Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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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
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Last time I checked, we're not the ones who start burning and looting every time we don't get our way.
Grow up.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, do you remember writing "Fuck Ukraine"?
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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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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Absolutely.
Fuck Ukraine. Fuck you and your party's played-out appeal to stupid people's emotions. Fuck you.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:Yep. That attitude pretty much coincides with what I see from all Trumptards. I've seldom seen one of those Trump robots become conscious for a moment of what havoc their attitudes cause beyond their immediate vicinity. None of the following exists for a Trumptard because it is not happening to them, although they made it happen without being conscious:
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Absolutely.
Fuck Ukraine. Fuck you and your party's played-out appeal to stupid people's emotions. Fuck you.
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
By David Remnick | March 15, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/atul-gawan
de-on-elon-musks-surgery-with-a-chainsaw
It is hard to calculate all the good that Atul Gawande has done in the world. After training as a surgeon at Harvard, he taught medicine inside the hospital and in the classroom. A contributor to The New Yorker since 1998, he has published widely on issues of public health. His 2007 article in the magazine and the book that emerged from it, “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” have been sources of clarity and truth in the debate over health-care costs. In 2014, he published “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” a vivid, poetic, compassionate narrative that presents unforgettable descriptions of the ways the body ages and our end-of-life choices.
Gawande’s work on public health was influential in the Clinton and Obama Administrations, and, starting in November, 2020, he served on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board. In July, 2021, Biden nominated him as the assistant administrator for the Bureau of Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he worked to limit disease outbreaks overseas. Gawande, who is fifty-nine, resigned the position on the day of Donald Trump’s return to the Presidency.
When we spoke recently for The New Yorker Radio Hour, Gawande, usually a wry, high-spirited presence, was in a grave mood. There were flashes of anger and despair in his voice. He was, after all, watching Trump and Elon Musk dismantle, gleefully, a global health agency that had only lately been for him a source of devotion and inspiration. As a surgeon, Gawande had long been in a position to save one life at a time. More recently, and all too briefly, he was part of a vast collective responsible for untold good around the world. And now, as he made plain, that collective has been deliberately cast into chaos, even ruins. The cost in human lives is sure to be immense. Our conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
President Biden appointed you as the assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., a job that you’ve described as the greatest job in medicine. You stepped down on Trump’s Inauguration Day, and he immediately began targeting U.S.A.I.D. with an executive order that halted all foreign aid. Did you know, or did you intuit, that Trump would act the way he has?
I had no idea. In the previous Trump Administration, they had embraced what they themselves called the “normals.” They had a head of U.S.A.I.D. who was devoted to the idea of development and soft power in the world. They had their own wrinkle on it, which I didn’t disagree with. They called it “the journey to self-reliance,” and they wanted to invest in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America, to enable stronger economies, more capacity—and we weren’t doing enough of that. I actually continued much of the work that had occurred during that time.
Tell me a little bit about what you were in charge of and what good was being done in the world.
I had twenty-five hundred people, between D.C. and sixty-five countries around the world, working on advancing health and protecting Americans from diseases and outbreaks abroad. The aim was to work with countries to build their systems so that we protecte
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Quote:Libtards and Trumptards have got the same problem of not understanding the proper use of violence. Both can see a Hollywood movie where the bad guy dies in the end and good guy is triumphant but they fail to understand the message, which is so obvious: direct your fire at your enemy. Hollywood directors know this because to use violence in the incoherent way that rioters use it means the movie is incoherent.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
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
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Last time I checked, we're not the ones who start burning and looting every time we don't get our way.
Grow up.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I guess it is easy to understand when the movie is less than 3 hours and extraordinarily difficult to understand when the violence extends over months or years. The rioters lose the plot thread after only a few hours, which is why their violence fails to achieve a worthy goal, one that is so obvious in a movie. Real life wars lose the plot. See for examples the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the second Iraq War, the American war in Afghanistan.
For counterexamples, see WWII, except right at the end when FDR died and that damn fool Truman took over and nuked Nagasaki. Truman was too fucking stupid to see the inevitable nuclear arms race that would cause. If America would nuke undamaged cities full of civilians rather than exclusively target the Japanese Army, America would nuke anybody. Truman couldn't imagine that "anybody" might then want nukes because of what Truman did to Nagasaki. To repeat the lesson Truman couldn't understand from the movies, direct your fire at the enemy, not at random people who happen to be in the area.
If you read Oppenheimer, it is clear Truman was dumb as hell but he got the job as Vice-President because he was highly articulate. Apparently, FDR was not thinking about the consequences of a very talkative yet unsuitable VP making decisions. Same with Lincoln and his Vice President Andrew Johnson. There never was a worse choice for a successor to Lincoln. Andrew Johnson completely misunderstood the plot of the violent movie called The Civil War, causing the sequel, Reconstruction, to be an incoherent movie with poor ticket sales. The third movie in the trilogy, the one by President US Grant, was almost as bad and twice as long as the movie directed by Andrew Johnson.
In a Hollywood movie, the villains do NOT make a comeback, triumphant after the heroes leave, but in Reconstruction Part I and Part II, that is what happened because the Presidents for Part I and II forgot the plot from Civil War where the bad guys died and stay dead, not rebuild and rise again.
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 will military sales shrink now that foreign governments know that America can’t be trusted? Given some time to find replacements, the likely answer is “a lot.”
Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada without any justification and demanded that Canada become the 51st state. Every time Trump or his minions repeat that demand, they strengthen Prime Minister Carney’s hand.
One of Carney’s first policy moves as PM was to order a review of Canada’s plan to buy a substantial number of U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets. This means that Canada is joining European nations that are similarly reconsidering their dependence on U.S. weapons.
This turn away from military dependence on the U.S. is understandable. America is no longer a reliable ally to the world’s democracies; indeed, between Trump’s turn toward Putin and his talk of annexing Canada and Greenland, we don’t look like an ally at all. Rumors that U.S. jets have a “kill switch” that would allow Trump to disable them at will are probably false, but sophisticated military equipment requires a lot of technical support, so you don’t want to buy it from a country you don’t trust.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/teslafying-us-exports
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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U.S. debt owed to foreigners amounts to more than $18 trillion. A rise in borrowing costs, driven by talk of forced conversion of short-term into long-term debt, would significantly increase the cost of servicing that debt. Winds of Change, 6ixStringJack.
To be exact, $18.2972 trillion.
https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/intinv324.pdf#page=6
Wall Street can’t stop talking about the ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord.’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-cant-stop-talking-about-
the-mar-a-lago-accord-heres-how-the-currency-deal-would-work-f8fbbda0
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump says the economy ‘went to hell’ under Biden. The opposite is true
By standard measures such as job and GDP growth and the stock market, the US economy was in excellent shape
By Steven Greenhouse | Sun 16 Mar 2025 10.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/16/trump-biden-economy
Donald Trump keeps saying he inherited a terrible economy from Joe Biden and many Americans believe him, even though that’s not true. During his White House marketing event for Tesla on Tuesday, Trump said the US and its economy “went to hell” under Biden. Last week, in his national address to Congress, Trump said: “We inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare.”
But the truth is that by standard economic measures, the US economy was in excellent shape when Biden turned over the White House keys to Trump, even though most Americans, upset about inflation, told pollsters the economy was in poor shape.
When Biden left office, the unemployment rate was a low 4.1%, and during Biden’s four years in office, the average jobless rate was lower than for any president since the 1960s. Trump has repeatedly railed against the high inflation under Biden, but the fact is that by the time Biden left office, the inflation rate had fallen to just 2.9% – down more than two-thirds from its peak and near the Federal Reserve’s inflation goal.
Not only that, the nation’s GDP growth has been impressive, rising at a solid 3.1% rate at the end of Biden’s term. Ever since the pandemic ended, economic growth in the US has been considerably stronger than in the UK, France, Germany and other G7 nations. Shortly before election day, the Economist magazine ran a story saying the US economy was “the envy of the world” and had “left other rich countries in the dust”.
Trump often says job growth under Biden was terrible, but the fact is that the US added 16.6m jobs during Biden’s presidency, more than during any four-year term of any previous US president. Under Trump, job growth was far worse – during his first four-year term, the nation lost 2.7m jobs overall, making Trump’s presidency the first since Herbert Hoover’s during which the nation suffered a net loss in jobs. The pandemic was largely responsible for this, but even during Trump’s first three years in office, before the pandemic hit, job growth was only half as fast as it was under Biden.
Recently, Trump has repeatedly boasted how his tariffs will bring back manufacturing. Trump fails to note, however, that Biden had considerable success in bringing bring back manufacturing and factory jobs. Under most recent presidents, the US lost manufacturing jobs, but under Biden, the nation gained an impressive 750,000 factory jobs, the most under any president since the 1970s. A big reason for this was that as a result of Biden’s green jobs legislation and the Chips Act to boost semiconductor production, manufacturing investment boomed, more than doubling during Biden’s four years in office.
Biden took considerable pride about how the economy performed under him, even though he failed to persuade most Americans that the it was doing well. In December, Biden wrote: “Incomes are up by nearly $4,000 adjusted for inflation [since he took office], and unions have won wage increases from 25% to 60% in industries like autos, ports, aerospace, and trucking. We’ve seen 20 million applications to start small businesses. Our economy has grown 3% per year on average the last four years – faster than any other advanced economy. Domestic energy production is at a record high.”
Many economists vigorously disagree with Trump’s claim that he inherited a poor economy. Paul Krugman wrote that in January, when Biden left office, the US had what was “very close to a Goldilocks economy, in which everything is more or less just right”. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, had even more glowing words. “President Trump is inheriting an economy that is about as good as it ever gets,” he said. “The US economy is the envy of the rest of the wor
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How American Bureaucrats Became Public Enemy No. 1
The McCarthy era gave DOGE its blueprint for culture war.
By Clay Risen | March 17, 2025 5:40 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/doge-elon-musk-trump-gover
nment-cuts-money.html
On April 28, 1948, a physicist named Edward U. Condon took the lectern at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington. Condon’s speech focused on a dark vision about America’s future.
“There is growing in this country a wave of anti-intellectualism which is violently opposed to free speech and free expression,” he said. Thousands of government scientists, economists, and other experts were being investigated, and in many cases fired, in the name of anti-communism and national security—a campaign that Condon compared to ideological purges by the Nazis in the early days of the Third Reich.
“The last decade alone provides for us too many examples of nations where the people ignored the symptoms of totalitarianism until it was too late,” he warned. “Anti-intellectualism precedes the totalitarian putsch, and anti-intellectualism is on the upswing here.”
As his audience undoubtedly knew, Condon spoke from painful personal experience. A year earlier, Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, the chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, had begun a sustained campaign against him, first in magazine articles, then in a March 1948 report that called him “one of the weakest links in our atomic security” and accused him of “knowingly or unknowingly” maintaining ties to Soviet spies. In Thomas’ telling, Condon was part of a cabal of liberal, technocratic elites who ran the inner workings of the federal government and, out of naivete or treachery, were now fatally undermining their country in the face of the Soviet threat.
Thomas’ attacks were baseless, and both Condon and his boss, Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman, resisted them. But the assault continued, and in 1951 Condon decided he had had enough. He quit the Bureau of Standards to take a job in the private sector. Still the attacks came: In 1954, when his employer, Corning Glass Works, submitted a bid for him to work on a sensitive military project, the Navy revoked his security clearance. (This also reportedly came at the urging of Vice President Richard Nixon, who wanted to undermine Harriman, who was running for governor of New York.) Rather than continue fighting, Condon left his job at Corning and spent the rest of his career teaching.
The Condon Affair, as it was known, has been largely forgotten. But it bears all the hallmarks of the worst of the Red Scare era: knee-jerk anti-intellectualism; a baseless conviction that an elite, anti-American conspiracy was pulling the strings in Washington; and a willingness to abuse the levers of political power with little foresight about the unintended consequences. As Donald Trump and Elon Musk attempt to dismantle the federal government in the name of rooting out the so-called deep state and the supposed horrors of “woke,” they are drawing on a line of thinking that has long animated the Republican hard right. It goes back to the founding of the modern federal bureaucracy in the 1930s. Far from being a new phenomenon, paranoid anti-elitism in America has a long and surprising pedigree.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/doge-elon-musk-trump-gover
nment-cuts-money.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Libtards and Trumptards have got the same problem of not understanding the proper use of violence. Both can see a Hollywood movie where the bad guy dies in the end and good guy is triumphant but they fail to understand the message, which is so obvious: direct your fire at your enemy. Hollywood directors know this because to use violence in the incoherent way that rioters use it means the movie is incoherent.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
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
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Last time I checked, we're not the ones who start burning and looting every time we don't get our way.
Grow up.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I guess it is easy to understand when the movie is less than 3 hours and extraordinarily difficult to understand when the violence extends over months or years. The rioters lose the plot thread after only a few hours, which is why their violence fails to achieve a worthy goal, one that is so obvious in a movie. Real life wars lose the plot. See for examples the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the second Iraq War, the American war in Afghanistan.
For counterexamples, see WWII, except right at the end when FDR died and that damn fool Truman took over and nuked Nagasaki. Truman was too fucking stupid to see the inevitable nuclear arms race that would cause. If America would nuke undamaged cities full of civilians rather than exclusively target the Japanese Army, America would nuke anybody. Truman couldn't imagine that "anybody" might then want nukes because of what Truman did to Nagasaki. To repeat the lesson Truman couldn't understand from the movies, direct your fire at the enemy, not at random people who happen to be in the area.
If you read Oppenheimer, it is clear Truman was dumb as hell but he got the job as Vice-President because he was highly articulate. Apparently, FDR was not thinking about the consequences of a very talkative yet unsuitable VP making decisions. Same with Lincoln and his Vice President Andrew Johnson. There never was a worse choice for a successor to Lincoln. Andrew Johnson completely misunderstood the plot of the violent movie called The Civil War, causing the sequel, Reconstruction, to be an incoherent movie with poor ticket sales. The third movie in the trilogy, the one by President US Grant, was almost as bad and twice as long as the movie directed by Andrew Johnson.
In a Hollywood movie, the villains do NOT make a comeback, triumphant after the heroes leave, but in Reconstruction Part I and Part II, that is what happened because the Presidents for Part I and II forgot the plot from Civil War where the bad guys died and stay dead, not rebuild and rise again.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Says SECOND, who threatens and defames ... and incites violence and civil war ... from behind a wall of anonymity.
Dox yourself.
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Oh, and I see you're gaslighting us again about the economy.
Quote:whuch went to illegals
By standard measures such as job [growth]
Quote:Unequally shared
and GDP growth
Quote:Same problem
and the stock market,
Quote:For some.
the US economy was in excellent shape
Yeah, the economy under Biden*. It was great. /snark
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy
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What does the Library Institute do?
Quote:Provide grants for libraries to buy computers, DVD players, connect to the internet, or make available books, movies, magazines and reference publications in digital (DVD) or other (microfiche) format
Expand services for learning and access to information and educational resources in a variety of formats (including new and emerging technology), in all types of libraries, for individuals of all ages... ;
Quote:Grants to help libraries find and request books and other resources from other libraries. This requires libraries to digitize their "card catalogs" and place that information on a central server in a standard format
Establish or enhance electronic and other linkages and improved coordination among and between libraries and entities, as described in 20 U.S.C. § 9134(b)(6), for the purpose of improving the quality of and access to library and information services;
Quote:Train librarians in electronic recordkeeping, computer maintenance and digital security (We can skip Part B)
(A) Provide training and professional development, including continuing education, to enhance the skills of the current library workforce and leadership, and advance the delivery of library and information services; and (B) Enhance efforts to recruit future professionals, including those from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, to the field of library and information services;
Quote:Help libraries find funding
Develop public and private partnerships with other agencies, tribes, and community-based organizations;
Quote:Make entryways and aisleways wheelchair or scooter accessible, provide audio resources for the blind or semi-literate etc.
Target library services to individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, to individuals with disabilities, and to individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills;
Quote:Those who need libraries most are usually poor, rural, and/or those who don't have access to things like office software, printers (for resumes and formal letters, legal notices etc, for example) and the internet.
Target library and information services to persons having difficulty using a library and to underserved urban and rural communities, including children (from birth through age 17) from families with incomes below the poverty line (as defined by the Office of Management and Budget and revised annually in accordance with section 9902(2) of title 42) applicable to a family of the size involved;
Run mobile libraries.
Where libraries are needed most is where they are least-funded. National-level funding helps.
Quote:Nationwide resource sharing.
Develop library services that provide all users access to information through local, State, regional, national, and international collaborations and networks; and
Carry out other activities consistent with the purposes set forth in 20 U.S.C. § 9121, as described in the State library administrative agency's plan.
https://www.imls.gov/find-funding/funding-opportunities/grants-to-stat
es/purpose-and-priorities-of-lsta
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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
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