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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?
Because he's waiting to dump it on you before an election. If he put it out there now, the idiots will forget a year from now.
You had 4 years to do something about it and you didn't.
If Trump is guilty, you would have nailed him to a fucking cross with this.
Grow up, faggot.
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Quote:Trump has been on trial in state courts thousands of times and lost. He happens to owe people many $millions for raping them and he owes others for fraud, but only in state courts. Meanwhile, in Federal Court, the cases take years to get in front of a jury. Why the difference between state and federal? Because Republican Senators have packed the Federal courts with goofy fucking bastard judges who won’t move cases to trial. Same thing happens at the IRS.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
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?
Because he's waiting to dump it on you before an election. If he put it out there now, the idiots will forget a year from now.
You had 4 years to do something about it and you didn't.
If Trump is guilty, you would have nailed him to a fucking cross with this.
Grow up, faggot.
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The Republican congressmen keep cutting budget for the IRS, Trump fires auditors, and there is nobody to force Trump to pay his taxes. Guess what? Trump doesn’t pay Federal taxes for the same reason Trump doesn’t go to trial in Federal court. By the way, Trump does pay many $millions in real estate taxes each year because cities and states don’t have Republican Congressmen interfering in the collection of local taxes.
Trump’s tax returns released by House committee show he paid little in taxes (“little” means $750 for an entire year. The next year was another $750. Will Trump go on trial for fraud? Not in Federal court, but he has in state court. And been convicted, too!)
The House Ways and Means Committee released six years of Trump's personal and business returns, ending years of legal wrangling and speculation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-tax-returns-relea
sed-house-committee-years-legal-battles-rcna62408
Trump could be in jail for tax cheating now, but he is not, only because Republican Congressmen have control of the IRS and the Federal courts.
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Originally posted by second:
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?
Because he's waiting to dump it on you before an election. If he put it out there now, the idiots will forget a year from now.
You had 4 years to do something about it and you didn't.
If Trump is guilty, you would have nailed him to a fucking cross with this.
Grow up, faggot.
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
https://www.comicsands.com/onion-trump-headline-epstein-emails
The pedophile in chief still has a 37% ish approval rating. So it's less about the moral reprehensibility of Trump and the Republican politicians that stick with him - we already know that about them - it's the moral reprehensibility of a whole lot of our neighbors and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.
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In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare
Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty
Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished
https://www.facebook.com/groups/antiqanonmemes/posts/2056040011604340/
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As Dershowitz claims Epstein wasn’t a pedophile, Marjorie Taylor Greene pushes back against Trump
November 15, 2025
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/11/15/as-dershowitz-claims-epste
in-wasnt-a-pedophile-marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-back-against-trump/
The Daily Beast reports:
Emeritus Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz entered the latest public spat around the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his friendship with President Donald Trump by arguing that Epstein wasn’t all that bad.
Speaking with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation on Friday, Dershowitz thought it prudent to clarify the nature of Epstein’s crimes.
“The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile,” Dershowitz complained to Cuomo.
“[Epstein] pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.”
While Epstein is alleged to have committed far more numerous and wide-ranging crimes, the case Dershowitz is referring to is that of his 2008 plea deal, under which he served 13 months (of an 18-month sentence) in a work-release program.
However, that investigation began after accusations were made about his interactions with a 14-year-old girl, and federal officials identified 36 similarly aged girls whom Epstein allegedly abused.
In 2019, CNN reported: A woman who claims to be a victim of multimillionaire alleged pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has filed a defamation lawsuit against high-profile attorney Alan Dershowitz, claiming that he made “false and malicious” statements about her.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed in April in the Southern District of New York, Dershowitz – who used to represent Epstein – knowingly made “false and malicious defamatory statements” against Virginia Giuffre, formerly known as Virginia Roberts, who claims to have been a victim of sex trafficking and abuse by Epstein when she was underage.
Giuffre alleges in her suit that Dershowitz, 80, was a participant in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, and that she had sex with Dershowitz as part of that operation. Giuffre has made similar allegations against Dershowitz in court filings in the past.
“Defendant Dershowitz was Epstein’s attorney, close friend, and co-conspirator. Dershowitz was also a participant in sex trafficking, including as one of the men to whom Epstein lent out Plaintiff for sex,” the lawsuit alleges.
HuffPost reports:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday pushed back against President Donald Trump for saying any Republican who supports the release of documents about Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender who once called him his “closest friend,” is “stupid.”
Greene responded in a “CBS Mornings” interview, noting her concern is for “the victims.”
“These women have been waiting, some of them for decades,” she said. “I talked to several victims that were raped by Jeffrey Epstein back in the ’90s, and so this is information that has needed to come out for a very long time, and the American people have demanded it.”
Greene was one of only four House Republicans to support a discharge petition from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee to force a vote on the release of documents on Epstein. Trump called those Republicans “very bad” earlier in the week.
During the Friday interview, Greene said “the American people deserve to see transparency from their government” and that “rich, powerful people should not be protected.” She added that her stance is “a message” to all children, rape and human trafficking victims that the government supports them.
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
Awwwwww...
That sounds to me like peak crybabyism.
You suck. Your party sucks. Your world is dead.
Go away now. Everybody hates you, Second.
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Originally posted by second:
In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare
Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty
Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished
Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.
America hates Democrats.
Good riddance.
Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.
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Oh... and spoiler alert:
All you college educated, fart-smelling smug pricks are about to be jobless too with AI, so your worthless fucking piece of paper is going to put you all in a worse position than the rest of us are in with all that college debt you'll never be able to pay off and your egos the size of Mt. Rushmore being blown to bits all the while.
And none of you pussies know how to use a fucking hammer.
Have fun with that, White Liberal trash.
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Quote:Are you aware of who Beavis and Butt-Head are, voiced by Mike Judge? Judge is familiar with Trumptards and their children. He modelled Beavis and Butt-head on them. They never learn, never have any insight, and are never going to change for the better. That is the reason why Trumptards will always struggle. You are Butt-head, and there is no way for you to escape from yourself.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare
Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty
Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished
Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.
America hates Democrats.
Good riddance.
Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Gunboat diplomacy
The US has a long history of military extortion. The latest example is Trump’s saber-rattling movement of Navy battle groups off the coast of Venezuela and the extrajudicial assassinations the administration has been conducting off the Venezuelan coast in the name of drug interdiction.
Part of it is the classic right-wing pathology: Venezuela has huge oil reserves and a government unfriendly to the US. If Trump can depose Venezuela’s president and install a US puppet regime, it will flood the world market with cheap oil, lowering gas prices in the US.
The other part is that Venezuela is the only remaining benefactor of Cuba. Cut off that lifeline and Cuba folds, realizing the life-long dream of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Casual inspection of the history of US gunboat diplomacy doesn’t inspire confidence, but since when have history, facts and evidence deterred the right-wing fever dream?
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Why Trump is threatening Venezuela
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/opinion/trump-venezuela-maduro-
invasion/
Preparations for a military assault on Venezuela raise an obvious question: Why? President Trump campaigned on a promise to “end the endless foreign wars.” In his inaugural address, he asked Americans to judge him “not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” Given all that, why has he been threatening to launch a war of choice against Venezuela?
Maybe it’s an empty threat. Trump said in a recent interview that the Venezuelan government’s days are numbered, but when asked if he will order an invasion, he replied, “I don’t think so.” That would mean he has approved a massive and highly expensive deployment just for show.
The stated reason for intensifying pressure on Venezuela is that it exports deadly drugs to the United States and President Nicolás Maduro is complicit. It is not persuasive. Venezuela produces no fentanyl and is a smaller player in the cocaine trade than Colombia, Peru, or Mexico. War in Venezuela will not substantially reduce the availability of drugs in the United States. Despite what the White House says, this war would not be waged only to fight drug traffickers.
Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. Big powers throughout history have seized foreign lands in order to loot their resources. Chevron is eager to repair Venezuela’s collapsing oil infrastructure and drill Venezuelan oil if political conditions change. President Trump is notoriously willing to shape his foreign policy to suit corporate interests. Even if war in Venezuela would open up a new energy supply and produce rich corporate profits, though, it would probably not be waged for that reason alone.
A third possible explanation for the Venezuela war fever is that Washington is driven by a wish to depose Maduro. He has been harshly authoritarian and outspokenly anti-American. In August the United States doubled the bounty it has placed on his head, from $25 million to $50 million. Taking him down would feel like a geopolitical victory. The recent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan activist who has urged the United States to invade her country could cloak an overthrow in moral legitimacy. But if taking down odious Latin American leaders is the goal, why not start with President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, whose regime is equally anti-American and even more repressive? Some in Washington would enjoy seeing Maduro handcuffed and in an orange jumpsuit. Nonetheless, that wish is hardly intense enough to justify an invasion.
Nor could an invasion be explained as a simple attention-grabber, a kind of “Operation Distract From Epstein.”
The real reason this administration is threatening Venezuela may lie beyond Venezuela itself. Trump’s policy toward Latin America is driven by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has built his career on confronting Cuba. Today Cuba and Venezuela are close partners. If the United States can depose Maduro, Cuba could edge closer to col
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Construction crews completely demolished the East Wing of the White House without any input whatsoever from historians or structural preservationists. The East Wing as we know it (well, as we knew it) dates to 1942.
It took only about three days to destroy 83 years of presidential history. This from the same administration that just had D.C.’s only Confederate statute reinstalled while crowing the same tired lies you always hear from the right about how much they love and feel the need to preserve history whenever it’s a monument to racism they want to protect rather than the East Wing of the effing White House.
At any rate, the Trump administration has been bragging about how Trump’s new ballroom will not be taxpayer funded, but will instead be funded by private donors. I mean, taxpayers still aren’t getting compensated for the total destruction of the historical East Wing of the White House that we already owned, but sure.
Also I don’t really see how the president selling influence to giant corporations and obscenely wealthy individuals is going to be better for us than the waste of a few hundred million more tax dollars by the administration that just made history of its own by ballooning America’s national debt by an additional $1 trillion in the span of only two months.
More at https://angrybearblog.com/2025/11/donating-to-trumps-white-house-east-
wing-demolition
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All I see in the Republican Party today is a creepy, weird fealty to someone who doesn’t deserve it. During Covid, I binged every Netflix documentary about cults — NXIVM and the Way Down Cult and Sarah Lawrence, everything. And what they all have in common is this weird, passionate devotion to an utterly unremarkable person. That’s where I feel we are now. I see the man-on-the-street interviews where people are calling Donald Trump authentic and honest, and he means what he says. I think you've got to be kidding me. What’s new is this strange, cult-like devotion to the very last person who would deserve it.
https://deadline.com/2025/11/aaron-sorkin-the-american-president-movie
-wouldnt-be-made-1236619651/
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Do you know what you know?
(Over-confident Trumptards struggle to reach success in America because they are extremely mistaken about their competency in all areas of life except one or two)
It is inevitable that someone 91% or more certain about their answer when asked a question that they don't really know the answer to is foolish. See Trump for that phenomenon.
How confident are you?
How likely do you think the previous statement was true?
51%-60%
61%-70%
71%-80%
81%-90%
91%-100%
50-50 (absolutely no idea, it’s a coin flip)
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Quote:How Our Society Started Worshiping Idiots
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Do you know what you know?
We live in an era where noise is mistaken for wisdom and popularity for truth. But how did we get here — to a world that celebrates ignorance and mocks intelligence?
In this powerful video inspired by the philosophy of Socrates, we explore how modern society has begun to worship superficiality over substance, and why thinkers, truth-seekers, and critical minds are increasingly silenced. From the digital age to the age of the Sophists, this reflection uncovers how our craving for attention has replaced our pursuit of understanding.
Discover what Socrates, Carl Jung, and Nietzsche can teach us about the illusion of knowledge, the manipulation of truth, and the psychological forces that make the masses follow fools instead of the wise. More importantly, learn how you can reclaim your ability to think freely in a culture that rewards conformity.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Are you aware of who Beavis and Butt-Head are
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare
Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty
Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished
Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.
America hates Democrats.
Good riddance.
Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.
Shut the fuck up, dude.
I'm always right, and you're always wrong.
Look around you. The world you thought you were living in doesn't exist anymore. It never did.
You're finished. Everything you ever wanted will never come true now.
Your party is dead. Globalism is dead. Your ideology is dead. Kevin Drum is dead.
If you hate America so much, I suggest you take your billions and get the fuck out of here.
We hate you too, and there are A LOT more of us than there are of you.
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Quote:6ix, you literally are crazy. There is zero possibility of you coming back from your insanity.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Are you aware of who Beavis and Butt-Head are
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare
Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty
Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished
Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.
America hates Democrats.
Good riddance.
Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.
Shut the fuck up, dude.
I'm always right, and you're always wrong.
Look around you. The world you thought you were living in doesn't exist anymore. It never did.
You're finished. Everything you ever wanted will never come true now.
Your party is dead. Globalism is dead. Your ideology is dead. Kevin Drum is dead.
If you hate America so much, I suggest you take your billions and get the fuck out of here.
We hate you too, and there are A LOT more of us than there are of you.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s Nearly $2 Billion Postelection Windfall
Even though his campaign ended a year ago, the president hasn’t stopped fundraising.
By Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker | November 18, 2025, 6 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-fundraising-ballroo
m/684963/
On the morning after he won a second term as president, Donald Trump placed an unexpected call to his top fundraiser, Meredith O’Rourke. The night before, he’d told a ballroom of supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida, that he had held his last political rally—“Can you believe it?”—and was ready to focus on governing. But his message to O’Rourke after the break of dawn was different. “I want you to keep going,” he told her.
Within weeks, that message had gone out to his Republican donors, as well as to Fortune 500 companies and billionaire investors who typically avoided electoral politics. Their first opportunity was his second inauguration committee, which would eventually raise $241 million, about $90 million more than organizers needed to fund the events—and nearly four times as much as Joe Biden had raised for his own inauguration, in 2021. But that was just the beginning.
Trump wanted money for the sorts of political operations that many politicians support—the Republican National Committee, his own political action committee, a new dark-money nonprofit group, a super PAC run by longtime advisers. But he was also requesting money for technically apolitical nonprofit causes that offered corporations and wealthy individuals a chance to make tax-deductible contributions, including a dramatic White House renovation, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (now under his control), his presidential library, and a celebratory Army parade on his birthday. By August, Trump estimated that he had collected at least $1.5 billion since the election, more than all the money raised to support his 2024 campaign over two years, including funds raised by supportive independent super PACs. The tally is now approaching $2 billion, two people familiar with the effort—who, like others, were not authorized to speak publicly—told us.
Read: ‘I run the country and the world.’ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/trump-second-term
-comeback/682573/
Trump has kept careful track of the money coming in, regularly calling O’Rourke late at night for updates. He monitors who is giving, who is not, and the role of lobbyists who bundle donations, those familiar with his efforts told us. At times, the actual donation amount is less important to the president than the percentage of the donor’s overall assets. He thanks the most generous benefactors at swanky events at the White House and his clubs.
Much of the money has come from people or entities that have business before the government. Defense contractors, cryptocurrency investors, and technology companies have put in tens of millions of dollars as he has deregulated the industry or dropped enforcement proceedings. A select group of companies and executives—Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Coinbase, Palantir CEO Alex Karp—are top donors to multiple Trump projects.
Nothing on this scale was ever attempted by a sitting president prior to Trump. Other recent administrations have faced their own scandals over fundraising efforts. But Trump’s approach—in the extent of the donations he’s soliciting, the secrecy with which some are handled, and the frankness of the exchange of dollars for presidential favor—puts even the most ambitious prior efforts to shame. And he’s just getting started. “He hasn’t stopped,” a third person told us, “and I don’t anticipate that we will stop.”
Trump’s relentless fundraising has alarmed ethics watchdogs who have worked for years to reduce the role of large donations in buying access or protection from government regulation.
“While it is not unusual for lame duck presidents to fundraise for their Libraries, what we are seeing from President Trump in his first year of office is shockingly unprecedented,” Trevor Potter
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Trump, through his private investments, positioned himself to profit from decisions in his role as president
Trump was legally obligated to release the financial disclosures, which show he purchased more than $337 million in corporate and municipal bonds since August.
Trump waged a yearslong conspiracy-driven campaign against former President Joe Biden, accusing him of using the presidency to enrich himself and his family.
The suggestion that the president is staying out of his family’s business affairs has been contradicted by Trump Organization statements to foreign governments and by Eric Trump himself.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/15/trump-buys-82-million-in-bonds-since-l
ate-august.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you literally are crazy. There is zero possibility of you coming back from your insanity.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Are you aware of who Beavis and Butt-Head are
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In 2024, only 2 states had all counties vote unanimously - let’s compare
Trump won in all counties in Oklahoma, which is ranked
44th in education
49th in healthcare
44th in quality of life
50th in test scores
The top ten worst poverty
Trump lost in all counties in Massachusetts, which is ranked
1st in education
2nd in healthcare
1st in quality of life
1st in test scores
The top ten least impoverished
Instead of making fun of them, maybe you should have fucking done something for them instead of doing it for everybody else in the world and bringing in rejects by the tens of millions to suppress their wages or just outright displace them from their already shitty jobs.
America hates Democrats.
Good riddance.
Your party is officially dead. Get fucked.
Shut the fuck up, dude.
I'm always right, and you're always wrong.
Look around you. The world you thought you were living in doesn't exist anymore. It never did.
You're finished. Everything you ever wanted will never come true now.
Your party is dead. Globalism is dead. Your ideology is dead. Kevin Drum is dead.
If you hate America so much, I suggest you take your billions and get the fuck out of here.
We hate you too, and there are A LOT more of us than there are of you.
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That's fine.
I'll just keep being right about everything while you continue being wrong about everything.
You're the idiot here. Everybody knows it.
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Quote:Whether the phrase "I'll just keep being right about everything" is considered "sane" depends entirely on context and interpretation.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll just keep being right about everything . . .
From a literal, psychological perspective, it suggests a delusion of infallibility, which is factually impossible and not reflective of a rational self-awareness. Psychologically healthy individuals understand that they make mistakes.
From an informal, conversational perspective, the phrase can be used in a variety of non-literal ways:
• Sarcasm or humor: Someone might say this self-deprecatingly after correctly predicting a minor outcome (e.g., the weather or a sports score).
• Arrogance: In a debate or argument, it might be used to express extreme confidence or dismiss an opponent's viewpoint, often perceived as an arrogant or prideful statement.
• Frustration: It could be said in exasperation if a person feels their correct opinions are consistently ignored.
In short, while it's an extreme statement that literally describes an irrational belief, its "sanity" in a given situation is determined by the speaker's intent and tone of voice.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Whether the phrase "I'll just keep being right about everything" is considered "sane" depends entirely on context and interpretation.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll just keep being right about everything . . .
Let me put it another way then...
I'll just sit here and laugh while you continue to be wrong about everything.
There.
Much better.
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Quote:6ix goes to his happy place. Joker laughing scene:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll just sit here and laugh . . .
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix goes to his happy place. Joker laughing scene:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll just sit here and laugh . . .
You're the one who pirated that movie and watches it everyday thinking about me, Arthur.
Believe it or not, I don't' laugh a whole lot. You, however, are an endless source of laughs out of me.
I didn't realize that they made people this stupid until I sobered up and saw you two retards and your 60IQ between you, completely sober.
It's a good thing you never did drink or do drugs. You don't have a single braincell to spare. You lose anymore you'll start shitting yourself and a few more after that and you'll forget how to breathe.
Do the entire world a favor and have yourself a drink tonight.
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Quote:The passage you shared contains highly offensive, abusive, and derogatory language, including insults related to intelligence and the use of the ableist slur "retards". The content is hateful and promotes self-harm.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Believe it or not, I don't' laugh a whole lot. You, however, are an endless source of laughs out of me.
I didn't realize that they made people this stupid until I sobered up and saw you two retards and your 60IQ between you, completely sober.
It's a good thing you never did drink or do drugs. You don't have a single braincell to spare. You lose anymore you'll start shitting yourself and a few more after that and you'll forget how to breathe.
Do the entire world a favor and have yourself a drink tonight.
As an AI, my purpose is to be helpful and harmless, and I must adhere to strict safety guidelines that prohibit generating or condoning such content. I cannot agree that this passage "sounds sane" and actively advise against using such language.
6ix, an AI can see what is wrong with you. Why can't 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:The passage you shared contains highly offensive, abusive, and derogatory language, including insults related to intelligence and the use of the ableist slur "retards". The content is hateful and promotes self-harm.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Believe it or not, I don't' laugh a whole lot. You, however, are an endless source of laughs out of me.
I didn't realize that they made people this stupid until I sobered up and saw you two retards and your 60IQ between you, completely sober.
It's a good thing you never did drink or do drugs. You don't have a single braincell to spare. You lose anymore you'll start shitting yourself and a few more after that and you'll forget how to breathe.
Do the entire world a favor and have yourself a drink tonight.
As an AI, my purpose is to be helpful and harmless, and I must adhere to strict safety guidelines that prohibit generating or condoning such content. I cannot agree that this passage "sounds sane" and actively advise against using such language.
6ix, an AI can see what is wrong with you. Why can't you?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
AI that was written by America hating, faggot, Liberal soyboy cucks like you.
Go fuck yourself.
Maybe you should ask it to give you advice on all the people you want to murder or you want to see somebody else murder because you're too much of a fucking coward to do it yourself.
Don't ask me to do it for you. I wouldn't dare feed your bile which is beyond treasonous at times into an AI.
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Quote:Trump helps sex criminals escape justice because they are his kind of people.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
AI that was written by America hating, faggot, Liberal soyboy cucks like you.
Go fuck yourself.
Maybe you should ask it to give you advice on all the people you want to murder or you want to see somebody else murder because you're too much of a fucking coward to do it yourself.
Don't ask me to do it for you. I wouldn't dare feed your bile which is beyond treasonous at times into an AI.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
By Robert Faturechi and Avi Asher-Schapiro | November 18, 2025, 5:30 am
https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-tate-investigation-dhs-paul-
ingrassia
Online influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers, was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.
“The Tates will be free, Trump is the president. The good old days are back,” Tate posted on X before the trip in February — one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.
But when the Tate brothers arrived by private plane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, they immediately found themselves in the crosshairs of law enforcement once more, as Customs and Border Protection officials seized their electronic devices.
This time, they had a powerful ally come to their aid. Behind the scenes, the White House intervened on their behalf.
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Quote:Trump pardons sex criminals because he has been accused of the same.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
AI that was written by America hating, faggot, Liberal soyboy cucks like you.
Go fuck yourself.
Maybe you should ask it to give you advice on all the people you want to murder or you want to see somebody else murder because you're too much of a fucking coward to do it yourself.
Don't ask me to do it for you. I wouldn't dare feed your bile which is beyond treasonous at times into an AI.
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Andrew Johnson claimed to an alleged child molestation victim that Trump’s pardon entitled him to multi-million dollar reparations.
By Amanda Moore | November 17 2025, 9:39 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/17/pardoned-jan-6-child-abuse-molesta
tion-andrew-paul-johnson/
A pardoned January 6 rioter has been charged with sex crimes against two children. Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old, joining a growing list of U.S. Capitol rioters pardoned by President Donald Trump who now face new legal trouble.
Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money because, Johnson claimed, he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest, according to a police report from a Hernando County Sheriff’s Department detective.
Those convicted and later pardoned for involvement in the January 6 riot have not been rewarded any reparations, though Trump and January 6 rioters have floated the idea of a compensation fund.
Johnson said he would put the victim in his will to receive any of the money left after his death. Police believed this was done to keep the child from “exposing what Andrew had done,” according to the arrest report, which was filed in court.
Police believe Johnson offered to put the alleged victim in his will to keep the child quiet.
Johnson faces two criminal cases in county court, one for each child. In one case, he has been charged with lewd or lascivious molestation of a child under the age of 12. In the other case, he faces a charge of lewd or lascivious behavior to a child under the age of 16, transmitting harmful information to minors, and exhibition with a victim under the age of 16.
Johnson has pleaded not guilty, and his trials are set to start early next year. (Johnson’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.)
Though some records, like the redacted arrest affidavits, are public, the indictments and other court filings in Hernando County are not available to the public. Florida law allows authorities to withhold information from public records that would identify victims of child sex crimes.
Two police arrest reports detail Johnson’s alleged crimes, which range from sexual contact with the genitals of an 11-year-old to asking a minor for sex. Johnson’s victims, according to a pair of arrest affidavits, were the child of his now ex-girlfriend and a friend of the first child.
On August 26, eight days after an arrest warrant was issued for the child sex crimes charges, Johnson was arrested in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, according to local media there, which noted his January 6 pardon, and set for extradition to Florida.
Johnson was among the 1,500 people charged in connection with the riots on January 6, 2021, in which supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington in an attempt to overthrow the president’s election loss to Joe Biden. According to an FBI affidavit, authorities found probable cause to charge Johnson for entering the Capitol illegally and trying to interfere with Congress’s certification of Biden’s victory. An FBI affidavit includes photos of Johnson climbing into the building through a broken window.
Johnson, 44, represented himself in court and pleaded guilty in the spring of 2024 to charges of violently entering the Capitol and
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Who Will Replace MTG in Trump's Clown Car?
By Andy Borowitz | Nov 15, 2025
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/who-will-replace-mtg-in-trumps-clown
A clown of MTG’s magnitude is not easily replaced. Of all the heinous things Donald Trump has done, by far the most unforgivable is making me agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
For as long as I can remember, the Georgia congresswoman has been a reliable firehose of braying jackass clownery. Lately, though, I’ve been subjected to the unsettling spectacle of Marge behaving in a sentient manner. It’s like enjoying a new song and finding out it’s by Kid Rock.
I’d come to count on Marge to educate me, in her addled, QAnon-marinated way, about how the world really works. In October 2024, as a ferocious hurricane headed for Florida, she posted on X, “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.” (Of course, as everyone knows, the only thing that can alter the course of a hurricane is a Sharpie—also useful for creating pornographic birthday cards for that special sex trafficker in your life.)
Putting her money where her free-range mouth was, one year later Greene announced a plan to make “weather modification” a crime. “I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity,” she declared on X. “It will be a felony offense.”
This, of course, was not the first time she accused supervillains of exploiting the skies for nefarious ends. In 2018, she famously proposed that California wildfires were being ignited by “lasers or blue beams of light” emitted by “space solar generators” financed in part by the Rothschild banking family. This majestically loony riff inspired the phrase “Jewish space lasers,” a term she didn’t invent but probably wished she had.
(Full disclosure: I love the concept of Jewish space lasers. I’m flattered that anyone would consider me capable of operating one—I can barely mute myself on Zoom. And space lasers would have come in so handy for my Jewish ancestors, especially when they were running from the Gazpacho.)
Yes, I’ll admit it: I adored Marjorie Taylor Greene in all her crackpot glory and eagerly awaited every pearl of paranoia that spewed from her piehole. But, alas, this highly entertaining wackadoodle version of MTG seems to be a thing of the past, supplanted by a shockingly rational MTG who’s no fun at all. I am not a fan of this reboot.
I’d been pondering the mystery of MTG’s transformation, but then, on Instagram, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cleared the whole thing up. She revealed that Trump blocked Greene’s bid for the US Senate and that “she has been on a revenge tour ever since.”
So that explains it! Marge isn’t a new person after all—she’s just been wreaking revenge on Trump by doing the thing he hates most: making sense.
The first stop on Marge’s revenge tour involved the client list of Trump’s erstwhile BFF Jeffrey Epstein, which Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed was sitting on her desk before her own DOJ declared the document as nonexistent as Trump’s healthcare plan. Greene smelled a conspiracy worthy of the Illuminati—and, much like the proverbial stopped clock, she was right.
In September, she openly defied Trump by appearing on the steps of the Capitol in solidarity with a group of Epstein survivors. “If they want to give me a list, I will walk in the Capitol on the House floor, and I’ll say every damn name that abused these women,” Greene vowed. “I can do that for them, and I’d be proud to do that.”
But her revenge tour was just gearing up. MTG broke with Trump on immigration, stating, “As a conservative and as a business owner in the construction industry, and as a realist, I can say we have to do something about labor. And that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them just like that.”
And when Republicans plott
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The Trump Administration’s Favorite Tool for Criminalizing Dissent
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies?
By Quinta Jurecic | November 18, 2025, 8:48 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/favorite-statute-section-111
-ice/684961/
The videos have become commonplace. Federal officers wearing masks and bulletproof vests subdue a moped driver in the middle of a busy D.C. street. A 70-year-old protester in Chicago is pushed to the ground by an armed Border Patrol agent holding a riot gun. In Los Angeles, an agent shoves away a demonstrator.
These videos capture the aggressive tactics of immigration officers under the second Trump administration. But they share something else, too. In each instance, following documented violence by federal officers toward protesters and immigrants, the Justice Department pressed charges—against the victim of that violence. Those three people, according to the DOJ, had all broken a law prohibiting “assaulting, resisting, or impeding” federal officials.
As the government continues to attempt mass deportations, that law, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force. The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,” though the law has nothing to do with terrorism. Across the country, prosecutors have charged case after case in federal court—one against a member of Congress; one against a congressional candidate; another against a bystander who happened to walk by a protest at the wrong time; and, most memorably, another against a Washington, D.C. man who hurled a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer, creating an instant symbol of protest for a city patrolled by the National Guard and other federal forces. I was able to tally more than a hundred prosecutions charged under Section 111 in recent months—and given the difficulty of searching federal court records across more than 90 judicial districts, my data are almost certainly an undercount.
Not every Section 111 case is obviously a stretch: Some court filings allege that protesters threw rocks at immigration officers or pepper-sprayed them at close range—seemingly clear-cut violations of the law, which might be charged by any Justice Department under any administration. There’s even a decent argument that throwing a hoagie could potentially violate the terms of the statute. Still, though, instances where immigration officers appear to have been genuinely at risk are the exception compared to the growing number of cases where agents were scraped, bumped, mildly inconvenienced, or themselves attacked the defendant. The statute’s widespread use isn’t merely a sign of prosecutorial overreach; it has become an indicator of the administration’s quest to silence dissent.
Until this recent spate of charges, Section 111 was not a particularly interesting or controversial law. It originates from a 1934 statute passed after the attorney general urged Congress to draft legislation enabling “the protection of Federal officers and employees.” (In 1948, that law was further consolidated with a separate, extremely specific prohibition against assaults on employees of the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Animal Industry.) Under the statute, anyone who “forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes” with federal officials carrying out their job can face either a misdemeanor or a felony charge with up to 20 years of incarceration, depending in part on the degree of force used.
Over the years, the Justice Department has wielded the statute to prosecute cases of prison inmates attacking guards or irate individuals who committed such sins as poking an IRS agent in the chest or spitting at a mail carrier. More recently, it became a workhors
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Another day at the office, huh Second?
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Quote:Just another day at the White House: Trump’s guest is a murderer, but Trump denies it all because the guest brings $1 trillion for Trump
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Another day at the office, huh Second?
(Photo of Trump and Mr Bone Saw staging love-in as Saudi’s $1 trillion wipes the bloody slate clean. The two men laugh about the reporter’s murder while holding hands. Special note: if Trump's guest raped children, Trump won't mind.)
What happened to Jamal Khashoggi? Trump resurfaces memories of journalist’s brutal murder
President’s claim that Mohammed bin Salman had nothing to do with 2018 killing contradicts US intelligence
By Andrew Roth | Wed 19 Nov 2025 05.41 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/what-happened-jamal-khas
hoggi-murder-trump-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman
Donald Trump on Tuesday said that Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, had nothing to do with the murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, whose assassination in 2018 left the Saudi leader an international pariah.
But Trump’s own intelligence services, as well as a 2019 UN investigation, have painted a very different picture. The assassination took place inside a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where a 15-person team led by a close associate of Prince Mohammed was said to have drugged, murdered and dismembered Khashoggi in order to hide evidence of the crime.
“Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” Trump said when asked about the killing by a reporter during an Oval Office appearance with Prince Mohammed on Tuesday. “But [Prince Mohammed] knew nothing about it,” continued Trump. “And we can leave it at that. You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.”
That is not what the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence concluded in 2021, when a report by the agency laid the blame for Khashoggi’s death directly on Prince Mohammed, who on Tuesday made his first visit to the US since the assassination.
“We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey, to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” the 2021 report read.
The crown prince denied ordering the operation but acknowledged responsibility as the kingdom’s de facto ruler.
The motive for Khashoggi’s murder was clear: the journalist was a leading critic of Prince Mohammed, who had amassed power under his now-deceased father, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, whom he sought to succeed.
When Khashoggi entered a Saudi consulate in Turkey to certify divorce papers, he was not aware that a 15-person team, including members of Prince Mohammed’s elite personal bodyguard, as well as his close adviser Saud al-Qahtani, had been dispatched to capture or kill him. Inside, one of the men asked whether the “sacrificial animal” had arrived. “He has,” another answered.
What happened next became public only because Turkish spies had bugged the premises, allowing them to listen in as the hit squad prepared and then carried out the gruesome murder.
Inside the embassy, Khashoggi was told by Saudi officials that there was an Interpol warrant for his arrest and that he would be taken back to Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi protested before a struggle began in which he was overpowered.
“Assessments of the recordings by intelligence officers in Turkey and other countries suggest that Mr Khashoggi could have been injected with a sedative and then suffocated using a plastic bag,” read a report prepared by Agnès Callamard, who was the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Before Khashoggi entered the consulate, a Saudi doctor was said to be describing an operation by which he would dismember Khashoggi’s body so it could be secretly transported out of the premises.
The process would “be easy”, the doctor said. “Joints will be separated. It is not a problem. The body is heavy. First time I cut on the ground. If we take plastic bags and cut it into pieces
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The Five Stages of MAGA Scandal
(1) Denial
What?! That’s fake news!
Trump had nothing to do with Epstein!
(2) Denial
What a nothing-burger!
So he knew Epstein!
He knew a lot of people!
(3) Denial
It's a Democrat hoax!
Just like Russia, Russia, Russia!
Trump said so!
(4) Denial
All this stuff is phony!
They're fake documents!
Probably A.I.!
(5) Acceptance
So what!
No one said he was perfect!
And it's not like the girls were eight!
Repeat for next horrifying scandal.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-five-stages-
of-maga-scandal-grief.html
First Bonus Comic: Do you have Trump Derangement Syndrome? Dementia?
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/12/tom-the-dancing-bug-do-you-have-deme
ntia.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Trump Steamroller Is Broken
Infighting. Bad polls. Party divisions. Midterm fears. It’s all back.
By Jonathan Lemire | November 19, 2025, 7:49 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-has-lost-control/68
4987/
President Donald Trump’s administration has been embroiled in scandal and sloppiness. His own party has defied his political pressure. His senior staff has been beset by infighting. He has sparred with reporters and offered over-the-top praise to an authoritarian with a dire human-rights record. A signature hard-line immigration policy has polled poorly. And Republicans have begun to brace themselves for a disastrous midterm election.
That was 2017. But it’s also 2025.
Ten months into the president’s second term, Trump 2.0 is for the first time starting to resemble the chaotic original. And that new sense of political weakness in the president has not just emboldened Democrats who have been despondent for much of the past year. It’s also begun to give Republicans a permission structure for pushing back against Trump and jockeying for power with an eye to the elections ahead.
This was not the plan. Trump and his inner circle used their four years out of office to create a policy blueprint—drawn substantially from Project 2025—and form a disciplined team of true believers who used their experience with the levers of power to dominate their political opposition. The beginning of Trump’s second term was marked by an unprecedented display of executive authority, as the president dominated a subservient Congress and defied the courts, brought to heel some of the nation’s most formidable institutions and wealthiest people, fulfilled long-held conservative wishes to dramatically shrink the size and influence of the federal government, reoriented the nation’s relationship with the rest of the world, and rammed through legislation that benefited the rich over the working class and the poor. Trump has been a steamroller.
But that has begun to change. Voters punished Trump’s party in this month’s elections, seeming to condemn his presidential overreach and the abandonment of his central campaign promise to rehabilitate the nation’s economy. A rare Republican rebellion on Capitol Hill rattled the West Wing and embarrassed the president. And although the White House likes to project a political image of never surrendering, a pair of retreats in the past few days has punctured Trump’s aura of invincibility.
Few things have frustrated Trump like his inability to make Jeffrey Epstein go away. The disgraced sex offender and financier, of course, has been dead for six years. But questions about the powerful men with whom he associated—and the mystery around his death in prison, which was ruled a suicide—created a conspiracy theory in the MAGA base that has overwhelmed the White House. Trump angrily ordered his supporters to let the matter go this past summer but was largely ignored. And then, last week, four GOP lawmakers—some of whom have been among Trump’s most ardent acolytes—triggered a full House vote to release Department of Justice records related to Epstein.
Revolt was in the air. One of those defiant lawmakers, the MAGA icon Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, did not buckle, even as Trump called her a traitor. “Let me tell you what a traitor is,” she responded yesterday. “A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.” GOP leadership signaled to the White House that most lawmakers could not put their name to a vote to protect a pedophile and that the measure would pass easily, two officials told me on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Trump was furious, but he didn’t want to be seen as getting rolled by his own party.
Trying to save face, he begrudgingly posted on social media that he would support Republicans who voted to release the files. The measure passed the House yesterday 427–1. It then cleared the Senate by unanimous consent. Trump announced tonight he had signed it. (Questions persist as to whether the Justic
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Rubio Says Maduro Is Terrorist-In-Chief Of Venezuela’s “Cartel De Los Soles.” Is It Even A Real Group?
The Trump administration’s push for war on Venezuela includes alleging Maduro controls a government-run “narcoterrorist” conspiracy.
By Noah Horowitz | November 20 2025, 7:00 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/20/rubio-maduro-venezuela-cartel-de-l
os-soles/
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this week his intention to declare the so-called Cártel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization, ratcheting up the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Venezuela.
In a statement Sunday, Rubio described an organized cabal of Venezuelan military officers and politicians working hand in glove with drug traffickers to oversee the shipment of massive quantities of cocaine to American shores, all overseen and managed by President Nicolás Maduro.
“Based in Venezuela, the Cartel de los Soles is headed by Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking individuals of the illegitimate Maduro regime who have corrupted Venezuela’s military, intelligence, legislature, and judiciary,” Rubio said.
The announcement came months after the Treasury Department issued its own sanctions against the group, known in English as the Cartel of the Suns, which it accused in July of “using the flood of illegal narcotics as a weapon against the United States.”
It’s a troubling image: a state captured by ideologically motivated drug lords hell-bent on the destruction of the American way of life.
Rubio’s push to label Maduro and his allies as terrorists, though, is just the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s fusion of America’s two forever wars: the war on drugs and the war on terror.
Since February, the State Department has slapped the foreign terror organization label on more nearly a dozen street gangs and drug-trafficking networks across Latin America, and Trump has used the highly fungible phrase “narcoterrorists” to justify a series of dubiously legal strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela.
There’s just one giant problem: There is little evidence that Cartel of the Suns exists. The organized communist plot to poison Americans with drugs doesn’t remotely resemble the reality of Venezuelan corruption or the country’s drug trade.
“The idea that this is a narcoterrorist cartel, and that Maduro is directing the traffic and sending drugs and dangerous criminals to the U.S. to undermine the U.S. government — that’s really wide of the mark,” said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based analyst with the International Crisis Group.
“The war on drugs is not really about drugs.”
To critics of American drug policy abroad, the move against Cartel of the Suns is the latest display of how the U.S. uses anti-drug policies as a smokescreen to bully its neighbors.
“The war on drugs is not really about drugs,” said Alexander Aviña, a professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University. “It’s a way of extending the U.S.’s geopolitical interests and a way to hit at governments deemed to be antithetical to imperial designs.”
How Corruption Works
References to the Cártel de los Soles date back to the 1990s, when local reporters used the term to refer to a handful of generals in the Venezuelan National Guard accused of collusion in the drug trade, according to Gunson, who has lived and worked in the country since 1999.
A former journalist, Gunson also happens to be a co-author of a 2005 Miami Herald article that appears to be one of the earliest English-language reports to use the name.
“It was kind of a jokey label,” said Gunson. “The press started calling it ‘Cártel de los Soles’ because of the sun insignias on their epaulets.”
Like many countries around the world, corruption runs rampant in Venezuela.
“It’s pretty well known and accepted in Venezuela that the government has been collaborating with drug traffickers and other criminal organizations in the country,” said José De Bastos, a Venezuelan jo
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The Trump Steamroller Is Broken
Infighting. Bad polls. Party divisions. Midterm fears. It’s all back.
Uh huh...
Trump's Favorability 43.5%: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
Republican Party Favorability 40.6%: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/republican-party
Democratic Party Favorability 34.1%: https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/democratic-party
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Donald Trump Made the Worst Statement of His Presidency
Trump’s Foreign Policy Is About One Thing
Donald Trump may have cleared the high bar of uttering the most appalling remark of his presidency on Tuesday. “Things happen,” the leader of the free world said with a shrug when asked about the assassination of American-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi while seated next to the man who ordered the murder, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and American resident who frequently criticized the Saudi regime, was brutally murdered—his body hacked with a buzz saw—in 2018 during an interview with officials in the Saudi embassy in Turkey. At the time, even Trump, then in his first term as president, said MBS (as the prince is often called) should be held responsible if he played a role in the assassination. Soon after came the leak of a CIA report concluding that MBS approved of the operation—an assessment that the entire U.S. intelligence community reached in a public report in 2021. Even before then, Joe Biden, during his 2020 campaign for the presidency, declared Saudi Arabia a “pariah” state.
No case can be made for simply brushing the murder aside, as Trump did during the press conference that started off this week’s summit. When ABC’s White House correspondent, Mary Bruce, asked the two men about the intelligence report charging MBS with the murder, Trump interrupted her, denounced her network as “fake news.”
The crown prince, who has plenty of blood on his hands quite aside from the Khashoggi killing, rose to the occasion with a veneer of class. After Trump’s brusque dismissal of the issue, MBS solemnly recited the answer that he had no doubt rehearsed, in anticipation of the quite natural question:
“It’s really painful to hear anyone losing his life for no real purpose or not in a legal way. We’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that [in the future].”
This was a ruse, of course, but at least the Saudi autocrat pretended to condemn the murder; he wanted to convey the impression that he knew the murder was contemptible and criminal. This was more than the current American president could bring himself to do.
Trump’s show of disrespect stood out, because it concerned a foreign head of state’s politically motivated assassination of a legal U.S. resident (Khashoggi was married to an American woman) working for an established U.S. newspaper on the soil of a NATO ally.
The “things happen” remark, and in fact the entire MBS summit, clarifies, in case matters weren’t clear before, that U.S. foreign policy under Trump is simply about the aggrandizement of Trump’s ego, his wealth, and the wealth of his richest corporate donors. Period, full stop.
The centerpiece of the summit was MBS’ aspiration to rebuild Saudi Arabia as a global tech capital. Trump agreed not only to sell the kingdom an unspecified number of F-35 stealth aircraft (over the objections of Israel, which is now the only Middle Eastern country that has those planes) but also to let the Saudis buy a large number of A.I. chips manufactured by Nvidia (which followed the news by announcing yet another quarter of bar-busting profits and revenue). The subsequent state dinner was attended not only by Jensen Huang (Nvidia’s CEO) but also Elon Musk, Tim Cook (Apple), Michael Dell (Dell), Chuck Robbins (Cisco), Lisa Su (AMD), David Ellison (Paramount, which owns CBS and may soon own CNN), as well as, for old times’ sake, the heads of various oil, construction, and financial firms.
Also in attendance was Trump’s son Don Jr., who has recently been discussing private investment deals in Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Trump Organization. (Remember when Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm in a blind trust to avoid possible conflicts of interest in his agriculture policy?)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/donald-trump-worst-stateme
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And so a big question, asked several times in many contexts, gets raised again: What is Trump’s foreign policy—what is his vision of American interests and ideals, much less the balance between the two—about?
The “things happen” remark, and in fact the entire MBS summit, clarifies, in case matters weren’t clear before, that U.S. foreign policy under Trump is simply about the aggrandizement of Trump’s ego, his wealth, and the wealth of his richest corporate donors. Period, full stop.
You can't even manage to string a single sentence together on your own, dipshit?
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Quote:So, because Trump will personally receive $billions, it is okay for Trump to make business deals with a Saudi Arabian prince who ordered a murder. It is not a problem to sell computer chips and warplanes to a country that should not have either, so long as Trump profits. What next? Sell weapons and high tech to Russia because Trump will get a 10% commission? Nothing could go wrong there!
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You can't even manage to string a single sentence together on your own, dipshit?
You both are so fucking retarded.
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A Trumptard claims persecution by Libtards, but it was all fake, and the Trumptard is crazy
Former GOP staffer charged with fabricating anti-MAGA assault
By Ella Lee | 11/20/25 11:59 AM ET
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5614824-gop-staffer-anti-
maga-attack-hoax/
A former congressional staffer is accused of staging a fake and self-targeted political attack involving mutilation and derogatory writing on her body.
Natalie Greene, 26, who once worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), faces federal charges of conspiracy and making false statements to law enforcement. Each count carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
“We are deeply saddened by today’s news, and while Natalie is no longer associated with the Congressman’s government office, our thoughts and prayers are with her,” said Paxton Antonucci, a spokesperson for Van Drew’s office. “We hope she’s getting the care she needs.”
Prosecutors say Greene schemed with an unnamed co-conspirator to make it seem as if three men assaulted and bound her with zip ties in an attack supposedly based on her political beliefs.
According to the criminal complaint, the co-conspirator called 911 the night of July 23 and said “three guys” had just attacked them at a nature preserve in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
“They were attacking her,” they told the 911 operator. “They were like talking about politics and stuff. They were like calling her names.”
“They were like calling her like racist, calling her a whore,” the co-conspirator added.
Local police found Greene on the ground, crying and yelling with her hands and feed tied together and her shirt pulled over her head. She had dozens of cuts on her body, including on her face and chest. Written across her body in black marker were two messages: “Trump Whore” on her stomach and Van Drew “is Racist” on her back.
Greene told police that her alleged attackers addressed her by name, one saying he would kill her if she made any noise and one saying he had a gun. One of the men also cut into her body with a sharp object, she told them, and one or more of the men wrote on her.
But investigators later learned that Greene visited a “scarification artist” and paid $500 in cash for lacerations in a specific pattern that she picked out, the complaint says. They also discovered the co-conspirator had Google searched “zip ties near me” days before the alleged attack, and black zip ties and duct tape were found in Greene’s car on the night of the incident.
In interviews with law enforcement, including the FBI, Greene’s story did not seem to match her alleged co-conspirator’s. Greene made her first court appearance Thursday before a federal judge in New Jersey and was ordered released on a $200,000 bond.
The Hill requested comment from her defense attorney.
She worked as a constituent advocate director for Van Drew, who has represented New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District since 2019, according to her LinkedIn. She is also a student at Rutgers Law School.
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Senator Chris Murphy:
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed.
This is not normal. We cannot allow this to feel normal.
. . . Let this really sink in: The President of the United States just called for members of Congress to be executed.
. . . [He] is engaged in the wholesale incitement, endorsement and rationalization of political violence in this country.
. . . This is a moment for people to step up, for Republicans to step up, for business leaders to step up.
Anybody who has a voice or a soapbox in this country needs to draw a line in the sand and say that it is not acceptable for the president of the United States to call for the murder of his political opposition.
https://andrewtobias.com/disappearing-data/
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Senator Elissa Slotkin:
Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.
Here is my response [80 seconds].
https://x.com/SenatorSlotkin/status/1991571957494448420
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Four out of five U.S. troops surveyed understand the duty to disobey illegal orders
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/11/20/four-out-of-five-u-s-troop
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You can't even manage to string a single sentence together on your own, dipshit?
You both are so fucking retarded.
Yes. You are an idiot and a serial plagiarist.
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Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
By Tom Nichols | November 21, 2025, 4:13 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-truth-social-contro
l/685019/
Presidents often lose control over their agenda, or the policy process, or pieces of legislation. Sometimes, they even lose control of their party. But Donald Trump seems to have lost control over the one thing every person, and especially those with immense power, should always maintain control over: himself. Yesterday the president called for the arrest and execution of elected American officials for the crime—as he sees it—of fidelity to the Constitution.
It would be easy merely to note, yet again, that the president is a depraved man and a menace to the American system of government. As remarkable as it is to say it, however, the outbursts of this past week are different, and were likely triggered by Trump’s panic over the release of files about his former friend, the dead sex offender Jeffery Epstein. No one should treat this new phase in the president’s aggression against democracy as just another episode in the Trump reality show.
A group of Democratic legislators—all of them either military veterans or former national-security officials—may have helped to push the president over the edge. On Tuesday, they issued a video reminding members of the U.S. Armed Forces that their oath of service requires them to refuse illegal orders, and that their loyalty is owed not to any one president, but to the Constitution itself. Normally, legislators don’t feel the need to make such an obvious declaration, but the president is using the military—including deploying troops to U.S. cities and ordering the killing of people on the high seas—in ways that almost certainly involve illegal orders. Members of Congress have a right, even an obligation, to speak up.
The president was already showing strain before his attack on the legislators. Last Friday, he lashed out at a female journalist who asked about the Epstein files, calling her “piggy.” (Trump seems to revel in getting away with speaking to women as president in ways that would land him on the sidewalk back in Queens.) On Tuesday, as he sat next to the Saudi crown prince, a man credibly accused by U.S. intelligence of murdering an American journalist, he lashed out at yet another female reporter: He called Mary Bruce of ABC “insubordinate”—a rather telling choice of words—and threatened to use the FCC to attack her network. Tuesday, of course, was the day the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed the House by a vote of 427–1. The next day, it passed the Senate by unanimous consent, and a humiliated Trump signed the bill into law.
Yesterday, Trump seemed to lose the last bit of his grip on his emotions as he fired off a fusillade of Truth Social posts. (“Trump must not have slept well Wednesday night,” Bill Kristol and Andrew Egger of The Bulwark observed today.) “This is really bad,” the president wrote, “and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???”
“Lock them up” is a favorite Trump chant, but he did not end with this classic demand. He went on: “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.” The charge, according to the chief executive? “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” He also reposted a comment that said: “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!”
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They sent him a message, he sent one back.
You violent pigs want to go to war, we'll go to war.
Keep it up, you jackboot thug. We'll give you the boot stomping on your face forever.
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Quote:Trump’s aggression in the Caribbean could violate a Victorian-era court ruling on cannibalism at sea
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You violent pigs want to go to war, we'll go to war.
Keep it up, you jackboot thug. We'll give you the boot stomping on your face forever.
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By Martin Danahay | November 18, 2025 12:14pm EST
https://theconversation.com/trumps-aggression-in-the-caribbean-could-v
iolate-a-victorian-era-court-ruling-on-cannibalism-at-sea-270012
The Donald Trump administration in the United States has authorized killing people in boats on the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific, claiming they’re transporting illegal drugs.
Maritime and international law experts have raised concerns about the legality of the attacks. And based on a maritime court case from 1884, this use of force may well be illegal.
The Trump administration argues its actions are part of a war against what it has termed “narco-terrorists.” Killing the people manning these boats, it has said, will save the lives of Americans who might otherwise die of drug overdoses from the substances that are allegedly being transported by these boats.
The rationale that the U.S. is justified to kill people at sea in order to save people is similar to what used to be called the “custom of the sea”, which excused “survival cannibalism” if the consumption of one shipwrecked sailor helped the others survive. This custom, which basically excused “murder by necessity,” was essentially outlawed in a landmark case in 1884.
The story of The Mignonette
The case involved an incident of cannibalism after the yacht The Mignonette sank off the west coast of Africa and its four crew members escaped in a small dinghy with no time to gather food and water.
After three weeks at sea, their situation became so dire that two of the men decided that the ailing youngest member of the crew, a 17-year-old boy named Richard Parker, should be sacrificed so the rest of them could survive. They killed Parker and used his body for food and drink; the third crew member later said he opposed their actions, though feasted on Parker anyway.
Four days after they killed the boy, the three survivors were rescued.
Two of them, Tom Dudley and Edwin Stephens, were arrested for murder and cannibalism. They were brought to trial in the case R v Dudley and Stephens. The trial opened in Exeter, England after Dudley and Stephens pleaded not guilty. https://www.lawcases.net/cases/r-v-dudley-and-stephens-1884-14-qbd-273/
A panel of judges found them both guilty of murder and they were initially sentenced to death. This judgment was later commuted to six months imprisonment due to errors in trial conduct. Nonetheless, the case did establish that their actions constituted murder and that necessity was not a valid defense for cannibalism.
Justifying murder
Like the crew members of The Mignonette, U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that killing people at sea is justified because it will preserve the lives of others.
This is the same reasoning behind the now discredited “custom of the sea.”
Rather than “survival cannibalism,” this amounts to “survival killing” based on the argument that other people will live if those on the boats die.
The Dudley and Stephens precedent means that if anyone ever goes to trial for the boat strikes, they could potentially be convicted of murder following the landmark 19th century ruling that killing and eating people is wrong.
The case is taught in law classes because of the difficult issues it raises:
• When, if ever, is murder justified?
• If it is justified, in what circumstances would it be viewed as the only viable option?
While ongoing American attacks on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific don’t involve cannibalism, but instead military attacks that have resulted in the deaths of th
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Quote:Trump knows how to spend other people's money for his own amusement, pleasure, and self-aggrandizement.
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Because he's waiting to dump it on you before an election. If he put it out there now, the idiots will forget a year from now.
You had 4 years to do something about it and you didn't.
If Trump is guilty, you would have nailed him to a fucking cross with this.
Grow up, faggot.
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Trump teaming up with Jack Nicklaus to revamp 'president's golf course' at Joint Base Andrews
By Will WEISSERT Associated Press
November 22, 2025, 1:27 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-teaming-jack-nicklaus-
revamp-presidents-golf-joint-127787087
. . . An 11th Force Support Squadron asset, the facilities include three 18-hole golf courses, three practice putting greens, two private practice areas and a driving range, according to the Andrews website. Trump said at least two of the courses could get facelifts.
Trump has infrequently golfed at Andrews, but prefers to spend most weekends playing at or near one of his own properties. Those are Bedminster in New Jersey, or Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. On those weekends he remains at the White House, Trump often golfs at his course in Sterling, Virginia, near Dulles International Airport.
Nicklaus won 18 professional majors and 73 times on the PGA Tour. The Nicklaus Design firm features a team that has completed more than 425 courses in 40 states and more than 45 countries.
Trump said Saturday that the base at Andrews “was a great place that’s been destroyed over the years through lack of maintenance.”
“So we’ll fix that up, and Jack will be the architect and he’ll design it,” the president said.
He also referenced, “Two existing courses that are in very bad shape” saying, “we can — for very little money — fix it up.”
"And we’re looking at other things over at Andrews,' Trump added.
Trump's comments immediately raised questions about who is paying Nicklaus, and how much such design services might cost. Also, given that Andrews is military property, who pays for improvements to its golf courses or other parts of its grounds was also unclear. Andrews deferred queries on the matter to the White House, which didn't respond to a request for more details.
The potential Andrews redesign follows construction crews already having demolished the East Wing of the White House to make room for a $300 million ballroom that Trump commissioned. He's promised that it is being paid for by himself and private donors — including 37 individuals, firms and charitable organizations that have publicly disclosed contributing to the project.
Work on the ballroom follows Trump having replaced the lawn in the Rose Garden with a patio area reminiscent of Mar-a-Lago, and redecorated the Lincoln Bathroom and Palm Room in the White House's interior. The president also installed a Walk of Fame featuring portraits of past presidents along the Colonnade, massive flagpoles on the north and south lawns and substantially overhauled the Oval Office through the addition of golden flourishes, cherubs and other, flashy items.
The work at Andrews may eventually join another off-White House site project Trump has announced publicly: his plan to erect a Paris-style arch just west of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Quote:6ixStringJoker, nobody cares what you want, either here or in Indiana. That is why you live alone, isolated, unemployed, slowly dying from diseases, dreaming of Trump giving the end of your life meaning and purpose before you croak.
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The Real Reason Trump Is Fawning Over Saudi Arabia’s Ruler
Noah Shachtman | Nov. 22, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/opinion/trump-saudi-crown-prince-fo
ssil-fuel.html
You remember the pictures. The images of tech oligarchs kissing the ring at President Trump’s inauguration were instantly iconic, markers of a new and rather unnerving era. But months earlier, Mr. Trump made a corrosive pact with another set of moguls, and that one is already remaking global politics, wiping out jobs at home and strangling what little hope was left of avoiding a climate disaster. This one happened behind closed doors.
These moguls were leaders of the oil and gas industry, and Mr. Trump promised them he would do them so many favors that a billion dollars in donations would feel like a “deal.” The executives gave him only a fraction of the money he sought. Mr. Trump, on the other hand, has given them more than they asked for — and some now say it’s backfiring.
As expected, he scaled back regulations and encouraged more drilling — 1.3 billion more acres of coastal waters this week alone. He has also, however, taken the extraordinary step of trying to crush the industry’s green competition. He pulled the plug on the largest solar project in North America, which was on track to supply enough power for nearly two million homes. He put a $5 billion wind farm project in New York on hold, threatening thousands of jobs, and reversed himself only when the state approved a new gas pipeline. And he killed incentives for electric vehicles, sales of which had more than doubled since his first term.
Overseas, Team Trump is warning the world to buy more fossil fuels — or else. The administration used the threat of tariffs to strong-arm allies into taking America’s gas. It reportedly sabotaged an agreement by more than 100 nations to slash cargo ships’ greenhouse gas emissions. When the rest of the world’s representatives were meeting at a climate conference in Brazil, Trump officials called the proceedings a “hoax” — and praised offshore drilling deals with Greece, the first there in more than 40 years.
Plenty of U.S. presidents have talked about freeing America from its dependence on foreign oil and keeping foreign petrostates from messing with our economy. That’s what “drill, baby, drill” was all about. This is something different. Now America is the planet’s leading producer of oil — and natural gas, too. And instead of trying to separate from the Persian Gulf petrostates, Mr. Trump is reshaping America to look more like them: top-down, iron-fisted, resource-rich and more than willing to flash those resources as weapons.
Like the leaders of oil-rich Persian Gulf kingdoms, Mr. Trump demands total deference. He openly uses his position to enrich America’s ruling clan — his family — with one billion-dollar deal after another. His Justice Department has all but abandoned the fight against corruption — unless it serves the president’s purposes. He’s authorized billions of dollars for America’s internal security services. He regards critical news coverage of him as “really illegal” and political opponents as terrorists. On Thursday he raised the possibility that six Democratic lawmakers should be executed.
Mr. Trump is also ordering the government to take an ownership stake in key companies, a classic strongman tactic that he executes in a manner Eric Cantor, the former House Republican leader, described — from Riyadh — as “not too dissimilar” from “the vision of the crown prince here in Saudi Arabia.”
Most of all, Mr. Trump and his people describe the nation’s fossil fuel reserves as the c
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Vibecessions, Part II
Good numbers, bad feelings. Why?
By Paul Krugman | Nov 23, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/vibecessions-part-ii
In October 2024, on the eve of the presidential election, the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.1 percent and the inflation rate was 2.6 percent. By historical standards, both these numbers were very good. And they were especially impressive given the pessimism of many economists two years earlier. In 2022 Larry Summers warned that it would take years of very high unemployment to get inflation down from its peak of 9 percent, while Bloomberg put the odds of recession at 100 percent. Instead by 2024 we had achieved the softest of soft landings.
Despite this stellar disinflation performance, the public mood was extremely sour. Voters who said that the economy was their most important issue favored Donald Trump by 60 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election, clearly costing Kamala Harris the election.
Almost a year later, in September 2025, the numbers were somewhat worse: Unemployment had ticked up to 4.4 percent while inflation had risen to 3 percent. In and of themselves, these aren’t terrible numbers. But this certainly isn’t, as Donald Trump claims, the best American economy in history. It isn’t a “hot” economy with prices going down.
Even given the gap between what Trump says about how wonderful the current economy is and the reality, however, it’s remarkable how pessimistic Americans are about the economy — significantly more negative than they were a year ago. The long-running Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment is now lower than it was in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The index is even lower than it was in 1980, when unemployment was above 7 percent and inflation hit 14 percent:
Source: University of Michigan
And voters now blame Trump for the perceived bad state of the economy, showing their anger at the ballot box: In the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections earlier this month, voters who prioritize the economy favored Democrats by 30 points — a 90 point swing.
Today’s post is the second in a series about “vibecessions”: periods when the economy, by standard economic measures, looks relatively decent but the general public holds very negative views. Last week’s primer showed that the performance of the U.S. economy during the Biden administration was, by objective measures, very impressive: America shrugged off the negative effects of the Covid pandemic on GDP and employment with remarkable speed, significantly outperforming other advanced countries.
During the Biden years, inflation did temporarily spike – which people hated even though their incomes were growing fast enough to keep up with inflation. But the anger persisted even as inflation fell dramatically, and continues under Trump.
Today I’ll try to make sense of Americans’ angry and unhappy vibe on the economy. Spoiler: I haven’t found a “unitary theory” of vibecessions. Rather, there appear to be several possible, and not mutually exclusive, explanations. I’ll discuss each of these in turn, along with their strengths and weaknesses. Lastly, I will discuss the special case of Donald Trump, and why he may be suffering an especially hostile reaction to the economy.
Beyond the paywall I’ll examine four possible explanations for the past few years of vibecession:
· Media negativity
· Extreme partisanship
· People care about the level of prices, not the inflation rate
· The economy is worse than it looks
· Negative feelings arising from Trump’s chaotic economic policies
In addition, I will make some conjectures about future sentiments regarding the economy and why Trump may be paying an additional “gaslighting” penalty.
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The Trump Trade is Unraveling
Tells from the crypto crash
By Paul Krugman | Nov 24, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-trade-is-unraveling
What is Bitcoin good for? It isn’t money — that is, it isn’t a medium of exchange, something you can use to make payments. It isn’t a hedge against inflation. It isn’t a hedge against financial risks — on the contrary, the price of Bitcoin has generally moved in the same direction as the AI-related stocks driving the stock market these days, but with even greater volatility.
To the extent that Bitcoin has a use case, it is covering your financial tracks: crypto facilitates anonymous transactions that don’t leave a paper trail. Such transactions aren’t necessarily criminal, but many are.
By the way, anonymity doesn’t just enable crime by crypto users, it also enables crime against them. If you possess a Bitcoin’s key, the code that unlocks it, it’s yours, no matter who you are and how you got it. In that sense, getting your hands on a Bitcoin key is similar to getting your hands on a bag full of $100 bills.
This feature has led to a wave of abductions of major crypto investors by criminals demanding their keys. Indeed, such abductions have become so common that a major recent Bitcoin conference included a daylong “counter-kidnapping” workshop, in which participants learned, among other things, how to gnaw their way through zipties.
In addition to facilitating crime, Bitcoin has increasingly become an engine of predation. Crypto — or, worse, shares in companies that buy crypto with borrowed money — is heavily sold to naïve investors who don’t realize what they’re getting into. They do well when Bitcoin’s price is rising, but many probably don’t understand how badly they can suffer when it falls.
And crypto has fallen a lot recently. Bitcoin has actually held up better than smaller, more obscure coins, but even so it’s down roughly 25 percent since late October.
It’s possible that Bitcoin will bounce back, because it’s more than an asset, it’s a cult. When I spoke with Hasan Minhaj and Bitcoin came up, his immediate reaction to my criticism was “I don’t want to get memed, the Bitcoin boys have already come after me.” This cult status has allowed Bitcoin to recover from setbacks and scandals that would have sunk any normal investment, because true believers respond to any drop in its price by piling in more than ever. And maybe that will happen again.
But maybe not, because at this point Bitcoin is largely a Trump trade. Bitcoin’s price surged after Donald Trump won last year, and its recent plunge coincides with a series of Trump political setbacks.
Why is Bitcoin a Trump trade? Partly because Trump, whose family has in effect received massive bribes from the crypto industry, has been rewarding that investment with pro-crypto policies. Notably, Trump has signed an executive order intended to allow ordinary Americans — who, again, generally don’t know what they’re getting into — to invest money from their 401(k)s in crypto assets.
More broadly, crypto is, as I’ve suggested, increasingly a tool for financial predators, and the Trump administration is extremely predator-friendly. Ask Changpeng Zhao, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, who was found guilty of violating U.S. money-laundering laws — then pardoned by Trump.
The administration has been doing all it can to dismantle institutions, like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, that were created to help keep investors and markets safe after the 2008 financial crisis. Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, and other Trump officials and allies — including some officials at the Federal Reserve — have also been doing all they can to undermine bank supervision, which tries to limit the kind of risk-taking that brought on the 2008 crisis.
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Yup. Poor white Trash with a home assessed at roughly $325k paid for with cash when I was 32 years old. Car paid for with cash. Zero debt. 833 credit score.
I'm doing better than 90% of Americans, my dude, and I haven't worked a single day since June of 2019.
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A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump’s urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.
“All actions flowing from Ms. Halligan’s defective appointment,” including securing and signing the indictments, “were unlawful exercises of executive power and are hereby set aside,”
https://apnews.com/article/comey-james-justice-department-5ec1a59d152b
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Yup. Poor white Trash with a home assessed at roughly $325k paid for with cash when I was 32 years old. Car paid for with cash. Zero debt. 833 credit score.
I'm doing better than 90% of Americans, my dude, and I haven't worked a single day since June of 2019.
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To be in the top 10% of Americans, you need a net worth of roughly
$1.9 million to $2 million. However, this figure varies significantly by age, with younger age groups needing a lower net worth and older age groups needing a higher one. For example, as of early 2025, you would need about $372,120 to be in the top 10% if you are between 18 and 34, but $2.96 million if you are between 55 and 64.
Net worth for top 10% by age (approximate)
Ages 18–29: $281,550
Ages 30–39: $711,400
Ages 40–49: $1,313,700
Ages 55–64: $2,960,900
Ages 65–74: $2,997,300
For the US as a whole
Net worth needed: Roughly $1.9 million to $2 million
Median net worth for top 10%: $3.79 million
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+net+worth+to+be+in+top+10+percent
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 Just Got His Own Personal Crypto Crash
By Matt Stieb | Nov 24, 2025
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-just-got-his-own-
personal-crypto-crash.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/donald-trump-just-got-his-own-
personal-crypto-crash/ar-AA1R3X0Q
The past year has been very good to President Donald Trump financially. Thanks to the many cryptocurrency projects his companies and sons have launched, he’s gained well over $1 billion of wealth on paper. Crypto has been booming since Trump came back into office by virtue of his administration’s friendly approach to the sector — and a general sense that it’s good for business to have an executive who understands little about the coin economy aside from its ability to inflate his assets or get controversial cash injections from abroad.
But this positive-feedback loop under Trump is faltering now that crypto is down amid questions about the size of the AI bubble and the greater health of the economy. Bitcoin’s had its worst month since an extremely messy year in 2022, dropping from $110,000 to as low as $84,000 since November 1. In total, over $1 trillion in value has been wiped out this month.
Trump is not immune to the megadip. A Bloomberg analysis found that the president’s net worth has dropped $1 billion following a recent high of $7.7 billion in September. His stake in Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind social-media platform Truth Social, has fallen $800 million in the last three months alone. (This is likely because it bought $2 billion worth of Bitcoin this spring, joining a fad that’s seen businesses put the coin on their balance sheet to inflate their assets’ value.) The company remains unprofitable.
Other Trump crypto assets weren’t even accounted for in the losses. The value of the family’s holdings of its $WLFI coin has collapsed by around $3 billion since the token’s September launch. Bloomberg did not include the value of the coin in the loss calculation because the Trump family’s holdings can’t be traded right now.
Trump is not the only billionaire who has taken a hit. Michael Saylor, whose company Strategy is the driving force behind the businesses buying bitcoin, must be a little stressed at the moment. Strategy’s stock has lost 43 percent of its value in recent days. On Friday, Saylor posted a presumably AI-generated photo of himself as Ernest Shackleton, the stranded polar-exhibition leader, with the caption: “Endure.”
But Trump — unlike his billionaire crypto allies or even the small-time investors getting smoked — has the ability to mint more coins to make more paper money. Perhaps this is why Eric Trump seemed so upbeat in his comments to Bloomberg. “What a great buying opportunity,” he said in a statement. “People who buy dips and embrace volatility will be the ultimate winners.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump kills criminals instead of arresting them, but Trump won’t kill a Senator who said killing criminals is illegal. Glad Trump clarified that, except he didn’t:
Defense Department says it is opening an investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly
The investigation is related to the Arizona senator's participation in a video Democratic lawmakers made urging members of the military not to comply with "illegal orders."
Nov. 24, 2025, 11:41 AM CST / Updated Nov. 24, 2025, 1:11 PM CST
By Alana Satlin and Mosheh Gains
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/defense-department-investiga
tion-sen-mark-kelly-rcna245675
The Department of Defense said Monday that it is opening an investigation into Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, in connection with a video he and other Democrats recorded urging members of the military and the intelligence community not to comply with illegal orders from President Donald Trump’s administration.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on X that the video, which set off a political firestorm last week, was "despicable, reckless, and false."
"Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under @DeptofWar jurisdiction (one is CIA and four are former military but not “retired”, so they are no longer subject to UCMJ). However, Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ—and he knows that," he added.
A thorough review of allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which could include recalling to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures, the Defense Department said.
Kelly, who spent more than two decades in the Navy as a pilot and retired as a captain, said on X that Hegseth's post was the first he had heard of the investigation.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work," he said. "I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution."
Kelly’s fellow Arizona senator, Sen. Ruben Gallego, wrote in a post on X that Kelly "has dedicated his life to serving this country with honor. And now Trump is coming after him with the same baseless garbage he throws at anyone who refuses to bend the knee. Mark told the truth — in America, we swear an oath to the Constitution, not wannabe kings."
"F--- you and your investigation," added Gallego, a Democrat and veteran of the Marines.
Trump last week said on Truth Social that the Democratic lawmakers “should be arrested and put on trial,” accusing them of “seditious behavior” that, he said, could be “punishable by death.”
The next day, Trump said on conservative Brian Kilmeade's radio show that he was "not threatening death" toward the members.
“I think they’re in serious trouble. I would say they’re in serious trouble. I’m not threatening death, but I think they’re in serious trouble," Trump said. "In the old days, it was death. That was seditious behavior."
The Democrats' video was posted online on Tuesday as a direct appeal to members of the military and the intelligence community.
“This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens," the lawmakers said in the video. "Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats coming to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad but from right here at home. Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.”
In addition to Kelly, it featured Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin and Reps. Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New
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Yup. Poor white Trash with a home assessed at roughly $325k paid for with cash when I was 32 years old. Car paid for with cash. Zero debt. 833 credit score.
I'm doing better than 90% of Americans, my dude, and I haven't worked a single day since June of 2019.
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I never said that I did, stupid.
I said I'm doing better than 90% of you.
All I've heard in the news the last 5 years was those poor people making over $100k per year and they're living paycheck to paycheck.
My ONLY two jobs since the beginning of 2010 were making $8.75 per hour overnight at K-Mart, and $10.50 an hour overnight at Sam's Club. Combined, the income from those jobs were around roughly $38,000 in roughly 3 years of work.
That means that 12 out of the last 15 years, I haven't earned anything.
Yet my house is paid for. My car is paid for. I have zero debt. I have an 833 Vantage credit score. And the only reason that isn't maxed out at 850 is because I never held a mortgage and I haven't had a car loan for nearly 25 years.
I'm one of a very small percentage of people who were able to buy a house free and clear with cash, and I'm certainly in one of the most minuscule boxes ever created when I can say I did that when my lifetime earnings in 30 years since I started working is only $250k. And at the time I bought that house with cash, it was after making only roughly $210k in 16 years.
"How the fuck did you do that?"
Simple. I don't buy shit that I don't need using other people's money.
Specifics? Never a single cent of college debt. Brown-bagged lunches when everybody else was ordering out. Learned to rehab houses. Learned to fix up shitty cars and keep them running for years after most other people would dare. Made excellent use of my 401k benefits while I had them, and then never gambled in the stock market again after getting everything that I could ever need. I don't gamble. Never had a $100k Bridezilla wedding I couldn't afford to pay for, which means none of the expenses that being married and having children brings, and didn't have to pay anybody any child support or alimony when the inevitable divorce came up. Oh... and never paid the 6 months salary all the De Beers commercials say that I'm expected to pay for a near-worthless diamond wedding ring. I shop around. I never buy anything unless absolutely necessary until it's on a good sale, and when it is I buy in bulk big-time. I buy second-hand stuff like good power tools from fools who need to sell them when times get bad because everything they own is on credit. I don't buy Christmas and Birthday presents for people, I do things like offer to paint a room in the house for free instead. I roll my own cigarettes for $0.80 per pack instead of paying $15 per pack. I barter my skills for favors and good meals, which in and of itself is a really nice benefit since I sustain my life otherwise these days by living mostly off of tuna, chicken breasts, peanut butter, cheap Aldi vegetables, and Cheerios that were bought in bulk. (And even eggs again, now that they finally got back under $2.00 per dozen around here. YAY!)
FORBES: How Does Your Debt Compare? U.S. Average Credit Card Debt In 2025
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/average-credit-card-debt/
How does mine compare, Forbes?
I don't have any debt.
And I bought a house that even BlackRock didn't want to touch during the housing market crash, and I've spent all that time gutting it and rehabbing it whenever I felt like doing the work. I bought it for 1/3rd the market value when it was bought by the previous owners who trashed it, in an already severely depressed housing market, and now
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I roll my own cigarettes for $0.80 per pack instead of paying $15 per pack.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy
Democrats will have to repair the damage
By Paul Krugman | Nov 25, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-was-a-harbinger-of-trumps-assa
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My first post after I brought this Substack back to life almost a year ago was about DOGE, the not-exactly-part-of-the-government organization, headed by Elon Musk, that Donald Trump was creating to save money by eliminating “waste, fraud and abuse.” DOGE would, I predicted, fail. And it did indeed fail, even more spectacularly than I expected: Although DOGE still has eight months left on its original charter, it has already been quietly disbanded.
But although DOGE is gone, its malign legacy endures. Arguably DOGE’s biggest “achievement” was shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development. And the dismantling of USAID has left a legacy of death. According to one recent study, closing the agency “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
Back at home, DOGE wreaked havoc on the U.S. government through a combination of arrogance, ignorance and sheer incompetence.
Readers may remember when DOGE staffers summarily fired hundreds of staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which protects America’s nuclear weapons, then desperately scrambled to get them back when they realized what those workers do. You may also remember Musk’s claim that millions of dead people are receiving Social Security benefits, nonsense based on a misunderstanding of how the Social Security Administration’s databases work.
Musk is gone, at least for now, from the Trump administration. So are many of the young acolytes he parachuted into temporary positions of power in government agencies, although some have managed to worm their way into longer-term positions.
Although DOGE is no longer, the damage persists. In addition to the needless loss of hundreds of thousands of lives around the world and the trashing of America’s global reputation, all for some flashy headlines, DOGE also seriously compromised the functioning of the US government. Thousands of dedicated federal employees were pushed out, taking their expertise and institutional knowledge with them, while those who remain are demoralized. Future recruitment of high-quality government workers will be much more difficult given the way their predecessors were treated.
Less obvious, but arguably just as important, is DOGE’s misappropriation of Americans’ personal information along with the destruction of institutional norms on safeguarding that information.
Like any modern government, the U.S. federal government must collect information about the people it represents. A government can’t collect taxes or provide benefits without acquiring a lot of information about individuals’ incomes and their lives in general. It can’t supervise banks, mitigating the risk of financial crisis, without acquiring a lot of information about people’s finances. It can’t conduct essential surveys, like the surveys we use to track the economy and the Census, without finding out a lot about the people surveyed.
Historically, however, government agencies have followed rules designed to avoid putting all this information in one place, which would risk turning America into a surveillance state. Some of these rules are embodied in legislation, notably the Privacy Act of 1974. Others are norms or fall into a legal gray area. But there has been a general understanding that we want to respect privacy, on practical as well as moral grounds. For example, as the New York Times reports,
The I.R.S. has long encouraged undocumented migrants to file a tax return, and many tax lawyers and immigration activists had trusted the agency would not use tax information to deport people. In a report, the Yale Budget Lab estimates that in 2023, unauthorized immigrant workers paid $66 billion in federal taxes, with roughly $43 billion of that taking the form of the payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare.
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Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
Suddenly, media outlets seem to have figured out that President Donald Trump is really, really unpopular. There’s been a palpable shift in the discourse: The New York Times reports that Republicans are quietly looking beyond Trump, suggesting he’s losing his grip on the party. Axios claims that it’s “red alert” time for Trump and the GOP. Politico describes how Republicans are getting routed in school board races, a sign that MAGA culture-warring has lost its sway and is even backfiring. And one CNN analyst offers a brutal reading of recent approval numbers on Trump, pronouncing them “atrocious.” We talked to Salon’s Amanda Marcotte, who regularly dissects MAGA and media foibles alike. We discuss why the political media smells blood, how deepening splits in MAGA show Trump’s weakness, what it means that the Trump-MAGA culture war and immigration raids are badly alienating ordinary voters, and how Trump is in a potentially irreversible tailspin.
https://newrepublic.com/article/203559/trump-weak-failing-president-me
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There's been talk about removing Trump for 10 years and you've never come close.
How are you going to pull it off this time dude?
In reality, Trump's numbers still haven't sunk much at all. You really need to stop looking at individual polling. I don't understand why you won't ever learn that lesson.
On this day in...
2025:
Trump 43.2% Favorable / -53.1% Unfavorable (-9.9 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
2021:
Biden 42.5% Favorable / 52.0% Unfavorable (-9.5 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/joe-biden
2017:
Trump 38.6% Favorable / 56.7% Unfavorable (-18.1 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
Republican Party Favorability Now:
40.2% / 53.0% (-12.8 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/republican-party
Democratic Party Favorability Now:
34.0% / 56.9% (-22.9 spread): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/democratic-party
After 10 full years of political attacks, politicized legal assaults and massive multi-billion media campaigns against him, Trump's negative spread matches that of Joe Biden*'s at this time in his only term, and is only half of what it was 8 years ago.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party as a whole today is -13 worse off than Trump's spread, and is even nearly -5 points worse than Trump's polling 8 years ago today, back in the days when you had the entire legacy media saying "the walls are closing in on Trump" 800 times per day.
You don't have a Political Party anymore, dude.
It doesn't matter how much people hate the guy currently in charge when everyone hates you even more and appear as though they have collectively decided this time that they're not going to forget that.
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‘An Example MUST BE SET’
The pursuit of Senator Mark Kelly in the military-justice system sends a clear message to service members and veterans.
By Missy Ryan, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, and Nancy A. Youssef | November 25, 2025, 10:18 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/11/mark-kelly-milit
ary-justice-trump-hegseth/685070/
Mark Kelly thought he was merely stating the obvious. Earlier this month, the Arizona senator joined five other congressional Democrats to film a message addressed to members of the military. “You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders,” they said.
An ordinary president, Kelly told us on Tuesday afternoon, would have responded to the video by affirming that troops should of course follow lawful orders. “But not this guy,” he added. “We basically said, ‘Follow the law.’ And he said, ‘Kill them.’”
The video to service members was the second Kelly had recently released. The former Navy pilot and astronaut took to social media with a group of fellow Democrats last month to urge the public to peacefully resist President Donald Trump’s placement of troops in U.S. cities and to “step up for the country we all love.” Like so much else that members of Congress push online to connect with voters or stump for campaign funds, their video ahead of nationwide “No Kings” protests in October generated little national buzz.
Earlier this month, the group filmed its second message, amid U.S. strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, a campaign of questionable legal validity. Like the first, the video message was intended as a “digital play” to generate views and support, according to two Democratic Senate staffers with knowledge of the matter. “It was supposed to be nothing more than that,” one of the aides told us.
In the week since, it has become very much more than that. President Trump suggested trying and executing the lawmakers for sedition. A wave of violent threats against them followed. Then Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth launched a review of what he termed “serious allegations of misconduct” into Kelly, who retired as a Naval captain in 2011. Kelly now faces the possibility of being recalled to active duty to be court-martialed for his statements. If convicted, he could be dismissed from the service, lose his pension, and possibly be imprisoned. (Kelly is the only lawmaker in the video who reached 20 years in the service, therefore making him an official military retiree eligible for recall.)
If the first 10 months of the second Trump administration showed how willing the president and his cabinet were to use the criminal-justice system against their perceived enemies, the pursuit of Kelly extends that retribution campaign to the machinery of military justice in a potentially destructive way.
Experts in military law say Hegseth’s gambit is unlikely to stand up in court, because Kelly’s apparent transgression consisted of restating service members’ oft-cited responsibility to act within the law, as defined by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the services’ equivalent of the U.S. criminal code.
But even if the pursuit of Kelly—who flew combat missions in the Gulf War and was later sent into space by NASA before becoming a U.S. senator—ultimately fails, the move sends a clear warning to other officers and military retirees who might want to speak up.
Before recording the two videos, the group, spearheaded by Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan senator and former CIA officer, had discussed what they could do to publicly push back as Trump pulled the military into new and, from their perspective, troubling missions, Kelly told us. The group also included Representatives Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, and Chrissy Houlahan and Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania. Some of the lawmakers sat on committees with oversight of the military; they all wanted service members to know “that we have their backs,” Kelly said.
The first suggestion that the latest vid
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They will be the first to be replaced at the Atlantic with AI.
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"Allahu Akbar": D.C. National Guard Shooter Identified As Afghan National Who Entered U.S. During Biden Years
CBS News reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez confirms that the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., is 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Law-enforcement officials told Galvez that Lakanwal entered the U.S. in 2021 during the Biden-Harris regime.
"The suspect reportedly shouted, Allahu akbar!" reporter Julio Rosas wrote on X.
Fox News sources report the shooter overstayed his visa and was in the country illegally.
Lakanwal was arrested shortly after the attack, and the FBI is now investigating it as a possible act of terrorism.
The attack follows Democrats' escalation of hostile rhetoric against federal authorities for deporting illegal aliens and securing metro areas. Such rhetoric has already fueled assaults on ICE and Border Patrol agents.
Given that the shooter is an Afghan national and the incident is being examined as a potential terrorism case, attention is shifting back to a report from earlier this year in which former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams warned on the Shawn Ryan Show about "1,000-plus Al-Qaeda–trained fighters within U.S. borders."
Shortly after the attack, President Trump requested an additional 500 National Guard troops for the Washington, D.C., area. This move suggests the deployment may involve more than routine efforts to clean up homeless encampments or deter street crime; the mere fact that the military is being positioned on the ground points to a broader security threat - one our government is not fully explaining, but one that we suggest below...
As Sarah Adams recently warned, the next Al-Qaeda attack on the homeland is only a matter of time:
"Well, Al-Qaeda says they trained and deployed a thousand for this attack. First off, I think there are more than a thousand Al-Qaeda members in the United States, but for the Homeland Attack, that number is based on what Al-Qaeda is saying, so they could exaggerate it; however, they did have about 1,400 in the Hamas attack, so the number is not off from what they did in the first round of attacks."
And just days ago...
The optics here are not great for the Democratic Party's open-border policies under the Biden-Harris regime, which facilitated a mass migration invasion into the US. The posturing of military forces on streets in DC underscores the severity of the threat - and it's now clear this was never just about clearing homeless encampments or removing drug addicts from street corners.
Politically, the incident gives Trump even more cover to accelerate his planned deportation campaign. It will also continue much-needed scrutiny on Islamists and Islamist Marxists [sic] who seek to destroy the nation from within.
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Behind the Curtain: The most unprecedented presidency in 250 years
By Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen | Sept 23, 2025
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/trump-unprecedented-presidency-behind
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Not since America's founding 250 years ago has a U.S. president expanded power — and punished critics — in more unprecedented ways than Donald J. Trump.
1. Executive power: Trump has declared nine national emergencies in his first eight months in office, stretching the definition of "emergency" in creative and aggressive ways.
• Historical analogy: Since 1980, presidents have declared an average of seven in a four-year term. Trump's 200+ executive orders fall far short of the thousands issued by FDR (a wartime president elected to four terms), but Trump's pace—142 in his first 100 days—is the highest on record.
• New precedent: Future presidents can use loosely defined "emergencies" as a routine tool to bypass Congress and unlock extraordinary powers governing trade, immigration, mineral extraction and foreign disputes.
2. Free-press crackdown: Trump has waged the most aggressive government campaign against mainstream media in modern U.S. history —stripping funding from public outlets, pushing the FCC to revoke broadcast licenses over negative coverage, and personally suing CBS/ Paramount, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times while in office.
• Historical analogy: No modern president has deployed such a mix of lawsuits and regulatory muscle. Even Richard Nixon, who targeted the Washington Post and CBS through the IRS and FCC, never sued multiple networks directly.
• New precedent: Future presidents can use lawsuits, regulatory threats, and funding pressure to bring independent media to heel.
3. Seizing congressional purse strings: Trump has tried to freeze or redirect billions in congressionally appropriated funds, from public health to foreign aid to university research.
• Historical analogy: The closest precedent is Nixon, who tried to "impound" funds in the early 1970s. Congress responded by passing the Impoundment Control Act of 1974—which the Trump White House claims is unconstitutional—to stop presidents from unilaterally withholding money. No president since has attempted impoundments at this scale, or with such open defiance of Congress and the courts.
• New precedent: Future presidents can treat Congress's "power of the purse" as optional, withholding or redirecting funds to pressure states, institutions or foreign governments.
4. Tariffs: Trump has effectively seized the authority over tariffs that the Constitution gives to Congress, wielding tariffs to reshape global trade and punish countries for political or economic disputes.
• Historical analogy: The last sweeping tariff shock was Smoot–Hawley, which President Hoover signed in 1930 and wound up worsening the Great Depression. Since then, presidents have used delegated powers narrowly — including President Reagan's selective tariffs on Japanese motorcycles and semiconductors in the 1980s to try to protect American manufacturing. Trump is the first to use emergency authorities to impose broad tariffs without new congressional legislation.
• New precedent: Future presidents can bypass Congress to unilaterally set tariff policy, erasing one of the legislature's core constitutional powers.
5. Overriding the Constitution: Trump issued an executive order seeking to eliminate birthright citizenship — a right guaranteed in the 14th Amendment — for the children of unauthorized immigrants.
• Historical analogy: Past constitutional showdowns have come during war or insurrection: Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in the Civil War. FDR interned Japanese Americans during World War II. In each case, presidents acted under extraordinary wartime claims of ne
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DoJ Inspector General says there was a thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
Video of a confused and dishonest Trump saying this is here: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m6nnmy5kzv2q
Even in the face of a tragedy that he caused, Trump can't take a moment to act like an adult.
REPORTER: Do you plan to attend [Guardsmen] Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
Trump couldn't, even for one moment, just be a decent person and not make it about himself.
Lord have mercy and may her memory be eternal. He is truly the most demented malignant narcissist alive. What a sick man.
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Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting
Reuters documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.
By Peter Eisler, Ned Parker, Linda So and Joseph Tanfani
Filed Nov. 26, 2025, 11 a.m. GMT
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-retribut
ion-tracker/
In his second term, Donald Trump has turned a campaign pledge to punish political opponents into a guiding principle of governance.
What began as a provocative rallying cry in March 2023 – “I am your retribution” – has hardened into a sweeping campaign of retaliation against perceived enemies, reshaping federal policy, staffing and law enforcement.
A tally by Reuters reveals the scale: At least 470 people, organizations and institutions have been targeted for retribution since Trump took office – an average of more than one a day. Some were singled out for punishment; others swept up in broader purges of perceived enemies. The count excludes foreign individuals, institutions and governments, as well as federal employees dismissed as part of force reductions.
The Trump vengeance campaign fuses personal vendettas with a drive for cultural and political dominance, Reuters found. His administration has wielded executive power to punish perceived foes – firing prosecutors who investigated his bid to overturn the 2020 election, ordering punishments of media organizations seen as hostile, penalizing law firms tied to opponents, and sidelining civil servants who question his policies. Many of those actions face legal challenges.
At the same time, Trump and his appointees have used the government to enforce ideology: ousting military leaders deemed “woke,” slashing funds for cultural institutions held to be divisive, and freezing research grants to universities that embraced diversity initiatives.
Reuters reached out to every person and institution that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
The analysis revealed two broad groups of people and organizations targeted for retaliation.
Much more at https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-retribut
ion-tracker/
. . . Nixon’s plotting remained a secret until the Watergate hearings exposed it, turning his enemies list into a symbol of presidential abuse. The secrecy reflected a political culture in which retaliation was whispered, not broadcast, and where institutional checks blunted many of Nixon’s ambitions.
Trump’s approach reverses that pattern, historians say. He has openly named his perceived enemies, urged prosecutions in public and framed vengeance as a campaign vow. Some say today’s “enemies list” politics are in that sense farther-reaching than Nixon’s, possibly signaling a shift toward a normalization of retribution in American political life.
Corey Brettschneider, a political science professor at Brown University who has written a book on power grabs by American presidents, said Nixon was ultimately checked and forced to resign by Congress, including members of his own Republican Party. “That's just not happening now,” he said.
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Grow up and get a hobby bitch.
If you don't stop talking about Trump, you will never win an election again.
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Quote:What is clearly the agenda? I mean, this is not a normal presidency. This is not normal politics in the United States. What we have is a group of would-be authoritarians trying to speedrun a transition into one-party, non-democratic rule. It’s clear that the goal was to be reached before anybody had a chance really to stand up to them. It was to end US democracy more or less permanently. I mean, that’s not hyperbole. That’s just where we are. And the good news is, it does not seem to be going well, or at least it’s not going according to schedule. People like Orban in Hungary or Putin in his early years had broad public support during their extended takeovers. Trump’s support has cratered. If you had doubts about the polling, these elections in New Jersey and Virginia that we had early in November said, oh, no, the polling is right, if anything, it’s understating how much the public now loathes Donald Trump. Now, that’s not necessarily enough. There are still a lot of craven politicians and craven institutions. At least the momentum has slowed. Now, whether we can actually turn this around, ask me in a couple of years.
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Grow up and get a hobby bitch.
If you don't stop talking about Trump, you will never win an election again.
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/another-talk-with-martin-wolf
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Isn't Trump indiscriminately executing people for drug trafficking? But Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US
Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/28/trump-pardon-honduras-
hernandez-drugs
Donald Trump has said he will grant a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
“I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” Trump said on Friday in a post on Truth Social.
In March of last year, Hernández was convicted in US courts of accepting millions of dollars in bribes to protect US-bound cocaine shipments belonging to traffickers he once publicly proclaimed to combat. Speaking during closing arguments at the trial, assistant US attorney Jacob Gutwillig said Hernández had “paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States”.
Hernández was sentenced last June and called his conviction wrongful. He had served two terms as the leader of the country of roughly 10 million people, and was considered a top US ally in Central America, particularly by the Trump administration.
Trump’s announcement to pardon Hernández comes even as the Republican leader casts himself as being tough on combating drug problems.
Trump’s administration designated multiple drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” and used claims of a “war on drugs” to justify deadly airstrikes on vessels across the Caribbean and Pacific. These strikes have prompted the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to condemn the operations as extrajudicial executions.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Grow up and get a hobby bitch.
If you don't stop talking about Trump, you will never win an election again.
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You know everything, Paul. You tell us.
Why do you still listen to this retard, retard?
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Quote:Is executing a drug dealer without a trial illegal? Not according to Trump or Trumptards I have asked, but asking a lawyer gets the opposite answer. Trumptards mainly listen to the distorted voices howling madly in their heads, not to experts:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You know everything, Paul. You tell us.
Why do you still listen to this retard, retard?
Statement of the “Former JAGs Working Group” on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
29 November 2025
https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/former-jag-wor
king-group-no-quarter-statement.pdf
Yesterday, the Washington Post and CNN reported that the Secretary of Defense personally issued orders to “kill everybody” aboard a civilian vessel suspected of narcotrafficking. The attack on 2 September 2025 targeted a vessel carrying 11 civilians and, allegedly, an unknown quantity of drugs. The first strike resulted in near-total destruction of the vessel. However, two survivors were apparently observed via surveillance video clinging to wreckage, whereupon the commander directing the operation ordered a second strike. The second strike killed both survivors.
The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both. Our group was established in February 2025 in response to the SECDEF’s firing of the Army and Air Force Judge Advocates General and his systematic dismantling of the military’s legal guardrails. Had those guardrails been in place, we are confident they would have prevented these crimes.
. . .
Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
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Drug Boat Strikes Spark Debate Over Legal Justification
Nov. 26, 2025 | By Greg Hadley
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/drug-boat-strikes-spark-debate-over-
legal-justification/
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You know everything, Paul. You tell us.
Why do you still listen to this retard, retard?
They don't have any Constitutional protections. They aren't my people. They are bringing harm to my people. Despite the dangers you're so concerned about, they still choose to risk those dangers to bring harm to my people while making profit off of them.
Fuck them.
You find yourself not only on the opposite side of logic, reason and self-preservation once again, but your toxic empathy is going to get your stupid, Liberal ass killed one day. Nobody gives a shit if you're willing to risk your own ass for them.
By all means. If you really give a fuck about them, then you pack up your Billions, Mr. Oil Tycoon, and you go take your morally-superior ass over there and you fight for them.
If not? Shut the fuck up.
We're all fucking tired of hearing any of your bullshit, and you are the reason why your Political Party is dead and will never recover.
As for Paul, I'm simply pointing out that Mr. Krugman has not had a correct prediction or anything worth putting to paper in at least 5 years. And yet after hundreds of posts of stupid shit he's said and failed predictions he's made being reposted by you on the regular, cataloging all of his failures over the years all without ever saying anything that remotely resembles the truth, here we are.
Fuck Paul Krugman. And Fuck You, Second.
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Quote:I always wondered as a child why people like you and Trump were a burden on others and would actively harm them for profit. For many, many years, people like you have shown me your souls. Finally, I understood. There really are evil people in the world who aren't aware of the rotten spot inside them. If you re-read what you wrote, 6ix, and imagine the person who wrote it was standing next to you, could you trust them not to burden you? Maybe even harm you?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Is executing a drug dealer without a trial illegal?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You know everything, Paul. You tell us.
Why do you still listen to this retard, retard?
They don't have any Constitutional protections. They aren't my people. They are bringing harm to my people. Despite the dangers you're so concerned about, they still choose to risk those dangers to bring harm to my people while making profit off of them.
Fuck them.
You find yourself not only on the opposite side of logic, reason and self-preservation once again, but your toxic empathy is going to get your stupid, Liberal ass killed one day. Nobody gives a shit if you're willing to risk your own ass for them.
By all means. If you really give a fuck about them, then you pack up your Billions, Mr. Oil Tycoon, and you go take your morally-superior ass over there and you fight for them.
If not? Shut the fuck up.
We're all fucking tired of hearing any of your bullshit, and you are the reason why your Political Party is dead and will never recover.
As for Paul, I'm simply pointing out that Mr. Krugman has not had a correct prediction or anything worth putting to paper in at least 5 years. And yet after hundreds of posts of stupid shit he's said and failed predictions he's made being reposted by you on the regular, cataloging all of his failures over the years all without ever saying anything that remotely resembles the truth, here we are.
Fuck Paul Krugman. And Fuck You, Second.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I always wondered as a child why people like you and Trump were a burden on others and would actively harm them for profit. For many, many years, people like you have shown me your souls. Finally, I understood. There really are evil people in the world who aren't aware of the rotten spot inside them. If you re-read what you wrote, 6ix, and imagine the person who wrote it was standing next to you, could you trust them not to burden you? Maybe even harm you?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Is executing a drug dealer without a trial illegal?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You know everything, Paul. You tell us.
Why do you still listen to this retard, retard?
They don't have any Constitutional protections. They aren't my people. They are bringing harm to my people. Despite the dangers you're so concerned about, they still choose to risk those dangers to bring harm to my people while making profit off of them.
Fuck them.
You find yourself not only on the opposite side of logic, reason and self-preservation once again, but your toxic empathy is going to get your stupid, Liberal ass killed one day. Nobody gives a shit if you're willing to risk your own ass for them.
By all means. If you really give a fuck about them, then you pack up your Billions, Mr. Oil Tycoon, and you go take your morally-superior ass over there and you fight for them.
If not? Shut the fuck up.
We're all fucking tired of hearing any of your bullshit, and you are the reason why your Political Party is dead and will never recover.
As for Paul, I'm simply pointing out that Mr. Krugman has not had a correct prediction or anything worth putting to paper in at least 5 years. And yet after hundreds of posts of stupid shit he's said and failed predictions he's made being reposted by you on the regular, cataloging all of his failures over the years all without ever saying anything that remotely resembles the truth, here we are.
Fuck Paul Krugman. And Fuck You, Second.
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Shut the fuck up, you sanctimonious little cunt.
If you know me personally, the only way you're being harmed by me is if you burden or hurt me or anybody I care about.
You are the burden. You are the pain. You are everything that is wrong with this world.
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Quote:Trumptards are lucky to live in America, where deviant behavior is tolerated. If you lived anywhere else in the Americas, other than Canada, Trumptards would be killed because you are obviously a bunch of assholes. Nobody would tolerate Trumptards in any other American country, except Canada. You Trumptards would be killed with an ax or a machete after the thousandth time you offended the whole community with your loud, stupid, selfish ways, refusing to adjust to the environment you live in.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up, you sanctimonious little cunt.
If you know me personally, the only way you're being harmed by me is if you burden or hurt me or anybody I care about.
You are the burden. You are the pain. You are everything that is wrong with this world.
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Trump Is In FAR Deeper Trouble Than I Anticipated | Paul Krugman
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Leaving MAGA — An Off-Ramp
By Andrew Tobias | Nov 30, 2025 at 12:39 AM
https://andrewtobias.com/leaving-maga-an-off-ramp/
He calls it an “e-book,” but at 9,500 words — and free — My MAGA Odyssey is really just a wonderful short story. https://leavingmaga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/E-book-Leaving-MAGA
.pdf
In three parts.
I. Why I Gravitated To MAGA
II. Why I Left MAGA
III. Empowering Others to Leave MAGA
Once a prominent MAGA voice, Rich Logis writes:
I know many will ask: “It took you seven years to leave?”
It’s a fair criticism. I don’t have a good answer as to why I defended, and justified, over and over, the indefensible and the unjustifiable. I was always convinced that MAGA’s adversaries were far worse. I bought into the dehumanization of our opponents. I appreciate that these answers will be unsatisfactory to many.
As I spoke and wrote as much as I could about how I left MAGA, I decided I needed to do more to reach out to others who were in my position. That’s why I founded Leaving MAGA. https://leavingmaga.org/ I want it to provide an off-ramp of sorts to those who are having doubts and/or are considering leaving the movement. It’s also a safe space, a community for those who are ready to return to who they were before MAGA clawed into their hearts and minds.
Finally, Leaving MAGA is a resource for those who want to reach out to friends and/or loved ones in the movement. I am living proof that it’s possible to leave MAGA. Let’s get to work to again find peace with our family, friends and neighbors in MAGA.
Read his “book” https://leavingmaga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/E-book-Leaving-MAGA
.pdf
Visit his website https://leavingmaga.org/
And the many stories you’ll find there of others who’ve left MAGA, like this young man’s, or this young woman’s . . . each one an interesting personal struggle.
https://leavingmaga.org/they-left-maga
https://leavingmaga.org/they-left-maga/steve-vilchez/
https://leavingmaga.org/they-left-maga/kc-cain/
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Trump Is In FAR Deeper Trouble Than I Anticipated | Paul Krugman
I'll bet he's not, idiot Paul.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards are lucky to live in America, where deviant behavior is tolerated. If you lived anywhere else in the Americas, other than Canada, Trumptards would be killed because you are obviously a bunch of assholes. Nobody would tolerate Trumptards in any other American country, except Canada. You Trumptards would be killed with an ax or a machete after the thousandth time you offended the whole community with your loud, stupid, selfish ways, refusing to adjust to the environment you live in.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up, you sanctimonious little cunt.
If you know me personally, the only way you're being harmed by me is if you burden or hurt me or anybody I care about.
You are the burden. You are the pain. You are everything that is wrong with this world.
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Anyone could and would say the same about you.
Go fuck yourself, and get the fuck out of my country, you evil little cunt.
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Quote:Trump plans to pardon an ex-president who flooded America with cocaine
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Anyone could and would say the same about you.
Go fuck yourself, and get the fuck out of my country, you evil little cunt.
He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.
At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.
Last year, Mr. Hernández was convicted on drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. It was one of the most sweeping drug-trafficking cases to come before a U.S. court since the trial of the Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega three decades before.
But on Friday, President Trump announced that he would pardon Mr. Hernandez, 57, who he said was a victim of political persecution, though Mr. Trump offered no evidence to support that claim. It would be a head-spinning resolution to a case that for prosecutors was a pinnacle, striking at the heart of a narcostate.
The president’s two-week trial in Manhattan, and those of his associates before it, offered a glimpse into a world of corruption and drug running spanning several countries. Bags of cash, a machine gun with Mr. Hernández’s name emblazoned on it, and bribes from the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, the Mexican kingpin known as El Chapo, featured heavily.
Prosecutors said Mr. Hernández was key to a scheme that lasted more than 20 years and brought more than 500 tons of cocaine into the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernandez-drug-tr
afficking.html
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Anyone could and would say the same about you.
Go fuck yourself, and get the fuck out of my country, you evil little cunt.
You were just defending the people who are currently flooding our people with drugs.
You should be celebrating this pardon, right moron?
Good for you, buddy. Your side finally won on an issue in 2025. Only a month left in the year now... I thought maybe you wouldn't have a single thing to hang your hat on.
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Quote:Trump will be taking money from Russians, which means Trump will be in trouble.
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Trump Is In FAR Deeper Trouble Than I Anticipated | Paul Krugman
I'll bet he's not, idiot Paul.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. Trump and his cronies are on board
The Wall Street Journal reports: https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b2
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Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
But the full scope of their project went much further, according to people familiar with the talks. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors to the dividends.
At his waterfront estate, billionaire developer-turned-special envoy Steve Witkoff was hosting Kirill Dmitriev , head of Russia’s sovereign-wealth fund and Vladimir Putin’s handpicked negotiator, who had largely shaped the document they were revising on the screen. Jared Kushner , the president’s son-in-law, had arrived from his nearby home on an island known as the “ Billionaire Bunker .”
Dmitriev was pushing a plan for U.S. companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for U.S.-Russian investment projects and a U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian companies could join to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic. There were no limits to what two longtime adversaries could achieve, Dmitriev had argued for months: Their rival space industries, which raced one another during the Cold War, could even pursue a joint mission to Mars with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials. By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.
Dmitriev, a Goldman Sachs alumnus, had found receptive partners in Witkoff—Trump’s longtime golfing partner—and Kushner, whose investment fund, Affinity Partners, drew billion-dollar investments from the Arab monarchies whose conflict with Israel he had helped mediate.
The two businessmen shared President Trump’s long-held approach to geopolitics. If generations of diplomats viewed the post-Soviet challenges of Eastern Europe as a Gordian knot to be painstakingly unraveled, the president envisioned an easy fix: The borders matter less than the business. In the 1980s, he had offered to personally negotiate a swift end to the Cold War while building what he told Soviet diplomats would be a Trump Tower across the street from the Kremlin, with their Communist regime as a business partner.
“Russia has so many vast resources, vast expanses of land,” Witkoff told The Wall Street Journal, describing at length his hopes that Russia, Ukraine and America would all become business partners. “If we do all that, and everybody’s prospering and they’re all a part of it, and there’s upside for everybody, that’s going to naturally be a bulwark against future conflicts there. Because everybody’s thriving.”
When a version of the 28-point plan leaked earlier this month, it drew immediate protests. Leaders in Europe and Ukraine complained it reflected mostly Russian talking points and bulldozed through nearly all of Kyiv’s red lines. They weren’t assuaged even after administration officials assured them that the plan wasn’t set in stone, worried that Russia—after violently
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Quote:6ixStringJoker, you are fucking insane. Everything out of your keyboard is either nuts or false or evil or stupid. Sometimes all four, simultaneously.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump plans to pardon an ex-president who flooded America with cocaine
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Anyone could and would say the same about you.
Go fuck yourself, and get the fuck out of my country, you evil little cunt.
You were just defending the people who are currently flooding our people with drugs.
You should be celebrating this pardon, right moron?
Good for you, buddy. Your side finally won on an issue in 2025. Only a month left in the year now... I thought maybe you wouldn't have a single thing to hang your hat on.
Presumably, you know who Stephen Miller is. His wife, Katie Miller: “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?” That is a typical Trumptard defense for murdering rather than arresting drug smugglers in the ocean.
The shortest answer from Bakari Sellers to the nonsensical Trumptard justifications for murder: “The due process clause in the Constitution.”
What is "due process"? No one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law" by the federal government.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/due_process
Connecting "due process" to Trump. Trump wants to pardon a criminal who was convicted under "due process" because Trump has no idea what "due process" means.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump feels sympathy because he has defrauded more investors than this guy did. It could have been Trump in prison for seven years. https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+investment+fraud
Trump frees executive who defrauded thousands of investors, just days into seven-year prison sentence
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/trump-david-gentile-com
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President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims.
David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y., had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday, according to Bureau of Prisons records and a White House official who was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Mr. Gentile and a co-defendant, Jeffry Schneider, were convicted in August 2024 of securities and wire fraud charges, and sentenced in May.
Unlike a pardon, the commutation granted to Mr. Gentile will not necessarily erase penalties that could be associated with his conviction.
Mr. Schneider, who was sentenced to six years, does not appear to have received clemency from Mr. Trump.
In a social media post on Thanksgiving, Alice Marie Johnson, Mr. Trump’s “pardon czar,” said she was “deeply grateful to see David Gentile heading home to his young children.”
Mr. Trump has used the unfettered presidential clemency power to forgive an array of white-collar crimes and to make political points, including by casting prosecutions of his supporters as corrupt witch hunts like those that he claims had targeted him.
It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Gentile had connections to Mr. Trump or to the president’s supporters.
Lawyers for Mr. Gentile and Mr. Schneider declined to comment. Mr. Gentile did not respond to a request for comment.
In court filings, prosecutors said that Mr. Gentile and Mr. Schneider over several years used private equity funds controlled by Mr. Gentile’s company, GPB Capital, to defraud 10,000 investors by misrepresenting the performance of the funds and the source of money used to make monthly distribution payments.
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses, according to prosecutors, who characterized the victims as “hardworking, everyday people,” including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, adding, “I am living from check to check.”
In a statement after the sentencing in May, Joseph Nocella Jr., the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York, said that Mr. Gentile and Mr. Schneider had “raised approximately $1.6 billion from individual investors based on false promises of generating investment returns from the profits of portfolio companies, all while using investor capital to pay distributions and create a false appearance of success.”
The sentences, Mr. Nocella added, were “a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.”
But the White House official argued that prosecutors had falsely characterized the business as a Ponzi scheme. The official said that in 2015, GPB disclosed to investors the possibility that investor capital might be used to pay some distributions.
As of Saturday, the text of the commutation had yet to be posted on the Justice Department’s website.
It was not clear whether the commutation would affect any financial penalties.
In June, prosecutors asked the judge in the case to order Mr. Gentile to forfeit more than $15.5 million and Mr. Schneider to forfeit more than $12 million.
And in September, prosecutors indicated in a letter to the judge that a court-appointed receiver had access to more than $700 million,
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJoker, you are fucking insane.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump plans to pardon an ex-president who flooded America with cocaine
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Anyone could and would say the same about you.
Go fuck yourself, and get the fuck out of my country, you evil little cunt.
You were just defending the people who are currently flooding our people with drugs.
You should be celebrating this pardon, right moron?
Good for you, buddy. Your side finally won on an issue in 2025. Only a month left in the year now... I thought maybe you wouldn't have a single thing to hang your hat on.
Nope.
Just pointing out how you don't have a single argument against anything that you don't like that doesn't put you in the position of being a hypocrite in 2025 is all. One of the pitfalls of never shutting your stupid fucking mouth, I'm afraid.
You suck as a person, and you've already lost this chess match long ago. You put yourself in perpetual checkmate.
You are worthless. You are nothing. And I own you.
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Trump Is In FAR Deeper Trouble Than I Anticipated | Paul Krugman
I'll bet he's not, idiot Paul.
Oh! I'm sure he will! And I'm sure he will!
Oh boy! Oh boy! WE GOT 'EM THIS TIME BOYS!!!!!!
Shut the fuck up, you dumb little turd.
You are even more pathetic than you are stupid and naive.
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Quote:6ixStringJoker, how did you get this fucked up in the head? Trump's mental processes have been reported in numerous books, making it easy to trace how he got fucked up, but 6ixStringJoker and average Trumptards are less reported upon than Trump's process. What Trump is doing is fucked up and simple to understand. But will Trumptards try to understand? Most won't, following Trump's example of not understanding what he is doing and why it is illegal.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nope.
Just pointing out how you don't have a single argument against anything that you don't like that doesn't put you in the position of being a hypocrite in 2025 is all. One of the pitfalls of never shutting your stupid fucking mouth, I'm afraid.
You suck as a person, and you've already lost this chess match long ago. You put yourself in perpetual checkmate.
You are worthless. You are nothing. And I own you.
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Oh! I'm sure he will! And I'm sure he will!
Oh boy! Oh boy! WE GOT 'EM THIS TIME BOYS!!!!!!
Shut the fuck up, you dumb little turd.
You are even more pathetic than you are stupid and naive.
. . . the senior judge advocate general, or JAG, at U.S. Southern Command in Miami, the command that oversees the U.S. strikes on the small boats near Venezuela, expressed concern that the 82 deaths from the strikes were extrajudicial killings. If so, they would expose service members participating in the operations to legal repercussions.
According to the reporters, the opinion of a command’s top JAG on the legality of a military operation typically would determine whether the operation went forward. It is possible for higher officials to overrule their findings, but their concerns are typically addressed before the operation begins. In this case, though, the reporters write, officials at the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department and other senior government officials overruled him.
This new information adds fuel to the concerns of lawyers and lawmakers of both parties about the legality of the boat strikes just as lawmakers are pushing back on the administration’s refusal to honor the 1973 War Powers Act that requires the president to get Congress’s permission to continue strikes for more than 60 days. That deadline passed on November 2, and now the administration appears to be considering a broader assault on Venezuela.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-20-2025
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Letters from an American
November 30, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-30-2025
. . . On ABC’s This Week this morning, Representative Don Bacon (R-NE), who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, said to host Jonathan Karl: “Putin’s the invader, he’s the dictator, he’s murdered all his opponents. But I just don’t see that moral clarity coming from the White House. We saw that Wall Street Journal article yesterday that many people around the president are hoping to make billions of dollars—these are all billionaires in their own right—from…Russia, if they get a favorable agreement with Ukraine. That alarms me tremendously. I want to see America being the leader of the free world, standing up for what’s right, not for who can make a buck…. I don’t want to see a foreign policy based on greed. I want to see it based on doing the right thing.”
There is far more at stake here than morality, although that is clearly on the table.
The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain. It permits virtually unlimited theft while the head of state provides cover for his cronies through pardons and the uneven application of the law.
It is the system Russia’s president Vladimir Putin exploits in Russia, and President Donald J. Trump is working to establish it in the United States of America.
In the New York Times today, Cecilia Kang, Tripp Mickle, Ryan Mac, David Yaffe-Bellany, and Theodore Schleifer explored the story of David Sacks, an early technology entrepreneur with Peter Thiel and Elon Musk who now advises the White House on AI and cryptocurrency policy while investing in the companies that benefit from those policies. Sacks has brought Silicon Valley leaders, including the chief executive of Nvidia, into contact with White House officials. Shortly after, the government got rid of restrictions on Nvidia’s chip sales to foreign countries, a change that could net Nvidia as much as $200 billion.
Tom Burgis of The Guardian explained today how the Trump family is using its position in the federal government to advance its personal interests and enrich itself. Trump’s sons Don Jr. and Eric have thrown themselves into cryptocurrency, broken ground on new golf courses, and rushed through permissions for new buildings in foreign countries at the same time U.S. government policies over tariffs, cryptocurrency, and pardons, for example, seem to advance those interests.
“The Trumps’ most natural allies,” Burgis wrote, “first in business, now also in politics—have long been the rulers of the Gulf’s petro-monarchies, who see no distinction between their states’ interests and their families’.”
When New York Times reporters Ken Bensinger and David Fahrenthold published an article about Trump disclosing the donors who funded his transition to his second term a full year after promising to do so, they noted that the 46 individuals on the released list included billionaires and others who were later appointed to office. White House spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said: “President Trump greatly appreciates his supporters and donors; however, unlike politicians of the past, he is not bought by anyone and does what’s in the best interest of the country. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”
As wealth and power flow through the executive branch, Trump is overriding the rule of law that is designed to protect the rest of us from self-dealing by unscrupulous individuals. On Wednesday he commuted the sentence of private equity executive David Gentile, convicted in August 2024 of defrauding 10,000 investors in a $1.6 billion scheme that included securities and wire fraud. According to Kenneth P. Vogel of the New York Times, prosecutors said the victims were small business owners, teachers, nurses, farmers, and veterans: “hardworking, everyday people.” “I lost my whole life savings,” one victim wrote about h
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Quote:Why the Gulf Monarchs Shower Trump With Gifts
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Oh! I'm sure he will! And I'm sure he will!
Oh boy! Oh boy! WE GOT 'EM THIS TIME BOYS!!!!!!
Shut the fuck up, you dumb little turd.
You are even more pathetic than you are stupid and naive.
Until now, no president had yielded to royal temptations from abroad.
By Franklin Foer | November 30, 2025, 6 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/saudi-arabia-trump-corruptio
n/685074/
When Benjamin Franklin left Paris in 1785, after nearly nine years as the American emissary to France, King Louis XVI presented him with a parting gift. The token exuded the rococo extravagance of the ancien régime: a portrait of the monarch, surrounded by 408 diamonds, held in a gold case. It was frequently described as a snuffbox, a term that hardly captures its opulent nature; the item was likely far more valuable than anything Franklin owned.
Under the Articles of Confederation—the document governing the still-fragile republic—Franklin could keep the gift only with the explicit permission of Congress, which it reluctantly granted. But the gift unsettled the country. The Constitution, written two years later, barred federal officeholders from accepting any gift, payment, or title from a foreign state without Congress’s explicit consent. The Founders feared that European monarchies would seek to control the new country by showering it with gifts, which would undermine its capacity for self-government.
Until Donald Trump, no U.S. president had ever yielded to royal temptations from abroad. But in his second term, Trump has discarded that old inhibition in its totality. Since 2022, the Trump family has been promised hundreds of millions of dollars—in the form of investments, real-estate licensing deals, even an airplane—from Gulf monarchies and the business entities they control.
During his second term, and especially during Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s recent visit to Washington, Trump has rewarded his benefactors with sweeping geopolitical favors. Their huge investments in his family’s businesses are hard to describe as anything other than the spectacular subversion of American sovereignty, wherein the nation’s foreign policy reads as a thank-you note to the president’s biggest financial boosters.
Really, Trump is adopting the governing style of his backers. In the Gulf states, hardly any distinction exists between public and private interests; the royal family governs the state and dominates the economy. They oversee sovereign-wealth funds, control the largest companies, and treat nominally private enterprises as instruments of royal policy. When a Gulf developer or investment vehicle pays Trump—or licenses his brand—it is not a private commercial transaction. It is a political act: a foreign monarch using his wealth to cultivate influence, dependence, and favor.
In a monarchy, a ruler governs in part through beneficence—binding subjects through appointments, indulgences, and other blandishments. That this model might be applied to American officeholders was the gravest threat to the republic: Leaders enriched by a foreign monarch cannot be trusted to act independently. When a leader is financially entangled with foreign regimes, it becomes impossible to discern their motives: Are they acting out of conviction, or obligation? That uncertainty was precisely what the Framers sought to banish.
The timing of Trump’s deals with the Saudis tells a disturbing story. Before he became president, he never managed to break into the kingdom’s real-estate market. But during his first term, he proved his worth. He stood by MBS after the Saudi leader ordered the murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump backed the kingdom and its Emirati allies during their blockade of Qatar in 2017, despite the fact that the United States maintains one of its largest military bases there.
The Trump family was rewarded for its demonstrations of loyalty. In 2021, Jared K
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nope.
Just pointing out how you don't have a single argument against anything that you don't like that doesn't put you in the position of being a hypocrite in 2025 is all. One of the pitfalls of never shutting your stupid fucking mouth, I'm afraid.
You suck as a person, and you've already lost this chess match long ago. You put yourself in perpetual checkmate.
You are worthless. You are nothing. And I own you.
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Oh! I'm sure he will! And I'm sure he will!
Oh boy! Oh boy! WE GOT 'EM THIS TIME BOYS!!!!!!
Shut the fuck up, you dumb little turd.
You are even more pathetic than you are stupid and naive.
Do not address me, faggot.
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Quote:Trump: Pro-crypto or Pro-crime?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do not address me, faggot. != (Be Nice. Don't be a dick.)
Or are they the same thing?
By Paul Krugman | Dec 01, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-crypto-or-pro-crime
On one side, the Trump administration is sinking small boats that it claims, without evidence, are smuggling drugs — and according to the Washington Post, Pete Hegseth, the self-styled Secretary of War, has personally ordered at least one follow-up strike to kill the survivors. A working group of former JAGs, that is, members of the military’s legal branch, issued a statement declaring that it unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both.
On the other side, Donald Trump has declared his intention to grant “a Full and Complete Pardon” to Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who has been convicted of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. In fact, Hernandez was part of a cartel, including his brother, that smuggled hundreds of tons of cocaine into this country.
At first glance, the juxtaposition seems bizarre – Trump is either murdering or committing war crimes against people who are at worst small-time drug smugglers, and may be innocent fishermen, while pardoning a drug lord who was responsible for thousands of American deaths while savaging his own country, Honduras. But there is a pattern to this murderous madness, once one connects the dots between Trump’s mob-boss persona and the billionaire crypto/tech broligarchy.
First, understand that Trump’s vendetta against purported penny-ante drug smugglers is all about dominance display, an exhibition of his ability to order violence. The real object may be to set the stage for invading Venezuela.
Second, while Trump is clearly willing to inflict gratuitous suffering on the little people, he positively revels in his association with big-time criminals, whether it’s Putin; or Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who had a critical journalist dismembered with a bone saw; or Ross Ulbricht, creator of Silk Road, an underground e-marketplace known for drug trafficking, whom Trump pardoned immediately after assuming office; or Larry Hoover, a Chicago crime boss, who was sentenced to several lifetimes in prison for leading the Gangster Disciples, also pardoned by Trump. Yes, Trump really and truly cares about crime in Chicago.
Still, why would Trump, whose poll numbers are cratering, generate even more negative headlines by pardoning Hernández, who was duly convicted of conspiring to send more than 400 tons (!) of cocaine to America?
The answer is the influence of the crypto/tech broligarchy. In fact, many of Trump’s pardons of the most egregious criminals are closely linked to their influence.
A case in point is Ulbricht, whose Silk Road was an early example of what is still the main non-speculative use of Bitcoin: facilitating criminal activity. Ross Ulbricht was a darling of the tech-libertarian crowd, which includes Peter Thiel, arguably the godfather of Silicon Valley and whose financial backing was critical to JD Vance’s senate win. Trump first promised to pardon Ulbricht in 2024, as part of a pitch to win the votes of libertarians:
Speaking at the Libertarian Party convention in 2024, President Donald Trump promised to free Ross Ulbricht, a former tech entrepreneur who created a dark web site called Silk Road that was used by drug traffickers.
Photo of Trump at the Libertarian Party national conference in 2024, where he promised to pardon Ulbricht.
A close-up of a sign. A closeup: This is an anarchist symbol
Whatever libertarians were in the past, they are now an extremist party, opposed to laws against drug smuggling, money laundering, any type of prudential government regulation, and – in the case of Thiel – opposed to democracy itself. It should not go unnoticed that Trump saluted a party that proclaims “Become Ungovernable” as its gu
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Do not address me, faggot. != (Be Nice. Don't be a dick.)
That's a message from human beings to other human beings.
We don't exactly know what you are, but you aren't a part of the group.
Go fuck yourself, you miserable little piece of dog shit.
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