Legitimate gripes about Trump
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What happened to the 'Moron' thread I could only see some unhinged rants, 'Nazi Pedophiles' maybe that was the original thread and it just went more crazy
meanwhile in Clownworld
Chinaman...Do Nothing...Win
U.S. Tariffs Make Xi Jinping’s Day
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/xi-jinping-china-u-s-tariffs-donald-trump-
trade-war-europe-canada-9dd99d61
Trump’s global trade war is a strategic gift to the Chinese President.
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Beijing also added a couple dozen U.S. companies to various regulatory blacklists subject to trade, investment or export restrictions. Mr. Xi is slapping export controls on several rare-earth minerals critical for high-tech manufacturing. Oh, and a smattering of regulatory investigations for antidumping and the like are brewing, targeting American firms.
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What happened to the 'Moron' thread I could only see some unhinged rants, 'Nazi Pedophiles' maybe that was the original thread and it just went more crazy
meanwhile in Clownworld
Chinaman...Do Nothing...Win
U.S. Tariffs Make Xi Jinping’s Day
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/xi-jinping-china-u-s-tariffs-donald-trump-
trade-war-europe-canada-9dd99d61
Trump’s global trade war is a strategic gift to the Chinese President.Quote:
Beijing also added a couple dozen U.S. companies to various regulatory blacklists subject to trade, investment or export restrictions. Mr. Xi is slapping export controls on several rare-earth minerals critical for high-tech manufacturing. Oh, and a smattering of regulatory investigations for antidumping and the like are brewing, targeting American firms.
The Confirmed moron, Plausibly Nazi, Plausibly minor attracted person changed the title of its thread from what you correctly remember that it used to read.
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Novara Media not Trump fans it started as a British Left media group founded in 2011 by James Butler and Aaron Bastani, one of them was party of the 'British Labour' party, Bastani resigned from the Labour Party in February 2021.
it started to be critical of the British Left and Right
the channel because popular during Covid Lockdowns
Trump’s Biggest Fanboys Can’t Make Sense Of Tariffs
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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that it was not legal or appropriate to send U.S. citizens to foreign prisons.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/20/sen-kennedy-not-legal-appro
priate-or-moral-to-send-u-s-citizens-to-foreign-prisons/
Host Kristen Welker said, “Do you believe that President Trump is following the orders of the courts right now?”
Kennedy said, “Yes. And I don’t believe that President Trump will defy a federal judge; if he does, I’ll call him out on it.
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2nd Terms are always a shitshow
he's hanging out with the Al-Qaeda or ISIS guy now
Trump Pledges Syria Sanctions Relief In First US Meeting With Al-Sharaa After Years Of Isolation
https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-sharaa-syria-sanctions-saudi/33413417.ht
ml
Trump meets interim Syrian president as Damascus celebrates lifting of sanctions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce3vypz0nd6t?post=asset%3Adcc73b40-caf
3-4b02-8bb4-b06f4ab29acb
there is a Mugshot of al-Sharaa rewards offered, he was capture by U.S. forces in Iraq planting bombs trying to blow up Americans
not sure how NeoCon Q-Anon Magatard spins this one
Trump Says U.S. Will Lift Sanctions on Syria Under New Government
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/world/middleeast/trump-syria-presid
ent-meeting.html
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they might detain you for not fully supporting Zionism and Israeli bombings, ...how wacko can it go?
the Australia has ramped up its travel warnings for the USA three times since April
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/australia-government-travel-adv
ice-usa-trump-border-control/105293186
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Arnab Calls Out Trump For Inconsistent Statement On Indo-Pak Ceasefire& Posing With Syrian Terrorist
Not Going to Mars. Elon Musk Space-X Won’t Save Us.
Launchpad to Nowhere: The Mars Mirage
https://heyslick.substack.com/p/launchpad-to-nowhere-the-mars-mirage
Space won’t save us. Musk and Bezos don’t plan to. The real science fiction? Billionaires caring.
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Quote:Mostly, this article is a lambasting of Musk, but there is a sideways mention within the article of The Trump administration kills nearly all USAID programs https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5310673/u
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Not Going to Mars. Elon Musk Space-X Won’t Save Us.
Launchpad to Nowhere: The Mars Mirage
https://heyslick.substack.com/p/launchpad-to-nowhere-the-mars-mirage
Space won’t save us. Musk and Bezos don’t plan to. The real science fiction? Billionaires caring.
said-trump-administration-global-health :
When Gates criticizes cuts to USAID that could cost real human lives, Musk responds as if the funding were fungible. As if every dollar not spent on SpaceX is a dollar wasted. As if government money for sick children would be better spent on Mars.
Funds for USAID and SpaceX aren’t supposed to come from the same pocket, but Musk acts like they do. And the worst part? He’s increasingly right.
With his growing political clout, media dominance, and stake in meme-fueled governance, he’s helping rewrite the budget priorities himself.
And in the name of saving the future, he’s cutting care in the present.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Fighting the Trump/DOGE cuts to biomedical research
By Joel Eissenberg | May 18, 2025 5:40 am
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/05/fighting-the-trump-doge-cuts-to-biom
edical-research
The link is to a long but cogent piece in Talking Points Memo. Unlike the author, I long ago appreciated the threats posed by the massive cuts to NIH funding. But Josh does the extra work of thinking about how this anti-science juggernaut could be halted. Read the whole thing, but here are the nut grafs:
“So how can this trajectory be changed? Basically we need people with big megaphones to start leveling with the public about what’s happening. The more widely known this becomes, the more salient it becomes, the worse it will get for those pushing these cuts or at least point trying to make them permanent through the 2026 budget process. But how can this be done at scale, change the equation in the very short term? There’s one approach which mostly hasn’t been tried and which I believe holds great promise.
“Every major disease affecting Americans has what we might call a disease community build up around it. These are a mix of survivors, people suffering from the disease, family members, loved ones and caregivers. To a lesser degree they involve clinicians and those in the caring fields. Sometimes those communities are strongly tied to the quasi-official fund-raising and public awareness organization to the specific disease. But sometimes they’re not. The key is that these aren’t top down organizations. They’re genuine mass membership organizations and even movements. Often there are a handful of different organizations. But the point is these communities are out there, regardless of precisely how they’re constituted. They’re made up of people who care deeply about the issue and they make their voices heard. I first started thinking about this when I was speaking to a former NIH researcher and he mentioned to me how he was about to do a Zoom meeting open to members of a breast cancer focused organization in a mid-sized to large state. Just in that one state and focused on that one (albeit common) disease the group had about 80,000 members.
“Something clicked in my head. And when I did some more poking around I learned that what’s happening at NIH and in biomedical research general was only just beginning to make itself known in these disease communities. Put these two things, two groups together – the researchers who know what’s happening and the disease communities who need to know – and it’s like a spark in a room filled with gas fumes.
“This is really the entire story. I’ve written in other posts about how we’ve learned over recent months that the modern American university is simply not equipped for this kind of assault. They lack the tools and experience. I’ve described the challenges the researchers have communicating with the broader public. But these people – the people in the disease communities – are all people who speak human. There are lots and lots of them. They will show up at town halls. In their nature they transcend ordinary political divisions. This is what has to happen. When the people in the world of biomedical research, let’s cut the technical language, disease cure research make sustained contact with the people in each of these dozen or so disease communities and help them understand what’s happening, that’s the point when I think everything will change.”
Much more at A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-path-forward-to-save-american-b
io-medical-research/sharetoken/0a234fa8-d968-4e8c-abe8-8043c2a1a125
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Fighting the Trump/DOGE cuts to biomedical research
You pay for it, cunt. We're not paying for it anymore.
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A genocide is happening in Gaza. We should say so.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/22/israel-gaza-ethnic-
cleansing-genocide-2/
We can no longer avoid these uncomfortable truths.
CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/cdc-can-no-longer-help-prevent-
lead-poisoning-in-children-state-officials-say/
'I Think It’s Wrong To Burn Children Alive'
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/28/sorry-if-this-is-antisemiti
c-but-i-think-its-wrong-to-burn-children-alive/
they voted Republican now moving back to Bernie
Former Trump Voters in Warren, Michigan, Talk About What Changed Their Mind
Zionism much? War everywhere again
Warmongering Republicans Are Not 'Pro-Life'
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/warmongering-republicans-are
-not-pro-life/
Australia pushes tariffs removal amid US court ruling
https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/8979471/australia-pushes-tariffs-r
emoval-amid-us-court-ruling/
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Shut up faggot.
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India Hindu news reports on the Aussie politics
Australia lauds US court ruling on Trump tariffs, reiterates trade duties are ‘unjustified’
https://www.wionews.com/world/australia-lauds-us-court-ruling-on-trump
-tariffs-reiterates-trade-duties-are-unjustified-1748518668344
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India Hindu news reports on the Aussie politics
Australia lauds US court ruling on Trump tariffs, reiterates trade duties are ‘unjustified’
https://www.wionews.com/world/australia-lauds-us-court-ruling-on-trump
-tariffs-reiterates-trade-duties-are-unjustified-1748518668344
Will be appealed in no time at all.
Eventually we're just going to ignore these things.
Judges don't actually have this power, and we don't need to play ball with them.
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India Hindu news reports on the Aussie politics
Australia lauds US court ruling on Trump tariffs, reiterates trade duties are ‘unjustified’
https://www.wionews.com/world/australia-lauds-us-court-ruling-on-trump
-tariffs-reiterates-trade-duties-are-unjustified-1748518668344]
Will be appealed in no time at all.
Eventually we're just going to ignore these things.
Judges don't actually have this power, and we don't need to play ball with them.
Saving the Court from Itself
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/saving-the-court-from-itself/
We're no more than several months away from sweeping changes, and all of these activist judges will be completely defanged.
YOU did this, Democrats.
That's the last thing your dead party will do before it's gone forever.
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Striking Down Trump’s Tariffs Isn’t a Judicial Coup
Congress, not the executive branch, has the power to enact tariffs.
By Conor Friedersdorf | May 29, 2025, 10:09 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-tariffs-court-
rulings/682964/
The debate over President Donald Trump’s tariffs often focuses on whether they are prudent. Defenders insist that Trump’s tariffs will help make America great again and boost national security. Critics counter that they’ll wreck the economy. But the strongest argument against the tariffs is actually that they are unlawful. Neither the Constitution nor any statute authorizes Trump to impose what he ordered.
Now, months after sticklers for the rule of law began making that argument, it has finally been vindicated: Yesterday, the United States Court of International Trade, the federal court with jurisdiction over civil actions related to tariffs, struck down almost all of Trump’s tariffs in a 49-page ruling. The decision includes a detailed discussion of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the 1977 law delegating increased power over trade to the president during national emergencies, which the White House had cited to support its moves. It concludes that the law does not authorize any of Trump’s tariff orders. https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/25-66.pdf
Administration officials quickly challenged the ruling’s legitimacy. “It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement. “The judicial coup is out of control,” Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted on social media. But their objections are dubious, not because the judiciary never overreaches, but because at least three features of this dispute make the argument for judicial overreach here especially weak.
First, the Constitution is clear: Article I delegates the tariff power to Congress, and Article II fails to vest that power in the presidency. So the Trump administration begins from a weak position. And the court’s ruling did not arrogate the tariff power to the judiciary, which might have warranted describing it as “a judicial coup.” It merely affirmed Congress’s power over tariffs. Americans need not fear a judicial dictatorship here. Congress can do whatever it likes. Indeed, it could pass a law reinstating all of Trump’s tariffs today without violating the court’s ruling. But Congress is extremely unlikely to do so, in part because Trump’s tariff policy clearly lacks public support; for example, a recent poll found that 63 percent of Americans disapprove of it.
Second, the plaintiffs in this particular lawsuit include the states of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Vermont––all democratically accountable entities in a federal system where states are meant to act as a check on unlawful exercises of federal power. All of those states asked the court to rule in this manner to vindicate their rights under the law. As Oregon’s attorney general put it, “We brought this case because the Constitution doesn’t give any president unchecked authority to upend the economy.” States controlled by both Republicans and Democrats routinely file lawsuits asking the judiciary to strike down purportedly unlawful actions by the president. There is bipartisan consensus that such judicial review is legitimate, not couplike, and such rulings have constrained presidents from both parties.
Third, when Congress created the Court of International Trade and later defined its jurisdiction, its precise intent was to create an arm of the judiciary that would exercise authority over trade disputes. Congress made a deliberate choice to alter an earlier law vesting that power in the Treasury Department, under the executive branch, and deliberately vested it in a court instead. To quote from the 1980 law that defined its powers, “The Court of International Trade shall have exclusive jurisdiction of any civil action commenced against the United
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Trump points to $5.1 trillion in investments from the Middle East that aren’t exactly real
What’s worse than the president pointing to a made-up investment figure? His willingness to make plans to spend some of the money that doesn’t exist.
By Steve Benen | May 29, 2025, 2:22 PM CDT
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-points-51-tr
illion-investments-middle-east-arent-exactly-real-rcna209811
At an Oval Office event on Wednesday, a reporter asked Donald Trump why he never followed through on his threats to impose economic sanctions on Russia. The president never quite got around to answering the question, but he did seem eager to emphasize a completely unrelated point.
“I went to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and [the United Arab Emirates], and we brought back $5.1 trillion,” Trump claimed. “So, I made that money in about two hours, the money that we’re talking about.” After briefly suggesting — without a shred of evidence — that Ukraine has misused U.S. security aid, the Republican went on say, “I’m more interested because I picked up $5.1 trillion and, by the way, got a beautiful big, magnificent free airplane for the United States Air Force, OK? Very proud of that, too.”
For now, let’s not dwell on the fact that the plane from Qatar wasn’t free, and it’s proving to be far more controversial than the White House cares to admit. Let’s instead consider that statistic the president is apparently quite excited about.
If the “$5.1 trillion” figure sounds at all familiar, that’s because Trump can’t seem to stop talking about it. He referenced it a week ago when unveiling the “Make America Healthy Again” report, which came two days after he pushed the same line during a visit to Capitol Hill, which came one day after he repeated the talking point at the White House.
For reasons unknown, the president went on to say last week that the figure might even be “$7 trillion” at some undetermined point in the future.
To be sure, the boast certainly sounds impressive. Americans are apparently supposed to believe that Trump went to the Middle East, met with some officials for “about two hours” and left with investments so enormous, they represent roughly a sixth of the United States’ GDP.
But that’s not what happened.
For one thing, as The Washington Post reported, Trump has started referring to Biden-era foreign investments as his own, pretending that they’re new and that he deserves credit for them. The Post’s report added:
The math behind the White House’s claim that Trump secured ‘trillions’ on this trip is fuzzy even including the contracts that predate his presidency. The sum of the deals is under $1 trillion, but the White House is also counting announcements it made months before the trip, including a vague plan that the UAE said would result in $1.4 trillion in investment in the United States over the next decade. The UAE and White House previously announced that deal in March. The White House did not explain why its announcements included deals that predate Trump’s presidency.
Around the same time, The New York Times took a closer look at the data and reported, “The list of some of the agreements published by the White House left many details vague. The value of the agreements appeared to total about $283 billion.”
If those investments happen, terrific. But they might not happen, and $283 billion is a small fraction of $5.1 trillion.
What’s more, as MSNBC’s Paul Waldman wrote in a piece for Public Notice, some of the money Trump referenced might materialize in future decades. It led Waldman to conclude that the presidential claims amounted to little more than “smoke and mirrors.”
The problem, however, is not just that Trump keeps talking up an investment figure that isn’t real. The problem is made worse by the way that the president appears to be making plans to spend some of the money that doesn’t exist.
At an Oval Office event last week, Trump was asked whether his wildly unrealistic “Golden Dome” idea might be prohibitively expensive. He responded, “We can af
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Whatever you say, faggot.
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Quote:6ix, your mind has been addled by alcohol. This is information you don't wish known:
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Whatever you say, faggot.
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Since Musk is a big ketamine user and Trump is allegedly hopped up on Adderall, it’s no wonder they want the evidence of harm from drug abuse buried:
“A federal study on mental health problems and substance use across the country that has been running for decades and is used by a wide range of researchers faces an uncertain future after President Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce.
“The National Survey on Drug Use and Health is an annual survey of households conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, which is being dissolved in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhaul of the nation’s health agencies.”
Hey, if you don’t know about it, it can’t hurt you, right?
They've tracked Americans' drug use for decades. Trump and RFK Jr. fired them
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/29/nx-s1-540784
9/samhsa-nsduh-trump-rfk-jr-hhs-cuts
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Whatever you say, faggot.
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Shut up asshole.
Your opinion means nothing to no one.
You're finished.
Go call your mom and bitch to her, because nobody else cares.
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Quote:Not an opinion. There are facts about how Trump will harm you, personally:
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Shut up asshole.
Your opinion means nothing to no one.
You're finished.
Go call your mom and bitch to her, because nobody else cares.
Reverse Robin Hood - The Seven Ugliest Provisions in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
The Trumpy tax bill that's headed to the Senate has many nasty surprises
By Tim Dickinson | May 31, 2025
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-tax-bill
-big-beautiful-seven-ugly-provisions-2025-1235351717/
Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a reverse-Robin Hood nightmare. It steals from the poor to give to the rich. The 1,038-page version that passed the House will also balloon the deficit by nearly $4 trillion.
The Trump tax bill achieves this feat by extending (and in many cases expanding) tax breaks for the richest Americans, while at the same time depriving more than 10 million Americans of health insurance and regular access to their doctors, by axing $880 billion from Medicaid. It also increases red tape for Obamacare, while allowing other subsidies to lapse, boxing millions more out of their insurance.
The bill is regressive as a matter of tax policy. It will reduce the take-home incomes of bottom 10 percent of income earners by four percent by the end of the decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects. Penn Wharton, Trump’s alma mater, finds that most households earning less than $51,000 will immediately see their after-tax income decrease. Meanwhile, the bill boosts the incomes of the top one percent by nearly $70,000 in the first year alone, giving that elite cohort a collective $124 billion net tax cut.
The Trump bill sorta makes good on Trump’s campaign sales gimmicks — offering temporary, three-year tax breaks on tips (cost: $40 billion); the extra income earned from overtime ($124 billion); and auto loan interest ($58 billion); while also offering a tax credit to seniors, meant as an offset of taxes on Social Security income ($72 billion).
But as passed by the House, the tax bill also has many ugly provisions. Some are related to taxes, like the abolition of taxes on gun silencers, or ending tax incentives for clean energy and cars. Others are just completely extraneous, like language prohibiting state- and local regulation of artificial intelligence for 10 years.
Below is a survey of seven terrible tricks up the sleeves of the Big Beautiful Bill:
1) Undermining the Rule of Law
A provision slipped into the House bill, unrelated to taxes, would have a major impact on the courts and the rule of law. It blocks any funding to enforce contempt of court orders. This, in turn, could enable the Trump administration to flout the rulings of judges without consequence. Erwin Chemerinsky, a professor of law as the University of California, is sounding the alarm that this is an affront to the basic functioning of our democracy. He writes in a post at Just Security that “nothing could be done” to enforce injunctions against the executive branch were this provision to become law — “even when the government had been found to violate the Constitution.” In fact, he adds, “the greatest effect of adopting the provision would be to make countless existing judicial orders unenforceable.” These concerns are ripe because the Trump administration’s countless illegal executive orders and actions keep getting turned back in court, and the administration’s compliance — as with falling to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from the gulag in El Salvador, as directed by the Supreme Court — has been irregular at best.
2) Rewarding Rich Homeowners
Rich people in blue states have cause to laud the Big Beautiful Bill. It quadruples a tax break that one analysis finds “Overwhelmingly Benefits Wealthy, White Households.” We are talking here about the state and local tax, or SALT, deduction. The tax break has some logic. It is intended to keep folks from having to
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DOGE is on track to cost taxpayers more money than it saved
Elon Musk took a chainsaw to his brand and reputation with nothing to show for it.
By Zachary B. Wolf | 4:00 AM EDT, Fri May 30, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/doge-musk-government-savings
Despite everything DOGE claimed to do, government outlays are on track to rise by 9% in 2025 compared with 2024.
“Chainsaws and bluster can’t solve the yawning gap between revenue and spending that has led American debt to rise to unsustainable levels,” Stevenson said.
In total, estimates suggest that what has been spent to generate these cuts may be as great as the cuts. In the long run, it’s not clear that DOGE generated any savings. DOGE cuts could end up costing the US $135 billion simply because it will need to retrain and rehire elements of the work force that have been let go.
While Musk has promised maximum transparency, it has been impossible to verify much of what DOGE has said it has done.
We expect the government to show receipts. And the receipts that DOGE has shown that are posted publicly are nonetheless woefully inadequate to back their claims.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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An article about Trump, Trumptards and the Republican Party without mentioning those proper nouns.
5 ‘Argument Tactics’ That Narcissists Rely On — By A Psychologist
By Mark Travers | May 31, 2025, 04:15pm EDT
Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2025/05/31/5-argument-tactics
-that-narcissists-rely-on---by-a-psychologist/
To strip the power from an emotional abuser, you must recognize their argument tactics for what they are: logical fallacies.
Narcissists tend to vastly overestimate the accuracy of their own beliefs. They become defensive, or even combative, when confronted with viewpoints that don’t align with their own. As a 2023 study published in Frontiers in Psychology explains, this is due to the fact that narcissists often exhibit very low levels of intellectual humility.
As a result, they rely heavily on manipulative argument tactics that serve to protect their inflated self-image. At face value, these tactics might seem clever, or maybe even intellectually sound. In reality, however, these tactics focus more on control than they do logic.
A 2024 study in published in Memory & Cognition also notes that individuals prone to such poor argument tactics are highly likely to accept and perpetuate information that confirms their existing beliefs.
Narcissists exploit this cognitive bias to others’ wits end: they frame their arguments to align with their victims’ fears or insecurities, or in ways that defend their warped self-image.
As such, they’re adept at spinning webs of flawed reasoning that feel convincing — but, under any actual scrutiny, they fall right apart. In other words, many of their go-to argument tactics are riddled with errors that are designed to deflect blame and derail conversations. In turn, they keep themselves in a position of control.
Here are five logical fallacies narcissists often rely on, and why they keep them in their repertoire.
1. Ad Hominem
The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone chooses to attack the person making an argument instead of addressing the actual argument itself. They refuse to engage with the issue that was brought up, and instead discredit the speaker by focusing on their personal traits, emotions or past behavior. As a result, they shut down the discussion in its entirety.
For instance, say you confront a narcissist about their manipulative behavior. With an ad hominem attack, they might respond with, “You’re just insecure and bitter, that’s why you’re making such a big deal out of this.”
Rather than addressing your very real concerns, they attack you instead. As a result, your criticisms are rendered “irrational” in their eyes.
Narcissists heavily rely on ad hominem attacks, largely due to the fact that they will avoid engaging with facts that threaten their self-image at all costs. By turning the discussion into a critique of the accuser rather than their own actions, they change the course of the conversation. They make the victim feel self-conscious about raising concerns, which ensures the narcissist remains in control.
2. False Dichotomy
The false dichotomy fallacy arises once someone presents two extreme options as the only possible choices; they ignore the existence of middle-ground or nuance. This type of reasoning serves to force the victim (and the conversation as a whole) into a total gridlock. In turn, they prevent the possibility of any thoughtful discussions ensuing.
For instance, if you critique something that a narcissist says or does, they might respond in black-or-white statements like, “Either you agree with me, or you’re against me.” They equate any disagreement whatsoever with outright hostility.
But, in reality, relationships cannot function without compromise. Nor can discussions be productive without acknowledging the existence of both parties’ perspectives. Regardless, the narcissist limits the conversation to two opposing sides, which takes reasonable discourse out of the question entirely.
Narcissists favor false dichotom
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Trump Hits 'Undo' on Private Astronaut's Nomination for NASA Administrator
The move to pull Jared Isaacman's nomination comes a day after the White House publishes a budget proposal outlining a 24% cut in NASA’s budget.
By Rob Pegoraro | June 1, 2025
https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-withdraws-private-astronaut-jared-isa
acman-nomination-nasa-administrator
Reaction to Isaacman losing out has been uniformly gloomy among NASA observers. Berger, an exceptionally sourced space reporter, quoted an unnamed "current leader" of the agency as saying "NASA is fucked."
But even before this plot twist, the release Friday of details of Trump's 2026 budget proposal for NASA had things looking bleak at the agency. That document calls for slashing its budget by 24%, from fiscal year 2025's $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion, then keeping it clamped down to that total through fiscal year 2030.
The budget would also chop NASA's planetary-science budget by 32%, and hack its Earth-science budget by almost 52%. And it would shove the agency's STEM-outreach efforts out a fiscal airlock, ending all funding for that office.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The TACO Presidency
David A. Graham | May 30, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/taco-donald-tr
ump-wall-street-tariffs/682994/
One way to trace the past nine years of Donald Trump is the journey from taco bowls to TACO bulls. (Hey, don’t click away! This is going somewhere!)
Back in May 2016, the then–GOP presidential candidate posted a picture of himself eating a Trump Tower Tex-Mex entree. “I love Hispanics!” he wrote. Nearly everyone understood this as an awkward pander.
Now, in May 2025, Wall Street is all over the “TACO trade,” another instance of people realizing they shouldn’t take the president at face value. “TACO” is short for “Trump always chickens out.” Markets have tended to go down when Trump announces new tariffs, but investors have recognized that a lot of this is bluffing, so they’re buying the dip and then profiting off the inevitable rally.
A reporter asked Trump about the expression on Wednesday, and he was furious. “I chicken out? I’ve never heard that,” he said. “Don’t ever say what you said. That’s a nasty question. To me, that’s the nastiest question.” The reaction demonstrates that the traders are right, because—to mix zoological metaphors—a hit dog will holler. The White House keeps talking tough about levying new tariffs on friends and geopolitical rivals alike, but Trump has frequently gone on to lower the measures or delay them for weeks or months.
Foreign leaders had figured out that Trump was a pushover by May 2017, and a year later, I laid out in detail his pattern of nearly always folding. He’s a desirable negotiating foil, despite his unpredictable nature, because he doesn’t tend to know his material well, has a short attention span, and can be easily manipulated by flattery. The remarkable thing is that it’s taken this long for Wall Street to catch on.
Even though no president has been so purely a businessman as Trump, he and the markets have never really understood each other. That is partly because, as I wrote yesterday, Trump just isn’t that good at business. Despite much glitzier ventures over the years, his most effective revenue sources have been rent collection at his legacy properties and rent-seeking as president. His approach to protectionism is premised on a basic misunderstanding of trade.
Yet Wall Street has never seemed to have much better of a grasp on Trump than he has on them, despite having many years to crack the code. (This is worth recalling when market evangelists speak about the supposed omniscience of markets.) Financiers have tried to understand Trump in black-and-white terms, but the task requires the nuanced recognition, for example, that he can be deadly serious about tariffs in the abstract and also extremely prone to folding on specifics.
Although they disdained him during his first term, many titans of industry sought accommodation with Trump during his 2024 campaign, hoping he’d be friendlier to their interests than Joe Biden had been. Once Trump’s term began, though, they were taken aback to learn that he really did want tariffs, even though he’d been advocating for them since the 1980s, had levied some in his first term, and had put them at the center of his 2024 campaign.
Trump’s commitment to tariffs, however, didn’t mean that he had carefully prepared for them or thought through their details. The administration has announced, suspended, reduced, or threatened new tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, and the European Union. All of this volatility is ostensibly a product of ongoing negotiations, but in many cases, it’s also a response to market turmoil or because of a lack of clarity about details. (This week, two federal courts also ruled that the president was overstepping his authority by implementing tariffs under emergency powers.)
This is where the TACO trade comes in. Rather than panicking over every twist and turn, investors have begun to grasp the pattern. But every Wall Street arbitrage eventually loses its power once people get hip to it. In this case, the fact that Trump has learn
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How Trump’s push to end California EV mandates may change rules of the road
By Francine Kiefer Staff writer | June 02, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | Pasadena, Calif.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0602/trump-california-cars-
ev-mandates
The march toward electric cars in the United States took a U-turn in May when the Senate voted to revoke California’s electric vehicle mandate. And it’s not just about California. The move also applies to nearly a dozen states in step with the Golden State’s zero-emissions requirement, set to start phasing in next year.
President Trump has promised to sign the congressional action into law. And as soon as he does, California says, it will sue.
Regardless of the outcome, the revocation is a significant rebuke to states’ self-determination and, more specifically, any state hoping to push the nation to quickly abandon fossil fuels in favor of electrification for vehicles. The scientific consensus says greenhouse gas emissions must be cut dramatically within the next five years to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
“It will slow down adoption,” says Stephanie Valdez Streaty, of Cox Automotive Inc., a technology provider to the industry.
Here, the Monitor explains why California plays such an outsize role in auto emissions standards, why this has met strenuous pushback, and where things might go from here.
Why is California so important when it comes to auto emissions? More at https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0602/trump-california-cars-
ev-mandates
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Puts Lives at Risk by Revoking Emergency Abortion Guidelines for Hospitals
By Jessica Washington / Jun 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/03/trump-emtala-abortion-emergency/
The Trump administration rescinded Biden-era guidance that explicitly required emergency rooms to provide abortions to pregnant patients if such care would save their lives. Medical experts expect the policy shift to sow chaos in hospitals and endanger pregnant people throughout the U.S.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s move to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration issued guidance related to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, a federal law that requires health care providers that take Medicare to provide “stabilizing” medical treatment to all patients experiencing medical emergencies.
In a 2022 letter to health care providers, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Beccerra wrote that if a doctor believes a pregnant patient at an emergency room “is experiencing an emergency medical condition as defined by EMTALA, and that abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve that condition, the physician must provide that treatment.” The memo also clarified that EMTALA preempts state law in cases where abortion is illegal with exceptions narrower than those in EMTALA.
In a press release Tuesday, the Trump administration rescinded the older guidance, stating that the previous rules “do not reflect the policy of this Administration.”
The release noted that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “will work to rectify any perceived legal confusion and instability created by the former administration’s actions.”
“In places where doctors and hospitals are being threatened with both criminal and civil penalties for providing abortion care, it will cause a delay.”
Abortion providers and experts in reproductive health argue that the vagueness of the new guidance will create uncertainty in emergency rooms, denying pregnant people equal access to care and putting lives at risk in states that have restricted or banned abortion.
“The Trump Administration would rather women die in emergency rooms than receive life-saving abortions,” said Nancy Northup, President and CEO at the Center for Reproductive Rights. “In pulling back guidance, this administration is feeding the fear and confusion that already exists at hospitals in every state where abortion is banned. Hospitals need more guidance right now, not less.”
The Trump administration told The Intercept that the idea that the new guidance puts lives at risk is “false.”
“CMS will continue to enforce EMTALA, which protects all individuals who present to a hospital emergency department seeking examination or treatment, including for identified emergency medical conditions that place the health of a pregnant woman or her unborn child in serious jeopardy,” Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon wrote in a statement to The Intercept.
Even before the Trump administration rescinded the Biden-era guidance, dozens of pregnant women reported being turned away for emergency medical care since the fall of Roe.
A ProPublica report found that at least five women have died as a result of abortion bans since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Most reproductive health care experts believe the number is far higher than what’s been reported.
“We already know that women have died because physicians didn’t act because of fear surrounding what they or couldn’t do under certain state bans,” said Dana Sussman, senior vice president at Pregnancy Justice, a non-profit reproductive justice organization. “We know that women have died because they have been scared to get care, because they self managed abortions. We know that more women will die, and we and there are probably women who have died, and we will never know their names.”
Sussman said that the new guidance will only make it harder for hospitals to feel comfortable providing lifesaving care to pregnant people.
“I think inev
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plus a very stupid public fight with Musk, all his companies
and now protests, then Martial Law, followed by more protests and riots and burning and more Army arrives, National Guard, Military on streets, protests spread to other cities
Republican guy goes nutty as President sends military
Democrat Mayor launches 'Curfew'
Mexico flags bait Trump
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its a nuthouse clownshow now
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Endless War Continues...
Donald Trump a Zionist now??
was the tail supposed to wag the dog?
Trump to decide on US strikes on Iran in next two weeks
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/
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Yeah fooled again...those sicko comedy jokes
A poll was taken by holly-weird mags in a Tel Aviv, mags that Trump bailed out, the journalist asking around Gay Bar with homosexual 2,000 rent boy prostitutes asking if they would have sex with Ted Cruz.
98% said ‘Never Again”.
What do Ted Cruz and an perverted 95 yr old Japanese kamikaze rapist man have in common, both of those psycho fucks fight for another alien political power and want USA destroyed?
So those Ted jokers, What’s the difference between Ted Cruz, a Zionist pedophile schizophrenic and a 350lb piece of stinking festeringshit filled with corn?
The corn.
and the Lindsey jokes are even worse
I always said drop cartoons, not bombs
try not to get too involved if you're backing up on side on that Forever War
its a very sick world
but its the rent boy RINO party now
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Trump manages to get away from sand box endless war...for the moment...some want war to continue...a few F-Bombs dropped
Canada ‘urgently seeking more information’ on death of Canadian in ICE custody
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/a-canadian-has-died-in-ice-custod
y-cause-under-investigation/
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Rep. Thomas Massie to Israel: "Why Do You Have To Convince Us That You're Our Ally?"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/06/24/rep_thomas_massie_t
o_israel_why_do_you_have_to_convince_us_that_youre_our_ally.html
Trump spending cash like Biden
MAGA targets Trump’s most hated congressman in ‘twisted’ attack
https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/maga-targets-trumps-most-hated-con
gressman-in-twisted-attack.html
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'If I have to pick between Trump and Massie, it’s Massie every time. No questions asked.'
https://x.com/prolibertypod/status/1939126534825996584
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Elon Musk warns Trump that 'nonexistent' bombshell Epstein findings may be the 'last straw'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14882183/elon-musk-post-warns
-trump-jeffrey-epstein-list.html
how many links around the world?? both US Republican and US Democrat
Trudeau?
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2025/03/blind-item-15_02038384298.h
tml
Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and there’s no ‘client list,’ Justice Department says
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/07/jeffrey-epstein-died-by-suicide
-and-theres-no-client-list-justice-department-says/
Elon Musk Accuses Trump of Epstein Coverup With Clown Meme
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-accuses-trump-of-epstein-coverup-with-cl
own-meme-2000624918
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spend, spending and spend again, its massive extra spending, the debt clock?
with Syrians its another era of terror and murder, getting killed in Syria, shakes hands with the ISIS or al-Qaeda guy but now Israelis bomb them, Turks invade from North the Jewish state of Israel invades from the South
Trump wants to hang the 'Peace Prize' on the wall, maybe it was a nice idea long long ago but getting massively corrupted over time, Le Duc Tho Henry Kissinger schemes and killers, they gave it to Barack Obama for simply being elected
War between the Russian and Ukrainian still ongoing, no peace he said he would fix it in one day
somehow Yemen is still shutting down a lot of world shipping
cuts back on science investments and large projects that give the US leadership
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Bondi was in Flordia when a lot of weird stuff was happening, Kash Patel said he would release the files but now is on the offense and tell everyone directly there is nothing in the nothing files.
The big beautiful bill reveals the hollowness of Trumponomics
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/07/02/the-big-beautiful-bill-r
eveals-the-hollowness-of-trumponomics
Democratic leaders accuse Republicans of protecting pedophiles
https://www.wsj.com/politics/justice-department-told-trump-name-in-eps
tein-files-727a8038
Date set for Ghislaine Maxwell's bombshell testimony as fears mount for her safety in prison
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14934331/date-set-ghislaine-m
axwell-testimony-congress-safety-prison.html
Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files
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Shocking 1991 Video Surfaces: Donald Trump Judged Teen Models Amid Jeffrey Epstein Controversy
https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-1991-video-teen-models-jeffrey-e
pstein-controversy/
Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.ht
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In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics
WSJ now claims that Bondi told Trump he’s in the Epstein files in latest media smear
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/24/wsj-now-claims-that-bondi-told
-trump-hes-in-the-epstein-files-in-latest-media-smear-1570584/
Stocks Sink as Bonds Jump on Deepening Jobs Cracks: Markets Wrap
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/asian-stocks-decline-tariffs-dollar-015
758217.html
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‘Incredible Corruption’: Blockbuster Report on Trump Crypto Grift Leaves Observers Stunned
https://alaska-native-news.com/incredible-corruption-blockbuster-repor
t-on-trump-crypto-grift-leaves-observers-stunned/80779/
President Trump suggested today that media outlets are engaging in “hate speech” by being “unfair” to him and “maybe” should be prosecuted.
https://x.com/TheFIREorg/status/1967974382980284546#m
Trump’s statement demonstrates the inherent danger of “hate speech” laws: Those in power will always weaponize them to silence dissent.
So Trump, perverted Democrats and Republican senators who blocked the Epstein files...Charlie Kirk had begun to change and talk about Royalty and the Israeli Mossad blackmail
Former AG Bill Barr recounts in deposition how he informed Trump of Epstein’s death
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/politics/barr-deposition-epstein-trump-
house-oversight
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Assassination, the Charlie Kirk horror but then
Conan O’Brien Says Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Should ‘Disturb Everyone’: ‘It’s Wrong’
https://www.thewrap.com/conan-obrien-jimmy-kimmel-late-night-suspensio
n-disturbed
Newsom Trolls Trump And FCC Chair Over 'Made Up' Rule To Oust Jimmy Kimmel
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/newsom-trolls-trump-fcc-chair-200940607.html
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a Zionist with concern about the Israeli wailing wall
the Epstein pedo linked Benjamin Black was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, succeeding Scott A. Nathan following his resignation. The nomination was placed on the Senate Executive Calendar as Calendar No. 194, pending Black’s agreement to appear and testify before any Senate committee if requested. In announcing the nomination, President Trump said Black would apply his financial and deal-making experience to advance U.S. interests abroad. The nomination drew attention due to his limited background in foreign policy and legislative affairs, he was confirmed.
headlines say the science given a kick, he wants the weather satellites gone if they measure CO2?
Claims the Jutsice System is a Witch-Hunt so goes political and does his own 'Witch Hunts'
Kash and Bondi copver up the crimes linking British Royals, the French, the Australians, the Israelis and US political elites and business elites, they won’t release the Epstein Files
Campus protests Team A vs Team B of those alien cultures, the citizens deported for criticism of Israel
Bombs the boats in Latin America the War on Drugs becomes the War on Terror...is that legal?
calls the No Kings protest fake, a hoax, Soros funded...really now? millions of them?
the Maxwell woman gets special favors
promises building projects, Pro-massive debt increases, Attack the Dolar more debts, deficts, debt again (BBB) ....the super city projects seem to be in the Middle East not the USA
wants comedy controlled, First Amendment rights are violated
calls Epstein 'a hoax'
Americans continue to rate the U.S. economy negatively, the economic war on the economies of the world doesnt seem to be working out
Ukraine war not fixed as he claimed, Biden can also take some blame and Syria clashes continue a nation invaded by other nations and ruled by terror
Trumpist man Calls His Own Supporters 'Stupid People' for Demanding Epstein Files
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Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of a US strike in the Caribbean committed any crime
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-strike-caribbean-trump-fentanyl-col
ombia-venezuela-0f8f1c004064857046398b388ddb8df5
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Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of a US strike in the Caribbean committed any crime
https://apnews.com/article/ecuador-strike-caribbean-trump-fentanyl-col
ombia-venezuela-0f8f1c004064857046398b388ddb8df5
According to another conveniently anonymous source in an AP news story.
Who gives a shit.
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No, Trump. Do not try to remove the filibuster. Do not even make that suggestion.
You can't do it anyhow, at least right now, but even just SAYING it is giving the dipshits on the other side the soundbytes to use when they're in power again and try it doing it again themselves.
Yes. They probably will try very hard to do that and to pack the Supreme Court when they're in power again, it would be an even bigger travesty if they got that power because YOU figured out a way to do it and gave it to them.
Trust me. If Democrats could have done either of those things after your first term, they would have done it instead of just talking about it. Thune is very likely afraid to tell you that it's not a good idea. But he's already said that it simply cannot be done. Whoever had the foresight to realize that the filibuster itself should at least have the protections to its own existence that it gives the American population from an agenda driven congress should be given a medal.
What I'm actually worried about right now is if there are enough Democrats in the center still that aren't on board with the HARD left that the Democratic Party is taking. It wouldn't happen today, but I could see a scenario where Trump and the Republicans could get enough Democrats on board to shut it down in the short term if things start getting really out of hand. It's not going to happen if the haters are right and everybody is against Trump a year from now, but if things actually do get notably better while the new leadership of the Democratic Party seem to be the young Socialists, you might actually see enough senators defect and go with the nuclear option.
You think we're slaves to the whims of whatever bent the current administration has? Just wait until a simple majority rule in the Senate is all that's needed to hardcode a new president's agenda without any need for Executive Orders that can be shot down in court.
Demanding the filibuster be removed is the same sort of crybabyism the Democrats put on display for us everyday. If you had been making good on all of your promises and not fucking up healthcare at the same time, you wouldn't need to be making such demands.
Stop behaving like a Democrat and start getting shit done that we wanted you to.
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Quote:Trump’s lame duck era has begun
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No, Trump. Do not try to remove the filibuster. Do not even make that suggestion.
You can't do it anyhow, at least right now, but even just SAYING it is giving the dipshits on the other side the soundbytes to use when they're in power again and try it doing it again themselves.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/donald-trump-lame-duck-006393
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Hours after witnessing his party’s worst electoral drubbing in at least six years, President Donald Trump hosted Senate Republicans at the White House and demanded they ditch their chamber’s supermajority rules.
“If you don’t terminate the filibuster, you’ll be in bad shape,” he told them over breakfast in the State Dining Room.
It was classic Trump dominance theater, like many other occasions this year where he successfully muscled recalcitrant Republicans to confirm controversial nominees, support divisive policies and enact sweeping domestic policy legislation.
But upon returning to the Capitol, the senators made it very clear: They planned to blow Trump off. One GOP senator, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, laughed out loud when asked about the anti-filibuster push.
Welcome to the dawn of Trump’s lame duck era.
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 against humanity’: World leaders denounce U.S. president at COP30 climate summit
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/07/trump-un-cop30-climate-summit-brazil
President Trump's views on climate change were denounced by several Latin American leaders in Belém, Brazil, on Thursday at the COP30 UN summit.
The big picture: Without naming Trump, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said "extremist forces that fabricate fake news and are condemning future generations to life on a planet altered forever by global warming." Chile and Colombia's leaders both specifically singled out the U.S. president in their COP30 speeches.
What they're saying: Colombian President Gustavo Petro noted that Trump and high-level U.S. representatives were missing from COP30 as it got underway on Thursday, according to a Global News translation.
"Mr. Trump is against humanity. His absence here demonstrates that," said Petro, whose country was hit with U.S. sanctions last month after Trump threatened tariffs and military action against it.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric said "the president of the United States at the latest United Nations General Assembly said the climate crisis does not exist. That is a lie," per the translation.
Of note: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer noted in his COP30 speech "sadly that consensus" on tackling the climate crisis "is gone," while French President Emmanuel Macron said "climate misinformation today poses a threat to our democracies, to the Paris agenda."
The other side: White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement shared with outlets including Axios that Trump "will not allow the best interest of the American people to be jeopardized by the Green Energy Scam."
She added: "These Green Dreams are killing other countries, but will not kill ours thanks to President Trump's commonsense energy agenda!"
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Finally Meets A Problem His Lies Cannot Overcome: Rising Grocery Prices
Trump keeps claiming that prices are ‘way down’ — but with food inflation running nearly twice the rate as it was in Biden’s last year, Americans are not fooled.
By S.V. Date | Nov 8, 2025, 08:00 AM EST
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-grocery-lies_n_690e4e2ee4b0dd4ea7
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. . . unlike other of his frequent lies on topics about which most Americans have no first-hand knowledge — for example his claim that other countries pay U.S. tariffs or that he has ended eight wars or that he has already brought in $22 trillion in foreign investments — groceries and how much they cost is a subject that nearly everyone deals with at least once or twice a week.
“I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie,” said University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers. “I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.”
Trump has seemed sensitive to that suggestion, particularly in the days after Republicans were trounced in off-year elections around the country. Voters told pollsters that things were not going well in the economy. Heading into the fall campaigns, more than 80% of Americans reported being stressed by grocery prices, with about half describing it as a cause of “major” stress.
. . . HuffPost tried, both in the afternoon session and the evening dinner, to press him about his grocery prices lie, but he would not engage on the question.
At another point, Trump made the absurd assertion, “We’re taking in hundreds of trillions of dollars,” even though the entire U.S. economy is only about $30 trillion a year.
“I have no insight on why the president says what he says, but tariffs are increasing costs for U.S. consumers, and they will continue to make Americans poorer as long as they remain in effect,” said Erica York, vice president of federal tax policy at the Tax Foundation.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Ukraine/ Russia
Israel/ Gaza
Israel/ Iran
Pakistan
China
Venezuela
Colombia
Argentina
Nigeria
Enough with regime change, genocide, and internal meddling already.
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Quote:Trump is playing golf in Florida today. Wait until Monday to learn what new and bigger pile of dog poop Trump jumps into next week — maybe sending the Army, rather than the National Guard, into NYNY to overthrow the Communist Mayor? Who knows? Not Trump, at least not yet.
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Ukraine/ Russia
Israel/ Gaza
Israel/ Iran
Pakistan
China
Venezuela
Colombia
Argentina
Nigeria
Enough with regime change, genocide, and internal meddling already.
Saturday, November 8 2025
The President has no public events scheduled
7:00 AM Out-of-Town Travel Pool Call Time Mar-a-Lago
https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/
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No, Trump. Do not try to remove the filibuster. Do not even make that suggestion.
You can't do it anyhow, at least right now, but even just SAYING it is giving the dipshits on the other side the soundbytes to use when they're in power again and try it doing it again themselves.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/06/donald-trump-lame-duck-006393
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Hours after witnessing his party’s worst electoral drubbing in at least six years, President Donald Trump hosted Senate Republicans at the White House and demanded they ditch their chamber’s supermajority rules.
“If you don’t terminate the filibuster, you’ll be in bad shape,” he told them over breakfast in the State Dining Room.
It was classic Trump dominance theater, like many other occasions this year where he successfully muscled recalcitrant Republicans to confirm controversial nominees, support divisive policies and enact sweeping domestic policy legislation.
But upon returning to the Capitol, the senators made it very clear: They planned to blow Trump off. One GOP senator, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, laughed out loud when asked about the anti-filibuster push.
Welcome to the dawn of Trump’s lame duck era.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I listened to you two stupid fuckers say you wanted the filibuster removed when your meat popsicle president was in charge.
Go fuck yourself, stupid.
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Nuking the filibuster would come back to haunt Republicans
https://nypost.com/2025/11/07/opinion/nuking-the-filibuster-as-donald-
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No shit.
Should Democrats Help Trump Kill the Filibuster?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/should-democrats-help-trump-ki
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Ed Kilgore would love to see it happen. That should tell you all you need to know.
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NEW RULE: Any time Trump has an idea in his head, before he posts about it on Truth Social he should ask himself about the idea "What would Ed Kilgore do?"
And then he should do the exact opposite of that.
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Trump promises every American will get $2,000 from tariff revenue
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/9/trump-promises-every-a
merican-get-2000-tariff-revenue/
No. That's what LOSER Democrats do.
I don't want your fucking money. Pay off the fucking debt. You goons just blew another Trillion between August and November and that was AFTER all the DOGE cuts and government terminations.
That $2,000 isn't going to mean shit after you've taken my healthcare away anyhow. I'll blow that in less than 2 months on prescriptions.
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Trump promises every American will get $2,000 from tariff revenue
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/9/trump-promises-every-a
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No. That's what LOSER Democrats do.
I don't want your fucking money. Pay off the fucking debt. You goons just blew another Trillion between August and November and that was AFTER all the DOGE cuts and government terminations.
That $2,000 isn't going to mean shit after you've taken my healthcare away anyhow. I'll blow that in less than 2 months on prescriptions.
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I agree, but ... FREE MONEY!!!
I think most Americans are addicted to it.
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Yeah...
How the hell are we supposed to fix anything when we've got boomer seniors referring to their huge social security checks that they don't need as their "boat money".
The only person I've ever known that didn't accept ANY of the freebies was my grandma. Several years during covid and back when GWB cut those stimulus checks I told my grandma that I could do her taxes for her those years and since they were credits that every American adult were entitled to that she was just leaving money on the table. I couldn't even get her to do it when I was pushing hard about inflation and how she'd really just be hedging against the inflation the freebies were going to cause. She wasn't stupid. She already knew this. But saying no to the money was her silent protest against these inflationary actions.
I can't say that it was a smart thing to do. But I do respect her integrity. She lived a meager life and left a decent chunk of change to her kids when she passed, despite not taking any of those stimulus checks. She wouldn't have done anything nice for herself with that money. It would have gone to her kids, and 2 of the 3 of them would have blown it on something stupid.
After I pay my montly/yearly bills, all money to me is free time. That's more valuable than nearly anything else I can do with it. When I run out of money it's back to work for more. I'm just glad that I'll be making a lot more this time to keep up with the inflation. That's another side-benefit to making nothing and living off of nothing. The people making the very least have seen the largest bumps in pay over the last 6 years.
*I mean, besides the 1%'ers who really made bank and fucked all of us in the 2020s, but that's another story...
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James Carville: Democrats Will Win In 2028, Congress Will Increase Supreme Court Justices From 9 to 13
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/11/08/carville_democrats_
will_win_in_2028_congress_will_increase_supreme_court_justices_from_9_to_13.html
First off, James, I don't believe your prediction today is any more relevant than your prediction for the 2024 election. Just more wishful thinking.
That being said, you SHUT THE FUCK UP.
You might not care if the filibuster comes to an end since you're about 6 months away from dying, but everybody else will have to live the rest of their lives on a political rollercoaster if it happens.
It's dipshits like you that are going to drive enough moderate Democrat support to help Trump actually officially put an end to the only thing protecting us from people like you.
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Hey comrade. Your pedophile president is good at other stuff too. Not just destroying everything he touches and molesting children. He's also good at starving them. And making sure they have no health care. And so on and so forth. Girl, you sure can pickem.
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Mar-a-Lago unveils seafood spread and ice sculpture while Trump defunds food for children
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Grow up and get some real interests before your obsession kills you, faggot.
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Economist behind K-shaped economy sees a 'sea of despair' for the bottom 90% and a 'crisis of confidence' in the American dream
https://fortune.com/2025/11/13/economist-popularized-k-shaped-economy-
key-factor-overlooked-consumer-sentiment/
a long political vid from the Aussies, they were getting attacked when Trump targeted US comedians, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation having no link to the USA/Burbank/ABC/Disney broadcast compnay
Congress to vote on Epstein files as shutdown ends
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Interesting take on Trump's descent into hubris, and it begins with a powerful description of hubris ... and how Trump checks all the boxes.
Barnes notes that all of Trump's foreign policy disasters started right after Epstein allegations bubbled up again.
He describes how Trump's support of genocidal Israel is splitting the MAGA base, and how any advisor, even low level, who pushes back on that support is excised from government.
He lays fault primarily on
"Swampy" Susie Wiles, Trump's Chief of Staff, who always shepherds in corporate donors but leaves Trump's base out in the cold,
Scotty "Soros" Bessent, who is close to Alex Soros and who is constantly feeding Trump misinformation about the Russian economy (on the verge of collapse), China (wont play the "rare earth" card) and tariffs (the Supreme Court will find in your favor), who neutered DOGE before it could get to the Federal Reserve and IRS reform
"Narco" Marco Rubio, who is constantly pushing the neocon line, and who occupies both State Dept and National Security Advisor posts, a position where he, too, can feed false info to Trump.
He blames Trump for appointing them and, worse, listening to them because they feed into Trump's hubris.
According to Barnes, this past election was a MAGA disaster, not because Dems took top line elections but because anger against Trump ran so deep it showed in elections all the way down to dog catcher. A giant repudiation of Trumpism by both MAGA bases and by everyone making less than 100K.
Trump has good faith advisors
JD Vance
Tulsi Gabbard
Robert Kennedy
Elbridge Colby
What Trump could do to turn the ship around: about 1:28:00
Barnes names names, names court cases, names decisions. He's IMHO hard to listen to, a bit like "drinking from a fire hose" but very real-world and based on specific facts.
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Aaaand.... Trump's meltdown continues.
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Saturday, Nov 15, 2025 - 04:35 AM
Capping a week in which he faced a coordinated blitz by Democrats and allied journalists working to implicate him in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump had a social media meltdown Friday night, lashing out at two GOP representatives who both enjoy deep national support among conservatives. Trump withdrew his endorsement of one and stooped to ridiculing the other for re-marrying 15 months after the death of his wife. It's likely no coincidence that both reps -- Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie -- were among four Republicans who signed a discharge petition to force a floor vote on a bill that would compel the DOJ to release all its Epstein files. Trump and GOP leaders on Capitol Hill have opposed that effort.
Massie isn't just a signatory of that petition, but its principal champion, having introduced it this summer along with Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna. When Speaker Mike Johnson finally brought the House back into session this week after nearly two months of idleness, Massie secured the required 218th signature on the Epstein-file discharge petition, a parliamentary avenue that overrides Johnson's ability to determine which bills are voted upon. When the vote on Massie's bill takes place on Tuesday, a far larger number of Republicans are expected to vote for it, rather than face subsequent attacks for voting to keep the Epstein files under wraps.
Posting on his Truth Social account, Trump's first attack targeted Massie, whom the president has repeatedly denigrated going back to his first administration. The twice-divorced and alleged-repeat-philanderer Trump suggested Massie remarried too quickly after his wife died in June 2024; the libertarian-minded Kentuckian married a former Rand Paul staffer last month. Trump implied the marriage was hurting Massie's 2026 political prospects, claiming "polls" give Massie "less than an 8% chance" of being re-elected. ZeroHedge was unable to find a published poll that aligns with that characterization. Massie won his last three primaries handily, amassing more than 75% of the vote in each one.
That's SECOND- and THGR- level "argument": insulting people based on projection. Yanno, like SECOND calling others "liars" and THGR calling people "stupid trolls".
Hey, SECOND and THGR, how does it feel to be just like Trump?
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Not long after his Massie post, Trump dropped a nearly-300-word rant assailing "Wacky Marjorie," and announcing he was withdrawing his "support and endorsement" of Greene. Trump claimed that Greene's complaints about Trump's policies spring from when Trump sent her a poll "stating that she should not run" for governor or the Senate, adding that he's heard Greene is "upset that I don't return her phone calls anymore." The president said he stands ready to give the "right" Republican primary challenger of Greene his "Complete and Unyielding Support."
Greene quickly fired back with a lengthy post of her own, saying, "President Trump just attacked me and lied about me. I haven't called him at all." She said that, earlier on Friday, she'd sent Trump text messages urging him to "lean into" the release of the Epstein files, telling him that Bill Clinton appeared on Epstein's flight logs "like 26 times," and that "Epstein was the spider that wove the web of the deep state." Greene included screen shots of her text messages, and added:
"Of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next weeks vote to release the Epstein files. It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out t
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Trump is losing his mind over Epstein.
If I were in his shoes, I'd be thinking
"Hey, I was the one who started MAGA! I started an international nationalist movement! I suffered from the RUSSIA!RUSSIA! hoax, targeted persecution and prosecution, getting shot...!
It was a 12-year hard, existential struggle to get where I am today! I DESERVE credit! I deserve the Nobel Prize! Don't I get any leeway ?“
Problem is, when you paint yourself as savior, people come to expect it.
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Trump is losing his mind over Epstein.
I'm really hoping he just says...
"Fine! You want it now? Here it is! Everything. I was going to wait until the election and bury the fucking Democratic Party with it, but you ruined that plan. Way to go America."
He's not in it. If he were, the Democratic Party would have nailed him to a cross with it.
The only way he is in there and that didn't happen is if a lot of "important" Democrats were on it too and they didn't want to out themselves. If that's the case, this is a really stupid fucking thing for them to be doing right now, pushing for them to be released. They might just get what they want. And even if Trump is on it, all the people who were protecting Trump by protecting themselves are all going to be fed to the Public on a silver platter.
And since I don't trust either side at all, it wouldn't surprise me if a "full" release means that they'd throw Trump under the bus, but most of the Republicans who took place in the "festivities" would be protected while all of the Democrats who partook have their heads put on a pike.
It wouldn't surprise me none if that's the way it went down now.
Democrats are the definition of stupidity.
Their stratagy for decades now was to take full control of the media and the narrative, and boy did it really seem to be working for a while there. But they started believing all of their own bullshit when they saw all of their opinions constantly confirmed by the media who was in lock-step with every plan and agenda under the sun. And in their hubris, they allowed all of the smart ones with old-school experience to die off without teaching any of the young little shits anything about strategy. Democrats have no idea how to strategize or think about potentiality in 2025. They're simply incapable of it because they've spent the last 25 years or so believing they're right about everything and that they're the good guys (and that the good guys always win).
They're finished.
And if they Finish Trump with Epstein, this will go down in the books as the new textbook definition of a Pyrrhic victory. There will be no Democrat Party remaining to fight against JD Vance.
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Well Dems are playing a game, where they're trying to selectively hang Trump with Epstein and avoid being tarred with ACTUAL RELEASE.
Trump is calling for investigation of Dems like Bill Clinton, hoping to turn the tables with HIS selective release... without getting tarred at the same time.
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Well Dems are playing a game, where they're trying to selectively hang Trump with Epstein and avoid being tarred with ACTUAL RELEASE.
Yeah. And if he's guilty, he's playing this all wrong. If he's innocent, a lot of Democrats and Republicans might just end up fucking themselves by pushing this too far and he just decides to say fuck it call everyone's bluff and bury them all with it early, without bothering to make any attempt to shield any Republicans either. Majorie Taylor Green knows right now how giddy Trump gets talking about primarying Republicans who don't agree with him. How much do you think he'd enjoy burying any Republican who voted to release the files earlier than he was planning on it?
I'd say he should shut the fuck up about it, but then again, that wouldn't be at all like Trump behavior and I think that people on the Left would be using that against him too. "Why is Trump so quiet? Trump always has something to say about everything? Why the silence now? He must be a kid-fucker, otherwise he'd be denying it and calling us evil."
I'm just hoping that I'm right, because it's really the only way we're actually going to get any answers, EVER. If Trump isn't planning on releasing them, then it's going to be our great grandchildren receiving the unsealed files, EXTREMELY heavily redacted just like our so-called JFK dump that to my knowledge hasn't answered anybody's questions that they've been asking my entire life.
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Trump is losing his mind over Epstein.
I'm really hoping he just says...
"Fine! You want it now? Here it is! Everything. I was going to wait until the election and bury the fucking Democratic Party with it, but you ruined that plan. Way to go America."
He's not in it. If he were, the Democratic Party would have nailed him to a cross with it.
The only way he is in there and that didn't happen is if a lot of "important" Democrats were on it too and they didn't want to out themselves. If that's the case, this is a really stupid fucking thing for them to be doing right now, pushing for them to be released. They might just get what they want. And even if Trump is on it, all the people who were protecting Trump by protecting themselves are all going to be fed to the Public on a silver platter.
And since I don't trust either side at all, it wouldn't surprise me if a "full" release means that they'd throw Trump under the bus, but most of the Republicans who took place in the "festivities" would be protected while all of the Democrats who partook have their heads put on a pike.
It wouldn't surprise me none if that's the way it went down now.
Democrats are the definition of stupidity.
Their stratagy for decades now was to take full control of the media and the narrative, and boy did it really seem to be working for a while there. But they started believing all of their own bullshit when they saw all of their opinions constantly confirmed by the media who was in lock-step with every plan and agenda under the sun. And in their hubris, they allowed all of the smart ones with old-school experience to die off without teaching any of the young little shits anything about strategy. Democrats have no idea how to strategize or think about potentiality in 2025. They're simply incapable of it because they've spent the last 25 years or so believing they're right about everything and that they're the good guys (and that the good guys always win).
They're finished.
And if they Finish Trump with Epstein, this will go down in the books as the new textbook definition of a Pyrrhic victory. There will be no Democrat Party remaining to fight against JD Vance.
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Uh huh...
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115562626931599548
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As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat “Shutdown.” The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the Public on “Epstein,” are looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON’T CARE! All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT, which is the Economy, “Affordability” (where we are winning BIG!), our Victory on reducing Inflation from the highest level in History to practically nothing, bringing down prices for the American People, delivering Historic Tax Cuts, gaining Trillions of Dollars of Investment into America (A RECORD!), the rebuilding of our Military, securing our Border, deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens, ending Men in Women’s Sports, stopping Transgender for Everyone, and so much more! Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory. Some “members” of the Republican Party are being “used,” and we can’t let t
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I find it kind of humorous that he told the Fake News Media on Friday night that he told the Republicans in the House to vote to release the files and nobody here knew about it. Ted and Second were still calling him Pedophile in Chief and shit like that all weekend, still very obviously under the impression that Trump was fighting like a dog to hide this stuff when he'd told everyone on Friday night that he wants them released now.
I didn't even know about it until I saw the TruthSocial tweet linked on today's RCP homepage.
Hell... I fucking doubt anybody at RCP even knew about it until today since they didn't post any articles about it all weekend.
That's your fucking worthless media for ya.
Good riddance.
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Trump’s Nearly $2 Billion Postelection Windfall
Even though his campaign ended a year ago, the president hasn’t stopped fundraising.
By Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker | November 18, 2025, 6 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-fundraising-ballroo
m/684963/
On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke. The night before, he’d told a ballroom of supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida, that he had held his last political rally—“Can you believe it?”—and was ready to focus on governing. But his message to O’Rourke after the break of dawn was different. “I want you to keep going,” he told her.
Within weeks, that message had gone out to his Republican donors, as well as to Fortune 500 companies and billionaire investors who typically avoided electoral politics. Their first opportunity was his second inauguration committee, which would eventually raise $241 million, about $90 million more than organizers needed to fund the events—and nearly four times as much as Joe Biden had raised for his own inauguration, in 2021. But that was just the beginning.
Trump wanted money for the sorts of political operations that many politicians support—the Republican National Committee, his own political action committee, a new dark-money nonprofit group, a super PAC run by longtime advisers. But he was also requesting money for technically apolitical nonprofit causes that offered corporations and wealthy individuals a chance to make tax-deductible contributions, including a dramatic White House renovation, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (now under his control), his presidential library, and a celebratory Army parade on his birthday. By August, Trump estimated that he had collected at least $1.5 billion since the election, more than all the money raised to support his 2024 campaign over two years, including funds raised by supportive independent super PACs. The tally is now approaching $2 billion, two people familiar with the effort—who, like others, were not authorized to speak publicly—told us.
Read: ‘I run the country and the world.’ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/trump-second-term
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Trump has kept careful track of the money coming in, regularly calling O’Rourke late at night for updates. He monitors who is giving, who is not, and the role of lobbyists who bundle donations, those familiar with his efforts told us. At times, the actual donation amount is less important to the president than the percentage of the donor’s overall assets. He thanks the most generous benefactors at swanky events at the White House and his clubs.
Much of the money has come from people or entities that have business before the government. Defense contractors, cryptocurrency investors, and technology companies have put in tens of millions of dollars as he has deregulated the industry or dropped enforcement proceedings. A select group of companies and executives—Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Coinbase, Palantir CEO Alex Karp—are top donors to multiple Trump projects.
Nothing on this scale was ever attempted by a sitting president prior to Trump. Other recent administrations have faced their own scandals over fundraising efforts. But Trump’s approach—in the extent of the donations he’s soliciting, the secrecy with which some are handled, and the frankness of the exchange of dollars for presidential favor—puts even the most ambitious prior efforts to shame. And he’s just getting started. “He hasn’t stopped,” a third person told us, “and I don’t anticipate that we will stop.”
Trump’s relentless fundraising has alarmed ethics watchdogs who have worked for years to reduce the role of large donations in buying access or protection from government regulation.
“While it is not unusual for lame duck presidents to fundraise for their Libraries, what we are seeing from President Trump in his first year of office is shockingly unprecedented,” Trevor Potter
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Gunboat Diplomacy Returns: US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuela
President Trump confirmed to Bloomberg that U.S. forces intercepted and seized a tanker near Venezuela's coast, saying further information will be provided soon.
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Gunboat diplomacy was on full display Wednesday afternoon after Bloomberg reported that U.S. forces intercepted and seized a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This move underscores the Trump administration's Monroe-2.0 posturing as Washington seeks to reassert control over the Western Hemisphere after years of neglect.
Bloomberg cited sources who did not disclose the tanker's name or the general area where U.S. military forces seized the vessel.
The move here is a foreign policy tactic known as gunboat diplomacy. It's where the U.S. military has stationed warships, jets, bombers, and troops that are to push the Maduro regime into complying with U.S. demands.[/wuote]
WTF are we doing in Venezuela???
Maduro already offered full access to US oil companies.
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After the speech, at 9:00 on Tuesday night, Trump’s social media account posted:
“There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an ‘aura’ around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks—Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to ‘ace’ this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am ‘slowing up,’ am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am ‘slowing up,’ but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.’ They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful ‘source’ of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Trump’s performance seems unlikely to reassure Americans that he is prioritizing their economic concerns.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-11-2025
Three cognitive examinations recently? The wheels are really coming off the bus now.
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:
Three cognitive examinations recently? The wheels are really coming off the bus now.
He's done 3 since the first time he was elected. Nearly 10 years ago now.
Stupid.
Your brain damaged meat puppet of a president wouldn't do one, and your goddamned propaganda machine media pretended he was just a-okay until that debate when the world finally got to see all of your lies, up close and personal, for the very first time.
And ever since then, your media has died along with your irrelevant party.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
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After Venezuela Assault, Trump and Rubio Warn Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia Could Be Next
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-rubio-cuba-mexico
Can the ‘Donroe doctrine’ really change Venezuela?
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/01/can-the-donroe-doctrine-really-ch
ange-venezuela/
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US contractor sent Gaza plan to White House that would secure 300% profits - The draft plan from Gothams LLC would allow it to collect a fee for every truck moving goods into Gaza, and charge for the use of its warehousing and distribution system.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/02/contractor-gaza-profits-
white-house-gothams
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more wars in the sandbox?
Trump’s “Board of Peace”: Aggrandizing Theater and the Impunity of Genocide
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/23/trumps-board-of-peace-aggrandi
zing-theater-and-the-impunity-of-genocide/
Trump predicts more U.S. casualties as Iran operations will "continue until all of our objectives are achieved"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-video-address-iran-israel-combat-op
erations-continue-until-objectives-achieved/
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US has destroyed only a third of Iran’s missiles, intelligence suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/28/us-destroyed-third-iran-
missiles-intelligence-suggests-trump
CPAC Host Stunned as Crowd Erupts in Cheers for Trump Impeachment
https://newrepublic.com/post/208293/cpac-attendees-confused-cheer-trum
p-impeachment
House Republican says Lindsey Graham ‘should have his Oval Office credentials revoked’
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/03/26/house-republican-says-lindsey-
graham-should-have-his-oval-office-credentials-revoked-1629425/
Using US ground troops against Iran could prove very costly, retired generals say
https://abcnews.com/Politics/us-ground-troops-iran-prove-costly-former
-generals/
Palantir wants to take over the world!
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/palantir-new-age-empire
GOP Rep. unloads on Lindsey Graham: Don’t treat U.S. troops like ‘expendable cattle’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gop-rep-unloads-lindsey-graham-142
157992.html
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“Complete pandemonium”
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Japan watching 'with concern' U.S. campaign to disable ICC
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-watching-with-concern-u
.s.-campaign-to-disable-icc-gov't-spokesman
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the war with Iran, its turning into a 'shitshow' as they say
when there was some pressure with Bush senior and Clinton, Iraq and a no fly zone, there were lots and lots of Troops on the ground with Bush junior, ground forces in Iraq and Afghanistan more pressure could have been used, years upon years, decades later Afghanistan falls to the Taliban there are still some bases in the Middle East...with Afghanistan gone that ground pressure vanished
Palestinian terrorists attack Israel so Israel goes overkill on Gaza, strikes expand to Lebanon, Syria, Yemen wants to get involved, in 2024 the Iran–Israel proxy conflict escalated to a series of direct confrontations between the two countries Israel bombed an Iranian consulate complex in Damascus, Syria, killing multiple senior Iranian officials....Israel says 99% of drones and missiles launched by Iran were intercepted...Biden mostly ignored this continued sleeping, maybe he phoned Jordan to give support but he gave the Middle East zero respect.
However Trump wins 2024 vs Kamala and its a new President January
and then suddenly Israel and Iran take shots at each other 2025 United States joins in to bail Israelis out and lands strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
if Trump had walked away at this moment and did not get suckered into a new war, he could have been a good President but its all heading to failure now
somehow they get into government and Trump has become an Israeli puppet
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you are watching a stageshow?
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think the constant consolidation of power into fewer and fewer hands have had a lot to do with the reason that we're never going to have good leadership.
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