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Sunday, August 25, 2024 1:23 AM (P)

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Originally posted by second:
RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer

Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump raises an awkward question.


I'm sure this article wouldn't have been written if he endorsed Kamala.

Get fucked, losers.




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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 6:09 AM (P)

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer

Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump raises an awkward question.


I'm sure this article wouldn't have been written if he endorsed Kamala.

Get fucked, losers.




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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
From the article about RFK Jr. A famous rich boy selling a hard drug that could’ve gotten him—or, more precisely, someone who wasn’t him—a years-long prison sentence. His almost fetishistic obsession with a bit of plastic trash. His greedy little burst of anger cloaked in righteousness. His faith that he was cultivating precious cocaine crystals. In retrospect, it has seemed to me a tiny illustration of the child as the father of the man he became: fantastical pseudoscientific crusader, middle-aged preppy dick who takes selfies with barbecued dogs and plays pranks with roadkill bear cubs he didn’t have time to eat.

There was no way that RFK Jr was going to endorse any Democrat. His extended family are on record saying that the behavior of RFK Jr is crazy, so Jr predictably endorsed the biggest crazy of all times. Which brings me to 6ixStringJack. I been saving this one for awhile: http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=11998
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I really wish I could share some of what I've been working on here and show it off, but we have two goons here who would literally kill me if given the chance, so the less I share the better. I could just imagine a scenario where one day I end up having to deal with one or both of them on entirely different forums that don't engage at all in politics. If that ever were to happen though, the good news is that those other forums are all moderated and they would be ejected about as quick as they showed up.
Fearfulness. Paranoia. Delusions of superiority/uniqueness/irreplaceableness. That's Trumptards. No surprise that RFK Jr was strongly attracted to Trump since he has the mental illnesses/psychology of a Trumptard such as 6ixStringJack.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 11:17 AM (P)

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The rise of Harris from basement-level popularity ratings just four years ago to some sort of political genius proves the undeniable power of the corporate media complex to turn the greatest mediocrity into anyone they like.

“The way the US corporate media transformed Kamala Harris from a national embarrassment to a transformative pioneer overnight – without even pretending to care about anything that she thinks or believes – is a powerful testament to how potent the science of propaganda is,” journalist Glenn Greenwald posted on X (formerly Twitter).





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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 12:13 PM (P)

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer

Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump raises an awkward question.


I'm sure this article wouldn't have been written if he endorsed Kamala.

Get fucked, losers.




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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
From the article about RFK Jr. A famous rich boy selling a hard drug that could’ve gotten him—or, more precisely, someone who wasn’t him—a years-long prison sentence. His almost fetishistic obsession with a bit of plastic trash. His greedy little burst of anger cloaked in righteousness. His faith that he was cultivating precious cocaine crystals. In retrospect, it has seemed to me a tiny illustration of the child as the father of the man he became: fantastical pseudoscientific crusader, middle-aged preppy dick who takes selfies with barbecued dogs and plays pranks with roadkill bear cubs he didn’t have time to eat.

There was no way that RFK Jr was going to endorse any Democrat. His extended family are on record saying that the behavior of RFK Jr is crazy, so Jr predictably endorsed the biggest crazy of all times. Which brings me to 6ixStringJack. I been saving this one for awhile: http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=11998
09#1199809

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I really wish I could share some of what I've been working on here and show it off, but we have two goons here who would literally kill me if given the chance, so the less I share the better. I could just imagine a scenario where one day I end up having to deal with one or both of them on entirely different forums that don't engage at all in politics. If that ever were to happen though, the good news is that those other forums are all moderated and they would be ejected about as quick as they showed up.
Fearfulness. Paranoia. Delusions of superiority/uniqueness/irreplaceableness. That's Trumptards. No surprise that RFK Jr was strongly attracted to Trump since he has the mental illnesses/psychology of a Trumptard such as 6ixStringJack.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


It's hardly paranoia.

There have been no less than 100 times that you've taken something I've divulged about myself to people who aren't you and threw it in my face when you can't win an argument against me.

You are my biggest stalker, and you're a self-righteous asshole.

Everybody you know online and in real life hates you, because you're a fucking creep.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 12:35 PM (P)

It would be nice if SECOND went away.




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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
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Sunday, August 25, 2024 4:39 PM (P)

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

It's hardly paranoia.

There have been no less than 100 times that you've taken something I've divulged about myself to people who aren't you and threw it in my face when you can't win an argument against me.

You are my biggest stalker, and you're a self-righteous asshole.

Everybody you know online and in real life hates you, because you're a fucking creep.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Not that you would notice, but being frightened by the "unknown", such as me or foreigners, is extremely widespread with Trumptards. Trumptards think it is "normal", but it is not. Trump knows that about you. So do I. What else is widespread? Not being able to understand and follow rules. Trump knows he can break them with impunity, but his followers will not hold him accountable because they don't follow rules, since rules make them confused:

Donald Trump Accused of New Federal Crime as He Cozies Up to RFK Jr.

Aug 24, 2024 at 9:16 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accused-federal-crime-rfk-jr-end
orsement-1943980

The federal law, titled, "Promise of employment or other benefit for political activity," states that anyone who "directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit, provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office, or in connection with any primary election or political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."

"Oh, by the way, it is a FEDERAL CRIME to promise a post in an administration in exchange for a candidate endorsement. So of course convicted felon Donald Trump got RFK Jr. to endorse him. And of course former prosecutor Kamala Harris declined to meet with RFK Jr.," wrote Tristan Snell, a lawyer and legal commentator who prosecuted the 2013 civil case filed by the New York attorney general's office against Trump University, a real estate training program created by Trump in the early 2000s.

Trump denied any wrongdoing in the case, but a judge found him liable for operating the school without the proper license.

"Kennedy shopped his endorsement to both candidates. Trump illegally offered him a job. Harris wouldn't even take the call. Tells you everything you need to know," David Lazarus, a business and consumer news reporter for Los Angeles' KTLA, wrote.

One X user, George Leventhal, wrote, "Not that Trump or RFK Jr. cares about following the law, but it is illegal to offer a job in return for political support" and linked to a Cornell Law School webpage that discusses the law that Trump has been accused of breaking.

Much more at https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accused-federal-crime-rfk-jr-end
orsement-1943980

The above is a man-made rule, so it is not a surprise when Trumptards think it is unnecessary, unfair, unenforceable, but Trumptards also think rules based on physics or biology are no different than man-made rules. That is why Trumptards see no need to curb methane emissions from oil field operations nor to stop smoking, as the government requests on every pack of cigarettes. Just more rules to be ignored by ignoramuses.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 4:45 PM (P)

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It would be nice if SECOND went away.




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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
It would be nice if little Nazis like Signym and 6ix went away, or at least weren't so outright aggressive at publicly saluting Putin and Trump, expressing your compatibility with the worst ideas and leaders.

This letter to Americans has an important message ahead of elections
"What could possibly go wrong?”

By Gianluca Mezzofiore | November 7, 2016

https://mashable.com/article/dear-americans-germany-elections

Dear Americans
Go ahead, vote for the guy with the loud voice who hates minorities, threatens to imprison his opponents, doesn’t give a fuck about democracy, and claims he alone can fix everything. What could possibly go wrong? Good luck.
— The people of Germany
https://x.com/CrappyCrapson/status/794567197041561600

On Friday I posted my „Dear Americans“ message on Twitter.
I hoped it would get some attention. Well, it did. A little more than I expected. I’d like to respond to a few things I read about my piece.

• It has been suggested that the author wasn’t German. I am, in fact, German and have the birth certificate to prove it (I knew you’d ask). I’m from Hamburg, currently living and working in San Diego, CA.

• I’ve received many nice messages along the lines of „I HOPE YOU DIE!!“. Rest assured, dear Trump followers, the possibility of me dying is very, very high. And seeing that most of you must be in your early teens (judging from the rest of your messages), you’ll be dancing on my grave.

• Some people suspect me to work for the Clinton campaign. I don’t, but I’d vote for her if I could (I can’t. I’m German. Pay attention.). And of course she’s not the perfect candidate either, far from it. But I compare what I hear about her with what I hear about (or rather, directly from) Trump, and I really don’t know how anyone could think that’s comparable.

Dear Internet.

Let me clarify a few things.

• Of course I can’t speak for the entire population of Germany. I used that signature line as a way of overdramatizing to add emphasis. I’ve been told it’s a common narrative device. Not all Germans think that way. But from what I hear from friends and family back home, what I read on German news sites and social media, many Germans are just scared shitless that an obvious demagogue and outright liar can gather so many people behind him. Yes, it does remind us of something that happened here. And worse, it’s happening here again, too. Same empty promises, same lies, same racism. They’re calling themselves the „Alternative for Germany“ (AfD). A party of populists that have just come out in support for Trump, calling him „an exciting breath of fresh air“. They are, of course, referring to his clever use of Tic-Tacs. No, seriously, those people are frightening.

• A frequent observation was that the comparison with Hitler was a bit of an exaggerated cliche, a worn and overused technique to stir attention. I agree! Glad it worked. You can’t compare Trump (or anybody) to the monster that was Hitler, and I didn’t mean it literally (personally, I think he’s more of a Goebbels type of guy, very media-savvy). But I see a lot of similarities in the way Trump and Hitler gained momentum, amassed followers around them despite so many telltale signs that all is not right. I’m not alone in that assessment. If you still believe in what journalists say, google it (try Newsweek and The Washington Post for starters).

• Whenever I travelled outside Germany in the past, I’ve often been asked how the German people could have fallen for Hitler back in the 30’s and 40’s. „How could your people NOT have known?“, they often asked. I don’t

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 8:08 PM (P)

Why don't you take a breather from your years- long streak of name calling and go away?
It'll be good for you.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 8:35 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Why don't you take a breather from your years- long streak of name calling and go away?
It'll be good for you.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
You goddamn Trumptards have never behaved like decent citizens at anytime in your lives. See Trump for a documented life of indecency. At long last the good citizens should kick the hell out of you for your tax cheating instead of listening to your fake complaints about not being respected and your constant stupidity at home, work, in your health habits, and especially in your politics.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 8:36 PM (P)

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Originally posted by SECOND.

You goddamn Trumptards have never behaved like decent citizens at anytime in your lives. At long last the good citizens should kick the hell out of you for your tax cheating instead of listening to your fake complaints about not being respected and your constant stupidity at home, work, in your health habits, and especially in your politics.


Touched a nerve, didn't I?

It's not like I told you to kill yourself (like you've done) or looked forward to your death (like you've done) or said you deserve to be beaten up (like you did).

You can hardly complain about MY behavior after what you've been doing for years.

Yep, you REALLY need a vacation!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 8:51 PM (P)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND.

You goddamn Trumptards have never behaved like decent citizens at anytime in your lives. At long last the good citizens should kick the hell out of you for your tax cheating instead of listening to your fake complaints about not being respected and your constant stupidity at home, work, in your health habits, and especially in your politics.


Touched a nerve, didn't I?

It's not like I told you to kill yourself (like you've done) or looked forward to your death (like you've done) or said you deserve to be beaten up (like you did).

You can hardly complain about MY behavior after what you've been doing for years.

Yep, you REALLY need a vacation!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
Where I live, the population is half Trumptard, which is why I get to frequently see a comparison between the two halves of America. When one of the Trumptards drops dead or retires, things gets smoother, errors and mistakes are fewer, decisions aren't delayed by the stupidity of the gone Trumptard. In other words, fewer Trumptards means less turmoil and more peace/prosperity. Funny thing is that all the Trumptards think of themselves as indispensable, but losing them shows how little they actually contributed and how expensive it was having them around.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 10:37 PM (P)

Are Republicans losing the culture wars?

School board candidates who ran on parental rights in classrooms are suffering defeats in states like Florida, once a leader in the “anti-woke” movement.

By Juan Perez Jr. and Andrew Atterbury | 08/24/2024 07:00 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/24/republicans-culture-war-races
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Republicans are confronting a decisive moment in the battle over public education: proving they can still win a culture war.

School board candidates backed by Moms for Liberty, a conservative vanguard whose members popularized restrictions on classroom library books, are losing elections in Florida and some swing states. Republican leaders who rallied against critical race theory and LGBTQ+ issues recently faced recalls in red pockets of California.

And in the presidential race, Democrats are playing offense. This week’s party convention in Chicago featured liberals attacking conservative candidates as “weird” and denouncing so-called book bans.

Former President Donald Trump is expected to lean into school politics next week at a Moms for Liberty summit, making the case that culture war issues still resonate with core supporters. Republicans show no signs of changing their strategy. But the party faces new challenges from a Democratic agenda — embodied by vice presidential nominee Tim Walz — that is redirecting the divisive education issues promoted by conservatives during the pandemic into a vehicle for highlighting free school lunches and affordable child care.

“We’re in the middle of a cultural revolution in America, and one of the biggest battlegrounds is the schools,” Moms For Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice said in an interview. “We didn’t start this fire, but we’re going to put it out.”

Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokesperson, said there is “a lot of mutual consensus” between the Republican nominee’s beliefs on education “and what Moms for Liberty stands for.”

But several Democratic National Committee speakers found ways to leverage social issues, including Walz, a former teacher who used them to pivot to a law he signed as Minnesota governor providing free school meals to all students.

“We made sure that every kid in our state gets breakfast and lunch every day,” Walz said Wednesday at the DNC. “So while other states were banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours.”

Moms for Liberty has declared the Democratic presidential ticket “would give way to the rise of the most anti-parent, extremist government America has ever known.” Some conservatives have started referring to Walz as “Tampon Tim” for a law he passed as governor that provides students with free menstrual products in school restrooms. They assert the law requires those products in boys’ bathrooms, but it does not include such a mandate.

Walz is currently the most popular member of either presidential ticket, according to polling conducted last week by the Democratic research firm Blueprint. It concluded about half of voters and independents said the free school lunch law caused them to view the governor more favorably.

Education ranks high on the list of Americans’ concerns, according to recent polling that suggests many prioritize less politicized issues such as school funding.

Preparing students to enter the workforce and attracting and retaining good teachers are among Americans’ top educational priorities for the next White House, according to a newly released education association survey that found a narrow majority of Americans see public education as extremely or very important to their vote. The poll, conducted in late June and early July when President Joe Biden was still in the race, concluded significant majorities of independents support ideas that garner wide public acclaim.

“If I were advising a candidate for office, I would focus on the issues that have broad support across political ideologies,” said James Lane, a former senior adviser to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona who is now CEO of PDK International, the profes

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Sunday, August 25, 2024 11:09 PM (P)

In his blistering, insightful account of his time in the Trump White House, McMaster describes meetings in the Oval Office as “exercises in competitive sycophancy” during which Trump’s advisers would flatter the president by saying stuff like, “Your instincts are always right” or, “No one has ever been treated so badly by the press.” Meanwhile, Trump would say “outlandish” things like, “Why don’t we just bomb the drugs?” in Mexico or, “Why don’t we take out the whole North Korean Army during one of their parades?”

McMaster’s book, which focuses on Trump’s tenure as commander-in-chief, comes at a particularly timely moment, just as many Americans start to really consider whether Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris would make a better commander-in-chief.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/25/politics/mcmaster-trump-book-account/in
dex.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, August 26, 2024 12:30 AM (P)

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by SECOND.

You goddamn Trumptards have never behaved like decent citizens at anytime in your lives. At long last the good citizens should kick the hell out of you for your tax cheating instead of listening to your fake complaints about not being respected and your constant stupidity at home, work, in your health habits, and especially in your politics.


Touched a nerve, didn't I?

It's not like I told you to kill yourself (like you've done) or looked forward to your death (like you've done) or said you deserve to be beaten up (like you did).

You can hardly complain about MY behavior after what you've been doing for years.

Yep, you REALLY need a vacation!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
Where I live, the population is half Trumptard, which is why I get to frequently see a comparison between the two halves of America. When one of the Trumptards drops dead or retires, things gets smoother, errors and mistakes are fewer, decisions aren't delayed by the stupidity of the gone Trumptard. In other words, fewer Trumptards means less turmoil and more peace/prosperity. Funny thing is that all the Trumptards think of themselves as indispensable, but losing them shows how little they actually contributed and how expensive it was having them around.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
And that excuses your behavior?

Get lost. Things will go smoother here.
We could have actual conversations instead of you ruining the site with hate speech, libel, and torrents of disinformation.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Monday, August 26, 2024 6:14 AM (P)

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

And that excuses your behavior?

Get lost. Things will go smoother here.
We could have actual conversations instead of you ruining the site with hate speech, libel, and torrents of disinformation.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
Signym, you condemned yourself with two words you have written over and over: "Fuck Ukraine." - Signym. Then Signym took Russia's side in murdering, raping and torturing Ukrainians by claiming it didn't happen.

Even your signature is false, since Kissinger did not say what you claim, Signym.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/56470/did-henry-kissinger
-say-it-may-be-dangerous-to-be-americas-enemy-but-to-be-am

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, August 26, 2024 6:15 AM (P)

The ideas in Project 2025? Reagan tried them, and the nation suffered

By Joel Edward Goza | Aug. 25, 2024, 3 AM PT

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-25/project-2025-trump-he
ritage-foundation-election#

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative playbook that would overhaul much of the federal government under a second Trump administration, has sparked fear and concern from voters despite the former president’s attempt to distance his campaign from the plan. But while Project 2025 might seem radical, most of it is not new. Instead, the now-famous document seeks to reanimate many of the worst racial, economic and political instincts of the Reagan Revolution.

Project 2025 begins with its authors boasting of the Heritage Foundation’s 1981 publication “The Mandate for Leadership,” which helped shape the Reagan administration’s policy framework. It hit its mark: Reagan wrote 60% of its recommendations into public policy in his first year in office, according to the Heritage Foundation. Yet the 900-plus-page Project 2025, itself a major component of a new edition of “The Mandate for Leadership,” does not contain any analysis of the economic and social price Americans paid for the revolution the Heritage Foundation and Reagan inspired.

If today’s economic inequality, racial unrest and environmental degradation represent some of our greatest political challenges, we would do well to remember that Reagan and the Heritage Foundation were the preeminent engineers of these catastrophes. Perhaps no day in Reagan’s presidency better embodied his policy transformations or the political ambitions of the Heritage Foundation than Aug. 13, 1981, when Reagan signed his first budget.

This budget dramatically transformed governmental priorities and hollowed out the nation’s 50-year pursuit of government for the common good that began during the New Deal. Once passed, it stripped 400,000 poor working families of their welfare benefits, while removing significant provisions from another 300,000. Radical cuts in education affected 26 million students. The number of poor Americans increased by 2.2 million, and the percentage of Black Americans living in poverty rose to a staggering 34.2%.

Of course, this was just the beginning of Reagan’s war on the poor, the environment and education. Following a Heritage Foundation plan, the Environmental Protection Agency’s operating budget would fall by 27%, and its science budget decreased by more than 50%. Funding for programs by the Department of Housing and Urban Development that provided housing assistance would be cut by 70%, according to Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America." Homelessness skyrocketed. And, as Project 2025 proposes, Reagan attempted to eliminate the Department of Education but settled for gutting its funding in a manner that set public education, in the words of author Jonathan Kozol, “back almost 100 years.” As funding for these issues nosedived under Reagan, financial support for the “war on drugs” skyrocketed and the prison population nearly doubled.

All the while, protections provided to the wealthy ballooned. Tax rates on personal income, corporate revenue and capital gains plummeted. For example, the highest income tax rate when Reagan took office was 70%. He would eventually lower it to 33%.

To ensure that wealth would be a long-lived family entitlement, Reagan instituted a 300% increase in inheritance tax protections through estate tax exemptions in his first budget. In 1980, the exemption stood at $161,000. By the time Reagan left office in 1989 it was $600,000. Today it is $13,610,000. This means that today nearly all wealthy children enjoy tax-free access to generational wealth.

And beginning during Reagan’s presidency, the number of millionaires and billionaires multiplied, increasing 225% and 400%, respectively, while the poverty of Americans across racial lines intensified. Even white males were more likely to be poor following Reagan’s presidency. Today poverty is the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.

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Monday, August 26, 2024 6:46 AM (P)

Raw data: Who’s the most militaristic president? Who’s the least?

By Kevin Drum | August 25, 2024 – 3:06 pm

https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-whos-the-most-militaristic-presiden
t-whos-the-least/

Here's an interesting tidbit you might not know: who is the least warlike recent US president? In the following list you get one point added for each war you started and one point subtracted for ending someone else's war. I've included only sizeable wars that featured either American boots on the ground or substantial air activity. If it was just occasional drones or missiles or a few dozen advisors, it doesn't count. Here's the scorecard:

Reagan: +2 (Lebanon, Grenada).
Bush: +3 (Panama, Iraq, Somalia).
Clinton: +2 (Bosnia, Haiti, ended Somalia, Kosovo).
Bush: +3 (Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia).
Obama: +2 (ended Iraq war, Libya, Niger, ISIS).
Trump: -1 (ended ISIS).
Biden: -3 (ended Afghanistan, ended drone strikes, ended Niger).



This doesn't paint the whole picture, of course. Some wars are bigger than others. Some are multilateral. And events are different from administration to administration.

All that said, however, George W. Bush was our most interventionist president. He's technically tied with his father but his wars were considerably bigger and longer-lasting. Joe Biden has been by far the least interventionist president of our lifetimes.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, August 26, 2024 10:00 AM (P)


Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

And that excuses your behavior?

Get lost. Things will go smoother here.
We could have actual conversations instead of you ruining the site with hate speech, libel, and torrents of disinformation.

SECOND: Signym, you condemned yourself with two words you have written over and over: "Fuck Ukraine." - Signym.

SECOND, you revealed yourself to be demented. I don't believe I EVER posted "fuck Ukraine"

And this is the SECOND time you posted that, the SECOND time I corrected you, and the SECOND time I challenge you: Find more than three instances where I posted 'Fuck Ukraine ", with links.

You can't.

Nothing sticks in that Swiss cheese brain of yours, does it?



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Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Monday, August 26, 2024 1:19 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Raw data: Who’s the most militaristic president? Who’s the least?

By Kevin Drum | August 25, 2024 – 3:06 pm

https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-whos-the-most-militaristic-presiden
t-whos-the-least/

Here's an interesting tidbit you might not know: who is the least warlike recent US president? In the following list you get one point added for each war you started and one point subtracted for ending someone else's war. I've included only sizeable wars that featured either American boots on the ground or substantial air activity. If it was just occasional drones or missiles or a few dozen advisors, it doesn't count. Here's the scorecard:

Reagan: +2 (Lebanon, Grenada).
Bush: +3 (Panama, Iraq, Somalia).
Clinton: +2 (Bosnia, Haiti, ended Somalia, Kosovo).
Bush: +3 (Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia).
Obama: +2 (ended Iraq war, Libya, Niger, ISIS).
Trump: -1 (ended ISIS).
Biden: -3 (ended Afghanistan, ended drone strikes, ended Niger).



This doesn't paint the whole picture, of course. Some wars are bigger than others. Some are multilateral. And events are different from administration to administration.

All that said, however, George W. Bush was our most interventionist president. He's technically tied with his father but his wars were considerably bigger and longer-lasting. Joe Biden has been by far the least interventionist president of our lifetimes.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
And Ukraine...?

How stupid do they think we are?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Monday, August 26, 2024 4:42 PM (P)

Vengeance, bluster, self-promotion and threats have been Trump's engines of notoriety for decades. This approach helped get him elected in 2016, as he tapped into resentment against political, media, cultural and business elites — and rocked Washington. So when Trump’s backers beseech him to behave in a more temperate way by avoiding raging social media screeds or personal attacks, they are not only asking him to suppress part of himself. They are also seeking to neuter some of his core political tactics.

GOP campaign experts are frustrated because the path to victory against a vice president of an unpopular administration seems obvious — talk about the issues that voters care about most and on which Republicans are favored, including high grocery prices and concerns about the southern border. It’s not that the ex-president cannot talk policy. But his policy points get drowned out by his histrionics and unhinged social media posts.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/26/politics/trump-personal-attacks-policy-
harris-analysis/index.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, August 26, 2024 4:59 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

And Ukraine...?

How stupid do they think we are?
If "they" is Trump, they think you are pretty stupid:

Trump has baselessly claimed at least twice in recent days that V.P. Kamala Harris had a meeting with Putin just days before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

“Remember when [President Joe] Biden sent Kamala to Europe to stop the war in Ukraine,” Trump said at a North Carolina campaign rally on Aug. 21. “She met with Putin to tell him, ‘Don’t do it.’ And three days later, he attacked. That’s when the attack started.”

The next day, during an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Trump repeated the claim and took it a step further, falsely claiming Harris had been sent to Russia.

He said: “But let me tell you — and a little known fact and the press doesn’t want to talk about, Biden sent — I call her comrade Kamala — sent comrade Kamala to see Putin in Russia three days before the attack. She went. She said — she gave her case. He attacked three days later. He attacked three days later. He laughed at her. He thought she was a joke.”

But it’s not a fact, and there is no reason for the press to talk about it because there is no indication a meeting happened. There’s nothing about such a meeting — let alone a trip to Russia — in the press pool reports, which were filed daily by one of the reporters traveling with Harris. The idea that the press would ignore such a high-level meeting is absurd.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/trumps-false-claim-that-harris-met-w
ith-putin/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, August 26, 2024 4:59 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND.

You goddamn Trumptards have never behaved like decent citizens at anytime in your lives. At long last the good citizens should kick the hell out of you for your tax cheating instead of listening to your fake complaints about not being respected and your constant stupidity at home, work, in your health habits, and especially in your politics.


Touched a nerve, didn't I?

It's not like I told you to kill yourself (like you've done) or looked forward to your death (like you've done) or said you deserve to be beaten up (like you did).

You can hardly complain about MY behavior after what you've been doing for years.

Yep, you REALLY need a vacation!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
Where I live, the population is half Trumptard, which is why I get to frequently see a comparison between the two halves of America. When one of the Trumptards drops dead or retires, things gets smoother, errors and mistakes are fewer, decisions aren't delayed by the stupidity of the gone Trumptard. In other words, fewer Trumptards means less turmoil and more peace/prosperity. Funny thing is that all the Trumptards think of themselves as indispensable, but losing them shows how little they actually contributed and how expensive it was having them around.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
And that excuses your behavior?

Get lost. Things will go smoother here.
We could have actual conversations instead of you ruining the site with hate speech, libel, and torrents of disinformation.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.


His problem is that he thinks in binary. There are no shades of grey. No nuance.

It's why he makes the claim a thousand times that Democrats are all going to live until they're 100 years old because they don't drink or smoke or do any drugs or philander ever make any bad decisions or ever do anything that isn't morally right, etc., etc. etc..

As you can see just the other day, I got him to admit this wasn't the case by getting him to speak judgmentally and dismissively about millions of Democrat voters that are beneath him and the "good people" he feels that he represents who don't do any of those things.

He knows he's completely full of shit whenever he has to wrestle with the nonsense ideas he has about people in the real world, let alone the constant hypocrisy he expresses whenever he tells you what he thinks of himself while simultaneously behaving in stark contradiction to that self-assessment.

His moments of introspection are very rare and are usually avoided at all costs.

It's so much easier just to throw every single person in America into two separate boxes and scream "Everyone in my box is good and everyone in your box is bad! Therefore I am a good person and you are a bad person!"

:smokin"

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Monday, August 26, 2024 5:09 PM (P)

Oh... and all that above....?

That's why people like you and me can argue issues and policy, Sigs, while people like Second can only argue people and vague concepts.

How many times do you think Second or Ted walked away feeling like they won an argument simply by replying "Trump!" or "Russia!"?

It's why they've never posted a meaningful reply in threads like your "What are America's Best Interests?"

They have no idea how to answer that question. The answer to that would require thought processes to take place that their brains are incapable of carrying out.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 1:27 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

His moments of introspection are very rare and are usually avoided at all costs.

It's so much easier just to throw every single person in America into two separate boxes and scream "Everyone in my box is good and everyone in your box is bad! Therefore I am a good person and you are a bad person!"
None of this is complicated, 6ixStringJack. But if you somehow managed to get everything upside down, you are a bad person. Is bad too harsh a word? Substitute "stupid person" for "bad person". Either "stupid" or "bad", the results are still the same: misery, poverty, and a shortened life. I have seen thousands of miserable, poor Trumptards who chopped years off their lives, and off the lives of people around them, because of stupidity and/or badness, take your pick what you want to call the Trumptards' actions.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 1:31 AM (P)

JD Vance’s Trumped-Up Economics (Vance is either stupid or bad, but I can't tell which because he is so sneaky about his motivations for the reasons why he is selling these wrong/bad ideas.)

August 26, 2024 7:00 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2024/08/lying-about-economics

Today, Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance told NBC News that the tariffs Trump imposed during his term in office had not raised prices for Americans but had brought a significant number of jobs back to the United States.

Wrong on both counts.

In a careful analysis, researchers found the cost of Trump’s tariffs were “almost entirely borne by U.S. firms and consumers.” https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26610/w26610.pdf

That’s not surprising; tariffs function like taxes by raising the costs of imported goods. Trump’s proposal to raise tariffs on all imports as a means of raising revenue to offset a tax cut is obviously absurd.

Vance is also wrong about employment. Research clearly shows that the Trump tariffs did not bring jobs back to the United States.

Tariffs may be necessary for national security to protect critical industries such as semiconductors. But no one should be fooled into thinking they’re costless for consumers, or good for workers. The 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff made the Great Depression far worse than it already was.

That Vance would make these claims, claims which have been so convincingly debunked, should cause all of us some concern. He seems as unreliable as the person who named him his running-mate.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 2:18 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

His moments of introspection are very rare and are usually avoided at all costs.

It's so much easier just to throw every single person in America into two separate boxes and scream "Everyone in my box is good and everyone in your box is bad! Therefore I am a good person and you are a bad person!"
None of this is complicated, 6ixStringJack. But if you somehow managed to get everything upside down, you are a bad person. Is bad too harsh a word? Substitute "stupid person" for "bad person". Either "stupid" or "bad", the results are still the same: misery, poverty, and a shortened life. I have seen thousands of miserable, poor Trumptards who chopped years off their lives, and off the lives of people around them, because of stupidity and/or badness, take your pick what you want to call the Trumptards' actions.


You're like this weird version of autism that is completely unbearable to be around.



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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 4:10 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

His moments of introspection are very rare and are usually avoided at all costs.

It's so much easier just to throw every single person in America into two separate boxes and scream "Everyone in my box is good and everyone in your box is bad! Therefore I am a good person and you are a bad person!"
None of this is complicated, 6ixStringJack. But if you somehow managed to get everything upside down, you are a bad person. Is bad too harsh a word? Substitute "stupid person" for "bad person". Either "stupid" or "bad", the results are still the same: misery, poverty, and a shortened life. I have seen thousands of miserable, poor Trumptards who chopped years off their lives, and off the lives of people around them, because of stupidity and/or badness, take your pick what you want to call the Trumptards' actions.


You're like this weird version of autism that is completely unbearable to be around.



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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
No kidding!

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Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 6:50 AM (P)

Quote:
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You're like this weird version of autism that is completely unbearable to be around.



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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
There is an article called
Is it better to debate people or shrug and drink wine?
If philosophers really enjoy one thing, it’s a good debate — but not an argument.
https://bigthink.com/thinking/everyday-philosophy-is-it-better-to-deba
te-people-or-shrug-and-drink-wine/

6ixStringJack and Signym, this was never a debate, but only an argument.

I've been observing since they were children the people who grew up to be Trumptards. All of them are argumentative, not philosophers. It is no surprise to me that the argumentative children grew up to be rather unsuccessful adults. They think it is not their fault what happens to them. I know for a fact how it happened and it is all their fault, just like Trump's decades of well-documented problems were all caused by his mental defects. It is absolutely no surprise when people who have Trump's faulty way of understanding also vote for Trump. I'm not philosophically debating people like that, but rather use the same methods as on construction projects: confrontation about their inadequacy followed by termination and lawsuits.

Here is the very real life example of FIGG Engineers refusing to acknowledge that they are incompetent. I wouldn't be surprised if they are Trump voters:

August 11, 2020 - Harris County fires designer of $1 billion Houston Ship Channel bridge
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/08/11/potentially-millio
ns-of-taxpayer-dollars-wasted-over-houston-ship-channel-bridge/

Nov 22, 2022 - Two bridges in Texas designed by FIGG Engineers, both with design flaws
https://www.kristv.com/news/6-investigates/6-investigates-two-bridges-
in-texas-designed-by-figg-engineers-both-with-design-flaws-and-different-outcomes

March 27, 2024 - Companies linked to firm that designed FIU bridge that collapsed facing debarment
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/companies-linked-to-firm-that-desi
gned-fiu-pedestrian-bridge-that-collapsed-facing-debarment/3269707/

Linda Figg and FIGG engineers should be banned from bridge engineering based on past performance, but they argue the point. Trump and Trumptards should be banned from governing based on past performance. They argue the point, too.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 8:00 AM (P)

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 9:53 AM (P)

Masking that fear with fake smiles.



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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 9:54 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You're like this weird version of autism that is completely unbearable to be around.



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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
There is an article called
Is it better to debate people or shrug and drink wine?
If philosophers really enjoy one thing, it’s a good debate — but not an argument.
https://bigthink.com/thinking/everyday-philosophy-is-it-better-to-deba
te-people-or-shrug-and-drink-wine/

6ixStringJack and Signym, this was never a debate, but only an argument.

I've been observing since they were children the people who grew up to be Trumptards. All of them are argumentative, not philosophers. It is no surprise to me that the argumentative children grew up to be rather unsuccessful adults. They think it is not their fault what happens to them. I know for a fact how it happened and it is all their fault, just like Trump's decades of well-documented problems were all caused by his mental defects. It is absolutely no surprise when people who have Trump's faulty way of understanding also vote for Trump. I'm not philosophically debating people like that, but rather use the same methods as on construction projects: confrontation about their inadequacy followed by termination and lawsuits.

Here is the very real life example of FIGG Engineers refusing to acknowledge that they are incompetent. I wouldn't be surprised if they are Trump voters:

August 11, 2020 - Harris County fires designer of $1 billion Houston Ship Channel bridge
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/08/11/potentially-millio
ns-of-taxpayer-dollars-wasted-over-houston-ship-channel-bridge/

Nov 22, 2022 - Two bridges in Texas designed by FIGG Engineers, both with design flaws
https://www.kristv.com/news/6-investigates/6-investigates-two-bridges-
in-texas-designed-by-figg-engineers-both-with-design-flaws-and-different-outcomes

March 27, 2024 - Companies linked to firm that designed FIU bridge that collapsed facing debarment
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/companies-linked-to-firm-that-desi
gned-fiu-pedestrian-bridge-that-collapsed-facing-debarment/3269707/

Linda Figg and FIGG engineers should be banned from bridge engineering based on past performance, but they argue the point. Trump and Trumptards should be banned from governing based on past performance. They argue the point, too.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


You are so unaware of yourself it's just pathetic at this point.



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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 5:08 PM (P)

Quote:
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You are so unaware of yourself it's just pathetic at this point.



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I wrote all that about FIGG bridge engineering because I was with a Trumptard yesterday. He was complaining that the bridge wasn't completed (we were passing by that much delayed FIGG engineered bridge) because of Democrats in the government.

The real story is that Republican politicians got rejected in Harris County (Houston is the main city) during the 2020 election, at the same time as Trump was rejected. It was the new Democrats in government who discovered that the FIGG engineered bridge would fall down in a Category 5 hurricane. The Democrats had to fix the bridge that the Republicans had done wrong, wrong, wrong, but the Trumptard in my Ford Lightning pickup (the Trumptard hates electric vehicles like my truck) misunderstood everything about who was at fault. The Trumptard blamed Democrats for the Republicans' foolishness and incompetence.

I must say that the Trumptard in my truck not only misunderstood a relatively simple problem like the bridge, but he has also screwed up his life, which I find not surprising since he is a huge Trump supporter, with signs in his front yard that say Trump Vance 2024. Trump is grotesquely incompetent at governing but, despite evidence, the passenger in my truck stubbornly believes Only-Trump-Can-Fix-It.

(The Trumptard spilled his drink in my truck but he said it was my fault for being a bad driver. I think that is because shifting blame away from themselves is pretty typical behavior for Trumptards. I laughed at him when he blamed me. He then got upset with me for laughing at his loss of drink. He was thirsty and wanted it all. Later, we had to make a pit-stop because he needed to pee and I was expected to buy another drink for the greedy selfish pig in order to keep peace between us. I also had to clean up the split drink because he wouldn't since it wasn't his fault, at least in his mind.)

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 7:07 PM (P)

Behind the rhetoric, a presidential campaign is a competition about how to tell the American story

By Ted Anthony | August 26, 2024

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-american-story-conventions-68
aad96e58a7786c2603544f606cf8ed

NEW YORK (AP) — Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination “on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on Earth.” America, Barack Obama thundered, “is ready for a better story.” JD Vance insisted that the Biden administration “is not the end of our story,” and Donald Trump called on fellow Republicans to “write our own thrilling chapter of the American story.”

“This week,” comedian and former Obama administration speechwriter Jon Lovett said Thursday on NBC, “has been about a story.”

In the discourse of American politics, this kind of talk from both sides is unsurprising — fitting, even. Because in the campaign season of 2024, just as in the fabric of American culture at large, the notion of “story” is everywhere.

This year’s political conventions were, like so many of their kind, curated collections of elaborate stories carefully spun to accomplish one goal — getting elected. But lurking behind them was a pitched, high-stakes battle over how to frame the biggest story of all — the one about America that, as Harris put it, should be “the next great chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told.”

The American story — an unlikely one, filled with twists that sometimes feel, as so many enjoy saying, “just like a movie” — sits at the nucleus of American culture for a unique reason.

Americans live in one of the only societies that was built not upon hundreds of years of common culture but upon stories themselves — “the shining city upon the hill,” “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” “all men are created equal.” Even memorable ad campaigns — ”Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet” — are part of this. In some ways, the United States — not coincidentally, the place where the frontier myth, Hollywood and Madison Avenue were all born — willed itself into existence and significance by iterating and reiterating its story as it went.

The campaigns understand that. So they are putting forward to voters two varying — starkly opposite, some might say — versions of the American story.

More at https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-american-story-conventions-68
aad96e58a7786c2603544f606cf8ed

This election is about storytelling more than ever. Because the loudest, most persuasive tale — told slickly with the industrial-strength communications tools of the 21st century — will likely win the day.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 8:12 PM (P)

Trump knows how to tell a story. It is not a true story, but Trump keeps telling it:

August 27, 2024

Donald Trump added to his unfortunate record of disparaging military service two weeks ago when the former president said the Presidential Medal of Freedom was “much better” than the Medal of Honor — comments the Veterans of Foreign Wars, among others, described as “asinine.”

Former Trump chief of staff and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, a fierce critic of his former boss, agreed. “The two awards cannot be compared in any way,” he told CNN. “Not even close.”

A week later, the GOP presidential nominee returned fire. The New York Times reported:

In a podcast interview that ran on Monday, Donald Trump again attacked current military leadership as “woke,” and mocked his former chief of staff and the man he appointed as his top military adviser as “stupid.” “Milley was a stupid person, very stupid,” Trump said of Gen. Mark A. Milley, whom he picked to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He added of his onetime chief of staff, “Guys like John Kelly are one of the — he’s one of the dumbest people I’ve ever met. A bully, but a weak bully.”

In case it weren’t quite enough that Trump referred to his own former White House chief of staff as “one of the dumbest people” he’s ever met, in the same interview, the Republican called Kelly a “lowlife” and a “terrible, stupid person.”

More about Trump's amazing ability to tell false stories and misunderstand what is happening around himself at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-calls-his-former-chief-o
f-staff-a-terrible-stupid-person/ar-AA1pwdZG

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024 9:27 PM (P)

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Masking that fear with fake smiles.



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T

"Lincoln Project’s Trump Roast Sparks Laughter and Goes Viral"


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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 2:02 AM (P)

Nobody besides the Bush family and you watch The Lincoln Project, Ted.



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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 3:38 AM (P)

Speaking of The Lincoln Project, I think it's pretty funny how many Democrats are endorsing Trump while so-called Democrat voters like Ted watch NeoCon propaganda videos on YouTube.

Trump sounds like a 80's Democrat up there right now. That makes sense, because he was a Democrat all his life.



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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 6:22 AM (P)

“I wanna get a law passed […] You burn an American flag, you go to jail for one year. Gotta do it — you gotta do it,” Trump said.

“They say, ‘Sir, that’s unconstitutional.’ We’ll make it constitutional.”

In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. Johnson that while the desecration of the flag may be objectionable, “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-restrict-fir
st-amendment-1235088402/

Proper disposal of the flag means burning it. American Flag Retirement Program
https://www.clearlakeshores-tx.gov/329/American-Flag-Retirement-Progra
m

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 6:27 AM (P)

Why Kamala Harris Gets Under Donald Trump’s Skin

The former president has always derided his political opponents, but something specific is happening here.

By Jill Filipovic | Aug 27, 2024 2:58 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/why-kamala-harris-triggers
-donald-trump.html

Her crowd sizes really are larger, and he cannot accept that.

Kamala Harris is the Opponent that makes Donald Trump fully lose it.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 8:32 AM (P)

Donald Trump Jr. Is Not Exactly One of the Great Political Strategists of Our Time

As a Backroom Power Broker, Donald Trump Jr. Is Basically the Complete Opposite of Nancy Pelosi

That RFK Jr. alliance was just one of his brilliant ideas.

He is like King Midas, except instead of everything he touches turning to gold, it turns to raw sewage and loses a key race by 6 points.

By Ben Mathis-Lilley | Aug 27, 2024 4:21 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/rfk-jr-donald-trump-jr-jd-
vance-kari-lake-political-reverse-midas-touch.html

Trump Jr. campaigned in Pennsylvania, for example, with gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, who lost his race—in an otherwise closely divided state!—by 15 points. He endorsed Kari Lake in the Arizona governor’s race and Blake Masters in the state’s Senate race; they lost. He said in June 2021 that Herschel Walker would be the party’s strongest Senate candidate in Georgia; Walker lost. He backed 2020 election denier Kelly Tshibaka as a MAGA challenger to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski; Tshibaka lost.

Perhaps most egregiously, Trump Jr. backed the Missouri Senate primary campaign ?of the state’s former governor, Eric Greitens, who resigned amid scandal when the woman he was having an affair with accused him of taking nude photos without her consent in order to blackmail her. (Greitens, who denied the allegations, was also accused of abusive behavior by his ex-wife; he denies those allegations as well.) That idea was so toxic that even other MAGA figures helped shut it down; the state’s attorney general, Eric Schmitt, eventually won the seat easily.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 9:08 AM (P)

"You know, it's interesting, I've been now around long -- you know, I think of myself as a young guy, but I'm not so young anymore. And I've been around for a long time. And it just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans." - Trump
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-economy-better-under-democrats/

Does the economy do better under democrats? Funny that you should ask, but it does!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Does+the+economy+do+better+under+democ
rats

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 9:08 AM (P)

An estimate from the Penn Wharton Budget Model of how much each candidate's economic proposals will affect the national debt
https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/

Trump's proposals blow up the debt by 5x more than Harris's.


The Trump plan is steadily more generous the richer you are. Harris is most generous to the poor and reduces income slightly among the rich.


https://jabberwocking.com/trump-plan-blows-up-the-debt-gives-most-mone
y-to-the-rich/

See Table 1: Budgetary Effects of the Trump Campaign Policy Proposals
https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/8/26/trump-campaign-
policy-proposals-2024

See Table 1: Budgetary Effects of the Harris Campaign Policy Proposals
https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2024/8/26/harris-campaign
-policy-proposals-2024

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 3:50 PM (P)

Trump insists he’s ‘not a threat to democracy’ in Dr Phil interview, suggests God wants him to save the world

The former president also attempted to clarify previous remarks about wanting to be a ‘dictator for one day’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-
interview-dr-phil-democracy-harris-election-b2602819.html

“I mean, the only thing I can think is that God loves our country, and he thinks we're going to bring our country back. He wants to bring it back. It's so bad right now,” Trump replied.

The next logical step for super-salesman Trump is to claim he is Moses, anointed by God, to bring his people into the Promised Land. Trump would clarify that he was like Moses, but with better hair. Not that Trump wanted Mose's name found and replaced in the Bible with Trump's name.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 4:46 PM (P)

Trump video: "If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California."

7:38 PM · Aug 27, 2024

https://x.com/AccountableGOP/status/1828593064102789422

Trump is already claiming the election was stolen.

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 6:24 PM (P)

The GOP has transitioned from climate denial to climate misrepresentation, experts say

Why denying the science of climate change is no longer politically tenable.

By Julia Jacobo | August 27, 2024, 5:51 PM

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-transitioned-climate-denial-climat
e-misrepresentation-experts/story?id=113056571

Trump has vowed to boost U.S. oil production if elected to a second term, promising to "drill, baby, drill" to lower the costs of energy. Yet data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration in March showed that the United States "produced more crude oil than any nation at any time, according to our International Energy Statistics, for the past six years in a row" – 12.9 million barrels per day in 2023, during the Biden administration, breaking the record set in 2019 of 12.3 million during the Trump administration.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 4:28 AM (P)

Why the Media Won’t Report the Truth About Trump

The political press has doubled down on horse race coverage of the election, overlooking the threat Trump poses to democracy.

By James Risen | August 28 2024, 9:09 a.m.

https://theintercept.com/2024/08/28/trump-campaign-election-media-cove
rage-journalists/

Over the last few years, as it grew increasingly likely that Donald Trump would mount a third campaign for the White House, leading press critics and others in the media vowed that this time had to be different. The press couldn’t fail in its coverage of Trump once again.

This time, it must aggressively investigate Trump while focusing coverage on the threat that he poses to democracy. The stakes for the nation in the election, not just the odds of who was likely to win the campaign, should be front and center in the press coverage, New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen argued.

But the change in coverage hasn’t happened. Instead, the press has doubled down on horse-race coverage, proving unable to alter its traditional formula for campaign coverage. Distracted by the campaign’s dramatic moments, highlighted by the attempted assassination of Trump and President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race, day-to-day, process-driven coverage of the campaign remains paramount. Horse-race coverage is back in full force, and the threat Trump poses to democracy is now an afterthought.

The calls for reforms in covering Trump emerged because of the litany of failures in past coverage. When Trump first ran for president in 2016, the press was caught flat-footed, flummoxed by how to report on a racist demagogue. Journalists tried to cover Trump like every other candidate they had covered in the past, seeking to fit his lunacy into their traditional coverage formulas. But that disastrous effort led to recriminations over the inadequate coverage that failed to capture his malevolence.

In 2020, the press was caught flat-footed once again, this time after the election, when Trump refused to accept defeat and tried to mount a coup to stay in power. During the campaign, the press had largely ignored the mounting evidence that Trump was planning to reject the results of the election and later failed to adequately track the warning signs of an insurrection, even as it was openly discussed among right-wing extremists.

Finally, after January 6, 2021, it seemed certain that the nation’s press was ready to cover Trump like a dangerous demagogue, rather than as a normal American politician. The fact that Trump was also convicted of a felony early in the 2024 campaign made changes in coverage seem inevitable.

But the press seems to have amnesia. It is as if journalists have forgotten that Trump was impeached twice, criminally indicted four times, and already convicted once. He should be facing three more criminal trials this year in the midst of the campaign, but he’s so far been saved from that fate by a series of shockingly partisan rulings by judges that he appointed.


Yet the insurrection, the indictments, the criminal conviction, the impeachments tend to receive little more than brief mentions in the Trump campaign coverage today. Poll-driven horse race stories now dominate, overwhelming the scattered attempts by the press to hold Trump accountable.

Just over the last few days, political coverage has been overwhelmed by endless stories about an endorsement of Trump by independent candidate and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and about Trump’s waffling on debating Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on ABC News.

Those kinds of stories and more horse-race trivia are featured in the endless loops of bite-sized stories featured 24-7 on the homepages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other news organizations.

Warnings of the danger Trump poses to American democracy are not in evidence on the daily campaign news feeds. (It will be intriguing to watch in the coming days how the political press deals with Tuesday’s decision by Special Counsel J

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 5:08 AM (P)

Thanks for putting all the propaganda in one place.



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Thursday, August 29, 2024 5:35 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Thanks for putting all the propaganda in one place.
The Trump Campaign tax and spending proposals would increase primary deficits by $5.8 trillion over the next 10 years

The Harris Campaign tax and spending proposals would increase primary deficits by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years

https://angrybearblog.com/2024/08/how-will-the-trump-and-harris-budget
s-affect-the-national-debt

Electing Trump will cost more than double what Bush's Iraq and Afghan Wars cost.

Jan. 14, 2021 - The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. That’s nearly twice as much as what Americans owe on student loans, car loans, credit cards and every other type of debt other than mortgages, combined, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It amounts to about $23,500 in new federal debt for every person in the country. The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge.
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 5:46 AM (P)

Uh huh.

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 5:59 AM (P)

Quote:
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Uh huh.

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Jan. 14, 2021 - Falling deeper into the red is the opposite of what Trump, the self-styled “King of Debt,” said would happen if he became president. In a March 31, 2016, interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of The Washington Post, Trump said he could pay down the national debt, then about $19 trillion, “over a period of eight years” by renegotiating trade deals and spurring economic growth.

After he took office, Trump predicted that economic growth created by the 2017 tax cut, combined with the proceeds from the tariffs he imposed on a wide range of goods from numerous countries, would help eliminate the budget deficit and let the U.S. begin to pay down its debt. On July 27, 2018, he told Sean Hannity of Fox News: “We have $21 trillion in debt. When this [the 2017 tax cut] really kicks in, we’ll start paying off that debt like it’s water.”

Nine days later, he tweeted, “Because of Tariffs we will be able to start paying down large amounts of the $21 trillion in debt that has been accumulated, much by the Obama Administration.”

That’s not how it played out. When Trump took office in January 2017, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office was projecting that federal budget deficits would be 2% to 3% of our gross domestic product during Trump’s term. Instead, the deficit reached nearly 4% of gross domestic product in 2018 and 4.6% in 2019.

There were multiple culprits. Trump’s tax cuts, especially the sharp reduction in the corporate tax rate to 21% from 35%, took a big bite out of federal revenue. The CBO estimated in 2018 that the tax cut would increase deficits by about $1.9 trillion over 11 years.

Meanwhile, Trump’s claim that increased revenue from the tariffs would help eliminate (or at least reduce) our national debt hasn’t panned out. In 2018, Trump’s administration began hiking tariffs on aluminum, steel and many other products, launching what became a global trade war with China, the European Union and other countries.

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 7:26 AM (P)

Kamala is still rising in the polls.

tick tock

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 8:16 AM (P)

Quote:
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Kamala is still rising in the polls.

tick tock

T


Not really.

On this day in history, August 28th:

National00000000Harris +1.7000Biden +6.90000Clinton +6.0
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +1.0000Biden +3.50000Clinton +11.5
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +5.80000Clinton +9.2
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.5000Biden +2.30000Clinton +4.8
Michigan00000000Harris +2.0000Biden +2.60000Clinton +9.0
Arizona000000000Trump0 +0.5000Biden +2.20000Trump00 +1.5
Nevada0000000000Trump0 +1.4000--000000000000Clinton +2.3
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.9000Trump +0.00000Clinton +1.7
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.0000Trump +1.10000Clinton +0.5
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.3000Biden +3.70000Clinton +2.7

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 4:45 PM (P)

Oh, Those Trump-Supporting Republicans

August 29, 2024

https://andrewtobias.com/oh-those-trump-supporting-republicans/

Thom Hartmann’s headline seemed way over the top . . . Some Republicans Imply Kamala Harris is 3/5th Human & Unfit for Presidency . . . until I read it . . . and the New York Times reporting to which it refers — Trump Elevates False, Fringe Attacks on Harris to Center of His Campaign.

Heather Cox Richardson:

The elephant in the room these days is that most Republicans, along with many pundits, are pretending that Trump is a normal presidential candidate. They are ignoring his mental lapses, calls for authoritarianism, grifting, lack of grasp on any sort of policy, and criminality, even as he has hollowed out the once grand Republican Party and threatens American democracy itself.

It’s hard to look away from the reality that the Republican senators could have stopped this catastrophe at many points in Trump’s term, at the very least by voting to convict Trump at his first impeachment trial. At the time, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, “Out of one hundred senators, you have zero who believe you that there was no quid pro quo. None. There’s not a single one.” Republican senators nonetheless stood behind Trump.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 4:53 PM (P)

The superseding Trump indictment charts Jack Smith’s path forward

Smith has reworked the Jan. 6 case against Trump in light of the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity.

August 28, 2024

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-superseding-trump-indictment-
charts-jack-smith-s-path-forward

On Tuesday, Special Counsel Jack Smith unveiled a superseding indictment of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. for his effort to overturn the 2020 election. Trump, for his part, didn’t wait long to weigh in. Posting on Truth Social, he declared the indictment “ridiculous” and part of “the single greatest sabotage of our Democracy in History.” The former president seemed particularly insulted that the grand jury handed up a superseding indictment “immediately after our Supreme Court Victory on Immunity and more.” The action, he wrote, was “shocking.”

The decision to file a superseding indictment was, in fact, something less than shocking. The new indictment was clearly fashioned by Smith’s team precisely in response to that same Supreme Court ruling finding broad presidential immunity from criminal prosecution—and specifically to bring it into compliance with the high court’s ruling. Smith has stripped out portions of the original indictment that were newly and definitively forbidden under the Court’s decision, and he tweaked others, seeking to streamline the charges and make them viable to move forward under the ruling so that the case itself can proceed. The Supreme Court hasn’t prohibited prosecution altogether—and Smith is proceeding accordingly.

“Smith rewrote the exact same case in an effort to circumvent the Supreme Court Decision,” Trump complained. He’s not entirely wrong—although he would have done well to replace the word “circumvent” with “follow” or “comply with.” The Court’s instructions were opaque, leaving U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan with a difficult task in sorting through what was left of the prosecution on remand. With this superseding indictment, Smith is not just discarding the elements of the case that the Court has ruled out, but is also offering his own interpretation of Chief Justice John Roberts’s reasoning.

Trump is, however, correct that the superseding indictment is actually not that different from the original one. In fact, most of the language is the same. And there’s very little new here: Smith appears to have chosen to proceed with less of what he had, instead of trying to supplement it with many additional facts or arguments. In a notice filed with the court alongside the superseding indictment, the special counsel indicates that the indictment “was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case” — confirming that Smith was able to secure the grand jurors’ votes for these charges against Trump even with a slimmer folder of evidence on hand.

More at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-superseding-trump-indictment-
charts-jack-smith-s-path-forward

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 6:12 PM (P)

Quote:
Federal Judge Blocks Biden-Harris Administration's "Parole In Place" Program For Illegal Aliens

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2024 - 12:45 PM

Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness,

On Monday, a federal judge in Texas blocked the Biden-Harris Administration’s attempts to implement a “parole in place” program that would have awarded a pathway to citizenship to illegal aliens who are the spouses of American citizens.


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-blocks-biden-harris-
administrations-parole-place-program-illegal-aliens

Kamala for President!
/snark

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 7:10 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Federal Judge Blocks Biden-Harris Administration's "Parole In Place" Program For Illegal Aliens
A Trumptard judge is playing politics:

The so-called “parole in place” program was halted in a Monday night ruling by federal district court judge J Campbell Barker in the eastern district of Texas, a favorite venue of conservatives seeking to derail the president’s policy agenda. Barker was appointed to his position by the Donald Trump White House.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/27/judge-blocks-p
arole-in-place-immigration

Do you think J Campbell Barker is NOT a retard? You are so wrong. Trump only appointed retards:
https://www.google.com/search?q=J+Campbell+Barker


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Thursday, August 29, 2024 8:34 PM (P)

The crank realignment is bad for everyone
A stupid party + a bunch of biased institutions degrades epistemics across the board

By Matthew Yglesias | Aug 29, 2024

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-crank-realignment-is-bad-for

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s transition from semi-prominent Democrat to third party spoiler to Donald Trump endorser is emblematic of a broader, decade-long “crank realignment” in American politics.

Trump himself, of course, used to be a Democrat. He switched parties in a blaze of birther conspiracy theories, and only then came to embrace conservative views on topics like gun control and abortion. And RFK Jr. was into election fraud conspiracy theories long before January 6, but his version was about George W. Bush stealing the 2004 election in Ohio. That wasn’t a mainstream Democratic Party view (there’s a reason there was no Kerry-led insurrection), but it was mainstream enough to be published in Rolling Stone and for Kennedy to continue to be a player in progressive politics.

Twenty years later, that’s no longer the case. Democrats are much more buttoned-up, and the GOP is much more accepting of cranks and know-nothings like Kennedy.

The partisan shifts of both Trump and RFK Jr. are part of a long term cycle in which educated professionals have gravitated toward the Democratic Party coalition and a generic suspicion of institutions and the people who run them has come to be associated with conservative politics. Conservative cranks are not even close to new (the John Birch Society, for example), but they’ve become increasingly prominent, which continues to push educated professionals into Democratic ranks. This generates more partisan alignment on questions like immigration (which in the 1980 and 1990s had basically no relationship partisanship), where views are closely related to psychological attributes that correlate with intelligence and educational attainment.

To some extent, this crank realignment is nice.

When I was working at The American Prospect and we were trying to nudge the Democratic Party in a more progressive direction, it was a thorn in our side that there were so many people on the left who wanted to talk about how 9/11 was an inside job, GMOs were poisoning our children, and the FDA was ignoring damning evidence about vaccines and autism. We wanted marriage equality and a more generous welfare state, not a fuzzy agglomeration of anti-establishment viewpoints. And over time, we got what we wanted: Democrats have become more left-wing in their policy views and also less friendly to nut jobs. The problem is that this hasn’t actually changed the fact that lots of people are dumb cranks; it’s simply created a Dumb Crank Party. And on balance, I think that has eroded the epistemic quality of both coalitions.

The stupid party

The most obvious problem is that as Republicans increasingly become the party of retirees and folks who didn’t go to college, they still need smart, educated professionals to actually do stuff, and they’re fishing in an increasingly thin pool.

You can see this quantified most clearly with federal judges, who are supposed to be smart people who went to good law schools, but who are also, in practice, selected on partisan criteria. The vast majority of graduates of top law schools are Democrats, but roughly half the judges are appointed by Republicans, so conditional on getting a high LSAT score, your odds of becoming a federal judge are dramatically higher as a Republican. This also means that in some sense, the average “quality” of Republican judging is much lower. The good news for the Federalist Society is that appellate jurisprudence is basically fake, and having judges agree with you about stuff is dramatically more important than having “highly skilled” judges (whatever that means).

But the same human capital issue replicates across domains.

Republicans keep getting asked to stop playing various songs at Trump rallies because very few top musicians like the GOP. By contrast, during the Democrats’ convention roll call, each

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 10:10 PM (P)

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I would, at the end of this piece, ideally present solutions to these problems. Maybe all the cranks and idiots will vanish from the earth and all future political discussions will take place among smart, well-informed people in a way that allows for ideologically balanced policy debates. That would be nice! But it seems unlikely. In the real world, where the cranks will always be with us


Oh my. A world without Democrats you say?

However would we get by?



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Thursday, August 29, 2024 10:23 PM (P)

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
I would, at the end of this piece, ideally present solutions to these problems. Maybe all the cranks and idiots will vanish from the earth and all future political discussions will take place among smart, well-informed people in a way that allows for ideologically balanced policy debates. That would be nice! But it seems unlikely. In the real world, where the cranks will always be with us


Oh my. A world without Democrats you say?

However would we get by?



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All the Trumptards I know are either struggling or have given up like 6ix has. They place faith in Donald "Only-I-Can-Fix-It" Trump to save them. Meanwhile, Democrats such as myself don't need a savior or even a government. We would delight in, and have proven many times to be capable of, blasting Trumptards to hell that get in our way. They die screaming.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Who's struggling or giving up?

Sounds like you're projecting again.



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Meanwhile, Democrats such as myself don't need a savior or even a government. We would delight in, and have proven many times to be capable of, blasting Trumptards to hell that get in our way. They die screaming.


Bring it on buddy.

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 11:23 PM (P)

Aug 29 (Reuters) - The members of Swedish pop group ABBA have asked U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using their music and videos at his campaign rallies, the band's record label said on Thursday.

ABBA hits including "The Winner Takes It All", "Money, Money, Money" and "Dancing Queen" were played at a rally held by Trump and his running mate JD Vance on July 27 in Minnesota, accompanied by videos, said Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet, which had a reporter at the event.

"Together with the members of ABBA, we have discovered that videos have been released where ABBA's music has been used at Trump events, and we have therefore requested that such use be immediately removed and taken down," the band's record label Universal Music said in a statement.

It said no permission or license had been granted to the Trump campaign.

Several artists, or their representatives, have objected to their music being played at Trump events over the years, including late American singer-guitarist Tom Petty, British singer-songwriter Adele, and rock band R.E.M.

In April, late Irish singer and activist Sinéad O'Connor's label also demanded the Trump campaign stop using her music.

Canadian singer Celine Dion and her label earlier this month made a similar complaint, calling the use of her performance "unauthorized".

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/abba-tell-trump-stop-using-their-musi
c-campaign-rallies-2024-08-29/

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Thursday, August 29, 2024 11:30 PM (P)

The U.S. Army rebuked the Trump campaign on Thursday, issuing a statement over an encounter at Arlington National Cemetary earlier this week and confirming that a cemetery employee was "abruptly pushed aside" while the former president was visiting the grounds.

Why it matters: The apparent altercation between former President Trump's aides and an Arlington official ignited intense scrutiny over the Trump campaign's seemingly political use of the sacred site.

The U.S. Army oversees the management of Arlington National Cemetery, as well as enforcing rules pertaining to filming or photography on the property.

The latest: An Army spokesperson said in a statement that participants in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and a visit to Section 60 "were made aware of federal laws, Army regulations and DoD policies, which clearly prohibit political activities on cemetery grounds."

The exchange between the ANC employee and Trump's staff occurred when the employee tried to "ensure adherence" to the site's rules prohibiting the use of the grounds for political purposes, the statement said.

The spokesperson added, "the incident was unfortunate, and it is also unfortunate that the ANC employee and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked."

The statement said that while the incident was reported to police at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, the employee decided not to press charges.

The New York Times reported that the ANC employee declined to press charges for fear of retaliation from Trump supporters.

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/29/army-trump-arlington-altercation-push
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Thursday, August 29, 2024 11:50 PM (P)

A President Could Now Lawfully Assassinate a Rival Or Accept Bribes

Aug 29, 2024 at 12:06 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-new-indictment-released-jack-smi
th-supreme-court-immunity-ruling-1946074

Greg Germain, a law professor at Syracuse University in New York, said that a president could now lawfully assassinate a rival or accept bribes under the Supreme Court's July 1 ruling, which gave presidents broad immunity from prosecution.

"While the lower courts may try to interpret their way around the [Supreme] Court's decision, ultimately I think the election interference case is dead before the Supreme Court. And if Trump wins the election, the Court's opinion leaves little doubt that he could pardon himself or appoint people to the justice department who will dismiss the case," he said.

Germain said he was surprised by how much immunity the Supreme Court was willing to grant presidents. The decision overturned a Washington D.C. Circuit Court ruling, which set a very narrow course for presidential immunity.

"I have tried in my public comments about the Trump cases to put my personal opinions aside and focus on how I think the courts will rule on the cases," Germain said.

"I expected the Supreme Court to overturn the DC Circuits' immunity decision by recognizing broad presidential immunity for core presidential activities as a necessary incident of presidential power."

"But I also expected the Court to exempt from that broad immunity the most corrupt and anti-democratic actions done for personal benefit rather than the perceived good of the country. The key distinction, I thought, was the motive of the president. I was wrong," he said.

Echoing the dissenting opinion of Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor, Germain said the Supreme Court has given presidents' immunity from almost any criminal conduct while in office.

"The Court held that presidential immunity applies regardless of a president's corrupt and personal motives. A president would be immune from prosecution for selling pardons to the highest bidder or assassinating a political rival, and there is a broad presumption that activities having any connection to the presidency are not private activities," he said.

"As I read the opinion, only purely private activities, having no relation to the role of the president, would be subject to prosecution. The sole remedy for public impropriety is impeachment," he said.

"While I doubt that any member of the constitutional convention, even the most monarchical, would have agreed with that opinion given their broad concern about corruption, that is my reading of the Court's ruling."

Full text of TRUMP v. UNITED STATES (Republican Presidents are immune from prosecution)
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

Held: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.

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Friday, August 30, 2024 6:37 AM (P)

Kamala Harris has tightened the race in every swing state

Here are the latest swing state results from Emerson College Polling:

August 29, 2024 – 11:35 am - It's close to a dead heat in the battleground states. Aside from Arizona, Kamala Harris is either ahead or within 1% in every state.
https://jabberwocking.com/kamala-harris-has-tightened-the-race-in-ever
y-swing-state/

Maybe Kamala Harris is actually ahead in swing states

Here's another poll of swing states, this time from Bloomberg/Morning Consult:

August 29, 2024 – 5:05 pm - This is even more optimistic than this morning's Emerson College poll, though note that the margin of error is about 4% in each state.

NOTE: We're close enough to the election that from now on I'll be reporting the results of likely voters whenever possible.
https://jabberwocking.com/maybe-kamala-harris-is-actually-ahead-in-swi
ng-states/

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Friday, August 30, 2024 6:41 AM (P)


Donald Trump is a woman’s best friend

Donald Trump must be desperately afraid that abortion is going to lose the election for him. A few years ago he was so anti-abortion he said that women should be jailed for getting an abortion. But now?

First he announces that he's in favor of banning abortion only after 15 weeks. Then he writes on Truth Social that he'll be the best president ever for "women and their reproductive rights." Next his running mate promises that Trump will veto any attempt to ban abortion nationwide. Finally, today, he takes a page out of the Swedish socialist playbook:

Trump now saying he wants the government to pay for IVF treatments.
— bryan metzger (@metzgov) August 29, 2024
https://x.com/metzgov/status/1829262321501532273

Free IVF for all! How long will it be before he announces a billion-dollar funding program for Planned Parenthood?
https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-loves-reproductive-freedom/

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Friday, August 30, 2024 6:43 AM (P)

If I haven't yet thanked you today for rounding up all the propaganda for us, here it is.



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Friday, August 30, 2024 7:43 AM (P)

‘It is not the job of the pro-life movement to vote for President Trump,’ says leading anti-abortion activist

Trump once said he had “great admiration” for Lila Rose’s work. Now he’s lost her support.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/29/lila-rose-abortion-t
rump-interview-00176619

For years, the anti-abortion activist Lila Rose has pushed the GOP to curtail access to abortion. But now, as Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance conspicuously soften their abortion message ahead of the November election, Rose — who leads the prominent anti-abortion group Live Action — is embracing a more radical strategy: Urging her followers not to vote for Trump unless he changes course.

That position — which she teased in a series of social media posts earlier this week — defies both Democratic and Republican common sense about Trump’s strategy on abortion. In the eyes of many Democrats and anti-abortion conservatives who support Trump, a second-term Trump would still be sympathetic to the anti-abortion cause — even if he needs to moderate his message to win in November.

But since Trump and Vance have come out against a number of the anti-abortion movement’s key policy priorities — including a national abortion ban, a crackdown on the abortion pill and restrictions on IVF — Rose, who leveraged her large internet following into influence in the first Trump White House, is no longer confident that Trump is an ally, she told POLITICO Magazine. “It’s disappointing to say — but perhaps he personally lacks principle on this issue,” said Rose.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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‘It is not the job of the pro-life movement to vote for President Trump,’ says leading anti-abortion activist

Trump once said he had “great admiration” for Lila Rose’s work. Now he’s lost her support.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/29/lila-rose-abortion-t
rump-interview-00176619

For years, the anti-abortion activist Lila Rose has pushed the GOP to curtail access to abortion. But now, as Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance conspicuously soften their abortion message ahead of the November election, Rose — who leads the prominent anti-abortion group Live Action — is embracing a more radical strategy: Urging her followers not to vote for Trump unless he changes course.

That position — which she teased in a series of social media posts earlier this week — defies both Democratic and Republican common sense about Trump’s strategy on abortion. In the eyes of many Democrats and anti-abortion conservatives who support Trump, a second-term Trump would still be sympathetic to the anti-abortion cause — even if he needs to moderate his message to win in November.

But since Trump and Vance have come out against a number of the anti-abortion movement’s key policy priorities — including a national abortion ban, a crackdown on the abortion pill and restrictions on IVF — Rose, who leveraged her large internet following into influence in the first Trump White House, is no longer confident that Trump is an ally, she told POLITICO Magazine. “It’s disappointing to say — but perhaps he personally lacks principle on this issue,” said Rose.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


They haven't changed their stance on abortion at all.

If the media hadn't been filling your head with nonsense for 8 years you'd know that.



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Friday, August 30, 2024 8:18 AM (P)

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They haven't changed their stance on abortion at all.

If the media hadn't been filling your head with nonsense for 8 years you'd know that.



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Friday, August 30, 2024 8:21 AM (P)

Donald Trump's campaign event at Arlington Cemetery was even worse than you think:

The idea was to lay a wreath honoring the 13 members of the U.S. military who were killed during the evacuation of Kabul in 2021 and film a political ad. They would distribute the video and attack Vice President Harris and President Biden for not “showing up” for their campaign event, which they sought to portray as an established memorial.

It sure sounds like something Trump would do, doesn't it?

The Trump team's response to being caught has been pure Trump: Attack, attack, and attack harder. A Trump spokesperson berated the Arlington official who asked them to stop as having a "mental health episode." After the Army defended her, a Trump campaign advisor blasted them as a bunch of "hacks." Trump himself posted a campaign video of the event and then insisted that it wasn't a campaign event and that it was he who had been mistreated. And J.D. Vance furiously told Kamala Harris to "go to hell" even though she hadn't said anything.

Welcome to another day in the Trump campaign.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-arlington-cemetery-campaig
n-event

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Friday, August 30, 2024 8:40 AM (P)

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Quote:
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They haven't changed their stance on abortion at all.

If the media hadn't been filling your head with nonsense for 8 years you'd know that.



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No. He doesn't.

And no. He didn't.

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Friday, August 30, 2024 9:43 AM (P)

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No. He doesn't.

And no. He didn't.

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6ix, I'm gratified that you do what every other Trumptard I know does: show the world that they are stupid and mentally unstable. For the Trumptards I know it is always incomprehensible to them that the world routinely kicks the shit of stupid crazy people but that's how life goes. Could you imagine a world where weaklings like you prospered? It would be a world where Charles Darwin was wrong about the theory of evolution. Survival of the least fit would be the rule.

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Friday, August 30, 2024 10:31 AM (P)

Trump Makes Numerous False And Nonsensical Claims In Meandering Speech On ‘Energy’

In other words, nothing really new.

By S.V. Date | Aug 29, 2024, 07:16 PM EDT

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-nonsense-energy-speech_n_66d0df06
e4b0b422df222e5b

Trump brought up a variety of complaints and comments in his 66 minutes of remarks, many of them greatly exaggerated or flatly false.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, August 30, 2024 10:34 AM (P)

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Quote:
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No. He doesn't.

And no. He didn't.

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6ix, I'm gratified that you do what every other Trumptard I know does: show the world that they are stupid and mentally unstable. For the Trumptards I know it is always incomprehensible to them that the world routinely kicks the shit of stupid crazy people but that's how life goes. Could you imagine a world where weaklings like you prospered? It would be a world where Charles Darwin was wrong about the theory of evolution. Survival of the least fit would be the rule.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two





You've got lifelong Democrats leaving their party right now, and 200 members of the old-guard Bushite NeoCon GOP just came out and endorsed Kamala Harris.

That says everything we need to know about the people you're cheerleading right now.



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You've got lifelong Democrats leaving their party right now, and 200 members of the old-guard Bushite NeoCon GOP just came out and endorsed Kamala Harris.

That says everything we need to know about the people you're cheerleading right now.

Those geniuses leaving the Democratic Party don't know Project 2025.
Project 2025 started a half-century ago. A Trump win could solidify it forever

By David Sirota | Thu 29 Aug 2024 10.06 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/trump-pr
oject-2025-history

Project 2025 effectively marks "the final stage of conservatives' grand half-century scheme to destroy the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society."

How a second Trump term is the 'final stage' of the far-right’s 'master plan'

By Carl Gibson | August 29, 2024

https://www.alternet.org/trump-final-stage/

Now, in Trump's second run for a second term in the White House, he's attempted to distance himself from Heritage and Project 2025, insisting "I don't know what the hell it is" on the campaign stump. This is hard to take at face-value, given that roughly 140 of his former staffers and advisors had a hand in writing Project 2025 and that his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) wrote the foreword to a forthcoming book by Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, August 30, 2024 6:38 PM (P)

Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?
UPDATED Aug. 29, 2024, at 5:23 PM

Trump wins 42 times out of 100.

Harris wins 58 times out of 100 in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

For reference Nov. 3, 2020

Trump wins 10 in 100

Biden wins 89 in 100

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

For further reference Nov. 8, 2016

Donald Trump 28.6%

Hillary Clinton 71.4%

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

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Friday, August 30, 2024 6:49 PM (P)

If Trump loses, expect a Republican civil war

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4853672-trump-biden-2024-republic
an-party/

After Trump’s loss in 2020, it became an act of disloyalty for Republicans to deny that Trump actually won reelection. So did the failure to defend or excuse his actions on Jan. 6 or his legal problems. So did the act of backing an alternative 2024 candidate.

To have one family in complete control of a major national political party is an aberration in our country. Daughter-in-law Lara Trump, installed as co-chair of the Republican National Committee in March, naively spoke the truth in February when she said of its fundraising, “Every single penny will go to the number one and the only job of the RNC — that is electing Donald J. Trump as president of the United States…”

Naturally, down-ballot candidates, officeholders and lowly party officials did not appreciate her honesty about the family mission.

If Harris defeats Trump, will he step down as party leader? Probably not. Unlike Biden, Trump will not be pushed aside. Biden never was and did not represent himself as the Democratic Party. Trump and family, in contrast, are the Republican Party. Hence, moving beyond the Trump era without someone named Trump would take a tectonic shift.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, August 30, 2024 11:23 PM (P)

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If Trump loses, expect a Republican civil war

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4853672-trump-biden-2024-republic
an-party/

After Trump’s loss in 2020, it became an act of disloyalty for Republicans to deny that Trump actually won reelection. So did the failure to defend or excuse his actions on Jan. 6 or his legal problems. So did the act of backing an alternative 2024 candidate.

To have one family in complete control of a major national political party is an aberration in our country. Daughter-in-law Lara Trump, installed as co-chair of the Republican National Committee in March, naively spoke the truth in February when she said of its fundraising, “Every single penny will go to the number one and the only job of the RNC — that is electing Donald J. Trump as president of the United States…”

Naturally, down-ballot candidates, officeholders and lowly party officials did not appreciate her honesty about the family mission.

If Harris defeats Trump, will he step down as party leader? Probably not. Unlike Biden, Trump will not be pushed aside. Biden never was and did not represent himself as the Democratic Party. Trump and family, in contrast, are the Republican Party. Hence, moving beyond the Trump era without someone named Trump would take a tectonic shift.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two




Your party is the one that actually performed a coup.

You don't have an elected candidate running. You have an appointee.

That's how the EU does things. That's not how we do things in America.

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 12:40 AM (P)

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Your party is the one that actually performed a coup.
In a coup, Biden would be dead or a prisoner and Harris would have been sworn in as President last month. That is the definition: coup d'état -- a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government; a coup.

Trump is in legal trouble from a self-coup when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power through illegal means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 1:26 AM (P)

Mary Trump Releases New 'Letter' to Donald Trump

By Mandy Taheri | Aug 30, 2024 at 8:51 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/mary-trump-releases-new-letter-donald-trump-1
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Mary Trump, the estranged niece of Donald Trump, released on Thursday an edited video montage with clips of her at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), calling it a "letter" to her uncle.

"Dear Donald," the montage, titled "DNC Epilogue," begins, as Mary Trump is seen putting on sunglasses and popping up her jacket collar. She tells him that "we accept that we spent a week at the DNC securing Kamala Harris as our nominee," adding, "It's delusional to think you're returning to the White House."

In 2020, Mary Trump, who has been an outspoken critic of the former president, published Too Much and Never Enough, a tell-all book about Donald Trump and his family. In it, she says he is "utterly incapable of leading this country and it's dangerous to allow him to do so."

After its release, Donald Trump called the book "disgraceful." He told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that "she was not exactly a family favorite," adding, "We didn't have a lot of respect or like for her."

The video, which Mary Trump said emulates "Breakfast Club vibes"—a reference to the 1985 film—plays to the Simple Minds song "Don't You (Forget About Me)," featured in the movie's final scene.

"You see us through simplistic labels and stereotypes," Mary Trump says, referring to how she believes her uncle views her media team members, Jen Taub and Danielle Moodie, as a montage of newscasts and campaign clips played.

The video then shows Mary Trump standing with a Donald Trump impersonator outside the convention's site, Chicago's United Center, and saying, "Or a troubled niece," a reference to herself.

"But we're more than that. We're thinkers, fighters, dreamers and doers on the right side of history shaping a better future," Mary Trump says. She adds that her media team is "committed to getting Kamala Harris elected and ensuring you never hold power again."

"See you at the polls, the Mary Trump Media team," she says at the video's end, mimicking Judd Nelson's iconic fist raise in the ending scene of The Breakfast Club as she walks toward the camera.

In response to the video, Steven Cheung, Trump's campaign communications director, told Newsweek in an email that "Trump Derangement Syndrome is a serious issue and some people like her need to get checked out."

Mary Trump posted the video on her X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday morning with a caption that says: "It's a letter to Donald—spoiler: he's not the hero here. If you're done with his nonsense, give it a watch. Let's keep exposing his lies."



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Saturday, August 31, 2024 1:54 AM (P)

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Your party is the one that actually performed a coup.
In a coup, Biden would be dead or a prisoner and Harris would have been sworn in as President last month. That is the definition: coup d'état -- a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government; a coup.


It was a sudden and unlawful seizure.

Violence was likely threatened.


You forgot this part:

Quote:
You don't have an elected candidate running. You have an appointee.

That's how the EU does things. That's not how we do things in America.


No reply to that, huh?

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 2:12 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Your party is the one that actually performed a coup.
In a coup, Biden would be dead or a prisoner and Harris would have been sworn in as President last month. That is the definition: coup d'état -- a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government; a coup.


It was a sudden and unlawful seizure.

Violence was likely threatened.


You forgot this part:

Quote:
You don't have an elected candidate running. You have an appointee.

That's how the EU does things. That's not how we do things in America.


No reply to that, huh?

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6ixStringJack, Biden released his delegates at the Democratic National Convention to vote for whoever they want as the party's nominees and the delegates were NOT threatened with violence. But because 6ix is a stupid asshole (like all the Trumptards I know in Texas), he'll keep saying it was violent and illegal. On the other hand, Trump used lies, violence and illegal maneuvers in order to remain in power. Trump's lawyers got disbarred for what they did. Hundreds of Trumptards were convicted for what they did. Trump has been charged with felonies for what he did before, during and after the 2020 election.

Tracking the Trump criminal cases
A definitive guide to the key players and legal risks in the four criminal probes of Donald Trump.
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/trump-criminal-investigatio
ns-cases-tracker-list/

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 2:53 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Your party is the one that actually performed a coup.
In a coup, Biden would be dead or a prisoner and Harris would have been sworn in as President last month. That is the definition: coup d'état -- a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government; a coup.


It was a sudden and unlawful seizure.

Violence was likely threatened.


You forgot this part:

Quote:
You don't have an elected candidate running. You have an appointee.

That's how the EU does things. That's not how we do things in America.


No reply to that, huh?

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6ixStringJack, Biden released his delegates at the Democratic National Convention to vote for whoever they want as the party's nominees and the delegates were NOT threatened with violence. But because 6ix is a stupid asshole (like all the Trumptards I know in Texas), he'll keep saying it was violent and illegal. On the other hand, Trump used lies, violence and illegal maneuvers in order to remain in power. Trump's lawyers got disbarred for what they did. Hundreds of Trumptards were convicted for what they did. Trump has been charged with felonies for what he did before, during and after the 2020 election.

Tracking the Trump criminal cases
A definitive guide to the key players and legal risks in the four criminal probes of Donald Trump.
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/trump-criminal-investigatio
ns-cases-tracker-list/

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You're hopeless.



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Saturday, August 31, 2024 3:54 AM (P)

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You're hopeless.
6ixStringJack, you have no idea who I am, but I know perfectly well who Trumptards like you are: the dumbest people in their communities, the people who need Donald "Only-I-Can-Fix-It" Trump to save them from consequences of their stupid ways of living. For example of stupidity, smoke a pack of cigarettes, 6ix, because it won't kill you, at least not immediately. But there will be consequences for you and all the dumb-asses like you. And smoking is just one of thousands of ways that Trumptards kill themselves and make themselves poorer from stupidity.

Seriously, 6ix, I don't expect any Trumptard to understand the difference between coup d'état and Trump's self-coup because you all are just goddamn stupid people who deserve the troubles that befall you.

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 3:57 AM (P)

Opinion | Naked Emperors and Crypto Campaign Cash

By Paul Krugman | Aug 29, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/opinion/cryptocurrency-election.htm
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Once upon a time there was an emperor who loved being fashion-forward. So he was receptive to some fast-talking tailors who promised to make him a suit out of new, high-technology fabric — a suit so comfortable that it would feel as if he were wearing nothing at all. “Fortune favors the brave,” they told him.

Of course, the reason the suit was so comfortable was that it didn’t exist; the emperor was walking around naked. But the members of Congress who made up his retinue didn’t dare tell him. For they knew that the tailors deceiving the emperor controlled lavishly funded super PACs that would spend large sums to destroy the career of anyone revealing their scam.

OK, I changed the story a bit. But it’s one way to understand the remarkably large role the crypto industry is playing in campaign finance this year.

Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, was introduced 15 years ago and was promoted as a replacement for old-fashioned money. But it has yet to find significant uses that don’t involve some sort of criminal activity. The crypto industry itself has been racked by theft and scams.

But while crypto has thus far been largely unable to find legitimate applications for its products, it has been spectacularly successful at marketing its offerings. Cryptocurrencies, which are traded for other crypto assets but otherwise mainly seem suited for things like money laundering and extortion, are currently worth around $2 trillion.

And in this election cycle the crypto industry has become a huge player in campaign finance. I mean huge: Crypto, which isn’t a big industry in terms of employment or output (even if you posit, for the sake of argument, that what it produces is actually worth something), accounts for almost half of corporate spending on political action committees this cycle.

Crypto political spending isn’t just huge; it takes an unusual form. While cryptocurrency is associated with libertarian ideology and the industry’s spending has had a partisan tilt toward Republicans, crypto super PACs don’t seem to go after Democrats per se; they single out politicians who have called for greater scrutiny of the industry, including the financial risks it poses and its marketing tactics. Notably, crypto-financed attack ads helped to defeat Representative Katie Porter, who has been critical of the industry, in the Democratic primary for California senator.

Politicians have taken notice. In 2021 Donald Trump called Bitcoin a scam. But last month he promised to turn America into a “Bitcoin superpower” and described crypto skeptics as “left-wing fascists.” The Biden administration has taken modest steps toward oversight and regulation of cryptocurrencies, but Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, has declared that “we all believe in the future of crypto” and reportedly has been trying to get crypto industry players to back the Kamala Harris campaign.

The gigantic political spending and influence of an industry that, if anything, destroys value rather than creates it (especially if you consider its environmental effects) is startling. But in a way it makes sense.

Consider those tailors who scammed the emperor. If they had merely clothed him in an ugly suit, they would have lashed out at anyone who dared point out its ugliness. But it’s much harder to silence people when they’re not criticizing the emperor’s fashion sense, but are instead laying bare the fact that he has been completely deceived. In that instance, a campaign against skeptics would have to be far more intense, even desperate.

True, almost every major industry spends some money trying to influence policy on its behalf, and some spend considerable sums trying to suppress criticism. The fossil fuel industry gives a lot of money to politicians who oppose environmental regulation — which at this point means that they overwhelmingly support Republicans — and has over the y

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 4:02 AM (P)

When is the last time that Paul Krugman was right about anything?

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 4:03 AM (P)

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You're hopeless.
6ixStringJack, you have no idea who I am


I wouldn't be so sure of that.

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 6:26 AM (P)

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When is the last time that Paul Krugman was right about anything?

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6ixStringJack, literally you are a stupid asshole who thinks he is smart. But that is uniform behavior for Trumptards. Trump demonstrated it, today:

Donald Trump has said he will vote against a ballot measure in his home state of Florida that would protect abortion rights after facing backlash from conservative supporters.

The former president's announcement came one day after an NBC News interview in which he appeared to support the measure - a statement that caused anti-abortion activists to openly criticise him.

On Friday, Trump told Fox News that he still thinks Florida's ban on abortions after six weeks is too strict.

However he said would still vote "no" on a measure that would amend the state's constitution to protect abortion rights.

"So I think six weeks you need more time, then six weeks I’ve disagreed with that right from the early primaries when I heard about it I disagreed with it," Trump said.

He then falsely alleged that Democrats in the US supported allowing abortions at any point during a pregnancy, which he used as his explanation for deciding to vote against the ballot measure in Florida.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy547v72nd4o

6ix, Trump is fucking stupid about abortion and everything else. But stupidity is the glue binding Trumptards to Trump.

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 6:41 AM (P)



Get some help, psycho.

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 4:47 PM (P)

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Get some help, psycho.

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Proving that not all Trumptards are equally stupid, here is something Trump's smarter Congressional allies won't do for him immediately before an election because it makes him look irresponsible and foolish but that doesn't mean they won't after the election, once he has won:

Donald Trump Calls For Government Shutdown Over Fake Voter Fraud Fears

Trump says he would "shut down the government in a heartbeat" if Republicans don't pass a bill blocking noncitizens from voting, which is already illegal.

By Arthur Delaney | Aug 30, 2024, 05:22 PM EDT

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-government-shutdown_n_66d2
1e56e4b013957161cd53

Former President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Republicans in Congress should shut down the government next month.

Trump said that if Democrats won’t agree to legislation barring noncitizens from voting - something that rarely happens because it’s already illegal - then Republicans should block legislation funding basic operations of the federal government.

“I would shut down the government in a heartbeat if they don’t get it and if they don’t get it in the bill,” Trump told podcast host Monica Crowley, a Republican operative who served in his administration.

Earlier this month, the far-right House Freedom Caucus took the official position that any government funding bill must include the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Among other things, the bill would make states require proof of citizenship for voter registration. (Voter registration forms already require people to attest to their citizenship, under penalty of perjury, per federal law.)

Trump suggested Republicans should actually increase their unrealistic demands by adding a bill restricting legal immigration.

“If they don’t get these bills, they should close it down, and Republicans should not approve it,” Trump said.

At a press conference over the summer, House Speaker Mike Johnson essentially admitted there was no evidence that undocumented immigrants vote in significant numbers in federal elections. Instead, he claimed to know it was happening “intuitively.”

“We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections, but it’s not been something that is easily provable,” Johnson said. “We don’t have that number.”

Trump and Johnson’s false statements about illegal voting have stoked fears among Democrats and even some Republicans that they will undermine confidence in November’s election and prompt another outburst of violence like the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 4:53 PM (P)

Trump’s Angry New Rant Over Arlington Scandal Should Wake Up Dems

As the Arlington Cemetery plot thickens, it’s time for the Democrats to get tough and get to the bottom of this.

At a rally in Michigan on Thursday, Donald Trump unleashed an extended rant about the confrontation this week between his campaign staff and Arlington National Cemetery officials. Shockingly, he offered a highly distorted account of the scandal and painted himself as one of its victims. Trump even linked this to a bigger lie about the Deep State being out to get him, backhandedly illustrating a big reason why all this matters in the first place: It reveals a level of contempt for the law and public service that’s incompatible with democracy.

Now that Trump has offered this rant—his most extensive public explanation for this scandal yet—it should prompt Senate Democrats to exercise oversight responsibility and get to the bottom of this saga once and for all.

A family whose loved one is buried at an adjacent grave is unhappy about what Trump did. And regardless, nothing gives the Trump campaign license to use Arlington as a staging ground for political activities, or to physically abuse a member of staff for doing her job. Establishing what happened at a minimum is perfectly reasonable: If the Trump campaign broke the law and violence was exercised against this official simply because she sought to ensure that rules were followed, we should know about it.

Seriously, Dems, your job is to explode in righteous anger on behalf of all the dead soldiers Trump used as props, and even more fury, once you substantiate Arlington’s account, on behalf of the cemetery employee his entourage assaulted. Demand the footage. Get moving!
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 28, 2024

Trump campaign officials treated this woman horrifically, deriding her as unpatriotic and mentally unstable. And so, a big question is at issue here: Whether Team Trump will get away with employing thuggery and intimidation to bully an official in furtherance of this scheme—and to avoid facing consequences for it. Now that Trump has obliquely attacked her during a rally, that could draw an even more vivid target on her back.

Much more at https://newrepublic.com/article/185517/trumps-angry-new-rant-arlington
-scandal-wake-dems

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 5:19 PM (P)

The underrecognized challenge of turning the page on Trumpism

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-underrecognized-challenge-
of-turning-the-page-on-trumpism/ar-AA1pIRfm

The Trump era is about Trump in the way that the War of 1812 was about 1812: a critically important component and a useful touchstone but not all-encompassing. Turning the page on the era requires more than Trump failing to get an electoral vote majority.

Perhaps a more accurate time span to consider is something like 15 years. The election of Barack Obama as president in 2008 was hailed as a signal moment in the evolution of American politics and demography, but it also triggered a remarkable backlash. Ostensibly rooted in concerns about government spending, it was largely centered on the disruption of the economic crisis (which triggered an increase in spending) and that overlapping awareness of how America was changing.

The response focused on a nebulously defined group of elites that was subverting America and harming Americans: to extract money or to secure votes or to otherwise protect their power. The 2010 midterm election was defined by the sharp increase in hostility to Obama and by the Republican base’s belief that leaders in their party were insufficiently attuned — or overtly hostile — to the way these elites were destroying the country by spending money (often meaning on social programs) and allowing people to immigrate to the United States. This hostility was inextricable from the rise of a fervently right-wing media universe in which amplifying those concerns held enormous rewards.

Trump consumed that media and, upon entering the 2016 presidential race, repeated its rhetoric to his benefit. He was a Manhattan billionaire who would target the elites, a former Democrat who would upend the Democrats. In part because he was a consumer of the fringe right’s rhetoric, he understood that the engine of the backlash was far less about spending than culture. Republicans, including many who had simply checked out of the political process, wanted someone who would throw punches. So he threw punches: up, down, left, right.

As the 2012 election neared, Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, predicted that the “fever” that had seized the GOP would break after his boss’s reelection. It was a prediction that was, in part, about framing Obama as the candidate who could repair the nation’s widening rift. It was also, it seems in retrospect, an assumption that the backlash was centrally about Obama, rather than what Obama represented. But nativist, racist backlashes against changing demography and circumstances are a regular feature of American history, and this one was no more solely about Obama than it was solely leveraged later by Trump.

What Trump added to the mix was decades of serving as the autocratic leader of a private business. He brought a disinterest in tradition and history and a pugilistic style honed on the pages of the New York Post. He brought a sense of entitlement that mirrored the entitlement felt by many of his supporters: that the advantages they enjoyed, if only tacitly, were advantages they earned or weren’t advantages at all. That a country adjusting to the rise of a more-urban, younger and less heavily White population was, instead, a country actively repressing everyone else. And Trump was willing to fight about it.

When Harris talks about turning the page on this, she means Trump, certainly. She means shifting American politics so that it is no longer unsurprising that a presidential candidate’s campaign might use Arlington National Cemetery for a campaign promotion, much less that it do so after accosting a cemetery employee who had reminded the campaign about laws against such activity, much less that no charges would result out of concern over hostile backlash from the candidate’s supporters. She means turning the page on a politician who would feel a sense of entitlement so sweeping that he might treat the military cemetery as something for his use and whose supporters would offer no objection to his d

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 5:50 PM (P)

Trump in damage-control mode over abortion backlash from the right

August 30, 2024

Former President Donald Trump is in damage control mode on abortion after telling NBC News that Florida’s six-week ban is “too short” and declining to take a clear stance on a state ballot measure that would expand access to the procedure.

The backlash from anti-abortion advocates was fierce, with some warning that the Republican presidential nominee was risking losing support from a key bloc of the party’s base.

Alarmed by what she saw, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the influential anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, called Trump on Thursday to ask for clarity on his comments, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation. Trump told her that he didn’t state a position on an amendment on his home state’s ballot this fall, which would bar restrictions on abortion before fetal viability, around the 24th week of pregnancy.

Dannenfelser told him that “it’s imperative that you’re clear because there’s confusion now that you may be in support of this,” the source added. She also told him the amendment is “incongruent” with his opposition to late-term abortion.

[Continue reading… https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-damage-control-ab
ortion-backlash-conservatives-rcna168922 ]

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Saturday, August 31, 2024 6:17 PM (P)

Trump Claims Ukraine War Has Killed 'A Million' — Here Are the Facts

Updated Aug 30, 2024 at 4:14 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-claims-ukraine-war-has-killed-millionhe
re-are-facts-1945667

Former President Donald Trump said in an interview this week that he would have prevented the war in Ukraine, adding that had he been elected in 2020, "a million people" would be alive right now.

In an interview with Dr. Phil, Trump returned to an oft-used line that the war between Ukraine and Russia would never have happened if he had been elected. However, Trump colored this belief by claiming that had he been elected, "you'd have a million people living right now."

Trump had just suggested that a win this November could be a sign from an "incredible power up there that wanted me to be involved in...maybe it's saving the world."

It just so happens that Trump got his numbers wrong:
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-claims-ukraine-war-has-killed-millionhe
re-are-facts-1945667

If you believe Donald "Only-I-Can-Fix-It" Trump got his numbers right, vote for him.

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Originally posted by second:
Trump Claims Ukraine War Has Killed 'A Million' — Here Are the Facts

Updated Aug 30, 2024 at 4:14 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-claims-ukraine-war-has-killed-millionhe
re-are-facts-1945667

Former President Donald Trump said in an interview this week that he would have prevented the war in Ukraine, adding that had he been elected in 2020, "a million people" would be alive right now.

In an interview with Dr. Phil, Trump returned to an oft-used line that the war between Ukraine and Russia would never have happened if he had been elected. However, Trump colored this belief by claiming that had he been elected, "you'd have a million people living right now."

Trump had just suggested that a win this November could be a sign from an "incredible power up there that wanted me to be involved in...maybe it's saving the world."

It just so happens that Trump got his numbers wrong:
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-claims-ukraine-war-has-killed-millionhe
re-are-facts-1945667

If you believe Donald "Only-I-Can-Fix-It" Trump got his numbers right, vote for him.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Nobody cares about the number of dead Russians and Ukrainians, which by the article's own admission was probably close to correct if you'd bother reading that far...

Democrats have spent the last 4 years saying that the economy was great when people know it isn't. One numbers lie matters a whole lot more to voters than the other one does.



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Saturday, August 31, 2024 10:30 PM (P)

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Get some help, psycho.

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Proving that not all Trumptards are equally stupid,


YOU are the Trumptard.

You can't get the dude out of your head. Trump is all you think about.



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Nobody cares about the number of dead Russians and Ukrainians, which by the article's own admission was probably close to correct if you'd bother reading that far...

Democrats have spent the last 4 years saying that the economy was great when people know it isn't. One numbers lie matters a whole lot more to voters than the other one does.



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Trump said nobody would die if he had been President. That's nonsense, but Trumptards believe him because they know nothing true about Eastern Europe or Russia. Trump said the economy is ruined. That's nonsense, but Trumptards believe him for their mental well-being.

Consider what the country looks like if you view it through Trump's speeches:

• "70% of our people are living in poverty."
According to the Census Bureau, the official poverty rate in 2022 was 11.5%.

• "They’ve allowed, I believe, 15 million people into the country from all of these different places like jails, mental institutions."
There are no figures for this because the real number is probably around zero.

• "More drugs are coming into our country right now than at any time in our history."
By weight, drug seizures were 33% lower in July than in Trump's last month in office.

• Real wages are down 6% for Black families.
Real income for Black families has increased 2.9% under Biden. (This is through 2022. It's probably more by now.)

• "Border crossings were up 1,000% compared to the same month last year, 1,000% compared to last year. And by the way, last year, it was 1,000% compared to the year before."
Border crossings did increase under Biden, but obviously nowhere near 1,000%. As of July, border crossings are up 27% compared to Trump's last month in office.

• "Virtually 100% of the new jobs under Biden have also gone to illegal aliens. Did you know that?"
Since Biden entered office, employment has risen 8 million among native-born Americans vs. 3.5 million for non-natives. Of that, possibly half of the non native jobs have gone to illegal immigrants, or about 15% of the total.

• "If Kamala gets in, we will have 50-60 million illegals from all over the world ferried right into our country."
This is nonsensical.

• "Real" unemployment is much higher than reported under Biden. No it's not.

• "Inflation is destroying our families."
The CPI inflation rate in July was 1.9%. Year-over-year it was 2.9%.

• "Gasoline prices are now $5, $6, $7 and even $8 a gallon."
The average price of gasoline is currently $3.38.

If you take Trump seriously, America is besieged by poverty, native-born workers are unable to get jobs, drug use is skyrocketing, World War III is imminent if Democrats win, gasoline prices are through the roof, wages are dropping, inflation is eating up our paychecks, the auto industry is about to implode, Democrats are working furiously to steal the election, Christianity is under siege, and before long a quarter of the country will be illegal immigrants.

If I believed all that, I might vote for Trump too. But none of it is true.

https://jabberwocking.com/america-is-not-in-decline-not-even-close/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, September 1, 2024 1:29 AM (P)

I'm not even going to bother discussing Trump with you right now when you give your party the green light on everything they've done regarding Kamala's appointment.

You've completely lost the plot, and "Trump" is not a valid argument anymore.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Sunday, September 1, 2024 1:49 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm not even going to bother discussing Trump with you right now when you give your party the green light on everything they've done regarding Kamala's appointment.

You've completely lost the plot, and "Trump" is not a valid argument anymore.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
You are still pitching Trump's campaign strategy that V.P. Harris overthrew Biden in a coup. And it is no wonder because:

In 2020, the press was caught flat-footed once again, this time after the election, when Trump refused to accept defeat and tried to mount a coup to stay in power. During the campaign, the press had largely ignored the mounting evidence that Trump was planning to reject the results of the election and later failed to adequately track the warning signs of an insurrection, even as it was openly discussed among right-wing extremists.

The insurrection, the indictments, the criminal conviction, the impeachments tend to receive little more than brief mentions in the Trump campaign coverage today. Poll-driven horse race stories now dominate, overwhelming the scattered attempts by the press to hold Trump accountable.

https://theintercept.com/2024/08/28/trump-campaign-election-media-cove
rage-journalists/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, September 1, 2024 1:56 AM (P)

Why to NOT vote for Kamala:

Kamala, like Joe for the past 4 years, is the Democrat Party's creature. Some faction in is telling her what to wear, who to talk to, what to say and how to say it, ultimately what to do.

So, what has the Democrat Party been doing for 8+ years?

Warmongering nonstop and playing chicken with nukes

Colluding with the 3 letter agencies and MSM to flood America with disinformation (eg. Biden* is fine, Hunter Biden laptop is "Russian disinformation", Trump is colluding with Russia, other LIES too numerous to list)

CENSORING social media, unambiguously violating our First Amendment rights

Colluding with the DOJ to persecute political opponents

Opening the southern border to millions of illegal aliens

Dividing the nation on race, sex, orientation, gender and religion

Promoting the "victim Olympics" and racism, sexism, etc over equal opportunity and meritocracy

Pandering to "Defund the police" BLM, ANTIFA (Nancy Pelosi taking a knee in kinte cloth)

Flooding the world with deficit dollars and fueling inflation


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I don't appreciate our nation being taken apart, bit by bit, by corrupt officials who CLEARLY don't want America to continue as a sovereign state.

I DON'T APPRECIATE BEING LIED TO AND GASLIT 24/7/365

Given ALL of the effort Dems, "the Interagency", media, and tech giants are putting into defaming, prosecuting, and persecuting (if not assassinating) Trump, well ..

I guess I know how to express my opposition.

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=66137&p=4


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Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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