Legitimate gripes about Trump

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SIGNYM

Monday, January 27, 2025 1:34 AM

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Right now it's impossible to have a legitimate gripe about Trump's Presidential policy because he isn't President, yet.

I have a few concerns about his staff picks, two blinding red lights about Iran and Israel, and a serious question about that he'll do when he finds he can't "maximum pressure" a deal with Russia.

But I just have to wait and see, like we all do

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

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 27, 2025 1:53 AM

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Eggs are pricey again. What’s Trump doing about it?

A carton of eggs today costs more than $4 on average, up from about $2.50 a year ago.

The USDA forecasts that egg prices will continue to rise through the first few months of 2025 before dropping to about half the peak price, according to the agency’s January forecasts. However, new or expanding bird flu outbreaks in the US could disrupt this.

. . . while the risk to most people might be low now, the longer the epidemic in poultry continues and the more opportunities the virus has to adapt to spread amongst humans, the more likely the risk for a pandemic becomes.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/394511/bird-flu-eggs-human-death-pr
ices-government-response

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

More fear and loathing from the irrelevant people today.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 27, 2025 1:57 AM

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So far, I'd say he's doing pretty much everything wrong. And Trump is not protecting America's vital interests this way, he's once again meddling in places that don't involve us. We'll see how well Trump handles this.

I disagree with this assessment of the first week 100%.

I don't give one single fuck about other countries or any of the people living in them. Fuck all of them.

The cabinet picks are all going smoothly. The media is being shown as the joke that we always knew it was. Skulls are being cracked among the illegals and they're being shown the exit door. DEI is dead. There are only 2 genders.

Trump has done 10 times as much good for America in one week than Joe Biden* did in 4 years.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

SIGNYM

Monday, January 27, 2025 2:58 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So far, I'd say he's doing pretty much everything wrong. And Trump is not protecting America's vital interests this way, he's once again meddling in places that don't involve us. We'll see how well Trump handles this.

I disagree with this assessment of the first week 100%.

I don't give one single fuck about other countries or any of the people living in them. Fuck all of them.

The cabinet picks are all going smoothly. The media is being shown as the joke that we always knew it was. Skulls are being cracked among the illegals and they're being shown the exit door. DEI is dead. There are only 2 genders.

Trump has done 10 times as much good for America in one week than Joe Biden* did in 4 years.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

What I meant was ... doing everything wrong with regards to negotiations with Russia, and in the Middle East. If he wants to disengage, then DISENGAGE. Don't go playing around with Russia "and various other participating countries", Gaza, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt. IMHO that's an exercise in hubris.

Just GTFO.

AFA his internal policies, mostly OK.

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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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 27, 2025 3:10 AM

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What I meant was ... doing everything wrong with regards to negotiations with Russia, and in the Middle East. If he wants to disengage, then DISENGAGE. Don't go playing around with Russia "and various other participating countries", Gaza, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt. IMHO that's an exercise in hubris.

I'm fine with it. These people need to be taken down a peg or two and reminded of America's power when it's in capable hands.

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Just GTFO.

That too.

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AFA his internal policies, mostly OK.

Mostly...

Crypto is really bothering me though, NGL...

In the back of my mind I'm hoping that Trump learned a thing or two from SBF, Logan Paul and the Huak Tauh girl about rug pulls, and he's going to do a pump and dump on everyone else.

Could you imagine if Trump paid off our national debt by putting half of the nations of the world and all the crypto bros into bankruptcy overnight.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

SIGNYM

Monday, January 27, 2025 3:51 AM

I hear ya on crypto. It's vaporware, there's nothing behind it. That's not to say that blockchain isn't a good way to transfer funds.

Also, I think AI is also vaporware. Other than bragging rights, I don't see a reason to make a big push. Unless this is a sop to Musk, something else for him to invest in, since Trump is going away from EV/ solar power.

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SIX: I'm fine with it. These people need to be taken down a peg or two and reminded of America's power when it's in capable hands.

Why? Why should we be using our power to take "these people... down a peg or two"? Are Egypt, Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia credible threats to us? Or Iran? Do they threaten our vital interests?

The only thing I can think that we need to import is heavy crude, pluse we need transit thru the Panama and Suez canals.

Do we need Saudi crude? Not really. There are a lot of other sources of heavy crude, the most convenient being in Venezuela. But Trump decided to stop buying oil from Venezuela https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trumps-special-missions-envoy-g
renell-says-he-has-spoken-with-venezuelan-2025-01-20/ bc Maduro is "a dictator". Frankly, that never bothered us before, as long as they were OUR dictators! In any case, I thought he was supposed to be making decisions based on AMERICAN interests, not for the Venezuelan people or "spreading democracy".

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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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 27, 2025 4:39 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I hear ya on crypto. It's vaporware, there's nothing behind it. That's not to say that blockchain isn't a good way to transfer funds.

Do you really understand blockchain though? Or any of the other jargon they throw around. I was just having a conversation with my friend the other night about this and I told him that 99% of the people who have invested in or even talk about crypto have actually no fucking clue what they're talking about or what they've invested in. That includes me.

It's so little-understood and mis-understood by everyone that it's almost pointless to have a conversation about it with anyone at all, if it weren't for the fact that it can destroy economies. Or if taken over by government that they'd one day have 100% control over every transaction ever made.

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Also, I think AI is also vaporware. Other than bragging rights, I don't see a reason to make a big push. Unless this is a sop to Musk, something else for him to invest in, since Trump is going away from EV/ solar power.

I don't know. I think that everyone is overstating the current power of AI, similarly to how they were trying to convince you that VR was a thing in the 90's when we clearly were nowhere near the level of graphical capability to immerse you.

But what I have seen is still pretty freaking impressive. Things that are possible today that weren't even possible for most people 3 years ago.

It's sufficiently terrifying to me. At the very least it's a potential threat.

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SIX: I'm fine with it. These people need to be taken down a peg or two and reminded of America's power when it's in capable hands.

Why? Why should we be using our power to take "these people... down a peg or two"? Are Egypt, Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia credible threats to us? Or Iran? Do they threaten our vital interests?

Because we've had too many foreign leaders bending us over a barrel for too long.

I want Trump to shit on the big guys and I want him to completely ignore the little guys.

Halting all financial and military support to any of them in perpetuity accomplishes both of those goals nicely.

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The only thing I can think that we need to import is heavy crude, pluse we need transit thru the Panama and Suez canals.

Do we need Saudi crude? Not really. There are a lot of other sources of heavy crude, the most convenient being in Venezuela. But Trump decided to stop buying oil from Venezuela https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trumps-special-missions-envoy-g
renell-says-he-has-spoken-with-venezuelan-2025-01-20/ bc Maduro is "a dictator". Frankly, that never bothered us before, as long as they were OUR dictators! In any case, I thought he was supposed to be making decisions based on AMERICAN interests, not for the Venezuelan people or "spreading democracy".

The more of theirs everyone is using while the price is cheap the better for whoever is alive in the world when the oil starts running out and getting increasingly difficult and less lucrative to produce.

Let's use all of theirs up first.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

SECOND

Monday, January 27, 2025 6:42 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
Eggs are pricey again. What’s Trump doing about it?

A carton of eggs today costs more than $4 on average, up from about $2.50 a year ago.

The USDA forecasts that egg prices will continue to rise through the first few months of 2025 before dropping to about half the peak price, according to the agency’s January forecasts. However, new or expanding bird flu outbreaks in the US could disrupt this.

. . . while the risk to most people might be low now, the longer the epidemic in poultry continues and the more opportunities the virus has to adapt to spread amongst humans, the more likely the risk for a pandemic becomes.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/394511/bird-flu-eggs-human-death-pr
ices-government-response

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

More fear and loathing from the irrelevant people today.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Trump (James Austin Johnson) interrupts the signing of the Declaration of Independence, starting at 1:30.

Not funny, except the jokes at 5:45 about the price of eggs.

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

SIGNYM

Monday, January 27, 2025 9:12 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I hear ya on crypto. It's vaporware, there's nothing behind it. That's not to say that blockchain isn't a good way to transfer funds.

SIX: Do you really understand blockchain though? Or any of the other jargon they throw around. I was just having a conversation with my friend the other night about this and I told him that 99% of the people who have invested in or even talk about crypto have actually no fucking clue what they're talking about or what they've invested in. That includes me.

It's so little-understood and mis-understood by everyone that it's almost pointless to have a conversation about it with anyone at all, if it weren't for the fact that it can destroy economies. Or if taken over by government that they'd one day have 100% control over every transaction ever made.

At it's heart, blockchain is a way of recording data that can't be spoofed or altered.
For example, if you receive data, one way to record it is use previously recorded data to encrypt the next set of data. Then, if that data is distributed to other sites, their previously recorded data is going to be different. It would be an impossible task to decrypt and unentangle to recover that one bit of data. Im just extarpolating from what I remember about secure electronic records.

I'll look into it.

Cryptocurrency AFAIK is simply a way of calculating a unique set of numbers, and making it increasingly difficult to continue the calculation - like calculating prime numbers, for example - according to various algorithms that end with a finite set of numbers. Those numbers are attached to some sort of asset... in this case, cryptocurrencies are attached indirectly to the dollar. That attachment is as bogus as the value of fiat currency itself. But the supposed value of crypto is that since the # of numbers that can be generated is finite, it can't be issued (inflated) indefinitely. Supposedly. But the value of each coin can be inflated, so ... It's still worthless, IMHO.

Pure speculation.

Block chain is simply a secure way of recording cryptocurrency transactions (ledger) but it can be used for a lot of other things.

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Also, I think AI is also vaporware. Other than bragging rights, I don't see a reason to make a big push. Unless this is a sop to Musk, something else for him to invest in, since Trump is going away from EV/ solar power.

SIX: I don't know. I think that everyone is overstating the current power of AI, similarly to how they were trying to convince you that VR was a thing in the 90's when we clearly were nowhere near the level of graphical capability to immerse you.

But what I have seen is still pretty freaking impressive. Things that are possible today that weren't even possible for most people 3 years ago.

It's sufficiently terrifying to me. At the very least it's a potential threat.

It's only a threat if it's posed as being genuine human effort.

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SIX: I'm fine with it. These people need to be taken down a peg or two and reminded of America's power when it's in capable hands.

SIGNY: Why? Why should we be using our power to take "these people... down a peg or two"? Are Egypt, Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia credible threats to us? Or Iran? Do they threaten our vital interests?

SIX: Because we've had too many foreign leaders bending us over a barrel for too long.
I want Trump to shit on the big guys and I want him to completely ignore the little guys.
Halting all financial and military support to any of them in perpetuity accomplishes both of those goals nicely.

WHO, exactly, has shit all over us, and how specifically did they do that?

Did Israel threaten to nuke us? Did Saddam have WMD and the missiles to deliver them? Did Europe threaten to tariff our products? Is Iran frothing to wipe us off the map? Did Mexico threaten to invade us? (Militarily I mean

)

Seriously, SIX. We&

SIGNYM

Monday, January 27, 2025 9:19 AM

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Blockchain works by storing data in blocks that are linked together in a chronological chain. Each block contains transaction data, a timestamp, and a cryptographic hash of the previous block, ensuring that once data is recorded, it cannot be altered without changing all subsequent blocks, making it secure and immutable.

Also, 51% of queried databases have to agree that a specific entry is correct.

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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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