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I picked farming and farmers to make a point that a Signym can't understand about employment and purchases by consumers. because it skirts around the manufacturing story

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Signym, you don't understand manufacturing. Nor farming. You don't even understand that the Kissinger quote you have been misusing for years from you signature is NOT quoting the real Kissinger, but instead is an imaginary version of "Kissinger". You won't understand this, either, but it gets to the heart of what is wrong with Trump/Musk/JDVance/run-of-the-mill-Trumptards:

Trump Appointee Quits Instead of Dropping Eric Adams Charges, Alleges Quid Pro Quo

Adams was indicted on on bribery, wire fraud, and conspiracy charges in September

February 13, 2025

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/eric-adams-trump-p
rosecutor-quits-quid-pro-quo-1235267302/

After New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted on federal criminal charges in September, the man soon embraced Donald Trump in an overt attempt to get the president to overturn his case. As Manhattan federal prosecutors readied to bring the bombshell indictment charging the mayor with destroying evidence and instructing people to lie to the FBI, Trump’s Justice Department issued an order to drop the case, a letter obtained by The New York Times reveals.

Written by U.S. Attorney Danielle R. Sassoon, who was appointed by Trump, and addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the letter states that Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s order to dismiss the case on Monday was “inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts.”

In Bove’s memo, the acting deputy attorney general ordered Adams’ case to be dropped so the mayor could “devote [his] full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior administration.”

Rather than obey the order, Sassoon resigned from her post on Thursday. “I have always considered it my obligation to pursue justice impartially, without favor to the wealthy or those who occupy important public office, or harsher treatment for the less powerful,” she said. “I therefore deem it necessary to the faithful discharge of my duties to raise the concerns expressed in this letter with you and to request an opportunity to meet to discuss them further.”

Sassoon wrote that she recently attended a meeting with her staff, Bove, and lawyers for Adams. There, she said, Adams’ legal team “repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department’s enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed.”

She criticized the “rushed and superficial process” that led to Bove’s order, and noted her office had been “prepared to seek a superseding indictment” against the New York mayor that “would add an obstruction conspiracy count based on evidence that Adams destroyed and instructed others to destroy evidence and provide false information to the FBI, and that would add further factual allegations regarding his participation in a fraudulent straw donor scheme.”

According to the Times, the Justice Department attempted to move the case to Washington’s public integrity section, but the two men that led the unit overseeing corruption cases also resigned.

Last year, authorities searched the home of the mayor’s chief fundraiser and seized Adams’ electronic devices in connection to an investigation into allegations that the mayor’s 2021 campaign laundered illegal donations from foreign governments. The following fall, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York indicted the mayor on bribery, wire fraud, and conspir

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“Five inspector generals that were looking into Elon Musk’s companies were fired by the Trump-Musk administration,” said Texas Representative Greg Casar. “These inspector generals, who are independent, protected by law; they are the people that find the waste, fraud, and abuse … fired because they were looking into Elon Musk.”

“You know what Elon Musk doesn’t seem to be looking into?” Casar continued. “His own contracts.”

“Just last year, Elon Musk was promised $3 billion from close to 100 contracts with the federal government,” Casar said, highlighting the discrepancy that seniors who rely on Social Security are dependent upon $65 a day from the government. “We’re not looking into Elon Musk’s $8 million a day. This subcommittee chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene and the House Republicans is looking into your grandmother’s $65 a day.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/191464/democrats-doge-hearing-elon-musk-r
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or I am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding."

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis

Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a ‘temporary’ detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps. She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn’t realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn’t handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A. Single. Difference.

So unless you want to tell me that Anne Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y’all can shut up with that “stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

It’s also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

https://thethrillofcompletewrongness.tumblr.com/post/186386484012/yes-
it-is-just-like-the-nazis

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

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“Five inspector generals that were looking into Elon Musk’s companies were fired by the Trump-Musk administration,” said Texas Representative Greg Casar. “These inspector generals, who are independent, protected by law; they are the people that find the waste, fraud, and abuse … fired because they were looking into Elon Musk.”

“You know what Elon Musk doesn’t seem to be looking into?” Casar continued. “His own contracts.”

“Just last year, Elon Musk was promised $3 billion from close to 100 contracts with the federal government,” Casar said, highlighting the discrepancy that seniors who rely on Social Security are dependent upon $65 a day from the government. “We’re not looking into Elon Musk’s $8 million a day. This subcommittee chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene and the House Republicans is looking into your grandmother’s $65 a day.”

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Thanks to Newsweek, we have context for the incident:

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-throws-donald-trumps-s
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"It depresses the hell out of me that people I grew up with or I am related to have turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding."

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis

Hey so remember Anne Frank?

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The president was asked during a press conference if he would direct agencies to study the impact these tariffs would have on prices in the U.S.

“No, there’s nothing to study,” Trump replied. “It’s gonna go well.”

“The United States is going to become a very very strong economic, economically, country,” he added.

It was reminiscent of his repeated claims in 2020 that COVID-19 was just “going to go away.”

Trump’s government won’t study anything, they will just tell us everything is going great.
‘1984’ is upon us.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tariffs-nothing-to-study_n_67af1c
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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The president was asked during a press conference if he would direct agencies to study the impact these tariffs would have on prices in the U.S.

“No, there’s nothing to study,” Trump replied. “It’s gonna go well.”

“The United States is going to become a very very strong economic, economically, country,” he added.

It was reminiscent of his repeated claims in 2020 that COVID-19 was just “going to go away.”

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Oh yeah?

I feel it was reminiscent of your claims, in which Covid wasn't released by a Chinese lab doing gain of function research that Democrats were paying for with US Taxpayer dollars.




Nobody is listening to you anymore, stupid.

The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.

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I picked farming and farmers to make a point that a Signym can't understand about employment and purchases by consumers. because it skirts around the manufacturing story

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Signym, you don't understand manufacturing. Nor farming...

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It's a waste of time exchanging barbs with a halfwit.

Here is where your logic goes haywire

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The point is that food became abundant and cheap (see the word cheap) when the labor input approached zero. The same is true for the manufacturing of any item. To make the item cheap enough to satisfy the most gluttonous consumer means the labor input to make the item has to approach zero.

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Follow your logic to its conclusion: By eliminating labor from everything - services and intellectual work as well as farming and manufacturing... you have made it cheap to produce everything (in reality, the cost of production goes to zero, but the capitalist will never give away anything for free). But at that point, nobody has any money to buy.

So, aside from increasing profits for the owners, how does reducing labor benefit everyone else?

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Unless we've already invented Star Trek replicators, Second doesn't have a fucking clue what he's talking about, as per usual.

There's a lot of labor that goes into everything he buys. A lot of it slave labor.

You can't have an honest conversation with somebody who thinks that electricity from your wall is Harry Potter magic.

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I picked farming and farmers to make a point that a Signym can't understand about employment and purchases by consumers. because it skirts around the manufacturing story

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Fixed it for you.

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Signym, you don't understand manufacturing. Nor farming...

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It's a waste of time exchanging barbs with a halfwit.

Here is where your logic goes haywire

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The point is that food became abundant and cheap (see the word cheap) when the labor input approached zero. The same is true for the manufacturing of any item. To make the item cheap enough to satisfy the most gluttonous consumer means the labor input to make the item has to approach zero.

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Follow your logic to its conclusion: By eliminating labor from everything - services and intellectual work as well as farming and manufacturing... you have made it cheap to produce everything (in reality, the cost of production goes to zero, but the capitalist will never give away anything for free). But at that point, nobody has any money to buy.

So, aside from increasing profits for the owners, how does reducing labor benefit everyone else?

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Signym, if you don't know that the argument you're making is bogus, God help you.

Signym, tell me if you can see where this is going? In 1950, West Virginia had 127,000 coal miners. However, by the end of the 20th century, that number had dropped to fewer than 18,000. In 2022, West Virginia had 10,000 working at coal mines, both miners and other jobs including clerks etc. Nationwide there were 43,000 working all jobs at coal mines.

Signym, I’m pretty sure you remember that Trump promised to bring back coal-mining jobs when he was running in 2016. That didn’t happen because mining engineering was getting very effective at reducing the number of man-hours almost to zero to produce a ton of coal.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+promised+to+bring+back+coal-mini
ng+jobs

Signym, a lot of people in West Virginia voted for Trump because he promised to bring back those coal mining jobs West Virginians missed. But those jobs were terrible back in the day when employment was at its highest:

Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.

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

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Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.

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Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.



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Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.

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Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

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Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money. As far as a Trumptard can understand, jobs are only about income for the Trumptards and not about what the job actually accomplishes beyond money. With that kind of small-minded depravity, it is no surprise that Trumptards are shitty at accomplishing anything and also why they steal at work and will cheat or overcharge customers. (Also it is not surprising that 6ix has no job while, for example, my elderly sisters continue working as a nurse and a teacher of blind and deaf students. Their jobs are meaningful to them. 6ix's job was meaningless to him, which pretty much describes every Trumptard and their jobs.)

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

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What to Make of the DOJ’s Attempt to Strong-Arm Its Prosecutors Into Dismissing the Eric Adams Charges

A former DOJ attorney takes us inside the absurdity and likely consequences of this week’s legal dispute.

By Dahlia Lithwick | Feb 14, 2025, 4:23 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/eric-adams-charges-dispute
-doj-sdny-resignations.html

Dahlia Lithwick: We actually kind of know a lot of what happened because we’ve got both Danielle Sassoon’s resignation letter and the truly frightening response from Bove. We’re seeing responses from other folks at DOJ. Each of these letters is a love song to the rule of law.

Harry Litman: We know an extraordinary amount, and it’s all exploded into the public. We know that Emil Bove, who is playing the mustachioed villain here, actually in a meeting directed someone to delete notes that they had taken. I’m from DOJ and I spent a lot of time there, so take this with a grain of salt, but this is humongous in DOJ’s history. There are two things that distinguish it to me. The first is: Because of the written record, you see the naked conflict between a good-guy and bad-guy side, between the rule of law and raw politics, because the most unforgettable sentence in all these letters so far has been when Bove said, “Well, we are not looking at the facts and we don’t question the legal theories,” and that of course is the absolute DNA of what happens in the department.

The other aspect is: We’re in free fall here. There are two possible precedents. People think about the Saturday Night Massacre, and then in 2021, the first couple days, the showdown in the Oval Office involving acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen. The lawyers told Trump We’re all gonna resign if you do this, and Trump backed down.

So here we have a cascade of scandals and of very, very senior personnel in the department — the U.S. attorney for the Southern District, a Scalia clerk with impeccable conservative credentials, and her colleague who just filed a blistering letter, a John Roberts clerk with two Bronze Stars — resigning. And then the entire leadership of the vaunted public integrity section too. So this is very high-level stuff. As of now, there’s no stopping point. It’s like the Roadrunner cartoon where they’re just falling off the cliff waiting for the boom at the bottom.

Dahlia Lithwick: Yeah. I want to read just the last couple of lines of the resignation letter from Hagan Scotten, the John Roberts clerk, lead prosecutor on the Adams case, writing to Bove that any federal prosecutor “would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials,” then adding: “If no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Harry Litman: White-hot. Right. Wow. Every word.

Dahlia Lithwick: For lawyers, this is screaming.

Harry Litman: An atom bomb across the sky for sure.

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

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Clean your own stables first, Washington DC.

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Eruption In "BleachBit," "Wipe Hard Drive," "Offshore Bank" Searches In DC Suggest Deep State Panic Mode

Internet search trends in the Washington, DC, metro area have been nothing short of stunning in recent weeks, reflecting what appears to be growing panic within the federal bureaucracy as President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) root out corruption in non-governmental organizations (NGO) and federal agencies.

Earlier this week, internet search trends for "Criminal Defense Lawyer" and "RICO Laws" went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington's political elites were in panic mode. The searches coincided with DOGE's efforts to neuter USAID's funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.

Now, more suspicious search trends have erupted among DC residents as DOGE efforts went into beast mode at the end of the week.

"Washington DC searches soar for "Swiss bank" (yellow), "offshore bank" (green), "wire money" (red) and "IBAN" (blue)," WikiLeaks wrote on X late Thursday. (graph)
... the search term "wipe hard drive" across the DC metro has gone absolutely parabolic. (graph)
And "BleachBit" too! (graph)
Searches for "lawyers" have jumped.(graph)
"Statute of limitations" also soared. (graph)

Why on Earth would DC residents panic-search keywords that suggest they are trying to cover up a crime?

[because] The accountability sheriff: Trump & DOGE are in town - and the Deep State criminals who have been misappropriating taxpayer funds for years are in panic mode.

Now DOGE's "Big Balls" member, Edward Coristine, now listed as a "senior adviser" at the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, should focus efforts on those outbound ACH transfers >$1 million in the past few months...

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GRAPHS AND MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eruption-bleachbit-wipe-hard-drive
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Seven times Trump’s DOJ asked Prosecutors to sign documents dropping bribery charges against Mayor Eric Adams and seven times Prosecutors resigned rather than sign. An eighth prosecutor signed to protect others from having to resign:

Order by Trump appointees to drop bribery charges against New York City mayor had drawn protests from career prosecutors

By Corinne Ramey and Sadie Gurman | Feb. 14, 2025 6:57 pm ET

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/another-star-u-s-prosecutor-quits-over-eri
c-adams-case-94858730

The Justice Department asked a judge Friday to dismiss the bribery case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, following a standoff between career prosecutors and top Trump appointees that prompted a wave of resignations and exposed deep divisions over the department’s pursuit of politically sensitive cases.

The filing in Manhattan federal court was signed by Edward Sullivan, a veteran prosecutor in the Justice Department’s public integrity section. He agreed earlier to put his name on it to protect others in the unit, people familiar with the matter said, following an ultimatum from Emil Bove, the department’s acting No. 2 official.

(Bove represented Trump in his election obstruction case, classified documents case, and falsification of business records case. Bove lost the only case, falsification of records, that got to a jury.)

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

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Eruption In "BleachBit," "Wipe Hard Drive," "Offshore Bank" Searches In DC Suggest Deep State Panic Mode

Internet search trends in the Washington, DC, metro area have been nothing short of stunning in recent weeks, reflecting what appears to be growing panic within the federal bureaucracy as President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) root out corruption in non-governmental organizations (NGO) and federal agencies.

Earlier this week, internet search trends for "Criminal Defense Lawyer" and "RICO Laws" went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington's political elites were in panic mode. The searches coincided with DOGE's efforts to neuter USAID's funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.

Now, more suspicious search trends have erupted among DC residents as DOGE efforts went into beast mode at the end of the week.

"Washington DC searches soar for "Swiss bank" (yellow), "offshore bank" (green), "wire money" (red) and "IBAN" (blue)," WikiLeaks wrote on X late Thursday. (graph)
... the search term "wipe hard drive" across the DC metro has gone absolutely parabolic. (graph)
And "BleachBit" too! (graph)
Searches for "lawyers" have jumped.(graph)
"Statute of limitations" also soared. (graph)

Why on Earth would DC residents panic-search keywords that suggest they are trying to cover up a crime?

[because] The accountability sheriff: Trump & DOGE are in town - and the Deep State criminals who have been misappropriating taxpayer funds for years are in panic mode.

Now DOGE's "Big Balls" member, Edward Coristine, now listed as a "senior adviser" at the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, should focus efforts on those outbound ACH transfers >$1 million in the past few months...

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GRAPHS AND MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/eruption-bleachbit-wipe-hard-drive
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Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.

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Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

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Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.

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We know. Propaganda and their Ideology is more important to them than their very own lives are.

Unfortunately, when the Government isn't funding them, nobody else is.

Because nobody believes in any of their causes.


Prove me wrong. Write these people a big check right now.

How could you allow for the cancellation of Iraqi Sesame Street when you could have saved the show with your billions of Oil Dollars?

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...former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes.

These include allegations that at least two of the fired officials, Jeffrey Veltri and Dena Perkins, manipulated the security clearance review process to personally and professionally punish conservatives, COVID-19 vaccine skeptics, and Jan. 6 whistleblowers who reported suspected bureau malfeasance, and retaliated against those who came to the whistleblowers’ defense.

A third, Timothy Dunham, is also alleged to have improperly suspended security clearances.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) read numerous accounts of alleged misconduct perpetrated by these and other officials into the record this morning as the committee considered the nomination of Kash Patel for FBI Director.

One subordinate of the three terminated individuals, a former supervisory special agent in the Security Division, “SecD,” from which Veltri and Perkins hailed, and whom Dunham oversaw, told the committee:

I witnessed abuses committed against multiple employees by FBI senior leaders, particularly by Jeff Veltri and Dena Perkins. I also saw SecD retaliate against five of its own employees for protesting these unlawful practices. Because I spoke out against these abuses, Perkins and Timothy Dunham suspended my security clearance, costing me my job and continuing employment, totaling approximately $700,000 in lost wages and retirement benefits.

Another former FBI official, Marcus Allen, told the committee that Veltri and Perkins “caused the suspension of my security clearance because I questioned whether the FBI Director was truthful to Congress and whether the FBI was obeying the law and Constitution in the January 6, 2021 investigations.” What followed left “financial and emotional damage to me and my family will never be completely restored.”

A third, Special Agent Garret O’Boyle, who has been indefinitely suspended without pay for well over two years in alleged retaliation for whistleblowing, told the committee that Veltri, Perkins, Dunham, and other leadership up to Christopher Wray, are responsible for what happened to me and my family. Ensuring that they no longer work at the FBI is not retribution; it’s responsible leadership.”[ì4]

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By this time next year, a lot of people are going to feel pretty fucking dumb.

And I assume even more of them will just finally plunge their heads deep inside of the earth one final time and never come up for air again, because to do otherwise might completely and irreparably destroy their Ego.

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Junji Ito’s Most Disturbing Story

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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

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I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?

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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.

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Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.

I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?

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Maybe Trump should fire these two astronauts?

Astronauts Stuck in Space Refute Donald Trump's Claim

Trump has repeatedly said that Williams and Wilmore were "abandoned" by the Biden administration.

Feb 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/astronauts-stuck-space-refute-trump-claim-iss
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Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore said they wanted to change the rhetoric around their stay on the ISS.

"We don't feel abandoned, we don't feel stuck, we don't feel stranded," Wilmore told CNN. "I understand why others may think that, but we come prepared. We come committed.

"That is what the human space flight program is; it prepares for any and all contingencies that we can conceive of, and we prepare for those.

"So if you'll help us change the rhetoric, help us change the narrative...let's change it to 'prepared and committed' rather than what you've been hearing (from Trump)."

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

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By this time next year, a lot of people are going to feel pretty fucking dumb.

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6ixStringJack, it could be you feeling dumb. Trump still needs Congressional approval to send your money to Ukraine, but he wants to send money and will probably get approval. Ukraine won't be able to send the money back to Trump until after Russia is defeated, when mineral extraction operations can begin in Ukraine:

'United States of extortion': New Trump Ukraine 'shakedown' called 'cheap mafia' move

By David Badash | February 14, 2025

https://www.alternet.org/trump-ukraine-shakedown/

Just weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump’s administration is not only grappling with a growing colossus of self-inflicted crises, but is now igniting international tensions as well. The administration is pressuring Ukraine to relinquish rights to half of its valuable precious metals — just as Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepare to begin negotiations to end Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine.

“Multiple lawmakers here in Munich told me the U.S. Congressional delegation presented Zelensky with a piece of paper they wanted him to sign which would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral reserves,” Washington Post foreign policy and national security columnist Josh Rogin reported Friday afternoon from the Munich Security Conference.

“Zelensky politely declined to sign it,” he added.

Trump has made it clear he expects Ukraine to hand over the rights to its rare earth minerals, which are extremely valuable.

“Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into motion for electric vehicles, cell phones, missile systems, and other electronics. There are no viable substitutes,” Reuters reported. The news outlet also noted that Trump “said on Monday he wants Ukraine to supply the United States with rare earth minerals as a form of payment for financially supporting the country’s war efforts against Russia.”

“We’re telling Ukraine they have very valuable rare earths,” Trump said. “We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earths and other things.”

Trump’s expected haul: “close to $300 billion,” or more.

“We are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earth,” Trump said Monday, CBS News reported. “They have essentially agreed to do that, so at least we don’t feel stupid.”

The New York Times on Wednesday suggested Kyiv may be willing to play ball with the billionaire businessman.

“President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by Ukrainian officials to appeal to Mr. Trump’s transactional nature.”

Earlier this week Bloomberg reported on Trump’s call with Putin, saying, “European leaders, who were broadly aligned with Washington under Biden, were stunned to learn of the call and some said it appeared to signal that Trump was selling out Ukraine.”

“Trump is skeptical of providing more aid,” Bloomberg continued, “and if he does then he wants the US to be compensated – perhaps in the form of access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was in Kyiv today to work on that part of the deal.”

Garry Kasparov, the internationally famous Russian chess grandmaster and now vice president of the World Liberty Congress, likened Trump’s demand to that of a Mafia don.

“Trump wants to give Russia something for nothing and expects Ukraine to give America something for nothing. Cheap

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Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

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We know. Propaganda and their Ideology is more important to them than their very own lives are.

Unfortunately, when the Government isn't funding them, nobody else is.

Because nobody believes in any of their causes.


Prove me wrong. Write these people a big check right now.

How could you allow for the cancellation of Iraqi Sesame Street when you could have saved the show with your billions of Oil Dollars?

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It's telling that you mentioned Iraq, where Bush tried Regime Change. Saddam Hussein was easier to be rid of than Joe Biden, but then Bush's search for weapons of mass destruction did not find any. Oh, there were claims Bush found them, but no physical evidence. So far, Musk and DOGE has not found physical evidence of the waste Musk claims exists although he keeps claiming he found waste. What next?

What happened next in Iraq was Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2: Dissolution of Entities signed by Paul Bremer on behalf of the Coalition Provisional Authority on 23 May 2003, disbanding the Iraqi military, security, and intelligence infrastructure of President Saddam Hussein.

Order Number 2 released millions of Iraqi employees, who then went on a killing rampage that Bush could not control. Trump might get the same here in America, a rampage he can't control. Who will they kill? In Iraq it was Shia Muslims killing Sunni Muslims and vise-versa. In America it could be Democrats killing Trumptards. I'm sure that will be as mesmerizing as the War in Iraq was for many years on TV news.

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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing

How regime change happens in America

By Anne Applebaum | February 14, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-p
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Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication of the federal civil service, along with its culture and values, and its replacement with something different. In other words: regime change.

No one should be surprised or insulted by this phrase, because this is exactly what Trump and many who support him have long desired. During his 2024 campaign, Trump spoke of Election Day as “Liberation Day,” a moment when, in his words, “vermin” and “radical left lunatics” would be eliminated from public life. J. D. Vance has said that Trump should “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” Steve Bannon prefers to talk about the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” but that amounts to the same thing.

These ideas are not original to Vance or Bannon: In the 21st century, elected leaders s

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—Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten, in a letter to acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams

Well, it worked, sort of. New York Mayor Eric Adams cozied up to Donald Trump, paid him a visit at Mar-a-Lago, groveled on an episode of Tucker Carlson, and voilà: On Monday, the Justice Department instructed federal prosecutors to drop all charges—and there were many—against Adams.

The official reasoning given by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was astonishing in its own right, though it would seem hardly scandalous compared with what was to come later in the week: The order to drop those charges was based not on the strength of evidence but on the argument that Adams’ indictment was getting in the way of his implementing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, ICE raids, and general tough-on-crime agenda. The Associated Press rightly called it an “extraordinary deviation from long-standing Justice Department norms.”

Adams, who claimed that the prosecution was the political consequence of his brave disagreement with Joe Biden over funding for migrants and asylees, took a victory lap, declaring that he would “never put any personal benefit above my solemn responsibility as your mayor.” That was, to put it lightly, not very convincing.

But the story didn’t end there. On Friday morning, Trump’s border deportation impresario Tom Homan hauled Adams onto the couch at Fox & Friends for a little conservative TV news hang. There, Homan laid out the quid pro quo that Adams had agreed to in the plainest possible terms:

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Because evidently we needed more evidence that the Democratic mayor of New York and the Republican Trump administration are engaged in brazen corruption and self-dealing.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-eric-adams-doj-new-y
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Marvel’s Brave New World follows an unhinged president who lays waste to Washington.

Harrison Ford’s president Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross transforms into the Red Hulk and promptly lays waste to his surroundings. Columns crumble, cornices are crushed, and even Old Glory gets turned into an offensive weapon as the world’s angriest POTUS swings an enormous flagpole at a military helicopter. The White House is a smoldering ruin, a monument to the destructive power of the president’s fury. But not to worry, a news report reassures us: Next up is “the restoration of normalcy to the White House.”

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

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Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.

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Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.

I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?

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The people in charge at the moment know so little about it, they didn’t know the hundreds of people they fired were responsible for the national nuclear stockpile. Wonderful:

1) Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile

By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen | 8:41 PM EST, Fri February 14, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/inde
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2) Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons

By Geoff Brumfiel | February 14, 2025, 8:05 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firi
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Managers were given just 200 characters to explain why the jobs these workers did mattered. In the end, it didn't matter. On Thursday, officials were told that the vast majority of the exemptions they had asked for were denied by the Trump administration.

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

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How Much Money Has Trump Made Off the Presidency So Far?

Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have been making deals and raking in money ever since Trump won the election, including a cool $40 million to license Melania’s documentary about returning to the White House as first lady.

That’s just one of Trump’s numerous moneymaking schemes since his return to office, which have netted him and his family nearly $80 million so far, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. That includes donations to his future presidential library and a hefty $10 million settlement with Elon Musk’s X. That sum doesn’t include the millions the president and first lady have each netted from “meme coin” cryptocurrency ventures, a blatant means of scamming MAGA supporters.

Melania’s upcoming Amazon documentary may be one of the most obviously corrupt deals. The Journal reports that the first lady, the president, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, all had dinner at Mar-a-Lago in December, where Melania sold Bezos on her movie. Two weeks after that dinner, Amazon agreed to shell out the $40 million, nearly three times as much as the next best offer and the most the company has ever spent on a documentary.

The first lady is reportedly getting over 70 percent of the $40 million, and her agent is trying to sell “sponsorships” to executives and billionaires for the movie, with $10 million as the starting price. In return, these sponsors would get thanked in the credits and be invited to the premiere.

Much more at https://newrepublic.com/post/191543/how-much-money-trump-made-presiden
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Yeah? How much money have the Obama's made?

SPOILER ALERT: Any time either of them go to a function to give a ten minute speech, they make more money than I will make in the rest of my entire life.

Go. Fuck. Yourself.

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Harrison Ford’s president Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross transforms into the Red Hulk and promptly lays waste to his surroundings. Columns crumble, cornices are crushed, and even Old Glory gets turned into an offensive weapon as the world’s angriest POTUS swings an enormous flagpole at a military helicopter. The White House is a smoldering ruin, a monument to the destructive power of the president’s fury. But not to worry, a news report reassures us: Next up is “the restoration of normalcy to the White House.”

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One of the last Marvel properties made for all of you fags, and you fags hate it.

Not looking good for Disney.

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Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.

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Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

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Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.

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We know. Propaganda and their Ideology is more important to them than their very own lives are.

Unfortunately, when the Government isn't funding them, nobody else is.

Because nobody believes in any of their causes.


Prove me wrong. Write these people a big check right now.

How could you allow for the cancellation of Iraqi Sesame Street when you could have saved the show with your billions of Oil Dollars?

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Nah bitch.

I'm calling you out.

Where's your money? You fund this bullshit.

Who am I kidding. You won't even send a Fiver Haken's way because you're a broke ass bitch living in his mom's basement.

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Six, to go back to Second's reference to Anne Frank.

Would you inform on a neighbor or a store clerk?

Would you fight to stop your brother from being sent to a camp or yourself with your chronic condition?

Trump can't send the Nations anywhere but he could use the army again, to surround reservations.

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I don't inform on anybody for any reason. I can sit back and watch millions of other people inform on these criminals who don't belong here though.

DO NOT attempt to emotionally blackmail me.

I do not give one single shit about any of these people.



P.S. Anne Frank's end when caught was eating a bullet. Their end is going back home.

What happens then is even less my problem than them being here in the first place.

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I don't inform on anybody for any reason. I can sit back and watch millions of other people inform on these criminals who don't belong here though.

DO NOT attempt to emotionally blackmail me.

I do not give one single shit about any of these people.



P.S. Anne Frank's end when caught was eating a bullet. Their end is going back home.

What happens then is even less my problem than them being here in the first place.

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Typhoid, not a bullet, killed Anne Frank. Neither Trumptards nor Nazis are careful about healthcare for their prisoners. Anybody would already know this about 6ix: "I do not give one single shit about any of these people." That seems to be a nearly universal problem among the Trumptards.

Democrats go too far in the opposite direction by caring about everybody, including prisoners, which made it impossible for Joe Biden to do the right thing: hit Trump in the face with a shotgun blast. The Supreme Court said that it was legal for a President to kill a political opponent, but Biden could not do it.

Anne Frank's Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank#Death

How the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling opened the door for a shocking question: Can presidents kill their rivals?

A hypothetical scenario that lets Trump send SEAL Team 6 to assassinate his rivals has raised alarms for what a president could do without legal restraints, Alex Woodward reports

Thursday 04 July 2024 10:22 EDT

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/suprem
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Whether it’s actually not illegal, or it is illegal but Trump just can’t be prosecuted for it, we used to live in a country where there was more respect for the law than contemplating realistic hypotheticals of the president assassinating his political opponents or businessmen such as Jeff Bezos. See below for what Trump did to Bezos.

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

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Trump threatened Jeff Bezos, major owner of Amazon, and so Amazon paid Trump $40 million. It was extortion by Trump, dear little 6ix:

https://newrepublic.com/post/191543/how-much-money-trump-made-presiden
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Jeff Bezos owns a newspaper, The Washington Post, that Trump hates. The Post has gotten very frightened of Trump and very quiet about Trump's misdeeds and so has Jeff Bezos.

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

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Trump threatened Jeff Bezos, major owner of Amazon, and so Amazon paid Trump $40 million. It was extortion by Trump, dear little 6ix:

https://newrepublic.com/post/191543/how-much-money-trump-made-presiden
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Jeff Bezos owns a newspaper, The Washington Post, that Trump hates. The Post has gotten very frightened of Trump and very quiet about Trump's misdeeds and so has Jeff Bezos.

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Nobody is worried about any of Trump's alleged misdeeds. Certainly not when you turn a complete blind eye to the daily corruptions of the people you vote in. Those corruptions which will all be exposed in the coming months.

You lost every single court case. You shot at him twice and missed. You lost the Electoral College. You lost every swing state. You lost the popular vote by over 2 Million votes. Even people who voted for Democrats their entire life are now abandoning it.

You are a loser.

The Democratic Party is dead.

The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago does not exist.

You'd better get used to your new reality shitheel.


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The EU did not call emergency meetings about Biden, but there will be a secret meeting about Trump on Monday:

February 15, 2025 4:54 pm CET
By Hans von der Burchard

MUNICH — French President Emmanuel Macron is convening European leaders for an emergency summit in Paris on Monday, according to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

"I'm very glad that President Macron has called our leaders to Paris," Sikorski said, adding that he expects the European leaders to discuss "in a very serious fashion" the challenges posed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

"President Trump has a method of operating which the Russians call razvedka boyem —reconnaissance through battle: You push and you see what happens, and then you change your position. ... And we need to respond," the Polish minister said.

The meeting will take place on Monday, according to two EU officials.

More at https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-convenes-european-emergency-sum
mit-in-paris-on-sunday-polish-minister-says/

All of Europe is aware that Trump is insane. In America, only half are aware of how crazy Trump is.

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When Biden* wasn't spending 95% of his waking hours sleeping in his basement, he was blowing foreign leaders and pissing our money away, literally everywhere.

Nobody gives a fuck, stupid.

What you still haven't figured out is that even if anything you have to say turns out to be right now, NOBODY is going to listen to you anymore.

You are finished. Your opinion means nothing at all outside your echo chamber which is deflating and getting more claustrophobic every day.

You did all of this to yourself. You were warned.

Enjoy the new world that you ushered in.

You deserve it.

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When Biden* wasn't spending 95% of his waking hours sleeping in his basement, he was blowing foreign leaders and pissing our money away, literally everywhere.

Nobody gives a fuck, stupid.

What you still haven't figured out is that even if anything you have to say turns out to be right now, NOBODY is going to listen to you anymore.

You are finished. Your opinion means nothing at all outside your echo chamber which is deflating and getting more claustrophobic every day.

You did all of this to yourself. You were warned.

Enjoy the new world that you ushered in.

You deserve it.

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You're not aware of your defects and neither are the Trumptards I know, but the kind of people who talk your way about Biden and Trump were absurd wackadoodles before Trump got into politics. Trump is their kind of person: a guy who goes bankrupt, has money troubles, whose numerous adulterous affairs have destroyed his family, who are being sued frequently, who are gluttonous, drug addicted, alcoholic, all the many other unfortunate things that happen to a maladjusted American.

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

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My advice to any of the Left-Wingnuts and/or TDS sufferers who really want to do something for the Democratic Party is for every one of them to shut the fuck up and keep their feelings to themselves, for at least the next few months.

When you're going around breaking all of the Elite's Toys like a bull in a china shop, you're bound to accidentally break something that's going to create at least a minor crisis localized to a small area... but maybe he breaks something Really Big?

Or even worse yet, maybe nothing gets broken at all and things in this country really do start to improve for everyone for the first time in about 30 years. By that time, the Trump Administration could very well be sitting at or even above 60% approval.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand that's when some really powerful people push this as further evidence of a "clear mandate" that everything they think is what the people want and they start trying to do some things that we shouldn't be agreeing with like putting the church back in public schools or justifying insane ramp-ups of technological survalience on all US Citizens by telling us it's for our own good and they're only using it to look for illegals (*wink, wink... nudge, nudge...)


There are a lot of really fucking bad things that can come of all of this, Second.

I know this.

But not because of Trump. It has little to nothing to do with Trump.

There's a fucking boulder that's rolling right now and it appears to be picking up speed.

This DOES genuinely concern me, and it makes me question a lot of things right now.

I'm actually starting to have a little bit of actual fear surrounding the furvor of it all right now, and I do hope that it normalizes and doesn't continue to pick up speed for the next 4 years straight. I don't know how far down that mountain actually goes. I'm not an avid history buff, but I'm sure that there are much better comparisons to previous fallen empires than the unimaginative and trite muh Nazi ending.

I watch streamers all the time while I'm doing work on my projects and other things. Some of these guys doing it now are in their mid to late 20's and got their starts doing video game lets plays. Now they're talking politics to MILLIONs of subscribers who have been following them since they were all 12 years old.

Some of these opinions they have I like and agree with very much. Some I don't. But then sometimes I hear them say things that I think are a fucking terrible message to tell a couple of million impressionable young men who may have been in this para-social relationship with these streamers for over a decade, and who genuinely look to these Influencers as friends and role models.


When everything was batshit and nobody who was sane had a voice, this was all fun and games.

But now things are normalizing. Wrongs are being righted.

And at a break neck pace that honestly terrifies me in how terrified I am about the future implications instead of reveling in it like I always thought I would be when and if it finally ever happened.

Because I never forgot. I never had an opportunity to forget because my alignment was always in direct opposition of The Power. Trump 1.0 was 4 years of also being aligned directly against The Power. Trump 2.0 does not appear to be, at least right now.

And, quite frankly, after the last 8 years, the complete lack of pushback and the immediate defanging of the Legacy Media and Democratic Party dumbfounds me. I'm not somebody who is easily shocked, but this has been a very shocking Presidency so far, to say the least.

Trump is not what you should be fearing.

If you're going to fear anything right now, it's the lack of push back that you should fear. You should at least be questioning that. I know I do every day.




But then here you come along and post more dumb legacy media TDS bullshit half a dozen times per day and make me just revel in rubbing your nose in your dogshit. An

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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.

Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.

SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.

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Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.

I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?

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SECOND: Maybe Trump should fire these two astronauts?

Astronauts Stuck in Space Refute Donald Trump's Claim

Trump has repeatedly said that Williams and Wilmore were "abandoned" by the Biden administration.

Feb 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/astronauts-stuck-space-refute-trump-claim-iss
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Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore said they wanted to change the rhetoric around their stay on the ISS.

"We don't feel abandoned, we don't feel stuck, we don't feel stranded," Wilmore told CNN. "I understand why others may think that, but we come prepared... prepare[d] for any and all contingencies that we can conceive of, and we prepare for those.

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Yep. Including being stuck/ stranded in space. Even the title that you linked said "stuck".

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NASA Announces Return Date For Astronauts Trapped on ISS
Two American astronauts who have been trapped on the International Space Station since June could return to Earth earlier in March than expected, NASA said Tuesday.

Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to spend eight days on the International Space Station (ISS), but have been there for more than eight months after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft suffered propulsion problems.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-announces-return-date-for-astronauts
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They went to space for eight days - and could be stuck until 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4yqepr469o

How Two Stranded Astronauts Are Camping Out in Space
https://time.com/7010425/stranded-astronauts-iss-butch-wilmore-suni-wi
lliams/

Being left behind was hard, say stranded astronauts

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgn1125ne3o

The astronauts say they don't FEEL stuck or stranded, but... they were. Their mission was supposed to last 8 days. Instead it lasted 8 months. Sounds like a version of Gilligan's Island.

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Because NASA rotates space station crews approximately every six months, this newly launched flight with two empty seats reserved for Wilmore and Williams won’t return until late February. Officials said there wasn’t a way to bring them back earlier on SpaceX without interrupting other scheduled missions.

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Other scheduled missions? What other missions take priority over bringing your astronauts home?

Back to SIX's original proposal: if you think the Federal employees' work is so important, why don't you pay their salaries?


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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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My advice to any of the Left-Wingnuts and/or TDS sufferers who really want to do something for the Democratic Party is for every one of them to shut the fuck up and keep their feelings to themselves, for at least the next few months.

When you're going around breaking all of the Elite's Toys like a bull in a china shop, you're bound to accidentally break something that's going to create at least a minor crisis localized to a small area... but maybe he breaks something Really Big?

Or even worse yet, maybe nothing gets broken at all and things in this country really do start to improve for everyone for the first time in about 30 years. By that time, the Trump Administration could very well be sitting at or even above 60% approval.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand that's when some really powerful people push this as further evidence of a "clear mandate" that everything they think is what the people want and they start trying to do some things that we shouldn't be agreeing with like putting the church back in public schools or justifying insane ramp-ups of technological survalience on all US Citizens by telling us it's for our own good and they're only using it to look for illegals (*wink, wink... nudge, nudge...)

There are a lot of really fucking bad things that can come of all of this, Second.

I know this.

But not because of Trump. It has little to nothing to do with Trump.

There's a fucking boulder that's rolling right now and it appears to be picking up speed.

This DOES genuinely concern me, and it makes me question a lot of things right now.

I'm actually starting to have a little bit of actual fear surrounding the furvor of it all right now, and I do hope that it normalizes and doesn't continue to pick up speed for the next 4 years straight. I don't know how far down that mountain actually goes. I'm not an avid history buff, but I'm sure that there are much better comparisons to previous fallen empires than the unimaginative and trite muh Nazi ending.

I watch streamers all the time while I'm doing work on my projects and other things. Some of these guys doing it now are in their mid to late 20's and got their starts doing video game lets plays. Now they're talking politics to MILLIONs of subscribers who have been following them since they were all 12 years old.

Some of these opinions they have I like and agree with very much. Some I don't. But then sometimes I hear them say things that I think are a fucking terrible message to tell a couple of million impressionable young men who may have been in this para-social relationship with these streamers for over a decade, and who genuinely look to these Influencers as friends and role models.

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Can you give us some examples?

One thing I've heard is a kind of techno-society, where "they say" technology will be advanced and used for the benefit of people.(uh huh)
Like that?

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When everything was batshit and nobody who was sane had a voice, this was all fun and games.

But now things are normalizing. Wrongs are being righted.

And at a break neck pace that honestly terrifies me in how terrified I am about the future implications instead of reveling in it like I always thought I would be when and if it finally ever happened.

Because I never forgot. I never had an opportunity to forget because my alignment was always in direct opposition of The Power. Trump 1.0 was 4 years of also being aligned directly against The Power. Trump 2.0 does not appear to be, at least right now.

And, quite frankly, after the last 8 years, the complete lack of pushback and the immediate defanging of the Legacy Media and Democratic Party dumbfounds me. I'm not somebody who is easily shocked, but this has been a very shocking Presidency so far, to say the least.

Trump is not what you should be fearing.

If you're going to fear anything right now, it's the lack of push back that

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My advice to any of the Left-Wingnuts and/or TDS sufferers who really want to do something for the Democratic Party is for every one of them to shut the fuck up and keep their feelings to themselves, for at least the next few months.

When you're going around breaking all of the Elite's Toys like a bull in a china shop, you're bound to accidentally break something that's going to create at least a minor crisis localized to a small area... but maybe he breaks something Really Big?

Or even worse yet, maybe nothing gets broken at all and things in this country really do start to improve for everyone for the first time in about 30 years. By that time, the Trump Administration could very well be sitting at or even above 60% approval.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand that's when some really powerful people push this as further evidence of a "clear mandate" that everything they think is what the people want and they start trying to do some things that we shouldn't be agreeing with like putting the church back in public schools or justifying insane ramp-ups of technological survalience on all US Citizens by telling us it's for our own good and they're only using it to look for illegals (*wink, wink... nudge, nudge...)

There are a lot of really fucking bad things that can come of all of this, Second.

I know this.

But not because of Trump. It has little to nothing to do with Trump.

There's a fucking boulder that's rolling right now and it appears to be picking up speed.

This DOES genuinely concern me, and it makes me question a lot of things right now.

I'm actually starting to have a little bit of actual fear surrounding the furvor of it all right now, and I do hope that it normalizes and doesn't continue to pick up speed for the next 4 years straight. I don't know how far down that mountain actually goes. I'm not an avid history buff, but I'm sure that there are much better comparisons to previous fallen empires than the unimaginative and trite muh Nazi ending.

I watch streamers all the time while I'm doing work on my projects and other things. Some of these guys doing it now are in their mid to late 20's and got their starts doing video game lets plays. Now they're talking politics to MILLIONs of subscribers who have been following them since they were all 12 years old.

Some of these opinions they have I like and agree with very much. Some I don't. But then sometimes I hear them say things that I think are a fucking terrible message to tell a couple of million impressionable young men who may have been in this para-social relationship with these streamers for over a decade, and who genuinely look to these Influencers as friends and role models.

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Sure. The one that sticks out in my mind right now is a streamer named Asmongold who apparently recently made a transition from streaming games to streaming news from both sides and saying his opinions on everything, sometimes arguing and making fun of people in his chat for TDS. I find it kind of entertaining to have in the background, getting a glimps of the "news" from that lens. I just have YouTube on in the background while I'm working and often I don't bother intervening in the autoplay. He's never somebody I would have searched for or that I go out of my way to watch.

For the most part, I agree with a lot of his takes. But he is pretty young still and talks with the amount of cockiness that would come with being that age and having millions of people following you. There's a certain power you have over people watching you when the only ones that you're conversing with are the ones that are tipping you to get your attention. Imagine having that much power... where even people who hate you are going to give you money so they can shit talk you.

The other day though, healthcare came up

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To add to what I put above when you asked this question, I should make it clear that I'm not putting the extremist talk on immigration from Asmongold. He was the person I named and I attribute the Super Mario Bros. "joke" to him. From what I've heard out of him on immigration, I'm fine with it for the most part. If anything, I think his opinion is far too lax on the issue.


But I did just remember something he said specifically the other day that really got under my skin, especially when it was clear from his reaction to what chat was saying to him that they all agreed with him.

He kept saying that it was time for Fat Camps, with the insinuation presumably being that Americans who are overweight should be put into a facility until they're no longer deemed too fat.


WTF, man?


This is the type of shit right here that I'm talking about.


Yeah. Dudes, especially young dudes, are pissed off that they put fat and tranny people into all of their movies and video games and even their mom's Victoria's Secret catalogue, which back pre-internet days was worth its weight in gold.



But that doesn't mean 5 years later after most of those fat influencers have died from heart attacks and strokes and Trump won and RFK got the spot we all wanted him to that I'm going to sit back and be silent while the government starts rounding up fat people.

Fuck. I'm not going to tolerate them forcing anything on somebody who's fat, other than taking a step way back and not getting in the way of somebody shaming them for it. (ie: "Hate" speech laws need to all go away forever).


And you know what I just thought of?

They're probably going to "incentivize" good eating behavior by making living unaffordable for you if you don't lose the weight. I can almost guaranty you that at some point during the next 4 years that being overweight is going to be something that insurance companies through employers are going to be able to charge a hefty additional fee if they don't join programs and/or lose the weight. Which also means that one day we're all going to be regularly weighing ourself in front of somebody at our jobs in order to maintain the lower premiums. We'll probably also have to have doctors send in information recording the weight of anybody in your family that is on your insurance plan.


That's old hat to us smokers. They did this to us ages ago.

And we told you all back then they would eventually come for you and whatever it was that you did to destroy yourself.


RFK could end up being a trojan horse for a lot of policy changes in the name of health that Americans aren't going to approve of when they happen.

We're all in support of taking the Healthcare and Pharmicutical Industries, the Lobbyists, the Beurucrats and the Politicians involved with them to task.

But I doubt very much that a majority of them are going to be so keen to continue supporting what RFK does when they realize that a good portion of being healthy is self-accountability, and how the Government knows full well that most of us aren't very good at that, or impulse control. And maybe we just need a little nudge or two in the right direction to do the right thing... every second of every day.

How many of them are going to still think it was a good idea when DOGE shits out an offshoot called Quitter's Ink, and they're there to SixSigma your personal life for you...

or else...

I know Winston had a problem with being forced to do his daily exercises in front of the TV every single day he did it. It didn't matter that doing these was how he was raised and he had never once heard a single adult speak out against it.

It was only when he was an adult that he finally understood why nobody ever complained about it even though he knew deep down that more than

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Trump open to US troops in Ukraine

The administration of US President Donald Trump is open to the possibility of deploying American troops to Ukraine. However, this would be conditional on the troops guarding rare-earth mineral deposits to which they would gain access, according to NBC News.

According to four American officials, Trump has proposed that Ukraine grant the US 50% rights to rare-earth minerals. The US administration made it clear that it is willing to deploy American troops to protect the minerals if a peace agreement with Russia is reached.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-open-to-us-troops-in-ukrain
e-but-with-one-condition-nbc-news/ar-AA1z6wih

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

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YOU ARE DOING DONALD TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM FOR FREE.

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Are you having doubts about Trump? Are you doubting that tariffs can replace the income tax? Ending the income tax gets Trump out of bed in the morning.

Can Trump replace income taxes with tariffs?
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2024/can-trump-replace-i
ncome-taxes-tariffs

The U.S. government is — this isn't original — best thought of as a giant insurance company with an army. Without income and FICA taxes, the government's insurance component will collapse. But think how much better Trump, Musk and I will be when we are not taxed.

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

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YOU ARE DOING DONALD TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM FOR FREE.

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I'm having doubts about the world we're currently being presented.

I operate on a 3-digit IQ level. You wouldn't understand. Go back to your shrinking echo chamber and leave this conversation to the adults who've moved beyond a Hop-on-Pop reading level.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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YOU ARE DOING DONALD TRUMP'S WORK FOR HIM FOR FREE.

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I'm having doubts about the world we're currently being presented.

I operate on a 3-digit IQ level. You wouldn't understand. Go back to your shrinking echo chamber and leave this conversation to the adults who've moved beyond a Hop-on-Pop reading level.

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Trump is pressing Ukraine to give the United States half of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, valued at hundreds of billions of dollars, as payment for past U.S. aid to Ukraine, which has included dozens of HIMARS launchers and thousands of rockets for them.

Trump has hinted that he may withhold future aid unless Ukraine agrees to the mineral extortion. “We have to get something,” Trump said, ignoring the benefits of U.S. support for a democracy battling an authoritarian aggressor.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/02/15/two-hapless-russian-d
rone-operators-rolled-out-in-an-unarmored-truck-the-ukrainians-blasted-them-with-himars-and-drones/

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Why are you being so modest? You are a very stable genius, as is Trump: I’m a ‘very stable genius’

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/06/politics/donald-trump-white-house-fitne
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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The attack on USAID portends a war on Medicaid

Feb 16, 2025, 7:00 AM CST

https://www.vox.com/policy/399913/usaid-cuts-medicaid-medicare-welfare
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The Trump administration’s assault on USAID does tell us something broader about Republicans’ view on government spending — specifically, what they might consider to be wasteful spending: programs that help the poor. And the way they have justified the dismantling of USAID — by categorizing it as rife with fraud and mismanagement — may give us a glimpse into how they will approach domestic welfare programs.

Shutting down USAID will have major consequences for millions of people abroad, and it is a warning about antipoverty programs at home. When programs like food stamps or Medicaid are on the chopping block, chances are Republicans are going to turn to the same argument: These programs are wasteful, so why should we fund them?

USAID today. Medicaid tomorrow.

Throughout the presidential campaign, Trump promised not to cut programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but the red flags were hard to miss. “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements,” he told CNBC in March of last year.

And that’s exactly how Trump and his allies are framing their potential attacks on Medicaid now. (Unlike USAID's 0.3 percent of total federal spending, Medicaid is nearly 10 percent of the federal budget, making it a more appealing target for the Trump administration if they’re looking to drastically cut spending.) He recently told reporters that he’ll “love and cherish” Medicaid, but added one caveat: “We’re not going to do anything with that,” he said, “unless we can find some abuse or waste.”

When Trump nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), he said that Oz would “cut waste and fraud within our country’s most expensive government agency.”

“At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you’ve ever heard by FAR,” Musk tweeted last week. “It’s not even close.”

With Musk’s plan to cut some $2 trillion in government spending, it’s clear the road to getting even remotely close to that figure goes through entitlement cuts. Like the attack on USAID, Republicans will say they’re simply targeting fraud and abuse.

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

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In Graham Greene’s 1955 novel, The Quiet American, Alden Pyle, a CIA agent, reckons he has all the answers to conflict in colonial era Vietnam. Pyle’s ignorance, arrogance and dangerous scheming, intended to bring peace, result instead in the deaths of many innocents and ultimately his own. In today’s too-real, nonfiction world, Donald Trump is Pyle. Except he’s The Noisy American.

He thinks he’s a great deal-maker. He never stops trumpeting his brilliance. Yet his North Korea “deal of the century” was a fiasco. He handed Afghanistan to the Taliban on a plate. Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu runs rings around him. Now Trump-Pyle proposes another rubbish deal – selling out Ukraine. America’s very own surrender monkey is Vladimir Putin’s useful idiot. No matter how officials spin it, Trump’s concessions, made before ceasefire talks with Russia even begin, are calamitous, primarily for Ukraine but also for Europe’s security, the transatlantic alliance, and other vulnerable targets, such as Taiwan. As stated, Trump’s giveaways – accepting the loss of sovereign Ukrainian territory to Russian aggression, denying Nato membership to Kyiv, withholding US security guarantees and troops – are appeasement.

By chatting chummily on the phone for 90 minutes, praising Russia’s “genius” tyrant for his “common sense”, and inviting him to a Saudi summit, Trump rehabilitated a pariah and pulled the rug from under Nato allies. Putin gave nothing back. He thinks he’s winning, on the battlefield, politically and diplomatically. He’s right. Worse, Moscow continues to demand that any lasting deal address “structural issues”. These include Ukraine’s disarmament, non-aligned status, the “denazification” of its leadership, and even its existence as an independent state, which Putin abhors. Russia wants to re-order Europe’s security architecture, shorthand for weakening, dividing and pushing back Nato.

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/15/trumps-betrayal-of-ukraine
-has-emboldened-putin-and-pulled-the-rug-from-under-nato-allies/

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

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JD Vance is Merely the Latest Conservative Christian to Use Nazi Camps to Cleanse His Antisemitism Sins

By Joel Swanson | February 13, 2025

https://religiondispatches.org/jd-vance-is-merely-the-latest-conservat
ive-christian-to-use-nazi-camps-to-cleanse-his-antisemitism-sins/

On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former Nazi camp. The visit, timed to coincide with Vance’s trip to Germany for the Munich Security Conference, comes a year after Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and newly-installed most powerful person in the United States, visited Auschwitz last January.

It’s worth recalling the circumstances that led to Musk’s visit to Auschwitz a year ago. The visit came after months of antisemitic statements, including using his social media platform X to boost conspiracy theories accusing Jews of “flooding their country” with “hordes of minorities”; threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League for being the “biggest generators of anti-Semitism”; and accusing Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor George Soros of attempting to “erode the very fabric of civilization” because he “hates humanity.”

Finally, in the wake of a threatened advertiser boycott with the potential to harm Musk’s bottom line, he did what any wealthy celebrity accused of antisemitism does these days: he made a ritualized visit to a concentration camp or Holocaust museum to have his sins of bigotry washed clean. (In Musk’s case, he also made a similarly ritualized visit to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who, of course, has a long history of giving kosher passes to far-right antisemites in exchange for their support for the most right-wing elements within the Israeli government.) Musk’s brief trip to Auschwitz was enough to win instant forgiveness for his sins of antisemitism.

Except, of course, Musk was not radically, instantaneously transformed by his time at Auschwitz. He was not magically cleansed of his antisemitism. In the year after his trip to the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Musk reinstated the accounts of Holocaust deniers and praised a Holocaust revisionist historian. In just the past month alone, Musk infamously performed a Nazi salute at a Trump inauguration rally; joked about the Holocaust; told supporters of the German far-right party Alternative for Germany that Germany needs to “move beyond” its historical guilt for the Holocaust; and reinstated a briefly-fired 25-year-old government employee who had bragged about being “racist before it was cool” and called for the repeal of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Because the truth is, a trip to Auschwitz or Dachau isn’t some instant cure for antisemitism. It does not wipe away years of bigotry and far-right sympathies in some blinding flash of moral enlightenment. In fact, Musk didn’t even take his trip to the death camp particularly seriously. According to the partner of an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who was the guest of honor for Musk’s visit to the site, Musk “did not care” about the trip at all, and was “unmoved by the experience.”

Art Spiegelman, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, and himself the child of Holocaust survivors, has noted that despite the Jewishness of the Holocaust, most of our cultural narratives about the atrocity are actually Christian in nature, because they see suffering as providing a path to moral enlightenment; as Spiegelman writes: “that notion of suffering is a very Christian notion, that somehow you’re ennobled by it.”

Spiegelman is correct, but I would argue that he doesn’t go far enough. Not only are our narratives about Holocaust suffering narratives of Christian redemptive suffering, but our Holocaust memorial sites have become Christian sites of instant redemption. We see the symbolic visit to Auschwitz or Dachau as a sort of Christian pilgrimage, a way to receive penance and be cleansed of one’s sins, in the same way that Christians speak

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You just keep writing and posting articles like that and see where it gets you.



There's 25% of the population who would love to see it done just to spite you at this point. Care to make it 45%?

Keep it up.

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Israel has an unholy control over our nation's Mideast foreign policy. They portray themselves as long-suffering perpetual victims (as if no other ethnic group, religion, or nationality was ever genocided or suffered greatly!) while engaging in the exact same crimes they constantly wail about.

Fuck Israel. They're not "our allies in the Middle East". They're not defending our interests there (whateverthe fuck those are), they're just using us to knock over all of their neighboring states.

Visiting Auschwitz is just pandering to AIPAC and the (IMHO) easily-led American sheeplike public, who have been innoculated with pro-Jewish, pro-Israeli, and anti-Muslim propaganda for so long it feels natural.

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Yeah.

Fuck Israel too.

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SIX, I wish I had more time to chat with you about this. Right now I can only address this:

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I guess when you stop paying any attention and/or care to an entire generation or two of predominantly white males, you aren't paying attention to who the boys and young men are actually listening to.

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So I looked him up, and there's a whole demographic out there I never knew existed. He gets 30 million views a month, but I'm sure those aren't unique views. So that's a million a day. If ppl check his website on average once a day, he has a million unique viewers. If they only check in on average three times a week, thats a bit over 2 million viewers. Quite a few!

Anyway, I think the answer to this isn't censorship or propaganda, I think the answer is to teach critical thinking.

Many agree we need it, but nobody has been able to say what that is or how to teach it.

Some people "follow the money". Others have benefitted from courses in rhetoric or debate.


Hubby always references something physically fundamental: energy. Not motivational or emotional energy ("I felt so much energy in the room!") but actual KWH, or whatever units energy is being measured in. It really works for him.

It also helps to have experienced a different culture. Americans are particularly hidebound. Even being stationed in Germany is an eye opener.

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SIX, I wish I had more time to chat with you about this. Right now I can only address this:

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I guess when you stop paying any attention and/or care to an entire generation or two of predominantly white males, you aren't paying attention to who the boys and young men are actually listening to.

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So I looked him up, and there's a whole demographic out there I never knew existed. He gets 30 million views a month, but I'm sure those aren't unique views. So that's a million a day. If ppl check his website on average once a day, he has a million unique viewers. If they only check in on average three times a week, thats a bit over 2 million viewers. Quite a few!

Anyway, I think the answer to this isn't censorship or propaganda, I think the answer is to teach critical thinking.

Many agree we need it, but nobody has been able to say what that is or how to teach it.

Some people "follow the money". Others have benefitted from courses in rhetoric or debate.


Hubby always references something physically fundamental: energy. Not motivational or emotional energy ("I felt so much energy in the room!") but actual KWH, or whatever units energy is being measured in. It really works for him.

It also helps to have experienced a different culture. Americans are particularly hidebound. Even being stationed in Germany is an eye opener.

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What would these "white males" understand when they read a novel such as The Day of the Locust (1939)? Most likely they don't read nor would they understand that they are living examples of the characters in a novel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Locust#Themes
The characters are outcasts, who have come to Hollywood to fulfill a dream or wish: "The importance of the wish in West's work was first noted by W. H. Auden, who declared (in one of the interludes in The Dyer's Hand) that West's novels were essentially "parables about a Kingdom of Hell whose ruler is not so much a Father of Lies as a Father of Wishes".[12] In this respect, James Light, in his book Violence, Dreams, and Dostoevsky: The Art of Nathanael West, suggests that The Day of the Locust falls in with a motif in West's fiction; the exposure of hopeful narratives in modern American culture as frauds.[13]

As some critics point out, West's novel was a radical challenge to modernist literature. Some modernists set themselves up in opposition to mass culture; West depicts it and makes it an integral part of the novel.[14] West's use of grotesque imagery and situations establishes the novel as a work of Juvenalian satire. His critique of Hollywood and the mentality of "the masses" depicts an America sick with vanity and the harbor of a malignant sense of perversity.

The original title of the novel was The Cheated. The title of West's Day of the Locust is a biblical allusion to the Old Testament. Susan Sanderson writes:

The most famous literary or historical reference to locusts is in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, in which God sends a plague of locusts to the pharaoh of Egypt as retribution for refusing to free the enslaved Jews. Millions of locusts swarm over the lush fields of Egypt, destroying its food supplies. Destructive locusts also appear in the New Testament in the symbolic and apocalyptic book of Revelation. West's use of "locust" in his title evokes images of destruction and a land stripped bare of anything green and living. The novel is filled with images of destruction: Tod Hackett's painting entitled "The Burning of Los Angeles," his violent fantasies about Faye and the bloody result of the cockfight. A close examination of West's characters and his selective use of natural images, which include representations of violence and impotence — and which are therefore contrary to popular images linking nature and fertility — reveals that the locust in the title is Tod.[

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SIX, I wish I had more time to chat with you about this. Right now I can only address this:

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So I looked him up, and there's a whole demographic out there I never knew existed. He gets 30 million views a month, but I'm sure those aren't unique views. So that's a million a day. If ppl check his website on average once a day, he has a million unique viewers. If they only check in on average three times a week, thats a bit over 2 million viewers. Quite a few!

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Yeah. And he's just one dude who isn't Joe Rogan.

The Legacy Media really hasn't relized that it is dead yet. None of these people watching Asmon or Rogan or anyone else almost never tune into the news. In the case of Asmon, he shows it to them with a lot of commentary and some back and forth with followers.

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Overall, I think people watching stuff from somebody like Asmond is a good thing. I really do. And you have to know by now that I wasn't saying there should be any form of censorship, since fighting against that has always been one of my core values.

But I don't believe that engaging in this behavior does anything to foster any critical thinking skills. It's more herd-mentality that you see everywhere these days. They've managed to somehow poison the younger generations to grow up and make everything just like High School.

At least Asmond challenges bad takes, and from what I can tell he is pretty obviously well read, and isn't just some guy who should be talking Pokemon instead of Politics.

At 1 Million views per day, he's getting more viewership than most Cable News talking heads do.

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Many agree we need it, but nobody has been able to say what that is or how to teach it.

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You simply can't be taught it. Not in a classroom. That's my take.

And the longer you keep the kid gloves on and refuse to put children into any position of even mild discomfort where they'd need to use their own noggins to get themselves out of a bad situation, they will grow up having never learned it and by then it's far too late for most of them. And they'll spend their entire adult lives unable to distinguish an opinion from a fact, and will be very easily propagandized.

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Some people "follow the money". Others have benefitted from courses in rhetoric or debate.

Hubby always references something physically fundamental: energy. Not motivational or emotional energy ("I felt so much energy in the room!") but actual KWH, or whatever units energy is being measured in. It really works for him.

It also helps to have experienced a different culture. Americans are particularly hidebound. Even being stationed in Germany is an eye opener.

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I'm not getting what you mean by your husband referencing energy. You mean when you discuss politics with him he gives kWh ratings to different politicians, policies, etc.?


You can have plenty of different experiences just by living in America without going anywhere else. It's one of the reasons that the Left always putting everyone into boxes pisses me off so much. Nobody in my family did a goddamned bad thing to black people. We weren't even here early enough to do it. I drive around a shittier car than 95% of black people do. I don't want to hear about how great I have it or how bad my family was to anyone else anymore. And I especially don't ever want to hear out of some black millionaire like Anthony Mackie or Kapernick. We're done with that bullshit in 2025.

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Meanwhile in Russia: Sergey Mikheyev says that in light of the Trump administration's express intent to abandon NATO allies in case they intervene in Ukraine, Russia should strike Brussels, London and Paris. Vladimir Solovyov wholeheartedly agrees.
8:39 PM · Feb 15, 2025
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Sergey Mikheyev says Russia should strike Brussels, London and Paris

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

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Back to SIX's original proposal: if you think the Federal employees' work is so important, why don't you pay their salaries?

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Not counting the military, there are 2.6 million federal employees. On average, including benefits, they earn on the order of $140,000 a year. That works out to a little more than $350 billion a year. If Elon Musk fired half a million of them, that would save just 1% of the budget — not counting the cost of paying them unemployment benefits and the loss of tax revenue levied on their earnings (and the cost of losing the value of their work, just in case they had not been totally useless, as Musk, 6ix and Signym seem convinced they are).

https://andrewtobias.com/actions-we-can-take-today/

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Boo hoo.

They should have saved their money while the getting was good.

If they're smart, they're in the process of learning a few life lessons right now.

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Fake news.

Gotta get as much of it that they can get out before the last of the final USAID payments dry up.

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You can have plenty of different experiences just by living in America without going anywhere else. It's one of the reasons that the Left always putting everyone into boxes pisses me off so much. Nobody in my family did a goddamned bad thing to black people. We weren't even here early enough to do it. I drive around a shittier car than 95% of black people do. I don't want to hear about how great I have it or how bad my family was to anyone else anymore. And I especially don't ever want to hear out of some black millionaire like Anthony Mackie or Kapernick. We're done with that bullshit in 2025.

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Where did that Anthony Mackie reference come from? From another thread you started:

The Blacktain Anti-America Failure Thread
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=66463

Captain America: Brave New World stars Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, who takes up the mantle of Captain America.

Quoting 6ix: "It's a loser for Disney even at $180 Million, and that should be enough to keep them from making another one or trying to shoehorn in Black Anti-America as the leader of the Avengers going forward."

6ix, the Confederate slave-owners spoke the same as you: "Nobody in my family did a goddamned bad thing to black people." There are racists I know who say the same as you, but I know they do harm black people.

Quoting 6ix: "It's one of the reasons that the Left always putting everyone into boxes pisses me off so much." 6ix, you put yourself in a box by your behavior and then you deny doing what you did, which makes you a liar along with your unsavory way of life and political beliefs.

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

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Meanwhile in Russia: Sergey Mikheyev says that in light of the Trump administration's express intent to abandon NATO allies in case they intervene in Ukraine, Russia should strike Brussels, London and Paris. Vladimir Solovyov wholeheartedly agrees.

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Fake news.

Gotta get as much of it as they can get out before the last of the final USAID payments dry up.

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The Russians did say that. Why would the Russians feel so confident? Because Trump made a stunning admission he would not abide by the collective-defense clause at the heart of the NATO alliance if reelected. To translate that into Trumptard language: If Russia attacked Brussels, London and Paris, Trump would not honor American treaties promising to stop the Russians.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/10/politics/trump-russia-nato/index.html

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What Trump said was that if NATO states sent soldiers into Ukraine they wouldn't be covered by Article 5. Which, if you think about it, makes sense, bc NATO is there to defend NATO members against attack, and sending your soldiers into a foreign nation doesn't mean you've been attacked.

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Netanyahu To Rubio: Let's 'Finish the Job' Against Iran

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Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in Israel where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, after which they gave a joint address before reporters in Jerusalem.

This is Rubio's first Middle East visit since becoming America's top diplomat. He and Bibi called for the total elimination of Hamas and the return of all the remaining hostages, following three being released on Saturday, including an American dual citizen.

Importantly, Netanyahu declared that Israel and the US should "finish the job" against Iran, a week after Trump in a Fox interview said the choice is on Tehran - either they can do a new deal to monitor their nuclear energy program or possibly get bombed into submission.

Rubio called the Islamic Republic the greatest source of instability in the region, and as a longtime supporter of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"Hamas cannot continue as a military or a government force... they must be eliminated," Rubio additionally stated alongside Netanyahu, warning that the "gates of hell" could once again be opened against Hamas.

As for Netanyahu, he affirmed: "We discussed Trump's bold vision for Gaza's future and will work to ensure that vision becomes a reality." This vision has been roundly rejected by Arab states, especially Egypt and Jordan.

Trump earlier this month restored "maximum pressure" and fresh sanctions targeting Iranian oil exports, which reflects the policy of his first term, when he pulled the US out of the JCPOA nuclear deal with Tehran.

"Maybe they are trying to get new defense as we speak but their defense is largely gone... Iran is very nervous. I think they're scared. I think Iran would love to make a deal and I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them," Trump had said in the remarks just under a week ago.

"Everybody thinks Israel with our help or our approval will go in and bomb the hell out of them," Trump had added. "I would prefer that not happen. I'd much rather see a deal with Iran where we can do a deal, supervise, check it, inspect it," the president continued.

That's when Trump made one of the more interesting and provocative comments of the interview...

There's two ways to stopping them: With bombs or a written piece of paper.

So Rubio has reiterated this ultimatum from Jerusalem, with full approval of Netanyahu standing by his side. Iran has meanwhile said it won't respond to such threats, and has described that even if it wanted a deal, it can no longer trust Washington given it agreed to the JCPOA nuclear deal under Obama, and then Trump pulled out of it in 2018.

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I think Iran is another nation that Trump can't bully. He's got no leverage on Iran short of a military attack.

Trump and Netanyahu ... a match made in hell.

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You can have plenty of different experiences just by living in America without going anywhere else. It's one of the reasons that the Left always putting everyone into boxes pisses me off so much. Nobody in my family did a goddamned bad thing to black people. We weren't even here early enough to do it. I drive around a shittier car than 95% of black people do. I don't want to hear about how great I have it or how bad my family was to anyone else anymore. And I especially don't ever want to hear out of some black millionaire like Anthony Mackie or Kapernick. We're done with that bullshit in 2025.

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Where did that Anthony Mackie reference come from? From another thread you started:

The Blacktain Anti-America Failure Thread
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=66463

Captain America: Brave New World stars Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, who takes up the mantle of Captain America.

Quoting 6ix: "It's a loser for Disney even at $180 Million, and that should be enough to keep them from making another one or trying to shoehorn in Black Anti-America as the leader of the Avengers going forward."

6ix, the Confederate slave-owners spoke the same as you: "Nobody in my family did a goddamned bad thing to black people." There are racists I know who say the same as you, but I know they do harm black people.

Quoting 6ix: "It's one of the reasons that the Left always putting everyone into boxes pisses me off so much." 6ix, you put yourself in a box by your behavior and then you deny doing what you did, which makes you a liar along with your unsavory way of life and political beliefs.

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

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How about 10 years of this rich little black bitch whining about how unprivileged he is?

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I think its quaint, SIX, that you think you can understand so many different kinds of people without ever leaving your home state, let alone your nation.

The farthest I've gone is Canada, but I met students from Pakistan and India and Eastern European nations and the Congo and Egypt at university. Most of them came from wealthy families, but some not so much. Their attitudes and assumptions and how they approached other people ... and young attractive women (as I once was) ... were very different depending on where they came from. And occasionally left me ??????

And my lab hired people from mainland China, Taiwan, Burma, Syria, Russia, Israel, Ethiopia, Sweden, Finland ... again, all very different. If I were to actually VISIT those nations and meet a broader range of people (besides intelligent, competent, technically trained, English speaking, and relatively wealthy) I'm sure I would have many more ???? moments.

I find that people who come from other cultures often have the sharpest insight into ours, and better sources of info. It's something I wish I could reproduce, but being mostly embedded in this culture it's impossible.

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I think its quaint, SIX, that you think you can understand so many different kinds of people without ever leaving your home state, let alone your nation.

The farthest I've gone is Canada, but I met students from Pakistan and India and Eastern European nations and the Congo and Egypt at university. Most of them came from wealthy families, but some not so much. Their attitudes and assumptions and how they approached other people ... and young attractive women (as I once was) ... were very different depending on where they came from. And occasionally left me ??????

And my lab hired people from mainland China, Taiwan, Burma, Syria, Russia, Israel, Ethiopia, Sweden, Finland ... again, all very different. If I were to actually VISIT those nations and meet a broader range of people (besides intelligent, competent, technically trained, English speaking, and relatively wealthy) I'm sure I would have many more ???? moments.

I find that people who come from other cultures often have the sharpest insight into ours, and better sources of info. It's something I wish I could reproduce, but being mostly embedded in this culture it's impossible.

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There's nothing quaint about it.

Your life and mine have almost zero overlap.

I don't need to go to India to see a different way of life. I can just walk my happy ass next door and do that.


So I'm confused when you say "our culture". I don't feel I share culture with anyone whom I've never met, let alone spent any real time with.

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So I'm confused when you say "our culture". I don't feel I share culture with anyone whom I've never met, let alone spent any real time with.

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And that's what's so quaint.

You obviously haven't run into anyone REALLY different bc if you did, you'd know.

You fit smack dab into a stereotype, SIX. A white Midwestern American male stereotype.

If you want to know along what lines I'll let you know.
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On Reddit, federal employees shared their experience. One wrote: “The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my f*cking firing. I make $50K a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

It certainly appears that those in charge of the firings didn’t know what they were doing: on Thursday they fired more than 300 workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, apparently not aware that they were the people who oversee the nation’s nuclear weapons. Today, Peter Alexander and Alexandra Marquez of NBC News reported that officials are now trying to rehire them but can’t figure out how to reach them because the workers lost access to their work email when they were fired.

MAGA voters are now discovering that much of what billionaire Elon Musk is cutting as “waste, fraud, and corruption” is programs that benefit them, often more than they benefit Democratic-dominated states. Dramatically, farmers, who backed Trump by a margin of three to one, are badly hit by the freeze on funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act for conservation of land, soil, and water. “This isn’t just hippie-dippy stuff,” Wisconsin cattle, pig, and poultry farmer Aaron Pape told Linda Qiu and Julie Creswell of the New York Times. “This is affecting mainstream farmers.”

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/02/federal-government-should-regulate-b
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Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

Musk is moving fast and breaking important things

By Paul Krugman | Feb 17, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/our-government-is-experiencing-a

Last month SpaceX carried out a test launch of its in-development Starship rocket. Liftoff was achieved, but as the company later announced, “Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn.” In other words, it exploded.

It would be wrong to think of this explosion as a disaster; new products often experience failures during testing. That is, after all, why we test them. Still, the euphemistic language reeks of unwillingness to take responsibility and admit that things didn’t go as planned. But then again, what would you expect from a company owned by Elon Musk?

And here’s the thing: If a rocket blows up, you can build a new rocket and try again. “Move fast and break things” is sometimes an OK approach if the things in question are just hardware, which can be replaced. But what if the object that experiences “rapid unscheduled disassembly” is something whose continued functioning is crucial to people’s lives — say, something like the U.S. government?

This isn’t a hypothetical question: Musk, with backing from Donald Trump, is blowing up significant parts of the U.S. government as you read this. And we can already see the shape of multiple potential disasters.

The Muskenjugend — the mostly very young people Musk has hired to work at the Department of Government Efficiency, which isn’t actually a government department in any legal sense but which Trump has effectively given huge and probably unconstitutional power to remake federal agencies — generally seem to share three characteristics.

First, they all seem to be extreme right-wing ideologues: whenever journalists investigate the social media trail of one of Musk’s operatives, what they find is horrifying. For example, Marko Elez, who had access to the Treasury Department’s central payments system, had in the recent past advocated racism and eugenics.

Second, they don’t know anything about the government agencies they’re supposedly going to make more efficient. That’s understandable. The federal government has around 2 million workers, many — I would say the vast majority — performing important public services, in a huge variety of fields. You can’t parachute into a government agency and expect to know in a matter of days which if any programs and employees are dispensable.

But the third characteristic of the Muskenjugend is that, like Musk himself, they’re arrogant. They believe that they can parachute into agencies and quickly identify what should be cut.

So last week, when the Trump administration began laying off large numbers of probationary workers, the only real questions were how quickly it would become clear that essential government functions were being compromised and just how scary the damage would be.

And the answers were that the damage became obvious almost immediately, and some of it looks very scary indeed.

A word about language: the term “probationary workers” can sound as if we’re talking about problem cases, people who’ve had poor performance reviews or something. But all it means is employees who were hired relatively recently, usually within the past year, and as a result have weaker job protection than their more senior colleagues.

So what would be your worst nightmare about large, hastily announced job cuts? Maybe firing the people responsible for keeping our nuclear weapons secure? Sure enough, on Thursday night, according to CNN’s reporting, Trump officials fired more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, apparently unaware that this agency oversees America’s nukes. (Maybe the name should have been a giveaway?)

The next day, realizing the enormity of the error, the agency tried to reinstate those workers — but was having trouble getting in touch, because the terminated workers had already been locked out of their government email acco

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Trump Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Federal Prisons Are Purposely Inhumane

By Akela Lacy | February 16, 2025, 6:30 a.m.

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/16/trump-pam-bondi-death-penalty-exec
utions-prisons/

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued last week several memos to all Department of Justice employees including one with the subject: “Reviving the Federal Death Penalty and Lifting the Moratorium on Federal Executions.” It detailed exactly how her agency will put into practice an executive order to restart federal executions that President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office.
https://theappeal.org/pam-bondi-attorney-general-memos/
https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388561/dl?inline
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-the-
death-penalty-and-protecting-public-safety/

The memo denounced the pause on federal executions under former President Joe Biden and claimed DOJ officials had neglected their jobs by upholding a moratorium on federal executions in place since 2021, which halted a killing spree launched by Trump in his first term. “The Department’s political leadership disregarded these important responsibilities and supplanted the will of the people with their own personal beliefs,” the memo read.
https://theintercept.com/series/out-for-blood/

While there is no evidence that the death penalty achieves its purported goal to deter crime, the Trump administration wants the federal government to direct substantial resources and dollars to carrying out more executions, more quickly. Through its executive actions and policy memos, the administration is also stating something that criminal justice and human rights advocates have long said: that conditions in many federal detention facilities are inhumane, and Trump wants to keep them that way.
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13363/chapter/1
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/03/death-penalty-capital-punishment-c
ovid-abolition/
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/26/atlanta-prison-suicide-senate-inve
stigation/

In the January 20 executive order, Trump directed his attorney general to evaluate the conditions of confinement for the 37 people commuted from federal death row at the end of Biden’s term and “take all lawful and appropriate action to ensure that these offenders are imprisoned in conditions consistent with the monstrosity of their crimes and the threats they pose.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/18/biden-federal-death-sentence-commu
tations/

The message is a direction to the federal government to use conditions of confinement as additional punishment — which is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, according to Miriam Gohara, a clinical professor of law at Yale University and a former federal public defender.

On top of that, it suggests that inhumane conditions in federal detention are the administration’s goal.

“The one thing that was clear from the order was that it sounded like the administration was going to try to influence placement of people, and try to do so under conditions that they called ‘monstrous’ in their order,” Gohara told The Intercept. Gohara spent over a decade representing clients sentenced to death in post-conviction litigation.

“Certainly, if I were leading the [Bureau of Prisons] or if I were working in the BOP, I wouldn’t want to suggest that there are any monstrous conditions in my facilities,” she said.

“That suggests that they’re actually encouraging the Bureau of Prisons to maintain monstrous conditions, or that they think they’re already monstrous conditions in the BOP somewhere, and that somebody could be put there. Which again, seems like a very odd thing for the executive to be saying about one of his agencies.”

The administration’s use of language describing federal detention as “monstrous” is on par with how Trump has spoken on criminal justice from the start, said death row attorney Dale Baich. He previously led the unit of the Arizona Federal Defender’s Office that represents people senten

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Hayden Davis exposes Trump and Melania for crypto insider trading alongside other crimes

By Jai Hamid for CryptoPolitan | Feb 17, 2025

https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/4529f-hayden-davis-exposes-trump-melan
ia

In a mind-blowing interview with Coffeezilla, Kelsier’s Hayden Davis, the self-proclaimed launch strategist behind multiple political meme coin launches, openly admitted to insider trading, sniper wallets, and market manipulation — implicating presidents Donald Trump and Javier Milei as well as First Lady Melania Trump.

He detailed how meme coins like LIBRA were rigged from the start, how insiders had pre-launch access to tokens, and how every major launch was nothing more than a calculated financial game. “This is an insiders’ game. It’s an unregulated casino,” Hayden said, confirming that early buyers at a private dinner in Washington, D.C., were given access to Trump’s token before the public.

“I thought some of these meme coins could turn into something real,” Hayden added. “But the reality is, it’s just a game. The people who know how to play win. The rest lose.” Mind you this is the guy who launched the $LIBRA token that wiped $4.6 billion from the market in six hours.

Trump’s meme coin was rigged from day one

Hayden shared that before Trump’s token launch, a small group of investors were granted exclusive pre-sale access at a valuation of $500 million. According to him, these buyers were let in before the contract address was made public, so that they could purchase at rock-bottom prices before the retail frenzy.

“They gave people special access to buy in before it launched,” Hayden said. “That’s what I was told.” When pressed on where this happened, he named Washington, D.C., as the location where the deal allegedly took place.

Melania’s token, Hayden admitted, followed the same playbook. He was directly involved in the launch and confirmed that his team sniped it. The goal, according to him, was to counteract external snipers, but in reality, it meant insiders once again took the best entry positions before the public.

“We weren’t the big sniper,” Hayden said. “That’s what we were trying to avoid.” But on-chain data tells a different story. A wallet tied to his operation received $1.5 million worth of Melania’s token from an address labeled ‘Melania D Liquidity 2.0.’ The tokens were then dumped, crushing the price and leaving retail investors with massive losses.

How sniping and insider deals keep the market rigged

More at https://cryptorank.io/news/feed/4529f-hayden-davis-exposes-trump-melan
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Will I Still Get to Give My Elevator Pitch for the Rule of Law?

By Ken MacVey | Monday, Feb 17, 2025, 5:00AM

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/02/will-i-still-get-to-give
-my-elevator-pitch-for-the-rule-of-law.html

Consider: President Trump signs an executive order that purports to obliterate a provision of the 14th Amendment regarding birthright citizenship. He fires in violation of Congressional statute seventeen inspector generals who are responsible for auditing multiple federal agencies for fraud, waste, and wrongdoing. He pronounces on his website that CBS should lose its license with the FCC and 60 Minutes should be shut down because of a televised interview of candidate Kamala Harris was allegedly edited in her favor. The FCC, with its new chairman appointed by Trump, puts the matter of the interview on its docket. Private citizen Elon Musk, who has made billions from government and spent over a quarter of a billion on Trump’s presidential campaign, roams with his band of anonymous minions through federal headquarters to digitally siphon confidential information, including personal information on millions of people. Thereupon Musk announces that agencies, jobs and congressionally appropriated funding for programs are to be terminated, which they are. The Trump’s Administration acting US Attorney for the District of Columbia in a letter posted on X thanks Musk for identifying individuals for criminal investigation and vows that he is prepared to “chase them to the end of the Earth.”

Much more at https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/02/will-i-still-get-to-give
-my-elevator-pitch-for-the-rule-of-law.html

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

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Six Sentences
Cut out of Washington’s Farewell Address, they’re what we need to read right now.

By Alexis Coe | Feb 17, 2025 5:40 AM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/presidents-day-2025-holida
y-george-washington-history.html

In 1796, George Washington struck six pointed sentences from his Farewell Address. I’d largely forgotten about them—the final address contains enough wisdom to fill volumes—until, on a whim, I revisited the drafts. What I found was revelatory: a chilling prophecy of the constitutional crisis now threatening to engulf our nation. These excised lines from the Farewell Address serve not only as a warning but as a prescient prophecy of the political turmoil and factionalism that would later shape the nation’s history. They reveal Washington’s deep understanding of the fragile nature of democratic institutions and the ever-present threats of demagoguery and partisan strife. This Presidents Day, these rediscovered warnings serve not as a eulogy for our experiment in self-governance, but as a rallying cry for its reinvigoration.

“In Republics of narrow extent,” Washington cautioned in this purged passage, “it is not difficult for those who at any time hold the reins of Power, and command the ordinary public favor, to overturn the established Constitution, in favor of their own aggrandisement.” Washington offered the blueprint of the modern demagogue, a Cassandra-like prophecy of executive overreach and populist fervor. His words eerily prefigure the rise of Andrew Jackson’s “spoils system,” Gov. Huey Long’s Louisiana fiefdom, and our current era of autocracy amplified by social media. Washington, having spurned a crown himself, recognized the siren song that could bewitch even ostensibly democratic leaders, particularly in polities where checks on power are easily subverted.

“Partial combinations of men, who though not in Office, from birth, riches or other sources of distinction, have extraordinary influence & numerous adherents” would subvert the very foundations of the republic, Washington warned. To become a demagogue, a president would need more than a powerful political party; he’d depend on a cabal of powerful citizens—the wealthy puppet masters, media barons, and shadow influencers—who could provide the scaffolding for a president to dismantle democratic norms. The enablers of tyranny, Washington predicted, wouldn’t be public servants, but private citizens who thought nothing of trading constitutional principles for a seat at the table of power.

Washington, who transitioned seamlessly from general to president and back to private citizen, could easily imagine a demagogue giving in to the perilous temptation to use martial power as a political cudgel. “By debauching the military force, by surprising some commanding citadel, or by some other sudden & unforeseen movement, the fate of the Republic is decided,” he warned, intimating that the president could deploy troops for domestic political ends, quelling protests, rounding up people he deems undesirable, and undermining electoral processes.

But then, suddenly, there’s good news. Washington’s analysis in this excised section pivots to a cautious optimism about large republics—at a time when the United States territory extended only to the Mississippi River. “But in Republics of large extent, usurpations can scarcely make its way through these avenues,” Washington writes to “Friends & Fellow-Citizens,” in an address that was published in newspapers rather than delivered to Congress. “The powers and opportunities of resistance of a wide extended and numerous nation, defy the successful efforts of the ordinary military force, or of any Collections which wealth and patronage may call to their aid.” Echoing James Madison in Federalist No. 10, he places faith in size as democracy’s invisible shield. The American experiment, sprawling across half a continent, was to be a Gordian knot too complex for any would-be Alexander to slice through.

Notably, Washington’s emphasis on “resistance” suggests a populac

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So I'm confused when you say "our culture". I don't feel I share culture with anyone whom I've never met, let alone spent any real time with.

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And that's what's so quaint.

You obviously haven't run into anyone REALLY different bc if you did, you'd know.

You fit smack dab into a stereotype, SIX. A white Midwestern American male stereotype.

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Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post, is terrified:

Washington Post refuses to run $115,000 ad titled ‘Fire Elon Musk,’ report says

‘Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk,’ reads the advert, which was intended for Tuesday’s edition of the newspaper

By James Liddell | Monday 17 February 2025 10:46 GMT

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/washingt
on-post-musk-doge-ad-trump-b2699407.html

The Washington Post pulled out of running a $115,000 front and back page advert that called for President Donald Trump to “fire” Elon Musk, his Department of Government Efficiency head, according to a new report.

Members of Congress, political pundits and the public have watched the world’s richest man and his non-official advisory body, DOGE, tear through various government departments, as he attempts to slash bureaucracy and cut $2 trillion in federal spending.

Advocacy group Common Cause, in collaboration with the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund, signed an agreement for a scathing anti-Musk wrap advert for Tuesday’s edition of the newspaper, as well as a full page inside the paper, according to The Hill.

The newspaper containing the “Fire Elon Musk” wrap was meant to be delivered to subscribers at Congress, the Pentagon and the White House, per the outlet.

“Who’s running this country: Donald Trump or Elon Musk?,” the ad, which is still available on Common Cause’s website, reads, along with a cut-out of a laughing Musk and the White House.

It continues: “Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself. The Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call Your Senators and tell them it’s time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk.”

A QR code at the bottom of the page directs readers to the link “Fire.Musk.org” along with a call for donations between $10 and $100 to help the organization hold “power accountable.”

On Monday, Musk took a swipe at the Southern Poverty Law Center in an X post addressing The Post’s refusal to run the ad. “The SPLC is yet another scam. No more mooching off the taxpayer for them,” he tweeted.

Common Cause President Virginia Kase Solomón said it was “a signed agreement” and the advert “didn’t raise any concerns that it would be something too inflammatory for them” before the artwork was sent, she told The Hill.

No money was exchanged as the advert didn’t run, she added.

Solomón questioned whether it was the relationship between Jeff Bezos, who attended Trump’s inauguration last month, and the president which meant the advert was pulled from the almost 150-year-old newspaper of record.

“Is it because we’re critical of what’s happening with Elon Musk? Is it only ok to run things in The Post now that won’t anger the president or won’t have him calling Jeff Bezos asking why this was allowed?,” she continued.

Solomón said that artwork was submitted to The Post last week and the group was subsequently told the advert could be inside the paper, but not the wrap.

The newspaper did not explain why it decided to axe the wrap ad, she added.

And while The Post considers advertising from all points of view, it has the right to require substantiation of facts. Advertisers are advised to obtain “the requisite permissions” when using the names or likenesses of individuals, the website reads.

The Common Cause president claimed that The Post sent the group an example advert from the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers of a large picture of the Trump flashing a thumbs up, paying homage to the president’s promise to “end the electric vehicle mandate on Day 1.”

“They gave us some sample art to show us what it would look like. It was a thank-you Donald Trump piece of art,” Solomón said.

“It just causes concern for us. Are they fearful of his reaction?”

Last week, Trump signed an executive order giving Musk even more power, requiring federal agencies to cooperate with DOGE cutting their staffing levels and

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Musk should be disqualified for responsible positions based on the names he gives his children. If he can't do that simple job right, he can't be trusted with more complicated decisions:

As previously stated, Musk has welcomed 13 children that we know of. He and his first wife, Justine Musk, welcomed six children together named Nevada (who tragically passed away at 10 weeks old), twins Griffan and Vivian, born in April 2004, and triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian, born in Jan 2006.

Then, he and Grimes welcomed three children named X Æ A-Xii, born in May 2020, Exa Dark Sideræl, born in Dec 2021, and Techno Mechanicus. He and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis also welcomed three children together: twins Azure and Strider, and another child, whose name has never been revealed, back in 2024. And now, he allegedly welcomed a 13th child with Clair.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-gave-one-word-163523012.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Government by the Billionaire Class for the Billionaire Class

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

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Your TDS is really flaring up today, huh?

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Democrats won the votes of Americans making over $100,000. Trump won the votes of those making less than $100,000.

Kamala Harris received and spent in full more than 4 times the amount of campaign contributions than Trump did.

The amount of Billionaires supporting the Democratic Party leading up to the 2024 election was greater than 2-to-1 over Trump.


Get your facts straight, or shut the fuck up.



Also, Bernie Sanders has been the #1 recipient of Big Pharma dollars to his campaigns in Congress. And I know that Bernie is just as unaware of where is money is coming from as Eric Adams was and like most politicians are, but when you're the guy rallying against Big Pharma every day and "speaking truth to power", you should probably have some good accountants making sure that you aren't the biggest recipient of Big Pharma money in Congress.

It also helps the Democrats very little, when Bernie has a net worth over $3 Million and 3 large properties that make most American's houses look like shacks by comparison. That $3 Million is especially impressive, considering that Bernie Sanders has never worked a single day in his very long and privileged life.

Fuck you, Bernie.

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6ix, stop walking around the house naked except for wearing your underpants as a hat. You look crazy to the neighbors. Trump always looks crazy, regardless of how he dresses.

“He who saves his country does not violate any laws.” - Trump
“The good of the state stands above the law.” - Hitler

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1890831415358488974
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-post-critics-declaring-law/story
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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6ix, stop walking around the house naked except for wearing your underpants as a hat.

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I'm retired. I can do whatever the fuck I want to while I'm in my house.

Also. My underpants aren't made of tin foil, so I don't see what the benefit of wearing them on my head would accomplish.

I know you jerk off to the image in your head of me multiple times every day, but I hate to break it to you that I'm currently wearing a hoodie and sweatpants in the middle of a very cold flash this week.

But 6 months from now in the dead of summer I will be bare-ass naked when I'm destroying your stupid takes.

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I'm retired. I can do whatever the fuck I want to while I'm in my house.

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So, my speculations were right. I was right about Trump, too, that he can't run a business:

'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos because of Trump

California's beloved national park is on the brink of disaster

By Ashley Harrell, National Parks Bureau Chief | Feb 13, 2025

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/yosemite-national-park
-in-chaos-20163260.php

Yosemite National Park is in trouble. Hamstrung by President Donald Trump’s hiring freeze, hundreds of rescinded job offers and the threat of coming layoffs, the park is poised to enter its busiest months of the year severely short-staffed. Not only that, but the park’s day-use reservation system — created to protect park resources and improve the visitor experience by reducing crowding — appears unlikely to return this year because of Trump.

Worst of it all, say current and former National Park Service employees, nonprofit leaders and other Yosemite experts interviewed by SFGATE, is that decades of efforts to protect the park’s ecosystems for future generations are being derailed by Trump.

This wouldn’t be the first time that Yosemite is forced to operate with a skeleton staff and no restrictions on visitors. It happened before in December 2018, during Trump’s first term. Without park rangers to guide and monitor their behavior, visitors left garbage at scenic viewpoints, brought dogs to ecologically sensitive meadows and other areas where pets were prohibited, drove over curbs, and even defecated on the ground next to locked restrooms, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal. When temperatures dropped, the garbage and human waste froze to the ground. (All caused by Trump being a giant asshole who arbitrarily shut down the National Park Service.)

“The trash cans weren’t getting emptied. There was so much garbage, and everything was getting overrun,” remembers Ken Yager, president of the Yosemite Climbing Association and founder of Yosemite Facelift, a yearly volunteer trash cleanup.

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

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You obviously haven't run into anyone REALLY different bc if you did, you'd know.

You fit smack dab into a stereotype, SIX. A white Midwestern American male stereotype.

If you want to know along what lines I'll let you know.
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Also part of the stereotype: Nobody can tell you anything.

You have personality traits that mesh well with some American stereotypes. You're highly intelligent but also deeply oppositional. You have something like ADHD. That meshes with some American cultural stereotypes of individualism, disdain for authority and authoritative education (YOU HATE BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO), independence, do-it-yourselfism.

That is very much tolerated, and even encouraged, in many parts of America. In other cultures, those traits would be beaten out of you, or at least strongly discouraged.

In India, for example, the key to getting ahead is a formal degree and CONNECTIONS. Without it, you're relegated to the unwashed masses. Independent business activity, such as restoring houses or even building a farmholding, would probably be preyed on by corrupt officials and gangs from all sides until nothing was left. You'd be left beating up on women as an expression of your stubbornness.

In China, the big cultural trait seems to be Fitting In. There is room for small independent businesses, but your oppositional political reactions would get you in trouble with your neighbors and probably most officials. The intrusive ever-present cyber-everything and various social credit databases would bug the shit out of you.

In much of eastern Europe, formal education is still prized. Not by you. Aside from perhaps having difficulty attending to formal lectures, YOU HATE BEING TOLD "THE FACTS" by someone you think is a simpering twit.

In western Europe and Britain, which are highly conformist, you'd have to parrot the LGBTQ/ globalist line and get vaccinated.

Clearly, none of the Muslim cultures are for you, not (just) bc they're Muslim... bc even if you could get past your prejudice against that specific religion, you're still non-religious. YOU HATE BEING TOLD WHAT TO BELIEVE.

Based on the number of do-it-yourself vidoes by highly skilled individual craftsmen, you'd probably fit in comfortably in Poland or Vietnam. Most likely Poland bc of climate similarity.

The point being, SIX, that some of your personality traits are at least tolerated here. We have a meme of "the rugged individualist", "the rebel" etc, but those are mostly absent from other cultures. They value other traits.

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Nice quote second, says it all.

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So I'm confused when you say "our culture". I don't feel I share culture with anyone whom I've never met, let alone spent any real time with.

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And that's what's so quaint.

You obviously haven't run into anyone REALLY different bc if you did, you'd know.

You fit smack dab into a stereotype, SIX. A white Midwestern American male stereotype.

If you want to know along what lines I'll let you know.
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I don't give a shit about stupid opinions, wherever the source.

But by all means, knock yourself out if you're bored.

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Also part of the stereotype: Nobody can tell you anything.

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Fuck your stereotype.

Here's a stereotype for you. That's a "man" thing.

It's also very much a woman thing too.





P.S. I've run into plenty of people who are far different than me. Doesn't matter what color they are, I generally go out of my way to be nowhere within their vicinity if I find them to be unpalatable. I don't go on Twitter and bitch about every time some idiot pisses me off. There's plenty of room for me and the rest of the idiots.


And just because men and women in other countries have most of their individuality beaten out of them, doesn't mean they like it.

I don't believe that outside of advanced brainwashing techniques that we aren't privy to, there isn't any way to truly beat out the individuality out of any person. Short of truly dehumanizing somebody through drugs and stimulation over a prolonged period of time, the only way you're going to get people to give up their individuality is if you get them to willingly give it up because whatever you're offering is so good that they just can't live without it after they've had a taste.


I'm not so far removed from a person who wakes every morning to do slave labor for somebody else under an oppressive government. By that I mean I have enough life experience, abuse, trauma and adversity in my life where I can empathize with anyone in that situation. These people are not without their individuality, even if most of their lives they've been stripped of their dignity.

Quite frankly, you sound like Second right now, Sigs.

You don't know me. And I'm certainly nowhere near the same fucking ballpark as whatever your California-born Midwestern Stereotype in your head is telling you that I am.

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Trump delivers ‘massive victory for China’ as he weakens Western alliance

The South China Morning Post reports:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3298855/china-courts
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The world shook this weekend as deep cracks appeared in the transatlantic alliance during a glitzy security summit in Munich. One guest was ready to capitalise: China.

Top officials from the United States and Europe spent a chaotic weekend trading barbs over values, Ukraine and democracy, with US Vice-President J.D. Vance clashing with a series of German leaders over his courting of the far-right ahead of next week’s federal election.

“The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia. It’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within,” said Vance, who later met Alice Weidel, the leader of the Alternative for Germany, which has been branded “extremist” by German authorities, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

Over lunch on Saturday, meanwhile, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg stoked further despair by saying Europe would not be included in peace talks, even as European boots would be expected on the ground in Ukraine. Vance and others also hinted that America’s security guarantee for Europe was in question.

In the margins, Beijing was making hay.

In a diplomatic blitz, Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his conservative opponent Friedrich Merz, Nato secretary general Mark Rutte, and counterparts from the European Union, Germany, Spain, and France. On each occasion, according to foreign ministry statements, he pitched China as a partner to Europe and a friend of the existing order.

“China is pleased to see Germany play an important role in the multipolar pattern and is willing to deepen all-round cooperation … and provide more certainty for the turbulent world,” Wang told Scholz, according to a readout.

During a meeting with the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas, meanwhile, Wang “emphasised that China supports all efforts conducive to peace and supports Europe’s important role in the peace talks process,” contrasting with Kellogg’s assertions that Europe should not be involved.

Wang made a more blatant pitch to Europe during a keynote speech on Friday, where – right after Vance – he said talk of “China attempting to change the [global] order” has gone quiet in light of Trump’s return.

“Now we don’t see much talk of that because now there is a country that is withdrawing from international treaties and organisations and I think in Europe, you can feel chills almost every day,” the veteran diplomat said.

While Wang’s language was not new, it was in stark contrast with Vance’s. The clear conclusion for many observers was that China sees an opening to improve ties with Europe and, potentially, drive a new wedge in the already fraught transatlantic alliance.

“On China’s side, there’s a great opportunity now that the ideological-driven alliance between the US and EU is subject to change,” said Cheng Li, the founding director of the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong, who described the US’ rhetoric at the summit as “astonishing”.

The early signs are that after a stormy few years in the EU-China relationship, some leaders in a Trump-battered Europe might be receptive to Beijing’s advances.

“This is a massive victory for China. It is just amazing what Trump has delivered to them, in less than a month,” said one European diplomat, who was not authorised to speak publicly.

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

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Fuck off, stupid.

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“He who saves his country does not violate any laws.” - Trump
“The good of the state stands above the law.” - Hitler

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Trump adopts view of legal impunity invoked by neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik

In his 1500-page manifesto, “A European Declaration of Independence,” Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who murdered 77 people on July 22, 2011, in the section headed “Because our survival depends on it,” writes, “He who saves his country, violates no law,” which has been attributed (without evidence) to Napoleon.

Donald Trump has now emphatically made the same declaration.

Much more at https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/16/trump-adopts-view-of-legal
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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50501 Organizers Launch 'Not My Presidents Day' Nationwide Day of Action

https://www.newsweek.com/50501-movement-organizaers-not-my-presidenti-
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Dear Americans who do not wish to become Nazis

https://imgur.com/gallery/dear-americans-who-do-not-wish-to-become-naz
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Dear Americans,

On this 17th of February, your People have organised a nationwide protest.

Your country’s democracy is being torn apart while you threaten our own democracies around the world, even threatening to invade us, your own allies.

We are at a critical fork in history, much like the world was in the 1930’s. You are the only ones with the collective power to make sure your own country stays on the right side of it.

You need to drop whatever you’re doing and show up today. And every day after that, until you have won back your freedom and your democracy.

You won’t change anything with your endless “Punch a Nazi/Luigi/Guillotine” memes.
It’s time to grow a collective spine. The same collective spine populations around the world have shown against dictators.

Get out there. Stand up.

Do not become the Free World’s Enemy. Do not allow your leaders to make Nazis out of you all.

Show us you are still our friends.

I beg you.

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

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SIX: So I'm confused when you say "our culture". I don't feel I share culture with anyone whom I've never met, let alone spent any real time with.

SIGNY: Also part of the stereotype: Nobody can tell you anything.

SIX: Fuck your stereotype.
Here's a stereotype for you. That's a "man" thing.
It's also very much a woman thing too.

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Not in other cultures. Here, it's celebrated. Elsewhere, not so much.

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SIX: P.S. I've run into plenty of people who are far different than me. Doesn't matter what color they are

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Do you think I'm talking about COLOR????

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SIX: I generally go out of my way to be nowhere within their vicinity if I find them to be unpalatable. I don't go on Twitter and bitch about every time some idiot pisses me off. There's plenty of room for me and the rest of the idiots.

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Oh, that's another celebrated stereotype: "The Loner".

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SIX: And just because men and women in other countries have most of their individuality beaten out of them, doesn't mean they like it.

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Bc, IN YOUR OPINION, people are all BASICALLY LIKE YOU.

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SIX: I don't believe that outside of advanced brainwashing techniques that we aren't privy to, there isn't any way to truly beat out the individuality out of any person.

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This reminds me of a sociology course that a coworker attended. The teacher said something like "We think were all infivuduals, but I can tell you with 90% accuracy what you all have in your wallets" and proved it by making them take out their wallets and listing what was inside.

People are mostly social creatures and just want to get along at a fundamental level. Would you fart at table at your friend's house? Show up unwashed and stinky? Be rude to your friends? Piss off your doctor?
If you want to see truly unsocialized people, check out schizophrenics and feral people.

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SIX: I'm not so far removed from a person who wakes every morning to do slave labor for somebody else under an oppressive government. By that I mean I have enough life experience, abuse, trauma and adversity in my life where I can empathize with anyone in that situation. These people are not without their individuality, even if most of their lives they've been stripped of their dignity.

Quite frankly, you sound like Second right now, Sigs.

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SIX: You don't know me. And I'm certainly nowhere near the same fucking ballpark as whatever your California-born Midwestern Stereotype in your head is telling you that I am.

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No, that is what YOUR head is telling you what I mean. What I mean is ...

The loner.
The rebel.
The rugged individualist.
The plainspoken man.
The person clever enough to do all of the above.

Those are some of our culturally-celebrated stereotypes portrayed over and over again in movies and TV by white men. Little relevance to people of many other cultures, who probably wonder why anyone would make a movie out of such characters.

People ARE NOT basically like you, SIX. Most of them aren't anywhere near as oppositional as you, and most aren't as smart as you.

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Me neither.



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I know life is hard for Trumptards. I'm around them, watching how poorly they handle life's contingencies. If Trump continues on this path, he will make life even harder for them than when Biden was President.

Can Trump Tank the Biden Economy? Here Are Eight Ways

By Dean Baker | Feb 16, 2025

https://cepr.net/publications/can-trump-tank-the-biden-economy-here-ar
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President Biden handed off the best economy to an incoming president since at least the 2001 handoff from Clinton to Bush II. In his last quarter in office, GDP grew at a 2.3 percent annual rate (final demand, which excludes inventory fluctuations, grew at a 3.2 percent rate). That brought the average growth rate for Biden’s presidency to 3.2 percent, the highest since Clinton’s second term.

The unemployment rate fell to 4.0 percent in January, keeping it in the narrow band between 4.0 percent and 4.3 percent it has been in since last May. For Biden’s whole term the unemployment rate averaged 4.1 percent, the lowest since Johnson’s last term, more than half a century ago.

Inflation is still slightly above the Fed’s 2.0 percent target, but it shows no clear trend. It’s worth noting in this respect that below 2.0 percent inflation rates were largely a post-Great Recession story. Prior to the Great Recession, inflation generally ran somewhat about 2.0 percent. Inflation, as measured by the CPI, was 3.4 percent in 2000, the last year of the Clinton administration.

In addition, productivity growth has been unexpectedly fast, running at close to a 2.0 percent rate in the last year. And these productivity gains are being passed on in rising real wages, with workers across the wage ladder getting their share of productivity growth.

This translates into an extraordinarily good economic picture, but we know that Donald Trump has big plans for the economy. Given his bold pronouncements coming daily, or even hourly, he has many possible routes for ending the boom we have been seeing.

Here are my eight favorite economy wreckers, in no particular order:

1 Stock market crash,

2 Mass deportation,

3 Tariffs run wild,

4 Pandemic wipe out,

5 Global warming disasters,

6 Splurge of spending cuts,

7 Debt limit crisis,

8 Messing with economic data.

My views on the likelihood of the dangers changes by the hour, or even the minute, as some new craziness spews out of Donald Trump or Elon Musk’s mouth or social media feed. Rather than making an arbitrary, as of this minute, ordering, I’m just going to say that these are equally likely. I’ll quickly go through each in turn.

More at https://cepr.net/publications/can-trump-tank-the-biden-economy-here-ar
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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"This Might Be The Biggest Fraud In History"

However, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with streamlining the federal bureaucracy, returned very excited to his social media platform around midnight, unveiling what "might be the biggest fraud in history."

Musk posted a spreadsheet of Social Security Administration data showing "numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!"

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The data shows that 20.789 million Americans are collecting social security benefits over the age of 100. Drilling down into the age buckets, benefits are still being paid out to folks over 140!

"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," Musk emphasized.

One X user pointed out that 2023 data showed the US population at around 334.9 million. However, Musk's data (likely from DOGE's 'Big Balls' analyst) shows 394 million names in the Social Security Administration database.

Musk responded: "Yes, there are FAR more "eligible" social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history."

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Illegals get fake papers created for them, including fake SSNs. They're paying into the system, but will probably not collect benefits. Most likely this represents a net inflow to SSN.

Still, it should be cleaned up.

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I wonder if Second has even realized that he's allowed himself to be propagandized so much that he's actively sitting on the sidelines and cheering for America to lose the game.



Fucking idiot.

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SIX: Fuck your stereotype.
Here's a stereotype for you. That's a "man" thing.
It's also very much a woman thing too.

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Not in other cultures. Here, it's celebrated. Elsewhere, not so much.

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What does that matter? You're going to believe what some media from other countries says the people believe about individualism? Or you're going to believe some Muslim woman you knew personally who had decades of her diseased religion beaten into her physically, emotionally and spiritually all of her life? That Muslim woman who is a survivor of and currently still in the everyday process of abuse? If you really got to TRULY know her, and you got her to talk to you about things she dare not speak to anyone for fear of what happened to her in the past happening again, you would realize that up until that very instant you never really knew her at all.

People are people. They aren't Borg. Anybody who is telling you that they do not think of themselves as an individual is either lying to you or they have suffered a lifetime of abuse.

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Do you think I'm talking about COLOR????

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That was probably more for the benefits of the idiots reading this than it was for you.

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SIX: I generally go out of my way to be nowhere within their vicinity if I find them to be unpalatable. I don't go on Twitter and bitch about every time some idiot pisses me off. There's plenty of room for me and the rest of the idiots.

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Oh, that's another celebrated stereotype: "The Loner".

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Oh yeah? How celebrated is it really?

Most white male loners, even the heroes and anti-heroes (or more often than not the white males who invented these characters), end up with a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head or some other equally dramatic exit off the stage, on their own terms.

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SIX: And just because men and women in other countries have most of their individuality beaten out of them, doesn't mean they like it.

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Bc, IN YOUR OPINION, people are all BASICALLY LIKE YOU.

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This has nothing to do with me. This is a debate over spirituality that has been going on for thousands of years before you started throwing your stereotypes at me this morning.

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This reminds me of a sociology course that a coworker attended. The teacher said something like "We think were all infivuduals, but I can tell you with 90% accuracy what you all have in your wallets" and proved it by making them take out their wallets and listing what was inside.

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Wow! Impressive. Nostradamus levels of intuition on that one! How profound!

Are you fucking kidding me here?

THIS RIGHT HERE IS AN EXACT EXAMPLE OF HOW THE LIBERALS HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHING THE INDIVIDUALITY RIGHT OUT OF PEOPLE IN COLLEGES.

So the fuck what? If you want to live in a society, you're going to carry around money, and a photo ID which is most likely a driver's license if you want to drive a car in a society as well as a student ID that comes with the life of debt and wage slavery that it represents.

What else you got, Socrates? What else am I carrying in my pockets?

No. Actually... I don't have a cell phone. I haven't carried one of those around since 2014.

Get fucked.

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I didn't say you IDENTIFY AS, but that's how you behave. Consistently and predictably. In a post somewhere up there, you even said you are always "against the power". Even to the point of being against what you were previously for. That's being oppositional.

I've pointed it out to you time and again. "Nobody ever died of Covid" but the vaccine, which is a subset of viral proteins, kills? That's not fact or logic. That just comes from you absofuckinglutely hating being told what to do.

That opposition, which IMHO is on the far end of the bell curve, is part of what makes you, you, and not somebody else. That's what makes others different from you. It's also something that makes it possible for you to be manipulated. All someone has to do is tell you on authority, with threats, what to do and you'll pull in the opposite direction, whether it makes sense or not. IMHO.



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I wonder if Second has even realized that he's allowed himself to be propagandized so much that he's actively sitting on the sidelines and cheering for America to lose the game.



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When Einstein left Germany in December of 1932, he didn’t have to be a genius to know where the country was headed because the head of Germany was telling the world his plans. Most Germans didn't see a problem with the vague outlines of the master plan. By August 1939, Einstein wrote President Roosevelt a request to nuke Germany. Most Americans don't see a problem with the vague and foggy outline of Trump's master plan, but a letter similar to Einstein's will be written about the USA if Trump does not stop what he told the world about his plans.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240801-it-was-the-one-great-mist
ake-in-my-life-the-letter-from-einstein-that-ushered-in-the-age-of-the-atomic-bomb

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

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I didn't say you IDENTIFY AS, but that's how you behave. Consistently and predictably. In a post somewhere up there, you even said you are always "against the power". Even to the point of being against what you were previously for. That's being oppositional.

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No. That is not what I said. I never once said that I was against anything that I was previously for. If everything that I was for is carried out by the Trump Administration, that's great.

My concern now comes with the fact that unlike last time, my guy is in there and he ACTUALLY has power, when he had near-zero power 8 years ago relative to now.

That is concerning to me for a WIDE variety of reasons, and my biggest question is what the fuck happened to all that pushback from the side that had been crushing every one of us just months ago.

I'm not an idiot and I'm not going to sit back now and feel like I actually won anything. This has all been far too easy after the election. They're throwing us an Orgy of things we've wanted to see for decades, when we've been taught that nothing ever changes, and all of the campaign promises made are forgotten about after the election takes place.

Now I'm supposed to believe that one man, Donald Trump, is strong enough to take all of them on at one time and that they've fallen before him? Not a chance.

He's being allowed to do what he's doing either because it's what they've wanted all along, or they aren't concerned about what he's doing. Either one of those scenarios is far more troubling than anything I'd imagined before the election.

If he starts really doing things that they don't want him to be doing and he doesn't back down, they will resort to removing him from the equation. Maybe they've already made up their mind to do that and they're just letting enough time pass between the election and the attempt on his life leading up to it so all that isn't so fresh in everyone's minds when they do it. They would know, even though most people forget things after 3 or 4 weeks, something like this would take a little while more to forget about.

I personally have zero regret for my vote, and I am not against anything I was previously for.

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I've pointed it out to you time and again. "Nobody ever died of Covid" but the vaccine, which is a subset of viral proteins, kills? That's not fact or logic. That just comes from you absofuckinglutely hating being told what to do.

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That DOES come from facts and logic. The papers are out there for everyone to read all about it. Whether or not you choose to educate yourself or stick your head in the ground is your choice.

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That opposition, which IMHO is on the far end of the bell curve, is part of what makes you, you, and not somebody else. That's what makes others different from you. It's also something that makes it possible for you to be manipulated. All someone has to do is tell you on authority, with threats, what to do and you'll pull in the opposite direction, whether it makes sense or not. IMHO.

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And all of that didn't just happen overnight in a vacuum.

It happened here, in some random town in America over the course of nearly half a century. The same random town in America that had plenty of otherwise very similar people who ended up entirely different from one another.

Thank you for proving my point for me.




Also, I would think that me expressing my trepidation about everything that is going on right now would prove how difficult it would be to manipulate me. Anything I see online and any people I talk to are over the moon about all of this shit.

I'm the one that's going to start being accused of being a Liberal one day if I keep shitting on everyone's parade and I don't just let them enjoy this after all they've been through.

I think it would take a very long time before anybo

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