Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too? by 6ixStringJack

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

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think I see what Trump is trying to do, but it needs to happen pretty much all at the same time to work:

Tariff goods from nations that have excessive trade surpluses with the USA. Someone actually figured out where he got his original tariff numbers from: trade surplus with the USA divided by total exports.

Reduce income taxes to stimulate purchases at home, and use tariffs to replace them with.

I get it, but the timing is awfully close.

Somebody did figure it out. For example, Guyana tariffs jumped to 38%. Then went to 10% a few days later because the reason for raising tariffs to 38% was stupid: Guyana sells billions of dollars in crude to the US, but doesn’t buy billions of refined fuel from the US.

Why couldn’t the tariffs go back to zero? Because Trump would have to admit that 38%, followed by 10%, were goofs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypxnnyg7jo
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-country/guy/partner/usa#bespoke
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Another thing somebody figured out about "Reduce income taxes to stimulate purchases at home, and use tariffs to replace them with" is that tariffs are paid by Americans, not by people in Guyana, and income taxes are also paid by Americans. Raising tariffs (it is a tax on Americans) and lowering income taxes will only shift who in America pays taxes. Reducing income taxes will stimulate purchases by rich people who paid high taxes before Trump's scheme of lower taxes on the wealthy.

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

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 9:53 AM

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Thanks to Trump

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When Justin Trudeau resigned at the start of this year, Canada’s Liberals appeared to be heading for the door after almost 10 years in power.

The opposition Conservatives were in a strong position, with a 25 point lead and an easy attack line: that any Liberal candidate would be no different to Trudeau, who had become increasingly unpopular.

But those fortunes changed dramatically in the months leading up to the election and now Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, has declared victory.

That’s largely down to one phenomenon: the return of Donald Trump as US president.

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/5-things-know-five-minutes-anti-trump-c
andidate-win-canada-election-3665310

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

No, it wasn't suppose to go down that way.

Trump managed to do something that a lot of Canadians haven't seen in their lifetimes. Unite the entire country from coast to coast to coast. Even Quebec was pissed. So, he managed to piss off almost every since Canadian. Guess we should thank him for that maybe.

I have a friend whose daughter is unfortunately one of those idiots who voted Conservative and is now crying in her beer towel.

NEVER 51. CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE

At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.

Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.

Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.

Wrong Jack, Trumps' power is waning.

T

Trump's Michigan "rally" of less than 3,000 people in a half filled arena was yet another disaster, as most of the crowd left half way through, and Trump spent 90 minutes defending his failed first 100 days by attacking, what else, "communist left wing judges" and changing his tariff policy while literally on Air Force One on the way to the rally to pander to the skimpy crowd.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 2:09 PM

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Thanks to Trump

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When Justin Trudeau resigned at the start of this year, Canada’s Liberals appeared to be heading for the door after almost 10 years in power.

The opposition Conservatives were in a strong position, with a 25 point lead and an easy attack line: that any Liberal candidate would be no different to Trudeau, who had become increasingly unpopular.

But those fortunes changed dramatically in the months leading up to the election and now Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, has declared victory.

That’s largely down to one phenomenon: the return of Donald Trump as US president.

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/5-things-know-five-minutes-anti-trump-c
andidate-win-canada-election-3665310

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

No, it wasn't suppose to go down that way.

Trump managed to do something that a lot of Canadians haven't seen in their lifetimes. Unite the entire country from coast to coast to coast. Even Quebec was pissed. So, he managed to piss off almost every since Canadian. Guess we should thank him for that maybe.

I have a friend whose daughter is unfortunately one of those idiots who voted Conservative and is now crying in her beer towel.

NEVER 51. CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE

At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.

Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.

Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.

Wrong Jack, Trumps' power is waning.

T

I'm not aware of anybody campaigning or any pending election.

People got shit to do like working on a Tuesday. Republican voters usually work for a living.

I'm the exception to the rule.

It's easy to fill up arenas for AOC when you have a huge pool of angry unemployed people with nothing better to do that you can bus in.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 3:58 PM

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

Economic facts are political and hostile to Trump

Tariffs are consumption taxes. American consumers pay for tariffs on Chinese goods, not the Chinese government, businesses or people.

Trump pretends that exporting countries pay our tariffs. If he really believed that, he’d be happy to see Amazon post how much China is paying to get their goods into our market. But when rumors surfaced that Amazon was going to do just that, the Trump outrage machine kicked into high gear:

“Earlier on Tuesdsay, Punchbowl News reported that Amazon would show tariff-related price increases on goods. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the move “a hostile and political act.”

Once again, the Trump Administration does what it accuses others of doing. In this case, a taxpayer-funded hostile and political attack on Amazon for transparent reporting of facts. They’re gaslighting, and they’re using your tax dollars to do it.

Trump says Jeff Bezos 'solved the problem' after White House attacks Amazon on tariff price labeling plan
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-jeff-bezos-solved-the-proble
m-after-white-house-attacks-amazon-on-tariff-price-labeling-plan-143310019.html

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 4:01 PM

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Tariffs are consumption taxes. American consumers pay for tariffs on Chinese goods, not the Chinese government, businesses or people.

Trump pretends that exporting countries pay our tariffs. If he really believed that, he’d be happy to see Amazon post how much China is paying to get their goods into our market. But when rumors surfaced that Amazon was going to do just that, the Trump outrage machine kicked into high gear:

“Earlier on Tuesdsay, Punchbowl News reported that Amazon would show tariff-related price increases on goods. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the move “a hostile and political act.”

Once again, the Trump Administration does what it accuses others of doing. In this case, a taxpayer-funded hostile and political attack on Amazon for transparent reporting of facts. They’re gaslighting, and they’re using your tax dollars to do it.

Trump says Jeff Bezos 'solved the problem' after White House attacks Amazon on tariff price labeling plan
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-jeff-bezos-solved-the-proble
m-after-white-house-attacks-amazon-on-tariff-price-labeling-plan-143310019.html

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

The Amazon story was a pure lie from the beginning.

Amazon wasn't ever going to do this, nor do I even believe they would have had the capability to overhaul their entire website to show any of it either.

Total non-story here.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 4:04 PM

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Thanks to Trump

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When Justin Trudeau resigned at the start of this year, Canada’s Liberals appeared to be heading for the door after almost 10 years in power.

The opposition Conservatives were in a strong position, with a 25 point lead and an easy attack line: that any Liberal candidate would be no different to Trudeau, who had become increasingly unpopular.

But those fortunes changed dramatically in the months leading up to the election and now Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, has declared victory.

That’s largely down to one phenomenon: the return of Donald Trump as US president.

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/5-things-know-five-minutes-anti-trump-c
andidate-win-canada-election-3665310

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

No, it wasn't suppose to go down that way.

Trump managed to do something that a lot of Canadians haven't seen in their lifetimes. Unite the entire country from coast to coast to coast. Even Quebec was pissed. So, he managed to piss off almost every since Canadian. Guess we should thank him for that maybe.

I have a friend whose daughter is unfortunately one of those idiots who voted Conservative and is now crying in her beer towel.

NEVER 51. CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE

At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.

Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.

Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.

Wrong Jack, Trumps' power is waning.

T

Trump's Michigan "rally" of less than 3,000 people in a half filled arena was yet another disaster, as most of the crowd left half way through, and Trump spent 90 minutes defending his failed first 100 days by attacking, what else, "communist left wing judges" and changing his tariff policy while literally on Air Force One on the way to the rally to pander to the skimpy crowd.

I'm not aware of anybody campaigning or any pending election.

People got shit to do like working on a Tuesday. Republican voters usually work for a living.

I'm the exception to the rule.

It's easy to fill up arenas for AOC when you have a huge pool of angry unemployed people with nothing better to do that you can bus in.

"Overall job loss by end of term: According to USA Today, approximately 4 million fewer people were employed at the end of Trump's term compared to when he took office. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) notes that the year ended with 9.8 million fewer jobs than before the pandemic and 546,000 fewer jobs than at the start of his presidency."

Trumps employment record first term. This term is going to be much worse. And since it takes 600 to a 1,000 busses to transport 30,000 thousand adults, I'm sure there is plenty of news coverage reporting on such a large caravan. Right, providing you with plenty of video footage.

Or are you just showing us again, what a lying sack of shit you are.

T

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 4:06 PM

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Thanks to Trump

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When Justin Trudeau resigned at the start of this year, Canada’s Liberals appeared to be heading for the door after almost 10 years in power.

The opposition Conservatives were in a strong position, with a 25 point lead and an easy attack line: that any Liberal candidate would be no different to Trudeau, who had become increasingly unpopular.

But those fortunes changed dramatically in the months leading up to the election and now Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, has declared victory.

That’s largely down to one phenomenon: the return of Donald Trump as US president.

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/5-things-know-five-minutes-anti-trump-c
andidate-win-canada-election-3665310

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

No, it wasn't suppose to go down that way.

Trump managed to do something that a lot of Canadians haven't seen in their lifetimes. Unite the entire country from coast to coast to coast. Even Quebec was pissed. So, he managed to piss off almost every since Canadian. Guess we should thank him for that maybe.

I have a friend whose daughter is unfortunately one of those idiots who voted Conservative and is now crying in her beer towel.

NEVER 51. CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE

At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.

Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.

Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.

Wrong Jack, Trumps' power is waning.

T

Trump's Michigan "rally" of less than 3,000 people in a half filled arena was yet another disaster, as most of the crowd left half way through, and Trump spent 90 minutes defending his failed first 100 days by attacking, what else, "communist left wing judges" and changing his tariff policy while literally on Air Force One on the way to the rally to pander to the skimpy crowd.

I'm not aware of anybody campaigning or any pending election.

People got shit to do like working on a Tuesday. Republican voters usually work for a living.

I'm the exception to the rule.

It's easy to fill up arenas for AOC when you have a huge pool of angry unemployed people with nothing better to do that you can bus in.

Trumps employment record first term. This term is going to be much worse.

T

That was all the doing of the Democratic Party, and most of those jobs were recovered before Joe Biden* was inaugurated.

*yawn*

Next...

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 4:06 PM

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

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

The Amazon story was a pure lie from the beginning.

Amazon wasn't ever going to do this, nor do I even believe they would have had the capability to overhaul their entire website to show any of it either.

Total non-story here.

Too bad for you, but there is a video from the White House saying Amazon's plan to display tariff costs is "hostile and political act"

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 4:07 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

The Amazon story was a pure lie from the beginning.

Amazon wasn't ever going to do this, nor do I even believe they would have had the capability to overhaul their entire website to show any of it either.

Total non-story here.
Too bad for you, but there is a video from the White House saying Amazon's plan to display tariff costs is "hostile and political act"

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

I didn't deny that the White House said this. They said it after the fake Amazon story was spread by the fake news outfits.

The false part of the story was the idea that Amazon was going to do this in the first place. Not only wasn't it going to do this, but it is not capable of doing this.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 4:16 PM

It has already started but in weeks Jack will have nothing to hide behind. And since he doesn't work, and he explained how a government policy allowed for him to keep his house, I'm sure he is going to lose it in the near future. His hero Trump will see to that.

T

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 4:34 PM

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

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I didn't deny that the White House said this. They said it after the fake Amazon story was spread by the fake news outfits.

The false part of the story was the idea that Amazon was going to do this in the first place. Not only wasn't it going to do this, but it is not capable of doing this.

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6ix, just for the record, you are an over-articulate retard, but then tens of millions of Americans have the same crippling mental shortcoming, one which strongly attracts them to Trump and even stronger, predicts they will struggle to prosper in America and frequently fail.

Republicans Kicking Americans Off of Medicaid

Bill Haskell | April 29, 2025 7:00 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/republicans-kicking-americans-off-of
-medicaid

There are 42 House Republicans who won their seats last November by 15 points or less (see below). These are the most vulnerable Republicans. Meanwhile, Democrats have been outperforming their districts by an average of over ten points in special elections so far this year.

Combine these data points with the growing backlash and as you can imagine, some House Republicans in swing districts (and not-normally-considered swing districts) are understandably nervous about ripping healthcare coverage away from up to 60% of their constituents (that’s not a typo . . . check out CA-22).

The optics look even worse for Republicans when Democrats have been successfully calling attention to the huge numbers of children, the elderly and the disabled who rely on Medicaid.

So, what’s a Republican House member to do? They have to have their massive tax cuts for millionaires & billionaires, after all; that’s not even up for debate in their minds!

The “solution” to Republicans’ problem in their eyes:

Republicans are out there proclaiming that “able-bodied” adults don’t deserve coverage, that the 90% federal match rate for the expansion that made it financially viable for states sucks resources from “traditional” Medicaid beneficiaries (it doesn’t), that defunding the expansion is just cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse” — that is, that low-income adults without affordable access to employer insurance are effectively human waste.

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

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 5:22 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Thanks to Trump

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When Justin Trudeau resigned at the start of this year, Canada’s Liberals appeared to be heading for the door after almost 10 years in power.

The opposition Conservatives were in a strong position, with a 25 point lead and an easy attack line: that any Liberal candidate would be no different to Trudeau, who had become increasingly unpopular.

But those fortunes changed dramatically in the months leading up to the election and now Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, has declared victory.

That’s largely down to one phenomenon: the return of Donald Trump as US president.

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/5-things-know-five-minutes-anti-trump-c
andidate-win-canada-election-3665310

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

No, it wasn't suppose to go down that way.

Trump managed to do something that a lot of Canadians haven't seen in their lifetimes. Unite the entire country from coast to coast to coast. Even Quebec was pissed. So, he managed to piss off almost every since Canadian. Guess we should thank him for that maybe.

I have a friend whose daughter is unfortunately one of those idiots who voted Conservative and is now crying in her beer towel.

NEVER 51. CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE

At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.

Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.

Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.

Wrong Jack, Trumps' power is waning.

T

Trump's Michigan "rally" of less than 3,000 people in a half filled arena was yet another disaster, as most of the crowd left half way through, and Trump spent 90 minutes defending his failed first 100 days by attacking, what else, "communist left wing judges" and changing his tariff policy while literally on Air Force One on the way to the rally to pander to the skimpy crowd.

I'm not aware of anybody campaigning or any pending election.

People got shit to do like working on a Tuesday. Republican voters usually work for a living.

I'm the exception to the rule.

It's easy to fill up arenas for AOC when you have a huge pool of angry unemployed people with nothing better to do that you can bus in.

"Overall job loss by end of term: According to USA Today, approximately 4 million fewer people were employed at the end of Trump's term compared to when he took office. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) notes that the year ended with 9.8 million fewer jobs than before the pandemic and 546,000 fewer jobs than at the start of his presidency."

Trumps employment record first term. This term is going to be much worse.

T

Since it takes 600 to 1,000
buses to transport 30,000 adults, I'm sure there
is plenty of news coverage reporting on such a
large caravan. Right,
providing you with plenty of video footage. Or,
are you just going to show us again what a fucking
liar you are. Because most of your post is bullshit.

T

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 5:25 PM

Yup. Let's pretend like that didn't happen every day on the Harris Campaign trail that wasted $1.4 Billion for nothing.

Nobody gives a shit about your rallies, son.

The Democratic Party is dead.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 5:27 PM

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Yup. Let's pretend like that didn't happen every day on the Harris Campaign trail that wasted $1.4 Billion for nothing.

Nobody gives a shit about your rallies, son.

The Democratic Party is dead.

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Cites Jack, no more of your bullshit, let's see cites.

T

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 5:32 PM

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Cites Jack, no more of your bullshit, let's see cites.

Here you go bitch...

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 5:45 PM

Are you telling me there was 30,000 people in that convey? You better try again. And by the way, they were vans not buses. 10 people to a van, let me see, that would be 3,000 vans needed. Like I said dummy, try again. Ever see one of Trumps caravans? Another fact, Elon Musk spent 288 million final count on Trumps election, so eat shit.

T

Remember, Kamala was vice president with staff and protection. Also, a lot of the state's democratic leaders and volunteers.

INCREDIBLE scenes as TRUMP'S CONVOY rolls Through ROME for POPE FRANCIS' funeral

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 6:13 PM

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Thanks to Trump

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When Justin Trudeau resigned at the start of this year, Canada’s Liberals appeared to be heading for the door after almost 10 years in power.

The opposition Conservatives were in a strong position, with a 25 point lead and an easy attack line: that any Liberal candidate would be no different to Trudeau, who had become increasingly unpopular.

But those fortunes changed dramatically in the months leading up to the election and now Mark Carney, former Bank of England governor, has declared victory.

That’s largely down to one phenomenon: the return of Donald Trump as US president.

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/5-things-know-five-minutes-anti-trump-c
andidate-win-canada-election-3665310

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

No, it wasn't suppose to go down that way.

Trump managed to do something that a lot of Canadians haven't seen in their lifetimes. Unite the entire country from coast to coast to coast. Even Quebec was pissed. So, he managed to piss off almost every since Canadian. Guess we should thank him for that maybe.

I have a friend whose daughter is unfortunately one of those idiots who voted Conservative and is now crying in her beer towel.

NEVER 51. CANADA IS NOT FOR SALE

At the end of the day, Canada has just about zero say in the matter.

Once we stop offering military aid to everyone, they're all going to go bankrupt paying for free healthcare and anything else they're looking to fund on top of their own defense budget.

Canada has no leverage at all here, and I suspect there will come a day where Canada is asking us if they can join. I hope at that point the answer is no.

Wrong Jack, Trumps' power is waning.

T

Trump's Michigan "rally" of less than 3,000 people in a half filled arena was yet another disaster, as most of the crowd left half way through, and Trump spent 90 minutes defending his failed first 100 days by attacking, what else, "communist left wing judges" and changing his tariff policy while literally on Air Force One on the way to the rally to pander to the skimpy crowd.

I'm not aware of anybody campaigning or any pending election.

People got shit to do like working on a Tuesday. Republican voters usually work for a living.

I'm the exception to the rule.

It's easy to fill up arenas for AOC when you have a huge pool of angry unemployed people with nothing better to do that you can bus in.

Tick tock

T

MAGA gets UNCOVERED as Trump PLUMMETS FAST

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025 7:07 PM

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Are you telling me there was 30,000 people in that convey?

Nope. Just illustrating that this is what the Democrat Party does, and shoving it in your dumb fucking face is all.

Your party is dead, Ted.

And you helped kill it off.

Thank you for that.

Just keep on doing exactly what you've been doing. It's working out excellent for me so far.

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Thursday, May 1, 2025 6:11 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by THG:
Are you telling me there was 30,000 people in that convey?

Nope. Just illustrating that this is what the Democrat Party does, and shoving it in your dumb fucking face is all.

Your party is dead, Ted.

And you helped kill it off.

Thank you for that.

Just keep on doing exactly what you've been doing. It's working out excellent for me so far.

6ix, you couldn't be an angrier whiny baby, but you are getting close to Trump's level.

“The unifying principle” of Trumpism, wrote Ben Tarnoff in February, “is the abdication of adulthood’s defining obligation: to take responsibility for oneself and others.”

More Babies!

Trump and his set act carefree in the face of catastrophe—and they give their supporters permission to do the same.

By Ben Tarnoff | February 7, 2025

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/02/07/more-babies-trump/

The week I became a father, two things happened. Fires engulfed the Amazon, and a man who made his living as a columnist for the largest newspaper in the country complained to a university provost that a professor had called him a bedbug on the Internet. This was the world into which I welcomed my first child: a place where people with power behaved like children while the planet burned.

Five and a half years later, our civilizational outlook has not improved. It is not just the fires, floods, zoonotic diseases, and other insignia of ecological emergency. It is also the discomfiting spectacle of a leadership class so extravagantly unfit for the task at hand. Incompetent rulers are nothing new. They are one of human history’s main themes. What feels more specific to our time is the extent to which our leaders have responded to a moment of severe and proliferating crisis by regressing into a childlike state, and encouraging their followers to do the same.

In 1933, the year that Hitler took power in Germany, the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich proposed that fascism begins at home, in the domestic sphere. The first authoritarian state is the family, he argued, ruled by the father. Here children learn the submission to authority—and the identification with it—that makes a good fascist subject. The idea proved influential for later thinkers trying to map the psychology of authoritarianism, and it has an obvious kernel of truth. In our own extremely desublimated era, one doesn’t have to look very far for verification: “It’s like Daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off,” a ruddy Mel Gibson gushed the other day on Fox News about Trump’s visit to Los Angeles, during which he had scolded Karen Bass, the city’s mayor and a Black woman, at a press conference.

But Trump is poorly cast for the part of patriarch. While he glowers in his official portraits, his political style is more silly than stern. He babbles. He is a creature of impulse and instinct, fickle and dysregulated. His humor is that of the schoolyard; his train of thought is, at minimum, haphazard. If you have ever heard a toddler tell a story, it sounds like Trump: digressive, bizarre, filled with tonal shifts, often hilarious. His inner circle exudes a similarly infantile affect. Elon Musk is nothing if not a smirking preadolescent. J.D. Vance looks uncannily like a baby, which is presumably why he decided to grow a beard, with the result that he now looks like a bearded baby. “Let me say very simply,” he told an audience of antiabortion fanatics in his first speech as vice president: “I want more babies in the United States of America!”

It is stressful to be young. The world is confusing, the process of fitting oneself into it long and painful. But these difficulties are offset by certain pleasures, chief among them the relative absence of responsibility. If children misbehave they can be punished, but in moral and legal terms they are not accountable for their actions to the same degree as adults are. When people feel nostalgic for their childhoods, even when they had bad childhoods, this is what they miss: to be carefree.

The desire to be carefree is integral to the psychic allure of Trumpism. It is pleasurable to disinter one’s deepest resentments, to worship power, to go berserk with rage, to be floridly conspiratorial, to know nothing, to hallucinate Marxists under the bed, to picture the people you hate in tears and in chains. But the unifying principle, the rind that envelops and coheres these delights, is the abdication of adulthood’s defining obligation: to take responsibility for oneself and others. It is precisely this responsibility that Trump and his set refuse. They are carefree in the face of catastrophe. And they give their supporters permission to take the same flight from responsibility—indeed, their political appeal depends on it. They want more babies in the United States of America.

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Reactionary infantilism is not original to Trump. He is not, after all, an especially original figure. His specific genius lies in taking long-festering inflammations within the Republican mind and aggravating the swelling to the point of rupture. Back in 2012 the editors of n+1 identified “the personality type and cultural style of the contemporary right-wing commentator” as “Big Baby.” Rush Limbaugh was the first Big Baby, followed by Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Bill O’Reilly. Trump sits easily in this lineage. Big Baby, the editors explained, was not merely “juvenile, impish, and wounded,” but a devoted hater of women. One of his favorite enemies was the Nanny State, the government imagined as a woman:

Contemporary Big Baby conservatism relies on the conceit that there is someone who wants to legislate against trivial and immature pleasures, who doesn’t want you to have fun?—?a giant Nanny (with Nancy Pelosi’s face) who regulates for regulation’s sake. Again, as with real babies, it’s only the rule standing between Me and cookie that seems real?—?not the rationale, nor the collective good that could come of mutual restraint. The future can’t be kept in view. Cookie is too big!

Trump inherits and intensifies this legacy. Meanwhile, the acceleration of environmental breakdown has simultaneously made the escape from adulthood more appealing and given Big Baby new limits to transgress. Lockdowns, vaccinations, electric vehicle “mandates”: Mommy has never been so mean. Fortunately, the joy of defying her grows in proportion. Usually my kids will wait until I’m in the room before they eat some forbidden nub of chocolate.

No picture of Trumpism would be complete without the Democratic Party bumbling about in the background, and here too the logic of Big Baby finds a foothold. The counterpart to the feral puerility of American conservatism is a senescent American liberalism whose grandees are well into their second childhood. Watching Biden’s smooth, uncomprehending face at the debate, as Trump snickered Bart Simpsonishly beside him, we came into possession of a perfect emblem of Democratic babyhood.

It cannot be banished by banishing Biden, as it is a more general condition. The party is run by sundowning seniors who refuse to cede the driver’s seat even though they pose a danger to themselves and others: recall Dianne Feinstein berating a room full of literal children for politely asking her to do something about climate change. But liberal infantilism is not solely a product of physical decline; it afflicts functionaries of all ages. Think of the attendees of the 2024 Democratic National Convention plugging their ears like grade-schoolers as protesters read aloud the names of children killed in Gaza. These are the symptoms of another party in flight from responsibility, but having far less fun along the way. The Democrats have staked so much on being the adults in the room, but they are actually something much worse: those hated children who think they are adults. At recess, they would be bullied.

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Nobody went to jail for the Iraq War or the 2007–2008 financial crisis. In a time of mass criminalization, when children can be tried as adults, the worst adults are never punished. Creating a culture of elite impunity has been a bipartisan affair, and it has bred the cynicism on which Trumpism feeds. Equally bipartisan is the state’s decades-long divestiture from the obligation of caring for its citizens, a process that the scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls “organized abandonment.”

Earlier generations of social movements were able to force the creation of institutions that, however imperfectly, bore a degree of responsibility for our collective wellbeing. The story of the last half-century is the corrosion of those institutions, with prisons, private equity, and other toxins oozing through the cracks. It is a sign of how antisocial our society has become that the basic values one learns in kindergarten—to share, to be kind, to tell the truth, to reciprocate and cooperate—are so vilified in our political life. More than once I have had the thought that I am raising my children for a world that does not exist.

Responsibility is not a concept we typically associate with the political left. But it was one of Grace Lee Boggs’s favorite words. The philosopher and activist, together with her husband James Boggs, believed that revolutionaries must take responsibility for creating a new society in which people take responsibility for one another. Protest is good, and often required, but the Boggses believed that it carried a risk. When we protest injustice, we put the onus of restitution elsewhere. A revolution, they believed, is less about making demands on those in power than building new power from below. This is a daunting but exhilarating prospect: millions of people acting as architects of a social order that endows them with the freedom to cultivate their broadest selves, a commonwealth of the grown. When Big Baby sleeps, these are its nightmares.

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Trump’s tirade at interviewer wrecks his own case against Abrego Garcia

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/04/30/trumps-tirade-at-interview
er-wrecks-his-own-case-against-abrego-garcia/

Greg Sargent writes:

President Donald Trump grew angry as a reporter persistently questioned him about his refusal to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a prison in El Salvador—and in so doing, Trump accidentally demolished his whole case against the wrongfully deported Salvadoran man.

In the interview, ABC News’s Terry Moran pointed out that Trump has the power to pick up the phone, call El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, and with the “power of the presidency” get Bukele to release him.

“I could,” Trump replied. “If he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that.”

At the most basic level, this destroys one of the Trump administration’s central arguments for leaving Abrego Garcia to rot in an El Salvadoran gulag. Administration officials say they have no power to compel Bukele to release him because it would intrude on Salvadoran sovereignty to dictate that country’s treatment of one of its own.

But Trump just admitted that if he called Bukele and asked him to do this, his fellow dictator would in fact comply. This wrecks the fake distinction upon which Trump has hung his whole argument—the one between compelling Bukele to release Abrego Garcia and merely requesting that Bukele do so.

That phony distinction survives in the MAGA information universe—and in Trump’s head—because it’s insulated inside a propaganda bubble from precisely this sort of questioning from Moran. Here in the real world, of course Bukele would release Abrego Garcia if Trump asked him to. We are paying El Salvador to hold all these prisoners at our request.

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What is — and isn’t — getting pricier under Trump’s tariffs?

The Yale Budget Lab has projected that the tariffs could cost Americans an average of $4,900 per household.

https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-april-15-2025

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I think he wants to be the center of attention. I think that’s probably his principal motivating factor.

I think his approach was once described by [conservative columnist] Charles Krauthammer very well. Krauthammer said that he began by thinking Trump was an 11-year-old. But he realized after a close evaluation that he was about 10 years off: Trump’s really a 1-year-old who just sees everything in the world and asks the question, “What’s in this for me?”

Somebody else, I don’t remember the name, observed that Trump doesn’t have ideas, he has reactions. And I think that’s also an important insight.

If you took all of his decisions in his first term, they’d be a big archipelago of dots; a lot of the dots I agreed with. But if you try to connect the dots…Trump himself couldn’t connect the dots.

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/411225/john-bolton-trump-f
ascism-government-chaos

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The 6 ways Trump has been a gift to the meat industry

Every president is friendly to the meat industry. Trump is on track to reach another level.

By Kenny Torrella | May 1, 2025, 6:30 AM CDT

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/410733/trump-meat-agriculture-100-d
ays

President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office have been a gift to a sector of the economy that gets little attention but has enormous social and economic consequences: the US meat industry.

While Congress and both Republican and Democratic administrations tend to do what meat companies want — in part because those companies tend to give a lot of money to politicians and intensively lobby them — Trump has been even friendlier than most.

The one striking exception, of course, are the tariffs, which farm groups have opposed and are already feeling the sting from. The ensuing trade war has reduced two of US agriculture’s most important exports to China: pork and soybeans.

In most other respects, though, the Trump administration has behaved like traditional anti-regulation conservatives. It’s quickly taken a number of actions that directly benefit the meat industry, at the expense of the environment, animals, slaughterhouse workers, and the American consumer.

Here are the six most consequential ones.

1. Speeding up slaughter lines at meat processing plants

Pig slaughter lines are already allowed to process as many as 1,106 hogs per hour, or roughly one pig every 3.2 seconds, while poultry operations are allowed to slaughter up to 140 birds per minute. Yet in March, the US Department of Agriculture announced that it was drafting a rule to allow pig and poultry slaughterhouses to operate even faster.

Labor advocates say the new regulations will further endanger slaughterhouse workers, who already work one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, suffering high rates of injury from the repetitive cuts they must make to animal carcasses for hours on end.

“Increased line speeds will hurt workers — it’s not a maybe, it’s a definite,” the president of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, which represents over 15,000 poultry workers, said in a press release.

Meatpacking workers are far more likely to be seriously injured than people in nearly every other industry.

Animal advocates also worry about how this will impact the billions of animals that move through US slaughterhouses every year. “With fewer protections and higher pressure, animals will endure even more suffering on the already cruel live-shackle slaughter line,” Michael Windsor of the animal protection group the Humane League told me in an email.

The USDA didn’t respond to an interview request for this story.

2. Rolling back food safety measures

Toward the end of President Joe Biden’s term, his USDA proposed — but didn’t finalize — a rule that would require poultry companies to limit salmonella levels in their products and test raw chicken and turkey for six strains. “If the levels exceeded the standard or any of those strains were found, the poultry couldn’t be sold and would be subject to recall,” according to the Associated Press.

The Biden administration aimed to prevent more than 10 percent of the 1.35 million salmonella infections Americans suffer from each year. But that won’t be happening. The National Chicken Council, the industry’s leading trade group, opposed the rule when it was proposed; in April, Trump’s USDA withdrew it.

3. Gutting the USDA’s animal welfare research department

In February, the USDA shrunk a farm animal welfare research team from five scientists to just one, Sentient Media’s Grey Moran reported.

Rows of dozens of large pigs confined in small crates that prohibit them from moving.

The unit’s research aimed to better understand “the gruesome mutilations and injuries routinely suffered by farm animals, including the pain experienced by livestock during and after castration (the removal of the testicles to prevent further breeding); the far-ranging psychological and physiological impacts of heat stress on farm animals and methods to increase cooling, and ways that farm animal stress is passed down to their offspring,” according to Moran.

The USDA unit also worked with livestock producers to improve animal welfare and had conducted research on pain endured by female breeding pigs kept in tiny cages, a common practice in the pork industry. That work informed California’s farm animal welfare law prohibiting extreme confinement of pigs.

4. Allowing the world’s largest — and perhaps most corrupt — meat company to trade on the New York Stock Exchange

For a decade, JBS, the world’s largest meat company, had been seeking a listing on the New York Stock Exchange to gain new investors to fuel its nearly $19 billion meat and poultry empire. The Biden administration didn’t approve the Brazilian company’s listing, nor did Trump in his first term. But last week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission gave JBS the green light to go public, news that came the same week it was revealed that one of the company’s subsidiaries was the largest single donor to Trump’s inauguration.

JBS has long been embroiled in scandal. During Trump’s first term, the Justice Department fined JBS, JBS’s parent company, and two brothers who control the parent company $280 million for bribing approximately 1,800 Brazilian officials.

An aerial view of a large meat processing plant with about a hundred beef cattle waiting outside.

In mid-January, JBS agreed to pay $4 million to a youth migrant legal defense organization after the Labor Department found that children had worked in JBS’s slaughterhouses for years. Less than two weeks later, its poultry subsidiary Pilgrim’s Pride — the company that donated $5 million to Trump’s inauguration — paid a $41.5 million settlement to investors over allegations that it had inflated its stock price.

JBS has also long been implicated in deforestation, and last year, New York state’s attorney general took the company to court for its “net zero” climate claims.

5. Increasing poultry industry bailouts for bird flu

Eggs are so expensive right now primarily because of bird flu, which has resulted in the brutal culling of around 100 million egg-laying hens — and over 60 million chickens and turkeys raised for meat — since the current outbreak began in early 2022.

More than half of the nearly $2 billion the US has spent on this outbreak has gone to cover poultry companies’ losses. According to a recent report by advocacy group Farm Forward, around one-third of payments to poultry companies — some $365 million — have gone to 67 “repeat offender” operations with two or more outbreaks.

While bird flu infections are hard to prevent, producers may be disincentivized from strengthening their biosecurity if the USDA guarantees they’ll be compensated for their losses, a problem the Biden administration identified late last year when it implemented an interim rule requiring producers to pass a biosecurity audit to become eligible for compensation.

Despite all this, in late March, the USDA more than doubled the amount that it pays egg companies for each killed hen, from around $7 per bird to almost $17. No matter how weak the poultry industry’s biosecurity, and despite the fact that it culls birds in the most painful ways imaginable, the government has made clear it will generously cover poultry producers’ losses.

6. Banning words and phrases about agricultural pollution

Although many consumers don’t know it, and politicians do little to address it, agriculture is a massive polluter — it’s the largest source of US water pollution, most of it from meat and livestock feed production — and accounts for at least 11 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions.

In early April, a leaked USDA memo revealed that the Agricultural Research Service, the USDA’s in-house scientific research department, could no longer use 110 words and phrases, including water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, groundwater pollution, and climate change, in some of the department’s documents. That’ll only make it harder for anyone to understand and ameliorate the meat industry’s social costs.

There’s more: Trump recently proclaimed that he wants to open up a marine refuge near Hawaii to commercial fishing, and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins has expressed strong support for legislative efforts to dismantle critical state animal welfare laws.

But not all of the Trump administration’s agricultural policies have been favorable to industry (like the tariffs). In March, the Justice Department opened an investigation into the egg industry over price-fixing concerns. Trump has also frozen most of the $19.5 billion set aside in the Inflation Reduction Act to help farmers implement conservation and climate practices, and has canceled a similar $3 billion Biden-era program.

Nor is it necessarily clear that the Trump administration has been bad for animals on net. Animal advocates have cheered recent moves by the FDA and EPA to significantly reduce animal testing, which, although a separate issue from factory farming, could represent a major reduction in a type of animal suffering that has long been unchallenged by both parties.

But when it comes to the industry that’s by far more responsible than any other for hurting and killing animals, the Trump administration has been even more deferential than his recent predecessors. Its positions on meat and the animals who suffer for it could be summed up as simply as “kill, baby, kill.”

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