Elections; 2024
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Quote:My real feelings are that Trumptards are full of shit, but falsely believe they are full of wisdom/virtue/competency/wholesomeness. The internal contradiction is why the private lives of Trumptards (including Trump's) are a mess.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Not that you're going to live long enough to see 2028, Kevin, but you're not helping Democrats win any elections going forward being just as wrong this as you've ever been about everything else.
Let's see what your real feelings on the issue are.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Voters did indeed reject Kamala Harris over frustration with the Biden economy, but voters across the world are throwing out incumbents due to outrage over a very broad array of economic conditions. In Japan, inflation barely raised its head after the pandemic, and yet the reigning conservative government just took its biggest electoral hit in decades as its economy slips in and out of recession. The German economy hasn’t grown since the pandemic, and voters appear ready to oust the ruling center-left coalition as soon as they can. The U.K. is on its fourth prime minister since the pandemic and seems eager for a fifth.
The point here is not that the Biden administration was powerless to fight inflation—merely that every economic path out of the pandemic appears to have been durably unpopular. Much of the postmortem analysis of Biden’s economic performance amounts to a kind of wonked-up wishcasting: appeals to pet policies that would not have meaningfully restrained inflation, and which almost certainly would have generated a different set of unpleasant economic consequences. Democrats were not doomed from day one to lose the 2024 election, but getting them over the top would have required better politics from President Joe Biden, whatever the economics.
The Wall Street Journal lays out the standard conservative case against Biden, citing his $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill from early 2021 as the original sin that condemned Democrats to failure. But the Journal’s own numbers tell a different story, attributing only 0.6 percent of the total inflationary surge across 2021 and 2022 to Biden’s spending package. Inflation peaked in the summer of 2022 at 9.1 percent, meaning Biden barely added anything to the overall path of prices—a finding consistent with the prevailing consensus among economists. “The bottom line is that inflation’s rise and fall reflected primarily global drivers,” the International Monetary Fund concluded in September. Absent Biden’s stimulus, growth would have been weaker, unemployment higher, and wages lower—but prices would have been maddeningly high anyway.
Those knocking Biden for overspending, meanwhile, have been reluctant to detail just what they would have cut from what was indeed an ambitious economic agenda. Matthew Yglesias bemoans Biden’s supposed lack of urgency on inflation but can’t cite a fiscal misstep beyond student-debt forgiveness—a policy that the Supreme Court blocked, and which another student-debt hard-liner, the economist Jason Furman, calculated would have contributed only 0.2 or 0.3 percent to inflation anyway.
The problem with ripping Biden’s spending, of course, is that it was generally economically important and politically popular, to the extent that the public actually knew about it. Before Biden had even entered office, Democrats were framing the 2021 Senate runoffs in Georgia as a contest over an additional round of $1,400 stimulus checks—if Democrats won the seats, they’d use the resulting Senate majority to send cash to households, and they did. Biden’s opening stimulus legislation included not only those $1,400 victory checks but also one of his most successful policies: an expansion of the child tax credit from $2,000 per child to $3,600, ultimately reducing childhood poverty by 30 percent, to an all-time low. The program was so effective that both Harris and Trump campaigned on reviving it.
Even Biden’s sharpest intraparty critics on his opening stimulus legislation—Furman and perpetually perturbed economist Larry Summers—ultimately supported trillions of dollars in subsequent Biden spending on infrastructure, domestic microchip factories, and investments in clean energy technology. These bills were not written by progressive activists hopped up on TikTok, but rather negotiated with Senate Republicans and conservative Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/inflation-pandemic-spendin
g-biden.html
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UFOs or UAPs are in the news again
Multiple Drone Incursions Just Occurred Over USAF Fighter Base In England
Take the cash, theft and stealing and then dump it into your bank account in Montreal Canada
A former county treasurer pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of embezzlement by a public official, money laundering and tax evasion after stealing more than $38 million in county funds between 2012 and 2024 to renovate her ranches, buy at least 20 cars and pay for personal expenses for herself and her family. Elizabeth Gutfahr served as the elected treasurer of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, from 2014 through April 12, 2024. During some of that time, she transferred funds from Santa Cruz County bank accounts to her personal Wells Fargo Bank account and a Bank of Montreal account.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-county-treasurer-pleads-guilty-2138
45800.html
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Originally posted by second:
Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ – it’s fascism
Yeah. So why have you Democrats been doing it for the last 6 years?
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The Culture War might be One thing, I don't really follow any Team A vs Team B stuff, Left vs Right, Conservative vs Liberal I just don't follow it much
However the Earth is back into the era of DUCK AND COVER warnings and vids
Nukes?
How to survive a nuclear attack as US government shares chilling warning
https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/155746/fema-issues-updated-nu
clear-attack-survival-steps-world-war-3-fears-intensify
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Originally posted by second:
My real feelings are that Trumptards are full of shit, but falsely believe they are full of wisdom/virtue/competency/wholesomeness. The internal contradiction is why the private lives of Trumptards (including Trump's) are a mess.
Agreed TWO; but the problem includes the democrats pushing for, and insisting people accept, all this gender change nonsense allowing boys who decide they are girls, into locker rooms with actual 10 year old girls. Parents are against it. Democrats have turned the boy's problems' with gender confusion into everybody's problem. They've also turned female sports into a farce. Once male athletes, are beginning to dominant those at the top of female sports. Overnight, we've gone from two genders and or being gay, which I have no problem with, to unlimited genders made up by people with serious mental health issues. That, I have a problem with. And, the public is not allowed to have an opinion about all of this. I have a problem with that.
The democrats in the last 40 years have gone from a party for the working class, to the party of elitists. Professors in their Ivory towers dictating instead of representing. Add to that the transfer of wealth for these past forty years from the middle class to the top .001 %. It has been devastating. That said, while the democrats have dropped the ball, the republicans are the party responsible for this shift in wealth. The working class with realize this again when the dems stop fucking about.
The democrats are seeing the problem and are starting to react to it. They are beginning to move back to the middle. And as Trump and Musk destroy any benefits afforded to the working class over the years, the dems will get the voters back.
I just hope the damage is minimal. Examples; Kennedy being anti science leading to a brain drain from America because science grants go away. Or people no longer wanting to invest in the United States, build factories and such, because Trump deported the work force. Or, creates even more distrust in the justice department. The rule of law in America is what draws investors here. They feel as though their investments are safe.
Two years, two years before we will know.
T
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Originally posted by second:Quote:My real feelings are
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Not that you're going to live long enough to see 2028, Kevin, but you're not helping Democrats win any elections going forward being just as wrong this as you've ever been about everything else.
Let's see what your real feelings on the issue are.
Nobody asked you.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
My real feelings are that Trumptards are full of shit, but falsely believe they are full of wisdom/virtue/competency/wholesomeness. The internal contradiction is why the private lives of Trumptards (including Trump's) are a mess.
Agreed TWO; but the problem includes the democrats pushing for, and insisting people accept, all this gender change nonsense allowing boys who decide they are girls, into locker rooms with actual 10 year old girls. Parents are against it. Democrats have turned the boy's problems' with gender confusion into everybody's problem. They've also turned female sports into a farce. Once male athletes, are beginning to dominant those at the top of female sports. Overnight, we've gone from two genders and or being gay, which I have no problem with, to unlimited genders made up by people with serious mental health issues. That, I have a problem with. And, the public is not allowed to have an opinion about all of this. I have a problem with that.
The democrats in the last 40 years have gone from a party for the working class, to the party of elitists. Professors in their Ivory towers dictating instead of representing. Add to that the transfer of wealth for these past forty years from the middle class to the top .001 %. It has been devastating. That said, while the democrats have dropped the ball, the republicans are the party responsible for this shift in wealth. The working class with realize this again when the dems stop fucking about.
The democrats are seeing the problem and are starting to react to it. They are beginning to move back to the middle. And as Trump and Musk destroy any benefits afforded to the working class over the years, the dems with get the voters back.
I just hope the damage is minimal. Examples; Kennedy being anti science leading to a brain drain from America because science grants go away. Or people no longer wanting to invest in the United States, build factories and such, because Trump deported the work force. Or, creates even more distrust in the justice department. The rule of law in America is what draws investors here. They feel as though their investments are safe.
Two years, two years before we will know.
T
Most of what you're saying here is nonsense straight out of what will soon be known as "formerly MSNBC", and the next four years will prove that.
But good on you for recognizing some of Democrat's biggest problems right now. Most of the media either hasn't figured any of this out yet or they're just lying to you like they always do.
Here's hoping the next four years are a lot better than the last four were. I don't think Democrat voters enjoyed them all that much more than Republicans did.
At least I enjoyed the 4 years Trump was President while you guys were losing your minds. I intend to enjoy these next four too. I wonder if you will continue to lose your minds for the next 4 years, or maybe you'll do something more productive with your time.
I'm hoping you guys can chillax a bit this time.
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Quote:I'm nowhere near the median voter, and the question is how they feel. The answer, I believe, is that they often find liberal extremes scarier than conservative extremes, so when the extreme left gains influence they'll gravitate naturally toward conservatism even if it's also (or more) extreme. And it's mostly related to the mere existence of influential liberal extremes, not whether Democratic politicians actively endorse them. If they don't actively condemn them — yes, the dreaded Sister Souljah moment — then they're implicated and conservatives win. This is what happened in 2024.
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
My real feelings are that Trumptards are full of shit, but falsely believe they are full of wisdom/virtue/competency/wholesomeness. The internal contradiction is why the private lives of Trumptards (including Trump's) are a mess.
Agreed TWO; but the problem includes the democrats pushing for, and insisting people accept, all this gender change nonsense allowing boys who decide they are girls, into locker rooms with actual 10 year old girls. Parents are against it. Democrats have turned the boy's problems' with gender confusion into everybody's problem. They've also turned female sports into a farce. Once male athletes, are beginning to dominant those at the top of female sports. Overnight, we've gone from two genders and or being gay, which I have no problem with, to unlimited genders made up by people with serious mental health issues. That, I have a problem with. And, the public is not allowed to have an opinion about all of this. I have a problem with that.
T
The choice between two scary extremes is usually a move to the right
https://jabberwocking.com/the-choice-between-two-scary-extremes-is-usu
ally-a-move-to-the-right/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Donald Trump won the election. Now he’s losing it.
On Nov. 5, Americans hired Donald Trump to do three things: put more money into their pockets; lower prices for gas, groceries and rent and restore order at the southern border.
Trump was not hired to gut the Justice Department, abolish the FBI, pardon the Jan. 6 rioters, weaken our intelligence agencies, eliminate the Department of Education or “go wild on health.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-donald-trump-won-the-e
lection-now-he-s-losing-it/ar-AA1uJ6Ma?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=13563d4b6cd045a5aff5cde246dcfb7b&ei=126
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Quote:I'm nowhere near the median voter, and the question is how they feel. The answer, I believe, is that they often find liberal extremes scarier than conservative extremes, so when the extreme left gains influence they'll gravitate naturally toward conservatism even if it's also (or more) extreme. And it's mostly related to the mere existence of influential liberal extremes, not whether Democratic politicians actively endorse them. If they don't actively condemn them — yes, the dreaded Sister Souljah moment — then they're implicated and conservatives win. This is what happened in 2024.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
My real feelings are that Trumptards are full of shit, but falsely believe they are full of wisdom/virtue/competency/wholesomeness. The internal contradiction is why the private lives of Trumptards (including Trump's) are a mess.
Agreed TWO; but the problem includes the democrats pushing for, and insisting people accept, all this gender change nonsense allowing boys who decide they are girls, into locker rooms with actual 10 year old girls. Parents are against it. Democrats have turned the boy's problems' with gender confusion into everybody's problem. They've also turned female sports into a farce. Once male athletes, are beginning to dominant those at the top of female sports. Overnight, we've gone from two genders and or being gay, which I have no problem with, to unlimited genders made up by people with serious mental health issues. That, I have a problem with. And, the public is not allowed to have an opinion about all of this. I have a problem with that.
T
The choice between two scary extremes is usually a move to the right
https://jabberwocking.com/the-choice-between-two-scary-extremes-is-usu
ally-a-move-to-the-right/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Yup, that's what I said.
T
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It will come as no surprise that every one of the progressive tax states voted for Kamala Harris and nearly all of the regressive tax states (8 out of 10) voted for Donald Trump.
In Minnesota the rich pay 70% more than the poor. In Florida the rich pay 79% less than the poor.
https://jabberwocking.com/in-nearly-every-state-the-poor-pay-a-higher-
tax-rate-than-the-rich/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by THG:
Donald Trump won the election. Now he’s losing it.
On Nov. 5, Americans hired Donald Trump to do three things: put more money into their pockets; lower prices for gas, groceries and rent and restore order at the southern border.
Trump was not hired to gut the Justice Department, abolish the FBI, pardon the Jan. 6 rioters, weaken our intelligence agencies, eliminate the Department of Education or “go wild on health.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-donald-trump-won-the-e
lection-now-he-s-losing-it/ar-AA1uJ6Ma?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=13563d4b6cd045a5aff5cde246dcfb7b&ei=126
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T
You're wrong Ted. He was hired to do all of that too.
Just as the media has no clue why they lost the election, they have no clue what people who didn't vote like they do think either.
You didn't let him drain the swamp last time.
This time he's already started before he gets inaugurated.
Tick Tock
Disappointing though. You had an opportunity to fix the Democrat party after this loss, but instead you all chose the death of party.
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It will come as no surprise that every one of the progressive tax states voted for Kamala Harris and nearly all of the regressive tax states (8 out of 10) voted for Donald Trump.
In Minnesota the rich pay 70% more than the poor. In Florida the rich pay 79% less than the poor.
https://jabberwocking.com/in-nearly-every-state-the-poor-pay-a-higher-
tax-rate-than-the-rich/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wow. I've never seen such a loaded graph from Kevin before.
Do you know the thousands of variables that would go into stats to make this simple little graph?
Far more than Kevin Drum is capable of balancing, let alone even understanding if somebody
else presented the work to him.
But I guess in an election where people are tired of seeing their tax dollars going to entitlements
for illegal alien invaders, which all of those states hold a majority of them, this graph would
just be another legitimate reason why you lost as big as you did even if you're not going to
see it or admit the truth about it.
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This post got buried on the last page under a bunch of irrelevant BS...
I've been saying for well over a week that D13 and D45 in California need to be investigated...
Nancy Pelosi's daughter posts bizarre video saying she was in California district to 'CURE ballots'... as Republican candidate's lead tumbles
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14105493/Nancy-Pelosi-daughte
r-christine-california-cure-ballots.html
Thanks to Jayne for pointing out this article. I hadn't actually read anything about these two districts or even the people who ran on either side. All I've been doing is looking at the numbers, like I did when I gave a more accurate prediction than ANYBODY in the media.
So it looks as though Nancy Pelosi's daughter has been deeply involved in both of those districts over the last week. I do think we should find out what days this happened and where specifically.
I'd like to know where Lil' Pelosi was on the days of Tuesday, November 19th and Wednesday, November 20th. What do you think the odds are that she was hanging out in Coalinga or Huron?
I wonder if this is the same daughter that fucked her mom over by recording Nancy saying that January 6th was her fault and not setting the device she recorded that on on fire immediately.
It wouldn't surprise me. That fuckin' dummy would have been able to just keep doing whatever she's doing and nobody ever would have reported on it if she didn't report on herself.
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POPULAR VOTE:
76,842,134 for Trump (50.0%) / 74,341,050 votes for Harris (48.4%).
Total votes counted: 151,183,184
Trump's lead: 2,501,084
COMPARED TO THE 2020 ELECTION:
The 2020 results were 74,223,369 for Trump and 81,282,916 votes for Biden*
The total EXACT vote count in 2020 was 155,506,285.
The total amount of votes less in 2024 compared to 2020 is down to only 4,339,642 now.
Trump now has 2,618,765 more votes than he did in 2020.
Harris now has 6,941,866 less votes than Biden* did in 2020.
States with votes left to count (States below 99% according to Google's map)
Mississippi: 5% left
New York: 3% left
Oregon: 3% left
California: 2% left
Utah: 2% left
HOUSE:
We're still at 220 R / 213 D.
99% counted in both of them. I believe I heard one of them has the Republican up now by only something like 53 votes after Nancy Pelosi's daughter was over there cheating, while the other one saw the Republican winning by hundreds of votes and now the Democrat is winning after the Pelosi cheat.
As I said a while back, these two are going to get recounts. They should also be investigated by Trump.
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Originally posted by THG:
Donald Trump won the election. Now he’s losing it.
On Nov. 5, Americans hired Donald Trump to do three things: put more money into their pockets; lower prices for gas, groceries and rent and restore order at the southern border.
Trump was not hired to gut the Justice Department, abolish the FBI, pardon the Jan. 6 rioters, weaken our intelligence agencies, eliminate the Department of Education or “go wild on health.”
Here's an article for you Ted, from one of your Lefty Legacy News sources...
CBS News poll finds Trump starts on positive note as most approve of transition handling
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-trump-transition-cabinet-pi
cks-2024-11-24/
Who cares that 41% don't approve? 48.3% of the voting public voted for Harris.
Trump could have filled his entire cabinet with a list that AOC gave him and 41% of Americans would still disapprove of Trump.
Trump's CLEAR mandate is now extending beyond the election. 15.1% of people who voted for Kamala Harris are even on board with what Trump has done so far. And if you look at any of the data in this poll, you'll see that the number is probably going to be quite a bit larger than that, with many of the questions saying they "Haven't Heard Enough" about a particular appointment or action. That doesn't mean that they disapprove... Just that they're not in the Approve column yet. (Which is where I suggest you find an open seat and pop a squat for the next 6 months and just see what happens in lieu of driving yourself insane out the gates this time).
You Ted, specifically, are actually hitting a few of the nails on the head while most of the rest of your party and the media are avoiding any blame for the outcome. I've mentioned several times in here over the years that I've noticed you are at least capable of calling out stupid things your party does, even if you only did so rarely.
Don't get all crazy now man. Let's see how this plays out. You've got no other choice at the moment. Perhaps YOU can start making some positive changes within the Democrat party and what issues they represent going and which unpopular choices they constantly push that they need to abandon going forward.
Our country is not healthy if only one party is dominating everything. Democrats need to get rid of the extremists in their party and get back to basics and sanity. And IDPol needs to die forever, first and foremost.
Don't you miss the 1990s? Aren't you sick of being dialed into the media 24/7 and in a shitty mood all the time? You and second were miserable the last 4 years and you guys were running the show.
It's got to be exhausting.
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Top Trump advisor tried to shake down cabinet hopefuls
Trump aide investigated for financial gain
By Kevin Drum / Nov 25, 2024 at 5:57 PM
https://jabberwocking.com/top-trump-advisor-tried-to-shake-down-cabine
t-hopefuls/
Boris Epshteyn is in big trouble:
A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump asked potential administration nominees to give him monthly consulting fees in exchange for advocating for them to Trump, a written review by Trump’s legal team concluded.... It found that among those whom Epshteyn had unsuccessfully solicited for payment was Scott Bessent, Trump’s pick for treasury secretary.
Trump commissioned the report after he heard allegations that Epshteyn had been asking potential Cabinet nominees and others for money, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal document.
Epshteyn is already under indictment in Arizona for promoting a fake electors scheme to overturn the 2020 election, but obviously Trump doesn't care about that. He's also been charged with assault a couple of times stemming from bar fights, but Trump doesn't care about that either. He's also something of an asshole, getting into screaming matches with colleagues, but Trump doesn't care. And guess what?
Trump told Just the News in a brief interview, "I suppose every President has people around them who try to make money off them on the outside. It's a shame but it happens," he said. "But no one working for me in any capacity should be looking to make money. They should only be here to Make America Great Again."
He continued to Just the News: "No one can promise any endorsement or nomination except me. I make these decisions on my own, period."
It sure doesn't sound like Trump cares much about this either. "It's a shame," but hey, in Trumpworld everyone is expected to be on the take.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Oh get fucked dude.
If you ever once admitted that you have a problem with how the Pelosis are worth over $200 Million from illegal insider trading, maybe somebody would take you seriously.
I have no idea who your Russian named Boris Epshteyn is, and I don't care.
Lock him up if he broke the law. No skin off my ball sack.
Let's stop the CONSTANT, CHRONIC holier than thou bullshit all the time from you, dude.
It's not a legitimate argument when you and your side are just as corrupt as everybody else is.
Why don't you get a fuckin' hobby so you aren't miserable for another 4 years.
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Quote:The Shady Reason Why Trump Might Not Sign Key Documents
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh get fucked dude.
If you ever once admitted that you have a problem with how the Pelosis are worth over $200 Million from illegal insider trading, maybe somebody would take you seriously.
I have no idea who your Russian named Boris Epshteyn is, and I don't care.
Lock him up if he broke the law. No skin off my ball sack.
A seemingly massive blunder could be a way for Donald Trump to cash in.
By Robert McCoy | November 25, 2024 1:47 p.m. ET
The president-elect’s transition team has not yet signed three memoranda of understanding—agreements the incoming administration typically completes with the federal government and current administration to ensure a smooth transition.
Richard Painter, a former Bush administration official, said of the delay: “Until they sign this agreement, they’re not yet government employees. They can do anything they want. They can have any conflicts of interest they want. They could be taking money from foreign governments for all we know.”
One of the agreements Trump has yet to sign would heavily restrict how much individuals and entities can donate to his transition effort. And, in a considerable break with tradition, Trump has so far refused to reveal who his transition donors are. Since foreign nationals can donate to presidential transitions, this raises definite red flags, as anyone could be trying to curry favor—and influence—with Trump without the American people knowing.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188807/donald-trump-transition-documents-
money
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Yup. Because, you see... There is this magical piece of paper that we require the winner of the election to sign saying that they promise not to be a bad boy.
But if they don't sign it, then they can be a very very bad boy and nobody can do anything about it!!!!!!!
We never even knew this until now! Everybody just signed it before! If Trump doesn't sign this piece of paper he has full legal authority to be King Dictator Donald J. Adolph Hitler Trump for life!!!!!!
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO!!!!!!!!!!
Another made up story with anon sources and eternal-TDS sufferers.
Whatever dude.
I wonder if Richard Painter fielded that interview call from Kamala's campaign desk.
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Quote:How sad it must be believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, while a reality TV star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Another made up story with anon sources and eternal-TDS sufferers.
Whatever dude.
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https://x.com/etanthomas36/status/1335605199700979712
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Originally posted by second:Quote:How sad it must be believing that scientists, scholars, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, while a reality TV star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Another made up story with anon sources and eternal-TDS sufferers.
Whatever dude.
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https://x.com/etanthomas36/status/1335605199700979712
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I updated my last post while you wrote your reply. The new bit...
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Yup. Because, you see... There is this magical piece of paper that we require the winner of the election to sign saying that they promise not to be a bad boy.
But if they don't sign it, then they can be a very very bad boy and nobody can do anything about it!!!!!!!
We never even knew this until now! Everybody just signed it before! If Trump doesn't sign this piece of paper he has full legal authority to be King Dictator Donald J. Adolph Hitler Trump for life!!!!!!
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO!!!!!!!!!!
It's not that I believe Trump at all dude. I just don't believe any of YOUR so-called experts about anything. They're all shit. They're all liars. And they're all going to be dismantled.
Who's going to buy MSNBC now? Maybe Elon?
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Quote:Every single time I talk to a Trumptard about anything other than banalities (weather, sports, traffic, music, etc) they reveal why their lives are so fucked up. Your life is fucked up, 6ix, whether you know it or not. So is Trump's.
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Nobody gives one single crap about your judgements about other people. Not here and not in your real life where people who are forced to be around you have to pretend that they don't hate you.
If you want to talk about real issues, be my guest.
Any posts of yours that are insulting anyone will be ignored.
We are done with your bullshit.
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Quote:Are Drum and Frum really just 2 sock puppets of the same moronic Libtard?
Originally posted:
It will come as no surprise that every one of the progressive tax states voted for Kamala Harris and nearly all of the regressive tax states (8 out of 10) voted for Donald Trump.
In Minnesota the rich pay 70% more than the poor. In Florida the rich pay 79% less than the poor.
https://jabberwocking.com/in-nearly-every-state-the-poor-pay-a-higher-
tax-rate-than-the-rich/
This clown can't even count to 10.
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Nice catch.
Kevin Drum's stupid little graphs are made for dumb people, by dumb people. I give them little more than even a cursory glance these days, so I wouldn't have caught that.
As I told Second before, the amount of work necessary to get to those stats is far more than Kevin could comprehend if all the data were given to him, let alone anything he'd ever be able to work out by himself.
I guess failing to count to 10 properly was below even my expectations for him.
I don't know who you're referring to as "Frum", but if you're asking whether or not Second is Kevin Drum, I've asked that several times myself. I don't remember the context now, but there's been at least one time if not twice that I accused Second of actually being Kevin Drum.
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Quote:You know that America is the greatest country on Earth because it allows people to make their own choices about their lives. If you have good judgment, you prosper, which tends to angry those who have bad judgment and are stuck with their poor choices until they die. I see how Trumptards are doing. I know which kind of judgment they are exercising when reality collides with their choices.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody gives one single crap about your judgements about other people. Not here and not in your real life where people who are forced to be around you have to pretend that they don't hate you.
If you want to talk about real issues, be my guest.
Any posts of yours that are insulting anyone will be ignored.
We are done with your bullshit.
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Matthew Yglesias
Nov 26, 2024
Many of Donald Trump’s appointments reflect the highly personalistic nature of his politics. His health team thus far features a mix of wildly under-qualified individuals (RFK Jr.), people with impeccable credentials (Jay Bhattacharya), and others who are somewhere in between (Dr. Oz). But they’re all pretty eccentric, and it’s not clear that they really have a unified view on major public policy questions. I have no idea what any of these guys think about Medicaid, for example. The only thing they really have in common is that they backed Trump in his disagreements with the public health establishment over the Covid pandemic.
The national security team is even more all over the map, ranging from conventional GOP hawk Marco Rubio as Secretary of State to possible Russian intelligence asset Tulsi Gabbard as DNI.
All of these people have decided to pretend to believe that Trump agrees with them on key issues, so they’ll work for him and hope for the best in terms of influencing policy. That’s an attitude that even clearly extends to his Vice President and heir apparent J.D. Vance, who (like Rubio) called Trump a huckster and a scammer, but eventually decided that Trump is a really effective huckster and scammer, so he should jump on the bandwagon and try to wield influence from the inside.
As Charlotte Swasey writes, while many people find this incoherent and egomaniacal approach to politics off-putting, it has a lot of genuine electoral upside for the GOP: “By forcing Republicans to embrace his weird, self interested, quasi-populist brand, he’s expanded their appeal across the electorate and made them tolerate more heterodoxy.” You might get canceled in GOP circles for saying it’s bad that Republicans now have one sexual assaulter in the Oval Office and another in charge of the Defense Department. But you’re allowed to believe basically anything about substantive public policy and remain a MAGA foot soldier in good standing, as long as you’ll say that Trump is a good guy, persecuted by “elites” and “the establishment.” The selection of random flunkies to run agencies like Agriculture, Justice, Housing, and Transportation is consistent with that — these are just Trump loyalists, nobody knows or cares what Brooke Rollins thinks about agricultural policy.
The big exception is the economic team, where Trump seems to have sweated his choices and where most of the players are big names.
This team is more substantively impressive than his other picks, and financial markets have (so far) greeted Trump fairly enthusiastically as a pro-business Republican who’ll be good for growth and good for profits.
But I think it’s here that the limits of Trump’s “new” GOP come into play. Trump's economic team is on a collision course with reality. Making the budget math work is really hard.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-economic-team-is-on-a-collision
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You know that America is the greatest country on Earth because it allows people to make their own choices about their lives. If you have good judgment, you prosper, which tends to angry those who have bad judgment and are stuck with their poor choices until they die. I see how Trumptards are doing. I know which kind of judgment they are exercising when reality collides with their choices.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody gives one single crap about your judgements about other people. Not here and not in your real life where people who are forced to be around you have to pretend that they don't hate you.
If you want to talk about real issues, be my guest.
Any posts of yours that are insulting anyone will be ignored.
We are done with your bullshit.
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I'm fine. I haven't worked since summer of 2019 and everything I own is paid for in full.
Oh... and RFK is exceedingly qualified to be doing what he's doing.
Your smear campaigns will fall on deaf ears and have no effect.
Nobody believes your sources about anything anymore except for what's left of you remaining True Believers.
You are a joke.
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Quote:When Trumptards talk about Libtards, it's all about the oppressive elites looking down on hardworking Americans with good morals. The Trumptards misinterpret my amusement as agreement with them. I'm smiling because the absurd little Trumptards aren't hard workers, they aren't being abused by the elite, and they aren't even Christians, more like Pagans. Their various "aren't" are not something they understand because they aren't aware of being stupid lowlifes deservedly getting the shitty end of the stick.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You know that America is the greatest country on Earth because it allows people to make their own choices about their lives. If you have good judgment, you prosper, which tends to angry those who have bad judgment and are stuck with their poor choices until they die. I see how Trumptards are doing. I know which kind of judgment they are exercising when reality collides with their choices.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody gives one single crap about your judgements about other people. Not here and not in your real life where people who are forced to be around you have to pretend that they don't hate you.
If you want to talk about real issues, be my guest.
Any posts of yours that are insulting anyone will be ignored.
We are done with your bullshit.
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I'm fine. I haven't worked since summer of 2019 and everything I own is paid for in full.
Oh... and RFK is exceedingly qualified to be doing what he's doing.
Your smear campaigns will fall on deaf ears and have no effect.
Nobody believes your sources about anything anymore except for what's left of you remaining True Believers.
You are a joke.
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You have some serious problems dude.
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Also, I don't ever remember lording my morals over you or anyone else.
Unlike you, I don't lie to myself about who I am.
Your simplistic view of the world is that of a 5 year old's.
Grow up.
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Quote:Trumptards, including Trump, are the people on America's Funniest Home Videos, but they don't get the joke, they don't see how funny their lives are. You Trumptards constantly get things backwards and upside down so that you, in your imagination, are living on top and not who you really are: bad examples, bad characters, people who wallow in depravity, habitually doing what healthy/normal people avoid.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have some serious problems dude.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards, including Trump, are the people on America's Funniest Home Videos, but they don't get the joke, they don't see how funny their lives are. You Trumptards constantly get things backwards and upside down so that you, in your imagination, are living on top and not who you really are: bad examples, bad characters, people who wallow in depravity, habitually doing what healthy/normal people avoid.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have some serious problems dude.
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Do you feel as though this behavior is constructive?
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Quote:Trumptards, including Trump, are the people on America's Funniest Home Videos, but they don't get the joke, they don't see how funny their lives are. You Trumptards constantly get things backwards and upside down so that you, in your imagination, are living on top and not who you really are: bad examples, bad characters, people who wallow in depravity, habitually doing what healthy/normal people avoid.
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Agreed...
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Trump's Cabinet Picks: Loyalty Over Experience
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Looks like anyone who is unemployed is going to have to get a job. Too funny...
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It took three weeks because you're a pussy and a coward, Ted, but apparently we know now that you've thrown away this potential growing moment and that you've learned nothing.
I was right about everything, and every one of your formerly never-ending tick tock threads got shut down on you overnight.
Enjoy the next 4 years. I know I will.
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I'm not going to bother updating popular vote counts today. There might have been 50k more votes combined.
I forget if I mentioned late last night that California now shows 99%. Same for Utah. Again, I don't know exactly what that means. They could be done or they're still counting votes.
Oregon and New York still have 3%. Mississippi still has 5%. Washington D.C. looks like it's back on our list with only 98% counted too. Everything else looks to be 99% on the map.
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Quote:The only realistic and effective way to handle habitually stupid people such as Trump or his Trumptards is to kick their ass until they never forget what is unacceptable and evil behavior. Here is some of that behavior by Trump:
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Do you feel as though this behavior is constructive?
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How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress
The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.
By Molly Redden | Nov. 26, 6 a.m. EST
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-co
ngress-budget
Donald Trump is entering his second term with vows to cut a vast array of government services and a radical plan to do so. Rather than relying on his party’s control of Congress to trim the budget, Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to withhold funding from programs they dislike.
“We can simply choke off the money,” Trump said in a 2023 campaign video. “For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the president had the constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending.”
His plan, known as “impoundment,” threatens to provoke a major clash over the limits of the president’s control over the budget. The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget, while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money effectively. But Trump and his advisers are asserting that a president can unilaterally ignore Congress’ spending decisions and “impound” funds if he opposes them or deems them wasteful.
Trump’s designs on the budget are part of his administration’s larger plan to consolidate as much power in the executive branch as possible. This month, he pressured the Senate to go into recess so he could appoint his cabinet without any oversight. (So far, Republicans who control the chamber have not agreed to do so.) His key advisers have spelled out plans to bring independent agencies, such as the Department of Justice, under political control.
If Trump were to assert a power to kill congressionally approved programs, it would almost certainly tee up a fight in the federal courts and Congress and, experts say, could fundamentally alter Congress’ bedrock power.
“It’s an effort to wrest the entire power of the purse away from Congress, and that is just not the constitutional design,” said Eloise Pasachoff, a Georgetown Law professor who has written about the federal budget and appropriations process. “The president doesn’t have the authority to go into the budget bit by bit and pull out the stuff he doesn’t like.”
Trump’s claim to have impoundment power contravenes a Nixon-era law that forbids presidents from blocking spending over policy disagreements as well as a string of federal court rulings that prevent presidents from refusing to spend money unless Congress grants them the flexibility.
In an op-ed published Wednesday, tech billionaire Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who are overseeing the newly created, nongovernmental Department of Government Efficiency, wrote that they planned to slash federal spending and fire civil servants. Some of their efforts could offer Trump his first Supreme Court test of the post-Watergate Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which requires the president to spend the money Congress approves. The law allows exceptions, such as when the executive branch can achieve Congress’ goals by spending less, but not as a means for the president to kill programs he opposes.
Trump and his aides have been telegraphing his plans for a hostile takeover of the budgeting process for months. Trump has decried the 1974 law as “not a
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In the age of Trump, America should take a page from Machiavelli
By John Jeffries Martin, opinion contributor - 11/27/24 7:00 AM ET
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5005123-in-the-age-of-trump-ameri
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Ever since Donald Trump was re-elected, I have been haunted by a passage in Machiavelli’s “The Prince.”
“Whoever becomes the master of a city accustomed to freedom, and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed himself; because, when there is a rebellion, such a city justifies itself by calling on the name of liberty and its ancient institutions, never forgotten despite the passing of time and the benefits received from the new ruler.”
Trump intuitively grasps this. Now “master of a city accustomed to freedom,” he is determined to destroy it before it destroys him.
The president-elect’s Cabinet nominations make this clear. They include individuals who will hunt down immigrants with the goal of expelling them (by the millions), others who will politicize the military and compromise U.S. intelligence, still others who will gut and weaponize the Department of Justice, and an entitled anti-vaxxer who will undercut many of the agencies that protect our health. In addition, his energy policies will exacerbate rather than mitigate the ravages of climate change.
Finally, Trump’s creation of a new office — the Department of Government Efficiency, led by two untethered billionaires — will shred scores of programs on which the American people rely.
In short, we are watching an assault on American democracy. Our republic is eroding before our eyes. And we have been complicit.
The Senate could have convicted Trump for his efforts to overturn the will of the people in the 2020 election but declined to do so. The Department of Justice could have moved far more quickly to hold him accountable for both this crime and his removal of top-secret documents from the White House when he retreated to Mar-a-Lago in 2021. The Democratic Party could have held a real primary to select a viable candidate to oppose Trump in this year’s election.
Over and over again, we have faltered. And now it is not clear we will have the ability to bring an end to Trump’s relentless attack on our republic — an attack that is happening in plain daylight.
But Machiavelli’s text offers a glimmer of hope. Machiavelli, after all, lived at a similar inflection point in history. Florence, one of the great Renaissance republics, was being transformed into a monarchy even at the moment he was writing. But Machiavelli was not crafting, as many believe, a handbook for princes. To the contrary, throughout the text, he makes it clear that he believes the people can fight to preserve their freedoms.
On this front, it is the second half of the sentence above that matters. Machiavelli was calling on Florentines to remember their freedoms. But we too, some 500 years later, are a people “accustomed to freedom” — and to preserve our freedoms we have the power of “calling upon on the nature of liberty and [our] ancient institutions.”
It is easy to recognize the liberties we are losing and will continue to lose if Trump has his way and is unchecked — as seems likely — by an obsequious Congress. It is urgent that we draw on our own memories of what the U.S., for all its flaws, has been.
We must remember that in our country, before Trump 2.0, the U.S. Senate exercised the right of “advice and consent” when it came to presidential appointments; earlier, too, the president did not enjoy blanket immunity; the office of attorney general was independent of presidential whim; women had the right to control their own bodies; immigrants could not be deported without a hearing; public health policy was determined by science; the right to vote was protected; and there was some progress (though not enough) in the pivot to renewable forms of energy.
Trump knows we have these memories. This is why, driven by his own paranoia, he is seeking to destroy our liberties. He knows that the very instit
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Trump’s win is part of a worldwide trend
Why are people all over the world angry at “the system”?
2024 was the first year in recorded history when incumbents have lost vote share in every single developed democracy that held a contest, with Vice President Kamala Harris actually performing better than all but one of her developed-world peers. Since 2020, incumbent parties in Western democracies have lost 40 out of 54 elections — meaning the odds of an incumbent defeat in the past few years have been just shy of 80 percent. Dominant incumbent parties have suffered election setbacks or even outright defeats in places as diverse as South Africa, India, and Japan. Even some of the exceptions to the “incumbents lose” rule of late bolster the point, as they tend to have some kind of anti-system credential (see the Morena party in Mexico, for example).
More at https://www.vox.com/politics/388284/trump-2024-win-global-anti-incumbe
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Donald Trump’s team has signed some key documents needed to begin the transition, but they’re still refusing to agree to everything.
Donald Trump is shirking decades-old norms intended to make the transfer of power smoother, according to The New York Times.
After weeks of delays, the president-elect’s team has finally signed a standard transition agreement with the White House to start briefing staff members. But they are still refusing to sign two other key documents. One is a Justice Department agreement to let the FBI perform security clearances for transition team members. This means that the Biden administration still isn’t able to share classified information with anyone from Trump’s transition team. The Trump team also won’t sign the General Services Administration agreement, which provides secure office space and government email accounts.
The Trump team has not commented on whether it does intend to sign the agreements sometime in the near future.
https://newrepublic.com/post/188861/trump-finally-signs-transition-doc
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“Political polarization is harming our health in just about every way,” says Matthew Motta, a political scientist and health law scholar who studies anti-science attitudes at Boston University — and “pretty much all aspects of health have become politicized.” That leads elected officials and other authority figures to make bad health policy decisions and communicate with the public in ways that link health behavior with partisan ideology. A public that sees everything through a red-or-blue lens is more likely to distrust experts, dislike policies with clear health benefits, embrace policies with clear health risks, and make self-destructive choices.
These dynamics aren’t exclusive to a single party, says Jay Van Bavel, a psychologist at New York University who studies social identity and morality: Nobody is immune from the tricks polarization plays on the brain.
That makes this a particularly interesting time to be thinking about how polarization affects the decisions we make about our health. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — one of the US’s most influential leadership roles in health — isn’t just an anti-vaccine advocate with a shaky grasp on science. He’s also a partisan shapeshifter: A scion of one of America’s most consequential Democratic dynasties, he ran for president as a Democrat, only to endorse Trump as the Republican candidate later in the campaign.
More at https://www.vox.com/even-better/388130/polarization-political-partisan
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How Antivaxxers (such as RFK Jr.) Sound Like To The Rest Of Us (Gordon Scott)
I once almost choked to death while eating food. I did my own research and discovered that I am not alone. Thousands of people choke every year while eating, and hundreds of those people die. That’s why I don't feed my kids. It’s dangerous. Now plenty of people will point out that food supposedly "prevents starvation," and that might be true, but it’s not fair to completely ignore all the dangers food poses, like choking, allergies, gingivitis, and garlic breath. I'm just saying, do your own research and decide what you think is best for your kids. If you choose to give your kids potentially deadly food, that’s your problem, but as a parent, I don't think the government has any right to tell me that I need to feed my kids.
https://www.threads.net/@soopa_mario/post/DBl6yTpJlvp
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you feel as though this behavior is constructive?
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Good luck with that, pussy.
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Trump’s win is part of a worldwide trend
Why are people all over the world angry at “the system”?
2024 was the first year in recorded history when incumbents have lost vote share in every single developed democracy that held a contest, with Vice President Kamala Harris actually performing better than all but one of her developed-world peers. Since 2020, incumbent parties in Western democracies have lost 40 out of 54 elections — meaning the odds of an incumbent defeat in the past few years have been just shy of 80 percent. Dominant incumbent parties have suffered election setbacks or even outright defeats in places as diverse as South Africa, India, and Japan. Even some of the exceptions to the “incumbents lose” rule of late bolster the point, as they tend to have some kind of anti-system credential (see the Morena party in Mexico, for example).
More at https://www.vox.com/politics/388284/trump-2024-win-global-anti-incumbe
nt-system
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It's no surprise that as bad as she did, Harris did better than everyone else in the world.
I told you the world you thought you were living in doesn't exist.
Buckle up, buttercup.
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How Antivaxxers (such as RFK Jr.) Sound Like To The Rest Of Us (Gordon Scott)
I once almost choked to death while eating food. I did my own research and discovered that I am not alone. Thousands of people choke every year while eating, and hundreds of those people die. That’s why I don't feed my kids. It’s dangerous. Now plenty of people will point out that food supposedly "prevents starvation," and that might be true, but it’s not fair to completely ignore all the dangers food poses, like choking, allergies, gingivitis, and garlic breath. I'm just saying, do your own research and decide what you think is best for your kids. If you choose to give your kids potentially deadly food, that’s your problem, but as a parent, I don't think the government has any right to tell me that I need to feed my kids.
I could see where you get confused on this issue. You were so greedy for those vaccines and you took as many as they would allow. If nobody cut you off, you'd have dosed yourself multiple times everyday.
I wouldn't advise taking any advice from a "social scientist" that looks like this.
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Team Trump Debates ‘How Much Should We Invade Mexico?’
In Trump’s government-in-waiting, the only question is how massive the U.S. assault on Mexican drug cartels should be
November 27, 2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-mexico-d
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For this story, Rolling Stone spoke with six Republicans who have each talked to the future president about this topic; some of these sources have briefed Trump on these policy ideas in recent weeks. These proposals — of varying degrees of violent severity — include drone strikes or airstrikes on cartel infrastructure or drug labs, sending in military trainers and “advisers” to Mexico, deploying kill teams on Mexican soil, waging cyber warfare against drug lords and their networks, and having American special forces conduct a series of raids and abductions of notorious cartel figures.
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Trump’s homeland security pick, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), sent National Guard soldiers down to the southern border in Texas this year, claiming it was necessary “because the border is a warzone.”
“The United States of America is in a time of invasion — the invasion is coming over the southern border,” she said. “The 50 states have a common enemy — that enemy is the Mexican drug cartels that are waging war against our nation. And the cartels are perpetrating violence in each of our states, even here in South Dakota.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Good. It's about time.
Mexico is 100,000% more threatening to us than Russia is.
And that's only because 1/2 of our government is working with the enemy.
At least they were until November 5th. Everything is different now.
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Anybody else starting to get the feeling that Trump has done more Presidential tasks in the last 24 days than Joe Biden* and his entire administration did in nearly 4 years?
This ain't over. This was no fluke. Not by a long shot. You can feel it in the air right now. A major cultural shift just happened.
I've been talking about the pendulum finally swinging back for right around the last two years in here, mostly related to pop culture stuff in the cinema forum, but in here occasionally as well.
Yanno.... The fact that in the summer of 2021 no matter what station you were listening to you couldn't escape People of the Pride at least once every hour and every DJ talking about pride events in downtown Chicago every commercial break. And every commercial break had an ad paid for by Pfizer for booster shots. Every Triple A video game that came out had gay pride shit anywhere they could stuff it, and people who made mods that allowed you to remove it if you didn't want to see it were banned permanently off the platform.
But by the summer of 2023 nobody was screaming "PEOPLE OF THE PRIDE" in your ears and it died down to whispers. And then, in 2024 it's as if it never existed at all. If it weren't for whatever the hell that Olympic opening ceremony drag show was, and the entire world outright rejecting it, we wouldn't have heard a single fuckin' peep out of them this year.
While Trump is busy draining the swamp and flushing the NeoCons and the Pelosi family down the toilet with the rest of the turds, I think the Lesbians and the Gays and those that swing both ways have some turd flushing of their own to do too.
LGB, it's time to set yourselves free. Get rid of all of those mentally deranged letters and numbers and punctuation marks they keep adding to the end of it and tell the world enough is enough.
You fought a long, hard battle and you won.
Don't let everybody who ever had a fucking grievance in their life hitch their wagon on you after you did all the work with the only rule being "no straight white dudes allowed"... yanno... unless they like dressing up as a woman and taking showers and shaving their legs in your local Planet Fitness in front of underage girls. Then that's okay.
They're straight up using you and you know it. Because attached to you, anybody who doesn't agree with what they agree with is automatically homophobic because your pride flag now includes not only a dozen or two ideologies, but actual races. There is no Gay Pride flag anymore. They turned it into a shrine of intersectionality.
Anybody with half a brain knows that this is all Legacy Media driven and that the vast, vast majority of you L's and G's and B's don't hang out or associate with any of these weirdos at all and you are not on board with grown ass men caking on makeup and wearing whore outfits to elementary schools to read books to 5 year olds.
SAY IT.
There has never been a better time for you to say it than right now.
Nobody will be mad at you if you do. Nobody who matters anymore, anyhow.
I can't speak for anybody but myself, but that would earn a lot of respect points with me.
Show 'em all what "Stunning and Brave" really means.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Anybody else starting to get the feeling that Trump has done more Presidential tasks in the last 24 days than Joe Biden* and his entire administration did in nearly 4 years?
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Parallels Between Trump's Republican Party and China's Cultural Revolution
By Howard W. French
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/27/trump-transition-us-election-repu
blican-party-china-cultural-revolution/
In 1966, Chinese leader Mao Zedong engineered a decisive return to power after seven years of quiet retreat following the first period of his near-absolute rule, which ended with one of the worst famines in history.
First, Mao incited a kind of culture war: He manipulated what had begun as an obscure debate about a theater play into a vehicle to attack bourgeois influences in the Chinese Communist Party and the officials that he believed were plotting his demise. Mao’s next move involved inciting university students in the capital of Beijing to attack the country’s establishment and nomenklatura as traitors and counterrevolutionaries.
Mao’s imprimatur was enough to unleash a frenzy. From those first protests, a slogan was born that eerily captured the spirit of much of China’s next decade, known as the Cultural Revolution. “Bombard the headquarters,” the saying went, and following that watchword, China spiraled into deep chaos as rampaging young people set about attacking figures of authority and institutions of government, leading to the deaths of around 1 million people.
As a reporter in China in the early 2000s, I interviewed Nie Yuanzi, the former university administrator whose radical wall poster is often credited for setting off the movement. At 84 years old, Nie was full of regret. “I didn’t know we were heading toward disaster,” she told me. “Once I understood, I stopped following them. I opposed them.”
Mao himself showed no such remorse. As he watched the turmoil, the aging leader is said to have exulted, “Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
The Cultural Revolution aimed to restore Mao’s once-domineering sway over China. The movement’s first principle was destruction of the institutions that had governed China since its revolution culminated in 1949, meaning the senior bureaucracy and even the upper ranks of the Communist Party that Mao himself had founded. Revolutionaries reviled learning and respect for tradition. They targeted people with managerial competence and ravaged educational systems, and for years, the universities were all but closed.
Radical upheaval was not the only tool for change. Another principle of the age was absolute loyalty to Mao. Those who survived these years in the high echelons of power did so through endless fawning. To question Mao’s wisdom was a shortcut to career termination, banishment, or death, as in the case of China’s president, Liu Shaoqi, who was purged and died in detention in 1969.
In the weeks since Donald Trump’s reelection as U.S. president, my thoughts have repeatedly turned back to that time, which is remembered in China as an era of such thorough disaster that public discussion of it remains tightly censored.
What follows is not a prediction that the United States is about to experience destruction and violence sanctioned from above on the scale that turned China upside down from 1966 to 1976. I hope I am correct in believing that the United States’ pluralism and its older and deeper democratic institutions will be resilient enough to forestall such a fate. But I am not entirely confident. Even at this early moment in the transitional period after the Nov. 5 election, the parallels are too many to ignore.
Take the matter of complete loyalty to the agenda of a party leader. Troy Nehls, a sycophantic Republican congressman from Texas, recently said of the president-elect: “He’s got a mission statement, and his goals and objectives, we need to embrace it. All of it. Every single word. If Donald Trump says jump 3 feet high and scratch your head, we all jump 3 feet high and scratch our heads.”
If Nehls’s language is extreme, the sentiment behind it is not. Many Republicans have vowed nearly unquestioned support for Trump’s policies and decisions. Many invok
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Anybody else starting to get the feeling that Trump has done more Presidential tasks in the last 24 days than Joe Biden* and his entire administration did in nearly 4 years?
He is also your current President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Nah. I just get my news outside of MSNBC, Vox, pedophile Vaush and Salon.
I wonder what Mother Goose has to say? Oh. Right. They went out of business years ago.
I wonder how you are going to possibly think for yourself anymore after all your "news" outlets shutter their doors.
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Enough time has passed since I last tracked this, even if there's still not enough new votes counted to really justify it.
I shouldn't be surprised that the last few hundred thousand cheat votes they're pulling off of pallets in the blue states are breaking significantly harder for Harris than for Trump compared to the votes counted nationwide up through November 22nd.
POPULAR VOTE:
76,917,038 for Trump (50.0%) / 74,441,439 votes for Harris (48.4%).
Total votes counted: 151,358,477
Trump's lead: 2,475,599
COMPARED TO THE 2020 ELECTION:
The 2020 results were 74,223,369 for Trump and 81,282,916 votes for Biden*
The total EXACT vote count in 2020 was 155,506,285.
The total amount of votes less in 2024 compared to 2020 is down to only 4,147,808 now.
Trump now has 2,693,669 more votes than he did in 2020.
Harris now has 6,841,477 less votes than Biden* did in 2020.
Trump is less than 83,000 votes away from hitting 77 Million.
States with votes left to count (States below 99% according to Google's map)
Mississippi: 5% left
New York: 3% left
Oregon: 3% left
Google says that California is 99%. I don't know if I mentioned it a day or two ago when I noticed it.
I guess now is as good a time as any to run a little experiment....
9,249,261 votes for Harris
6,050,902 votes for Trump
I don't imagine they're still paying overtime on weekends to count this late. But we'll see if those numbers are the same late on Monday or if they're still increasing.
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Google says that California is 99%. I don't know if I mentioned it a day or two ago when I noticed it.
I guess now is as good a time as any to run a little experiment....
9,249,261 votes for Harris
6,050,902 votes for Trump
I don't imagine they're still paying overtime on weekends to count this late. But we'll see if those numbers are the same late on Monday or if they're still increasing.
So get this... Wanna know what the final numbers for the 2020 General Election were in California?
11,110,250 for Biden*
6,006,429 for Trump.
So that means that with most of the counting in California done, 1,860,989 less people voted for Harris than Biden*.
But look at those Trump numbers...
2024: 6,006,429
2020: 6,050,902
Statistically speaking, and relative to all of the wild variables that have popped up in these 4 short years, those numbers are identical.
Right now, Trump has 44,473 less votes than he had 4 years ago.
In other words, the amount of votes less that Harris got in 2024 compared to 2020 is 42 TIMES as many as the votes that Trump lost.
And the counting may not be done...
If that number were to shrink by half at the end of next week, and we gave Harris 4 times as many votes as Trump got(25k for Trump, 100k for Harris), Trump would be down by 22,000 votes and Harris would be down 1,761,000. Harris's loss of votes in California would then be 80 TIMES as many as Trump's.
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Looks like Joe Biden* is going to leave the white house with his lowest approval rating of 4 years.
Meanwhile, Trump's current approval rating is higher than it's been in 8 years.
Tick Tock
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Quote:6ix, you Trumptards are so full of shit that it is coming out of your mouths and falling onto your keyboards. I swear that is the reason you dwell in the bottom 50% of American Society, where the angry poor white trash live and tell each other that they are superior beings worshiping Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like Joe Biden* is going to leave the white house with his lowest approval rating of 4 years.
Meanwhile, Trump's current approval rating is higher than it's been in 8 years.
Tick Tock
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Kash Patel Principle
Trump’s choice for FBI director speaks volumes about his real second-term agenda
By Tom Nichols | November 30, 2024, 9:55 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/kash-patel-princi
ple/680838/
Trump has been releasing names of his nominees for the Cabinet and other senior posts in waves. In a Saturday night post on his social-media site, Truth Social, he announced that he is nominating Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor, to serve as the director of the FBI. A Patel nomination to some position in the law enforcement or intelligence spheres has always been lurking out there as a possibility, and Trump may have held off announcing it until he felt he had drawn out enough outrage (and exhaustion) with his other nominations.
Patel’s nomination is shocking in many ways, not least because the FBI already has a director, Christopher Wray, who Trump appointed to a 10-year term only seven years ago and who he would have to fire almost immediately to make way for Patel.
For Trump, naming Patel to the post serves several purposes. First, Trump is taking his razor-thin election win as a mandate to rule as he pleases, and Patel is the perfect nominee to prove that he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. Even knowing what they know, Americans chose to return him to office, and he has taken their decision as a license to do whatever he wants—including giving immense power to someone like Kash Patel.
Second, Trump wants to show that the objections of senior elected Republicans are of no consequence to him, and that he can politically flatten them at will. Some of his nominations seem like a trollish flex, a way to display his power by naming people to posts and daring others to stop him. Trump has always thought of the GOP as his fiefdom and GOP leaders as his vassals—and if the Senate folds on Patel and others, he may be proven right on both counts.
This approach backfired when Matt Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general flamed out quickly in the face of likely defeat in the Senate, but Trump seems confident he can get most of his other picks across the finish line, even nominees who would have stood little chance of confirmation in previous administrations. And Trump always keeps pushing limits: In place of Gaetz, he sent forward the more competent but equally committed MAGA loyalist Pam Bondi, who has aroused far less opposition.
Trump has made clear how much he hates the FBI, and he has convinced his MAGA base that it’s a nest of political corruption. In a stunning reversal of political polarity, a significant part of the law-and-order GOP now regards the men and women of federal law enforcement with contempt and paranoia. If Trump’s goal is to break the FBI and undermine its missions, Kash Patel is the perfect nominee. Some senior officials would likely resign rather than serve under Patel, which would probably suit Trump just fine.
Of course, this means the FBI would struggle to do the things it’s supposed to be doing, including fighting crime and conducting counter-intelligence work against America’s enemies. But it would become an excellent instrument of revenge against anyone Trump or Patel identifies as an internal enemy—which, in Trump’s world, is anyone who criticizes Donald Trump.
The Russians speak of the “power ministries,” the departments that have significant legal and coercive capacity. In the United States, those include the Justice Department, the Defense Department, the FBI, and the intelligence community. Trump has now named sycophants to lead each of these institutions, a move that eliminates important obstacles to his frequently expressed desires to use the armed forces, federal law-enforcement agents, intelligence professionals, and government lawyers as he chooses, unbounded by the law or the Constitution.
If you want to assemble the infrastructure of an authoritarian government, this is how you do it.
The early-20th-century Peruvian strongman Óscar R. Benavides once stated a simple principle that Trump now appears to b
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Syria: Jihadis re-enter Aleppo in apparent collapse of Assad regime defenses
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/11/syria-jihadis-re-enter-aleppo-in-appare
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like Joe Biden* is going to leave the white house with his lowest approval rating of 4 years.
Meanwhile, Trump's current approval rating is higher than it's been in 8 years.
Tick Tock
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
November 2024 National Poll: Trump Favorability Jumps Post-Election; 2028 Election Kicks Off with Harris and Vance Leading Primaries
https://emersoncollegepolling.com/november-2024-national-poll-trump-fa
vorability-jumps-post-election-2028-election-kicks-off-with-harris-and-vance-leading-primaries/
Also...
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/joe-biden
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
I know it's rough dude. Facts always hurt your feelings.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I know it's rough dude. Facts always hurt your feelings.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate
Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power.
By David Frum | 10:17 a.m. ET on December 1, 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trumps-fbi-kash-p
atel/680840/
For more than four decades before Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the FBI director was a position above politics. A new president might choose a political ally as attorney general, but the FBI director was different. An FBI director appointed by Richard Nixon also served under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Carter’s choice remained on the job deep into Reagan’s second term, when Reagan moved him to head the CIA. Reagan’s FBI appointee served through the George H. W. Bush presidency and into the Bill Clinton administration. Clinton fired the inherited official—the first time a president ever fired an FBI director—only because the outgoing Bush administration had left behind a Department of Justice report accusing the director of ethical lapses. (Clinton tried to coax the tainted director into resigning of his own volition. Only after the coaxing failed did Clinton act.)
And so it continued into the 21st century. Except in a single case of serious scandal, Senate-confirmed FBI directors stayed in their post until they quit or until their 10-year term expired. Never, never, never was a Senate-confirmed FBI director fired so that the president could replace him with a loyalist. Republicans and Democrats alike agreed that there must be no return to the days when J. Edgar Hoover did special favors for presidents who perpetuated his power.
Even Donald Trump grudgingly submitted to this rule during his first term, as the Mueller Report later detailed. Trump wanted to fire FBI Director James Comey to shut down the investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia. Trump’s advisers convinced Trump that admitting his true motive would spark an enormous scandal. Instead, the new administration inveigled the deputy attorney general to write a letter offering a more neutral-seeming explanation: that Comey had mishandled the bureau’s investigation of Hillary Clinton. That deceptive rationalization—the Mueller Report authoritatively disproved the cover story—did not calm the uproar over Trump’s scheme to install a henchman as FBI director. At the time, even Trump supporters still professed that the FBI director must be more than a presidential yes-man. Things were quieted only when Trump chose a politically independent candidate to replace Comey: Christopher Wray, who holds the job to this day, retained through all four years of the Biden administration.
Yesterday, Trump announced on Truth Social that he intended to fire Wray to replace him with Kash Patel, a person notorious for his cringing deference to Trump’s wishes. How bad a choice is Patel? My colleague Elaina Plott Calabro reported that when President Trump “entertained naming Patel deputy director of the FBI, Attorney General Bill Barr confronted the White House chief of staff and said, ‘Over my dead body.’”
But before getting to Patel’s demerits, we should stay for a minute longer on the ominous danger of Trump’s wish to fire Wray.
FBI directors wield awesome powers over the liberties of Americans. The unwritten rule governing their appointment—no dismissal except for compelling cause—bulwarked American law and freedom for half a century. Even first-term Trump dared not openly defy it. But second-term Trump is opening with a bid to junk it altogether. Much of the reporting on Trump’s announcement reveals a society already bending to Trump’s will: Something that was regarded as outrageously unacceptable in 2017—treating an FBI director as just another Trump aide—has been semi-normalized even before President-Elect Trump takes office.
The firing of Wray is the real outrage. The obnoxious nomination of Patel slathers frosting and sprinkles on the outrage.
Maybe the Patel nomination will fail, as Trump’s attempt to install Matt Gaetz as attorney gener
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I know it's rough dude. Facts always hurt your feelings.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
So that just means you go out of your way to sound like a little bitch all the time.
Double sad.
It's nice to know that Democrat voters never do drugs or become alcoholics. You have even less to bitch about in life than the other half of the country and you're still pissed off and whining about shit 24/7/365 no matter who's in office.
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Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power.
We are very happy with that pick.
Keep on crying.
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Democrats will probably¹ pick up two seats in the House of Representatives and their nationwide vote share will be nearly identical to 2022. They received 48.54% of the vote compared to 48.60% two years ago.
This is something to account for in any narrative about the lessons Dems need to learn from their loss this year. If the public has really turned against them, whether because of immigration or wokeness or policy feebleness or working class angst, why didn't this show up in congressional races?
There are potential answers to this question. But it needs to at least be addressed.
¹Adam Gray is likely to win his razor-thin race in California's 13th district, which would give Democrats a two-seat pickup. But it's still too close to call for sure.
https://jabberwocking.com/wait-democrats-picked-up-two-seats-in-congre
ss-this-year/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Last week, Donald Trump tossed out a bombshell: he would impose massive tariff hikes against Canada and Mexico unless they addressed immigration and fentanyl to his liking. This produced a flurry of attention, including a phone call with Mexico's president and a visit from Canada's prime minister. Then the whole thing quickly disappeared.
This week Trump suddenly threatened to impose massive tariffs against BRIC countries if they tried to promote their currencies in foreign trade as a replacement for the dollar. This didn't even make sense, but it produced another satisfying round of attention and op-ed thumbsuckers.
This is likely to be a harbinger of the next four years. Trump will constantly toss out unexpected bits of lunacy and then he'll drop the whole thing and move on. I can hardly wait.
https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-and-the-bombshell-presidency/
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Democrats will probably¹ pick up two seats in the House of Representatives and their nationwide vote share will be nearly identical to 2022. They received 48.54% of the vote compared to 48.60% two years ago.
This is something to account for in any narrative about the lessons Dems need to learn from their loss this year. If the public has really turned against them, whether because of immigration or wokeness or policy feebleness or working class angst, why didn't this show up in congressional races?
There are potential answers to this question. But it needs to at least be addressed.
¹Adam Gray is likely to win his razor-thin race in California's 13th district, which would give Democrats a two-seat pickup. But it's still too close to call for sure.
https://jabberwocking.com/wait-democrats-picked-up-two-seats-in-congre
ss-this-year/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
As of Friday night, Kamala Harris had 6,841,477 less votes nationally than Joe Biden* had in 2020. Trump had 2,693,669 more votes than he had in 2020.
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,_2020
Joe Biden* had 81,282,632 votes, or 51.3% of the national vote.
Donald Trump had 74,223,234 votes, or 46.9% of the national vote.
As of Friday night, Kamala Harris had 74,441,439 votes, or 48.4% of the national vote.
Donald Trump had 76,917,038 votes, or 50.0% of the national vote.
You were destroyed. The Democrats even lost nearly 2 million votes from the amount they got in California compared to 2020.
Stop wasting time reasoning away your failure and do some goddamned introspection for once.
Otherwise, your loss is going to be even bigger next time.
I've been right about pretty much everything so far, so maybe you want to ponder on that before you make some dumb shit reply saying something you've already said here a million times that everyone just ignores.
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I'd love to know the story about how each Media Outlet gets their numbers on the vote count and how they report them.
That is an interesting question on election day and through the first night, but I think it's even more interesting today.
I've been tracking that Google number on the Popular Vote count for weeks now. No specific reason why I used them. No reason to think not to use them. I'm sure it was a matter of convenience just because I could look that up and have it in front of my face whenever I thought of it. But once I picked them I had to stay with them for any sense of consistency.
I'd figure it didn't matter at this point. Why wouldn't everyone be working with the exact same numbers almost a month after the election.
I was telling my old man the numbers today, which at Google still have Trump at 76,939,059 votes, and he told me he was looking at CNN and they had Trump well over 77 Million already. These are the numbers as I write this.
And sure enough, sure enough, if you look at CNN right now they've got Trump at 77,149,725 votes. So Trump's already crossed that over there a while ago, and it looks as though Harris is only 280,000 votes away from 75 Million herself, when she's still 40k away from 74.5 Million yet on Google.
Just thought this was weird right now.
Where could any discrepancies lie anywhere that would have Google and CNN showing such different numbers this late in the counting?
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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Has One Major Vulnerability
The legal ploy Trump is banking on to speed up mass deportations and why it might not work.
Dec 03, 2024 1:08 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/trump-mass-deportation-pla
n-vulnerability.html
U.S. immigration courts have yearslong backlogs, so the need for hearings is likely to be a key choke point in Trump’s plan to rapidly deport millions.
Perhaps the administration will just ignore the hearing requirement, because it has no intention of operating a “precise, legal” deportation scheme. But the administration seems unlikely to disregard the law entirely. The people who will carry out mass deportations—everyone from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to sheriffs to lawyers and contractors—want to believe that they are upholding the law. Rather than direct them to defy it, Trump’s appointees will likely come up with arguments for why mass deportations are legal. When it comes to hearings, the goal will be to find a way around the need to go before an immigration judge, so that individuals can be removed from the country quickly (perhaps within hours of being apprehended) and with no real process.
The play, specifically, will be to vastly expand what’s known in immigration law as “expedited removal.” Hundreds of thousands of noncitizens arriving at the border are already deported every year through this “shadow removal” regime. Expedited removal has generally been limited to people arriving at the border or those present in the U.S. for fewer than 14 days who are apprehended within 100 miles of the border.
The administration could go to Congress and seek the resources to run a humane, efficient immigration system that complies with the Constitution and the nation’s international obligations. But it won’t do that . . .
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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Has One Major Vulnerability
The legal ploy Trump is banking on to speed up mass deportations and why it might not work.
I'm very happy with this shift in your Legacy Media's tone.
At any other point in time in the last 8 years, all of these articles would have called Trump and his supporters racists, screaming "HOW DARE HE!!!!"
Now these amateur activists are just writing fanfic about an economy they could never understand since they haven't figured out how to balance their checkbooks.
They must have gotten that directive from on high to stop calling Trump and his supporters Nazis. It must have killed Gupta and Noll to write that article the way they were told to write it.
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They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't.
If you're here illegally, you're out the fucking door. Period. You and your illegal kids. No more anchor babies either.
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It looks as though the votes that CNN already had counted that Google didn't have counted have shown up today. Both sides have gotten quite a few more.
I'm glad I kept track of this because we can one day go back and see what the ratio of votes for Harris vs. votes for Trump were as the last 3 Million votes were counted. It's been INANELY lopsided in favor of Harris.
I mentioned when Harris hit 74 Million that it was possibly the last 1 Million barrier anyone would hit. With a huge head start, Trump eventually did get over the next 1 Million hump, but Harris has gotten so many in the mean time she's about to lap him and do it again.
POPULAR VOTE:
77,151,288 for Trump (49.9%) / 74,788,460 votes for Harris (48.4%).
Total votes counted: 151,939,748
Trump's lead: 2,362,828
COMPARED TO THE 2020 ELECTION:
The 2020 results were 74,223,369 for Trump and 81,282,916 votes for Biden*
The total EXACT vote count in 2020 was 155,506,285.
The total amount of votes less in 2024 compared to 2020 is down to only 4,147,808 now.
Trump now has 2,927,919 more votes than he did in 2020.
Harris now has 6,494,456 less votes than Biden* did in 2020.
States with votes left to count (States below 99% according to Google's map)
Mississippi: 5% left
Oregon: 3% left
New York: 2% left
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Google says that California is 99%. I don't know if I mentioned it a day or two ago when I noticed it.
I guess now is as good a time as any to run a little experiment....
9,249,261 votes for Harris
6,050,902 votes for Trump
I don't imagine they're still paying overtime on weekends to count this late. But we'll see if those numbers are the same late on Monday or if they're still increasing.
Current vote count in California:
9,270,804 votes for Harris
6,076,584 votes for Trump
Not much... but they're still counting.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, you are full of bullshit. So is Senator Mike Lee of Utah, who goes on and on with a bullshit explanation of Social Security:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm very happy with this shift in your Legacy Media's tone.
At any other point in time in the last 8 years, all of these articles would have called Trump and his supporters racists, screaming "HOW DARE HE!!!!"
Now these amateur activists are just writing fanfic about an economy they could never understand since they haven't figured out how to balance their checkbooks.
They must have gotten that directive from on high to stop calling Trump and his supporters Nazis. It must have killed Gupta and Noll to write that article the way they were told to write it.
Last night, Sen. Mike Lee wrote a blueprint for destroying Social Security.
Lee’s thread was quickly amplified by Elon Musk, who Donald Trump has put in charge of slashing our earned benefits. I’m sure you know Lee’s blueprint is bullshit and that Social Security is a social insurance plan which is paid for the way all such programs are paid for.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/12/03/here-comes-the-third-rail/
Here is Senator Mike Lee's thread:
1. Of all the deceptive sales techniques the U.S. government has used on the American people, one of them—the Social Security Act—gets far too little attention. Buckle up because this is a wild ride.
2. In 1935, the American people were sold a bill of goods. They were told, “Pay into this system, and it’ll be YOUR money for retirement.” Sounds great, right?
3. But here’s where it gets juicy, in a really ugly way. Two years later, when the Supreme Court was considering the constitutionality of the Social Security Act, the government did a complete 180.
4. The government—through Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson—argued in essence, “Oh no, this isn’t YOUR money at all. This is a TAX, and we can do whatever we want with it.” Classic bait and switch.
5. Let’s not forget the ruling in Helvering v. Davis, where the Supreme Court upheld the Social Security Act by embracing the government’s argument / admission that what people pay into Social Security is tax revenue—available to be used as Congress may direct—and not at all money belonging to those who paid it.
6. So, to summarize: the proponents of the Social Security Act told American workers that what they paid into the system would remain *their* money, not the government’s—to get Congress to pass it—and then told the courts the exact opposite when defending the Act’s constitutionality. The Supreme Court accepted the government’s argument, to the great detriment of the American people.
7. Now, let’s talk about what happens to “your money” once it’s in the government’s hands. Spoiler alert: it’s not managed like your IRA or 401(k).
8. First of all, this money doesn’t sit in a nice, individual account with your name on it. No, it goes into a huge account called the “Social Security Trust Fund.”
9. But here’s the kicker—the government routinely raids this fund. Yes, you heard that right. They take “your money” and use it for whatever the current Congress deems “necessary.”
10. Every few years, there’s talk in Congress about “saving Social Security.” I’ve introduced and cosponsored a number of measures over the years that would fix it. But most in Congress show little desire to fix it, and are instead constantly looking for ways to “borrow” from it—with no plan to put it back.
11. And the returns? Forget about compound interest or stock market gains. Your “investment” in Social Security can give you a return lower than inflation.
12. If you had put the same amount into literally ANYTHING else—a mutual fund, real estate, even a savings account—you’d be better off by the time you reached retirement age, even if the government kept some of it!
13. Do the math: with Social Security, you’re looking at a return that’s pathetic compared to market aver
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm very happy with this shift in your Legacy Media's tone.
At any other point in time in the last 8 years, all of these articles would have called Trump and his supporters racists, screaming "HOW DARE HE!!!!"
Now these amateur activists are just writing fanfic about an economy they could never understand since they haven't figured out how to balance their checkbooks.
They must have gotten that directive from on high to stop calling Trump and his supporters Nazis. It must have killed Gupta and Noll to write that article the way they were told to write it.
Am I now?
How so?
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6ixStringJack, you are full of bullshit.
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Quote:A no bullshit answer would be: They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't. If you're here illegally, you're loaded onto a cattle truck, along with your babies, and sent to the concentration camp, the gas chamber, and then deposed of by cremation. Does that sound too Nazi? Nazis weren't bullshitters like you are, 6ixStringJack. Oh, you will do something more polite like put them on buses for Canada and Mexico? Are you sure Canada and Mexico will let those buses in?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't.
If you're here illegally, you're out the fucking door. Period. You and your illegal kids. No more anchor babies either.
I know how to persuade the Canadians and Mexicans: threaten them. Bomb them if necessary. If that doesn't work, tell them the buses' next stop is at the gas chamber. Maybe that will open the border for deportation to Canada and Mexico.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
6ixStringJack, you are full of bullshit.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't.
If you're here illegally, you're out the fucking door. Period. You and your illegal kids. No more anchor babies either.
Yes I do.
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A no bullshit answer would be: They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't. If you're here illegally, you're loaded onto a cattle truck, along with your babies, and sent to the concentration camp, the gas chamber, and then deposed of by cremation. Does that sound too Nazi? Nazis weren't bullshitters like you are, 6ixStringJack. Oh, you will do something more polite like put them on buses for Canada and Mexico? Are you sure Canada and Mexico will let those buses in?
No. That's the answer a psychopath who's convinced it's Joe Biden*'s duty to assassinate Trump on Inauguration Day would say.
I don't give one single shit if Canada or Mexico won't let the busses in. They'll get out of the way if those busses are coming at them 60MPH.
Once Trump cuts off any Federal funding for states harboring them, most of the illegal invaders will be leaving on their own and even Democrat politicians will be helping get them out.
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It looks as though the votes that CNN already had counted that Google didn't have counted have shown up today. Both sides have gotten quite a few more.
I'm glad I kept track of this because we can one day go back and see what the ratio of votes for Harris vs. votes for Trump were as the last 3 Million votes were counted. It's been INANELY lopsided in favor of Harris.
I mentioned when Harris hit 74 Million that it was possibly the last 1 Million barrier anyone would hit. With a huge head start, Trump eventually did get over the next 1 Million hump, but Harris has gotten so many in the mean time she's about to lap him and do it again.
POPULAR VOTE:
77,151,288 for Trump (49.9%) / 74,788,460 votes for Harris (48.4%).
Total votes counted: 151,939,748
Trump's lead: 2,362,828
Holy shit they are not even pretending to hide the fact they're counting all the fabricated votes for Harris right now.
74,898,009 votes for Harris (48.4%) / 77,193,105 votes for Trump (49.9%)
Just since writing this last update only a few hours earlier today, they've given less than 42,000 for Trump and Harris has gotten an additional 120,000 votes. There is not a single district in the entire country that gave Harris this much of an advantage.
Looks like they're going to magically push her over 75 Million before the mail-in fraud ballots are finished.
Go back and look at the history of the last few weeks and see for yourself.
Once the votes are finally finished, I'll go back and lay out the details.
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Quote:President James Buchanan could hear and see the future Confederate hierarchy plot the overthrow of the USA because the plotters were Congressmen in Washington, DC. But Buchanan did nothing and for that very reason Buchanan is rated the worst President by historians. President Joseph Biden can hear and see plotters to overthrow the USA because the plotters are, again, in Washington, DC. But Biden is doing nothing. I rate Biden as one of the worst presidents if he continues doing nothing.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
A no bullshit answer would be: They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't. If you're here illegally, you're loaded onto a cattle truck, along with your babies, and sent to the concentration camp, the gas chamber, and then deposed of by cremation. Does that sound too Nazi? Nazis weren't bullshitters like you are, 6ixStringJack. Oh, you will do something more polite like put them on buses for Canada and Mexico? Are you sure Canada and Mexico will let those buses in?
No. That's the answer a psychopath who's convinced it's Joe Biden*'s duty to assassinate Trump on Inauguration Day would say.
I don't give one single shit if Canada or Mexico won't let the busses in. They'll get out of the way if those busses are coming at them 60MPH.
Once Trump cuts off any Federal funding for states harboring them, most of the illegal invaders will be leaving on their own and even Democrat politicians will be helping get them out.
As for 6ixStringJack's and Trump's schemes to dump 21 million (11 million?) deportees in Canada and Mexico, well, you two haven't gotten Canada's and Mexico's cooperation. Maybe buying cooperation with threats of 100% tariffs on Canada and Mexico is not as stupid as ramming busloads of deportees through the border into Canada and Mexico, but it is still laughable. Maybe Trump should follow the simple and direct Nazi plan and build gas chambers and crematoriums to rid a country of undesirables? I will sell Trump the natural gas for the incinerators as a way to educate the typical American voter who is so stupid that it will require Trump to go full Hitler for those voters to understand that Trump is pure evil in the shape of a fat, funny-looking loudmouth.
Quote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the
Most recent surveys consider James Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, the worst president for his leadership during the build-up to the Civil War. Several rank Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson last for blocking civil rights for freed slaves and undermining Reconstruction. Donald Trump has consistently polled among the bottom four and twice in last place due to breaking longstanding norms such as the peaceful transition of power, an American precedent not broken since Washington first set it. The scandal-ridden presidency of Warren G. Harding also frequently lands in the bottom four.
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If Trump will be destroying people, why NOT make a profit?
Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.
Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.
By Matt Sledge | December 4, 2024, 6:04 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/04/trump-mass-deportation-private-equ
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Originally posted by second:Quote:President James Buchanan could hear and see the future Confederate hierarchy plot the overthrow of the USA because the plotters were Congressmen in Washington, DC. But Buchanan did nothing and for that very reason Buchanan is rated the worst President by historians. President Joseph Biden can hear and see plotters to overthrow the USA because the plotters are, again, in Washington, DC. But Biden is doing nothing. I rate Biden as one of the worst presidents if he continues doing nothing.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
A no bullshit answer would be: They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't. If you're here illegally, you're loaded onto a cattle truck, along with your babies, and sent to the concentration camp, the gas chamber, and then deposed of by cremation. Does that sound too Nazi? Nazis weren't bullshitters like you are, 6ixStringJack. Oh, you will do something more polite like put them on buses for Canada and Mexico? Are you sure Canada and Mexico will let those buses in?
No. That's the answer a psychopath who's convinced it's Joe Biden*'s duty to assassinate Trump on Inauguration Day would say.
I don't give one single shit if Canada or Mexico won't let the busses in. They'll get out of the way if those busses are coming at them 60MPH.
Once Trump cuts off any Federal funding for states harboring them, most of the illegal invaders will be leaving on their own and even Democrat politicians will be helping get them out.
As for 6ixStringJack's and Trump's schemes to dump 21 million (11 million?) deportees in Canada and Mexico, well, you two haven't gotten Canada's and Mexico's cooperation. Maybe buying cooperation with threats of 100% tariffs on Canada and Mexico is not as stupid as ramming busloads of deportees through the border into Canada and Mexico, but it is still laughable. Maybe Trump should follow the simple and direct Nazi plan and build gas chambers and crematoriums to rid a country of undesirables? I will sell Trump the natural gas for the incinerators as a way to educate the typical American voter who is so stupid that it will require Trump to go full Hitler for those voters to understand that Trump is pure evil in the shape of a fat, funny-looking loudmouth.Quote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the
Most recent surveys consider James Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, the worst president for his leadership during the build-up to the Civil War. Several rank Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson last for blocking civil rights for freed slaves and undermining Reconstruction. Donald Trump has consistently polled among the bottom four and twice in last place due to breaking longstanding norms such as the peaceful transition of power, an American precedent not broken since Washington first set it. The scandal-ridden presidency of Warren G. Harding also frequently lands in the bottom four.
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Are you talking about evil shit again?
I don't read it anymore.
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If Trump will be destroying people, why NOT make a profit?
Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.
Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.
By Matt Sledge | December 4, 2024, 6:04 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/04/trump-mass-deportation-private-equ
ity-prisons/
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Quote:Think of all the money he could save if Trump publicly kills a few hundred. The rest would get the message and voluntarily deport themselves. Obviously, American citizens who aren't Trumptards would get the same message.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Are you talking about evil shit again?
I don't read it anymore.
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Trump will be left with a 217-215 majority in the House of Representatives for some of the key first months of Trump's term.
Party-line bills routinely failed on the floor and Republicans struggled to muster the votes for key legislation funding the government, raising the debt ceiling and providing urgent foreign aid to U.S. allies.
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/04/house-republican-majority-democrats-c
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It's got to suck that you woke up on November 6th and realized that nobody takes anything you say seriously.
You've noticed the change in the media.
Who are you going to for your news now that none of the news outlets are saying anything you want to hear anymore? We already know what clickbait farms that Ted has fled to.
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Quote:News Flash: Trump is incompetent. But so are his Trumptards in ordinary life. And making him President doesn't fix any Trumptard's problems. Their lives were as screwed up after four years of Trump as they were before Trump. I expect the future for Trumptards will look the same as their past: staying close to the bottom of the social hierarchy, but happy because Trump is President, not Hillary, not Joe.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's got to suck that you woke up on November 6th and realized that nobody takes anything you say seriously.
You've noticed the change in the media.
Who are you going to for your news now that none of the news outlets are saying anything you want to hear anymore? We already know what clickbait farms that Ted has fled to.
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Quote:6ix, you are no longer Angry poor white trash, but now Happy poor white trash. The anger comes years later when you learn that Mister Only-I-Can-Fix-It Trump can't fix it.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Another nomination from Donald Trump:
President-elect Donald J. Trump will nominate Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who led two private missions to orbit on SpaceX rockets, as the next NASA administrator.
Mr. Isaacman, the chief executive of the payment processing company Shift4 Payments, is a close associate of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, and, if confirmed to the post by the Senate, would bring the perspective of an outsider to the space agency and its $25 billion budget.
Being rich enough to afford vanity trips to space hardly qualifies you to lead NASA. And being a buddy of Elon Musk is a massive conflict of interest for running an agency that Elon Musk does a lot of business with.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/jared-isaacman-trump-nasa.h
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Yup. Bought my house free and clear and zero debt to anyone. Just like all us white trash.
You didn't answer the question. Where are you going to get your news now that your "news" agencies are no longer putting out stories you want to read?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Check your %SpO2 and blood glucose levels. You are hallucinating.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Anybody else starting to get the feeling that Trump has done more Presidential tasks in the last 24 days than Joe Biden* and his entire administration did in nearly 4 years?
He is also your current President.
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Nah. I just get my news outside of MSNBC, Vox, pedophile Vaush and Salon.
I wonder what Mother Goose has to say? Oh. Right. They went out of business years ago.
I wonder how you are going to possibly think for yourself anymore after all your "news" outlets shutter their doors.
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Axios noticed it, and is a part of it themselves.
Trump's shadow presidency clouds Biden*'s final weeks
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/04/trump-shadow-presidency-biden-transit
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Biden* who?
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The damage Biden has done
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3249497/damage-joe-biden
-has-done/
SPOILER ALERT: More voters now identify as Independent as ever. For the first time in history, the Democrat party has fallen to 3rd place by Party ID.
And until 2024, it had been 10 straight elections where the Democrat Party had the highest Party ID.
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“To provide a sense of scale of the size of this shift, a comparison of 37% of the 2020 presidential turnout to 31% of the 2024 turnout shows there were over 10 million fewer self-identified Democrats voting in this last election,” Winston writes. “Independents went the other direction, going from 27% in 2020 to 34% in 2024, which resulted in an increase in self-identified independents of about 10 million.”
What does it mean? The simplest explanation is that Biden and his fellow Democrats made the party so unattractive that millions of self-identified Democrats decided to call themselves independents instead. That doesn’t mean they won’t call themselves Democrats again in the future. But it does suggest that they were deeply unhappy with the Democratic Party in 2024.
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Nobel Prize winner Simon Johnson believes Trump can do what Biden could not.
We will see if that is true on Jan 21, 2025. Or, maybe, Johnson should not have won the prize.
Ending Putin's Ukraine War Is 'Straightforward' for Trump: Nobel Laureate
Dec 04, 2024 at 12:39 PM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ukraine-plan-straightforward-nobel-priz
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Trump's desire to "confront China economically and strategically" would be strengthened by first "crushing Russia," claiming that this would "boost US prestige around the world and strengthen Trump's hand in dealing with China on other issues."
"Trump still could score a quick and impressive win against China by turning Russia entirely out of Ukraine and restoring the pre-invasion borders."
"It would also be straightforward," they added, citing Russia's heavy dependence on oil exports. "Trump can cut Russian net revenue from these exports to essentially zero from his first day. Without this revenue, the Russian war machine will grind to a halt."
"On his first day in office, Trump can announce that he will impose heavy US sanctions on any company that pays more than $15 per barrel for Russian oil (and on anyone who participates in any transaction above that level)," they wrote on Tuesday. "Any country that is deemed not to be fully cooperative with this policy should expect to face punitive tariffs."
Simon Johnson received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to the field of political economy and his work on economic institutions.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It looks as though the votes that CNN already had counted that Google didn't have counted have shown up today. Both sides have gotten quite a few more.
I'm glad I kept track of this because we can one day go back and see what the ratio of votes for Harris vs. votes for Trump were as the last 3 Million votes were counted. It's been INANELY lopsided in favor of Harris.
I mentioned when Harris hit 74 Million that it was possibly the last 1 Million barrier anyone would hit. With a huge head start, Trump eventually did get over the next 1 Million hump, but Harris has gotten so many in the mean time she's about to lap him and do it again.
POPULAR VOTE:
77,151,288 for Trump (49.9%) / 74,788,460 votes for Harris (48.4%).
Total votes counted: 151,939,748
Trump's lead: 2,362,828
Holy shit they are not even pretending to hide the fact they're counting all the fabricated votes for Harris right now.
74,898,009 votes for Harris (48.4%) / 77,193,105 votes for Trump (49.9%)
Just since writing this last update only a few hours earlier today, they've given less than 42,000 for Trump and Harris has gotten an additional 120,000 votes. There is not a single district in the entire country that gave Harris this much of an advantage.
Looks like they're going to magically push her over 75 Million before the mail-in fraud ballots are finished.
Go back and look at the history of the last few weeks and see for yourself.
Once the votes are finally finished, I'll go back and lay out the details.
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Trump is fine.
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I can't wait until we're done counting and I can make an actual graph out of this data showing just how much the vote counting swung in Harris' favor after they started counting the pallets of mail-in fraud ballots.
Looks like Harris should cross 75 Million easily now.
If you look back to the night she crossed 74 Million I thought that might be the last Million barrier crossed on either side, even though Trump wasn't that far away from hitting 77 Million.
Since then, Trump got his 77 Million, but Harris is just about to lap him and hit 75 Million in the same time.
Current Popular Vote count on Google:
77,234,090 for Trump (49.9%) / 74,936,918 (48.4%)
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Republicans just won a permanent Senate majority
By Ilani Nurick, opinion contributor - 12/05/24 1:00 PM ET
Ilani Nurick is pursuing a juris doctorate at Yale Law School.
https://thehill.com/opinion/5022750-democratic-party-senate-loss/
Kamala Harris’s defeat was damaging to the left. But her loss overshadows the true scope of the damage wrought on the Democratic Party: the permanent loss of the Senate.
Democrats have lost the Senate before, but this loss is different from 2014. This time, it may well be for good. For the first time in a century, there is not one Democratic senator from a reliably red state.
We have entered an era of one-party rule — at least where the Senate is concerned.
Today, the Senate map mirrors the national electoral divide. Democratic senators in blue states, Republican senators in red states, and swing states up for grabs. That’s grim news for Democrats. Simply put, there are more red states than blue states.
For decades, Democrats relied on popular Democratic senators in deep-red states — for example, Tom Daschle in South Dakota (lost in 2004), Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas (lost in 2010), Mary Landrieu in Louisiana (lost in 2014), Claire McCaskill in Missouri (lost in 2018), and Jon Tester in Montana (lost in 2024). In recent years, these red-state Democrats were critical to holding the Democratic majority.
The final nationalization of the Senate in 2024 with the ousting of Tester and Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and the retirement of Joe Manchin in West Virginia, shifts the path to a Democratic Senate majority entirely to blue and purple states. This makes the Democrats’ task nearly impossible.
Republicans, in contrast, can compete in many more states. Even if Democrats sweep every swing state contest (and oust Susan Collins in Maine), they can win at most 52 seats in the Senate. That includes both seats in North Carolina. If Republicans were to win all the Senate seats in all of those same swing states, they would control 62 seats.
Considering that only a third of swing state seats will ever be up for election any given cycle, the odds of Democrats winning all 14 races are almost a statistical impossibility. Susan Collins’s hold on blue Maine makes the task even tougher.
There is a historical analog to this emerging phenomenon: the Permanent Democratic Congress. From 1954 through 1994, Democrats controlled the House for 40 out of 40 years, and 58 out of 62 years until 1994. Only recently have we entered an era of congressional oscillation between parties, an era that came to an end this November.
This new permanent Republican Senate has three profound consequences for the Democratic Party and the institution of the Senate.
First, any incoming Democratic president will enter the White House with a severe handicap, limiting the enactment of broad campaign promises. Instead of enjoying a mandate reflected by majorities in Congress, the far likelier scenario is a Democratic president immediately vying against a confident and combative Republican Senate. Any partisan campaign promise — from a public option to progressive tax reform — is dead on arrival. The same hostility President Obama faced after losing the Senate in 2014 will be the presumptive landscape.
The implications for effective governance are severe: structural reforms would be almost unattainable, further entrenching the perception of dysfunction in Washington. For the Democratic Party, the consequences are graver: this hyper-gridlock would be inextricably linked to Democratic presidencies, deepening voter disillusionment during their time in power.
Republicans no longer have any incentive to confirm Democratic judicial nominees, knowing a Republican-controlled Senate can outwait a Democratic president.
The precedent for this is very recent: Merrick Garland. Republicans opted not to vote on a lame duck Democratic president’s nominee to the Supreme Court, betting on the chance to confirm a Republican nominee instead. Now, it’s more than a gamble; it’s a near certainty. With the p
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Yup. You lost Joe Donnelly in Indiana after he came out against Brett Kavanaugh.
#MeToo cost you the Senate permanently. Nice job.
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Originally posted by second:
Without any realistic fear of losing their majority, Republicans have no further use for the filibuster. Rather than serving as a safeguard, it now only stands in their way. It no longer provides commensurate prospective protection. Both parties have already weakened the filibuster through the Nuclear Option when it suited their needs and the benefits outweighed the backlash.
You want me to dig up all the times you and Ted were cheerleading the prospect of removing the filibuster when Dems were in control and how I warned you that this wouldn't always be the case?
AREN'T YOU FUCKING GLAD DEMOCRATS DIDN'T DO THIS NOW?
I sure hope Republicans think about the future and how bad that could be for them if they did it now. That's only something you do when you're sure that you're going to be in power forever. And an opinion article from a no-name of your opposition saying that you're going to be in power forever doesn't qualify for reality.
In any event, maybe you'll stop trying to force men who should be in a loony bin from whipping out their dicks in front of women and young girls. Especially in all of the red states that severely outnumber the blue states.
Everything you do is unpopular with the majority. Maybe stop fucking around with everyone's lives and trying to force the rest of the country to become California and maybe you can win the Senate back one day.
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Quote:The filibuster exists only to avoid making decisions in the Senate. Not making decisions is fatal in the military, for a very real example. Oh dear, the American generals can't decide whether to attack or retreat, and so the enemy wins. You think that is over dramatizing the situation? Not so.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I sure hope Republicans think about the future and how bad that could be for them if they did it now. That's only something you do when you're sure that you're going to be in power forever. And an opinion article from a no-name of your opposition saying that you're going to be in power forever doesn't qualify for reality.
In any event, maybe you'll stop trying to force men who should be in a loony bin from whipping out their dicks in front of women and young girls. Especially in all of the red states that severely outnumber the blue states.
Everything you do is unpopular with the majority. Maybe stop fucking around with everyone's lives and trying to force the rest of the country to become California and maybe you can win the Senate back one day.
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Trump is fine.
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The Senate has refused to pass a Declaration of War since the last one in 1942, but the American Army has been in numerous wars since then and pretty much lost every damn one of them. Since there was NO Declaration of War, the generals and Presidents were free to dither back and forth between attack and retreat and running around in circles while screaming and shouting. And that is why the United States keeps losing war after war. The Senate won't even commit to Declaring War on a piece of paper, so why would the United States actually win a war that nobody in the Senate will put their signature to a document demanding a victory?
By the way, the Constitution requires a Declaration of War by Congress, but Congress has stopped obeying the Constitution. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/war_powers
Declarations of War by Congress
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm
Lists of Wars in the 21st Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
#21st-century_wars
To summarize, the filibuster has always been a bad idea that the Senate has used to avoid making life-and-death decisions.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The filibuster exists only to avoid making decisions in the Senate. Not making decisions is fatal in the military, for a very real example. Oh dear, the American generals can't decide whether to attack or retreat, and so the enemy wins. You think that is over dramatizing the situation? Not so.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I sure hope Republicans think about the future and how bad that could be for them if they did it now. That's only something you do when you're sure that you're going to be in power forever. And an opinion article from a no-name of your opposition saying that you're going to be in power forever doesn't qualify for reality.
In any event, maybe you'll stop trying to force men who should be in a loony bin from whipping out their dicks in front of women and young girls. Especially in all of the red states that severely outnumber the blue states.
Everything you do is unpopular with the majority. Maybe stop fucking around with everyone's lives and trying to force the rest of the country to become California and maybe you can win the Senate back one day.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The Senate has refused to pass a Declaration of War since the last one in 1942, but the American Army has been in numerous wars since then and pretty much lost every damn one of them. Since there was NO Declaration of War, the generals and Presidents were free to dither back and forth between attack and retreat and running around in circles while screaming and shouting. And that is why the United States keeps losing war after war. The Senate won't even commit to Declaring War on a piece of paper, so why would the United States actually win a war that nobody in the Senate will put their signature to a document demanding a victory?
By the way, the Constitution requires a Declaration of War by Congress, but Congress has stopped obeying the Constitution. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/war_powers
Declarations of War by Congress
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm
Lists of Wars in the 21st Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
#21st-century_wars
To summarize, the filibuster has always been a bad idea that the Senate has used to avoid making life-and-death decisions.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Until Biden*, in the last 24 years Trump was the only President that didn't start another unconstitutional war.
Maybe if the Biden* administration didn't fuck up Ukraine and the Middle East so much that might have meant something in the end.
It certainly meant nothing at all once Joe Biden* gave the directive to Ukraine to fire US missiles at Russia last month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-at
acms-missiles.html
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Quote:The wiki article shows a dozen wars you never heard about that Trump let run out of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Until Biden*, in the last 24 years Trump was the only President that didn't start another unconstitutional war.
Maybe if the Biden* administration didn't fuck up Ukraine and the Middle East so much that might have meant something in the end.
It certainly meant nothing at all once Joe Biden* gave the directive to Ukraine to fire US missiles at Russia last month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-at
acms-missiles.html
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#21st-century_wars
Since Congress had not made a declaration of war for any of those wars, Trump could have instantly ended all the wars, but he didn't. Trump let the wars pointlessly run on and on and he let his generals run around in circles, accomplishing nothing. Oddly, the Senate has never had a problem ignoring what was happening.
If a Senator opposed a wacko war, and Trump accidentally stumbled into a "victory" (note the quotation marks around "victory" ) the Senator would look bad for not supporting the troops.
The reverse situation, a Senator supporting a wacko war and Trump stumbling into a defeat (note the lack of quotation marks around defeat) the Senator, again, looks bad for sending troops to die in vain.
Either supporting or opposing wacko wars can make a Senator look bad. That's why the Senate has NOT passed a Declaration of War since 1942, despite that being the most important responsibility the Senate has.
The Senate's filibuster has the same motivation as the Senate never declaring war. A filibuster allows Senators to not make a decision about some minor policy (minor compared to war) in the same way as the no declaration of wars allows Senators to not decide either for or against going to war. The Senators push their Constitutional responsibility to make decisions onto the President which is about the worst possible way to run a country, by moving all policy decisions into the wrong department. The worst run countries in history have the top guy, a Hitler or a Chairman Mao or a Stalin, making the biggest decisions that kill millions all by himself.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The wiki article shows a dozen wars you never heard about that Trump let run out of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Until Biden*, in the last 24 years Trump was the only President that didn't start another unconstitutional war.
Maybe if the Biden* administration didn't fuck up Ukraine and the Middle East so much that might have meant something in the end.
It certainly meant nothing at all once Joe Biden* gave the directive to Ukraine to fire US missiles at Russia last month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-at
acms-missiles.html
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Trump is fine.
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#21st-century_wars
It's a list of a dozen wars that ain't any of our business and I give zero fucks about.
The only reason anybody gives a fuck about Ukraine is because we've got so much taxpayer dollars invested in it. You dumb assholes are in the vast minority in December of 2024.
Nobody ever gave one single actual fuck about Ukraine. 2 months after that started they all proved that by taking their Ukraine flags out of their bios and never bringing it up again because it wasn't cool to talk about anymore.
I don't begrudge Biden at all for not ending the conflict. It wasn't any of Biden's fucking business in the first place. Yanno... if you pretend that he and his family haven't been doing shady shit in the Ukraine for over a decade now.
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And I really don't understand what you're going on about right now.
Are you actually campaigning for Republicans to remove the filibuster in the Senate?
That's what it looks like you're doing when you post 3 articles in a row calling it shit.
You sure you don't want to think about that and maybe sleep on it for a night or two before you put what you think is your two cents in on the issue?
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Quote:6ix, you are very smart. Yes, I do want the filibuster ended. I do want the Senate to make decisions, which it avoids because there is a filibuster.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And I really don't understand what you're going on about right now.
Are you actually campaigning for Republicans to remove the filibuster in the Senate?
That's what it looks like you're doing when you post 3 articles in a row calling it shit.
You sure you don't want to think about that and maybe sleep on it for a night or two before you put what you think is your two cents in on the issue?
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
The malfunctions of the Federal government arise because Congress refuses to do its job, with the biggest and most obvious refusal being the Senate refusing to make Declarations of War. (The Pentagon gets a big budget from the Senate because it is careful to distribute its bases and weapons contracts across 50 states, which is the Pentagon's way of bribing Senators to vote for overly expensive weapons without voting for war.)
The President definitely should NOT be starting wars, but Presidents have, and the Senate should be removing such Presidents from power, which it has NOT been doing because the Senate is full of irresponsible individuals who are simultaneously greedy for Pentagon spending in their states. Sending aid to Ukraine is a perfect way to increase military spending in the states without taking any responsibility for winning a war. It’s a win/win for Senators who want money for their states but don’t want responsibility for results in a war. Since Trump is Putin’s buddy, he doesn’t want Putin to lose, which means Ukraine will no-longer be a conduit for the Pentagon transferring money to Republican Senators’ states.
The Federal government has been kept half-way running by having the President personally making decisions that should have been made by Congress. Another absurdity that is caused by the irresponsibility of elected Senators is the Supreme Court has started making decisions that should only be made by Congress.
And the silliest thing going on in Washington DC is the idea that Only-I-Can-Fix-It from foolish people who worship Presidents. The real examples of Hitler, Chairman Mao, and Stalin should make sane people afraid of Only-I-Can-Fix-It Trump making all decisions. Countries like China, Russia and the USA have drifted into one super-powerful man making all decisions. That is an insane way to run a government.
A government ends up being the expression of the peculiarities of one man, and when that man falls ill (see Biden followed by Trump) or even dies (see JFK followed by LBJ), the government becomes the playground for the peculiarities and emotional illness of the next super-powerful man (see Richard Nixon's mental breakdown).
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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You can stop filing tax returns after Trump is President
Thu, Dec 5 2024, 5:10 PM EST
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/irs-crackdown-on-wealthy-americans-fac
es-roadblocks-.html
A quirk in federal tax law is incentivizing wealthy people who want to avoid paying taxes to simply not file their returns. That’s because it’s a felony to file false tax returns but only a misdemeanor not to file a return at all.
And due to limited IRS and Department of Justice resources to pursue misdemeanor violations, a person who does not file a return is unlikely to face prosecution. As a result, many millionaires could simply be taking their chances, betting that they will face few consequences for not filing their tax returns.
In early 2024, the IRS began an effort to contact people it calls “high income non-filers” and urge them to file returns to the tax agency.... Notices were mailed in February in 125,000 cases targeting wealthy taxpayers who had not filed tax returns since 2017.
I'll bet it will get easier pretty soon as Donald Trump and his handpicked IRS commissioner ease up on those pesky new Democratic rules aimed at collecting more unpaid taxes from the rich. They'll probably reallocate the agents to go after people who cheat the feds out of $50 on their EITC returns.
Also, it sure seems like someone should have told Hunter Biden about this. If he had not filed his 2018 return (he did not file in 2017) the case against him would have been entirely misdemeanors.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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