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

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Monday, July 6, 2026 5:51 PM

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

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That's a heartwarming story.

Fucking idiot.

Sounds like he was doing alright up through his late 20's. We were rocking just about the same amount of cash at that time in our lives.

One guy decided to never gamble or play the stock market again, and the other guy blew all of his money on stupid shit because he's a simple-minded retard.

Enjoy your empty lot, dummy. Your poor wife and kids.

Trump robs these dummies of their money, and so Trump is not to blame because they are dumb.

Alternatively, Trump should be removed from office and forced to repay what he stole.

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Thursday, July 9, 2026 9:46 AM

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The Zombification of America

By Stephen Marche | July 9, 2026
Mr. Marche is the author, most recently, of “The Next Civil War.” He wrote from Toronto, where he lives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/opinion/america-world-us-isolation.
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The rupture of the world order is going much better than expected.

At first there was rage at America’s betrayal, when President Trump called for the annexation of Canada, threatened Greenland, imposed tariffs on its friends and began his campaign to undercut NATO, which continued at its latest meeting this week, in Ankara, Turkey. Now, a strange feeling is emerging in some of the countries that used to be known as America’s allies: Optimistic determination. There’s an established principle in chess that applies to geopolitics as well: “The threat is stronger than the execution.” The possibility of U.S. abandonment of the world order was terrifying. The reality turns out to be a new beginning.

Canada, America’s neighbor, was the first to see it, naturally. Since the beginning of Mr. Trump’s second term, American bullying on trade has been ferocious. As a result, Canada has had to consider what American favor or disfavor is worth. The Bank of Canada recently ran a scenario in which the United States imposed a 25 percent tariff on everything Canada exports to the United States. Canada’s growth of its gross domestic product would slow by about 2.4 percentage points, which over a period of adjustment is well within Canada’s capacity. A disaster, to be sure, but not the end of the world. That’s the worst-case scenario.

A recent study by economists at the Canadian Shield Institute, commissioned for the podcast “Gloves Off,” which I host, found that Canadian merchandise exports to the United States last year fell by over 30 billion Canadian dollars, (21 billion U.S. dollars), or over 5 percent of exports to the United States. But that loss was offset by nearly 29 billion Canadian dollars in new demand from the rest of the world. When services were included, total exports from Canada increased by almost 7 billion dollars. America can make whatever threats it likes, but if you have the aluminum or oil or potash, somebody will buy it.

It’s not just Canada. European equities outperformed American equities in 2025, and surged in the first two months of 2026. The European Defense Industrial Strategy, put in place in 2024, is keeping more of Europe’s rapidly expanding military spending within the continent. And after the threat of the European Union’s anti-coercion instrument, the so-called trade bazooka allowing rapid counter tariffs, forced Mr. Trump to back down from his early round of Greenland threats, the Europeans now know that they have their own Strait of Hormuz — their own pain point that can make America flinch.

American military threats have the same diminishing power. If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that when the United States decides to achieve a geopolitical aim by means of military force, you can make a pretty safe bet that aim will not be achieved. Against all odds in a war with the United States, Iran’s corrupt and cruel regime has maintained its power and is now receiving sanctions relief. While the U.S. military invents whole new genres of defeat, the Gulf states, and their airports, have now learned during the Iran war exactly what an American security guarantee is worth.

At the NATO meeting in Ankara, where Mr. Trump berated allied nations — especially Spain — and repeated his call for U.S. control of Greenland, the leaders of Spain and Denmark took Mr. Trump’s comments as the idle threats they self-evidently are. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada may well say that Mr. Trump “won the argument” on NATO members raising their spending levels for defense. The reason they are spending more now may be that they know that American military power is in retreat. American support, whatever that even means anymore, guarantees nothing.

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Thursday, July 9, 2026 4:00 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Shut up, faggot.

Keep your stupid ass opinions in Canada where they belong. Nobody here gives one single fuck what you have to say about anything, Stephan.

Spell your name like a man with a V too, while you're at it.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026 8:47 AM

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Judge voids Donald Trump's 'improper' $1.8b IRS settlement that gave him immunity from tax audits

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8q0e8d4ego

A US judge has voided a legal agreement between President Donald Trump and federal agencies that granted him immunity from tax audits and allowed his administration to create a since-abandoned $1.8bn (£1.3bn) "anti-weaponisation" fund.

The fund, intended to compensate individuals claiming they were unfairly targeted by the government, was unveiled in May in exchange for Trump dropping his personal $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

But on Monday, US District Judge Kathleen Williams said the suit was filed for an improper purpose.

She also referred a Trump lawyer to state authorities to determine whether ethics rules were violated and disciplinary action required.

In the ruling, Williams cast Trump's lawsuit - which he, two of his sons and the Trump Organization filed in 2026 - as far from a dispute between two opposing sides. Instead, she described it as more of an action carried out by lawyers with ties to Trump and those who claimed to have been government targets.

Williams wrote the lawsuit "was never about a party seeking judicial resolution of a legal issue or a factual dispute" between Trump and the IRS, which he controls as president.

She also described the settlement as a bid to "provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law."

The decision also prevents those involved with the case - including Trump and his sons - from referring to the settlement or citing its terms in future legal proceedings. This, in turn, could mean that the IRS can move forward with future audits into Trump's tax claims.

In the initial lawsuit, Trump claimed that nothing had been done to prevent the leak of his private tax information by a former IRS contractor, Charles Littlejohn.

Just before the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost, the leaked information formed the basis of a New York Times investigation that revealed he paid only $750 in federal income taxes the year he won his presidency in 2016, and no taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.

"President Trump did not pursue his claims until he once again occupied the White House and had appointed his former lawyer, and the former lawyer of persons who are putative beneficiaries of the 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' to prominent positions in the DOJ," Williams wrote, referring to the Department of Justice.

"These officials then negotiated on behalf of the United States, with his current lawyers, including his former White House Counsel to reach a 'settlement.' It is risible to suggest that there was ever adverseness between the Parties," she added.

One of Trump's attorneys, Alejandro Brito, was also referred to the Florida bar for potential disciplinary action, while a second lawyer, Daniel Epstein, will now be unable to join cases in the Southern District of Florida for at least a year.

In a statement to the BBC, a spokesman for Trump's legal team said the IRS "wrongly allowed a rogue, politically-motivated employee to leak private and confidential information" to the media.

"President Trump continues to hold those who wrong America and Americans accountable," the spokesman added.

Calling the agreement a "sweetheart deal" for Trump that had given him "unauthorized and unprecedented" exemptions from tax audit rules, Tax Law Center Policy Director Brandon DeBot said it had gone against "the tax system's protections against political interference".

"The court's decision is important, but does not remove the need for congressional action to nullify the entire deal and to prevent any similar attempts at presidential self-dealing in the future," he added in a statement to the BBC.

Based at New York University, the centre provides legal analysis of tax and public policy.

Plans for the proposed "anti-weaponisation" fund were abandoned in early June, just one week after another judge temporarily prevented justice department officials from implementing it.

That order came down after two men who alleged the fund was discriminatory filed a lawsuit in Virginia. The plaintiffs said they had been targeted for political retribution by the Trump administration but believed they would not be allowed to file claims for compensation.

The widely criticised plan prompted alarm among Democrats - and some Republicans - who argued it could result in payment to people who were prosecuted over the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, including those convicted of assaulting police officers.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026 4:49 PM

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Trump and DOJ spend 130 pages supporting Judge Cannon's 'discretion' in burying Mar-a-Lago secrets, as rivals hold up Mueller report as 'precedent'

Matt Naham | Jul 14th, 2026, 11:58 am

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-and-doj-spend-130-pages-sup
porting-judge-cannons-discretion-in-burying-mar-a-lago-secrets-as-rivals-hold-up-mueller-report-as-precedent/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-and-doj-spend-130-pages-
supporting-judge-cannon-s-discretion-in-burying-mar-a-lago-secrets-as-rivals-hold-up-mueller-report-as-precedent/ar-AA27TZkd

Attorneys for President Donald Trump, his former co-defendants, and the DOJ each filed lengthy briefs on Monday in support of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's "discretion" in permanently blocking the release of ex-special counsel Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago report.

Oral argument had been tentatively scheduled for late September, but the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals weeks ago removed the consolidated cases from the calendar, noting the appeals would be "reassigned at a later date."

In the meantime, lawyers for Trump, his valet Walt Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira on Monday submitted a 75-page brief praising Cannon's decision to block the DOJ from "releasing, sharing, or transmitting Volume II of the Final Report or any drafts of Volume II outside the Department of Justice."
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28473950/trump-mal.pdf
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cannon-buries-jack-smith-mar-a-la
go-report-on-trump-angry-that-special-counsel-had-the-audacity-to-create-it/

"At its core, this matter arises out of Jack Smith's brazen and failed attempts to unconstitutionally prosecute and imprison President Trump and those around him, including Mr. Nauta and Mr. De Oliveira," Trump's brief began. "Even after the District Court dismissed Smith's baseless charges on the grounds that his appointment and the funding of his office violated the United States Constitution, Smith unlawfully prepared and sought to release a two-volume 'Final Report' in hopes of vindicating his efforts through other means."

Cannon, a Trump appointee, controversially dismissed the classified documents prosecution against the then-presidential candidate in July 2024, finding after "careful study" that Smith was unlawfully appointed as special counsel. In February, the judge said that her ruling meant "all" of Smith's acts were invalidated, and thus he had no business producing the report in the first place.

Construing that as a "breach" of her order, Cannon stopped short of ordering the destruction of Volume II, but she made her injunction permanent — leaving two groups who attempted to intervene under the Freedom of Information Act out in the cold.

On Monday, Trump's team fully backed Cannon against American Oversight and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University at the 11th Circuit.

"The District Court did not abuse its discretion in denying Appellants' motions to intervene, and that this Court should dismiss their appeals for lack of jurisdiction," the brief said, not mentioning that the 11th Circuit previously chided Cannon for her "undue delay" in ruling on the motions.

On the same day, the DOJ weighed in with a 55-page brief of its own, from the office of U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones.

The DOJ argued that Cannon's review of Volume II in her chambers did nothing to help the attempted third-party intervenors.

"And, even if the report were a judicial record, the district court was well within its discretion to deny intervention to access it. The district court found that the disclosure would expose non-public discovery material implicating grand jury and privilege concerns and would contravene basic notions of fairness and justice. While the proposed intervenors may disagree, that does not amount to an abuse of discretion," the government said.

The two groups aren't alone in the fight, however, as the 11th Circuit allowed Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats to submit their brief on Tuesday as amici curiae, or "friends of the court."

Sens. Adam Schiff, Richard Blumenthal, Sheldon Whitehouse, Cory Booker, Chris Coons, Peter Welch, Dick Durbin, Mazie Hirono, Alex Padilla and Amy Klobuchar countered that Cannon's order was "wrong" in a number of ways, but especially in her dismissiveness of Congress' interest in Volume II — all while Trump, Nauta, De Oliveira, and the DOJ are on the same side.

The senators told the 11th Circuit that Cannon's "purported concern about grand jury secrecy," for instance, "rings particularly hollow in the context of legislative disclosure."

Slamming the judge for making "inappropriate" accusations that "improperly cast aspersions" on the committee's ability to be trusted to conduct an "in camera" review of the report without leaking "all or part of Volume II," the brief said former special counsel Robert Mueller's report "provides especially instructive precedent."

"In ordering the release of grand jury materials from Special Counsel Mueller's investigation to the House Judiciary Committee, the court found that the need for continued secrecy was 'minimal' because the Justice Department had already made redacted portions of the Mueller Report available to certain Members of Congress and because the Judiciary Committee agreed to negotiations to prevent release of information that would harm any ongoing investigations," the amici said. "With respect to Volume II of the Smith Report, the Senate Judiciary Committee explicitly offered to accept in camera review, which further minimized any disclosure risk."

"In short, any legitimate concerns related to sensitive information contained within Volume II of the Smith Report can be resolved with proper redactions, not the suppression of Volume II in its entirety," the senators concluded, emphasizing that the public has a right to know about the "serious crimes, including willfully retaining classified documents and obstruction," Trump and his aides were charged with.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026 9:49 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

He's just going to win all this too, so why don't you spend some of your free time fixing your fucking party.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026 11:59 PM

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He's just going to win all this too, so why don't you spend some of your free time fixing your fucking party.

The Trumptards are rapists. To prove that point, you will explode when you learn that the writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said.

The payment — representing the $5 million jury award, plus interest — was made Monday from an account where it had been held in escrow since the 2023 verdict, according to court records. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, confirmed the payment Tuesday.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-e-jean-carroll-lawsuit-award-payment-
c02b153cdc88fe0dafbf5146a1be6be2

Democrats kick rapists out of the party. Trumptards do the opposite.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026 12:26 AM

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He's just going to win all this too, so why don't you spend some of your free time fixing your fucking party.
The Trumptards are rapists. To prove that point, you will explode when you learn that the writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said.

The payment — representing the $5 million jury award, plus interest — was made Monday from an account where it had been held in escrow since the 2023 verdict, according to court records. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, confirmed the payment Tuesday.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-e-jean-carroll-lawsuit-award-payment-
c02b153cdc88fe0dafbf5146a1be6be2

Democrats kick rapists out of the party. Trumptards do the opposite.

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

Also E. Jean Carroll telling Anderson Cooper that everyone has Rape Fantasies. That Rape is Sexy and she was leaking all over her chair while Anderson Cooper was desperatly trying to cut to commercial:

These are your heroes of the Democratic Party. You're a bunch of losers.

You are a Shit Golem, Shit Golem.

FIX YOUR FUCKING PARTY WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A CHANCE, LOSER.

NOBODY GIVES A SINGLE FUCK WHAT TRUMP IS DOING.

NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR ONE MORE FUCKING WORD OUT OF YOU ABOUT TRUMP.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026 12:28 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

By the way... Trump is still polling nearly 41% on the RCP average. And that's with this Iran thing still dragging out.

All of this that you've done has meant NOTHING.

NOBODY is listening to you anymore.

I've said it before and I'll say it again now because it's even more real now than it's ever been before... YOU work for Trump for free. There are people who will vote for Trump simply to spite shit golems just like you and braindead Ted over there in the corner.

Trump's approval rating right now is 3 points higher than Joe Biden*'s was at the same time in his single term.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026 8:41 AM

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President Donald Trump’s businesses and top executives have faced major legal penalties for tax-related fraud, and his personal tax practices remain highly controversial. Donald Trump paid zero federal income taxes in 11 years between 2000 and 2020. Donald Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes for 2016 and 2017.

The characterization of Trump regarding his taxes generally falls into three distinct categories based on legal rulings, investigative reporting, and political debate.

1. Corporate Convictions and Executive Guilt

While Donald Trump has avoided personal criminal tax charges, entities under his direct control have been convicted in court:

• The Trump Organization Conviction: In December 2022, a New York jury found two corporate entities of the Trump Organization guilty on 17 counts of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. Prosecutors proved a 15-year scheme to compensate top executives with off-the-books perks (like luxury cars and rent-free apartments) to evade payroll and income taxes.

• Executive Pleadings: Longtime Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Alan Weisselberg pleaded guilty to 15 felony counts of tax fraud and testified that the company benefited from the scheme.

• Trump's Awareness: During the trial, prosecutors argued that Trump signed documents explicitly approving elements of the off-the-books perks. However, Trump's defense attorneys argued he was unaware of the improper accounting, and Trump himself was not personally indicted in that case.

2. Aggressive Tax Avoidance vs. Fraud

When a House committee released six years of Trump's personal federal tax returns, it revealed that he paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and zero dollars in 2020.

• The Critical View: Investigative reporters and critics point to these documents as evidence of "brazen" tax manipulation. They highlight massive, questionable deductions—such as writing off millions in personal estate expenses as business costs, or utilizing complex shell companies to pass down family wealth via inflated transactions.

• The Defense: Trump and his supporters maintain that his tax practices represent standard, legal, and highly aggressive "tax avoidance" utilized by major real estate developers. They argue that real estate tax laws allow for large depreciations and write-offs to offset income legally. Trump has previously described avoiding high tax burdens as making him a "savvy businessman."

3. Civil Fraud History and Developments

Trump has faced extensive civil litigation over how he presents his finances to authorities:

• Asset Valuations: New York State previously brought a massive civil fraud lawsuit against Trump for artificially inflating his net worth on financial statements to secure favorable loans and insurance terms. While a lower court issued a $355 million penalty against him, an appeals court later threw out the massive fine. While the fine was eliminated, the court upheld the underlying finding that Trump and the Trump Organization committed fraud. As a result, non-monetary punishments were kept in place, including: 1) A three-year ban preventing him from taking out loans from New York banks. 2) A ban on serving as a director of any New York company.

• Recent IRS Settlement Dispute: In July 2026, a federal judge threw out a controversial $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against the Internal Revenue Service. The administration had attempted to finalize an agreement granting Trump and his family broad immunity from tax audits. The judge voided the settlement, ruling that the lawsuit was filed in "bad faith" and lacked a real legal dispute.

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

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026 10:30 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Let's see your tax returns, Shit Golem.

Go fuck yourself. Nobody cares except for you and Rachel Maddow.

Clowns.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026 12:53 PM

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The Forever War Gets Scary

But I'm not talking about bombs and drones

By Paul Krugman | Jul 15, 2026

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-forever-war-gets-scary

Transcript

The war with Iran has just reached a very scary phase, and I’m not talking about the bombs and the drones. Hi, Paul Krugman here, doing a brief podcast instead of a full post, because I actually spent the day with friends and doing other things, and this is a quicker alternative.

If you’re following the news, you know that the sort-of ceasefire with Iran has been called off. Trump has reinstated the blockade. The Iranians are back to hitting things with their drones and missiles.

The U.S. position has been wildly erratic. First, Trump said he was going to impose a 20% toll on all shipping, basically turning the Strait of Hormuz into a U.S. toll booth, which would have been wildly illegal and irresponsible, aside from being impossible. Now he says, no, he’s going to demand that countries invest in the United States, which is also actually wildly illegal. But in any case, it’s never going to happen.

And yet, this is extremely scary. The reason to be afraid is not that I think the war is going to come to America. It’s not even that I think the United States is going to seriously try to occupy Iran. We don’t have the troops. We don’t have the missiles. Trump depleted a large share of our weaponry in the course of his failed war so far. So this is likely going to be punitive strikes, maybe some war crimes along the way, but that’s all.

But what is really frightening here is that it does appear as if Trump has given up on trying to extract something that looks like victory. If we go back just a few days ago, it appeared that what was going to happen was that Trump was going to de facto pull out, give up on the project, take advantage of falling oil prices because the strait was sort of kind of open — and try to spin the story about this was truly, this was actually an American victory and the economy is great and look at the stock market.

And, you know, it was just a little bit — more than a little bit — stupid and doomed. It was also kind of amazing because a serious attempt to end the conflict would have required facing up to reality, saying, OK, this war didn’t go well, but America remains great. Sorry about that.

But that was apparently not something Trump could emotionally bring himself to do. He just cannot admit that this venture failed. He can never admit that anything failed. We’re going to be searching for the saboteurs of the reflecting pool for the remainder of his presidency.

This is a change in strategy that is ominous because what is Trump’s plan for the midterm elections? Here the idea presumably was that there would be enough economic success and people would have sufficiently short memories that they would possibly give Trump credit for opening the Strait of Hormuz, but in any case have put the gas price shock and the whole disruption surrounding the war behind them. And be ready to start admitting that this is the golden age that Trump and company keep on claiming it is.

Now that’s all off. Now it’s just that we’re going to bomb Iran. No clear strategy there, but we’re not going to even pretend that things are okay. We’re going to blockade them, which actually has a little bit more leverage, but no hint that anything might be resolved in a way that would help Republican chances in the midterms. So what is going to happen?

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that just as Trump essentially gives up, not gives up in the sense of abandoning his war, but gives up on trying to achieve anything he can even spin as a positive outcome, that we now have an announcement that this Thursday he’s going to have a primetime speech, which reports say is going to be about election fraud in 2020. Some reports hint that he might try to declare the two Democratic senators from Georgia somehow illegitimate.

Okay, that’s not going to actually work. And nobody’s going to be convinced by the claim that he actually won the 2020 election. But what is happening is that effectively he’s setting up the pretext, the groundwork for massive interference in the vote this November. That we’re basically seeing the stage set for some kind of attempt to block fair elections, maybe block elections entirely.

I don’t know how this is going to play out. But we are really now at the point where it’s pretty clear that Trump and the people around him have given up on actually winning the election. They’ve decided instead that some combination of propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, and possibly massive illegality is their way forward.

And don’t say they wouldn’t do that. That has been famous last words every step of the way. The proposition that there were some things that even Trump and company would not do has been the best way to be wrong about everything, every step of the Trump administration.

So in a peculiar way, the fact that Trump is back to bombing Iran is really bad news, not because of the bombs. Yes, it’s terrible and all that, But not because I have any real fear that America is going to be at risk from a foreign power, but because I think it signals an enormous risk to us from our own president, our own government.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

And take care.

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