Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Of for fucks sake, SIX!
Quote:Touchy, aintcha? I was just trying to to make my post short. Let me rephrase ... while Trump was against the power, you were for him. Now that he IS the power, you worry about what'll be done with that power.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I didn't say you IDENTIFY AS, but that's how you behave. Consistently and predictably. In a post somewhere up there, you even said you are always "against the power". Even to the point of being against what you were previously for. That's being oppositional.
No. That is not what I said. ... blah blah blah....
Or whether there is some greater power above him, allowing him to do what he's doing*
That's still oppositional. You're against the power. Right now you're just trying to scope if Trump is it, or if there's a power behind the power.
Quote:. Oh yeah??? WHICH papers say that "nobody ever died of Covid"?Quote:
I've pointed it out to you time and again. "Nobody ever died of Covid" but the vaccine, which is a subset of viral proteins, kills? That's not fact or logic. That just comes from you absofuckinglutely hating being told what to do.
That DOES come from facts and logic. The papers are out there for everyone to read
LINKS PLEASE
Quote:You may have been born that way, same as you were born with intelligence and ADHD/bipolar.Quote:
That opposition, which IMHO is on the far end of the bell curve, is part of what makes you, you, and not somebody else. That's what makes others different from you. It's also something that makes it possible for you to be manipulated. All someone has to do is tell you on authority, with threats, what to do and you'll pull in the opposite direction, whether it makes sense or not. IMHO.
And all of that didn't just happen overnight in a vacuum.
I know a pair of identical twins. One is very mellow. The other has been a hellion since the day she was born, and was dx'd late in life with ADHD. Identical. Same genes. Same in utero environment. Not sure what point you think I proved.
And, yes, you are easily manipulated. I see it all the time here.
How about getting back on topic?
* Trump has many wealthy donors, many of them Jewish. So there's that. He also has the richest man on earth behind him. So, of course there's a power behind Trump, just as there are powers opposing Trump.
The powers opposing Trump are, IMHO, globalist financiers like Soros and son, the British bankers (who sunk a fuckton of British pounds into Project Destroy Russia/Project Ukraine), etc. The problem is, their puppets, altho numerous, are stupid to the point of being mentally defective. Just look at Biden and the Eurocrats and various central bankers.
Trump, tho, is NOT FOR THE LITTLE GUY except incidentally. He's for American industrial BUSINESSMEN. For progress to be made, sacrifices must be made. Not by the wealthy.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Of for fucks sake, SIX!Quote:Touchy, aintcha? I was just trying to to make my post short. Let me rephrase ... while Trump was against the power, you were for him. Now that he IS the power, you worry about what'll be done with that power.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I didn't say you IDENTIFY AS, but that's how you behave. Consistently and predictably. In a post somewhere up there, you even said you are always "against the power". Even to the point of being against what you were previously for. That's being oppositional.
No. That is not what I said. ... blah blah blah....
Or whether there is some greater power above him, allowing him to do what he's doing*
Yes. Call it oppositional or whatever you'd like... anybody intelligent should feel the same way about it.
TPTB have never once shown that they are aligned with the best interests of the people. Not just in America now, but in the history of the world anywhere. Any romantic stories of Great Kings of the past or even our own Founding Fathers cut out all the evil shit, dust off the the good parts and polish it up nice and shiny to give you the good feels when you read about them or see them on the screen.
In real life, the only time The People have ever been served by power is when it's just a happy bi-product of what those in power were looking to accomplish for their own reasons at that particular moment. In these modern times where we have magical printing presses that grow limitless money on trees (until the day they don't anymore), they will show no shame in outright buying your favor and your compliance. Those benefits always end up being temporary when given enough time, but everything you traded away for them seldom ever come back without one hell of a fight.
You may think you're getting what you want. But you're just not looking at the other side of things and you spend far too much time living in the moment and not looking toward the future.
The end goal of all of this constant political see-sawing back and forth is the entire erosion of freedom and individuality, coming from both sides, but done at a pace so glacial that not only don't you even notice that it's happening until far too late, but a good lot of you will beg for it when the time comes.
THAT is the American Experiment in a nutshell.
If you are aligned with whoever is in power, even when you specifically have something to personally to gain from it, you are a useful idiot and a tool. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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Instead of your POV depending on who's in and who's out, how about thinking about YOUR GOALS AND HOW TO GET THERE? That way you could be for certain policies and against others, regardless of who's in office.
I knew, for example, that I was going to be 200% against Trump's Middle East policies. Gotta take bad with good.
I've known for decades that this is a power struggle between globalist financiers and American businessmen. (Neither one a friend to the American people.) But what I was most interested in was returning decision- making to America, bc as Americans we have SOME influence over that. We have no influence at all over a secret trade tribunal in Singapore, or a secret BIS meeting in Switzerland.
And America can only exercise sovereignty if we aren't dependent on everyone all over the world for everything, but mostly dependent on everyone accepting our debt and our dollars.
So, economic revival first.
Overthrowing the oligarchs next.
Quote:If you're aligned with someone in power when you have NOTHING to gain from it ... that's even stupider. You should always be asking "Whats in it for me?" even if your goals are longer term or your definition of "me" covers yiur family, your nation, or the whole globe.
If you are aligned with whoever is in power, even when you specifically have something to personally to gain from it, you are a useful idiot and a tool. Nothing more. Nothing less.
But yanno, SIX, we're too far down on the totem pole to be "aligned" with anyone. Thats like saying an ant is aligned with a homeowner.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Instead of your POV depending on who's in and who's out, how about thinking about YOUR GOALS AND HOW TO GET THERE? That way you could be for certain policies and against others, regardless of who's in office.
I knew, for example, that I was going to be 200% against Trump's Middle East policies. Gotta take bad with good.
I've known for decades that this is a power struggle between globalist financiers and American businessmen. (Neither one a friend to the American people.) But what I was most interested in was returning decision- making to America, bc as Americans we have SOME influence over that. We have no influence at all over a secret trade tribunal in Singapore, or a secret BIS meeting in Switzerland.
And America can only exercise sovereignty if we aren't dependent on everyone all over the world for everything, but mostly dependent on everyone accepting our debt and our dollars.
So, economic revival first.
Overthrowing the oligarchs next.Quote:If you're aligned with someone in power when you have NOTHING to gain from it ... that's even stupider. You should always be asking "Whats in it for me?" even if your goals are longer term or your definition of "me" covers yiur family, your nation, or the whole globe.
If you are aligned with whoever is in power, even when you specifically have something to personally to gain from it, you are a useful idiot and a tool. Nothing more. Nothing less.
But yanno, SIX, we're too far down on the totem pole to be "aligned" with anyone. Thats like saying an ant is aligned with a homeowner.
That doesn't stop at least 90% of us from believing they are aligned with someone though, does it?
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I guess most people feel they're more important than they really are.
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DOGE Mismanagement Principles
Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing
By Don Moynihan | Feb 16, 2025
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles
Sam Rayburn, the Texan who served as House Speaker for 17 years was fond of saying:
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Rayburn was talking about policymaking, but the point extends to more broadly to governing. Trashing government agencies is easy. Making them work is hard. DOGE, and the husk of the Office of Personnel Management that has become a DOGE zombie, are a good example.
Elon Musk has a reputation of an extraordinarily successful innovator. If you missed him devolving into a far-right conspiracy nut and hate-monger, it’s still possible to think: “well, he’s an amazing businessman—maybe he can fix government.”
The well of cautious optimism Musk enjoyed among smart people who knew a lot about government has pretty much run dry. We are moving from “maybe Elon will shake things up and reset the system” to “I really hope he does not break some deeply important government functions.”
Musk’s management style when it comes to downsizing has been to cut to the bone, and then hire back if he fired too many. This philosophy might make sense if you are running a social media company where its not a big deal if Twitter goes down for a couple of hours. It makes less sense where the a) failure of government systems has big and sometimes irrevocable costs, and b) it is not easy to replace expertise once you have eliminated it. On the latter point, many public jobs take time to develop knowledge of the policy domain, organizational practice and tasks. Those are not qualities that are easy to rebuild if you just spent a year training a new employee who has now been fired.
After 75,000 people accepted DOGE’s legally questionable deferred resignation offer, DOGE moved to engage in a mass firing of probationary employees, i.e. civil servants who have not yet received full job protections. We don’t have final numbers of those fired (you can find a tracker here), but probationary employees make up about 10% of the civilian workforce. Most of these are employees in their first year, but some were more experienced employees who became probationary when they switched positions.
Musk and DOGE are providing a real-time management case study. Unfortunately, all of the lessons are about what not to do. The quickest way to improve your management skills is to look at what DOGE is doing, and do the complete opposite.
Don’t fire the guys taking care of the nukes
Don’t fire employees, unfire them, and then fire them again
Don’t fire the guys collecting the money
Don’t lie to employees about their performance
Don’t fire the guys keeping the planes in the sky
Don’t tell employees to return-to-office and fire them once they get there
Treat the people who work for you with a modicum of dignity
It is a fundamental error to believe that DOGE is a government efficiency project. Cutting 1 in 4 federal employees would cut federal government spending by 1%. Cost savings are incidental. DOGE is a political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation of private interests and strengthening a personalist presidency.
Sometime soon, some big stuff will start to break in observable ways. It will be important to trace those failures back to decisions being made now.
Much more detail at https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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We don't care about the opinions of the people you listen to.
It would be unfortunate now if some of their warnings were legitimate, but this is the world that you helped usher in.
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Quote:Trump denied knowing anything about Project 2025 because lying comes naturally to him, but he is following that plan. When Trumptards voted for him, they voted for Project 2025. Trumptards are solely responsible for what Trump is doing right now. You will try to shift the blame away from yourselves, as Trumptards habitually do about every one of their personal failings, but only the dumbest and most peaceful Democrats are going to accept this shifty nonsense from you worthless, lazy, stupid, dishonest, drug-addicted, rapist, tax-cheating Trumptards. Trumptards must be blamed and punished brutally for what Trump does. I look forward to payback time for Trumptards. The smarter and richer Trumptards, such as Musk, will leave the country to avoid being lynched.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We don't care about the opinions of the people you listen to.
It would be unfortunate now if some of their warnings were legitimate, but this is the world that you helped usher in.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
https://www.project2025.org/
I was thinking about mentioning the Gettysburg Address. It is short, admirable, doesn't explicitly mention that the Revolution was won by killing Redcoats nor that the Civil War would be won by killing Confederates. Instead, there are hundreds of words to lull listeners into not contemplating how to modify the behavior of their enemies. Effective modification is not done with words but with violence. Lincoln avoided making that the message of his address, which is why it is so admired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Is the Answer to Trump Hiding in Plain Sight?
By Luke Winkie | Feb 18, 2025, 5:40 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/hasan-piker-donald-trump-n
ews-elon-musk-jd-vance.html
. . . Once it becomes clear that a second Trump administration is poised to be just as destructive as advertised, Democrats are once again mired in a communications crisis. With Musk slashing the administrative state to ribbons, the specter of destabilizing tariffs, and a renewed assault on the rights of undocumented immigrants, where was the opposition? It was another stark reminder of just how overmatched the party appears to be, stricken by an enfeebling inability to summon the venom—the anger—its base is feeling.
Piker has never missed an opportunity to express his wrath. The day after the inauguration, he flew to Japan with plans of waking up in the middle of the night to broadcast on Twitch during his usual West Coast time slot.
“If you recognize that Republicans are devastating to the country, to the globe, to the lives of Americans and the lives of your neighbors, then you have to do everything in your power to fight back,” he said on a recent stream, his face softened by the milky lens of a webcam. Piker was analyzing Trump’s order to transform Guantánamo Bay into a detention camp for migrants, an action he believes is the first step toward far more heinous anti-immigration measures. It’s a classic Piker fixation, the sort of thing that innervates his fury for the inert center of the Democratic Party. To him, ceding any policy territory to the conservative elements of your coalition is death. It only provides cover for the Republicans to push further, to savor more cruelty, to inflict more pain.
“This is why I kept criticizing the Democrats during the election cycle. This is why I kept losing my mind,” Piker said. “I was like, ‘Dude, I don’t want Trump to win, and it seems like you guys want him to win, or at least don’t care enough to do what is necessary to stop him from winning.’ And here we are.”
There are more days like this coming for Piker. More executive orders, more electoral defeats, more tepid reactions from the Democrats that he finds anemic or otherwise annoying. The terrible scale of this American era comes rushing at full blast through three computer monitors—on the other end is Piker, and 30,000 people who want to believe in a better future.
“You have nobody to protect you but yourselves and your neighbors,” Piker said at the conclusion of that inauguration stream. “Who knows what will happen tomorrow, but I will be there to cover it. As always.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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'Backfired spectacularly': European officials reportedly now view US as an 'adversary'
By Sarah K. Burris | February 17, 2025 5:33PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/european-union-trump-2671169459/
If Vice President J.D. Vance hoped to earn respect among international leaders with his speech in Germany last week, it didn't work, according to one senior diplomat.
Vance not only didn't persuade his audience, he insulted them, the Financial Times reported Monday.
"His speech backfired spectacularly, convincing many listeners that America itself is now a threat to Europe," said FT.
“That was a direct assault on European democracy," alleged a German politician.
“It’s very clear now, Europe is alone," confessed a senior diplomat.
The reporter asked the man if he now sees the United States as an adversary and he replied, "Yes."
Gideon Rachman, who was on hand in Munich for the outlet, wrote that the only thing that could considered positive was the allegation it was “puerile bulls---." However, he said it was ignored because it was "aimed at a US audience."
There is now a concern that President Donald Trump could use his power to make demands about trade and security.
"That means that Europe must now start the painful process of 'de-risking' its relationship with the US, looking for areas of dangerous dependence on America and stripping them out of the system," the report closed.
Trump spent much of his first term and his 2024 campaign arguing that other countries didn't respect the United States.
Upon leaving office in 2021, Trump claimed, "The world respects us again." (The world does NOT respect Trump, the oinking and lying pig.)
Read the full report at https://www.ft.com/content/11f121f9-391c-4597-93f7-f12894e1b79d
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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