Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.
Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.
SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.
Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.
I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?
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Quote:Maybe Trump should fire these two astronauts?
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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.
Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.
SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.
Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.
I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?
Astronauts Stuck in Space Refute Donald Trump's Claim
Trump has repeatedly said that Williams and Wilmore were "abandoned" by the Biden administration.
Feb 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/astronauts-stuck-space-refute-trump-claim-iss
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Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore said they wanted to change the rhetoric around their stay on the ISS.
"We don't feel abandoned, we don't feel stuck, we don't feel stranded," Wilmore told CNN. "I understand why others may think that, but we come prepared. We come committed.
"That is what the human space flight program is; it prepares for any and all contingencies that we can conceive of, and we prepare for those.
"So if you'll help us change the rhetoric, help us change the narrative...let's change it to 'prepared and committed' rather than what you've been hearing (from Trump)."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:6ixStringJack, it could be you feeling dumb. Trump still needs Congressional approval to send your money to Ukraine, but he wants to send money and will probably get approval. Ukraine won't be able to send the money back to Trump until after Russia is defeated, when mineral extraction operations can begin in Ukraine:
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By this time next year, a lot of people are going to feel pretty fucking dumb.
And I assume even more of them will just finally plunge their heads deep inside of the earth one final time and never come up for air again, because to do otherwise might completely and irreparably destroy their Ego.
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'United States of extortion': New Trump Ukraine 'shakedown' called 'cheap mafia' move
By David Badash | February 14, 2025
https://www.alternet.org/trump-ukraine-shakedown/
Just weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump’s administration is not only grappling with a growing colossus of self-inflicted crises, but is now igniting international tensions as well. The administration is pressuring Ukraine to relinquish rights to half of its valuable precious metals — just as Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepare to begin negotiations to end Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine.
“Multiple lawmakers here in Munich told me the U.S. Congressional delegation presented Zelensky with a piece of paper they wanted him to sign which would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral reserves,” Washington Post foreign policy and national security columnist Josh Rogin reported Friday afternoon from the Munich Security Conference.
“Zelensky politely declined to sign it,” he added.
Trump has made it clear he expects Ukraine to hand over the rights to its rare earth minerals, which are extremely valuable.
“Rare earths are a group of 17 metals used to make magnets that turn power into motion for electric vehicles, cell phones, missile systems, and other electronics. There are no viable substitutes,” Reuters reported. The news outlet also noted that Trump “said on Monday he wants Ukraine to supply the United States with rare earth minerals as a form of payment for financially supporting the country’s war efforts against Russia.”
“We’re telling Ukraine they have very valuable rare earths,” Trump said. “We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earths and other things.”
Trump’s expected haul: “close to $300 billion,” or more.
“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 Monday, CBS News reported. “They have essentially agreed to do that, so at least we don’t feel stupid.”
The New York Times on Wednesday suggested Kyiv may be willing to play ball with the billionaire businessman.
“President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by Ukrainian officials to appeal to Mr. Trump’s transactional nature.”
Earlier this week Bloomberg reported on Trump’s call with Putin, saying, “European leaders, who were broadly aligned with Washington under Biden, were stunned to learn of the call and some said it appeared to signal that Trump was selling out Ukraine.”
“Trump is skeptical of providing more aid,” Bloomberg continued, “and if he does then he wants the US to be compensated – perhaps in the form of access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was in Kyiv today to work on that part of the deal.”
Garry Kasparov, the internationally famous Russian chess grandmaster and now vice president of the World Liberty Congress, likened Trump’s demand to that of a Mafia don.
“Trump wants to give Russia something for nothing and expects Ukraine to give America something for nothing. Cheap
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Quote:It's telling that you mentioned Iraq, where Bush tried Regime Change. Saddam Hussein was easier to be rid of than Joe Biden, but then Bush's search for weapons of mass destruction did not find any. Oh, there were claims Bush found them, but no physical evidence. So far, Musk and DOGE has not found physical evidence of the waste Musk claims exists although he keeps claiming he found waste. What next?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.
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Nostalgia for lost jobs in godawful industries is a thing with Trumptards. I am nostalgic for the days when my Father and I both worked at Burger King, but there are better jobs out there. I am glad I did not stay working in fast food for my entire career.
Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.
Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.
We know. Propaganda and their Ideology is more important to them than their very own lives are.
Unfortunately, when the Government isn't funding them, nobody else is.
Because nobody believes in any of their causes.
Prove me wrong. Write these people a big check right now.
How could you allow for the cancellation of Iraqi Sesame Street when you could have saved the show with your billions of Oil Dollars?
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
What happened next in Iraq was Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 2: Dissolution of Entities signed by Paul Bremer on behalf of the Coalition Provisional Authority on 23 May 2003, disbanding the Iraqi military, security, and intelligence infrastructure of President Saddam Hussein.
Order Number 2 released millions of Iraqi employees, who then went on a killing rampage that Bush could not control. Trump might get the same here in America, a rampage he can't control. Who will they kill? In Iraq it was Shia Muslims killing Sunni Muslims and vise-versa. In America it could be Democrats killing Trumptards. I'm sure that will be as mesmerizing as the War in Iraq was for many years on TV news.
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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
By Anne Applebaum | February 14, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-p
urge/681671/
Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have instead focused their activity on the eradication of the federal civil service, along with its culture and values, and its replacement with something different. In other words: regime change.
No one should be surprised or insulted by this phrase, because this is exactly what Trump and many who support him have long desired. During his 2024 campaign, Trump spoke of Election Day as “Liberation Day,” a moment when, in his words, “vermin” and “radical left lunatics” would be eliminated from public life. J. D. Vance has said that Trump should “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” Steve Bannon prefers to talk about the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” but that amounts to the same thing.
These ideas are not original to Vance or Bannon: In the 21st century, elected leaders s
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This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become:
Quote:—Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten, in a letter to acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
Well, it worked, sort of. New York Mayor Eric Adams cozied up to Donald Trump, paid him a visit at Mar-a-Lago, groveled on an episode of Tucker Carlson, and voilà: On Monday, the Justice Department instructed federal prosecutors to drop all charges—and there were many—against Adams.
The official reasoning given by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was astonishing in its own right, though it would seem hardly scandalous compared with what was to come later in the week: The order to drop those charges was based not on the strength of evidence but on the argument that Adams’ indictment was getting in the way of his implementing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, ICE raids, and general tough-on-crime agenda. The Associated Press rightly called it an “extraordinary deviation from long-standing Justice Department norms.”
Adams, who claimed that the prosecution was the political consequence of his brave disagreement with Joe Biden over funding for migrants and asylees, took a victory lap, declaring that he would “never put any personal benefit above my solemn responsibility as your mayor.” That was, to put it lightly, not very convincing.
But the story didn’t end there. On Friday morning, Trump’s border deportation impresario Tom Homan hauled Adams onto the couch at Fox & Friends for a little conservative TV news hang. There, Homan laid out the quid pro quo that Adams had agreed to in the plainest possible terms:
Quote:Because evidently we needed more evidence that the Democratic mayor of New York and the Republican Trump administration are engaged in brazen corruption and self-dealing.
“If he doesn’t come through,” Homan said, referring to Adams on his right, laughing, “I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying, ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’ ”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-eric-adams-doj-new-y
ork-bondi-fox-friends.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Marvel’s Brave New World follows an unhinged president who lays waste to Washington.
Harrison Ford’s president Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross transforms into the Red Hulk and promptly lays waste to his surroundings. Columns crumble, cornices are crushed, and even Old Glory gets turned into an offensive weapon as the world’s angriest POTUS swings an enormous flagpole at a military helicopter. The White House is a smoldering ruin, a monument to the destructive power of the president’s fury. But not to worry, a news report reassures us: Next up is “the restoration of normalcy to the White House.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:The people in charge at the moment know so little about it, they didn’t know the hundreds of people they fired were responsible for the national nuclear stockpile. Wonderful:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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SIX: Don't worry about it, buddy. 8 months from now when those 77,000 Democrat voting government employees see their severance run out and they don't have any jobs available to them outside of being a Walmart greeter, we're going to have plenty of bitching from the Left about their jobs disappearing.
Same with all those unemployed journalists that will be out of work when their employers run out of cash because the Democrat Run Government isn't paying them for their propaganda anymore.
SECOND Those journalists and government employees think the work they do is important for more than just money.
Yep, too bad they can't live on job satisfaction alone.
I'm with SIX. If you think the work they were doing was so all-fired important, why don't you pay their salaries?
1) Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile
By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen | 8:41 PM EST, Fri February 14, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/inde
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2) Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons
By Geoff Brumfiel | February 14, 2025, 8:05 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5298190/nuclear-agency-trump-firi
ngs-nnsa
Managers were given just 200 characters to explain why the jobs these workers did mattered. In the end, it didn't matter. On Thursday, officials were told that the vast majority of the exemptions they had asked for were denied by the Trump administration.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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How Much Money Has Trump Made Off the Presidency So Far?
Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, have been making deals and raking in money ever since Trump won the election, including a cool $40 million to license Melania’s documentary about returning to the White House as first lady.
That’s just one of Trump’s numerous moneymaking schemes since his return to office, which have netted him and his family nearly $80 million so far, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. That includes donations to his future presidential library and a hefty $10 million settlement with Elon Musk’s X. That sum doesn’t include the millions the president and first lady have each netted from “meme coin” cryptocurrency ventures, a blatant means of scamming MAGA supporters.
Melania’s upcoming Amazon documentary may be one of the most obviously corrupt deals. The Journal reports that the first lady, the president, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, all had dinner at Mar-a-Lago in December, where Melania sold Bezos on her movie. Two weeks after that dinner, Amazon agreed to shell out the $40 million, nearly three times as much as the next best offer and the most the company has ever spent on a documentary.
The first lady is reportedly getting over 70 percent of the $40 million, and her agent is trying to sell “sponsorships” to executives and billionaires for the movie, with $10 million as the starting price. In return, these sponsors would get thanked in the credits and be invited to the premiere.
Much more at https://newrepublic.com/post/191543/how-much-money-trump-made-presiden
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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How Much Money Has Trump Made Off the Presidency So Far?
Yeah? How much money have the Obama's made?
SPOILER ALERT: Any time either of them go to a function to give a ten minute speech, they make more money than I will make in the rest of my entire life.
Go. Fuck. Yourself.
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Marvel’s Brave New World follows an unhinged president who lays waste to Washington.
Harrison Ford’s president Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross transforms into the Red Hulk and promptly lays waste to his surroundings. Columns crumble, cornices are crushed, and even Old Glory gets turned into an offensive weapon as the world’s angriest POTUS swings an enormous flagpole at a military helicopter. The White House is a smoldering ruin, a monument to the destructive power of the president’s fury. But not to worry, a news report reassures us: Next up is “the restoration of normalcy to the White House.”
One of the last Marvel properties made for all of you fags, and you fags hate it.
Not looking good for Disney.
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