Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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By The Kyiv Independent
Kyiv and Independent are two mutually exclusive concepts.
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Hey comrade, you didn't answer my question. 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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Quote:Here is another "Guess we'll find out who was right." Except there will be a bunch of dead people from disease but JFK Jr. and 6ixStringJack will say nobody died. In that case, how will you know whether JFK Jr. and 6ix are lying sacks of shit or not?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Guess we'll find out who was right.
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RFK Jr is attacking and destroying!
Every year in March a CDC committee meets to decide which flu strains to target with the upcoming season's flu shot. The March meeting is important because (a) flu strains change every year, and (b) manufacturers need plenty of lead time to ramp up production of more than 100 million doses. But RFK Jr. has called off the meeting indefinitely.
RFK Jr. has broke his promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy: To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator: He would not change the nation’s current vaccination schedule. Promise made; promise broken. You could accuse RFK of lying but that won’t stop him from lying some more and accusing you being the real liar. What to do about him? Hitting RFK Jr with a shotgun blast to the face would fix what is wrong with him. Will someone please pull the trigger?
RFK Jr. is also canceling vaccine contracts, vaccine tests, vaccine advertisements.
Many details at https://jabberwocking.com/rfk-jr-makes-his-public-debut-as-hhs-secreta
ry-better-watch-out/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Here is another "Guess we'll find out who was right." Except there will be a bunch of dead people from disease but JFK Jr. and 6ixStringJack will say nobody died. In that case, how will you know whether JFK Jr. and 6ix are lying sacks of shit or not?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Guess we'll find out who was right.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
RFK Jr is attacking and destroying!
Every year in March a CDC committee meets to decide which flu strains to target with the upcoming season's flu shot. The March meeting is important because (a) flu strains change every year, and (b) manufacturers need plenty of lead time to ramp up production of more than 100 million doses. But RFK Jr. has called off the meeting indefinitely.
RFK Jr. has broke his promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy: To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator: He would not change the nation’s current vaccination schedule. Promise made; promise broken. You could accuse RFK of lying but that won’t stop him from lying some more and accusing you being the real liar. What to do about him? Hitting RFK Jr with a shotgun blast to the face would fix what is wrong with him. Will someone please pull the trigger?
RFK Jr. is also canceling vaccine contracts, vaccine tests, vaccine advertisements.
Many details at https://jabberwocking.com/rfk-jr-makes-his-public-debut-as-hhs-secreta
ry-better-watch-out/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
RFK never made that promise.
This is all excellent news.
I guess you won't ever be leaving the house anymore, huh?
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Oh, and I would advise you be REAL careful about your death threats going forward.
Have you not been paying attention to the news recently?
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There you go...
https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/us-news/wannabe-influencer-sarah-roberts
-probed-over-calls-for-elon-musks-assassination/
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A wannabe influencer from New York sickeningly called for Elon Musk to be assassinated while bragging about not paying taxes — quickly getting her on the feds’ radar.
Sarah C. Roberts, who calls herself a Big Apple-based executive producer, shared a video to her 4,000 TikTok followers saying Musk’s name — then gesturing as if slitting his throat.
“We need to X him,” she says of the Tesla and X boss working for President Trump. “And by X, I mean formally known as assassination.”
Smirking, she challenged the FBI to stop her — while seemingly confessing to tax crimes.
“Arrest me. You don’t have enough people to even investigate me at this point. I haven’t filed my taxes in like … eight years and yet no one’s come for me,” she said in the clip.
“So I’m going to f–king say it. Let’s assassinate some motherf–kers,” she concludes in the video.
The short video was reshared on X on Monday by Libs of TikTok, where it has been viewed more than 16 million times — including by Musk himself, who tagged Ed Martin, the US attorney for DC, to make sure the feds were aware.
“Death threat and admission of multiple counts of tax fraud,” wrote Musk, a chief White House adviser, adding: “Uh oh… now she’s in trouble. Don’t you love when they admit their crimes on video for the world to see.”
Martin later responded on X, resharing the viral clip and addressing Roberts in his post.
“Duly noted. Thx for letting us know. We’ll put you in the system. Talk soon, Ma’am,” he warned, with the hashtag #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw.
Roberts has since deleted her TikTok account and made her Instagram account private.
Many commenters were baffled at Roberts’ actions.
“Why do people get on TikTok and just self-snitch? I don’t understand this need to out yourself,” one X user wrote.
“I hope that the FBI takes this woman very seriously – such threats have to be investigated immediately,” a second wrote, tagging the bureau and its new director, Kash Patel.
“I’m amazed at how many people there are online who will openly hand the American justice system a slam dunk like this. At least give your lawyer something to work with,” added a third.
Ted operates under the assumption that there are a lot of people who used to post here who check in and read everything he writes for them. Maybe you ought to do that too.
I think it would be hilarious if Adam Baldwin came back in here one day and saw your post and that ended up with the next 4 years of your life in and out of court once they see the archive I made for you on top of it. Maybe you'll end up in Gitmo with the rapist Illegal Invaders that you love so much.
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Oh. And I do want to make it VERY clear to anyone reading this that the call for assassination today was NOT the words of Kevin Drum, although Second wittingly or unwittingly structured his post to give that impression. I've checked it myself and there are no mentions of this either in his linked article or the comment section below it.
These were all second's words.
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Like I said, SECOND is a bitter old man. He's like powerless, feeble Biden: just enough "ooomph" to yell at kids from his porch rocking chair.
I'd be surprised if he outlives the Trump administration.
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EPSTEIN FILES TOMORROW: AG Pam Bondi Announces Thursday Release As 250 Victim Names Redacted
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USAID Sent Millions To Ukraine In Secret Slush Funds, Investigators Found
... “[Funds allegedly] intended to alleviate economic distress in the war-torn nation was spent on such frivolous activities as sending Ukrainian models and designers on junkets to New York City, London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, and South by Southwest in Austin, Texas,” they said.
Among the secret slush funds was one providing $114,000 to fund purchases of “a premium, limited-edition furniture line,” and another $91,000 used to finance “a trade mission for a Scandinavian-style furniture line.”
Other USAID funding uncovered by the investigators included $148,000 for “a pickle maker,” $255,000 to “a producer of organic tea and coffee,” $104,00o for “an artisanal fruit tea company,” and $89,000 to support “a Ukrainian vineyard.”
USAID funding also provided $300,000 each to a dog collar manufacturer and a company selling a pet tracking application, $161,000 for “a purveyor of contemporary knitwear,” $126,000 for a “photographer for fashion design publications,” and $84,000 to support “a luxury bridal brand.”...
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Quote:Yes I have. Trumptards are dying all around me. It turns out that Trumptards are killing themselves. Take the hint, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh, and I would advise you be REAL careful about your death threats going forward.
Have you not been paying attention to the news recently?
Trump Gaza . . . The US president posted the clip on the site Truth Social on Wednesday.
This must have been created as a parody originally but Trump saw it and thought "Wow, they nailed it. This is my vision."
It's official, we are in a South Park episode.
Even the Simpsons couldn't predict this one.
We live in the dumbest of all times!!!
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:I'm guessing you misunderstand how the US changes people's minds. Historically, it was not by sending pamphlets written by abolitionists via the mail in order to work on the minds of slave-owners. It was by killing slave-owners and burning their plantations.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh. And I do want to make it VERY clear to anyone reading this that the call for assassination today was NOT the words of Kevin Drum, although Second wittingly or unwittingly structured his post to give that impression. I've checked it myself and there are no mentions of this either in his linked article or the comment section below it.
These were all second's words.
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More recently, minds were changed not by dropping leaflets on Germany with criticisms of their antisemitism but by firebombing their women and children. Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five, a novel about the firebombing of Dresden, Germany in 1945 because he got firebombed, too, since he was a prisoner in Dresden. Kurt didn't understand that firebombing was the only effective way to communicate a clear message. Kurt's novels don't work anywhere near as well.
Off in the Pacific, the US didn't primarily use radio broadcasts of dramas teaching the moral lesson that the Japanese are not racially superior to Chinese, Koreans and Filipinos. Instead the Japs got nuked in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japs understood the message when more subtle signalling didn't persuade them.
Recently, Hollywood sent a subtle message to Trumptards with the movie Civil War. Trumptards didn't get the message but they will.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Cognitive Dissonance
By Andrew Tobias | February 27, 2025
https://andrewtobias.com/cognitive-dissonance/
Mark Aaron James:
This is what sucks about cognitive dissonance. Once you’ve committed, and defended a position, it is VERY difficult to rectify such a mistake with one’s sense of self. Humans are incredibly reluctant to see themselves as less informed, making bad decisions, unknowingly supporting evil, and being fooled. They will, honestly, die defending a choice, rather than admit they were flawed. It is one of our greatest weaknesses as a species. There is a gentle process, where you can lead people to figure it out themselves, but just telling them, even showing them evidence, often causes them to double down. I wish this weren’t true, but there are tons of studies about it. Ignorant people are fragile, and that sucks for anyone hoping to make change.
That’s the problem all right.
Yet . . .
. . . when the 79 million Americans on Medicaid see how hard Trump is trying to cut their benefits . . . while cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires . . . and ballooning the deficit . . .
. . . when farmers lose the sales they used to make to USAID to feed starving children (and win the world’s admiration and goodwill) . . .
. . . when shoppers see the price of eggs double what got them to vote for Trump . . .
. . . and hard-working public servants who voted for him are treated with contempt and laid off . . .
. . . and government services get worse and air safety becomes a concern and measles spreads and 401k’s fall . . .
. . . and they wonder how it makes America great to pardon cop beaters . . .
. . . and to vote with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and our allies . . .
. . . I think more than a few of the good people who trusted Trump with their vote will feel betrayed.
Whether this will happen in time to save the country — and whether free and fair elections will be allowed in 2026 — I don’t know. They have elections in Russia and North Korea, too.
BONUS
Will it be okay for Trump to murder people as Russia’s Putin and North Korea’s Kim do?
Adam Schiff puts the question to a Trump nominee.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid
And their own supporters will be among the biggest victims
By Paul Krugman | Feb 27, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cruel-and-usual-republicans-prepare
West Virginia is a very red state; Donald Trump received more than two thirds of its votes last year.
It’s also a poor state, left behind by the 21st century economy. Because incomes are low, it pays very little in federal income taxes — less per household than any other state.
However, at least the great majority of West Virginians — more than 94 percent — have health insurance. The reason for this good news is that unlike many red states, WV accepted Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, which was passed in 2010 but didn’t fully go into effect until 2014. The effect was dramatic; Medicaid now covers more than a quarter of the state’s population:
Source: KFF
And Medicaid covers 45 percent of the state’s children.
But now the Republicans West Virginia helped put in power are preparing to impose savage cuts on a program that has literally been a lifeline for many in the state, in order to help offset the cost of huge tax cuts for high-income Americans, hardly any of which will trickle down to WV voters. Populism!
We’ll be hearing a lot of lies about Medicaid in the weeks ahead, starting with Trump’s arithmetically impossible claim last week that Medicaid won’t be “touched” by the planned spending cuts. So here are two things you should know about a program Trump and his allies have in their crosshairs: it’s extremely important to many Americans, and it’s much more cost-efficient than the rest of our health care system.
Medicaid is really, really important
I often encounter generally well-informed people who are surprised to learn that Medicaid is a much bigger program, in terms of the number of people covered, than Medicare — 69 million versus 48 million. The perception that Medicare is much more important may reflect the fact that Medicaid still costs taxpayers less than Medicare. This is partly because older people have higher health costs than the young adults and children who make up much of the Medicaid population. But it’s also because Medicaid is quite cost-efficient; more about that shortly.
There’s also, let’s be frank, a perception that Medicaid is politically unimportant, that conservatives can safely target it for cuts, because it’s mainly a program for inner city people of color. But that was never as true as people imagined and is definitely not true now. Again, consider West Virginia. It’s one of America’s most rural states and overwhelmingly — 90 percent — white. Yet as we’ve seen, it’s deeply dependent on Medicaid.
In fact, Medicaid is especially important for rural and small-town Americans, even if they aren’t beneficiaries themselves, because it helps keep health care accessible.
Hospitals have been closing across much of rural America, because there aren’t enough paying patients to keep them operating; the picture at the top of this post shows one such hospital, in Cuthbert, Georgia. Georgia is one of the states that, unlike West Virginia, refused to accept a federally-funded expansion in Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. As a result, fewer Georgians are able to pay for medical care. Rural hospital closures have been overwhelmingly concentrated in these “non-expansion” states.
All in all, if Republicans think they can slash Medicaid without paying a heavy political price, because only Those People will be hurt, they’re going to be mightily surprised. According to one recent poll, 71 percent of Trump voters say that cutting Medicaid would be unacceptable.
Medicaid is cost-efficient
Some conservatives claim that we can achieve big cuts in Medicaid outlays by eliminating wasteful spending, because that’s their rote lin
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Quote:Signym, fix your signature which includes only the clause of a conditional statement and totally reverses the meaning of the original Kissinger full quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Like I said, SECOND is a bitter old man. He's like powerless, feeble Biden: just enough "ooomph" to yell at kids from his porch rocking chair.
I'd be surprised if he outlives the Trump administration.
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"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
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Elon Musk’s big mistake with the IRS, explained in 3 charts
This DOGE cut could actually cost the government money.
by Nicole Narea | Feb 27, 2025, 5:00 AM CST
https://www.vox.com/politics/401578/musk-doge-irs-tax
Elon Musk’s cut-first, aim-later run through the federal government is predicated on the idea that the nation’s finances are in crisis and that it needs to drastically cut spending to recover. But at least one cut Musk’s team is planning will actually cost the government money, worsening the supposed fiscal crisis that the Trump administration is claiming is a national emergency.
That’s Musk’s plan to cut jobs at the US Internal Revenue Service.
At the behest of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team, the IRS reportedly plans to lay off up to 6,700 employees, and the cull began last Thursday. Those affected include over 5,000 workers handling auditing and collections, despite assurances from IRS managers that positions critical to tax filing season have not been impacted. Many of them are probationary employees who have been working for the federal government for less than a year and are not entitled to severance.
So how are these cuts going to cost money?
It turns out that money spent on IRS agents pays for itself many times over, because when there are more people doing tax enforcement, the government takes in more of the revenue it’s legally owed under the tax code.
The Biden administration showed that investing in the US Internal Revenue Service can be a boon to tax revenues, hiring new agents — and focusing enforcement on the highest earners.
The layoffs might only be the beginning: Trump has also proposed the creation of an “External Revenue Service” funded by tariffs, reportedly with the intention of replacing the IRS. It sounds far-fetched, and Trump famously floats a lot of extreme ideas that never come to fruition. But any further significant reduction in the IRS workforce, however, could lead to a corresponding decline in tax collections — especially among the wealthiest Americans who have recently been targeted for tax enforcement.
The IRS got more resources and higher tax revenues followed
In mid-2022, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which included an $80 billion investment over ten years in tax enforcement activities at the IRS, including the hiring of more IRS agents. In the two years that followed, the agency’s workforce grew by more than 15,000 permanent employees.
The IRS has hired over 15,000 people in two years.
A big spike in tax revenues followed, with gross collections jumping from $4.7 trillion in fiscal year 2023 to about $5.1 trillion the next year, according to data from the IRS and the National Taxpayer Advocate.
Obviously, there are a lot of factors that contribute to tax revenue levels, including, most importantly, the state and size of the economy in a given year. But in the 2023-2024 leap, much of the increase came from enforcement activities against people making over $400,000 per year, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. That suggests that stepped-up IRS enforcement played a prominent role.
The agency collected about $1.1 billion from just 1,600 of those wealthiest Americans with unpaid tax debts in fiscal year 2024, up from $38 million the year before. That money was only recovered because the IRS finally had the required staffing levels to investigate, helping to make some progress in closing an estimated $696 billion gap in unpaid US taxes.
The IRS collected more taxes following a hiring spree.
Despite significant boosting funding for the IRS, the costs of tax collection have actually gone down in recent years. For every $100 collected, the IRS only spent 34 cents in fiscal year 2023, near historic lows.
Tax collection has become significantly cheaper.
None of that has proved enough for the Trump administration to save the jobs of the thousands of IRS workers now facing layoffs. Reducing the IRS workforce at a time when revenues and efficiency have been i
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Elon Musk has been taking a scattershot approach to firing federal employees, mostly focusing on probationary workers who have limited civil service protection.
But today a memo went out from the Office of Personnel Management that made things more official. It demanded that all agencies submit plans by March 13 for "large scale reductions in force" that would be implemented over the following 30-60 days. A second round of plans is due by April 14.
But it's kind of odd. The memo leaves out one thing: how big should the layoffs be? 5%? 10%? More? What counts as "substantial"?
There's no guidance whatsoever on this. No suggestion of how many people they want gone.
Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/latest-memos/guidance-on-age
ncy-rif-and-reorganization-plans-requested-by-implementing-the-president-s-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative.pdf
This doesn't look very bloated, but who knows? Maybe it's like an iceberg.
https://jabberwocking.com/the-big-rif-is-coming-but-how-big/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by THG:
Hey comrade, you didn't answer my question. 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.
T
Come on Signym. Answer the damn question.
T
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Like I said, SECOND is a bitter old man. He's like powerless, feeble Biden: just enough "ooomph" to yell at kids from his porch rocking chair.
I'd be surprised if he outlives the Trump administration.
I don't see any point for his living as long as he has. Waste of carbon.
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Originally posted by THG:
Hey comrade, you didn't answer my question. 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: Come on Signym. Answer the damn question.
My answer is:
First time, Russia didn't invade. I've made that point over and over. They were doing in Ukraine what we're doing now: fighting a PROXY WAR. The fighting was done primarily by Donbas militias: locals who took up arms.
Initially, when the NAZIS in Kiev decided to ethnically cleanse Russian-speakers from Ukraine, Donbas locals grabbed whatever arms they had and fought back. There are videos of local men with everything from pistols to hunting rifles to shotguns fighting running street battles with NAZIS from Kiev.
Eventually, like any good guerilla group, they were able to fight with weapons they captured from the NAZIS, and weapons that had been stored in armories across the Donbas. They also organized into semi-formal miltary units: squads, companies, battalions. The most successful leaders bubbled to the top.
Don't you remember the two famous militia leaders from then? Going by the call names "Motorola" and "Givi" they were field commanders from the Donbas, assasinated by Kiev's SRU. There were many other unit commanders, killed in war or assasinated, none of them Russian.
GIVI, Commander of Somali Battalion
MTOROLA, Field commander
The Donbas militias appealed to Russia for help. Russia supplied them with intel and training. Weapons and equipment (helmets, bullets, kit) were purchased on a secondary market and donated, to augment the ones they captured or commandeered from local armories.
There were probably some gung-ho Russian volunteers, just like there are American, French, British, and Polish volunteers in Ukraine now. There were probably some intelligence officers and trainers. There were likely some Spetsnaz, but that's just a guess based on how proxy wars usually go. What Russia did had few direct ties to their official military, on purpose.
Russia tried hard to settle the conflict, which they regarded as a CIVIL WAR (i.e. internal to Ukraine). They helped negotiate MinskI and MinskII, which were supposed to ensure a ceasefire along the line of contact (LOC).
France and Germany were supposed to guarantee Kiev's compliance to the agreements, but they never did. There was continued shelling along the LOC, MOSTLY FROM KIEV AND MOSTLY INTO CIVILIAN AREAS OF DONTESK. The shelling into civilian Donetsk continued, including using cluster "flechette" munitions and "petal mines", all the way into 2024, when Russia captured Avdeevka and Marynka.
Meanwhile, Merkel, Hollande, and Poroshenko openly bragged that they only used the Minsk agreements to buy time to stuff Ukraine with weapons.
So, what triggered Russia's SMO? Was it NATOS'S open commitment to bring Ukraine into NATO, and "arming up" Ukraine? Was is Europe's obvious bragging that they fooled Russia with the Minsk agreements, and their continuous provocations over gas supplies? Was it Zelensky prancing around saying he wanted nuclear weapons? Was it Kiev's continued shelling into Donbas? Was it Kiev massing 100,000 troops on the LOC?
IDK. What I do know is that the SMO turned into a full-on war when Zelensky reneged, ONCE AGAIN, on a peace agreement that had been initialed by his team in Turkey in 2022. I think, at that point, the Kremlin realized they were in a real war, not just against Ukraine but also against NATO.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Like I said, SECOND is a bitter old man. He's like powerless, feeble Biden: just enough "ooomph" to yell at kids from his porch rocking chair.
I'd be surprised if he outlives the Trump administration.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
SECOND: Signym, fix your signature which includes only the clause of a conditional statement and totally reverses the meaning of the original Kissinger full quote:
"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."
NOPE! Doesn't reverse the meaning at all. In fact, it makes the statement even stronger by providing a specific example (Diem) of one of "America's friends" meeting a sad fate.
There have been many examples since, including Saddam (who was once our "ally" in our fight against Iran), and Noriega (who cooperated with our CIA to provide training grounds in Panama, and -some say- a route for CIA drug smuggling.)
Stop nattering, old fool.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I'm guessing you misunderstand how the US changes people's minds. Historically, it was not by sending pamphlets written by abolitionists via the mail in order to work on the minds of slave-owners. It was by killing slave-owners and burning their plantations.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh. And I do want to make it VERY clear to anyone reading this that the call for assassination today was NOT the words of Kevin Drum, although Second wittingly or unwittingly structured his post to give that impression. I've checked it myself and there are no mentions of this either in his linked article or the comment section below it.
These were all second's words.
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Tell that one to the judge. I'm really going to enjoy watching all the YouTube videos covering your dumb ass in court.
You do whatever you want to do. But this is the least safe you've ever been spouting your particular brand of poison.
You don't have a 4,000 sub follower on TikTok that is going to make what you say here viral, but Firefly isn't exactly an unknown entity. You never know what could happen that would make eyes turn this way again, and you might just end up with feds at your door if you keep it up.
P.S. You know that I'm not going to rat you out. But somebody else could. And they'd have a very long list of your behavior to look over.
What do you feel your chances of not having your life ruined for at least the next 4 years are if somebody sent a link to your posts to Kash Patel or Pam Bondi right now?
Stop digging yourself deeper and get some help.
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Gee, when did the egg-laying hen population decrease? 2020 thru 2024.
Hmmm.... looks like another Biden* fuckup.
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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If everyone else refused to buy eggs when they're over $2.00 per dozen, they'd figure out a way to get it back below that price pretty fucking quick.
The reason why eggs are $12/dozen in some places is because the idiots there pay that price.
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Three billionaires: America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed
As Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk alter US media, the connections between wealth and power are in plain sight
By Robert Reich | Thu 27 Feb 2025 12.37 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/27/america-billiona
ires-bezos-zuckerberg-musk
One of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it is revealing the putrid connections between great wealth and great power for all to see. Oligarchs are fully exposed and they are defiant. It’s like hitting the “reveal codes” key on older computers that let you see everything.
On Wednesday, Jeff Bezos, the third-richest person in America, who bought the Washington Post in 2013, announced that the paper’s opinion section would henceforth focus on defending “personal liberties and free markets”. Anything inconsistent with this view would not be published, according to his statement. “Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
The Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley, promptly resigned, as he should have.
You’ll recall that Bezos barred the Post from endorsing Kamala Harris in the last weeks of the 2024 election. Subsequently, the paper wouldn’t print its cartoonist’s drawing showing Bezos and other oligarchs bowing to Trump, leading the cartoonist to resign.
Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, bought Twitter in 2022, laid off everyone who was filtering out hateful crap on the platform, renamed it X and turned it into a cesspool of lies in support of Trump.
Mark Zuckerberg, the second-richest person, has followed suit, allowing Facebook to emit lies, hate and bigotry in support of Trump’s lies, hate and bigotry.
All three of these men were in the first row at Trump’s inauguration. They, and other billionaires, have now exposed themselves for what they are.
They are the oligarchy. They continue to siphon off the wealth of the nation. They are supporting a tyrant who is promising them tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks that will make them even richer.
They are destroying democracy so they won’t have to worry about “parasites” (as Musk calls people who depend on government assistance) demanding anything more from them.
When billionaires take control of our communication channels, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for their billionaire babble.
When they talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.
When they speak of “freedom”, what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.
This “reveal code” moment is, in a way, a blessing. It allows everyone to see where the money and power have gone.
It is a prerequisite to the long and difficult but necessary process of creating an economy and democracy for the many rather than the few.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:What is known about Kash Patel? “Surreal” and “Wacky” from today: FBI Director Kash Patel is considering bringing in trainers from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to beef up agents’ martial arts and self-defense skills, according to four people familiar with the plan laid out on a call this week with FBI field offices.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What do you feel your chances of not having your life ruined for at least the next 4 years are if somebody sent a link to your posts to Kash Patel or Pam Bondi right now?
Stop digging yourself deeper and get some help.
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The newly appointed director discussed the idea during his first video conference call with the bureau’s 55 field office supervisors on Wednesday, said the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss the call’s contents because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Two people briefed on the matter said current FBI agents described the idea as “surreal” and “wacky.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/91286985/fbi-director-kash-patel-wants-ufc
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What about Pam Bondi? Bondi accused FBI of withholding thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents she has vowed to make public.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-files-pam-bondi-sends-fiery-note-ka
sh-patel-accusing-fbi-withholding-docs
Is there more about Pam Bondi? Too much more but I will stop with this: 'I just want to introduce her very, very handsome husband. I hate being around him. He looks too good,' joked the President. Before meeting her 'very handsome husband,' Pam went through two divorces and had a third wedding planned that ultimately got called off.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14364827/trump-attorney-gen
eral-pam-bondi-husband-john-wakefield-marriage-divorce.html
“Surreal” and “Wacky” Pam Bondi and Kash Patel. These two nutjobs are grotesquely incompetent and ineffectual which makes them par for the course in the Trumptard White House.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What is known about Kash Patel?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What do you feel your chances of not having your life ruined for at least the next 4 years are if somebody sent a link to your posts to Kash Patel or Pam Bondi right now?
Stop digging yourself deeper and get some help.
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Doesn't matter, you fucking autist.
Keep posting your death threats and we'll see what happens to you.
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Originally posted by second:
Three billionaires: America’s oligarchy is now fully exposed
As Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk alter US media, the connections between wealth and power are in plain sight
By Robert Reich | Thu 27 Feb 2025 12.37 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/27/america-billiona
ires-bezos-zuckerberg-musk
One of the unacknowledged advantages of the horrendous era we’ve entered is that it is revealing the putrid connections between great wealth and great power for all to see. Oligarchs are fully exposed and they are defiant. It’s like hitting the “reveal codes” key on older computers that let you see everything.
On Wednesday, Jeff Bezos, the third-richest person in America, who bought the Washington Post in 2013, announced that the paper’s opinion section would henceforth focus on defending “personal liberties and free markets”. Anything inconsistent with this view would not be published, according to his statement. “Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
The Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley, promptly resigned, as he should have.
You’ll recall that Bezos barred the Post from endorsing Kamala Harris in the last weeks of the 2024 election. Subsequently, the paper wouldn’t print its cartoonist’s drawing showing Bezos and other oligarchs bowing to Trump, leading the cartoonist to resign.
Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, bought Twitter in 2022, laid off everyone who was filtering out hateful crap on the platform, renamed it X and turned it into a cesspool of lies in support of Trump.
Mark Zuckerberg, the second-richest person, has followed suit, allowing Facebook to emit lies, hate and bigotry in support of Trump’s lies, hate and bigotry.
All three of these men were in the first row at Trump’s inauguration. They, and other billionaires, have now exposed themselves for what they are.
They are the oligarchy. They continue to siphon off the wealth of the nation. They are supporting a tyrant who is promising them tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks that will make them even richer.
They are destroying democracy so they won’t have to worry about “parasites” (as Musk calls people who depend on government assistance) demanding anything more from them.
When billionaires take control of our communication channels, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for their billionaire babble.
When they talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.
When they speak of “freedom”, what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.
This “reveal code” moment is, in a way, a blessing. It allows everyone to see where the money and power have gone.
It is a prerequisite to the long and difficult but necessary process of creating an economy and democracy for the many rather than the few.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
They were all your billionaires first, retard.
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Quote:Nope. Only Warren Buffett was ever my billionaire. He has not turned Trumptard. I don't think he will because he is old enough to remember the need to brutally murder with firebombs millions of Nazis' wives and children in order to force the leftover Germans back to better behavior. Buffett knows how to fight evil with greater evil. Fighting evil with good does not work. You have to murder evil fuckers like 6ix and Signym to get the others' attention. Make them fear for their lives if you want them to improve their behavior.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They were all your billionaires first, retard.
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Human losses of the Third Reich in World War II. A detailed description is given in the footnotes for Germany and Austria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Nazi_Germany
8.86% of Germans had to die in order to deliver an unmistakable message to the remainder.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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'American backlash' coming at Trump over signature policy: poll
By Brad Reed | February 27, 2025 1:38PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671235645/
With inflation showing signs of heating back up, American voters are taking a dimmer view of of president Donald Trump's signature economic policy.
Bloomberg reports that Trump "risks American consumer backlash" if he follows through on threats to slap tariffs on all imported goods from Mexico and Canada, as a new Harris poll conducted on behalf of Bloomberg shows 60 percent of respondents believe that the tariffs will raise prices on everyday consumer goods.
"While many of Trump’s proposed levies are not yet enacted, the findings signal that his plans for a tariff onslaught risk political blowback — and that his messaging on the issue hasn’t landed with many consumers," the publication writes.
Even before the tariffs have kicked in, Bloomberg adds, Americans have reported feeling the pinch of higher prices during Trump's first month back in office and "some 61 percent of US adults said they’d noticed an increase in grocery prices in the last month."
Eliza Winger, US economist for Bloomberg Economics, says that Trump going through with blanket 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada would likely be poorly timed because "people are just worried about anything when it comes to inflation because prices are already so high" and "they are more sensitive to any sort of headline when it comes to inflation numbers."
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Trump just dealt Russia a devastating blow (Will Trump Land the Punch on Putin's nose? Who Knows?)
By Marc A. Thiessen | Feb 27, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/27/minerals-deal-ukrai
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The minerals deal negotiated between the United States and Ukraine is a devastating development for Russia. Indeed, it is in some ways more important than any peace deal President Donald Trump might negotiate to end the fighting. Once implemented, it will mean that Russia has effectively lost the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to conquer his neighbor. Instead, the United States has just gone into business with Ukraine — entering into, as the agreement puts it, “a durable partnership” with Kyiv to jointly develop Ukraine’s untapped minerals and other natural resources and pledging “a long-term financial commitment to the development of a stable and economically prosperous Ukraine.”
With this deal, the United States is now invested — literally, not figuratively — in what the deal calls “a free, sovereign and secure Ukraine.” That means the United States now has a massive financial incentive to help safeguard Ukraine’s independence. If Ukraine survives, the United States will stand to gain hundreds of billions of dollars; if Ukraine falls, we get nothing. After all, does anyone think that if Putin conquers Ukraine, he is going to repay the United States for the weapons we gave Ukraine to fight his troops? Of course not.
The deal creates “a Reconstruction Investment Fund” that will be jointly owned and managed by the two countries. Ukraine will contribute 50 percent of all revenue earned from the “future monetization” of all government-owned natural resource assets, including “minerals, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas, and other extractable materials.” The fund will use this revenue to “invest in projects in Ukraine and attract investments to increase the development” of its natural resources, as well as “infrastructure, ports, and state-owned enterprises.”
Those who say Ukraine failed to win security guarantees in exchange for the minerals deal are missing the point: The minerals deal is a security guarantee. Trump has made clear that he is not going to send American troops to Ukraine. But with this deal, he is going to send something better: American workers, bulldozers and earthmovers.
“It’s a great deal for Ukraine, too, because they get us over there,” Trump explained during his Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. “We’re going to be working over there. We’ll be on the land. And you know, that way it’s this sort of automatic security, because nobody’s going to be messing around with our people when we’re there.”
With the minerals deal done, Trump must now negotiate a peace deal that secures his investment by making sure the war ends — and never resumes. Ukraine’s minerals only have value to America if they are extracted from Ukrainian soil, processed and sold. If Ukraine does not have security, that won’t happen. U.S. businesses won’t be able to mine for minerals under fire from Russian forces and will not make long-term investment in Ukraine if they fear the fighting will resume. And if they don’t invest, American taxpayers won’t get paid.
Trump certainly knows that as soon as there is a peace agreement, China, Iran and North Korea will help Russia rearm — and that in time, Russia will reconstitute its forces and rebuild its defense-industrial base in preparation for a new offensive.
To stop that from happening, the United States needs to help Ukraine establish deterrence. And that will require allowing Ukraine to purchase the American weapons it needs to discourage Russia from ever restarting the conflict. The minerals deal creates a mechanism to repay the United States for the weapons we have given Ukraine over the past three years, but not for Ukraine to buy weapons in the future to defend our joint investments.
Jack Keane, a retired Army general, and I laid out a plan in these pag
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Nope. Only Warren Buffett was ever my billionaire.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They were all your billionaires first, retard.
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They all worked for the Democratic Party / The NeoCons / The Establishment.
AKA: All of the people you've been blowing every day for the last 8 years.
SPOILER ALERT: Most of them still do, even if they're pretending for the moment not to.
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'American backlash' coming at Trump over signature policy: poll
By Brad Reed | February 27, 2025 1:38PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2671235645/
With inflation showing signs of heating back up, American voters are taking a dimmer view of of president Donald Trump's signature economic policy.
We had 4 years of rampant inflation under Joe Biden* and RawStory didn't report on it one single fucking time.
Nobody wants to hear out of RawStory today. In fact, 99% of people have never even heard of RawStory before.
It's only been 4 weeks. You spent the last 4 years blaming Trump for Joe Biden*'s terrible economy. Nobody is taking anything you say seriously today.
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Quote:Climate Change is a Democratic Party Hoax according to Trumptards. Therefore the Democrats are being fired:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They all worked for the Democratic Party / The NeoCons / The Establishment.
AKA: All of the people you've been blowing every day for the last 8 years.
SPOILER ALERT: Most of them still do, even if they're pretending for the moment not to.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is being dismantled by Trump
NOAA has the unfortunate status of being the government's lead scientific agency for climate change. Trump says climate change is a hoax. Today NOAA is paying the price:
Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social
I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
Feb 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/weatherwest.bsky.social/post/3lj6svxjtus27
The Hill confirms this:
The cuts, which are said to affect between 560 and 1,830 workers at the agency, were planned for at least a week, contingent upon the confirmation of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the agency. NOAA reported a permanent workforce of 11,758 in fiscal 2023, meaning the cuts could affect more than 10 percent of employees.
....Staffers from the Elon Musk-affiliated Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reportedly entered NOAA offices earlier this month, before Lutnick’s confirmation. Lutnick denied any plans to dismantle the agency as Commerce secretary, but Project 2025, the sweeping conservative governance blueprint, calls for privatizing and reassigning nearly all of its functions.
It was nice knowin' you, NOAA.
https://jabberwocking.com/noaa-is-being-dismantled/
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Awesome. Let France worry about it.
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Quote:Chaos Is Bad for Business
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Awesome. Let France worry about it.
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Imagine yourself as the CEO of a U.S. company considering a range of possible investments, whose likely profitability depends on future federal policy. So which investments will you make? A likely answer is, “None of them.”
Early this month Donald Trump announced that he was about to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Then he put them on pause for 30 days. So are they on again next week? Yesterday he insisted that they are. But will they really happen? Nobody knows.
Trump is also threatening a trade war with the European Union, which he says “was formed to screw the United States.” Will he follow through on his threat? Nobody knows.
The legislation currently providing the federal government with the money it needs to stay open will expire on March 14, and it’s by no means clear that Republicans have the votes to continue that funding. So will the U.S. government shut down? Nobody knows (although betting markets say that there’s a better than even chance that it will.)
The real possibility of a general shutdown aside, will DOGE’s efforts to fire large numbers of federal workers — half the staff of the Social Security Administration! — cripple essential government services? Nobody knows.
Most alarming of all, if it’s real: People within the administration appear to be floating the idea of restructuring U.S. debt via a “Mar-a-Lago Accord” that would force investors holding Treasury bills — short-term debt — to exchange them for 100-year bonds. This would effectively be a default on U.S. debt. Since the whole world financial system rests on the perceived safety of U.S. Treasuries, which are universally accepted as collateral for many transactions, such a move would threaten global economic chaos. But is the administration serious about this idea? Nobody knows.
You should know that none of this will show up in “hard” economic data any time soon. Next week we’ll be getting employment numbers for February, but these data actually reflect the “employer pay period that includes the 12th of the month” — that is, they will be data from early February, just a few weeks into Trump’s presidency, far too soon to show any effects of his policies. There are some indications that consumers are already pulling back, but we won’t see the effects of businesses cutting back on investments for at least a few months.
More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/surprise-chaos-is-bad-for-business
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Trump has reduced US safeguards against corruption and white-collar crime
President Trump is scaling back enforcement efforts against white-collar crimes. Could that become an invitation to corruption and tax evasion?
By Henry Gass Staff | Feb. 28, 2025, 5:30 a.m. ET
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0228/white-collar-crime-jus
tice-bondi
As the Trump administration signals its intention to crack down on certain crimes, it’s also signaling a major ambivalence toward others.
Criminal prosecutions of white-collar offenses have been declining for decades under both Republican and Democratic presidents. But amid sweeping policy and personnel changes at the Justice Department, that downward trend seems poised to accelerate under President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The new policies, along with the departure of senior career officials, signal a new – and possibly more relaxed – approach to public corruption, tax evasion, and other white-collar crimes. While incoming presidents are entitled to set new DOJ priorities, these new priorities appear more sweeping than usual. They also appear to be shifting resources away from types of investigations that have troubled Mr. Trump and his allies in the past.
How these changes will play out over the coming years is uncertain, but a softened stance can invite foul play, experts say.
The most serious white-collar crime cases are complex and “dependent on proactively policing,” says Henry Pontell, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. “When investigation is impossible due to both a lack of resources and political will, they are simply relegated to the status of ‘nonissues.’”
Memos from the attorney general
Ms. Bondi’s first day in office played out much like the first days of the president who appointed her. On Feb. 5, the new attorney general issued over a dozen memos outlining new directives and priorities for the Justice Department.
In one memo, Ms. Bondi announced “shifting resources” in the agency’s national security division from foreign interference investigations to cross-border crimes. Specifically, she announced that she would disband a task force set up in 2017 to police foreign-run political influence campaigns. Investigations of Americans lobbying on behalf of foreign governments would also be limited to conduct resembling “traditional espionage.” Enforcement of a law regulating domestic lobbyists for foreign governments, meanwhile, would now be limited to conduct “similar to more traditional espionage.”
Prosecutors in the disbanded Foreign Influence Task Force should now focus on “the total elimination” of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, Ms. Bondi wrote. A separate unit, previously tasked with investigating U.S. companies that bribe foreign officials, must now prioritize investigations of cartels, she wrote in another memo.
Some of these laws have only been lightly enforced. That may not change. What is clear, however, is that the Justice Department is signaling a more relaxed approach to certain white-collar crimes.
The new directives “invite more foreign interference in American affairs,” says Aaron Zelinsky, a former federal prosecutor specializing in fraud, public corruption, and national security cases.
“Administrations are entitled to set enforcement priorities,” he adds. But these changes are “different [from] figuring out where to allocate manpower. They’re changes in nature rather than changes in kind.”
Public corruption in the news
The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment on its new priorities. But the agency’s latest focus has been evident not just in the policy and resource decisions described in Ms. Bondi’s memos, but also in some of its actions.
A stated goal of the Trump administration is to end political “weaponization” of the justice system. This is the reason DOJ officials have given for seeking to drop a public corruption prosecution against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Mr. Adams is pleading not guilty to cha
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The Putinization of America
Trump’s deference to the Russian dictator has become full-blown imitation.
By Garry Kasparov | February 28, 2025, 7 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/putinization
-america/681837/
We are barely a month into the second presidential term of Donald Trump and he has made his top priorities clear: the destruction of America’s government and influence and the preservation of Russia’s.
Unleashing Elon Musk and his DOGE cadres on the federal government, menacing Canada and European allies, and embracing Vladimir Putin’s wish list for Ukraine and beyond are not unrelated. These moves are all strategic elements of a plan that is familiar to any student of the rise and fall of democracies, especially the “fall” part.
The sequence is painfully familiar to me personally, because I marched in the streets as it played out in Russia at the start of the 21st century. With ruthless consistency, and the tacit approval of Western leaders, Putin and his oligarch supporters used his fair-ishly elected power to make sure that elections in Russia would never matter again.
Of course, American institutions and traditions are far stronger than Russia’s fragile post-Soviet democracy was when Putin took over from Boris Yeltsin, who had already done his share of damage before anointing the former KGB lieutenant colonel to be his successor in 1999. But those who dismissed my warnings that yes, it can happen here at the start of Trump’s first term, in 2017, got quieter after the insurrection on January 6, 2021, and are almost silent now.
Trump’s personal affinity for dictators was apparent early on. His praise for Putin and other elected leaders turned strongmen, such as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, was tinged with undisguised envy. No feisty parliament to wrangle. The free press turned into a propaganda machine for the administration. The justice system unleashed against the opposition. Elections staged only for show. What’s not to like?
Putin and Russia always held a special place in Trump world, however. Russian intelligence and propaganda worked full-time to promote Trump once he won the Republican nomination to face Hillary Clinton in 2016. WikiLeaks, long in the service of Russian intelligence but still nurturing its old whistleblower image, fed hacked documents to a naively cooperative American media. The Mueller Report makes the degree of cooperation between various Russian assets and the Trump campaign clear—damningly so, despite years of MAGA crying “Russia hoax” because Special Counsel Robert Mueller decided not to prosecute.
Trump made Paul Manafort his campaign chair in May 2016, turning the Russia alarm bells into air-raid sirens for anyone paying attention. Manafort was a former fixer for Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich, who attempted to thwart Ukrainians’ desire to join Europe only to be deposed by the Maidan Revolution of Dignity and forced to flee to Moscow in 2014.
Manafort’s recent expertise was mostly in money and reputation laundering. Adding him to the campaign when Trump’s oddly pro-Putin rhetoric (“strong leader,” “loves his country,” “you think our country is so innocent?”) was already drawing attention seemed a little too on the nose: Why double down? From affinity, the campaign tilted into deeply suspicious fealty toward the Kremlin. Manafort’s subsequent plea of guilty for conspiracy to defraud the United States, and Trump’s later pardon, only threw more wood on the raging collusion fire.
Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, during President Barack Obama’s second term. It annexed Crimea and entered eastern Ukraine, offering up feeble pretexts about protecting Russian speakers (whom it bombed indiscriminately), Nazis in Ukraine (also, naturally, the Jews running Ukraine), NATO expansion, and so-called Ukrainian separatists. Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, in the second year of Joe Biden’s presidency, attempting to take Kyiv in what the Kremlin famously pla
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You still don't realize that you are making things worse for yourselves.
You've been warned.
Keep it up.
One of these days you're going to realize that I've been right about everything all along and that you've actively played a role in the demise of the Democratic Party.
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Originally posted by THG:
Hey comrade, you didn't answer my question. 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: Come on Signym. Answer the damn question.
My answer is:
First time, Russia didn't invade. I've made that point over and over.
No need to repost the rest. Your answer, starting with the words, "Russia didn't invade" is bullshit. And it was followed by nothing but more bullshit. Which is why for a long time now, you've been known as comrade here
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Looks like Trump and Vance just shit all over child rapist Zelinsky on live TV for the world to see.
Get fucked, Lil Z.
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Quote:6ix, that is NOT what happened, you fucking Nazi. Trump demanded Ukraine surrender to Russia and kiss his ass on live TV or no deal. Ukraine bite his ass.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like Trump and Vance just shit all over child rapist Zelinsky on live TV for the world to see.
Get fucked, Lil Z.
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Analysis: A calculated ambush, premeditated and expertly executed by Trump
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/02/28/zelensky-trump-meet
ing-white-house-us/
“What we are witnessing is a stark and unmistakable reflection of the Trump administration’s core approach: a calculated ambush, premeditated and expertly executed. The Ukrainian ambassador’s reaction – her hands clutching her head – said it all.
This moment propels the conversation into even more unsettling terrain. It is no longer about who will protect Ukraine from Russia, but who will protect Ukraine from the United States?
And many within NATO will be left wondering, after hearing today’s rhetoric: would this White House ever come to our defence if we were under attack?”
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Ukraine deal off, Trump says after public spat with Zelenskyy
By Sasha Vakulina | 28/02/2025 - 20:55 GMT
https://www.euronews.com/2025/02/28/take-the-deal-or-were-out-trump-te
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In an unprecedented argument live on TV, US President Donald Trump told his Ukrainian counterpart on Friday he should "be thankful," accusing Volodymyr Zelenskyy of being "disrespectful" and "gambling with World War III".
After weeks of intense negotiations and statements between Washington and Kyiv, the expectations were running high for the first meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Yet, probably no one expected it to turn into a heated argument live on TV, and now Trump is saying the raw minerals deal with Ukraine — which brought Zelenskyy to the White House on Friday — was off.
"I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform Friday.
"I don’t want advantage, I want peace. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for peace," he announced.
The Friday meeting did not seem tense at first, but it changed in tone and became less diplomatic when US Vice President JD Vance told Zelenskyy that Ukraine didn't have enough people to continue fighting.
The Ukrainian president replied that JD Vance has not been to Ukraine to say this, adding "come and see".
Things got increasingly heated from this moment onward.
Zelenskyy emphasised the need for security guarantees, which Kyiv has repeatedly insisted upon. Trump interrupted Zelenskyy and told him to "be grateful" for what the US had already done to help Ukraine.
“You have to be more thankful. You don’t have the cards. With us, you have the cards. But without us, you don’t have any cards,” Trump said.
"Your country is in big trouble," The US president continued, adding, "You are not winning this."
“If you could get a ceasefire right now, I’d tell you to take it so the bullets stop flying,” Trump said.
Zelenskyy replied, “Of course I want to stop the war,” when Trump interrupted him with “You say you don’t want a ceasefire”. Ukraine’s president then said he wanted a truce, but with security guarantees.
Reiterating that Ukraine could only defend itself for three years now because of the US military aid, Trump said, "If you didn’t have our military equipment, this war would be have been over in two weeks."
"In three days, (as) I have heard from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin," Zelenskyy retorted.
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Fuck Ukraine.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, that is NOT what happened, you fucking Nazi.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like Trump and Vance just shit all over child rapist Zelinsky on live TV for the world to see.
Get fucked, Lil Z.
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That is exactly what happened.
That little bitch went home with nothing but his tail between his legs.
You would know that if you actually watched the whole thing instead of reading lies from your propagandists.
He even wrote a thank you letter to Trump and America on X only 1 hour after he was booted. Did he even wait until he boarded the plane back to his shithole country before he went back to groveling and begging for money?
And by all means, please keep calling everyone you disagree with a Nazi for another 4 years and see how much more we will take away from you.
We've only just begun.
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Quote:If I call somebody a Nazi, I am splitting their fucking head open as I do it, little Nazi 6ix. And I won't ask them for a final statement before I do it:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, that is NOT what happened, you fucking Nazi.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like Trump and Vance just shit all over child rapist Zelinsky on live TV for the world to see.
Get fucked, Lil Z.
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That is exactly what happened.
That little bitch went home with nothing but his tail between his legs. He even wrote a thank you letter to Trump and America on X only 1 hour after he was booted.
You would know that if you actually watched the whole thing instead of reading lies from your propagandists.
And by all means, please keep calling everyone you disagree with a Nazi for another 4 years and see how much more we will take away from you.
We've only just begun.
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And meanwhile, you've got 2 entire generations of boys looking at Trump right now and seeing one of the only examples of masculine power in the public eye outside of MMA fighters and Marvel Superheros.
You're looking at two incoming generations of future men who will always vote against Democrats.
You still haven't realized that you've lost. Everything.
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If I call somebody a Nazi, I am splitting their fucking head open as I do it, little Nazi 6ix. And I won't ask them for a final statement before I do it:
Come split my head open then, pussy.
What? You don't know where I live? Why not? I've known your address for years now.
You're a simple-minded, weak little cunt of a half-man.
Nobody cares about anything you have to say about any topic. Everybody you know hates you.
And you'd better consider yourself lucky that you'll never meet me in person because I'd put you right into the fucking ground.
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Quote:6ix is feeling all-powerful because this is the Golden Age for Nazis. Sieg Heil Mein Führer Trump!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
If I call somebody a Nazi, I am splitting their fucking head open as I do it, little Nazi 6ix. And I won't ask them for a final statement before I do it:
Come split my head open then, pussy.
What? You don't know where I live? Why not? I've known your address for years now.
You're a simple-minded, weak little cunt of a half-man.
Nobody cares about anything you have to say about any topic. Everybody you know hates you.
And you'd better consider yourself lucky that you'll never meet me in person because I'd put you right into the fucking ground.
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I went to CPAC as an anthropologist to see how Trump supporters are feeling - for them, a ‘golden age’ has begun
February 21, 2025 1:35pm EST
By Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
https://theconversation.com/i-went-to-cpac-as-an-anthropologist-to-see
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At the start of his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump declared, “The golden age of America begins right now!”
A month later, Trump’s supporters gathered at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, from Feb. 19-22 to celebrate the advent of this golden age.
Gold glitter jackets, emblazoned with phrases like “Trump the Golden Era,” are for sale in the CPAC exhibition hall. There, attendees decked out in other MAGA-themed clothing and accessories network and mingle. They visit booths with politically charged signs that say “Defund Planned Parenthood” and collect brochures on topics like “The Gender Industrial Complex.”
Another booth with a yellow and black striped backdrop resembling a prison cell’s bars was called a “Deportation Center.” Attendees photographed themselves at this booth, posing beside full-size cutouts of Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan.
Former Jan. 6 prisoners, including Proud Boys’ former leader Enrique Tarrio, have also been a visible – and controversial – presence at CPAC.
The conference’s proceedings kicked off on Feb. 20 with an Arizona pastor, Joshua Navarrete, saying, to loud applause, “We are living in the greatest time of our era – the golden age!”
Many subsequent speakers repeated this phrase, celebrating the country’s “golden age.”
For many outside observers, claims of a golden age might seem odd.
Just months ago during the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump said that an American apocalypse was underway, driven by a U.S. economy in shambles and major cities overrun by an “invasion” of “illegal alien” “terrorists,” “rapists” and “murderers.”
American exceptionalism restored
The golden-age celebration at CPAC centered on Trump and his mission to “make America great again.”
Speaker after speaker, including foreign conservative leaders from around the world, paid homage to Trump and this message.
During her CPAC speech, Liz Truss, the former prime minister of the U.K., stated, “This is truly the golden age of America.” Truss, who does not have a current political position, told the CPAC audience that she wanted to copy the MAGA playbook in order to “make Britain great again.”
The MAGA faithful believe that Trump is restoring an era of American exceptionalism in which the U.S. is an economic powerhouse, common sense is the rule, and traditional values centered on God, family and freedom are celebrated.
And they believe in a future where the U.S. is, as Trump said in his inaugural address, “the envy of every nation.”
Much more at https://theconversation.com/i-went-to-cpac-as-an-anthropologist-to-see
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix is feeling all-powerful because this is the Golden Age for Nazis. Sieg Heil Mein Führer Trump!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
If I call somebody a Nazi, I am splitting their fucking head open as I do it, little Nazi 6ix. And I won't ask them for a final statement before I do it:
Come split my head open then, pussy.
What? You don't know where I live? Why not? I've known your address for years now.
You're a simple-minded, weak little cunt of a half-man.
Nobody cares about anything you have to say about any topic. Everybody you know hates you.
And you'd better consider yourself lucky that you'll never meet me in person because I'd put you right into the fucking ground.
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I welcome four more years of your idiocy.
You and those like you will ensure that everyone remembers why they should never vote for the Democratic Party again.
Meanwhile... Do feel free to drop by at any time to call me a Nazi to my face.
I very much look forward to finally meeting you.
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Zelensky Commits Suicide on Live TV
Yup. That about sums it up.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix is feeling all-powerful because this is the Golden Age for Nazis. Sieg Heil Mein Führer Trump!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
If I call somebody a Nazi, I am splitting their fucking head open as I do it, little Nazi 6ix. And I won't ask them for a final statement before I do it:
Come split my head open then, pussy.
What? You don't know where I live? Why not? I've known your address for years now.
You're a simple-minded, weak little cunt of a half-man.
Nobody cares about anything you have to say about any topic. Everybody you know hates you.
And you'd better consider yourself lucky that you'll never meet me in person because I'd put you right into the fucking ground.
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I welcome four more years of your idiocy.
You and those like you will ensure that everyone remembers why they should never vote for the Democratic Party again.
Meanwhile... Do feel free to drop by at any time to call me a Nazi to my face.
I very much look forward to finally meeting you.
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SECOND, don't you realize that by now everyone* knows you're absolutely fucking nuts? (*Except THUGR, bc he's naive.)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, don't you realize that by now everyone* knows you're absolutely fucking nuts? (*Except THUGR, bc he's naive.)
Did you catch the fact that he finally admitted to himself and to everyone else that the world he thought he was living in 6 months ago no longer exists when he told me the following...
Quote:
6ix is feeling all-powerful because this is the Golden Age for Nazis. Sieg Heil Mein Führer Trump!
Note that he didn't say I "think" or that I "believe" this. He says that I am feeling all-powerful BECAUSE this IS the Golden Age for Nazis".
It's not, of course, the "Golden Age for Nazis".
But it is something entirely different than it was 6 months ago, nonetheless. Just like I've been saying all along.
And this right here was the proof anyone needed to know that Second is very well aware of the fact that he's playing the game on a much different terrain than he has been for the last 12 or so years. And even if he won't admit it to himself, he's terrified right now.
Why is he terrified? Because he's wrapped up his personality so deeply with his party and what he believes to be his ideological belief system that he no longer even knows where one ends and the next begins. And he's smart enough to know that a very large part of him will now simply disappear into the ether if he were to let it all go today. Which is something else I've been warning him against for years now.
He is not adapting well at all to his new disadvantageous position, and he is not putting in any effort into learning anything at all about his new surroundings, or trying to figure out why he ended up this deep in the weeds... Choosing instead, of course, to bury his head so deeply up his own asshole this time that he's liable to end up looking like a cross between an M.C. Escher and an H.R. Geiger painting by the time he's finished.
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Quote:What is your address? Later you'll be writing about giving out your address: I love to dismiss my horrible decisions by saying "yeah that was a weird time in my life" as if the rest of my existence hasn’t been absolute clown shoes
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meanwhile... Do feel free to drop by at any time to call me a Nazi to my face.
I very much look forward to finally meeting you.
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https://x.com/Royotathon/status/1374765085919342594
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:What change is in the air? I've gotten richer and happier and will be paying lower taxes and selling more fuel while the Trumptards have painted swastika-shaped targets on themselves.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He is not adapting well at all to his new disadvantageous position, and he is not putting in any effort into learning anything at all about his new surroundings, or trying to figure out why he ended up this deep in the weeds... Choosing instead, of course, to bury his head so deeply up his own asshole this time that he's liable to end up looking like a cross between an M.C. Escher and an H.R. Geiger painting by the time he's finished.
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The Trumptards I know are no more prosperous or energetic than they were a year ago. Their situation in life has not materially improved. But they feel free to openly be the Nazis and racists they always were. They are drinking more alcohol, smoking more, and loudly expressing their mental illnesses and evil plans to be more horrible than ever before because Trump will back them 1,000%. If Trump goes ahead with his tax, tariff and foreign policy plans, Trumptards will end poorer than they were, which is fine with me.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:I am sure that Trump made a big mistake today. Signym won't know that but Signym still uses as a signature a fake quote that Kissinger didn't say. For what Kissinger really said, which means the opposite of Signym's fake signature: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/56470/did-henry-kissinger
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, don't you realize that by now everyone* knows you're absolutely fucking nuts? (*Except THUGR, bc he's naive.)
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Trump’s Angry Meeting With Zelensky Prompts Reactions Worldwide
The responses were indicative of the shocking nature of the meeting.
By John Haltiwanger | February 28, 2025, 5:43 PM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/28/trump-zelensky-white-house-meetin
g-ukraine-global-reaction/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held an extraordinarily contentious meeting at the White House on Friday. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance tag-teamed Zelensky on their own turf, lambasting the Ukrainian leader as they pressured him to embrace diplomacy with Russia.
The meeting became especially heated after Zelensky underscored the Kremlin’s history of unreliability when it comes to respecting international agreements—pointing to Russia’s violation of a 2019 cease-fire with Ukraine. Vance then jumped in to scold Zelensky, saying, “I think it’s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.”
The U.S. leaders accused Zelensky of being ungrateful for the aid Washington had provided to Ukraine. Zelensky was visiting Washington to sign a minerals deal, which Trump said will help recoup the U.S. for the assistance it’s given to Ukraine. But after the war of words in the Oval Office on Friday, the White House said the agreement was not signed and its future is now uncertain.
Trump’s and Vance’s handling of the meeting prompted swift, widespread criticism and a wave of messages of support for Ukraine and Zelensky from many corners, including Democrats, Ukraine’s European allies, and even some of Trump’s former advisors. Meanwhile, some of Trump’s Republican allies praised his and Vance’s actions as demonstrating “America First” leadership.
The reactions were indicative of the shocking nature of the meeting and just how drastically the United States’ approach to the Ukraine war—and foreign relations more generally—has shifted since Trump re-entered the White House a little over a month ago.
Former Trump advisors and Democrats slam the president
John Bolton, who served as national security advisor in Trump’s first administration (and has since become a frequent critic of the president), ripped into the commander in chief and his vice president over Friday’s events.
“Trump and Vance have declared themselves to be on Russia’s side in the Russo-Ukraine war,” Bolton said on X. “This is a catastrophic mistake for America’s national security. And let’s be clear: Trump and Vance now personally own that policy. It is not the view of a majority of Americans of either or no political party.”
H.R. McMaster, who also served as a national security advisor in the first Trump administration, said it’s “impossible to understand” why Trump and Vance “seem determined to put more pressure on President Zelensky while they seem to be coddling Putin—the person who inflicted this terrible war in Ukraine.”
Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in a post on X said the “outrageous display” from Trump and Vance was “disgraceful” and “downright un-American.” Shaheen accused Trump of siding with “a murderous thug, Putin, over our democratic ally, Ukra
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Originally posted by second:Quote:the Golden Age for Nazis".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, don't you realize that by now everyone* knows you're absolutely fucking nuts? (*Except THUGR, bc he's naive.)
Did you catch the fact that he finally admitted to himself and to everyone else that the world he thought he was living in 6 months ago no longer exists when he told me the following...Quote:
6ix is feeling all-powerful because this is the Golden Age for Nazis. Sieg Heil Mein Führer Trump!
Note that he didn't say I "think" or that I "believe" this. He says that I am feeling all-powerful BECAUSE this IS
It's not, of course, the "Golden Age for Nazis".
But it is something entirely different than it was 6 months ago, nonetheless. Just like I've been saying all along.
And this right here was the proof anyone needed to know that Second is very well aware of the fact that he's playing the game on a much different terrain than he has been for the last 12 or so years. And even if he won't admit it to himself, he's terrified right now.
Why is he terrified? Because he's wrapped up his personality so deeply with his party and what he believes to be his ideological belief system that he no longer even knows where one ends and the next begins. And he's smart enough to know that a very large part of him will now simply disappear into the ether if he were to let it all go today. Which is something else I've been warning him against for years now.
He is not adapting well at all to his new disadvantageous position, and he is not putting in any effort into learning anything at all about his new surroundings, or trying to figure out why he ended up this deep in the weeds... Choosing instead, of course, to bury his head so deeply up his own asshole this time that he's liable to end up looking like a cross between an M.C. Escher and an H.R. Geiger painting by the time he's finished.
What change is in the air? I've gotten richer and happier and will be paying lower taxes and selling more fuel
We wouldn't care nor would we be impressed if any of the lies you tell about yourself everyday were true.
As for what change is in the air, read the post you just quoted over and over again to yourself until you figure that one out, stupid.
You only prove my points more with every reply you make.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meanwhile... Do feel free to drop by at any time to call me a Nazi to my face.
I very much look forward to finally meeting you.
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Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.
Meanwhile, how about you just give me your address over this unsecure relic of a website where nobody needs to even log in to see all of Your constant death threats against the US President.
I kid. I kid...
That was a rhetorical question for more than one reason.
Most importantly because I already have your address.
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Quote:You don't have to remind me every time you write that you are dickhead but you can't stop yourself. Neither can Trump:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.
January 6 prosecutors demoted to entry-level jobs
Trump's prosecutor demotes senior prosecutors because Trump is a dickhead. (But we already knew Trumptards and Trump are dickheads. They don’t want a day to go by without reminding us.)
Trump attack dog Ed Martin, US Attorney for Washington DC, has demoted seven prosecutors in the DC office:
The prosecutors are among a larger group targeted for “retribution” by President Donald Trump...because of their roles in Jan. 6 Capitol seditious conspiracy and riot cases and others, including ones involving Trump allies such as advisers Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Navarro, according to eight people close to the office, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The seven prosecutors were notified by email Friday morning of their immediate removal from high-ranking supervisory or senior roles.... They were reassigned to misdemeanors or early case assessment screening in D.C. Superior Court, the people said.
These people didn't even do anything to Trump. They just got assigned to January 6 cases and then did their jobs prosecuting them. But no matter. Maximal revenge anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/28/7-dc-prosecutors-de
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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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Trump is killing off civil rights protections of all kinds
Recently "The President's Own" Marine Corps band was scheduled to begin a series of concerts featuring high school musicians of color who competed for spots. But merely performing with young Black musicians was too much for Trump's anti-DEI sensibilities. The concerts have been canceled.
Conservatives no longer want to admit even "yes, but" about racism. Instead, they want to flatly deny that women and minority groups suffer any possible discrimination at all. The result is the decimation of civil rights and EEO offices even though the relevant laws are still on the books:
It has long been on some conservatives’ wish list to kneecap the external civil rights work of the Labor Department’s contract compliance office, which for decades has audited the nation’s largest contractors — including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Deloitte — to ensure fair pay and hiring.
Plans obtained by The Post show the office will maintain 50 employees to enforce discrimination law for veterans and workers with disabilities, but it will no longer be staffed to audit companies for pay and hiring disparities for women and minority workers.
There you have it. Vets and disabilities? Sure. Women and Black people? Fuhgeddaboutit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2025/02/26/presiden
ts-own-marine-band-cancels-concert/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/02/28/doge-trump-civil-righ
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You don't have to remind me every time you write that you are dickhead but you can't stop yourself.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.
I'M the dickhead?
I can't stop myself?
Jesus Christ dude...
From from more calls for assassination to yelling NAZI!!! in my face with a bullhorn to this?
You almost have me feeling sorry for how thoroughly I've destroyed your psyche today.
You Leftard extremists sure are good at the victimhood thing.
If I hadn't already backed off and tried to make peace with you only to immediately regret it half a dozen times over the years already, I'd probably be doing that right now.
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Quote:6ix, you are locked in the insane asylum but insisting you and all the inmates are the only sane people. The staff takes care of all your needs, proving you are sane and smarter than they are. You don't have to work or pay because the asylum staff handles it all you, but you are not happy with the quality of service and the available TV shows and movies. You voted for a different President with the expectation of better treatment where you are locked up. (And better entertainment from Hollywood, which you despise.)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You don't have to remind me every time you write that you are dickhead but you can't stop yourself.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.
I'M the dickhead?
I can't stop myself?
Jesus Christ dude...
From from more calls for assassination to yelling NAZI!!! in my face with a bullhorn to this?
You almost have me feeling sorry for how thoroughly I've destroyed your psyche today.
You Leftard extremists sure are good at the victimhood thing.
If I hadn't already backed off and tried to make peace with you only to immediately regret it half a dozen times over the years already, I'd probably be doing that right now.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky
He simply likes Vladimir Putin better.
By Jonathan Chait | February 28, 2025, 5:24 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/zelensky-trump-pu
tin-ukraine/681883/
Of the many bizarre and uncomfortable moments during today’s Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky—during which Trump finally shattered the American alliance with Ukraine—one was particularly revealing: What, a reporter asked, would happen if the cease-fire Trump is trying to negotiate were to be violated by Russia? “What if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head right now?” Trump spat back, as if Russia violating a neighbor’s sovereignty were the wildest and most unlikely possibility, rather than a frequently recurring event.
Then Trump explained just why he deemed such an event so unlikely. “They respect me,” he thundered. “Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt, where they used him and Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia, you ever hear of that deal? … It was a phony Democrat scam. He had to go through it. And he did go through it.”
Trump seems to genuinely feel that he and Vladimir Putin forged a personal bond through the shared trauma of being persecuted by the Democratic Party. Trump is known for his cold-eyed, transactional approach, and yet here he was, displaying affection and loyalty. (At another point, Trump complained that Zelensky has “tremendous hatred” toward Putin and insisted, “It’s very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hate.”) He was not explaining why a deal with Russia would advance America’s interests, or why honoring it would advance Russia’s. He was defending Russia’s integrity by vouching for Putin’s character.
In recent years, the kinship between Trump and Putin has become somewhat unfashionable to point out. After Robert Mueller disappointed liberals by failing to prove a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, conventional wisdom on much of the center and left of the political spectrum came to treat the scandal as overblown. But even the facts Mueller was able to produce, despite noncooperation from Trump’s top lieutenants, were astonishing. Putin dangled a Moscow building deal in front of the Trump Organization worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and Trump lied about it, giving Putin leverage over him. Trump’s campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was in business with a Russian intelligence officer. Russia published hacked Democratic emails at a time when they were maximally useful to Trump’s campaign, and made another hacking attempt after he asked it on television to find missing emails from Hillary Clinton. The pattern of cooperation between Trump and Putin may not have been provably criminal, but it was extraordinarily damning.
Conservatives have invested even more heavily in denying any basis for the Trump-Russia scandal. A handful of MAGA devotees have openly endorsed Russian propaganda, but more Republicans have explained away Trump’s behavior as reflecting some motivation other than outright sympathy for Moscow: He is transactional, he is a nationalist, he admires strength and holds weakness in contempt.
And it is all true: Trump does admire dictators. He does instinctively side with bullies over victims. He does lack any values-based framework for American foreign policy. But many Republicans who acknowledged these traits nonetheless believed that Trump could be persuaded to stay in Ukraine’s corner. They were wrong. The reason they were wrong is that, in addition to his generalized amorality, Trump exhibits a particular affection for Putin and Russia.
Immediately after Zelensky left the Oval Office, Trump posted to Truth Social, “I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved.” The clear implication is that the United States will cut off its support for the Ukrainian war
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Trump has almost no supporters over Ukraine
Are you interested in who supports whom after Friday's revenge fest in the Oval Office? Here's the scorecard:
Supports Trump
Russia
Hungary
Supports Ukraine
Moldova
Spain
Norway
Czechia
Netherlands
Estonia
Poland
Canada
Germany
France
UK
Australia
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Austria
Latvia
Lithuania
Portugal
Iceland
Ireland
Belgium
Romania
Croatia
Slovenia
That's 25-2, with Italy remaining neutral.
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-has-almost-no-supporters-over-ukraine/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s Disgrace
While F.D.R. set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing.
By David Remnick | March 1, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/trumps-disgrace
It was one thing to anticipate this prolonged political moment; it has been, these past weeks, quite another to live it. Each day is its own fresh hell, bringing ever more outrageous news from an autocrat who revels in his contempt for the government he leads, for the foreign allies who deserve our support, and for the Constitution he is sworn to uphold. Since beginning his second term, six weeks ago, Donald Trump has commandeered public attention to such an extent that it is hard to recall that there was ever a time when an American President went about his first weeks in office in a frenzy of activity characterized not by threat, chaos, and corruption but by discipline, competence, and compassion.
Yet there was such a time. On the overcast morning of March 4, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt arrived at the U.S. Capitol to deliver his first Inaugural Address. The country was in a general state of misery. Since the start of the Depression, in late 1929, one out of three American workers had lost his job. Countless schools were shuttered. Banks were collapsing. Edmund Wilson, reporting for The New Republic, wrote that “there is not a garbage-dump in Chicago which is not diligently haunted by the hungry.”
Roosevelt, having defeated Herbert Hoover in the popular vote by eighteen points, could honestly boast of a mandate and understood its meaning. As he said in his speech at the Capitol, the demands of the “stricken” electorate were clear: “This nation asks for action, and action now.” Before the notion of a President’s “first hundred days” was ever codified, he set off on a tear of executive orders and legislative initiatives. Roosevelt, with the support of enormous Democratic majorities in Congress, quickly saved the national banking system, took the U.S. off the gold standard, paid out significant relief to the poor, and created federal agencies that not only provided work to the jobless but helped revive the country’s economy and infrastructure for decades to come.
It has not taken Trump a hundred days to match Roosevelt’s New Deal for its speed, its “muzzle velocity,” as Steve Bannon, Trump’s formerly incarcerated court philosopher, has put it. But, while Roosevelt set a modern standard for the revitalization of a society, Trump seems determined to prove how quickly he can spark its undoing. In record time, he has brought shame and disorder to the country. Where F.D.R. set out to build and to comfort, Trump has set out to fire countless civil servants, punish his adversaries, and threaten the press. He has cast aside essential climate actions, humiliated undocumented immigrants and trans men and women, coddled dictators, and unnerved allies. F.D.R. appointed Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, and other formidable advisers to his first Cabinet; Trump has empowered extremists distinguished principally by their conspiracy thinking, sycophancy, and incompetence.
F.D.R. created the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority; Trump has deputized Elon Musk, who has billions of dollars in contracts with multiple federal agencies, to freeze federal funding for programs that millions of Americans depend on and to fire thousands of workers in vital government agencies. “We will make mistakes,” Musk said in the White House, flashing a smile of privilege and malice. So far, these little goofs include, but are not limited to, momentarily laying off people who oversee the nuclear-weapons stockpile and cancelling Ebola-prevention measures.
Roosevelt, in his time, led the conquest of global fascism and the rescue of Europe. On matters of foreign policy, Trump has rapidly made common cause with autocrats from Budapest to Beijing and has made it clear to our European allies that
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It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrated explicit hostility towards Ukraine and aligned its rhetoric and policy with Russia.
The animosity culminated today when U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky at a meeting in the Oval Office.
After a hostile meeting, Zelensky left the White House. Trump reportedly ordered the Ukrainian delegation out.
Let this sink in. The president of a battered Ukraine, an ally of the U.S., became the first world leader in history to be kicked out of the White House. Not a dictator, not a disgraced politician — the president of Ukraine, a country suffering from the worst invasion in the 21st century. The country that the U.S. administration swore to bring peace to.
In an ugly exchange, the president and vice president joined forces to admonish Zelensky for “not being grateful” enough for the help Ukraine was getting.
To that, Zelensky reminded them that he had thanked the American people multiple times, including earlier that day. But it appears that gratitude to the American people isn’t what Trump and Vance were looking for — they wanted him to grovel and prostrate himself in front of Trump. Kiss the ring.
For sure, Zelensky could have done a better job composing himself and restraining his reactions, but it’s fair to say that he was put in a situation he couldn’t win. If he let Trump and Vance — and apparently, it takes two of them to win a verbal argument against one non-native English speaker — continue their line of attack on Ukraine, unchecked, he would be seen as weak both at home and abroad. Weakness is something a country at war can’t afford to project.
Trump didn’t get into the same kind of arguments with other world leaders who publicly disagreed with him during recent meetings. He smiled and shrugged when French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer corrected him and Vance on their provocative and false statements about Europe.
Will Trump and Vance hit Vladimir Putin with the same attitude they showed towards Zelensky and scold the Russian leader for attacking Ukraine? By now, we’ve seen enough to know for sure that they won’t. If any ring-kissing happens in their meeting with Putin, the ring will be Russian.
During the heated exchange in the Oval Office, Trump even complained that Zelensky has “hatred” for Putin — the man who ordered an invasion of his country, killing thousands of civilians — saying it would be “tough” for him to “make a deal with that kind of hate.”
After the meeting, Trump claimed that Zelensky didn’t want peace. That’s a dangerous lie.
Let’s be clear. There is only one force in the world that can bring peace unilaterally, at any moment: Russia. Putin can order his troops to leave Ukraine and end the war any minute he wants. But Putin doesn’t want peace, he wants Ukraine.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/28/putin-doesnt-want-peace-he
-wants-ukraine/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Musk In Your Computers: An Interview With Nathan Tankus on risks to democracy nobody even thought about
By Paul Krugman | Mar 01, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-your-computers-an-interview
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Senate Republicans
One neat trick to make all the pain go away …
What if we told you that Republicans could make the deficit impact of these tax cuts all disappear, on paper, with one neat accounting trick? With apologies to the Surge’s editors, yes, we will be devoting an entry to the debate over “current law” versus “current policy” baselines. It’s important! In the House’s budget, Republicans used a “current law” baseline—as is standard—to score their agenda. This means that since, under current law, the 2017 Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of this year, it would add ~$4.5 trillion to the deficit to extend them another decade. That has two effects. First, it means that Republicans will want to make cuts elsewhere (like to Medicaid) to mitigate the paper impact of their tax cuts, and it means the tax cuts will likely have to be temporary again. Plus, Republicans have little breathing room to cut taxes deeper. What Senate Republicans insist on doing instead is using a “current policy” baseline to score their proposal. In their view, since the existing tax rates are current policy, then extending them another 10 years doesn’t “cost” anything. This sleight of hand would mean Republicans don’t need to work themselves into a sweat trying to find offsetting spending cuts, could use the extra space to achieve some of Trump’s new tax goals like “no tax on tips,” and could make this next round of tax cuts permanent—a top goal of the administration. The issue with this? Well, it would disguise a new $4.5 trillion deficit impact, and many House conservatives still want to make deep spending cuts. Plus, it would have to get by the Senate parliamentarian, unless Republicans just ignore her. But! If this is the path of least resistance, it’s where Republicans will end up.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/trump-zelensky-meeting-van
ce-ukraine-republicans-musk.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump to pardon Pete Rose for tax cheating (Trump has cheated, too)
After being kicked out of Major League Baseball, Rose was convicted of falsifying his tax records, a federal crime. He spent five months in prison after being sentenced to seven months.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/sports/in-memory-of-pete-rose-president-tr
ump-to-issue-posthumous-pardon
In 2017 the Philadelphia Phillies canceled a ceremony to honor Rose after allegations surfaced that he had had a sexual relationship with a girl before she turned 16. He said she was 16. (Trump has done that, too)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-pardon-baseball-gr
eat-pete-rose-2025-03-01/
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It Was an Ambush
Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
By Tom Nichols | 11:13 a.m. ET on March 1, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/ukraine-us-relations
-trump/681880/
Leave aside, if only for a moment, the utter boorishness with which President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance treated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. Also leave aside the spectacle of American leaders publicly pummeling a friend as if he were an enemy. All of the ghastliness inflicted on Zelensky should not obscure the geopolitical reality of what just happened: The president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally, so that he can soon make a deal with the dictator of Russia to sell out a European nation fighting for its very existence.
Trump’s advisers have already declared the meeting a win for “putting America first,” and his apologists will likely spin and rationalize this shameful moment as just a heated conversation—the kind of thing that in Washington-speak used to be called a “frank and candid exchange.” But this meeting reeked of a planned attack, with Trump unloading Russian talking points on Zelensky (such as blaming Ukraine for risking global war), all of it designed to humiliate the Ukrainian leader on national television and give Trump the pretext to do what he has indicated repeatedly he wants to do: side with Russian President Vladimir Putin and bring the war to an end on Russia’s terms. Trump is now reportedly considering the immediate end of all military aid to Ukraine because of Zelensky’s supposed intransigence during the meeting.
Vance’s presence at the White House also suggests that the meeting was a setup. Vance is usually an invisible backbencher in this administration, with few duties other than some occasional trolling of Trump’s critics. (The actual business of furthering Trump’s policies is apparently now Elon Musk’s job.) This time, however, he was brought in to troll not other Americans, but a foreign leader. Marco Rubio—in theory, America’s top diplomat—was also there, but he sat glumly and silently while Vance pontificated like an obnoxious graduate student.
. . . the strategic reality is that this meeting is a catastrophe for the United States and the free world. America’s alliances are now in danger, and should be: Trump is openly, and gleefully, betraying everything America has tried to defend since the defeat of the Axis 80 years ago. The entire international order of peace and security is now in danger, as Russian autocrats, after slaughtering innocent people for three years, look forward to enjoying the spoils of their invasion instead of standing trial for their crimes. (Shortly after Trump dismissed Zelensky from the White House, Putin’s homunculus, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, posted on X: “The insolent pig finally got a proper slap down in the Oval Office.”)
Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy, the beginning of a long-term disaster that every American, every U.S. ally, and anyone who cares about the future of democracy will have to endure. With the White House’s betrayal of Ukraine capping a month of authoritarian chaos in America, Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you are locked in the insane asylum but insisting you and all the inmates are the only sane people. The staff takes care of all your needs, proving you are sane and smarter than they are. You don't have to work or pay because the asylum staff handles it all you, but you are not happy with the quality of service and the available TV shows and movies. You voted for a different President with the expectation of better treatment where you are locked up. (And better entertainment from Hollywood, which you despise.)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:You don't have to remind me every time you write that you are dickhead but you can't stop yourself.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Maybe. Not that you'd know for sure how any of it all ultimately turned out though since you'd no longer be breathing.
I'M the dickhead?
I can't stop myself?
Jesus Christ dude...
From from more calls for assassination to yelling NAZI!!! in my face with a bullhorn to this?
You almost have me feeling sorry for how thoroughly I've destroyed your psyche today.
You Leftard extremists sure are good at the victimhood thing.
If I hadn't already backed off and tried to make peace with you only to immediately regret it half a dozen times over the years already, I'd probably be doing that right now.
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I'm the king of my castle, bitch.
I don't watch movies or TV shows.
Looks like your TDS is flaring up pretty bad today, huh?
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It Was an Ambush
Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
It's about time somebody asked the child rapist if he owns any suits.
Fuck Zelensky. Fuck Ukraine.
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Senate Republicans
One neat trick to make all the pain go away …
What if we told you that Republicans could make the deficit impact of these tax cuts all disappear, on paper, with one neat accounting trick? With apologies to the Surge’s editors, yes, we will be devoting an entry to the debate over “current law” versus “current policy” baselines. It’s important! In the House’s budget, Republicans used a “current law” baseline—as is standard—to score their agenda. This means that since, under current law, the 2017 Trump tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of this year, it would add ~$4.5 trillion to the deficit to extend them another decade. That has two effects. First, it means that Republicans will want to make cuts elsewhere (like to Medicaid) to mitigate the paper impact of their tax cuts, and it means the tax cuts will likely have to be temporary again. Plus, Republicans have little breathing room to cut taxes deeper. What Senate Republicans insist on doing instead is using a “current policy” baseline to score their proposal. In their view, since the existing tax rates are current policy, then extending them another 10 years doesn’t “cost” anything. This sleight of hand would mean Republicans don’t need to work themselves into a sweat trying to find offsetting spending cuts, could use the extra space to achieve some of Trump’s new tax goals like “no tax on tips,” and could make this next round of tax cuts permanent—a top goal of the administration. The issue with this? Well, it would disguise a new $4.5 trillion deficit impact, and many House conservatives still want to make deep spending cuts. Plus, it would have to get by the Senate parliamentarian, unless Republicans just ignore her. But! If this is the path of least resistance, it’s where Republicans will end up.
Seriously dude.
After the last 4 years, nobody wants to hear one fucking word out of you about money.
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It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
A majority of American People said Fuck Ukraine.
Get over it.
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Trump has almost no supporters over Ukraine
Are you interested in who supports whom after Friday's revenge fest in the Oval Office? Here's the scorecard:
Supports Trump
Russia
Hungary
Supports Ukraine
Moldova
Spain
Norway
Czechia
Netherlands
Estonia
Poland
Canada
Germany
France
UK
Australia
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Austria
Latvia
Lithuania
Portugal
Iceland
Ireland
Belgium
Romania
Croatia
Slovenia
That's 25-2, with Italy remaining neutral.
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-has-almost-no-supporters-over-ukraine/
Sounds like Ukraine has all the help they need then.
Good luck.
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A Secretive Movement Known As '#AltGov' Is Openly Rebelling Against Trump And Musk From Inside Our Federal Agencies 2025 - 06:20 AM
Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
We have a government that is literally fighting against itself. The federal workforce has always been more liberal than the population as a whole, but in recent years things have gotten really bad. Prior to this year, Democrats had been in control of the White House for 12 of the past 16 years. Over time, leftists that were hired for key positions just kept hiring more leftists underneath them. In fact, it got to a point where DEI policies at various agencies essentially institutionalized the systematic hiring of leftists. By the end of the Biden administration, leftist domination of most of our federal agencies was virtually complete. But now we have a new administration that most of our leftist federal workers absolutely detest. Many of them have absolutely no intention of cooperating with the new administration, and some of them have started to openly rebel against it.
A secretive movement known as “#AltGov” has become the epicenter of that rebellion. Those that are involved primarily communicate through anonymous social media accounts and an encrypted messaging app…
Calling itself #AltGov, the network has developed a visible, public-facing presence in recent weeks through Bluesky accounts, most of which bear the names or initials of federal agencies, aimed at getting information out to the public – and correcting disinformation – about the chaos being unleashed by the Trump administration.
With 40 accounts to date, their collective megaphone is getting louder, as most of the accounts have tens of thousands of followers, with “Alt CDC (they/them)” being the largest, at nearly 95,000 followers.
The network has also formed a group and a series of sub-groups on Wire, the encrypted messaging app, to share information and develop strategies – as played out on Saturday.
Most people don’t realize this, but the “#AltGov” movement was very active during the first Trump administration.
Of course during the Biden administration it went away, because the leftists inside our federal agencies saw no need to rebel against Joe Biden.
But now it is back with a vengeance…
“#AltGov dates from the first Trump administration, but it’s even more needed now,” said an employee at Fema, the disaster response agency, who requested anonymity to avoid being targeted at work. She recently launched an #AltGov Fema account on Bluesky. With nearly 13,000 followers, the account says it’s dedicated to “helping people before, during, and after (this democratic) disaster”.
One member of the group that has dared to go public with her identity has explained what the purpose of “#AltGov” actually is…
The network is aiming to “expose harmful policies, defend public institutions and equip citizens with tools to push back against authoritarianism,” Lynn Stahl, a contractor for the Department of Veterans Affairs and member of the group, told the Guardian.
I have no problems with people exposing what's going on internally, as long as they're honest and provide objective context. That's how errors are caught.
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In other words, they want to use their positions inside the federal government to oppose the Trump administration any way that they can.
If it sounds like this is gross insubordination to you, that is because it is gross insubordination.
And we are already seeing the results.
Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the FBI to deliver all documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to her office, and they told her that they had done so.
But now it turns out that they had secretly held back thousands of documents, and Pam Bondi is extremely upset…
Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a fiery letter to FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday accusing federal investigators in New York of withholding thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein docu
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A Secretive Movement Known As '#AltGov' Is Openly Rebelling Against Trump And Musk From Inside Our Federal Agencies 2025 - 06:20 AM
Not anymore.
Trump thanks you for your service, Mr. Snyder.
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The president of a battered Ukraine, an ally of the U.S....
Ukraine is not an ally. Ukraine is a PROXY. And Ukraine is getting what most American proxies get: USED UP and abandoned, if not outright assassinated.
He should have listened to Kissinger.
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
The president of a battered Ukraine, an ally of the U.S....
Ukraine is not an ally. Ukraine is a PROXY. And Ukraine is getting what most American proxies get: USED UP and abandoned, if not outright assassinated.
This.
I am not being hyperbolic about Zelensky's survival chances right now.
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DOGE wants the IRS to check if you’re eligible for the vast riches of SNAP
Elon Musk's gang of libertarians will NOT target tax fraud among high-income taxpayers. This could produce hundreds of billions of dollars, but for precisely that reason Republicans have always been furiously dead set against it. Rather target Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly known as food stamps.
https://jabberwocking.com/50488-2/
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DOGE wants the IRS to check if you’re eligible for the vast riches of SNAP
This doesn't sound like an unreasonable request. Especially given that computers can do it automatically once the system is in place.
In fact, if everything were streamlined, getting benefits could be much easier for those who are forced to jump through hoops every year, faxing and mailing a bunch of documents they shouldn't have to because the IRS already knows all of this information.
You could very easily eliminate 100% of the fraud and eliminate 80% of the workforce distributing SNAP benefits, while also making the system work much better for the people who need the benefits.
Because the way the system is right now is absolute bullshit.
Why make people jump through hoops to get benefits and just hope that a bunch of them are too busy or stupid or lazy or just downright ignorant to how to get them in the first place? Purposefully making every one of these processes which all involve dealing with different agencies as difficult as possible to dissuade people who need the benefits to go and seek them out is the only reason we do things the way that we currently do. That or sheer incompetence, compounded every year over the span of more than half a century.
Why the hell should somebody have to keep going to one government office building to get a printout of the taxes they earned in the previous year only to have to mail that in or fax it to another government office and then wait weeks for them to finally get around to processing you, other than purposefully putting roadblocks in the way for a lot of people? Why do that when it can all be done online without any employees as middle men? Why not use tax filings to determine all benefits automatically?
You want to make that fair and make that work? Have it all linked directly to the IRS and your SS#. Then all the elected suits can get together with the economists and figure out exactly what the rules are when it comes to distributing these things as well as the thresholds and the amounts, and factoring in for kids and all the other bullshit. Make it all automatic. BAM! You just cut the salaries of tens of thousands of people out of the budget forever, ensured that the people who need the benefits are getting them, and you've eliminated 100% of the fraud.
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Quote:My God, 6ix. You avoid the idea that DOGE could put the same effort (or less) into auditing billionaires' tax returns, resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars per year in revenue from wealthy tax cheaters.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
DOGE wants the IRS to check if you’re eligible for the vast riches of SNAP
This doesn't sound like an unreasonable request. Especially given that computers can do it automatically once the system is in place.
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A few headlines, because I just have to.
S.E.C. halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions
The Trump Administration Is Playing With Fire in Germany
Trump’s AG Is Disbanding Anti-Corruption Teams created in 2022 to target Russian oligarchs
Trump Welcomes Russian Oligarchs With $5 Million Golden Card
Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Maureen Dowd: Rootin’ for Putin
More about those headlines at https://andrewtobias.com/what-to-do-about-our-debt-and-our-dictator/
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Originally posted by second:
A few headlines, because I just have to.
S.E.C. halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions
The Trump Administration Is Playing With Fire in Germany
Trump’s AG Is Disbanding Anti-Corruption Teams created in 2022 to target Russian oligarchs
Trump Welcomes Russian Oligarchs With $5 Million Golden Card
Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Maureen Dowd: Rootin’ for Putin
More about those headlines at https://andrewtobias.com/what-to-do-about-our-debt-and-our-dictator/
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Rootin' for Putin
And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.
We're done with all of you.
You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:My God, 6ix. You avoid the idea that DOGE could put the same effort (or less) into auditing billionaires' tax returns, resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars per year in revenue from wealthy tax cheaters.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
DOGE wants the IRS to check if you’re eligible for the vast riches of SNAP
This doesn't sound like an unreasonable request. Especially given that computers can do it automatically once the system is in place.
In fact, if everything were streamlined, getting benefits could be much easier for those who are forced to jump through hoops every year, faxing and mailing a bunch of documents they shouldn't have to because the IRS already knows all of this information.
You could very easily eliminate 100% of the fraud and eliminate 80% of the workforce distributing SNAP benefits, while also making the system work much better for the people who need the benefits.
Because the way the system is right now is absolute bullshit.
Why make people jump through hoops to get benefits and just hope that a bunch of them are too busy or stupid or lazy or just downright ignorant to how to get them in the first place? Purposefully making every one of these processes which all involve dealing with different agencies as difficult as possible to dissuade people who need the benefits to go and seek them out is the only reason we do things the way that we currently do. That or sheer incompetence, compounded every year over the span of more than half a century.
Why the hell should somebody have to keep going to one government office building to get a printout of the taxes they earned in the previous year only to have to mail that in or fax it to another government office and then wait weeks for them to finally get around to processing you, other than purposefully putting roadblocks in the way for a lot of people? Why do that when it can all be done online without any employees as middle men? Why not use tax filings to determine all benefits automatically?
You want to make that fair and make that work? Have it all linked directly to the IRS and your SS#. Then all the elected suits can get together with the economists and figure out exactly what the rules are when it comes to distributing these things as well as the thresholds and the amounts, and factoring in for kids and all the other bullshit. Make it all automatic. BAM! You just cut the salaries of tens of thousands of people out of the budget forever, ensured that the people who need the benefits are getting them, and you've eliminated 100% of the fraud.
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That's not what I'm doing.
I'm just dismantling idiot news articles written by people with an agenda.
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Quote:Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Rootin' for Putin
And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.
We're done with all of you.
You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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Russian Lawmaker Predicted the Trump-Vance Ambush of Zelensky
On Thursday, State Duma member Oleg Morozov guessed that “Daddy” Trump would “flog” Zelensky at the White House. WHO’S YOUR DADDY?
By Julia Davis | Mar. 1, 2025 3:09AM EST
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-lawmaker-predicted-the-trump-van
ce-ambush-of-zelensky/
The disgraceful spectacle of President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance taking turns insulting the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky during a White House meeting on Friday was a welcome sight for pro-Kremlin propagandists in Moscow. They’ve described it as an ambush, designed as a way for America to part ways with Ukraine—and they couldn’t be happier with the way this setup played out.
Appearing on Friday’s breaking news broadcast on channel Solovyov Live, political scientist Alexander Voskoboinikov noted that Trump “simply lured [Zelensky] to the White House for this meeting. I can’t explain it any other way. What happened there was a pre-planned operation that was meant to show the whole world that Americans are getting out of this situation. At least, this is what they are demonstrating.”
Host Sergey Karnaukhov giddily described these events as “incredible,” his voice trembling with excitement. He said, “Zelensky got what he deserved. This is his fate. The trial of history started before our very eyes.” At the conclusion of the broadcast, the channel aired a new crowdfunded commercial that began broadcasting in late February. It started with the words, “We are one step away from victory. This is the moment of truth… It’s now or never.”
One day earlier, Zelensky’s Oval Office ambush was predicted by State Duma member Oleg Morozov on 60 Minutes, a state TV show. Morozov said that the meeting would be a lesson in humiliation, designed to condition Zelensky to capitulate to the United States—and later to Russia. The lawmaker said that the Ukrainian president was flying to America “to sign an act of capitulation,” referring to the rare earth mineral deal Trump was determined to get as a “payback” for previous aid to Ukraine. Describing Trump as Zelensky’s “Daddy,” Morozov predicted, “They will rub his nose into everything, like a messy puppy… Then he will sign whatever he is told to sign.” Host Evgeny Popov chimed in, “But first, Daddy will flog him.”
During the same show, Vitaly Tretyakov, Dean of the Higher School of Television at Moscow’s State University, praised Trump by explaining, “I really like what he is doing right now… I like his revolutionary approach… He did our job for us that we did not dare to do.”
Popov pointed out that Trump is strangling America’s friends and allies. Tretyakov noted, “He is pursuing policies that are beneficial for Russia.” He surmised, “With respect to Ukraine, he is ready to give Russia everything it wants to take.”
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Elon Musk argued that Social Security is an insidious ploy.
Candidate Donald Trump promised not to touch Social Security if elected. But President Musk made no such promise and is already spouting lies to justify cutting Social Security benefits and privatizing the program:
The billionaire argued Friday on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that the United States government is “one big pyramid scheme” before blasting Social Security as “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.”
When asked to clarify, Musk said, “Well, people pay into Social Security and the money goes out of Social Security immediately, but the obligation for Social Security is your entire retirement career. If you look at the future obligations of Social Security, it far exceeds the tax revenue.”
While President Musk is right that Social Security has always been a pay-as-you-go system and that when the trust fund runs out, it will only be able to pay ca. 78% of current benefits, that doesn’t make it a Ponzi scheme.
What President Musk is doing is engaging in a Ponzi scam, gaslighting Americans into believing that they can’t trust the Social Security system enough to fix it. He wants to scam Americans who paid into the program and Americans who depend on it. Don’t fall for his scam.
More at https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-social-security-ponzi-scheme_
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SECOND, have you ever considered NOT sounding like a broken record?
This is what your posts are about (scrolling up)
Musk evil
Russia Russia Russia
Trumptards Nazis evil rapist
DOGE taking money away from poor people
China
Russia
Russia
Russia
Russia
DOGE taking money away from poor people
Ukraine RUSSIA! RUSSIA!
.... and more of the same.
And BTW Social Security IS a Ponzi scheme. The people who are paying into it now are paying for current retirees, NOT paying into their own accounts. It's a better-funded Ponzi scheme... the fund actually makes money by buying Treasuries ... but it doesn't operate like most people think.
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Quote:Trump kills elite tech group because it’s too woke
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, have you ever considered NOT sounding like a broken record?
18F, far from being "GSA's tech arm," is a small, elite group of coders that helps other federal agencies roll out better projects. By all accounts they did a top notch job. At the time they were let go, they say, they were working on "including improving access to weather data with NOAA, making it easier and faster to get a passport with the Department of State, supporting free tax filing with the IRS, and other critical projects with organizations at the federal and state levels."
In other words, 18F was "the gold standard of civic tech," exactly the kind of bang-for-the-buck group that Musk claims the government needs more of. But they're gone.
The lesson is pretty obvious here: It doesn't matter how good a job you do. If your group has a reputation for being LGBT or trans friendly, or even just too woke in general, you can lose your job. Welcome to Donald Trump's government.
Details about how Musk became aware of 18F are at https://jabberwocking.com/trump-kills-elite-tech-group-because-its-too
-woke/
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How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency
By Evan Halper, Hannah Natanson | March 2, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/02/doge-nuclear-worker
-firings-musk-trump/
Amid the tumult of mass firings, the Trump administration’s dismissal of workers who maintain America’s nuclear weapons delivered perhaps the greatest shock. These are people with highly sensitive jobs, the Energy Department would later acknowledge, who should have never been fired.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Rootin' for Putin
And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.
We're done with all of you.
You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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Your old world is dead. You'd better adjust to the new one quickly.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And BTW Social Security IS a Ponzi scheme. The people who are paying into it now are paying for current retirees, NOT paying into their own accounts. It's a better-funded Ponzi scheme... the fund actually makes money by buying Treasuries ... but it doesn't operate like most people think.
I love how his argument about SS not being a Ponzi scheme laid it out exactly like a Ponzi scheme.
I think Second's real problem here is that he doesn't understand what a Ponzi scheme is.
Just like Insurance of any kind, and most of the way our government works, it is a Ponzi scheme.
It's just the one I hope is still there for me one day, because NGL I'm not going to be able to survive long without it. It was doomed to fail from the beginning. It's just my luck that it won't be there for me.
My entire working career all I ever heard about was how much better the place was to work 5 years before I started there before the eventual layoffs. And when I die the social security net that's existed for 100 years won't be there either.
That sounds about right.
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Quote:The Confederates had no idea that slavery was wrong. The slaves deserved it. Nazis? No idea that expelling Jews from Europe was wrong. The Jews deserved it. The Russians invading Ukraine couldn't be wrong because the Ukrainians were Nazis. They deserved it. I've noticed all through history that the bad guys were convinced they were good guys. Even the God in the Bible could not persuade bad guys to recognize their own behavior as wrong. God's patience with stubborn fools is not Infinite, which is why the Bible is filled with stories of bad guys being slaughtered, even burnt alive. Outside the Bible, good people aren't as quick as God to slaughter the bad guys but given time the good guys will lose their patience and kindness. They will burn Atlanta, firebomb Dresden and drop nukes on Nagasaki.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Rootin' for Putin
And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.
We're done with all of you.
You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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We reject your ASSessment, and you can go fuck yourself.
Your old world is dead. You'd better adjust to the new one quickly.
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Rubio Melts Down on Air Over Accusation U.S. Is ‘Placating Putin’
(See the video for why squeaky Rubio should not be President. Same for daffy-duck Trump)
The secretary of state could not contain his fury as he sparred with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos.
By Maurício Alencar | Mar. 2 2025 1:16PM EST
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rubio-melts-down-on-air-over-accusation-
us-is-placating-putin/
“The president is basically saying, there’s this horrible war,” Rubio said. “It’s been going on for three years. It is a bloody stalemate, a meat grinder-type war, and he wants it to end. How does it end? It’s very simple. The only way it ends is if Vladimir Putin comes to a negotiating table.”
“Right now, President Trump is the only person on earth who has any chance whatsoever of bringing him to a table to see what it is he would be willing to end the war,” he added.
But just moments later, Rubio admitted that the Trump administration had no idea what Putin’s demands were for a peace agreement to be made, despite several talks between American and Russian officials over the last month.
This includes at least one conversation held on the phone between Trump and Putin as well as a long and intimate meeting between the Russian leader and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow in February.
Rubio also met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Saudi Arabia.
“Maybe…their demands will be unreasonable,” Rubio speculated. “We don’t know, but we have to bring him to the table.”
Rubio even suggested that peace may not be possible as he surprisingly claimed that Americans had not negotiated with Putin since before Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022, despite engagements in the last month.
“I’ve said from the very beginning, maybe they don’t want to deal either. We don’t know, but we haven’t talked to them in three years,” he said.
The interview became more fiery after Stephanopoulos asked Rubio why Trump officials refused to call Putin a “dictator” when they had so readily made the same claim about Zelensky.
“We’ve spent three years calling Vladimir Putin names. That’s not the point,” he said.
“We all understand that Putin is not going to be an easy negotiator,” he added. “In this regard. We all get that, but we have to start the process to see if something is even possible. And I honestly am puzzled. I just don’t understand!”
The secretary of state had lost his temper by the time he made a bold comparison between Trump’s treatment of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and former President Joe Biden’s treatment of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
“The Biden administration berated Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis put all kinds of conditions and pressure on them to try to get a cease fire. In this particular case, we’ve been nice by comparison, and all we’re trying to do here is figure out whether a peace is possible,” he claimed.
But the interview’s climax came when the ABC News presenter pointed to Senator Lisa Murkowski’s comments slamming Trump.
“Even some of your Republican allies are puzzled by the steps that President Trump has taken to placate Vladimir Putin,” Stephanopoulos began.
“Which steps has he taken?” Rubio snapped back. “Which ones? Are we arming the Russians?”
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The Confederates had no idea that slavery was wrong. The slaves deserved it. Nazis?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards are not just Nazis. You are actively evil. You don't work. You don't pay taxes. You are not truthful. Your kids grow to be mentally ill burdens worst than their parents. You shit on everything decent. You protect a rapist for President. You don't help those who need help, but instead insist that poor little suffering you needs help. You need nothing. You Trumptards have painted swastika shaped targets on yourselves like you are begging for a bullet to squish right through to mercifully end your pain.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Rootin' for Putin
And fuck your USAIDs funded Leftist media and their lies.
We're done with all of you.
You'd better get used to it. The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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We reject your ASSessment, and you can go fuck yourself.
Your old world is dead. You'd better adjust to the new one quickly.
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Shut the fuck up, stalker faggot.
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Quote:So sorry to be giving you the news:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up, stalker faggot.
The Krasnov file, so to speak. A thoughtful assessment of its credibility from “a former CIA Russia specialist who served in Moscow right about the time Trump first visited.”
He concludes:
One key misconception about espionage is the idea that ‘kompromat’ is the primary tool of recruitment. While kompromat can play a role, coerced agents are often unreliable and difficult to control. A much more effective intelligence relationship is one in which the collaborator sees mutual benefit. Trump’s rhetoric and actions in recent years — his reluctance to criticize Putin, his efforts to weaken NATO, and his alignment with Russian disinformation campaigns — do not suggest someone acting under duress. Instead, they suggest someone who, for his own reasons, has fully embraced the Russian position.
Whether or not Trump was recruited in 1987 may ultimately be less important than the fact that today, he is aligned with Putin’s interests. Whatever the origins of that alignment, its current reality is undeniable.
https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/a-deeper-look-at-claims-by-kgb-
officer
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Originally posted by second:Quote:So sorry to be giving you the news:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up, stalker faggot.
Don't care about your propaganda.
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Quote:You don't care that Musk is growing nuttier and sicker as revealed by his nonstop tweeting?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Don't care about your propaganda.
You Can See When Elon Musk Actually Sleeps by Analyzing His Tweets, and It's Terrifying
Brain fog, mood swings, paranoia... sound familiar?
By Noor Al-Sibai | Mar 2, 6:45 AM EST
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tweets-sleep
Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia.
As flagged by politics and sports analyst Nate Silver, a graph compiled by The Economist that tracked Musk's tweets from 2014 until November 2024 illustrated in stark detail how frequently the billionaire posts — and, since it's not (yet) possible to tweet while sleeping, how incredibly little sleep he gets.
With tiny red dots, the graph not only charted the Tesla and SpaceX owner's prolific posting output by date, but also by time of day. As his tweeting has become more and more frequent in recent years, so too has his short window of "off" hours when he's presumably slumbering.
Unsurprisingly, those gaps in tweet times also grew shorter and more erratic after he purchased Twitter in the fall of 2022, as the graph makes clear. That was also, as The Economist noted, when he began to delve seriously into politics, posting regularly — and at time incoherently — about free speech, immigration, and what he calls the "woke mind virus."
. . . he admitted to CNBC that getting fewer than six hours took a toll on his mental state.
"I’ve tried [to sleep] less, but... even though I’m awake more hours, I get less done," the billionaire said in May 2023. "And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours."
In the years since that admission, it appears that Musk has retreated further and further into that lack of sleep that he admits is bad for him, which according to accounts given to biographer Walter Isaacson were caused by stress and would often lead to intense nausea and vomiting.
. . . Musk seems to be forcing that unhealthy "all work and no rest" mentality onto his underling at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). He even reportedly moved sofa beds for his DOGE boys into the Office of Personnel Management — the same thing he did when he took over Twitter back in 2022.
"DOGE is working 120 hours a week," the unelected official posted at the beginning of February. "Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours a week. That is why they are losing so fast."
Unfortunately, we don't have an updated dot matrix graph like the one from The Economist for Musk's tweets since Trump took office again — but it's clear that he entered this chaotic post-election period in a state of rage-fueled sleep deprivation, and now we're all suffering the consequences.
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