Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I am around Trumptards all week long, and all of those Trumptards have irretrievably fucked up their lives while none of them will acknowledge what they did to themselves.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are just explaining your own very behavior and trying to convince that everyone else behaves the way that you do.
Oh. We know you are and we know they did.
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How many people from the first Trump administration are working in the second?
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+from+the+first+Trump+a
dministration+are+working+in+the+second
Summarizing the AI results: only the nuttiest fruitcakes came back for a second Trump administration. Only loyalty to Trump is necessary. Competence is disqualifying.
Trump was careful to be sure that he didn't have a V.P. like Mike Pence, who knew what the words indecent, insane, and unconstitutional mean.
He nominated or appointed 23 former Fox News employees to his administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_cabinet_of_Donald_Trump
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Redstopgringo:
“Are Pinky and the Brain still trying to take over the world? Because at this point, I'm willing to hear the Brain's platform.”
the-other-sandy:
“At this point, I'm willing to hear Pinky's platform.”
DownvotesStarWars:
“A sentient turkey sandwich would make better decisions than Trump.”
https://imgur.com/gallery/sentient-turkey-sandwich-would-make-better-d
ecisions-baIgF3J
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Most Unpopular President in History is Losing His Coalition
Morris: I wrote a couple of data driven takeaways—well not a couple, seven of them—on the Substack which I can reference. Then I’ll also mention a couple things from the new data analysis. For the readers, we’re recording this on Thursday. So there’s been about a day to catch up on sleep and digest the findings.
The big thing is unsurprising, but it really bears repeating. This is an electoral repudiation of Donald Trump and an electoral verdict on his unpopularity. I have appeared on your interview show a couple of times now to say essentially that the polls show he’s the most unpopular president ever, save himself in his first term. Trump’s policy agenda is also one of the most unpopular policy agendas in American presidential history, at least since we have surveys, since 1936. In that context, it’s rather unsurprising that Democrats did so well in Tuesday’s elections. They swept all of the statewide races in Virginia, all of the New Jersey races, they picked up two utility offices in Georgia, a red state—or a purple state if you’re very optimistic there as a Democrat—which is surprising. In Pennsylvania, they hold like three partisan justices and they win a lower court race as well as statewide.
In that context, it’s rather unsurprising, but it does affirm what we’ve been seeing in other data, which as good Bayesians, is always important to us. It also gives hard data to members of Congress that might want to fight Trump on things like his tariffs, or immigration, which is very unpopular, either from the right or from the left. It gives them something to point to that’s not just survey data, which is increasingly poo-pooed in Congress, as we might say.
So that’s my big takeaway. There are some smaller things which I’ll mention now. The first is it’s not just that Trump lost, it’s that he lost with voters that he supposedly had a realignment with in 2024. This is Latinos and Generation Z voters in particular. He loses with voters who say the economy is very important to them, which is the single constituency that likely propelled him to victory in 2024 in the first place. So in my article I’m putting out on Friday, I’m going to characterize this as: Trump’s losing his winning coalition; because I think that’s really what’s going on here.
The voters that put him in the White House because they wanted lower prices have said, “he’s not holding up his end of the bargain.” He’s not lowering prices. The supposed Republican ideological gains among Latinos in Generation Z who have tended to lean to the left and who, by the way, still voted for Kamala Harris despite lower margins than they did previously has evidently, evaporated. That’s really worth digesting as well.
Krugman: At one level of dispute we’ve had Trump himself insisting week after week that the polls are fake and that he’s extremely popular. And it’s basically you can argue until you’re blue in the face that “polling, it’s not a perfect science, but it’s meaningful.”
But there’s nothing quite like actual elections to settle that dispute. This sort of says that the polling saying that he’s unpopular and his policies are unpopular is right.
More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/after-the-dem-sweep-talking-with
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He's not even close to the most unpopular President in history.
If you're going to continue saying stupid shit like that, then nobody is going to take you seriously.
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Quote:Trump is very popular with people who are fucked up in the head, but not so much with Americans who have a useful purpose in life and are functioning normally.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He's not even close to the most unpopular President in history.
If you're going to continue saying stupid shit like that, then nobody is going to take you seriously.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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DOJ Had Its First Big Hearing in a “Trump Enemy’’ Prosecution. The Judge Was Not Pleased.
Let’s recall why Comey made it to the top of Trump’s enemies list.
By Austin Sarat | Nov 08, 2025 10:00 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/doj-comey-hearing-trump-en
emies-list-judge.html
In the world of sports, there is an old maxim that captures the essence of competitive athletics: “Play the ball, not the person.” Play the ball, focus on the competition itself, honor the game, and don’t try to humiliate or hate your opponent.
This is one of the many lessons that our current president appears never to have learned or accepted. President Trump is the classic “play the person” kind of leader. He seems to take pleasure in making everything personal.
His approach does great damage to our culture and politics. It is also deeply destructive of our legal system.
The president doesn’t hide his everything-is-personal approach. In fact, he wants the American public to know who his enemies are and to understand his embrace of an “all’s fair in love and war” political ethos.
That’s why he has been clear about his desire to see people like John Bolton, Letitia James, and James Comey prosecuted. It will now be up to judges handling those cases to push back against the president’s weaponization of the Justice Department.
On Wednesday, Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick, who is handling the preliminary phases of the Comey case, was the first up, and he gave a master class in judicial pushback. As the New York Times reports, he “repeatedly expressed his frustration—and at times his barely restrained annoyance—with [the federal prosecutor] during an otherwise procedural hearing in which he ordered the Justice Department to produce records from its investigation.”
Before saying more about Fitzpatrick’s pushback, let’s recall why Comey made it to the top of Trump’s enemies list.
Nine years ago, during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, no one would have predicted Trump’s vendetta against the former FBI director. In fact, but for Comey, Trump might not have ever been elected. ABC News notes: Comey announced in October 2016—less than two weeks before the presidential election—that the FBI was going to investigate Clinton’s private email server, months after federal investigators said it would not recommend charges. Trump praised the decision.
At the time, Trump said, “I have respect that the FBI has given it a second chance.”
The tone changed two days before the election, when Comey announced that he was not going to bring charges against Clinton. Never one to be bothered with evidence or the lack of it, Trump insisted, “Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know it.”
Things really went south in early 2017 when the president made it clear that he wanted the FBI director to pledge his loyalty, and when Comey demurred.
In March 2017, Comey got in more hot water when he went public with the fact that the FBI had been investigating suspected Russian interference during the 2016 election. Two months later, Trump claimed that “FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!”
In early May of that year, Trump took the unusual step of firing the FBI director. It turned out that this was after an aggressive campaign by Trump to push Comey into dropping an investigation of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. Flynn would eventually be convicted and then pardoned for lying to federal investigators as part of that investigation into Russia’s election interference.
Almost a year later, Comey got a measure of revenge when he told an interviewer that the president was “morally unfit to be president.” He cited in particular his response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville,” Comey explained, “who talks about and treats women like they’re pi
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump is very popular with people who are fucked up in the head, but not so much with Americans who have a useful purpose in life and are functioning normally.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He's not even close to the most unpopular President in history.
If you're going to continue saying stupid shit like that, then nobody is going to take you seriously.
Throw out all the insults you want, it doesn't change the fact that your article is lying to you.
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Quote:Who are you kidding? Only yourself. You believe Trump isn't unpopular because Trump is validating your life as purposeful rather than wasted.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Throw out all the insults you want, it doesn't change the fact that your article is lying to you.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Who are you kidding? Only yourself. You believe Trump isn't unpopular because Trump is validating your life as purposeful rather than wasted.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Throw out all the insults you want, it doesn't change the fact that your article is lying to you.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.
Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.
You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.
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Quote:6ix and Trumptards in general need a bullet in the back of their heads to fix what is wrong with them: On constitutional matters of war powers and tariffs, Republican lawmakers have abandoned the field to Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.
Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.
You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.
By Rachel Oswald | November 7, 2025, 5:42 PM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/congress-war-powers-tariffs-trump
-republicans-venezuela-boat-strikes/
As U.S. President Donald Trump pushes the boundaries of executive power in the matters of trade and military action further and further, Congress’s conspicuous absence in pushing back against the president’s bold usurpation of authorities that the U.S. Constitution explicitly delegates to the legislative branch has become all the more glaring.
Recent votes in the Senate have highlighted just how far afield the Republican Party has traveled from its own previous long-standing stances in support of free trade. On other key votes in recent days on the permissibility of the Trump administration’s expanding regional maritime strikes on alleged drug-running vessels and the legality of any military action against the Venezuelan government, Republican lawmakers have overwhelmingly accepted the administration’s assertions that it is targeting “narco-terrorists” and have declined to preemptively put limitations on a potential effort to overthrow the Nicolás Maduro regime.
The Senate held votes last week on three separate measures to end a series of tariffs that Trump imposed this year, including his sweeping global tariffs; tariffs on Canada that the White House controversially justified by claiming a national fentanyl emergency existed on the northern border; and tariffs on Brazil that the president said were a response to the Brazilian Supreme Court’s criminal case against Trump ally and former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of attempting a coup after his 2022 election loss.
Though each of the resolutions narrowly passed the Senate after a couple of Republicans crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats, the measures face steep procedural hurdles in the House, where Republican leaders have more tools to preemptively block them from being voted on.
“I think we’ve seen probably for the last half-century an ebbing of congressional authority to the executive,” said Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff, a lead sponsor of two recently rejected war powers resolutions related to the military’s maritime attacks on alleged drug smugglers and the growing U.S. naval buildup near Venezuela.
“You could probably add up the sum total of that accretion of executive power in the last several decades, and it will be less than what’s happened in the last several months. Congress needs to reinsert itself, its control over the power of the purse and certainly its war power,” Schiff added.
With Congress under full Republican control and largely absenting itself from imposing any meaningful check on Trump, it will be likely the Supreme Court that acts first on the tariffs question. During oral arguments in a case before the high court this week, a majority of justices sounded skeptical about the administration’s contention that it has essentially unfettered powers to interfere with the U.S. economy through the mercurial imposition of tariffs.
“The legal basis for Trump’s use of tariffs is extremely weak,” said Jordan Tama, a professor at American University who specializes in congressional oversight of U.S. foreign policy. “The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which the Trump administration has cited as the basis for the tariffs, authorizes the use of sanctions in the event of a national emergency that [constitutes] an unusual and extraordinary threat.”
Tama argued that long-running trade deficits could hardly be viewed as unusual under the
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The Trump admin is so much better with internal policy!
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Brennan, Page, & Strzok Hit Today With Russiagate Grand Jury Subpoenas, Up To 30 More Pending
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brennan-page-strzok-hit-today-russ
iagate-grand-jury-subpoenas-30-more-pending
So well deserved!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Fuck you to death, Signym:
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The Trump admin is so much better with internal policy!
"A death sentence"
November 9, 2025 9:22 AM EST
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/promising-clinical-trials-in-alzheimers-p
revention/
Jake Heinrichs is an electrician who carries one of the early-onset genes. The disease claimed his grandmother, uncle, father and brother, all within the same age range. "Symptoms in the 40s and, and dying in 50s," he said.
For Heinrichs growing up, the word Alzheimer's was "a death sentence."
He started getting treatment in Bateman's study in 2013. Though he's definitely getting an antibody called lecanemab now, for the first seven years, he did not know if he was receiving an antibody or placebo. "I was at an age where I should have been showing signs," Heinrichs said, "and I am now at an age that I should probably not even be alive."
His wife, Rachel Chavkin, says over the past three years, he will occasionally repeat a question, but otherwise has shown no cognitive decline since she fell in love with him twenty years ago. "Jake is now 51, which is the age that his father was when he died," she said.
The Trump administration's budget cuts have stopped or delayed millions of dollars in Alzheimer's research. The situation has already had an impact on Bateman's trials. "It's a precarious time," he said. "Research is not like building a building or painting a wall where you can start and then stop for a few years and then go back and resume what you were doing. It's much more like feeding a baby … if you stop doing that for a few weeks, it's irrecoverable."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Fuck off, Second.
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The first clinical trials were funded by the two pharmas, Eisai and Biogen, that first produced lecanemab, a monoclonal antibody. (Any treatment ending in "mab" is a Monoclonal AntiBody.)
FDA approved lecanemab in 2023.
Heinrichs is no longer in a clinical trial, he's being treated with an FDA-approved medicine.
Don't you like the way CBS news twisted their reporting?
Quote:But not on Heinrich's treatment
We started getting treatment in Bateman's study in 2013. Though he's definitely getting an antibody called lecanemab now, for the first seven years, he did not know if he was receiving an antibody or placebo. "I was at an age where I should have been showing signs," Heinrichs said, "and I am now at an age that I should probably not even be alive."
His wife is Broadway director Rachel Chavkin. She says over the past three years, he will occasionally repeat a question, but otherwise has shown no cognitive decline since she fell in love with him twenty years ago. "Jake is now 51, which is the age that his father was when he died," she said.
The Trump administration's budget cuts have stopped or delayed millions of dollars in Alzheimer's research. The situation has already had an impact on Bateman's trials.
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"It's a precarious time," he said. "Research is not like building a building or painting a wall where you can start and then stop for a few years and then go back and resume what you were doing. It's much more like feeding a baby … if you stop doing that for a few weeks, it's irrecoverable."
The NIH IS funding research on leqanemab, but it's on people in different stages and with garden-variety Alzheimer's.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix and Trumptards in general need a bullet in the back of their heads to fix what is wrong with them:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.
Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.
You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.
Any other platform in the world and Second would have been gone a long time ago.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix and Trumptards in general need a bullet in the back of their heads to fix what is wrong with them:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.
Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.
You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.
Any other platform in the world and Second would have been gone a long time ago.
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No kidding.
He must be feeling extra butt-hurt today. Did you see his response to me?
Maybe he's been slipping cogs lately and is desperate for Alzheimer's research.
Maybe he's upset by Ukraine's defeat in Pokrovsk.
Maybe he lost $$$ on a bad investment.
Hey SECOND, I have an idea: If you're that concerned about Alzheimer's research, why don't you take that fabulous wealth of yours and kick some in? Yanno, follow Gates' example?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...
That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.
Personally, I think he's drinking now.
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Trump Urges GOP To Redirect "Democrat-Supported Insurance" Funds Directly To The American People
On Friday, the president posted on X that the insurance-industrial complex, aligned with the Democrats, has seen stock gains soar between 400% and nearly 1,200% since Obamacare was introduced. Meanwhile, the promise of lower healthcare costs under the ACA turned out to be an illusion, as Democrats pushed toward socialized healthcare while serving corporate interests first, not working-class families.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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It's exactly what happened when car insurance was mandated, and especially after technology got to the point that the government could easily deny you the sale of your yearly car registration if you couldn't prove you had insurance. Prices went through the roof and have continued to balloon out of control. You know all about that being in the first state where many of the homeowners insurance companies closed shop because it's just simply too expensive to insure people in California anymore.
I've said it 100 times before. Prices for healthcare would never have gotten anywhere near as high as they have if insurance was never a factor. You can simply look to how "relatively" cheap it is to go get glasses or have your teeth worked on compared to anything that takes place in a hospital and/or doctor's office. In most cases, Dentists and Optometrists have to charge what people can afford.
Government and Insurance cannot co-exist.
If the Government is going to ever fix healthcare, the only way for it to do that is to make major sweeping laws banning insurance and forcing hospitals and drug companies to charge reasonable rates for their goods and services. Short of that, the only way they're going to do it is if Government completely absorbs and takes over healthcare. But I sure as shit don't trust them to do it any better than it's being done now.
I hate to sound like a fucking communist, but when it comes to healthcare there shouldn't be trillionaire companies and billionaire CEOs. There shouldn't be any fucking profit in it except for money going back into R&D, and a reasonable salary being paid to the people doing the actual work.
And don't give me any of that bullshit about nobody would do that work without a profit motive. Of course the researchers and developers would be getting paid a reasonable wage for their work. But on top of that, they LOVE doing this work. A lot of them hung around college a lot longer than they needed to so they could continue to do this kind of work with the college grant backing while still eating Ramen noodles on their stipend.
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And really, at the end of the day, the entire stock market is what really needs to go.
That's what sucked all of the wealth out of the working man.
If you want to know why half the country can't find 40hr per week jobs with health insurance, it's because the money they should be getting paid is getting paid out to investors who aren't doing fuck all instead.
And they give all of you juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust enough of a taste where you all have a vested interest in seeing those numbers grow as your wallet grows threadbare. All for promises of a future that very well might not work out the way the "experts" have predicted your retirement would go if you did the right thing.
Hyperbolic? Perhaps. But it's not as if seniors haven't been worried about their retirement funds in retirement for going on 20 years now. Yeah... We've had some good times and things have more or less worked out so far for anybody who didn't panic sell in the bad times and screw themselves, but with $38 Trillion in debt and things getting worse economically every presidential cycle that passes, why should anybody in their mid-40's believe that all the money they put in a 401k is going to be worth anything in 20 years?
In my mind, the 401k is just another tool they use to instill fear and manipulate behavior on a mass scale.
To the young who could afford it but would have to make a choice, buy the house. Don't put off buying a house so you can fund your 401k. If some international travesty occurs in the future where the USD gets undermined by a foreign currency or a digital currency, the house and the land under it are going to be worth something tangible when those old US notes you're banking online might not buy you toilet paper.
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Why didn't Trump do this mass pardon in January? What next? Pardons for Ghislaine Maxwell when the time is right? Pardons for Prince Andrew and pedophiles in general? Pardons for all wealthy tax cheaters? Charles Kushner, the father of Ivanka Trump's husband Jared Kushner, was pardoned by Donald Trump in December 2020. He had pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Kushner is now the ambassador to France because why not make a criminal an ambassador?
GRANTING PARDONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATED TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION
This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation.
Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election.
This includes, but is not limited to:
• Mark Amick
• Kathy Berden
• Christina Bobb
• Tyler Bowyer
• Joseph Brannan
• Carol Brunner
• Mary Buestrin
• Darryl Carlson
• James "Ken" Carroll
• Brad Carver
• Robert Cheeley
• Kenneth Chesebro
• Hank Choate
• Jeffrey Clark
• Vikki Consiglio
• Nancy Cottle
• James DeGraffenreid
• John Downey
• John Eastman
• Jenna Ellis
• Boris Epshteyn
• Amy Facchinello
• Bill Feehan
• Carolyn Fisher
• Harrison Floyd
• Clifford Frost
• Kay Godwin
• Edward Scott Grabins
• Stanley Grot
• Rudolph Giuliani
• John Haggard
• Scott Hall
• Misty Hampton
• David G. Hanna
• Mark Hennessy
• Mari-Ann Henry
• Durward James Hindle III
• Andrew Hitt
• Jake Hoffman
• Burt Jones
• Anthony T. Kern
• Kathy Kiernen
• Timothy King
• Trevian Kutti
• James Lamon
• Cathleen Latham
• Jesse Law
• Stephen Lee
• Michele Lundgren
• Meshawn Maddock
• Michael McDonald
• Mark Meadows
• Shawn Meehan
• Robert Montgomery
• Daryl Moody
• Samuel I. Moorhead
• Loraine Pellegrino
• Sidney Powell
• James Renner
• Eileen Rice
• Mayra Rodriguez
• Mike Roman
• Rose Rook
• Kelly Ruh
• Greg Safsten
• David Shafer
• Marian Sheridan
• Ray Stallings Smith III
• Robert F. Spindell Jr.
• Shawn Still
• Ken Thompson
• Pam Travis
• James Troupis
• Kent Vanderwood
• Kelli Ward
• Michael Ward
• C.B. Yadav
This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
The Attorney General, acting through the Pardon Attorney, shall administer and effectuate the issuance of certificates of pardon to eligible applicants.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
9:54 PM · Nov 9, 2025
https://x.com/EagleEdMartin/status/1987730498374828252
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Trumptards find the concept of setting things right with insurance after doing wrong (in a car accident for example) as anathema. Trumptards also don't understand the concept of unacceptable risk. Building wooden houses in a forest doesn't seem like a fire risk to them. Building on a steep slope in an earthquake zone doesn't seem like a building collapse risk to Trumptard, but insurance companies see that those unacknowledged risks will bankrupt the insurance company.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's exactly what happened when car insurance was mandated, and especially after technology got to the point that the government could easily deny you the sale of your yearly car registration if you couldn't prove you had insurance. Prices went through the roof and have continued to balloon out of control. You know all about that being in the first state where many of the homeowners insurance companies closed shop because it's just simply too expensive to insure people in California anymore.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:It never crosses the mind of Russians or people like Signym and Trump that they are completely fucked up in the head. When Russian soldiers get shot by Ukrainians, for example, the Russian population blames Ukrainians for being easily offended rather than Russians realizing the soldiers deserved to be killed for what they are doing, saying, acting, and being. It is like in the movie Noah, where none of the evil people were even slightly aware that they were fucked up in the head and God would drown them without asking permission from the evil people for killing them. The evil people had used up all of God's infinite patience and understanding, leaving nothing but the Wrath of God, which the evil people in the movie found completely incomprehensible. The attitude of evil people is: "What? Me do something wrong? It's not me, it's God did something wrong to me." Evil people never understand why they deserve to die, whether in Noah's Flood or in America or Russia. That inability to see what a crazy asshole Trump is explains why Trumptards act the way they do and suffer for it the way Trump never will because he is rich.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...
That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.
Personally, I think he's drinking now.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It never crosses the mind of Russians or people like Signym and Trump that they are completely fucked up in the head.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...
That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.
Personally, I think he's drinking now.
Don't forget me!
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Yanno... the most offensive part of your stupidity, Second, is how you take every single person you've ever had a disagreement with and threw them all in a trash bin called "Trumptard". Every one of them are all the same to you.
I know that Democrat voters vote Democrat for an extremely wide variety of reasons. They're all buying one lie or another.
It's not any of those at the bottom that I begrudge. Those that believe they're better off voting the way they do when their back is always against the wall and they can't save a nickle. They vote Democrat out of desperation, ignorance of the issues, and a high propensity to buy somebody's bullshit because of how bad they've got it.
It's you rich and rich wannabe liberal white people I've got a problem with. The ones running the shit. The cult recruiters and the cult leaders that are always getting the desperate to vote against their own long-term self-interests for short-term gains.
Ya'all can go fuck yourselves.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It never crosses the mind of Russians or people like Signym and Trump that they are completely fucked up in the head. When Russian soldiers get shot by Ukrainians, for example, the Russian population blames Ukrainians for being easily offended rather than Russians realizing the soldiers deserved to be killed for what they are doing, saying, acting, and being. It is like in the movie Noah, where none of the evil people were even slightly aware that they were fucked up in the head and God would drown them without asking permission from the evil people for killing them. The evil people had used up all of God's infinite patience and understanding, leaving nothing but the Wrath of God, which the evil people in the movie found completely incomprehensible. The attitude of evil people is: "What? Me do something wrong? It's not me, it's God did something wrong to me." Evil people never understand why they deserve to die, whether in Noah's Flood or in America or Russia. That inability to see what a crazy asshole Trump is explains why Trumptards act the way they do and suffer for it the way Trump never will because he is rich.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...
That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.
Personally, I think he's drinking now.
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SECOND, you're making even less sense than usual.
You posted something about using up God's infinite patience.
BUT If patience was infinite, it couldn't be used up, could it?
Something has seriously gone wrong in your world.
Did you get bad news from your doctor?
That WOULD put kink in your plan to live forever, wouldn't it?
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Quote:My "values" don't closely match the Democratic party. For example, I am for guns and for the death penalty, but those are not widely held valuable beliefs among the Democrats, and yet I have never in my life felt, known, detected, seen anything that strikes me as crazy, sick, mentally defective, evil, or poisonous about any Democrat. There are some silly Democrats, but nothing about them is seriously objectionable. I never get the feeling that a Democrat even needs to be yelled at or punched in the face, and certainly never that America is being harmed by a Democrat who doesn't share my so-called "values".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yanno... the most offensive part of your stupidity, Second, is how you take every single person you've ever had a disagreement with and threw them all in a trash bin called "Trumptard". Every one of them are all the same to you.
I know that Democrat voters vote Democrat for an extremely wide variety of reasons. They're all buying one lie or another.
It's not any of those at the bottom that I begrudge. Those that believe they're better off voting the way they do when their back is always against the wall and they can't save a nickle. They vote Democrat out of desperation, ignorance of the issues, and a high propensity to buy somebody's bullshit because of how bad they've got it.
It's you rich and rich wannabe liberal white people I've got a problem with. The ones running the shit. The cult recruiters and the cult leaders that are always getting the desperate to vote against their own long-term self-interests for short-term gains.
Ya'all can go fuck yourselves.
On the other hand, every fucking Trumptard I have gotten downwind from smells like they are not human. The stink of decay and evil surrounds all the Trumptards that I have gotten close enough to catch their rotten scent. My opinion about Trumptards is not shared by any Democrats I know. Democrats still think, despite all evidence accumulated over decades, that evil people can be persuaded with words to behave better. I don't think Trumptards get better; they only get rottener with time, like unrefrigerated meat.
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Quote:Signym, you support Russia. Your signature means the opposite of what Kissinger meant because you clipped out words. There is nothing I hate more than a goddamn lying sack of shit like you who makes fake facts, and can't or won't understand their own lies. Signym, you have never understood what is wrong with your signature. Never, because you are completely fucked up in the head, from the very first time I read anything you wrote. You ooze fuckedup-ness.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you're making even less sense than usual.
You posted something about using up God's infinite patience.
BUT If patience was infinite, it couldn't be used up, could it?
Something has seriously gone wrong in your world.
Did you get bad news from your doctor?
That WOULD put kink in your plan to live forever, wouldn't it?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger did use a version of the phrase, but it was a specific internal warning taken out of context, not a general public statement of his own opinion. The full quote, from a private phone call to William F. Buckley Jr. in November 1968, before Nixon's inauguration, was:
"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if [South Vietnamese President] Thieu meets the same fate as [his predecessor] Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
Context and Meaning:
Kissinger was warning against abandoning allies, not stating his belief that being a U.S. friend was inherently a bad idea.
He argued that the U.S. needed to protect its allies (specifically Thieu) to maintain its international credibility and prevent the perception that aligning with America led to ruin.
The widely circulated, truncated version of the quote "To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal" reverses his original intent.
So, while he said the words, they were part of a conditional statement about the perception of U.S. reliability, and not the definitive, cynical epigram it is often portrayed as.
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Trump is pushing us toward a financial crash. It could be 1929 all over again
By William A. Birdthistle | November 9, 2025
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/11/09/trump-is-pushing-us-toward
-a-financial-crash-it-could-be-1929-all-over-again/
President Trump’s Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, set to the theme of “The Great Gatsby,” re-enacted the decadence of that story’s licentious era: befeathered flappers shimmying in the crowd; gilded and onyx décor; scantily clad women posing in an enormous champagne coupe. The revelatory moment says so much about where we stand today — and what we could be lurching into next.
Published a century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” captured the culture of an overheated economy on the brink of demise. Just as Jay Gatsby fell from the height of fortune to an ignominious death, the 1920s roared with financial overindulgence until the markets drowned in the Wall Street crash of 1929. The Great Depression followed, and the consequences for the global economy proved calamitous.
Today we find ourselves again dancing toward new highs in the stock market. Speculative money is once more pouring into risky investment schemes, with staggering sums of money being thrown at artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies. But rather than heed a century of hard-won lessons, the Trump administration’s financial regulators are embracing dissolute policies to keep the punch flowing.
The financial excesses of 100 years ago teach us how high the costs of negligent oversight of our markets can be. When sentinels sleep, fraudsters flourish; their frenzied celebration of unreal profits pumps froth into the market; ultimately, with panic and pain, bubbles will burst. As stages of that cycle are recurring, we must decide whether to intervene now — or to mop up the mess later.
The parallels between the 1920s and the 2020s are numerous — and ominous. The 1920s economy boomed while America recovered from a deadly pandemic, the flu of 1918. Americans used installment plans — the precursor to today’s ubiquitous “buy now, pay later” plans at online checkouts — to spend liberally on consumer products, and they poured money into speculative new investments. Automobile and telephone stocks were the high-flying tech investments of their day; Tesla and Apple are two of ours.
The prevailing interest rate was around 5 percent, as it is today. And as with today, masses of Americans took advantage of easy credit and ubiquitous stock brokerages to speculate in finance. In 1929, a New York Times editor quoted a major newspaper’s financial expert who said that the “huge army that daily gambles in the stock market” had come to include, in the editor’s words, “the woman nonprofessional speculator,” whose share of market trading grew by one estimate from less than 2 percent to 35 percent. That influx of buying from 1919 to 1929 drove the stock market up more than sixfold over the decade — a growth rate our market has actually surpassed over the past three years.
Nick Carraway, the narrator of “The Great Gatsby,” was a bond salesman. Today he might work for a crypto exchange or Robinhood, the popular app that allows neophytes to bet on financial options like a game on their smartphones. Robinhood makes a good deal of money from the interest its users pay to borrow money to buy yet more investments. Investing on margin, as this practice is known, was a major source of the surge that drove markets to perilous heights in the 1920s. And when stocks began to fall, margin calls — the demands for loans to be repaid by selling the stocks, if necessary — were a major accelerant of the crash.
In the ’20s, America did not have any federal securities regulators, offering irresistible temptations to charlatans.
It was the era of Charles Ponzi, whose last name became synonymous with the classic pyramid scheme in which outlandish returns are delivered only by pilfering the funds of new investors. Today’s analogous innovation is
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Trump Admin Signals It May Not Pay Furloughed Workers After Shutdown Ends
A 2019 statute signed into law by Trump himself requires furloughed workers to be compensated when shutdowns end.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-signals-it-may-not-pay-furlo
ughed-workers-after-shutdown-ends/
But today Trump has a very contradictory understanding of the law he signed because he is a fucking evil dumb ass who cannot read a pretty simple law correctly. But isn’t that typical of all Trumptards? Accuracy about simple ideas is far beyond them, and yet they inevitably pretend to understand what they actually don’t. It is not surprising how much trouble that trait will constantly cause for ordinary Trumptards. Nor is it surprising how stubborn Trumptards are about not correcting their misconceptions:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!! Anyone who doesn't will be substantially "docked." For those Air Traffic Controllers who were GREAT PATRIOTS, and didn't take ANY TIME OFF for the "Democrat Shutdown Hoax," I will be recommending a BONUS of $10,000 per person for distinguished service to our Country. For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn't step up to help the U.S.A, against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK that was only meant to hurt our Country. You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record. If you want to leave service in the near future, please do not hesitate to do so, with NO payment or severance of any kind! You will be quickly replaced by true Patriots, who will do a better job on the Brand New State of the Art Equipment, the best in the World, that we are in the process of ordering. The last "Administration" wasted Billions of Dollars trying to fix antiquated "junk." They had no idea what they were doing! Again, to our great American Patriots, GOD BLESS YOU - I won't be able to send your money fast enough! To all others, REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY. GOD BLESS AMERICA! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Nov 10, 2025, 9:32 AM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115526123205979749
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Today we find ourselves again dancing toward new highs in the stock market. Speculative money is once more pouring into risky investment schemes, with staggering sums of money being thrown at artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies. But rather than heed a century of hard-won lessons, the Trump administration’s financial regulators are embracing dissolute policies to keep the punch flowing.
The invisible tottering tower, bigger than the stock markets (altho those are scary enough) is the hedge fund tower, which is AFAIK completely unregulated. Both ends of a hedge are bought on money borrowed from investment banks. As long as both ends of a hedge don't collapse, all is well. But if one does something unexpected, then all of that borrowed money comes due and the speculator has to liquidate catastrophically.
The stock market itself is based on borrowed money. There has been chart after chart showing the parallel between the stock markets and the Fed's various stock market props like quantitative easing. It's a little known fact that, aside from lending money to various nonbank lenders, businesses, institutions, homeowners, and hedge funds, banks buy stocks and lend money to stock market speculators.
Crypto is just IMHO essentially another value-less house of cards.
There is one more potential cause of collapse and that's the huge, and growing, wealth gap. That causes many people to take on too much debt. Any loan... auto, home, credit card, etc. ... based on impoverished people's ability to pay risks another collapse.
But most of these debts sooner or later run thru our banking system one way or another.
Government (public) debt PALES in comparison to the level of FINANCIAL debt, which is mostly unregulated. As long as the government can't, or doesn't, control the amount of debt being piled up to drive hedge funds, stock prices, and crypto to the moon, we will always risk repeated collapses.
The only way I can think of to prevent this is to require much MUCH higher bank reserves, to regulate nonbank lenders, and to once again separate investment from retail banks to limit the contagion of bank failures once they occur.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:My "values" don't closely match the Democratic party. For example, I am for guns and for the death penalty, but those are not widely held valuable beliefs among the Democrats, and yet I have never in my life felt, known, detected, seen anything that strikes me as crazy, sick, mentally defective, evil, or poisonous about any Democrat. There are some silly Democrats, but nothing about them is seriously objectionable. I never get the feeling that a Democrat even needs to be yelled at or punched in the face, and certainly never that America is being harmed by a Democrat who doesn't share my so-called "values".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yanno... the most offensive part of your stupidity, Second, is how you take every single person you've ever had a disagreement with and threw them all in a trash bin called "Trumptard". Every one of them are all the same to you.
I know that Democrat voters vote Democrat for an extremely wide variety of reasons. They're all buying one lie or another.
It's not any of those at the bottom that I begrudge. Those that believe they're better off voting the way they do when their back is always against the wall and they can't save a nickle. They vote Democrat out of desperation, ignorance of the issues, and a high propensity to buy somebody's bullshit because of how bad they've got it.
It's you rich and rich wannabe liberal white people I've got a problem with. The ones running the shit. The cult recruiters and the cult leaders that are always getting the desperate to vote against their own long-term self-interests for short-term gains.
Ya'all can go fuck yourselves.
On the other hand, every fucking Trumptard I have gotten downwind from smells like they are not human. The stink of decay and evil surrounds all the Trumptards that I have gotten close enough to catch their rotten scent. My opinion about Trumptards is not shared by any Democrats I know. Democrats still think, despite all evidence accumulated over decades, that evil people can be persuaded with words to behave better. I don't think Trumptards get better; they only get rottener with time, like unrefrigerated meat.
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You are a sick individual. Get some help.
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Trump Admin Signals It May Not Pay Furloughed Workers After Shutdown Ends
A 2019 statute signed into law by Trump himself requires furloughed workers to be compensated when shutdowns end.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-signals-it-may-not-pay-furlo
ughed-workers-after-shutdown-ends/
But today Trump has a very contradictory understanding of the law he signed because he is a fucking evil dumb ass who cannot read a pretty simple law correctly. But isn’t that typical of all Trumptards? Accuracy about simple ideas is far beyond them, and yet they inevitably pretend to understand what they actually don’t. It is not surprising how much trouble that trait will constantly cause for ordinary Trumptards. Nor is it surprising how stubborn Trumptards are about not correcting their misconceptions:
You keep saying shit like this, but you're the loser who's losing every day, loser.
Cry some fucking more, you whiny little bitch.
You and your dozen TDS articles for over 7,000 days straight.
Go fuck yourself, idiot.
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Quote:6ix, follow your uncle's example and botch your own suicide attempt. You also told us about your loony mother. You got really excited when the Joker in the movie Joker smothered his own mother with a pillow while she was hospitalized.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are a sick individual. Get some help.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63473&mid=11086
72#1108672 Very apropos entertainment for a little Nazi like yourself with a family where mental illness runs deep. It is your tradition, along with racism, alcoholism, smoking, drug use, sex crimes, tax cheating, and unemployment. You are an exemplary Trumptard. You should be made famous. Meanwhile, and I do mean mean:
Memorial to Black US Soldiers Who Died in WW2 Quietly Removed
Nov 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/memorial-to-black-us-soldiers-who-died-in-ww2
-quietly-removed-11020241
The White House, under President Donald Trump, has removed references to Blacks in the U.S. military.
The panel provided information on the "strict policy of segregation" in the U.S. military during World War II and the journey of many soldiers into postwar civil rights movements. The U.S. military officially desegregated in 1948.
What's next for Trump? Maybe closing the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, a memorial to commemorate the black victims of lynching? What would be Trump’s likely justification? This memorial only includes blacks who were lynched, making it completely unfair to whites. I could imagine Congressional Democrats saying that Trump has a valid criticism rather than telling him that Trump will be lynched if he closes the Memorial and then Trump’s name will be added to those who are memorialized. That is equal opportunity for whites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Memorial_for_Peace_and_Justice
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Over and over, Trump claimed overall prices have fallen since he returned to office in late January.
“Every price is down,” he said Thursday. “Everything is way down,” he said at another Thursday event. “Prices are down under the Trump administration, and they’re down substantially,” he said Friday, adding, “Everybody knows that it’s far less expensive under Trump than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden. And the prices are way down.”
None of that is true.
Specifics at https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/inflation-trump-fact-check
Not that Trumptards care about specifics, but this one is special because I signed a 5-year contract at $0.093/kWh with MP Energy, which begat Shell Energy, which begat Discount Power, which decided to gouge the hell out of new customers because Trump is now President. Lucky me! I missed all that!
Trump claimed Friday: “Energy prices are way down from what they were last year.”
But the Consumer Price Index shows that household energy prices are up substantially over the last year – 6.2% higher in September 2025 than they were in September 2024.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, follow your uncle's example and botch your own suicide attempt.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are a sick individual. Get some help.
Gross.
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SECOND:
My "values" don't closely match the Democratic party. For example, I am for guns and for the death penalty, but those are not widely held valuable beliefs among the Democrats, and yet I have never in my life felt, known, detected, seen anything that strikes me as crazy, sick, mentally defective, evil, or poisonous about any Democrat. There are some silly Democrats, but nothing about them is seriously objectionable. I never get the feeling that a Democrat even needs to be yelled at or punched in the face, and certainly never that America is being harmed by a Democrat who doesn't share my so-called "values".
Which is funny bc I've been a registered Democrat almost as long as I've been voting.
IDK why you blew your stack at me all of a sudden. It was right after I responded to your article about Alzheimer's. Must be personal for you.
Very personal.
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Quote:Signym and 6ix, you remind me of peeling paint. I got off the road last week and stopped the car near some natural gas processing equipment to get a closer look. One piece was peeling because there was no primer under the top coat of paint. The other was peeling because the paint was sprayed on rusty metal that should have been sandblasted and primed. Then I opened the door to get a closer look. There was lubricating oil dripping from gearboxes. When I walked to the other side, downwind from where I had been, I could smell hydrogen sulfide gas. It is poison. Signym and 6ix, you are poison. What you two write is the peeling paint, but there is far more wrong with you than what you write, your surface appearance. You should be shut down, as should Putin and Trump, the two biggest and most poisonous gas-emitting sources in the world.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND:
My "values" don't closely match the Democratic party. For example, I am for guns and for the death penalty, but those are not widely held valuable beliefs among the Democrats, and yet I have never in my life felt, known, detected, seen anything that strikes me as crazy, sick, mentally defective, evil, or poisonous about any Democrat. There are some silly Democrats, but nothing about them is seriously objectionable. I never get the feeling that a Democrat even needs to be yelled at or punched in the face, and certainly never that America is being harmed by a Democrat who doesn't share my so-called "values".
Which is funny bc I've been a registered Democrat almost as long as I've been voting.
IDK why you blew your stack at me all of a sudden. It was right after I responded to your article about Alzheimer's. Must be personal for you.
Very personal.
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How the Supreme Court Exposed the Most Obvious Hidden Truth About Trump’s Tariffs
By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern | Nov 10, 2025 2:44 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/supreme-court-truth-trump-
tariffs-equals-taxes.html
Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs that were put in place to punish foreign countries running a trade deficit against the United States, against China and Mexico for alleged fentanyl smuggling, and against Canada just for being Canada.
The consolidated cases, Learning Resources v. Trump and Trump v. VOS Selections, challenge Trump’s claim that he has the power to issue tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which permits the president to regulate transactions involving any property in which any foreign country or national thereof has any interest, in order to deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat.
On this week’s Amicus podcast, co-hosts Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick spoke with Marc Busch, the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He’s an expert on international trade policy and law, and he signed on to an amicus brief on behalf of trade scholars explaining the history and context of the IEEPA. This transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1287/381040/2025102916200
0869_25-250%20Amici%20Brief.pdf
Dahlia Lithwick: These arguments were, in some sense, a very granular and fact-based parsing of statutory language. But they also played out at the highest level of questions about separation of powers and delegation. It doesn’t often happen that you have such a profound split-screen where you are seeing both micro-analysis of the verbs in IEEPA and at the same time profound questions about the limits of presidential power.
Marc Busch: Yes, but there was also no open, honest discussion about how absurd all of this is from an economics perspective. There was no discussion of that, with the exception of Neal Katyal mentioning that the U.S. has been running a trade deficit in goods since the 1970s, and they’re not persistent in a bad sense; they’re persistent in the sense that goods don’t reflect our comparative advantage. The government tried to cut services out of the calculation on Liberation Day when in fact, like all rich countries, we are a services economy. And that’s really hard to square with what is at stake, and leads us back to the macro perspective.
This case is so much bigger than trade. This is a separation of powers case, and it deserves to be taken very seriously precisely because of that. But there are some basics in economics that would have shed more light on what a power grab this is with respect to wanting a means of raising revenue.
As the plaintiffs pointed out, the DOJ’s submission was in fact the worst possible foot forward, inasmuch as we’ve been hearing since Liberation Day that these tariffs are a tax grab. We’ve heard they’re raising some crazy number of billions of dollars. We’ve heard that maybe we should have an external revenue agency. We’ve heard that maybe these can replace income taxes in the United States. Every deal has led to the president boasting about the haul of revenue he’s getting through tax collection. And that landed them in a morass, going out on a limb with respect to “regulatory” versus “revenue-raising” tariffs, and with the micro largely overshadowing the macro in a way that might have surprised many who listened in.
Mark Joseph Stern: It was so interesting, because a lot of economists who weighed in on this case, including you, through amicus brief, all made the same point, which is Econ 101: that a trade deficit is exactly matched by a country’s net capital inflow. So what the government is calling a deficit could also be described as a foreign investment surplus. It is a surplus that has existed for m
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Republicans Are Damaged by Their Own Cruelty
They’re pathologically unwilling to help Americans in need — and Democrats should hammer this home
By Paul Krugman | Nov 11, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/republicans-are-damaged-by-their
Like almost all progressives, I was infuriated and disheartened by Senate Democrats’ cave on the shutdown Sunday. The party won stunning election victories Tuesday — and its leaders responded with yet another preemptive surrender? (Chuck Schumer may have voted no, but he didn’t manage, and may not even have tried, to prevent defections.)
Yet while the immediate politics displayed Democratic tactical weakness, the larger story highlighted a different kind of weakness on the part of Donald Trump and MAGA as a whole — namely, their innate cruelty. They have a visceral dislike for policies that do anything to help the less fortunate, and can’t even bring themselves to be cynical, to help Americans temporarily while they consolidate power.
Consider the grounds on which the shutdown fight took place. Democrats made it about the enhanced subsidies that have kept premiums for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act fairly reasonable for millions of Americans — Americans who are now facing huge premium hikes that will create intense financial distress and force many to go uninsured.
Before the big cave, Democrats proposed a deal in which they would provide the votes to reopen the government in return for a one-year extension of those enhanced benefits. Republicans should have jumped at this deal. It’s true that Republicans are determined to destroy much of the social safety net. The One Big Beautiful Bill will impose savage cuts in Medicaid and food stamps. But these big cuts are set to happen after the midterm elections.
Drastically increasing health care costs at the beginning of 2026, causing millions to lose insurance, certainly looks like a massive political blunder. My guess is that it doesn’t reflect a considered strategy. Instead, Republicans just stumbled into this because nobody in a position of power within the party understood how the ACA works.
And polling suggests overwhelming public support for extending the enhanced subsidies: 74 percent overall, including half of Republicans.
So Republicans should have been eager for a chance to postpone the pain. Instead, by rejecting Democratic proposals, Republicans have placed the onus for soaring premiums squarely on themselves.
But the thought of doing something decent, even cynically and temporarily, doesn’t seem to have crossed Republican minds. John Thune, the Republican Senate majority leader, immediately declared the proposed deal a “nonstarter,” insisting that his party would only negotiate about healthcare after the government is reopened — which everyone understands means that Republicans will agree to nothing.
Why reject a deal that could have protected Republicans from their own mistakes? Part of the answer is sheer ignorance. Here was Trump’s response:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!
Nov 08, 2025, 9:04 AM
Substance aside, think about the idiocy of the timing here. The health insurance crisis is happening right now, as Americans open letters from their insurers and discover that they are facing huge increases — more than 100 percent on average, much more in many cases — in the cost of coverage beginning in just a few weeks. This is not exactly the time to propose immediately scrapping our existing health care system, replacing it with … something
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Fictional Intelligence: Imagining Trump and the Future of (Nuclear) War
I’ve just watched “A House of Dynamite”, the new suspense movie where the US gets attacked by an ICBM, that has drawn criticism from the Pentagon. The movie has been subject to some controversy in the nuclear nerd community as well, especially regarding the likelihood of the scenario. I thought it was a great movie precisely because it didn’t choose a scenario that we would commonly think likely, but one that asks the important questions: What if our adversaries don’t act and react at all the way we expect them to? What if our systems fail in the critical moment and nothing works as exercised? What if the decision-maker on the very top makes the wrong decision? Sort of what Vladimir Putin should have asked himself before marching into Ukraine in February 2022.
Perhaps the most ridiculous criticism I read somewhere was along the lines “Nuclear war? At a time like this, with everything else going on in the US? Really?”. I have to say I couldn’t disagree more. It’s precisely because of everything else that is also going on in the US that American voters should ask themselves next time they get to choose a president: Is this a person I would like to entrust the nuclear codes to wreak global havoc to? The same applies (to a somewhat lesser but not insignificant extent) to French and British voters as well. And the biggest elephant in the room is obviously that the movie features a professional US administration. My recommendation to Americans reading this is to watch the movie and imagine Trump and Hegseth in the respective roles. Makes the thriller even more thrilling.
More at https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/fictional-intelligence-imaginin
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym and 6ix, you remind me of peeling paint. I got off the road last week and stopped the car near some natural gas processing equipment to get a closer look. One piece was peeling because there was no primer under the top coat of paint. The other was peeling because the paint was sprayed on rusty metal that should have been sandblasted and primed. Then I opened the door to get a closer look. There was lubricating oil dripping from gearboxes. When I walked to the other side, downwind from where I had been, I could smell hydrogen sulfide gas. It is poison. Signym and 6ix, you are poison. What you two write is the peeling paint, but there is far more wrong with you than what you write, your surface appearance. You should be shut down, as should Putin and Trump, the two biggest and most poisonous gas-emitting sources in the world.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND:
My "values" don't closely match the Democratic party. For example, I am for guns and for the death penalty, but those are not widely held valuable beliefs among the Democrats, and yet I have never in my life felt, known, detected, seen anything that strikes me as crazy, sick, mentally defective, evil, or poisonous about any Democrat. There are some silly Democrats, but nothing about them is seriously objectionable. I never get the feeling that a Democrat even needs to be yelled at or punched in the face, and certainly never that America is being harmed by a Democrat who doesn't share my so-called "values".
Which is funny bc I've been a registered Democrat almost as long as I've been voting.
IDK why you blew your stack at me all of a sudden. It was right after I responded to your article about Alzheimer's. Must be personal for you.
Very personal.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tell me you're Hitler without telling me you're Hitler.
You are everything you claim to hate, buddy. You always have been.
Have a great day!
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Quote:Did you misunderstand what Washington DC, or even George Washington, did to the Redcoats, the Confederates, the Nazis, the Japanese Imperialists? It was not a process of calm discussion and finding common ground between antagonists. It was a wordless process, summarized as kill them, kill them all until the survivors surrender. After surrender, the process can switch modes to a calm discussion between adults, but to get there requires Kill Them All. If the wars never leave calm discussion mode, the wars would never end, which is why the war on Trumptards won't end until the Democrats switch modes. I am very sure that 6ix and Signym can't understand, and I know Democrats don't want to go to the Final Solution of the Trumptard Infestation because it feels very uncivilized. "Why can't we talk away our problems?" lament the Democrats. You can't because Trumptards are incompatible with American life continuing in a recognizable form, just as the Nazis ruling over the Atlantic was incompatible with American life continuing as usual.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Tell me you're Hitler without telling me you're Hitler.
You are everything you claim to hate, buddy. You always have been.
Have a great day!
Today, King Charles III would be the monarch of North America, as he is of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, if George Washington had not killed the Redcoats. In the 21st Century, it is kill the Redcaps. If you want King Donald Trump III as monarch, don't fight the Trumptards today.
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 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym and 6ix, you remind me of peeling paint. I got off the road last week and stopped the car near some natural gas processing equipment to get a closer look. One piece was peeling because there was no primer under the top coat of paint. The other was peeling because the paint was sprayed on rusty metal that should have been sandblasted and primed. Then I opened the door to get a closer look. There was lubricating oil dripping from gearboxes. When I walked to the other side, downwind from where I had been, I could smell hydrogen sulfide gas. It is poison. Signym and 6ix, you are poison. What you two write is the peeling paint, but there is far more wrong with you than what you write, your surface appearance. You should be shut down, as should Putin and Trump, the two biggest and most poisonous gas-emitting sources in the world.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND:
My "values" don't closely match the Democratic party. For example, I am for guns and for the death penalty, but those are not widely held valuable beliefs among the Democrats, and yet I have never in my life felt, known, detected, seen anything that strikes me as crazy, sick, mentally defective, evil, or poisonous about any Democrat. There are some silly Democrats, but nothing about them is seriously objectionable. I never get the feeling that a Democrat even needs to be yelled at or punched in the face, and certainly never that America is being harmed by a Democrat who doesn't share my so-called "values".
Which is funny bc I've been a registered Democrat almost as long as I've been voting.
IDK why you blew your stack at me all of a sudden. It was right after I responded to your article about Alzheimer's. Must be personal for you.
Very personal.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tell me you're Hitler without telling me you're Hitler.
You are everything you claim to hate, buddy. You always have been.
Have a great day!
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SECOND, you're weird.
Why don't you do something useful and fix that equipment instead of working yourself up into a lather ever day, with your five
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Quote:You have repeatedly crossed this line, Signym, the same one Trump does all the time. Trump keeps insisting, as does Signym, that he is not guilty of anything, in this particular news story, of being a goddamn rapist, so long as he won't confess, despite lower courts saying he is a rapist.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you're weird.
Why don't you do something useful and fix that equipment instead of working yourself up into a lather ever day, with your fiveminuteshours of hate?
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
The Democrats should give Trump a two-way choice: either pay the rape victim $88 million or kill him, but Democrats will take the third way, which is to wait forever for Trump to confess his guilt and voluntarily pay what he owes. Who knows? Maybe the Supreme Court, in a 6 to 3 decision, will let Trump go free, as the Democrats are allowing him to go free and break any law as many times as he pleases.
Trump requests Supreme Court overturn E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation verdict
An appeals court last year upheld a lower court's judgment that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s, and later defamed her after she went public with her allegations.
By Garrett Haake, Tara Prindiville and Zoë Richards | Nov. 11, 2025, 7:54 AM CST
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trump-appeals-supreme-c
ourt-e-jean-carroll-judgement-sexual-abuse-rcna243124
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review a $5 million civil judgment that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26222396-trump-carroll-scotus/
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. . . A federal appeals court last year upheld the judgment after Trump argued that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the case, had erred in allowing testimony from two women — Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff — whose allegations of sexual abuse Trump has denied.
A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found in December last year that Kaplan had not “abused his discretion” by permitting their testimony.
Trump had also asked the appeals court for a rehearing of the case in June, which was denied.
Trump has repeatedly sought to have the judgments in Carroll's cases against him overturned. A separate appeal that Trump filed to overturn Carroll’s $83 million defamation judgment last year, in a case tied to his defamatory comments about her while president and after the $5 million verdict, failed in September.
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Trump, 79, Panics About Losing His Supreme Court Fight in Late-Night Rant
TRILLIONS NOT BILLIONS
The president apparently isn’t very confident about the case his solicitor general argued.
By Janna Brancolini | Nov. 11 2025 7:19AM EST
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-panics-about-losing-his-
supreme-court-fight-over-tariffs-in-late-night-rant/
President Donald Trump was up late Monday night trying to bully the Supreme Court into upholding his signature economic policy by warning of a national “drubbing” if it went against him.
Two key justices had sounded skeptical during oral arguments about whether Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports from dozens of U.S. trading partners are valid under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
But conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett also noted during her questioning that reimbursing almost $90 billion in tariffs already paid by American businesses would be a “mess.”
Trump has previously acknowledged in interviews that the government would have to pay back businesses if the Supreme Court strikes down the duties, and now he’s trying to argue it would be even worse than Barrett realized.
“The U.S. Supreme Court was given the wrong numbers. The ‘unwind’ in the event of a negative decision on Tariffs, would be, including investments made, to be made, and return of funds, in excess of 3 Trillion Dollars,” he wrote at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in a Truth Social post. “It would not be possible to ever make up for that kind of a ‘drubbing.’”
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The U.S. Supreme Court was given the wrong numbers. The "unwind" in the event of a negative decision on Tariffs, would be, including investments made, to be made, and return of funds, in excess of 3 Trillion Dollars. It would not be possible to ever make up for that kind of a "drubbing." That would truly become an insurmountable National Security Event, and devastating to the future of our Country - Possibly non-sustainable!
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The president has repeatedly claimed that the tariffs are responsible for companies pledging to invest trillions of dollars in U.S. manufacturing, though he hasn’t provided any evidence that the number is anywhere near $3 trillion.
It’s also not a given that those investments, which include Apple’s planned $600 billion domestic manufacturing program, depend on the tariffs.
If they do, Congress could always approve the policy, since the central question in the case is whether Trump exceeded his authority by unilaterally imposing the duties.
Trump has nevertheless described the tariffs in existential terms and previously claimed that an adverse Supreme Court ruling could reduce the U.S. to “almost Third World status.”
In his latest post, he wrote that striking down the tariffs “would truly become an insurmountable National Security Event, and devastating to the future of our Country - Possibly non-sustainable!”
The post, however, undermined the legal argument that Solicitor General D. John Sauer tried to make Wednesday during oral arguments: that raising revenue was “only incidental” to Trump’s tariffs.
The duties are a type of import tax paid by American companies, which must eat the costs or pass them on to their customers. Last month, a report from Goldman Sachs found that consumers are shouldering as much as 55 percent of the cost of Trump’s tariffs.
Given that the Constitution expressly gives Congress the power to impose taxes, the administration has argued that the case is really about the president’s ability to regulate foreign powers, and not about raising revenue.
In the weeks leading up to Wednesday’s oral arguments, the administration had tried to downplay the policy’s money-making potential, The New York Times reported. The court is not expected to hand down a definitive ruling until next year.
After first claiming that the tariff revenue would offset the president’s $4 trillion tax cut—most of which benefits the w
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym and 6ix, you remind me of peeling paint. I got off the road last week and stopped the car near some natural gas processing equipment to get a closer look. One piece was peeling because there was no primer under the top coat of paint. The other was peeling because the paint was sprayed on rusty metal that should have been sandblasted and primed. Then I opened the door to get a closer look. There was lubricating oil dripping from gearboxes. When I walked to the other side, downwind from where I had been, I could smell hydrogen sulfide gas. It is poison. Signym and 6ix, you are poison. What you two write is the peeling paint, but there is far more wrong with you than what you write, your surface appearance. You should be shut down, as should Putin and Trump, the two biggest and most poisonous gas-emitting sources in the world.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND:
My "values" don't closely match the Democratic party. For example, I am for guns and for the death penalty, but those are not widely held valuable beliefs among the Democrats, and yet I have never in my life felt, known, detected, seen anything that strikes me as crazy, sick, mentally defective, evil, or poisonous about any Democrat. There are some silly Democrats, but nothing about them is seriously objectionable. I never get the feeling that a Democrat even needs to be yelled at or punched in the face, and certainly never that America is being harmed by a Democrat who doesn't share my so-called "values".
Which is funny bc I've been a registered Democrat almost as long as I've been voting.
IDK why you blew your stack at me all of a sudden. It was right after I responded to your article about Alzheimer's. Must be personal for you.
Very personal.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tell me you're Hitler without telling me you're Hitler.
You are everything you claim to hate, buddy. You always have been.
Have a great day!
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SECOND, you're weird.
Why don't you do something useful and fix that equipment instead of working yourself up into a lather ever day, with your fiveminuteshours of hate?
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Yup. Dude has brain damage and he has taken up the Democratic Party pastime of day-drinking now.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You have repeatedly crossed this line, Signym, the same one Trump does all the time. Trump keeps insisting, as does Signym, that he is not guilty of anything, in this particular news story, of being a goddamn rapist, so long as he won't confess, despite lower courts saying he is a rapist.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you're weird.
Why don't you do something useful and fix that equipment instead of working yourself up into a lather ever day, with your fiveminuteshours of hate?
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
The Democrats should give Trump a two-way choice: either pay the rape victim $88 million or kill him, but Democrats will take the third way, which is to wait forever for Trump to confess his guilt and voluntarily pay what he owes. Who knows? Maybe the Supreme Court, in a 6 to 3 decision, will let Trump go free, as the Democrats are allowing him to go free and break any law as many times as he pleases.
Trump requests Supreme Court overturn E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation verdict
As I said from day one, that lying slut isn't going to get a dime.
Why are you littering theses boards with assassination plots, telling people that they should kill themselves and your desire to murder everyone you don't agree with everyday?
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The entire atmosphere surrounding all of this is completely different than it was in 2016 and 2020.
Things just kind of feel normal again.
It's like all the loudest voices either screamed themselves out or they aren't being platformed anymore and/or we just finally, collectively tuned them out for a change.
It's kind of nice, innit?
Happy Inauguration Day!
I warned ya dipshit. Hey I know, ask the children if they think it's nice.
T
Mar-a-Lago unveils seafood spread and ice sculpture while Trump defunds food for children
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you're weird.
Why don't you do something useful and fix that equipment instead of working yourself up into a lather ever day, with your fiveminuteshours of hate?
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
SECOND:
You have repeatedly crossed this line, Signym
Oh, you mean this
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line, SECOND?
I honestly don't know what "line" you're talking about dood.
I worked hard, pay my taxes, take care as best I can of my family, don't smoke, rarely drink, don't steal, and even vote Democrat most of the time.
By those measures, I should be golden!
Or are you all tweaked about my signature, which has got to be just about the LEAST important thing about me?
You have a problem, SECOND.
You've spent HOW MANY (???) posts ranting and trying to insult me and SIX. I just consider the source, and think that an insult from you is like a badge of honor.
So ... Thanks, buddy!
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Crossing the line? Are you kidding me?
I've archived so many assassination fantasies, calls for assassination, threats against other members here and suggestions that they kill themselves out of Second that I stopped bothering archiving them. They've become trite at this point, just like all 3 of his regular personal insults he'll hurl out on a daily basis when he's being destroyed by facts.
Neither Ted nor Second have spent a single second of their lives engaging in any form of self-reflection.
They are completely oblivious to how evil they have become.
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Somebody ask Mamdani this question for me...
Now he's going to tell you the answer is 67, but I assure you this is wrong.
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Quote:6ix, if Indiana is anything like the areas in Texas where Trumptards are the dominant faction, I'm guessing your associates are a bunch of fucking liars, rapists, and Nazis. In any Trumptardish society, there will be almost nothing but liars, rapists and Nazis if you don't kill them, or at least threaten them, when they overtly display their habitual depravity. That is because Trumptards are fundamentally NOT honest, hardworking, truthful, smart, brave people. After all, Trump is not, either. Please, please don't claim that Trumptards are "good" since I'm around them all the time and Trumptards are "bad", which is why they complain about virtue signalling. Virtue makes Trumptards feel itchy because they are allergic to it.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
As I said from day one, that lying slut isn't going to get a dime.
Why are you littering theses boards with assassination plots, telling people that they should kill themselves and your desire to murder everyone you don't agree with everyday?
War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Grocery Prices Are Way Down.
Lying has worked for Trump in the past. Is this a lie too far?
Paul Krugman | Nov 12, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-gro
cery
Well, whaddya know:
Trump now just as unpopular as Biden during inflation surge
Difference between the share of Americans who approve and disapprove of the way the president is handling "prices and inflation," percentage points.
Donald Trump continues to say that polls showing that Americans are unhappy about the economy are “fake.” But the blowout Democratic victories in last week’s elections may have given him a wakeup call. As the New York Times reported, Trump “has mentioned affordability as much in the last week as he has in the past nine months.”
But the Times went on to engage in some serious false equivalence:
Mr. Trump risks being in a similar position as his predecessor, defending his record by pointing to statistics that don’t capture a troubling reality that many Americans are feeling.
Sorry, but that’s a false comparison. You might even call it fake news — because Trump is not, in fact, pointing to any statistics. He’s just lying.
It is true that Biden officials liked to cite statistics that presented a favorable picture of the economy, but they were genuine statistics and did indeed seem to show an economy in pretty good shape.
Trump, by contrast, is engaged in what CNN calls a “lying spree” about inflation. We all know that many media organizations have long had a habit of “sanewashing” Trump, downplaying the craziness of his remarks. What we’re seeing now is “truthwashing,” pretending that there is some factual justification for bald-faced lies.
Let’s talk for a minute about what happened under Biden, then turn to Trump’s pants-on-fire claims about prices.
Biden officials never denied that there was a surge in inflation during 2021 and 2022. They did, however, claim that the surge was transitory. “Transitory” turned out to be much longer than they (and the Federal Reserve) initially predicted, but the surge was nonetheless temporary: Inflation peaked in mid-2022, then fell rapidly over the next 2 years. And this disinflation, defying the predictions of many economists, took place without a recession.
Biden’s people also never denied that prices were higher than they had been before the pandemic. But they said, correctly, that wages had risen even more, so that most workers’ purchasing power was higher despite the rise in prices. In 2024, Biden declared that “we’re proving that we can bring down inflation while safeguarding hard-won gains in jobs and real wages in American workers.” This was a completely truthful claim.
The chart below
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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump promised Americans $2,000 each from the "trillions of dollars" in tariff revenue he said his administration has collected.
"People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!," Trump said in a Nov. 9 Truth Social post. "We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion."
How seriously should people take his pledge?
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/nov/10/Trump-tariff-dividend-2
000-stimulus/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Tax breaks in President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will primarily benefit high-net-worth individuals and those with high incomes. But what is the definition of "wealthy"? Zane Sanchez, a tax manager with the accounting and business advisory firm Snyder Cohn, says it could be considered anyone making more than $200,000 or $250,000 for married couples filing jointly. "That's around the point where a lot of these provisions start to kick in."
Below is a look at six key provisions in the bill that largely favor upper-income individuals and families:
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-5590112/trump-beautiful-bill-taxe
s-republican-rich-wealthy
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Quote:From what I read, Nazis and ordinary Germans who weren't ambitious enough to join the party saw themselves as Heroes, and the Allies as Evil (and Jews, too!). How could the Allies' firebombing of Germany not be evil? How could allowing Jews not be evil? Translating into a Trumptard analogy, how can allowing illegal aliens to live in America not be evil? How can allowing a Communist Muslim mayor of NYNY not be evil? How can allowing speedboats carrying drugs not be evil? That is in reference to Trump ordering boats bombed and their crews killed. Not once has a Democratic President ordered the execution of criminals BEFORE trial, but Trump has many, many times.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Crossing the line? Are you kidding me?
I've archived so many assassination fantasies, calls for assassination, threats against other members here and suggestions that they kill themselves out of Second that I stopped bothering archiving them. They've become trite at this point, just like all 3 of his regular personal insults he'll hurl out on a daily basis when he's being destroyed by facts.
Neither Ted nor Second have spent a single second of their lives engaging in any form of self-reflection.
They are completely oblivious to how evil they have become.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_military_strikes_on_a
lleged_drug_traffickers
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever
Even though he doesn’t want you to think so
By Mark Leibovich | November 12, 2025, 10:16 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-lame-duck-third-ter
m-prospects/684899/
For a president who wants to project vigor and command at all times, Donald Trump made the worst possible spectacle of himself in the Oval Office last Thursday.
It came in the form of two images captured during a press event to announce cheaper weight-loss drugs. The first materialized when a participant fainted and several officials on hand rushed over. Not Trump, however, who, after turning to look at the fallen man, stood a few feet away at the Resolute Desk with his back to the action, wearing an indifferent expression. This was pointedly reflected in news photos that instantly went viral.
The second image, less noticed but possibly more damning, was memorialized just beforehand: As Mehmet Oz, the administration’s head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, delivered remarks, Trump appeared to be nodding off at his desk. The Washington Post, in keeping with its dogged Watergate-era traditions, undertook a thorough “analysis of multiple video feeds” and confirmed that, indeed, the 79-year-old president had “spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open.”
“He put his hand on his temple,” the Post investigation concluded. “He slouched in his chair.”
The White House denied that the president had been asleep, echoing Trump’s past sensitivities toward perceived somnolence. But there was something else going on here. The administration has sought to portray Trump as the main driver of all events at all times—potent, essential, and fully engaged. If there has been one unified message coming out of this White House, it’s been that of a presidency in perpetual motion. Yet Trump has looked much less daunting and invincible in recent days. He has been criticized for appearing checked out and oblivious to the economic hardships facing Americans, a sentiment reinforced by voters last Tuesday. Above all, Trump, who is not eligible to run for reelection in 2028—at least that’s what some people think—is loath to be seen as a lame duck. And yet, he is a lamer duck now than he was just a short while ago.
Last week was rough for Trump in that regard. Republicans suffered election routs in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, as well as in a statewide ballot initiative pushed by California Governor Gavin Newsom. It wasn’t only that Democrats prevailed by massive margins or that the results confirmed that Trump’s second-term act was playing terribly with a critical mass of Americans, including many of those who’d voted for him. The GOP’s losses suddenly made Trump look vulnerable. By my informal estimation (without the benefit of “multiple video feeds”), “lame duck” was applied more often to Trump last week than in any prior stretch of his second term.
“Donald Trump Enters His Lame Duck Era,” declared one post-election headline in Politico. The accompanying article cataloged recent signs of Republican defiance of Trump. It led with a scene in which the president summoned Senate Republicans to the White House and demanded that they eliminate the filibuster. “Upon returning to the Capitol, the senators made it very clear: they planned to blow Trump off,” according to Politico. (Mike Rounds of South Dakota apparently “laughed out loud.”)
No officeholder welcomes being labeled a lame duck. From its earliest adoption, the phrase has never been meant as a term of flattery. Senator Lazarus Powell of Kentucky is credited with the first political usage, in 1863, when he described the U.S. Court of Claims as “a receptacle of ‘lame ducks’ or broken down politicians.” Over time, lame duck evolved into more of a time marker, referring to an elected official completing their final phase in office.
That’s the clinical definition, at least. But lame duck also carries deeper connotations of diminishing cachet, relating to a leader’s lost status and creeping
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Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever
Even though he doesn’t want you to think so
Oh yeah?
Then why did the Democrats cave exactly when I told you they would?
They sure aren't playing like they've got a winning hand.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:From what I read, Nazis and ordinary Germans who weren't ambitious enough to join the party saw themselves as Heroes, and the Allies as Evil (and Jews, too!). How could the Allies' firebombing of Germany not be evil? How could allowing Jews not be evil? Translating into a Trumptard analogy, how can allowing illegal aliens to live in America not be evil? How can allowing a Communist Muslim mayor of NYNY not be evil? How can allowing speedboats carrying drugs not be evil? That is in reference to Trump ordering boats bombed and their crews killed. Not once has a Democratic President ordered the execution of criminals BEFORE trial, but Trump has many, many times.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Crossing the line? Are you kidding me?
I've archived so many assassination fantasies, calls for assassination, threats against other members here and suggestions that they kill themselves out of Second that I stopped bothering archiving them. They've become trite at this point, just like all 3 of his regular personal insults he'll hurl out on a daily basis when he's being destroyed by facts.
Neither Ted nor Second have spent a single second of their lives engaging in any form of self-reflection.
They are completely oblivious to how evil they have become.
Wow. Talk about a false equivalency.
You're deranged.
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Well, whaddya know:
Trump now just as unpopular as Biden during inflation surge
Difference between the share of Americans who approve and disapprove of the way the president is handling "prices and inflation," percentage points.
First off, this isn't even truth. Once again, your propagandists are cherry picking polls to get to those "facts" for their idiot readers.
And the second thing is that Joe Biden* wrecked everything when things were going well and made it worse for the next 3 years straight. 95% of the higher prices than we're paying 5 years ago was all under Joe Biden*'s watch.
That's the bitch about inflation. Inflation that you straight-up denied was even happening for 4 years. Nobody wants to hear a fucking word out of Paul Krugman today after all the lies and incorrect predictions.
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Quote:It was NOT the Democratic Party caving; it was the crazies and the assholes who caved. John Fetterman, poster child for mental illness, caved. Dick Durbin, tired, worn-out, and fragile asshole, caved. I can confidently say that almost none of the Senate Democrats nowadays would have the energy to go to war against the German Nazis, no matter what atrocities were occurring in Europe in the 1930s. The modern-day Democrats are so over-civilized that they would be unable to do something vicious, violent and irreversible, like killing historic Nazis or modern Nazis, another group of semi-humans well deserving to die screaming for mercy. Democrats are too polite, passive, decent, and uncertain about the borderline between good/evil to kill their own food, let alone kill their own enemies.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever
Even though he doesn’t want you to think so
Oh yeah?
Then why did the Democrats cave exactly when I told you they would?
They sure aren't playing like they've got a winning hand.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/8-democrats-voted-with-republica
ns-on-a-shutdown-deal-heres-what-theyve-said-about-why
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It was NOT the Democratic Party caving;
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever
Even though he doesn’t want you to think so
Oh yeah?
Then why did the Democrats cave exactly when I told you they would?
They sure aren't playing like they've got a winning hand.
Yes. It was.
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it was the crazies and the assholes who caved.
They are all crazies and assholes. These 8 were just crazies and assholes that you happen to disagree with.
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John Fetterman, poster child for mental illness, caved.
What? You guys used to love Fetterman a few years ago.
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Dick Durbin, tired, worn-out, and fragile asshole, caved.
Okay. You've got me there.
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I can confidently say that almost none of the Senate Democrats nowadays would have the energy to go to war against the German Nazis, no matter what atrocities were occurring in Europe in the 1930s. The modern-day Democrats are so over-civilized that they would be unable to do something vicious, violent and irreversible, like killing historic Nazis or modern Nazis, another group of semi-humans well deserving to die screaming for mercy. Democrats are too polite, passive, decent, and uncertain about the borderline between good/evil to kill their own food, let alone kill their own enemies.
I nominate you for the job, loser.
It's not like you have anything else going on in your sad, lonely little retirement.
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And I've already covered why those 5 were chosen to vote along with the 3 who were already going to support the end of the shutdown 2 days ago in the SNAP thread, where I also made my correct prediction about when Democrats would cave...
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=67191
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If the fact that Hillary Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine was one of the 5 Democrats that joined Fetterman and the other two Democrats siding with Republicans on the Shutdown didn't make you raise an eyebrow, the fact that Dick Durbin was on the list of Democratic defectors should tell EVERYONE all they need to know about this terrible show the Democrats just put on. Dick Durbin already voted against Republicans 15 times on this shutdown, and if nobody higher up ordered him to do otherwise, he'd just keep right on doing that until the sun implodes. Dick Durbin hates Trump more than JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson.
So... What do all 5 of the Democratic Senators that jumped the fence last night have in common?
They're all old and on their way out.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
Age: 81
Retiring from Senate next year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Durbin
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Age: 77
Retiring from Senate next year...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Shaheen
Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
Age: 67
No plans on retiring yet, but dude is a very old looking 67 and probably wouldn't mind a forced exit out of politics since he probably never would do it of his own volition since the money and perks are just too good.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kaine
Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
Age: 67
Another person who was eligible for SS benefits a few years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Hassan
Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada
Age: 68
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacky_Rosen
Ditto...
Sacrificial lambs, the entire lot of them.
Look at MSNBC and all the Lefty shitrags ripping them to shreds over it today.
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Have you ever wondered why people are evil? Evil as in #RootingForPutin? Or voting for Trump?
Here is the least evil act I can find, along with the reasons the people gave for what they did:
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation
By Hannah B. Waldfogel | November 10, 2025
https://behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-
carts-a-somewhat-scientific-investigation/
Why don’t people return their carts?
People had all sorts of reactions to being asked to do the right thing (see Figure 1). There were those who deflected, challenging the question itself rather than answering it. Do you work here? Are you the cart police? Do you represent this company? Who are you? Can I see your ID? Do you have any authority? Who do you work for? Who do you think you are? Why don’t you get a real job?
Some responded with anger and aggression. They yelled, cursed, and mocked. Some threatened to (or did) call law enforcement. Others escalated further, brandishing weapons like guns, tasers, or knives. “I’m gonna slash your face,” warned one man. “Why don’t I kick your ass?” asked another. A third shopper told the Cart Narc, “This is how you get killed.” If only returning the cart stirred as much passion as did refusing to.
Then there were the many, many excuses. In over half of the encounters I watched, shoppers provided at least one justification for their choice to abandon the cart (see Figure 2).
Many invoked entitlement, sometimes mentioning an identity they believed exempted them from common decency. “I worked at Safeway for lots of years and people left their carts all the time,” one man said. Another explained his choice to leave his cart by saying, “After 40 years of working retail grocery, I’ve earned it.” Earned what, exactly? The right to not pick up after yourself?
There were those who cited physical limitations barring them from cart return. “I’m 72 years old. I can’t walk that far,” explained a man after pushing his cart to the furthest edge of the lot. Another shopper clarified her choice to leave the cart in the middle of a handicap parking spot by mentioning, “I’m handicapped myself.” And one woman, upon being confronted about leaving her cart, declared, “I have really bad vertigo,” before getting behind the wheel and driving away. To be clear: Disabilities deserve accommodation. But if you could push the full cart to your car, why couldn’t you return the empty one?
Other people were simply too busy to return their carts. “I’m over an hour late to my own kid’s birthday party,” revealed one hurried shopper. “We have somewhere we need to be,” another alleged, before spending the next eight minutes arguing with the Cart Narc about how he didn’t have time to return his cart. Some mentioned inconvenience. “Them carts don’t even roll,” one shopper complained, after going out of his way to dig the wheels of his cart straight into grass and dirt.
Many justified their behavior by invoking norms and pointing to other cart abandoners. “Everyone else puts them there,” one shopper said, leaving his cart with a gaggle of similarly unreturned ones. “The culture around here is doing it,” insisted another, as if not returning one’s cart were a local tradition. This reasoning—everyone else does it—pairs best with a juice box and a timeout. If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?
Another type of excuse invoked other people by shifting responsibility (or blame) to others. Many shoppers pointed to their choice to leave the cart as a form of job stability or creation. “They pay someone to collect them all” explained one man. Another insisted that returning the cart is selfish because, “You’re putting someone out of a job.” It’s true that many stores do employ people to gather carts, but the job is to collect them from designated return areas—not to chase them down across the lot like loose cattle.
In some interactions I watched, people feigned ignorance. Like the woman who was unaware that carts shouldn’t be left on the curb: “I don’t kno
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Have you ever wondered why people are evil? Evil as in #RootingForPutin? Or voting for Trump?
Here is the least evil act I can find, along with the reasons the people gave for what they did:
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation
I always return my shopping carts. I'm not an entitled, self-centered Democrat voting dipshit.
You and I both know that every one of these people in the article voted Democrat.
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Quote:I do NOT believe you. What I do believe is that Trumptards are fundamentally (#RootinForPutin) evil, as is Trump. The Trumptards suspect Trump raped those children, because that is what they would do in Trump's position, so they are protecting him from the consequences to protect themselves from the consequences of supporting Evil and being rapists themselves, if given the opportunity with little risk of being caught:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Have you ever wondered why people are evil? Evil as in #RootingForPutin? Or voting for Trump?
Here is the least evil act I can find, along with the reasons the people gave for what they did:
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation
I always return my shopping carts. I'm not an entitled, self-centered Democrat voting dipshit.
You and I both know that every one of these people in the article voted Democrat.
MAGA goes quiet on the "Epstein files"
By Tal Axelrod | November 12, 2025
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/12/maga-epstein-files-trump
Some of the biggest "Epstein files" fire-breathers from recent years were silent Wednesday after Democrats released a trove of new emails that included mentions of President Trump.
Why it matters: What started as a conspiracy-laden search for answers against the deep state has turned (for some) into a defensive posture to protect Trump from two of the right's biggest bogeymen — Democrats, and the media.
What they're saying: Mentions of Epstein were sparse across MAGA social media accounts and podcasts in the hours after the email dump.
Elon Musk, the billionaire X owner and on-again, off-again Trump ally, posted nothing Wednesday morning after lamenting in July over a supposed lack of transparency by the administration over the investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Steve Bannon, the influential "War Room" host, did not discuss Epstein on the morning edition of his podcast after framing the push for Epstein disclosures in July as a core part of the fight against the "deep state."
Zoom out: "As soon as the legacy media suddenly started caring about it, and only about one person in particular, it became sus to MAGA," said The National Pulse's Raheem Kassam.
Attitudes started shifting when The Wall Street Journal reported in July that Trump wrote Epstein a birthday note saying "may every day be another wonderful secret" — inside the outline of a naked woman.
A picture of the note was later published to confirm the report, but MAGA's tide had already turned.
"I'd say MAGA/base looks at Democrats as corrupt and untrustworthy messengers, and anything they do damages credibility of the message," Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle texted Axios. He noted Trump kicked Epstein out of his club before his crimes were known.
Catch up quick: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released emails Wednesday in which Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, wrote that Trump "knew about the girls" and that Trump had "spent hours at my house" with one victim.
Trump has denied any involvement in Epstein's crimes and said he and Epstein had a falling-out over unrelated issues.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that Democrats "selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump."
"The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they'll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they've done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects. Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap," Trump added in a Truth Social post.
Hours after Democrats released their documents, House Republicans released their own.
What's next: The swearing-in of Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Wedne
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Cheap crap passed off as "REAL gold!" by Trump
Donald Trump appeared to deny speculation that the '24 karat gold' decorations in his revamped Oval Office came from Home Depot
Donald Trump showed off the '24-karat gold' decorations in his newly revamped Oval Office during a tour this week - and took the opportunity to swat down online rumors they came from Home Depot.
The president invited Fox News' Laura Ingraham for a walk-through of his redesigned White House while on a break from a sit-down interview.
He proudly pointed out the gilded details - which had been mocked online as resembling $58 trinkets from the hardware store - saying: 'You know one thing with gold? You can't imitate gold. There's no paint that imitates gold.'
The conservative host then directly asked the president: 'So these aren't, like, from Home Depot or something?'
'No, this is not Home Depot stuff. This is not Home Depot,' Trump replied.
Ingraham captioned the video on Facebook: 'In the Oval Office with President Trump and can confirm that it is REAL gold!'
The president has previously bragged about redecorating the Oval Office with '24 karat' gold spectacles, including gold medallions over the fireplace, Rococo mirrors hung over the doors, and golden eagles perched on the office side tables.
Nine months into his second term, the golden trinkets are more noticeable during visits from foreign leaders and press conferences.
Donald Trump appeared to deny speculation that the '24 karat gold' decorations in his revamped Oval Office came from Home Depot
Trump claimed he took care of the bill himself for these decorations without costing the American taxpayer a single cent. (No bill was shown to prove that Trump paid. No cancelled checks from Trump's bank account to prove how much he paid.)
However, recent social media posts suggest the decorations are sold by Home Depot as DIY accessories marketed as 'polyurethane appliqué' for $58.
The Daily Mail could not independently verify the claims in the report.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-bristles-as-laura-ingrah
am-awkwardly-asks-if-gold-adorning-oval-office-is-from-home-depot/ar-AA1QgG0R
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gov.newsom.press.office
Trump: Newsom is a horrible governor. If he ran the country like that, our country would be gone.
NEWSOM: YES. I DON'T RUN CALIFORNIA THE WAY HE RUNS AMERICA. I DON'T BUILD BALLROOMS, BAILOUT ARGENTINA, STARVE AMERICANS, BASE POLICY ON MY TERROR OF WINDMILLS & THE MYSTERY OF MAGNETS, AND I DON'T ATTACK OUR CITIES. I HAVE THE 4TH LARGEST ECONOMY. HE HAS THE 4TH LARGEST CANKLES.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2650312661859103/posts/429217890433912
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So Republican congressman Thomas Massie stands up for Epstein victims, and Trump immediately goes live on the air to say he's an "insurgent" who should be "taken out."
WHAT ON EARTH IS IN THOSE FILES?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-urges-navy-veteran-cha
llenge-gop-rep-thomas-massie-kentucky-seat-rcna238300
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AVERAGE HEALTH CARE COSTS IN THE UNITED STATES:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between $30k and $150k.
And that’s NOT including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada for all of these? $0
Cost in the UK? $0
Cost in Australia? $0
And yet Republicans just shut down the government in order to make health care EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE for the average American, just to give their billionaire pals yet ANOTHER giant tax cut.
https://imgur.com/gallery/f-NDsDQar
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The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care
For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations
By Paul Krugman | Nov 13, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-republican-brain-doesnt-want
There are almost 150 million dwelling units in America. Most homes are covered by insurance, and most home insurance covers losses due to fire. Yet in a normal year there are fewer than 400,000 home fires. Even if we allow for the fact that some homeowners don’t have insurance and some policies don’t cover fire damage, the vast majority of homeowners are paying for fire coverage that they will never use.
Clearly, this is a massive waste of money, a huge giveaway to the insurance industry.
OK, presumably almost no one believes that. While it’s unlikely that your house will burn down, losing your house to fire would be a crushing financial blow if you are uninsured. So we all pay premiums to protect ourselves against disaster. All Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans require home insurance.
Health insurance operates on the same principle. Without health insurance, you are at risk of a catastrophic financial blow if you get sick and require hospitalization. Moreover, even if you don’t require hospitalization, you are more likely to avoid getting regular check-ups and preventative care, thereby making it more likely that you will indeed suffer a health crisis and, possibly, death.
Yet the shutdown drama made it clear, once again, that Republicans, from Donald Trump on down, refuse to understand this basic point. Or if they do and say so publicly, like Marjorie Taylor Greene and say so, they become a pariah within the party. But most prefer to behave like the hapless and probably doomed New York Republican Rep. Mark Lawler, and blame Democrats for having forced the issue into the headlines.
But the fact that Republicans have been misrepresenting how health insurance works since Obamacare was first proposed in 2009 is a testament to their cruelty and intentional ignorance. For example, Trump’s opening salvo against the Democrats demand for continuation of the ACA subsidies blasted “money sucking insurance companies”, claiming that the subsidies should be sent directly to taxpayers so that Americans can “PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE” – that is, demanding that they pay doctors and hospitals out of pocket:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!
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As I explained above, this won’t work for the same reason homeowners need fire insurance: There’s a small risk that you may face extremely high costs, and you need protection in case that happens. In addition, lack of insurance is likely to make you sicker, thus more likely to require higher future health expenses and diminished quality of life.
In any given year, most people face low or modest health care costs, but a small number of people face huge bills. Here’s the distribution of health spending in 2022:
https://www.kff.org/health-costs/health-policy-101-health-care-costs-a
nd-affordability/?entry=table-of-contents-how-does-health-care-spending-vary-across-the-population
Half the population spent almost nothing on health care, while 5 percent of the population accounted for half of spending, and 1 percent for more than a
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. . . on Wednesday, House Democrats released documents revealing that, in the words of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump “knew about the girls” the late convicted sex offender was trafficking, the latest blow to a White House already reeling from a series of setbacks in recent days.
One Trump ally said that the latest Epstein discourse has taken “things that are already complicated for the president and brings them to the surface.”
“It’s like adding salt to a dish — the flavors are already there, it just accentuates all of them,” said the person, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive issue.
The fresh wave of chaos has knocked the administration on its heels. The president lashed out at Republicans on social media, some House Republicans are under pressure to withdraw from the effort to bring the matter to the floor and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed the media.
“This is another distraction campaign by the Democrats and the liberal media, and it’s why I’m being asked questions about Epstein instead of the government reopening because of Republicans and President Trump,” Leavitt said during a Wednesday press briefing.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/13/the-new-epstein-files-are-the
-latest-blow-to-a-white-house-on-its-heels-00649341
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I do NOT believe you.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Have you ever wondered why people are evil? Evil as in #RootingForPutin? Or voting for Trump?
Here is the least evil act I can find, along with the reasons the people gave for what they did:
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation
I always return my shopping carts. I'm not an entitled, self-centered Democrat voting dipshit.
You and I both know that every one of these people in the article voted Democrat.
I do not care.
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. . . on Wednesday, House Democrats released documents revealing that, in the words of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump “knew about the girls” the late convicted sex offender was trafficking, the latest blow to a White House already reeling from a series of setbacks in recent days.
This was already debunked the second your goons tried it, retard.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
OOPS. Another of Ted's clickbait lies debunked...Quote:
Why did Democrats cover up the name when the Estate didn't redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee?
It's because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump.
Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump.
Shame on them.
https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1988612679246794773
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The left is pushing another desperate anti-Trump hoax – a false Epstein smear campaign
https://nypost.com/2025/11/12/opinion/miranda-devine-the-left-is-pushi
ng-another-desperate-anti-trump-hoax-a-false-epstein-smear-campaign/
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California Cancels 17,000 CDLs Following Federal Audit
Thursday, Nov 13, 2025 - 07:25 AM
Authored by John Gallagher via FreightWaves.com,
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has cancelled 17,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses following a federal audit of the state’s CDL program, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
In a press statement on Wednesday, DOT asserted that state officials admitted to illegally issuing the CDLs “to dangerous foreign drivers,” and that DMV sent notices to the license holders that their license no longer meets federal requirements and will expire in 60 days.
“After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses.”
FreightWaves has reached out to California’s DMV for comment.
FMCSA Chief Counsel Jesse Elison notified Newsom and his DMV in a September 26 letter that a sampling of the roughly 62,000 drivers in California holding unexpired, non-domiciled CDLs or commercial learner’s permits issued by the state revealed that 26% – which extrapolates to roughly 16,000 – failed to comply with federal requirements.
MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-cancels-17000-cdls-foll
owing-federal-audit
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The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care
For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations
By Paul Krugman | Nov 13, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-republican-brain-doesnt-want
Public option. Make private insurance companies compete against Federally-run programs.
The insurance companies were horrified and lobbied mightily to kill the idea. I can't imagine why! /snark
Obama caved when he threw everyone into the (private) insurer's maw with a sweetener of tax money.
THAT'S the ACA: a tax giveaway to private insurers.
Just as bad as GWB's Part D "no bid" Rx program.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Of all of Trump’s scandals, his relationship with Epstein — if you ignore the stomach-churning human toll involved — may be the richest source of black comedy. Some of Trump’s most devoted worshippers chose the very issue of Epstein’s misdeeds and supposed cabal of elite backers as the fantasy onto which they projected a valiant role for their hero. Trump was meant to courageously release all of the available evidence for public scrutiny. Instead, this scandal has turned out to implicate him personally. (This is a risk inherent in building a personality cult around one of the worst human beings in the United States — almost any moral violation you pick will, statistically, have a high likelihood of appearing somewhere on his résumé.)
Trump’s defense in the matter has been that the Epstein files are a hoax, concocted to smear him by “Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration.” But he has also decided to let the matter drop because this conspiracy involving the CIA, the FBI, and two presidents to falsely connect him to a criminal millionaire who died suspiciously is simply too boring for anybody to care about. “I don’t understand it, why they would be so interested. He’s dead for a long time,” Trump said of Epstein in July.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-epstein-email/684909/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, played a crucial role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by using his single vote as leverage against the bill's public option. He threatened to vote against the legislation unless the government-run public option insurance plan was removed, a demand Democrats eventually conceded to in order to secure his vote for the final bill.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Public option. Make private insurance companies compete against Federally-run programs.
The insurance companies were horrified and lobbied mightily to kill the idea. I can't imagine why! /snark
In other words, you didn't get anything right, Signym. Your next logical step would be to accuse Joe Lieberman of taking bribes from the health insurance companies. But we will never know because nobody can prove anything.
P.S. None of the Republican Senators needed to be bribed because they naturally do the wrong thing every time.
Why Joe Lieberman is holding Barack Obama to ransom over healthcare
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/joe-lieberman-barack-oba
ma-us-healthcare
Democrats accuse Gore's former running mate of bitterness and vanity after he uses his deciding vote in Congress to water down president's reforms
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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"Independent" Joe Lieberman was one of yours, just like "Independent" Bernie Sanders is today.
Shut the fuck up, stooge.
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Quote:Lieberman was a camilleon. One report on Lieberman's involvement was critical of him for failing to disclose in his testimony the extensive legal work his Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman law firm had done for Donald Trump since at least as long ago as 2001. The work included bankrupt casino restructuring and, during the 2016 campaign, threatening The New York Times over publication of a few 1995 Trump tax documents.[171]
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
"Independent" Joe Lieberman was one of yours, just like "Independent" Bernie Sanders is today.
Shut the fuck up, stooge.
On May 17, 2017, Lieberman was interviewed by President Donald Trump for the position of FBI Director, to replace recently fired James Comey.[172] The interview took place against the background of the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate issues connected to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[173] Speaking to reporters while meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Trump said he was "very close" to choosing a new FBI director to replace James Comey, and when asked if Lieberman was his top pick, Trump said yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman#Post-Senate_career
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Decline and Fall of the Heritage Foundation
Its descent into conspiracy-mongering and blatant bigotry was utterly predictable
Paul Krugman | Nov 14, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-heritag
e
There’s deep turmoil at the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing “think tank” that calls itself “America’s most influential policy organization,” and is responsible for Project 2025.
. . . the truth is that Heritage has always been a fraud. It has always been a propaganda mill cosplaying as a research institution – a scam that worked for a long time. Heritage’s problem now is that its original scam was designed for a different era — a Reaganesque era in which plutocrats could discreetly leverage bigotry and intolerance to elect Republicans, who then delivered deregulation and tax cuts. Heritage was an integral cog within this scheme, giving superficial respectability to policies that were in fact deeply regressive and discriminatory, and overwhelmingly to the benefit of the moneyed class.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.
Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?
Weird.
Trump puts intense pressure on Republicans to block release of Epstein files
Fri 14 Nov 2025 07.17 EST
Donald Trump has cranked up his intense pressure campaign on congressional Republicans to oppose the full release of the justice department’s files related to Jeffrey Epstein, before a crucial and long-awaited House vote on the matter next week.
Trump reached out to Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican caucus in the House who have signed the petition. Mace wrote the president a long explanation of her own personal experience as a survivor of sexual abuse and rape, and why it was impossible for her to change her position on the matter.
The lobbying attempts came as Democrats on the House oversight committee released three damning new emails that Trump knew about Epstein’s conduct, including one in which the convicted paedophile said “of course [Trump] knew about the girls”. Another email described Trump as a “dog that hasn’t barked” and said he had “spent hours” with one victim at Epstein’s house.
More at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/republican-pressure-tr
ump-epstein-files
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Trump, 79, Melts Down at His Own Party Over Epstein ‘Hoax’
Originally posted by second:
MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.
Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?
Weird.
IT'S MY PARTY...
The president ranted about “soft and foolish” Republicans on social media.
Sarah Ewall-Wice | Nov. 14 2025 12:00PM EST
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-melts-down-at-his-own-party-ove
r-epstein-hoax/
President Donald Trump raged against members of his own party on Friday as a growing number of Republicans have indicated they will vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Trump, 79, has been desperately trying to stop more documents from going public after the House released a series of damaging emails from the Epstein estate on Wednesday in which he was mentioned.
That same day, the bipartisan discharge petition reached enough signatures to force a vote in the House to release the full Epstein files despite the GOP leadership’s wishes.
After months of pushing back, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the vote would take place next week.
But the president took aim at members of both parties on Friday.
Trump accused Democrats of doing everything they can to “push the Epstein Hoax again” and claimed in his Truth Social post that it was to deflect from the “SHUTDOWN EMBARRASSMENT, where their party is in total disarray.”
However, several Republicans signed onto the discharge petition, and a significant number of GOP members are expected to buck Trump and support the release of the full files related to the convicted sex offender when the vote takes place.
“Some Weak Republicans have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish,” Trump wrote in his post. “Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!”
GOP Reps. Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert signed the discharge petition in September and refused to back down despite pressure.
Reps. Don Bacon, Rob Bresnahan, Tim Burchett, Warren Davidson and Eli Crane have all said either publicly or to a publication including CNN and Politico that they would vote for the bill when it comes to the floor.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who introduced it with Massie, said he expects 40 to 50 Republicans to back it.
Trump has ignored questions from reporters about the Epstein files since the latest documents were released on Wednesday despite being in settings where he usually engages with the media.
The president on Friday ranted on Truth Social that “Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know all about him, don’t waste your time with Trump.”
The three, like Trump, are known associates of Epstein. None have been accused of any criminal wrongdoing.
In a separate post, the president then said he was directing the Justice Department and FBI to investigate their relationships.
“I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him,” he wrote.
The documents released on Wednesday showed that Epstein wrote in an email that Trump knew about the girls and had spent hours with one of the victims.
The name was redacted when Democrats released it, but Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said it was Virginia Giuffre and accused Democrats redacting her name to try and create a “fake narrative.”
The committee Republicans released 20,000 pages of documents on Wednesday. Trump was mentioned numerous times in the emails released.
Epstein referred to Trump as “dirty,” “mad,” “f---ing crazy” and “borderline insane” in emails provided by his estate. In a 2018 one he wrote “I am the one able to take him down.”&l
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Why is Trump doing this? He wanted to be Duterte: Trump regularly praised President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and said he was doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.” Duterte’s government was, in fact, carrying out summary executions of suspected drug dealers. Duterte now faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court for his drug war.
Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People
In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
By Nick Turse | November 14 2025, 12:28 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/14/boat-strikes-immunity-legality-tru
mp/
The Trump administration is promising legal cover for military personnel who carry out lethal attacks on the alleged drug smugglers in the waters surrounding Latin America.
Amid mounting questions from senior military and civilian lawyers about the legality of proposed strikes on civilian boats, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel this summer produced a classified opinion intended to shield service members up and down the chain of command from prosecution, according to three government officials.
The legal theory advanced in the finding, two sources said, differs from some of President Donald Trump’s public statements on the killings. It claims that narcotics on the boats are lawful military targets because their cargo generates revenue for cartels whom the Trump administration claims are in armed conflict with the U.S.
One senior defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, blasted the opinion. “I don’t know what’s more insane – that the ‘President of Peace’ is starting an illegal war or that he’s giving a get out of jail free card to the U.S. military,” said the official, referencing President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed moniker. “Hopefully they realize there’s no immunity for war crimes. Nor is there a statute of limitations.”
The Trump administration continues to keep the OLC memo from the American people but, this week, finally allowed members of Congress and their staffs to read the document. On Wednesday, just 20 copies were made available in a secure room, causing delays among lawmakers and staffers who have been waiting months to understand the legal reasoning underpinning the attacks.
On Thursday evening, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the campaign of attacks is called Operation Southern Spear. Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and Southern Command, “this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people,” he wrote on X. Southern Spear kicked off earlier this year as part of the Navy’s next-generation effort to use small robot interceptor boats and vertical take-off and landing drones to conduct counternarcotics operations.
The military has carried out 20 known attacks, destroying 21 boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since September, killing at least 80 civilians. The most recent attack, on a vessel in the Caribbean on Monday, first reported by CBS on Thursday, reportedly killed four people. Following most of the attacks, Hegseth or Trump have claimed that the victims belonged to an unspecified designated terrorist organization, or DTO.
A list of DTOs, consisting of Latin American cartels and criminal organizations, is attached to the OLC opinion which claims that attacks on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Pacific are lawful and that personnel involved are immune from prosecution.
“The strikes were ordered consistent with the laws of armed conflict, and as such are lawful orders. Military personnel are legally obligated to follow lawful orders and, as such, are not subject to prosecution for following lawful orders,” a Justice Department spokesperson told The Intercept.
Experts in the law
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Tucker Exposes Trump Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks' Social Media History, The FBI Coverup, And More Strangeness
Friday, Nov 14, 2025 - 08:20 AM
Tucker Carlson has just released a deep dive into Donald Trump's attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks - who both the Biden and the Trump FBI have been very quiet about since the July 13, 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.
In late September, Carlson's team received an anonymous tip from someone who said they had gained access to some of Crooks' online accounts, which he found using 'tools commonly used by private investigators' after obtaining Crooks' phone number and gmail address from public documents. He then traced that to two encrypted foreign email accounts (bcook[at]mailfence.com and americangamer[at]gmx.com). He also had a snapchat account, a Venmo, Zelle and PayPal account among several others.
"It turns out that Crooks was hardly an online ghost," Carlson reports. "And yet, federal investigators lied and told us there was no trace of him online."
The source was able to obtain all materials from Crooks' deactivated YouTube account - which includes his search history, watch history, and 737 public comments.
When Carlson's team asked the FBI why they hadn't shared this information with the public, the agency replied by asking if they could verify the authenticity of the shooter's account.
What did Crooks say?
The comments by Crooks were posted between 2019 and 2020, when he was between 15 and 17-years-old. "They show two things," Carlson explains. "First, that Thomas Crooks was not some secretive lone wolf who never warned anyone that he was planning on violence. Just the opposite. Years before he showed up in Butler, Crooks was leaving a detailed digital trail of violent threats - including calls for assassinations and political violence. Second - they show a man who started out as a radical Trump supporter, whose views on the President transformed - changed completely, during Covid. The FBI lied about that fact, and that Crooks was a right-winger."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-reveals-trump-attempted-ass
assin-thomas-crooks-social-media-history-fbi-coverup
Sounds like someone here, dunnit?
You've left quite a record here, SECOND. You really should be more careful about letting all that righteous hate leak out like that.
Also, the winds of NOT change: The FBI continues to be squirrelly, secretive, and politicized. Kash Patel... WTF???
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Why is Trump doing this? He wanted to be Duterte: Trump regularly praised President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and said he was doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.” Duterte’s government was, in fact, carrying out summary executions of suspected drug dealers. Duterte now faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court for his drug war.
IMHO there's no justification for striking civilian boats and killing "suspects". This reminds me very much of how GWB tortured (so to speak) the law and pressured his then legal council to OK rendition and torture. Bush did his utmost to make the most use of "enemy combatant" category and find an external American-controlled location (originally they were going to use ships at sea but settled on Gitmo) to avoid American, foreign, and international law.
The only mitigating aspect of Trump's behavior is that it's just a few dozen people killed, not hundreds of thousands, like Hillary/Obama, Bill, and GWB did.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by second:
MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.
Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?
No it didn't happen.
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Quote:Already hundreds of thousands have died thanks to Trump! It will be millions in the next 3 years: The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The only mitigating aspect of Trump's behavior is that it's just a few dozen people killed, not hundreds of thousands, like Hillary/Obama, Bill, and GWB did.
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
Film by Thomas Jennings and Annie Wong
Text by Atul Gawande
November 5, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutd
own-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands
. . . An independent, peer-reviewed analysis in The Lancet estimated that U.S.A.I.D. assistance had saved ninety-two million lives over two decades.
Many of the leaders voiced trepidation about what the incoming Administration might bring, but I struck a sanguine note. U.S.A.I.D., I pointed out, had more than sixty years of solid bipartisan backing. Trump had advanced significant parts of the agency’s work in his first term. He had personally pledged to end H.I.V. as a public-health threat by 2030. The incoming Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had been a vocal supporter of the bureau. There would be isolated partisan skirmishes—over diversity initiatives, abortion-related policies, and the like—but more than ninety-five per cent of our bureau’s work had never been under contention.
Clearly, I lacked imagination. Within hours of being sworn in, President Trump signed an executive order for a “pause” to all foreign assistance. Secretary Rubio sent a cable suspending every program outright. No program staff could be paid. No services could be delivered. Medicines and food already on the shelves could not be used. No warning had been given to the governments that relied on them. It was immediately obvious that hundreds of thousands of people would die in the first year alone. But the Administration did not reconsider; it escalated. Elon Musk exulted in swinging his chainsaw. Within weeks and in defiance of legal mandates, he and Rubio purged U.S.A.I.D.’s staff, terminated more than four-fifths of its contracts, impounded its funds, and dismantled the agency. Neither Congress nor the Supreme Court did anything to stop it.
We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed “public man-made death,” which, he observed, has been perhaps the most overlooked cause of mortality in the last century. Brooke Nichols, the Boston University epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, has maintained a respected tracker of current impact.
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=interval_m
inutes&order=asc
The model is conservative, assuming, for example, that the State Department will fully sustain the programs that remain. As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.
The Administration, for its part, has denied causing widespread harm, even as it has made the scale of the damage harder to measure—halting data monitoring and dismissing the inspectors general who might have documented it. This is common in cases of public man-made death. During Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward, from 1958 to 1961, the Chinese government released no accurate mortality data. Observers abroad understood that a hunger crisis was under way when China began importing grain, but the scale of the catastrophe was not known until the mid-nineteen-eighties, when the first reliable census allowed historians to calculate that between twenty-three and thirty million people had died.
A fuller accounting of the fallout from U.S.A.I.D.’s shutdown will probably have to await analysis of the United Nations’ 2025 mortality statistics, which likely won’t appear until 2027. But there are other ways to glimpse the scale of the harm. With a documentary team that includes both American and local journalists, I have been following what has hap
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Quote:Trump's lawyer proves it did happen. The proof is not an admission of guilt. Instead, it's a firehose of falsehoods spoken in court:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.
Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?
No it didn't happen.
The New Epstein Emails Humiliate One Trump Official More Than Most
This is only Deputy Attorney General Blanche’s latest embarrassment by the Epstein scandal.
By Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern | Nov 14, 2025 2:24 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/new-epstein-emails-trump-h
umiliation-todd-blanche.html
House Democrats released a batch of emails on Wednesday that suggest President Donald Trump was aware of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes and did nothing to report them. The messages, sent by Epstein to his associates—including chief accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell—contradict the White House’s claims that Trump had no real relationship with Epstein and was ignorant of his criminal offenses. They also seem to discredit Maxwell’s recent testimony to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who solicited her suspiciously rosy account of Trump’s role this past summer.
On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern spoke about Blanche’s latest embarrassment by the Epstein scandal, as well as his dangerous counteroffensive against the legitimacy of the judiciary. A preview of their conversation, below, has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Dahlia Lithwick: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche—who has been signing off willy-nilly on the Justice Department’s fabrications in court—got pantsed by this email dump. There’s no other word for it. On so many levels, this is just devastating for him. Can you lay out the lies and fabrications and cover-ups?
Mark Joseph Stern: So Blanche interviewed Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, in July as part of an effort to exonerate Trump from the Epstein affair. A week later, she was transferred to a minimum-security prison, reportedly with special approval by the Trump administration, where she gets extraordinary privileges like customized meals, playtime with puppies, unlimited toilet paper, special access to guests with computers. It all looked a lot like a quid pro quo. During that interview, Maxwell did what Blanche wanted her to do, which was to claim that Trump and Epstein weren’t close friends at all, and Trump didn’t know anything about Epstein’s sex crimes. The Justice Department then publicly released the interview.
I think the new emails just flatly contradict Maxwell’s account to Blanche. They suggest that Trump knew about Epstein’s abuses but did nothing to expose them. For instance, Epstein wrote: “Trump knew of” the investigation into his crimes “and came to my house many times during that period.” He told the journalist Michael Wolff that “of course” Trump “knew about the girls.” And he told Maxwell that Trump was “the dog that hasn’t barked” because he evidently did not tell investigators about Epstein’s misconduct despite spending “hours” at Epstein’s house with one of his victims.
The upshot here is that Trump knew something; he probably knew a lot. And he could have said what he knew to law enforcement, but he stayed silent instead. That cannot be squared with what Maxwell told Blanche, and Blanche then told to the public. Of course, Blanche is Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, and he’s used to spinning fables to protect Trump. But when you’re deputy attorney general, and your client is supposed to be the American people, you’re expected to adhere to a higher standard. That expectation has clearly gone out the window. And whatever credibility Blanche may have had with the courts—and even just the American people—should be gone after this email dump.
There was another Blanche infraction this week that is, in many ways, equa
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Quote:When Maga finally accepts that Trump is a pedophile, they still wouldn't question him. They'd question whether being a pedophile is wrong.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.
Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?
No it didn't happen.
Yesterday, Megyn Kelly proved me right.
“Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile. He was into the barely legal type. He liked 15-year-old girls. I realize this is disgusting. I'm definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I'm just giving you facts: he wasn't into, like, 8-year-olds. He liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were but would look legal to a passerby." —Megyn R. Kelly
https://people.com/megyn-kelly-questions-jeffrey-epstein-pedophile-lab
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GOP = Gross Old Pedophiles
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order
An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a “pilot” to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.”
As far back as 2023, Trump has proposed using “large parcels of inexpensive land” to set up “tent cities” or camps for homeless people, coupled with a pledge to use “every tool, lever, and authority” to clear encampments from city streets. On the podcast Invisible People, which focuses on homelessness in America, Eric Tars of the National Homelessness Law Center said Utah’s new facility could be a “pilot program” for that effort around the country.
Much more at https://www.commondreams.org/news/utah-homeless-internment-camp
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Dems and the Deep State and complicit media thought they could fire an "Elstein" media bazooka to distract from the Dem's utter failure with the govt shutdown.
Among other things, they dug up Virginia Giuffre emails, but redacted her name to hide the fact they were from Giuffre, who repeatedly testified that she had never seen Trump do anything inappropriate with teenagers.
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One of the claims - now a deleted X post, the Democratic Party's official account stated, "NEW: Documents show Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017. At the time, Trump was already president, and Epstein was already a convicted sex offender."
And like the TRUMP!RUSSIA!COLLUSION! hoax, they overreached with the complete fiction that Trump, as President, spent Thanksgiving with convicted trafficker Epstein... when there are photos that Trump spent that Thanksgiving dishing out dinners to veterans.
Yanno, if there was ACTUAL EVIDENCE that Trump diddled teens, he'd be in court already, especially since various documents were available to Biden's* FIB and DOJ already. And Dems wouldn't have to make shit up.
This is just so much bullshit.
Epstein was VERY political, targeted upper ups like Prince Andrew, had lots of money (Where did it all come from??? Why is nobody following the money?), even tried meeting Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov thru the good graces of the then Danish PM... IMHO Epstein was Mossad, and teens were honeypots.
And he pulled in as many Dems as Repubs.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:When Maga finally accepts that Trump is a pedophile, they still wouldn't question him.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.
Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?
No it didn't happen.
If Trump were a pedophile, the Democrats would have already made sure he was in prison for it and Harris would be President right now.
How stupid are you, dude?
If Trump were a pedophile, and there were a single shred of evidence in the Epstien files proving it, they would have put that out last August and we'd be swimming in another 20 Million Illegal immigrants with a wide open boarder now. None of the half-billion real estate or E. Jean Carroll stuff would have been necessary at all. None of the lawfare or negative media spin for ten fucking years straight would have been necessary at all.
You had 4 years to fucking bury Trump once and for all with undeniable proof he is a pedophile if there was anything implicating him in there, but you didn't use that?????
There are only 3 reasons that didn't happen under Biden*'s watch:
1. Trump isn't guilty. (and/or there's nothing in the Epstein documents that implicate him)
2. A lot of fucking Democrats (and I'm sure Republicans as well) are on that list and nobody ever wants it released on either side and both sides will just pretend they care when they're not in power and have no real way of doing anything about it other than attack the other side for covering up the truth.
3. All of the above.
Get fucked dude. You're too fucking stupid to use a computer you dumb, thoroughly-propogandized little monkey.
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Quote:The Democrats had 4 years to get a case to trial in Federal court, but the court system moved so slowly that nothing got to trial. Meanwhile, the state courts did convict Trump in those 4 years. The Federal court system does not work because the Republicans in Congress have partial control of who becomes a judge and how much is spent to operate the courts. The Republicans in Congress do NOT want that court system to work, just as they do NOT want the IRS to work, which is the most important reason why $1 trillion in taxes is NOT collected each year. It is also the reason why Trump recently signed a bill to lower the taxes by several $trillion dollars of the fabulously wealthy and why he fired most of the auditors who handle rich people's tax returns. He does NOT want the court and tax systems to work smoothly or swiftly.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If Trump were a pedophile, the Democrats would have already made sure he was in prison for it and Harris would be President right now.
How stupid are you, dude?
Donald Trump indictments, 2023-2025
https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_indictments,_2023-2025
These are things that would have disqualified anybody from becoming president, but a degraded human would see nothing disqualifying about Trump
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These Reagan-appointed judges have had it with Trump
By Kyle Cheney | 11/14/2025 05:24 PM EST
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/14/donald-trump-judges-00652762
When Donald Trump moved on his first day back in office to strip birthright citizenship from children born in the U.S. to some immigrant parents, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour called the newly inaugurated president a threat to the rule of law.
Days after Trump mass-pardoned Jan. 6 defendants who attacked the Capitol, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth warned that for the first time in his career, “meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream.”
And in September, U.S. District Judge William Young warned that Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian immigrants studying at U.S. universities “poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.”
In a year full of judicial rebukes for the president — often followed by vindication for Trump at the Supreme Court — these judges’ fierce and direct assessments of the president have stood out. But there’s more than lofty rhetoric that binds them. All were appointed to the bench decades ago by the same president: Ronald Reagan.
Now a fourth member of the Reagan-era fraternity has joined them: U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf, who took the bench in Massachusetts 40 years ago on the same day as Young. Wolf resigned his senior judgeship last week with the sole purpose of speaking out against what he sees as Trump’s incursion on the rule of law and the high court’s acquiescence to it.
It’s not an accident. Not only do these Reagan-appointed judges wield their seniority as a weapon, but their legal and judicial careers were all forged in the embers of Watergate, when a president’s assertion of vast, unprecedented power threatened to topple the justice system. They all worked and clerked for attorneys and judges tasked with rebuilding confidence in the federal government after Richard Nixon’s resignation and saw in it a vindication of principled appeals to impartial justice.
In a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO, Wolf said his own upbringing as a public corruption prosecutor during that moment of rebuilding is what has contributed to his alarm today. He sees echoes of that era in Trump’s second term but is worried that Americans — who would not have tolerated such behavior in the Watergate era, he says — may be too conditioned to view the world through partisan lenses to respond similarly today.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The Democrats had 4 years to get a case to trial in Federal court
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If Trump were a pedophile, the Democrats would have already made sure he was in prison for it and Harris would be President right now.
How stupid are you, dude?
Yes. They did.
The managed to get all sort of bullshit cases against Trump without any problems, but this one magically couldn't be done in time, huh?
Well... Then I guess you have to give Trump 4 years to not get it done now too. Then you can give Democrats 4 more years to never get it done the next time they're in office.
Go fuck yourself, stupid.
It's like talking to a retard.
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Ben Shapiro claims Marjorie Taylor Greene supports the release of the Epstein files because she wants to destroy Trump's presidency.
Why would releasing the Epstein files destroy Trump’s presidency?
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
https://couriernewsroom.com/news/we-created-a-searchable-database-with
-all-20000-files-from-epsteins-estate/
Gosh that’s a lot for an innocent guy.
In a normal world, this would not be a political issue.
Republicans: “You libtards are asking for the release of the Epstein files, but aren't you scared that there are also a lot of big-name Democrats in there?"
Well, here is the thing: Unlike you, I don't give a shit about a child rapist's political affiliation. The child-raping part takes precedence over anything else.
Raping children is not a political issue. There are no "republican child rapists" and "democrat child rapists". There are only "child rapists", and they should all be exposed and treated as such.
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Reopening the government drags the Jeffrey Epstein files back into the spotlight.
His opposition to releasing the documents is a political disaster waiting to happen. Why fight transparency if there's nothing to hide?
And the bill they passed only funds most agencies until Jan. 30. That means if there is no solution to rising health care costs by then, Democrats can try a partial shutdown weeks before primary season – blaming Republicans at the top of an election year.
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Republicans consider rolling back safety rules aimed at chemical hubs like Houston's
By James Osborne, Staff Writer, Washington Bureau | Nov 7, 2025
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/chemical-rules
-houston-ship-channel-21131244.php
Nine years after Congress reached a landmark deal to limit Americans' exposure to toxic chemicals in places like the Houston Ship Channel, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are moving to loosen what had once been bipartisan regulations on chemical plants.
The Trump administration has undertaken a series of administrative actions this year to weaken EPA's oversight of the industry. Now Congress is weighing a rollback of 2016 legislation that amended the Toxic Substances Control Act — the landmark 1976 law that put limits on the distribution of toxic chemicals including PCBs, lead and radon.
Republicans have yet to release a draft bill, but at an industry event in Washington last month Lynn Dekleva, deputy assistant administrator of EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention and a former senior director at the American Chemistry Council, which lobbies for the industry, said House legislation she'd seen was "pretty radical," according to the news site Inside EPA.
She didn't go into details but derided the 2016 legislation as "a freight train."
"Some sections I want to blow up, but that's not for me to say," she said.
The unwinding of chemical standards pose a risk to communities surrounding Houston's petrochemical plants along the ship channel, which an EPA report last year showed have long suffered from elevated rates of asthma, cancer and other disease.
The 2016 reforms were supposed to reduce those communities' exposure to some of the most dangerous chemicals.
For instance, the Oxy Vinyls plant in La Porte, produces tetrachloroethylene, a known carcinogen that also causes neurological disorders, which the EPA ordered to be phased out last year, according to data collected by the Environmental Defense Fund. And Exxon Mobil's chemical plant in Baytown produces 1,3-Butadiene, a chemical used to make synthetic rubber and plastics that EPA scientists said in a draft appraisal last year presented "an unreasonable risk of injury to human health for workers and the general population (including fence line communities)."
"You have chemical plants and lots of freeways built around houses and playgrounds," said Inyang Uwak, research and policy director at Air Alliance Houston, an environmental group. "They're being exposed to a variety of compounds, and they all have different health impacts. If it's butadiene, it's the kidneys or non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. If it's benzene, I look for leukemia."
Earlier this year President Donald Trump issued an executive order rolling back tougher emissions standards for petrochemical plants like those that line the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coasts. And EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed last month to limit that agency's ability to declare a chemical of "unreasonable risk," which typically results in limits or prohibitions on a chemical's uses to limit exposure.
The moves come amid pushback from chemical companies over the 2016 changes, which they say have resulted in long delays in chemical approvals and made them less competitive against overseas rivals.
John Huntsman, CEO of the Houston chemical company Huntsman Corp., derided U.S. chemical safety laws at a Senate hearing last month as taking "an overly conservative approach, not based on real world risks."
"This has led to unnecessary bans and highly restrictive regulations that are well outside the range of the rest of the world," he said.
'It will just make people sicker'
Up until the 2016 legislation, a new chemical would be placed on the market automatically if the EPA exceeded its 90-day review period to decide if a chemical presented "an unre
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