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Shut up faggot.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
6ix, what is stupidest about Trumptards


Shut up faggot.

Democrats are dead. If you don't stop talking about Trump every day you're never going to win anything ever again.

Grow the fuck up already and move on.

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

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Shut up faggot.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
6ix, what is stupidest about Trumptards


Shut up faggot.

Democrats are dead. If you don't stop talking about Trump every day you're never going to win anything ever again.

Grow the fuck up already and move on.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You Trumptards figured that taking over the government would change your lives. It won't because your problems aren't caused by America, but because you are lazy, stupid and mentally ill. You don't know yourselves but I do because I'm constantly flummoxed by how little Trumptards achieve compared to ordinary people.

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

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Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End

America’s run as the premiere techno-superpower may be over. (Because of Trump’s Winds of Change)

By Ross Andersen | July 31, 2025, 7 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/science-empire-ame
rica-decline/683711/

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, he studied the thermonuclear reactions that occur inside of stars. A few lab tables away, Andrei Sakharov was developing the hydrogen bomb. The Soviet space program would soon astonish the world by lofting the first satellite, and then the first human being, into orbit. Sagdeev can still remember the screaming crowds that greeted returning cosmonauts in Red Square. But even during those years of triumph, he could see corruption working its way through Soviet science like a slow-moving poison.

The danger had been present from the U.S.S.R.’s founding. The Bolsheviks who took power in 1917 wanted scientists sent to Arctic labor camps. (Vladimir Lenin intervened on their behalf.) When Joseph Stalin took power, he funded some research generously, but insisted that it conform to his ideology. Sagdeev said that his school books described Stalin as the father of all fields of knowledge, and credited the Soviets with every technological invention that had ever been invented. Later, at scientific conferences, Sagdeev heard physicists criticize the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics on the grounds that it conflicted with Marxism.

By 1973, when Sagdeev was made director of the Soviet Space Research Institute, the nation’s top center for space science, the Soviets had ceded leadership in orbit to NASA. American astronauts had flown around the moon and left a thousand bootprints on its surface. Sagdeev’s institute was short on money. Many people who worked there had the right Communist Party connections, but no scientific training. Eventually, he himself had to join the party. “It was the only way to secure stable funding,” he told me when we spoke in June.

In 1985, Sagdeev briefly gained the ear of power. Mikhail Gorbachev had just become general secretary at 54, young for the Soviet gerontocracy. He promised broad reforms and appointed Sagdeev as an adviser. The two traveled to Geneva together for Gorbachev’s first arms talks with Ronald Reagan. But Sagdeev’s view of Gorbachev began to dim when the premier filled important scientific positions with men whom Sagdeev saw as cronies.

In 1988, Sagdeev wrote a letter to Gorbachev to warn him that the leaders of the Soviet supercomputer program had deceived him. They claimed to be keeping pace with the United States, but had in fact fallen far behind, and would soon be surpassed by the Chinese. Gorbachev never replied. Sagdeev got a hint as to how his letter had been received when his invitation to join a state visit to Poland was abruptly withdrawn. “I was excommunicated,” he told me.

Sagdeev took stock of his situation. The future of Soviet science was looking grim. Within a few years, government funding would crater further. Sagdeev’s most talented colleagues were starting to slip out of the country. One by one, he watched them start new lives elsewhere. Many of them went to the U.S. At the time, America was the most compelling destination for scientific talent in the world. It would remain so until earlier this year.

I thought of Sagdeev on a recent visit to MIT. A scientist there, much celebrated in her field, told me that since Donald Trump’s second inauguration she has watched in horror as his administration has performed a controlled demolition on American science. Like many other researchers in the U.S., she’s not sure that she wants to stick around to dodge falling debris, and so she is starting to think about taking her lab abroad. (She declined to be named in this story so that she could speak openly about her potential plans.)

The very best scientists are like elite basketball players: They come to America from all over the world so that they can spend their prime years working alongside top talent. “It’s very hard to find a leading scientist who has not done at least some research in the U.S. as an undergraduate or graduate student or postdoc or faculty,” Michael Gordin, a historian of science and the dean of Princeton University’s undergraduate academics, told me. That may no longer be the case a generation from now.

Foreign researchers have recently been made to feel unwelcome in the U.S. They have been surveilled and harassed. The Trump administration has made it more difficult for research institutions to enroll them. Top universities have been placed under federal investigation. Their accreditation and tax-exempt status have been threatened. The Trump administration has proposed severe budget cuts at the agencies that fund American science—the NSF, the NIH, and NASA, among others—and laid off staffers in large numbers. Existing research grants have been canceled or suspended en masse. Committees of expert scientists that once advised the government have been disbanded. In May, the president ordered that all federally funded research meet higher standards for rigor and reproducibility—or else be subject to correction by political appointees.

Not since the Red Scare, when researchers at the University of California had to sign loyalty oaths, and those at the University of Washington and MIT were disciplined or fired for being suspected Communists, has American science been so beholden to political ideology. At least during the McCarthy era, scientists could console themselves that despite this interference, federal spending on science was surging. Today, it’s drying up.

Three-fourths of American scientists who responded to a recent poll by the journal Nature said they are considering leaving the country. They don’t lack for suitors. China is aggressively recruiting them, and the European Union has set aside a €500 million slush fund to do the same. National governments in Norway, Denmark, and France—nice places to live, all—have green-lighted spending sprees on disillusioned American scientists. The Max Planck Society, Germany’s elite research organization, recently launched a poaching campaign in the U.S., and last month, France’s Aix-Marseille University held a press conference announcing the arrival of eight American “science refugees.”

The MIT scientist who is thinking about leaving the U.S. told me that the Swiss scientific powerhouse ETH Zurich had already reached out about relocating her lab to its picturesque campus with a view of the Alps. A top Canadian university had also been in touch. These institutions are salivating over American talent, and so are others. Not since Sagdeev and other elite Soviet researchers were looking to get out of Moscow has there been a mass-recruiting opportunity like this.

Every scientific empire falls, but not at the same speed, or for the same reasons. In ancient Sumer, a proto-scientific civilization bloomed in the great cities of Ur and Uruk. Sumerians invented wheels that carried the king’s war chariots swiftly across the Mesopotamian plains. Their priest astronomers stood atop ziggurats watching the sky. But the Sumerians appear to have over-irrigated their farmland—a technical misstep, perhaps—and afterwards, their weakened cities were invaded, and the kingdom broke apart. They could no longer operate at the scientific vanguard.

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of plague, chaos, and impoverishment. But not every case of scientific decline has played out this way. Some civilizations have willfully squandered their scientific advantage.

Spanish science, for example, suffered grievously during the Inquisition. Scientists feared for their lives. They retreated from pursuits and associations that had a secular tinge and thought twice before corresponding with suspected heretics. The exchange of ideas slowed in Spain, and its research excellence declined relative to the rest of Europe. In the 17th century, the Spanish made almost no contribution to the ongoing Scientific Revolution.

The Soviets sabotaged their own success in biomedicine. In the 1920s, the U.S.S.R. had one of the most advanced genetics programs in the world, but that was before Stalin empowered Trofim Lysenko, a political appointee who didn’t believe in Mendelian inheritance. Lysenko would eventually purge thousands of apostate biologists from their jobs, and ban the study of genetics outright. Some of the scientists were tossed into the Gulag; others starved or faced firing squads. As a consequence of all this, the Soviets played no role in the discovery of DNA’s double-helix structure. When the ban on “anti-Marxist” genetics was finally lifted, Gordin told me, the U.S.S.R. was a generation behind in molecular biology and couldn’t catch up.

But it was Adolf Hitler who possessed the greatest talent for scientific self-harm. Germany had been a great scientific power going back to the late 19th century. Germans had pioneered the modern research university by requiring that professors not only transmit knowledge but advance it, too. During the early 20th century, German scientists racked up Nobel Prizes. Physicists from greater Europe and the U.S. converged on Berlin, Göttingen, and Munich to hear about the strange new quantum universe from Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, and Albert Einstein.

When the Nazis took over in 1933, Hitler purged Germany’s universities of Jewish professors and others who opposed his rule. Many scientists were murdered. Others fled the country. Quite a few settled in America. That’s how Einstein got to Princeton. After Hans Bethe was dismissed from his professorship in Tübingen, he landed at Cornell. Then he went to MIT to work on the radar technology that would reveal German U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. Some historians have argued that radar was more important to Allied victory than the Manhattan Project. But of course, that, too, was staffed with European scientific refugees, including Leo Szilard, a Jewish physicist who fled Berlin the year that Hitler took power; Edward Teller, who went on to build the first hydrogen bomb; and John von Neumann, who invented the architecture of the modern computer.

In a very short time, the center of gravity for science just up and moved across the Atlantic Ocean. After the war, it was American scientists who most regularly journeyed to Stockholm to receive medals. It was American scientists who built on von Neumann’s work to take an early lead in the Information Age that the U.S. has still not relinquished. And it was American scientists who developed the vaccines for polio and measles.

During the postwar period, Vannevar Bush, head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development under FDR, sought to make America’s advantage in the sciences permanent. Bush hadn’t liked the way that the U.S. had to scramble to staff up the radar and atomic-bomb projects. He wanted a robust supply of scientists on hand at American universities in case the Cold War turned hot. He argued for the creation of the National Science Foundation to fund basic research, and promised that its efforts would improve both the economy and national defense.

Funding for American science has fluctuated in the decades since. It spiked after Sputnik and dipped at the end of the Cold War. But until Trump took power for the second time and began his multipronged assault on America’s research institutions, broad support for science was a given under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science at the University of York. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

I reached out to the office of Michael Kratsios, the president’s science and technology adviser, several times while reporting this story. I asked whether Kratsios, who holds the role that once belonged to Vannevar Bush, had any response to the claim that the Trump administration’s attack on science was unprecedented. I asked about the possibility that its policies will drive away American researchers, and will deter foreigners from working in American labs. I was hoping to find out how the man responsible for maintaining U.S. scientific dominance was engaging with this apparent slide into mediocrity. I did not receive a reply.

All is not yet lost for American science. Lawmakers have already made clear that they do not intend to approve Trump’s full requested cuts at the NIH, NSF, and NASA. Those agencies will still have access to tens of billions of dollars in federal funds next year—and blue-state attorneys general have won back some of this year’s canceled grants in court. Research institutions still have some fight left in them; some are suing the administration for executive overreach. Universities in red states are hoping that their governors will soon summon the courage to take a stand on their behalf. “Politically speaking, it’s one thing to shut down research at Harvard,” Steven Shapin, a science historian at the school, told me. “It’s another thing to shut down the University of Arkansas.”

The U.S. government doesn’t bankroll all of American scientific research. Philanthropists and private companies support some of it, and will continue to. The U.S. shouldn’t face the kind of rapid collapse that occurred in the Soviet Union, where no robust private sector existed to absorb scientists. But even corporations with large R&D budgets don’t typically fund open-ended inquiry into fundamental scientific questions. With the possible exception of Bell Labs in its heyday, they focus on projects that have immediate commercial promise. Their shareholders would riot if they dumped $10 billion into a space telescope or particle collider that takes decades to build and generates little revenue.

A privatized system of American science will be distorted toward short-term work, and people who want to run longer-term experiments with more expensive facilities will go elsewhere. “American science could lose a whole generation,” Shapin said. “Young people are already starting to get the message that science isn’t as valued as it once was.”

If the U.S. is no longer the world’s technoscientific superpower, it will almost certainly suffer for the change. America’s technology sector might lose its creativity. But science itself, in the global sense, will be fine. The deep human curiosities that drive it do not belong to any nation-state. An American abdication will only hurt America, Shapin said. Science might further decentralize into a multipolar order like the one that held during the 19th century, when the British, French, and Germans vied for technical supremacy.

Or maybe, by the midway point of the 21st century, China will be the world’s dominant scientific power, as it was, arguably, a millennium ago. The Chinese have recovered from Mao Zedong’s own squandering of expertise during the Cultural Revolution. They have rebuilt their research institutions, and Xi Jinping’s government keeps them well funded. China’s universities now rank among the world’s best, and their scientists routinely publish in Science, Nature, and other top journals. Elite researchers who were born in China and then spent years or even decades in U.S. labs have started to return. What the country can’t yet do well is recruit elite foreign scientists, who by dint of their vocation tend to value freedom of speech.

Whatever happens next, existing knowledge is unlikely to be lost, at least not en masse. Humans are better at preserving it now, even amid the rise and fall of civilizations. Things used to be more touch-and-go: The Greek model of the cosmos might have been forgotten, and the Copernican revolution greatly delayed, had Islamic scribes not secured it in Baghdad’s House of Wisdom. But books and journals are now stored in a network of libraries and data centers that stretches across all seven continents, and machine translation has made them understandable by any scientist, anywhere. Nature’s secrets will continue to be uncovered, even if Americans aren’t the ones who see them first.

In 1990, Roald Sagdeev moved to America. He found leaving the Soviet Union difficult. His two brothers lived not far from his house in Moscow, and when he said goodbye to them, he worried that it would be for the last time. Sagdeev thought about going to Europe, but the U.S. seemed more promising. He’d met many Americans on diplomatic visits there, including his future wife. He’d befriended others while helping to run the Soviet half of the Apollo-Soyuz missions. When Carl Sagan visited the Soviet Space Research Institute in Moscow, Sagdeev had shown him around, and the two remained close.

To avoid arousing the suspicions of the Soviet authorities, Sagdeev flew to Hungary first, and only once he was safely there did he book a ticket to the U.S. He accepted a professorship at the University of Maryland and settled in Washington, D.C. It took him years to ride out the culture shock. He still remembers being pulled over for a traffic infraction, and mistakenly presenting his Soviet ID card.

American science is what ultimately won Sagdeev over to his new home. He was awestruck by the ambition of the U.S. research agenda, and he liked that it was backed by real money. He appreciated that scientists could move freely between institutions, and didn’t have to grovel before party leaders to get funding. But when I last spoke with Sagdeev, on July 4, he was feeling melancholy about the state of American science. Once again, he is watching a great scientific power in decline. He has read about the proposed funding cuts in the newspaper. He has heard about a group of researchers who are planning to leave the country. Sagdeev is 92 years old, and has no plans to join them. But as an American, it pains him to see them go.

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

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Shut up faggot.

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6ix, what is stupidest about Trumptards


Shut up faggot.

Democrats are dead. If you don't stop talking about Trump every day you're never going to win anything ever again.

Grow the fuck up already and move on.


Heading toward midterm elections, Democrats not up off the floor

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3486750/midterm-elections-d
emocratic-party-polling/

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Politico’s Andrew Howard reports that former Democrats Brian Bengs in South Dakota (Trump +29 in 2024) and Todd Achilles in Idaho (Trump +36) are joining former Democrat Dan Osborn of Nebraska (Trump +20) to run for senator as self-declared independents, with no credible Democrat in the race.

Osborn did so in 2024, scaring incumbent Republican Rep. Deb Fischer while losing by only 6 points. This was an improvement on Greg Orman’s 2014 independent candidacy in Kansas, where he lost by 11 points in a state that was +22 Republican for president two years before.

Why are these Democrats, some in states such as South Dakota and Nebraska that have reelected Democratic senators in recent years, shunning the Democratic label? Most likely because, in a country of increased straight-ticket voting, they believe the Democratic label is political poison.

After four years of the Biden administration, the Pew Research Center said the presidential electorate moved from +6 Democratic in 2020 to +1 Republican in 2024, with Republicans close to equal among under-30 voters. “For months now,” Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini notes, “We’ve observed a new trend in polling: the Democratic party’s favorability ratings have fallen below the GOP’s. That’s hardly ever happened before.”

The Wall Street Journal’s July 16-20 poll shows that 63% of voters have negative feelings about the Democrats, the highest since 1990. That poll also showed Republicans maintaining their 2024 lead in party identification, in sharp contrast to Trump’s first term. And it showed pluralities of voters favored Republicans even on issues on which majorities disapproved of Donald Trump’s most recent actions, including the economy, tariffs, immigration, foreign policy, and Ukraine.

It looks like the Democrats’ baggage, especially from the Biden years, is heavier than the loads Trump Republicans must juggle. Democrats’ credibility has been damaged as their arguments, one after another, have proven to be based on lies: the Russia collusion hoax, COVID-19 school closings, “transitory” inflation, the Hunter Biden laptop, and open borders immigration.

All of which suggests that Democrats’ hopes of overturning the Republicans’ 53-47 Senate majority may rest more on independents running in Trump-heavy states than on purple state Democrats. And, despite conventional wisdom, there’s a cognizable chance that Republicans will not lose the narrow 220-215 majority they won in the House of Representatives in 2020.

Once upon a time, in the split-ticket voting era, Democrats maintained their large House majority in 1972 despite Richard Nixon’s 61% landslide by winning fully half the seats in House districts Nixon carried. Those days are gone. In 2024, voters in only 16 House districts split their ticket between president and congressman.

The Democrats’ problem is that Republicans are defending only three districts carried by former Vice President Kamala Harris, while Democrats are defending 13 seats won by Donald Trump. That’s one of the reasons that Steve Kornacki, to the dismay of his MSNBC audience, says Republicans could hold on to the House.

Meanwhile, Harry Enten dismays his CNN audience by pointing out that the narrow leads Democrats enjoy in House generic vote polling leave them not nearly as well-positioned for 2026 as they were at this point in 2005 and 2017 for their big gains in 2006 and 2018.

Core Democratic hatred of and obsession with Donald Trump will certainly have them stomping to the off-year polls, and Trump Republicans’ newly biracial and young male coalition may not be similarly motivated. But Republican gains are widespread while Democratic gains are scarcely visible. As Bloomberg columnist Conor Sen writes, “It’s currently not possible to identify any cohort of potential first-time Dem voters.”

Trump has gained a percentage over three elections, as the New York Times’s brilliant graphics pointed out. In 1,433 counties with 42 million people, while his Democratic opponents gained three times in only 57 counties with 8 million people. “For years, the belief was Democrats have had demographic destiny on our side,” Jewish Insider’s Josh Kraushaar tweeted, “Now, the inverse is true.”

The veteran liberal reporter Thomas Edsall portrays in his New York Times online column a “realignment with staying power” and fears. “The real possibility that discontent with the Democratic party—its perceived failure to value work, its political correctness, the extremity of its social and cultural liberalism—might have become deeply embedded in the electorate.”

THE GENDER GAP GROWS WIDER AND WIDER

Meanwhile, the economic numbers are coming in more positively than those who predicted doom in April from Trump’s tariffs (I called them “lunatic”), and as analyst Nate Silver writes, “There remains a strong case that voters are concerned about the economy and the cost of living, but that everything else is priced in.” As for the fuss over the Epstein tapes, Silver writes, “It looks like we’re back to the usual pattern: the overwhelming majority of voters either already hate Trump, or are happy to shrug off his scandals.”

“The country is moving toward Trump,” says Chris Matthews, onetime staffer for Jimmy Carter and Tip O’Neill. “They want a president who is a strong figure. And he‘s got it. And half the country buys it.” Nothing’s inevitable in politics, but so far, the Democrats have not gotten up off the floor.


Figure it out.

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Donald Trump Is Turning the White House Into Mar-a-Lago

“There’s never been a president that’s good at ballrooms,” Trump said on Thursday.

By Edith Olmsted | July 31, 2025 5:31 p.m. ET

https://newrepublic.com/post/198679/donald-trump-turning-white-house-m
ar-a-lago

Donald Trump is finally getting his wish to turn the White House into the gaudy resort he calls home by adding a $200 million ballroom.

The White House announced that it would begin construction in September on a 90,000 square foot ballroom that can seat 650 people.

Yes, Trump is laser focused on the issues that matter most to Americans: Replacing the “large and unsightly” tent that typically hosts guests just 100 yards away from the building.

During a press conference Thursday afternoon, Trump confirmed that he wouldn’t spend any taxpayer dollars on the $200 million project. “It’s a private thing yeah, and we’ll probably have some donors,” he said.

“They’ve wanted a ballroom at the White House for more than 150 years, but there’s never been a president that’s good at ballrooms,” he added.

Trump said the expansion would not “interfere” with the White House. “It’ll be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building,”

Trump’s mission to add a gaudy event hall to the White House didn’t come out of nowhere—he claims that he’s pitched it to the last two presidents. During a press conference in February, Trump said he’d asked Joe Biden about building a ballroom in the White House, offering to have it built himself.

“I was going to build a beautiful, beautiful ballroom like I’ve done before,” Trump said. “It would cost $100 million. I told them again and again. They didn’t know what to do. They had no idea.”

He made a similar claim on the presidential campaign trail in 2016, telling his supporters that he’d offered to have a ballroom built for the Obamas.

Trump has already begun a massive decor overhaul at the White House, gilding the Oval Office with gaudy gold detailing and ornate crown molding, plastering a golden Trump crest above the door, and shipping in golden cherub statues straight from Mar-a-Lago, according to The Daily Beast.

It’s clear that Trump much prefers the luxury aesthetics of his resort home, and with the dismal report card he’s received in office so far, the president should feel free to pack his bags any time.

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

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Donald Trump Is Turning the White House Into Mar-a-Lago

“There’s never been a president that’s good at ballrooms,” Trump said on Thursday.

By Edith Olmsted | July 31, 2025 5:31 p.m. ET

https://newrepublic.com/post/198679/donald-trump-turning-white-house-m
ar-a-lago

Donald Trump is finally getting his wish to turn the White House into the gaudy resort he calls home by adding a $200 million ballroom.


Who gives a flying fuck.

What is your problem?

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Who gives a flying fuck.

What is your problem?

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Trump and his Trumptards are jerks who deface whatever they touch. Fat, ugly people with ugly lives who make a historic building, the White House, look like a turd painted gold. Next, Trump will carve his face on Mount Rushmore near George Washington because he is an asshole.

Full List of GOP Bills to Put Trump's Name or Face on Things
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-gop-efforts-put-trumps-name-face-th
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Trump/Brazil: Delusions of Grandeur Go South
Trump thinks he can rule the world, but he doesn’t have the juice

By Paul Krugman | Aug 01, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumpbrazil-delusions-of-grandeur

Donald Trump isn’t “winning his trade war.” He’s imposing a lot of tariffs, and so far nobody has stopped him even though his actions are clearly illegal. But “winning” a trade war, if it means anything, means using tariffs to extract meaningful concessions from other countries. And while some major trading partners, notably the European Union, are humoring Trump by pretending to make concessions, when you look at what they’re actually doing it’s just vaporware.

Is Trump an incompetent negotiator, easily hoodwinked? Maybe. But more fundamentally, he just doesn’t have the juice. The U.S. market is big, and denying other countries access to that market hurts them. But it doesn’t hurt them that much, and anyone imagining that America can use the threat of tariffs to force major policy changes abroad is suffering from delusions of grandeur.

Consider the case of Brazil.

In some ways Trump’s dealings with Brazil are exceptional, even in the context of his unprecedented break with 90 years of U.S. tariff policy. For one thing, Brazil is facing 50 percent tariffs — considerably higher than anyone else.

For another, Trump’s demands on Brazil are different in kind from what he’s demanding from anyone else. The European Union and Japan have been targeted because of alleged unfair trade practices, although exactly what these practices are has never been clear. Canada is being targeted over claims that it’s a major source of fentanyl, which is a lie but would be a real grievance if it were true. But Trump has explicitly linked tariffs on Brazil to the nation’s temerity in trying Jair Bolsonaro, the former president, for attempting to overturn an election he lost.

So Trump is an enemy of democracy and accountability for would-be authoritarians, but we knew that. Beyond that, it’s utterly illegal for a U.S. president to use tariffs in an attempt to influence another nation’s internal politics. Presidents do have considerable discretion in tariff-setting, but there are a limited number of allowed reasons for imposing temporary tariffs:

• To give a U.S. industry a breathing space against an import surge (Section 201)

• To preserve an industry essential to national security (Section 232)

• Unfair foreign practices (Section 301 and anti-dumping duties)

Presidents can also claim additional powers during an economic emergency — but Trump keeps insisting that the U.S. economy is doing great, which presumably means that there is no emergency.

Now, just about everything Trump has been doing on trade is illegal, but in the case of Brazil it’s completely blatant. I don’t think even the most cleverly unscrupulous lawyer could find anything in U.S. law that gives a president the right to impose tariffs on a nation, not for economic reasons, but because he doesn’t like what its judiciary is doing. (Famous last words?)

So the confrontation with Brazil illustrates in especially stark form the lawlessness of Trump’s tariff spree. It also, however, illustrates the gap between the amount of power Trump apparently thinks he has and the reality.

I keep seeing articles saying that the United States is Brazil’s second-most-important trading partner. That’s not even true, unless you ignore the fact that when it comes to international trade the European Union lives up to its name, presenting a unified front on tariffs. In any case, you should realize that we really don’t loom very large in Brazil’s overall export picture. Here’s the breakdown for last year:

Source: International Monetary Fund

Do Trump and his advisors really think they can use tariffs to bully a nation of more than 200 million people into dropping its efforts to defend democracy, when it sells 88 percent of its exports to countries other than the United States?

Wait, there’s more: The Trump administration has exempted fresh orange juice — 90 percent of which is imported from Brazil — from its tariff. Apparently we need what Brazil sells us. And this is an implicit admission that, contrary to Trump’s constant assertions, U.S. consumers rather than foreign exporters pay tariffs.

What some of us want to know is why orange juice, which people can live without, is getting a break, while coffee, an absolutely essential nutrient, isn’t.

Sure enough, the tariffs seem to be backfiring politically. In an echo of what happened in Canada, where Trump’s pressure clearly saved the incumbent Liberal government from massive electoral losses, the threats against Brazil have done wonders for the popularity of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the current president:

Source: The Economist

As I said, Trump may think he can rule the world, but he doesn’t have the juice, orange or otherwise. In fact, he is unintentionally giving the world a lesson in the limits of U.S. power.

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

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Friday, August 1, 2025 7:23 AM

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Who gives a flying fuck.

What is your problem?

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Trump


Name one thing you were complaining about 3 weeks ago without looking back on your post history or googling it.

Shut up, you whiny little faggot.

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Friday, August 1, 2025 7:38 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Name one thing you were complaining about 3 weeks ago without looking back on your post history or googling it.

Shut up, you whiny little faggot.

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A pediatric surgeon explains what RFK Jr.'s minions are doing to her patients.

RFK Jr.’s Movement Is Hurting Children. I See It Every Day at Work.

Trump’s health secretary is trying to convince Americans that their doctors are not to be trusted. He’s succeeding.

By Caitlin A. Smith | Aug 01, 2025 5:40 AM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/08/rfk-jr-maha-vaccines-docto
rs-influencers.html

I was standing in the emergency department at 11 p.m. under dingy hospital fluorescent lighting. My recommendation for the child I was evaluating was clear. They were ill, and they needed surgery. It was my clinical opinion, and scientific fact, that the patient would get worse, and likely develop sepsis, without it. But as the conversation wound down, I could see the parents’ skepticism for my surgical plan. Before I knew it, the family was asking to leave—and comparing my recommended (and routine) surgery to lobotomizing their child.

It’s a pattern I’ve seen explode in recent months: When it comes to parents and recommendations for treating their sick children, they, with much greater frequency, regurgitate pseudoscientific claims about vaccine safety, reiterate warnings about food quality causing all chronic disease, and try to discredit scientific research by way of Google Scholar. At an alarming rate, patients seem to understand medical treatments as a matter of opinion, rather than a thoughtful evaluation of a patient’s health informed by years of learned clinical judgment.

The end result? Parents turn away from the medical care their children need and toward remedies that won’t help—or could even do more harm.

But why? Who’s convincing all these well-meaning parents that doctors’ judgments aren’t to be trusted?

It’s the Make America Healthy Again movement, a network of online influencers, government pundits, and (a few) fringe doctors working to redefine the public’s view of health. The movement has been growing for years, but it has escalated in influence and popularity this year thanks to President Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a vaccine denier and chronic peddler of misinformation who serves as MAHA’s patron saint—as the nation’s secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. And with this selection, unconventional doctors and online “health” influencers are increasingly backed by the messaging power of and sanctioned by the U.S. government.

MAHA disciples advocate for public health reform through targeted talking points on reducing processed foods, emphasizing individual choice in health care, and minimizing special interests in Big Pharma and the medical “establishment.”

Through a superficial lens, selling a healthier lifestyle doesn’t seem nefarious or politically motivated. As a pediatric surgeon, I have seen the public health effects of chronic disease and poor nutrition. Processed foods are also not great for children, and we should all have more choice and clarity about what we put into our bodies.

But delve just a little deeper into the MAHA message and it becomes clear that this interest in wellness is all but a shroud for a range of conspiracy theories and schemes for financial gain. The movement doesn’t just question the food people are putting in their bodies: It undermines modern medicine by casting a shadow over all medical recommendations, especially the research behind them.

The result is that MAHA adherents view doctors as, at best, just another voice in a chorus of health influencers—and at worst as self-interested profiteers pushing unneeded treatments.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/08/rfk-jr-maha-vaccines-docto
rs-influencers.html

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

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Name one thing you were complaining about 3 weeks ago without looking back on your post history or googling it.


On July 7, SECOND was spamming the board with its usual inchoate propaganda.

Eleven posts! It was a banner day!

And SECOND can't remember a single one.


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"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

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Friday, August 1, 2025 2:39 PM

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SIX, to SECOND
Name one thing you were complaining about 3 weeks ago without looking back on your post history or googling it.


On July 7, SECOND was spamming the board with its usual inchoate propaganda.

Eleven posts! It was a banner day!

And SECOND can't remember a single one.
That's funny because I count one post, not eleven:

Trump Admin Insider Blows Lid Off Tariffs: ‘It’s All Fake’

A source close to the MAGA administration suggested the president’s “deals” are all theatrics MADE FOR TV

By Will Neal | Jul. 7 2025 12:00AM EDT

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-insider-blows-lid-off-tariff
s-its-all-fake/

Signym, that was posted at http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=66397&mid=12229
43#1222943

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

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Friday, August 1, 2025 5:02 PM

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SIX, to SECOND
Name one thing you were complaining about 3 weeks ago without looking back on your post history or googling it.


On July 7, SECOND was spamming the board with its usual inchoate propaganda.

Eleven posts! It was a banner day!

And SECOND can't remember a single one.


Sounds about right.

He's no doubt posted over 1,000 anti-Trump headlines since inauguration day. And they've all amounted to nothing.

How do you determine quality over quantity when both are wading in a puddle of dog shit?

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Sounds about right.

He's no doubt posted over 1,000 anti-Trump headlines since inauguration day. And they've all amounted to nothing.

How do you determine quality over quantity when both are wading in a puddle of dog shit?
The jobs numbers were bad — so Trump fired the messenger

The abrupt dismissal of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, briefly explained.

By Andrew Prokop | Aug 1, 2025, 4:05 PM CDT

https://www.vox.com/politics/422144/trump-jobs-economy-bls-fired

What happened? On Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which is part of the Labor Department, released its latest employment numbers, and the news wasn’t good for the US economy.

The US added 73,000 jobs in July, which was well below the 100,000 jobs economists had expected. But, even worse, the previously released jobs reports from May and June were revised dramatically downward. It turns out that, in those two months combined, the US added 258,000 fewer jobs than the BLS had initially thought. https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs-report-july-2025-unemployment-ec
onomy-8bc3ad8e?mod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_1

How did Trump react? Subsequent revisions to initial calculations are a normal and longstanding part of the messy process of collecting real-world economic data. But Trump has long insisted they are part of a politicized plot against him.

When BLS released similar downward revisions in August 2024, Trump complained that the Biden administration was “caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics to hide the true extent of the Economic Ruin they have inflicted upon America.” https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113000759733113915

Now, in a Truth Social post this afternoon, Trump announced he would fire BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer. Trump deemed McEntarfer an untrustworthy “Biden appointee” (she was a career civil servant). He asserted that she “faked” the 2024 jobs numbers to help Biden and “RIGGED” the new job numbers to hurt Republicans. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114954846612623858

Will Trump cook jobs numbers in the future? This would seem to create an incentive for the next BLS commissioner to either “adjust” the jobs numbers to Trump’s liking — or be fired.

Politicization of economic data is something that typically happens in authoritarian regimes or economic basket cases, and it would be a grim trend if it started happening here.

That may be difficult to pull off in practice, though. “I don’t think Trump will be able to fake the data given the procedures,” Harvard economist Jason Furman wrote on X, though he acknowledged “there is now a risk.” https://x.com/jasonfurman/status/1951352023221190733

Furthermore, there are many other economic statistics collected by the federal government, states, and businesses — so any effort to cover up the state of the US economy will be doomed to fail. (Which is why Trump’s initial conspiracy theories about the BLS under Biden made no sense.)

What’s the bigger picture? Trump is continuing in his push to politicize every inch of the federal government — in keeping with the right-wing insistence that nonpartisan, technocratic experts can’t be trusted because they’re all liberals. Experts aren’t perfect — but if they get purged from the government, we’ll miss them when they’re gone.

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

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Friday, August 1, 2025 6:27 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Sounds about right.

He's no doubt posted over 1,000 anti-Trump headlines since inauguration day. And they've all amounted to nothing.

How do you determine quality over quantity when both are wading in a puddle of dog shit?
The jobs numbers were bad — so Trump fired the messenger


The numbers were fine, faggot.

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Friday, August 1, 2025 8:00 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

The numbers were fine, faggot.
The numbers are NOT fine:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Aug 01, 2025, 1:09 PM

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114954846612623858

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

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Friday, August 1, 2025 10:23 PM

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The numbers were fine, faggot.
The numbers are NOT fine:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee,


Yeah. I guess you were over-counting job numbers the entire 4 years that Biden* was in office and the idiot that you morons hired never got the memo he was supposed to stop lying about job numbers as of January 20th, 2025.

Sounds like a you problem.

In the meantime, the numbers are fine, faggot.

Why don't you go back to crying about the imaginary 300,000 kids that were murdered when USAid was shut down, huh?

Nobody gives a single fuck what you have to post, idiot. Your party is responsible for all the problems in this country and everyone is seeing that now.

You are irrelevant. Your time is done. You have no voice and you have no party left.

My advice to you would be to try to enjoy the last few years of your life instead of letting Trump rule over them like he has for the last decade.

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Friday, August 1, 2025 11:05 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Hey Second.

How bout you make us a cool Firefly picture or something this weekend.


You could even have Trump in it getting mauled by reavers or looming in the background like Emperor Palpatine, but wearing blue nitrile gloves and a sinister smile if it makes you feel better.

Maybe a shadow over most of his face but a faint orange glow that always surrounds him, even in the dark.

Two by Two, the Hands of Blue...

hid the terror true of the Orange Poo.





The sky ain't falling dude. Live a little.

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Quote:
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Name one thing you were complaining about 3 weeks ago without looking back on your post history or googling it.


On July 7, SECOND was spamming the board with its usual inchoate propaganda.

Eleven posts! It was a banner day!

And SECOND can't remember a single one.
That's funny because I count one post, not eleven:

Trump Admin Insider Blows Lid Off Tariffs: ‘It’s All Fake’

A source close to the MAGA administration suggested the president’s “deals” are all theatrics MADE FOR TV

By Will Neal | Jul. 7 2025 12:00AM EDT

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-insider-blows-lid-off-tariff
s-its-all-fake/

Signym, that was posted at http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=66397&mid=12229
43#1222943

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


Touch your name on the screen.

It will pop up with a SEND ME A MESSAGE page that no longer works, and underneath is a listing of RECENT POSTS.

Below that to the right is VIEW ALL POSTS.

Touch that and wait. You've posted a lot, so just scroll, scroll, scroll your boat ...

It seems you don't pay attention to your posts either.


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Hey Second.

How bout you make us a cool Firefly picture or something this weekend.


You could even have Trump in it getting mauled by reavers or looming in the background like Emperor Palpatine, but wearing blue nitrile gloves and a sinister smile if it makes you feel better.

Maybe a shadow over most of his face but a faint orange glow that always surrounds him, even in the dark.

Two by Two, the Hands of Blue...

hid the terror true of the Orange Poo.





The sky ain't falling dude. Live a little.
The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved

Turns out it wasn’t actually that strong.

By Rogé Karma | August 1, 2025, 4:02 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/08/trump-tariffs-econ
omic-data/683740/
or https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-mystery-of-the-strong-econ
omy-has-finally-been-solved/ar-AA1JKlXO

The Trump economy doesn’t look so hot after all. This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released revised data showing that, over the past three months, the U.S. labor market experienced its worst quarter since 2010, other than during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. The timing was awkward. Hours earlier, President Donald Trump had announced a huge new slate of tariffs, set to take effect next week. He’d been emboldened by the fact that the economy had remained strong until now despite economists’ warnings—a fact that turned out not to be a fact at all.

After Trump announced his first sweeping round of “Liberation Day” tariffs, in April, the country appeared to be on the verge of economic catastrophe. The stock market plunged, the bond market nearly melted down, expectations of future inflation skyrocketed, and experts predicted a recession.

But the crisis never came. Trump walked back or delayed his most extreme threats, and those that he kept didn’t seem to inflict much economic damage. Month after month, economists predicted that evidence of the negative impact of tariffs in the economic data was just around the corner. Instead, according to the available numbers, inflation remained stable, job growth remained strong, and the stock market set new records.

The Trump administration took the opportunity to run a victory lap. “Lots of folks predicted that it would end the world; there would be some sort of disastrous outcome,” Stephen Miran, the chair of Trump’s council of economic advisers, said of Trump’s tariffs in an interview with ABC News early last month. “And once again, tariff revenue is pouring in. There’s no sign of any economically significant inflation whatsoever, and job creation remains healthy.” A July 9 White House press release declared, “President Trump was right (again),” touting strong jobs numbers and mild inflation. “President Trump is overseeing another economic boom,” it concluded.

The seemingly strong data spurred soul-searching among journalists and economists. “The Economy Seems Healthy. Were the Warnings About Tariffs Overblown?” read a representative New York Times headline. Commentators scrambled to explain how the experts could have gotten things so wrong. Maybe it was because companies had stocked up on imported goods before the tariffs had come into effect; maybe the economy was simply so strong that it was impervious to Trump’s machinations; maybe economists were suffering from “tariff derangement syndrome.” Either way, the possibility that Trump had been right, and the economists wrong, had to be taken seriously.

The sky’s refusal to fall likely influenced the Trump administration’s decision to press ahead with more tariffs. In recent months, Trump has imposed 25 percent tariffs on car parts and 50 percent tariffs on copper, steel, and aluminum. He has threatened 200 percent tariffs on pharmaceuticals. Over the past week, Trump announced trade deals under which the European Union, Japan, and South Korea agreed to accept a 15 percent tariff on exports to the United States. Finally, this morning, he announced a sweeping set of new tariffs, a sort of Liberation Day redux, including a 39 percent levy on Switzerland, 25 percent on India, and 20 percent on Vietnam. These are scheduled to take effect on August 7 unless those countries can negotiate a deal.

Then came the new economic data. This morning, the BLS released its monthly jobs report, showing that the economy added just 73,000 new jobs last month—well below the 104,000 that forecasters had expected—and that unemployment rose slightly, to 4.2 percent. More important, the new report showed that jobs numbers for the previous two months had been revised down considerably after the agency received a more complete set of responses from the businesses it surveys monthly. What had been reported as a strong two-month gain of 291,000 jobs was revised down to a paltry 33,000. What had once looked like a massive jobs boom ended up being a historically weak quarter of growth.

Even that might be too rosy a picture. All the net gains of the past three months came from a single sector, health care, without which the labor market would have lost nearly 100,000 jobs. That’s concerning because health care is one of the few sectors that is mostly insulated from broader economic conditions: People always need it, even during bad times. (The manufacturing sector, which tariffs are supposed to be boosting, has shed jobs for three straight months.) Moreover, the new numbers followed an inflation report released by the Commerce Department yesterday that found that the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of price growth had picked up in June and remained well above the central bank’s 2 percent target. (The prior month’s inflation report was also revised upward to show a slight increase in May.) Economic growth and consumer spending also turned out to have fallen considerably compared with the first half of 2024. Taken together, these economic reports are consistent with the stagflationary environment that economists were predicting a few months ago: mediocre growth, a weakening labor market, and rising prices.

The striking thing about these trends is how heavily they diverge from how the economy was projected to perform before Trump took office. As the economist Jason Furman recently pointed out, the actual economic growth rate in the first six months of 2025 was barely more than half what the Bureau of Economic Analysis had projected in November 2024, while core inflation came in at about a third higher than projections.

The worst might be yet to come. Many companies did in fact stock up on imported goods before the tariffs kicked in; others have been eating the cost of tariffs to avoid raising prices in the hopes that the duties would soon go away. Now that tariffs seem to be here to stay, more and more companies will likely be forced to either raise prices or slash their costs—including labor costs. A return to the 1970s-style combination of rising inflation and unemployment is looking a lot more likely.

The Trump administration has found itself caught between deflecting blame for the weak economic numbers and denying the numbers’ validity. In an interview with CNN this morning, Miran admitted that the new jobs report “isn’t ideal” but went on to attribute it to various “anomalous factors,” including data quirks and reduced immigration. (Someone should ask Miran why immigration is down.) And this afternoon, Trump posted a rant on Truth Social accusing the BLS commissioner of cooking the books to make him look bad. “I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY,” he wrote. “She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified.” He then went on to argue, not for the first time, that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should be fired for hamstringing the economy with high interest rates. These defenses are, of course, mutually exclusive: If the bad numbers are fake, why should Trump be mad at Powell?

In these confused denials, one detects a shade of desperation on Trump’s part. Of course, everything could end up being fine. Maybe economists will be wrong, and the economy will rebound with newfound strength in the second half of the year. But that’s looking like a far worse bet than it did just 24 hours ago.

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

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On July 7, SECOND was spamming the board with its usual inchoate propaganda.

Eleven posts! It was a banner day!

And SECOND can't remember a single one.


Signym, it is easy to check that you are full of shit: click this link http://fireflyfans.net/mthreaduser.aspx?u=20832
then hit the keys Ctrl F, then type July 7, 2025

Then click the links for July 7, 2025

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Monday, July 7, 2025 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
At least 13 killed, 20 children missing in Texas floods

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c15np18yy24t
"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Texas as a whole leads the nation in flood deaths, and by a wide margin. A colleague and I analyzed data from 1959 to 2019 and found 1,069 people had died in flooding in Texas over those six decades. The hills are steep, and the water moves quickly when it floods. This is a semi-arid area with soils that don’t soak up much water, so the water sheets off quickly and the shallow creeks can rise fast.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-hill-country-fl
ash-flood-explainer-20589667.php

"Time is a flat circle." - Friedrich Nietzsche and Rust Cohle in the TV series True Detective

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Monday, July 7, 2025 6:21 AM

Real Men Burn Stuff

The manosphere and the war on renewable energy

By Paul Krugman / Jul 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/real-men-burn-stuff

“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” That famous 2011 quip from the venture capitalist Peter Thiel still resonates, even though Thiel himself has become a deeply malignant force in American politics. I’ll write soon about the madness of the Trumpist tech bros, but for today let me focus on Thiel’s original insight — that everyone, venture capitalists included, had come to focus far too much on digital technology, neglecting the possibilities of breakthroughs in technologies that deal with the physical world.

Yet here’s the irony: In the years since Thiel’s lament we have, in fact, seen revolutionary progress in one fundamental physical-world technology, energy production. Yet the people Thiel and his buddies helped put in power are doing all they can to reverse that progress and send America back into the energy Dark Ages.

Most critiques of the One Big Beautiful Bill have focused on the way it explodes the budget deficit while imposing immense hardship on lower-income Americans. Yet energy policy is also an important component of the OBBB, which basically tries to roll back the rise of solar and wind power — sources that have accounted for more than half the worldwide increase in electricity generation since 2015.

To understand how self-destructive that effort is, you need to know three things about the economics of renewable energy. . . .

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Caracas on the Potomac
Goodbye, reliable economic data

By Paul Krugman | Aug 01, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/caracas-on-the-potomac

If stagflation breaks out under an authoritarian regime, but officials aren’t allowed to report the numbers, did it make a sound?

Over the past six months we’ve watched institution after institution corrupted by the Trump administration. Institutions that might produce inconvenient information, from those tracking climate change to those tracking infectious disease, have been special targets.

And now they’ve come for the economic data.

As I and many others have pointed out, this mornings jobs report was very bad.

It didn’t signal a recession — not yet — but it showed a rapidly slowing economy. And it was presumably especially disturbing for Trump and those around him, who have been boasting about how hot the economy is and sneering at critics pointing to the harm being done by chaotic policy. For this report seems to validate the critics.

So there was only one thing to do: Trump summarily fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, accusing her without evidence of manipulating the numbers for political purposes.

Who could have seen this coming? Anyone paying attention. The picture at the top is a screenshot from a post I put up just before Trump took office. I was mainly focused on politicization and corruption of inflation data, but it’s the same principle — and would involve the same organization.

People who don’t follow these things closely may not realize how important the Bureau of Labor Statistics is. But it’s our prime source of short-term information about economic developments. The BLS conducts a monthly survey of households that is, among other things, how we estimate unemployment. It conducts another survey, of employers, which is where we get estimates of payroll growth like the one above. A third survey, of prices, is the basis for the Consumer Price Index, and supplies the basic data for other inflation measures too.

The BLS isn’t always right, nor should you expect it to be. It’s trying to track a complex economy, and sometimes it revises its past estimates — as it did this morning. But it is extremely professional, rigorously nonpartisan, and everyone in the business considers it the gold standard for economic data.

Or maybe I should say “it was” rather than “it is”. I have to admit that I expected Trump’s corruption of economic data to be insidious and take place gradually. Instead he just fired the head of the BLS because he didn’t like the numbers it reported — a clear signal to the remaining staff not to report bad news.

And just like that, we can no longer treat BLS data as the gold standard. (Maybe Trump will use the gold on the walls of his new ballroom.) Maybe, just maybe, the staff at the BLS will hold to their principles and continue to report honestly. But how can we trust what they report — especially if Trump flunkies are put in charge, filtering what gets released?

From here on, I’m going to be paying a lot more attention to private surveys. And when they tell a different story from the official numbers, there will no longer be a reason to take the official data more seriously.

It’s one more step on our rapid descent into banana republic status.

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Trump didn't know that they were under age, they told him they were midgets.

He didn't say that. And if he did, he didn't mean that. And if he did, you didn't understand it. And if you did, it's not a big deal. And if it is, others have said worse!

There are specific warning signs to look out for when considering whether a group might be a cult. Cults are characterized by:

1. Absolute authoritarianism without accountability
2. Zero tolerance for criticism or questions
3. Lack of meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget
4. Unreasonable fears about the outside world that often involve evil conspiracies and persecutions
5. A belief that former followers are always wrong for leaving and there is never a legitimate reason for anyone else to leave
6. Abuse of members
7. Records, books, articles, or programs documenting the abuses of the leader or group
8. Followers feeling they are never able to be “good enough”
9. A belief that the leader is right at all times
10. A belief that the leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or giving validation

Cults are dangerous because they typically rely on deceptive and authoritarian practices to make members dependent on and obedient to the group. Cults often cut members off from other forms of social and financial support and pose both physical and psychological risks to members of the group.

https://imgur.com/gallery/he-didnt-know-that-they-were-under-age-they-
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OSHA Just Reduced the Value of a Worker’s Life

The Trump administration slashed fines for safety violations by small businesses and other employers and plans to reduce already rare workplace inspections.

By Liza Gross | July 16, 2025

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16072025/trumps-osha-slashes-fines-
for-worker-safety-violations/

Every year the AFL-CIO calculates how long it would take OSHA to inspect each workplace in its jurisdiction one time based on its resources. “Since 1991 that number has gone from once every 84 years to once every 185 years,” Reindel said.

With the president’s proposed budget and 30 percent inspection reductions, it would be once every 266 years, she said. “The worst on record.”

Dying to Make a Living

Barab, who tracks worker deaths on his blog, told Inside Climate News about a particularly gruesome accident. On a broiling July afternoon, a work crew repairing a catwalk at an oil refinery in Delaware released a spark above a large storage tank containing spent sulfuric acid and highly flammable hydrocarbons. The spark ignited vapors from the tank, which burst into flames and collapsed.

The fire burned for about a half hour and released 100,000 gallons of sulfuric acid into the nearby Delaware River, killing thousands of fish and crabs, according to official estimates at the time.

The explosion also killed Jeffrey Davis, a 50-year-old father of five, and sent eight of his co-workers to the hospital with serious injuries. Davis fell into the sulfuric acid, Barab said. “All they found was his boots.”

The OSHA citation amounted to about $200,000 while EPA issued a $10 million fine for Clean Water Act violations and criminal negligence, citing a long history of problems.

There’s not just a much higher penalty for killing wildlife than for killing a worker, but it’s also higher for lying to a federal OSHA inspector than for killing a worker.

Nearly 5,300 workers died from fatal injuries in 2023—one worker every 99 minutes—according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics. Roughly 20 times that many die of occupational illnesses or diseases related to exposures that occurred years before their deaths, which are difficult to track.

Traumatic injuries sustained at work kill more than 100 workers, on average, every week.

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Far Worse Than The Job Numbers is how Trump reacted to them.

By Andrew Tobias | August 2, 2025

https://andrewtobias.com/far-worse-than-the-job-numbers/

Before he knew what Trump would say, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman concluded, sardonically:

One thing is clear: The previously reported good numbers were proof of Trump’s brilliance. Now that they’ve been revised away, the bad numbers are clearly Biden’s fault, or maybe Jerome Powell’s, or Barack Obama’s.

Or maybe Hunter’s laptop.

But no, Trump did not blame the bad numbers on someone else — he simply denied that they were real. They were rigged against him, he said, just like the 2020 election or E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegation.*

So he announced he would fire the 20-year veteran economist who oversaw them.

Which is far worse than some bad job numbers, because it tells the global investment community they can no longer trust us.

One more reason that U.S. stocks, as a group, may have a lot further to fall.

Robert Reich:

Trump destroys our source of information about jobs. This is beyond irresponsible.

I spent much of the 1990s as Secretary of Labor. One unit of the Labor Department is the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

I was instructed by my predecessors as well as by the White House that one of my cardinal responsibilities was to guard the independence of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Otherwise, this crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy would be compromised. If politicized, it would no longer be trusted as a source of information.

So what does Trump do? With one fell swoop on Friday he essentially destroyed the credibility of the BLS.

It’s what dictators do. They issue decrees (he calls them “executive orders”); they cow the opposition.

If you report bad news, they fire you. (But being a total sycophant, as noted yesterday, “can be a fantastic career move.”)

Trump has already managed to weaken the dollar dramatically, making everything we import more expensive — even before adding on the tariffs that will hit consumers shortly.

And now he is destroying the credibility of our numbers.

Secretary Reich’s short letter is worth reading and — sharing — in full. https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/trump-destroys-our-source-
of-information?r=5jgrx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

BONUS

Thanks to Glenn Sonnenberg for this wonderful 2006 quote from George W. Bush:

America needs to conduct this debate on immigration in a reasoned and respectful tone. Feelings run deep on this issue and as we work it out, all of us need to keep some things in mind. We cannot build a unified country by inciting people to anger, or playing on anyone’s fears, or exploiting the issue of immigration for political gain. We must always remember that real lives will be affected by our debates and decisions, and that every human being has dignity and value no matter what their citizenship papers say.

* If you listen at 1.3X speed, I think you’ll really enjoy Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President. Sure, almost everyone knows he raped and defamed her. But when you listen to the full account, as contrasted with his categorical denials, you will see at the most granular and definitive level what a liar he is.

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Okay. Be a fucking idiot then.



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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay. Be a fucking idiot then.



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It is very possible you die soon, 6ix. Signym is concerned: http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=12239
87#1223987

So many Trumptards I've known died abruptly and long before normal people. Pray to whatever Gawd you worship, 6ix, or to Trump.

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Office of Special Counsel launches investigation into ex-Trump prosecutor Jack Smith

The investigation comes after GOP Sen. Tom Cotton requested that Smith be investigated for “unprecedented interference in the 2024 election.”

By Vaughn Hillyard | Aug. 2, 2025, 10:29 AM CDT

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/office-special-c
ounsel-launches-investigation-ex-trump-prosecutor-jack-rcna222625

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, OSC, an independent federal agency, confirmed to NBC News on Saturday that it's investigating Smith for alleged violations of the Hatch Act, a law that prohibits certain political activities by government officials. Trump and his allies have not presented specific evidence of wrongdoing.

(most interesting part is the last paragraph)

Trump’s nominee to head the OSC is stalled in the Senate. A White House official told NBC News that Paul Ingrassia, a former podcast host with a history of incendiary commentary, is meeting with senators in one-on-one meetings over the next month before a confirmation vote takes place.

(Trump sees no reasons not to install a nutjob in a highly responsible position)

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay. Be a fucking idiot then.



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87#1223987

So many Trumptards I've known died abruptly and long before normal people. Pray to whatever Gawd you worship, 6ix, or to Trump.

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I'm fine buddy.

You worry about you and your mental health.



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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I'm fine buddy.

You worry about you and your mental health.
There is not one Trumptard who is fine, 6ix. They are smug. They are self-satisfied. They are certain that Jesus loves them because they misunderstand Christian virtue. But they aren't fine people.

For 6ix's health record:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=12239
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I didn't feel right last night. Low energy after getting a lot of sleep in the previous 24 hours. So I went to bed fairly early and was in and out of sleep most of the night. About an hour before I wanted to be up this morning, I woke up with my glasses still on my face and they were all fogged up. It's when I realized that I was in the middle of a cold sweat.

It was like that time I got real sick and had the cold sweats from the fever, and when I got out of bed the cold just ripped right through me. But I had a fever then. No fever right now. It's also pretty COLD in my house, with that little A/C really doing its job and the temps outside not being as brutal as they were. Even going upstairs to the bathroom was rough because I had to pass the A/C room to get into the bathroom to take a shower, and I had my blanket wrapped around me because my shirt and boxers were wet as if I jumped into a pool wearing them.

Real low energy right now. Hoping my coffee kick starts me. That was the longest shower I've taken in a while, and I didn't want to get out. The hot water felt nice. Getting my clothes out of my icebox bedroom where the A/C was after the shower was not fun.

It's weird. I feel as though I have a fever or maybe I did while I was sleeping for a few hours last night. But I don't feel sick. Just bleh.

At least the sweating is done and I'm not getting my dry clothes wet right now.

Got a few errands I want to run and that's it for the day, so that's good. I wanted to get up to the post office first thing, so that's the only reason there was a time issue.

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Well, THAT doesn't sound good. In my experience, people don't go into full body-wide sweats for nothing.

I hope you checked your blood sugar. Were you hypoglycemic during that time?

Another possibility is that you were in the beginning stages shock from a bacterial infection somewhere. It doesn't necessarily hurt at the infection site.

Another (worse) possibility is sepsis, where bacteria actually enter your bloodstream. SIX, you can go from "bleh" to dead in two days. I knew two people who died of sepsis, one of them worked for me. He took Friday off to take his son to Disneyland and by Tuesday they were removing life support. I attended his funeral.

You have a permanent hole in your skin that usually works well but can lead to all kinds of trouble

In this case, a localized infection caused the CGM to misread glucose levels
Quote:
Continuous glucose monitoring for diabetes: potential pitfalls for the general physician
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470211824026666


The title is self explanatory. There is more than one instance found on the internet.

Quote:
Toxic-Shock Syndrome in a Patient Using a Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Pump--Idaho
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000122.htm


If either of these is the problem, it could be serious, even life- threatening. These arent something to tough out. If you can't rule out hypoglycemia, better in this case to be alarmist and see a doctor if symptoms don't go away today.
If you get worse, call 911.

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"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."


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SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I noticed, SECOND, that when you run out of legitimate arguments you start fantasizing about killing and death. You're a psychologically twisted thing, aren't you?

Also, when you were stuck at home and needing the family PC bc of the derecho, you posted only the most innocuous things. Your family has no idea what a psycho you are, do they? And since you hide your true personality from them, you understand what a pervert they'd think you are, right?

*****

IDK why Krugman is suddenly kvetching about inaccurate numbers, since government has been cooking the books for - literally- decades.

Unemployment numbers: If you worked an hour last month you were "employed", if you stop collecting unemployment you're off the books. And then there's those always-handy "seasonal adjustments".

GDP: Yeah, let's count home ownership as a "service"! And since we correct GDP only to the "official" inflation number, let's count inflation too!

Inflation: Why count housing and energy? After all, they're only major exoenditures! Steak too expensive? We'll take that out of the grocery basket and substitute ground beef! Or cheese! Or beans!

If anyone has been counting on (literally) government statistics for guidance, they're fooling themselves.

This is how CPI was calculated in 1980 terms, before government decided they didn't like the numbers



https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

Krugman can kiss my ass.

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https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

Krugman can kiss my ass.
A number of economists and finance experts have claimed that the Shadowstats CPI is conceptually wrong and that their usage leads to easily disproven and absurd conclusions.

By 2021, the cumulative estimates of ShadowStats imply an average annual inflation rate of 9% for a cumulative increase in prices of over 600% since 2000. (6.1088 = 1.09**21) In a phone interview with Timothy B. Lee asked John Williams three different times for a particular good or service whose price increased by 6 fold over that time. Williams could not recall any saying, "I can't give you a real hard example."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowstats.com

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Trump’s Tariff Disaster

By David Frum

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/07/david-frum-show-t
ariffs-trump-doug-irwin/683707/

Even if the tariff is sufficient to protect the American product, it can’t be sold to the rest of the world. The American ship made out of a high-cost American steel will not be able to compete on world markets with the South Korean ship or the Chinese ship. America’s manufacturing exports will go down, not up. And by losing export markets, America will see its manufacturing actually tend to shrivel rather than to grow.

The Trump people say, Well, it’ll fix the trade balance. That is, We’ll import less and export more. Well, that’s not true either. We won’t export more, even of agricultural, nonindustrial goods, because other countries will retaliate. You know, before Donald Trump became president the first time, the United States was the world’s largest exporter of soybeans. Trump imposed tariffs on China. They retaliated by switching their soybean purchases from the United States to Brazil and Argentina, and America’s share of the world’s soybean market collapsed. And America is now far behind Brazil as a soybean producer and exporter.

During the 2024 election campaign, the Trump people had the nerve to say, Under Biden, the United States became a net importer of food. Yeah, that’s true. You know why? Because the Trump tariffs wrecked the export market for American soybeans and other agricultural products. So the United States imported pretty much the same as it always had, but exported less and so became more of a net importer.

And that effect on imports is what you see everywhere that tariffs are imposed. What tariffs are doing is severing America from all of its trading relations, making other countries less willing to buy American goods, and separating the United States from the rest of the world.

They advertise the tariffs as a way to check China. But the way you check China is by having friends and allies. And America under Trump has a lot fewer of those. The Trump people have come back from their talks in Europe by saying, Look—we’ve built this giant trading block of the United States plus the EU. Look how powerful we are. The European Union now regards the United States—and every European does, and I’m speaking to you from Canada, where this is true, once America’s most intimate economic partner. People see the United States as a dangerous predator on world markets, one that you want to have less and less to do with in the years ahead because Americans can’t be trusted. The deals that the United States signed become worthless, like the trade deals with Canada and Mexico that Donald Trump signed in his first term and disregarded in the second. No one wants to do business with you, with a person who approaches business in a mood of relentless bad faith.

No, it won’t reverse the trade deficit. It won’t boost manufacturing. It won’t boost U.S. exports. It won’t check American imports. And it won’t balance China. All of those things will not happen.

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Quote:
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Quote:
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https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

Krugman can kiss my ass.
A number of economists and finance experts have claimed that the Shadowstats CPI is conceptually wrong and that their usage leads to easily disproven and absurd conclusions.


And yet they'll use it to make their graphs and headlines whenever it pleases them.

And when it doesn't please them they'll complain about it and/or just make up their own graphs full of lies to feed the stupid people like you.

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Quote:
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Trump’s Tariff Disaster

By David Frum


Another person who hasn't gotten anything right in the last 12 years.

Nobody cares, David. You fucking hack.

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I'm fine buddy.

You worry about you and your mental health.
There is not one Trumptard who is fine, 6ix. They are smug. They are self-satisfied. They are certain that Jesus loves them because they misunderstand Christian virtue. But they aren't fine people.

For 6ix's health record:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=12239
87#1223987
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I didn't feel right last night. Low energy after getting a lot of sleep in the previous 24 hours. So I went to bed fairly early and was in and out of sleep most of the night. About an hour before I wanted to be up this morning, I woke up with my glasses still on my face and they were all fogged up. It's when I realized that I was in the middle of a cold sweat.

It was like that time I got real sick and had the cold sweats from the fever, and when I got out of bed the cold just ripped right through me. But I had a fever then. No fever right now. It's also pretty COLD in my house, with that little A/C really doing its job and the temps outside not being as brutal as they were. Even going upstairs to the bathroom was rough because I had to pass the A/C room to get into the bathroom to take a shower, and I had my blanket wrapped around me because my shirt and boxers were wet as if I jumped into a pool wearing them.

Real low energy right now. Hoping my coffee kick starts me. That was the longest shower I've taken in a while, and I didn't want to get out. The hot water felt nice. Getting my clothes out of my icebox bedroom where the A/C was after the shower was not fun.

It's weird. I feel as though I have a fever or maybe I did while I was sleeping for a few hours last night. But I don't feel sick. Just bleh.

At least the sweating is done and I'm not getting my dry clothes wet right now.

Got a few errands I want to run and that's it for the day, so that's good. I wanted to get up to the post office first thing, so that's the only reason there was a time issue.

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

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Well, THAT doesn't sound good. In my experience, people don't go into full body-wide sweats for nothing.

I hope you checked your blood sugar. Were you hypoglycemic during that time?

Another possibility is that you were in the beginning stages shock from a bacterial infection somewhere. It doesn't necessarily hurt at the infection site.

Another (worse) possibility is sepsis, where bacteria actually enter your bloodstream. SIX, you can go from "bleh" to dead in two days. I knew two people who died of sepsis, one of them worked for me. He took Friday off to take his son to Disneyland and by Tuesday they were removing life support. I attended his funeral.

You have a permanent hole in your skin that usually works well but can lead to all kinds of trouble

In this case, a localized infection caused the CGM to misread glucose levels
Quote:
Continuous glucose monitoring for diabetes: potential pitfalls for the general physician
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470211824026666


The title is self explanatory. There is more than one instance found on the internet.

Quote:
Toxic-Shock Syndrome in a Patient Using a Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Pump--Idaho
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000122.htm


If either of these is the problem, it could be serious, even life- threatening. These arent something to tough out. If you can't rule out hypoglycemia, better in this case to be alarmist and see a doctor if symptoms don't go away today.
If you get worse, call 911.

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

"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."


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


You are a fucking creep.

And fuck your Jesus too. How's that for smug?

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Saturday, August 2, 2025 6:23 PM

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You are a fucking creep.

And fuck your Jesus too. How's that for smug?

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I know thousands of Trumptards. It is not at all surprising that they live in ill health and die early. Why am I not surprised? They don't place reasonable limits on their own behavior. They ruin their health. It is no surprise that they are unbothered by Trump, who also doesn't place reasonable limits on his behavior. That's why he doesn't pay taxes, he doesn't work, he pays prostitutes, he cheats in marriage, he is a tub of lard, he cheats in business, lies, steals and takes bribes (see his bitcoin ventures for how he is bribed). Trumptards are rotten people same as Trump is rotten, so its no big deal to horrible people to vote for a horrible person. In Trump's case, he has the money to prevent death and jail, paid to hospitals, doctors and lawyers, but the typical Trumptard can't afford that kind of protection from the foolish way they live. The result? They die early. 6ix will die early, too.

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

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Saturday, August 2, 2025 8:43 PM

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I know thousands of Trumptards.
Uh huh.

Quote:
It is not at all surprising that they live in ill health and die early. Why am I not surprised? They don't place reasonable limits on their own behavior. They ruin their health. It is no surprise that they are unbothered by Trump, who also doesn't place reasonable limits on his behavior. That's why he doesn't pay taxes, he doesn't work, he pays prostitutes, he cheats in marriage, he is a tub of lard, he cheats in business, lies, steals and takes bribes (see his bitcoin ventures for how he is bribed). Trumptards are rotten people same as Trump is rotten, so its no big deal to horrible people to vote for a horrible person. In Trump's case, he has the money to prevent death and jail, paid to hospitals, doctors and lawyers, but the typical Trumptard can't afford that kind of protection from the foolish way they live. The result? They die early. 6ix will die early, too.


Jeezus, SECOND.

Don't you ever bore yourself?

Bc you certainly bore everyone else!

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Saturday, August 2, 2025 8:54 PM

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He's just throwing a tantrum because he's being ignored now as he always should have been in the first place.

And it's just so fucking creepy knowing how he hangs on my every word when I can't be bothered to read past the first sentence of anything he ever posts.

The first sign of the word Trump and I'm out. That's 99% of his posts in the first paragraph, 95% of his posts in the first sentence, with I would guess at least 15% of those posts beginning with the word Trump.

I don't really, honestly think that a whole 1% of Second's posts in the last 10 years didn't have the word Trump in the first paragraph, but I don't think we really need to be putting decimal points on numbers like these.



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Saturday, August 2, 2025 9:28 PM

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Think Uncle Sam Owes $37 Trillion? It's Far Worse Than That
Saturday, Aug 02, 2025 - 06:00 PM

Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities

When asked how far the US government has plunged into the red, many fiscally-conscious Americans will tell you the national debt has reached $37 trillion. As distressing as that official number is, America’s true fiscal situation is even worse — far worse. According to a barely-publicized Treasury report, the actual grand total of Uncle Sam’s obligations is more than $151 trillion.

That huge discrepancy springs from the fact that the federal government doesn’t hold itself to the same accounting standards it imposes on businesses. Rather than using accrual accounting — which recognizes expenses when they’re incurred — our Washington overlords self-servingly use simple cash accounting, only recognizing expenses when they’re paid. As a result, discourse on federal obligations solely focuses on the national debt, comprising Treasury bills, notes and bonds.

Once a year, however, an obscure report delivers a more accurate version of Uncle Sam’s balance sheet. While it receives almost no attention from journalists or public officials, the Treasury Department is required to submit an annual report to Congress detailing the government’s financial condition. Critically, the 1994 law compelling this report mandates that it reflect “unfunded liabilities” — that is, commitments made without any dedicated assets or income streams to ensure they’ll be kept.

MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/think-uncle-sam-owes-37-trillion-i
ts-far-worse
ORIGINALLY FROM https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/america-37-trillion-national-deb
t-far-worse-unfunded-liabilities


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ORIGINALLY FROM https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/america-37-trillion-national-deb
t-far-worse-unfunded-liabilities
Financial Report of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2024

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/financial-rep
ort/2024/01-16-2025-FR-(Final).pdf

Executive Summary to the FY 2024 Financial Report of the United States Government

• The Statement of Long-Term Fiscal Projections (SLTFP) shows that the present value (PV) of total non-interest spending, over the next 75 years, under current policy, is projected to exceed the PV of total receipts by $72.7 trillion (total federal non-interest net expenditures from the table on the previous page).

• The debt-to-GDP ratio was approximately 98 percent at the end of FY 2024. Under current policy and based on this report’s assumptions, it is projected to reach 535 percent by 2099. The projected continuous rise of the debt-to-GDP ratio indicates that current policy is unsustainable.

• The Statement of Social Insurance (SOSI) shows that the PV of the government’s expenditures for Social Security and Medicare Parts A, B and D, and other social insurance programs over 75 years is projected to exceed social insurance revenues by about $78.3 trillion, remaining largely unchanged, decreasing by approximately $100.0 billion compared to 2023 social insurance projections.

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The Invisible Climate Change Effect That Is Most Likely to Kill You

The Winds of Change will kill 7,000,000 this year. Can you feel it, despite the White House and EPA adamantly shouting that it is not happening since it is a Chinese Hoax?

By Liza Featherstone | August 1, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/198675/bad-air-quality-deadliest-effec
t-climate-change

On Wednesday, a massive earthquake off the eastern coast of Russia triggered a tsunami threatening Japan, Hawaii, and numerous other places already made far more dangerous by rising sea levels. Throughout the summer, temperatures have soared upward of 100 degrees in locales we associate with temperate comfort, like the south of France and other Mediterranean idylls. Yesterday, a thunderstorm brought flash floods and subway power outages to New York City, yet another in a series of destructive storms that have been pummeling New York and New Jersey.

It’s increasingly hard to ignore the climate crisis, however we may try. But there’s one effect of climate change that we can, and do, still mostly overlook: bad air quality. Exacerbated by heat waves and wildfires—though of course those are not the only causes—air pollution doesn’t get nearly as much attention as floods and storms, and is harder to politicize. That’s good news only for the fossil fuel industry and its friends in the Trump administration.

In New York City, I’m lucky enough to enjoy better air quality than many other places. We are only the fiftieth most polluted city in the world, way behind Chicago, Dubai, Jakarta, Delhi, and numerous (enormously populous) cities in China. But for a few days early this week, it was hard to breathe and our phones were buzzing with alerts warning that the most vulnerable—the very young and the very old, and those with poor respiratory health—should stay indoors, due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. But the elderly, the asthmatic, and the babies weren’t the only ones feeling it; my son, a college soccer player, got headaches training outside, as did his friends—all fellow rain-or-shine athletes. Yet for the most part, the problem has gone unremarked.

Compared to a flood, a fire, or a heat wave, a bad air quality alert isn’t that inconvenient even when it’s happening. You can still go to work and otherwise go about your day. If you own property, it won’t be damaged. And because air pollution lacks visuals, it doesn’t lend itself to morbid doomscrolling or panicked media coverage.

Yet compared to floods, fires, and heat waves, bad air is much more deadly. In fact, the danger is barely even comparable. The World Health Organization estimates that air pollution kills about seven million people every year. The direct death toll from heat waves is under half a million, although that’s getting worse. The number of people who die in floods annually is in the thousands, and the direct death toll from wildfires is much smaller than that, though these threats are also getting worse.

The lethality of bad air is partly due to the range of illnesses associated with it. Bad air increases our risks of emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma, breast cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, and heart attack. There is also significant evidence that air pollution takes a toll on mental health. Not only is it obviously depressing to be subjected to it, but the particulate appears to harm our brains in ways that impair our everyday functioning.

Speaking of things getting worse, the Trump administration is poised to kill many more of us by demolishing long-established air quality protections. On Tuesday, Lee Zeldin’s Environmental Protection Agency moved to repeal the Obama-era “endangerment finding,” a declaration that because carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases (like methane) endanger public health and welfare, the government is justified in using the Clean Air Act to regulate them. The announcement comes just after Trump’s move two weeks ago to grant blanket exceptions to the Clean Air Act to 100 polluters in at least 30 U.S. states and territories. Among those exempted in four separate proclamations by the president were taconite mills, commercial sterilizers, chemical plants, coal-fired power plants, and metal processing sites, some of which produce the most carcinogenic chemicals known to man, including benzene, ethylene oxide, formaldehyde, and chloroprene.

Bad air quality is not dramatic like a flood, a fire, or a heat wave. At its worst, it looks like how we might imagine dystopia: a brownish smog sitting on the horizon, a faint fuzziness to distant objects. Occasionally, when the fires are close or the smoke especially heavy, reddening skies will bring an eerie early darkness. If you’re sensitive, you might feel slightly congested, short of breath, or easily tired. But most of the time, pollution doesn’t look or sound like anything special. If you’re lucky enough to live and work in air-conditioned spaces, you might not notice it at all. Many of the friends and relations of people killed by air pollution won’t realize that the fossil fuel industry—and insufficient government regulation—is to blame. Air pollution is already an ongoing massacre, and Lee Zeldin’s moves this month will kill many more people.

If seven million people died all in one place in a short time, in a dramatic act of violence or a single natural disaster, the world would pay attention. If a powerful government then moved to worsen that death toll, inviting still more suffering upon those besieged people, we would be talking about it—and that government would be doomed. Even in the face of much smaller casualty numbers, the global community rightly condemns the government of Israel for killing Palestinians (and the government of Russia, for killing Ukrainians). We should treat Trump and Zeldin too as the monsters they are for the suffering and death they are unleashing on Americans.

It’s human nature to ignore problems that we can’t see, and this psychology of everyday climate denial means that even those of us concerned about the climate crisis put it in the back of our minds when our basements aren’t flooding and the headlines aren’t screaming about fire and heat waves. But our air quality deserves all that drama and more: headlines, alarm, protests, congressional hearings, calls for political change, vilification of the perpetrators. The Trump administration is hoping we won’t notice how bad the pollution crisis is, nor how many more of us they are openly planning to sicken and kill through their shameless deregulation schemes. A slow apocalypse is no better than a fast one, and they must enjoy no peace.

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

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Sunday, August 3, 2025 2:46 PM

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Shut up.

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Sunday, August 3, 2025 2:54 PM

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There are fender heads on every topic, from climate change to Joe Biden's mental incompetence.

Facts just bounce off. I'll never convince SIX that climate change is real and that we should adapt and conserve our energy resources, for our own good. (But not on the backs of the poor, just sayin')

I'll never convince THGR that RUSSIA TRUMP COLLUSION! was a hoax, no matter how many verified documents are brought to light.

And I'll never convince SECOND that the DNC is just as bad in its own way, if not worse, as the GOP.


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Sunday, August 3, 2025 3:02 PM

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I never said that climate change was a hoax. Just that it's far overblown by ideologues who have no legitimate solutions for living without fossil fuels.

Until they want to get serious and start talking about developing nuclear power plants EVERYWHERE, coal burning cars will NEVER be a thing that is even possible to fuel, let alone anything that people will seriously adapt. Every person in America who is willing or wanting one in the current environment already has one. Period.

And Joe Biden* spends $1.5 Trillion on infrastructure to build what? 10 more electric pump stations? I thought these things were supposed to be ubiquitous now? I still have yet to ever see an electric pumping station in real life.



As for conservation, we SHOULD be saving the fossil fuels. If we had nuclear power we could do that.

We want to be the last people in the world holding any. We should not be drilling to sell to anybody else. Let everyone else drill and sell theirs while it's still reasonably plentiful and cheap. We should only be drilling to keep up our reserves and to lower the prices strategically when we need to when OPEC tries raising prices.

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Sunday, August 3, 2025 3:10 PM

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He's just throwing a tantrum because he's being ignored now as he always should have been in the first place.

And it's just so fucking creepy knowing how he hangs on my every word when I can't be bothered to read past the first sentence of anything he ever posts.

The first sign of the word Trump and I'm out. That's 99% of his posts in the first paragraph, 95% of his posts in the first sentence, with I would guess at least 15% of those posts beginning with the word Trump.

I don't really, honestly think that a whole 1% of Second's posts in the last 10 years didn't have the word Trump in the first paragraph, but I don't think we really need to be putting decimal points on numbers like these.






Poor Gilligan. He wants to tout his ill perceived notions that Trump is doing good. Comrade signym the same. She wants to post zerohedge anti American propaganda and both don’t want to address the elephant in the room.

Trump is destroying everything he touches.

T

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It's happening...

T

Trump blames American economic downturn on bipartisan employee






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Sunday, August 3, 2025 3:40 PM

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Nothing is happening.



CNN's Enten: The Democratic Brand Is In The Basement, "It Is Total And Complete Garbage In The Mind Of The American People"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/02/enten_the_democrati
c_brand_is_in_the_basement_it_is_total_and_complete_garbage_in_the_mind_of_the_american_people.html

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During a press conference in Scotland July 27 to announce a trade deal with the European Union, President Donald Trump veered unprompted into a familiar rant against windfarms and wind turbines and told European countries to get rid of theirs.

“And the other thing I say to Europe: We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States, they’re killing us,” Trump said, while sitting next to European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen. “They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains — I’m not talking about airplanes, I’m talking about beautiful plains.”

He also accused them of killing whales ("it’s driving them crazy”) and birds and said they start to "rust and rot in eight years."

Trump has long decried what he continues to call "windmills." On his second day back in office, Trump signed an executive order halting offshore wind energy lease sales in federal waters and pausing approvals, permits and loans for both offshore and onshore wind.

In 2023, about 10% of the electricity generated in 41 states came from wind power, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Here's what to know about wind turbines:

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2025/07/29/windmills-trump-fa
ct-check-europe/85424200007/

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

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Sunday, August 3, 2025 5:56 PM

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During a press conference in Scotland July 27 to announce a trade deal with the European Union, President Donald Trump veered unprompted into a familiar rant against windfarms and wind turbines and told European countries to get rid of theirs.

“And the other thing I say to Europe: We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States, they’re killing us,” Trump said, while sitting next to European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen. “They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains — I’m not talking about airplanes, I’m talking about beautiful plains.”

He also accused them of killing whales ("it’s driving them crazy”) and birds and said they start to "rust and rot in eight years."

Trump has long decried what he continues to call "windmills." On his second day back in office, Trump signed an executive order halting offshore wind energy lease sales in federal waters and pausing approvals, permits and loans for both offshore and onshore wind.

In 2023, about 10% of the electricity generated in 41 states came from wind power, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Here's what to know about wind turbines:

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2025/07/29/windmills-trump-fa
ct-check-europe/85424200007/

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



Windmills are shit and a non-starter/non-solution to the problem.

Build Nuclear or go home. Your wind farm hobby will no longer be paid for by the US Taxpayer.

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