Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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CNN: The Newsom-Trump dynamic sets up a test case for Democrats charting their future
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/newsom-and-trump-face-off-from
-a-distance-as-los-angeles-fires-burn/ar-AA1xO9su
The funniest part of this article is about halfway down when some dipshit working for Newsom was recalling the event as he saw it and said the following:
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“Part of working with Trump and his administration is managing his ego and the political jabs, but ultimately we have work to do and a responsibility to Californians,” Alex Padilla, the state’s senior senator and a Newsom ally, told CNN.
Is that what you think you did here, Alex? You managed his ego?
That's cute.
Two sentences of flattery after 8 years of political and legal persecution, being called the worst names you could find in a thesaurus, and being shot at not once, but twice, and still coming back to win a 2nd non-consecutive term as President... and what?
Trump's going to roll over and be a good little doggy for you now because you threw him a bone?
Do I have that right? Alex?
Trump is the one playing you, stupid.
And what? You think that Trump and his staff don't watch CNN because they don't like you? Nah bitch... You believe that because that's all you Democrats do, hiding out in your echo chamber 24/7/365. Everybody else that's paying attention pays attention to what everyone is saying.
Trump has already seen you spill the beans on CNN about how one manipulates Trump. You Dunning-Kruger Syndrome Poster Child, college "educated" little weasel.
Get ready for having a far tougher time rigging elections in California going forward, because... SPOILER ALERT: Voter ID is coming your way bitch.
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NYTimes, ask me what I want for the Future of America. This:
U.S. healthcare spending per capita costs twice the average of other wealthy countries. Fix it, Trump.
https://www.pgpf.org/article/how-does-the-us-healthcare-system-compare
-to-other-countries/
https://www.kff.org/health-policy-101-international-comparison-of-heal
th-systems/?entry=table-of-contents-how-does-health-spending-in-the-u-s-compare-to-other-countries
What Trump Voters Want for the Future of America
By Philip Montgomery, Charles Homans | Jan. 25, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/magazine/trump-supporters-maga-amer
ica-future.html
All the photographs in this article are in black-and-white. A crowd at the Make America Great Again victory rally.
When a new president is inaugurated, the thermodynamics of power in Washington become for a moment physically observable, measurable in crowd estimates, seating charts, corporate-sponsorship banners and embossed invitations. Over the long weekend, everyone with a rooting interest in a presidency, from door-knocking grandmothers to the executives of ballistic-missile manufacturers, is there to claim a share of it, navigating the same maze of street closures and security barricades.
The optics, in a country with an increasingly untenable concentration of wealth, are never great: the loyal voters, delivered to the nation’s capital by chartered buses and knee-bruising economy-class flights, shivering on the National Mall in hopes of catching a glimpse of their new president on the Jumbotron, while the elites are whisked past security lines and ferried between mansions in Kalorama and Georgetown in convoys of dark-windowed Escalades. The contrast was starker than usual at Donald Trump’s second inauguration, where the communal rites of the swearing-in ceremony and the parade were taken inside — because of the weather, officially — and reconstituted as quasi-exclusive events, leaving most of his supporters quite literally out in the cold.
But the inauguration’s dance of public and private power is more complicated than that. For Trump, the world is made up of binaries of domination and submission, and every Trump supporter standing outside Capital One Arena could read the subtext of the black-tie receptions hosted by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, who banned Trump from Facebook for two years, or the commemorative soda bottles furnished by Coca-Cola, which once denounced the actions of the Jan. 6 rioters whom Trump was now freeing from prison with the stroke of a pen. These were gestures of appeasement, for which they, the voters, could take some credit. Even people who were unlikely to enjoy the spoils of power in Trump’s second presidency could take some pleasure, in this moment, in wielding it.
What did they actually want from this restoration? For three days, the photographer Philip Montgomery and I crisscrossed a city in the process of becoming Trump’s Washington once again, asking that question of the supporters who enabled this transfer of power and came to celebrate it.
Sheryl Dutter
Car-dealership cashier
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
We are so divided. It’s scary. Scary for the kids that are growing up, like my grandkids. I don’t like the way this country’s turned — all this woke stuff. Stuff that the kids shouldn’t be exposed to. I think I was 18 before I knew that there was gay people, you know? I listened to Queen. I didn’t know he was gay.
Amish came out in Pennsylvania. They came out in droves. They came out in their horse and buggies. It was incredible. So that’s a united country again. We’re tired of being lied to.
Douglas W. Jones
Retired electrician
Smackover, Ark.
When I speak to people that basically hate Trump, well, I never hated Biden. I didn’t hate Obama. I just didn’t like their policies. So when somebody says they hate Trump — well, why do you hate him?
I went to a big prayer-and-praise convocation yesterday at the Greater New Hope Baptist Church, which is a Black Lives Matter church. A lot of people from all over the world, and we just praye
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The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
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Quote:The world I'm living in existed before you were born and I will be alive and prospering long after you and Trump are feeding MAGA-maggots while the barely surviving Trumptards wistfully dream about resurrecting the Third Reich. "Sieg heil mein führer Trump" - Leon Musk
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
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TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won.
Here are the numbers from investigative reporter Greg Palast.
By Greg Palast | Jan 24, 2025
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
A guest post by Greg Palast for the Hartmann Report
Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes.
And, if not for the mass purge of voters of color, if not for the mass disqualification of provisional and mail-in ballots, if not for the new mass “vigilante” challenges in swing states, Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official popular vote tally by 1.2 million.
Stay with me and I’ll give you the means, methods and, most important, the key calculations.
But if you’re expecting a sexy story about Elon Musk messing with vote-counting software from outer space, sorry, you won’t get that here.
As in Bush v. Gore in 2000 and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old “vote suppression,” the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow.
Here are key numbers:
— 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data.
— By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.
— No fewer than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).
— At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.
— 1,216,000 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted.
— 3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.
If the purges, challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.
There are also the uncountable effects of the explosive growth of voter intimidation tactics including the bomb threats that closed 31 polling stations in Atlanta on Election Day.
America’s Nasty Little Secret
The nasty little secret of American democracy is that we don’t count all the votes. Nor let every citizen vote.
Much more at https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
Also, nobody wants to hear you bitch and moan about election integrity. Not after everything you've had to say on the issue for the last 4 years.
Grow up you fucking crybaby.
I see that you now have stopped watching the Legacy Media since they've stopped telling you what you want to hear and now you've devolved to looking at clickbait bullshit like Ted did.
Hartmann report doesn't have an entry on mediabiasfactcheck it's so far off the left side of the scale.
I found a place that does have them though....
https://adfontesmedia.com/hartmann-report-bias-and-reliability/
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Bias: Hyper-Partisan Left
Reliability: Unreliable, Problematic
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.
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Quote:The New York Review of Books is as mainstream media as possible. Their conclusion in a book review? Cheaply, Trump's billionaires bought the votes of impoverished people like yourself. 13 billionaires "work" in the White House to keep track and control of him. Then there are hundreds of multimillionaires moving the actual levers of government. Trumptards got cheated into voting for new tax-cuts and reduced labor law enforcement for the benefit of the super-wealthy.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I see that you now have stopped watching the Legacy Media since they've stopped telling you what you want to hear and now you've devolved to looking at clickbait bullshit like Ted did.
Hartmann report doesn't have an entry on mediabiasfactcheck it's so far off the left side of the scale.
I found a place that does have them though....
https://adfontesmedia.com/hartmann-report-bias-and-reliability/Quote:
Bias: Hyper-Partisan Left
Reliability: Unreliable, Problematic
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+billionaires+work+in+trump%27
s+government
A Review of Martin Wolf’s The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
The Ungovernable Economy
“When I look at the world around us, I perceive a gigantic crisis of political legitimacy.”
By Trevor Jackson, interviewed by Irza Waraich | January 25, 2025
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/01/25/the-ungovernable-economy-tre
vor-jackson/
Free download at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Martin+Wolf+The+Crisis+of+Democratic
+Capitalism
The reviewer also has a book available for free at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Trevor+Jackson+Impunity+and+Capitali
sm
“Capitalism is predicated on atomized individuals, democracy on shared publics,” writes Trevor Jackson in the Review’s January 16 issue.
Reviewing Martin Wolf’s The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Jackson examines capitalist democracies past and present to find where the economic system of capitalism and the political system of democracy have aligned and where they have diverged. He is particularly interested in the history of policies designed to revitalize economies and nations after an economic crisis and charts the way these policies have privatized gains and socialized losses. But Jackson also insists that these events—both the crises and the state’s responses—must be understood as historically contingent, lest “expressions of ruthless class interest are reframed as basic truths.” Without considering the contemporaneous debates about class and conditions of economic inequality, he argues, we won’t understand how crisis continues to be the order of the day.
Jackson is an economic historian and teaches history and political economy at UC Berkeley. Though his research focuses on early modern Europe, he has taught courses on capitalism and inequality, the history of economic crises, and the history of economic thought. A regular contributor to the Review, Jackson has written about cryptocurrency, student debt, and economic bubbles. He is the author of Impunity and Capitalism, and his writing has also appeared in Dissent, The Baffler, and The Nation.
Trevor Jackson
I recently spoke with Jackson about his research interests in early modern Europe, the evolving relationship between capitalism and democracy, and different interpretations of historical analogy.
Irza Waraich: What initially drew you to research the economic history of early modern Europe?
Trevor Jackson: It was in part interest and in part accident. Accident in the sense that I once thought I’d become a development economist, and so I did a degree in what was known as the “political economy of late development” at the London School of Economics. There’s not a lot of undergraduate teaching in economic history, so this was the first time I encountered that material, and I found it fascinating.
Early modern Europe is one of the great focal points of economic hist
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Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US
By David McAfee | January 25, 2025 8:33PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-serious-damage-world-expert/
. . . the stop work order "stops work battling a deadly Marburg outbreak in Tanzania and a wide outbreak of a M-pox variant killing children in west Africa before it spreads further," "stops monitoring of bird flu in 49 countries, a disease which already killed an American on home soil," "stops critical work to eradicate polio," and even "stops >$1B in corporate drug donations and coordination eradicating tropical diseases like river blindness, elephantiasis, and others on the verge of elimination in whole regions."
Further, he said, the plan "stops medicines, supplies, systems building, staff support aiding >90 million women and children to get low cost vaccinations, prenatal care, safe childbirth, contraception, and other basic lifesaving health needs."
He added that it also "stops direct services for 6.5 million orphans, vulnerable children, and their caregivers affected by HIV in 23 countries," "stops donated drug supplies keeping 20 million people living with HIV alive," and "would furlough all USAID contract staff — which includes half of its global health bureau—unless exempted."
"This Administration is trashing US standing, alliances with scores of countries built over half a century, world-leading capacity and expertise, and American security," the expert added.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The New York Review of Books is as mainstream media as possible. Their conclusion in a book review?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I see that you now have stopped watching the Legacy Media since they've stopped telling you what you want to hear and now you've devolved to looking at clickbait bullshit like Ted did.
Hartmann report doesn't have an entry on mediabiasfactcheck it's so far off the left side of the scale.
I found a place that does have them though....
https://adfontesmedia.com/hartmann-report-bias-and-reliability/Quote:
Bias: Hyper-Partisan Left
Reliability: Unreliable, Problematic
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.
The New York Review of Books?
I'm sure it's NPR and Oprah approved, and staffed with 98% DEI hires.
Get the fuck out of here with your Lefty propaganda.
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Quote:Trump is placing employees of billionaires in charge of government agencies. 6ix, if you're dumb about the obvious, that would be very Trumptardish.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.Quote:
The New York Review of Books is as mainstream media as possible. Their conclusion in a book review?
The New York Review of Books?
I'm sure it's NPR and Oprah approved, and staffed with 98% DEI hires.
Get the fuck out of here with your Lefty propaganda.
Trump’s presidency is raising a powerful Texas think tank’s profile. Here’s what to know about it.
As President Donald Trump moves to elevate Brooke Rollins to his cabinet and implement policies that align with Project 2025, it’s raising the profile of a Texas think tank that has been a springboard for both.
Founded in 1989 in San Antonio, the Texas Public Policy Foundation was created by local billionaire James Leininger to push for private school vouchers and tort reform. More than 30 years later, the organization has become the most influential conservative think tank in the state, with a massive, multistory headquarters blocks from the Texas Capitol and a growing influence nationally.
The group publishes research, testifies before the state Legislature down the street, hosts elected officials for conferences and events, and advocates for conservative policies. It is part media company, part agenda-setter and part farm team for Republican political talent.
Rollins, Trump’s pick to run the Department of Agriculture, led the think tank from 2003 to 2018.
Read Edward McKinley's story here.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/article/texas-public-policy-
foundation-20054168.php?sid=5b0232da2ddf9c12eaedfd81&ss=A&st_rid=2df8b9bd-0c21-42cc-a871-c7c95b0871db&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=weekend&utm_campaign=HC_The713
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The New York Review of Books is as mainstream media as possible. Their conclusion in a book review?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep going to the left, you fucking psycho.
See where it gets ya.
The New York Review of Books?
I'm sure it's NPR and Oprah approved, and staffed with 98% DEI hires.
Get the fuck out of here with your Lefty propaganda.
Trump is placing employees of billionaires in charge of government agencies. 6ix, if you're dumb about the obvious, that would be very Trumptardish.
Maybe you shouldn't have spent the last 8 years gaslighting everyone including yourself.
If Trump does bad shit this time, that's your fault.
We don't listen to ANYTHING you have to say anymore. You've been completely tuned out.
Nobody cares.
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