Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:We Democrats are doing fine but the angry poor white trash Trump voters around me in Texas are continuing to stumble toward an early death, furious at Democrats who, according to my local Trumptards, are stealing wealth away from the oh-so-long-suffering Trumptards who, one of these days, are going to rise up and take the wealth back. Not gonna happen because Trumptards are too cowardly to actually take anything from a guy with a shotgun and happy to shoot them in the face in order to give them a reality lesson.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Very smart man was Mr. Lincoln and I can admit is a bit of hero of mine. And in his speech he was right. The destruction will be from within if no one does anything.
We did.
We got the Democrats who were destroying our country from within out of office.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Trump's initial net approval rating of +7 percentage points is lower than that of any newly elected president since World War II, with one exception: Trump himself during his first term. Trump and his voters are complete assholes.
https://abcnews.go.com/538/trump-starts-term-weak-approval-rating/stor
y?id=118146633
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The one big question looming over Trump’s power grabs
No one knows if the Supreme Court will enforce the law against Trump.
By Ian Millhiser | Jan 28, 2025, 1:30 PM CST
https://www.vox.com/scotus/397104/supreme-court-donald-trump-lawlessne
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Much of what Donald Trump has done in his first eight days back in the White House is legally unjustifiable. What’s uncertain is whether the Supreme Court will do anything to stop him.
In two particularly egregious cases, Trump ordered an end to birthright citizenship for many Americans, and ordered the federal government to pause spending on a wide range of federal grants and loans already approved by Congress. While the order announcing the pause is confusing, early reporting suggests that tens of billions of dollars could be cut off (although the White House argued the order is more limited than it appears).
In both cases, the law is clear. The Reagan-appointed federal judge who blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order said that in his 40 years on the bench he “can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is.” (Birthright citizenship is a right enshrined in the Constitution.)
Similarly, the Department of Justice has long warned that there is no argument to justify a president’s decision not to spend money appropriated by Congress. As future Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in a 1969 DOJ memo, “it is in our view extremely difficult to formulate a constitutional theory to justify a refusal by the President to comply with a congressional directive to spend.”
Assuming that Trump actually wants these orders to take effect — and it’s possible that they are nothing more than political stunts — he appears to be making a risky bet. The premise of many of Trump’s executive actions appears to be that the Supreme Court will let him get away with things that aren’t just illegal, but that, until recently, weren’t even considered debatable.
Sadly, the outcome of this bet is uncertain. A year ago, the idea that presidents are allowed to use their official powers to commit crimes was also considered laughable. Among other things, why would then-President Gerald Ford have pardoned former President Richard Nixon in 1974, for crimes Nixon allegedly committed using the power of the presidency, if Nixon were already immune from prosecution?
And yet, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority did not simply give Trump immunity from many of the crimes he allegedly committed during his first term, they went out of their way to specify that Trump can order the DOJ to target his enemies and nothing can be done to him.
The Republican Court’s hands-off approach to Trump contrasts sharply with the extraordinary oversight it applied to Democratic President Joe Biden. During the Biden administration, the Republican justices fabricated entire legal doctrines — such as its so-called major questions doctrine — which allowed it to strike down policies that were explicitly authorized by federal law.
The Supreme Court, in other words, functions less and less like a court of law, and more and more like another arena for partisan politics. Both parties choose justices based largely on whether those appointees are likely to toe a partisan line on a long list of legal questions. And all nine justices have behaved more or less as you’d expect someone chosen through such a partisan process to behave.
All of that said, the Court does sometimes balk at the most outlandish right-wing legal arguments that land on its doorstep. The Supreme Court routinely reverses the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, for example, which has become a breeding ground for far-right legal theories that would do lasting harm to the Republic if they were ever taken seriously. Last term, a 7-2 Supreme Court rejected a Fifth Circuit decision that could have seized up the entire US mortgage industry and caused an economic depression in the process.
So, if you’re asking whether this Court will block any of Trump’s illegal actions, the only honest answer that any
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Originally posted by second:Quote:We Democrats are doing fine
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Very smart man was Mr. Lincoln and I can admit is a bit of hero of mine. And in his speech he was right. The destruction will be from within if no one does anything.
We did.
We got the Democrats who were destroying our country from within out of office.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
No. You're not.
Your party is falling apart before your very eyes.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:6ix, you keep repeatedly cutting and pasting the same words to convince yourself that Trump annihilated the past. But the past hasn't changed. Christianity will not change directions to align with Trump's Presidential orders:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. You're not.
Your party is falling apart before your very eyes.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
MAGA Has a Catholic Problem
By Christopher Hale | Jan 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM EST
The Catholic Church's stance on immigrants is as old as the Gospel of Luke itself, which describes how Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt to protect the infant Jesus from King Herod's murderous decree.
The words "there is no room at the inn," of which Catholics are reminded every Christmas, seem apt to describe our country's new Herodian regime.
Pope Francis—who Catholics like Vice President JD Vance honor as the vicar of Jesus Christ—has highlighted the plight of migrants as a tragedy of our time, urging global solidarity and humane treatment of those fleeing violence and poverty.
Meanwhile, the MAGA movement's rhetoric and policies demonize immigrants, equating them with crime and economic instability. The administration's decision to target sacred spaces for immigration enforcement exemplifies this stark contrast with Catholic values.
While the MAGA movement claims to champion religious liberty, it increasingly conflates faith with partisanship and undermines the moral authority of religious leaders who challenge its agenda. By accusing the bishops of prioritizing financial interests over spiritual principles, Vance's remarks signaled a troubling willingness to dismiss the Church's moral teachings when they conflict with MAGA priorities.
The tension between Trump's White House and the Catholic Church is not limited to immigration policy. Vance's combative tone was emblematic of the broader MAGA cultural agenda, which prioritizes division over unity and power over mercy.
Catholic teaching calls for dialogue, humility, and the pursuit of the common good. The Gospel's beatitudes—blessed are the meek, the merciful, and the peacemakers—stand in stark opposition to the movement's rhetoric of anger and grievance.
The MAGA movement's economic priorities, which favor tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation, conflict with Catholic social teaching's emphasis on economic justice and the dignity of labor.
Similarly, MAGA's embrace of nationalism—encapsulated in the "America First" mantra—contradicts the Church's vision of a global human family united in solidarity and mutual care.
All told, MAGA has a Catholic problem because its vision is rooted in power, exclusion, and grievance, clashing with the Gospel's call to love, inclusion, and humility. The Catholic Church challenges its faithful to transcend partisan allegiances and live out a radical, sacrificial faith.
Although many Catholics will continue to align with conservative positions on issues like abortion, these deep moral and ideological tensions between Catholic teaching and MAGA policies are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
As long as the MAGA movement prioritizes division over unity and self-interest over the common good, it will struggle to authentically engage with the heart of Catholicism across the nation.
The future of the Catholic Church's relationship with the Republican Party remains uncertain. But if the first week of this administration is any sign, my fellow Catholic JD Vance will choose the ego of Donald Trump over the gospel of Jesus Christ.
My prayer is this will change, and that the words of angel Gabriel will be proven right: "Nothing is impossible with God."
More at https://www.newsweek.com/maga-has-catholic-problem-opinion-2021693
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Crashing the economy: Inside Trump's blueprint
By Thom Hartmann | January 28, 2025
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-grifting/
Trump’s threats to increase our national debt by as much as $7 trillion (with new tax cuts for billionaires) and impose tariffs on imported goods will risk creating a financial crisis and maybe even a Great Depression.
To the average person, the idea of a recession or even a crash like we saw under Bush in 2008, Reagan in 1981/82, or Hoover in 1929 seems grim. So why is Trump so willing to risk an economic crash on his watch with these risky policies?
To understand why a billionaire like Trump — and the billionaires who put and keep him in office — might be not just willing but enthusiastic about creating an economic crisis, you first must view it from a rightwing billionaires’ point of view.
March 16, 2020 — just after Trump declared a pandemic and lockdown — the Dow sustained the largest single-day crash in its entire history. For the investor class, Trump, and his billionaire buddies, this was an even better stock purchasing opportunity than the Bush crash of 2007.
Fewer than three months later, on June 4th, we learned that the seven richest people in America had seen their fortunes increase by fully 50 percent.
And with Trump’s massive tax cut for his fellow billionaires, they could keep most all of it: by that time the average American billionaire was paying less than 4 percent in income taxes (a situation that persists to this day).
Just during that one single terrible “crash” year of 2020, the Institute for Policy Studies documents, the world’s 2,365 billionaires saw their wealth increase by a full 54%, as U.S. billionaires saw their net worth surge 62 percent by $1.8 trillion. Average billionaire wealth worldwide increased 27% in that one year alone.
And now it begins anew: Republicans are meeting at Trump’s Doral golf resort in Miami today to plan strategy. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5105756-house-republican-retreat-tr
ump-agenda/
Don’t expect Republican Congressmen to argue that it would be a bad thing if his plans provoked an economic crisis: To the contrary, that may well be exactly what they — and their billionaire owners — are hoping for.
Much, much more at https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-grifting/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you keep repeatedly cutting and pasting the same words
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. You're not.
Your party is falling apart before your very eyes.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago doesn't exist.
Oh... I'm not copying and pasting anything.
I type 65 WPM the last time I was tested, and it's a pleasure to type that out every single time. You might have even noticed if you were looking closely that I've also worded it several different ways over the last week too.
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to convince yourself that Trump annihilated the past. But the past hasn't changed.
Trump did no such thing. The People did.
The past is always going to be there, and it will remain unchanged.
But we're putting YOU there with it, right where you belong.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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The entire Hegseth saga confirms one thing: Donald Trump does not care about national security. It’s hard for people to grasp that; there’s never been another president I’d say that about. Hell, I wouldn’t even say it about Hegseth. He’s not qualified for the job and a lot of his ideas are, in my view, odious, but I’m willing to assume that he thinks he has the best interests of the nation in mind — just as I believe George W. Bush did with the Iraq invasion and Lyndon Johnson did in Vietnam.
More generally, I’m on the side of those who say not to question the motives of political actors. But in Trump’s case, I’m not so much questioning his motives as I am removing the normal assumption that he is motivated, among other things, by a sincere desire to keep the nation safe. Removing that assumption makes his actions a lot more understandable, whether it’s nominating Hegseth and Gabbard or leaving classified documents lying around where anyone could get at them, or not bothering with initial background checks before handing out security clearances.
Of course, every president has competing motives, including re-election, that sometimes can threaten national security priorities. That’s perfectly fine. Trump, however, doesn’t seem to give any weight at all to it. Oh, I forgot — he doesn’t pay attention during his security briefings, either.
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/trump-and-congress
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:
The entire Hegseth saga confirms one thing: Donald Trump does not care about national security.
You see now... You don't get to say shit like this after the last 4 years with the expectation that anyone outside of your cult will take you seriously.
I've already told you that Democrats, the Legacy Media and the entire leftist movement has lost its currency. Not only in the US, but worldwide. You know this is true because in an attempt to downplay the meaning of Trump being reelected for a 2nd term, you've posted no less than half a dozen articles stating that this was a worldwide trend.
You still don't understand the true extent of the damage that your party and Liberalism worldwide has done to itself over the last decade.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
And I already told you 2 years ago in the Hollywood thread that I saw all of this coming.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:The winds of change are blowing and with a simple test I can demonstrate that you are a bit of dust swirling around and near to being blown away. The test:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The entire Hegseth saga confirms one thing: Donald Trump does not care about national security.
You see now... You don't get to say shit like this after the last 4 years with the expectation that anyone outside of your cult will take you seriously.
I've already told you that Democrats, the Legacy Media and the entire leftist movement has lost its currency. Not only in the US, but worldwide. You know this is true because in an attempt to downplay the meaning of Trump being reelected for a 2nd term, you've posted no less than half a dozen articles stating that this was a worldwide trend.
You still don't understand the true extent of the damage that your party and Liberalism worldwide has done to itself over the last decade.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
And I already told you 2 years ago in the Hollywood thread that I saw all of this coming.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
There are five people (A, B, C, D and E) in a room. A is watching TV with B, D is sleeping, B is eating chow mein, E is playing table tennis. Suddenly, a call came on the telephone, B went out of the room to answer the call. What is C doing? State your reasoning. 6ix, you have five seconds:
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Given that there are five people in the room and E is playing table tennis, they would need a partner to play with. Since D is sleeping, and A was watching TV with B (who just left), A is likely still watching TV. This leaves C as the only person who could be playing table tennis with E.
Answer: C is playing table tennis with E.
The test is from "The Most Important Time in History Is Now"
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-most-important-time-
in-history-agi-asi
6ixStringJack, I know you flunked but then everything you write at fff.net indicates you are slow and you are malfunctioning. That's a Trumptard's role in life. They fail. They die. Bye-bye sad loser.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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That was an obvious one, since you don't play table tennis alone. It practically jumps out of the fucking page at you.
Might I suggest you don't offer the solution of a test immediately after asking the question in the future. Yanno... so you can't sit back and claim that the person you asked didn't easily figure out your dumb little riddle before they've had a chance to read it because you already gave the solution along with the question.
What are you? A little boy?
I don't even understand what you were trying to prove here because I don't speak Retard.
And what's up with your last two sentences there? Are you drunk? Your written words somehow look slurred.
You're all fucked up right now.
Aren't you, boy?
Really though... Who could blame you?
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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