously into politics, posting regularly — and at time incoherently — about free speech, immigration, and what he calls the "woke mind virus."

. . . he admitted to CNBC that getting fewer than six hours took a toll on his mental state.

"I’ve tried [to sleep] less, but... even though I’m awake more hours, I get less done," the billionaire said in May 2023. "And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours."

In the years since that admission, it appears that Musk has retreated further and further into that lack of sleep that he admits is bad for him, which according to accounts given to biographer Walter Isaacson were caused by stress and would often lead to intense nausea and vomiting.

. . . Musk seems to be forcing that unhealthy "all work and no rest" mentality onto his underling at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). He even reportedly moved sofa beds for his DOGE boys into the Office of Personnel Management — the same thing he did when he took over Twitter back in 2022.

"DOGE is working 120 hours a week," the unelected official posted at the beginning of February. "Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours a week. That is why they are losing so fast."

Unfortunately, we don't have an updated dot matrix graph like the one from The Economist for Musk's tweets since Trump took office again — but it's clear that he entered this chaotic post-election period in a state of rage-fueled sleep deprivation, and now we're all suffering the consequences.

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