Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:I don't want to say you are crazy, but that did not happen. Not even a little bit. Where do these Trumptard hallucinations come from? Bad genetics? Is family passing ancient emotional trauma from one generation to the next? Wherever this unreality comes from, it is not helping Trumptards prosper in America.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well, your shitshow of a last administration destroyed the country and itself, so what the fuck do you know?
Winds of Change: Donald Trump Becomes 1st Sitting President To Attend SUPER BOWL - Access Hollywood. This happened, unlike 6ix's claim that Biden's administration was a "shitshow" "destroying the country". What is so bad about going to the Super Bowl? Trump is always on TV, 24/7, flapping his mouth. Don't his Trumptards understand why he has to always be in the spotlight? Always he has got to be commenting? Never being modest? Can't admit he made a mistake? Pretending he knows what he does not? That psychology will bring on a disaster that could have been avoided.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:6ix, that did NOT happen, but this did happen:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well, your shitshow of a last administration destroyed the country and itself, so what the fuck do you know?
Trump Sabotages the Pax Americana
Trump and Musk are making us distrusted, friendless and weak
Feb 10, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/sabotaging-the-pax-americana
Source: World Bank
Elon Musk — with Donald Trump’s acquiescence, but clearly Musk was calling the shots — has effectively destroyed USAID, the aid agency that was, aside from its humanitarian role, a major pillar of US foreign policy. This move was clearly illegal, and a court has already put a hold on some of Musk’s actions.
But it may already be too late. The destruction of USAID is a prime example of what Dan Drezner calls Humpty Dumpty foreign policy, as in, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put him back together again. By furloughing the agency’s employees, ordering those working abroad to come home and canceling crucial programs and grants, the Musk/Trump administration undermined decades’ worth of relationship-building. Even if the courts eventually order everything the wreckers did reversed, it will be hard if not impossible to put the structure back together again.
USAID is just the most extreme example of how the Musk/Trump administration is sabotaging the American Empire. For yes, America is or was an imperial power, although in a different way from most past empires — less reliant on force, more reliant on good will and trust. What Musk and Trump have done is to destroy much of the basis for U.S. influence, leaving America far weaker than it was just a few weeks ago.
America’s imperial era — the Pax Americana — began after World War II. With Europe and Japan in ruins and Britain exhausted, the U.S. had no military or economic peers outside the Soviet bloc. As Phillips O’Brien recently noted, America could easily have gobbled up lots of territory if it had thought in conventional Great Power terms.
But our leaders were more sophisticated than that. I don’t know whether they had read Norman Angell’s The Great Illusion about how conquest no longer made sense, but they certainly understood that America needed prosperous, willing allies, not more territory.
Most famously, America not only departed from the ancient tradition of extracting tribute from vanquished foes, we followed our victory in World War II with the Marshall Plan — a large aid program designed to help both our allies and our former enemies get back on their feet. At its peak in 1949, the U.S. government spent about 17 percent of its budget on foreign aid.
Many Americans believe, by the way, that we still give aid on something like that scale. In reality, these days aid is only around 1 percent of the budget. But humanitarian aid to other nations is still a vital part of U.S. diplomacy, and plays — or played — an important role in supporting America’s moral authority, in maintaining our image as a mostly benevolent power.
Beyond providing aid, America set out to create an international trading system that would foster widespread prosperity. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), signed in 1947, set up rules designed to foster gradual tariff reductions and block any reversion to protectionism. These rules constrained the United States the same way they constrained everyone else — that is, we deliberately chose not to rig the system in our own favor.
And we created a system of military alliances, NATO in particular, that were notable in the formal equality they granted to all their members. Everyone knew that America was the senior partner, but we were careful to avoid any hint that we were treating our allies as subject nations, required to obey U.S. orders.
Above all, America
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, that did NOT happen
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well, your shitshow of a last administration destroyed the country and itself, so what the fuck do you know?
Yeah. It did.
And until you recognize and admit this, you will never win again.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:I hear the same from Texas Trumptards. Their experience is unlike mine because they cannot adapt. They are deep in a rut and aren't steering out. So sad for inflexible Trumptards but they have been like that all their lives and won't change. Tough shit, retards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, that did NOT happen
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well, your shitshow of a last administration destroyed the country and itself, so what the fuck do you know?
Yeah. It did.
And until you recognize and admit this, you will never win again.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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A Childhood Neighbor Terrorized My Family. It Prepared Me for Trump’s Takeover.
My Family Had a Stalker. The ordeal prepared me for what we’re all dealing with now.
By Elle Reeve | Feb 10, 2025, 5:45 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-musk-alt-right-fasci
sm-psychological-war.html
. . . Before Charlottesville, there had been a struggle for what alt-right meant: Was it a new type of right-wing populism that was anti-war and anti-immigration, or was it neo-Nazis? At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Steve Bannon had told a Mother Jones reporter that the alt-right was nationalist, not white nationalist. “Are there anti-Semitic people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. Are there racist people involved in the alt-right? Absolutely. But I don’t believe that the movement overall is anti-Semitic,” Bannon said.
After Charlottesville, after the alt-right had been filmed bearing torches and shouting “Jews will not replace us,” that fight over meaning was over. “Unite the Right” participants faced devastating social, financial, and legal consequences, each one compounding the next. They’d been so proud to march barefaced, and now the internet at large was doxing them. They were shunned in their communities, some fired from their jobs. Financial services companies booted them as customers, so they couldn’t raise money online. That made it hard to pay for lawyers when they got sued. Many retreated and disbanded their groups, some denounced white nationalism, some got divorces, some struggled with addiction, a few died by suicide. One started going on Grindr, he told me, to find new interview subjects for his podcast.
And then, a strange shift: While many of my old alt-right sources remained ostracized, the most important people in the world started ripping off their ideas.
The alt-right talked about the “great replacement” conspiracy theory as a plot by Jews to dilute the culture and power of white people through immigration and gay rights; Fox News hosts began to warn of “replacement” as a plot by Democrats to dilute the power of white voters with immigrants. (In 2023 Vivek Ramaswamy referred to it as “the Democratic Party’s platform.”)
“Import the Third World, Become the Third World” was a slogan that circulated on 4chan and other websites for more than a decade before it started creeping into mainstream conservatism. Last fall, when Donald Trump said at a presidential debate that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, Donald Trump Jr. said: “You look at Haiti—you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average IQ. If you import the Third World into your country, you’re going to become the Third World. That’s just basic. Like, it’s not racist. It’s just fact.”
This fixation on IQ in online conservatism, with increasingly popular insults like “midwit” and “low IQ,” is an echo of the alt-right’s view that IQ is the most important factor to explain individual lives as well as whole societies. That doesn’t mean that everyone who uses this slang was in an alt-right group chat or even within a couple degrees of one. But it does show how completely this subculture has become the main culture. Vice President J.D. Vance recently dismissed a critic for supposedly having an IQ of 110. I’ve been here before. Several men in the alt-right told me their IQ scores; one even sent proof. And the truly bizarre thing is that some of those alt-right guys have since told me that their focus on IQ was a mistake, that it was not a helpful way to evaluate a person or understand the world. “It is ultimately a way to arbitrarily, retroactively justify inequalities,” one told me. “It’s saying, ‘Look at all the science that says I should live like this and you should live like that. Deal with it.’ ”
During inauguration weekend, when I watched Elon Musk put his hand over his heart, then thrust it outward at a peculiar angle, it reminded me of an incident more than eight years earlier, in November 2016. Trump had just won his surprise victory, and Richard Spencer was spe
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I hear the same from Texas Trumptards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, that did NOT happen
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well, your shitshow of a last administration destroyed the country and itself, so what the fuck do you know?
Yeah. It did.
And until you recognize and admit this, you will never win again.
Nobody fucking cares about your Texas Trumptards, idiot.
I'm way the hell smarter than you are and the idiots that run in your circles sound to be twice as stupid as you are.
You'd better start listening to smart people, or your Party is dead forever.
You do with that fact what you will. I don't care.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:6ix, are you smart enough to see Trump's error?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody fucking cares about your Texas Trumptards, idiot.
I'm way the hell smarter than you are and the idiots that run in your circles sound to be twice as stupid as you are.
You'd better start listening to smart people, or your Party is dead forever.
You do with that fact what you will. I don't care.
Trump Says Other Countries Caused $36 Trillion U.S. Debt — Is He Right?
Published Feb 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-countries-caused-36-trillion-us-de
bt-super-bowl-2029040
President Donald Trump used his pre-Superbowl interview to blame foreign nations for America's $36 trillion debt, claiming other countries had taken advantage of the U.S.
Trump did not explain during the Fox interview the relationship between the U.S. national debt and the actions of foreign nations.
Under President Trump's last administration, gross national debt rose by $7.8 trillion while foreign nations increased their securities by more than $1 trillion.
This is not the first time Trump has connected U.S. debt and trade deficits. In 2017, he said: "The United States has trade deficits with many, many countries, and we cannot allow that to continue," adding, "For many, many years the United States has suffered through massive trade deficits; that's why we have $20 trillion in debt."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Civil War (2024) Ending scene HD | The President's death
List of presidents who have been shot dead or only wounded
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/politics/presidents-who-have-been-shot-
or-shot-at/index.html
Shot, but didn’t die:
Theodore Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Donald Trump
Four sitting presidents have been killed:
Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth),
James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau),
William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz),
John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald).
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Before entering WWII, could you imagine President Roosevelt demanding that the United Kingdom give him the Crown Jewels and all the UK's coal, or else FDR welcomes Hitler's conquest of the English? You can't imagine that? Trump can imagine that:
In an interview with Fox on Monday night, Trump said, "They (Ukraine) may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday."
What Ukrainian deal in exchange for US ammo is Trump talking about? This one: Trump Demands $500 Billion in Rare Earth Metals From Kyiv, Says Ukraine ‘May Be Russian Someday’ (if Ukraine doesn't give Trump $500 Billion)
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/11/trump-demands-500bln-in-rare
-earth-metals-from-kyiv-says-ukraine-may-be-russian-someday-a87937
Here is the deal in Trump's words: "We are going to have all this money in there, and I say: 'I want it back.' And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earth," Trump said during the Fox News interview. "And they have essentially agreed to do that, so at least we don't feel stupid."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump hated that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has forced scammers to return billions of stolen dollars.
CFPB was shutdown by Trump with this email:
Good morning, CFPB staff,
As you have been informed by the Chief Operating Officer in an email yesterday, the Bureau's DC headquarters building is closed this week. Employees should not come into the office. Please do not perform any work tasks. If there are any urgent matters, please alert me through Mark Paoletta, Chief Legal Officer, to get approval in writing before performing any work task. His email is Mark.Paoletta@cfbp.gov.
Otherwise, employees should stand down from performing any work task.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
Best,
Russ Vought
Acting Director
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
Read the details at Springtime for Scammers
Financial predation now has friends in high places
By Paul Krugman | Feb 11, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/springtime-for-scammers
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So what is the real reason? It seems fairly obvious. CFPB was created to protect Americans from financial predation, and has done a very good job of doing so. But now we have government of, by and for financial predators. Trump has famously left behind a trail of bankruptcies and unpaid contractors, and is furiously grifting even now. Musk has faced multiple lawsuits from vendors and former employees over unpaid debts.
And let’s not forget that crypto, which has gained a lot of influence with this administration, has yet to find a real-world use case other than money laundering.
So the best way to explain the sudden closure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as I see it, is as part of an effort to make predatory finance great again.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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