Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:Nobody can make a Trumptard into a law-abiding person. You don't pay all your taxes, but neither does Trump. You don't work full-time and neither does Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares what you think or believe.
You are an idiot, and everything you have ever said here has been proven wrong, whether it was merely an outright lie when you said it, or given enough time.
You worthless. You are nothing. And I own you.
Since Trump has risen to power, Americans’ shared notion of public morals — the idea that there are certain standards for conduct that shouldn’t be transgressed — have been blown to bits. Some of those standards, like strong prohibitions on doing anything that even resembles an endorsement of Nazism, are some of our most important bulwarks against a return to the worst political moments in modern humanity’s long collective history.
Even if Trump and his Trumptards have abandoned any pretensions to a moral code, decent and law-abiding citizens still need to insist on it.
https://www.vox.com/politics/396535/elon-musk-nazi-salute-trump-inaugu
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
You don't pay all your taxes.
Oh, really now? Do go on...
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You don't work full-time.
I don't work at all. I'm retired.
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Even if Trump and his Trumptards have abandoned any pretensions to a moral code, decent and law-abiding citizens still need to insist on it.
Before you start rambling on about moral codes, you should probably ask yourself which one of the posters at FireflyFans.Net is the billionaire business owner who spends half of his waking hours throwing out ad hominems and other personal attacks against 3 of the 4 other people who still come to a website honoring a long dead TV show that nobody gives a shit about in 2025.
It's the saddest thing I've ever witnessed.
You are the saddest person I have ever known.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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There Is No Resistance
The response to the January 6 pardons shows that the president faces no effective constraints from within his party.
By Jonathan Chait | January 24, 2025, 9:20 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/republicans-ratio
nalization-trump-pardons/681433/
To see how far the lines of normal have moved since President Donald Trump freed the January 6ers, briefly return to the closing days of the 2024 presidential campaign. At the time, a hot issue was whether Trump harbored fascist tendencies, as some of his former aides alleged. The very notion struck most conservatives, including some who have criticized him from time to time, as ludicrous. “Trump says crude and unworthy things and behaved abysmally after the 2020 election,” National Review’s editor in chief, Rich Lowry, conceded, “but the idea that he bears any meaningful resemblance to these cracked movements is a stupid smear.”
Looking to dismiss the case, Lowry then reached for the wildest example of fascist behavior he could think of: “Obviously, Trump isn’t deploying a paramilitary wing of the GOP to clash with his enemies on the streets.”
Obviously? Immediately upon assuming office, Trump issued sweeping pardons and commutations for the approximately 1,500 people prosecuted for participating in the January 6 attacks, including convicted violent offenders. He might not have literally deployed any mobs yet, but he has freed members of paramilitary groups that are loyal to him, and who may see their pardons and commutations as license to act on his behalf again.
[Read: January 6ers got out of prison—and came to my neighborhood]
Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, led military-style maneuvers on January 6 and had an armed strike force nearby. This week, while strolling the Capitol in a kind of victory tour, Rhodes told CNN, “I don’t regret calling out the election as what it was.” The Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who had to direct the attacks from a distance (a judge had barred him from the city for vandalizing a Black church), expressed vindication and a desire for revenge. “We went through hell—and I’m gonna tell you, it was worth it,” he exulted on The Alex Jones Show. “The people who did this [to us], they need to feel the heat. They need to be put behind bars.” And the “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander said in a livestream, “I would storm the Capitol again for Donald Trump. I would start a militia for Donald Trump.”
The J6 pardons have chagrined many Republicans. But it is not going to make many of them rethink their support for Trump. If you want to understand why, look again at the sentence that Lowry wrote just before laughing off the hysterical fear of Trumpist paramilitaries. Trump “says crude and unworthy things.” He “behaved abysmally.”
Even when Republicans in good MAGA standing can bring themselves to scold Trump, their criticism is limited to discrete acts. Trump can say or do something bad, but he cannot be something bad. To acknowledge that his bad acts follow from his character and beliefs, and therefore offer a guide to his future actions, would throw into question the morality and wisdom of supporting him.
Before the fact, vanishingly few prominent Republican politicians or conservative intellectuals actively endorsed the notion of freeing the J6 criminals en masse. The party line before the inauguration held that Trump was in his rights to grant clemency to some of the nonviolent offenders, but not to the ones who’d beat up cops or planned the operation. The week before he was sworn in as vice president, J. D. Vance said, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” Even Representative Jim Jordan, one of the most flamboyant Trump devotees in Congress, wouldn’t endorse a full suite of pardons.
After Trump went ahead, his allies mostly stopped short of defending the pardons. Instead, they turned to a familiar menu of evasive maneuvers. Some expressed an implausible degree of unfamiliarity with Trump’s ac
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Your grift is over.
You still have no clue the full extent of the damage the Democrat brand has suffered at its own hands.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
Some would say that it no longer does. I would argue that outside of Twitter and Reddit and the minds of college "educated" liberals that it never actually did.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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If SECOND was the gas/oil energy tycoon he claims to be, he'd know that thanks to a combination of oil chemistry, previous investment decisions, geography, and regulation, America can't use all of its light sweet crude, but must export it and import heavier crude.
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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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Obviously, Trump isn’t deploying a paramilitary wing of the GOP to clash with his enemies on the streets.”
No, I leave that to corrupt DNC leaders and their deranged ANTIFA/BLM rioters.
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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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Friday night massacre
The White House late Friday fired the independent inspectors general of at least 12 major federal agencies in a purge that could clear the way for President Donald Trump to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the government.
....Some of the government’s largest agencies were involved, including the Departments of Defense, State, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Energy. Most of those dismissed were Trump appointees from his first term, which stunned the group.
“It’s a widespread massacre,” said one of the fired inspectors general. “Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system.”
Inspectors general have wide ranging powers to investigate agencies for waste, fraud, and abuse. Trump's Friday night massacre makes their job under the new regime clear: investigate away, but not on anything that might embarrass Trump.
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-purges-ig-corps-in-friday-night-massac
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If you didn't want Trump back in office, you shouldn't have broke the pendulum clean off the left side of the clock.
You were warned.
Suffer the consequences.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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No, Trump Can’t Make Manufacturing Great Again
We’re a service economy now — and that’s OK
By Paul Krugman | Jan 25, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-trump-cant-make-manufacturing
This post is about how Donald Trump’s policies couldn’t “make us a manufacturing nation again” even if they succeeded in greatly reducing trade deficits. They won’t, which makes it something of a moot point, but people should understand both that we are going to be a service economy no matter what, and that that’s OK: a fixation on manufacturing as the only source of good jobs is generations out of date.
In the summer of 1992 I flew to Little Rock, Arkansas for an audition. Officially, of course, that wasn’t what it was; then-governor Bill Clinton had invited a number of Democratic-leaning economists to talk about policy issues. But everyone understood that our performance would help determine whether we would be offered jobs if he won the presidential election.
At one point Clinton asked how we could get employment in U.S. manufacturing back up to historical levels as a share of total employment. Heads turned to me, since this was clearly my lane, and I answered something like this: “Well, Governor, that really isn’t possible. Even if we could eliminate our trade deficit, the manufacturing share would still be much lower than it was in the 50s and 60s.”
Needless to say, I didn’t get a job in the Clinton administration. I’ve been thankful ever since.
But I was right, and what I said then is still true. Donald Trump declared in his inaugural speech that “America will be a manufacturing nation once again.” No, it won’t. As I’ll explain shortly, Trump’s policies are actually likely to shrink manufacturing, but even if they weren’t, we aren’t going back to the days when manufacturing employed a quarter of the work force rather than its current 8 percent.
To be clear, there is a case for promoting U.S. manufacturing in sectors of strategic importance. Between Putin and Xi, the national security case for tariffs or subsidies looks stronger now than it has for generations. But such policies won’t change the fact that these days we are overwhelmingly a service economy.
And that’s OK. The popular belief that only manufacturing can offer good jobs to ordinary workers is wrong; in fact, at this point manufacturing doesn’t offer especially good jobs. We can make things better for American workers, but a fixation on manufacturing gets in the way of real solutions.
Let’s look at some numbers.
For a generation or so after World War II, America really was a manufacturing nation. Industry employed more than a quarter of the nonfarm work force:
And it accounted for a comparable share of GDP:
Source: BEA
But manufacturing’s relative importance has steadily declined. At this point substantially more Americans work in h
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Originally posted by second:
No, Trump Can’t Make Manufacturing Great Again
We’re a service economy now — and that’s OK
Once again, Paul is wrong about everything.
Service jobs are the easiest to ship overseas. Most of them being done are done outside of the country for pennies on the dollar.
Paul needs to shut the fuck up already.
People listening to idiots like him the last 50 years got us to where we are today.
Fuck you Paul. It's 2025 and you are finally irrelevant.
You and all the other Boomers running the world need to finally die off.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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