Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches by JJ

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We cut off funds, they lose that war yesterday.

Nobody cares.
Trump already cut off funds to Ukraine the day he entered office.

You know full well that's bullshit. They're still getting money.

That's the only reason that child rapist Zelensky isn't dead yet.

I highly suggest that Europe stay out of it too.

Corrupt to the core, all Ukraine is, is a money-laundering outfit for the mega-rich to funnel their money to Liberal Globalist causes.

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6ix, tell Trump that somebody is stealing Treasury money for Ukraine because he doesn't know what you know. In March 2025, shortly after his inauguration, Trump froze all military aid to Ukraine.

Later, in July 2025, he reversed his stance and approved a new $300 million military aid package, but this aid is paid for by NATO allies rather than the United States directly.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2025 7:33 PM

You tell him, fuckface.

I don't give a shit. Whatever you're talking about is bullshit, just like every post you've made in the last decade.

We're finished with you. Go to Bluesky with the other America-hating retards. Nobody here wants anything to do with you or anybody like you.

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 6:25 AM

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You tell him, fuckface.

I don't give a shit. Whatever you're talking about is bullshit, just like every post you've made in the last decade.

We're finished with you. Go to Bluesky with the other America-hating retards. Nobody here wants anything to do with you or anybody like you.

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My goodness! You are a testy thing when confronted. But all Trumptards, including Trump, are the same way.

The Five Stages of MAGA Scandal

(1) Denial
What?! That’s fake news!
Trump had nothing to do with Epstein!

(2) Denial
What a nothing-burger!
So he knew Epstein!
He knew a lot of people!

(3) Denial
It's a Democrat hoax!
Just like Russia, Russia, Russia!
Trump said so!

(4) Denial
All this stuff is phony!
They're fake documents!
Probably A.I.!

(5) Acceptance
So what!
No one said he was perfect!
And it's not like the girls were eight!

Repeat for the next horrifying scandal.

https://boingboing.net/2025/11/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-five-stages-
of-maga-scandal-grief.html

Bonus Comic: Do you have Trump Derangement Syndrome? Dementia?
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/12/tom-the-dancing-bug-do-you-have-deme
ntia.html

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 7:10 AM

You're not confronting me with anything.

You've never confronted me with anything.

You are worthless. You are nothing.

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 8:30 AM

Keep it real please

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You're not confronting me with anything.

You've never confronted me with anything.

You are worthless. You are nothing.

My goodness, why so testy Gilligan? Point to the crotchety loser Jack. Yes, that's him.

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 9:37 AM

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My goodness, why so testy Gilligan? Point to the crotchety loser Jack. Yes, that's him.

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The Trumptards at work habitually have strong emotional outbursts about emotionally neutral things on the job. It just so happens that their powerful and nearly overwhelming feelings about every goddamn trivial thing are causing their physical illnesses. I saw this today:

A pivotal meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry analyzed over 200 studies and found that individuals with mental disorders face more than double the risk of early death compared to the general population. On average, mental illness shortens life by 10 years—often not through suicide, but through natural causes like cardiovascular disease, infection, and diabetes.

The review found that 67.3% of deaths in people with mental disorders were due to physical illness, not external causes. Despite this, many states—including South Carolina—lack adequate psychiatric infrastructure. Rural areas in particular remain designated as Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas, according to data from the Health Resources & Services Administration.

Compounding the issue, mental illness is tightly linked to higher rates of tobacco use, sedentary behavior, and poor diet—each of which magnifies risk for premature death. The state’s elevated smoking prevalence, cited in the Earth.com report, remains above national averages despite public health campaigns.

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/life-expectancy-in-this-u-s-state-is-f
our-years-lower-than-the-national-average-and-its-getting-worse/

Trumptards overreact to everything, which is probably why they are attracted to Trump, since he reminds them of themselves.

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 10:41 AM

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With health care being drastically cut SECOND and so many losing it, MAGA's mental health issues are about to get worse. I don't know if Jack ever went to AA, but if he isn't going there now he should.

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 2:05 PM

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My goodness, why so testy Gilligan? Point to the crotchety loser Jack. Yes, that's him.

Where you at bitch?

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 5:50 PM

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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health and autism experts.

The CDC “vaccine safety” webpage was updated Wednesday, saying “the statement ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim.”

The change is the latest move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to revisit — and foster uncertainty about — long-held scientific consensus about the safety of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products.

It was immediately decried by scientists and advocates who have long been focused on finding the causes of autism.

“We are appalled to find that the content on the CDC webpage ‘Autism and Vaccines’ has been changed and distorted, and is now filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism,” the Autism Science Foundation said in a statement Thursday.

Widespread scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link between vaccines and autism. “The conclusion is clear and unambiguous,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a statement Thursday.

“We call on the CDC to stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims that sow doubt in one of the best tools we have to keep children healthy and thriving: routine immunizations,” she said.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/cdc-vaccine-safety-webpage-changed
-to-contradict-scientific-conclusion-that-vaccines-dont-cause-autism

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Thursday, November 20, 2025 5:54 PM

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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health and autism experts.

They've been wrong about and/or lied about everything else, so who gives a shit what they think now?

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Friday, November 21, 2025 10:22 AM

Keep it real please

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Friday, November 21, 2025 10:41 AM

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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health and autism experts.

The CDC “vaccine safety” webpage was updated Wednesday, saying “the statement ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim.”

The change is the latest move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to revisit — and foster uncertainty about — long-held scientific consensus about the safety of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products.

It was immediately decried by scientists and advocates who have long been focused on finding the causes of autism.

“We are appalled to find that the content on the CDC webpage ‘Autism and Vaccines’ has been changed and distorted, and is now filled with anti-vaccine rhetoric and outright lies about vaccines and autism,” the Autism Science Foundation said in a statement Thursday.

Widespread scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link between vaccines and autism. “The conclusion is clear and unambiguous,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a statement Thursday.

“We call on the CDC to stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims that sow doubt in one of the best tools we have to keep children healthy and thriving: routine immunizations,” she said.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/cdc-vaccine-safety-webpage-changed
-to-contradict-scientific-conclusion-that-vaccines-dont-cause-autism

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I saw Jacks response to your post. He posts the same shit day after day. He offers no evidence that what you or I post is wrong or incorrect. In fact, 99% of his responses are angry rude retorts because his head is an empty void. He has thousands of posts that are just that.

He doesn’t even understand that for him to get what he wants Democracy must end, and authoritarianism then becomes the law of the land. And if he does understand that all the worse.

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Friday, November 21, 2025 12:28 PM

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I saw Jacks response to your post. He posts the same shit day after day. He offers no evidence that what you or I post is wrong or incorrect. In fact, 99% of his responses are angry rude retorts because his head is an empty void. He has thousands of posts that are just that.

He doesn’t even understand that for him to get what he wants Democracy must end, and authoritarianism then becomes the law of the land. And if he does understand that all the worse.

T

The Trumptards I'm familiar with aren't good at following rules and procedures. They can learn simple tasks by watching others, but if given a non-routine task such as overhauling a machine, they won't follow the manufacturer's manual. They might even leave a part out. The machine will often run noisier after a Trumptard finishes the overhaul than before. The machine might even have an early and catastrophic breakdown. The thing that really pisses me off is that the Trumptard won't feel any responsibility for the poor results. In their tiny minds, it is never the Trumptard's fault when things go wrong.

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Friday, November 21, 2025 12:46 PM

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I saw Jacks response to your post. He posts the same shit day after day. He offers no evidence that what you or I post is wrong or incorrect. In fact, 99% of his responses are angry rude retorts because his head is an empty void. He has thousands of posts that are just that.

He doesn’t even understand that for him to get what he wants Democracy must end, and authoritarianism then becomes the law of the land. And if he does understand that all the worse.

T
The Trumptards I'm familiar with aren't good at following rules and procedures. They can learn simple tasks by watching others, but if given a non-routine task such as overhauling a machine, they won't follow the manufacturer's manual. They might even leave a part out. The machine will often run noisier after a Trumptard finishes the overhaul than before. The machine might even have an early and catastrophic breakdown. The thing that really pisses me off is that the Trumptard won't feel any responsibility for the poor results. In their tiny minds, it is never the Trumptard's fault when things go wrong.

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Here you go, faggots:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=66173

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65372

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Friday, November 21, 2025 1:16 PM

Keep it real please

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I saw Jacks response to your post. He posts the same shit day after day. He offers no evidence that what you or I post is wrong or incorrect. In fact, 99% of his responses are angry rude retorts because his head is an empty void. He has thousands of posts that are just that.

He doesn’t even understand that for him to get what he wants Democracy must end, and authoritarianism then becomes the law of the land. And if he does understand that all the worse.

T
The Trumptards I'm familiar with aren't good at following rules and procedures. They can learn simple tasks by watching others, but if given a non-routine task such as overhauling a machine, they won't follow the manufacturer's manual. They might even leave a part out. The machine will often run noisier after a Trumptard finishes the overhaul than before. The machine might even have an early and catastrophic breakdown. The thing that really pisses me off is that the Trumptard won't feel any responsibility for the poor results. In their tiny minds, it is never the Trumptard's fault when things go wrong.

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100% true. It's why Jack always reacts to facts as though they are meaningless. It's why he lives in the past when reality shows the future is going to be much different. Instead of posting new polls he keeps posting the same two polls from Trumps win. Why, what's his point?

The polls in 2025 are the only ones that matter. In the most recent elections, the dems cleaned the republican's clock. In the current polls democrats have a 14-point lead. That's incredible.

Hey SECOND, I am never surprised when Jack says he is always right and you and I have never posted anything true. He's at a second grade level emotionally.

I've noticed signym is softening her tone about Trumps policies in other threads. She is beginning to see the writing on the wall. She still won't go near this thread though because of how fervently she defended Trumps tariffs and health care positions.

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Friday, November 21, 2025 1:22 PM

Neither of you have yet to produce a single fact here over the years, so the above statement remains unverifiable.

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Friday, November 21, 2025 1:28 PM

This right here is why it's useless to "debate" with stupid people like Ted.

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It's why Jack always reacts to facts as though they are meaningless. It's why he lives in the past when reality shows the future is going to be much different.

Says the guy who still hasn't realized that the world he thought he was living in is dead and gone and never coming back.

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Instead of posting new polls he keeps posting the same two polls from Trumps win. Why, what's his point.

Not "two polls".

Two of YOUR threads, with a combined 5,000 posts between them.

The POINT is for you to go through all of your posts and see how fucking stupid you are in retrospect for letting the media lie to you every single day, and for you to repeat those lies here every single day. It's very simple for you to do too. You'll be tripping over your stupidity left and right on every single page.

THE LESSON here is for you to finally learn through the history of your own actions why you're so wrong about everything all the time, and to not make the exact same mistakes going forward.

Meanwhile, don't talk to me about posting meaningless polls when you're posting cherry-picked individual polls an entire year out from a mid-term. They are the very definition of meaningless. Literally anything can happen in the next year that makes them completely wrong.

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The polls in 2025 are the only ones that matter.

Untrue, because just like in 2024, you don't know how to decipher them or look to the past to figure out what the current polling means. This is why you laughed at my final prediction and the reality of the situation was so much worse for you than even I said it was going to be, despite an entire year of the Media lying to you about Trumps' chances.

I held back on my predictions there too. There IS enough variances in polling that I wasn't about to say he'd win over 2 million in the popular vote. I made an EXTREMELY comfortable prediction that was easily within the realm of reality, based off of the history of bad polling from liars that put what you want to see in their polls. I may not have been confident that Trump would win by as much as he did, but I had a great time that night going into it with a 100% certainty that Harris would lose while everybody else was going into it thinking it was a coinflip.

SPOILER ALERT: If the polling aggregates in 2025 are anything like they were in 2024 or any year before it, Trump's not only above the Democratic Party by 11 points right now. In reality, it's more like 15 or 16 points.

So you can keep whining and bitching and moaning about Trump and posting your bullshit clickbait videos until the sun implodes. They don't mean anything. They've never meant anything. And you are too stupid to learn any lessons from that, which is why you will always lose over and over and over and over again.

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Friday, November 21, 2025 1:46 PM

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Instead of posting new polls he keeps posting the same two polls from Trumps win. Why, what's his point.

And more on that...

I post polling aggregates here very regularly. You just ignore them because you hate seeing what they say.

I just posted them for you again earlier today in several of your threads...

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Republicans should be TERRIFIED

Uh-huh...

That's what you said in 2023, faggot.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=66173

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65372

Trump is polling 11 points above Democrats, and Republicans are polling 6 points above Democrats.

You have NEVER been this weak going into a mid-term where you didn't have the Presidency.

*yawn*

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Friday, November 21, 2025 1:47 PM

Would you like to see how bad GWB and even Barack Obama were doing on Job Approval on this day in their second term compared to Trump?

I don't think you do. You might cry when you see how much better Trump is doing than Obama was despite all of your bullshit you post here everyday.

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Friday, November 21, 2025 3:14 PM

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Keep it up, Ted.

That silhouette is going to be you.

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Friday, November 21, 2025 4:18 PM

Keep it real please

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Saturday, November 22, 2025 9:00 AM

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The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
Phillips P. OBrien
Nov 22, 2025

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-long-con-comes-to-an-end

Yesterday, Friday 21 November, ended up being one kind of day but it was supposed to be another. 21 November, in case you had forgotten, was supposed to be the day that the Trump Administration levelled crippling secondary sanctions on Chinese, Indian and Turkish companies that buy Russian oil. Indeed, the Treasury Department even hinted earlier this week that those secondary were ready to go. It capped off six weeks of a frenzy of reporting about how Trump was going to really hit Putin hard. Piles of articles (many of which had a fundamentally flawed understanding of the oil markets) were written about how Trump’s sanctions were real this time. Even The Bulwark, fell for this con, and we saw a hopelessly naive article by Cathy Young about how Trump really was going to hurt Putin this time.

Well, yesterday came and went and, drumroll please….no secondary sanctions have been announced. Now, Chinese, Indian and Turkish oil companies can get back to business buying as much Russian oil as they want/can. Soon Russia will be making more than they were.

btw, the Chinese probably never stopped buying Russian oil, but that is a piece for another day.

Instead, what actually happened on November 21 was that the Trump Administration came for Ukraine—as they always intended to do. The Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll, a very close associate of VP JD Vance, went to Kyiv and tried to bully the Ukrainians into accepting Trump’s 28 Point Plan to neuter Ukraine. Driscoll formally presented the plan to divide Ukraine now, and end it later, and the reality of what Ukraine and Europe was facing finally sunk in. Here was how the Atlantic story on the meeting began.

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Dan Driscoll kept everyone waiting. The United States secretary of the Army had been due to arrive earlier today at the U.S. ambassadors residence in Kyiv to speak with diplomats from NATO member states. The guests were eager to hear about the 28-point peace plan Driscoll had delivered on behalf of the Trump administration to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. But what they heard when Driscoll finally got there left some of the Europeans infuriated. “I feel nauseous,” one diplomat told us afterward. “It’s like the world is shattering around us, and we are watching it in real time.”

The most depressing thing from the above story was that the diplomat was surprised at what the administration was doing; or I should say that the unnamed diplomat had fallen for the Trump Administration’s long con. The long con was that they would ever do anything meaningful to hurt Putin and help Ukraine, that somehow they were honest brokers in this war. They never were. They have always wanted Putin to get the best deal possible and they have always wanted to severely weaken Ukraine. Whatever steps the administration took to seem to help Ukraine were performative; steps that were designed to make it look like they would be tough on Putin, but in the end never were more mirage-like than anything else.

Such were the oil sanctions. They caused endless speculation about how much Russia was going to suffer, how tough Trump was going to be etc. However, if there are no secondary sanctions (and right now they look rather unlikely) than in the end they are irrelevant and if anything provided a short term burst of revenue to Russia in late October.

Something similar happened with weapons sales. Yes, after waiting almost half a year, and ending US arms aid to Ukraine, the Trump administration did a small maneuver and set up PURL (NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Replacement Lists). PURL sounded great, if a rip off for Europe, as it allowed European states to purchase at full cost US weapons which could then go to Ukraine or could replace existing weapons which would go to Ukraine.

And what happened with PURL? Well, much like with sanctions, it was launched to great fanfare but produced little. $2billion of arms sales have been recorded, though as of early November $500 million of these had been held up. So Ukraine might have received the replacement costs of between $1-2 billion in weapons (the real value would be far less).

That is a tiny fraction of Ukrainian needs. The Biden Administration, for instance, provided Ukraine with about $130billion in military aid. And they did not sell the weapons, they gave them as aid

And here is where Trump’s long con worked devastatingly well to help Putin and hurt Ukraine. It sapped European states of the immediacy that they desperately needed to support Ukraine. It lulled them into thinking the US was still there to help, that they were not faced by an existential threat, and could wait before taking drastic action. After PURL, for instance, European military aid for Ukraine declined!

The long con also involved letting Ukraine fire (once) it seems western cruise missiles into Russia and the other day (once) ATACMs into Russia. I am assuming the US will not authorize those any more.

So while the US did the absolute minimum it could to help Ukraine and hurt Russia, it pretended like it was doing far more, that it was ready to turn the screws on Putin. Nothing could be further from the truth. All the while the US administration was working very closely with the Russians to devise the 28 point peace plan which is now being forced on Ukraine.

The long con did its job.

And it was long. All we have seen in the last few days is a return to the Trump administration’s true and enduring position. It was a position that they made completely clear in February when Trump and Vance ambushed Zelensky in the Oval Office. In case you have forgotten, here is the video. Watch it again—for it is the truth.

The problem Trump faced was that this meeting backfired. It lost him popularity and it lost him leverage over Ukraine and Europe. When that became clear, probably a few weeks, maybe two months, later, the long con began.

From that point hints were dropped, performative moves were made, and even occasional statements by Trump were released which made it seem that the administration was changing position, that it was really going to be hard on Putin.

It was an effective and devastating con, and it worked. Europe and Ukraine were left confused and hesitant, desperate not to offend a US president they dreamed might be won to their side. It would never happen, as the administration is right back to where it was at the start of its term. I wrote this piece just after the inauguration saying Trump’s plan had been the same for six months—we can now make it 15 months. https://substack.com/profile/109940878-phillips-p-obrien

At least now the con is over and the Trump administration (and Trump and Vance are the drivers here — not Witkoff, who is a patsy) is back to telling the truth. They want Putin to win and Ukraine to be devastated.

Sadly they fooled too many people for too long with their con. We can only hope the damage is not terminal.

Note for paying subscribers. I’ve been keeping the pieces on this week free as the issues are so important. However I am including a special section for you below. I have been trying to gain information from all my best sources, and I cannot quote anyone by name, but I have, I believe a pretty good idea of what happened and I will pass that on in broad ways. So the following section is for you. It's not pretty, but there is one hopeful kicker at the end.

One of the reasons I’ve always been saying that Trump’s moves were a fraud to make it look like he would help Ukraine and hurt Putin (when he was always in Putin’s camp) is that people I trust and talk to, who have better information than I, provided very useful info to that effect. This is an example of when I let a little taste of that information out to the public.

What I will write below is based on talking to such people, but also based on my own conjectures. So be warned. This is my best guess—it is not “knowledge” per se.

So what happened?

The long con on Ukraine intimately involved Trump working with JD Vance. Vance, btw, is if anything more violently anti-Ukraine than Trump. It was interesting to see how both men started drastically cutting back their criticisms of Ukraine months ago. Crucially, neither man made a big deal of the Ukrainian corruption scandal, when in the past they would have been all over it. Having Vance as part of the con was important, because he can be seen as the brains as it were.

And it's very interesting that it was a Vance protegee, Driscoll, who presented the plan to Ukraine. Very interesting.

It's also worth noting that voices such as Donald Trump Jr, who were violently anti-Ukraine for years, also became suspiciously quiet on the subject over the last few months. It seems that there was coordinated action by the most anti-Ukraine voices in the administration to change the tone, and allow the ostensibly pro-Ukraine patsies (Rubio, Kellogg, etc) more prominence.

So the con had a presentational aspect to it.

Another thing was that Steve Witkoff was held out as the great fall guy in this con. He is Trump’s errand boy and bagman; he is not a serious diplomat. However, he could be used as the punching bag by pro-Ukrainians who were desperate to believe that Trump might not be so bad.

“It's not Trump, it's Witkoff!” Good Tsar, Bad Boyar.

Witkoff is only serving Trump and doing his master's bidding.

This part of the con was particularly successful for much of this past week as some people were trying to call the 28-point plan the Witkoff plan even as late as yesterday. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's the Trump-Putin plan. Always has been, always will be.

The plan was also not simply cooked up in the last few days. You do not have a 28-point plan simply created out of thin air. It's been in general agreement form for a while, maybe months, as the con was reaching an end. Trump also was kept in the loop and formally gave his approval at one point. Maybe 21 November (secondary sanctions day) was always a possibility. Who knows?

A sign that the con was on was when, as I said above, the administration said almost nothing about the Ukrainian corruption scandal. They seemed to understand then, that this provided an opportunity to act, and they took it.

The final sign of the con this week was when Trump came out and openly said he might allow Graham-Blumenthal to have a vote! Remember all the excitement around that a few days ago? Well that announcement was made after Trump gave his formal assent to the 28 points, which means it was deliberate, deceptive BS to make it look like he was finally going to help Ukraine.

Still waiting for that vote btw.

Right now, with the con over, the most important questions are first whether Ukraine will fight back against the plan, and second, if the Ukrainians do, will the Europeans stand with them. I have been talking with some Ukrainians/Europeans who have good knowledge of this (better than me that is for sure) and they are somewhat optimistic in both cases.

It's no done deal, and frankly I am very worried, but at least some others think this might be the moment that Ukraine and Europe stand up for themselves against the con.

Do with this information what you will.

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 22, 2025 12:40 PM

Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Zelensky.

Nobody cares.

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Fuck Ukraine. Fuck Zelensky.

Nobody cares.

Point to the dipshit nobody cares about Gilligan. Correct...

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You're going to be ended if you stay in my country.

You'd better start running.

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You're going to be ended if you stay in my country.

You'd better start running.

Your entire world is here and in your back yard. let me guess, your internet security is free? You don't even make enough money to pay for a haircut. My bet is you do it yourself. Or daddy is still doing it for you.

That said, who am I? And how are you planning to end me? God your stupid. Point to stupid Jack. Again, correct,

Hey, your buddy signym has run for the hills. Too funny...

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Monday, November 24, 2025 1:40 PM

I don't have internet "security".

If you have a VPN and think it's protecting you from anything, you're an idiot. The only thing that VPN ever saved you from was me knowing where you live.

The only service VPN actually provides customers is bypassing countrywide copyright issues that prevent you from watching shows that are only available on streaming services in other countries.

Pay for it while you can. There's already talks of banning VPNs.

Oh, and yes. That's a good bet. First time you've been right about anything in 2025. I do cut my own hair, when I'm not just letting it grow out.

I don't pay anybody to do anything that I can do for myself, which is most things.

You wouldn't understand that since you can't even wipe your own rotten asshole.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't have internet "security".

If you have a VPN and think it's protecting you from anything, you're an idiot. The only thing that VPN ever saved you from was me knowing where you live.

The only service VPN actually provides customers is bypassing countrywide copyright issues that prevent you from watching shows that are only available on streaming services in other countries.

Pay for it while you can. There's already talks of banning VPNs.

Oh, and yes. That's a good bet. First time you've been right about anything in 2025. I do cut my own hair, when I'm not just letting it grow out.

I don't pay anybody to do anything that I can do for myself, which is most things.

You wouldn't understand that since you can't even wipe your own rotten asshole.

A VPN is not internet security. It provides some security, but it is not a security program. Don't you know anything?

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Yerp. Fuck Ukraine.

Zelensky is a dead man walking.

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Monday, November 24, 2025 2:36 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't have internet "security".

If you have a VPN and think it's protecting you from anything, you're an idiot. The only thing that VPN ever saved you from was me knowing where you live.

The only service VPN actually provides customers is bypassing countrywide copyright issues that prevent you from watching shows that are only available on streaming services in other countries.

Pay for it while you can. There's already talks of banning VPNs.

Oh, and yes. That's a good bet. First time you've been right about anything in 2025. I do cut my own hair, when I'm not just letting it grow out.

I don't pay anybody to do anything that I can do for myself, which is most things.

You wouldn't understand that since you can't even wipe your own rotten asshole.

A VPN is not internet security. It provides some security, but it is not a security program. Don't you know anything?

T

I'm just talking down to your stupid ass. It is assumed at this point that on any topic under the sun you have zero skills and knowledge.

So what "security" is your stupid ass paying for then?

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 10:53 AM

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As Trump’s power has risen, so has his wealth – all in plain sight

By Linda Feldmann | Nov. 25, 2025

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/1125/trump-ethics-cryptocu
rrency-binance

Why We Wrote This: Upholding public trust has long been a central tenet of American democracy. But ethical norms have fallen under President Donald Trump even as the net worth of him and his family has grown. The White House denies conflicts of interest. Ethics experts disagree.

When President Donald Trump pardoned billionaire Changpeng Zhao on Oct. 21, controversy surrounding the cryptocurrency mogul’s ties with the Trump family had already been swirling for months.

Mr. Zhao, founder and former chief executive of Binance – the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – had served four months in prison in 2024, after pleading guilty to violating U.S. regulations against money laundering. The Binance platform had “accommodated criminals across the world,” according to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland.

After serving his time, Mr. Zhao would still benefit from a pardon, because of ongoing legal constraints on his business activities.

“No felon would mind a pardon,” he said in a March post on X, while also saying, “I have had no discussions of a Binance US deal” for a pardon.

But that same month, a different deal did happen: A sovereign wealth fund from the United Arab Emirates invested $2 billion in Binance, transferring the invested money in the form of a digital coin called USD1. It’s a product created and sold by the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial.

Coming in the early weeks of President Trump’s second term, the influx of money represented a huge vote of confidence in World Liberty and its fledgling coin. It also drew scrutiny from Mr. Trump’s critics. They saw the actions as efforts by Mr. Zhao, Binance, and the United Arab Emirates to influence the president to their advantage.

Since then, Mr. Zhao – who holds citizenship in Canada, France, and the United Arab Emirates – has received a pardon, and the UAE has won a deal for advanced computer chips. No evidence has emerged of a quid pro quo connection in all these actions. But the events are part of a larger pattern. Money is flowing to Trump family businesses and other Trump-related activities, often coming from entities that stand to benefit when Mr. Trump, as president, treats them favorably. The White House insists there are no conflicts of interest. Yet for watchdog groups and many in the general public, the appearances raise questions.

What is at stake, according to experts on ethics, are the nation’s long-standing norms and guidelines that elected officials and public servants are expected to follow.

“The Founders were very clear about the necessity for public officials to not be making profits on the side,” says Robert Maguire, research director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW. Today, he says, there’s a violation of long-established expectations that the president should avoid the appearance of “acting in his own financial interest rather than the national interest.”

The issue is arising for at least two broad reasons. One is an unusually large tide of gifts toward projects such as Mr. Trump’s presidential library or his addition of a ballroom to the White House, now underway. The other is that his family remains active in global business activities that stand to benefit the president financially, even though he says he has recused himself from any direct management role.

Gifts are triggering alarm bells among some ethics experts who ask what donors might want in return for their contributions. The alarms get louder when the president himself and his family appear to benefit financially.

Over the past year, cryptocurrency has become much more lucrative as one of those family businesses.
A pardon, and red flags raised

On May 5, after the $2 billion Emirati investment deal occurred, two Democratic U.S. senators posted a letter to the acting director of the Office of Government Ethics, Jamieson Greer, outlining what they called a matter with “urgent ethics and national security implications,” involving “a crypto firm whose founder needs a pardon.”

“We write to request an urgent inquiry into a billion-dollar business deal involving the state-backed Emirati investment firm MGX, crypto exchange Binance, and World Liberty Financial (WLF) that is poised to enrich President Trump and his family, as well as the family of Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff,” said Sens. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

Some pieces of context: World Liberty Financial earns interest on the reserve assets that back customers’ holdings in the WLF stablecoin, USD1, so the Emirati fund’s investment in Binance also benefits the Trump family, as long as those assets are denominated in WLF’s coin. Mr. Witkoff’s son Zach is a manager at WLF alongside Mr. Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric.

Weeks after that letter was sent, Mr. Trump announced that his administration had “agreed to create a path for UAE to buy some of the world’s most advanced AI semiconductors from American companies.”

And on Oct. 21, he pardoned Mr. Zhao.

In an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that aired on Nov. 2, Mr. Trump played down any relationship with Mr. Zhao, saying he had “no idea” who the man was. Asked two days later about that statement at a White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president meant that “he does not know him personally.”

“When it comes to pardons, the White House takes them with the utmost seriousness, and the president understands the responsibility that he has as president to issue clemency and issue pardons to individuals who are seeking that,” Ms. Leavitt continued, citing a “very thorough review process” for such requests.

In a Fox News interview on Nov. 7, Mr. Zhao denied having ties to the Trump family and said he had never met Mr. Trump. Binance’s current CEO, Richard Teng, denies that the company promoted a Trump-linked cryptocurrency before Mr. Zhao’s pardon. Five days after the pardon, Binance announced an expanded partnership with World Liberty Financial.

Throughout U.S. history, presidents have had their share of ethical scrutiny and scandals. What’s remarkable now is a confluence of unusual factors. Mr. Trump is serving as president even as his family remains highly active in a range of U.S. and global businesses. The president repeatedly disregards established norms (an issue that emerged early in Mr. Trump’s first term, prompting the director of the Office of Government Ethics to resign at the time). His party, over which he has great sway, controls both houses of Congress. He has dismantled some traditional modes of ethics oversight.

Together, these circumstances create what some observers see as an unprecedented opening for potential or actual corruption – combined with a projected air of normality around whatever actions Mr. Trump takes.

The result, as critics see it, is an open door to a pay-to-play presidency. Much of the question-raising activity is happening in plain sight.

“That is part of the genius of what he does,” says Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on government ethics. “By doing it out in the open, many people think it can’t possibly be corrupt.”

Yet, in her view, Professor Clark says in an email, the president “has effectuated a hostile takeover of the federal government, establishing a corrupt, personalist regime where government action is determined not by the law, but by what pleases him.”

Wealth rising with a return to political power

Forbes magazine now estimates Mr. Trump’s net worth at about $6.3 billion, more than double where it stood in early 2024 – largely a result of the growth in the family’s crypto ventures. (Meanwhile, as in his first term, Mr. Trump has said he’s again not taking his presidential salary of $400,000 a year.)

Crypto isn’t the only arena in which public concerns have surfaced about conflicts of interest within the Trump administration. Researchers on the issue say it is often hard to know whether flows of money have resulted in improper influence on U.S. policy. Influences might exist without any overt quid pro quo deal, and thus can be hard to trace or prove.

Some examples that hint at both the risks and the blurry lines:

Trump memecoins. In May, the president held a gala dinner for the biggest buyers of a Trump-branded niche cryptocurrency: memecoins. The highest high roller, billionaire Justin Sun, bought more than $40 million in $Trump coins. Before and shortly after the 2024 election, Mr. Sun invested $75 million in the Trump family’s crypto business, WLF. In February, shortly after Mr. Trump retook office, the Securities and Exchange Commission paused an investigation into Mr. Sun and his companies over allegations of market manipulation.

The White House ballroom. Construction of a 90,000-square-foot, $300 million event space has begun, with last month’s razing of the East Wing. Mr. Trump has long sought such an addition and pledged no public money would go toward the project. That has opened the door to private donors – from major corporations to wealthy individuals to unnamed entities (individuals and companies) – who can potentially benefit by currying favor with the president. The White House promised transparency over the ballroom’s funding and released a list of donors, though not their donation amounts. But the identities of several donors remain off the record, including some with business before the administration, according to The New York Times. Mr. Trump also hosted a “thank you” dinner in the White House – with some media access – for high-dollar supporters.

Golden gifts from Switzerland. On Nov. 14, the Trump administration announced a deal to lower U.S. tariffs against Swiss imports from 39% to 15%. That followed a visit from Swiss business executives on Nov. 4 bearing gifts for the president, including a Rolex desk clock and a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, according to news reports. The gifts will go to Mr. Trump’s presidential library, White House officials say.

Boeing 747 gift from Qatar. The White House said in May that the luxury jet was a donation to the Department of Defense and will be transferred to Mr. Trump’s presidential library after he leaves office. Democrats argue that the gift violates the foreign emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits federal office holders from accepting gifts from foreign states. Senate Democrats have tried unsuccessfully to prevent the administration from spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to transform the jet into a new Air Force One. They say it’s a hugely wasteful effort, if the plane is to be retired from federal service in 2029.

An overture from Serbia. On Nov. 7, the Serbian government passed a special law smoothing the way for a roughly $500 million Trump hotel project in Belgrade – under a development company run by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law. In a June interview with BBC, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic voiced support for the proposed hotel, and added ”We are ready to build better relations with the U.S. I think that is terribly important for this country.” But Mr. Vucic’s government has faced its own controversy – public protests against alleged corruption and outcries against this deal in particular, which involves building a hotel on a historic site.

In all, ethics watchdog CREW counts 23 Trump-branded real estate projects outside the U.S. that are underway during Mr. Trump’s current term.

“As a result, the president’s namesake private company, which he still owns and profits from, is free to do business in foreign countries while Trump is in office,” a CREW report says. The report argues that this results in “massive conflicts” between his personal interests and those of the nation he leads.
How Trump has reduced ethics guardrails

Democrats are not immune from the appearance of “pay to play.” During Joe Biden’s presidency, his son Hunter Biden and his brothers, Frank and James Biden, all came under legal scrutiny for allegedly leveraging the family name for financial gain, dating back to Joe Biden’s days as vice president. Last year, the GOP-run House Oversight Committee concluded that Biden family members and associates had received more than $27 million from foreign sources as part of a conspiracy to monetize Mr. Biden’s “office of public trust.”

After the Oversight Committee released its report, the Biden White House issued a statement rejecting the report’s conclusions, calling the impeachment inquiry a “failed stunt.” Media fact-check articles on the probe found Republicans made false and misleading claims.

Regardless, trackers such as Mr. Maguire say the amounts of money flowing currently are unprecedented, compared with past administrations of either party.

In January, before Mr. Trump’s second inauguration, the family business – the Trump Organization – announced that his children would handle daily management of the president’s businesses. His investments and assets would remain in a trust, also managed by his children. (Finance experts say that putting his personal assets in a blind trust, as a number of presidents have done in recent decades, would be difficult for Mr. Trump, because his real estate assets would need to be sold to accomplish that.)

“President Trump is the most transparent President of all time and follows all applicable federal and ethics laws, and there are no conflicts of interest,” Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman, told the Monitor in a written statement on Nov. 7.

Watchdog groups beg to differ.

“From a government ethics point of view, [Mr. Trump] has taken us back over 50 years to the Watergate era, where there is distrust that officials at the highest level of government are truly making decisions for the public good, as opposed to their own personal profits,” says Kedric Payne, senior director of ethics at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington.

Unlike past modern-era presidencies, including his own first term in the White House, Mr. Trump declined to issue an ethics pledge for his second term. Nor was there an ethics pledge for the transition process that launched when he was elected again last November. After retaking office in January, Mr. Trump also rescinded the ethics rules put in place by Mr. Biden when he was president.

Another big shift in the legal landscape: Last year’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity shields U.S. chief executives from prosecution for “official” acts, which can be defined broadly. Where the justices will draw the boundaries remains to be seen. But the ruling clearly reduces legal checks on presidential powers.

Other ethical and legal guardrails are also gone. At various federal agencies, 29 of 38 inspector general positions are vacant as of Oct. 21, including the 17 left empty after firings by Mr. Trump in January.

In February, the president also fired the Biden-era director of the Office of Government Ethics, a five-year position established in 1978, post-Watergate. The role is meant to prevent conflicts of interest within the executive branch, though the president is largely exempt from OGE oversight. A series of acting OGE directors have been filling the post.
What safeguards exist?

During Mr. Trump’s first term, ethics watchdogs reported that foreign governments and others purchased services from Trump businesses (including hotels, restaurants, and golf courses), arguing that this violated the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause, which bars officials from accepting gifts from foreign governments. After Mr. Trump left office in 2021, the Supreme Court vacated lower court rulings as moot.

According to a 2023 analysis by CREW, the president made up to $160 million from foreign countries during his first term. And now, with no emoluments cases pending, it remains unclear when or if the public will find out whether such income is legal, says Mr. Maguire, the CREW research director.

It’s also unclear how or whether the other ways Mr. Trump is making money while serving as president might be checked, including sales of things such as Trump-branded Bibles, sneakers, and cologne.

At this point, what, if anything, can serve as a brake on what some legal scholars see as unethical presidential behavior? Beyond a president’s own moral compass and the tone he or she sets, the two biggest checks are public opinion and Congress, say ethics experts. While voters will always have a mix of issues on their minds, ethics is one of them, as polls attest. Midterm elections for control of Congress are a year away.

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

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I don't have internet "security".

If you have a VPN and think it's protecting you from anything, you're an idiot. The only thing that VPN ever saved you from was me knowing where you live.

The only service VPN actually provides customers is bypassing countrywide copyright issues that prevent you from watching shows that are only available on streaming services in other countries.

Pay for it while you can. There's already talks of banning VPNs.

Oh, and yes. That's a good bet. First time you've been right about anything in 2025. I do cut my own hair, when I'm not just letting it grow out.

I don't pay anybody to do anything that I can do for myself, which is most things.

You wouldn't understand that since you can't even wipe your own rotten asshole.

A VPN is not internet security. It provides some security, but it is not a security program. Don't you know anything?

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It's all encompassing and has blocked 11 trackers and fingerprinter's here right now on fireflyfans

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 11:41 AM

Keep it real please

There's talk of removing Trump from office if we start the new year and things get as bad for middle America as it looks.

Trump, Mike Johnson get BAD NEWS after Marjorie’s resignation announcement. There may be more that leave before the midterms giving the power of the house to democrats.

The Republicans don't want to run for reelection only to defend Trump for 3 more years. Especially as their constituents suffer through tariffs and increased health care costs. So, it may turn into payback, get even time directed at Trump.

Trump ABANDONED by INVESTORS as His TERM COLLAPSES

November 25th 2025

309 days into Donald Trump's term
The president's net approval rating is -19%,
down 1.4 points since last week.
38% approve, 57% disapprove, 4% not sure

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 2:45 PM

There's been talk about removing Trump for 10 years and you've never come close.

How are you going to pull it off this time dude?

In reality, Trump's numbers still haven't sunk much at all. You really need to stop looking at individual polling. I don't understand why you won't ever learn that lesson.

On this day in...

2025:
Trump 43.2% Favorable / -53.1% Unfavorable (-9.9 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump

2021:
Biden 42.5% Favorable / 52.0% Unfavorable (-9.5 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/joe-biden

2017:
Trump 38.6% Favorable / 56.7% Unfavorable (-18.1 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump

Republican Party Favorability Now:

40.2% / 53.0% (-12.8 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/republican-party

Democratic Party Favorability Now:
34.0% / 56.9% (-22.9 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/democratic-party

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There's been talk about removing Trump for 10 years and you've never come close.

How are you going to pull it off this time dude?

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There was talk about removing Hitler for years, and it never came close before he killed himself rather than be arrested.

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

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 2:58 PM

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Trump EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths

The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.

By Amudalat Ajasa | Nov 25, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/25/pm25-air
-pollution-rule-trump-epa/

The Environmental Protection Agency is abandoning a rule that would strengthen limits on fine-particle pollution, a move scientists and experts say could lead to dirtier air and more U.S. deaths.

On Monday night, the agency moved to vacate defense of the rule, which the Biden administration finalized last year, arguing that the previous administration did not have the authority to tighten it. That regulation imposed stricter standards on fine particulate matter measuring less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, including soot, which ranks as the nation’s deadliest air pollutant.

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There's been talk about removing Trump for 10 years and you've never come close.

How are you going to pull it off this time dude?

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

Well that's not going to happen anywhere outside of your diseased and hateful mind. So you'd better come up with a better way if you want to see it happen.

HINT: Everything you've tried so far has not only lead to failure, but it lead to the ultimate destruction of your entire political party.

Maybe you should try to actually give people what they want, and stop forcing college "educated" Californication on the rest of the country.

Nobody wants that. The Legacy Media had you believing that they did all the way up until election day, but they're all shattered now.

I know full well why you really hate Musk. It's because he was the first person to come in and change up the public discourse by making Twitter a free-speech platform that wasn't shadowbanning and outright banning anybody speaking out against far-left policy that the millennials running Twitter believed in. And the worst of them have gone to BlueSky which has become a den of people exactly like you saying some of the most vile shit with each other in their hyper-partisan and very small bubble.

Now we're watching that happen across the entire Legacy Media which up until the election your party has had complete control over.

This is why you're sending me political articles from Soap Opera Daily, because you can't find many articles saying things you want to hear anymore from the "legit" news sources in late 2025.

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There's been talk about removing Trump for 10 years and you've never come close.

How are you going to pull it off this time dude?

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There was talk about removing Hitler for years, and it never came close before he killed himself rather than be arrested.

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

Well that's not going to happen anywhere outside of your diseased and hateful mind. So you'd better come up with a better way if you want to see it happen.

HINT: Everything you've tried so far has not only lead to failure, but it lead to the ultimate destruction of your entire political party.

Maybe you should try to actually give people what they want, and stop forcing college "educated" Californication on the rest of the country.

Nobody wants that. The Legacy Media had you believing that they did all the way up until election day, but they're all shattered now.

I know full well why you really hate Musk. It's because he was the first person to come in and change up the public discourse by making Twitter a free-speech platform that wasn't shadowbanning and outright banning anybody speaking out against far-left policy that the millennials running Twitter believed in. And the worst of them have gone to BlueSky which has become a den of people exactly like you saying some of the most vile shit with each other in their hyper-partisan and very small bubble.

Now we're watching that happen across the entire Legacy Media which up until the election your party has had complete control over.

This is why you're sending me political articles from Soap Opera Daily, because you can't find many articles saying things you want to hear anymore from the "legit" news sources in late 2025.

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The Germans were very satisfied with Hitler's performance until the last few weeks. Nearly all Germans were willing to die to protect their Führer. Not as many Americans would even strenuously object to Trump dying, but then not many Americans are fanatics like Trumptards are.

P.S. 6ix, you seem to attach the label hate to many objects: "second hates Musk. second hates Trump." I do not hate Trump and Musk. They are like a rusted spot on a leaky fuel tank. The tank needs to be drained, steamed out to remove combustible fumes, and the rusted spot needs to be replaced with solid metal. To be clearer, Trump, Musk are defective, as was Hitler. All needed to be replaced before they caused the damage they have.

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

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 3:23 PM

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How Trump changed what “terrorism” means

Venezuela and the new war on “terror”.

By Joshua Keating | Nov 25, 2025

https://www.vox.com/politics/470286/terrorism-maduro-venezuela-antifa

The State Department designated Venezuela’s “Cartel de los Soles” as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on Monday as part of an escalating campaign aimed at forcing President Nicolás Maduro from power. The designation comes amid an ongoing campaign of US strikes on suspected drug boats that has killed more than 80 people, the largest build-up of US military forces in the Caribbean in decades, and the news that President Donald Trump has authorized covert action within Venezuela.

The designation of Cartel de los Soles — which the US says is led by Maduro himself alongside other high-ranking Venezuelan officials and military officers — “brings a whole bunch of new options to the United States,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said last week.

From a legal perspective, it’s not clear what options he’s talking about. FTO designation brings with it a range of penalties, including economic sanctions and visa bans, but it does not authorize military action. Trump has used it that way in the past, however; in his first term, his administration controversially designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization shortly before assassinating its commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike. So it’s not far-fetched to interpret Monday’s move as laying the groundwork for military action against targets on Venezuelan soil, or even against Maduro himself, since the designation considers him the lead “narcoterrorist.”

“The concern is that what they’re doing is dressing up regime change under the guise of counterterrorism and counternarcotics,” Brian Finucane, a former State Department legal adviser now with the International Crisis Group, told Vox.

“We’re in legal la-la land,” Finucane said.

It’s also another example of the unusual way that this administration is using the label “terrorism” very differently from how it was used in the years when fighting terrorist groups was America’s top national security priority.

Meet the new War on Terror…

Cartel de los Soles is not what would normally be described as a terrorist organization, nor is it even an “organization” at all. It’s a term Venezuelans use to describe a loose network of Venezuelan military officers and regime figures (“Soles” refers to the stars on generals’ uniforms) involved in a range of criminal activity that includes drug trafficking.

But since Inauguration Day, the administration has been casting a very wide net with these designations. Trump’s State Department has designated 24 groups as foreign terrorist organizations this year — more than the US designated in the previous 10 years. The groups named in 2025 alone now comprise nearly a third of the total groups on the list.

Four of the Trump targets have been Iran-aligned militia groups (including Yemen’s Houthis, who had been removed under the Biden administration), but the vast majority have been Latin American criminal organizations, including Mexican drug cartels, and gangs from Haiti, Venezuela, and Ecuador. For the administration, these all fall under the category of “narcoterrorism,” which is not a new term but has been wielded to an unprecedented extent by this administration, erasing the line between criminal and military threats.

The deaths and misery caused by drug addiction are undoubtedly a major issue, and foreign criminal groups undoubtedly play a role in supplying the drugs. But the administration’s rhetoric about which groups are transporting which drugs has been highly misleading, and many experts believe focusing exclusively on the international dimension of the opioid epidemic can distract from efforts to counteract the demand for drugs. In any event, groups supplying drugs to Americans with drug addiction for money do not pose the same sort of threat as those plotting violent attacks for the sake of politics or ideology.

The action in Trump’s new war on terror isn’t all in the Western Hemisphere: This month, it also designated four European left-wing extremist groups under the auspices of its campaign against “antifa” terrorism. The four groups — from Italy, Germany, and Greece — have also been credibly accused of violent attacks, though it’s not clear how active they still are. The German antifa group known as the “Hammer Gang” for attacking neo-Nazi rallies with hammers would not be considered a major US national security priority under any other administration.

In the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Trump also designated America’s antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, though there’s no such legal category. Moreover, antifa is less of a defined organization than a catch-all term for an ideological persuasion.

…Not the same as the old War on Terror

One irony of Trump’s anti-“terrorism” blitz is that it comes as the US has largely turned the page from the post-9/11 War on Terrorism. It’s almost hard to remember now what a prominent political issue the global fight against groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS was during Trump’s initial rise to political power and in the early years of his first term.

Jihadist terrorism will still sometimes garner the administration’s attention — when it dovetails with a culture war priority, such as allegations that Somalis in Minnesota are funding al-Shabaab, or Trump’s threat to use military force to protect Nigerian Christians from Boko Haram. But developments like the resurgence of ISIS in Syria, as well as the news that al-Qaeda may be on the verge of taking over the capital of Mali, have attracted little notice in today’s Washington.

Notably, the one group that Trump took off the foreign terrorists list is the al-Nusra Front, which was once al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. The longtime leader of that group, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is now the president of Syria and met with Trump at the White House earlier this month. This would have been a hard scene to imagine back in 2016, when Trump suggested the US should ally with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to fight jihadists like Sharaa.

The days when “bombing the shit” out of terrorist groups ISIS and al-Qaeda was a top priority for Trump are long gone. But the US is still dropping bombs, and “terrorism” is still a useful label for the administration to apply to its enemies, foreign and domestic, even if it’s less clear what it means today.

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

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Tuesday, November 25, 2025 3:52 PM

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There's been talk about removing Trump for 10 years and you've never come close.

How are you going to pull it off this time dude?

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There was talk about removing Hitler for years, and it never came close before he killed himself rather than be arrested.

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

Well that's not going to happen anywhere outside of your diseased and hateful mind. So you'd better come up with a better way if you want to see it happen.

HINT: Everything you've tried so far has not only lead to failure, but it lead to the ultimate destruction of your entire political party.

Maybe you should try to actually give people what they want, and stop forcing college "educated" Californication on the rest of the country.

Nobody wants that. The Legacy Media had you believing that they did all the way up until election day, but they're all shattered now.

I know full well why you really hate Musk. It's because he was the first person to come in and change up the public discourse by making Twitter a free-speech platform that wasn't shadowbanning and outright banning anybody speaking out against far-left policy that the millennials running Twitter believed in. And the worst of them have gone to BlueSky which has become a den of people exactly like you saying some of the most vile shit with each other in their hyper-partisan and very small bubble.

Now we're watching that happen across the entire Legacy Media which up until the election your party has had complete control over.

This is why you're sending me political articles from Soap Opera Daily, because you can't find many articles saying things you want to hear anymore from the "legit" news sources in late 2025.

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The Germans

"Zee Germans! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi!"

Shut the fuck up, dildo.

It's 2025, not 2017. If you bring up Hitler, Germany and/or Nazis in any of your arguments, you've already lost that argument before you even click "Post". Everybody in the country that doesn't have a BlueSky account is going to automatically tune you out like the white noise you are and have always in reality been.

I've been warning both you and Ted to knock it off because you were completely de-legitimatizing the deserved stigma of those words by throwing them casually at anyone who you disagree with. Well here we are. Those words mean absolutely nothing in 2025 and they never will again. YOU did that.

Hell... Don't take my word for it. On the whole, the people most likely to say "Fuck Israel" in 2025 are young Liberal voters.

This is why you're posting articles from Soap Opera Daily in 2025, while you can, and...

SPOILER ALERT: whoever is writing articles like this on sites completely unrelated to politics at all, they aren't going to be doing so for long.

Just look at the state of Gaming Journalism if you don't know what I'm talking about. ALL of them are laying off nearly everyone if not going completely out of business now. It's not because people aren't playing games. Far from that, despite the Triple A companies having huge problems now because of their woke garbage policies, microtransactions and massive Hollywood budgets for mid-level "safe" shit that brings no new innovation or takes any risks, the Games Industry as a whole made $190 Billion worldwide in 2024 (with more than half of that $190 Billion coming from Indie Development without those massive budgets, without any need to feed the 401k owners siphoning the wealth of the workers, and without any of the woke political shit). More people are buying and playing games today than ever before.

Most people aren't even aware that Soap Operas are a thing that still exists in 2025, so with an already minuscule following compared to that of the gaming community in current year, that author's chances of having a job writing political slop on a fansite for Soap Opera watchers by this time next year is extremely unlikely.

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"Zee Germans! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi!"

Shut the fuck up, dildo.

It's 2025, not 2017. If you bring up Hitler, Germany and/or Nazis in any of your arguments, you've already lost that argument before you even click "Post".

You never understand what is in front of you, 6ix. Summarising: Trump is mentally, emotionally, morally, and physically defective. He is a fat, ugly guy who rapes children provided by Epstein. It is not at all surprising that the Trumptards I know are the same kind of people, which makes Trump extremely attractive to them and wins their loyalty. Not voting for Trump would be the same as despising yourself if you are a Trumptard.

What I wrote was: "6ix, you seem to attach the label hate to many objects: "second hates Musk. second hates Trump." I do not hate Trump and Musk. They are like a rusted spot on a leaky fuel tank. The tank needs to be drained, steamed out to remove combustible fumes, and the rusted spot needs to be replaced with solid metal. To be clearer, Trump, Musk are defective, as was Hitler. All needed to be replaced before they caused the damage they have."

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

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This is NOT how to run a project, unless you have a limitless supply of other people’s money:

Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.

Story by Jonathan Edwards, Dan Diamond | Nov 26, 2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-wants-a-bigger-white-hou
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President Donald Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations.

Trump’s desire to go big with the project has put him at odds with architect James McCrery II, the people said, who has counseled restraint over concerns the planned 90,000-square-foot addition could dwarf the 55,000-square-foot mansion in violation of a general architectural rule: don’t build an addition that overshadows the main building.

A White House official acknowledged the two have disagreed but would not say why or elaborate on the tensions, characterizing Trump and McCrery’s conversations about the ballroom as “constructive dialogue.”

“As with any building, there is a conversation between the principal and the architect,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. “All parties are excited to execute on the president’s vision on what will be the greatest addition to the White House since the Oval Office.”

McCrery declined an interview request through a representative who declined to answer questions about the architect’s interactions with Trump in recent weeks.

Trump’s intense focus on the project and insistence on realizing his vision over the objections of his own hire, historic preservationists and others concerned by a lack of public input in the project reflect his singular belief in himself as a tastemaker and obsessive attention to details. In the first 10 months of his second term, Trump has waged a campaign to remake the White House in his gilded aesthetic and done so unilaterally — using a who’s-going-to-stop-me ethos he honed for decades as a developer.

Multiple administration officials have acknowledged that Trump has at times veered into micromanagement of the ballroom project, holding frequent meetings about its design and materials. A model of the ballroom has also become a regular fixture in the Oval Office.

The renovation represents one of the largest changes to the White House in its 233-year history, and has yet to undergo any formal public review. The administration has not publicly provided key details about the building, such as its planned height. The 90,000-square-foot structure also is expected to host a suite of offices previously located in the East Wing. The White House has also declined to specify its plans for an emergency bunker that was located below the East Wing, citing matters of national security.

On recent weekdays, a bustling project site that is almost entirely fenced off from public view contained dozens of workers and materials ready to be installed, including reinforced concrete pipes and an array of cranes, drills, pile drivers and other heavy machinery, photos obtained by The Washington Post show.

Plans for the addition as of Tuesday had not been submitted to the National Capital Planning Commission, a 12-member board charged by Congress with overseeing federal construction projects and now led by Trump allies. A preliminary agenda for the commission’s next meeting, scheduled for Dec. 4, does not include the ballroom project under projects expected to be covered at the meeting or reviewed by the body in the next six months. White House officials say that the administration still plans to submit its ballroom plans to the commission at “the appropriate time.”

The administration’s rapid demolition of the East Wing annex and solicitations from companies and individuals to fund the new construction have caused controversy over the project, which Trump believes the White House needs to host special events. Democrats, historical preservation groups and some architects have criticized the project’s pace, secrecy and shifting specifications. The White House initially said this summer that the ballroom would cost $200 million and fit 650 people, while Trump in recent weeks asserted that it could cost $300 million or more and would fit about 1,000 people.

McCrery has kept his criticism out of the public eye, quietly working to deliver as Trump demanded rushed revisions to his plans, according to two of the people with knowledge of the conversations. The president — a longtime real estate executive who prides himself on his expertise — has repeatedly drilled into the details of the project in their Oval Office meetings, the people said.

McCrery has wanted to remain with the project, worried that another architect would design an inferior building, according to a person with knowledge of his thinking.

McCrery, a classical architect and the founder and principal of McCrery Architects, had designed works like the U.S. Supreme Court bookstore and the pedestal for President Ronald Reagan’s statue in the U.S. Capitol. The ballroom was the largest-ever project for his firm, which has specialized in designing churches, libraries and homes.

Trump hired McCrery for the project on July 13. Eighteen days later, the White House announced the ballroom project, with officials promising to start construction within two months and finish before the end of Trump’s second term.

Trump also appointed McCrery in 2019 to serve a four-year term on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which provides advice to the president, Congress and local government officials on design matters related to construction projects in the capital region.

Democrats have pressed the White House and its donors for more details on the planned construction and what was promised to financial contributors. The ballroom is being funded by wealthy individuals and large companies that have contracts with the federal government, including Amazon, Lockheed Martin and Palantir Technologies. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Post.)

Several donors have cast the decision in statements as an investment in the future of a building that belongs to the American people, pushing back on the suggestion that their largesse sought to curry favor with Trump.

A donor list released by the White House of 37 businesses and individuals who underwrote the ballroom is not comprehensive, administration officials acknowledged, leaving open the possibility that millions of dollars have been funneled toward the president’s pet project with no oversight.

“Billionaires and giant corporations with business in front of this administration are lining up to dump millions into Trump’s new ballroom — and Trump is showing them where to sign on the dotted line,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) said in a statement last week. Warren and her colleagues also introduced legislation that would impose restrictions on White House construction and require more transparency from donors.

Kara Voght contributed to this report.

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

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Wednesday, November 26, 2025 10:48 AM

Keep it real please

Wrong way Trump.

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Steve Rattner: JD Vance can talk about inheriting a bad economy but it’s still going the wrong way

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Wednesday, November 26, 2025 12:39 PM

Yeah. It went from a boulder cascading down a mountain to lazily rolling down the slope at the bottom.

Keep cheering for it to not stop though. America hater.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2025 9:54 PM

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Yeah. It went from a boulder cascading down a mountain to lazily rolling down the slope at the bottom.

Keep cheering for it to not stop though. America hater.

America will only go under if everyone denies the facts like you do. You can't help fix something if you deny what is wrong with it. America's waking up moron, and it bothers you so much you avoid that reality at all costs. Why, because it shows you're stupid after all your bullshit posts.

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Trump BRUTALLY REBUKED in PUBLIC as PLAN is LAUGHED AT

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Wednesday, November 26, 2025 10:11 PM

Okay, QTard.

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