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Sunday, September 10, 2023 8:24 PM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:

for a few years the whole of the internet was covered with '911 Never Forget'


now its a bunch of instagram, tiktok, gamer, snapchat, pop culture silly media stuff.

Democrats have not forgotten that Republican Pres. Bush ignored all warnings: An exclusive look at how the Bush administration ignored warnings, including some that were far more detailed than previously revealed. What the CIA knew before 9/11: New details

https://www.politico.eu/article/attacks-will-be-spectacular-cia-war-on
-terror-bush-bin-laden
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, September 11, 2023 6:12 PM

You can get radio from any part of this world online

Remember that Never Forget Thing...I think I finally figured out the meaning of 'Conservative'

I never once called myself Conservative,
but
I had to go to Canadian morning radio news to find 911 mentioned.

Radio on in the early hours of this morning in the USA bla bla Taxes, bla bla vote Left vs Right or Leftwing vs Righting bal bla bla, Trump rape case, noisy Rap 'music, some Mexico Hispanic noise like a slow out of tune trumpet not the good Salsa Bosa stuff, there might have been an Arabic radio thing, some redneck country noisey stuff, more politics bla bla Trump Biden, Some person who sounded like Black guy on a morning show was blabbing about schools people calling making slang rap jokes on air and called in about kids dress, kids going to school in pajamas and starting fights, everyone sounded like they were in their own Bubble and Balkanized. There was a song playing on a California station that sounded by a really bad 8-bit video game. the composition was ok, it was layered, had melody, texture but the 8-bit like samples were terrible, New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Ontario and Quebec in Canada maybe they will mention it more...maybe it is almost forgotten it just becomes a note in history like the Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Sinking of the RMS Lusitania the Fall of Saigon


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Originally posted by second:

Democrats have not forgotten that Republican Pres. Bush ignored all warnings: An exclusive look at how the Bush administration ignored warnings, including some that were far more detailed than previously revealed.



maybe little Bush was and still is worse than Biden...but little Bush was there for 2 terms.

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Monday, September 11, 2023 6:17 PM

Archive from Japan

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023 3:41 PM

Here are 23 of Joe Biden’s greatest accomplishments as president of the United States.

1. Passed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package to increase investment in the national network of bridges and roads, airports, public transport and national broadband internet, as well as waterways and energy systems.

2. Helped get more than $500 million life-saving COVID-19 vaccinations in the arms of Americans through the American Rescue Plan.

3. Stopped a 30-year streak of federal inaction on gun violence by signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that created enhanced background checks, closed the "boyfriend" loophole and provided funds for youth mental health.

4. Made a $369 billion investment in climate change, the largest in American history, through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

5. Ended the longest war in American history by pulling the troops out of Afghanistan.

6. Provided $10,000 to $20,000 in college debt relief to Americans with loans who make under $125,000 a year.

7. Cut child poverty in half through the American Rescue Plan.

8. Capped prescription drug prices at $2,000 per year for seniors on Medicare through the Inflation Reduction Act.

9. Passed the COVID-19 relief deal that provided payments of up to $1,400 to many struggling U.S. citizens while supporting renters and increasing unemployment benefits.

10. Achieved historically low unemployment rates after the pandemic caused them to skyrocket.

11. Imposed a 15% minimum corporate tax on some of the largest corporations in the country, ensuring that they pay their fair share, as part of the historic Inflation Reduction Act.

12. Recommitted America to the global fight against climate change by rejoining the Paris Agreement.

13. Strengthened the NATO alliance in support of Ukraine after the Russian invasion by endorsing the inclusion of world military powers Sweden and Finland.

14. Authorized the assassination of the Al Qaeda terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, who became head of the organization after the death of Osama bin Laden.

15. Gave Medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices through the Inflation Reduction Act while also reducing government health spending.

16. Held Vladimir Putin accountable for his invasion of Ukraine by imposing stiff economic sanctions.

17. Boosted the budget of the Internal Revenue Service by nearly $80 billion to reduce tax evasion and increase revenue.

18. Created more jobs in one year (6.6 million) than any other president in U.S. history.

19. Reduced healthcare premiums under the Affordable Care Act by $800 a year as part of the American Rescue Plan.

20. Signed the PACT Act to address service members' exposure to burn pits and other toxins.

21. Signed the CHIPS and Science Act to strengthen American manufacturing and innovation.

22. Reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act through 2027.

23. Halted all federal executions after the previous administration reinstated them after a 17-year freeze.

https://www.upworthy.com/joe-biden-s-23-greatest-achievements-as-presi
dent-of-the-united-states-so-far


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023 4:01 PM

Virginia Democrat candidate posted sex acts with husband online while soliciting tips: report

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-democrat-candidate-posted-se
x-acts-husband-online-soliciting-tips-report


Meet Susanna Gibson, AKA ‘HotWifeExperience’ Candidate Who Has An X-Rated Profile

https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-susanna-gibson-aka-hotwifeexperien
ce-the-dem-candidate-who-also-has-an-x-rated-chaturbate-profile




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Tuesday, September 12, 2023 8:44 PM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Virginia Democrat candidate posted sex acts with husband online while soliciting tips: report

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-democrat-candidate-posted-se
x-acts-husband-online-soliciting-tips-report


Meet Susanna Gibson, AKA ‘HotWifeExperience’ Candidate Who Has An X-Rated Profile

https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-susanna-gibson-aka-hotwifeexperien
ce-the-dem-candidate-who-also-has-an-x-rated-chaturbate-profile








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Gibson did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire asking whether the “good cause” was her Senate campaign. But she appears to acknowledge to The Washington Post that the videos are authentic, claiming that they are “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”

Though she posted the videos online for her nearly 6,000 followers on Chaturbate, she now claims it to be a “sex crime” to shed light on the existence of her account.

“My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up,” Gibson told the Washington Post.



Oh no, honey... That's not a sex crime.

You are a whore. Your husband is a cucked simp. And it appears that you might be in violation of a few federal laws yourself, having sucked and fucked dudes off when you're not just flicking your bean for perverts to watch while paying you to fund your political campaign.

It's smart that you didn't admit to that one. You better have a good accountant.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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Monday, September 18, 2023 4:23 AM

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suffers assassination scare — Armed man posing as U.S. Marshal arrested at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. event at Wilshire Ebell Theatre

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1703032863648530461

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 11:57 PM

break way secession and Active Separatist Movements SECOND blames Trump, others might blame Biden?

https://ibb.co/R2PBX6g

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Thursday, September 21, 2023 6:53 PM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
break way secession and Active Separatist Movements SECOND blames Trump, others might blame Biden?

https://ibb.co/R2PBX6g


I blame Trumptards for their problems:

The Death Spiral of an American Family

Kristal sat on the bed and started sifting through the first box. There was Dave Sr.’s Army enlistment form, where he’d lied about his birth date to make himself a year older, so he could serve in Vietnam. There was his associate’s degree in criminology, his police badge and a picture of him posing with his wife in front of a little red Mustang at their three-bedroom house, just before things began to unravel. That marriage had ended in divorce. Dave Sr. sank his half of their money into Detroit-area real estate, only to see values drop 82 percent from 2006 to 2008 in the Great Recession. He lost his house to foreclosure. His next wife became addicted to opioids and stole what little money he had left. He had his first heart surgery in 2010 and went thousands of dollars into medical debt. He moved in with his son and tried to redeem himself by opening a string of businesses, each more desperate and more leveraged than the last, until they seemed to Dave Jr. more like delusions. He was starting a photography business in the backyard. He was buying and reselling Tasers on the Internet. He was trying to make TikTok videos for a profit. He was hoarding the family’s household items and hiding them in his room — cellphone chargers, magnets, pencils and razors that Dave Jr. found now at the bottom of the cardboard boxes.

“How do you go from being a police officer to basically stealing people’s trash?” he said, lifting out one of his daughter’s old toothbrushes. “It makes no sense, but I know I shouldn’t be mad at him. He was suffering. He kept trying.”

It had been almost a month since Dave, 39, found his father lying unresponsive in bed next to his cellphone and a bill from a collections agency, having died of a heart attack at age 70, and ever since then Dave had been trying to make sense of what his father had left behind. He’d read through his father’s credit card statements and then talked to a banker, who concluded that the final estate of David Ramsey Sr. was of “inconsequential value.” Like a record 23 percent of Americans who’ve died in the past five years, the ultimate financial worth of his father’s life was nothing — a number somewhere below zero.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-death-spiral-of-an-american-fam
ily


All the East Texas Trumptards I know are following approximately the same path as this family, but maybe in other parts of America the Trumptards are not as retarded.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:42 PM

Tim Gurner, an Australian real estate titan and multimillionaire, made international news last week by being recklessly honest about his desire for unemployment to spike and regular workers to suffer. Gurner has been understandably condemned for this across the globe and has now issued a weak, vague apology.

“We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around,” Gurner said. “There’s been a systematic change where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around. It’s a dynamic that has to change. We’ve got to kill that attitude, and that has to come through hurting the economy.”

What truly deserves attention is why Gurner feels the way he does — and how it’s precisely explained in an essay written in 1943, titled “Political Aspects of Full Employment.”

In it, Polish economist Michal Kalecki argued that government spending could ensure a permanent economic boom with both low employment and increased business profits. Crucially, however, Kalecki predicted that business executives would hate having what everyone else sees as a good economy, because it would allow regular people to be less subservient to them. For the business class, no amount of money can replace the daily joy of watching your inferiors grovel when in your presence.

Kalecki perfectly understood the psychological suffering that low unemployment caused executives like Gurner 80 years ago.

He was writing in the midst of World War II, at a time when capitalism had produced catastrophic recessions for the past 100 years. Enormous swaths of the population had been intermittently thrown out of work and into terrifying destitution. This had culminated in the Great Depression of the 1930s, when John Maynard Keynes and other economists proposed a solution for these vertiginous falls: The government could just spend money to get the economy going again.

This had been proven to Kalecki’s generation by what they saw right in front of their eyes: a gigantic world war that put everyone back to work. Kalecki started his essay by declaring “a solid majority of economists is now of the opinion that, even in a capitalist system, full employment may be secured by a government spending program.” It didn’t require armed conflict, though: Socially productive spending or just handing out money to everyone would do just as well.

The key limiting factor, Kalecki believed, was not some shortage of money, since the government could create as much money as it wanted. Rather, it was the productive capacity of the economy. For this perspective he is recognized as a key forerunner of modern monetary theory (especially by people who hate him). As Stephanie Kelton, an economics professor and present-day proponent of MMT, has put it, “the government really could give everyone a pony … so long as we could breed enough ponies. … [The ponies] have to come from somewhere; the money is conjured out of thin air.”

At the time, given the incipient Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, you might imagine that business leaders would rejoice at this argument. After all, they could largely eliminate pressure for radical change, while keeping capitalism. Moreover, Kalecki argued, “higher output and employment benefit not only workers but entrepreneurs as well, because the latter’s profits rise.”

There was a big, big problem, however. Here’s how Kalecki described it:

Under a regime of permanent full employment, the “sack” would cease to play its role as a disciplinary measure. The social position of the boss would be undermined, and the self-assurance and class-consciousness of the working class would grow. … “[D]iscipline in the factories” and “political stability” are more appreciated than profits by business leaders. Their class instinct tells them that lasting full employment is unsound from their point of view, and that unemployment is an integral part of the “normal” capitalist system.

More at https://theintercept.com/2023/09/23/tim-gurner-speech-unemployment/

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