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

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Friday, November 7, 2025 10:07 PM

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You are just explaining your own very behavior and trying to convince that everyone else behaves the way that you do.
I am around Trumptards all week long, and all of those Trumptards have irretrievably fucked up their lives while none of them will acknowledge what they did to themselves.

Oh. We know you are and we know they did.

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 6:30 AM

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

How many people from the first Trump administration are working in the second?

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+from+the+first+Trump+a
dministration+are+working+in+the+second

Summarizing the AI results: only the nuttiest fruitcakes came back for a second Trump administration. Only loyalty to Trump is necessary. Competence is disqualifying.

Trump was careful to be sure that he didn't have a V.P. like Mike Pence, who knew what the words indecent, insane, and unconstitutional mean.

He nominated or appointed 23 former Fox News employees to his administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_cabinet_of_Donald_Trump

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

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 6:38 AM

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

Redstopgringo:
“Are Pinky and the Brain still trying to take over the world? Because at this point, I'm willing to hear the Brain's platform.”

the-other-sandy:
“At this point, I'm willing to hear Pinky's platform.”

DownvotesStarWars:
“A sentient turkey sandwich would make better decisions than Trump.”

https://imgur.com/gallery/sentient-turkey-sandwich-would-make-better-d
ecisions-baIgF3J

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

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 6:49 AM

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

Most Unpopular President in History is Losing His Coalition

Morris: I wrote a couple of data driven takeaways—well not a couple, seven of them—on the Substack which I can reference. Then I’ll also mention a couple things from the new data analysis. For the readers, we’re recording this on Thursday. So there’s been about a day to catch up on sleep and digest the findings.

The big thing is unsurprising, but it really bears repeating. This is an electoral repudiation of Donald Trump and an electoral verdict on his unpopularity. I have appeared on your interview show a couple of times now to say essentially that the polls show he’s the most unpopular president ever, save himself in his first term. Trump’s policy agenda is also one of the most unpopular policy agendas in American presidential history, at least since we have surveys, since 1936. In that context, it’s rather unsurprising that Democrats did so well in Tuesday’s elections. They swept all of the statewide races in Virginia, all of the New Jersey races, they picked up two utility offices in Georgia, a red state—or a purple state if you’re very optimistic there as a Democrat—which is surprising. In Pennsylvania, they hold like three partisan justices and they win a lower court race as well as statewide.

In that context, it’s rather unsurprising, but it does affirm what we’ve been seeing in other data, which as good Bayesians, is always important to us. It also gives hard data to members of Congress that might want to fight Trump on things like his tariffs, or immigration, which is very unpopular, either from the right or from the left. It gives them something to point to that’s not just survey data, which is increasingly poo-pooed in Congress, as we might say.

So that’s my big takeaway. There are some smaller things which I’ll mention now. The first is it’s not just that Trump lost, it’s that he lost with voters that he supposedly had a realignment with in 2024. This is Latinos and Generation Z voters in particular. He loses with voters who say the economy is very important to them, which is the single constituency that likely propelled him to victory in 2024 in the first place. So in my article I’m putting out on Friday, I’m going to characterize this as: Trump’s losing his winning coalition; because I think that’s really what’s going on here.

The voters that put him in the White House because they wanted lower prices have said, “he’s not holding up his end of the bargain.” He’s not lowering prices. The supposed Republican ideological gains among Latinos in Generation Z who have tended to lean to the left and who, by the way, still voted for Kamala Harris despite lower margins than they did previously has evidently, evaporated. That’s really worth digesting as well.

Krugman: At one level of dispute we’ve had Trump himself insisting week after week that the polls are fake and that he’s extremely popular. And it’s basically you can argue until you’re blue in the face that “polling, it’s not a perfect science, but it’s meaningful.”

But there’s nothing quite like actual elections to settle that dispute. This sort of says that the polling saying that he’s unpopular and his policies are unpopular is right.

More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/after-the-dem-sweep-talking-with

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

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 7:41 AM

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He's not even close to the most unpopular President in history.

If you're going to continue saying stupid shit like that, then nobody is going to take you seriously.

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 11:05 AM

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

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He's not even close to the most unpopular President in history.

If you're going to continue saying stupid shit like that, then nobody is going to take you seriously.

Trump is very popular with people who are fucked up in the head, but not so much with Americans who have a useful purpose in life and are functioning normally.

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

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 11:05 AM

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DOJ Had Its First Big Hearing in a “Trump Enemy’’ Prosecution. The Judge Was Not Pleased.

Let’s recall why Comey made it to the top of Trump’s enemies list.

By Austin Sarat | Nov 08, 2025 10:00 AM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/doj-comey-hearing-trump-en
emies-list-judge.html

In the world of sports, there is an old maxim that captures the essence of competitive athletics: “Play the ball, not the person.” Play the ball, focus on the competition itself, honor the game, and don’t try to humiliate or hate your opponent.

This is one of the many lessons that our current president appears never to have learned or accepted. President Trump is the classic “play the person” kind of leader. He seems to take pleasure in making everything personal.

His approach does great damage to our culture and politics. It is also deeply destructive of our legal system.

The president doesn’t hide his everything-is-personal approach. In fact, he wants the American public to know who his enemies are and to understand his embrace of an “all’s fair in love and war” political ethos.

That’s why he has been clear about his desire to see people like John Bolton, Letitia James, and James Comey prosecuted. It will now be up to judges handling those cases to push back against the president’s weaponization of the Justice Department.

On Wednesday, Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick, who is handling the preliminary phases of the Comey case, was the first up, and he gave a master class in judicial pushback. As the New York Times reports, he “repeatedly expressed his frustration—and at times his barely restrained annoyance—with [the federal prosecutor] during an otherwise procedural hearing in which he ordered the Justice Department to produce records from its investigation.”

Before saying more about Fitzpatrick’s pushback, let’s recall why Comey made it to the top of Trump’s enemies list.

Nine years ago, during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, no one would have predicted Trump’s vendetta against the former FBI director. In fact, but for Comey, Trump might not have ever been elected. ABC News notes: Comey announced in October 2016—less than two weeks before the presidential election—that the FBI was going to investigate Clinton’s private email server, months after federal investigators said it would not recommend charges. Trump praised the decision.

At the time, Trump said, “I have respect that the FBI has given it a second chance.”

The tone changed two days before the election, when Comey announced that he was not going to bring charges against Clinton. Never one to be bothered with evidence or the lack of it, Trump insisted, “Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know it.”

Things really went south in early 2017 when the president made it clear that he wanted the FBI director to pledge his loyalty, and when Comey demurred.

In March 2017, Comey got in more hot water when he went public with the fact that the FBI had been investigating suspected Russian interference during the 2016 election. Two months later, Trump claimed that “FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!”

In early May of that year, Trump took the unusual step of firing the FBI director. It turned out that this was after an aggressive campaign by Trump to push Comey into dropping an investigation of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. Flynn would eventually be convicted and then pardoned for lying to federal investigators as part of that investigation into Russia’s election interference.

Almost a year later, Comey got a measure of revenge when he told an interviewer that the president was “morally unfit to be president.” He cited in particular his response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville,” Comey explained, “who talks about and treats women like they’re pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it; that person’s not fit to be president of the United States, on moral grounds.”

In September, Comey was “indicted on charges of making a false statement and obstruction related to his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020.” It followed a social media post in which the president demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi bring charges against Comey and others.

To accomplish that goal, the president removed the federal prosecutor with jurisdiction over the Comey matter, but didn’t think there was enough to indict. The administration replaced him with a former Trump defense attorney, Lindsey Halligan, someone who the president said was willing “to get things moving.”

Getting things moving does not require playing by the rules. And Halligan has not been.

She has been dragging her feet when it comes to turning over evidence to the defense as is required under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Comey’s defense needs that information, especially emails between Comey and a close friend, Daniel Richman, who will be a key prosecution witness.

That failure constitutes prosecutorial misconduct. It is called a Brady violation, after the Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland, which requires prosecutors to disclose any evidence that is favorable to the defendant or could undermine the prosecution’s case.

And if that were not bad enough, the prosecution had revealed text exchanges between Comey and Richman without giving the defense a chance to review them and challenge their release.

Fitzgerald took the unusual step of ordering Halligan to turn over to the court grand jury materials that involved Comey and Richman. The New York Times was right to characterize this as “a significant development.”

It will permit Comey’s lawyer, the Times adds, “to scrutinize exactly how Ms. Halligan characterized the evidence against Mr. Comey when she showed up for what was her first-ever appearance in front of a grand jury.”

But even more significant was Fitzpatrick’s characterization of the case against Comey as an example of an “indict first, investigate second” kind of prosecution.

Right from the start, Comey has labeled the decision to indict him as a “vindictive prosecution,” a prosecution brought in retaliation for someone’s exercise of a constitutionally protected right. The prohibition of such behavior, SCOTUSBlog’s Rory Little explains, “is founded in constitutional due process. So too is the idea that a person may not be selected for prosecution purely as a matter of revenge—vindictive prosecution. In this sense, vindictive prosecution is simply a subset of improper selective prosecution.”

As Comey’s lawyers put it in a filing seeking dismissal of the indictment, the prosecution “arises from multiple glaring constitutional violations and an egregious abuse of power by the federal government … President Trump ordered the Department of Justice to prosecute Mr. Comey because of personal spite and because Mr. Comey has frequently criticized the President for his conduct in office.”

“Indict first, investigate second” is virtually a synonym for vindictive and selective prosecution. That is why what Judge Fitzpatrick said is so significant in the Comey case.

But it is more than that. Fitzpatrick is telling the president and the world that he will not let the administration use Comey to stage a “show trial,” the kind familiar in authoritarian regimes where guilt is predetermined and the prosecution is staged for propaganda purposes and to intimidate political opponents.

That is good news, not just for Comey, but for all of us who still cling to the idea that we can criticize the president and the government he leads without being afraid that we will become a target of the president’s personal pique.

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

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 4:31 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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He's not even close to the most unpopular President in history.

If you're going to continue saying stupid shit like that, then nobody is going to take you seriously.
Trump is very popular with people who are fucked up in the head, but not so much with Americans who have a useful purpose in life and are functioning normally.

Throw out all the insults you want, it doesn't change the fact that your article is lying to you.

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