Elections; 2024

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SECOND

Sunday, July 7, 2024 6:38 PM (P)

‘The Dred Scott of Our Time’

By Sean Wilentz | July 4, 2024

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/07/04/the-dred-scott-of-our-time/

The majority opinion in Trump v. United States, the most sweeping judicial reconstruction of the American presidency in history, secures the monumental historic disgrace of the John Roberts Court. Since last winter, the Supreme Court has intervened directly in the 2024 presidential campaign by effectively shielding Donald Trump from being tried on major federal charges before the November election. No previous Supreme Court has protected a political candidate in this way. Far more ominously, in March the Court in Trump v. Anderson openly nullified the section of the Fourteenth Amendment that bars insurrectionists from holding federal or state office, discarding basic lessons about threats to American democracy dating back to the Civil War. Now, in Trump v. United States, handed down on the last day of its 2023–2024 term, the Court has seized the opportunity to invent, with no textual basis, “at least presumptive” and quite possibly “absolute” presidential criminal immunity for official acts, a decision so broad that it essentially places the presidency above the law.

By throwing Trump’s federal indictments into doubt, Trump v. United States all but completes the former president’s immunization from legal accountability for the events of January 6, 2021, at least until after the election. But that is only the decision’s narrowest ambit. Its vague distinction between official and unofficial presidential acts gives any president carte blanche to commit crimes up to and including assassination and treason with virtual impunity from criminal prosecution, as long as he can justify those crimes as part of his “official” duties. In effect it invests the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, repudiating the foundational principle of the rule of law. Trump and his supporters have pledged to wield unfettered executive power and unleash a scorched-earth assault on the “deep state,” which is to say the existing constitutional and institutional order, if he is reelected. In the current crisis, that threat’s most powerful ally is the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Roberts Court has descended to a level of shame reserved until now for the Roger B. Taney Court that decided the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. Just as that court’s majority sought to suppress the antislavery Republican Party and to help permanently secure the Slave Power’s control over American law and government, so the Roberts Court majority has sought, thus far successfully, to protect Trump from prosecution and to secure radical changes in American law friendly to MAGA authoritarianism. The Supreme Court has once again willfully placed itself at the center of a presidential election on which the future of American democracy turns.

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

SIGNYM

Sunday, July 7, 2024 6:51 PM (P)

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No previous Supreme Court has protected a political candidate in this way.

The Supreme Court merely formalized what's been happening for decades.

Presidents have been getting a "pass" on clearly illegal behavior, including lying us into war, censoring communications, killing citizens without due process, condoning torture, spying on people en masse, waging lawfare against political opponents, puting the interests of corporations and bankers over those of Americans, while the equally corrupt Congress has been supine.

It's up to Congress to stop Presidential crimes.

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

SECOND

Sunday, July 7, 2024 7:27 PM (P)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

It's up to Congress to stop Presidential crimes.

Have you noticed that Congress has avoided since 1942 its core responsibility to declare war? That's in the Constitution but Congress hasn't been up to the task for 82 years despite all the undeclared wars America has been in.

It is NOT in the Constitution for Congress to be the jury for ex-presidents and their crimes. Since half of Congress will be politically related to the ex-president, making Congress the jury is nonsense, Signym. Why not go all the way and make 12 members of Trump's family the jury? Who can better impartially judge Trump than his family who have known him all their lives? That will serve justice! (NOT!)

About Declarations of War by Congress
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm

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

SECOND

Sunday, July 7, 2024 7:28 PM (P)

"I'm a pretty conservative guy when it comes to national security. But I have to tell you that, you know, spending 33 years at CIA and watching literally hundreds of world leaders during that time, President Trump's personality traits deeply concerned me, what I believed to be deep narcissism, what I believed to be deep paranoia, what I believe to be a type of sadism where you—not sexually, of course, but a type of sadism where you, you know, are happy when your opponents have been injured in some way—I'm talking politically—that those were all traits that I saw in foreign leaders who did significant damage to their country and significant damage to the democracies of their country."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cia-official-january-6-jim-jorda
n-republicans-1921744

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

SIGNYM

Sunday, July 7, 2024 7:52 PM (P)

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The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters.

President Joe Biden walked before a row of flags and took his place at a lectern stamped with the presidential seal. A few feet in front of him, thin panes of teleprompter glass, programmed with prewritten remarks, were positioned to meet his stare as he spoke into a microphone that would carry his voice through a soundsystem. His White House press secretary looked on. So did several senior White House officials. Anxiety clung to the humid summer air. What the president was about to say might determine the future of his presidency and perhaps the Republic itself.

Yet this was not to be some grand pronouncement about war or peace or a shift in domestic policy. He was not delivering an official address or even a rally speech. He was not onstage in a stadium or auditorium or perched on a platform in a gilded government or hotel ballroom. He was not speaking to a crowd of thousands or even hundreds. There would be no video of his statement carried live to the world. There would be no photos. And there would be no published audio.

In a tent on the backyard patio of a private home in suburban New Jersey, the president was eye to eye with a small group of powerful Democrats and rich campaign donors, trying to reassure them that he was not about to drop dead or drop out of the presidential race.

The content of his speech would matter less than his perceived capacity to speak coherently at all, though much of what he would say would not be entirely decipherable. His words as always had a habit of sliding into a rhetorical pileup, an affliction that had worsened in the four years since he began running for president for the third time in 2020. He might begin a sentence loud and clear and then, midway through, sound as if he was trying to recite two or three lines all at once, his individual words and syllables dissolving into an incoherent gurgle.

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Obsessive efforts to control Biden were not a new phenomenon. But whereas in the last campaign, the incredible stagecraft surrounding even the smallest Biden event — speaking to a few people at a union hall in rural Iowa, say, or in a barn in New Hampshire — seemed to be about avoiding the so-called gaffes that had become for him inevitable, the stagecraft of the 2024 campaign seems now to be about something else. The worry is not that Biden will say something overly candid, or say something he didn’t mean to say, but that he will communicate through his appearance that he is not really there.

The display early Saturday evening was the last of seven campaign events held across four states in the 48 hours that followed the first presidential debate.

Bet you didn't know THAT was going on, did you? Joe Bidens handlers weren't expending what little energy he has on reassuring the American voter, but on reassuring BIG DONORS.

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Just the day before, the Wall Street Journal had published a report that described how the president’s “frail” appearance and inconsistent “focus and performance” presented challenges on the world stage. At the G7 summit in Italy in June, Biden had the distinction of being the only world leader who did not attend a private dinner party where candid diplomatic talks would happen off-camera. At a European Union summit in Washington in October, Biden “struggled to follow the discussions” and “stumbled over his talking points” to such a degree that he required the intervention of Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

And we all remember Xi's visit to California, at Biden's press conference with Blinken nervously clasping his hands, how Blinken stilled in horror and dismay when Biden went off script (again) and called Xi a "dictator".

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Those who encountered the president in social settings sometimes left their interactions dist

SIGNYM

Sunday, July 7, 2024 11:06 PM (P)

Donors bail from the Biden campaign

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Mega-Donors Cut Off Biden, Prepare PACs To Fund 'Mini-Primary' And New Candidate
Sunday, Jul 07, 2024 - 08:05 AM

On Saturday, a fifth Democratic member of Congress called for embattled, enfeebled President Biden to quit the 2024 presidential race. Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig also became the first incumbent in a tight race to do so, saying, "I do not believe that the President can effectively campaign and win against Donald Trump."

Coupled with reports that Senate intelligence committee chair Mark Warner is point man in a drive to organize Senate Democrats into a united front urging Biden to quit, the political pressure is clearly mounting. However, Biden is also under rapidly-rising pressure along a second front, as major Democratic donors are not only telling him to quit, but are closing their checkbooks -- or creatively using them to pave the way for a new candidate.

One of those deeply-disenchanted donors is Netflix co-founder
Reed Hastings, who gave more than $20 million to boost Democratic candidates in recent years, including upwards of $1.5 million for Biden's 2020 campaign. Last week, Hastings publicly called for Biden to quit. He reiterated that stance after watching Biden's terrible Friday interview with George Stephanopoulos, telling ABC News. "Biden is unfortunately in denial about his mental state. He needs to step aside to let a vigorous Democratic leader beat Trump."

Then there's Kase Capital Management portfolio manager Whitney Tilson, who told ABC, "[Biden]'s not in [a] condition to handle the rigors of the presidency for another four years...All of us are standing by to see what happens here. Even the wealthiest people have limitations to money." More bluntly, he took to Twitter to say, "Biden's campaign is a ghost. It's over."

Rather than simply moving to the sidelines, some mega-donors are engaging in creative political-financial engineering -- such as former Inuit and Paypal CEO Bill Harris, who donated $620,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020 and told ABC that, given his performance in the debate and the Stephanopoulos interview, most observers would see Biden's departure as "inevitable." ... Harris is laying the financial groundwork for a Democratic "mini-primary" to choose Biden's replacement (Tony Avelar/Bloomberg via Forbes)

On Friday, Harris announced that his Democrats for the Next Generation PAC was committing to spend $2 million "to fund a series of debates among prominent candidates to become the Democratic nominee for president if Biden steps aside." Some are referring to the concept as a "mini-primary" -- and it's seen by many as a mechanism for ensuring that Kamala Harris isn't tapped merely by virtue of her title.

Bill Harris waved off Democrats' unease about a potentially messy and divisive process for picking a new candidate. “It’s not that we have to protect ourselves from chaos and drama,” Harris told the Washington Post. “We need drama and a little chaos. I think it can be refreshing and energizing.”

In addition to drama and chaos, there's some major branding confusion in the mix, as another group of deep-pocketed Democrats -- led by crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz and Hollywood moviemaker Andrew Jarecki -- is launching a nearly-identically-named "Next Generation PAC".

That group has even grander plans: raising up to $100 million for what might be characterized as a political escrow and incentive fund, designated to promote a successor 2024 Democratic standard-bearer. If Biden is on the November ballot, the fund would be redirected to promote down-ballot candidates -- and not Biden.

In the wake of Biden's debate disaster, the first notes of alarm among major Democratic benefactors came via anonymous quotes. Now, they're pouring out of the woodwork to publicly declare their convictions that Biden needs to step aside. A sampling:

Filma

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, July 7, 2024 11:53 PM (P)

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Originally posted by second:
"I'm a pretty conservative guy when it comes to national security. But I have to tell you that, you know, spending 33 years at CIA and watching literally hundreds of world leaders during that time, President Trump's personality traits deeply concerned me, what I believed to be deep narcissism, what I believed to be deep paranoia, what I believe to be a type of sadism where you—not sexually, of course, but a type of sadism where you, you know, are happy when your opponents have been injured in some way—I'm talking politically—that those were all traits that I saw in foreign leaders who did significant damage to their country and significant damage to the democracies of their country."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cia-official-january-6-jim-jorda
n-republicans-1921744

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

Nobody needs another CIA spook lying to them about Trump again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SIGNYM

Sunday, July 7, 2024 11:58 PM (P)

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But I have to tell you that, you know, spending 33 years at CIA and watching literally hundreds of world leaders during that time, President Trump's personality traits deeply concerned me, what I believed to be deep narcissism, what I believed to be deep paranoia, what I believe to be a type of sadism where you—not sexually, of course, but a type of sadism where you, you know, are happy when your opponents have been injured in some way—

What would he say about SECOND?

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 8, 2024 1:01 AM (P)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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But I have to tell you that, you know, spending 33 years at CIA and watching literally hundreds of world leaders during that time, President Trump's personality traits deeply concerned me, what I believed to be deep narcissism, what I believed to be deep paranoia, what I believe to be a type of sadism where you—not sexually, of course, but a type of sadism where you, you know, are happy when your opponents have been injured in some way—

What would he say about SECOND?

Why should anybody care what he has to say about Trump or Second?

What about being in the CIA makes you qualified to dole out psychiatric diagnosis for people you've never met and certainly didn't attend to in a medical/professional setting?

Wishy called me a narcissist all the time. It's one of their go-to buzzwords when they're feeling nice and don't just come right out and call you a Nazi on that day.

Just because you're CIA that doesn't mean your opinions on other people are nothing more than dollar store diagnosis.

*yawn*.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Monday, July 8, 2024 5:31 PM (P)

I was wrong about Biden. The worst feeling in the world

By Matthew Yglesias | Jul 08, 2024

https://www.slowboring.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-biden

But I’d still be a Democrat who cares about the interests of poor people and a woman’s right to choose and who thinks it’s a bad idea to enact budget-busting tax cuts for the rich. Indeed, I am still a Democrat today and I’ll vote for Biden over Trump any day of the week. Trump is a criminal and an insurrectionist, but I also just don’t agree with Republicans’ policy ideas. What I would like is for the Democrats to beat Trump.

This piece is already long, so I’ll write more about what I think Democrats’ options actually are in future pieces. For now, though, I’ll just say that I think the case for Biden over Trump remains strong, but the only people who are going to buy it are people who are comfortable with the idea of Kamala Harris taking over. Which just means that at this point, Harris would be a stronger nominee than Biden. The interesting question is whether there are even stronger options and how we would know. But people who are able to communicate with the president, with the president’s family, or with his inner circle of advisors should tell them clearly that the best way for the president to preserve his legacy as The Man Who Beat Trump is to let someone else do it in November.

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

SIGNYM

Monday, July 8, 2024 11:38 PM (P)

The analysis of a Democrat candidate has been sidetracked onto the question of "vigor". Or, more importantly, Joe or no Joe.

Anxiety is now so extreme that Dem voters will be diverted from issues, and they will be relieved just to have SOMEBODY firmly selected, WHOEVER IT IS.
AND WHATEVER THEIR RECORD.

I think this elaborate skit of "throwing Joe under the bus" could be just another manufactured "crisis" that will, once again, be used by TPTB to jam yet another meat puppet into office so policies can continue as usual.

No Dem will close the border.
No Dem will negotiate a security agreement with Russia.
No Dem will rein in government debt.
No Dem will end government censorship and propaganda by the media.
No Dem will try to unify Americans under commonsense policies and common identity.
It would be all bullshit, all the time.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme choses. (The more things change, the more they stay the same.)

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 1:32 AM (P)

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Originally posted by second:
I was wrong about Biden. The worst feeling in the world

By Matthew Yglesias | Jul 08, 2024

https://www.slowboring.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-biden

But I’d still be a Democrat who cares about the interests of poor people and a woman’s right to choose and who thinks it’s a bad idea to enact budget-busting tax cuts for the rich. Indeed, I am still a Democrat today and I’ll vote for Biden over Trump any day of the week. Trump is a criminal and an insurrectionist, but I also just don’t agree with Republicans’ policy ideas. What I would like is for the Democrats to beat Trump.

This piece is already long, so I’ll write more about what I think Democrats’ options actually are in future pieces. For now, though, I’ll just say that I think the case for Biden over Trump remains strong, but the only people who are going to buy it are people who are comfortable with the idea of Kamala Harris taking over. Which just means that at this point, Harris would be a stronger nominee than Biden. The interesting question is whether there are even stronger options and how we would know. But people who are able to communicate with the president, with the president’s family, or with his inner circle of advisors should tell them clearly that the best way for the president to preserve his legacy as The Man Who Beat Trump is to let someone else do it in November.

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

Translation: I'm an idiot who votes Democrat no matter how badly I get lied to, and it's really not my fault because I'm a really really good person who's better than anybody who would vote against who I vote for.

Get fucked, Matthew.

You were wrong about Biden*, but you're only recognizing that for the most superficial of reasons now that it's become the popular decision to do so.

You little fucking coward. You disgust me.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SIGNYM

Friday, July 12, 2024 4:03 AM (P)

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Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union...

Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and gained weight, he aged prematurely. Also like them, his disabilities never led to his abdication.

By Brezhnev’s late sixties and early seventies, he was too ill to travel abroad or make public appearances. Indeed, his debility left the Soviet Union without a real leader for the final six or seven years of his tenure.

Brezhnev got away with it because the Soviet state-controlled media doctored photos and videos to attest to his supposedly vigorous health and constant hands-on involvement.

“Journalists” sent out false communiques. They spun narratives that Brezhnev was robust, hale, and working long hours on behalf of the Russian people. Any dissenting journalists who sought to report the true, sad state of affairs were in danger of losing their jobs, freedom—or even their lives.

Instead, the “reporters” of Pravda (“Truth”), the official print megaphone of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, wrote lies about Brezhnev’s busy workdays. Pravda’s handlers spun fables about the respect (and fear) the rest of the world held for such a dynamic leader—even as Brezhnev became an ill virtual recluse.

The cynical Russian people shrugged because they had long been accustomed to their lying media and the falsehoods they peddled. And besides, Brezhnev was a doctrinaire Stalinist communist. So his job was not to rock the boat or upset the Russian communist hierarchy.

Instead, he reigned over the penultimate Soviet “era of stagnation,” while an ossified communism increasingly destroyed all incentives and hope, leaving the Russian people poor, cynical, and helpless.

Something similar has happened to a calcified America under President Joe Biden. Like the late-stage Leonid Brezhnev, Biden is now a president in name only. He has outsourced his administration to a vestigial hard-left apparat from the Obama years.

Now, Biden can no longer even perform his assigned ceremonial tasks of putting a moderate veneer on radical, nihilist agendas that are stagnating the country.

Yet our Pravda journalists have sworn to the American people that, in private, the reclusive, three-day-a-week Biden outpaces the energy and drive of those half his age. Obsequious staffers plant stories in the Soviet-like ears of reporters about Biden’s singular dynamism.

Any dissenters are publicly demonized as peddlers of “cheap fakes.”

When Biden’s reclusiveness prompts too much gossip that he is near senile, he is wheeled out for a staged interview that must be edited before release. Or he answers questions secretly shown to him in advance.

On sporadic occasions where the state media and the Biden nomenklatura cannot control events—such as rare presidential debates or international summits—our Pravda media go into overdrive to convince the public that what they see and hear is not real.

In the end, Brezhnev could not even hobble to the May Day dais to celebrate communism’s national holiday.

He soon reached the point that his debilities were so manifest that even his hirelings and the media could not hide them. He then vanished from public view, leaving the Russian people with no idea as to who was running their communist nation.

Then one day, Soviet propagandists announced suddenly but matter-of-factly that the dynamic Brezhnev had died and that his successor, Yuri Andropov, was now brilliantly running the Soviet Union.

Biden, too, is at that point of stasis.

He cannot do press conferences, town halls, debates, or real interviews. To do so would confirm to the public the truth: that Biden is too cognitively challenged to continue his presidency.

And yet the cloistered Biden can no longer hide during a campaign season with his accustomed

SECOND

Friday, July 12, 2024 5:12 PM (P)

UPDATED JUL. 11, 2024, AT 1:53 PM

Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?
538 uses polling, economic and demographic data to explore likely election outcomes.

Trump wins 51 times out of 100
in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election.

Biden wins 49 times out of 100.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/?cid=rrpro
mo

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

SECOND

Friday, July 12, 2024 5:17 PM (P)

What the Democrats doubting Biden have in common

They're more moderate, while his backers are progressive and racially diverse.

By Nathaniel Rakich via five thirty eight

July 10, 2024, 2:09 PM

https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-doubting-biden-common/story?id=11
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A clear pattern emerges for Democrats who have expressed concerns about Biden's candidacy. This group is significantly more moderate than the Democratic caucus as a whole; their average DW-NOMINATE score is -0.319. (DW-NOMINATE is a measure of ideology based on roll-call votes, where 1 represents the most conservative and -1 represents the most liberal. The average Democratic member of Congress has a DW-NOMINATE score of -0.376.)

Biden doubters also hail disproportionately from swing states or districts. Thirteen out of 37 represent places that Biden lost in 2020 or won by fewer than 10 percentage points. This makes sense when you think about it: The reelection of representatives like Rep. Susan Wild could hinge on how well the Democratic presidential nominee does in their districts, and they may fear that Biden will drag them down with him if he loses big. And for others on this list, such as Sen. Jon Tester, expressing concerns about Biden's age could be part of an overall strategy to distance themselves from a president who will probably lose in their home constituency.

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

SIGNYM

Saturday, July 13, 2024 12:50 AM (P)

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"Vice President Tulsi Gabbard"

Friday, Jul 12, 2024 - 10:25 AM
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

Much as I would love to see thta, it's wishful thinking...

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If it wasn’t evident going into yesterday that President Joe Biden was going to need to step aside, all doubts should now be out of the way.

For his opening act on Thursday, Biden made his way out of bed and to the NATO summit across town, all for the honor of stepping on stage and referring to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy — whom U.S. taxpayers have gifted hundreds of billions of dollars at Biden’s direction to fight Russia — as “President Putin”. To refer to Zelenskiy as Putin, and at a NATO event nonetheless, is about as big of a f*ck up as you can possibly make given the world’s geopolitical climate right now.

This would have been like introducing President George W. Bush throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium after 9/11 as “President Osama Bin Laden”.

And if you weren’t in stitches after his first set, Biden returned later in the evening for an encore at the much heralded ‘Big Boy’ press conference he had been scheduled to give in order to show the world, to quote the movie Big Daddy, that he could “wipe his own ass”.

But instead of instilling confidence in the nation, Biden coughed, mumbled and stumbled his way through about an hour’s worth of prepared remarks and softball questions.

At one point, he referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”.

Sadly, Biden is slurring his words far more noticeably each day. Even for a skeptic of Biden’s, I had to sigh and turn the press conference off before it finished, writing on X last night: “He is cooked. This has to be the end.”

In other words, even for us conservatives, libertarians and critics of the Biden administration, it’s just getting difficult to watch. Each day jokes about elder abuse look closer and closer to reality, and the humor of a massive clusterf*ck in the Democratic political arena is eroded away by the blossoming realization that it’s simply depressing to watch a human being — somebody’s son, father and husband — deteriorate publicly, without dignity, and surrounded by people too cowardly to do the right thing for him.

Parkinson's?

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The gaffes last night quickly shot down what little chance Biden had of trying to stay in the race, in my opinion. I know it’s technically “up to him” but the powers that be couldn’t have scripted a worse outcome than him calling Zelenskiy “Putin” and then calling Harris “Trump”. Biden’s goose is cooked, mark my words.

This means, as I pointed out days ago, the Democrats are likely going to promote Vice President Airhead to the potential nominee spot, despite her outright horrific polling in the 2020 primaries and the fact that for the most part it appears the country still finds her detestable.

And while the Trump campaign has publicly stated they are happy to sit back and watch the Democrats self-immolate, I also believe they are holding off on announcing their Vice President pick until the Democratic nominee is solidified. There’s going to be a significant amount of strategy that goes into Trump’s VP pick: pick someone innocuous because you’re leading or continue on offense? Target minority demographics with a person of color or pick the best person for the job? Find someone who can be as aggressive as Trump or settle for someone who knows how to play the role of second fiddle? I played out a number of these scenarios last month.

Without trying to answer all of these questions, I’m certain I can answer one: if Kamala Harris winds up as the Democratic nominee, Trump must pick Tulsi Gabbard as his Vice President. There is no better option.

Not only is Tulsi world famous for having already beat Kamala to a pulp during the 2020 primary debates… [link]

…but she’s also is extraordinarily intelligent and well spoken…[link]

…and happens to be an active m

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Saturday, July 13, 2024 1:48 AM (P)

Who would expect that "America's Mayor" is crooked? Anyone who knows Trumptards but isn't one themselves.

A New York judge dismissed Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case on Friday, clearing the way for two Georgia election workers to try and recover nearly $150m Giuliani was ordered to pay them for defaming them after the 2020 election.

The ruling by US bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane comes after lawyers for the two women, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, as well as other creditors accused Giuliani of concealing information about his finances. The judge also prevented Giuliani from refiling for bankruptcy within one year.

“Since day one, Giuliani has regarded this case and the bankruptcy process as a joke, hiding behind the façade of an elderly, doddering man who cannot even remember the address for his second multimillion-dollar home and claims impending homelessness if he must sell that second multimillion-dollar home,” lawyers for creditors wrote in a filing earlier this month.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/12/udy-giuliani-b
ankruptcy-case-dismissed-new-york

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

SECOND

Saturday, July 13, 2024 2:12 AM (P)

Trump wants a VP that won't say Trump lost. Tulsi is that vapid VP!

Tulsi Gabbard was asked about Donald Trump's ongoing election denialism. Maher said it was a good question for Gabbard, who supports Trump's presidential ambitions.

"Trump did not admit he lost the election in 2020... You have to say, 'I lost,' because that makes the system work."

Gabbard's response, however, called Biden "insane" and called out the current president's claim that climate change is the biggest "existential threat" to Americans.

She said the "true existential threat" is that we are close to a nuclear war. (With whom? And why?)

"You haven't answered, and I want you to," Maher said. He then asked her again about if Gabbard should support someone who can't admit he lost the election.

"What you've heard from Trump is the same thing you've heard from Hillary Clinton," Gabbard said.

"That's over there, Tulsi," Maher said Friday evening, before reading a statement on the security of the 2020 election.

Gabbard said Trump has vowed to accept the results "if it's a free and fair election."

"I just read it to you! This was a free and fair one, so he obviously doesn't admit that he's lost when it's free and fair," Maher said, asking, "Why would it be different this time?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-just-read-it-to-you-bill-mah
er-shuts-down-tulsi-gabbard-on-trump-s-election-lies/ar-BB1p6j7R

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, July 13, 2024 4:21 AM (P)

It wasn't a free and fair election. You changed the voting laws in all the swing states over Covid panic and had harvesters out there burning Trump ballots and stuffing the ballot boxes all over the cities with the Biden* votes.

Any of the states that didn't close that up and still allow it will now be used by Republicans for cheating as well. Let's see which party can cheat better.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, July 13, 2024 5:45 AM (P)

MSNBC Panel: Worried Biden Is Getting Information About His Political Prospects That's Not Based In Reality

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/07/11/msnbc_panel_worried
_biden_is_getting_information_about_his_political_prospects_thats_not_based_in_reality.html

Awwwwwww... They all look so crestfallen. :(

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Sunday, July 14, 2024 4:42 AM (P)

Trump insisted Biden had raised the price of bacon four-fold. “We don’t eat bacon anymore,” Trump said. Check price and production of bacon:

This might be the most trivial Trump falsehood ever, but that's sort of the point. He'll literally make up anything.

The price of bacon is up a mere 14% since Trump left office, and if you adjust for wages it's cheaper than when Trump left office. Meanwhile, total bacon production is 13% higher than it was when Trump left office. For better or worse, the American love affair with bacon is far from over.

Why would anyone make up lies as frivolous as this? Because Trump lives in a fantasy world where everything has to be the worst ever in history unless he was personally involved with it. His brain is so badly beyond repair that I suspect he literally can't help himself, and he's surrounded by sycophants who will never confront him with the truth. This is not a man fit to be president of the United States.

https://jabberwocking.com/yes-donald-trump-even-lies-about-bacon/

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

SIGNYM

Sunday, July 14, 2024 6:44 AM (P)

Remember when we used to ask important questions instead of blathering about bacon???

WHOSE FINGER ON THE BUTTON?

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

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SIGNYM

Sunday, July 14, 2024 6:55 AM (P)

Tulsi Gabbard: Lift. Run. Shoot.

KEEP HAMMERING: EXTENDED INTERVIEW

Quote:
Having watched/listened to hundreds of hours of Tulsi Gabbard over the years, I’ve noticed a few things.

First, she’s not a natural public speaker, nor is she really comfortable in front of the camera. So, she has worked very hard on crafting a public persona which is not easy for her to slip into but which is also authentically her.

Because she is uncomfortable, that face begins to slip after a while…. about an hour. I always get the sense that there is a ‘macho military’ version of Gabbard lurking just below the surface, that swears like a mafia don and prays like a priest. And every once in a while it leaks out.

But it will never do so in a six-minute segment on Fox News.

You’ve got to get past that fatigue barrier.

The reason I bring all of this up is because Gabbard was recently on the Keep Hammering Collective podcast with Cameron Hanes for nearly two hours.

She did that podcast after spending the day with him doing his triathalon he calls Lift, Run, Shoot which I suggest you watch the video of, especially if your name is Donald Trump...

So, I say, turn about is fair play. Biden was Obama’s insurance policy, make Gabbard Trump’s. Because, if there is one person of all the people on the short list to be Trump’s VP that Davos et.al. do not want to see on the ticket it is Tulsi Gabbard.

Because she really is that person who walked away from power, has a strong moral center, and is authentically motivated by service. And that motivation, coupled with their previous shots against her, like they’ve done with Trump, should scare them maybe more than he does.

Remember, Trump’s ultimately a deal-maker. Is Gabbard? Open question.

This is why every trial balloon imaginable has gone up in the past three months for the usual suspects like Skeletor Scott, his separated at birth brotha Tim, Little Marco, Tom Cotton Pickin’ Neocon, etc… They are trying to move Trump to tick boxes rather than choose the whole person.

The only person other than Gabbard that gets their globalist goat more is Gen. Mike Flynn.

But, really, go watch the real Gabbard emerge in the 2nd half of the Cameron Hanes podcast. She knows who they are. She told them to “GFY,” but has too many manners to say it publicly.

Beneath that calm demeanor is someone deeply angry.

Even if she tries to hide the real fire in her belly while she’s auditioning for the role.

And, lastly, she understands the threats and dangers to civilization itself these people represent.

Because Gabbard is the real deal, folks.

I thought it before. I know it now.

You can’t fake what she has. And that’s an insurance policy whose payout is more than even the ghouls at Globalist Central can afford.

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

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SIGNYM

Sunday, July 14, 2024 7:16 AM (P)

"I Was Shot": Trump Responds After Assassination Attempt; Shooter Dead; Secret Service Reportedly Ignored Warnings

The moment it happened

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1812250005987844593/mediaViewer?curren
tTweet=1812250005987844593¤tTweetUser=nicksortor

One Trump supporter told the BBC that he and others saw the shooter before the assassination attempt, alerted police and the secret service, and was ignored...

https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/1812265909727396107/mediaViewer?cur
rentTweet=1812265909727396107¤tTweetUser=SharpFootball

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

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, July 14, 2024 7:18 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
"I Was Shot": Trump Responds After Assassination Attempt; Shooter Dead; Secret Service Reportedly Ignored Warnings

The moment it happened

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1812250005987844593/mediaViewer?curren
tTweet=1812250005987844593¤tTweetUser=nicksortor

One Trump supporter told the BBC that he and others saw the shooter before the assassination attempt, alerted police and the secret service, and was ignored...

https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/1812265909727396107/mediaViewer?cur
rentTweet=1812265909727396107¤tTweetUser=SharpFootball

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

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They might as well shut it all down. This election is over.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

THG

Sunday, July 14, 2024 4:19 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

"I Was Shot": Trump Responds After Assassination Attempt; Shooter Dead; Secret Service Reportedly Ignored Warnings

He was shot by a far-right republican.

T

THG

Sunday, July 14, 2024 4:47 PM (P)

T

SECOND

Sunday, July 14, 2024 11:59 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

They might as well shut it all down. This election is over.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

The Christian Nationalists plan on stealing the election for Trump. They cannot be stopped because God is on their side:

A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.

These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.

ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag’s members-only email newsletters, internal videos, strategy documents and fundraising pitches, none of which has been previously made public. They reveal the group’s 2024 plans and its long-term goal to underpin every major sphere of influence in American society with Christianity. In the Bible, the city of Ziklag was where David and his soldiers found refuge during their war with King Saul.

“We are in a spiritual battle and locked in a terrible conflict with the powers of darkness,” says a strategy document that lays out Ziklag’s 30-year vision to “redirect the trajectory of American culture toward Christ by bringing back Biblical structure, order and truth to our Nation.”

Much more at https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-char
ity-2024-election

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 15, 2024 1:24 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

"I Was Shot": Trump Responds After Assassination Attempt; Shooter Dead; Secret Service Reportedly Ignored Warnings

He was shot by a far-right republican.

T

I'm sure he was, Ted. I'm sure he was.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 15, 2024 1:47 AM (P)

Nah...

He looks like one of yours, Ted.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SIGNYM

Monday, July 15, 2024 5:09 AM (P)

Quote:
Kyle Mann, the Babylon Bee’s editor-in-chief, added, “When you call your political opponent Hitler for 4 years, don’t act surprised when you inspire your followers to try to kill him.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-halts-trump-hitler-ads-after
-assassination-attempt

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

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 15, 2024 5:28 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Kyle Mann, the Babylon Bee’s editor-in-chief, added, “When you call your political opponent Hitler for 4 years, don’t act surprised when you inspire your followers to try to kill him.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-halts-trump-hitler-ads-after
-assassination-attempt

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

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Yup. I think Joy Reid and Jake Tapper should be fired immediately from MSNBC and CNN. Rachel Maddow as well. Then move on to round two of firing. Not layoffs. Contract destroying firing that will leave them with zero severance and benefits.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Monday, July 15, 2024 4:01 PM (P)

America’s Democracy Was Never That Healthy
Since its founding, the country has been in a perpetual state of division.

The Problems With U.S. Democracy Can Be Traced Back to America's Founding

By Nick Bryant | July 14, 2024

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/07/14/american-politics-history-revolut
ionary-war-polarization-trump-biden/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921

The advice I used to impart to young correspondents arriving at the BBC’s bureau in Washington was to remember that the United States had fought a civil war in the mid-19th century and was still arguing over the terms of a fractious peace.

Much like the modern-day phrase “sorry but not sorry,” which is used sarcastically to indicate a lack of remorse, the brief ceremony at Virginia’s Appomattox Court House in April 1865, which brought the armed fighting to an end, was a surrender but not a surrender. White supremacists in the states of the old Confederacy wanted still to reign supreme. Little over a decade later, following the collapse of Reconstruction—an attempt to make good for African Americans the promise of emancipation—enslavement was replaced by segregation. Across the American South, Jim Crow was in the chair.

Now, though, I would amend my advice. I would urge young reporters to reach back even further into history. The roots of modern-day polarization, and even the origins of former President Donald Trump, can be located in the country’s troubled birth. Division has always been the default setting. Victory over the British Redcoats at the Battle of Yorktown paved the way for independence but did not mean U.S. nationhood was a given.

Between the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 and the start of the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787, it seemed as if the states might enter into two or three confederations rather than a singular nation as the former British colonies struggled to overcome their antagonisms. “No morn ever dawned more favourable than ours did,” a melancholic George Washington wrote to James Madison in November 1786, “and no day was ever more clouded than the present!”

The Constitution that Washington pushed for, and which was eventually hammered out in Philadelphia, was in many ways an agreement to keep on disagreeing. Compromises that prolonged and protected the institution of slavery—a Faustian bargain that became the price of national unity—created a fault line that was always likely to rupture and explode. It rumbles to this day. Even a Black presidency could not repair the breach.

So many contemporary problems can be traced back to those founding days. U.S. democracy has become so diseased because for most of the country’s history, it has not been that healthy. “We the People,” the rousing words that opened the preamble to the Constitution, was not conceived of as an inclusive statement or catchall for mass democracy. Rather, this ill-defined term referred to what in modern terminology might be called the body politic. Much of the deliberations in Philadelphia focused on how that body politic should be restrained in an intricately designed straitjacket, hence the creation of countermajoritarian mechanisms such as the Electoral College and Senate.

To describe the outcome as an experiment in “democracy” is misleading: The Founding Fathers did not care for the word, which is nowhere to be found either in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. When the country’s second president, John Adams, used the term “democratical,” it was intended as a slur. The fear of what some of the founders called an “excess of democracy” explains the thinking behind a quote from Adams that has resurfaced during the Trump years: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Adams’s fear was not of unchecked presidential power, the meaning projected onto the quote in relation to Trump. More worrying for him was unchecked people power.

The right to vote was never specifically enshrined in the Constitution, an

SECOND

Monday, July 15, 2024 4:16 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Kyle Mann, the Babylon Bee’s editor-in-chief, added, “When you call your political opponent Hitler for 4 years, don’t act surprised when you inspire your followers to try to kill him.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-halts-trump-hitler-ads-after
-assassination-attempt

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

Signym, make a list of things that prove Trump is not evil:

Trump's tax cheating is not evil.

Trump's rapist history is not evil.

Trump's cheating his contractors is not evil.

Trump's declaration that he will be a dictator seeking revenge is not evil.

Trump's claim he won in 2020 when he actually lost is not evil.

There are many more things that Signym has to declare are not evil because Trump did those things. Try googling What is the worst things Trump has done?
https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+the+worst+things+Trump+has+don
e

Here are few top 10 lists on Trump:

The 10 Worst Things Trump Did in 2020
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-10-worst-things-trump-did-in-2020/

Chronicling Trump’s 10 worst abuses of power
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/politics/trump-worst-abuses-of-power/in
dex.html

Top Trumps: the 10 worst things the former president said this year
Hard to keep track of all the racist, unhinged, authoritarian comments by the former president? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/27/worst-things-that-trum
p-has-said

With all the evil activities that Trump has participated in and the evil words spewing from his mouth and his gluttony, it is a wonder that he is alive.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 15, 2024 9:39 PM (P)

Fuck off with your lies and propaganda.

Nobody takes anything you say seriously because all of your sources were the very same ones telling everybody that Joe Biden* still had his wits about him the last 4 years.

Your beliefs are a joke. Your sources are a joke. You are a joke.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SIGNYM

Monday, July 15, 2024 10:04 PM (P)

Please, dear god, someone mercifully drag Joe offstage

Quote:
"We Settle Our Differences At The Battle Box" - Biden Oval Office Speech Marred By Latest Huge Gaffe

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-settle-our-differences-battle-b
ox-biden-oval-office-speech-marred-latest-huge-gaffe

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

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, July 15, 2024 10:56 PM (P)

Did you see yesterday where he almost said we need to Make America Great Again before somebody shocked him with his collar and then he ended up just trailing off with that thought.

He got all the way to "Great" before somebody zapped him.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 2:03 AM (P)

By David Faris | July 15, 2024 3:00 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/trump-assassination-attemp
t-political-violence-democracy-threats.html

The shooting is already feeding Trump's martyrdom complex and the cult of personality that has arisen around him. He could, in theory, try to bring the country together this week at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. But we know he won’t because his campaign — indeed his entire political career — thrives on anger, fear, and chaos. He alone can fix it, he will almost certainly say again, even though he has spent years slyly glorifying or joking about violence against his political adversaries. Without chaos, he is nothing but an aging showman.

Once the tenuous bonds that hold individuals and groups together in a society are broken, they are difficult to repair. Widespread communal violence traumatizes those who survive the maelstrom, and each act of inhumanity makes restoring the trust required to operate a democratic political system more challenging. As Kirsten Dunst’s war reporter remarks in Alex Garland’s Civil War, “Every time I survived a war zone, I thought I was sending a warning home: Don’t do this. But here we are.”

Here we are indeed. The United States lacks some of the obvious precursors for widespread political violence of the kind that can lead to civil war. There are not large gangs of rival militias or would-be state-makers competing for power in the streets. Despite all the Second Civil War talk and secessionist cosplaying, there has not been incessant violence between either Democrats and Republicans, nor anything like meaningful threats between “red” and “blue” states. Very few people actually want to break up the country, and even fewer really want to fight each other in the streets.

But there are worrying signals. In 2020 the United States failed to transfer power peacefully between political parties for the first time since the Civil War. The outgoing president whipped up a mob of furious supporters, sharing a delusion about a stolen election, who then swarmed the U.S. Capitol, many of them hoping to harm members of Congress and disrupt the certification of the election. The attack left several people dead. That man, the subject of Saturday’s assassination attempt, refused in 2016 and 2020 to say he would accept the results of the election, and he refuses to do so today. He has made common cause with other dictators, courted and flattered them, and plainly wishes to emulate them. He has convinced tens of millions of rank-and-file Republicans that the president is a fraud who stole the 2020 election. He has threatened, in word and deed, to further erode the nation’s beleaguered democracy.

The American political system failed comprehensively to head off this threat. Senate Republicans declined to convict him after his second impeachment, the justice system moved molasses-like, allowing Trump and his allies time to regroup, and the Supreme Court disgracefully thwarted every conceivable avenue to hold him accountable. Those who want to avoid a descent into Lebanon-style chaos must now work together to finish the job that America’s political institutions could not—peacefully, at the ballot box, while standing up for the core values of liberal democracy.

Anything else is madness. And you truly do not want to experience where that madness leads.

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

SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 3:47 AM (P)

Quote:
The shooting is already feeding Trump's martyrdom complex and the cult of personality that has arisen around him...

Well, first of all, this is mind reading. I don't know that Trump feels like a martyr, and neither does the dickwad who wrote this.

But, yanno, if he DID feel like a martyr it might have to do with being endlessly and maliciously painted as a "racist", a "Putin puppet", a "threat to democracy", "Hitler", "tyrant" etc.

And being endlessly hounded thru two impeachments and multiple trials on exaggerated or made-up charges.

And who could forget calls to stop Trump pretty much by any means necessary.

And... being shot at.

So, yanno, if he DID feel like a martyr, maybe the answer is to stop persecuting him, and conduct political rivalry fair and square.

Like, maybe by coming up with policies that reflect the interests of the average American, and not the uberwealthy and deepstate wonks.

But that would be too fucking obvious.

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

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SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 5:06 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
The shooting is already feeding Trump's martyrdom complex and the cult of personality that has arisen around him...

Well, first of all, this is mind reading. I don't know that Trump feels like a martyr, and neither does the dickwad who wrote this.

But, yanno, if he DID feel like a martyr it might have to do with being endlessly and maliciously painted as a "racist", a "Putin puppet", a "threat to democracy", "Hitler", "tyrant" etc.

Why don't you google Trump martyr ? Trump does have a martyr complex.
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+martyr

And why don't you google Trump refuses to concede that he lost the election ?
Trump is a threat to democracy because he won't concede that he lost an election.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 5:42 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
The shooting is already feeding Trump's martyrdom complex and the cult of personality that has arisen around him...

Well, first of all, this is mind reading. I don't know that Trump feels like a martyr, and neither does the dickwad who wrote this.

But, yanno, if he DID feel like a martyr it might have to do with being endlessly and maliciously painted as a "racist", a "Putin puppet", a "threat to democracy", "Hitler", "tyrant" etc.
Why don't you google Trump martyr ? Trump does have a martyr complex.
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+martyr

And why don't you google Trump refuses to concede that he lost the election ?
Trump is a threat to democracy because he won't concede that he lost an election.

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

At this point, idiot, Trump IS a martyr. You may have been able to deny that by lying about the fact that everything the Joe Biden* administration has done to him already put him into martyr territory, but Saturday changed everything.

Trump did win the election. Democrats changed the entire rules surrounding elections in a few key states and sent their ballot harvesters out to burn all the Trump votes and stuff the ballot boxes with all the Biden* votes they collected.

Any state where they were foolish enough not to change those laws back are going to be lost to Democrats when Republicans do it better.

Tick Tock

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 5:51 AM (P)

I'M not sure he lost the election.

The validation of votes, the security of the vote counting, was so loosey -goosey I don't see how some states could certify the vote.

I would need to see a forensic audit of some counties' procedures and data to decide, on the basis of evidence, whether any particular vote was valid. This has not been done, except in Maricopa County, and I'm satisfied with that result.

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

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SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 5:54 AM (P)

Quote:
KNOW A HERO WHEN I SEE ONE

The Washington Post names me along with @elonmusk
as one of several businessmen who are using their “megaphones” to spread “narratives” about the assassination attempt on President Trump.

I’m not sure what “narratives” they’re referring to, but I know what I saw, and I know what the crowd in Butler witnessed live.

At it turns out, my father-in-law lives in Pennsylvania and he was at the rally on Saturday. When the shots rang out and Trump went down, he said pandemonium broke out around him. Everyone feared the worst.

But then Trump rose. Covered in his own blood, resisting the secret service’s efforts to whisk him away to safety, Trump raised his fist defiantly, and the crowd could see him say: “Fight. Fight. Fight.”

Immediately the fear of the crowd dissipated, the chaotic uncertainty lifted, and it was replaced with steely resolve. The crowd responded back as one: “USA, USA, USA!”

This is not a “narrative.” It is the truth. Trump stood defiant in the face of an assassin’s bullet. There is no way to fake courage like that.

It was more important for Trump to let the crowd know that he was unbowed and unbroken than to be taken to safety.

Donald Trump has already been in the fight of his life for months, as vindictive Democrats seek to imprison him, but on this day he came within inches of losing it. He has risked everything for this country.

It is now up to us, the American people, to show him that he does not stand alone. Let us reject the lies, the hoaxes, the hate and the division that the media has spread about this brave man, and support his resounding victory in November.

https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/1812681510438486422

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
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SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 6:05 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Trump did win the election.

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'M not sure he lost the election.

The validation of votes, the security of the vote counting, was so loosey -goosey I don't see how some states could certify the vote.

I would need to see a forensic audit of some counties' procedures and data to decide, on the basis of evidence, whether any particular vote was valid. This has not been done, except in Maricopa County, and I'm satisfied with those result.

Trump denied he lost and Signym denies he lost and 6ix denies Trump lost. All of you are threats to democracy because you all deny the results of elections.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 6:05 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'M not sure he lost the election.

The validation of votes, the security of the vote counting, was so loosey -goosey I don't see how some states could certify the vote.

I would need to see a forensic audit of some counties' procedures and data to decide, on the basis of evidence, whether any particular vote was valid. This has not been done, except in Maricopa County, and I'm satisfied with those result.

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

None of that even matters, Sigs.

The one thing that nobody, including Trump, has brought up is the fact that with anybody able to go door to door to collect other people's votes, that leaves the door wide open to untraceable vulnerabilities.

Unless you had body cameras on these ballot harvesters 24/7 from the moment they started until the day they were finished, there's no way you could catch somebody just putting any vote for Trump in the shredder before turning all the Joe Biden* votes in. And even if you did have a bodycam on them 24/7, it wouldn't mean anything. While they were out harvesting the next batch, they could have friends and family separating the votes they'd already collected back home.

The same thing could have, and likely did happen to some degree by ballot harvesters who were working for Trump and/or republicans. But they weren't only ill equipped to work that as well as the Democrats were able to, and they spent all their time arguing that only in person voting should be allowed instead of just playing the game by the Democrats' new rules, when we were already well beyond that ever happening in the 2020 election.

2024 is a new year. A new election.

Nobody is crying over 2020. We're just looking at that sham election in 2020 realistically and we can make a promise that it won't be repeated. In fact, it might go so poorly for them come this November that the Democrats become the party that starts demanding voter ID for elections.

Hopefully the Republicans haven't changed their mind on the issue by that point and we can finally lock up the elections and make every vote legitimate.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 6:09 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

2024 is a new year. A new election.

Nobody is crying over 2020. We're just looking at that sham election in 2020 realistically and we can make a promise that it won't be repeated.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

Not a surprise that in your mind Trump can't lose. 6ix, you are threat to Democracy because you won't accept election results unless Trump wins.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 6:13 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

2024 is a new year. A new election.

Nobody is crying over 2020. We're just looking at that sham election in 2020 realistically and we can make a promise that it won't be repeated.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Not a surprise that in your mind Trump can't lose. 6ix, you are threat to Democracy because you won't accept election results unless Trump wins.

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

You forgot to include the entire explanation how the Democrats cheated the 2020 election.

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

None of that even matters, Sigs.

The one thing that nobody, including Trump, has brought up is the fact that with anybody able to go door to door to collect other people's votes, that leaves the door wide open to untraceable vulnerabilities.

Unless you had body cameras on these ballot harvesters 24/7 from the moment they started until the day they were finished, there's no way you could catch somebody just putting any vote for Trump in the shredder before turning all the Joe Biden* votes in. And even if you did have a bodycam on them 24/7, it wouldn't mean anything. While they were out harvesting the next batch, they could have friends and family separating the votes they'd already collected back home.

The same thing could have, and likely did happen to some degree by ballot harvesters who were working for Trump and/or republicans. But they weren't only ill equipped to work that as well as the Democrats were able to, and they spent all their time arguing that only in person voting should be allowed instead of just playing the game by the Democrats' new rules, when we were already well beyond that ever happening in the 2020 election.

2024 is a new year. A new election.

Nobody is crying over 2020. We're just looking at that sham election in 2020 realistically and we can make a promise that it won't be repeated. In fact, it might go so poorly for them come this November that the Democrats become the party that starts demanding voter ID for elections.

Hopefully the Republicans haven't changed their mind on the issue by that point and we can finally lock up the elections and make every vote legitimate.

Until you have a valid response to that, which there is no valid response, you can just go right ahead and shut the fuck up for me now.

You are the threat to Democracy by your enabling of your own party to change the rules as they go along.

I warned you that you should try to get your party to close those Covid voting loopholes. They closed none of them. Now they're going to pay the price.

The problem with Democrats is they can't play chess. Everything is about instant gratification with Democrats, so they are only capable of thinking one move into the future.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 6:19 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You forgot to include the entire explanation how the Democrats cheated the 2020 election.

Your entire explanation is fiction. 6ix, you are a threat to Democracy because of your imaginary stories that "prove" Trump won in your mind. Trump can't lose. It is in your signature:
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 6:31 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You forgot to include the entire explanation how the Democrats cheated the 2020 election.
Your entire explanation is fiction.

No. It's not.

There is zero evidence you could EVER possibly provide to debunk it.

I'm sure some Republicans tried to take advantage of these Democrat related loopholes as well, but most of them were still arguing for in-person voting on election day only while the Democrats were out in full force cheating.

This year, both sides are going to cheat in the states that allow it.

Quote:
6ix, you are a threat to Democracy because of your imaginary stories that "prove" Trump won in your mind.

It's not imaginary. If you open the door up for wide-open, untracable cheating, people are going to cheat.

Quote:
Trump can't lose. It is in your signature:
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

No. That's just me making another correct prediction.

I understand your confusion on the issue though, since time has proven that you've never been correct about anything you've ever said.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 6:44 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You forgot to include the entire explanation how the Democrats cheated the 2020 election.
Your entire explanation is fiction.

No. It's not.

There is zero evidence you could EVER possibly provide to debunk it.

Firefly depends on the "existence" of (1) artificial gravity and (2) a unique arrangement of 5 main stars plus dozens of planets in Joss Whedon's imagination. There is no possible way for me to debunk (1) or (2), proving to 6ix that neither can exist outside Joss' mind. Also impossible is debunking 6ix's fiction about the election, proving that the fictional election story could not exist, except in 6ix's imagination.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 7:19 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You forgot to include the entire explanation how the Democrats cheated the 2020 election.
Your entire explanation is fiction.

No. It's not.

There is zero evidence you could EVER possibly provide to debunk it.
Firefly depends on the "existence" of (1) artificial gravity and (2) a unique arrangement of 5 main stars plus dozens of planets in Joss Whedon's imagination. There is no possible way for me to debunk (1) or (2), proving to 6ix that neither can exist outside Joss' mind. Also impossible is debunking 6ix's fiction about the election, proving that the fictional election story could not exist, except in 6ix's imagination.

All you would need to do to debunk this is to prove to me that people won't cheat when it's A) easy, B) they feel justified and C) they know they won't get caught.

When you're able to do that, get back to me. Until then, shut the fuck up please.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 8:24 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Trump did win the election.

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'M not sure he lost the election.

The validation of votes, the security of the vote counting, was so loosey -goosey I don't see how some states could certify the vote.

I would need to see a forensic audit of some counties' procedures and data to decide, on the basis of evidence, whether any particular vote was valid. This has not been done, except in Maricopa County, and I'm satisfied with those result.
Trump denied he lost and Signym denies he lost and 6ix denies Trump lost. All of you are threats to democracy because you all deny the results of elections.

There you go again.
You CONSTANTLY misrepresent what people say!
I said I'm not sure that he lost, YOU say I deny that he lost.

Honesty.
Not your thing, huh?

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
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SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 8:46 AM (P)

JD Vance, VP nominee.

Ohio Senator, author of "Hillbilly Elegy"

Quotes

https://agelessinvesting.com/hillbilly-elegy-quotes/

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 3:45 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
JD Vance, VP nominee.

Ohio Senator, author of "Hillbilly Elegy"

Quotes

https://agelessinvesting.com/hillbilly-elegy-quotes/

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

I'm not surprised that JD Vance is angry poor white trash, but he is also so much more than the typical Trumptard:

Trump’s VP believes in ‘regime change’

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2024/07/15/j-d-vance-believes-in-regi
me-change/

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s new choice for vice president, said that, had he been vice president in 2020, he would have carried out Trump’s scheme for the vice president to overturn the election results. He has fundraised for January 6 rioters. He once called on the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into a Washington Post columnist who penned a critical piece about Trump. After last week’s assassination attempt on Trump, he attempted to whitewash his radicalism by blaming the shooting on Democrats’ rhetoric about democracy without an iota of evidence.

He’s a big fan of Patrick Deneen, a Notre Dame professor who recently wrote a book calling for “regime change” in America. Vance spoke at an event for Deneen’s book in Washington, describing himself as a member of the “postliberal right” who sees his job in Congress as taking an “explicitly anti-regime” stance. It rejects pluralism, as well as conservatives’ traditional emphasis on limited government, arguing that a strong central government should endorse a socially conservative vision of morality and enforce that vision in law. In contrast to the “national conservatism” that’s also gaining traction on the populist right, Deneen’s vision of conservatism is also skeptical of nationalism, which the postliberals view as a byproduct of the liberal order.

“It’s not that any of us is anti-nation, but there has to be something both less than and more than the nation,” Deenen told me — local communities rooted in specific places and trans-nation communities rooted in a specifically Catholic notion of universal humanity.

Deneen argues that this version of conservatism will eventually come to replace liberalism as America’s governing philosophy through a process that he calls “regime change.” But as is often the case with Deneen, he is frustratingly coy about what “regime change” actually entails or how it will unfold. In his latest book, he argues that regime change will require “the peaceful but vigorous overthrow of a corrupt and corrupting liberal ruling class,” making way for a new, postliberal order in which “existing political forms remain the same” but are informed by “a fundamentally different ethos.” This new regime will be “superficially the same” as the current political order, but it will be led by a new class of conservative elites who share the values of non-elites and govern in their interests.

More at https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2024/07/15/j-d-vance-believes-in-regi
me-change/

Download Patrick Deneen’s free book “Regime Change” from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Patrick+Deneen+Change

You will be amazed at the far reaching schemes of Trump’s future VP J.D. Vance and Professor Patrick Deneen! These ambitious fellows have sweeping plans for everyone! No detail escapes their attention. Everything changes which is why they call it “Regime Change”. Clever nomenclature that doesn’t sound sinister in the least.

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

SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 4:46 PM (P)

55 Things to Know About J.D. Vance, Trump’s VP Pick

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/15/jd-vance-55-things-t
rump-vp-00167882

31. He was baptized into the Catholic church in August 2019. At the time, he credited his conversion to his exposure — via Thiel — to the writings of the French philosopher René Girard, whom Thiel studied under at Stanford University. Girard is most famous for his theory of “mimetic desire”: that human beings imitate the desires of their peers, ultimately giving rise to rivalries and violent conflicts that are resolved by “scapegoating” a common enemy.

32. Among his other current intellectual influences, Vance has cited the conservative localist Rod Dreher, the reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin and the “postliberal” Catholic philosopher Patrick Deneen, author of “Regime Change”.

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

SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 5:58 PM (P)

UPDATED Jul. 15, 2024, at 10:05 PM

Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?
538 uses polling, economic and demographic data to explore likely election outcomes.

Biden wins 53 times out of 100
in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election.

Trump wins 47 times out of 100.
There is a less than 1-in-100 chance of no Electoral College winner.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

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

SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 7:17 PM (P)

Quote:
You will be amazed at the far reaching schemes of Trump’s future VP

Perfect life insurance!

Having been raised Catholic, none of this scares me. And we DO need a different ethos than our current one. I've argued that myself. Bc our current ethos of extreme individualism, consumerism, and greed, is taking us no place where we want to be.

We can argue about where we need to go, but "here" is destroying America.

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

SECOND

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 11:58 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
You will be amazed at the far reaching schemes of Trump’s future VP

Perfect life insurance!

Having been raised Catholic, none of this scares me.

Very obviously you have not read either “Regime Change” or JD Vance's autobiography “Hillbilly Elegy”:

It Was One of the Best Books of 2016. Then Its Author Abandoned Every Value It Expressed.

Was “Hillbilly Elegy” ever good, or did J.D. Vance snow us?

By Laura Miller | July 16, 2024 11:02 AM

https://slate.com/culture/2024/07/jd-vance-vp-hillbilly-elegy-book-mem
oir.html

What I’ve always remembered most clearly from J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir, 2016’s Hillbilly Elegy, is its scorching descriptions of the lies that the working-class rural white Americans he grew up among tell themselves. An account of his chaotic and often perilous upbringing among people with roots in Appalachia, and of his seemingly miraculous climb out of that morass and into Yale Law School, Vance’s book hit at the most opportune moment. Many middle-class Americans were reeling after the election of Donald Trump and wanted some insight into what had possessed people like Vance’s relatives and sometime neighbors to vote for him. (But not Vance himself, of course! In 2018 he wrote an afterword to Hillbilly Elegy noting that he’d voted third party in 2016.)

Now that Vance stands a good chance of becoming vice president, the saga of his journey out of poverty, violence, and despair makes an even more dramatic story, though not one, I suspect, Vance would presently care to revisit. All the qualities that made Hillbilly Elegy one of the best books I read in 2016—its brutal honesty, its challenges to the self-delusional and self-defeating aspects of hillbilly culture, its mournful ambivalence about the identity he’s only partially left behind—have been shamelessly jettisoned by Vance for the sake of his political career. Not least of these is J.D. Vance’s belief that Donald Trump could become “America’s Hitler” and is a supplier of “cultural heroin”—the latter no small jab from a man whose mother’s narcotics abuse tore up his childhood.

Download “Hillbilly Elegy” for free from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Hillbilly+Elegy

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

SECOND

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 12:44 AM (P)

There's not that much wealth in the world
A little-understood fact.

By Noah Smith | Jul 13, 2024

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/theres-not-that-much-wealth-in-the

The world’s total net wealth was estimated at around $454 trillion in 2023. That sounds like a really huge number. It’s almost five times as big as world income (GDP) in that same year, which was around $105 trillion. For the U.S. alone, wealth was $140 trillion and income was $27.4 trillion, which again is about a 5 to 1 ratio.

Is that a lot? If this were your family, having savings worth 5 times as much as your annual income would be pretty good. The median American family has a net worth only about 2 times as large as the median family income. If you could live off of your savings for 5 whole years without working, that would be pretty good! But on the other hand, it isn’t anywhere close to being able to retire.

This is why despite what some silly people say on social media, confiscating rich people’s wealth wouldn’t be nearly enough to fund the government. Here’s a useful tweet:

Chris Freiman @cafreiman
Your periodic reminder that the government could seize all of American billionaires’ wealth and it wouldn’t be enough to fund its spending for a single year
4:16 PM • Jul 9, 2024 • 303.3K Views
https://x.com/cafreiman/status/1810815193670373482

Freiman is correct. The wealth of America’s billionaires was estimated at around $5.2 trillion in 2023, while federal government spending was about $6.4 trillion. Confiscating every last penny from Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and all the other billionaires wouldn’t fund the U.S. government for one year. And of course you could only do it once.

There’s really just not that much wealth in the world.

More at https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/theres-not-that-much-wealth-in-the

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

SIGNYM

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 1:26 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
You will be amazed at the far reaching schemes of Trump’s future VP

Perfect life insurance!

Having been raised Catholic, none of this scares me.
Very obviously you have not read either “Regime Change” or JD Vance's autobiography “Hillbilly Elegy”:

It Was One of the Best Books of 2016. Then Its Author Abandoned Every Value It Expressed.

Was “Hillbilly Elegy” ever good, or did J.D. Vance snow us?

By Laura Miller | July 16, 2024 11:02 AM

https://slate.com/culture/2024/07/jd-vance-vp-hillbilly-elegy-book-mem
oir.html

What I’ve always remembered most clearly from J.D. Vance’s bestselling memoir, 2016’s Hillbilly Elegy, is its scorching descriptions of the lies that the working-class rural white Americans he grew up among tell themselves. An account of his chaotic and often perilous upbringing among people with roots in Appalachia, and of his seemingly miraculous climb out of that morass and into Yale Law School, Vance’s book hit at the most opportune moment. Many middle-class Americans were reeling after the election of Donald Trump and wanted some insight into what had possessed people like Vance’s relatives and sometime neighbors to vote for him. (But not Vance himself, of course! In 2018 he wrote an afterword to Hillbilly Elegy noting that he’d voted third party in 2016.)

Now that Vance stands a good chance of becoming vice president, the saga of his journey out of poverty, violence, and despair makes an even more dramatic story, though not one, I suspect, Vance would presently care to revisit. All the qualities that made Hillbilly Elegy one of the best books I read in 2016—its brutal honesty, its challenges to the self-delusional and self-defeating aspects of hillbilly culture, its mournful ambivalence about the identity he’s only partially left behind—have been shamelessly jettisoned by Vance for the sake of his political career. Not least of these is J.D. Vance’s belief that Donald Trump could become “America’s Hitler” and is a supplier of “cultural heroin”—the latter no small jab from a man whose mother’s narcotics abuse tore up his childhood.

Download “Hillbilly Elegy” for free from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Hillbilly+Elegy

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

Sour grapes much?

You'll be slagging Trump all the way to him winning the election, just like you'll be slagging Russia all the way to its victory in Ukraine.

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

SECOND

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 3:29 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Sour grapes much?

You'll be slagging Trump all the way to him winning the election, just like you'll be slagging Russia all the way to its victory in Ukraine.

The most self-destructive idea both Trumptards and Russians harbor in their little heads is that they are natural-born winners. God loves them and made them winners, they believe! They have a weakness for claiming victory before they have done the planning and work of achieving victory. Once they aren't as victorious as they imagine deserving, they get bitter, depressed, and angry. They drink to ease the pain. Then they search for a scapegoat rather than blame themselves for their personal inadequacies and lack of effort.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 6:24 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Sour grapes much?

You'll be slagging Trump all the way to him winning the election, just like you'll be slagging Russia all the way to its victory in Ukraine.
The most self-destructive idea both Trumptards and Russians harbor in their little heads is that they are natural-born winners.

Nobody believes this idiot. Those that do are either dead or figured out they aren't teenagers anymore and they won't live forever.

Stick your opinions about other people up your well-laid asshole where they belong.

Nobody wants to fucking listen to you anymore, cunt.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 6:31 AM (P)

The headline speaker at the Republican National Convention was Teamsters president Sean O'Brien and I felt like I'd been catapulted into a mirror universe.

He took direct aim at big corporations. They cheat and prevent workers from organizing. Big cheers. Amazon refuses to negotiate. Big cheers. We need to do away with right-to-work. Big cheers. The Business Roundtable and the Chamber of Commerce are the enemy. Big cheers. Unions are the only organizations that protect ordinary workers. Big cheers.

And I'm sitting there wondering: do these people on the convention floor know that they're Republicans? Because this is all stuff that Republicans have fought tooth and nail for decades. Organized labor is bad. The Chamber of Commerce is good. Freedom from union bosses is part of the Ten Commandments.

But no matter. They cheered for everything O'Brien said anyway. It was eerie. Do Republicans in the era of Trump even have any idea what their party will continue doing to unions after the election?

https://jabberwocking.com/in-bizarro-rnc-unions-are-a-beloved-partner-
of-the-working-man/

Teamsters Union president addresses the Republican National Convention

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 6:35 AM (P)

Slate: I Expected the Republican National Convention to Be Dark and Tense. It’s Something Else Entirely.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/expected-republican-national-convention-dar
k-094500835.html

Quote:
There were more MAGA celebrities inbound, with gaggles of giddy convention attendees lined up to take selfies with them. And as I continued to navigate the convention on its first day, the excitement remained in the air. People dutifully condemned Democrats—who were described as all-powerful but also somehow feeble and inept—and the shooting if I asked. But each time I got the slight sense I was ruining the vibe a little bit. More than once, people around me broke into chants of “U-S-A!” with laughter and the easy confidence of people who think they have this thing in the bag. Whatever horrors the weekend had brought, they were ready to party.

That's because we represent optimism, and anytime Aymann Ismail has been to a Democrat rally or convention all they do is whine and bitch and complain and figure out what they need to do to destroy everyone's lives and make us all slaves to the Government system.

We are the good guys. The history books will ultimately show that too.

We all thought that there might be a fight one day against the oppressors, but it would appear that they're so inept and hubristic that they're going to just destroy themselves for us.

Tick Tock

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 6:38 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
And I'm sitting there wondering: do these people on the convention floor know that they're Republicans? Because this is all stuff that Republicans have fought tooth and nail for decades. Organized labor is bad. The Chamber of Commerce is good. Freedom from union bosses is part of the Ten Commandments.

But no matter. They cheered for everything O'Brien said anyway. It was eerie. Do Republicans in the era of Trump even have any idea what their party will continue doing to unions after the election?

All those union guys aren't thinking about what's going to happen to them after Trump is elected.

All they're thinking about right now is how fucked they were from 3.5 years of Joe Biden*, and they're just as aware as anybody else is how bad the Legacy Media has been lying about the economy and how people are doing this whole time.

So you've lost the Unions too. Now all you truly have left is white college graduates, and nobody else.

Tick Tock

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:07 AM (P)

J.D. Vance perfectly diagnosed the problem with Donald Trump way back in 2016

Tue April 19, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/jd-vance-ohio-republican-trump
/index.html

JD Vance wrote:
But I'm not surprised by Trump's rise, and I think the entire party has only itself to blame. We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time that we need to offer those people SOMETHING (and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working class black people in the process) or a demagogue would. We are now at that point. Trump is the fruit of the party's collective neglect. 3) I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler.
How's that for discouraging?

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:13 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
J.D. Vance perfectly diagnosed the problem with Donald Trump way back in 2016

Tue April 19, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/jd-vance-ohio-republican-trump
/index.html

JD Vance wrote:
But I'm not surprised by Trump's rise, and I think the entire party has only itself to blame. We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time that we need to offer those people SOMETHING (and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working class black people in the process) or a demagogue would. We are now at that point. Trump is the fruit of the party's collective neglect. 3) I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler.
How's that for discouraging?

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

Yeah. I agree that I'm disappointed with the VP pick.

Before Saturday I would have thought it was a huge mistake since Vance won't attract any new voters to the ticket. After Saturday it doesn't matter though. They could have picked somebody as stupid as Kamala Harris and still win in a landslide.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:22 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Yeah. I agree that I'm disappointed with the VP pick.

You didn't click on the article. Here is a small sample from it:

During his term in office, Trump, again and again, sought to paint he and his supporters as the richest, smartest and the best. Here’s one riff from the campaign trail in 2018:

“I meet these people they call them ‘the elite.’ These people. I look at them, I say, ‘That’s elite?’ We got more money, we got more brains, we got better houses, apartments, we got nicer boats, we’re smarter than they are, and they say they’re elite? We’re the elite. You’re the elite. We’re the elite.”

“So I said the other day, let’s keep calling these people—and let’s face it, they’ve been stone-cold losers, the elite, the elite—so let them keep calling themselves the elite,” he continued. “But we’re going to call ourselves—and remember you are indeed, you work harder, but you are indeed smarter than them—let’s call ourselves from now on the super-elite. We’re the super-elite.”

Trump, as Vance rightly notes, filled a void for lots and lots of voters. He gave them something to believe in – and, maybe even more importantly, someone to be against (“the elites”).

Vance’s past comments make his transformation into a Trump-endorsed candidate for Senate all the more remarkable – and transparent. Vance understands the roots of Trump and Trumpism. And the hucksterism that sits at the heart of it.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:24 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Yeah. I agree that I'm disappointed with the VP pick.
You didn't click on the article.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:30 AM (P)

For the record, I've always thought JD Vance was a piece of shit.

I'm not surprised at anything that little weasel said in 2016 (or the fact that paid liars at CNN are currently blowing the guy for things he said almost a decade ago now).

I'm going to have to know more about this choice before I make any more judgement about it than that. I don't understand the decision from really any vantage point that I look at it from. If it added any new voters to the ticket it might make some sort of sense, but JD Vance doesn't do that any more than Vivek Ramaswamy would, even though I would have been fully on board with a Vivek announcement despite that fact.

I seriously thought it was only a joke or pure bullshit whenever his name would come up as a potential nominee.

I think the only reason he was announced now is because of the Assassination Attempt from the Alt-Left. I don't think that choice would have been made before Saturday and a Trump Presidency virtually became a sure thing.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:49 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
For the record, I've always thought JD Vance was a piece of shit.

I don't think that choice would have been made before Saturday and a Trump Presidency virtually became a sure thing.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

Trump picked JD Vance because JD understands Trumptard psychology exactly the same way as Trump does. JD's only error was to explain the psychology, but that will make no difference because Trumptards don't click links and won't understand what is going on. They don't even know that Trump is a huckster despite Trump showing them what he is over and over.

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

SIGNYM

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 9:20 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
For the record, I've always thought JD Vance was a piece of shit.

I don't think that choice would have been made before Saturday and a Trump Presidency virtually became a sure thing.

So OOC, why is that?
Not looking to pick a fight, I have ZERO opinion of him. I just really want to know your thoughts.

I did hear an interesting take on what that might mean, bc since Trump won't be able to run again, if Trump is successful then his VP has a huge leg up on being the next President. If ...IF... Trump is thinking about his legacy, then Vance might be it.

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

SIGNYM

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 9:32 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Sour grapes much?

You'll be slagging Trump all the way to him winning the election, just like you'll be slagging Russia all the way to its victory in Ukraine.

SECOND: The most self-destructive idea both Trumptards and Russians harbor in their little heads is that they are natural-born winners.

WOW!!
Projection much?
TOO FUNNY!

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 2:46 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
For the record, I've always thought JD Vance was a piece of shit.

I don't think that choice would have been made before Saturday and a Trump Presidency virtually became a sure thing.

So OOC, why is that?
Not looking to pick a fight, I have ZERO opinion of him. I just really want to know your thoughts.

I did hear an interesting take on what that might mean, bc since Trump won't be able to run again, if Trump is successful then his VP has a huge leg up on being the next President. If ...IF... Trump is thinking about his legacy, then Vance might be it.

A large part of it is the bullshit that Second is digging up on CNN right now. Vance spewed quite a few of the Legacy Media's lies about Trump.

I'm sure Trump remembers it, so I'm curious as to why Trump would make this pick or how that water went under the bridge, to be honest.

I don't want to specifically bring up any other gripes with him because they're all largely forgotten by now. I haven't even heard Vance in the news much since before last election, and good luck using Google in its current form to find ANYTHING within a specific time frame. You look up "J.D. Vance" in quotes on Google and put the window from 01/01/2016 to 12/31/2020 and the only results you're going to get are about him being Trump's pick or about his Hillbilly book, even though I'm quite certain that Trump didn't pick Vance as his VP within that window. Back in 2023 I could have easily found all the dumb shit that Vance has said over the years, but Google intentionally broke itself so nobody can every look up anything that mattered historically again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 2:48 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
For the record, I've always thought JD Vance was a piece of shit.

I don't think that choice would have been made before Saturday and a Trump Presidency virtually became a sure thing.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Trump picked JD Vance because JD understands Trumptard psychology exactly the same way as Trump does. JD's only error was to explain the psychology, but that will make no difference because Trumptards don't click links and won't understand what is going on. They don't even know that Trump is a huckster despite Trump showing them what he is over and over.

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

I don't click any of your dumb fucking links, retard.

If you measure somebody's logged hours reading by their ability to write, you're about 30 years behind me.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 4:44 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
For the record, I've always thought JD Vance was a piece of shit.

I don't think that choice would have been made before Saturday and a Trump Presidency virtually became a sure thing.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Trump picked JD Vance because JD understands Trumptard psychology exactly the same way as Trump does. JD's only error was to explain the psychology, but that will make no difference because Trumptards don't click links and won't understand what is going on. They don't even know that Trump is a huckster despite Trump showing them what he is over and over.

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

I don't click any of your dumb fucking links, retard.

If you measure somebody's logged hours reading by their ability to write, you're about 30 years behind me.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

JD Vance paid more income taxes than Trump has. JD wrote his books and earned his fortune. In contrast, ghostwriters wrote Trump's books and Trump's father gave little Donald a billion dollars. JD's autobiography was made into a serious movie. Trump's movie? Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump. JD was a Marine while Trump was a draft dodger. But since Trumptards don't click links they don't know that.

6ix, I dare you to click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Vance and have your mind expanded.

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

SECOND

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 10:47 PM (P)

UPDATED Jul. 17, 2024, at 12:13 PM

Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?
538 uses polling, economic and demographic data to explore likely election outcomes.

Biden wins 53 times out of 100
in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election.

Trump wins 46 times out of 100.

There is a less than 1-in-100 chance of no Electoral College winner: In 4 simulations, no candidate wins a majority of Electoral College votes, which would throw the election to the House of Representatives.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 18, 2024 1:24 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
UPDATED Jul. 17, 2024, at 12:13 PM

Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?
538 uses polling, economic and demographic data to explore likely election outcomes.

Biden wins 53 times out of 100
in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election.

Trump wins 46 times out of 100.

There is a less than 1-in-100 chance of no Electoral College winner: In 4 simulations, no candidate wins a majority of Electoral College votes, which would throw the election to the House of Representatives.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

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

Yeah. I had a great laugh when I saw Nate's broken bullshit model yesterday.

The fact that Biden*'s chances have actually gone up by 5 points since before Debate night with an attempted assassination in between just shows how broken and meaningless this is, and once it fails miserably in November it will be scrapped and will never see the light of day again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 18, 2024 1:28 AM (P)

Trump is now dead even in Virginia. He is now up 4.5 points in Pennsylvania.

Battleground state totals today:

Arizona: Trump +5.7
Nevada: Trump +5.0
Wisconsin: Trump +3.0
Michigan: Trump +1.3
Pennsylvania: Trump +4.5
Georgia: Trump +3.9
North Carolina: Trump +5.4
Virginia: Tie
New Hampshire: Biden +3.0
Minnesota: Biden +3.0

Of the original 7 Battleground states, Trump is up so many points it's outside of the margin of error on every one of them besides his +1.3 in Michigan, and the +3.0 in Wisconsin is a borderline lock with the way winds are blowing.

Virginia is now solidly in play for Trump, and New Hampshire and Minnesota aren't far behind.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 18, 2024 1:31 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
6ix, I dare you to click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Vance and have your mind expanded.

Second: Click on this political Wikipedia article to expand your mind.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 18, 2024 2:46 AM (P)

L.A. Times: Schiff calls on Biden to drop out, citing 'serious concerns' he can't win

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schiff-calls-on-biden-to-drop-
out-citing-serious-concerns-he-cant-win/ar-BB1qa5Eq

It would appear that Shifty Schiff doesn't hold Nate Silver's bullshit model in very high regard either.

Tick Tock

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SECOND

Thursday, July 18, 2024 3:58 PM (P)

The Election Forecast That Team Biden Likes Is Just a Ticking Time Bomb
FiveThirtyEight’s dead-heat prediction will self-destruct in roughly two months.

By Ben Mathis-Lilley | July 17, 2024 8:20 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/biden-trump-poll-2024-elec
tion-forecast-democrats-ticking-time-bomb.html

Meanwhile:

UPDATED Jul. 17, 2024, at 5:37 PM
Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?
538 uses polling, economic and demographic data to explore likely election outcomes.

Biden wins 54 times out of 100
in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election.
Trump wins 46 times out of 100.
There is a less than 1-in-100 chance of no Electoral College winner.

Biden 538 times
Trump 459 times
No winner 3 times
out of 1,000 simulations

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

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

SECOND

Thursday, July 18, 2024 4:00 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
6ix, I dare you to click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Vance and have your mind expanded.

Second: Click on this political Wikipedia article to expand your mind.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

You will want to click on J.D. Vance's plan to fire everybody in government and replace them with Trumptards.

J.D. Vance’s radical plan to build a government of Trump loyalists

“Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”

By Andrew Prokop | Jul 17, 2024, 11:03 PM CDT

https://www.vox.com/politics/361455/jd-vance-trump-vice-president-rnc-
speech

That was no idle talk. To an extent unusual for a politician — and perhaps because he hasn’t been in politics very long — Vance is interested in big ideas. He’s been deeply influenced by thinkers on the movement known as the New Right, who want to seize and transform societal institutions they believe are dominated by the left.

A big part of that would involve a restored President Trump purging any resistance to him, or checks on his power, from the executive branch. Vance is deeply committed to the project of seizing institutions away from the left

Trump has long had figures in orbit urging him to act to remake the executive branch, such as Steve Bannon, who called for “deconstruction of the administrative state” at the start of his brief White House tenure. In the chaos of Trump’s first term, such plans didn’t get very far at first. Trump grew increasingly frustrated by what he viewed as resistance to his agenda among permanent federal employees and his inability to get “loyal” people in place.

Meanwhile, younger conservatives on the outside of the administration — like Vance — were wondering why President Trump was struggling to enact his agenda and grappling with the leftward movement of the nation on social justice issues. Many of them gravitated toward explanations offered by writers on the New Right.

The New Right put forth an institutional theory for why conservatives couldn’t get what they wanted. Per this theory, the left had ultimate power due to their control of important institutions, from the media and academia to tech companies and the federal bureaucracy. The task ahead for the right was to fight for and seize control of these institutions.

One particularly extreme New Right thinker is the blogger Curtis Yarvin, whom I profiled in 2022. Yarvin has argued that a new right-wing president should “Retire All Government Employees” — fire them all — and rebuild the government anew. (He also supports toppling American democracy and replacing it with a monarchy.)

Vance cited Yarvin approvingly during that podcast appearance in which he discussed how Trump should fire “every civil servant.” He said: “There’s this guy, Curtis Yarvin, who has written about some of these things.”

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

SECOND

Thursday, July 18, 2024 4:49 PM (P)

Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new poll, sharply undercutting his post-debate claim that “average Democrats” are still with him even if some “big names” are turning on him.

The new survey by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, conducted as Biden works to salvage his candidacy two weeks after his debate flop, also found that only about 3 in 10 Democrats are extremely or very confident that he has the mental capability to serve effectively as president, down slightly from 40% in an AP-NORC poll in February.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-poll-drop-out-debate-democrats-
59eebaca6989985c2bfbf4f72bdfa112

My opinion of Biden? His campaign is sunk if he keeps appearing on TV while drunk. Who does he think he is? Is he Boris Yeltsin, famous for being intoxicated in public? Boris put Putin into power. Biden, with his wrong words and word-slurring tipsiness, is putting Trump into power. If Biden can't maintain a sober appearance, the squinting old mumbling stutterer should resign. If Trump can't stop being a fat old glutton addicted to speed and lying, he should quit, too, replaced with J.D. Vance. https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+Lies

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

SIGNYM

Thursday, July 18, 2024 5:04 PM (P)

Quote:
about 3 in 10 Democrats are extremely or very confident that he has the mental capability to serve effectively as president

Gotta wonder about them!

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

SECOND

Thursday, July 18, 2024 6:49 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Gotta wonder about them!

People with memory loss do not remember the Iraq War the way it happened.

I watched J.D. Vance's speech at the Republican convention. Towards the end, Vance reeled off a list of terrible things Biden had done, and one of them was that he supported the Iraq War. This earned Biden a big round of boos. Boos! From Republicans! But back in the day, Republicans were the ones who drove us to war. They favored it by 84% to 14%, a net favorability of 70%. This was the era of freedom fries and aluminum tubes. It was gonna be shock and awe against Saddam Hussein, and it was fashionable among Republicans to accuse anyone who opposed the war of treason and soft-headedness.

Now, 20 years later, here is J.D. Vance at a Republican convention blaming it all on "Joe Biden and the elites." I have to say, I was shocked and awed.

https://jabberwocking.com/do-you-remember-the-iraq-war-i-do/

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, July 18, 2024 7:21 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Gotta wonder about them!
People with memory loss do not remember the Iraq War the way it happened.

Shut the fuck up.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SIGNYM

Thursday, July 18, 2024 11:18 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Gotta wonder about them!

SECOND: People with memory loss do not remember the Iraq War the way it happened.

You referring to yourself, or Biden?

Bc I remember exactly how it happened:

The roulette wheel of propaganda points -

9-11!
Terrorist training camps!
Aluminum tubes!
Yellowcake!
Saddam massacring his own people!
Bioweapons!
Mushroom cloud!

- until the Bush Admin settled on "east, west, north, south somewhat of Baghdad" and drove out the UNMOVIC weapons inpsectors with our bombing.

I also remember that many Dems ... BIDEN INCLUDED ... voted to authorize funds for the war. And that includes Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Chuck Schumer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Forc
e_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002

In any case the Biden of yesterday IS NOT THE BIDEN OF TODAY.

Today's Biden* isn't deciding anything. (See below) His role is to ink whatever the neocons put in front of him, and to sit on the White House Porch and be a belligerent old man, shaking his fist and yelling "Get off my sidewalk!"

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

SIGNYM

Thursday, July 18, 2024 11:26 PM (P)

Another Biden moment of Oh Please, Dear God, Make it Stop

Quote:
Joe Biden glitched hard whilst trying to pander to black voters, forgetting the name of his own Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and instead referring to him as "the black man."
Then, struggling to remember any black person's name, he whips out Supreme Court Justice "Ketanji Brown" who Biden nominated.

"And so, it's all about, it's all about treating people with dignity. It's about making sure that—look. I mean, for example, look at the heat I'm getting because I named uh, the secretary of defense, the Black man, I named Ketanji Brown, I mean, because of the people I've named."
...
In 1977, Biden said that forcing schools to desegregate schools with bussing programs would cause his children to "grow up in a racial jungle."

And of course, Biden referred to Barack Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/black-man-ketanji-biden-lost-racia
l-jungle-his-own-mind

Poor guy, he's toast, politically.

And any more examples of Biden going off the rails is just eldrr abuse.

If I don't post any more of these exquisitely painful Biden moments, it isn't because they aren't happening, but at this point I feel sorry for him.

Any further discussion of Biden as the nominee is pointless. If he doesn't step aside, he'll be assassinated via Covid.

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, July 19, 2024 6:16 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Trump is now dead even in Virginia. He is now up 4.5 points in Pennsylvania.

Battleground state totals today:

Arizona: Trump +5.7
Nevada: Trump +5.0
Wisconsin: Trump +3.0
Michigan: Trump +1.3
Pennsylvania: Trump +4.5
Georgia: Trump +3.9
North Carolina: Trump +5.4
Virginia: Tie
New Hampshire: Biden +3.0
Minnesota: Biden +3.0

Of the original 7 Battleground states, Trump is up so many points it's outside of the margin of error on every one of them besides his +1.3 in Michigan, and the +3.0 in Wisconsin is a borderline lock with the way winds are blowing.

Virginia is now solidly in play for Trump, and New Hampshire and Minnesota aren't far behind.

Did I say he was tied in Virginia...?

Battleground state totals today:

Arizona: Trump +6.0 (+0.3)
Nevada: Trump +5.1 (+0.1)
Wisconsin: Trump +3.4 (+0.4)
Michigan: Trump +1.6 (+0.3)
Pennsylvania: Trump +4.5 (No Change)
Georgia: Trump +4.0 (+0.1)
North Carolina: Trump +5.7 (+0.3)
Virginia: Trump +0.4 (+0.4)
New Hampshire: Biden +3.0 (No Change)
Minnesota: Biden +3.0 (No Change)

It just keeps getting worse for Democrats.

Awwwwwwww.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, July 19, 2024 9:15 AM (P)

The entire Democratic Party is ripping itself apart, just like I always said it eventually would.

Obama wants Biden* to drop out. Biden* and his Administration are furious over Obama's calls for Biden* to drop out, "especially while he has Covid".

"Squad" members are being removed from office at the ballot box. AOC is taking a Neo-Lib/Clintonista stance on Gaza.

Fetterman sounds like a straight up Republican these days.

California is going to lose all its Musk money after idiot Newsom passed legislation that bars school districts from forcing their teachers to "notify a child's parents about a gender identification change". Others will follow suit if they haven't already left because of taxes and affordability.

Meanwhile, Trump is just easy like Sunday morning.

Just look at that Mona Lisa smile....

That's the look of a man who's no longer worried about anything.

Every single one of the idiot Democrat's plans to derail Trump's Presidency twice has not only failed, but they've backfired bigly.

Your party is so fucking inept they can't do anything right. Cheating is the only thing they're good at, and they've stuffed their ranks so full of double-digit trash DEI personnel that they can't even do that right anymore.

And the world that the college "educated" white people thought they were living in no longer exists.

Time to grow up, fucktards.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

THG

Friday, July 19, 2024 4:37 PM (P)

T

Stop Obsessing Over the Polls and Take a Hike Instead

SECOND

Friday, July 19, 2024 4:55 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Meanwhile, Trump is just easy like Sunday morning.

Just look at that Mona Lisa smile....

That's the look of a man who's no longer worried about anything.

In Italy, Mussolini was adored by Fascists. In Germany, it was Hitler revered by the Nazis. In America, it is Trump. Our maximum leader is strong, wise, calm, and beautiful to behold!!

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

SECOND

Friday, July 19, 2024 4:56 PM (P)

A realistic look at a second Trump term

How dangerous would a second Trump term be? The conventional wisdom says that after learning his lesson during his first term, Trump would be unleashed in a second term to do anything he wants with no one to push back against him. Maybe so. But I've never been too sure about this. For starters, keep in mind the three main things that motivate Trump:

• Appearing tough and getting the best in negotiations.

• Retribution against those who have laughed at him (elites) or who caused him real or perceived harm.

• Flapping his mouth and always being the center of attention.

Given all this, what is Trump likely to do in a second term? I'm reluctant to confess this, but my take has long been that it won't be a lot worse than his first term. Let's break this down by all the actions he might take. These are in no particular order:

1. Stop aid to Ukraine. He might. A lot of Republicans would be on his side, and he's always been mad at Zelenskyy over the events surrounding his first impeachment.

2. Appoint lunatic cabinet members. Yes, to some extent. But even a Republican Senate full of loyalists will place limits on this.

3. Build the wall. This makes him look tough, so he'll probably do it. Republicans prevented this in his first term but won't in a second term. However, although this is a waste of money, it's not likely to do lasting harm.

4. Deport 20 million illegal immigrants. This is big talk, like "Mexico will pay for it." But it's not feasible. It would require enormous manpower and enormous expenditures, and even at that it wouldn't work. What's more, the business wing of the party would fight hard against it. hi the end, Trump might beef up ICE, but not a lot more.

5. Place 10% tariffs on everything from everybody. It's unclear what Trump really wants to do on tariffs, but the maximal version isn't workable. National security goes only so far as a justification, and Trump is bound by treaty obligations just like any other president. I wouldn't be surprised if he tightened tariffs on China, but not much more.

6. Appoint lots of conservative judges. Yep.

7. Cut taxes on businesses and the rich. Yep.

8. Kill the Inflation Reduction Act. He might very well try to do this. It's a signature Biden initiative, so it would fit his retribution motivation, and green spending is unpopular among Republicans.

9. Tell the Justice Department to indict his political opponents. This is mostly big talk, used as a campaign device. Once he wins, he won't really care that much.

10. Tell the Justice Department to end its cases against him. Absolutely yes.

11. to 23. at https://jabberwocking.com/a-realistic-look-at-a-second-trump-term/

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

SECOND

Saturday, July 20, 2024 12:38 AM (P)

Donald Trump talks for 90 minutes, says two true things

By Kevin Drum | July 18, 2024 – 10:01 pm

https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-talks-for-90-minutes-says-two-t
rue-things/

I ended up watching most of Donald Trump's endless speech tonight, and it was remarkable. I mean, the guy not only promised immediate peace and prosperity worldwide, he literally said he was going to cure cancer and Alzheimer's if he was elected. I'm not making that up.

I feel sorry for the poor reporters assigned to fact check the speech. What's the point? As near as I could tell, virtually every single thing he said was false. Oh, it's true that Don Jr. is his son and J.D. Vance is his running mate. But on major policy points I only counted two that were actually true:

1) Wages grew under his administration. That's true—though not as fast as they did in the four previous years under Barack Obama. (Note that the chart below ends in January 2020 so I'm not counting COVID against him.)

2) China took away a lot of American manufacturing jobs. That's also true, though it happened in the noughts and ended about 15 years ago.

Most of Trump's lies were just the usual stuff that goes back to 2016, though there are a few new ones that I haven't been able to puzzle out. He repeated yet again his claim that Joe Biden wants to raise taxes 4x, which is obviously absurd—but where does it come from? The only thing I can find is that apparently Biden has tossed out the idea of quadrupling the tax on stock buybacks from 1% to 4%. I suppose that must be where it wormed its way into Trump's brain. Maybe? https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/proposed-4-percent-tax-on-stock-bu
ybacks-faces-hurdles/

Aside from that it was just falsehood after falsehood. Quite an impressive performance in its own way. And his themes were pretty much the same as they've been since 2016: illegal immigration, crime, illegal immigration, trade deals, illegal immigration, American energy, and illegal immigration. Plus his odd ongoing assertion that we're on the brink of World War III. All in all, it was more weird than anything else. Joe Biden may be declining mentally, but Trump's brain worms continue to eat away at him too. I wonder if he even knows what consensus reality is like anymore?

FULL SPEECH: Trump addresses the RNC, formally accepts GOP nomination

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, July 20, 2024 1:40 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Meanwhile, Trump is just easy like Sunday morning.

Just look at that Mona Lisa smile....

That's the look of a man who's no longer worried about anything.
In Italy, Mussolini was adored by Fascists. In Germany, it was Hitler revered by the Nazis. In America, it is Trump. Our maximum leader is strong, wise, calm, and beautiful to behold!!

No.

In America, our "leader" is a mindless meat popsicle that can't stand for more than 2
minutes or string a couple of coherent sentences together without a megadose of adderall.

We're going to fix that in November.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, July 20, 2024 1:44 AM (P)

the movement keeps growing

Top 10 Celebrities Who Support Donald Trump

SECOND

Saturday, July 20, 2024 8:01 AM (P)

It was particularly jarring to hear JD Vance talking down to Appalachians and working-class households in ways that he likely would have found insulting before ambition snuffed out his ability to feel shame. All his previous talk of responsibility and initiative was gone, replaced by images of a heartland full of victims, a Norman Rockwell world now inundated with fentanyl and cheap Chinese electronics by Washington’s scheming elites.

Through it all, you could almost hear the issuance of absolution and the call for revenge: It’s not your fault that your unemployed son lives at home, staring at screens and getting high all day. Biden, Beijing, and Wall Street did that. We’ll settle the score somehow.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/hillbilly-excuses/ar-BB1qi1MS

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, July 20, 2024 9:22 AM (P)

You might as well just stop posting Second.

This election is over. The Democrat Party is over.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

SIGNYM

Saturday, July 20, 2024 12:28 PM (P)

Quote:
"Absolutely" In The Race: Biden Campaign Calls Malarkey On MSM Reports

Maybe if Kamala offered to pardon the entire Biden family, Joe would bow out?

Yanno, I heard over a year ago that Kamala was Obama's protege. Aside from being a part black woman, I can't imagine what he would see in her. Maybe she banged him, like she did Willie Brown?

This push to displace Biden, some say, is being driven by Obama, who engineers others to do his dirty work for him so he can keep his public persona clean.

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

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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