Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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The entire atmosphere surrounding all of this is completely different than it was in 2016 and 2020.
Things just kind of feel normal again.
It's like all the loudest voices either screamed themselves out or they aren't being platformed anymore and/or we just finally, collectively tuned them out for a change.
It's kind of nice, innit?
Happy Inauguration Day!
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early 90s and mid 90s were ok, the Soviets had collapsed but Bush senior and Clinton and Bush junior wasted it
so Trump says he will release all the Democrats linked to Epstein and all Republicans linked to Epstein and all the US business blackmailed by this weird Mossad, KGB, FBI, CIA, MI6 whatever type of 'Mafia' blackmail was going on
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Things just kind of feel normal again.
but some of it feels like the sleaze of Clinton, hush money and there is a divide like Bush junior...Left vs Right then Right vs Left...he is a hot-head and less Presidential
Today?
Millions of illegals in the USA and Europe, the Europeans have more of the islamist types
I see a lot of smoke and ash and flickers of fire still blowing in California LA
the Technocracy takes over, Lindsey Graham, Mike Johnson and other RINOs on tv made out to be these fake Ronald Reagan characters
NYC public transport looks terrible
and some people wanting cities fixed, with live feeds of mass shootings in Chicago
yeah maybe its a nice song to whistle or play your guitar or karaoke
and remember when Scorpions, Ralph Riekermann admits he attended snuff parties, where guest paid over $100K to watch a live murder?
this was at a time when Weinstein rumors were breaking and stories of David Cameron placing his genitals in the mouth of a dead pig after joining Oxford University Masonic Rome Babylon pagan Occult society.
people didnt give it a lot of credibility and thought maybe Ralph Rieckermann was coming of some drugs or something
Trump will be back to bombing certain parts of the world?
attacking the Middle East, threats to Latin America, tries some economic war and fails, back to kissing the ass of some Warmonger Israeli Jew...corruption gets friendly with ISIS Al-Qaeda types in Syria...makes his own Crypto Trump Tower Empire bigger, wants journalists and entertainers banned? Where else can his ego travel, spending like crazy adding Trillions to the debt while you can still blame Joe Biden and Kamala...it was their fault in the previous term...more Team A vs Team B types of BS nonsense politics.
Russia Ukraine that wont be fixed despite his claims
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Scorps were a bit before my time. I remember being around 11 or 12 and hearing Winds of Change for the first time on a long gone Hard Rock station and loved it. I was the oldest brother and cousin and didn't really have anybody older than me influencing me into music, so I pretty much listened to pop crap until I was in Jr. High and then my tastes went all over the map.
I know nothing about the lead singer or any Eyes Wide Shut parties they went to, but I'm not surprised to hear it. 
But I wasn't asking you about the current state of the world. We know that's been fucked for quite a while.
I was just asking you about the temperature of the moment is all.
It seems a hell of a lot cooler than the last two election cycles were. I don't see all the hate and panic and crazy talk. I'm not saying all of that doesn't still exist, but outside of inflicting the two Goobers upon myself here, it hasn't encroached upon my bubble even by accident this time. It felt like you were drowning in it for the last 8 years.
Things are pretty normal.
It just doesn't feel normal because nothing has been normal for so long now.
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Quote:For Trumptards, their reality is one hallucination after another painted on their brains. Trump is the greatest artist they have known. He makes them feel elevated and significant. But in actuality, Trump is an old fat con man and they are angry poor white trash. Trump can't change actuality, but his Trumptards won't notice because of their hallucinations.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The entire atmosphere surrounding all of this is completely different than it was in 2016 and 2020.
Things just kind of feel normal again.
It's like all the loudest voices either screamed themselves out or they aren't being platformed anymore and/or we just finally, collectively tuned them out for a change.
It's kind of nice, innit?
Happy Inauguration Day!
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As 6ixStringJack writes: "Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?"
Yes, Trump publicly gave Trumptards a blowjob, today.
Highlights:
• Trump declares an emergency at the southern border even though there's patently no emergency.
• Trump reinstates "Remain in Mexico," but can he do that without Mexico's cooperation?
• He's going to tell everyone in his administration to bring down prices. Um, sure.
• He's declaring a national energy emergency. What emergency?
• The Green New Deal is dead.
• Trump lies yet again that tariffs are a tax on foreign nations.
• No more government censorship! Not that there ever was.
• Law and order! But crime is at a historic low already.
• No more pronoun nonsense. We have men, women, and nothing in between.
• He's seriously planning to change "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America."
• Also, Denali will be renamed back to Mt. McKinley.
• And Panama is treating us unfairly so we're going to take the canal back.
• This comes minutes after saying his deepest wish is to be known as a unifier and peacemaker.
• From this day forward America will be a free and sovereign nation. What?
https://jabberwocking.com/the-shortest-possible-recap-of-donald-trumps
-inauguration-speech/
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Most Democrats Think Their Party Sucks, Feel "Burned Out": CNN Poll
A 58% majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say that the Democratic Party needs major changes, or to be completely reformed, up from just 34% who said the same after the 2022 midterm elections, when the party retained control of the Senate but lost the House. Over that time, the share of Republicans and Republican leaners who feel the same way about the GOP has ticked downward, from 38% to 28%. -CNN
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Second just can't help himself.
I wasn't asking you, Goober.
Nobody cares about your opinion.
P.S. I was going to post a list of first-day executive orders that he signed, but it looks like Kevin Dump was on top of it. I'll leave his list up there because it's funny.
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Most Democrats Think Their Party Sucks, Feel "Burned Out": CNN Poll
A 58% majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say that the Democratic Party needs major changes, or to be completely reformed, up from just 34% who said the same after the 2022 midterm elections, when the party retained control of the Senate but lost the House. Over that time, the share of Republicans and Republican leaners who feel the same way about the GOP has ticked downward, from 38% to 28%. -CNN
Yup.
And the Democrat party has absolutely nobody they can run in 2028.
They're going to have to spend 4 years grooming somebody for the role. Nobody will vote for any known Democrat for President.
Oh... And the Senate map looks so bad for them that Democrats won't control it again until my old man's a great grandfather.
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Joe Biden* knows they're blowing...
Biden pardons his family members minutes before Trump takes over the White House
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3293098/biden-pard
ons-family-members-last-minute/
So.... He pardons his family. He pardon's Fauci. He pardon's Liz Cheney. He pardon's all the neocons. He pardon's everyone involved in his J6 commission.
These are all preemptive parons too, mind. Meaning that he just made it so we can't put actual criminals on trials for their crimes against humanity.
I think Trump should disregard this.
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Trump’s Real Inaugural Address
The president delivered his true message after the main event.
Given the limited space in the rotunda, an overflow room was set up in the Capitol Visitor Center. It was for the dignitaries who didn’t quite carry the statesmanlike import of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, whose company is presently operating domestically in violation of federal law. Gov. Ron DeSantis was obviously in the overflow room.
But this crowd ended up getting the real speech after the overworked formality Trump was forced to read off of the teleprompter. Still only an hour into his second presidency, Trump was cooking, in an uninterrupted riff about whatever was on his mind.
According to Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and first lady Melania Trump forced him to take out some of the more “controversial” elements of his Inaugural speech that he wanted to keep in—like celebrating the Jan. 6 “hostages.” The president reiterated his belief that the 2020 election was “rigged” and thought that he should’ve won California. He talked about some parts of the border wall that would dissolve if hit with acid and that people would climb in “like rabbits” if not built with the proper materials. He kept breaking, from whatever it was he was doing, to converse with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Most importantly, he was having a good time.
“This was a better speech than the one I made upstairs,” he told the overflow crowd, an observation that was somehow both fully true and wholly false.
The sense that this speech overshadowed what came before was, on the whole, quite familiar. Each thing that Trump says will be surpassed by something he says 10 minutes later, rendering the original event as good as dead. This was before Trump had even stopped by the Capitol One Arena to visit yet another overflow crowd, or settled into the Resolute desk at the White House, or attended several inaugural balls. More would be said, and what was said immediately before that would recede into memory.
In short, welcome back to President Blowhard blowing his Trumptards 24/7.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-inauguration-day-spe
eches-rotunda-golden-age-hmm.html
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In short, welcome back to President Blowhard blowing his Trumptards 24/7.
Well you've done nothing but bitch and whine about Trump for the last 4 years when he wasn't President.
I'm looking forward to seeing you implode these next 4 years.
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Quote:Trump makes Trumptards' dangling parts tingle. Trumptards hate to be called Nazis and Racists because they understand those words mean they are being viewed as contemptible and Trumptards are certain that is unfair. When Trump is attacked, Trumptards have the same reaction: it is unfair. Trumptards will never understand the contempt for them is justified, no more than the slave owning Confederates and Jew killing Nazis could understand why they were attacked despite their marvelous achievements and wonderful personalities.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In short, welcome back to President Blowhard blowing his Trumptards 24/7.
Well you've done nothing but bitch and whine about Trump for the last 4 years when he wasn't President.
I'm looking forward to seeing you implode these next 4 years.
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Scott Aaronson writes on January 20, 2025:
My view of Trump is the same as it’s been for a decade — that he’s a con man, a criminal, and the most dangerous internal threat the US has ever faced in its history. I think Congress and Merrick Garland deserve eternal shame for not moving aggressively to bar Trump from office and then prosecute him for insurrection — that this was a catastrophic failure of our system, one for which we’ll now suffer the consequences. If this time Trump got 52% of some swing state rather than 48%, if the “zeitgeist” or the “vibes” have shifted, if the “Resistance” is so weary that it’s barely bothering to show up, if Bezos and Zuckerberg and Musk and even Sam Altman now find it expedient to placate the tyrant rather than standing up for what previously appeared to be their principles — well, I don’t see how any of that affects how I ought to feel.
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The third plotline was the end of TikTok, quickly followed by its (temporary?) return on Trump’s order. As far as I can tell, Instagram, Twitter/X, and TikTok have all been net negatives for the world; it would’ve been far better if none of them had been invented. But, OK, our society allows many things that are plausibly net-negative, like sports betting and Cheetos. In this case, however, the US Supreme Court ruled 9-0 (!!) https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf that Congress has a legitimate interest in keeping Chinese Communist Party spyware off 170 million Americans’ phones — and that there’s no First Amendment concern that overrides this security interest, since the TikTok ban isn’t targeting speech on the basis of its content. I found the court’s argument convincing. I hope TikTok goes dark 90 days from now — or, second-best, that it gets sold to some entity that’s merely bad in the normal ways and not a hostile foreign power.
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8583
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump makes Trumptards' dangling parts tingle. Trumptards hate to be called Nazis and Racists because they understand those words mean they are being viewed as contemptible and Trumptards are certain that is unfair. When Trump is attacked, Trumptards have the same reaction: it is unfair. Trumptards will never understand the contempt for them is justified, no more than the slave owning Confederates and Jew killing Nazis could understand why they were attacked despite their marvelous achievements and wonderful personalities.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In short, welcome back to President Blowhard blowing his Trumptards 24/7.
Well you've done nothing but bitch and whine about Trump for the last 4 years when he wasn't President.
I'm looking forward to seeing you implode these next 4 years.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Dude... I've thought about Trump maybe twice since I voted for him.
You think about Trump more in 3 hours than I do in any given year.
Grow up, will ya?
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Also, nobody cares about you going around calling everybody racists and Nazis anymore either, buddy. You played that out until those words were meaningless, which is something I've been warning you about for years.
That's all part of what this thread is about.
You are done. Your fake little personality you built here for yourself is nothing but a yapping little dog with no teeth in 2025.
You're struggling even to find news stories today that tell you anything you want to hear anymore.
So have fun making more meaningless noise for another 4 years.
All you're going to possibly do is convince other people to go even further to the Right every time you open your mouth.
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Quote:Back when Nixon was running his mouth about Vietnam, he couldn't say more than a thousand words before he misconstrued the situation. I was expert on that war, so I knew what Nixon didn't want to understand. Trump can't go more than a sentence before he does the same thing as Nixon did, misunderstand an excruciatingly simple concept. Well, simple for me because I am expert in the energy business, but not for you or Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Dude... I've thought about Trump maybe twice since I voted for him.
You think about Trump more in 3 hours than I do in any given year.
Grow up, will ya?
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From Trump’s speech:
Quote:This is absurd stuff. U.S. energy production is thriving; in recent years we’ve become a net energy exporter, something that last happened when Dwight Eisenhower was president:
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices. That is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.
America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it. We’re going to use it.
We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world.
We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it.
There’s much more I could say about Trump’s energy delusions. And I will, eventually; despite everything, economic life does go on.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-time-for-wonkery
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lol
Fuck off dude. You don't know shit about shit.
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Quote:You think little guys like yourself are in charge. Wrong, but Trump is not gonna explain it to you. These big guys are in charge:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
lol
Fuck off dude. You don't know shit about shit.
In Trump’s America, the Oligarchy Is Done Pretending to Care About You
The world’s richest people are done feigning concern. Trump can do whatever he wants, and they can, too
By Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng | January 21, 2025
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-oligarch
s-musk-bezos-zuckerberg-1235242625/
Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term on Monday before the world’s richest people. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg were seated closest to Trump. They smiled. They laughed. They thumbs-upped. They loved it.
Trump is going to make a spectacle out of punishing immigrants and fleece the poor while he and his family cash in on the presidency like America has never seen. Days before his inauguration, Trump launched a meme coin and became a crypto billionaire overnight, prompting his wife, Melania, to announce her own meme coin, too.
America’s oligarchs get it. They are done pretending to care. Trump can do what he wants, and they can, too.
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Donald Trump Is at War with America
He sees himself as a wartime president.
By Jonathan V. Last | Jan 21, 2025
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-is-at-war-with-america
"I don’t think there’s any way to read yesterday except as President Trump decided that with the Republican party fully subservient to him, he can subjugate the other remaining power centers in American life. He can finally be a wartime president. It’s just that he’s going to war against America."
Trump's war with America is unprecedented, "Or at least: We haven’t had a president view Americans this way since Reconstruction."
Trump made it clear during the inauguration that he's "governing not for all Americans — and not even just for the benefit of 'his' voters — but as an attack on the half of America that opposed him."
Trump "believes that Democratic voters should not be bargained with or bribed, but intimidated, punished, subdued — and rendered unable to oppose him in his quest for total power."
Trump is going to use all the power at his presidential fingertips to ensure everyone falls in line. This includes using the courts, government bureaucracy, and mob rule to get what he wants. Trump released the J6 rioters, even the violent ones, for a purpose: "The message is unambiguous: Trump wants supporters who engage in street violence on the loose. He wants a paramilitary arm for which he has plausible deniability."
"Freeing those convicted of violence is a go-ahead signal for future violent acts and an implicit promise that Trump will take care of those who fight on his behalf."
The target of Trump's power campaign is anyone who lives in a blue state. "Trump understands that blue states are the last bastions of meaningful popular opposition to his rule, so he will use the federal government to subdue them. That’s what deportations — and tariffs — are for. These are executive powers which can be used in highly-targeted ways to hurt on local economies."
"If you live in a blue state, President Trump is going to use the power of the federal government to make your life harder." If you think that sounds paranoid, here’s Speaker Mike Johnson explaining that he intends to use federal disaster aid to extract concessions from the state of California.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/speaker-mike-johnson-california-wildfir
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Quote:This feel "normal" to you? Trump pardons would-be murderer as reward to Libertarian Movement for campaign support
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
Things just kind of feel normal again.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump wrote
I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross. The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!
Jan 21, 2025, 6:12 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113869112741612092
Ulbricht is the founder of Silk Road, an online platform for large-scale transactions by drug traffickers and other criminals with a need for secrecy. Now, maybe you think that's OK because drugs shouldn't be illegal in the first place. Mileage will vary. But Ulbricht was also accused of contracting to have people killed — though he was duped and the murders never took place. He was NOT tried on contract killing charges. After Ulbricht received two life sentences on the drug charges, it didn't seem worth charging him for the failed killings. Still, as an appellate court noted, he certainly tried to kill: https://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/ULBRICHT-ca2-20170531.pdf
Quote:Bygones. Ulbricht is free now, solely because libertarians supported Trump and this is the payoff they asked for. That's how our president operates, ladies and gentlemen.
DPR [Ulbricht's handle, "Dread Pirate Roberts"] connected with Redandwhite, who was FriendlyChemist’s supplier, and wrote that “FriendlyChemist is a liability and I wouldn’t mind if he was executed.” After negotiating the logistical details of the murder, Ulbricht agreed to pay Redandwhite $150,000 in Bitcoins to kill FriendlyChemist. DPR paid Redandwhite, who later confirmed that he had received the payment and carried out the murder, and sent what appeared to be a photo of the dead victim to DPR. DPR replied that he had “received the picture and deleted it,” and thanked Redandwhite for his “swift action.”
....Later, DPR ordered four other murders through Redandwhite.... One of the government’s expert witnesses was able to link the payments for all five murders to Bitcoin wallets located on Ulbricht’s laptop.
....At the sentencing hearing, the district court resolved several disputed issues of fact. For example, because Ulbricht contested his responsibility for the five commissioned murders for hire, the district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht did in fact commission the murders, believing that they would be carried out. The district court characterized the evidence of the murders for hire, which included Ulbricht’s journal, chats with other Silk Road users, and the evidence showing that Ulbricht actually paid a total of $650,000 in Bitcoins for the killings, as “ample and unambiguous.”
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Somebody is soooooo angry today.
Get fucked dude. You were miserable when Joe* was in office.
The next 4 years are your personal hell revisited.
This will be very enjoyable to watch.
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Quote:I'm not angry. Not even feeling like I lost. 6ixStringJack, you can't read my mind. Even Trumptards in the room with me cannot detect the disappointment they are compared to normal humans. Instead of making something out of life, the Trumptards wait for a lucky lottery ticket or Trump to fix life for them. Rather than try to understand Trump for what he is, they hallucinate an unsupportable interpretation of Trump's purpose. Trumptards are failures in ways they can't comprehend and that is sad for them, but not for me.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Somebody is soooooo angry today.
Get fucked dude. You were miserable when Joe* was in office.
The next 4 years are your personal hell revisited.
This will be very enjoyable to watch.
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Conservative George Will reviews Monday’s inaugural address — “memorable for its staggering inappropriateness.”
Of the national “energy emergency” Trump declared, he notes that, adjusted for inflation, gas cost less Monday than it did 70 years ago, in 1955. Monday’s average price of a gallon of gasoline ($3.12) was less than 70 years ago ($3.41, which is 29 cents in 1955, adjusted for inflation).
https://andrewtobias.com/things-now-okay-to-do/
Those who today recoil against an exuberant urban vulgarian should accept that popular sovereignty is not the sovereignty of good taste. Stephen Kotkin has some advice for the recoilers.
The day after the election last fall, Kotkin, of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, conversing with Justin Vogt of Foreign Affairs, expressed impatience with those who say of Trump, “That’s not who we are.” Kotkin asked, “Who’s the ‘we’?” Trump, he said, is not “an alien who landed from some other planet”:
“This is somebody the American people voted for who reflects something deep and abiding about American culture. Think of all the worlds that he has inhabited and that lifted him up. Pro wrestling. Reality TV. Casinos and gambling, which are no longer just in Las Vegas or Atlantic City, but everywhere, embedded in daily life. Celebrity culture. Social media. All of that looks to me like America. And yes, so does fraud, and brazen lying, and the P.T. Barnum, carnival barker stuff. But there is an audience, and not a small one, for where Trump came from and who he is.”
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We loved the inaugural address.
We don't recognize the authority or intelligence of any of your so-called scholars.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I'm not angry. Not even feeling like I lost.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Somebody is soooooo angry today.
Get fucked dude. You were miserable when Joe* was in office.
The next 4 years are your personal hell revisited.
This will be very enjoyable to watch.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Yes you are. You are always angry. All the time. Every day. You hate your life and your family hates you.
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6ixStringJack, you can't read my mind.
I don't need to. It's not only easy to tell that you are a chronic liar about yourself and whenever you rip off somebody else's words and try to pawn them off as your own in lieu of having any ability to think for yourself. It's easy to tell that you are a very unhappy person.
Nobody invents a billionaire oil tycoon character with all the money in the world to go on adventures, but chooses to stay at home doing nothing but posting political propaganda 12 times per day, 24/7/365, on an ancient website about an ancient show that only has 5 regular posters which you get a lot of pleasure out of harassing and judging.
That's the saddest thing I've ever heard of. The only thing sadder than that would be if you were actually a billionaire oil tycoon and this was what you chose to do with what little is left of your life everyday.
You are the saddest person I have ever known.
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Trump’s order revokes one President Johnson signed on September 24, 1965.
• LBJ's order gave the Secretary of Labor the authority to ensure equal opportunity for people of color and women in federal contractors’ recruitment, hiring, training, and other employment practices.
• It required federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination and take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity "based on race, color, religion, and national origin."
• The order came more than a year after Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and just months after he signed the Voting Rights Act following violent attacks on voting rights advocates in Selma, Alabama.
• Segregationists during Johnson's time opposed the executive order.
• Conservatives (i.e. Angry Poor White Trash) since have voiced opposition to it, over claims it forced federal contractors to adopt an anti-white "quota system" for employees.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-dei-lbj-rollback
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Trump’s order revokes one President Johnson signed on September 24, 1965.
Oh yeah. Is that what one of your "Constitutional Scholars" told you? The same ones that told you the 14th Amendment was going to save you from a 2nd Trump term, one would suppose.
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• LBJ's order gave the Secretary of Labor the authority to ensure equal opportunity for people of color and women in federal contractors’ recruitment, hiring, training, and other employment practices.
And now they will.
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• It required federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination and take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity "based on race, color, religion, and national origin."
Affirmative Action is a Democrat dog whistle used to obfuscate their racism. It always has been since day one, but most folk just didn't really notice it until recently.
It doesn't work anymore because it's blatant. Not only has it been out in the open for years now.... Not only has it been celebrated out in the open for years now... but until recently, you could have your life ruined online if you said anything about it. And on top of all this, now we know that the results of such practices have been devastating in both the public and private sectors.
Before, these things could be explained away because they were low key and moved at a snail's pace. But you went absolutely bonkers with it after George Floyd died and you woke everybody up.
Whoops.
You already got the 2nd Trump term that you were convinced was never going to happen out of it.
You want to keep going down that rabbit hole and see what other prizes await you, be my guest.
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Quote:You seem to have forgotten that I said the election was 50/50. Also, I was certain Trump would win in Texas, where I live, because the state is overloaded with Angry Poor White Trash who "know" deep inside themselves that they can't get ahead, through no fault in themselves, because of anti-white racism. They truly can't get ahead because they are inadequate workers with mental illnesses, but that is too painful for them to acknowledge. Trump tells them it is not their fault and he can fix it for them. Ha! Ha! These Trumptards are suckers and stupid, not just mentally ill.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You already got the 2nd Trump term that you were convinced was never going to happen out of it.
You want to keep going down that rabbit hole and see what other prizes await you, be my guest.
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Quote:You seem to have forgotten that I said the election was 50/50.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You already got the 2nd Trump term that you were convinced was never going to happen out of it.
You want to keep going down that rabbit hole and see what other prizes await you, be my guest.
I haven't forgotten that you've said that. What you say doesn't mean shit. We've already established this hundreds of times over by now.
I haven't forgotten that you've been wrong about that every time you've said that, since the vote was more than 2 Million + for Trump.
I haven't forgotten all of the context involved that makes Trump's win look much, much, much worse for Democrats than you're pretending right now that it is. You've seen all that math. I was laying it out for you every day in the elections thread.
One big one that you always need to keep in mind is that in order for Democrats to actually win a Presidential election not only do they need to take back those 2 Million votes, but they're going to need to grab about 5 Million more additional ones above and beyond that like they have historically needed in order to win the Electoral College.
So either you are dumb, or you think that I'm dumb, which makes you the dumb one.
Figure it out dude.
I'm really tired of your propaganda and bastardized statistics every day.
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Also, I was certain Trump would win in Texas, where I live,
Oh. You were, were ya? Wow.
I called that Trump would win every swing state and the Popular vote by at least 1 Million votes.
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Quote:You are not only dumb but crazy. Same as Trump. The Europeans keep operating as if Trump is sane and smart but they would be wiser to tell him to eat shit and die, you fat insane motherfucker:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So either you are dumb, or you think that I'm dumb, which makes you the dumb one.
Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe
What a single phone call from the president-elect did to an unswerving American ally
By Anne Applebaum | January 18, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/trump-greenl
and-crisis-denmark-europe/681371/
What did Donald Trump say over the phone to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on Wednesday? I don’t know which precise words he used, but I witnessed their impact. I arrived in Copenhagen the day after the call—the subject, of course, was the future of Greenland, which Denmark owns and which Trump wants—and discovered that appointments I had with Danish politicians were suddenly in danger of being canceled. Amid Frederiksen’s emergency meeting with business leaders, her foreign minister’s emergency meeting with party leaders, and an additional emergency meeting of the foreign-affairs committee in Parliament, everything, all of a sudden, was in complete flux.
The result: Mid-morning, I found myself standing on the Knippel Bridge between the Danish foreign ministry and the Danish Parliament, holding a phone, waiting to be told which direction to walk. Denmark in January is not warm; I went to the Parliament and waited there. The meeting was canceled anyway. After that, nobody wanted to say anything on the record at all. Thus have Americans who voted for Trump because of the putatively high price of eggs now precipitated a political crisis in Scandinavia.
In private discussions, the adjective that was most frequently used to describe the Trump phone call was rough. The verb most frequently used was threaten. The reaction most frequently expressed was confusion. Trump made it clear to Frederiksen that he is serious about Greenland: He sees it, apparently, as a real-estate deal. But Greenland is not a beachfront property. The world’s largest island is an autonomous territory of Denmark, inhabited by people who are Danish citizens, vote in Danish elections, and have representatives in the Danish Parliament. Denmark also has politics, and a Danish prime minister cannot sell Greenland any more than an American president can sell Florida.
At the same time, Denmark is also a country whose global companies—among them Lego, the shipping giant Maersk, and Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic—do billions of dollars worth of trade with the United States, and have major American investments too. They thought these were positive aspects of the Danish-American relationship. Denmark and the United States are also founding members of NATO, and Danish leaders would be forgiven for believing that this matters in Washington too. Instead, these links turn out to be a vulnerability. On Thursday afternoon Frederiksen emerged and, flanked by her foreign minister and her defense minister, made a statement. “It has been suggested from the American side,” she said, “that unfortunately a situation may arise where we work less together than we do today in the economic area.”
Still, the most difficult aspect of the crisis is not the need to prepare for an unspecified economic threat from a close ally, but the need to cope with a sudden sense of almost Kafkaesque absurdity. In truth, Trump’s demands are illogical. Anything that the U.S. theoretically might want to do in Greenland is already possible, right now. Denmark has never stopped the U.S. military from building bases, searching for minerals, or stationing troops in Greenland, or from patrolling sea lanes nearby. In the past, the Danes have even let Americans defy Danish policy in Greenland. Over lunch, one former Danish diplomat told me a Cold War story, which unfolded not long after Denmark had formally declared itself to be a nuclear-free country. In 1957, th
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Trump shuts the border on the pretense of disease
By Kevin Drum / Jan 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-shuts-the-border-on-the-pretense-of-di
sease/
Stephen Miller has been thinking for a while about how to bring back Title 42 expulsions along the border, which were imposed during the COVID epidemic and then lifted when the emergency was declared over. But no matter how hard Miller looked, there were no suitable diseases around. So apparently he just gave up:
President Donald Trump is preparing to send 10,000 troops to the southern border, and Border Patrol agents have been directed to deny entry to asylum seekers if they “traveled through a country with communicable disease,” according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection briefing document obtained by The Washington Post.
The order does not list any specific disease, essentially closing the border to anyone attempting to exercise the right to seek humanitarian refuge under U.S. law.
That should do the job, since every country has some communicable diseases. As with so much of Trump's activity, however, it has a fatal flaw: It's illegal. But I guess he doesn't care. I suppose the idea is to shut the border until a judge orders him to open it back up, in hopes that the confusion by itself will scare everyone off. Who knows? It might work.
But that's true of lots of things as long as you don't care about the law.
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Jacob Chansley, the so-called “QAnon Shaman” whose headdress of horns and makeup made him one of the more prominent faces of the Capitol riot, declared he was going to purchase firearms after being pardoned by President Donald Trump.
“I JUST GOT THE NEWS FROM MY LAWYER... I GOT A PARDON BABY!” he wrote on X.
“THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!! NOW I AM GONNA BUY SOME MOTHA FU*KIN GUNS!!! I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!”
“J6ers are getting released & JUSTICE HAS COME... EVERYTHING done in the dark WILL come to light!”
Chansley told Newsweek in an email he was also planning to commemorate the occasion by "smoking some weed!"
America needs more drug addicts who are unmarried, unemployed, mentally ill, and owning guns.
After the call, he said he "went outside and screamed FREEDOM at the top of my lungs & gave a good Native American Warcry!"
https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-shaman-shares-his-pardon-celebration-pl
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Trump’s First Flurry of Executive Orders Plagued by Shoddy, Shoddy Lawyering
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/john-roberts-respond-to-tr
ump-executive-orders.html
Look at the order purporting to halt all immigration at the southern border; it just says there is an “invasion” of immigrants, so he’s suspending all of the immigration laws. Thousands of pages of federal law enacted over the course of many decades—all frozen in one fell swoop because Trump says there is an “invasion.” That is barely even a legal argument. That is a line in a campaign speech. And it has been transplanted into an executive order with barely anything to support it.
We expected to see a much more coherent work product this time around because the administration had so much time to prepare, and because allegedly the nation’s top conservative lawyers had all lined up behind MAGA. The so-called rift within the Federalist Society is over; I think it’s very clear the conservative legal movement has totally thrown its weight behind Trump. There are very few holdouts remaining. So we were supposed to see the work product of the smartest guys in the room, and instead what we see is more of the same shoddy workmanship and legal reasoning that’s questionable, if not outright laughable.
What’s surprising to me is that in Trump’s first administration, he lost big cases because of bad lawyering. He lost the census citizenship case because of bad lawyering. He lost the DACA rescission case because of bad lawyering. Chief Justice John Roberts kept saying: I will not sign off on this. Or: I would not put my name to this if I were a lawyer, and I certainly won’t approve it as chief justice. And so one might assume that this administration would learn its lessons and do better, but we aren’t seeing that yet.
Now, let’s remember, there isn’t a confirmed attorney general yet. The Justice Department is certainly not fully staffed yet. Perhaps when Pam Bondi is confirmed and can staff up the Justice Department, we will see an improvement here. But again, Trump had pretty much endless time and resources to put all of this together into a coherent package. And in my view, he failed. Which suggests to me that he and his advisers are not taking this more seriously perhaps because they think they now have the Supreme Court fully in their pocket. But if that’s their belief, I think they might actually be mistaken.
I think the Supreme Court does not want to be seen as a lapdog of the executive branch under any circumstances or any administration. I certainly don’t think that John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, or perhaps even Brett Kavanaugh want to be seen as rubber stamps for Donald Trump. They still view themselves as the ultimate arbiters of the Constitution. I don’t think they want to defer to terrible lawyering from Trump’s most nakedly nativist aides and say, “Sure, good enough.”
I also think they came to the court with pretty strong priors and constitutional views and theories, and some of what Trump is doing is an affront to that. For instance, I really struggle to believe that John Roberts thinks birthright citizenship is optional. His conception of the 14th Amendment might be deeply flawed, with his decisions about colorblindness and affirmative action. But unless you reject the 14th Amendment itself, the citizenship clause is as clear as could be, and I just think that John Roberts would be embarrassed to sign off on the abolition of it by executive fiat. He doesn’t want history to remember him as the most compliant chief justice who lost his spine the second Trump came back into office.
I could be naive. I could be wrong. But I think that there is value in still believing in the rule of law.
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It's a tornado, and it's going to be a wild ride.
Reading bits and pieces of early Trump actions, I pump my fist over many, have qualms about some, not sure what to think about others.
Don't have time to assess, and (unlike SECOND and THUGR) I don't take my opinions from somebody else.
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:You pull your opinions out of your asshole — congratulations for being no different than any other Trumptard I've known. Such super successful people. NOT.
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It's a tornado, and it's going to be a wild ride.
Reading bits and pieces of early Trump actions, I pump my fist over many, have qualms about some, not sure what to think about others.
Don't have time to assess, and (unlike SECOND and THUGR) I don't take my opinions from somebody else.
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Trump moves to raise drug prices.
One of the nearly 200 executive orders that newly inaugurated President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday reversed several critical policies that President Biden had put in place. Among those was lowering drug costs for Americans. With the stroke of his pen, Trump removed a $2 price cap on certain generic drugs, did away with a provision that would improve access to high-cost therapies for Medicaid recipients, and ended an effort to expedite the evidence-gathering process for new drugs.
To put it another way, President Trump just opened the door for drug prices to skyrocket . . .
That should help with inflation.
More at Trump Actions to Undermine Drug Prices Will Cost Medicare Recipients Money
By Jeff Nesbit, Former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Jan 22, 2025
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-actions-to-undermine-drug-pric
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Quote:The economic reasons why the Democrats lost in 2024
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I haven't forgotten all of the context involved that makes Trump's win look much, much, much worse for Democrats than you're pretending right now that it is. You've seen all that math. I was laying it out for you every day in the elections thread.
One big one that you always need to keep in mind is that in order for Democrats to actually win a Presidential election not only do they need to take back those 2 Million votes, but they're going to need to grab about 5 Million more additional ones above and beyond that like they have historically needed in order to win the Electoral College.
https://bonddad.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-economic-reasons-why-democrat
s-lost.html
Reason 1 was the price of housing. What will voters do when Trump can't lower the price? Vote for J.D. Vance? Or vote for a Democrat? Prices are not in the control of Presidents, but 99% of voters will never completely understand that. The top 1% do know who sets prices because they set the prices. The 1% also set wages, but 99% of voters think it is the President. Who controls the economy? 99% of voters think it is the President, but once again it is the top 1% who control it.
There are gonna be a lot of voters disappointed with the Republican Party because it doesn't make their dreams come true. It can't because it doesn't control what the top 1% do. The system where the top 1% have most of the control could be disassembled, but that ain't gonna happen because most people in Congress don't understand that the 1% took charge of America two centuries ago because Congress would not take charge, and 99% of voters are confused, uncertain, dithering between Democrat and Republican.
Personally, I think the 1% are doing a pretty good job running America for their best advantage. But if Congress would stop avoiding its Constitutional responsibilities, America would run even better. My favorite and simplest example of irresponsibility by Congress is the fact that there have been no declarations of war from Congress since 1942, but there have been numerous wars, most of which were lost because Congress could not make up its fucking tiny mind to either win or stop a belligerent President from botching a war. See Vietnam. Or Iraq. Or Afghanistan.
My next favorite and not-so-simple example of irresponsibility by Congress is taxation. There would be no National Debt if Congress taxed the top 1% the way it should be taxed, but Congress can't make up its tiny mind about that. Instead, the top 1% made up their mind to not pay. See Donald Trump's tax returns for how little the top 1% pay.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I haven't forgotten all of the context involved that makes Trump's win look much, much, much worse for Democrats than you're pretending right now that it is. You've seen all that math. I was laying it out for you every day in the elections thread.
One big one that you always need to keep in mind is that in order for Democrats to actually win a Presidential election not only do they need to take back those 2 Million votes, but they're going to need to grab about 5 Million more additional ones above and beyond that like they have historically needed in order to win the Electoral College.
https://bonddad.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-economic-reasons-why-democrat
s-lost.html
Reason 1 was the price of housing. What will voters do when Trump can't lower the price? Vote for J.D. Vance? Or vote for a Democrat? Prices are not in the control of Presidents, but 99% of voters will never completely understand that. The top 1% do know who sets prices because they set the prices. The 1% also set wages, but 99% of voters think it is the President. Who controls the economy? 99% of voters think it is the President, but once again it is the top 1% who control it.
There are gonna be a lot of voters disappointed with the Republican Party because it doesn't make their dreams come true. It can't because it doesn't control what the top 1% do. The system where the top 1% have most of the control could be disassembled, but that ain't gonna happen because most people in Congress don't understand that the 1% took charge of America two centuries ago because Congress would not take charge, and 99% of voters are confused, uncertain, dithering between Democrat and Republican.
Personally, I think the 1% are doing a pretty good job running America for their best advantage. But if Congress would stop avoiding its Constitutional responsibilities, America would run even better. My favorite and simplest example of irresponsibility by Congress is the fact that there have been no declarations of war from Congress since 1942, but there have been numerous wars, most of which were lost because Congress could not make up its fucking tiny mind to either win or stop a belligerent President from botching a war. See Vietnam. Or Iraq. Or Afghanistan.
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Interesting that it's possible for you to ever post anything that I agree with, but it doesn't address what you quoted.
Do you still not understand how the internet works, or are you still struggling with basic communication at your age?
Also... Trump is President now. You've all been doing the same thing for so long that you forgot it's time to change up your messaging. Now that Trump is President, it is the President's responsibility, remember?
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Quote:6ix, if you want your problems solved this year, get someone in the top 1% to solve it for you. They can do what no President or Congress could do because neither Presidents nor Congress can make up their fucking minds to do something sensible and reasonable and do it NOW, not ten years from now. Nobody in Congress or the White House acts like they are responsible. They talk big, but then all the talking exhausts their energy to do something. They let things slide. They delegate. They get into discussions and meetings that go nowhere and waste time listening to the over-articulate run their mouths. Even a colony of termites or ants or bees show more purpose than diverse humans do in government groups, but that is because insect colonies die if the purpose is lost. America has not died, yet, because its top 1% haven't lost their individual purpose. As for the other 99% of Americans, most of them have lost their purpose, other than to get high or into heaven, a place that doesn't exist.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Interesting that it's possible for you to ever post anything that I agree with, but it doesn't address what you quoted.
Do you still not understand how the internet works, or are you still struggling with basic communication at your age?
Also... Trump is President now. You've all been doing the same thing for so long that you forgot it's time to change up your messaging. Now that Trump is President, it is the President's responsibility, remember?
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Interesting that it's possible for you to ever post anything that I agree with, but it doesn't address what you quoted.
Do you still not understand how the internet works, or are you still struggling with basic communication at your age?
Also... Trump is President now. You've all been doing the same thing for so long that you forgot it's time to change up your messaging. Now that Trump is President, it is the President's responsibility, remember?
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What problems?
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Quote:No problems? The price of electricity, gasoline, natural gas and food? Are you a squirrel living in a tree? Minimalists such as yourself don't need much more than what squirrels consume but some full-size people don't squash themselves into the smallest life possible.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What problems?
Trump, Energy and MAGA Brain
Drilling down on a right-wing delusion
By Paul Krugman / Jan 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-energy-and-maga-brain
One key to understanding many of the destructive policies coming down the pike is to realize that Donald Trump suffers from what I’ve been calling MAGA brain, although it actually predates Trump. I’d define it as the belief that effective governance comes from being harsh and unfeeling, putting aside namby-pamby, dare I say woke, concerns about stuff like protecting the environment or respecting civil liberties.
You can see MAGA brain at work on multiple fronts, but the immediate issue is Trump’s energy policy, which may ultimately be even more destructive than his tariff policy or his immigration policy.
In his inaugural address Trump declared a national energy emergency, even though we don’t have any such emergency. In fact, America’s energy position is the strongest it has been since Dwight Eisenhower was president. Seriously.
But if you suffer from MAGA brain you more or less have to believe that we’re in an energy crisis, just as you have to believe that our cities are being ravaged by migrant crime. MAGA says it must be so, so what are you gonna believe, MAGA or your lying eyes?
Here’s the relevant passage from the speech:
Quote:I do believe that we will be a rich nation under Trump — because we already were, and he would have to mess up even worse than I expect to bring us down to other countries’ levels of per capita GDP:
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices. That is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.
America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it. We’re going to use it.
We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world.
We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it.
But it takes some seriously delusional thinking to claim that we’re in a national energy crisis. U.S. energy production is thriving; in recent years we’ve become a net energy exporter, something that last happened in the 1950s:
And about those escalating energy prices: gas prices briefly hit $5 a gallon in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but they currently average just over $3. The ratio of gas prices to wages is as low as it has been for 20 years, except during severe economic downturns:
If this is a crisis, what would good times look like?
Furthermore, to the extent that Trump has offered any specifics on energy policy, they involve a promise to destroy one of the major sources of American success. From the new White House issues page:
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What problems?
Nope.
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The National Institutes of Health, the country's premier medical research center, is loathed by RFK Jr. because it doesn't fund the kind of crackpot research he's fond of. He has not been confirmed, yet, as the head of this department but he is already screwing it up with management decisions that Trump passes on to the NIH:
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing "a lot uncertainty, fear and panic"
By Meredith Wadman, Jocelyn Kaiser | 22 Jan 2025, 5:45 PM ET
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-fre
ezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring
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Fuck NIH.
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Not one thing about these new allegations is surprising. The New Yorker, the New York Times, and other media outlets have reported consistently and broadly about Hegseth’s alcoholism and mistreatment of women, as well as his revanchist views about Muslims and frequent, public blackout drinking. There is also an allegation of sexual assault that was never charged but was reported and investigated, around which both parties have signed a nondisclosure agreement. What is, frankly, remarkable about Diettrich Hegseth’s new allegations is that she has affixed her name to them, and that they are in the possession of the FBI and the Senate. All of this would have, in a saner time, ended the nominee’s chances at confirmation. (Hegseth has said he will not drink while serving as secretary of defense if he’s confirmed; his ex-wife Samantha allegedly told the FBI that “He drinks more often than he doesn’t.”)
But what is even more staggering is that in the face of this new information, the decision has been taken by Senate Republicans to discredit it, ignore it, and to charge ahead with a confirmation in spite of it.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/pete-hegseth-confirmation-
vote-trump-lie.html
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All of this would have, in a saner time, ended the nominee’s chances at confirmation.
It's called Boy Who Cried Wolf syndrome.
You Chicken Little Democrats have been going around the last 12 years screaming that the sky is falling about literally EVERYTHING.
I don't know how many times I have to tell you this, but NOBODY CARES.
The grift is up. There is no more good will left for lying Democrats or their eternal hypocrisy.
But you just keep going around calling everyone Nazis and rapists and throwing temper-tantrums all you want. You've been relegated to the corner.
Nobody cares what you think anymore, and you won't even get the opinions you want out of your media anymore either. What's left of it from the rubble after it destroyed itself, anyhow. We'll know that soon, but CNN just laid off another 200 employees this week.
You'd better grow up real fucking quick, buddy.
The world you thought you were living in doesn't exist anymore.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, there are drug therapies for what is wrong with you, Trump and his Trumptards:
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You'd better grow up real fucking quick, buddy.
The world you thought you were living in doesn't exist anymore.
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How a dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist
By Rachel Nuwer | 14th June 2023
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230614-how-a-dose-of-mdma-transfo
rmed-a-white-supremacist
https://psychiatry.uchicago.edu/news/how-dose-mdma-transformed-white-s
upremacist
Brendan was once a leader in the US white nationalist movement. But when he took the drug MDMA in a scientific study, it would radically change his extremist beliefs – to the surprise of everyone involved. Rachel Nuwer investigates what happened.
In February 2020, Harriet de Wit, a professor of psychiatry and behavioural science at the University of Chicago, was running an experiment on whether the drug MDMA increased the pleasantness of social touch in healthy volunteers. The day was proceeding like any other Tuesday when Mike Bremmer, de Wit's research assistant, appeared at her office door with a concerned look on his face.
The latest participant in the double-blind trial, a man named Brendan, had filled out a standard questionnaire at the end. Strangely, at the very bottom of the form, Brendan had written in bold letters: "This experience has helped me sort out a debilitating personal issue. Google my name. I now know what I need to do."
Seeing this cryptic message, both Bremmer and de Wit were worried. "We really have to look into this," de Wit said. They googled Brendan's name, and up popped a disturbing revelation: until just a couple of months before, Brendan had been the leader of the US Midwest faction of Identity Evropa, a notorious white nationalist group rebranded in 2019 as the American Identity Movement. Two months earlier, activists at Chicago Antifascist Action had exposed Brendan's identity, and he had lost his job.
De Wit was now very worried. She'd just given a drug to a disgraced white supremacist, she realised, and had apparently inspired him to do who knows what out in the world. "Go ask him what he means by 'I now know what I need to do,'" she instructed Bremmer. "If it's a matter of him picking up an automatic rifle or something, we have to intervene."
This experience has helped me sort out a debilitating personal issue. Google my name. I now know what I need to do – Brendan, MDMA trial participant
A murderous spree turned out to be the opposite of what Brendan had in mind. As he clarified to Bremmer, love is what he had just realised he had to do. "Love is the most important thing," he told the baffled research assistant. "Nothing matters without love."
When de Wit recounted this story to me nearly two years after the fact, she still could hardly believe it. "Isn't that amazing?" she said. "It's what everyone says about this damn drug, that it makes people feel love. To think that a drug could change somebody's beliefs and thoughts without any expectations – it's mind-boggling."
Over the past few years, I've been investigating the scientific research and medical potential of MDMA for a book called "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World". I learnt how this once-vilified drug is now remerging as a therapeutic agent – a role it previously played in the 1970s and 1980s, prior to its criminalisation. If this comes to pass, MDMA – and other psychedelics-assisted therapy – could transform the field of mental health through widespread clinical use in the US and beyond, for addressing trauma and possibly other conditions as well, including substance use disorders, depression and eating disorders.
More at https://psychia
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Quote:You mean that people who are a "nobody" don't care. By "nobody" I mean angry poor white trash, the kind of people who feel weirdly oppressed by articles about tax code changes:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares.
House Republicans Float Long List of Potential Tax Measures
By Todd Simmens | January 23, 2025
https://www.bdo.com/insights/tax/house-republicans-float-long-list-of-
potential-tax-measures
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee recently circulated a draft list of policy options, some of which would help pay for the extension of the expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and set President Donald Trump’s tax policy agenda.
The document has not been officially published by the Budget Committee but has been covered extensively in the press, and Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., shared the list in a January 17 post on the social media platform Bluesky. https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lfxlcqdojk24
The 50-page document presents an array of policy options that Republicans might consider to help offset the cost of extending some TCJA provisions, which the Congressional Budget Office has estimated would cost $4.6 trillion over 10 years. However, the list does not explicitly say that these are exclusively revenue raisers, and in fact it includes numerous provisions that would instead increase the deficit but represent long-held Republican policy preferences.
Proposals
The list of policy options are set out under 11 by congressional committees – Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Agriculture, Education and Workforce, Financial Services, Science, Space and Technology, Natural Resources, Oversight and Government Reform, Judiciary, Homeland Security, Transportation and Infrastructure – and each proposal has been assigned an estimated dollar value representing the savings or costs the change would entail over the 10-year budget window.
The Ways and Means section includes 45 tax proposals, some addressing the same issue. For example, there are two options regarding the corporate tax rate -- lower the rate from the current 21% to 15% (at a $522 billion cost) or to 20% (at a $73 billion cost).
Similarly, the plan considers three options for the state and local tax (SALT) deduction:
• Repeal the SALT deduction, currently capped at $10,000 (but set to expire at the end of 2025), entirely ($1 trillion in savings);
• Make the $10,000 cap permanent, but double it to $20,000 for married couples (($100 billion to $200 billion cost); or
• Cap the SALT deduction at $15,000 for individuals and $30,000 for married couples (($500 billion cost).
The home mortgage interest deduction would be either eliminated (resulting in $1 trillion in savings) or subject to a $500,000 cap mortgage debt, rather than the current $750,000 limit.
Consistent with President Trump’s campaign proposals, the list includes proposals to eliminate income tax and payroll taxes on tips and on overtime wages, at a cost of $106 billion and $750 billion, respectively.
The proposals being considered include the repeal of tax measures introduced under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA):
• The corporate alternative minimum tax, which imposes a 15% tax on some corporations’ adjusted financial statement income (at a cost $222 billion);
• Renewable energy tax credits created or expanded under the IRA, estimated to result in $796 billion in savings. However, the document acknowledges the possibility that “based on political will,” a full repeal may not be feasible, and more limited reform options would be considered.
• IRS enforcement funding, which the document estimates would reduce outlays by $20 billion, but also reduce revenues by $66.6 billion, resulting in a net increase to the deficit of $46.6 billion.
Some proposals would result in only modest savings. For instance, the list includes three proposals regarding employer-provided benefits, which a
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Nobody cares what you think or believe.
You are an idiot, and everything you have ever said here has been proven wrong, whether it was merely an outright lie when you said it, or given enough time.
You worthless. You are nothing. And I own you.
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Quote:Nobody can make a Trumptard into a law-abiding person. You don't pay all your taxes, but neither does Trump. You don't work full-time and neither does Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares what you think or believe.
You are an idiot, and everything you have ever said here has been proven wrong, whether it was merely an outright lie when you said it, or given enough time.
You worthless. You are nothing. And I own you.
Since Trump has risen to power, Americans’ shared notion of public morals — the idea that there are certain standards for conduct that shouldn’t be transgressed — have been blown to bits. Some of those standards, like strong prohibitions on doing anything that even resembles an endorsement of Nazism, are some of our most important bulwarks against a return to the worst political moments in modern humanity’s long collective history.
Even if Trump and his Trumptards have abandoned any pretensions to a moral code, decent and law-abiding citizens still need to insist on it.
https://www.vox.com/politics/396535/elon-musk-nazi-salute-trump-inaugu
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You don't pay all your taxes.
Oh, really now? Do go on...
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You don't work full-time.
I don't work at all. I'm retired.
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Even if Trump and his Trumptards have abandoned any pretensions to a moral code, decent and law-abiding citizens still need to insist on it.
Before you start rambling on about moral codes, you should probably ask yourself which one of the posters at FireflyFans.Net is the billionaire business owner who spends half of his waking hours throwing out ad hominems and other personal attacks against 3 of the 4 other people who still come to a website honoring a long dead TV show that nobody gives a shit about in 2025.
It's the saddest thing I've ever witnessed.
You are the saddest person I have ever known.
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There Is No Resistance
The response to the January 6 pardons shows that the president faces no effective constraints from within his party.
By Jonathan Chait | January 24, 2025, 9:20 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/republicans-ratio
nalization-trump-pardons/681433/
To see how far the lines of normal have moved since President Donald Trump freed the January 6ers, briefly return to the closing days of the 2024 presidential campaign. At the time, a hot issue was whether Trump harbored fascist tendencies, as some of his former aides alleged. The very notion struck most conservatives, including some who have criticized him from time to time, as ludicrous. “Trump says crude and unworthy things and behaved abysmally after the 2020 election,” National Review’s editor in chief, Rich Lowry, conceded, “but the idea that he bears any meaningful resemblance to these cracked movements is a stupid smear.”
Looking to dismiss the case, Lowry then reached for the wildest example of fascist behavior he could think of: “Obviously, Trump isn’t deploying a paramilitary wing of the GOP to clash with his enemies on the streets.”
Obviously? Immediately upon assuming office, Trump issued sweeping pardons and commutations for the approximately 1,500 people prosecuted for participating in the January 6 attacks, including convicted violent offenders. He might not have literally deployed any mobs yet, but he has freed members of paramilitary groups that are loyal to him, and who may see their pardons and commutations as license to act on his behalf again.
[Read: January 6ers got out of prison—and came to my neighborhood]
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, led military-style maneuvers on January 6 and had an armed strike force nearby. This week, while strolling the Capitol in a kind of victory tour, Rhodes told CNN, “I don’t regret calling out the election as what it was.” The Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who had to direct the attacks from a distance (a judge had barred him from the city for vandalizing a Black church), expressed vindication and a desire for revenge. “We went through hell—and I’m gonna tell you, it was worth it,” he exulted on The Alex Jones Show. “The people who did this [to us], they need to feel the heat. They need to be put behind bars.” And the “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander said in a livestream, “I would storm the Capitol again for Donald Trump. I would start a militia for Donald Trump.”
The J6 pardons have chagrined many Republicans. But it is not going to make many of them rethink their support for Trump. If you want to understand why, look again at the sentence that Lowry wrote just before laughing off the hysterical fear of Trumpist paramilitaries. Trump “says crude and unworthy things.” He “behaved abysmally.”
Even when Republicans in good MAGA standing can bring themselves to scold Trump, their criticism is limited to discrete acts. Trump can say or do something bad, but he cannot be something bad. To acknowledge that his bad acts follow from his character and beliefs, and therefore offer a guide to his future actions, would throw into question the morality and wisdom of supporting him.
Before the fact, vanishingly few prominent Republican politicians or conservative intellectuals actively endorsed the notion of freeing the J6 criminals en masse. The party line before the inauguration held that Trump was in his rights to grant clemency to some of the nonviolent offenders, but not to the ones who’d beat up cops or planned the operation. The week before he was sworn in as vice president, J. D. Vance said, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” Even Representative Jim Jordan, one of the most flamboyant Trump devotees in Congress, wouldn’t endorse a full suite of pardons.
After Trump went ahead, his allies mostly stopped short of defending the pardons. Instead, they turned to a familiar menu of evasive maneuvers. Some expressed an implausible degree of unfamiliarity with Trump’s ac
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Your grift is over.
You still have no clue the full extent of the damage the Democrat brand has suffered at its own hands.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
Some would say that it no longer does. I would argue that outside of Twitter and Reddit and the minds of college "educated" liberals that it never actually did.
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If SECOND was the gas/oil energy tycoon he claims to be, he'd know that thanks to a combination of oil chemistry, previous investment decisions, geography, and regulation, America can't use all of its light sweet crude, but must export it and import heavier crude.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Obviously, Trump isn’t deploying a paramilitary wing of the GOP to clash with his enemies on the streets.”
No, I leave that to corrupt DNC leaders and their deranged ANTIFA/BLM rioters.
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Friday night massacre
The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the government.
....Some of the government’s largest agencies were involved, including the Departments of Defense, State, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Energy. Most of those dismissed were Trump appointees from his first term, which stunned the group.
“It’s a widespread massacre,” said one of the fired inspectors general. “Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system.”
Inspectors general have wide ranging powers to investigate agencies for waste, fraud, and abuse. Trump's Friday night massacre makes their job under the new regime clear: investigate away, but not on anything that might embarrass Trump.
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-purges-ig-corps-in-friday-night-massac
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If you didn't want Trump back in office, you shouldn't have broke the pendulum clean off the left side of the clock.
You were warned.
Suffer the consequences.
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No, Trump Can’t Make Manufacturing Great Again
We’re a service economy now — and that’s OK
By Paul Krugman | Jan 25, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-trump-cant-make-manufacturing
This post is about how Donald Trump’s policies couldn’t “make us a manufacturing nation again” even if they succeeded in greatly reducing trade deficits. They won’t, which makes it something of a moot point, but people should understand both that we are going to be a service economy no matter what, and that that’s OK: a fixation on manufacturing as the only source of good jobs is generations out of date.
In the summer of 1992 I flew to Little Rock, Arkansas for an audition. Officially, of course, that wasn’t what it was; then-governor Bill Clinton had invited a number of Democratic-leaning economists to talk about policy issues. But everyone understood that our performance would help determine whether we would be offered jobs if he won the presidential election.
At one point Clinton asked how we could get employment in U.S. manufacturing back up to historical levels as a share of total employment. Heads turned to me, since this was clearly my lane, and I answered something like this: “Well, Governor, that really isn’t possible. Even if we could eliminate our trade deficit, the manufacturing share would still be much lower than it was in the 50s and 60s.”
Needless to say, I didn’t get a job in the Clinton administration. I’ve been thankful ever since.
But I was right, and what I said then is still true. Donald Trump declared in his inaugural speech that “America will be a manufacturing nation once again.” No, it won’t. As I’ll explain shortly, Trump’s policies are actually likely to shrink manufacturing, but even if they weren’t, we aren’t going back to the days when manufacturing employed a quarter of the work force rather than its current 8 percent.
To be clear, there is a case for promoting U.S. manufacturing in sectors of strategic importance. Between Putin and Xi, the national security case for tariffs or subsidies looks stronger now than it has for generations. But such policies won’t change the fact that these days we are overwhelmingly a service economy.
And that’s OK. The popular belief that only manufacturing can offer good jobs to ordinary workers is wrong; in fact, at this point manufacturing doesn’t offer especially good jobs. We can make things better for American workers, but a fixation on manufacturing gets in the way of real solutions.
Let’s look at some numbers.
For a generation or so after World War II, America really was a manufacturing nation. Industry employed more than a quarter of the nonfarm work force:
And it accounted for a comparable share of GDP:
Source: BEA
But manufacturing’s relative importance has steadily declined. At this point substantially more Americans work in h
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No, Trump Can’t Make Manufacturing Great Again
We’re a service economy now — and that’s OK
Once again, Paul is wrong about everything.
Service jobs are the easiest to ship overseas. Most of them being done are done outside of the country for pennies on the dollar.
Paul needs to shut the fuck up already.
People listening to idiots like him the last 50 years got us to where we are today.
Fuck you Paul. It's 2025 and you are finally irrelevant.
You and all the other Boomers running the world need to finally die off.
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CNN: The Newsom-Trump dynamic sets up a test case for Democrats charting their future
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/newsom-and-trump-face-off-from
-a-distance-as-los-angeles-fires-burn/ar-AA1xO9su
The funniest part of this article is about halfway down when some dipshit working for Newsom was recalling the event as he saw it and said the following:
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“Part of working with Trump and his administration is managing his ego and the political jabs, but ultimately we have work to do and a responsibility to Californians,” Alex Padilla, the state’s senior senator and a Newsom ally, told CNN.
Is that what you think you did here, Alex? You managed his ego?
That's cute.
Two sentences of flattery after 8 years of political and legal persecution, being called the worst names you could find in a thesaurus, and being shot at not once, but twice, and still coming back to win a 2nd non-consecutive term as President... and what?
Trump's going to roll over and be a good little doggy for you now because you threw him a bone?
Do I have that right? Alex?
Trump is the one playing you, stupid.
And what? You think that Trump and his staff don't watch CNN because they don't like you? Nah bitch... You believe that because that's all you Democrats do, hiding out in your echo chamber 24/7/365. Everybody else that's paying attention pays attention to what everyone is saying.
Trump has already seen you spill the beans on CNN about how one manipulates Trump. You Dunning-Kruger Syndrome Poster Child, college "educated" little weasel.
Get ready for having a far tougher time rigging elections in California going forward, because... SPOILER ALERT: Voter ID is coming your way bitch.
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NYTimes, ask me what I want for the Future of America. This:
U.S. healthcare spending per capita costs twice the average of other wealthy countries. Fix it, Trump.
https://www.pgpf.org/article/how-does-the-us-healthcare-system-compare
-to-other-countries/
https://www.kff.org/health-policy-101-international-comparison-of-heal
th-systems/?entry=table-of-contents-how-does-health-spending-in-the-u-s-compare-to-other-countries
What Trump Voters Want for the Future of America
By Philip Montgomery, Charles Homans | Jan. 25, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/magazine/trump-supporters-maga-amer
ica-future.html
All the photographs in this article are in black-and-white. A crowd at the Make America Great Again victory rally.
When a new president is inaugurated, the thermodynamics of power in Washington become for a moment physically observable, measurable in crowd estimates, seating charts, corporate-sponsorship banners and embossed invitations. Over the long weekend, everyone with a rooting interest in a presidency, from door-knocking grandmothers to the executives of ballistic-missile manufacturers, is there to claim a share of it, navigating the same maze of street closures and security barricades.
The optics, in a country with an increasingly untenable concentration of wealth, are never great: the loyal voters, delivered to the nation’s capital by chartered buses and knee-bruising economy-class flights, shivering on the National Mall in hopes of catching a glimpse of their new president on the Jumbotron, while the elites are whisked past security lines and ferried between mansions in Kalorama and Georgetown in convoys of dark-windowed Escalades. The contrast was starker than usual at Donald Trump’s second inauguration, where the communal rites of the swearing-in ceremony and the parade were taken inside — because of the weather, officially — and reconstituted as quasi-exclusive events, leaving most of his supporters quite literally out in the cold.
But the inauguration’s dance of public and private power is more complicated than that. For Trump, the world is made up of binaries of domination and submission, and every Trump supporter standing outside Capital One Arena could read the subtext of the black-tie receptions hosted by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, who banned Trump from Facebook for two years, or the commemorative soda bottles furnished by Coca-Cola, which once denounced the actions of the Jan. 6 rioters whom Trump was now freeing from prison with the stroke of a pen. These were gestures of appeasement, for which they, the voters, could take some credit. Even people who were unlikely to enjoy the spoils of power in Trump’s second presidency could take some pleasure, in this moment, in wielding it.
What did they actually want from this restoration? For three days, the photographer Philip Montgomery and I crisscrossed a city in the process of becoming Trump’s Washington once again, asking that question of the supporters who enabled this transfer of power and came to celebrate it.
Sheryl Dutter
Car-dealership cashier
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
We are so divided. It’s scary. Scary for the kids that are growing up, like my grandkids. I don’t like the way this country’s turned — all this woke stuff. Stuff that the kids shouldn’t be exposed to. I think I was 18 before I knew that there was gay people, you know? I listened to Queen. I didn’t know he was gay.
Amish came out in Pennsylvania. They came out in droves. They came out in their horse and buggies. It was incredible. So that’s a united country again. We’re tired of being lied to.
Douglas W. Jones
Retired electrician
Smackover, Ark.
When I speak to people that basically hate Trump, well, I never hated Biden. I didn’t hate Obama. I just didn’t like their policies. So when somebody says they hate Trump — well, why do you hate him?
I went to a big prayer-and-praise convocation yesterday at the Greater New Hope Baptist Church, which is a Black Lives Matter church. A lot of people from all over the world, and we just praye
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Quote:The world I'm living in existed before you were born and I will be alive and prospering long after you and Trump are feeding MAGA-maggots while the barely surviving Trumptards wistfully dream about resurrecting the Third Reich. "Sieg heil mein führer Trump" - Leon Musk
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The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
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TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won.
Here are the numbers from investigative reporter Greg Palast.
By Greg Palast | Jan 24, 2025
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
A guest post by Greg Palast for the Hartmann Report
Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes.
And, if not for the mass purge of voters of color, if not for the mass disqualification of provisional and mail-in ballots, if not for the new mass “vigilante” challenges in swing states, Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official popular vote tally by 1.2 million.
Stay with me and I’ll give you the means, methods and, most important, the key calculations.
But if you’re expecting a sexy story about Elon Musk messing with vote-counting software from outer space, sorry, you won’t get that here.
As in Bush v. Gore in 2000 and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old “vote suppression,” the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow.
Here are key numbers:
— 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data.
— By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.
— No fewer than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).
— At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.
— 1,216,000 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted.
— 3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.
If the purges, challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.
There are also the uncountable effects of the explosive growth of voter intimidation tactics including the bomb threats that closed 31 polling stations in Atlanta on Election Day.
America’s Nasty Little Secret
The nasty little secret of American democracy is that we don’t count all the votes. Nor let every citizen vote.
Much more at https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
Also, nobody wants to hear you bitch and moan about election integrity. Not after everything you've had to say on the issue for the last 4 years.
Grow up you fucking crybaby.
I see that you now have stopped watching the Legacy Media since they've stopped telling you what you want to hear and now you've devolved to looking at clickbait bullshit like Ted did.
Hartmann report doesn't have an entry on mediabiasfactcheck it's so far off the left side of the scale.
I found a place that does have them though....
https://adfontesmedia.com/hartmann-report-bias-and-reliability/
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Bias: Hyper-Partisan Left
Reliability: Unreliable, Problematic
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.
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Quote:The New York Review of Books is as mainstream media as possible. Their conclusion in a book review? Cheaply, Trump's billionaires bought the votes of impoverished people like yourself. 13 billionaires "work" in the White House to keep track and control of him. Then there are hundreds of multimillionaires moving the actual levers of government. Trumptards got cheated into voting for new tax-cuts and reduced labor law enforcement for the benefit of the super-wealthy.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I see that you now have stopped watching the Legacy Media since they've stopped telling you what you want to hear and now you've devolved to looking at clickbait bullshit like Ted did.
Hartmann report doesn't have an entry on mediabiasfactcheck it's so far off the left side of the scale.
I found a place that does have them though....
https://adfontesmedia.com/hartmann-report-bias-and-reliability/Quote:
Bias: Hyper-Partisan Left
Reliability: Unreliable, Problematic
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+billionaires+work+in+trump%27
s+government
A Review of Martin Wolf’s The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
The Ungovernable Economy
“When I look at the world around us, I perceive a gigantic crisis of political legitimacy.”
By Trevor Jackson, interviewed by Irza Waraich | January 25, 2025
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/01/25/the-ungovernable-economy-tre
vor-jackson/
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“Capitalism is predicated on atomized individuals, democracy on shared publics,” writes Trevor Jackson in the Review’s January 16 issue.
Reviewing Martin Wolf’s The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Jackson examines capitalist democracies past and present to find where the economic system of capitalism and the political system of democracy have aligned and where they have diverged. He is particularly interested in the history of policies designed to revitalize economies and nations after an economic crisis and charts the way these policies have privatized gains and socialized losses. But Jackson also insists that these events—both the crises and the state’s responses—must be understood as historically contingent, lest “expressions of ruthless class interest are reframed as basic truths.” Without considering the contemporaneous debates about class and conditions of economic inequality, he argues, we won’t understand how crisis continues to be the order of the day.
Jackson is an economic historian and teaches history and political economy at UC Berkeley. Though his research focuses on early modern Europe, he has taught courses on capitalism and inequality, the history of economic crises, and the history of economic thought. A regular contributor to the Review, Jackson has written about cryptocurrency, student debt, and economic bubbles. He is the author of Impunity and Capitalism, and his writing has also appeared in Dissent, The Baffler, and The Nation.
Trevor Jackson
I recently spoke with Jackson about his research interests in early modern Europe, the evolving relationship between capitalism and democracy, and different interpretations of historical analogy.
Irza Waraich: What initially drew you to research the economic history of early modern Europe?
Trevor Jackson: It was in part interest and in part accident. Accident in the sense that I once thought I’d become a development economist, and so I did a degree in what was known as the “political economy of late development” at the London School of Economics. There’s not a lot of undergraduate teaching in economic history, so this was the first time I encountered that material, and I found it fascinating.
Early modern Europe is one of the great focal points of economic hist
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Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US
By David McAfee | January 25, 2025 8:33PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-serious-damage-world-expert/
. . . the stop work order "stops work battling a deadly Marburg outbreak in Tanzania and a wide outbreak of a M-pox variant killing children in west Africa before it spreads further," "stops monitoring of bird flu in 49 countries, a disease which already killed an American on home soil," "stops critical work to eradicate polio," and even "stops >$1B in corporate drug donations and coordination eradicating tropical diseases like river blindness, elephantiasis, and others on the verge of elimination in whole regions."
Further, he said, the plan "stops medicines, supplies, systems building, staff support aiding >90 million women and children to get low cost vaccinations, prenatal care, safe childbirth, contraception, and other basic lifesaving health needs."
He added that it also "stops direct services for 6.5 million orphans, vulnerable children, and their caregivers affected by HIV in 23 countries," "stops donated drug supplies keeping 20 million people living with HIV alive," and "would furlough all USAID contract staff — which includes half of its global health bureau—unless exempted."
"This Administration is trashing US standing, alliances with scores of countries built over half a century, world-leading capacity and expertise, and American security," the expert added.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The New York Review of Books is as mainstream media as possible. Their conclusion in a book review?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I see that you now have stopped watching the Legacy Media since they've stopped telling you what you want to hear and now you've devolved to looking at clickbait bullshit like Ted did.
Hartmann report doesn't have an entry on mediabiasfactcheck it's so far off the left side of the scale.
I found a place that does have them though....
https://adfontesmedia.com/hartmann-report-bias-and-reliability/Quote:
Bias: Hyper-Partisan Left
Reliability: Unreliable, Problematic
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.
The New York Review of Books?
I'm sure it's NPR and Oprah approved, and staffed with 98% DEI hires.
Get the fuck out of here with your Lefty propaganda.
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Quote:Trump is placing employees of billionaires in charge of government agencies. 6ix, if you're dumb about the obvious, that would be very Trumptardish.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.Quote:
The New York Review of Books is as mainstream media as possible. Their conclusion in a book review?
The New York Review of Books?
I'm sure it's NPR and Oprah approved, and staffed with 98% DEI hires.
Get the fuck out of here with your Lefty propaganda.
Trump’s presidency is raising a powerful Texas think tank’s profile. Here’s what to know about it.
As President Donald Trump moves to elevate Brooke Rollins to his cabinet and implement policies that align with Project 2025, it’s raising the profile of a Texas think tank that has been a springboard for both.
Founded in 1989 in San Antonio, the Texas Public Policy Foundation was created by local billionaire James Leininger to push for private school vouchers and tort reform. More than 30 years later, the organization has become the most influential conservative think tank in the state, with a massive, multistory headquarters blocks from the Texas Capitol and a growing influence nationally.
The group publishes research, testifies before the state Legislature down the street, hosts elected officials for conferences and events, and advocates for conservative policies. It is part media company, part agenda-setter and part farm team for Republican political talent.
Rollins, Trump’s pick to run the Department of Agriculture, led the think tank from 2003 to 2018.
Read Edward McKinley's story here.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/article/texas-public-policy-
foundation-20054168.php?sid=5b0232da2ddf9c12eaedfd81&ss=A&st_rid=2df8b9bd-0c21-42cc-a871-c7c95b0871db&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=weekend&utm_campaign=HC_The713
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The New York Review of Books is as mainstream media as possible. Their conclusion in a book review?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.
The New York Review of Books?
I'm sure it's NPR and Oprah approved, and staffed with 98% DEI hires.
Get the fuck out of here with your Lefty propaganda.
Trump is placing employees of billionaires in charge of government agencies. 6ix, if you're dumb about the obvious, that would be very Trumptardish.
Maybe you shouldn't have spent the last 8 years gaslighting everyone including yourself.
If Trump does bad shit this time, that's your fault.
We don't listen to ANYTHING you have to say anymore. You've been completely tuned out.
Nobody cares.
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Quote:Why are Trumptards short-lived and end up fired, divorced, impoverished, toothless, and plagued by diseases caused by smoking, drinking, gluttony, and drug use? Because they won't stop, or turn around from the edge. Freedom means going over the edge and seeing what happens.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Maybe you shouldn't have spent the last 8 years gaslighting everyone including yourself.
If Trump does bad shit this time, that's your fault.
We don't listen to ANYTHING you have to say anymore. You've been completely tuned out.
Nobody cares.
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You are the most pathetic billionaire the world has ever known.
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Quote:I am certain you imagined I am a billionaire. This is not imaginary: I have seen hundreds of Trumptards die because their road maps to "freedom" go over the edge. They fall, never knowing the maps are mistaken, crashing and burning to death at the base of the cliff. Their last words are some variation of "Why me? I don't deserve this! It is not my fault!"
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are the most pathetic billionaire the world has ever known.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I am certain you imagined I am a billionaire.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are the most pathetic billionaire the world has ever known.
No. I know you're a sad, old; miserable divorcee living in a studio apartment with $10 to your name and nobody who loves you, but plenty of people who hate you.
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"Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?" - 6ixStringJack
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts are mostly a farce to sell chintzy merchandise to America’s most gullible marks. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856504428913705061
The “Department of Government Efficiency” is not an actual cabinet department, but rather a rebrand of the existing US Digital Service, an organization that — despite Musk’s self-branding — cannot actually do much but break the White House website.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/george-was
hington/
Not that his lack of actual authority matters much. Musk is still boasting about bringing the same energy to America that Javier Milei brought to Argentina where he haphazardly slashed government departments to deliver a government surplus. He’s also doubled the poverty rate. Here in America we actually know how to deliver a budget surplus because the Democrats did it in the 90s and every Democratic president curtails the budget deficit year after year only to watch it explode under every Republican president since Nixon left office having thrown the country into deeper budget shortfalls than when they arrived.
But that would require “rich people paying taxes” so instead Musk and Trump will engage in the kayfabe that there’s a magical, untapped reserve of government “waste” that can just be eliminated to cover the couple trillion dollar hole in the deficit that Trump’s tax cuts create.
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/01/stealing-jobs-from-real-j-d-s
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Does anybody else find it amusing that Democrats all of the sudden noticed how high the prices of everything were in the last week.
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Awwwwwwww.....
Angry Bear was really angry this last week, wasn't he?
And he just now noticed how high the prices of everything were too on top of all the other losing he's been doing?
That's rough.
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Trump was so angry that he shits in his pants.
Colombia’s President Petro said he would allow civilian planes carrying deportees to land in his country, but that he would block the arrival of military planes.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-
colombia-deportation-flights-immigrants-b2686652.html
Trump’s reply:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people. Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures:
-Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States. In one week, the 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%.
-A Travel Ban and immediate Visa Revocations on the Colombian Government Officials, and all Allies and Supporters.
-Visa Sanctions on all Party Members, Family Members, and Supporters of the Colombian Government.
-Enhanced Customs and Border Protection Inspections of all Colombian Nationals and Cargo on national security grounds.
-IEEPA Treasury, Banking and Financial Sanctions to be fully imposed.
These measures are just the beginning. We will not allow the Colombian Government to violate its legal obligations with regard to the acceptance and return of the Criminals they forced into the United States!
Jan 26, 2025, 12:28 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113896070273857964
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Quote:Did anyone notice that Trump could lower prices if he passes a law to pay the difference between sellers' price and Trump's preferred/promised prices to get himself elected? Unfortunately, no Republican Congressman would vote for such a law, which is why prices continue to be set by sellers, not by buyers or Presidents. (PS. I have never known a Trumptard who understood, 100% of the time, who sets prices. The retards are very confused about who does what, and for what reasons, and they always will be confused. Trumptards are hopelessly stupid about who controls the economy. Short answer: it is the top 1%, not the President and certainly not the buyers. )
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Does anybody else find it amusing that Democrats all of the sudden noticed how high the prices of everything were in the last week.
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Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
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Quote:I hope history repeats. Trump’s frequent raging madman behavior could end with a stroke. It has happened to other Presidents.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, suffered a series of strokes, including a severe one in 1919. The stroke left him paralyzed on his left side and incapacitated until the end of his term in 1921.
Explanation
• Wilson's strokes were characterized by denial and downplaying the severity of his condition.
• The White House covered up Wilson's condition, and the public didn't learn of the stroke until early 1920.
• During Wilson's illness, his wife, Edith, became involved in the day-to-day running of the government. Some historians called her the "Presidentress" or "Surrogate President".
Other presidents who have had strokes include:
• John Quincy Adams
• John Tyler
• Millard Fillmore
• Andrew Johnson
• Chester Arthur
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Richard Milhous Nixon
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113 predictions for Trump's second term
From constitutional crises to Mars and back again.
By Nate Silver | Jan 26, 2025
https://www.natesilver.net/p/113-predictions-for-trumps-second
Democrats win the presidency in 2028. In contrast to markets, which see this as a pure 50/50 proposition, I give just the slightest edge to Democrats. In the short run, I tend to see anti-incumbent effects prevailing, and Republicans won’t get to nominate a true incumbent with Trump term-limited, even if there may be a conservative vibe shift in play over the medium term. 55%.
Democrats win a trifecta (House + Senate + POTUS) in 2028. They’ll have to flip 3 of 4 obvious Senate pickup opportunities by 2028. Considering how correlated everything is, I think they’re a favorite to do this, conditional on having won the presidency. 40%
Democrats win the House in the 2026 midterms. Prediction markets put this at 70%, but I suspect there’s too much hedging toward 50/50 given the historical midterm penalty plus the narrowness of the current GOP majority. Plus, the Democratic voting bloc should still turn out in midterms. 85%
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
That's because you've been propagandized by your media.
Four years of Trump was infinitely better than four years of Biden*.
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Quote:I'm hoping that raging madman Donald Trump gets disabled by a stroke as was President Woodrow Wilson. What do I have against Wilson? This:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
That's because you've been propagandized by your media.
Four years of Trump was infinitely better than four years of Biden*.
In 1900, fragmented memories were turned into political mythologies to impose a new system that legalized discrimination. Thomas Dixon helped to develop the mythology with his book The Klansman, which presented an apology for white slave owners through the presentation of Black men ready to assault white women. Then his classmate, Woodrow Wilson, wrote A History of American People, and Dixon’s best friend, D.W. Griffith, put the ideas from both books into his film, Birth of a Nation. The NAACP boycotted theaters that showed it, but Wilson had private showings at the White House. Suddenly racism became socially acceptable again. By 1915, a new version of the KKK was formed that adopted ideas from the film, like burning crosses. It’s amazing how three well-connected buddies can shift an entire generation’s beliefs, and that was even before television existed.
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/01/everything-old-is-new-ag
ain.html
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
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Quote:Brenda is picking up the signals that Trump transmits with his talk of deporting tens of millions of aliens and conquering new territories. Nazi signals. In the past, signals were transmitted and acted upon by receptive people:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
In 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the SS took the initiative to devise the methods of mass killing without orders to do so. They guessed what their superiors wanted and demonstrated what was possible. It was far more than Hitler had thought.
At the very beginning, anticipatory obedience means adapting instinctively, without reflecting, to a new situation. Do only Germans do such things? The Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, contemplating Nazi atrocities, wanted to show that there was a particular authoritarian personality that explained why Germans behaved as they had. He devised an experiment to test the proposition, but failed to get permission to carry it out in Germany. So he undertook it instead in a Yale University building in 1961—at around the same time that Adolf Eichmann was being tried in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews.
Milgram told his subjects (some Yale students, some New Haven residents) that they would be applying an electrical shock to other participants in an experiment about learning. In fact, the people attached to the wires on the other side of a window were in on the scheme with Milgram, and only pretended to be shocked. As the subjects (thought they) shocked the (people they thought were) participants in a learning experiment, they saw a horrible sight. People whom they did not know, and against whom they had no grievance, seemed to be suffering greatly—pounding the glass and complaining of heart pain. Even so, most subjects followed Milgram’s instructions and continued to apply (what they thought were) ever greater shocks until the victims appeared to die. Even those who did not proceed all the way to the (apparent) killing of their fellow human beings left without inquiring about the health of the other participants.
Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority. “I found so much obedience,” Milgram remembered, “that I hardly saw the need for taking the experiment to Germany.”
from Chapter One of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I hope history repeats. Trump’s frequent raging madman behavior could end with a stroke. It has happened to other Presidents.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, suffered a series of strokes, including a severe one in 1919. The stroke left him paralyzed on his left side and incapacitated until the end of his term in 1921.
Explanation
• Wilson's strokes were characterized by denial and downplaying the severity of his condition.
• The White House covered up Wilson's condition, and the public didn't learn of the stroke until early 1920.
• During Wilson's illness, his wife, Edith, became involved in the day-to-day running of the government. Some historians called her the "Presidentress" or "Surrogate President".
Other presidents who have had strokes include:
• John Quincy Adams
• John Tyler
• Millard Fillmore
• Andrew Johnson
• Chester Arthur
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Richard Milhous Nixon
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I could deal with that and would applaud it.
I admit to not knowing much about your early presidents but I know Roosevelt had polio, so a stroke happened when he was out of office. And the same for Nixon.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
That's because you've been propagandized by your media.
Four years of Trump was infinitely better than four years of Biden*.
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No, it is because I have critical thinking skills.
Nixon was a crook and that has been proven and Ford was dumb enough to pardon him. Reagan had Alzhiemers and really didn't know what he was doing. I freely admit to not remembering much about Bush 1 but Bush 2 was an idiot. Trump had checks on him the first time. This time he is surrounded by yes men and also he just want to make a buck off being the most powerful person in the world.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
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Some of it is unpredictability. His wanting to make a buck. His willingness to break and remake pretty well of your institutions down there.
Every so often one of your leaders will make a crack about Canada that for the most part it goes in ear and out the other.
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Quote:President Woodrow Wilson was a raging racist, just like Trump. Wilson had a stroke, ending his crazed rampage in the White House. A stroke could do the same to Trump. I'm sure Trump's replacement, Vice President JD Vance, is not a racist nor a hyper-wacko Nazi like Trump.
Originally posted by Brenda:
I could deal with that and would applaud it.
I admit to not knowing much about your early presidents but I know Roosevelt had polio, so a stroke happened when he was out of office. And the same for Nixon.
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Quote:Which institutions? Department of Justice? The FBI? CIA? State Department? NATO? Or do you mean longstanding policies like foreign aid? Very curious how you think of it.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
Some of it is unpredictability. His wanting to make a buck. His willingness to break and remake pretty well of your institutions down there.
Quote:Good!
Every so often one of your leaders will make a crack about Canada that for the most part it goes in ear and out the other.
Sometimes Trump is just trolling people.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
That's because you've been propagandized by your media.
Four years of Trump was infinitely better than four years of Biden*.
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No, it is because I have critical thinking skills.
Nixon was a crook and that has been proven and Ford was dumb enough to pardon him. Reagan had Alzhiemers and really didn't know what he was doing. I freely admit to not remembering much about Bush 1 but Bush 2 was an idiot. Trump had checks on him the first time. This time he is surrounded by yes men and also he just want to make a buck off being the most powerful person in the world.
That's not critical thinking. That is repeating verbatim what the Legacy Media would say about him.
They're all liars and they don't know shit.
They got us into the situation we're all in today. None of that was because of Trump.
Not sure if GWB was an idiot or if he was dumb like a fox. He was either really stupid or really evil. No matter how stupid he was though, he was 10 times as intelligent as Joe Biden* was during the last 4 years because he wasn't suffering from the severe cognitive decline.
Trump has already spoken to the media in 8 days more than Joe Biden* spoke to the media in 1,461 days.
But the real spoiler alert is that Joe Biden and GWB and Obama and Clinton were all the same party.
And they're terrified that they've lost power.
And they're trying to rile people like you up about it.
And make you forget that 4 years of Trump was nice while 4 years of Biden* was one fucking crisis after another after another after another....
I expect that reaction out of the two idiots here. You've got enough things to worry about in your real life. You don't need to be going around the next 4 years worrying about bogey men.
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Quote:"Pres. Trump’s day one agenda was letting violent criminals who beat police officers out of prison," stated Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) "These are people who planned an insurrection, assaulted police officers with metal batons, fire extinguishers, wooden planks and even admitted to these crimes and pled guilty in court."
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's not critical thinking. That is repeating verbatim what the Legacy Media would say about him.
They're all liars and they don't know shit.
They got us into the situation we're all in today. None of that was because of Trump.
Trump had repeatedly pledged to issue pardons for January 6 defendants, whom he has repeatedly called "hostages" and baselessly claimed did not receive fair due process.
In the weeks leading up to being sworn in, he and Vice President J.D. Vance suggested the cases would be reviewed individually, with some of the defendants convicted of more violent offenses excluded. However, Trump instead issued a blanket pardon for 1,500 people with no apparent review, including hundreds who assaulted police officers; his only bit of restraint was issuing commutations rather than pardons for the paramilitary Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy, which released them from prison but did not expunge their criminal records.
Even some Republican members of Congress have appeared uncomfortable with the sweeping nature of Trump's pardons, given the January 6 attack constituted a violent threat against their own safety for doing their jobs.
https://www.rawstory.com/senate-pardon-resolution/
"They got us into the situation we're all in today. None of that was because of Trump." -- 6ixStringJack
6ix, whatever situation you are in, you got yourself into it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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For those who know Trump lacks self-control and any sense of decency:
Jan. 27, 2025, 3:28 PM CST
By Ken Dilanian and Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice said Monday that it had fired several career lawyers involved in prosecuting President Donald Trump.
The DOJ employees worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation that led to now-dismissed indictments against Trump over his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-administrati
on-fires-doj-officials-worked-criminal-investigation-rcna189512
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Originally posted by second:Quote:"Pres. Trump’s day one agenda was letting violent criminals who beat police officers out of prison," stated Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's not critical thinking. That is repeating verbatim what the Legacy Media would say about him.
They're all liars and they don't know shit.
They got us into the situation we're all in today. None of that was because of Trump.
Never happened.
But one of Joe Biden*'s cops shot an ex-military civilian in the fucking face though.
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Originally posted by second:
For those who know Trump lacks self-control and any sense of decency:
Jan. 27, 2025, 3:28 PM CST
By Ken Dilanian and Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice said Monday that it had fired several career lawyers involved in prosecuting President Donald Trump.
The DOJ employees worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation that led to now-dismissed indictments against Trump over his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-administrati
on-fires-doj-officials-worked-criminal-investigation-rcna189512
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Good.
GTFO
STFO
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Quote:Good!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Which institutions? Department of Justice? The FBI? CIA? State Department? NATO? Or do you mean longstanding policies like foreign aid? Very curious how you think of it.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
Some of it is unpredictability. His wanting to make a buck. His willingness to break and remake pretty well of your institutions down there.Quote:
Every so often one of your leaders will make a crack about Canada that for the most part it goes in ear and out the other.
Sometimes Trump is just trolling people.
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The Department of Justice, Department of Education are the two I can think of off the top of my head.
Yeah ever since I was a kid it will come and most people just laugh it off because it is just dumb.
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During Trump's campaign, he repeatedly promised lower food prices ‘immediately’ if elected president. But during his first week of office, he focused on mass deportations and pardoning the January 6 attackers.
There is an absurd gap between what Trump is doing and what the swing voters who elected him were promised. They voted for the cheaper-egg candidate and received the permanent termination of cancer research in the United States instead. Winds of Change, indeed.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/price-of-egg-democrats-don
ald-trump.html
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MAGA's true believers don't understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson
Today's Republicans have swallowed so many economic myths that reality has disappeared. They face a wakeup call
By Rich Logis | January 26, 2025 9:00AM (EST)
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/26/magas-true-believers-dont-understand-
capitalism--will-teach-them-a-hard-lesson/
America is a nation at war with its mythologies.
For all the electoral postmortems about the desire for economic change, what’s unsurprisingly absent is what seems, to me, an obvious omission: an all-enveloping misunderstanding of American capitalism.
I’m not dismissing the importance of anxiety about solvency, about the challenges that small businesses face (I’m a proprietor of one myself) and about the cost of future entitlements. (We’ll get to the problems of liberalism in a bit). Most of us in this country will worry about money for the duration of our lives.
One delusional mythology about American capitalism that has been instilled in We the People is that we somehow have a guaranteed right to prosperity; this imaginary right has been deployed by politicians who are afraid of educating their constituents about how our model of commerce actually works. Our national press has largely been lazy on this score as well.
With due respect to the many Americans who voted for Donald Trump, their overwhelming sense of entitlement dwarfs that of the hard-working immigrants who cut their grass, scrub pots and pans in the restaurants they frequent, and care for their kids and elderly loved ones. Too many Americans have come to believe they are owed financial comfort and material abundance, not to mention eggs and gasoline at predictable prices.
“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Frankly, it’s an illogical question in a capitalist nation. Some people are of course worse off, and I don’t mean to make light of that. But in fact, many millions are better off; Joe Biden’s administration oversaw the recovery of millions of jobs lost during the COVID pandemic and the creation of millions more. Some people out there will be worse off by the time they finish this article than when they commenced reading it. I’m not being flippant; that’s reality.
Welcome to capitalism, a system whose proponents always cite unequal outcomes as a reason for extolling it.
So eggs are expensive? Eat fewer of them. Cut down on egg whites. Let them eat yolks.
Are gas prices high? Is insurance for health care, real estate and vehicles increasing? Are supply chain constraints harming your livelihood, or your quality of life? The person in the White House has very little to do with that. Let’s recall that gas prices steadily increased during George W. Bush’s second term.
Gas was cheap in 2020 because — hello! — tens of millions of drivers weren’t driving. In fact, Trump threatened the Saudis, in the early days of the pandemic: Cut oil production, or lose U.S. military support. Why? More oil flooding the market would have driven prices still lower, and “cheap gas” does not sound like “ka-ching.”
Are gas prices high? Insurance going up for health care, real estate and vehicles? Are supply chain constraints harming your livelihood, or your quality of life? The person in the White House has very little to do with that.
Welcome to the “laws” of supply and demand, which all of us must navigate on a daily basis. If you don’t know or don’t remember these details, ask yourself why you don’t. If you’re a Trump voter, then ask yourself whether you might have voted differently in November had you been aware.
Meanwhile, we have endless debates about whether needs — access to medical care, food, affordable housing — should be rights, or should be left to the exigencies of good luck and near-perfect health.
Jeremiads about grocery prices are now an acceptable element of political discourse and, per GOP logic, we have a right to complain about them. Feeding the hungry, though? That edges too close to pinko communism. But the point our fe
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MAGA's true believers don't understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson
Neither does anybody at Salon, who will be shuttering its doors soon.
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