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Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change
By Peter Baker who is covering his sixth presidency and wrote a book about President Trump’s first term. He reported from Washington.
Feb. 23, 2025, 10:36 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/trump-alternative-reali
ty.html
In Trump’s Alternate Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change
Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.
The United States sent $50 million in condoms to Hamas. Diversity programs caused a plane crash. China controls the Panama Canal. Ukraine started the war with Russia.
Except, no. None of that is true. Not that it stops President Trump. In the first month since he returned to power, he has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions.
Mr. Trump has long been unfettered by truth when it comes to boasting about his record and tearing down his enemies. But what were dubbed “alternative facts” in his first term have quickly become a whole alternative reality in his second to lay the groundwork for radical change as he moves to aggressively reshape America and the world.
If the U.S. Agency for International Development is stupid enough to send prophylactics to a Palestinian terrorist group in Gaza, he claims, then it deserves to be dismantled. If recruiting people other than white men to work in the airline sector compromises safety, such programs should be eliminated. If China controls the strategic passage through the continent, the United States should take it back. If Ukraine is the aggressor, it should make concessions to Moscow.
“One of the biggest presidential powers that Trump has deployed is the ability to shape his own narrative,” said Julian E. Zelizer, a Princeton history professor and editor of a book of essays about Mr. Trump’s first term. “We have seen repeatedly how President Trump creates his own reality to legitimate his actions and simultaneously discredit warnings about his decisions.”
Taking his real-estate hucksterism and reality-show storytelling into politics, Mr. Trump has for years succeeded in selling his version of events. The world according to Mr. Trump is one where he is a master of every challenge and any failure is someone else’s fault.
He claimed to have built the greatest economy in history during his first term so many times that even some of his critics came to accept that it was better than it really was. He dismissed intelligence reports that Russia intervened in the 2016 elections on his behalf so often that many supporters accepted his denial.
Most significantly, Mr. Trump has waged a four-year campaign to persuade Americans that he did not lose the 2020 election when in fact he did, making one false assertion of widespread fraud after another that would all be debunked yet still leave most Republicans convinced it was stolen, according to polls.
At the same time, he has recast the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by supporters trying to stop the transfer of power from a “heinous attack,” as he originally termed it, to a “day of love,” as he now calls it. This revised interpretation helped him rationalize pardoning nearly 1,600 people who were charged, including many who had beaten police officers.
“Trump is a highly skilled narrator and propagandist,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present” and a historian at New York University who specializes in fascism and authoritarianism. “Actually he is one of the most skilled propagandists in history.”
Dr. Ben-Ghiat said what made Mr. Trump’s “easily refutable lie” about the 2020 election so remarkable was that he was “working not in a one-party state or authoritarian context with a controlled media, but in a totally open society with a free press.”
But she and other scholars said some of Mr. Trump’s themes resemble those seen in authoritarian states. “The kind of propaganda and
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Ex-Russian Intel Agent: KGB Recruited Trump
As Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the Republican party spew Russian misinformation daily, a former Russian intelligence agent says the KGB Recruited Trump in the 1980s.
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/02/ex-russian-intel-agent-kgb-recruite
d-trump
February 22, 2025
Many Americans were roasted for observing that Donald Trump acted like a Russian agent. Now a former Russian intelligence agent confirms what many suspected: Trump is a Russian plant recruited by the KGB since the 1980s. Former Russian agent Alnur Mussayev alleged Trump was given the codename “Krasnov.”
The Masks Came Off This Week
But after this week, it's hard to deny that America's president and likely most of the Republican party are compromised. This week Trump and Rubio abandoned Ukraine while Vance blew up the 80-year alliance with European allies in Munich.
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 so pathetic.
How long are you planning to gnash and moan in your death throes?
Your party is dead. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
And not one single person is buying any of your Russia crap in 2025.
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Also, Fuck Ukraine.
I've said that from DAY ONE.
If I'm a Russian asset, I'm the lowest paid asset anyone has ever had since I don't have any income.
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SECOND, you blew your credibility with the "Steele dossier".
Recycling that crap?
So stupid. Cringeworthy, even.
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‘Chainsaw economics,’ now deployed by Musk, drove more than 50% of Argentinians into poverty
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/22/chainsaw-economics-now-dep
loyed-by-musk-drove-more-than-50-of-argentinians-into-poverty/
The music was booming, the ballroom was packed, and Elon Musk was onstage, waving a chain saw in the air.
I had already seen other surreal sights at the Conservative Political Action Conference — a man with a cat on his shoulder, freshly pardoned Proud Boys roaming around — but it was clear that this would be one of the indelible images of the annual MAGA confab.
Musk roared — or was he just making a chainsaw noise? This, he said, was the chainsaw he was taking to the bureaucracy. “Chain saw,” he repeated for effect. He did not turn it on.
It was a gift from Javier Milei, the far-right Argentine president who stormed to power in 2023 and who has drawn effusive, at times almost graphic, praise from Musk.
The episode showed how Musk doesn’t just cozy up to right-wing leaders — he also seems to copy them.
In 2022, Milei, an economist and former media personality, released a “chain saw plan” that would have cut public spending and sharply reduced the number of ministries in Argentina’s government. Milei showed up to campaign rallies with a functioning chain saw — and his supporters followed suit with replicas — that represented his demonization of a group he called “the political caste.”
Once Milei took office, Musk showered him with online compliments and talked business with him behind closed doors, as my colleagues wrote last year. He has done the same with right-wing leaders in India and Brazil, in a convenient marriage of his political beliefs and his desire to make more money for his companies.
And Musk has made a point of talking up Milei’s approach to government cuts, calling them “awesome” in a January post on X and praising Milei for “deleting entire departments.” He’s now calling for the United States government to do the same.
In December, CNN reported:
Javier Milei swept to power in Argentina a year ago on a ticket to tackle chronic hyperinflation and overhaul the long-suffering economy. In one regard — slashing the size of the state — he has proven so successful that Donald Trump’s government efficiency tsars want to replicate his approach.
Under the chainsaw-wielding libertarian economist, the government has posted rare consecutive monthly budget surpluses and inflation has fallen sharply — “better-than-expected results,” according to the International Monetary Fund.
During a meeting with Milei at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last month, Trump said Milei had done “a fantastic job” as president.
Investors have also cheered the changes in Argentina: Its flagship Merval stock index, which tracks around two dozen of the country’s most valuable listed companies, has soared almost 140% this year.
But the budget cuts have come at a cost to ordinary Argentines. The poverty rate has jumped above 50% from an already high level, the economy, the third largest in Latin America, has slid even deeper into recession and unemployment is on the rise.
Much more at https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/22/chainsaw-economics-now-dep
loyed-by-musk-drove-more-than-50-of-argentinians-into-poverty/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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So, been thinking about where America goes from here.
First of all, this isn't a revolution, it's a power struggle between The Industrialists and The Globalist Financiers, who have been in power since Bill Clinton.
The power structure as it was, was rotten. It was ready to topple on its own, but the war against Russia ... outcome depending on sheer industrial power ... provided the impetus to push it over.
Trump is a disruptor. Musk is a disruptor. This is a time of destruction. Things will be destroyed with a bulldozer, not a scalpel. Mistakes will be made. Parasites will flee the DC rubble.
Not now. But at some point, there will be a time of reconstruction. But the world in which America rebuilds won't be anything like the world of 20, 30, or 80 years ago.
There needs to be a new party that represents us people, not the financier oligarchs or the MAGA oligarchs.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, been thinking about where America goes from here.
First of all, this isn't a revolution, it's a power struggle between The Industrialists and The Globalist Financiers, who have been in power since Bill Clinton.
The power structure as it was, was rotten. It was ready to topple on its own, but the war against Russia ... outcome depending on sheer industrial power ... provided the impetus to push it over.
Trump is a disruptor. Musk is a disruptor. This is a time of destruction. Things will be destroyed with a bulldozer, not a scalpel. Mistakes will be made. Parasites will flee the DC rubble.
Not now. But at some point, there will be a time of reconstruction. But the world in which America rebuilds won't be anything like the world of 20, 30, or 80 years ago.
There needs to be a new party that represents us people, not the financier oligarchs or the MAGA oligarchs.
I think we've already got it, Sigs. It's mostly made up of the ex-Democrats that we were talking about just the other day.
And I don't believe that Trump is working for anybody other than himself. I know it's good for him, and he knows that at least some of us are aware of that.
Is he going to reshape America to your image or to my image of what we want it to be. Simply stated, no. He won't. He's going to reshape it in the image that he wants it to be now. We don't have any power outside of our vote. Maybe I shouldn't speak for you, but I have a very small circle of influence and no money, so I know I don't have any power. We've got to just hope that there's plenty of overlap of what we wanted and what ends up happening. More good things come of it all than bad things, and hopefully any of the bad things end up being inconveniences when held up to all of the actual good that gets done.
So far, I believe there is. Though a few things we've discussed before send up red flags and have been on my radar, I can't let those take away from all the good that is being done... at least right now.
At the end of the day I'm always going to come at all of this from the perspective of a voluntary outsider. Until the day that we live in a Perfect World, there's never a reason to align fully with Power.
I get daily reminders from the two idiots here that the Democratic Party is still kicking and screaming and making a huge fuss as it dies off, and until they shut up that's always going to remain a problem.
But I'm doing my best to look at everything that's happening and pointing out things that I'm not crazy about or I just don't agree with.
I'd argue that since what is going on now exists so far out of the realm of the status quo we've been living in for decades that everyone should be paying more attention right now than they've ever paid attention before.
And from what I can tell, they're being very transparent and open about everything they've been doing so far. That and they've welcomed, and even challenged, The People to keep tabs on them and to speak out when they find anything that looks shady.
Maybe it's all just a grift and a game like everything else is, but the current administration and the team behind the President in 2025 speak to us as if they're actually working with us and listening to what we have to say.
I don't recall a time in my life that this ever happened in America, and I don't even think it was possible in the days before the internet, so I doubt it's ever been the case before. It certainly wasn't the case during the former administration that laid down mandates and threats and censored anyone who didn't mindlessly parrot their message of the day.
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The closest analogy I can think of is 1776. Many FF were oligarchs in their own right, fighting against the tyranny of King George, the monopoly of the East India Company, and the restrictions against westward expansion required by the British/ French detente.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The closest analogy I can think of is 1776. Many FF were oligarchs in their own right, fighting against the tyranny of King George, the monopoly of the East India Company, and the restrictions against westward expansion required by the British/ French detente.
Yeah.
And as much of a Don't Tread on Me type as I am, I don't live in a bubble and I don't have any real power to change anything outside of my own habits and how I carry myself.
I will never be an oligarch. Even if I won a Billion Dollar Powerball that wouldn't change anything. It's a playing field that's a lot older than I am, and as long as that incoming asteroid doesn't smash into our moon, I suspect that it's going to be around for a long time after I'm gone.
People are getting a huge glimpse into the power structure right now.
Unless all of this is just a bunch of theater that's been orchestrated so well that it's even fooled all of us skeptics, we have to admit that we unleashed a fury here.
One that I, personally, am very much all about.
But that being said... I'm not going to sit here and tell anyone that everything's going to be alright, let alone give any real strong predictions about what everything is going to look like 4 years from now.
I ain't never seen this movie before.
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More USAID Fraud? Billions Of US Tax Dollars Are Missing From Haiti Relief Projects
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/more-usaid-fraud-billions-us-tax-d
ollars-are-missing-haiti-relief-projects
Check the Clinton's pockets. Haiti was their personal gravy train, just like Ukraine was the Biden's.
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FBI Freak Out As Dan Bongino Named Deputy Director
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-freak-out-dan-bongino-named-de
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Quote:6ix, tell the above concerns to your Trumptard ne
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, been thinking about where America goes from here.
First of all, this isn't a revolution, it's a power struggle between The Industrialists and The Globalist Financiers, who have been in power since Bill Clinton.
The power structure as it was, was rotten. It was ready to topple on its own, but the war against Russia ... outcome depending on sheer industrial power ... provided the impetus to push it over.
Trump is a disruptor. Musk is a disruptor. This is a time of destruction. Things will be destroyed with a bulldozer, not a scalpel. Mistakes will be made. Parasites will flee the DC rubble.
Not now. But at some point, there will be a time of reconstruction. But the world in which America rebuilds won't be anything like the world of 20, 30, or 80 years ago.
There needs to be a new party that represents us people, not the financier oligarchs or the MAGA oligarchs.
I think we've already got it, Sigs. It's mostly made up of the ex-Democrats that we were talking about just the other day.
And I don't believe that Trump is working for anybody other than himself. I know it's good for him, and he knows that at least some of us are aware of that.
Is he going to reshape America to your image or to my image of what we want it to be. Simply stated, no. He won't. He's going to reshape it in the image that he wants it to be now. We don't have any power outside of our vote. Maybe I shouldn't speak for you, but I have a very small circle of influence and no money, so I know I don't have any power. We've got to just hope that there's plenty of overlap of what we wanted and what ends up happening. More good things come of it all than bad things, and hopefully any of the bad things end up being inconveniences when held up to all of the actual good that gets done.
So far, I believe there is. Though a few things we've discussed before send up red flags and have been on my radar, I can't let those take away from all the good that is being done... at least right now.
At the end of the day I'm always going to come at all of this from the perspective of a voluntary outsider. Until the day that we live in a Perfect World, there's never a reason to align fully with Power.
I get daily reminders from the two idiots here that the Democratic Party is still kicking and screaming and making a huge fuss as it dies off, and until they shut up that's always going to remain a problem.
But I'm doing my best to look at everything that's happening and pointing out things that I'm not crazy about or I just don't agree with.
I'd argue that since what is going on now exists so far out of the realm of the status quo we've been living in for decades that everyone should be paying more attention right now than they've ever paid attention before.
And from what I can tell, they're being very transparent and open about everything they've been doing so far. That and they've welcomed, and even challenged, The People to keep tabs on them and to speak out when they find anything that looks shady.
Maybe it's all just a grift and a game like everything else is, but the current administration and the team behind the President in 2025 speak to us as if they're actually working with us and listening to what we have to say.
I don't recall a time in my life that this ever happened in America, and I don't even think it was possible in the days before the internet, so I doubt it's ever been the case before. It certainly wasn't the case during the former administration that laid down mandates and threats and censored anyone who didn't mindlessly parrot their message of the day.
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Trump job approval numbers are crashing:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/
https://jabberwocking.com/democrats-need-to-do-a-lot-of-nothing/
If Harris had won, the R's would be attacking non-stop, and the airwaves would be filled with Republican lies.
The Democrats on the other hand have plenty of legitimate targets. If I were a Democratic politician who wanted to win, I would be attacking Trump as a Putin stooge who is following Putin's wishes to destroy America. Sure, there is no hard proof of that, but based on Trump's behavior, it is quite believable (and I believe it). You don't really have to prove Trump's a Putin stooge, you can just ask the question: Name one thing Trump has done that a Russian stooge wouldn't do.
I just don't see how letting Trump have the bully pulpit without any pushback is a winning strategy. Words matter, and unanswered words risks having the R views take root among the populace. Maybe I'm wrong, but give me an example where waiting to fight back paid dividends.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Europe knows the plot of the Trump movie: Russia attacks Europe. The sequel will be about whether Russia wins or loses.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
But that being said... I'm not going to sit here and tell anyone that everything's going to be alright, let alone give any real strong predictions about what everything is going to look like 4 years from now.
I ain't never seen this movie before.
Trump is Europe’s worst nightmare
The continent must start to prepare for life without the Transatlantic Alliance
The Economist February 22nd 2025
The past week has been the bleakest in Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Ukraine is being sold out, Russia is being rehabilitated and, under Donald Trump, America can no longer be counted on to come to Europe's aid in wartime. The implications for Europe’s security are grave, but they have yet to sink in to the continent’s leaders and people. The old world needs a crash course on how to wield hard power in a lawless era, or it will fall victim to the new world disorder.
Speaking in Munich last week, America’s vice-president, J.D. Vance, offered a taste of how the home of fine wines, classical architecture and welfare cheques faces humiliation, when he ridiculed Europe as decadent and undemocratic. Its leaders have been excluded from peace talks between the White House and the Kremlin, which began officially in Riyadh on February 18th. However, the unfolding crisis goes far beyond insults and diplomatic niceties.
Mr Trump appears ready to walk away from Ukraine which he falsely blames for the war. Calling its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a “dictator”, Mr Trump warned him that he had “better move fast or he is not going to have a country left". America may try to impose an unstable ceasefire on Ukraine with only weak security guarantees that limit its right to re-arm.
That is bad enough, but Europe’s worst nightmare is bigger than Ukraine. Mr Trump intends to rehabilitate Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, ditching a long-standing policy to isolate him. Without any obvious geopolitical benefit to America, he is angling to restore diplomatic relations. He may soon be feted at a glitzy summit. Offering up concessions in Riyadh, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, gushed about co-operation and “historic economic and investment opportunities". (Trump Tower Red Square?)
Mr Trump’s shakedown of Europe and pandering to Russia have cast doubt on America’s commitment to defend nato come what may. One fear is that American forces could be cut, or pulled back to leave eastern Europe exposed. The problem is not that Uncle Sam’s priorities lie in Asia (see International section). The problem is that if Europe comes under Russian attack and seeks American help, Mr Trump’s first and deepest instinct will be to ask what is in it for him. He is due to meet Britain’s prime minister and the French president next week. But don’t take that as a signal that this is just clever talk from a dealmaker: Mr Trump’s readiness to trade everything away is precisely the problem. NATO’s deterrence rests on the certainty that if one member is attacked the rest will come to its aid. Doubt is corrosive, it leaves Europe dangerously exposed.
Let us spell out the reality Europe faces. It is an indebted, ageing continent that is barely growing and cannot defend itself or project hard power. Global rules on trade, borders, defence and technology are being ripped up. If Russia invades one of the Baltic states, or uses disinformation and sabotage to destabilise eastern Europe, what precisely will Europe do?
So far the answer is to curl up in a defensive crouch. After the maga onslaught, a group of European leaders hastily met in Paris on February 17th but managed only to advertise their differences. Three years after Russia’s invasion Europe has not raised military spendi
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DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency — acts like a federal agency although, legally, it isn’t and claims to have already saved taxpayers $55 billion, but has presented no evidence to back that claim.
The total savings claimed didn’t come anywhere near $55 billion, but never mind. Several news organizations, including Bloomberg, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have gone through that DOGE list, and found that it’s a steaming pile of, um, DOGEshit.
As the Times put it
Some contracts the group claims credit for were double- or triple-counted. Another initially contained an error that inflated the totals by billions of dollars. In at least one instance, the group claimed an entire contract had been canceled when only part of the work had been halted. In others, contracts the group said it had closed were actually ended under the Biden administration.
The big error the Times refers to involved counting a canceled contract worth $8 million as $8 billion.
Now, imagine that a publicly held company were to release a statement about its earnings that was riddled with major errors — with all the errors going in the same direction, making the company’s earnings look better than they are. What would you conclude? The answer, surely, would be to suspect that the company’s business is going very badly, but that top executives are trying desperately to hide the bad news while they sell off their own shares and possibly loot the company through sweetheart deals and so on.
In the case of DOGE, it’s pretty clear that Musk is failing more or less comprehensively at his supposed task of saving money by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. But he doesn’t want the public — or, more important, Donald Trump — to figure that out until he’s achieved his real objectives, which seem to involve taking effective control of large parts of the federal government — particularly those parts of the federal government that are trying to regulate his enterprises and those of his tech-bro buddies.
Of course, given the indiscriminate nature of the layoffs he’s been carrying out and the devastating effect they’re having on worker morale, he may end up breaking the federal government rather than taking it over.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-is-the-theranos-of-cost-cuttin
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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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Putin can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades Trump to betray it.
By Anne Applebaum | February 24, 2025, 7 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/putins-three
-years-of-humiliation/681810/
Out of all the ugly and dishonest things that Donald Trump said about Volodymyr Zelensky last week, the ugliest was not dishonest at all. “I’ve been watching for years, and I’ve been watching him negotiate with no cards,” Trump said of Zelensky. “He has no cards. And you get sick of it.”
Sick of it. Stop and think about that phrase. Trump inserted it into a stream of falsehoods, produced over several days, many of which he must have known to be untrue. He has been lying about the origins of the war, about Zelensky’s popular support, about the levels of U.S. funding for Ukraine, about the extent of European funding, about the status of previous negotiations. But sick of it—that, at least, has the ring of truth. Trump is genuinely bored of the war. He doesn’t understand it. He doesn’t know why it started. He doesn’t know how to stop it. He wants to change the channel and watch something else.
Also, he has no cards: That probably reflects Trump’s true belief as well. For Donald Trump, the only real cards are big money and hard power. Players, in his world, are people whom no court can block, no journalist can question, no legislator can oppose. People whose money can buy anything, whose power cannot be checked or balanced.
But Trump is wrong. Zelensky might not have money, and he might not be a brutal dictator like Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping. Yet he does have other kinds of power. He leads a society that organizes itself, with local leaders who have legitimacy and a tech sector dedicated to victory—a society that has come, around the world, to symbolize bravery. He has a message that moves people to act instead of just scaring them into silence.
Today, on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, stop and remember what happened on the night it began. I’d had plane tickets to Kyiv that week, but my flights were canceled, and on February 24, 2022, I stayed up and watched the war’s start on television, listening to the sounds of explosions coming from the screen. That night, everyone expected Russia to overrun its much smaller neighbor. But that capitulation never came. Six weeks later, I made it to Kyiv and heard and saw what had happened instead: the hit squads that had tried to kill Zelensky; the murders of civilians in Bucha, a Kyiv suburb; the Ukrainian journalists who had driven around the country trying to tell the story; the civilians who had joined the army; the waitresses who had started cooking for the troops.
Three years later, against all obstacles and all predictions, the civilians, journalists, soldiers, and waitresses are still working together. Ukraine’s million-man army, the largest in Europe, is still fighting. Ukraine’s civil society is still volunteering, still raising money for the troops. Ukraine’s defense industry has transformed itself. In 2022, I saw tiny workshops that made drones out of what looked like cardboard and glue. In 2024, Ukrainian factories produced 1.5 million drones, and this year they will make many more. Teams of people in underground control centers now use bespoke software to hit thousands of targets every month. Their work explains why Russia has taken territory only slowly, despite being on the offensive for most of the past year. At the current rate of advance, the Institute for the Study of War estimates, Russia would need 83 years to capture the remaining 80 percent of Ukraine.
Russia doesn’t have the resources to fight indefinitely against that kind of organization and determination. Putin’s military production is cannibalizing his country’s civilian economy. Inflation has skyrocketed. The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to be sick of the war.
He wins by persuadi
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Trump will align himself with whomever he wants — to hell with America’s allies
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/23/trump-will-align-himself-w
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Anne Applebaum writes:
At a major multinational security conference in Munich last weekend, I sat in a room full of defense ministers, four-star generals, and security analysts—people who procure ammunition for Ukrainian missile defense, or who worry about Russian ships cutting fiber optic cables in the Baltic Sea. All of them were expecting Vice President J. D. Vance to address these kinds of concerns. Instead, Vance told a series of misleading stories designed to demonstrate that European democracies aren’t democratic.
Vance, a prominent member of the political movement that launched the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, had to know what he was doing: flipping the narrative, turning arguments upside down in the manner of a Russian propagandist. But the content of his speech, which cherry-picked stories designed to portray the U.K., Germany, Romania, and other democracies as enemies of free expression, was less important than the fact that he gave a speech that wasn’t about the very real Russian threat to the continent at all: He was telling the Europeans present that he wasn’t interested in discussing their security. They got the message.
A few days before the Munich conference, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went to Kyiv and presented President Volodymyr Zelensky with a two-page document and asked him to sign. Details of this proposed agreement began to leak last weekend. It calls for the U.S. to take 50 percent of all “economic value associated with resources of Ukraine,” including “mineral resources, oil and gas resources, ports, other infrastructure,” not just now but forever, as the British newspaper The Telegraph reported and others confirmed: “For all future licenses the U.S. will have a right of first refusal for the purchase of exportable minerals,” the document says.
Europeans have contributed more resources to Ukraine’s military and economic survival than the U.S. has—despite Trump’s repeated, untruthful claims to the contrary—but would presumably be cut out of this deal. The Ukrainians, who have suffered hundreds of thousands of military and civilian casualties, whose cities have been turned to rubble, whose national finances have been decimated, and whose personal lives have been disrupted, are offered nothing in exchange for half their wealth: no security guarantees, no investment. These terms resemble nothing so much as the Versailles Treaty imposed on a defeated Germany after World War I, and are dramatically worse than those imposed on Germany and Japan after World War II. As currently written, they could not be carried out under Ukrainian law. Zelensky, for the moment, did not sign.
The cruelty of the document is remarkable, as are its ambiguities. People who have seen it say that it does not explain exactly which Americans would be the beneficiaries of this deal. Perhaps the American government? Perhaps the president’s friends and business partners? The document also reportedly says that all disputes would be resolved by courts in New York, as if a New York court could adjudicate something so open-ended. But the document at least served to reiterate Vance’s message, and to add a new element: The U.S. doesn’t need or want allies—unless they can pay.
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I Reread Project 2025 Now That We’re in the Thick of It. The Takeaway Is Chillingly Clear.
What Trump really wants is clearer than ever.
By Jill Filipovic | Feb 24, 2025 5:40 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/donald-trump-project-2025-
elon-musk-doge.html
Donald Trump is a notoriously dishonest man, but one of his oft-used slogans has proved absolutely true: Promises Made, Promises Kept. Unfortunately, this time around, the promises being kept weren’t all made by Trump. They were made by the fanatics who penned Project 2025.
Yes, Elon Musk is Trump’s right-hand man (J.D. who?), and he is on a tear with the Department of Government Efficiency, employing gangs of young men barely out of puberty to decide which pieces of—and people in—the federal government should stay or go. But the mass firings, the power grabs, and the agency shutterings are not just Musk’s doing. They were planned and proposed well before Trump was even elected, right there for everyone to see, in Project 2025.
Trump may have said he had “nothing to do with” the far-right game plan for his presidency—always a dubious claim, given that its architects are either former administration members or people with close ties to it. But now that he’s in office, he’s following their plan almost to the letter.
A month into Trump’s presidency, I went back through the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership.” It was stunning just how closely it tracked with the Trump presidency, not just in content but also in strategy. One of the first arguments the document makes is that new presidents have a narrow window within which to implement their agenda; hesitating while they sort out policy details wastes precious time. And, indeed, Trump has hit the ground running. The only way he has been able to do so much is because the Project 2025 team wrote it all out for him.
As Democrats and the public struggle to even keep up with what the Trump administration is doing to the nation, it’s tempting to get caught up in the play-by-play. And although the details certainly are important, the single message must be this: Trump is trying to be a king or a dictator, and Project 2025 is his monarchical playbook.
This is not a tough argument to make, especially given that Trump is now sharing images of himself in a crown, writing, “LONG LIVE THE KING!” This cannot and will not stand. Trump is not a king, and we don’t have to collectively pretend that he is or act as if this is some sort of joke—just as we don’t have to tolerate unelected lunatics from the Heritage Foundation or unelected egomaniacal billionaires setting the rules for a pluralistic America.
In its first section, the “Mandate for Leadership” sets out Project 2025’s overarching ideology: a theory of an all-powerful president, someone with authority more akin to that of a monarch than an elected democratic leader. The core section on this comes from Russell Vought, now the Trump-appointed director of the Office of Management and Budget, essentially the central nerve center of the federal government. The idea of agency or expert “independence”—with independence rendered in scare quotes—is rejected. “The greatest challenge” ahead, Vought writes, is “aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch,” which requires the “boldness to bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will.”
If Trump has done one thing so far, it’s break the federal bureaucracy.
The best way to implement the Project 2025 vision, its authors are clear, is to gut the federal bureaucracy, firing career civil servants and those who lack the requisite MAGA loyalty. “The new Administration must fill its ranks with political appointees,” the document flat-out directs. The Office of the White House Counsel, for example, should not be some fair-minded place for smart lawyers to assess presidential actions according to existing law; it should be an “activist” entity, with subordinates who “see their role as helping to accomplish the agenda through problem solving and advocacy.” And forget expertise or quali
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Zakaria says Trump found a fast way to end the war in Ukraine
Trump’s strategy for ending the war in Ukraine, Trump’s disdain for Ukraine, and more
"The diplomats are more worried about their boss than the adversary."
Zelenskyy reminds Trump of his illegal behavior that he was impeached for, although not convicted. Zelenskyy has qualities that Trump will never possess, such as courage and true patriotism. Lev Parnas, the Ukrainian American who worked with Rudolph Giuliani to pursue Trump's agenda in Ukraine, said to Politico, “So now Trump hates Zelenskyy with passion. And Zelenskyy knows it.”
Ruben Brekelmans - Minister of Defence of the Netherlands - strongly criticized Trump. "Some people think you are strong when you talk to a dictator. But you are only strong when you stand up to a dictator, as Ukraine has been doing for three years," Brekelmans said about the way the Americans are negotiating with Russia about the future of Ukraine.
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More bullshit.
Zelensky is a cokehead puppet, doing Britain's bidding. If he was a true patriot, he would never have poked the bear... repeatedly ... and gotten a million Ukrainians killed. This was a war that never should have been.
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John Cleese, Feb 24 at 4:12 AM
https://substack.com/@johncleese/note/c-95784574
I saw that on the BBC an interviewer asked Stephen Fry whether he would describe President Thump as a ‘fascist’
This is the kind of question that media folk would describe as ‘hard-hitting’
When I was growing up, Mussolini was a fascist and Hitler was a Nazi, but it didn’t seem to matter much
What does matter is that Trump has no respect for ‘The Rule of Law’
He believes he is above the law
This is the nature of his personality. He has never seen a law, or a rule, or a custom, or a ‘gentleman’s understanding’ that he had any intention of honouring.
As a real estate mogul he was notorious for ‘stiffing’ his service providers
He even cheats at golf. (Golf is a game of Personal Integrity… cheating yourself says a LOT about Trump)
It is his clear intention to turn the USA into a dictatorship and to remain in power
He hasn’t even hidden his intentions from the Trumpenproletariat
It we weird to see him telling the truth
Nicholas Kristoff writes movingly about his embarrassment of being America
Exactly as I felt when I learned that London had become the number one financial centre for laundering Russian money, and then realised that the UK was run largely for the benefit of Rupert Murdoch
I wish Denmark was a bit warmer
(It seems incredibly hard for the media to call a spade a spade these days. I argue for consistently referring to Trump as “the felon President” or, maybe a bit long-winded though correct, the “convicted sexual predator and serial fraudster in the Oval Office”. Instead of further normalising this presidential atrocity by calling him “President Trump”, or, worse, selling him as “the honourable Donald John Trump”. As it was done and applauded at his inauguration. People need a constant reminder of what he is. Or else they'll forget. )
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Quote:1) Where is your proof of a cokeheaded puppet?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
More bullshit.
Zelensky is a cokehead puppet, doing Britain's bidding. If he was a true patriot, he would never have poked the bear... repeatedly ... and gotten a million Ukrainians killed. This was a war that never should have been.
2) Where is your proof of a million dead Ukrainians?
Signym, this is easy to check. It is also easy to show you are a lying sack of shit, which also describes Trump, truthfully.
1) https://www.google.com/search?q=Is+Zelensky+a+cokehead%3F
2) https://www.google.com/search?q=How+many+Ukrainians+died%3F
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May not be a cokehead, but he certainly has delusions of grandeur.
Definitely a puppet.
A million Ukrainians killed is my guess.
Millions fled, population reduced to about 20 million. Cities reduced to rubble.
And now Britain and France want him to fight to the last Ukrainian?
The only thing that made him think he could win was the west repeating the bullshit to him that they told themselves and that you repeat here:
Russia is weak.
Russia is a gas station masquerading as a nation.
Russia will collapse.
As long as it takes.
He should have listened to Kissinger.
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I'd almost feel bad for Second right now if he wasn't a piece of gutter trash.
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Quote:I'm looking forward to both a tax-cut and a Trump caused stock market crash, which is when I shall buy America at a huge discount. Not sorry that Trumptards don't have money to invest and, simultaneously, are too cowardly to invest. That leaves more of America becoming my property, not Trumptards'.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'd almost feel bad for Second right now if he wasn't a piece of gutter trash.
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Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia
Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union in Germany, wasted no time after his party's victory in national elections warning about the dangers posed by President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk.
Politico reports that Merz on Sunday argued that Europeans needed to make a break from the United States, which he said could no longer guarantee their continent's security as it had done for the last 80 years.
“My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA,” Merz said. “I never thought I would have to say something like this on a television program. But after Donald Trump's statements last week at the latest, it is clear that the Americans, at least this part of the Americans, this administration, are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-germany-election-united
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I'm looking forward to both a tax-cut and a Trump caused stock market crash, which is when I shall buy America at a huge discount. Not sorry that Trumptards don't have money to invest and, simultaneously, are too cowardly to invest. That leaves more of America becoming my property, not Trumptards'.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'd almost feel bad for Second right now if he wasn't a piece of gutter trash.
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I don't know buddy.
I think your mom ran out of money because of Bidenflation and she won't have any allowance for you.
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Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia
Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union in Germany, wasted no time after his party's victory in national elections warning about the dangers posed by President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk.
Politico reports that Merz on Sunday argued that Europeans needed to make a break from the United States, which he said could no longer guarantee their continent's security as it had done for the last 80 years.
“My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA,” Merz said. “I never thought I would have to say something like this on a television program. But after Donald Trump's statements last week at the latest, it is clear that the Americans, at least this part of the Americans, this administration, are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-germany-election-united
-states-donald-trump-nato/
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Good. As it should be.
SPOILER ALERT: The Muslims are all getting kicked out.
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Quote:Biden inflation was invented by losers who don't work or work for employers who justifiably hate their crappy employees' guts. I've got Trumptard workers like that. They are kept around since firing would make them suffer cruelly, but they aren't worth their pay. A Trump-caused recession will be a good excuse to terminate them. They doomed themselves by voting for Trump. They deserve to suffer for his stupidity and their job incompetence.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't know buddy.
I think your mom ran out of money because of Bidenflation and she won't have any allowance for you.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't know buddy.
I think your mom ran out of money because of Bidenflation and she won't have any allowance for you.
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That line of thinking is one of the major reasons you got your ass handed to you in November and you still can't figure it out.
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Quote:Everything is going my way if you count increased wealth and an easier business environment with no fear the Federal government will enforce any rules on the natural gas industry. The angry poor white trash got their asses kicked in November and they are too dumb to know it since wealth and no rules on industry don't mean a thing to those with little wealth and no industry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That line of thinking is one of the major reasons you got your ass handed to you in November and you still can't figure it out.
(I forgot to mention that exactly like Musk, I can fire anybody for no reason. If Musk can, so can I. There is no Union protecting employees from arbitrary and capricious terminations. But if the power to fire is overused, a manager can destroy a company and a President can kill a government department. Bye-bye FBI for investigating Trump's crimes.)
(The future looks great for those selling Natural Gas. Tough luck for Trumptards who buy gas. Why Natural Gas Prices Have Doubled Over the Last Year https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Why-Gas-Prices-Have-Doubled-Ov
er-the-Last-Year.html )
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OMB director Russell Vought isn’t as flashy as Musk. But it’s his vision of destroying the federal government that’s being put into effect.
By Molly Olmstead | Feb 24, 2025 3:00 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/elon-musk-donald-trump-fed
eral-workers-project-2025.html
The first signs of Donald Trump’s ambitions to dismantle the government actually emerged during the end of his first term, when the Office of Management and Budget tried to use—but ran out of time to implement—his “Schedule F” executive order to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of government workers.
That move, back in 2020, was partly the work of Russell Vought, who is once again leading the OMB. In the four years that Trump was out of power, Vought was busy establishing the framework for the current attacks on the federal agencies and laying out plans for more kinglike powers for the president.
We can credit Vought—an avowed Christian nationalist—for this moment just as much as Musk or the president.
As he explained in a 2024 speech reported on by ProPublica, Vought wanted the assault on civil servants to not just be dramatic but ruthless. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. … We want to put them in trauma.”
This is not mere bluster from a culture war crank. Vought is a major power player in the MAGA policy world: He wrote Project 2025’s playbook for the administration’s first 180 days, drafted executive orders for the president to sign, and served as the policy director of the Republican National Committee’s official platform committee for 2024.
Vought termed his philosophy, as he laid it out in a 2022 article, “radical constitutionalism.”
“The Right needs to throw off the precedents and legal paradigms that have wrongly developed over the last two hundred years and to study carefully the words of the Constitution and how the Founders would have responded in modern situations to the encroachments of other branches,” Vought wrote.
It’s also worth noting that Vought’s end goal isn’t just boosting Trump’s agenda: He specifically craves a Christian nationalist version of the United States.
He has said as much, in essays and in his work for the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which he advised and for which he authored a chapter on the executive office of the president.
In 2021, Vought wrote an article for Newsweek in which he proclaimed himself a “Christian nationalist,” vowed to preserve “our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage,” and argued that a “shared religious heritage” is essential to “being a nation.” America, he wrote, should be recognized as an explicitly Christian nation “where our rights and duties are understood to come from God” and where there is “an institutional separation between church and state, but not the separation of Christianity from its influence on government and society.”
Like Musk and Trump, Vought believes in breaking the system. Unlike them, he believes in doing so from an extremist religious position. It’s unclear whether his Christian nationalist worldview will take hold in the larger political machinations of the anti-bureaucracy movement. But regardless, it indicates that one of the architects of this moment feels not dispassionate pragmatism, but a kind of divine righteousness in inflicting a great “trauma” on our entire country.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Everything is going my way if you count increased wealth and an easier business environment with no fear the Federal government will enforce any rules on the natural gas industry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That line of thinking is one of the major reasons you got your ass handed to you in November and you still can't figure it out.
Awesome. Great to hear it.
You're just one of them "angry all the time at everyone and everything no matter how things are going" types then.
But we already know that, don't we?
Try some new material. The same rehashed opinions you shit out every day were outdated even in the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago that no longer exists.
It turns out that the more time passes the more right I've been about everything and the more wrong you've been about everything.
You lost. You are a loser. You will always be a loser. There is nothing that you can ever do to change the fact that you are a loser, because the core problem is simply an intrinsic part of who you are. It is the greatest part of your identity.
To ever truly remove the problem, the you that you think of as you would need to simply cease to exist.
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If only we could be as successful in reviving our economy!
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Quote:The American economy is doing well with exceptions: the economic parts Trumptards control are as badly managed as their personal lives have been. See for example coal or egg production.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia
If only we could be as successful in reviving our economy!
The Russians aren't doing well, either. The Russian economy is smaller than Italy's.
Country comparison Russia vs Italy
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/russia/italy
There is another way to compare Russia:
Can We Please Stop Comparing Russia’s Economy to Italy’s?
By Carlos Roa | April 17, 2023
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-we-please-stop-comparing-russ
ias-economy-italys-206404
The suggested comparison is Germany vs Russia:
Yet error in this comparison lies in the reliance on measuring nominal GDP itself, as it fails to account for exchange rates and purchasing power parity (PPP), which accounts for the standard of living and productivity (and from there, per capita welfare and, importantly, resource use). Renowned French economist Jacques Sapir has pointed out the inadequacy of this metric, arguing that Russia’s GDP, when measured in PPP ($3.74 trillion in 2013, $4.81 trillion in 2021), is closer to Germany’s ($3.63 trillion in 2013, $4.85 trillion in 2021) than Italy’s ($2.19 trillion in 2013, $2.74 trillion in 2021). This is a crucial distinction, and it is both puzzling and troubling that so many continue to parrot the Russia-Italy comparison.
Whichever comparison is used, Germany or Italy, Russia has done a poor job with the vast natural resources it owns and its huge population of paupers/workers.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Everything is going my way if you count increased wealth and an easier business environment with no fear the Federal government will enforce any rules on the natural gas industry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That line of thinking is one of the major reasons you got your ass handed to you in November and you still can't figure it out.
Awesome. Great to hear it.
You're just one of them "angry all the time at everyone and everything no matter how things are going" types then.
But we already know that, don't we?
Try some new material. The same rehashed opinions you shit out every day were outdated even in the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago that no longer exists.
It turns out that the more time passes the more right I've been about everything and the more wrong you've been about everything.
You lost. You are a loser. You will always be a loser. There is nothing that you can ever do to change the fact that you are a loser, because the core problem is simply an intrinsic part of who you are. It is the greatest part of your identity.
To ever truly remove the problem, the you that you think of as you would need to simply cease to exist.
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With hundreds of better choices, Trump instead settles on the guy who pledged, “I will kill for you, sir.”
Trump said that Caine wore a red MAGA hat during their meeting and that he told the president, “I will kill for you, sir.” That, plus Caine’s nickname, Razin (a play on “Raisin’ Cain”), led Trump to regard him as “a real general.” (One is reminded that Trump in his first term hired Jim Mattis as defense secretary because the general’s nickname was Mad Dog; however, Mattis was at least a retired four-star and a former combatant commander.)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-military-firings-joi
nt-chiefs-chairman.html
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Quote:6ix, you already told us about your fantasy of murdering your bipolar mother, as Arthur Fleck did to his mother in Joker (2019), your favorite movie.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Everything is going my way if you count increased wealth and an easier business environment with no fear the Federal government will enforce any rules on the natural gas industry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That line of thinking is one of the major reasons you got your ass handed to you in November and you still can't figure it out.
Awesome. Great to hear it.
You're just one of them "angry all the time at everyone and everything no matter how things are going" types then.
But we already know that, don't we?
Try some new material. The same rehashed opinions you shit out every day were outdated even in the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago that no longer exists.
It turns out that the more time passes the more right I've been about everything and the more wrong you've been about everything.
You lost. You are a loser. You will always be a loser. There is nothing that you can ever do to change the fact that you are a loser, because the core problem is simply an intrinsic part of who you are. It is the greatest part of your identity.
To ever truly remove the problem, the you that you think of as you would need to simply cease to exist.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=63327&mid=10857
85#1085785
6ix, it's time for you to see Sigmund Freud about your feelings toward Loony-Mommy. Tell Freud about your alcoholism, your various addictions, your inability to work. But at least you aren't as screwed up as Trump, who has been in numerous Courtrooms for the last 40 years because of his demented behavior.
From a sister to advisers: The litany of people once close to Trump questioning his fitness for office
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/politics/trump-maryanne-conway-former-o
fficials/index.html
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Thanks for the money, Trump!
Natural Gas Prices Surged 160% — And They’re Not Coming Down Soon
By Tsvetana Paraskova - Feb 24, 2025, 1:10 PM CST
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Natural-Gas-Prices-Surged-160A
nd-Theyre-Not-Coming-Down-Soon.html
Those poor sucker Trumptards are making me rich this winter.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you already told us about your fantasy of murdering your bipolar mother, as Arthur Fleck did to his mother in Joker (2019), your favorite movie.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Everything is going my way if you count increased wealth and an easier business environment with no fear the Federal government will enforce any rules on the natural gas industry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That line of thinking is one of the major reasons you got your ass handed to you in November and you still can't figure it out.
Awesome. Great to hear it.
You're just one of them "angry all the time at everyone and everything no matter how things are going" types then.
But we already know that, don't we?
Try some new material. The same rehashed opinions you shit out every day were outdated even in the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago that no longer exists.
It turns out that the more time passes the more right I've been about everything and the more wrong you've been about everything.
You lost. You are a loser. You will always be a loser. There is nothing that you can ever do to change the fact that you are a loser, because the core problem is simply an intrinsic part of who you are. It is the greatest part of your identity.
To ever truly remove the problem, the you that you think of as you would need to simply cease to exist.
That's never happened.
There really is no bottom to the depths of just how pathetic you will behave, is there?
It's the one way that you've always managed to impress me over the years.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The American economy is doing well with exceptions: the economic parts Trumptards control
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia
If only we could be as successful in reviving our economy!
And those exceptions are ... ? NYC, Chicago, San Fran, LA, Seattle, Baltimore, DC, Detroit? Last I heard, these hotbeds of libtardism are fucked up, thanks to libtard policies.
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Crime-Battered NYC McDonald's Starts Carding People At The Door
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/crime-battered-nyc-mcdonalds-start
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The Russians aren't doing well, either. The Russian economy is smaller than Italy's.
Then you immediately contradict yourself...
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Russia’s GDP, when measured in PPP ($3.74 trillion in 2013, $4.81 trillion in 2021), is closer to Germany’s
But they're both wrong. According to the IMF, Russia is fourth in terms of PPP, after China, USA, and India, ahead of Japan, Germany, Indonesia and Brazil.
Quote:...its wrong. Russia is not a nation of paupers, any more than Japan or Germany are nations of paupers.
Whichever comparison is used, Germany or Italy,
The USA has a wealth inequality similar to Haiti, Djibouti, Papua New Guinea, and Bolivia. YAY US!
Russia is better, China is better. Even India is better for chrissake!
Try to keep up.
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Trump Executive Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals
by Abrahm Lustgarten | Feb. 21, 2025
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-climate-change-social-cost-of
-carbon-executive-order
The change would effectively transfer financial responsibility from oil drillers, auto manufacturers and others and leave Americans to face greater direct costs as warming continues.
One of President Donald Trump’s most damaging strikes at the foundation of U.S. climate policy is buried deep in a sweeping Inauguration Day executive order focused on “Unleashing American Energy.” Half way through the lengthy document is a directive that would obliterate an obscure but critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change is imposing on the U.S. economy.
Getting rid of the measure, called the “social cost of carbon,” would upend energy and environmental regulations meant to address climate change and could have the long-term effect of shifting costs from polluting industries directly onto Americans as the expenses of climate change rise.
The measure essentially establishes a price for each ton of carbon emitted, based on the long-term damages it is expected to cause in the future. It has become the government’s primary tool to weigh the economic costs of climate change — such as disaster cleanup or health impacts from warming — against the burden of regulations.
The executive order disbanded the working group, which included the treasury secretary, energy secretary and director of national economic policy, that set the social cost of carbon and advised how it should be implemented. It revoked that group’s previous decisions. And it directed the Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates the figure and bases regulatory proposals on it, to reconsider using the social cost of carbon altogether with the goal of eradicating “abuse” that stands in the way of affordable energy production.
The order stems directly from language in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 policy playbook and is based on work by the conservative think tank, which has consistently opposed climate policy and worked to defend the businesses of fossil fuel industries.
As climate change takes hold — the earth has already warmed more than half the total amount scientists project will cause catastrophic destabilization — the size and frequency of billion-dollar disasters has exploded, and the bills for climate damages have begun to affect people’s lives. Economists warn that it could be the steep financial price of adapting to this rapid shift, as much as environmental change itself, that will prove the most challenging and destabilizing.
If carried out, the shift away from using the social cost of carbon measure would not only make it exceedingly difficult to enact new rules slowing climate change and its growing costs in the future, but it would send the signal that the Trump administration doesn’t believe that climate change carries economic consequences.
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5 signs that a U.S.-Europe split is widening (and Trump is cuddling/snuggling with Russia)
By Scott Neuman | February 25, 2025 5:00 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307012/europe-nato-us-ukraine-ru
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1. Vice President Vance scolds EU leaders - German Defense Minister responds: "This democracy was called into question by the U.S. vice president earlier, not just in Germany but in Europe as a whole. If I understood him correctly, he compares conditions in parts of Europe to those under authoritarian regimes. That is not acceptable."
2. Zelenskyy calls for "an armed forces of Europe" - In response to Vance's speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the creation of an "armed forces of Europe," saying that without Ukraine's army, European forces alone would not be sufficient to counter Russian aggression.
3. U.S. holds separate talks with Russia over Ukraine - Following a European Union meeting of foreign ministers in Paris earlier this month, seven European countries said in a statement that "Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations."
4. German leader questions U.S. commitment to Europe's defense - "We must prepare for the possibility that Donald Trump will no longer uphold NATO's mutual defense commitment unconditionally," Merz told a German broadcaster on Friday. "That is why, in my view, it is crucial that Europeans make the greatest possible efforts to ensure that we are at least capable of defending the European continent on our own."
5. At the U.N., the U.S. refuses to condemn Russia for Ukraine invasion - At the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, the U.S. voted against condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Quote:All the Trumptards I interact with are impressive, too, by which I mean they are completely crazy. For examples from the Trumptards next door:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you already told us about your fantasy of murdering your bipolar mother, as Arthur Fleck did to his mother in Joker (2019), your favorite movie.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Everything is going my way if you count increased wealth and an easier business environment with no fear the Federal government will enforce any rules on the natural gas industry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That line of thinking is one of the major reasons you got your ass handed to you in November and you still can't figure it out.
Awesome. Great to hear it.
You're just one of them "angry all the time at everyone and everything no matter how things are going" types then.
But we already know that, don't we?
Try some new material. The same rehashed opinions you shit out every day were outdated even in the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago that no longer exists.
It turns out that the more time passes the more right I've been about everything and the more wrong you've been about everything.
You lost. You are a loser. You will always be a loser. There is nothing that you can ever do to change the fact that you are a loser, because the core problem is simply an intrinsic part of who you are. It is the greatest part of your identity.
To ever truly remove the problem, the you that you think of as you would need to simply cease to exist.
That's never happened.
There really is no bottom to the depths of just how pathetic you will behave, is there?
It's the one way that you've always managed to impress me over the years.
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1. Levi was jailed for a year in Galveston for attempted car theft. (He couldn't even succeed at that despite, according to his father Larry, being a 40 y.o. genius with computers.)
2. Son Lance was jailed for 10 years on negligent vehicular homicide charge.
3. Mother Linda was murdered by drinking ethylene glycol. Probably Levi was trying to receive an early inheritance. Father Larry did not die.
4. Larry died of stroke, a delayed result of a one-car crash.
I have many more one and two line horror stories about Trumptards. Funny thing is that the Trumptards don't see their suffering as being directly caused by their actions and beliefs. Instead, the Trumptards say it is Democrats causing their hardships, disappointments and shortened lifespans. Trumptards are deluded about themselves, Trump and Democrats.
The more details I learn about how particular Trumptards conduct their lives the more I learn about illness and insanity. I can see why Trump is appealing to Trumptards. By comparison, Trump is highly functional despite being completely crazy.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Matthew Yglesias | Feb 25, 2025
https://www.slowboring.com/p/how-were-thinking-about-covering
There’s been intense attention to the vibe shift associated with Trump, most of which ignores the fact that the central planks of the shift — the collapsing self-confidence of the left, the rightward trajectory of young men, the disalignment of Silicon Valley CEOs and venture capitalists from their former affiliation with progressive politics — would all be true and significant even if Kamala Harris had won narrowly rather than lost narrowly.
Elections are weird tipping point phenomena. All the broad trends in American culture and society would be exactly the same if Harris had gotten 49.7% of the vote and Trump 48.2% rather than the other way around. But the fate of capital regulation for large banks at the Federal Reserve would be completely different. Right now, there is a high chance that we’ll see significant cuts to Medicaid and an even higher chance that we’ll see significant cuts to SNAP. I’ve seen remarkably little coverage of the fact that the odds are overwhelmingly high that the ACA enhanced premium subsidies will be allowed to expire, which almost certainly would not have happened if Harris had won.
Most strikingly, the basic foundations of American democracy are now swaying in the wind.
Washington, DC, where I live, is not a state and doesn’t have normal state criminal courts. We have a local court system and local criminal laws, but constitutionally speaking, these are federal courts. As a result, local felonies are prosecuted by a United States Attorney. I had kind of hoped that Trump would give us a tough-on- crime prosecutor who would help keep illegally carried handguns off the street. Instead, we have Ed Martin, a lifelong conservative activist with no prosecutorial experience, who participated in Stop The Steal rallies and raised funds for the 1/6 rioters and is now abusing his power by threatening to prosecute opposition party members of Congress. This has attracted less attention than the more spectacular abuses of power in the Eric Adams case, but it’s bad. The “vibes” are in favor of free speech, but the actual practice is in the opposite direction.
Be the change
I’ve seen lots of people get pulled into debates about whether Trump is an actual fascist and whether Elon Musk is an actual Nazi, and one question I always have is what difference does it make to your conduct?
If, to you, Trump being a “real” fascist means you’re determined to support a big tent movement that maximizes our odds of defeating him, then I am on your side. If it means you think we should stage anti-Trump riots, then I don’t think we’re on the same page. But if it means you think we should encourage people to organize disciplined acts of non-violent, non-destructive civil disobedience, I might agree with you again. Not because ordinary electoral politics and non-violent civil disobedience are the only ways to fight fascism — my grandfather fought fascism by flying ship-based bomber missions in the Mediterranean. It’s just that right now, there are anti-Trump things we can do that will be constructive, and there are anti-Trump things that are likely to backfire and cause harm, and I think discussions about which actions fall into which category are important and worth engaging in.
Worrying about exactly how bad Trump is doesn’t really accomplish anything, while worrying about what kinds of opposition activity are likely to be useful is important.
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“Elon Musk is asking us to trust him to wield enormous power on our behalf. He is undoubtedly brilliant and accomplished, but every day he fails to display the normal human virtues — honesty, loyalty, humility, concern for the welfare of others — that would earn that trust.”
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1892705898994208773
The tweet included screenshots of Musk getting fact-checked for some false claims about the International Space Station and of Grimes pleading with him to get in touch with her about a medical crisis impacting one of their kids. Various left-wing people challenged the claim that Musk is brilliant and accomplished. I really do think the evidence suggests that Musk is quite brilliant — and also dishonest and evil.
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The devastating consequences of Trump's Postal Service privatization plan
There’s many reasons USPS must remain independent from politics, just ask the Constitution.
Feb. 25, 2025, 5:00 AM CST
By Ray Brescia, professor of law, Albany Law School
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-post-office-postal-s
ervice-usps-rcna193554
In one of many sweeping changes to the functioning of the federal government, reports suggest that President Trump plans to take control over yet another independent agency, the U.S. Postal Service. Not content to have his handpicked postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, a holdover from the first Trump presidency, in place, Trump has signaled a desire to fundamentally alter the agency by bringing the service under direct executive branch control within the Commerce Department.
The purported goal of such a takeover is to make it operate with greater efficiency. But any Trump-controlled version will just bring us closer toward post office privatization, or serve as a means by which the administration could control a critical channel of communication among Americans that has largely protected our privacy for centuries.
The postal system has been a political flashpoint at different moments in our nation’s history. Andrew Jackson threatened to censor abolitionist tracts sent over the mails into slave states, claiming such information would result in a slave revolt.
Bringing the Post Office under direct control of the executive branch would make crippling it even easier, lead to the destruction of the civil service and union protections of its hundreds of thousands of workers, and open the door for companies, like Amazon — that both deals in e-commerce for itself and other e-commerce companies, and whose CEO has been cozying up to and palling around with the president of late — to have a field day. They could raise rates and fill in the void created by a severely weakened postal system.
Such a system would also serve, like the colonial postal system, as a source of surveillance and monitoring of the president’s critics.
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Quote:But the fact that SECOND would post so tells us something about his mental state.
SIX: You lost. You are a loser. You will always be a loser. There is nothing that you can ever do to change the fact that you are a loser, because the core problem is simply an intrinsic part of who you are. It is the greatest part of your identity.
To ever truly remove the problem, the you that you think of as you would need to simply cease to exist.
SECOND: 6ix, you already told us about your fantasy of murdering your bipolar mother, as Arthur Fleck did to his mother in Joker (2019), your favorite movie.
SIX: That's never happened.
Quote:Nope! There isn't!
SIX: There really is no bottom to the depths of just how pathetic you will behave, is there?
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SIX: It's the one way that you've always managed to impress me over the years.
SECOND: All the Trumptards I interact with are impressive, too...
Levi .... Lance ... Linda .... Larry ...
And now we got to read more made-up shit from SECOND'S roster of delusions.
SECOND, you should live in LA and meet some of the Dem voters I've known. Drug addicted, dysfunctional, crazy. They'll beat your fantasy neighbors any day.
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Elon Musk is a genius and he's the richest man in the world, but he's also a disrupter. He was SO disruptive to PayPal (which he co-founded), the other officers bought him out. So he took his $$$ and made a ton more. He's manic, and his ideas are usually brilliant but... sometimes ... crazy. Let's hope he's taking his meds.
Trump is also a disrupter, but of a different kind. He's a political disrupter, from outside the established web of mutual backscratching and cozy deal-making. Willing to upset the apple cart.
As I posted before, I believe this is a time of destruction. The "blob" has gotten so big, so self serving, so corrupt, it's metastasized throughout DC, the media, the world, and needs to be rooted out. Not a believer in things like "The Fourth Turning" but what is happening is the result of the "blob" having censored, screwed, grifted, and gaslit us Americans for so long that most of us finally woke up.
This is destruction with a bulldozer, not a scalpel. Mistakes will be made. The end result might not even benefit us. We may wind up simply exchanging globalist oligarchs for American ones.
But this is what you wrought, SECOND. By plastering yourself slavishly to a rotten corpse, and failing to provide a reasonable alternative.
Burn, baby, burn.
Burn it down to the Constitution.
Remove that rotten stuff that's been built up over time: the spook state snooping on us everywhere, the grift, the malicious prosecution, the government-tech-media censorship-propaganda complex, the imperialism and hubris and plain stupidity, the MICC, the globalist agenda ....
Then we can rebuild.
And, finally: WHAT ARE AMERICANS' INTERESTS? WHAT IS THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE?
THAT, you never have an answer for. THAT is what betrays you.
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:I'll give you fact about me: Signym, I think you, 6ix, Trump and Musk deserve what happens to villains such as a slave-owning Confederate who insisted slaves were happy or a German who insisted Jews were the cause of Germany's problems or a Russian who insists Ukraine is ruled by a Nazi dictatorship or a Jap in WWII who hardheartedly believed the Chinese, Koreans, and Filipinos deserved to be subjugated by the superior Japanese. Confederates, Nazis, Russians, and even the Japanese spent their lives destroying what is good and they were killed or maimed for that reason.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
But the fact that SECOND would post so tells us something about his mental state.
Decent people should NOT respond by fighting evil with goodness. Trumptards are not worth the effort of psychologists to gently turn them away from evil. Rather evil should be fought with greater evil. My favorite example of greater evil is firebombing Japan and nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese remember even after 80 years, and have not gone back to their previously evil ways.
A less dramatic reality lesson happened to the Germans and after 80 years they are beginning to imagine their previously evil behavior as righteousness. (Political party Alternative for Germany, a Nazi party, did well in last Sunday's election.) The Confederates got pardoned by slave-owning President Andrew Johnson, which is why the Confederates quickly returned to evil. As for Trumptards, nobody has yet tried to beat them to death to see whether that would fix their rotten behavior. But they don't have to be beaten because they will kill themselves, some faster than others, if you wait. The ultimate Trumptard, Rush Limbaugh, lived 20 years longer than I expected (probably because he was rich) but a Presidential Medal of Freedom could not stop Rush's evil habits from eventually killing him. He now burns in Hell but his Trumptard audience misses him. They will join him as they kill themselves and Rush will entertain them for Eternity.
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If there was such a thing as thought crime, you'd have been in jail decades ago.
I noticed you STILL haven't answered the question at the end if this post
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Elon Musk is a genius and he's the richest man in the world, but he's also a disrupter. He was SO disruptive to PayPal (which he co-founded), the other officers bought him out. So he took his $$$ and made a ton more. He's manic, and his ideas are usually brilliant but... sometimes ... crazy. Let's hope he's taking his meds.
Trump is also a disrupter, but of a different kind. He's a political disrupter, from outside the established web of mutual backscratching and cozy deal-making. Willing to upset the apple cart.
As I posted before, I believe this is a time of destruction. The "blob" has gotten so big, so self serving, so corrupt, it's metastasized throughout DC, the media, the world, and needs to be rooted out. Not a believer in things like "The Fourth Turning" but what is happening is the result of the "blob" having censored, screwed, grifted, and gaslit us Americans for so long that most of us finally woke up.
This is destruction with a bulldozer, not a scalpel. Mistakes will be made. The end result might not even benefit us. We may wind up simply exchanging globalist oligarchs for American ones.
But this is what you wrought, SECOND. By plastering yourself slavishly to a rotten corpse, and failing to provide a reasonable alternative.
Burn, baby, burn.
Burn it down to the Constitution.
Remove that rotten stuff that's been built up over time: the spook state snooping on us everywhere, the grift, the malicious prosecution, the government-tech-media censorship-propaganda complex, the imperialism and hubris and plain stupidity, the MICC, the globalist agenda ....
Then we can rebuild.
And, finally: WHAT ARE AMERICANS' INTERESTS? WHAT IS THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE?
THAT, you never have an answer for. THAT is what betrays you.
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As Musk’s brutal disfiguration of the federal government takes hold, a fleet of shitposters has floated the idea that he has a botched penis implant — which, they assert, is why he seems to have undertaken the project of repopulating the globe with his own children, delivered via in vitro fertilization. This talking point picked up steam earlier this month, after confirmation that Musk welcomed his 13th baby, with conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair. (However, according to a lawsuit filed by St. Clair that accuses Musk of being an absentee father, it seems as if the child was created the old-fashioned way. I apologize for that mental image!)
Whatever. The point is, Banks posted a massively viral tweet claiming that singer Grimes, the mother of three of Musk’s kids, told her that he had some sort of defective robot penis. The post has been viewed more than 600,000 times. Again, all of this is almost certainly not true.
Grimes told me this too https://t.co/I6RG1qWeQK
— Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) February 16, 2025
It’s really not hard to understand why Musk might be the subject of wild rumors right now. His unseemly brand of Machiavellian techno-utopianism is undeniably clammy and sinister, and it leads one to believe that he’d be eager to embrace an esoteric body modification. Liberals are still stinging from their defeat in November, and one of the few things they can take solace in is fantasizing about Musk’s permanently maimed penis. (We had a version of this during Trump’s first term, when Stormy Daniels described the man’s member as a gross-looking mushroom.) But let’s talk about the bigger questions at hand: What is a penile implant, exactly? Do those even exist? And what happens if one is, well, botched?
https://slate.com/life/2025/02/elon-musk-trump-children-kids-penis-imp
lant.html
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Why the Trump administration is publicly supporting an alleged human trafficker
By Aja Romano | Feb 25, 2025, 12:45 PM CST
https://www.vox.com/culture/401197/andrew-tate-trump-support-richard-g
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Andrew Tate made his name as a misogynist podcast star, but has more recently been known as an alleged rapist and human trafficker as he awaits criminal trial in Romania with his brother Tristan. Last week, the Financial Times reported that the Trump administration, through special envoy Richard Grenell, had tried to pressure the Romanian government to lift travel restrictions on the brothers.
Andrew Tate, whose online course “Hustler’s University” morphed into a platform with nearly a million users, became a powder keg among far-right media influencers in the early 2020s due to his explicitly sexist worldview and its profound influence over millions of teen boys and young men.
This latest high-profile turn in Tate’s ongoing legal saga has again brought the horrifying allegations against him to the forefront — this time with apparent approval from the US government. It’s also a reminder of the cultural reach of the so-called manosphere that Tate helped popularize.
Andrew Tate’s enormous influence rests on intense misogyny — and a lot of alleged criminal activity
Tate’s rise started with a successful kickboxing career, was followed by his removal from the British version of Big Brother, and culminated in a hugely popular podcast that anointed him the “King of Toxic Masculinity.” As Rebecca Jennings explained for Vox in 2022, his “inflammatory diatribes against women, whom he compares to property” became viral fodder on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. He was born in the US, raised in the UK, but now lives in Romania — first moving there in part because, he said, “the rape laws are more lenient,” but has stayed since; following his arrest, he has largely not been allowed to leave the country.
Tate helped bring to mainstream concerns about the “manosphere,” the term for the internet’s loose network of right-wing male influencers and their associated communities. Early on, Tate seemed to be such an obviously extremist node of the manosphere that he should be, as Jennings wrote, easy to ignore.
But Tate’s confident, blatant misogyny proved wildly popular: His dictums, which ranged from bragging about never having read a book to flaunting an aggressive emotional and physical dominance over women, seemed to enthrall boys and men who admired him for his flashy lifestyle, vaunted wealth, and commitment to the bit. Tate’s maxims swept across teen culture, generating horror stories from parents and teachers about his seemingly pervasive and pernicious influence. Originally, Tate presented his schtick as pure fiction, a deliberately exaggerated regressive persona. It soon appeared that was far from the case, as allegations against Tate and his brother began mounting.
Romanian officials have pursued Andrew and Tristan Tate since April 2022, when they first raided one of the pair’s mansions after receiving a tip that the Tates had allegedly abducted a woman and were holding her there against her will. The following year, the brothers and two Romanian accomplices were indicted on charges of rape, forming a criminal gang, and human trafficking. Authorities alleged that Andrew and Tristan Tate had trafficked seven women from the US and the UK to Romania by grooming them and subjecting them to physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. (The brothers promptly responded with a civil suit against two of their alleged victims.) In early 2024, the two faced new UK allegations of human trafficking, stemming from an investigation launched more than a decade prior.
Then, in August, the Tates faced additional charges of human trafficking after police raided their estate again and detained six people. The brothers have also faced multiple civil lawsuits filed by alleged victims. One such woman recently filed a suit against them in Florida, claiming they defamed her after she agreed to be a witness in the Romanian c
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And, finally: WHAT ARE AMERICANS' INTERESTS? WHAT IS THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE?
THAT, you never have an answer for. THAT is what betrays you.
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Originally posted by SECOND:
Musk’s .... penis... penis ... penis ...
Seems like you'd rather post about Musk's penis than imagine a better future for America.
You are a bitter, nasty old man.
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The Department of Government Efficiency takes a radically new approach to this problem of motivation and has created a new means for waste to be cut. It is important to not disregard the fact that there have been many government oversight organizations with the sole purpose of focusing on fraud and waste. DOGE has begun their own efforts of documenting waste and directly cutting excess spending, but they do not seek to undercut previous attempts. DOGE has an ability to act that has not been matched by other waste-cutting agencies.
While the goal of cutting spending is undoubtedly good and we are in a situation of spending crisis, DOGE’s unorthodox methods may set a dangerous precedent for future administrations. It serves as an all purpose task force for the president to enforce his will and identify weaknesses in government spending. While past presidents have been frustrated about being stonewalled by various bureaucrats, DOGE creates an embedded network of control that makes the president’s proclamations much more effectual. While even the left appreciates cutting waste in theory, it is easy to see how such a vital approach to government could be harmful in the future. In the past, layers of inefficiency protected us from radical policies and made systemic change slow. There is no guarantee that a DOGE-type force will only be applied to cutting waste. Even DOGE’s current actions may suggest motives that are less than wholesome. Musk made sure to first attack USAID, which had recently scrutinized him for overcharging the government for Starlink he claimed he would donate. With such an atypical and unsteady start, in the future it could be used to enforce radical social policies or even set the undergirding for a military takeover. DOGE’s effectiveness is the center of its danger.
While there are dangers to be wary of, DOGE could provide a much needed reset for government waste and set the standard for fulfilling campaign promises. It often feels like once elected, presidents have their hands tied and are unable to be judged on the merits of their actions because what happens cannot truly be said to be “them.” This lack of responsibility means that the public is unsatisfied and few things actually happen in a powerful enough way that the citizen can see or feel them. The cutting of DOGE will most likely undo bureaucracies that took decades to establish, creating a new normal that will benefit even the most democratic of presidents. If this process was going through Congress, it would be impossible to make real change in four years. Our debt and interest payments are unsustainable and require this sort of radical action if our country is to continue sustaining itself rather than sinking deeper into destruction through indulgence.
Critics and supporters of DOGE are quick to point out its unfettered nature.
The critics are hesitant of its freedom from Congress and point out that it seems dangerously near an oligarchy. Supporters see it’s unfettered nature as necessary to compete with the droves of unelected officials and agencies relatively free from Congress.
Countless agencies existing outside of congressional concern and control make it nearly impossible for Congress to understand what they are doing, or even which pathways they must use to rein them in.
DOGE is a good solution to the fact that Congress will never have the bandwidth to understand the minutiae of waste and fraud occurring in the federal government.
Additionally, much waste and lack of oversight has simple and truly bipartisan solutions. For example, the treasury not having to state what their specific payments were for should be questioned by anyone. This small administrative detail would have never been brought up in congress, but it will ultimately return so much accountability to the American people. If agencies have been able to deny the public the ability to see what’s going on, the public cannot vote accurately.
The freedom of DOGE is necessary to restore faith in the government and make a new standard of trans
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And, finally: WHAT ARE AMERICANS' INTERESTS? WHAT IS THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE?
THAT, you never have an answer for. THAT is what betrays you.
You dumb shit. You've been asking that question several times a year for a decade, maybe longer. It's been answered a thousand times in a hundred different threads, in a hundred different ways.
I'll admit, why you continue to ask this same question again and again is lost on me. What is also lost on me is how you think it's never been answered. I know you're an idiot Russian troll, but are you really that stupid?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And, finally: WHAT ARE AMERICANS' INTERESTS? WHAT IS THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE?
THAT, you never have an answer for. THAT is what betrays you.
You dumb shit. You've been asking that question several times a year for a decade, maybe longer. It's been answered a thousand times in a hundred different threads, in a hundred different ways.
I'll admit, why you continue to ask this same question again and again is lost on me. What is also lost on me is how you think it's never been answered. I know you're an idiot Russian troll, but are you really that stupid?
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You've never once answered that question, you little shit.
All you do is post clickbait garbage everyday, and the rare time you do type any of your own thoughts out they're stuffed so full of spelling and grammatical errors it's almost like forcing everyone else to read a foreign language.
You are a piece of shit and a chronic, lifelong loser.
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I agree. THUGR, you never answered the question. You post endlessly about Russia and China. You accuse Trump of things that never happened, and name-call relentlessly if I bring up areas where and how I think we could ... and really should ... fix our problems.
But answer the question??
Nah.
Never.
Loser.
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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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Quote:I've got an answer, but first a question. Signym, Kissinger never said the words in your signature and yet you never correct your signature. Why not? The correction is as easy as removing two words from the signature: Henry Kissinger.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I agree. THUGR, you never answered the question. You post endlessly about Russia and China. You accuse Trump of things that never happened, and name-call relentlessly if I bring up areas where and how I think we could ... and really should ... fix our problems.
But answer the question??
Nah.
Never.
Loser.
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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
Now for the run-up to my answer. My firm belief is the people who side with Trump, or Putin, are too stubborn, too dishonest, too stupid to allow them making decisions for other people. There might be Trumptards that aren't too mentally crippled, but I can't find them were I live.
What are America's needs? My answer: all Trumptards out of government. All other problems will be solvable with those people out of the decision loops. The Trumptards can run their own individual lives but they should not be allowed anywhere near other people and their property. Let the Trumptards mess up their own lives but not be allowed interference with other lives.
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On 7/31/2019 Trump has a private meeting with Putin. On 8/3/2019, just 3 days after his private meeting with Putin Trump issues a request for a list of top US spies. By 2021 the CIA reports an unusually high number of their agents are being captured and/or being murdered. During the search executed at Mar A Lago the FBI find more documents with lists of U.S. informants on them.
https://www.politico.eu/article/how-us-intelligence-agencies-can-find-
out-what-donald-trump-told-vladimir-putin-helsinki-summit/
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On 7/31/2019 Trump has a private meeting with Putin. On 8/3/2019, just 3 days after his private meeting with Putin Trump issues a request for a list of top US spies. By 2021 the CIA reports an unusually high number of their agents are being captured and/or being murdered. During the search executed at Mar A Lago the FBI find more documents with lists of U.S. informants on them.
https://www.politico.eu/article/how-us-intelligence-agencies-can-find-
out-what-donald-trump-told-vladimir-putin-helsinki-summit/
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Politico is paid for by the Democratic Party.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I've got an answer, but first a question. Signym, Kissinger never said the words in your signature and yet you never correct your signature. Why not? The correction is as easy as removing two words from the signature: Henry Kissinger.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I agree. THUGR, you never answered the question. You post endlessly about Russia and China. You accuse Trump of things that never happened, and name-call relentlessly if I bring up areas where and how I think we could ... and really should ... fix our problems.
But answer the question??
Nah.
Never.
Loser.
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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
Now for the run-up to my answer. My firm belief is the people who side with Trump, or Putin, are too stubborn, too dishonest, too stupid to allow them making decisions for other people. There might be Trumptards that aren't too mentally crippled, but I can't find them were I live.
What are America's needs? My answer: all Trumptards out of government. All other problems will be solvable with those people out of the decision loops.
You just had 4 years to solve them and all you did was create a lot more problems.
Get fucked, loser.
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Economists are starting to worry about a serious Trump recession
Tariffs on America’s neighbours and assault on federal government will hit US economy
25 February 2025 4:00pm GMT
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/25/economists-starting-wo
rry-serious-trump-recession/
Donald Trump’s assault on the US federal government and the world’s interlinked manufacturing system have together reached an economic tipping point.
“It seems almost unavoidable that we are headed for a deep, deep recession,” said Jesse Rothstein, Berkeley professor and former chief economist at the US labour department.
Once the pace of job losses crosses a critical line, the multiplier effects can snowball suddenly.
Prof Rothstein said monthly non-farm payrolls – the barometer of US economic health watched closely by markets – could turn viciously negative by late spring, contracting at rates surpassed only during the worst months of Covid and the Lehman crisis in 2008.
“I think we’re going to see historically large drops. Losses of 400,000 a month are not implausible because people are getting nervous out there.
“It is not just the federal employees being fired: it’s all the other people worried they could be next, so they are cutting back too,” he told The Telegraph.
Torsten Slok, of Apollo Global, said layoffs could approach 1m after factoring in the likely chain reaction through contractors. “We are starting to worry about the downside risks to the economy and markets,” he said.
Mr Slok said it is a mystery as to why credit spreads and equities are still so well-behaved when the US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index was now higher than at any time during the great recession.
Prof Rothstein said the damage would not show up immediately due to lag effects. The ugly months will be in April and May, but by then secondary shocks will have spread far and wide.
“There are all kinds of spillovers. Contracts for external contractors are being cut. Nobody knows how much imports are going to cost next month, or if we are even going to have accurate weather forecasts any more.
“How could you hire in these conditions? This is going to be very, very bad,” he said.
Markets are implicitly betting that Trump’s trade wars are just bluster, but he restated on Monday night that his 25pc tariffs against Mexico and Canada would go ahead next week, which would instantly snarl up the North American auto industry.
“It would be devastating,” said Ford’s Jim Farley.
Trump has a particular loathing for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its weather service, deemed the spearhead of “the climate change alarm industry” by Maga’s Project 2025.
Officials at NOAA have already been told that “climate change”, and “pollution” are henceforth banned terms. The office of management and budget plans to cut 38pc of their funding as part of its campaign to root out “woke agendas”. Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick wants to abolish the agency entirely.
The surprise is that Elon Musk’s army of zoomer zealots are taking on everybody, even the US defence department. It will fire 5,400 civilian staff next week as the first stage of a 5pc to 8pc cull of the Pentagon staff to “cut the fat and grow the [warrior] muscle.”
It is hard to gauge the macroeconomic intensity of the fiscal cuts because judges are trying to jam on the brakes. We do not know what is mere theatre. I incline to the view that the culture war is deadly serious.
Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society, says Trump is uncannily like his fellow agent of insurrection, Mao Zedong, who also revelled in permanent havoc as a governing method.
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolutio
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Trump has supposedly come to an agreement with Ukraine over its mineral wealth:
Quote:https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-agrees-to-mineral-rights-deal
Under the terms of the agreement, Ukraine would pay some proceeds from future mineral resource development into a fund that would invest in projects in Ukraine.... The size of the U.S.’s stake in the fund and joint ownership deals will be hashed out in future agreements.
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That is clear as mud — and it's the best explanation I could find. Does this mean the US gets money out of the deal? Or minerals? Trump is obsessed with the idea of being paid.
In any case, Zelensky is due in Washington on Friday to sign the deal, so presumably all the details will be available by then. The Winds of Change are blowing hard.
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She spent half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups, and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired Admiral Lisa Franchetti - the first woman to become the Navy's top officer, serving as Chief of Naval Operations.
Pete Hegseth is an alcoholic who likely is looking for minors online because he has all the characteristics of being a pedophile.
(The Winds of Change are blowing hard) Trump fires Franchetti as chief of naval operations
https://defensescoop.com/2025/02/21/trump-fires-adm-franchetti-chief-o
f-naval-operations/
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Republicans are coming off of their best presidential election performance with low-income voters in recent memory. According to the (imperfect) 2024 exit polls, President Donald Trump won voters earning $50,000 or less, something he didn’t do in either his 2020 or 2016 campaigns. This is a landmark measure of the Trump era realignment, with lower-income, noncollege voters of all races moving toward the Republican Party, while college-educated, higher-income white voters migrate to the Democrats.
Republican governance, however, has not kept up with these changes.
After a chaotic, grinding effort Tuesday to corral the necessary votes, House Republicans barely passed a blueprint for their “one big, beautiful bill” containing much of Trump’s legislative agenda. It tees up their ability to use the filibuster-proof reconciliation process to enact a sweeping bill, along party lines, down the road.
The blueprint creates space for a mishmash of Republican priorities, like beefing up border security and boosting defense spending. But its core is the same old, same old: Cutting spending for programs that poor people rely on, and cutting taxes. It is, in other words, roughly the same agenda that Republicans sought in 2017, when Trump entered the White House for the first time, even though the party’s composition has changed significantly since then.
The most controversial element for Republicans is that the blueprint tasks the Energy and Commerce Committee with finding $880 billion in cuts. This powerful committee, once described as having jurisdiction over “anything that moves, burns, or is sold,” also oversees Medicaid. Since Trump has ruled out cuts to Medicare, it’s Medicaid, a program that spends nearly a trillion dollars per year, that’s the obvious pot to raid for cash. Indeed, House Republicans earlier this year put out a menu of spending cuts they could choose from, and the bulk of the Energy and Commerce options relate to Medicaid. Republicans have some other big targets, for other committees, in mind, whether that’s rolling back food stamps or student loans. But the members have cornered themselves into targeting Medicaid for the bulk of the savings they want to achieve in order to finance tax cuts.
It has at least begun to dawn on some Republicans that the party now describing itself as the tribune of the American poor might be acting counterintuitively here.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-medicaid-cuts-republ
icans-reconciliation-mike-johnson.html
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The Uniparty has been keeping the USA chugging along by borrowing more and more money. The debt hanging over us is a at critical point and must be solved.
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Quote:The straightforward solution is a return to the tax rates when Eisenhower was President. But that is a solution Trump would never accept. How much did he pay in 2016? 2017? $750.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The Uniparty has been keeping the USA chugging along by borrowing more money. The debt hanging over us is at a critical point and must be solved.
The IRS did not audit Trump during his presidency's first 2 years
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/20/1144472882/a-house-panel-voted-to-publi
cly-release-a-report-on-trumps-tax-returns
Income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/nov/15/bernie-sanders/incom
e-tax-rates-were-90-percent-under-eisenhower-/
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Quote:You forgot that Trumptards were in the Senate and voting NO! on everything. With the Senate split 50/50, every vote was decided by whether two nominally Democratic Senators voted along with the Trumptards: Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Tied votes were broken by Vice-President Harris.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I've got an answer, but first a question. Signym, Kissinger never said the words in your signature and yet you never correct your signature. Why not? The correction is as easy as removing two words from the signature: Henry Kissinger.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I agree. THUGR, you never answered the question. You post endlessly about Russia and China. You accuse Trump of things that never happened, and name-call relentlessly if I bring up areas where and how I think we could ... and really should ... fix our problems.
But answer the question??
Nah.
Never.
Loser.
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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
Now for the run-up to my answer. My firm belief is the people who side with Trump, or Putin, are too stubborn, too dishonest, too stupid to allow them making decisions for other people. There might be Trumptards that aren't too mentally crippled, but I can't find them were I live.
What are America's needs? My answer: all Trumptards out of government. All other problems will be solvable with those people out of the decision loops.
You just had 4 years to solve them and all you did was create a lot more problems.
Get fucked, loser.
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Joe Biden said two Democratic senators vote with Republicans more than their own party
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/02/politics/joe-biden-kyrsten-sinema-joe-m
anchin/index.html
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The predictably horrific conditions created by Trump at Guantanamo
Here’s what a new investigation tells us.
by Patrick Reis | Feb 25, 2025, 4:35 PM CST
https://www.vox.com/politics/401285/logoff-guantanamo
What’s happening at Guantánamo? The administration housed nearly 180 migrants there for weeks before they were deported to Venezuela on Thursday. A report today from the Washington Post revealed horrific conditions while they were there. The reports, based on interviews with migrants released in Venezuela, reveal:
1 Detainees housed in solitary confinement, going outside only twice in a two-week period;
2 “Humiliating and invasive strip searches”;
3 Multiple suicide attempts, including one man who swallowed screws and another who attempted to slit his wrists with sharpened plastic bottles.
Administration officials have said the military prison would house the “worst of the worst” criminals, but among the migrants the Post interviewed, their only known criminal act was crossing the border illegally.
On Sunday, the administration flew 17 additional migrants to Guantanamo, the New York Times reported.
What’s next? President Donald Trump has ordered his team to prepare to house up to 30,000 migrants at Guantánamo, but the plan is running into roadblocks. CNN reported Monday that the base had paused plans to house migrants in tents because they lack the air conditioning and electricity needed to meet detention standards.
What’s the big picture? When Trump announced his Guantánamo plan, administration officials said fears of mistreatment at military facilities were misplaced. Now, with only a fraction of the planned number of detainees housed at the base, the Post’s report suggests that mistreatment has already occurred.
NPR reported Monday that the administration is now laying the groundwork to house undocumented immigrants in military bases around the country.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5307156/immigration-dhs-memo-trum
p-migrant-detention-military-bases
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Gallup places Trump at 45% approval
Gallup has added Trump 2.0 to its Presidential Approval Center:
https://jabberwocking.com/gallup-places-trump-at-45-approval/
Gallup Presidential Job Approval Center
https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-
center.aspx
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DOGE Secretly Changes Its Website After Being Caught in Huge Lies
By Malcolm Ferguson | February 25, 2025 3:30 p.m. ET
https://newrepublic.com/post/191973/doge-changes-website-savings-mista
kes-lies
DOGE deleted the top five highest savings claims on its “wall of receipts” leaderboard after various news outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations.
The savings, deleted with no explanation from DOGE or the White House, include: a $232 million cut to the Social Security Administration that actually amounted to only $560,000; an $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement that was actually only $8 million; and three $655 million cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development that ended up being a measly $18 million. These mistakes all seem to be completely avoidable human errors.
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Trump has a long history of claiming that other countries are laughing at America’s expense. So look at Emmanuel Macron’s expression as Trump declares that he and Musk will be visiting Fort Knox to make sure that the gold is still there:
https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3liwzjgsbkk2j
Musk and Trump have rapidly destroyed U.S. influence in the world. America redefined itself as a rogue nation that doesn’t honor its promises, threatens its allies, tries to engage in Mafia-style extortion, and intervenes in democratic nations’ elections.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You forgot that Trumptards were in the Senate and voting NO! on everything. With the Senate split 50/50, every vote was decided by whether two nominally Democratic Senators voted along with the Trumptards: Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Tied votes were broken by Vice-President Harris.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I've got an answer, but first a question. Signym, Kissinger never said the words in your signature and yet you never correct your signature. Why not? The correction is as easy as removing two words from the signature: Henry Kissinger.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I agree. THUGR, you never answered the question. You post endlessly about Russia and China. You accuse Trump of things that never happened, and name-call relentlessly if I bring up areas where and how I think we could ... and really should ... fix our problems.
But answer the question??
Nah.
Never.
Loser.
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
Now for the run-up to my answer. My firm belief is the people who side with Trump, or Putin, are too stubborn, too dishonest, too stupid to allow them making decisions for other people. There might be Trumptards that aren't too mentally crippled, but I can't find them were I live.
What are America's needs? My answer: all Trumptards out of government. All other problems will be solvable with those people out of the decision loops.
You just had 4 years to solve them and all you did was create a lot more problems.
Get fucked, loser.
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No. You mean that you had two Democrats who were voting common sense.
You also had the house 222 to 212 the first 2 years and passed a FUCK TON OF BULLSHIT when you did have the power.
And 2/3rds of Trump's Executive Orders now are just repealing Biden*'s ridiculous executive orders that he passed because he'd never get any of it passed through congress.
Your revisionist history will play better somewhere else where you have a bunch of like-minded retards who buy it.
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Thanks to Trump, the average national price of a dozen eggs is already $5. (Trumptard farmers control egg prices.) The USDA forecasts a 41.1% additional increase through the end of the year:
A year from now you'll probably be paying $7 for a dozen eggs.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-find
ings
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Nazis claiming they aren't Nazis, in German with subtitles:
https://imgur.com/gallery/saving-future-use-zCTIsKq
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Maybe I’m Old-Fashioned, but the DOGE Kids Should Probably Not Be Able to Override the Secretary of State
I think it’s Bad that Nazi-adjacent youths might be overruling the President and Secretary of State.
Reports about DOGE’s chain-of-command privileges and links to Holocaust denialists continue to raise concerning questions.
By Ben Mathis-Lilley | Feb 26, 2025, 11:37 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/doge-elon-musk-donald-trum
p-marco-rubio.html
Let me set it up for you: “Rubio” is congressionally confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who occupies a position that is traditionally considered one of the most powerful in the world. “Farritor” and “Kliger” are Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger, computer programmers in their mid-20s who work for DOGE, a so-called temporary organization created by executive order. “Musk” is Elon Musk.
Rubio had decreed that certain critical programs — such as aid to Ukraine and Syria and costs related to the PEPFAR program to combat HIV in Africa — would continue to be funded. Several times, USAID managers prepared packages of these payments and got the agency’s interim leaders to sign off on them with support from the White House.
But each time, using their new gatekeeping powers and clearly acting on orders from Musk or one of his lieutenants, Farritor and Kliger would veto the payments — a process that required them to manually check boxes in the payment system one at a time, the same tedious way you probably pay your bills online. Meanwhile, AIDS clinics shuttered and staff found themselves stranded in unstable countries such as Congo.
According to the administration, the Department of Government Efficiency is merely an advisory group that Musk oversees but does not formally direct. But Musk — via his staff — is canceling payments that have been approved by both the secretary of state and the “White House.”
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EPA tells White House to strike down landmark climate finding
By Maxine Joselow | February 26, 2025, 11:41 a.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/26/epa-enda
ngerment-finding-trump-climate/
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to strike down a scientific finding underpinning much of the federal government’s push to combat climate change, according to three people briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.
The 2009 “endangerment finding” cleared the way for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act by concluding that the planet-warming gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. The Obama and Biden administrations used that determination to set strict limits on emissions from cars and power plants.
By repealing the endangerment finding, the Trump administration would be taking one of its most consequential steps yet to derail federal climate efforts. In recent days, the administration has also blocked work that is central to international climate research and barred federal scientists and diplomats from attending a major climate event in China.
EPA officials weighed whether to reverse the endangerment finding during President Donald Trump’s first term but opted not to do so.
Conservatives have argued that repealing the finding is critical to unraveling what they see as burdensome limits on emissions from various sectors of the economy. Environmentalists, in contrast, say the finding has justified stronger regulations that have yielded enormous benefits for the planet and public health.
On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order that tasked the EPA with reviewing the “legality and continuing applicability of” the endangerment finding. The order gave Zeldin 30 days to submit recommendations to Russell Vought, the head of the White House budget office.
EPA officials have not shared the recommendations publicly. EPA spokeswoman Molly Vaseliou declined to comment on the matter Tuesday, saying in an email, “EPA is in compliance with this aspect of the President’s Executive Order.”
Mandy Gunasekara, who served as EPA chief of staff at the end of Trump’s first term and wrote the EPA chapter in the conservative blueprint Project 2025, has been advising the administration on repealing the endangerment finding, according to the three individuals briefed on the matter.
Jonathan Brightbill, who was a top deputy in the Justice Department’s environment and natural resources division during Trump’s first term, has also provided legal advice, these people said. Brightbill recently served on the Trump transition team at the Justice Department and is a partner at the law firm Winston & Strawn.
Gunasekara and Brightbill did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The endangerment finding has sparked legal and political battles in Washington for more than 15 years. In 2007, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. In response, the EPA first issued the endangerment finding and then established the first-ever carbon limits for vehicles and power plants.
During Trump’s first term, skeptics of mainstream climate science filed a petition asking the EPA to repeal the determination. But agency lawyers rejected that petition on Trump’s last day in office in 2021.
Allies of the fossil fuel industry cheered the idea that the administration would revisit the issue.
“They unfortunately didn’t do this in the first term, so I’m pleased to see that they’re working on this in the second term,” said Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, an advocacy group for the oil and gas sector.
Myron Ebell, who led the EPA transition team during Trump’s first term, said nixing the endangerment finding could make
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Quote:Eisenhower was paying off WWII debt.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The Uniparty has been keeping the USA chugging along by borrowing more money. The debt hanging over us is at a critical point and must be solved.
SECOND: The straightforward solution is a return to the tax rates when Eisenhower was President. But that is a solution Trump would never accept. How much did he pay in 2016? 2017? $750.
So, what did we blow our money on afterwards?
AFA your constant bitching about Trump and taxes .... ALL ultra wealthy people pay very little taxes. Bezos. Buffet. Gates. Musk.
Corporations also pay very little in taxes
The problem isn't Trump.
It's our tax law.
You really are very, very stupid. A stupid person with an axe to grind.
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Yes. Second is a very, very stupid person.
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Originally posted by second:
Thanks to Trump, the average national price of a dozen eggs is already $5. (Trumptard farmers control egg prices.) The USDA forecasts a 41.1% additional increase through the end of the year:
A year from now you'll probably be paying $7 for a dozen eggs.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-find
ings
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I didn't hear you complain once about the price of anything under 4 years of Bidenflation.
Nobody wants to hear out of you in 2025.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I've got an answer, but first a question. Signym, Kissinger never said the words in your signature and yet you never correct your signature. Why not? The correction is as easy as removing two words from the signature: Henry Kissinger.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I agree. THUGR, you never answered the question. You post endlessly about Russia and China. You accuse Trump of things that never happened, and name-call relentlessly if I bring up areas where and how I think we could ... and really should ... fix our problems.
But answer the question??
Nah.
Never.
Loser.
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Now for the run-up to my answer. My firm belief is the people who side with Trump, or Putin, are too stubborn, too dishonest, too stupid to allow them making decisions for other people. There might be Trumptards that aren't too mentally crippled, but I can't find them were I live.
What are America's needs? My answer: all Trumptards out of government. All other problems will be solvable with those people out of the decision loops. The Trumptards can run their own individual lives but they should not be allowed anywhere near other people and their property. Let the Trumptards mess up their own lives but not be allowed interference with other lives.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
What TWO said. Yup, I agree.
So, comrade SIGNYM a question from me. What justification does Russia have for going into Ukraine? Both times comrade. First time in 2014 I think it was. It is obvious the Ukrainians don't want them there. I predict you will say elections were held and they want Russia there. Which would explain why they are killing Russians as quick as they can.
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Of course you do, ya fuckin' bobble head.
Too bad for you that you lost. And now you get to see your entire world fall apart before your very eyes.
And all the Democrats can do now is try to save those poor tranny kids that want to beat up women in women's sports.
You're not learning any lessons.
Your party is dead.
You chose death.
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Quote:I quoted Kissinger in full. He said exactly that. SECOND is an idiot and a liar with an axe to grind.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR, you never answered the question. You post endlessly about Russia and China. You accuse Trump of things that never happened, and name-call relentlessly if I bring up areas where and how I think we could ... and really should ... fix our problems.
But answer the question??
Nah.
Never.
Loser.
SECOND: I've got an answer, but first a question. Signym, Kissinger never said the words in your signature and yet you never correct your signature. Why not? The correction is as easy as removing two words from the signature: Henry Kissinger.
Quote:
SECOND:
What are America's needs? My answer: all Trumptards out of government. All other problems will be solvable with those people out of the decision loops. The Trumptards can run their own individual lives but they should not be allowed anywhere near other people and their property. Let the Trumptards mess up their own lives but not be allowed interference with other lives.
THUGR: What TWO said. Yup, I agree.
So, comrade SIGNYM a question from me. What justification does Russia have for going into Ukraine? Both times comrade. First time in 2014 I think it was. It is obvious the Ukrainians don't want them there. I predict you will say elections were held and they want Russia there. Which would explain why they are killing Russians as quick as they can.
THUGR, you pretend that we didn't have any problems before Trump??
:One idiot with an axe to grind agreeing with another idiot with an axe to grind.
You're a waste of time. You lost and will continue to lose bc you believe in an alternate reality, and the real world is coming to get you.
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Quote:I assume you are forgetting that the Trumptards in Congress are, once again, lower taxes. The corrective action would be to raise taxes to the level during Eisenhower's administration. Poor people such as Signym and 6ix struggle because rich people like me gather all the wealth for themselves. Back when Eisenhower was President, the wealthy couldn't own all of America, but it is inevitable now. It's great for me and my similarly oriented children and sisters, so I'm not gonna stop it, and neither is Trump. He has gone a few steps further by arbitrarily paying no tax; law means nothing to him. There are numerous articles about 'Trump paid no tax' because he lied on his tax returns:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Eisenhower was paying off WWII debt.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The Uniparty has been keeping the USA chugging along by borrowing more money. The debt hanging over us is at a critical point and must be solved.
SECOND: The straightforward solution is a return to the tax rates when Eisenhower was President. But that is a solution Trump would never accept. How much did he pay in 2016? 2017? $750.
So, what did we blow our money on afterwards?
AFA your constant bitching about Trump and taxes .... ALL ultra wealthy people pay very little taxes. Bezos. Buffet. Gates. Musk.
Corporations also pay very little in taxes
The problem isn't Trump.
It's our tax law.
You really are very, very stupid. A stupid person with an axe to grind.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+paid+no+tax
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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You don't own anything and your sisters hate you as much as your mom does.
Take the fucking trash out and don't make your mom ask for a 3rd time.
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What the hell is going on in the brains of angry poor white trash like 6ix and Signym? There is a scientific explanation that essentially says Trumptards lack sufficient experience with the world as it truly is:
It’s Been 10 Years Since “The Dress”
The viral image holds a lesson in why people disagree — and how we can learn to better understand each other.
By Pascal Wallisch | Feb 26, 2025 10:00 AM
https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/the-dress-black-gold-blue-white-v
iral-psychology.html
It was not a tranquil time. People argued with their friends about the very basics of reality. Spouses vehemently disagreed. Each and every person was on one side or the other side. It could be hard to imagine how anyone in their right mind could hold an opinion different from your own.
I’m talking, of course, about “the dress,” which went viral on Feb. 26, 2015, ten years ago today. To recap: A cellphone picture of a wedding guest’s dress, uploaded to the internet, sharply divided people into either white and gold or black and blue — even if they were viewing it together, on the very same computer or phone screen. This is not a debate about people seeing different shades of gray: blue and gold are categorically different colors, not even in the same neighborhood on the color wheel.
The notorious dress, under natural lighting conditions, is unambiguously black and blue, for (almost) everyone who saw it in person, or in other photographs.
. . . the next time you find yourself in an intractable disagreement, whether about colors, politics, or morality, consider this: You and the other person are not just arguing about the facts. You are seeing the world through different priors.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:While you are spewing lies, 6ixStringJack, why not say that Trump is thin, handsome, honest, a good manager and Christian and also pays his taxes? Claim Trump never raped anyone while you are at it, 6ix, and never did anything in Moscow during the Miss Universe Pageant that Putin can use to blackmail Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You don't own anything and your sisters hate you as much as your mom does.
Take the fucking trash out and don't make your mom ask for a 3rd time.
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Grow up.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I quoted Kissinger in full. He said exactly that. SECOND is an idiot and a liar with an axe to grind.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR, you never answered the question. You post endlessly about Russia and China. You accuse Trump of things that never happened, and name-call relentlessly if I bring up areas where and how I think we could ... and really should ... fix our problems.
But answer the question??
Nah.
Never.
Loser.
SECOND: I've got an answer, but first a question. Signym, Kissinger never said the words in your signature and yet you never correct your signature. Why not? The correction is as easy as removing two words from the signature: Henry Kissinger.Quote:
SECOND:
What are America's needs? My answer: all Trumptards out of government. All other problems will be solvable with those people out of the decision loops. The Trumptards can run their own individual lives but they should not be allowed anywhere near other people and their property. Let the Trumptards mess up their own lives but not be allowed interference with other lives.
THUGR: What TWO said. Yup, I agree.
So, comrade SIGNYM a question from me. What justification does Russia have for going into Ukraine? Both times comrade. First time in 2014 I think it was. It is obvious the Ukrainians don't want them there. I predict you will say elections were held and they want Russia there. Which would explain why they are killing Russians as quick as they can.
THUGR, you pretend that we didn't have any problems before Trump??
One idiot with an axe to grind agreeing with another idiot with an axe to grind.
You're a waste of time. You lost and will continue to lose bc you believe in an alternate reality, and the real world is coming to get you.
No comrade, you and Jack make shit up and attribute it to others. Whenever a MAGA or Russian propagandist say someone does or says something, they are always speaking about themselves.
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Quote:Our family ran a natural experiment. My sisters married Trumptards. They didn't know because Trump's political career was decades in the future but there were signs. The sisters got jobs as a school teacher and a nurse while the Trumptards took crap jobs that seemed easy. The sisters are multimillionaires who still work despite being 67 and 74. They like their jobs as I like mine. As for the Trumptard husbands, they are bitter that their "careers" didn't go well, disappointed that being lazy, stupid, dishonest fools is not a path to success. But, somehow, Trump will fix it for them as only he can do.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Grow up.
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Quote:I quoted Kissinger in full. He said exactly that. SECOND is an idiot and a liar with an axe to grind.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR, you never answered the question. You post endlessly about Russia and China. You accuse Trump of things that never happened, and name-call relentlessly if I bring up areas where and how I think we could ... and really should ... fix our problems.
But answer the question??
Nah.
Never.
Loser.
SECOND: I've got an answer, but first a question. Signym, Kissinger never said the words in your signature and yet you never correct your signature. Why not? The correction is as easy as removing two words from the signature: Henry Kissinger.
Quote:Like???
SECOND:
What are America's needs? My answer: all Trumptards out of government. All other problems will be solvable with those people out of the decision loops. The Trumptards can run their own individual lives but they should not be allowed anywhere near other people and their property. Let the Trumptards mess up their own lives but not be allowed interference with other lives.
THUGR: What TWO said. Yup, I agree.
So, comrade SIGNYM a question from me. What justification does Russia have for going into Ukraine? Both times comrade. First time in 2014 I think it was. It is obvious the Ukrainians don't want them there. I predict you will say elections were held and they want Russia there. Which would explain why they are killing Russians as quick as they can.
SIGNY: THUGR, you pretend that we didn't have any problems before Trump??
One idiot with an axe to grind agreeing with another idiot with an axe to grind.
You're a waste of time. You lost and will continue to lose bc you believe in an alternate reality, and the real world is coming to get you.
THUGR: No comrade, you and Jack make shit up and attribute it to others.
You can ignore reality, but it won't ignore you.
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Quote:It was the "then" clause of a conditional statement:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND: I've got an answer, but first a question. Signym, Kissinger never said the words in your signature and yet you never correct your signature. Why not? The correction is as easy as removing two words from the signature: Henry Kissinger.
Originally posted by SIGNYM: I quoted Kissinger in full. He said exactly that. SECOND is an idiot and a liar with an axe to grind.
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.
Kissinger said this in late November 1968 after Nixon was elected president, but before Nixon was inaugurated.
It wasn't a public statement, just a statement to William F. Buckley Jr. in a phone call, with Buckley taking notes, so it isn't verifiable beyond Buckley (author of United Nations Journal: A Delegate's Odyssey).
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/56470/did-henry-kissinger
-say-it-may-be-dangerous-to-be-americas-enemy-but-to-be-am
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Quote:Further Proof that Trump is either a crappy businessman, a lousy President, or both!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You can ignore reality, but it won't ignore you.
Exclusive: The full text of the US-Ukraine mineral deal
By The Kyiv Independent | February 26, 2025 3:25 PM
https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-the-full-text-of-the-final-us-uk
raine-mineral-agreement/
Kyiv and Washington agreed on a deal on Feb. 25. The negotiations around the deal have fueled tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky in the past week.
My translation of Trump’s dumb "deal":
1. There is a fund. The US share of the fund will be "to the extent permissible under applicable United States laws." Details will come later in a Fund Agreement.
2. The fund will collect money contributed to the fund.
3. Ukraine will contribute to the fund 50% of all money earned from mining of natural resources.
4. The US supports a prosperous Ukraine.
5. The fund will invest in Ukranian projects, mainly mineral extraction.
6. Ukraine won't sign any deals that encumber the fund.
7. The fund is commercial in nature.
8. The Fund Agreement will ensure the fund can't evade sanctions.
9. The Fund Agreement will be developed soon.
10. This agreement will be part of lasting peace.
11. This agreement is binding.
The US gets nothing out of this. Some unspecified share of an investment fund that may or not ever be profitable, I guess. It doesn't seem to be much of a deal.
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Donald Trump has threatened to slap 25% tariffs on the European Union, claiming the 27-country bloc was “formed to screw the United States”.
Speaking at his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the US president said he would soon release details of the latest tariff threat. “We have made a decision and we’ll be announcing it very soon. It’ll be 25%,” he said.
Many economists and even conservative publications, including the Wall Street Journal, have warned that Trump’s plans risk hurting the US economy. On Wednesday, Trump took to Truth Social, his social media platform, to attack a Journal editorial that argued his tariffs on Canada and Mexico would backfire, hurting the US economy.
Calling the argument “soooo wrong”, Trump wrote: “The tariffs will drive massive amounts of auto manufacturing to MICHIGAN, a State which I just easily one [sic] in the Presidential Election,” he wrote.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/trump-european-union-t
ariffs
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Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump has threatened to slap 25% tariffs on the European Union, claiming the 27-country bloc was “formed to screw the United States”.
Speaking at his first cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the US president said he would soon release details of the latest tariff threat. “We have made a decision and we’ll be announcing it very soon. It’ll be 25%,” he said.
Many economists and even conservative publications, including the Wall Street Journal, have warned that Trump’s plans risk hurting the US economy. On Wednesday, Trump took to Truth Social, his social media platform, to attack a Journal editorial that argued his tariffs on Canada and Mexico would backfire, hurting the US economy.
Calling the argument “soooo wrong”, Trump wrote: “The tariffs will drive massive amounts of auto manufacturing to MICHIGAN, a State which I just easily one [sic] in the Presidential Election,” he wrote.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/trump-european-union-t
ariffs
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Guess we'll find out who was right.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Our family ran a natural experiment.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Grow up.
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We know.
The results were that your mother should have aborted you after all.
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