Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, do you remember what happened to the Nazis? Execution. 6ix, add that to your list, Nazi who insists he is not.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Added to the list.
Elon Musk to CNN: "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit," Musk said. "They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response."
Empathy, he said, has been "weaponized."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empa
thy-doge/index.html
G.M. Gilbert was the chief psychologist who interviewed Nazis on trial at Nuremberg. His words are as valid today: "I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining It: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."
https://www.tumblr.com/wilwheaton/710866275687120896/in-my-work-with-t
he-defendants-at-the-nuremberg
Sieg Heil Mein Führer Trump
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Thank you for continuing to document your daily descent into madness.
Endless source of laughs for me.
Might end up quite useful for others one day soon.
Sweet dreams.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:I know you misunderstood how WWII was won. German families were firebombed rather than gently persuaded by the most articulate American philosophers to reconsider peace as the answer to Germany's material and psychological needs.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, this is the definition of sociopathy, and describes you to a "T":
Germans were shocked, completely aghast, that the formerly admirable Americans would kill harmless women and tiny babies. Such a descent into barbarianism by the Americans! The United States Air Force must be full of nothing but psychopaths who care little about human suffering, death, and the sanctity of German culture.
Alternatively, the Germans should have realized that their own behavior was the cause of their suffering, not the psychopathy of American bomber crews. But the Germans never got that message. Until the end, the Germans saw themselves as good, not evil as they actually were. All the Germans could think about was their suffering. Germans had zero empathy for anyone but themselves. For being zeros, the Germans had to die.
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I want to remind Trumptards that you do NOT decide if you are evil. The people you are evil toward will decide for you. Sometimes they will decide that the evil-doers shall die for what they did. This always, without fail, surprises the evil-doers, who cannot always see themselves for what they are:
Republican Representative Chuck Edwards decided to hold a town hall meeting in his district Thursday, and it went so badly that he had to call for security to escort him out.
Edwards was bombarded with angry questions from his constituents in Asheville, North Carolina, over President Trump’s disastrous policy decisions. One constituent asked the congressman some blunt questions that got support from the raucous crowd.
“Do you support Trump on annexing Canada or Greenland, and do you like the way he treats the premier or the president of Canada, calling him ‘governor’? Is that the way you’d do as a diplomat? Is that, is that the way the United States should act to our closest neighbors?” the constituent asked, drawing applause from the audience. He followed up with more direct questions.
“Do you enjoy the way he’s tried to extort minerals from the Ukraine? Do you like bullying people that need your help? Do you go for kicking the guy when he’s down? Do you support Trump in these things? This is a yes or no,” he pressed further.
holy shit this question at the Rep. Chuck Edwards town hall https://pic.twitter.com/Sh1V1bKNtC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2025
Edwards managed to muster up a response, replying, “The short answer to that is no, I do not,” drawing his own small amount of applause. But then he lost the crowd when he backed Trump’s stance on extracting Ukrainian resources in exchange for military aid . . .
https://newrepublic.com/post/192757/republican-congressman-edwards-esc
ort-town-hall
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I want to remind Trumptards that you do NOT decide if you are evil. The people you are evil toward will decide for you.
I've never done anything to you, you simple-minded fuck.
I've extended olive branches to you before. When I first came out of my drinking coma, I remember giving Sigs shit about attacking you and Ted and Nilbog, not yet realizing just how fucking awful the three of you are.
You get the full end of my blunt verbal wrath these days because you've earned it.
Short of that, I don't give one single fuck who it is you think I am or what it is you think I've done you little fucking worm.
You sure as fuck don't get to decide who is and who isn't evil.
You can't even keep an opinion the same from one day to the next because you believe whatever the media tells you and that requires constantly shifting your core values to keep right on believing them after they've lied to you time and time and time again for so many years.
You're brain dead. You're a cultist. And you are an EXTREMELY bad representative for your cult.
Keep making death threats and hope nobody important stumbles upon them here.
And on that topic, The Critical Drinker just made a video about Firefly yesterday that's got just under 700k views. I wonder if anybody found our site after watching that video and got a look at the local banter in 2025.
Maybe somebody at FOX said "Oh yeah. I remember that show." and came here and saw all of the pirated links to Disney and Fox movies you've plastered all over the place too. That could be just as fun to watch play out on my end.
I know who you are. It will be really funny to see your name in the news one day.
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Was Lincoln’s Cabinet full of psychopaths when they unanimously disapproved of Lincoln’s peace plan? Or was Lincoln being naive for seeing good when the Confederates are utterly evil? You decide from this National Park Service story about the Hampton Roads Peace Conference:
Lincoln at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Fort Monroe, VA, February 3, 1865
https://www.nps.gov/foth/hampton-roads-peace-conference.htm
Lincoln pledged to the Confederates that he would be generous in restoring property taken under the Confiscation Act. Specifically, he was willing to “renumerate the southern people for their slaves.” He was revisiting compensated emancipation, an idea that he had long supported. He had unsuccessfully attempted to use offers of compensated emancipation to end the war in the summer of 1861. Lincoln was successful at ending slavery in Washington, DC though this very method. The Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 paid enslavers around $300 for each enslaved person in the capital. To Lincoln, this was a dollars and cents move. The cost to pay for the freedom of each enslaved person, by buying them from their enslavers, would be less than the staggering cost of the war. The United States spent almost $3 million per day on the war effort by February 1865.
Seward openly disagreed with Lincoln's offer. He said that the United States “had already done enough in expending so much money on the war for the abolition of slavery.” Seward paced the floor in anxious disapproval, while Lincoln reasoned that both sides carried some responsibility for slavery. “If it was wrong in the South to hold slaves, it was wrong in the North to carry on the slave trade and sell them to the South, the president said.” Lincoln could give no assurances on this offer. He insisted, though, that he was not alone in the support of compensated emancipation. He said that there were others willing to do this “if the war shall now cease without further expense, and with the abolition of slavery as stated.”
Lincoln went on to add the details of his plan. The states in rebellion would receive half of a proposed $400 million package, distributed in proportion to their enslaved population by April 1 if all resistance to national authority had ceased. The other half would be payable by July 1, if the states ratified the 13th Amendment by then.
Lincoln pursued compensated emancipation again in a specially scheduled Cabinet meeting on the evening of February 5. He defended his plan as a “measure of strict and simple economy” and wanted to send it to Congress for consideration. After some discussion, the Cabinet voted against the idea. Lincoln's advisors believed the rebels would mistake the offer as a “sign of Northern weakness and war weariness” which could infuse a new energy into their war efforts. They felt strongly that the “only way to effectually end the war was by force of arms.”
Lincoln was disappointed, saying “you are all against me.” He noted later that he had drawn up papers that were “submitted to the Cabinet and unanimously disapproved by them.”
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Quote:6ix, do you remember writing "Fuck Ukraine"? With only two words you revealed your depraved mind. Just like Trump with his and your millions of words, both of you have given a complete picture of how evil you are. The Trumptards harp upon the Second Amendment without realizing that it gives anybody, not exclusively Trumptards, the right to decide who is evil and do something to them without permission. The Fifth Amendment gives them the right not to explain why they used guns without the expressed permission of the person shot dead. The Future looks very dangerous for out-of-control Trumptards with predilections for evil and the belief that nobody can stop Trumptards. The Winds of Change will violently blow away Trumptards if they don't stop acting insane.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
I want to remind Trumptards that you do NOT decide if you are evil. The people you are evil toward will decide for you.
I've never done anything to you, you simple-minded fuck.
You sure as fuck don't get to decide who is and who isn't evil.
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'Madness swirls': Ex-GOP insider says 'Trump’s presidency is incoherence'
By David McAfee | March 15, 2025 4:01PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-presidency-already-state-collapse/
Political strategist Steve Schmidt on Saturday turned to Trump's recent Justice Department speech.
"He went to the Justice Department, and pissed all over the rule of law with fevered declarations about revenge, conspiracies, locking up his opponents, and the illegal media that are a threat to America because they don’t worship the king," according to the strategist. "What is the sin of America’s broken media? What is the failure?"
Schmidt also blasts those he sees as enabling Trump, such as Marco Rubio and the Democratic lawmakers who confirmed him. Rubio defended Trump’s 51st state rhetoric while on Canadian soil.
"How many Democratic votes did he get for confirmation? The correct answer was all 47 Democratic votes. This moment demands coherence and guts. It demands integrity and fierceness," he wrote. "Something terrible is happening in America, and there are too many anesthesiologists working in media and politics."
"Donald Trump’s presidency is already in a state of collapse and crisis," Schmidt wrote. "His incoherence, lack of discipline, focus, basic competence and connection to the grassroots can be excused by his winged monkeys like Laura Ingraham on Fox News."
In his conclusion, Schmidt said, "Each day, madness swirls from dawn to dusk as Donald Trump produces his masterpiece."
"He sits in the center ring with a whip in his hand behind the most powerful desk in the world, but somehow, for so many fools whose job it is to see him, he remains a mystery," he said.
Steve Schmidt’s full remarks at https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/seeing-trump
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Donald Trump's Department of Justice stunned numerous experts on Saturday with a request in a court that some said is without precedent in the U.S.
"The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security."
Reichlin-Melnick added, "While of course deporting citizens is unlawful, I see nothing specific in the DOJ’s argument that would purport to limit that claim to noncitizens, since it's based on membership in a gang. But this is also a badly written brief with a stupid and unlawful argument at its core."
Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat also flagged the appeal, writing on social media, "Everyone who thought he was joking about being a dictator, are you waking up now?"
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-brief-terrifying-court-deport/
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An article about euthanizing crazy pets. If your howling-mad local Trumptard can't be trained to NOT piss on your valuables, consider euthanizing them. The Trumptards act as badly as they do because they are mentally damaged beyond help.
https://slate.com/advice/2025/03/dog-young-euthanize-vet-issues-pet-ad
vice.html
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Trump claims tariffs will make the U.S. ‘rich again.’ But 5 undisputed facts about how they work throw cold water on that notion
By Shawn Tully | March 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM CDT
https://fortune.com/2025/03/16/trump-tariffs-how-they-work-economy-rec
ession-predictions/
Boarding Air Force One on March 12, President Donald Trump quipped, “We’re going to raise hundreds of billions in tariffs; we’re going to become so rich we’re not going to know where to spend that money.” Despite hand-wringing from CEOs, the stock market tanking, and widespread condemnation from our trading partners, the President is forging ahead with his trade war. In doing so, he’s counting on big windfalls from these import taxes, along with the savings he boasts will flow from Elon Musk’s DOGE campaign, to fulfill his promise of sharply reducing America’s yawning fiscal deficits. But in examining five facts about how tariffs actually work, it’s clear that they will have a huge effect on the economy—just not the one the President is projecting.
Fact 1: Tariffs are a tax that will be mainly, if not wholly, borne by U.S. consumers
Trump has always insisted that other nations or foreign companies will pay the full cost of the tariffs that the U.S. collects on imports. During campaign stops in September, he stated, “It’s not a tax on the middle class. It’s a tax on another country,” and “It’s not going to cost you, it’ going to be a cost to another country.”
As a first step, it’s important to understand who actually makes the payment. When a Chinese or Canadian exporter ships components or finished goods to one of the 328 US ports of entry, the U.S. importer purchasing the goods—not the exporter or another nation—pays the tariff, also called an “import tax,” to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency. The tariff is assessed as a fixed percentage of the price the exporter’s charges pre-tariff. That charge gets added to the price the U.S. importer pays.
The real cost of the tariff, however, can fall in part or whole on three parties. If the U.S. just increased tariffs on auto parts by 10%, the overseas producer could reduce its price by a like amount to maintain its sales to Ford or GM. Or, if the exporter tacks the 10% duty onto its selling price, the automakers could absorb the extra expense; they’d keep their car prices the same, and accept lower margins. In theory, if between them, the foreign exporter and the U.S. importer swallow the tariff, the cost won’t fall on the U.S. consumer. On the other hand, a U.S. importer shouldering the charge would be making a lot less money, and gain less earnings for building new plants and expanding its workforce.
But that’s not how it works in practice, according to studies of the real-world impact of past tariff increases. In a paper on the Trump tariff regime of 2018 and 2019 published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the four economist-authors analyzed the effect of the increase in tariffs during Trump’s first term from an average of 3.7% to 26.8% on almost 18,000 products including many types of steel, aluminum, and appliances, and covering $421 billion or over 18% of all U.S. imports. Their review found that for steel, exporters actually dropped their prices to U.S. importers—a group that would encompass builders, wholesalers, canners, and other customers, fully offsetting the tariffs—thereby ducking a big blow to their U.S. sales.
But that was an outlier. Overall, prices for the targeted goods rose 21.9% on average between the time the tariffs struck in 2018 and the close of 2019. The study found that, steel aside, “U.S. consumers have borne the entire incidence of U.S. tariffs.” Americans at the auto lots and supermarkets shouldered what’s known as a “one hundred percent pass-through” of the tariff tax. A second analysis of the first Trump wave from the National Bureau of Economic Research, “Who’s Paying for the Tariffs?” (2020), reached a similar conclusion, noting: “We have found that in most sectors, tariffs have been completely passed on to U.S. firms and consumers.” The a
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