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Friday, March 28, 2025 8:41 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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We reject your wikipedia Leftist view of history.

You are an idiot and a fool.

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

6ix, you are unemployed, unmarried, kept alive by Medicaid after years of self-destructive behavior because of your grotesque emotional immaturity. But you are still very much like all other Trumptards. You just took it to an extreme where you don't even have a half-ass function in society.



See... This is your problem.

90% of the people unemployed in this country vote Democrat.

90% of the people being kept alive in this country on medicaid and social programs vote Democrat.

Democrats are anti-marriage, and a vast majority of young people who aren't married going well into their 30's and even their 40's vote Democrat.


You're just jealous that in a country that doesn't offer free healthcare that I cracked the code.



I do plenty of things to contribute to plenty of things. I just reject the way that you choose to do it.

Why don't you post another dozen pirated movies and books for us, huh?

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

You didn't crack any code, no more than tax-cheaters cracked the code to reduce income taxes.

6ix, you did with Medicaid what Trump did with the IRS, you both lied. 6ix about his assets. Trump about his income.



Oh, so you think that YOU cracked the code here, huh?

Do you think I would be stupid enough to tell you or anybody else online in writing that I was on medicaid when there is an asset check for it?



"Hey Siri! What is the asset limit for Indiana's Healthy Indiana Plan, otherwise known as HIP?"

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The Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) has no asset test for eligibility, meaning that your assets do not affect your ability to qualify for the program.

Here's a more detailed breakdown:

Eligibility:

HIP is for Hoosiers ages 19 to 64 who meet specific income levels, but there is no asset limit.

Income Limits:

Individuals with annual incomes up to $21,603.00 may qualify.

Couples with annual incomes up to $29,197.80 may qualify.

No Asset Test:

Unlike some other Medicaid programs, HIP does not have a limit on the amount of assets you can own to be eligible.

Benefits:

HIP provides comprehensive coverage, including vision, dental, non-emergency transportation, chiropractic services, and Medicaid Rehabilitation Option services.




"Thank you Siri. As always, you have been most helpful."

And I'll also add to this that there are currently zero work requirements for the plan and they don't even ask you to even apply for any jobs, let alone prove that you're looking. The ONLY two requirements are the age and income requirements. I am doing nothing illegal here, and I could give a fuck less what anybody in my real life thinks about the morals of the situation, let alone people I do not like online.


As for you, Second...

Shut your stupid fucking mouth.

You have yet to ever once say anything intelligent with that voice.

The government knows exactly what they need to know, and I've never once lied about my assets or my income because I know very well what happens to you WHEN and not if you get caught and you're not a minority or illegal alien.

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

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Friday, March 28, 2025 8:42 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


And come to think of it, this is the type of stuff that DOGE should be and hopefully is weeding out.

If getting on medicaid is as simple as lying about your assets and just hoping they never bother to investigate those claims, that is a huge fucking problem. Nobody should ever be able to get on a program with an asset limit without easily implemented computer code that could at the bare minimum weed out a majority of the people trying to scam.



And seriously... could you imagine living that way if you did scam to get on a healthcare program by lying about your assets, and then staying on it for YEARS without income and assuming that nobody was ever going to see that and ask how the hell you were paying your bills when you had less than $5,000 8 years ago and you haven't earned a dime in the previous 5 years?

This is just another example of how Second's brain is seriously flawed and he never thinks anything through before opening his mouth.


Are you fucking kidding me dude?

If I'd been living the years before diabetes with that kind of self-induced stress, worrying about not only losing my health insurance but actually facing fines I could never afford to pay or even worse going to prison... I'd have already had a stroke or a heart attack and died years before I even got my diabetes diagnosis.


I know you don't think twice stealing everything that isn't bolted into the floor, but don't project your own failures of a man on to everyone around you. You are a very special case, and you relate to nobody but yourself.

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Friday, March 28, 2025 9:09 PM

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As for you, Second...

Shut your stupid fucking mouth.

You have yet to ever once say anything intelligent with that voice.

The government knows exactly what they need to know, and I've never once lied about my assets or my income because I know very well what happens to you WHEN and not if you get caught and you're not a minority or illegal alien.

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

I heard this old lament since the 1965 Voting Rights Act: a white man can't get ahead in America because the government is favoring non-whites.

"As a white man, DEI means I get passed over. It's time to eliminate it." | Your Turn
Opinion Forum
Mon, February 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM CST

President Donald Trump has put DEI back in the national spotlight. Here's what USA TODAY readers said about it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-man-dei-means-passed-110459218.html

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Friday, March 28, 2025 9:52 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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We reject your wikipedia Leftist view of history.

You are an idiot and a fool.

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

6ix, you are unemployed, unmarried, kept alive by Medicaid after years of self-destructive behavior because of your grotesque emotional immaturity. But you are still very much like all other Trumptards. You just took it to an extreme where you don't even have a half-ass function in society.



See... This is your problem.

90% of the people unemployed in this country vote Democrat.

90% of the people being kept alive in this country on medicaid and social programs vote Democrat.

Democrats are anti-marriage, and a vast majority of young people who aren't married going well into their 30's and even their 40's vote Democrat.


You're just jealous that in a country that doesn't offer free healthcare that I cracked the code.



I do plenty of things to contribute to plenty of things. I just reject the way that you choose to do it.

Why don't you post another dozen pirated movies and books for us, huh?

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

You didn't crack any code, no more than tax-cheaters cracked the code to reduce income taxes.

6ix, you did with Medicaid what Trump did with the IRS, you both lied. 6ix about his assets. Trump about his income.



Oh, so you think that YOU cracked the code here, huh?

Do you think I would be stupid enough to tell you or anybody else online in writing that I was on medicaid when there is an asset check for it?



"Hey Siri! What is the asset limit for Indiana's Healthy Indiana Plan, otherwise known as HIP?"

Quote:

The Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) has no asset test for eligibility, meaning that your assets do not affect your ability to qualify for the program.

Here's a more detailed breakdown:

Eligibility:

HIP is for Hoosiers ages 19 to 64 who meet specific income levels, but there is no asset limit.

Income Limits:

Individuals with annual incomes up to $21,603.00 may qualify.

Couples with annual incomes up to $29,197.80 may qualify.

No Asset Test:

Unlike some other Medicaid programs, HIP does not have a limit on the amount of assets you can own to be eligible.

Benefits:

HIP provides comprehensive coverage, including vision, dental, non-emergency transportation, chiropractic services, and Medicaid Rehabilitation Option services.




"Thank you Siri. As always, you have been most helpful."

And I'll also add to this that there are currently zero work requirements for the plan and they don't even ask you to even apply for any jobs, let alone prove that you're looking. The ONLY two requirements are the age and income requirements. I am doing nothing illegal here, and I could give a fuck less what anybody in my real life thinks about the morals of the situation, let alone people I do not like online.


As for you, Second...

Shut your stupid fucking mouth.

You have yet to ever once say anything intelligent with that voice.

The government knows exactly what they need to know, and I've never once lied about my assets or my income because I know very well what happens to you WHEN and not if you get caught and you're not a minority or illegal alien.

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

I heard this old lament


No. You don't get to change the topic after bringing up something personal and getting
your ass handed to you once again.

You are a stupid, ignorant, coward of a little boy.

Apologize for what you wrongfully accused me of doing in your seemingly infinite ignorance,
or shut the fuck up.

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

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Friday, March 28, 2025 10:36 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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Germany's poverty was caused by the goddamn fools that previously ran Germany before Hitler, who was not going to stupidly continue paying reparations. Germany ceased paying reparations for World War I in 1933 when Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party came to power,

Fools like Biden*?


There were many reasons WHY Hitler was able to eventually take over Germany, but pre-Nazi Germany was such a clusterfuck, and Hitler so materially improved most Germans' lives, they conflated his successful policies with his inimical ones.

SECOND, you understand nothing and you won't read what actually happened, will you?

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


Germany was NOT occupied after WWI.



Another blindingly stupid strawman?

Did I post that Germany was occupied?
No!
I posted that Germany had to pay reparations.

IDK what point you're trying to make, except maybe to prove to us that you're a liar, and you lie stupidly.

Stop trying to shift the argument.

The USA hasn't been isolationist in over 200 years.

Fool.



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Friday, March 28, 2025 10:38 PM

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


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

No. You don't get to change the topic after bringing up something personal and getting
your ass handed to you once again.

You are a stupid, ignorant, coward of a little boy.

Apologize for what you wrongfully accused me of doing in your seemingly infinite ignorance,
or shut the fuck up.

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

6ix, do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too? (To clarify: you still dwell at the bottom of a deep pit.) You hope that Trump will pull you up and out from the pit you fell into. He won't. Tough luck for angry poor white trash Trumptards thinking he can save you from yourselves.

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Friday, March 28, 2025 10:38 PM

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WHAT HAPPENED TODAY THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW - #56
Thursday, March 27, 2025
https://govbrief.today

1. Trump orders Vance to purge 'race-centered ideology' from Smithsonian, block funds for exhibits that ‘ defy federal policy

2. Vance scales back Greenland trip to U.S. military base visit as protests mount over Trump's threats to seize the island.

3. Trump signs order gutting union rights for two-thirds of federal workers, citing national security powers.

4. Second federal judge blocks Trump's transgender military ban, slams it as discriminatory and unsupported by evidence.

5. Trump pulls Stefanik's UN nomination to avoid risking GOP's razor-thin House majority.

6. AP poll: Americans' view of Canada as a close ally drops 22% in two years as Trump accelerates the decline with tariffs and takeover threats.

7. EPA opens portal for polluters to request Trump exemptions from Clean Air Act rules as coal push escalates.

8. Wash Post exclusive: Trump plan would slash staff at 22 agencies by up to 50% of staff in sweeping downsizing push.

9. Trump reverses termination of Ukraine war crimes program after backlash over blocked evidence on kidnapped children.

10. Trump strips WilmerHale's clearances, contracts after firm hires Mueller—the sixth law firm targeted by name.

11. University of Michigan shuts down flagship DEI office, cancels $250M plan after Trump crackdown on campus diversity.

12. Trump administration restores funding for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Open Technology Fund after court blocks shutdown.

13. Rubio warns Venezuela of "very bad day" if it attacks Guyana or ExxonMobil, as U.S. signs security pact and launches joint naval drills.

14. Rubio says he revoked Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk's visa over pro-Palestinian activism, calls student protesters "lunatics" and confirms 300 visa cancellations.

15. Trump tells automakers White House will "look unfavorably" on price hikes, even after imposing 25% tariff on all imported vehicles and parts.

16. More Trump national security officials left Venmo data exposed, compounding risks from Signal chat.

1. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342914/smithsonian-president-tru
mp-executive-order


2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgwjllld1ro

3. https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/trump-order-aims-outlaw-most
-government-unions-national-security-grounds/404113
/

4. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/transgender-military-ban-ruli
ng-00256107


5. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/stefanik-ambassador-nomination
-white-house/index.html


6. https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-allies-enemies-friends-canada-uk
-eu-tariffs-5fbb1aa714d60162919d131db40b222b


7. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5217667-epa-polluters-ex
emptions-clean-air
/?

8. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/federal-worker-layo
ffs-government-agencies
/

9. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/27/trump-ukra
ine-russia-child-abductions
/

10. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/28/Trump-WilmerHale-executive-
order/9921743132852
/

11. https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2025/03/27/university-michi
gan-dei-office-closing/82690676007
/

12. https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/rfe-rl-b
ack-in-business


13. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/03/27/rubio-vows-stern-respon
se-if-venezuela-attacks-guyana.html


14. https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/03/27/tufts-student-deportation-court-o
rder


15. https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/trump-tariffs-automaker-prices-warn
ing-928bc7a9?mod=hp_lead_pos1


16. https://www.wired.com/story/even-more-venmo-accounts-tied-to-trump-off
icials-in-signal-group-chat-left-data-public
/

https://imgur.com/gallery/what-happened-today-56-HOmviTe

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Friday, March 28, 2025 10:51 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


SECOND, you lost.

And your unhinged hatefest just means that you're a teeny person who can't deal with adversity.

Deal with it, loser.

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Saturday, March 29, 2025 7:51 AM

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SECOND, you lost.

And your unhinged hatefest just means that you're a teeny person who can't deal with adversity.

Deal with it, loser.

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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


Signym, you convinced me, with your endless "Fuck Ukraine", hostility toward NATO, affinity toward Russia, and your squishy support of Trump -- 6ix's support is rock hard -- that you will never know how wrong you are about the causes of misfortune in the world. Here is Trump deliberately making the world worse:

Trump administration sets up portal for polluters to request exemptions to clean air rules

By Rachel Frazin - 03/27/25 1:00 PM ET

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5217667-epa-polluters-ex
emptions-clean-air
/

The notice comes after President Trump said last week that he plans to bolster coal power.

The notice is an “invitation” for companies to pollute.

“This is just a reckless invitation to hundreds of industrial emitters of toxic pollution to discharge hazardous contaminants into our communities and neighborhoods,” Patton said. “It puts millions of people in harm’s way.”

“I’ve never seen anything like it in my career,” she added.

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Saturday, March 29, 2025 7:55 AM

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Here is Trump giving a pardon in exchange for a bribe:

Trump pardons founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola, Trevor Milton

Milton, sentenced to four years in prison last year, had donated $1.8m to a Trump re-election campaign fund

Fri 28 Mar 2025 13:42 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/28/trump-pardons-nikola-
founder


The pardon of Milton, who was sentenced to four years in prison for exaggerating the potential of his technology, could wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution that prosecutors were seeking for defrauded investors.

“I am incredibly grateful to President Trump for his courage in standing up for what is right and for granting me this sacred pardon of innocence,” Milton said.

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Saturday, March 29, 2025 7:57 AM

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Here is Trump being ignorant about economics:

Experts agree that imposing tariffs results in a substantial portion of the tariffs being borne by consumers of the country that enacts the tariffs, through price increases. Trump says the experts are wrong unless they agree with him.



The other day Larry Summers declared that administration claims that foreigners will absorb the entire cost of tariffs are “ludicrous.” I’m not sure why this declaration was considered newsworthy; Larry was only echoing what every economic principles textbook and 95 percent of economists say (see the chart at the top of this post.)

Still, Larry’s statement did inspire some headlines, and got a response from Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary. Did Bessent explain why he thinks the administration is right and almost the entire economics profession is wrong? No: he immediately accused Summers of being, in effect, a paid protestor: Bessent on Larry Summers saying consumers pay for tariffs: "Maybe he should let the world know who his client list is and why he's talking about things like this."

Trump and his minions already have a totalitarian mindset, in which there is no such thing as legitimate skepticism of the Leader’s proclamations. Anyone who expresses doubt, whether it’s Larry Summers or the Wall Street Journal editorial page, must be a corrupt globalist, or a woke radical left-wing Marxist, or maybe both.

Do people in the business world still think Bessent is a sensible guy who will exert a stabilizing influence on Trump policies?

There’s a lot more one could say about the Trumpist mindset and its implications. But for now, let me just note that it’s one more reason nobody should believe claims that there’s a serious intellectual agenda behind the administration’s economic policies. Serious agendas arise from hard thinking and debate; what we have here are people dedicated to the proposition that anything Trump says is right, and anyone who questions the perfection of his thought is an enemy with evil motives.

This is not a recipe for good policy.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/of-tariffs-and-totalitarianism

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Saturday, March 29, 2025 8:30 AM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

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Germany's poverty was caused by the goddamn fools that previously ran Germany before Hitler, who was not going to stupidly continue paying reparations. Germany ceased paying reparations for World War I in 1933 when Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party came to power,

Fools like Biden*?


There were many reasons WHY Hitler was able to eventually take over Germany, but pre-Nazi Germany was such a clusterfuck, and Hitler so materially improved most Germans' lives, they conflated his successful policies with his inimical ones.

SECOND, you understand nothing and you won't read what actually happened, will you?

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


Germany was NOT occupied after WWI.



Another blindingly stupid strawman?

Did I post that Germany was occupied?
No!
I posted that Germany had to pay reparations.

The following relates to what Trump is doing to the United States. Germany did NOT have to pay reparations. Hitler proved that by NOT paying. The fools who had been running Germany had paid because they were fools. Hitler was many things, but he could understand the obvious: Germany was not occupied, and the Allies could not force Germany to pay. The stupidity of the Weimar Republic caused the suffering and hyper-inflation that occurred before Hitler came to power.

After Hitler was dead, the new German government run by the Allies would deliberately make Germans suffer worse than the Weimar Republic had:

The United States and the Refusal to Feed German Civilians after World War II

http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/WiggersGermanFoo
d.pdf


President Truman turned a deaf ear to the growing volume of protests. He explained to one U.S. Senator that though all Germans might not be guilty for the war, it would be too difficult to try to single out for better treatment those who had nothing to do with the Nazi regime and its crimes:

While we have no desire to be unduly cruel to Germany, I cannot feel any great sympathy for those who caused the death of so many human beings by starvation, disease and outright murder, in addition to all the regular destruction and death of war. Perhaps eventually a decent government can be established in Germany so that Germany can again take its place in the family of nations. I think that in the meantime no one should be called upon to pay Germany's misfortunes except Germany itself. Until the misfortunes of those whom Germany oppressed and tortured are obliviated, it does not seem right to divert our efforts to Germany itself.48

Truman deliberately made millions suffer by cutting their food supply. Trump can deliberately make millions suffer, too.

Trump Administration to food banks: “Let them eat nothing”

By Joel Eissenberg | March 28, 2025 9:45 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/03/trump-administration-to-food-banks-l
et-them-eat-nothing


The Trump Administration cuts $1 billion from food banks in order to fund tax cuts for the 1% and corporations.

“Food banks across New England are scrambling after the Trump administration this month cut some $1 billion from programs that help them obtain food for distribution, increasing concerns about meeting demand when hunger is already soaring.

“For many of the region’s pantries, food given out with the support of federal assistance amounts to 10 to 30 percent of their total distributions. The unexpected cuts are likely to disrupt food availability for communities nationwide, local leaders said.” https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/metro/trump-food-bank-hunger-fo
od-insecurity
/

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Saturday, March 29, 2025 8:34 AM

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Photos! J.D. and Usha Vance Went to Greenland. It Did Not Appear to Go Well.

Turns out that the people of Greenland are not pleased that Trump still keeps going on about acquiring their homeland.

By Derreck Johnson and Nitish Pahwa | March 28, 2025 5:27 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/jd-vance-usha-greenland-vi
sit-trump-photos.html


The vice president made the astute observation that it was “cold as shit” here and gave a speech that mostly railed against Denmark for not protecting Greenland and its vast natural resources “from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China, and from other nations.” While he did not repeat Trump’s explicit military threats, Vance did encourage the Greenland independence movement from Denmark and also went off, naturally, about tariffs, claiming the U.S. could help the island territory avoid “economic exploitation” by Europe.

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WHAT HAPPENED TODAY THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW - #57
Friday, March 28, 2025
https://govbrief.today/

1. Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump from dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after firings and shutdown order.

2. U.S. airstrikes hit Houthi sites across Yemen early Saturday as Trump expands campaign into cities.

3. Texas-led measles outbreak spreads to 4 states as U.S. cases top 500, driven by unvaccinated clusters.

4. Top FDA vaccine official who helped develop COVID shots resigns after refusing to echo RFK Jr.'s "misinformation and lies."

5. Utah enacts first-in-nation ban on pride flags in schools and government buildings as governor lets bill become law without signature.

6. WSJ reports Hegseth brings wife to sensitive meetings with foreign military leaders, breaking standard security protocol.

7. FCC opens investigation into Disney and ABC over diversity programs, citing potential violations of equal employment rules, into Disney and ABC over diversity programs, citing potential EEOC violations..

8. Trump pledges U.S. aid after Asia quake kills over 1,000 as former USAID disaster chief says response system 'in shambles'.

9. Vance tells U.S. troops in Greenland that locals will reject Denmark and choose America, drawing criticism from Greenland's new prime minister.

10. Judge blocks Trump appointees from defunding Voice of America, ruling Kari Lake's move "usurps Congress's power of the purse."

11. Columbia's interim president steps down after policy changes aimed at restoring $400M in federal funding slashed by Trump

12. Federal judge blocks Trump from deporting migrants to third countries without giving them a chance to seek protection in U.S. court.

13. Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate year 1798 wartime powers as gang deportation fight escalates.

14. Wisconsin AG seeks restraining order against Musk days before the election.

15. Federal judges block Trump orders against Jenner & Block and WilmerHale, calling them retaliation.

16. Law firm Skadden, Arps cuts deal with Trump to avoid executive order, pledges $100 million in pro bono work for his political agenda.

17. ICE detains international grad student in Minnesota, sparking outcry from university and state officials.

18. Appeals court halts reinstatement of fired NLRB and MSPB officials, backing Trump.

19. DOGE pushes to rebuild Social Security Admin code in months although experts say it should take years.

Full links at https://imgur.com/gallery/what-happened-today-57-TKdvZQB

1. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5315118/cfpb-shuttering-trump-dog
e


2. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/new-us-strikes-houthi-r
ebels-kill-1-yemen-120285871


3. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-grow
s-us-cases-rcna198557


4. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8r87z8vl0o

5. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/03/28/pride-flag-ban-utah-fi
rst-state
/

6. https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-brought-his-wif
e-to-sensitive-meetings-with-foreign-military-officials-c16db0ea


7. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/28/fcc-disney-abc-dei-in
vestigation


8. https://apnews.com/article/trump-earthquake-usaid-disaster-asia-myanma
r-001e305f0233611c0702629803e6239b


9. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyd5zr20gdt

10. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/voice-of-america-shutdown-tru
mp-028458


11. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/columbia-university-katrina-armstron
g-steps-down/index.html


12. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/28/judge-blocks-tru
mp-deportations-migrants-other-countries
/

13. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-supreme-court-deportations-venezuel
an-gang-members-alien-enemies-act
/

14. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/03/28/ag-j
osh-kaul-vows-action-to-stop-musk-payments-to-wisconsin-voters/82708069007
/

15. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/law-firm-targeted-trump-jenner-block-s
uing-block/story?id=120256937


16. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-skadden-law-firm-executive-order
.html


17. https://www.startribune.com/u-graduate-student-detained-by-ice-agents/
601265118


18. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5220511-trump-firings-nlr
b-mspb-appeals-panel
/

19. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administratio
n-cobol-benefits
/

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 29, 2025 9:33 AM

SECOND

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SECOND, you lost.

And your unhinged hatefest just means that you're a teeny person who can't deal with adversity.

Deal with it, loser.

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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 (and not Myanmar!)


The Myanmar quake is the first major disaster to suffer the brunt of Donald Trump's devastating cuts

The 7.7 magnitude earthquake is the first major disaster to suffer the brunt of Donald Trump's USAID cuts.

By Dominic Waghorn | Saturday 29 March 2025 12:41, UK

https://news.sky.com/story/the-myanmar-quake-is-the-first-major-disast
er-to-suffer-the-brunt-of-donald-trumps-devastating-cuts-13337736


This will be the first natural disaster to happen after President Donald Trump shut down America's international aid agency with potentially devastating consequences.

The impact in the aftermath of this earthquake is likely to be severe. Trump's decision to shut down the US Agency for International Development was already reported to have decimated US aid operations in Myanmar. Its global impact is hard to overstate. American aid had provided 40% of developmental aid worldwide.

Yesterday, Trump promised Myanmar aid for the earthquake. In reality, his administration has fired most of the people most experienced at organising that help and shut down the means to provide it.

The last of its staff were ironically only let go yesterday even as the president was making lofty promises to help.


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Saturday, March 29, 2025 11:23 AM

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SECOND, you lost.

And your unhinged hatefest just means that you're a teeny person who can't deal with adversity.

Deal with it, loser.

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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 (But not vaccinations.)


Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines

By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington | Sat 29 Mar 2025 07.09 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/top-us-vaccine-officia
l-resigns-over-rfk-jrs-misinformation-and-lies-dr-peter-marks


A senior health official in the US, who was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of life-saving vaccines, has resigned abruptly, citing the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “misinformation and lies”.

Dr Peter Marks served as the FDA’s top vaccine official. He had been lauded by Donald Trump during the US president’s first term for his role in Operation Warp Speed, the initiative that developed, manufactured and helped distribute the Covid-19 vaccines.

Multiple media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter, reported late on Friday that Marks had been given the choice to resign or be fired by a Health and Human Services (HHS) department official. He chose to resign. The FDA is a key federal agency within HHS.

In a resignation letter, referring to Kennedy, Marks wrote: “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

Marks also issued a stark warning, according to media outlets who obtained the letter, saying: “Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety and effectiveness that have been in place for decades at FDA is irresponsible, detrimental to public health and a clear danger to our nation’s health, safety and security.”

The departure follows reports that Kennedy has turned to a noted vaccine sceptic, David Geier, to lead the HHS in a study of potential links between vaccines and autism. Any links between autism and vaccines have long been debunked.

Kennedy has claimed he is not anti-vaccine, but for years he has led a movement to sow doubts about their safety and effectiveness. In 2021, a group then led by Kennedy called for the emergency approval of Covid-19 vaccines to be revoked, saying: “The current risks of serious adverse events or deaths outweigh the benefits.”

Studies later showed that claim was inaccurate. A study by the Commonwealth Fund found that Covid-19 vaccines saved 3.2 million American lives and prevented more than 18m hospitalisations through November 2022.

During his confirmation process, Kennedy ultimately secured the votes of almost all Republican senators, including Dr Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, by promising that he would not change the FDA’s system for approving vaccines.

But that system was overseen by Marks, who has been with the FDA since 2012 and oversaw the division’s approval process for vaccines, biotech and blood products.

The Wall Street Journal reported a statement on the resignation by an HHS official: “If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at FDA under the strong leadership of secretary Kennedy.”

Marks’s departure comes a day after the Trump administration said it was laying off 10,000 employees at HHS. In comments about the move posted on YouTube, Kennedy suggested his office was facing opposition inside the department from “defiant bureaucrats” who had stopped his office from gaining access to “closely guarded databases that might reveal the dangers of certain drugs and medical interventions”.

The Guardian has sought more information about Kennedy’s remarks but has not yet received a comment from HHS. Some experts have warned that Kennedy and other senior Trump-appointed health officials may seek to challenge the authorisation behind the Covid-19 vaccines. Kennedy also said in his confirmation hearings that he had been asked by Trump to study the safety of mifepristone, which is used for medication abortion and has already been extensively investigated for safety.

It is not clear what precise databases Kennedy was referring to in his YouTube statement. When pharmaceutical companies seek FDA approval for drugs they have developed, they disclose proprietary information, which the FDA keeps confidential. That includes information about manufacturing methods and clinical study reports.

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We reject your wikipedia Leftist view of history.

You are an idiot and a fool.

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6ix, you are unemployed, unmarried, kept alive by Medicaid after years of self-destructive behavior because of your grotesque emotional immaturity. But you are still very much like all other Trumptards. You just took it to an extreme where you don't even have a half-ass function in society.



See... This is your problem.

90% of the people unemployed in this country vote Democrat.

90% of the people being kept alive in this country on medicaid and social programs vote Democrat.

Democrats are anti-marriage, and a vast majority of young people who aren't married going well into their 30's and even their 40's vote Democrat.


You're just jealous that in a country that doesn't offer free healthcare that I cracked the code.



I do plenty of things to contribute to plenty of things. I just reject the way that you choose to do it.

Why don't you post another dozen pirated movies and books for us, huh?

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

You didn't crack any code, no more than tax-cheaters cracked the code to reduce income taxes.

6ix, you did with Medicaid what Trump did with the IRS, you both lied. 6ix about his assets. Trump about his income.



Oh, so you think that YOU cracked the code here, huh?

Do you think I would be stupid enough to tell you or anybody else online in writing that I was on medicaid when there is an asset check for it?



"Hey Siri! What is the asset limit for Indiana's Healthy Indiana Plan, otherwise known as HIP?"

Quote:

The Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) has no asset test for eligibility, meaning that your assets do not affect your ability to qualify for the program.

Here's a more detailed breakdown:

Eligibility:

HIP is for Hoosiers ages 19 to 64 who meet specific income levels, but there is no asset limit.

Income Limits:

Individuals with annual incomes up to $21,603.00 may qualify.

Couples with annual incomes up to $29,197.80 may qualify.

No Asset Test:

Unlike some other Medicaid programs, HIP does not have a limit on the amount of assets you can own to be eligible.

Benefits:

HIP provides comprehensive coverage, including vision, dental, non-emergency transportation, chiropractic services, and Medicaid Rehabilitation Option services.




"Thank you Siri. As always, you have been most helpful."

And I'll also add to this that there are currently zero work requirements for the plan and they don't even ask you to even apply for any jobs, let alone prove that you're looking. The ONLY two requirements are the age and income requirements. I am doing nothing illegal here, and I could give a fuck less what anybody in my real life thinks about the morals of the situation, let alone people I do not like online.


As for you, Second...

Shut your stupid fucking mouth.

You have yet to ever once say anything intelligent with that voice.

The government knows exactly what they need to know, and I've never once lied about my assets or my income because I know very well what happens to you WHEN and not if you get caught and you're not a minority or illegal alien.

I heard this old lament



No. You don't get to change the topic after bringing up something personal and getting
your ass handed to you once again.

You are a stupid, ignorant, coward of a little boy.

Apologize for what you wrongfully accused me of doing in your seemingly infinite ignorance,
or shut the fuck up.

6ix, do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too? (To clarify: you still dwell at the bottom of a deep pit.) You hope that Trump will pull you up and out from the pit you fell into. He won't. Tough luck for angry poor white trash Trumptards thinking he can save you from yourselves.



You can't even see the sunlight anymore from the pit you're standing in.

Nobody cares about your opinions or your judgement.

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SECOND, you lost.

And your unhinged hatefest just means that you're a teeny person who can't deal with adversity.

Deal with it, loser.

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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA (But not vaccinations.)


Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines



That's what all you Democrat cowards do when faced with adversity.

You're all a bunch of losers who lack any core values.

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Saturday, March 29, 2025 2:41 PM

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Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines



That's what all you Democrat cowards do when faced with adversity.

You're all a bunch of losers who lack any core values.

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

The Democrats could learn a lesson from WWII or the Civil War: kill your enemy. Drop a nuke on your enemy's children. Burn down your enemy's cotton plantation. To make it specific: RFK Jr and noted vaccine skeptic, David Geier, are the enemy and this is not equivalent to dropping a nuke: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary (RFK Jr) but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," Dr. Peter Marks wrote in his letter of resignation, which was obtained by NPR.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/28/nx-s1-534401
0/fda-peter-marks-rfk-jr


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Saturday, March 29, 2025 3:05 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


SECOND'S core values: hate, kill, destroy, lie, virtue signal.

What a loser


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SECOND'S core values: hate, kill, destroy, lie, virtue signal.

What a loser


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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


Trump officials, allies grow anxious about April 2 tariffs

Saturday, 03/29/2025 11:58 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/trump-aides-tariffs-liberatio
n-day-fears-00259081


After Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett said in recent weeks that only about 10 or 15 countries — or the “dirty 15,” as Bessent put it — would face reciprocal tariffs, Trump said Wednesday that actually every country will be hit with a tariff.

The president similarly undercut Lutnick earlier this month, after the Commerce secretary suggested Canada and Mexico might avoid the full 25 percent Trump had threatened over border security and fentanyl — though two people close to the president said Lutnick was freelancing and has since been told to stay on message. Trump went ahead and slapped that duty on the two North American neighbors on March 4, but then paused much of it a day later and exempted certain goods — a rollercoaster of announcements that left many businesses and investors unsure about how the new tariffs would work.

Indeed, Trump has continued to shift the scope, targets and timeline of his tariffs at a whiplash-inducing pace. The duties he promised, pre-inauguration, to levy on Canada and Mexico his first day in office shifted to Feb. 1, then Feb. 4, then March 4, before being largely rolled back until April 2. There is little clarity about what parts of those tariffs — which could hit more than $1 trillion worth of trade — will go into effect next week.

“No one knows what the fuck is going on,” said one White House ally close to Trump’s inner circle, granted anonymity to speak freely. “What are they going to tariff? Who are they gonna tariff and at what rates? Like, the very basic questions haven’t been answered yet.”

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Saturday, March 29, 2025 4:00 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


MAHA - DIET

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Researchers Identify Diets In Mid-Life Linked To Healthy Aging in 30-year Study

A 30-year study finds a primarily plant-based diet, with minimal ultra-processed food and low to moderate amounts of animal-based foods like fish and dairy, could raise our chances of reaching 70 without developing chronic disease, according to a new study from Harvard researchers.
...
Two Diets Linked to Optimal Aging

The study, recently published in Nature Medicine, examined the midlife diets and health outcomes of more than 105,000 middle-aged women and men aged 39 to 69 over 30 years.

The team evaluated how effectively the participants adhered to eight different largely-plant-based diets: the Alternative Health Eating Index (AHEI), the Alternative Mediterranean Diet (aMED), the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet (DASH), the MIND diet, the Healthful Plant-Based Diet, the Planetary Health Diet Index, the Empirically Inflammatory Dietary Pattern, and the Empirical Dietary Index for Hyperinsulinemia.
Of the participants, 10 percent were identified as aging healthfully and followed the eight diets. Those who closely followed the AEHI and PHDI diets were linked with optimal healthy aging patterns.

The AHEI diet was found to be especially beneficial. It was developed to prevent chronic disease and emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, legumes, and healthy fats while limiting red meat, refined grains, and sugar.

Participants scoring highest on this diet were found to have an 86 percent greater likelihood of healthy aging by age 70 and a 2.2-fold higher likelihood by age 75 compared to those with the lowest scores. The PHDI diet also emphasizes plant-based foods and reduces animal-based food intake.


Other diets researchers looked at that were linked to healthy aging were the aMED which follows the Mediterranean model and the DASH diet. The aMED diet prioritizes olive oil, nuts, whole grains, and moderate fish intake. DASH is known for lowering blood pressure and focuses on fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy.

“Maintaining a healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, unsaturated fats, nuts, and legumes during mid-life is linked to a higher likelihood of healthy aging along with better cognitive, physical, and mental health,” Guasch-Ferré told The Epoch Times.

Conversely, higher consumption of ultra-processed foods, particularly processed meats and sugary beverages, was linked to a decreased chance of aging healthfully.


MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/researchers-identify-diets-mid-life-
linked-healthy-aging


What is the AHEI (Alternative Healthy Eating Index) diet?

You can score your diet here:

https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Nutrition/Principles_of_Nutriti
onal_Assessment_3e_(Gibson_et_al.)/07%3A_

Dietary_guidelines_and_quality_(Chapter_8c)/7.04%3A_Alternate_
Healthy_Eating_Index_(8c.4) (broken up for formatting)

There's nothing new here:
Premium score on vegetables (5 servings per day, top score),
fruits (4),
whole grains (4 for women, 6 for men),
MODERATE alcohol consumption,
nuts or beans (1 per day), and
fish (2 servings per week, or fish oil)

Negative scores for
red or processed meat (>1.5 servings/ day) and
fruit juice, sugary or diet drinks.

And obviously ultra processed foods

I question the # of fruit and whole grain servings for ppl with diabetes

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OUR ULTRA-PROCESSED LIFE

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Ultra-Processed Life
The digital realm, finance, and junk food have something in common: they're all ultra-processed, synthetic versions of Nature that have been designed to be compellingly addictive, to the detriment of our health and quality of life.

In focusing on the digital realm, money (i.e. finance, "growth," consuming more as the measure of all that is good) and eating more of what tastes good, we now have an Ultra-Processed Life. All three-- the digital realm, money in all its manifestations and junk food--are all consumed: they all taste good, i.e. generate endorphin hits, and so they draw us into their synthetic Ultra-Processed World.

We're so busy consuming that we don't realize they're consuming us: in focusing on producing and consuming more goods and services as the sole measure of "the good life," it's never enough: if we pile up $1 million, we focus on piling up $2 million. If we pile up $2 million, we focus on accumulating $3 million. And so on, in every manifestation of money and consumption.

The digital realm consumes our lives one minute and one hour at a time, for every minute spent focusing on a screen is a minute taken from the real world, which is the only true measure of the quality of our life.

Ultra-processed food is edible, but it isn't nutritious. It tastes good, but it harms us in complex ways we don't fully understand.



MORE AT https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/03/ultra-processed-life.htm
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What a loser



Yup.

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Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines



That's what all you Democrat cowards do when faced with adversity.

You're all a bunch of losers who lack any core values.

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

The Democrats could learn a lesson from WWII or the Civil War: kill your enemy. Drop a nuke on your enemy's children. Burn down your enemy's cotton plantation. To make it specific: RFK Jr and noted vaccine skeptic, David Geier, are the enemy and this is not equivalent to dropping a nuke: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary (RFK Jr) but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," Dr. Peter Marks wrote in his letter of resignation, which was obtained by NPR.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



Or you could, yanno, just maintain your positions of power where you've got them instead of crying like a baby and quitting.

That didn't seem like such a bad strategy when all you Democrats were doing that back in 2017 when the world seemed out to get Trump.

Things are a lot different now. You might be finding yourselves walking out of doors that you're never allowed back into after you've left. Possibly attached to buildings that were sold off to private investors after the alphabet agency you used to work for is shut down and off the dockets for good.


Once you've left, you've lost any vantage point that means anything. The only thing you can do from the outside is burn a Tesla down. And I would strongly advise against anyone doing that with what's going to start coming to the people already filmed in 4k at multiple angles doing it.

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Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines



That's what all you Democrat cowards do when faced with adversity.

You're all a bunch of losers who lack any core values.

--------------------------------------------------

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

The Democrats could learn a lesson from WWII or the Civil War: kill your enemy. Drop a nuke on your enemy's children. Burn down your enemy's cotton plantation. To make it specific: RFK Jr and noted vaccine skeptic, David Geier, are the enemy and this is not equivalent to dropping a nuke: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary (RFK Jr) but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," Dr. Peter Marks wrote in his letter of resignation, which was obtained by NPR.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



Or you could, yanno, just maintain your positions of power where you've got them instead of crying like a baby and quitting.

That didn't seem like such a bad strategy when all you Democrats were doing that back in 2017 when the world seemed out to get Trump.

Things are a lot different now. You might be finding yourselves walking out of doors that you're never allowed back into after you've left. Possibly attached to buildings that were sold off to private investors after the alphabet agency you used to work for is shut down and off the dockets for good.


Once you've left, you've lost any vantage point that means anything. The only thing you can do from the outside is burn a Tesla down. And I would strongly advise against anyone doing that with what's going to start coming to the people already filmed in 4k at multiple angles doing it.

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RFK Jr gave Dr Peter Marks choices a) resign or b) termination. There was no c) continue employment. Dr Peter Marks could have created choice d) death for RFK Jr. but Democrats have amnesia (or find it repulsive) by how WWII and Civil War were won with choice d) death for your enemy.

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SECOND, you lost.

And your unhinged hatefest just means that you're a teeny person who can't deal with adversity.

Deal with it, loser.

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Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

Dr Peter Marks was seen as ...



As seen by who? The DNC?

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SECOND, you lost.

And your unhinged hatefest just means that you're a teeny person who can't deal with adversity.

Deal with it, loser.

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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

Dr Peter Marks was seen as ...



As seen by who? The DNC?

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You know who. By the ones in the know. The ones that you should respect simply because your expected to respect them. The ones that you should envy and strive to be like. The ones who you should emulate and defer to. The people who shape your thoughts simply by putting words to paper or speaking once in front of a camera before it's seen by millions of people all over the world at any time of the day.



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A few years back in Yosemite there was a problem with bears getting into trash cans and people said 'why not make the cans more complex?' And a ranger said 'because there is significant overlap between the smartest bear and dumbest human' and this administration feels like that quote to me.

Trump responds. "And these trashcans...very unfair. The scientists are making them, did you know about this? They're making them so you can't get into the cans. You want to put trash in the dumpster? Too bad...they won't let you. One man came to me, tears streaming down his face, and he said to me, 'Donald, they're not letting us take out the trash, they only care about bears.' Can you believe that? They took your cans and gave them to bears, but we're gonna take them back and make dumpsters great again!"

https://velvetshark.com/til/til-smartest-bears-dumbest-tourists-overla
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WHAT HAPPENED TODAY THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW - #58
Saturday, March 29, 2025
https://govbrief.today

1. Trump says U.S. will acquire Greenland, refuses to rule out military force despite international pushback.

2. Trump says he won’t fire officials over Yemen strike leak that included journalist in secret group chat.

3. Trump administration fires most U.S. Institute of Peace staff by email on a Friday night after court allows federal takeover.

4. Appeals court panel rejects AG Kaul's bid to block Musk from offering million-dollar checks tied to Wisconsin election petition.

5. Wash Post exclusive: Secret Pentagon memo about China copies sections from Heritage report by Project 2025 report writers.

6. Trump says he "couldn't care less" if foreign automakers hike prices after permanent 25% tariffs.

7. White House Correspondents Association cancels comedian Amber Ruffin after post-inauguration booking, following backlash from Trump's deputy chief of staff.

8. GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz faced boos, protests, and chaos over Signal leak, deportations, and Musk-led service cuts while defying party leadership's call to skip town halls.

9. Protesters swarmed Tesla dealerships across U.S. and Europe over Musk's federal purge, with Reps. Crockett and Jayapal joining demonstrations.

10. Saturday court filings reveal Marko Elez, fired over racist posts, was rehired by Musk's DOGE team with Trump's approval to access Medicare and child support systems.

11. Trump White House posts Al meme of ICE arrest in Studio Ghibli anime style, using viral trend to mock deportations.

12. For the second time this month, Pentagon targets Jackie Robinson—after scrubbing a story on his Army court-martial, DoD now flags his biography for removal under Hegseth's anti-DEI order.

1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/29/trump-greenlan
d-military-force-denmark/82722287007
/

2. https://apnews.com/article/attack-plans-trump-signal-hegseth-waltz-759
a404c89ee45468fb54a2be800c32a


3. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-institute-of-peace-staff-termination-n
otices
/

4. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/03/29/wisc
onsin-court-rejects-effort-to-block-elon-musk-voter-payments/82721261007
/

5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/29/secret-pen
tagon-memo-hegseth-heritage-foundation-china
/

6. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-couldnt-care-
less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731


7. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5344487/white-house-correspondent
s-dinner-amber-ruffin


8. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/politics/victoria-spartz-republi
can-town-hall-doge.html


9. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/protesters-elon-musk-tesla-00
259304


10. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/doge-marco-elez-software-engi
neer-us-payroll-00259303


11. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/29/trump-memes-immigration-policies

12. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-administration-reportedly-m
oves-to-ban-jackie-robinson-biography-from-naval-academy-library/ar-AA1BURCM


https://imgur.com/gallery/what-happened-today-58-RQpvwP2

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Prayer for Donald Trump (Psalm 109)

7 When his case is called for judgment, let him be pronounced guilty. Count his prayers as sins. 8 Let his years be few and brief; let others step forward to replace him. 9-10 May his children become fatherless and his wife a widow; may they be evicted from the ruins of their home. 11 May creditors seize his entire estate and strangers take all he has earned. 12-13 Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children. May they die. May his family name be blotted out in a single generation. 14 Punish the sins of his father and mother. Don’t overlook them. 15 Think constantly about the evil things he has done, and cut off his name from the memory of man.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20109&version=T
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Trump Administration

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations

The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

By Patricia Callahan | March 28, 2025, 4:35 p.m. EDT

https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report

The cancellation was “not normal at all,” said a CDC staff member who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal with layoffs looming. “I’ve never seen a rollout plan that was canceled at that far along in the process.”

Anxiety among CDC staff has been building over whether the agency will bend its public health messages to match those of Kennedy, a lawyer who founded an anti-vaccine group and referred clients to a law firm suing a vaccine manufacturer.

During Kennedy’s first week on the job, HHS halted the CDC campaign that encouraged people to get flu shots during a ferocious flu season. On the night that the Trump administration began firing probationary employees across the federal government, some key CDC flu webpages were taken down.

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Then it didn't happen. Fuck your anon sources.

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Prayer for Donald Trump (Psalm 109)

7 When his case is called for judgment, let him be pronounced guilty. Count his prayers as sins. 8 Let his years be few and brief; let others step forward to replace him. 9-10 May his children become fatherless and his wife a widow; may they be evicted from the ruins of their home. 11 May creditors seize his entire estate and strangers take all he has earned. 12-13 Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children. May they die. May his family name be blotted out in a single generation. 14 Punish the sins of his father and mother. Don’t overlook them. 15 Think constantly about the evil things he has done, and cut off his name from the memory of man.

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7. White House Correspondents Association cancels comedian Amber Ruffin after post-inauguration booking, following backlash from Trump's deputy chief of staff.



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Amber Mildred Ruffin (born January 9, 1979)[1] is an American comedian, writer and actress.[2] She hosted her own late-night talk show titled The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock. She has been a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers since 2014. When she joined the show she became the first Black woman to write for a late-night network talk show in the United States.[3]

In January 2021, she co-authored a book with her sister Lacey Lamar titled You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism, which made the New York Times Best Seller list.[4][5][6] They released a second book, The World Record Book of Racist Stories, in 2022. In 2022, Ruffin and her writing partner Jenny Hagel co-founded their production company Straight to Cards under their overall deal with Universal Television.[7]



Wow. A DEI hire who wrote two books about muh racism.

I'll bet she's a laugh per minute.

You didn't even know who she was until this got lefty headlines today. Nobody knew who she was. She's was a writer for the least successful late night show during the entire time the late night shows started crashing and burning, and now Gutfield on cable news gets more viewers than any of the rest combined.

I guess you'll have to watch her wildly successful streaming show on peacock.

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Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if foreign automakers raise prices due to tariffs

By Kristen Welker and Alexandra Marquez | March 29, 2025, 7:29 PM CDT

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-couldnt-care-
less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731


When pressed if he told CEOs not to raise prices, as reported in the The Wall Street Journal, Trump added, “No, I never said that.” (He did say it.)

Everything is on the table to obtain Greenland

The president on Saturday also said he has “absolutely” had real conversations about annexing Greenland, which is currently a semiautonomous Danish territory.

“We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump said.

He added that there’s a “good possibility that we could do it without military force” but that “I don’t take anything off the table.”

This comes one day after Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland with his wife, Usha, and spoke to service members at Pituffik Space Base, a U.S. Space Force base on the northwestern coast of Greenland.

While there, Vance said, “Our message to Denmark is very simple — you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland.”

Asked what message acquiring Greenland would send to Russia and the rest of the world, Trump said, “I don’t really think about that. I don’t really care. Greenland’s a very separate subject, very different. It’s international peace. It’s international security and strength.”

“You have ships sailing outside Greenland from Russia, from China and from many other places. And we’re not going to allow things to happen that are going to be — that are going to hurt the world or the United States,” he added.

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The cancellation was “not normal at all,” said a CDC staff member who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal with layoffs looming.



Then it didn't happen. Fuck your anon sources.

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The CDC staff member should have hit RFK Jr in the face with a shotgun blast. When no one comes forward to take the blame for the dead Kennedy, Then it didn't happen. RFK Jr. committed suicide is the only conclusion.

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March 30, 2025, 11:10 AM CDT

President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House, which is prohibited by the Constitution under the 22nd Amendment, saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”

“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call with NBC News, referring to his allies. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”

NBC News asked about a possible scenario in which Vice President JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump. Trump responded that “that’s one” method.

“But there are others too,” Trump added.

Asked to share another method, Trump simply responded “no.” Military coup d'état?

Amending the Constitution to abolish the two-term limit would be exceedingly difficult, requiring either a two-thirds vote of Congress or two-thirds of the states agreeing to call a constitutional convention to propose changes. Either route would then require ratification from three-quarters of the states.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-white-h
ouse-methods-rcna198752


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DOGE and the Deficit

By Jonathan Chait | March 28, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/doge-deficit-trump-e
lon/682227
/

Elon Musk has promised he would eliminate the nearly $2 trillion budget deficit in year one. Last night on Fox, he predicted he would get halfway there by the end of May. His critics have insisted that his goal is unrealistic, and that he won’t accomplish nearly as much deficit reduction as he claims.

The critics are understating the case. DOGE won’t just fall short of Musk’s deficit-reduction goals. It will, in all probability, increase the deficit. Probably by a lot.

Begin on the savings side. Despite wreaking massive havoc, Musk has accomplished little in terms of saving money for the government. Many of the impressive-sounding budget savings DOGE has posted, in a gesture of putative transparency, have turned out to be fake. And when the people in charge of the enterprise are relying on comical errors, such as taking credit for programs eliminated years ago and confusing million with billion, one should rightly question their basic competence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/doge-spending-cuts-changed.h
tml

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-wal
l.html


Budget experts have had trouble verifying the actual savings, but they appear to be below the level of a rounding error. Jessica Riedl, a budget expert at the Manhattan Institute, recently estimated the savings so far at about $2 billion, or one-tenth of 1 percent of Musk’s original goal. Prediction markets, which less than two months ago expected DOGE to cut $300 billion in spending in the first year, are even more pessimistic than Riedl: They now expect a grand total of $1 billion in savings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/upshot/doge-musk-trump-errors.html
https://kalshi.com/markets/kxgovtcuts/government-budget-cuts

But those are just gross savings. Some of Musk’s haphazard cuts will produce tiny savings in terms of salary while forfeiting much larger ones down the road, costing the government money. One small example: Musk fired the technician who had been servicing the HVAC systems at a Veterans Affairs complex in Illinois. You can save money on upkeep in the short run, but eventually, the systems will break, and replacing them will cost a lot more money (unless DOGE is willing to let the government’s physical assets deteriorate to worthlessness).
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/23/they-were-fired-in-the-n
ame-of-efficiency-based-on
/

The largest cost, by far, will come from Musk’s meddling with the IRS. DOGE has moved to fire nearly 20,000 employees in the agency, kneecapping the government’s ability to collect taxes. Worse, by advertising the change, it has alerted tax cheats that they face precious little chance of an audit. The IRS released a preliminary survey showing that it expects revenue to fall 10 percent, or $500 billion, short of expected levels. That would obviously be many, many times larger than the projected savings.
https://archive.ph/nMSAC#selection-509.0-513.81
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-revenue-los
s-federal-budget
/

It’s certainly possible that the revenue shortfall will be less than $500 billion, or that the ultimate budget savings will be higher than $1 billion to $2 billion. But the prospect that the effect will net out a savings for the government is almost nil. Critics have been quibbling with the level of alleged fiscal savings when they should have been questioning the sign—whether it is a plus or a minus for the size of the deficit. “Unequivocally, they have the sign wrong,” Natasha Sarin, of the Budget Lab at Yale, told me. “The question is, how badly off are they?”

The failure of the enterprise was preordained. There isn’t anything close to $1 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse in the budget, despite Musk’s repeated statements to the contrary. (“The government is not efficient, and there is a lot of waste and fraud, so we feel confident that a 15 percent reduction can be done without affecting any of the critical government services,” he said last night on Fox News.) What’s more, political constraints—Trump’s stated refusal to touch Social Security checks or Medicare, and his party’s proposal to increase military spending by $150 billion over the next four years—leave Musk concentrating on a sliver of the budget. Spending on programs other than social insurance and debt payments amounts to 26 percent of the budget, and almost half of that (12 percent) is defense. Firing tens of thousands of employees in departments that have a huge area of responsibility, yet account for a small share of the budget, is how Musk is managing to simultaneously incapacitate the government’s functionality in key areas without improving the government’s fiscal position.

Musk has repeatedly endorsed various conspiracy theories about the federal budget, and seems to believe it contains dark secrets that he can unravel. He has previously claimed that the American left would essentially disappear without the support of disguised payments from the government. More recently, he has begun claiming that the Democrats use systematic payments of fraudulent benefits to attract undocumented immigrants to cast illegal votes to keep them in power. (“By using entitlements fraud, the Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants.”)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-trump-u
said/681607
/

Because these schemes exist entirely in Musk’s fevered imagination, he is not going to save much money by ferreting them out. But this raises the question of whether he is really trying to save money at all, or whether he sees the deficit as a pretext to unravel various leftist schemes hidden in the wiring of the federal budget.

Whatever he is attempting to do, though, we can be fairly sure that a smaller deficit is not going to be the result.

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Economic Occurrences Could Lead the US to Another 2008 (Crash in 2025 or 2026)

Angry Bear | March 30, 2025 7:00 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/03/economic-occurrences-could-lead-the-
us-to-another-2008


This particular piece (or partial) is taken from an article written in 2015. You can pick up the entire piece at “KelloggInsight.” It is an abbreviated version of the article detailing what took place in 2008. Our economy was on the verge of collapse. Goldman Sachs made a collateral call on AIG. The results of which led to Goldman’s collateral disputes with the financial products subsidiary held by A.I.G. It contributed to the government takeover of the insurer after pumping some $180 billion into it.

Why write about this now? I am beginning to think we may be on the path to another economic collapse after watching this administration and the president continuously dabbling in the economy with his on-and-off tariff demands, etc. His actions promote market instability.

What Went Wrong at AIG?
Unpacking the insurance giant’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
By Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson | Aug 3, 2015
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/what-went-wrong-at-ai
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The cancellation was “not normal at all,” said a CDC staff member who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal with layoffs looming.



Then it didn't happen. Fuck your anon sources.

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That is a stupid argument.

You are a stupid person.

Go ahead and do it, tough guy. See what happens.

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Economic Occurrences Could Lead the US to Another 2008 (Crash in 2025 or 2026)

Angry Bear | March 30, 2025 7:00 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/03/economic-occurrences-could-lead-the-
us-to-another-2008


This particular piece (or partial) is taken from an article written in 2015. You can pick up the entire piece at “KelloggInsight.” It is an abbreviated version of the article detailing what took place in 2008. Our economy was on the verge of collapse. Goldman Sachs made a collateral call on AIG. The results of which led to Goldman’s collateral disputes with the financial products subsidiary held by A.I.G. It contributed to the government takeover of the insurer after pumping some $180 billion into it.

Why write about this now? I am beginning to think we may be on the path to another economic collapse after watching this administration and the president continuously dabbling in the economy with his on-and-off tariff demands, etc. His actions promote market instability.

What Went Wrong at AIG?
Unpacking the insurance giant’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
By Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson | Aug 3, 2015
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/what-went-wrong-at-ai
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Democrats and Acorn were responsible for 2008.



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https://angrybearblog.com/2025/03/economic-occurrences-could-lead-the-
us-to-another-2008


This particular piece (or partial) is taken from an article written in 2015. You can pick up the entire piece at “KelloggInsight.” It is an abbreviated version of the article detailing what took place in 2008. Our economy was on the verge of collapse. Goldman Sachs made a collateral call on AIG. The results of which led to Goldman’s collateral disputes with the financial products subsidiary held by A.I.G. It contributed to the government takeover of the insurer after pumping some $180 billion into it.

Why write about this now? I am beginning to think we may be on the path to another economic collapse after watching this administration and the president continuously dabbling in the economy with his on-and-off tariff demands, etc. His actions promote market instability.

What Went Wrong at AIG?
Unpacking the insurance giant’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
By Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson | Aug 3, 2015
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/what-went-wrong-at-ai
g


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



Democrats and Acorn were responsible for 2008.
--------------------------------------------------

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



No, they weren't. GWB was.

Banks and other lender (Countrywide) were writing sketchy variable rate mortages that were bound to implode, bundling them into mortgage backed investments, insuring them thru AIG, and selling them in tranches.

Altho various States Attorney General wanted to prosecute the banks, the GWB admin said it was a Federal matter, FORBADE prosecution at the state level and then... sat on its hands bc go-go home and stock market prices and hedge funds created a simulacrum of prosperity and growth.

Obama dutifully bailed out banks etc, but GWB fostered the cancer, and Bill set the stage by doing away with the Glass-Steagall bank regulation.

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Monday, March 31, 2025 3:36 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Economic Occurrences Could Lead the US to Another 2008 (Crash in 2025 or 2026)

Angry Bear | March 30, 2025 7:00 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/03/economic-occurrences-could-lead-the-
us-to-another-2008


This particular piece (or partial) is taken from an article written in 2015. You can pick up the entire piece at “KelloggInsight.” It is an abbreviated version of the article detailing what took place in 2008. Our economy was on the verge of collapse. Goldman Sachs made a collateral call on AIG. The results of which led to Goldman’s collateral disputes with the financial products subsidiary held by A.I.G. It contributed to the government takeover of the insurer after pumping some $180 billion into it.

Why write about this now? I am beginning to think we may be on the path to another economic collapse after watching this administration and the president continuously dabbling in the economy with his on-and-off tariff demands, etc. His actions promote market instability.

What Went Wrong at AIG?
Unpacking the insurance giant’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
By Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson | Aug 3, 2015
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/what-went-wrong-at-ai
g


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

Democrats and Acorn were responsible for 2008.

Yes, the Rock-The-Vote Recession was caused by the Rock-The-Vote Election of 2006 where teenagers elected Democrats of the dumbest variety.
These Libtards took their House seats in Jan 2007.They started enacting their version of a Federal Budget, for FY2008.
FY2008 started 1 October 2007.
Within weeks, the economy and the markets reached their peak, and would not recover for many years, after the Tea Party Revolution.

Thanks, Kurt Loder.

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Monday, March 31, 2025 3:47 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
Economic Occurrences Could Lead the US to Another 2008 (Crash in 2025 or 2026)

Angry Bear | March 30, 2025 7:00 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/03/economic-occurrences-could-lead-the-
us-to-another-2008


This particular piece (or partial) is taken from an article written in 2015. You can pick up the entire piece at “KelloggInsight.” It is an abbreviated version of the article detailing what took place in 2008. Our economy was on the verge of collapse. Goldman Sachs made a collateral call on AIG. The results of which led to Goldman’s collateral disputes with the financial products subsidiary held by A.I.G. It contributed to the government takeover of the insurer after pumping some $180 billion into it.

Why write about this now? I am beginning to think we may be on the path to another economic collapse after watching this administration and the president continuously dabbling in the economy with his on-and-off tariff demands, etc. His actions promote market instability.

What Went Wrong at AIG?
Unpacking the insurance giant’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
By Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson | Aug 3, 2015
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/what-went-wrong-at-ai
g


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



Democrats and Acorn were responsible for 2008.
--------------------------------------------------

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

No, they weren't. GWB was.

Banks and other lender (Countrywide) were writing sketchy variable rate mortages that were bound to implode, bundling them into mortgage backed investments, insuring them thru AIG, and selling them in tranches.

He already explained Acorn was responsible. You don't need to repeat it or rephrase it.
Quote:


Altho various States Attorney General wanted to prosecute the banks, the GWB admin said it was a Federal matter, FORBADE prosecution at the state level and then...

He already explained Acorn was responsible. You don't need to repeat it or rephrase it.
Quote:



Obama dutifully bailed out banks

Which were merely complying with what he/ACORN had sued them for...
Quote:

and Bill set the stage by doing away with the Glass-Steagall bank regulation.


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Monday, March 31, 2025 3:54 AM

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Trump Administration

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations

The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

By Patricia Callahan | March 28, 2025, 4:35 p.m. EDT

https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report

The cancellation was “not normal at all,” said a CDC staff member who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal with layoffs looming. “I’ve never seen a rollout plan that was canceled at that far along in the process.”

Anxiety among CDC staff has been building over whether the agency will bend its public health messages to match those of Kennedy, a lawyer who founded an anti-vaccine group and referred clients to a law firm suing a vaccine manufacturer.

During Kennedy’s first week on the job, HHS halted the CDC campaign that encouraged people to get flu shots during a ferocious flu season. On the night that the Trump administration began firing probationary employees across the federal government, some key CDC flu webpages were taken down.

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

Then it didn't happen. Fuck your anon sources.

Which is it? measles or flu?
Are they the same thing now?

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Monday, March 31, 2025 4:01 AM

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7. White House Correspondents Association cancels comedian Amber Ruffin after post-inauguration booking, following backlash from Trump's deputy chief of staff.



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Amber Mildred Ruffin (born January 9, 1979)[1] is an American comedian, writer and actress.[2] She hosted her own late-night talk show titled The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock. She has been a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers since 2014. When she joined the show she became the first Black woman to write for a late-night network talk show in the United States.[3]

In January 2021, she co-authored a book with her sister Lacey Lamar titled You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism, which made the New York Times Best Seller list.[4][5][6] They released a second book, The World Record Book of Racist Stories, in 2022. In 2022, Ruffin and her writing partner Jenny Hagel co-founded their production company Straight to Cards under their overall deal with Universal Television.[7]

Wow. A DEI hire who wrote two books about muh racism.

I'll bet she's a laugh per minute.

You didn't even know who she was until this got lefty headlines today. Nobody knew who she was. She's was a writer for the least successful late night show during the entire time the late night shows started crashing and burning, and now Gutfield on cable news gets more viewers than any of the rest combined.

I guess you'll have to watch her wildly successful streaming show on peacock.

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

So they respond to a White House backlash by cancelling a DEI racist Libtard from their pointless dinner.

I'm not following the logic. Or the point.
I can't even tell if they confused Deputy Chief of Staff with Press Secretary.

Maybe they should hire a reporter to write their statements for them.

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Monday, March 31, 2025 4:07 AM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Economic Occurrences Could Lead the US to Another 2008 (Crash in 2025 or 2026)

Angry Bear | March 30, 2025 7:00 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/03/economic-occurrences-could-lead-the-
us-to-another-2008


This particular piece (or partial) is taken from an article written in 2015. You can pick up the entire piece at “KelloggInsight.” It is an abbreviated version of the article detailing what took place in 2008. Our economy was on the verge of collapse. Goldman Sachs made a collateral call on AIG. The results of which led to Goldman’s collateral disputes with the financial products subsidiary held by A.I.G. It contributed to the government takeover of the insurer after pumping some $180 billion into it.

Why write about this now? I am beginning to think we may be on the path to another economic collapse after watching this administration and the president continuously dabbling in the economy with his on-and-off tariff demands, etc. His actions promote market instability.

What Went Wrong at AIG?
Unpacking the insurance giant’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
By Robert McDonald and Anna Paulson | Aug 3, 2015
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/what-went-wrong-at-ai
g


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



Democrats and Acorn were responsible for 2008.
--------------------------------------------------

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

No, they weren't. GWB was.

Banks and other lender (Countrywide) were writing sketchy variable rate mortages that were bound to implode, bundling them into mortgage backed investments, insuring them thru AIG, and selling them in tranches.

He already explained Acorn was responsible. You don't need to repeat it or rephrase it.
Quote:


Altho various States Attorney General wanted to prosecute the banks, the GWB admin said it was a Federal matter, FORBADE prosecution at the state level and then...

He already explained Acorn was responsible. You don't need to repeat it or rephrase it.
Quote:



Obama dutifully bailed out banks

Which were merely complying with what he/ACORN had sued them for...
Quote:

and Bill set the stage by doing away with the Glass-Steagall bank regulation.




This.

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Monday, March 31, 2025 4:48 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Doods ...

Banks were writing sketchy mortgages because THEY WERE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY.
Investment banks were selling mortgage backed products because THEY WERE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY.
Nonbank lenders (had nothing to do with Acorn) were writing sketchy loans BECAUSE THEY WERE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY.
It was all about real estate speculation.
Everybody... lenders, buyers, realtors, contractors, insurers, hedge funds ... thought the home price escalator was always going up! up! up! and they were all going to be rich! rich! rich!

ANTHONYT, remember him?
He worked at a bank. Bank managers got commissions when they wrote mortgages. Banks count loans as assets, so bank worth kept going up and up. Then people took out home loans to buy stocks. AURAPTOR famously posted "The econony is on FIRE!“

It was like a fever.
But you seem to have forgotten. Or else you never understood.


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