Elections; 2024
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Did you guys enjoy watching Kamala Harris certify Trump?
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:There is one religious lesson I learned and always obey. It is the same one that Trump always violates. Trump and his Trumptards claim to follow, but don't, because tax-cheating and lawlessness feel good for Trumptards when they think they can get away with it:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, let me recap your story for you:
"Render unto Caesar" means to give to the earthly authority, represented by "Caesar," what is rightfully theirs, typically referring to paying taxes or respecting government laws, while simultaneously acknowledging that ultimate allegiance belongs to God; it comes from a Bible verse where Jesus says, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" (Mark 12:17), essentially separating earthly and spiritual duties.
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Okay, Socrates.
STFU dude. You judgemental, mental midget.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, let me recap your story for you: You dumped your family religion and went off to fight in Vietnam, where you discovered your true calling: calmly and efficiently shooting people from a helicopter. But thanks to a helicopter accident, you busted your ankles.
So when you returned to civilian life, you tried making $ like your dad, managing a fast food franchise. But your busted ankles hurt too much to let you stand on your feet all day, so you got a degree in engineering and played a small part in designing control systems for chemical plants.
Took some of your savings and made a what-the-hell play on Texas oil and the rest is history. At least, according to you: you got lucky, and got wealthy owning the rights to a commodity producing piece of land and making other people work for you.
Moral of the story?
You can be a right bastard.
You can be a sociopath who enjoys killing.
You can work hard and get an education.
But if you REALLY want to get wealthy, get lucky.
Or marry someone wealthy, or inherit your parents' wealth.
SECOND:
There is one religious lesson I learned and always obey. It is the same one that Trump always violates. Trump and his Trumptards claim to follow, but don't, because tax-cheating and lawlessness feel good for Trumptards when they think they can get away with it:
Oh, well!
At least there's that!
Must make up for you being an utterly miserable person!
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OK, I'll stop picking in your now. Clearly, you're very angry about something. But your constant lying and trying to make other people miserable isn't gonna fix whatever's bothering you.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:Trump's lawyer was jailed for years because he delivered payments to Stormy Daniels. Trump's DOJ put him in jail. Later, Trump was convicted over the same payments. Is it too hard for a Trumptard to understand that Trump's bad actions cause Trump's legal troubles? I already know the answer from every Trumptard I asked. I also know they get into legal trouble, too, and believe the world is unfair to them, which is why they voted for Trump. He will change the world for them. Changing the world as a whole seems easier than changing themselves a tiny bit, at least to them.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay, Socrates.
STFU dude. You judgemental, mental midget.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/22/former-donald-trump-lawyer-michael-coh
en-finishes-criminal-sentence.html
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Elon Musk Biographer Details Why He Thinks Billionaire Is ‘Going Mad’
Josh Fiallo | Jan. 7 2025 10:23AM EST
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-biographer-seth-abramson-detai
ls-why-he-thinks-billionaire-is-going-mad/
An Elon Musk biographer has sounded the alarm that the world’s richest man may be losing his mind.
The Harvard Law-educated biographer Seth Abramson speculated Monday that Musk might be “going mad” in a setting for all to see—brought on by his growing stress, history of mental illness, and self-described heavy drug use.
“I legitimately believe Elon Musk may be going mad,” he posted to X. “I’m a Musk biographer who has been tracking his online behavior for the last two years—and given that he’s admitted to all of mental illness, heavy drug use, and crippling stress, it is now reasonable to fear he is deeply unwell.”
Abramson, 48, added that Musk’s mental state could have consequences worldwide.
“His private struggles would not be of general concern except they have dramatic public consequences,” he said. “His holdings across many civilization-essential industries and the fact that he’s the incoming POTUS mean that his madness and increasing incitement of violence endanger us all.”
The biographer’s “informed warning,” as he described it, comes after Musk went on a posting frenzy about British politics that has ruffled more than a few feathers across the pond. A tracking website says that Musk has averaged 62 posts daily for the last week.
It appears Musk’s relentless posting—and near-constant presence near Donald Trump—may also be annoying some in the MAGA world, including its leader.
It was reported shortly after the election that Musk had a “massive blow-up” with a Trump aide inside Mar-a-Lago regarding the leaking of Trump’s cabinet picks.
More recently, The New York Times journalist and “Trump whisperer” Maggie Haberman said on a podcast this weekend that “Trump does complain a bit to people about how Musk is around a lot.”
Trump hasn’t shared such a sentiment publicly. He has instead embraced Musk, 53, as his “First Buddy”—a title and relationship that conveniently came on the heels of the South Africa native pumping at least $250 million into his campaign.
Musk has reportedly been renting out the $2,000-per-night Banyan Cottage at Mar-a-Lago, from where he has been crashing the president-elect’s dinners with tech billionaires and has also sat in on personnel meetings.
From his new South Florida digs, Musk has also shown that he plans to flex his immense influence beyond U.S. politics. He endorsed the German far-right party Alternative for Germany ahead of the country’s snap election last month and has since diverted his Twitter fingers to trying to overthrow the current British government.
Abramson suggested the outgoing Biden Administration should use its final weeks in power to put in safeguards to protect against—or at least try to limit—Musk before Trump steps foot in the Oval Office.
This “urgent action,” he said, could include ending U.S. contracts with him, filing lawsuits to block his Department of Government Efficiency initiative, and launching federal probes into his dealings.
“If no action is taken—and I suspect no action will be taken—what this man in his burgeoning madness does to America as POTUS in the coming years will be on the heads of not just him and those who support or enable him but those who ignored urgent, informed warnings like this one,” Abramson concluded.
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When Trump began overt saber-rattling against neighbors, the most obvious question to ask is whether he intends to follow through. That question, unfortunately, is difficult to answer. On the one hand, Trump almost certainly has no plan, or even concepts of a plan, to launch a hemispheric war. Seizing the uncontrolled edges of the North American continent makes sense in the board game Risk, but it has very little logic in any real-world scenario.
An easier question to answer is why Trump keeps uttering these threats. One reason is that he seems to sincerely believe that strong countries have the right to bully weaker ones. Trump has long insisted that the United States should seize smaller countries’ natural resources, and that American allies should be paying us protection money . . .
A second reason is that Trump uses his international bullying as fan service for his base.
Trump’s most recent gestures reveal his symbolic intent. To be sure, you can construct a coherent policy rationale for some kind of international deal involving Greenland. But there is little evidence that Trump is interested in any kind of practical deal. He wants to menace allies. You don’t dispatch Donald Trump Jr., whose professional expertise, to the extent he has any, is monetizing the Trump brand, to advance a real diplomatic or military strategy. You send Don Jr. to entertain the base. Meanwhile, renaming the Gulf of Mexico isn’t even plausibly related to any economic or territorial objective. It’s pure symbolic bluster.
Much more at https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/the-politic
al-logic-of-trump-s-international-threats/ar-AA1x7UYe
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Something strange is happening in the bond market. Is it Trump?
Quote:https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-there-an-insanity-premium-on-int
Look at the dynamic over the past few days. Jeff Stein of the Washington Post reported that people around Trump were planning a fairly limited, strategic set of tariffs rather than the destructive trade war against everyone Trump has been promising; Trump quickly responded with a Truth Social post calling the report “Fake News” and declaring that he does too intend to impose high tariffs on everyone and everything.
In short, Sources: “Trump isn’t as crazy as he looks.” Trump: “Yes I am!”
Then, as if to dispel any lingering suspicions that he might be saner than he appears, Trump held a press conference in which he appeared to call for annexing Canada, possibly invading Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. This morning CNN reported that Trump is considering declaring a national economic emergency — in a nation with low unemployment and inflation! — to justify a huge rise in tariffs.
What does this have to do with interest rates? There’s near-unanimity among economists that Trump’s announced agenda of high tariffs, tax cuts and mass deportations would be highly inflationary, although probably not right away; whatever Trump does, inflation will probably remain low for much of this year. Still, if he were to go through with any substantial part of that agenda, the Fed would definitely have to put further interest rate cuts on hold. In fact, it might well feel the need to raise rates again.
True, Trump — who declared yesterday that rates are still too high — would fly into a rage if the Fed were to raise rates. In fact, he might well demand that the Fed continue cutting rates. And given the way almost every prominent American institution has been prostrating itself, are we sure — really, really sure — that the Fed would be able to maintain its independence? Can we envision Fed officials hiding in their offices as a MAGA mob storms the Eccles Building? Actually, yes.
But if the Fed does let itself be pressured, that would eventually mean higher, not lower rates. Many economics students learn about how Richard Nixon pressured the Fed to keep rates low before the 1972 election, despite growing inflation concerns. The end result was to help send inflation and interest rates soaring.
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Trump's minions are laying the groundwork for military action
Donald Trump appears to have taken some inspiration from Vladimir Putin's Ukraine invasion
By Heather Digby Parton | January 8, 2025 10:02AM (EST)
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/08/minions-are-laying-the-groundwork-for
-military-action/
We have every reason to believe that he's serious about some kind of military action in Mexico. (And don't be surprised if he proposes a Venezuelan invasion. He wanted to do it in his last term.)
Nobody voted for any of this. It wasn't even a "vibe" in last November's election.
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Originally posted by second:
Trump's minions are laying the groundwork for military action
Donald Trump appears to have taken some inspiration from Vladimir Putin's Ukraine invasion
By Heather Digby Parton | January 8, 2025 10:02AM (EST)
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/08/minions-are-laying-the-groundwork-for
-military-action/
We have every reason to believe that he's serious about some kind of military action in Mexico. (And don't be surprised if he proposes a Venezuelan invasion. He wanted to do it in his last term.)
Nobody voted for any of this. It wasn't even a "vibe" in last November's election.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm fine with it.
If we're going to spend money on the military, we might as well spend it fighting an actual enemy.
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