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

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

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 5:10 PM

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GOP Senators Freak Out When Asked About Trump’s Military Parade Costing $145 Million

Out of 14 GOP senators, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the only one HuffPost talked to who criticized holding the parade. “If you ask me about a military parade, all the images that come to mind, the first images, are of the Soviet Union and North Korea,” he said.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senators-trump-military-parade-cost
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This is the first major national military parade in the U.S. since 1991. President George H. W. Bush held the event on June 8 that year, after the U.S. led a successful coalition in the Gulf War. (But Trump's birthday parade is of the greatest importance.)

https://time.com/7293222/us-national-military-parade-1991-bush-gulf-wa
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

I was thinking Gilligan should go to the military parade. Then I remembered he doesn't have a job, a cell phone, a car or enough money to get himself there. Since he doesn't have a girlfriend or a job, he does have the time.

As I've stated here before. Gilligan is not a mover and a shaker; he sits everything out on the sidelines and wines like a child.

T

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 6:55 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I haven't worked for 5 years and I still have more money than you've ever had at any single point of your life, Ted.

Oh... and a paid for house, and a paid for car, and an entire 2 1/2 car garage full of tools. And zero debt to anybody.

Keep pretending like you did well in that sad little lonely apartment you wish your dead whore of a mother were still alive to share with you.

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 7:01 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

The "whining" part is particularly funny too.

You ever go back and look at your post history, buddy? Even when your guy was in office for 4 years there was nothing but bitching out of you 12 times per day.

Here is the only reply you deserve on any post going forward...

You have no friends. You have no life. And now you are politically homeless.

Congratulations, cunt. You've earned it.

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 7:36 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

FINALLY

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House Approves Bill To Codify $9.4 Billion In DOGE Cuts To Foreign Aid, Public Media

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-approves-bill-codify-94-bill
ion-doge-cuts-foreign-aid-public-media

A drop in a swimming pool, but better than nothing.

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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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Thursday, June 12, 2025 8:12 PM

THG

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I haven't worked for 5 years and I still have more money than you've ever had at any single point of your life, Ted.

Oh... and a paid for house, and a paid for car, and an entire 2 1/2 car garage full of tools. And zero debt to anybody.

Keep pretending like you did well in that sad little lonely apartment you wish your dead whore of a mother were still alive to share with you.

Me, I'm just enjoying making you dance, jump through hoops Gilligan. I find making you constantly justify your very existence, enjoyable.

Are you starting to get it? Are you beginning to understand?

Laughing in your face again Gilligan.

T

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 8:22 PM

THG

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FINALLY

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House Approves Bill To Codify $9.4 Billion In DOGE Cuts To Foreign Aid, Public Media

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-approves-bill-codify-94-bill
ion-doge-cuts-foreign-aid-public-media

A drop in a swimming pool, but better than nothing.

"Estimates suggest that if the United States cuts or stops foreign aid, especially in the area of global health, there could be a significant increase in deaths globally. For example, one study estimates that a continued freeze in funding could lead to over 2.2 million additional tuberculosis (TB) deaths and 10.6 million additional TB cases by 2030. Another estimate suggests that if USAID funding cuts are not restored, more than 176,000 additional adults and children could die from HIV. These estimates highlight the potential devastating consequences of reduced foreign aid on global public health."

Yes, foreign aid is a drop in the bucket. Less than 1% of our budget comrade. And you're cheering about ending it. Oh yeah that's right, you are Russian scum. I almost forgot, almost.

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Friday, June 13, 2025 8:05 AM

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

Reverse Robin Hood and Trumpian Totalitarianism

Trump’s big beautiful bill is a sadistic monstrosity

By Paul Krugman | Jun 13, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reverse-robin-hood-and-trumpian-tot
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House Republicans have passed Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. After having spent decades covering Republican domestic policies, I have a pretty jaundiced view of their intentions. But this bill is so cruelly regressive that it shocked even me. This bill is truly unprecedented in the extent to which it takes away from the have-nots and gives to the ultra-haves. It slashes Medicaid, taking health care away from millions. It slashes food stamps, ensuring that many will go hungry. At the same time it gives huge tax cuts to the wealthy.

Those of us who followed the legislation knew that it would be highly regressive. New estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan agency of economic technocrats, confirm in detail just how bad the OBBBA is.

C.B.O.’s numbers, released yesterday, are startling. Here’s the percentage change in households’ purchasing power by decile of the income distribution caused by the OBBBA:

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-06/61387-Distributional-Effects.
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That 4 percent income decline for the poorest 10 percent of Americans is the scale of economic damage you’d expect from a severe recession. But here it is being deliberately inflicted on the poorest Americans.

In the OBBBA, pain on the least well-off Americans is not a price that is being paid in order to reduce the U.S. budget deficit. Remember, the benefit cuts for those in the bottom decile of the income distribution are being paired with tax cuts at the top of the income distribution. So the net effect will be a large increase in the U.S. budget deficit.

Wait, it gets worse. The CBO’s analysis doesn’t consider the effect of the Trump tariffs on household incomes. This is important because tariffs are taxes — regressive taxes, that fall more heavily on lower-income than higher-income families. I’ll be writing about the distributional impact of tariffs in the future. But for now here’s the Yale Budget Lab’s estimate of the combined effect of the OBBA and Trump tariffs on US household incomes:

What this graph shows is that the tariffs magnify the regressive effect of the OBBA: the poorest households are made even worse off. The loss inflicted on the bottom 10% of the income distribution goes from 4% of their income to 6.5%. Overall, the bottom 80% of households suffer a loss of income from the combined effects of the tariffs and the OBBA. Only the top 10% are clearly better off from a bill that increases the budget deficit. That’s quite a trick.

Republicans have already denounced the C.B.O.’s estimates as fake. (Arithmetic has a well-known liberal bias.) They claim, as they always do, that tax cuts for the rich will supercharge economic growth — a claim that has been tested to destruction, and I do mean destruction, over and over again at both the federal and state levels. It has never yet been vindicated.

The fact is that there’s no reasonable way to dispute the basic conclusion of the C.B.O.’s analysis. The Big Beautiful Bill is an immense exercise in reverse Robin-Hoodism, taking resources away from those who need them and giving the money to the already rich while driving up the deficit, increasing interest rates and crowding out investment..

The OBBBA is, in fact, so terrible that we need to ask how any party in a democracy imagines that it could get away with taking money away from 80% of the American public.

My answer is that the G.O.P.’s vicious tax and spending plans can’t be separated from the party’s contempt for democracy. The House has just enacted legislation that is desperately unpopular and would be even less popular if the public understood it fully. Why, then, did House members vote for it? Because they fear Donald Trump more than they fear the voters or because they don’t believe we will ever have fair elections again. Or both.

Also, what’s with the bill’s peculiar name? And yes, it is officially the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” While it might seem odd to focus on its name, there is a real, important link between a certain kind of vulgar tackiness and authoritarian rule. Milan Kundera, author of “The unbearable lightness of being,” called it “totalitarian kitsch.” By giving their bill a ludicrous name, because those were Trump’s words, G.O.P. politicians were engaging in performative self-abasement, demonstrating their willingness to humiliate themselves in order to curry favor with the Leader.

So by calling the legislation the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Republicans were in effect confirming that yes, Washington has turned into Pyongyang on the Potomac, where political survival depends on slavish flattery of the dictator.

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

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Friday, June 13, 2025 8:21 AM

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

Putin Has Won: The US Government Now Speaks His Narrative

And Trump Does Not Even Have To Give The Orders

By Phillips P. Obrien | Jun 13, 2025

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/putin-has-won-the-us-government
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Over the last few days, if you have not noticed, the two most important US cabinet members who have authority for American foreign and strategic policy released or made statements that previously would have been unthinkable and caused massive outrage. In this case, however, the statements caused only tiny ripples of disquiet. This is important—as now the US government is spreading the Russian narrative, and hardly a word of protest is said. And certainly there is never a retraction or walking back of things that would have been seen as extraordinary only a few months ago.

Yesterday the US State Department released an official statement congratulating Russia and Russians on their national day. It was signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and couched as a statement by Rubio himself. It started with this quote.

The United States remains committed to supporting the Russian people as they continue to build on their aspirations for a brighter future.
https://www.state.gov/releases/2025/06/russia-national-day/

Actually, the Russian people through their government are making claims to seize Ukrainian territory and kill Ukrainians, so needless to say people in the State Department, including Rubio himself, had to know that this was being deliberately provocative and would be widely noticed at this extraordinary time.

At the same time, in a series of Congressional testimonies over the last few days, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made a few notable statements. When it came to sanctions against Russia, Hegseth admitted that the US was, for all of Trump’s threats, not going to ramp up sanctions on Russia and that he (Hegseth) was fine with that. He claimed that the US did not have to use “every tool” at its disposal to make the Russians agree to peace.

This was only the start of a remarkable series of claims that the Secretary of Defense would make to different Congressional committees. Hegseth, for instance, refused to call Ukraine the victim in the war and refused to say that he wants Ukraine to “win” the war. https://kyivindependent.com/republicans-press-pentagon-chief-over-trum
ps-plan-to-end-russias-war-against-ukraine-politico-reports/

He even prevaricated on the question of whether the US would respond to a NATO article 5 request if Russia invaded a NATO country. https://x.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1933281069756793172

All of this has happened in the last few days—which btw saw the expiry of Trump’s two-week deadline during which he was to decide whether to bring in harsher sanctions on Russia. That deadline passed without the slightest comment from Trump or the Press—though the next time Trump makes one of his fake threats, we will undoubtedly hear about how he really, really, really might bring in harsh sanctions that time.

Now why are the Rubio and Hegseth statements worthy of note? They are actually evidence of the same phenomenon—Trump cabinet members are now speaking the Russian narrative instinctively, regularly and without the slightest hesitation. Russian reflexive control has so taken over US government thinking that the US national security state instantly acts in such a way to reinforce the Russian position.

I’m sure Trump did not have to give the State Department orders to congratulate Russia on its national day, nor did Trump tell Hegseth specifically to downplay any new sanctions on Russia or to the try and avoid the question of not honoring the US commitment to NATO—however both the heads of the State and Defense Departments are now operating with these assumptions inbuilt into their positions.

They know that this is what Trump would want them to do—and they do it without hesitation and prompting.

Its represents almost the complete triumph of Russian reflexive control—a concept I started talking about a few years ago.

At that point I mentioned how the Biden Administration’s fears of Russian nuclear escalation had been shaped by the Russian narrative so that the Russians had created a fear narrative that was shaping US policy.

This is worse, far worse. Now the US government on almost every foreign policy question and on a daily basis, speaks the Russian narrative. And they do it without Trump having to give orders for them to do so.

Putin has won.

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

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Friday, June 13, 2025 11:54 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Good.

Fuck Ukraine. Nobody cares.

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Friday, June 13, 2025 11:57 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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I haven't worked for 5 years and I still have more money than you've ever had at any single point of your life, Ted.

Oh... and a paid for house, and a paid for car, and an entire 2 1/2 car garage full of tools. And zero debt to anybody.

Keep pretending like you did well in that sad little lonely apartment you wish your dead whore of a mother were still alive to share with you.

You're not laughing in anyone's face, Theodore.

I doubt you've been face to face with anyone in real life for months, loser.

Everybody you know in real life hates you just like they do online.

You have no friends. You drove them all away with your politics. And your family is all dead. All you have left is your politics, and they're dying too.

You're liable to just fade away with them soon. And nobody will even be left to remember you when you do.

The sad truth is, son... I'm the closest thing you've got to a friend. I'm one of two people in your life that show you any attention at all. The other one is Sigs. There once was a third person, but you fucked that up, didn't you?

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