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The Justice Department on Friday quietly took revenge on prosecutors who’d worked to hold Trump’s allies accountable
By Patrick Reis | Mar 3, 2025, 4:55 PM CST
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/402355/trump-justice-d
epartment-prosecutors-purge
The head of the Washington, DC, US attorney’s office demoted seven high-ranking prosecutors on Friday, Reuters reports, moving them to entry-level positions in a bid to force them to quit. Those demoted include:
• The leader of the “Capitol siege prosecution unit”
• A prosecutor who worked on criminal cases against Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro
• Prosecutors who worked on criminal cases against the heads of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, two far-right extremist groups that worked to steal the 2020 election on Trump’s behalf
The experienced attorneys will now mostly handle misdemeanors and low-level crimes. The demotions follow the January firing of US attorneys who prosecuted Trump over his attempt to steal the 2020 election.
Why were they demoted? Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed new head of the DC office, claimed the moves reflected a shift in priorities and a focus on local crime in DC. But the Trump-related experiences of the officials selected — and the move of experienced prosecutors to entry-level jobs — make it difficult to believe this wasn’t an act of retribution.
What’s the big picture? The demotions send a strong signal to prosecutors that there will be consequences for officials who try to hold Trump and his allies accountable to the law. It’s also another blow against the DOJ’s independence, as Trump works to remake law enforcement as a tool he can wield for political ends. And the move weakens the US attorney’s office in Washington, which is tasked with prosecuting abuses of power by some of the country’s most powerful people.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Thanks to Trump
Atlanta Fed posts alarming new economic projection of Trump's first quarter
By Brad Reed | March 3, 2025 12:58PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-economy-2671254430/
The Atlanta Federal Reserve on Monday produced a new projection that the American economy would shrink by nearly three percent in the first quarter of President Donald Trump's second term.
Specifically, the Atlanta Fed now projects that the economy will shrink by 2.8 percent in Q1 2025, which actually marks a deterioration from the projection it made last week that the economy would shrink by 1.5 percent on the quarter.
The projection comes as President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk push to fire thousands of federal employees and as Trump is threatening to slap hefty 25 percent tariffs on the goods of Mexico and Canada, which are the United States' two largest trading partners.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm fine when the economy is shrinking because government jobs are lost. As is anybody else with two firing neurons and a basic knowledge of how math works.
How come you two stopped posting any articles from mainstream news sources and all you got are dying clickbait outfits?
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SECOND, from Wikipedia:
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After its dissolution in 1991, Ukraine became the third largest nuclear power in the world and held about one third of the former Soviet nuclear weapons, delivery system, and significant knowledge of its design and production.[2] Ukraine inherited about 130 UR-100N intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) with six warheads each, 46 RT-23 Molodets ICBMs with ten warheads apiece, as well as 33 heavy bombers, totaling approximately 1,700 nuclear warheads that remained on Ukrainian territory.[3]
While all these weapons were located on Ukrainian territory, they were not under Ukraine's control.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destructio
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There was quite a discussion at the time as to who "owned" these missiles. Eventually it was decided that they were owned by Russia since Russia had command and control of them. And furthermore, they would be safest there since Russia was a larger more stable nation and could more safely dispose of them (since Russia handled nuclear waste as well.) So they were transferred to Russia for dismemberment.
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Signym, as with all Trumptards I know, although I don't know all of them, you think you know something that you don't know. Telling you what you don't is not going to enlighten you even a tiny bit. An example is your signature:
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
The original Kissinger quote does not have the same meaning as your condensed version:
"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
But will Signym ever know the difference between the fake Kissinger quote and the real one?
Kissinger's statement is essentially "if... then":
IF another American proxy winds up being assasinated [THEN] word will get out that...
Seems like enough of our proxies have been regime- changed, if not outright killed BY US, to make Kissinger's statement true. The deep state would like us to forget, but at one time Saddam Hussein was our proxy against Iran, and Noriega was our CIA tool in Panama.
What will happen to our Kurdish proxies in Syria? And our proxies in Ukraine?
In any case, the meaning of the full quote v the shortened one seem so close I don't know why it makes your head explode, but clearly it does. Would it really make you feel better if I changed it? Bc IMHO that won't change anything. But I will to make you feel better.
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It sounds a lot to me like Trump's the adult in the room talking about peace while everyone else is trying to get WWIII ramped up.
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Holy shit!! Have you seen the Atlanta fed GDP Now projection???
Trump has single-handedly turned a robust economy to shit in less than two months.
https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow
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Quote:Trump is talking about Ukraine surrendering to Russia, confusing the words "peace" and "surrender".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It sounds a lot to me like Trump's the adult in the room talking about peace while everyone else is trying to get WWIII ramped up.
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Quote:Signym, you really are fucked up in the head.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
In any case, the meaning of the full quote v the shortened one seem so close I don't know why it makes your head explode, but clearly it does. Would it really make you feel better if I changed it? Bc IMHO that won't change anything. But I will to make you feel better.
A theoretical paper from computer science explains Trump’s and his Trumptards’ behavior, including 6ix's and Signym's. Since Signym can't sense that the fake Kissinger quote means the opposite of the actual (and longer) Kissinger quote, there is no possibility she will understand what Scott Aaronson wrote:
The Evil Vector
March 3rd, 2025
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8693
A group including Owain Evans (who took my Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science course in 2011) published what I regard as the most surprising and important scientific discovery so far in the young field of AI alignment. (See also Zvi’s commentary.) Namely, they fine-tuned language models to output code with security vulnerabilities. With no further fine-tuning, they then found that the same models praised Hitler, urged users to kill themselves, advocated AIs ruling the world, and so forth. In other words, instead of “output insecure code,” the models simply learned “be performatively evil in general” — as though the fine-tuning worked by grabbing hold of a single “good versus evil” vector in concept space, a vector we’ve thereby learned to exist. . . .
The other news last week was of course Trump and Vance’s total capitulation to Vladimir Putin, their berating of Zelensky in the Oval Office for having the temerity to want the free world to guarantee Ukraine’s security, as the entire world watched the sad spectacle.
Here’s the thing. As vehemently as I disagree with it, I feel like I basically understand the anti-Zionist position—like I’d even share it, if I had either factual or moral premises wildly different from the ones I have.
Likewise for the anti-abortion position. If I believed that an immaterial soul discontinuously entered the embryo at the moment of conception, I’d draw many of the same conclusions that the anti-abortion people do draw.
I don’t, in any similar way, understand the pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine position that now drives American policy, and nothing I’ve read from Western Putin apologists has helped me. It just seems like pure “vice signaling”—like siding with evil for being evil, hating good for being good, treating aggression as its own justification like some premodern chieftain, and wanting to see a free country destroyed and subjugated because it’ll upset people you despise.
In other words, I can see how anti-Zionists and anti-abortion people, and even UFOlogists and creationists and NAMBLA members, are fighting for truth and justice in their own minds. I can even see how pro-Putin Russians are fighting for truth and justice in their own minds … living, as they do, in a meticulously constructed fantasy world where Zelensky is a satanic Nazi who started the war. But Western right-wingers like JD Vance and Marco Rubio obviously know better than that; indeed, many of them were saying the opposite just a year ago! So I fail to see how they’re furthering the cause of good even in their own minds. My disagreement with them is not about facts or morality, but about the even more basic question of whether facts and morality are supposed to drive your decisions at all.
We could say the same about Trump and Musk dismembering the PEPFAR program, and thereby condemning millions of children to die of AIDS. Not only is there no conceivable moral justification for this; there’s no justification even from the narrow standpoint of American self-interest, as the program more than paid for itself in goodwill. Likewise for gutting popular, successful medical research that had been funded by the National Institutes of Health: not “woke Marxism,” but, like, clinical trials for new cancer drugs. The o
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump is talking about Ukraine surrendering to Russia, confusing the words "peace" and "surrender".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It sounds a lot to me like Trump's the adult in the room talking about peace while everyone else is trying to get WWIII ramped up.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
That's your false and warped version of reality.
And it is rejected outright by anybody who currently matters.
The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.
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Quote:Hey, I'm not the one whose head is exploding over trivial wording changes.
Signym, you really are fucked up in the head.
Yanno, the sad thing is, SECOND, there are SUBSTANTIVE criticisms of Trump. And you're missing every single one bc of your mental rigidity.
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"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Signym, you are fucked up in the head, you overly-articulate dumb-ass. Top-level Trumptards pull the same tricks as you do:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Hey, I'm not the one whose head is exploding over trivial wording changes.
Signym, you really are fucked up in the head.
Yanno, the sad thing is, SECOND, there are SUBSTANTIVE criticisms of Trump. And you're missing every single one bc of your mental rigidity.
“Today’s action is part of President Trump’s bold agenda to unleash American prosperity by reining in burdensome regulations, in particular for small businesses that are the backbone of the American economy,” wrote Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Bessent is blathering. Was prosperity unleashed? No. This happened:
‘Exciting News’: Trump Brags About Gutting Anti-Money Laundering Law
The Trump administration won’t enforce a Treasury Department rule requiring shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries
By Nikki McCann Ramirez | March 3, 2025
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-treasury-gut
ting-anti-money-laundering-law-1235286134/
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was part of a larger push by the Biden administration to crack down on corporate cronyism and tax evasion — a multi-agency project that is now being gutted by the Trump administration.
Last month, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) orchestrated the firing of over 6,000 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents in the middle of tax season. The move contracted an expansion of the agency’s employee base under President Joe Biden aimed at targeting tax evasion by the nation’s wealthiest. DOGE has launched an all-out war against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency that has returned billions of dollars to taxpayers seized as penalties from abusive companies.
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