Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:Which institutions? Department of Justice? The FBI? CIA? State Department? NATO? Or do you mean longstanding policies like foreign aid? Very curious how you think of it.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
Some of it is unpredictability. His wanting to make a buck. His willingness to break and remake pretty well of your institutions down there.
Quote:Good!
Every so often one of your leaders will make a crack about Canada that for the most part it goes in ear and out the other.
Sometimes Trump is just trolling people.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
That's because you've been propagandized by your media.
Four years of Trump was infinitely better than four years of Biden*.
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No, it is because I have critical thinking skills.
Nixon was a crook and that has been proven and Ford was dumb enough to pardon him. Reagan had Alzhiemers and really didn't know what he was doing. I freely admit to not remembering much about Bush 1 but Bush 2 was an idiot. Trump had checks on him the first time. This time he is surrounded by yes men and also he just want to make a buck off being the most powerful person in the world.
That's not critical thinking. That is repeating verbatim what the Legacy Media would say about him.
They're all liars and they don't know shit.
They got us into the situation we're all in today. None of that was because of Trump.
Not sure if GWB was an idiot or if he was dumb like a fox. He was either really stupid or really evil. No matter how stupid he was though, he was 10 times as intelligent as Joe Biden* was during the last 4 years because he wasn't suffering from the severe cognitive decline.
Trump has already spoken to the media in 8 days more than Joe Biden* spoke to the media in 1,461 days.
But the real spoiler alert is that Joe Biden and GWB and Obama and Clinton were all the same party.
And they're terrified that they've lost power.
And they're trying to rile people like you up about it.
And make you forget that 4 years of Trump was nice while 4 years of Biden* was one fucking crisis after another after another after another....
I expect that reaction out of the two idiots here. You've got enough things to worry about in your real life. You don't need to be going around the next 4 years worrying about bogey men.
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Quote:"Pres. Trump’s day one agenda was letting violent criminals who beat police officers out of prison," stated Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) "These are people who planned an insurrection, assaulted police officers with metal batons, fire extinguishers, wooden planks and even admitted to these crimes and pled guilty in court."
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's not critical thinking. That is repeating verbatim what the Legacy Media would say about him.
They're all liars and they don't know shit.
They got us into the situation we're all in today. None of that was because of Trump.
Trump had repeatedly pledged to issue pardons for January 6 defendants, whom he has repeatedly called "hostages" and baselessly claimed did not receive fair due process.
In the weeks leading up to being sworn in, he and Vice President J.D. Vance suggested the cases would be reviewed individually, with some of the defendants convicted of more violent offenses excluded. However, Trump instead issued a blanket pardon for 1,500 people with no apparent review, including hundreds who assaulted police officers; his only bit of restraint was issuing commutations rather than pardons for the paramilitary Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy, which released them from prison but did not expunge their criminal records.
Even some Republican members of Congress have appeared uncomfortable with the sweeping nature of Trump's pardons, given the January 6 attack constituted a violent threat against their own safety for doing their jobs.
https://www.rawstory.com/senate-pardon-resolution/
"They got us into the situation we're all in today. None of that was because of Trump." -- 6ixStringJack
6ix, whatever situation you are in, you got yourself into it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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For those who know Trump lacks self-control and any sense of decency:
Jan. 27, 2025, 3:28 PM CST
By Ken Dilanian and Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice said Monday that it had fired several career lawyers involved in prosecuting President Donald Trump.
The DOJ employees worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation that led to now-dismissed indictments against Trump over his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-administrati
on-fires-doj-officials-worked-criminal-investigation-rcna189512
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:"Pres. Trump’s day one agenda was letting violent criminals who beat police officers out of prison," stated Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's not critical thinking. That is repeating verbatim what the Legacy Media would say about him.
They're all liars and they don't know shit.
They got us into the situation we're all in today. None of that was because of Trump.
Never happened.
But one of Joe Biden*'s cops shot an ex-military civilian in the fucking face though.
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Originally posted by second:
For those who know Trump lacks self-control and any sense of decency:
Jan. 27, 2025, 3:28 PM CST
By Ken Dilanian and Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice said Monday that it had fired several career lawyers involved in prosecuting President Donald Trump.
The DOJ employees worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation that led to now-dismissed indictments against Trump over his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-administrati
on-fires-doj-officials-worked-criminal-investigation-rcna189512
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Good.
GTFO
STFO
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Quote:Good!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Which institutions? Department of Justice? The FBI? CIA? State Department? NATO? Or do you mean longstanding policies like foreign aid? Very curious how you think of it.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Wasn't going to say anything but some food for thought.
"Those who learn nothing from history are doomed to repeat it."
Trump is the first Republican president who actually frightens me. And I have lived through the end of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes and now Trump twice.
What is it that frightens you? Is it his unpredictability? His insistance on doing things that have no continuity with what has been done before? Or specifically with his statements about Canada?
I think I'm going to post in "legitimate gripes" about Trump's approach to foreign policy.
Some of it is unpredictability. His wanting to make a buck. His willingness to break and remake pretty well of your institutions down there.Quote:
Every so often one of your leaders will make a crack about Canada that for the most part it goes in ear and out the other.
Sometimes Trump is just trolling people.
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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
The Department of Justice, Department of Education are the two I can think of off the top of my head.
Yeah ever since I was a kid it will come and most people just laugh it off because it is just dumb.
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During Trump's campaign, he repeatedly promised lower food prices ‘immediately’ if elected president. But during his first week of office, he focused on mass deportations and pardoning the January 6 attackers.
There is an absurd gap between what Trump is doing and what the swing voters who elected him were promised. They voted for the cheaper-egg candidate and received the permanent termination of cancer research in the United States instead. Winds of Change, indeed.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/price-of-egg-democrats-don
ald-trump.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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MAGA's true believers don't understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson
Today's Republicans have swallowed so many economic myths that reality has disappeared. They face a wakeup call
By Rich Logis | January 26, 2025 9:00AM (EST)
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/26/magas-true-believers-dont-understand-
capitalism--will-teach-them-a-hard-lesson/
America is a nation at war with its mythologies.
For all the electoral postmortems about the desire for economic change, what’s unsurprisingly absent is what seems, to me, an obvious omission: an all-enveloping misunderstanding of American capitalism.
I’m not dismissing the importance of anxiety about solvency, about the challenges that small businesses face (I’m a proprietor of one myself) and about the cost of future entitlements. (We’ll get to the problems of liberalism in a bit). Most of us in this country will worry about money for the duration of our lives.
One delusional mythology about American capitalism that has been instilled in We the People is that we somehow have a guaranteed right to prosperity; this imaginary right has been deployed by politicians who are afraid of educating their constituents about how our model of commerce actually works. Our national press has largely been lazy on this score as well.
With due respect to the many Americans who voted for Donald Trump, their overwhelming sense of entitlement dwarfs that of the hard-working immigrants who cut their grass, scrub pots and pans in the restaurants they frequent, and care for their kids and elderly loved ones. Too many Americans have come to believe they are owed financial comfort and material abundance, not to mention eggs and gasoline at predictable prices.
“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Frankly, it’s an illogical question in a capitalist nation. Some people are of course worse off, and I don’t mean to make light of that. But in fact, many millions are better off; Joe Biden’s administration oversaw the recovery of millions of jobs lost during the COVID pandemic and the creation of millions more. Some people out there will be worse off by the time they finish this article than when they commenced reading it. I’m not being flippant; that’s reality.
Welcome to capitalism, a system whose proponents always cite unequal outcomes as a reason for extolling it.
So eggs are expensive? Eat fewer of them. Cut down on egg whites. Let them eat yolks.
Are gas prices high? Is insurance for health care, real estate and vehicles increasing? Are supply chain constraints harming your livelihood, or your quality of life? The person in the White House has very little to do with that. Let’s recall that gas prices steadily increased during George W. Bush’s second term.
Gas was cheap in 2020 because — hello! — tens of millions of drivers weren’t driving. In fact, Trump threatened the Saudis, in the early days of the pandemic: Cut oil production, or lose U.S. military support. Why? More oil flooding the market would have driven prices still lower, and “cheap gas” does not sound like “ka-ching.”
Are gas prices high? Insurance going up for health care, real estate and vehicles? Are supply chain constraints harming your livelihood, or your quality of life? The person in the White House has very little to do with that.
Welcome to the “laws” of supply and demand, which all of us must navigate on a daily basis. If you don’t know or don’t remember these details, ask yourself why you don’t. If you’re a Trump voter, then ask yourself whether you might have voted differently in November had you been aware.
Meanwhile, we have endless debates about whether needs — access to medical care, food, affordable housing — should be rights, or should be left to the exigencies of good luck and near-perfect health.
Jeremiads about grocery prices are now an acceptable element of political discourse and, per GOP logic, we have a right to complain about them. Feeding the hungry, though? That edges too close to pinko communism. But the point our fe
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MAGA's true believers don't understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson
Neither does anybody at Salon, who will be shuttering its doors soon.
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