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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 11:39 AM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

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






My party is solidly in the anti-Trump column. The dems will pull together when it’s time to go to the polls because they hate Trump more than each other.

T


GOP Congressman Heckled at Incredibly Awkward Town Hall



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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 11:51 AM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 4:34 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


Trumps economy...

T


Trump’s Economy is a House of Cards





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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 10:25 AM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


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Originally posted by reaverfan:

DONALD TRUMP 'THINKS HE’S IN GERMANY EIGHTY YEARS AGO,' SAYS FORMER WHITE HOUSE ETHICS LAWYER
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-thinks-hes-germany-eighty-years-
ago-says-former-white-house-1340110


"A newspaper is the “enemy of the people”?," Painter asked in his retweet. "What does he want, a propaganda ministry? He’s nuts. He thinks he’s in Germany eighty years ago.
Amendment 25."




As the U.S. economy cools, Trump points to ‘phenomenal numbers’ that don’t exist

Reality, however, keeps getting in the way. In recent days, we’ve learned that Americans are dealing with sluggish growth, stubborn inflation and a slumping manufacturing sector. U.S. factory orders are down, and consumer spending recently fell unexpectedly.

None of this is consistent with a “hot” or “booming” economy. On the contrary, it’s becoming increasingly easy to wonder about a possible recession.

Americans are also dealing with an anemic job market, the worst since the Great Recession (not including the totals from the pandemic in 2020). Indeed, I put together a new chart showing month-to-month changes to the job market since November 2020, when Trump lost his re-election bid to Joe Biden:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/maddow-blog-as-the-u-s-economy
-cools-trump-points-to-phenomenal-numbers-that-don-t-exist/ar-AA1JX7oO?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=7acb1b3a11934f5390a3352e987cb2ad&ei=19




Words of wisdom REAVERFAN

T


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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 3:29 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


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Originally posted by THG:

kiki and others SECOND keep saying no collusion because as you point out, as I, G and others have said before, collusion itself is not a chargeable offense. And, as you, I, G and others have also pointed out, the actual charges may include conspiracy, obstruction, money laundering, campaign finance violations, bank fraud and the list goes on. Hell, we could even see the RICO act enacted.

We've seen as many as 36 or so indicted with guilty pleas and jail time in Mueller's attempt to clean house. Comrade kiki and her few cronies post as though none of that reflects back onto Trump. He is now being investigated up the yazoo and the democrats haven't even started yet. This doesn't even include his corrupt cabinet members.

Trump has trashed our intelligence agencies, our justice department, the FBI and so on. Can you blame them for wanting to expose Trump as being the crook.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 3:32 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
Stupid people are stupid about more than their politics or their tax refunds. They are stupid in all areas, which tends to make them more poorly paid than average:




That's kind of an unfair comparison.

You could probably count on your fingers and toes how many households in the country are run by somebody who is between 25 and 37 in 2019.


Not really getting your point here though. Are you saying that Millennials as a whole are more stupid than Gen X'ers?

Or are you confusing "higher" education with intelligence again?






T



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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 3:34 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
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Originally posted by THG:

Trump says media is part of vetting his nominees: 'We save a lot of money that way'

President Trump on Friday defended the vetting process at the White House, telling the news media that he allows it to do much of the heavy lifting while simultaneously blaming it for the withdrawal of his nominee to lead intelligence agencies.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-media-is-part-of-ve
tting-his-nominees-we-save-a-lot-of-money-that-way/ar-AAFfEL9?ocid=spartandhp


What a complete moron. As are the trolls who've posted here for years complaining about perceived corrupt elected officials behaviors, and who not only continue to act as those Trump isn't the worst of the worst. But try and pass off that he is doing a good job.

It saddens me to admit that our trolls here at firefly fans are the dumbest of the dumb.

T





“We save a lot of money that way.” No they don’t and he wouldn’t give a shit if they did. What a lying sos.

Agree completely T.





T



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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 3:36 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by THG:
Roger Stone Is Desperate for Cash and Still Selling Autographed Rocks

Last-minute holiday shoppers can breathe easy: Roger Stone’s one-day auction of rocks, NFTs, and private phone calls with his friends has been extended indefinitely.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/roger-stone-is-desperate-for-cash-an
d-still-selling-autographed-rocks/ar-AAS867Q?ocid=msedgntp




Too funny. All Trumps cronies are sucking every dollar they can from Trumps uneducated supporters. They’re even buying rocks from convicted felons.

T






You want a pissing contest on what side buys more NFTs?

No. You don't want a pissing contest on which side is going to see more people bankrupt for buying the dumbest shit ever invented by scammers.

Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."





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Wednesday, August 13, 2025 12:24 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


You're as illiterate and incomprehensible as Charlie Day on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, dude.

If you've got something to say, use your Big Boy words.

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Friday, August 15, 2025 10:05 AM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You're as illiterate and incomprehensible as Charlie Day on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, dude.

If you've got something to say, use your Big Boy words.




38.9%

Wholesale prices for domestic vegetables have skyrocketed by 38.9% compared to a year ago, indicating a significant increase in costs for consumers. This rise in prices is attributed to various factors, including tariffs, weather conditions, and labor shortages. As a result, shoppers may face higher grocery prices, reflecting the overall economic impact of these rising costs.

Axios

Vegetable inflation strikes, with a warning for grocery prices

Vegetable inflation strikes, with a warning for grocery prices
Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Axios Visuals The U.S. economy has a vegetable problem, and it's not just "broccoli refusal" either — wholesale prices for fresh veggies so…

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/inflation-vegetables-ppi





You don’t understand adult language. I’ve been following the experts and posting it here. You’ve responded with stupid childish rhetoric while refusing to acknowledge facts. Even dismissing the idea, one should listen to the experts.

Well, all I’ve been posting about is front and center and only going to get worse. Trump is acting like a dictator; something I predicted. Prices are going up because of his stupid tariffs; something I predicted. He has undermined the rule of law at every turn; something I predicted. He has done more to send America back into the stone age, while creating a huge brain drain no one could have predicted.

These are just a few of the things I said, based on the experts, that were going to happen. You Gilligan, argued none of these things would happen. And answering this post with more denials is an attitude that plays right into the democrats' hands come 2026. And as I’ve said, based on what the experts say, things are shifting towards a routing of republicans. Take another look at the cartoon I posted. This post is a reflection of that. It says all the same things I've said here. You Jack, are a fake.

Too accurate, not funny.

T


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Tuesday, August 19, 2025 2:23 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


This is because he is a dictator...

T








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Tuesday, August 19, 2025 2:24 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


T

Trump Wants a Second Opinion on Labor Statistics






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Tuesday, August 19, 2025 7:26 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


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Originally posted by JJ: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:09 AM

JJ


In response to whomever posted that we are living in a Trump created economy, wrong. Trump is benefiting from what Obama did. Trump inherited a continually improving economy from Obama. One that had 7.8 percent unemployment rate and climbing when Obama took office, and was at 4.3 percent when trump took office. When Obama came into office we were hemorrhaging more than seven hundred thousand jobs a month.

You guys crack me up.

T






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Tuesday, August 19, 2025 7:45 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Another Democratic politician going to prison...

Michigan ballot scandal: Councilman filmed in drop-box stuffing row; police confirm authenticity of footage - Times of India

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/michigan-ballot-scandal-c
ouncilman-filmed-in-drop-box-stuffing-row-police-confirm-authenticity-of-footage/articleshow/123357687.cms



Democrats can't win any elections, even against other Democrats, without cheating.



Your dead party is dead, and a lot of them are going to prison in the next 3.5 years.





Fuck you Second. Fuck you Ted.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2025 7:48 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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You don’t understand adult language. I’ve been following the experts and posting it here.



You can't even read or write, which you've already made abundantly clear after years of embarrassing yourself here every day. I could write circles around you even if I were in a coma, retard.

And fuck your so-called experts who get literally everything they write about wrong.

Keep doing what you're doing, Ted. You're doing free campaign work for Trump and the Republican party every single day while watching the Democratic Party perform Seppuku.



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Tuesday, August 26, 2025 4:30 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


New FIRE Video: How 'Firefly' Fans Saved Free Speech on Campus

Yesterday, FIRE released our newest short video, Don't Mess with Firefly: How SciFi Fans Made a Campus Safe for Free Speech. The video, which features an interview with legendary author Neil Gaiman, is a lighthearted look at how the University of Wisconsin-Stout backed down from its censorship of Professor James Miller's posters, one featuring a quote from the science fiction show Firefly, and the other condemning fascism. Stout stood by its actions until FIRE's advocacy campaign on Miller's behalf inspired Gaiman, along with Firefly actors Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin, to take to Twitter to encourage their millions of followers to contact the university with their support of free speech.

https://www.thefire.org/news/new-fire-video-how-firefly-fans-saved-fre
e-speech-campus



Trump shits on free speech by signing an executive order that says if you burn the flag, you get one year in jail.

T


They HATE It! Trump's Phony Flag Burning Law Ticks Off Barstool Hosts



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Monday, September 1, 2025 1:10 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


What Trump has been doing is all going to come home to roost.

T


USA - Why the World Is Turning Away from America



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Monday, September 1, 2025 1:53 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


YAY CLICKBAIT!!!!!

I was worried we weren't going to get anymore after Ted took Sunday off.

Glad to see you back!



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Monday, September 1, 2025 6:46 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


Oops...

T


Trump SETS Trap for HIMSELF He Didn’t SEE COMING



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Monday, September 1, 2025 9:31 PM

SECOND

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


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Originally posted by THG:

Trump SETS Trap for HIMSELF He Didn’t SEE COMING

I Should Have Seen This Coming

When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.

By David Brooks | April 7, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trumpism-maga-pop
ulism-power-pursuit/682116
/

Charles de Gaulle began his war memoirs with this sentence: “All my life I have had a certain idea about France.” Well, all my life I have had a certain idea about America. I have thought of America as a deeply flawed nation that is nonetheless a force for tremendous good in the world. From Abraham Lincoln to Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan and beyond, Americans fought for freedom and human dignity and against tyranny; we promoted democracy, funded the Marshall Plan, and saved millions of people across Africa from HIV and AIDS. When we caused harm—Vietnam, Iraq—it was because of our overconfidence and naivete, not evil intentions.

Until January 20, 2025, I didn’t realize how much of my very identity was built on this faith in my country’s goodness—on the idea that we Americans are partners in a grand and heroic enterprise, that our daily lives are ennobled by service to that cause. Since January 20, as I have watched America behave vilely—toward our friends in Canada and Mexico, toward our friends in Europe, toward the heroes in Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office—I’ve had trouble describing the anguish I’ve experienced. Grief? Shock? Like I’m living through some sort of hallucination? Maybe the best description for what I’m feeling is moral shame: To watch the loss of your nation’s honor is embarrassing and painful.

George Orwell is a useful guide to what we’re witnessing. He understood that it is possible for people to seek power without having any vision of the good. “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake,” an apparatchik says in 1984. “We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.” How is power demonstrated? By making others suffer. Orwell’s character continues: “Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.”

Russell Vought, Donald Trump’s budget director, sounds like he walked straight out of 1984. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains,” he said of federal workers, speaking at an event in 2023. “We want to put them in trauma.”

Since coming back to the White House, Trump has caused suffering among Ukrainians, suffering among immigrants who have lived here for decades, suffering among some of the best people I know. Many of my friends in Washington are evangelical Christians who found their vocation in public service—fighting sex trafficking, serving the world’s poor, protecting America from foreign threats, doing biomedical research to cure disease. They are trying to live lives consistent with the gospel of mercy and love. Trump has devastated their work. He isn’t just declaring war on “wokeness”; he’s declaring war on Christian service—on any kind of service, really.

If there is an underlying philosophy driving Trump, it is this: Morality is for suckers. To borrow from Thucydides, the strong do what they want, and the weak suffer what they must. This is the logic of bullies everywhere. And if there is a consistent strategy, it is this: Day after day, the administration works to create a world where ruthless people can thrive. That means destroying any institution or arrangement that might check the strongman’s power. The rule of law, domestic or international, restrains power, so it must be eviscerated. Inspectors general, judge advocate general officers, oversight mechanisms, and watchdog agencies are a potential restraint on power, so they must be fired or neutered. The truth itself is a restraint on power, so it must be abandoned. Lying becomes the language of the state.

Trump’s first term was a precondition for his second. His first term gradually eroded norms and acclimatized America to a new sort of regime. This laid the groundwork for his second term, in which he’s making the globe a playground for gangsters.

We used to live in a world where ideologies clashed, but ideologies don’t seem to matter anymore. The strongman understanding of power is on the march. Power is like money: the more the better. Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the rest of the world’s authoritarians are forming an axis of ruthlessness before our eyes. Trumpism has become a form of nihilism that is devouring everything in its path.

The pathetic thing is that I didn’t see this coming even though I’ve been living around these people my whole adult life. I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, when I worked in turn at National Review, The Washington Times, and The Wall Street Journal editorial page. There were two kinds of people in our movement back then, the conservatives and the reactionaries. We conservatives earnestly read Milton Friedman, James Burnham, Whittaker Chambers, and Edmund Burke. The reactionaries just wanted to shock the left. We conservatives oriented our lives around writing for intellectual magazines; the reactionaries were attracted to TV and radio. We were on the political right but had many liberal friends; they had contempt for anyone not on the anti-establishment right. They were not pro-conservative—they were anti-left. I have come to appreciate that this is an important difference.

I should have understood this much sooner, because the reactionaries had revealed their true character as far back as January 1986. A group of progressive students at Dartmouth had erected a shantytown on campus to protest apartheid. One night, a group of 12 students, most of them associated with the right-wing Dartmouth Review, descended on the shanties with sledgehammers and smashed them down.

Even then I was appalled. Apartheid was evil, and worth opposing. A nighttime raid with sledgehammers seemed more Gestapo than Burkean. But conservative intellectuals didn’t take this seriously enough. In large part, I think this was because we looked down on the Dartmouth Review mafia, whose members had included Laura Ingraham and Dinesh D’Souza. Their intellectual standards were so obviously third-rate. I don’t know how to put this politely, but they just seemed creepy—nakedly ambitious in a way that I thought would destroy them in the end.

Instead, history has smiled on them. A prominent publisher of right-wing authors once told me that the way to sell conservative books is not to write a good book—it’s to write a book that will offend the left, thereby causing the reactionaries to rally to your side and buy it. That led to books with titles such as The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left, and to Ann Coulter’s entire career. Owning the libs became a lucrative strategy.

. . .

Trumpian nihilism has eviscerated conservatism. The people in this administration are not conservatives. They are the opposite of conservatives. Conservatives once believed in steady but incremental reform; Elon Musk believes in rash and instantaneous disruption. Conservatives once believed that moral norms restrain and civilize us, habituating us to virtue; Trumpism trashes moral norms in every direction, riding forward on a tide of adultery, abuse, cruelty, immaturity, grift, and corruption. Conservatives once believed in constitutional government and the Madisonian separation of powers; Trump bulldozes checks and balances, declaiming on social media, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Reagan promoted democracy abroad because he thought it the political system most consistent with human dignity; the Trump administration couldn’t care less about promoting democracy—or about human dignity.

How does this end? Will anyone on the right finally stand up to the Trumpian onslaught? Will our institutions withstand the nihilist assault? Is America on the verge of ruin?

. . .

I understand the seductive power of a demagogue who tells you that the people who look down on you are evil. I understand the seductive power of being told that your civilization is on the verge of total collapse, and that everything around you is degeneracy and ruin. This message gives you a kind of terrifying thrill: The stakes are apocalyptic. Your life has meaning and urgency. Everything is broken; let’s burn it all down.

I understand why people who feel alienated would want to follow the leader who speaks about domination and combat, not the one who speaks about healing and cooperation. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve read Edmund Burke or the Gospel of Matthew — it’s still tempting to throw away all of your beliefs to support the leader who promises to be “your retribution.”

. . .

But the most salient historical parallel might be the America of the 1830s. Andrew Jackson is the American president who most resembles Trump — power-hungry, rash, narcissistic, driven by animosity. He was known by his opponents as “King Andrew” for his expansions of executive power. “The man we have made our President has made himself our despot, and the Constitution now lies a heap of ruins at his feet,” Senator Asher Robbins of Rhode Island said. “When the way to his object lies through the Constitution, the Constitution has not the strength of a cobweb to restrain him from breaking through it.” Jackson brazenly defied the Supreme Court on a ruling about Cherokee Nation territory (a defiance, it should be noted, that Vice President Vance has explicitly endorsed). “Though we live under the form of a republic,” Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story wrote, “we are in fact under the absolute rule of a single man.”

But Jackson made the classic mistake of the populist: He overreached. Fueled by personal hostility toward elites, he destroyed the Second Bank of the United States, an early precursor to the Federal Reserve System, and helped spark an economic depression that ruined the administration of his chosen successor, Martin Van Buren.

. . .

Yes, we have reached a point of traumatic rupture. A demagogue has come to power and is ripping everything down. But what’s likely to happen is that the demagogue will start making mistakes, because incompetence is built into the nihilistic project. Nihilists can only destroy, not build. Authoritarian nihilism is inherently stupid. I don’t mean that Trumpists have low IQs. I mean they do things that run directly against their own interests. They are pathologically self-destructive. When you create an administration in which one man has all the power and everybody else has to flatter his voracious ego, stupidity results. Authoritarians are also morally stupid. Humility, prudence, and honesty are not just nice virtues to have—they are practical tools that produce good outcomes. When you replace them with greed, lust, hypocrisy, and dishonesty, terrible things happen.

. . .

When Trump creates an unnecessary crisis, it’s unlikely to be a small one. The proverbial “adults in the room” who contained crises in Trump’s first term are gone. Whatever the second-term crisis—runaway inflation? a global trade war? a cratered economy and plummeting stock market? an out-of-control conflict in China? botched pandemic management? a true hijacking of the Constitution precipitated by defiance of the courts?—it is likely to crater his support and shift historical momentum.

. . .

In the long term, Trumpism is doomed. Power without prudence and humility invariably fails. Nations, like people, change not when times are good but in response to pain. At a moment when Trumpism seems to be devouring everything, the temptation is to believe that this time is different.

But history doesn’t stop moving. Even now, as I travel around the country, I see the forces of repair gathering in neighborhoods and communities. If you’re part of an organization that builds trust across class, you’re fighting Trumpism. If you’re a Democrat jettisoning insular faculty-lounge progressivism in favor of a Whig-like working-class abundance agenda, you’re fighting Trumpism. If you are standing up for a moral code of tolerance and pluralism that can hold America together, you’re fighting Trumpism.

Over time, changes in values lead to changes in relationships, which lead to changes in civic life, which eventually lead to changes in policy and then in the general trajectory of the nation. It starts slow, but as the Book of Job says, the sparks will fly upward.

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

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Monday, September 1, 2025 9:36 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


You two are going to be the last two Democrats on the planet if you keep this up.

Absolutely delusional.



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Monday, September 1, 2025 10:57 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


T

SECOND, your post reminded me I sent this video to my friend. He's 80 years old now and one of those evangelicals who is 100% all in with Trump. This is a guy who's made a million in a year and was vice president of a half-billion-dollar company.

We're having lunch next week. I've had to bite my tongue in order to keep our friendship. Sometime I'll post about how we navigated this but not tonight. I'll end by saying man did Brooks nail it. I'm listening to his speech again while I post it. And I'm grateful for it.

How the Elite rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart) | David Brooks


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Monday, September 1, 2025 11:05 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


My advice would be do not show this video to your friend.

He knows David Brooks is full of shit, and if you start forcing Brooks on him you're going to end up driving yourself nuts with his pushback and rejection of it, which you know full well you're going to get if you try it, and you're going to nuke that relationship. It won't be him that nukes it. It will be you.

Just some friendly advice.

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Monday, September 1, 2025 11:26 PM

THG

Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My advice would be do not show this video to your friend.

He knows David Brooks is full of shit, and if you start forcing Brooks on him you're going to end up driving yourself nuts with his pushback and rejection of it, which you know full well you're going to get if you try it, and you're going to nuke that relationship. It won't be him that nukes it. It will be you.

Just some friendly advice.





I’m betting you didn’t watch it, just as you didn’t read my post. If you had, you would have noticed I already sent it. Probably a month or so ago; don’t remember.

He said he enjoyed it. He’s always liked Brooks. I won’t even suggest you watch it. I really don’t post for that. I post for whoever might see the post, might be following any of the threads. Now or in the future so they can see who is a moron here.

They get to see your response and how out of touch with reality you are. Your response is nonsensical, childish even. These responses of yours are documented and show who you are. That amongst other reasons is why I post.

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Monday, September 1, 2025 11:45 PM

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I've said all I'm going to say on the issue.

Brooks is a moron. He was a moron when he was NeoCon and he's still a moron today.

Your friend must have loved John Bolton and GWB too.

That's not great company you're keeping.

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Monday, September 1, 2025 11:57 PM

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Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:39 PM _ I posted, "I am an independent myself."


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I've said all I'm going to say on the issue.

Brooks is a moron. He was a moron when he was NeoCon and he's still a moron today.

Your friend must have loved John Bolton and GWB too.

That's not great company you're keeping.






Think obstructive defiance or oppositional behavior disorder.

Obstructive defiance is a term often associated with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), which is characterized by a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, and vindictiveness. This behavior typically targets authority figures such as parents, teachers, and peers, and is marked by frequent and ongoing defiance that causes significant problems in family life, social activities, and school.

Sounds about right aye? What do you think SECOND? Recognize any of these traits in Gilligan?

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Tuesday, September 2, 2025 12:45 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nah, it ain't like that.

I skimmed over your post, but I tried to be helpful without being an outright asshole because for once in 10 years you actually came off as kind of human in the other thread about college/roofing.

But then I came to this thread and you were right back to being an ass again.

I skimmed your message because nobody actually believes that you have a friend. It's the first time you've ever made any mention of having a friend or doing anything with a friend in at least 10 years. And that's a really funny cooincidence after I called you out for not having any friends.

The truth is, I'm the closest thing you have to a friend, Ted. I may have been the closest thing you've ever had to a friend in your life.

This person is completely made up. It's kind of sad. It's only because you were somewhat decent in the other thread that I even tried to humor you here.

And if anybody is suffering from ODD, it's both you and Second. And you're going to do it right up until the point that you're the last two Democrats left on the planet.



I mean... c'mon man. Rosie O'Donnell just came out and apologized to "maga" for the latest trans school shooter. And she's only now finding out that the last SEVEN school/church shootings were all Trans.



If Rosie, who actually knows Trump and has been personally insulted by him hundreds of time on the worldwide stage can do it, you can break free too buddy.

I want to believe.



P.S. And I disagree with Black Conservative Perspective on this too. I will reservedly accept her apology. But ONLY if she has really learned from this and corrects her behavior going forward accordingly. If she goes right back to being crazy and flipping out about headlines and regurgitating things that talking heads tell her, that apology was meaningless.




P.P.S. And in case you believe that I'm posting clickbait or that BCP made a clickbait video, here's an article about it from The Daily Beast:

‘Rosie O’Donnell Apologizes to MAGA After Minnesota School Shooter Claim
‘I MESSED UP’
The comedian and former talk show host claimed the shooter who killed two children Wednesday was “MAGA.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rosie-odonnell-apologizes-to-maga-after-
minnesota-school-shooter-claim
/


They wrote an article about it, and you don't get much more Left-Wing than The Daily Beast.

Quote:

O’Donnell, 63, addressed the MAGA base directly in the caption: “my apologies to maga for saying the school shooter was one of u - that is incorrect- i made a mistake - i didn’t research- im sorry- i assumed and thats always wrong.”

But it appears her apology was poorly received, as comments flooded in questioning her sincerity, several of which O’Donnell replied to.

“She does not mean this apology,” one TikTok user wrote. “She is trying to save face, because she opened her mouth and was so wrong.”

O’Donnell responded, “i was wrong - and i apologize- what more do u want?”

Westman killed 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski, and injured 18 others. Westman died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.



And like I said above, I'm willing to reserve my judgment and see how she behaves in the future. If she just goes back to 24/7 TDS like you two, she didn't mean it at all, and honestly I don't even understand why she bothered if that's the case. But for now, I'm happy to accept that apology and even happier to see this level of self-reflection and, accountability and maturity out of her. That's one hell of a lead-by-example moment I never would have thought her capable of until about an hour ago when I'd heard about all of this going down. She sure as shit didn't have to make that apology video, and I'll bet she's going to get a TON of backlash from your online brethren over the next week for it. I don't envy her for what she is going to be going through for a while, especially because I don't think that she really knows what she's in for. She's likely still in denial about how bad the Online Left is when you step out of line, and she's going to get the same treatment that Snoop Dogg just got last week for his remarks on the gay kiss in front of his grandkid when he took them to the theater a few years ago to see Lightyear.

Here's holding out some hope that she doesn't let the battering she's going to take get to her and she uses all of this as a learning experience. Fingers crossed for ya, Rosie. Maybe you can find some peace in the twilight years of your life and just enjoy beautiful Ireland and reflect on your life and how lucky you actually were.

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