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Sunday, April 13, 2025 6:15 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.

Fuck Muhammad and Allah.

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

Exactly the same as Trump deciding he would not keep a nuclear treaty with Iran, George Bush decided he would not keep a nuclear treaty with North Korea signed in October 21, 1994:

Just four pages long, the agreement said that North Korea would shut down its main nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, abandon two others, and seal fuel that could potentially be used to create a nuclear weapon. In exchange, the U.S. would provide oil to make up for the fuel lost from the dismantled plants and would build two new “light fuel” plants from which it would be harder to extract nuclear materials. If North Korea did try to get fuel out of the new plants, it would be easy for nuclear watchdogs to identify—and hard to hide. In addition, the agreement promised that the U.S. would lift economic sanctions and its diplomatic freeze on North Korea and agree that it would not use nuclear weapons of its own on North Korea.

At first it seemed like George W. Bush, who took office in 2001, might continue Clinton-era diplomatic policies toward North Korea. But then things fell apart. Bush’s diplomats stopped sending fuel shipments; North Korea complained bitterly that the promised nuclear reactors had never been built.

North Korea dropped out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003. By 2006, it had conducted its first nuclear test.

https://www.history.com/articles/north-korea-nuclear-deal-bill-clinton
-agreed-framework

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, April 13, 2025 6:34 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.

Fuck Muhammad and Allah.

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

Fuck you too.

Nobody cares about your opinion about anything.

Ask your family and they'll tell you they agree with me.

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

SIGNYM

Sunday, April 13, 2025 2:50 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.

Fuck Muhammad and Allah.

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

And this is where you turn into SECOND and want to see a whole bunch of people wiped out.

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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

SECOND

Sunday, April 13, 2025 5:55 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.

Fuck Muhammad and Allah.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
And this is where you turn into SECOND and want to see a whole bunch of people wiped out.

America would be made great again if all Trumptards were dead. Trumptards are killing themselves, but not fast enough.

Quote:
6ixStringJack wrote:
And with my athletic-leaning-toward-muscular build, I used to break the BMI chart and they called me overweight before the Diabetes hit. And back in my power lifting days when I was built like a brick shithouse I was considered morbidly obese.

http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64887&mid=12165
40#1216540

6ixStringJack has forgotten the illegal drugs he took for muscle growth harmed him in ways he has not yet learned. The price of Trumptard Freedom to be a jackass is ill health as they get older. I see illness in all old Trumptards caused by Trumptard drinking, smoking, libertine sex lives, drug taking, gluttony, etc. If all Trumptards would follow Rush Limbaugh's example and kill themselves quickly, America would be great this year.

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

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Sunday, April 13, 2025 5:59 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.

Fuck Muhammad and Allah.

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

Fuck you too.

Nobody cares about your opinion about anything.

Ask your family and they'll tell you they agree with me.

Does not matter if you care or not. There are consequences for Trumptards being stupid:

Trump Brings Britain’s ‘Moron Premium’ to the U.S. Economy

What America might have learned, but didn’t, from Britain’s 2022 financial-markets debacle

By Paul Mason | April 12, 2025, 9 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/trump-truss-moron-
premium/682421/

When Donald Trump launched his tariff war on April 2, lawmakers in Europe struggled to understand the strategy. Was it a bluff, or did he really mean to collapse global trade, stock markets, and the Western alliance in one reckless game of 4-D chess?

On April 9, however, the president discovered something that we in the United Kingdom already know: Against the bond market, there is only 2-D chess, and you always lose. Because the Brits have been here before.

In September 2022, after the ousting of Boris Johnson as Conservative leader, the new prime minister, Liz Truss, launched an unscheduled Budget statement designed to rip up the rules of fiscal policy. She would enact £160 billion worth of tax cuts over five years, funded entirely by borrowing, in defiance of advice from the U.K. Treasury’s most senior official, whom she sacked on day one of her administration.

The government’s fiscal watchdog, set up to prevent the kind of debacle that was about to happen, was sidelined. Commentators, myself included, who warned that the heavily indebted country might face a sudden stop of foreign investment were ignored.

The consequences came fast. The pound slid, the yield on 10-year government bonds soared close to 5 percent, and we then discovered that lenders’ margin calls on leveraged bond trades—demanding an additional commitment of capital to prop up the loans—were forcing pension funds to raise money by dumping gilt-edged securities into a falling market.

With key pension schemes close to collapse, Truss reversed the entire package; sacked her finance minister while he was midair over the Atlantic Ocean on his way back from an International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, D.C.; and resigned after just 45 days in office, becoming the shortest-serving prime minister in history. Toward the end, Britain’s tabloid press began livestreaming images of a supermarket lettuce, betting that it would outlast Truss’s tenure. It did.

Helen Lewis: Liz Truss fought the lettuce, and the lettuce won
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/why-liz-truss-resign
ed-britain-political-instability/671805/

With Trump’s tariff pause, some important details are different. Unlike the United Kingdom, which is exposed to external liabilities worth more than five times its GDP, the United States bears much smaller risks from investors dumping the dollar and Treasury bonds simultaneously. And Truss’s mistake was a simple act of economic hubris rather than part of a geopolitical grand strategy, as Trump’s trade policy claims to be.

Yet something can be learned from the similarities. In both cases, the crucial days saw equities and bonds fall in tandem—something the high-finance textbook says should not happen. Normally, when stock markets are falling, investors switch to the safety of government bonds. Today, we are seeing capital flight from an entire national entity.

Since Truss’s resignation, the U.K. has suffered permanently higher bond yields and higher debt-servicing costs than its European peers. At the same time, interest rates on household mortgages have remained painfully high—a phenomenon dubbed the “moron premium” by her detractors.

Inflicting

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Sunday, April 13, 2025 6:35 PM

Yesterday’s sudden move to exempt electronics made the Trump tariffs even worse.

Why? Three reasons.

1. For electronics we’re now putting much higher tariffs on intermediate goods used in manufacturing than on final goods. This actually discourages manufacturing in the United States. Joey Politano puts it well:

Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff

2. Uncertainty created by ever-changing tariff plans is arguably a bigger problem than the tariffs themselves. So look at the timeline so far. First we had the sudden imposition of average tariffs bigger than Smoot-Hawley. Then, a week later, Trump ditched that plan and replaced it with a plan that imposed average tariffs roughly the same size, but with the tariffs on individual countries either much higher or much lower than in the first plan. Then tariffs were taken off some but not all products just three days later. At this rate we’ll soon see tariffs changing every day.

3. The stench of corruption around these policies keeps getting stronger. There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence for massive insider trading around last week’s tariff announcement; the big beneficiaries from the latest move are companies that made big donations to Trump. Investing in plant and equipment looks like a bad idea given the uncertainty, but investing in bribes for the ruling family clearly yields excellent returns.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-tariffs-just-got-even-wor
se

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, April 13, 2025 9:19 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.

Fuck Muhammad and Allah.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
And this is where you turn into SECOND and want to see a whole bunch of people wiped out.
America would be made great again if all Trumptards were dead. Trumptards are killing themselves, but not fast enough.
Quote:
6ixStringJack wrote:
And with my athletic-leaning-toward-muscular build, I used to break the BMI chart and they called me overweight before the Diabetes hit. And back in my power lifting days when I was built like a brick shithouse I was considered morbidly obese.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64887&mid=12165
40#1216540

6ixStringJack has forgotten the illegal drugs he took for muscle growth harmed him in ways he has not yet learned. The price of Trumptard Freedom to be a jackass is ill health as they get older. I see illness in all old Trumptards caused by Trumptard drinking, smoking, libertine sex lives, drug taking, gluttony, etc. If all Trumptards would follow Rush Limbaugh's example and kill themselves quickly, America would be great this year.

I didn't take anything illegal. Although, I DID take stuff from GNC. Very possible that some Amino Acid or Creatine pills, or the copious amounts of shit tasting protein shakes on top of the 6,000 calories per day I ate for 2 years had some negative effect.

Let's just say that with all the stuff the FDA has approved that's made us the least healthy 1st world nation, even the FDA won't approve 90% of the stuff in a GNC once you leave the vitamin counter.

Although it might just be that nobody at GNC had powerful lobbyists.

It's actually shocking in retrospect to think there was anything the FDA didn't approve.

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

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Sunday, April 13, 2025 10:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I didn't take anything illegal. Although, I DID take stuff from GNC. Very possible that some Amino Acid or Creatine pills, or the copious amounts of shit tasting protein shakes on top of the 6,000 calories per day I ate for 2 years had some negative effect.

Let's just say that with all the stuff the FDA has approved that's made us the least healthy 1st world nation, even the FDA won't approve 90% of the stuff in a GNC once you leave the vitamin counter.

Although it might just be that nobody at GNC had powerful lobbyists.

It's actually shocking in retrospect to think there was anything the FDA didn't approve.

The FDA does not approve dietary supplements before they are marketed because the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. FDA cannot review supplements for safety and effectiveness before they are marketed. Only after numerous deaths can the FDA do something.

I have found that Autopsy Reports are useful to determine how crazy were Trumptards in life. https://ifs.harriscountytx.gov/family-services/Autopsy-Reports

From a Trumptard's autopsy: PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS

1. Toxic effects of cocaine - cocaine (parent drug) and benzoylecgonine (metabolite) detected in blood

2. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease:
a. Severe atherosclerosis of left anterior descending and distal left main coronary arteries
b. Proximal calcification of major coronary arteries
c. Mild abdominal aortic atherosclerosis

3. Hypertensive cardiovascular disease:
a. Cardiomegaly (475 grams)
b. Left ventricular myocardial hypertrophy
c. Bi-ventricular dilation
d. Arteriolar nephrosclerosis**

4. Obesity (64 inches, 241 pounds) [6ixStringJack during his power-lifting stage of life.]

** Arteriolar nephrosclerosis, also known as hypertensive arteriolar nephrosclerosis, is kidney damage caused by chronic, poorly controlled high blood pressure. It leads to progressive kidney impairment and is a common cause of end-stage renal disease. The condition involves thickening and scarring of the small arteries and arterioles within the kidneys, impairing blood flow and damaging the glomeruli and tubulointerstitial tissues.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, April 13, 2025 10:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I didn't take anything illegal. Although, I DID take stuff from GNC. Very possible that some Amino Acid or Creatine pills, or the copious amounts of shit tasting protein shakes on top of the 6,000 calories per day I ate for 2 years had some negative effect.

Let's just say that with all the stuff the FDA has approved that's made us the least healthy 1st world nation, even the FDA won't approve 90% of the stuff in a GNC once you leave the vitamin counter.

Although it might just be that nobody at GNC had powerful lobbyists.

It's actually shocking in retrospect to think there was anything the FDA didn't approve.
The FDA does not approve dietary supplements before they are marketed because the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. FDA cannot review supplements for safety and effectiveness before they are marketed. Only after numerous deaths can the FDA do something.

I have found that Autopsy Reports are useful to determine how crazy were Trumptards in life. https://ifs.harriscountytx.gov/family-services/Autopsy-Reports

From a Trumptard's autopsy: PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS

1. Toxic effects of cocaine - cocaine (parent drug) and benzoylecgonine (metabolite) detected in blood

2. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease:
a. Severe atherosclerosis of left anterior descending and distal left main coronary arteries
b. Proximal calcification of major coronary arteries
c. Mild abdominal aortic atherosclerosis

3. Hypertensive cardiovascular disease:
a. Cardiomegaly (475 grams)
b. Left ventricular myocardial hypertrophy
c. Bi-ventricular dilation
d. Arteriolar nephrosclerosis**

4. Obesity (64 inches, 241 pounds) [6ixStringJack during his power-lifting stage of life.]

** Arteriolar nephrosclerosis, also known as hypertensive arteriolar nephrosclerosis, is kidney damage caused by chronic, poorly controlled high blood pressure. It leads to progressive kidney impairment and is a common cause of end-stage renal disease. The condition involves thickening and scarring of the small arteries and arterioles within the kidneys, impairing blood flow and damaging the glomeruli and tubulointerstitial tissues.

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

Yes. We already know that Democrat voters live forever because they always make the right choices and none of them have any vices.

Say hi to Kevin Drum for me.

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

SIGNYM

Sunday, April 13, 2025 10:43 PM

Quote:
Trump Brings Britain’s ‘Moron Premium’ to the U.S. Economy

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As I write, the dollar is falling and—despite the 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs—the yield on a 30-year Treasury bond is close to 5 percent. That means the cost of borrowing for the U.S. government is now double what it was five years ago, because investors are demanding higher returns for holding the safest debt in the world. If both of these circumstances persist next week, and begin to affect Americans’ income, the moron premium may cross the Atlantic.

Curiously, falling Treasuries weren't caused by China dumping them, or generic panicked investors selling them "en masse", but by one single holder .... Japan. This was a targeted move to force Trump to reverse his tariffs on Japan.

AFA the bond trade ... as I gather, there is a HIGHLY LEVERAGED trade in current bond yields v future bond yields called the "basis trade". Like many "futures" trades/ hedges, speculators borrow a crapton of $$ to buy positions on both sides and make $ off the difference, which they reap when the position is settled. But if one position collapses they're suddenly on the hook for both. Personally, I think that the tariffs were, or should be, a warning shot across the bow, telling speculators to deleverage.

And Jamie Dimon agrees with me.

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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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