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6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 11:47 PM

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Why don't you just take a fucking chill pill and sit back and enjoy the show dude.

There's not a goddamned thing you can do about any of it.

And because you've wrapped yourself so tightly with your politics, you're in the unenviable position of rooting for your country to fail. That's how much you hate Trump. You want to see America fail, just as much as Ted wants to see Elon become broke.

Better to say nothing at all than to say whatever it is you usually have to say.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Firefly is fiction, but you, 6ix, can do what Captain Malcolm Reynolds does: go anywhere, work at anything, talk to anybody, and shoot them. But Trumptards don't. They are too cowardly. They let Trump be the loudmouth with a gun. Except Trump isn't a space pirate like Malcolm. Trump is playing. He is on an adventure, the most fun a human can imaginably have. Musk is Trump's pilot, Hoban "Wash" Washburne, on the spaceship. They are buddies making a reality TV version of Firefly. The two most powerful men in America have gone stark raving mad.

What the fuck are you even going on about?

You're batshit.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 11:49 PM

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Here Are the Arguments for Why Senate Ds Should Vote Yes and Why They’re Wrong

By Josh Marshall | March 12, 2025 12:57 a.m.

You have to be a special kind of retarded to read walls of text by this particular college "educated" meat puppet.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 11:51 PM

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A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Lose
Especially when you’re running a country

By Paul Krugman | Mar 12, 2025

Yeah. It is.

Where the fuck were you the last 4 years, PAUL?

Oh right. You were busy telling everyone there wasn't going to be a recession, and then you were busy telling everyone the economy was great and it was all in their heads until January 20th, 2025. And you were also busy telling everyone why Kamala was going to win the election and by more than Trump beat her.

Get fucked, PAUL.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 13, 2025 12:01 AM

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A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Lose
Especially when you’re running a country

By Paul Krugman | Mar 12, 2025

Yeah. It is.

Where the fuck were you the last 4 years, PAUL?

Oh right. You were busy telling everyone there wasn't going to be a recession, and then you were busy telling everyone the economy was great and it was all in their heads until January 20th, 2025. And you were also busy telling everyone why Kamala was going to win the election and by more than Trump beat her.

Get fucked, PAUL.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Who was really running the country while Autopen Joe Biden snoozed and drooled?

https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/opinion/who-was-really-running-the-count
ry-while-autopen-biden-snoozed-and-drooled/

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

SECOND

Thursday, March 13, 2025 12:08 AM

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Who was really running the country while Autopen Joe Biden snoozed and drooled?

Democrats were running it. No Trumptards can I trust to run anything for me, no matter how trivial. They can't even be trusted to get a fast food order back to the site without dumping half the drinks on the ground. Maybe there are trustworthy Trumptards? Where are they hiding?

DOGE Is Courting Catastrophic Risk

Musk has turned a dangerously flawed view of “waste” into a philosophy of government.

By Brian Klaas | March 12, 2025, 9:30 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/doge-musk-catastr
ophic-risk/682011/

On December 26, 2004, the geological plates beneath Sumatra unleashed the third-most-powerful earthquake ever recorded. A gargantuan column of water raced toward Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, and Indonesia. None of these countries had advance-warning systems in place, so no one had time to prepare before the surge hit. Some 228,000 people died—the highest toll of any natural disaster so far this century.

Setting up prevention systems would have been inexpensive, especially compared with the countless billions the tsunami ultimately cost. But governments typically spend money on preventing disasters only after disasters strike, and the affected countries hadn’t experienced a major tsunami in years. After the events of 2004, USAID spent a tiny fraction of its budget to help fund an advance-detection system for the Pacific, which might have saved hundreds of thousands of lives had it been in place sooner. But some people would have seen such an investment as a “waste”—inefficient spending that could have gone toward some more immediate or tangible end.

DOGE has turned this dangerously flawed view into a philosophy of government. Last week, Elon Musk’s makeshift agency fired one of the main scientists responsible for providing advance warning when the next tsunami hits Alaska, Hawaii, or the Pacific Coast. The USAID document that describes America’s efforts to protect coastlines from tsunamis, titled “Pounds of Prevention”—riffing on the adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure—now redirects to an error message: “The resource you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable.”

More than 800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have lost their job in recent weeks, including many who helped mitigate climate disasters, track hurricanes, predict ever-stronger storms, and notify potential victims. Meanwhile, cuts to volcano monitoring are crippling the government’s ability to measure eruption risk. DOGE is also reportedly preparing to cancel the lease on the government’s “nerve center” for national weather forecasts.

Musk has categorized as superfluous a good deal of spending that actually makes the country more resilient, at a time when catastrophic risk is on the rise. We never see the crises that the government averts, only the ones it fails to prevent. Preparing for them may seem wasteful—until suddenly, tragically, it doesn’t.

The modern, globalized world is the most complex and interconnected environment that humans have ever navigated. That’s why the potential for catastrophic risk—that is, the risk of low-probability but highly destructive events—has never been greater. A single person getting sick can derail the lives of billions. A crisis in one country’s banking sector can crash economies thousands of miles away. Now is precisely the time when governments must invest more heavily in making themselves resilient to these kinds of events. But the United States is doing the opposite.

Donald Trump made the same mistake in his first term. In September 2019, his administration quietly eliminated an initiative that it saw as government waste: a $200 million program that tracked novel coronaviruses around the world. Three months later, COVID-19 infected its first victim in Wuhan. The U.S. government spent an estimated $4.6 trillion in response to the pandemic that

SIGNYM

Thursday, March 13, 2025 1:56 AM

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Firefly is fiction, but you, 6ix, can do what Captain Malcolm Reynolds does: go anywhere, work at anything, talk to anybody, and shoot them. But Trumptards don't. They are too cowardly.

You think shooting from a helicopter means you're brave?

Er... no.

One thing I know about you: you're a coward. You hide behind anonymity, but when you feel the least bit threatend you (allegedly) engineer anonymous harassment and resort to online defamation and threats that you try to disguise.

Dox* yourself. Stand behind your defamation and threats. THAT would be brave.

* I know you won't.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 13, 2025 2:29 AM

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Who was really running the country while Autopen Joe Biden snoozed and drooled?
Democrats were running it.

... right into the fucking ground.

One of the many, many reasons why they're a dead party.

You got what you deserve.

The Democratic Party is NEVER going to come back from this.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

SECOND

Thursday, March 13, 2025 9:29 AM

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Who was really running the country while Autopen Joe Biden snoozed and drooled?
Democrats were running it.

... right into the fucking ground.

One of the many, many reasons why they're a dead party.

You got what you deserve.

The Democratic Party is NEVER going to come back from this.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Unless the cheapskate Republican Party gets its fat, lazy ass in gear, it will never come back from this:

ICE Isn’t Delivering the Mass Deportation Trump Wants

By Nick Miroff | March 11, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-immigration
-deportation-agenda/682005/

The results of the actual deportation push appear to be modest, though not for lack of effort. ICE officers, some working six or seven days a week, made about 18,000 arrests last month, according to internal data I obtained. (ICE stopped publishing daily-arrest totals in early February as its numbers sagged.) By comparison, the agency tallied roughly 10,000 arrests in February 2024. The latest government data show that deportations were actually higher toward the end of Joe Biden’s presidency.

So far, Trump’s removal numbers are lagging behind last year’s, when Biden deported more than 271,000 people during the 2024 fiscal year, the highest total in a decade. Homan was at ICE in 2012, when the agency set its high-water mark with 409,000 removals and Barack Obama was derided as the “deporter in chief” by immigrant advocates.

At its current pace, ICE is nowhere near delivering what Trump promised. The president made mass deportations a centerpiece of his campaign and said during his inauguration speech that ICE would deport “millions and millions of criminal aliens.” Vice President J. D. Vance said that the administration would “start with 1 million.” But ICE doesn’t have the resources or staffing to do what Trump wants. The agency has fewer than 6,000 enforcement officers nationwide. Much of their work is essentially immigration case management—ensuring compliance with court appointments and monitoring requirements—not kicking down doors in tactical gear or staging mass roundups in the streets.

ICE has never deported 1 million people in a year, let alone half that many. Tom Homan, the White House “border czar,” who has been working out of an office at ICE headquarters in Washington, told me on Friday that the mass-deportation campaign remains on track and just needs Congress to cough up the money to allow it to kick into a higher gear.

The administration is working to get ICE more money, the lack of which has been perhaps the agency’s biggest impediment. Trump has backed a continuing resolution to fund the government through September that includes approximately $500 million in new money for ICE, equal to about 5 percent of the agency’s annual budget. The additional funds would allow ICE to continue adding detention capacity and removal flights incrementally, but they wouldn’t buy the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history.

A bill advanced by Senator Lindsey Graham, the budget-committee chairman, would provide $175 billion for border security and immigration enforcement, roughly 20 times ICE’s entire annual budget.

One Democratic Senate staffer tracking the bill told me that it’s likely months away from a vote. “It’s effectively a blank check,” said the staffer.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 13, 2025 12:40 PM

That's a very simple-minded way of looking at things, for sure.

DHS Announces Nationwide and International Ad Campaign Warning Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport and Stay Out

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/02/17/dhs-announces-ad-campaign-warning-
illegal-aliens-self-deport-and-stay-out

Nobody is coming in anymore. That's a huge, HUGE step up from every single month of Joe Biden*'s poisonous Presidency just by sheer virtue of the staggering increases coming to an immediate halt.

Nobody gives a single fuck about how many invaders were deported under Obiden when he was letting 10 times as many in every month.

Homeland Security overhauls its asylum phone app. Now it's for 'self-deportation'

https://abc7.com/post/cbp-app-repurposed-home-allows-migrants-country-
illegally-deport-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-says/16001873/

We are going to make it so miserable for them and take away all government assistance and they'll be deporting themselves.

We've just been working on getting all of your murderers out of the country first, despite your dead party doing whatever they can to protect illegal criminal invader murderers.

You keep cheering against America and see where it gets you, loser.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

SECOND

Thursday, March 13, 2025 6:00 PM

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That's a very simple-minded way of looking at things, for sure.
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We are going to make it so miserable for them and take away all government assistance and they'll be deporting themselves.

We've just been working on getting all of your murderers out of the country first, despite your dead party doing whatever they can to protect illegal criminal invader murderers.

You keep cheering against America and see where it gets you, loser.

6ixStringJack, you, your little brother, and probably the whole family, live on government assistance and don't work. All of you should self-deport to Mexico. In contrast to shiftless Trumptards in poor health such as 6ix, I work, and everyone in my family works. We are not on government assistance. We are the real Americans. Trumptards are fake.

Shifty Trumptards like Musk built his wealth with billions of dollars in government help. Virtually all of his net worth can be pinned to government help. Tesla and SpaceX got started – and survived their early days – with assistance from state and federal policies, government contracts and loans. The foundation for Musk’s financial success has been the US government. Musk should self-deport to South Africa, where he came from.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/business/elon-musk-wealth-government-he
lp/index.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two