Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches by JJ

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Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches

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UPDATED: Monday, October 27, 2025 18:06
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 9:29 PM

Keep it real please

I can blame both Trump and the idiots who elected him. And I do.

The same goes for those who fucked themselves out of health care. 72% or more of those who are going to lose their ACA coverage live in states Trump won. And they are going to lose it because the cost of it is going to go up 114% if the democrat's loss this government shut down battle.

If the enhanced premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are not extended, ACA premiums are expected to rise by 114% at the end of 2025. This significant increase will affect many individuals and families who rely on these subsidies for affordable health coverage.

I keep telling you fuck the current polls. What Trump has done and is doing is just now being realized. Look at these numbers' moron. And this is just health care. There's so much more. Like the cost of beef and ranches that are going to go under. Trump having to bail out the farmers again while he gives a 20 billion dollar loan to Argentina, who then sold all their soybeans to China. Again, fucking American farmers. Argentina who has never paid back any loan they've received. American businesses that will go out of business because of tariffs.

Jack, you and signym are fucking clueless. You're both dumb as rocks.

T

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 11:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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I can blame both Trump and the idiots who elected him. And I do.

The same goes for those who fucked themselves out of health care. 72% or more of those who are going to lose their ACA coverage live in states Trump won. And they are going to lose it because the cost of it is going to go up 114% if the democrat's loss this government shut down battle.

Then shut the fuck up and just let it happen.

That's the difference between you and I, Theodore. When I lay the smack down hard on you about something, it's definitive. It's already happened. It's your new fucking normal that you need to learn to adjust to.

You bring up dozens of bullshit articles and clickbait videos and political cartoons about whatever Orange Man Bad freakout you're having that day of this particular week, and they're all theoreticals and hyperbole, or something "anonymous sources familiar with the issue" have to say about [insert topic], or cherry picked polls you should know goddamned well enough by now that you shouldn't trust anymore.

None of it ever happens. And 2 weeks later you've already forgotten all the shit you posted 2 weeks ago and the many, many, many, many years before that. All those stories are now are broken little sound bits and headlines and bullshit clogging up that fucked up brain of yours that they put in a blender for the last 10 years.

None of your shit ever comes true. IT NEVER COMES TRUE.

Tick tock threads to nowhere all over the place. Thousands upon thousands of articles and videos you've posted that have amounted to nothing because they always were nothing.

You've lost.

You've lost EVERYTHING now.

You're finished. Anything you ever thought you stood for has been proven to everyone to be bullshit.

Nobody wants to or needs to hear a fucking word out of your stupid ass about anything, loser.

The same people installing those "thoughts" in your "brain" are the same people who had your stupid ass parading around here telling everyone that Harris was going to win in a landslide, and the same people that have been wrong about literally EVERYTHING since the election.

Nobody gives a single fuck about what any of your "sources" and your "experts" have to say about anything. They are entirely at fault for that, and nobody is going to cry for them. They will not be missed when they are gone.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 11:31 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Oh... BTW...

Because Ted is an inconsiderate fuckwit who has no internet etiquette, here's the last post from the previous page he was replying to on this new page.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by THG:
Trump plan to import Argentine beef angers US farmers

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) -U.S. farmers on Monday criticized President Donald Trump's suggestion that the country may import more beef from Argentina, after they recently lost out to the South American nation on soybean sales to top buyer China.

Trump said on Sunday that he was considering imports to reduce U.S. beef prices that have climbed to record highs. His administration earlier extended a $20 billion currency swap lifeline to Argentina, which the president considers an ally.

Cattle producers saw the suggestion as a threat to their livelihoods and free markets, at a time when ranchers are profiting from sky-high livestock prices and strong consumer demand.

"This plan only creates chaos at a critical time of the year for American cattle producers, while doing nothing to lower grocery store prices," said Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association industry group.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-plan-to-import-argentine-beef-
angers-us-farmers/ar-AA1OPRbI?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=68f79a4e5ac8487ca38e11b809bfade5&ei=77

They voted for him so they did this to themselves.

T

What exactly is your argument here, stupid ass?

You've been complaining about the price of beef for a month now.

Your current article said this:

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Cattle producers saw the suggestion as a threat to their livelihoods and free markets, at a time when ranchers are profiting from sky-high livestock prices and strong consumer demand.

You Democrats would be talking about putting caps on Beef Prices right now if you were in charge, and you'd be attacking those cattle ranchers for price gouging.

You don't get to take every side on every issue and change which side of the issue you're on day-by-day just so you can attack Trump.

Fucking idiot.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 12:40 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

What I want to hear out of you going forward, Ted, is not what Orange Man Bad is doing wrong, but what could be done to make things right?

Your party hasn't been a very big fan of your party when they're in control for a few decades now too. If they ever actually delivered any long-term solutions to problems, they wouldn't always get voted right back out the next time an election rolls around like the Republicans do.

Why can't you do that?

Why is every argument you have for any topic "Trump Bad" and/or "You are a Nazi"?

Why do you spend each and every day doomscrolling to find the articles and videos that are going to drive you nuts for the day and make you behave the way that you do?

What are you accomplishing by doing this to yourself and inflicting it upon everyone else other than the satisfaction of potentially ruining somebody else's day because you've already ruined your own and it ain't even Noon yet?

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 3:36 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

I can blame both Trump and the idiots who elected him. And I do.

The same goes for those who fucked themselves out of health care. 72% or more of those who are going to lose their ACA coverage live in states Trump won. And they are going to lose it because the cost of it is going to go up 114% if the democrat's loss this government shut down battle.

If the enhanced premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are not extended, ACA premiums are expected to rise by 114% at the end of 2025. This significant increase will affect many individuals and families who rely on these subsidies for affordable health coverage.

I keep telling you fuck the current polls. What Trump has done and is doing is just now being realized. Look at these numbers' moron. And this is just health care. There's so much more. Like the cost of beef and ranches that are going to go under. Trump having to bail out the farmers again while he gives a 20 billion dollar loan to Argentina, who then sold all their soybeans to China. Again, fucking American farmers. Argentina who has never paid back any loan they've received. American businesses that will go out of business because of tariffs.

Jack, you and signym are fucking clueless. You're both dumb as rocks.

How about skipping giving ACA subsidies to illegals who (fraudulently) claim asylum, and reduce our deficit?

'Cause, yanno, I really think our budget problem goes back a lot farther than Trump.
Don't you?

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

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Thursday, October 23, 2025 1:53 PM

THG

Keep it real please

Donald Trump's economy on verge of crisis 'bigger than Great Recession', experts warn

President Donald Trump asserted that he had "defeated" inflation and that the US economy was returning to normalcy in a bullish statement earlier this year.

However, despite Trump's claims, that appears far from the reality as Americans grapple with rising prices and a new financial crisis looming ominously close.

Over the past century, the United States has weathered several significant financial crises, including the 2008 financial crash and Great Recession, Black Monday in 1987, and the Great Depression of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Now, experts are sounding the alarm about another impending crisis for the US economy. This crisis pertains to the car lending market and an escalating number of car repossessions in the United States due to Americans defaulting on their car finance payments - a problem affecting millions and setting off warning signals on Wall Street.

Ignas Ryla, head of B2B Sales at used car parts company Ovoko, issued a stark warning in a statement to ReachPlc: "Auto loan delinquencies have reached alarming levels, with overall 60+ day delinquency rates at 1.38% in Q1 2025, exceeding the 1.33% peak in 2009, and subprime delinquencies hitting a record 6.6%."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/donald-trump-s-economy-on-verg
e-of-crisis-bigger-than-great-recession-experts-warn/ar-AA1P3c7Y?ocid=BingNewsVerp

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Thursday, October 23, 2025 3:02 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

More nameless "experts" who have been wrong about everything so far.

I mean... to be fair to them, they couldn't have been right because they don't exist. "According to experts" is the way for Journalists to give you their opinion but make you think that it's fact. It works because you are a stupid person.

*yawn*

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Friday, October 24, 2025 10:36 AM

THG

Keep it real please

THE STOCK MARKET IS HEADED FOR A CRASH

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Sunday, October 26, 2025 7:28 PM

THG

Keep it real please

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/sticker-shock-tariffs-
raising-christmas-prices/vi-AA1PekHn?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=68fea4efe27d4c04a801d93ea1d47abe&ei=30

Sticker shock: Tariffs raising Christmas prices

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Sunday, October 26, 2025 7:31 PM

THG

Keep it real please

Colorado cattle ranchers upset over Trump's proposed increase in beef from Argentina

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/colorado-cattle-ranchers-upset
-over-trump-s-proposed-increase-in-beef-from-argentina/vi-AA1P5fe1?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=68fea4efe27d4c04a801d93ea1d47abe&ei=37

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Monday, October 27, 2025 3:44 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!

Shut up, screen bitch.

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Monday, October 27, 2025 9:02 AM

THG

Keep it real please

By
Peggy Noonan

A Republic, but Can We Keep It?

From the military and the Justice Department to the East Wing, there’s reason to wonder and worry.

Donald Trump’s supporters are feeling satisfaction after two astonishing achievements: He is the first president this century to establish order on the southern border, and he has secured some new possibility for a Mideast settlement. These are breakthroughs even if they don’t last. But the people in this White House, with every triumph, become wilder and wilder. Their triumphalism is accelerating my now-chronic unease over the sense that the strict lines of our delicately balanced republic are being washed away.

Ben Franklin, famously asked by a woman on the street in Philadelphia what sort of government the Constitutional Convention had wrought, is reported to have said, “A republic, if you can keep it.” The reply was wry and factual but also a warning: Republics are hard to maintain.

Are we maintaining ours?

Democrats worry about our democracy. Is that the area of greatest recent erosion? I doubt it. Donald Trump really won in 2016, you can trust those numbers, and he really lost in ’20, and really won in ’24. Your governor won, your congressman—you can pretty much trust the numbers even factoring in the mischief in any system built by man. When shocks happen—“I just want to find 11,780 votes”—the system has still held. The state of Georgia told the president to take a hike in 2020. If you’ve spent much of your adult life deriding the concept of states’ rights, that moment would have complicated your view.
It isn’t our democracy that I worry about, it is our republic. That’s where we’re seeing erosion, that’s the thing we could lose.

Quickly, obviously, broadly: A republic is a form of government in which power begins on the ground, with the people, and shoots (and is mediated) upward. Power doesn’t come from the top down. The people choose representatives who are protective of local interests while keeping their eye on the nation’s. The government of which they’re part is bound by laws, by a Constitution that is not only a document of enumerated laws but a mean, lean machine for preserving liberty.

The Constitution the founders devised was born of deep study of history, philosophy and human nature. Their understanding of the last was deeply conservative. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” James Madison said. They aren’t, so one is.

The American republic would consist of three branches, with each knowing and protecting its specific powers and duties. The legislative branch would have chambers representing the people and the states, holding the power of the purse and the power to make law. Congress would represent.

For the executive branch, the presidency. The holder of that office would be a single person elected by the nation and anticipated to be energetic. The president would act—declare a direction and lead.

The judiciary would be guardian of the Constitution and the rule of law. It would have the power to strike down laws judged unconstitutional. Alexander Hamilton: “No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.” An independent judiciary would judge.

All three would work together in a system of divided powers; no part would completely dominate. They’d be in constant tension with one another. Madison distilled it down: “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.” This would tend to limit corruption and keep “eruptions of passion,” to borrow a phrase of Hamilton’s, from swaying things too immediately and dramatically. Madison especially thought pure direct democracy would prove unstable, a too-slight skiff heaved about in history’s seas. A rooted republic would be a mansion that could take heavy winds.

The republic they devised produced not efficiency but equilibrium. It established not only a system but a spirit. It has seen us through for 237 years.

Are we maintaining our republic? Is our equilibrium holding? The last nine months a lot of lines seem to have been crossed—in the use of the military, in redirecting the Justice Department to target the president’s enemies, real and perceived. There are many areas in which you’ve come to think: Isn’t the executive assuming powers of the Congress here? Why is Congress allowing this? The executive branch takes on authority to bend its foes, defeat them. You ask: Is all this constitutional? The president “jokes” that he may not accept the Constitution’s two-term presidential limit. Are you laughing?

The 250th anniversary of July 4, 1776, comes up next year, and many of us are rereading the old documents. The past week I’ve talked to two historians, one rightish, one leftish, and both conversations turned toward Thomas Jefferson’s stinging bill of particulars against King George III in the Declaration of Independence.

They resonate in unexpected ways: “For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.” “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.” “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our Legislatures.” “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people.” “Obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither.”

The Founders didn’t want any of that. It’s why they created a republic.

The tearing down of the East Wing of the White House also seems, in this context of concern, disturbing. White House defenders dismiss qualms as pearl clutching—a big vital building’s gotta grow, it’s been torn down and built up before, we need more room.

"But all this was done without public demand or support, and was done in a way that was abrupt, complete, unstoppable. Congress has the power of the purse for such projects but the president says no, our wonderful donors are paying for it, but the names of the donors were not quickly revealed. Your imagination was forced to go to—why? Might certain bad actors be buying influence? Crypto kings, billionaires needing agency approvals, felons buying pardons, AI chieftains on the prowl. Might the whole thing be open to corruption? Would it even have been attempted in a fully functioning, sharp and hungry republic? Or only a tired one that’s being diminished?

The photos of the tearing down of the East Wing were upsetting because they felt like a metaphor for the idea that history itself can be made to disappear.

I started with Trump supporters and end with them. They feel joy at real and recent triumphs, but deep down are rightly anxious about the world. Artificial intelligence, nukes, everything out of control, a cultural establishment that hates you. We may have to make some readjustments or revisions in our constitutional traditions, we’re in endgame time.

It all gives you a feeling of nihilism, something you’ve never felt in your entire honestly constructive life, and it’s so shocking that for a moment it leaves you giddy, and in the end, having been broken down a bit, you wind up laughing last week at a video in which an American president put a crown on his head in the cockpit of a fighter jet, flies over America, and drops human waste on it.

You just laugh, when nothing like that ever would have made you laugh before, and in fact would have hurt your heart."

Nine months in we’ve got to be thinking about these things.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-republic-but-can-we-keep-it-e2838a12?st=
pcHb5m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Jack, you comrade signym and JSF are too ignorant to understand any of what is happening.

And just look at the way Trump is wreaking havoc on Canada; again. Our largest and most trustworthy ally. If republicans can be labeled cowards for remaining silent throughout Trumps’ rule, then so can others who chose to do the same. We have some cowards here.

T

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Monday, October 27, 2025 9:31 AM

THG

Keep it real please

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THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!

Shut up, screen bitch.

Jack, show us the screen bitch. Right...

T

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Monday, October 27, 2025 9:45 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Repost my beautiful picture an average of at least 10 times per day for the next 3.5 years, screen bitch.

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Monday, October 27, 2025 9:47 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Jack, you comrade signym and JSF are too ignorant to understand any of what is happening.

Says the guy with 3-dozen Tick Tock threads to nowhere that vary anywhere from a few months old to over 10 years old that are full of nothing but failed predictions and bullshit that never happened, to the guy who has been right about everything since election day.

Why should anybody take you seriously when you say something like this, Ted?

Your track record does not back up your words. It never does.

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Monday, October 27, 2025 12:06 PM

THG

Keep it real please

tick tock...

T

Trump voters get NIGHTMARE news in deep red state

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Monday, October 27, 2025 12:07 PM

THG

Keep it real please

Point to the dipshit Jack. Agreed...

T

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Monday, October 27, 2025 12:25 PM

THG

Keep it real please

And it just gets worse.

T

Canadians feel 'Donald Trump is a big hoser'

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Monday, October 27, 2025 3:21 PM

SECOND

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

In Trump’s Casino Economy, You’ll Probably Lose

By Kyla Scanlon | Oct. 26, 2025

Ms. Scanlon is the author of “In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work” and Kyla’s Newsletter. Free download from https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Kyla+Scanlon

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/10/26/its-trumps-casino-economy-
now-and-you-will-probably-lose/

Step into the casino that now passes for the American economy.

Donald Trump campaigned on bringing back American manufacturing and rebuilding what America once was — factories, workers in hard hats — from the ground up. But the investment needed to get there, in both the factories and the workers, hasn’t happened.

What he has ushered in instead is a casino economy, built on speculation and risk. Across markets and policy, wagers on the future are being made with other people’s money at a cost that could prove catastrophic.

This economy is largely defined by froth. What was once a fluke has become the operating system of modern markets: like stock prices largely driven by sentiment rather than fundamentals (recall GameStop and AMC in 2021 and the dot-com boom), the overwhelming power of social media and the flurry of bets on something not quite real.

Look and you will see gambling throughout the economy — in markets, policy and how we talk about the future:

• The tech giants spending billions on A.I. data centers and the power grid to sustain them.
• A government shutdown over Americans’ ability to keep their health care.
• Tariffs used like poker chips to try to shrink the trade deficit.
• The increasingly erratic treatment of the U.S. dollar.
• The rise of over 13 million memecoins.
• JPMorgan now allowing institutional clients to use Bitcoin and Ether as loan collateral.
• Venture capital funding companies that let people “bet against their bills.”
• And the recent rumblings of bad loans from regional banks.

Public and private sectors are rolling dice that the foundations of the U.S. economy will hold under the pressure. Meanwhile, the institutions and programs that help cushion risk — like Medicaid and the social safety net, information systems, independent regulators and Federal Reserve independence, even the legal system — have come under attack.

As the public sector steps back from its role as a stabilizer, the private sector has rushed in as a gambler, betting that technology alone can hold the system together. Big Tech companies are wagering trillions on A.I. infrastructure that might revolutionize everything, chasing a jackpot that could reshape the world — or leave a mountain of empty data centers and broken promises.

The A.I. boom has grown into one of the largest speculative waves in market history. The sector value of A.I.-linked companies is 17 times larger than the market capitalization of the dot-com era at its peak and over four times as large as the subprime bubble, according to MarketWatch. Goldman Sachs says that A.I.-related firms have borrowed a record $141 billion to keep that dream alive. Microsoft, Apple and Nvidia alone now account for over 20 percent of the S & P 500’s total market cap, their valuations swelling on bigger and bigger A.I. promises, and creating a concentration so extreme that the entire index moves with them.

The promises are grand — such as curing cancer, personalizing vaccines and medical treatment optimization — yet many of those dreams have already devolved into next-generation social media apps, like OpenAI’s Sora and Meta’s Vibes.

The funding frenzy is turning inward. The companies are spending much of their money on one another. Nvidia and OpenAI have entered into a $100 billion deal where OpenAI would essentially use the Nvidia money to buy Nvidia’s chips. So it’s kind of like Nvidia paying themselves $100 billion for their own product. Many A.I. companies are starting to make their products free, too, with Perplexity offering its previously $200-per-month browser for the low price of $0.

The boom can’t last forever. According to Bob Elliott, chief executive at the financial firm Unlimited Funds, hyperscalers — cloud providers that operate huge global data centers to provide computing power and services to power A.I. — are planning to slow the pace of spending growth. The hyperscalers are still estimated to spend about $1.2 trillion into 2027. (And hopefully, as the backbone of the economy, they will.) But the A.I. spending boom — the billions (roughly $300 billion this year) being poured into the chips, servers and power infrastructure to keep these systems running — may already be peaking.

There is no cushion for the enormous risk that the A.I. companies — and investors, and therefore a typical American 401(k) holder — are taking on. A.I. companies represent roughly 75 percent of recent S&P 500 earnings growth, 80 percent of profits and 90 percent of capital expenditure.

The government is gambling that blanket tariffs will somehow restructure global trade in our favor, despite no historical precedent for this approach succeeding against piles of evidence suggesting it won’t. Soybean farmers need a bailout. Scotch whisky might get an exemption — not to help Scotland, but to protect Kentucky bourbon producers. The tariffs are turning into a rather lucrative side hustle for the administration. Trade lobbying has boomed, and carve-outs are growing, two signs that the bureaucracy is certainly making some people very rich.

At the same time, Washington is betting that the dollar maintains its reserve currency status during this tumultuous time, as we weaponize it unpredictably and alienate traditional allies. The U.S. dollar has been posting poor performance all year against other currencies.

As the economy becomes more unpredictable, Mr. Trump and Republicans have shrunk the safety net that catches people when volatility catches up with them. They cut Medicaid and did not extend Affordable Care Act subsidies in order to fund further tax cuts. Social Security and Medicare are on the table for reform.

This is the cruelest logic of the casino economy, stripping away health coverage from working-class Americans to give tax breaks to companies gambling on speculative ventures; reducing food assistance to fund capital gains preferences for investors playing the memecoin market; firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers to “save” money while bleeding institutional knowledge and capacity.

The math doesn’t work. The morality doesn’t either. In this economy, individuals bear the downside risk, while corporations and the wealthy collect the upside. It’s a rigged game where the house — seemingly, the already rich — always wins.

The question is why this hasn’t all collapsed yet. The answer is actually simple: time. Economic systems have inertia. Institutions built over decades don’t crumble overnight. The dollar’s global dominance rests on 80 years of habit, and there really is no viable alternative. And as the economist John Maynard Keynes warned, markets can stay irrational longer than most people can stay solvent.

But the floorboards are starting to creak. Consider three scenarios for how this plays out:

1. The jackpot nobody really believes in.
Maybe the bets pay off. A.I. productivity gains materialize. Tariffs coincidentally align with a global trade rebalancing. The dollar remains dominant through sheer force of habit and lack of alternatives. Cutting social programs doesn’t trigger health care disruption or social unrest because private charity and family networks pick up the slack. The stock market stabilizes at new, A.I.-justified valuations. This requires essentially everything breaking right simultaneously, the equivalent of hitting several slot machine jackpots in a row.

2. The controlled burn gets out of control.
More likely, we see a rolling series of smaller crises. A major A.I. company admits its infrastructure isn’t generating returns, triggering a sector-wide repricing. Tariff retaliation hits specific industries hard — agriculture, automotive, aerospace — creating regional economic pain. A health crisis hits Medicaid-dependent regions particularly hard. Each crisis is manageable in isolation, but they compound. Market volatility becomes the norm. Consumer confidence wavers. Business investment pauses. We enter a prolonged period of economic anxiety, with low growth punctuated by frequent shocks.

3. The foundation buckles.
The nightmare scenario is that too many bets go bad simultaneously. An A.I. bubble bursts just as trade tensions escalate into a serious global trade war. The dollar faces a real challenge from a coalition of nations tired of U.S. economic unpredictability. A major bank or tech company fails, exposing interconnected risks, as we are just seeing glimpses of now with the recent bankruptcies of Tricolor and First Brands, which is threatening the swelling private credit industry. As Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan, put it, “When you see one cockroach, there are probably many more.” Unemployed workers have nowhere to turn. Consumer spending craters. What starts as a market correction becomes a full-blown economic crisis.

The scary part? We wouldn’t necessarily see a crisis coming because casinos are designed to keep us playing until suddenly we look down and realize all our chips are gone. Economic crises often appear suddenly, even when they’ve been building slowly.

In a real casino, the math guarantees the house wins over time. We will likely see some winners: the A.I. giants collecting billions in investment before delivering returns; the private equity firms buying up distressed assets when bets go bad; the ultrawealthy who can afford to lose on speculation because they have enough diversified assets; the political class that makes the rules while being insulated from consequences.

But we will likely see losers, too. And there are likely to be many more Americans in that category.

Sure, economies run on risk, growth and ambition. But there’s risk, and then there’s reckless gambling. When safety nets are stripped away to help absorb the losses if bets don’t turn out, when trust is lost, excessive risk-taking stops becoming productive and morphs into something predatory.

Casinos run on illusion — the belief that the next hand will be different. But economies don’t have to.

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

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Monday, October 27, 2025 3:31 PM

THG

Keep it real please

Yup...

T

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Monday, October 27, 2025 5:29 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Losers.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Monday, October 27, 2025 6:06 PM

THG

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Losers.

Show us the loser Gilligan. Correct...

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