Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Trump "calling judges names"? Hardly a reason for impeachment. After all, how many politicians and deep-staters called Trump a "Putin pupppet" and conspired to drive him from office on false charges?
Now, if Trump conspired with the DOJ and FBI to cook up fake investigations on judges he didn't like, and they conspired with Congress, and the media to organize a defamation campaign leading to false charges ... THAT would be grounds for impeachment.
Wouldn't you say??
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Donald Trump Must Be Impeached
By Andrew Latham | April 8, 2025
Go ahead and do it pussy. See where it gets you.
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Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Beijing's 'Nope' Trumps Bessent's Hope
Appeals Court Clears Way For DOGE To Access Data At 2 Agencies
IRS To Provide Illegal Immigrants' Data To ICE Under New Agreement
New Research Confirms Standardized Tests Are Predictor Of 'College Success - Without Bias'
US Supreme Court Sides With Trump (For Now) In Fired Federal Worker Case
Trump Set To Sign Exec Order Boosting Domestic Coal To Meet AI Power Demands [that's what you get for insisting that any new gas-fired plant must have 100% carbon capture]
Dismal, 3Y Auction Has 3rd Biggest Tail On Record, Only Covid, SVB Worse
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Trump "calling judges names"? Hardly a reason for impeachment. After all, how many politicians and deep-staters called Trump a "Putin pupppet" and conspired to drive him from office on false charges?
Now, if Trump conspired with the DOJ and FBI to cook up fake investigations on judges he didn't like, and they conspired with Congress, and the media to organize a defamation campaign leading to false charges ... THAT would be grounds for impeachment.
Wouldn't you say??
You write to Second as if he has the neurological capability to decipher the meaning of any of your words.
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and just when the US film industry thought it could make money again?
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To be clear: No official word or reliable source says or suggests China has considered banning US films in the aim of countering U.S tariffs.
https://x.com/gavinincinema/status/1909553786697154837
A local blogger gave the suggestion on social media, but I don’t know why presses from both China and US take it as official thoughts.
Full on Global Trade War might kick off btw
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Full on Global Trade War might kick off btw
*meh*
Ain't going to wreck nothing for me. Good luck everyone.
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Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
The vice president falsely claims 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involve fraud.
By Glenn Kessler | April 8, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/08/vance-social-securi
ty-fraud-false/
“You look at people who are 150 years old who are fraudulently collecting Social Security payments. You see our Social Security system — 40 percent of the people who are calling are actually committing fraud. That means the 60 percent who need their Social Security checks are waiting in line.”
— Vice President JD Vance, during an interview on Fox & Friends, April 3
In the lexicon of the second Trump administration, “fraud” often translates to “programs we dislike.” The administration dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development based on specious examples of alleged fraud.
Now, we would be the first to admit that foreign aid is an easy target for disdain, as many people dramatically overestimate how much money the United States distributes to other countries. But Social Security is one of the most beloved government programs in the U.S. Even Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation blueprint the administration is using to target government agencies for cutbacks, offered no suggestions for cutting Social Security, despite efforts by Kamala Harris’s campaign to claim as much.
So why is the Trump administration attacking Social Security as being fraudulent? As Willie Sutton supposedly said when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” Social Security is 22 percent of the federal budget — and that’s more than 20 times the funds spent on foreign aid.
But administration officials are going to have to come up with better lines than this — both of which have been debunked by the Social Security Administration itself.
The Facts
First, a quick refresher. Social Security was created in response to the pervasive poverty during the Great Depression. It is designed to provide workers with a basic level of income in retirement, as well as disability pay and life insurance while they work.
About 80 percent of the 68 million beneficiaries are retired workers and their dependents; the rest are disabled workers or survivors. The benefits are progressive, meaning lower-income workers get a relatively better deal than higher-income workers; however, workers making above a certain salary ($176,100 in 2025) don’t have to pay as much of their income into the system, though their benefits are capped too. (About 6 percent of workers earn above the taxable maximum.)
About 96 percent of workers must pay a certain amount of their paycheck, generally 6.2 percent. That amount is matched by their employers, for a total tax of 12.4 percent. (Some state and local workers don’t participate in Social Security.)
The benefits are inflation-adjusted after initial receipt, a feature that is almost impossible to find in the U.S. annuity market. Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, which means that payments collected today are immediately used to pay benefits. Because Social Security was not prefunded, it depends heavily on the contributions of current workers. The baby-boom generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) will have fully hit retirement age by 2031, reducing the number of workers per retiree. Meanwhile, before the coronavirus pandemic, people had been living longer and thus will collect benefits longer, while people are not having as many children, which limits the pool of new workers.
All of that means that there is a crunch coming in less than 10 years. If Congress does not act to either raise revenue or change benefits — both politically perilous positions — then benefits would automatically be cut by 23 percent in 2033. The administration appears to be looking for ways to find savings through the shortcut of exposing supposed fraud.
Trump, in his speech to Congress last month, also claimed that people as old as 150 years had been getting benefits. But The Washington Post had reported in February tha
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Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
The vice president falsely claims 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involve fraud.
Nothing false about it. At least not anything presented in this article. He stated what he stated above. You're boy Glenn is trying to frame it as if Vance said that 40 percent of people getting social security involve fraud.
You are an idiot.
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Moreover, SSA had announced in 2022 that benefits automatically cut off when someone reaches 115 years of age. So it is simply impossible for “people who are 150 years old who are fraudulently collecting Social Security payments,” as Vance put it.
But notice the pattern: The Post debunked it in February, Trump repeated it anyway in a major speech in March, where it was debunked again, and then Vance repeated it one more time in April. Officials presumably believe repetition of falsehoods will make them sound more real.
Anybody can say whatever they want. It doesn't mean that it's true. Especially when there was zero oversight.
I trust Vance a lot more than I trust anybody working inside the government circa 2022 who were saying anything that would reflect positive on Joe Biden*'s shitshow of a presidency that you inflicted upon the world.
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Quote:The Trumptards at work are always confident that they have correctly diagnosed a machine malfunction. They are right if this is a frequently seen problem, but when it is infrequent, the Trumptard's diagnosis seldom has any connection to the final fix. Trumptards only slowly get better at what they are doing. They plateau early in their careers because of their excessive self-confidence. I'd tell them, or 6ixStringJack, to rethink their diagnosis, but they come up with the same one even after whatever it is going on in their heads labeled "rethinking".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
The vice president falsely claims 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involve fraud.
Nothing false about it. At least not anything presented in this article. He stated what he stated above. You're boy Glenn is trying to frame it as if Vance said that 40 percent of people getting social security involve fraud.
You are an idiot.
Anybody can say whatever they want. It doesn't mean that it's true. Especially when there was zero oversight.
I trust Vance a lot more than I trust anybody working inside the government circa 2022 who were saying anything that would reflect positive on Joe Biden*'s shitshow of a presidency that you inflicted upon the world.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The end of IRS enforcement
Joel Eissenberg | April 8, 2025 5:14 pm
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/the-end-of-irs-enforcement
Don’t like income taxes? Next year, don’t pay ‘em. Who’s gonna force you to?
“DOGE is also in the process of essentially closing down the Tax Division at the Department of Justice.
“Since the Tax Division is a statutory creation, it can’t literally be shuttered. As DOGE has done at numerous other offices and agencies, the entity is kept notionally alive in a zombie state of suspended animation: a few employees, a desk lamp and a couple workstations. That’s the legal fig leaf that allows the White House, with a compliant judiciary, to say that it hasn’t violated any congressional statute or terminated one of Congress’ creations. It’s simply choosing a new strategy of enforcement.
“What they plan to do is essentially “reform” and “reorganize” the Tax Division out of existence. The plan is to dramatically reduce the number of Tax Division staff attorneys and then take the great majority of those that remain and disperse them out to the country’s 93 U.S. attorneys’ offices. Only a small managerial layer is to be left working from Washington, DC.”
It’s the 1% who make their money through complex schemes that require government tax accountants to figure out. Get rid of those folks and you have an IRS in name only. Only the little people pay taxes under Trump.
DOGE ends tax enforcement https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-to-shutter-doj-tax-division
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The Cost of Chaos: This is Getting Scary
And it’s all on Donald Trump
By Paul Krugman | Apr 09, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-chaos-this-is-getting
Herbert Hoover, move over.
The 31st president has long been the patron saint of bad economic management. But while Hoover responded badly to the coming of the Great Depression, he didn’t cause the slump. By contrast, it seems more and more likely that Donald Trump will single-handedly push the solid economy he inherited into crisis. This is, as Trump might say, disastrous policy like nobody has seen before.
How is he managing that feat? While the vast majority of economists think high tariffs are bad policy, they don’t normally associate them with recession. Many, perhaps most economists who’ve looked hard at the evidence don’t accept the popular story that the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 caused the Great Depression.
But this time looks and feels different. Why is a Trump Slump brought on by tariffs looking more probable by the day?
Like many others, I’ve been talking a lot about the huge uncertainty Trump is creating. Ignore the desperate efforts to retcon Trump’s trade policy, to pretend that it comes out of some coherent economic doctrine. We’re clearly looking at tariffs driven by id, not ideology — Trump’s biggest motivation seems to be the desire to see other countries grovel. Because there’s no clear policy objective, nobody knows what Trump will do tomorrow, let alone over the next few years. Did you have 104 percent tariffs on China and 34 percent tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber on your dance card? (Are 2x4s the industry of the future?)
As I wrote a few days ago,
Permanent tariffs are bad for the economy, but businesses can, for the most part, find a way to live with them. What business can’t deal with is a regime under which trade policy reflects the whims of a mad king, where nobody knows what tariffs will be next week, let alone over the next five years. Are these tariffs going to be permanent? Are they a negotiating ploy? The administration can’t even get its talking points straight, with top officials saying that tariffs aren’t up for negotiation only to be undercut by Trump a few hours later.
Under these conditions, how is a business supposed to make investments, or any kind of long-term commitment? Everyone is going to sit on their hands, waiting for clarity that may never come.
But wait, there’s more. There are growing signs that we’re at risk of a tariff-induced financial crisis.
There are multiple indicators of that risk. Bear with me while I give a somewhat wonkish explanation of one indicator that really caught my eye.
Back in the good old days, that is, two weeks ago, the main concern about Trump’s tariffs was that they would cause sustained inflation. We knew that they would produce at least a temporary bump in consumer prices, but the big question — crucial for Federal Reserve policy — was whether this bump would lead to a sustained rise in expected inflation, and become entrenched in the economy.
That’s what happened in the 1970s and is the reason getting inflation down in the 1980s required years of high unemployment. It didn’t happen during the Biden years, which is why this time we were able to get inflation way down without a recession.
So everyone has been watching measures of expected inflation for clues. And the news from consumer surveys has been very worrying. Here’s long-term expected inflation from the widely cited Michigan Consumer Surveys:
Source: University of Michigan
Whoa. But consumers don’t set prices. Furthermore, the last few years have shown that what consumers say they believe about the economy isn’t a good predictor of their behavior. So you’d want some confirmation from other measures.
Late last month Austan Goolsbee, president of th
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Bill Ackman, a hedge-fund billionaire who has been one of Trump’s most vocal supporters, suddenly turned on his champion, declaring on X that . . .
“by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.“
But Ackman refused to take any responsibility for enabling the destruction:
“I don’t think this was foreseeable. I assumed economic rationality would be paramount. My bad.“
Indeed. Who could have foreseen that the self-proclaimed Tariff Man, who posts crazy stuff on Truth Social every day, would impose destructive tariffs?
OK, Ackman was fooled, but he wasn’t alone in getting Trump all wrong. Many wealthy people imagined that Trump II would be like Trump I, mostly a standard right-winger with a bit of a protectionist hobby. They thought he would cut their taxes, eliminate financial and environmental regulations and promote crypto, making them even wealthier. They expected him to back off his tariff obsession if the stock market started to fall. If he ripped up the social safety net, well, they don’t depend on food stamps or Medicaid.
If Trump II really had been like Trump I, America’s oligarchs would be very happy right now. (I’m happy with a regime where my income taxes probably won’t be audited because Trump closed down the part of the IRS that audits complex tax returns. The Winds of Change are Blowing, 6ixStringJack!)
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/clueless-and-rich
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Bill Ackman, a hedge-fund billionaire who has been one of Trump’s most vocal supporters, suddenly turned on his champion, declaring on X that . . .
“by placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner, as a place to do business, and as a market to invest capital.“
But Ackman refused to take any responsibility for enabling the destruction:
“I don’t think this was foreseeable. I assumed economic rationality would be paramount. My bad.“
Indeed. Who could have foreseen that the self-proclaimed Tariff Man, who posts crazy stuff on Truth Social every day, would impose destructive tariffs?
OK, Ackman was fooled, but he wasn’t alone in getting Trump all wrong. Many wealthy people imagined that Trump II would be like Trump I, mostly a standard right-winger with a bit of a protectionist hobby. They thought he would cut their taxes, eliminate financial and environmental regulations and promote crypto, making them even wealthier. They expected him to back off his tariff obsession if the stock market started to fall. If he ripped up the social safety net, well, they don’t depend on food stamps or Medicaid.
If Trump II really had been like Trump I, America’s oligarchs would be very happy right now. (I’m happy with a regime where my income taxes probably won’t be audited because Trump closed down the part of the IRS that audits complex tax returns. The Winds of Change are Blowing, 6ixStringJack!)
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/clueless-and-rich
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You should be happy. You know how many billionaires he fucked.
You Democrats have no core values.
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The end of IRS enforcement
Joel Eissenberg | April 8, 2025 5:14 pm
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/the-end-of-irs-enforcement
Don’t like income taxes? Next year, don’t pay ‘em. Who’s gonna force you to?
You Democrats just keep saying the dumbest shit.
Go ahead and try it. See what happens.
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Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
The vice president falsely claims 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involve fraud.
Nothing false about it. At least not anything presented in this article. He stated what he stated above. You're boy Glenn is trying to frame it as if Vance said that 40 percent of people getting social security involve fraud.
You are an idiot.
Anybody can say whatever they want. It doesn't mean that it's true. Especially when there was zero oversight.
I trust Vance a lot more than I trust anybody working inside the government circa 2022 who were saying anything that would reflect positive on Joe Biden*'s shitshow of a presidency that you inflicted upon the world.
Nobody is interested in reading fake stories about your fake business.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, somebody needs to shoot tranquilizing darts into both you and Trump to calm your senseless talk. That is the primary weakness with all Trumptards. They run their mouths without using their brains. In 90 days, or sooner, Trump will be giving more crazy/contradictory orders about tariffs:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody is interested in reading fake stories about your fake business.
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Stocks surged Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a pause in some of the ‘reciprocal’ tariffs, causing a market that’s been under extreme pressure for the last week to explode higher.
“I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately,” Trump posted on his Truth Social. Trump, in the same post, said he was raising the tariff on China higher again to 125%. (Trump should have said a thousand percent because that is fewer syllables and just as mindlessly excessive. Makes the tariff calculation simple by adding a zero to the price of everything. Even Trump can do that multiplication in his head.)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/stock-market-today-live-updates-.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Nobody is interested in reading fake stories about your fake business.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I'm not the one losing my mind everyday.
I'm quite happy with the way things are going now.
Have fun being miserable. You earned it.
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Quote:6ix, for entertainment Trump can say that he is about to bomb Ottawa because Canada won't peacefully joint the United States. Then he changes his mind.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, somebody needs to shoot tranquilizing darts into both you and Trump to calm your senseless talk.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody is interested in reading fake stories about your fake business.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I'm not the one losing my mind everyday.
I'm quite happy with the way things are going now.
Have fun being miserable. You earned it.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Next, Trump swears he will bomb Copenhagen because Denmark won't peacefully allow Greenland to become an American property. Then he changes his mind.
Next, he says he will drop bombs in Mexico because . . . whatever reason pops into his head. Then he changes his mind.
Trump needs to be shot with a tranquilizer gun. Or maybe shot in head with a lead bullet to make sure he doesn't nuke the world whenever he feels the need.
Or Trump can return to his old routine of raising tariffs because, you know, he feels the need to finish what he started.
Trump is as mental unstable as the typical Trumptard, which is the main reason Trumptards have so many problems staying sober and holding on to jobs and marriages, and maintaining financial solvency and a healthy weight to height ratio. Trump sure is getting fatter and fatter.
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:6ix, for entertainment Trump can say that he is about to bomb Ottawa because Canada won't peacefully joint the United States. Then he changes his mind.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, somebody needs to shoot tranquilizing darts into both you and Trump to calm your senseless talk.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody is interested in reading fake stories about your fake business.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I'm not the one losing my mind everyday.
I'm quite happy with the way things are going now.
Have fun being miserable. You earned it.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Next, Trump swears he will bomb Copenhagen because Denmark won't peacefully allow Greenland to become an American property. Then he changes his mind.
Next, he says he will drop bombs in Mexico because . . . whatever reason pops into his head. Then he changes his mind.
Trump needs to be shot with a tranquilizer gun. Or maybe shot in head with a lead bullet to make sure he doesn't nuke the world whenever he feels the need.
Or Trump can return to his old routine of raising tariffs because, you know, he feels the need to finish what he started.
Trump is as mental unstable as the typical Trumptard, which is the main reason Trumptards have so many problems staying sober and holding on to jobs and marriages, and maintaining financial solvency and a healthy weight to height ratio. Trump sure is getting fatter and fatter.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I think he's just 10 times as smart as you, and you dummies are playing checkers.
He's outsmarted all of the dipshits that you voted for, time and time and time again. And he's made them all, along with the entire legacy media, eat crow for dinner for almost a decade now.
You keep cheerleading and praying for the downfall of America.
Because at this point, outside of finally shutting the fuck up, that's all your failed and dead Party has left for you to do.
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Quote:I am absolutely certain that if millions of the most loyal to Trump Trumptards killed themselves they would be Making America Great Again. I pray that you fucking Trumptards, even the minor ones such as 6ix, stop being lazy, aimless and worthless before we have to kill you, but killing you is the the quickest, cheapest and most straightforward way to handle Trumptards, Confederate slave-owners, Nazis, bandits, racists, tax-cheaters, rapists, Taliban, Russian infantry, etc. rather than rehabilitation or incarceration.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think he's just 10 times as smart as you, and you dummies are playing checkers.
He's outsmarted all of the dipshits that you voted for, time and time and time again. And he's made them all, along with the entire legacy media, eat crow for dinner for almost a decade now.
You keep cheerleading and praying for the downfall of America.
Because at this point, outside of finally shutting the fuck up, that's all your failed and dead Party has left for you to do.
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That is Trump on the floor of the Oval Office. The soldiers are there for his therapy session.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Reaction on Fox News Really Said It All About About Trump’s Sudden Tariff Reversal Today
"Trump is back!” they screamed, apparently unaware that the tariffs were his idea in the first place.
By David Mack | April 09, 2025 6:26 PM
https://slate.com/business/2025/04/donald-trump-tariffs-the-reaction-o
n-fox-news-really-said-it-all-about-trumps-sudden-reversal.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Reaction on Fox News Really Said It All About About Trump’s Sudden Tariff Reversal Today
"Trump is back!” they screamed, apparently unaware that the tariffs were his idea in the first place.
By David Mack | April 09, 2025 6:26 PM
https://slate.com/business/2025/04/donald-trump-tariffs-the-reaction-o
n-fox-news-really-said-it-all-about-trumps-sudden-reversal.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Trump never went anywhere.
FOX News is Establishment trash.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think he's just 10 times as smart as you, and you dummies are playing checkers.
He's outsmarted all of the dipshits that you voted for, time and time and time again. And he's made them all, along with the entire legacy media, eat crow for dinner for almost a decade now.
You keep cheerleading and praying for the downfall of America.
Because at this point, outside of finally shutting the fuck up, that's all your failed and dead Party has left for you to do.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You've been certain about a lot of things. None of them have ever panned out the way you thought they would, or more accurately, none of them have ever panned out the way the Legacy Media programmed you to believe that they would.
And they all lead you to right here, right now. An outcome that would have happened whether or not you or I even existed to post here every day.
Nobody cares about your borrowed "opinion" on any issue.
I read at least half a dozen disingenuously well-written newspaper headlines every day that are more insightful than you.
And half of those are probably written by A.I. in 2025.
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Quote:For a century, American newspapers wrote editorials about the evils of slavery. Did people act against slavery? No. Well, there was the Underground Railroad, but that didn't stop slavery. Did slave-owners act? No. Well, there was George Washington who freed his slaves, but only after his death. So, how did slavery end?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I am absolutely certain
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think he's just 10 times as smart as you, and you dummies are playing checkers.
He's outsmarted all of the dipshits that you voted for, time and time and time again. And he's made them all, along with the entire legacy media, eat crow for dinner for almost a decade now.
You keep cheerleading and praying for the downfall of America.
Because at this point, outside of finally shutting the fuck up, that's all your failed and dead Party has left for you to do.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You've been certain about a lot of things. None of them have ever panned out the way you thought they would, or more accurately, none of them have ever panned out the way the Legacy Media programmed you to believe that they would.
And they all lead you to right here, right now. An outcome that would have happened whether or not you or I even existed to post here every day.
Nobody cares about your borrowed "opinion" on any issue.
I read at least half a dozen disingenuously well-written newspaper headlines every day that are more insightful than you.
And half of those are probably written by A.I. in 2025.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
The slave-owners got convinced that slavery was positively good and that people saying it was evil were the true evil. At that point, the editorial writers became aware that words were insufficient. The writers kept writing and changing nothing in America but some of the readers decided it was time to kill the evil slave-owners. And the killing was not limited to the most famous examples of slave-owners.
The United States is headed in that same direction, today. The Trumptards are convinced that Trumpism is positively good and that people saying it is evil are the true evil.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Is Stupid, Erratic and Weak
The disaster of Trumponomics continues
By Paul Krugman | Apr 10, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-stupid-erratic-and-weak
Anyone sounding the all-clear on tariffs, or Trump economic policy in general, should be kept away from sharp objects and banned from operating heavy machinery. We’re in a hardly better place than we were before Donald Trump announced a tariff pause (in a Truth Social post, of course.) In fact, we may be in a worse place.
Let me make four points about Trump’s post-pause tariff regime.
1. Even the post-pause tariff rates represent a huge protectionist shock
2. Destructive uncertainty about future policy has increased
3. We’re still at risk of a major financial crisis
4. The world now knows that Trump is weak as well as erratic
Still a huge protectionist shock
Yesterday Trump announced that he wasn’t going to impose all those tariffs he announced last week after all. Instead, he’s putting a 10 percent tariff on everyone, and 125 percent on China.
Question of the day: Does the 10 percent rate still apply to the penguins of the Heard and McDonald islands?
Anyway, this new announcement still sets tariffs at a much higher level than they were before Trump took office, indeed higher than he suggested during the campaign. For example, during the campaign researchers at the Peterson Institute for International Economics constructed a model assuming Trump implemented a 10 percent tariffs across the board and 60 percent on China. The researchers concluded that this regime would impose a nasty shock on the US economy. Now we are facing a tariffs of more than twice that level against China as well as 10 percent on all other countries.
How high are overall tariffs after the “pause” was announced?
That’s actually a tricky question. China accounted for 13 percent of U.S. imports in 2024, and if you apply the newly announced rates to 2024 imports you come up with an average rate of 24.95 — higher than before the pause. Incredibly high tariff rates on China will, however, lead to lower imports from China, so a calculation based on 2024 trade is problematic.
However, not importing from China is also very costly: if we no longer import a good from China we must either shift to other, more expensive suppliers or the good simply disappears from the shelves. In the chart below I’ve made an estimate of the “effective” tariff rate post-pause. The effective tariff takes into account both direct and indirect costs, and reflects the increase in the cost of living imposed by the tariff. With a 125% tariff on Chinese imports and a 10% tariff on all other imports, I arrive at an effective tariff rate that is slightly below the Smoot-Hawley level of 1930. But this still represents a huge jump in tariffs in a US economy that now imports three times as much as it did in 1930. Trump’s post-pause tariff regime remains the biggest trade shock in U.S., and I think world history.
It's the uncertainty, stupid
Like many other observers, I’ve been arguing that uncertainty about Trump’s policies is as big a drag on the economy as the policies themselves. Before the Rose Garden announcement, I warned that it wouldn’t be the end of the story:
Trump may impose further tariffs, or slash them as suddenly as he raised them, depending on who spoke to him last. L’Etat, c’est Trump.
This kind of uncertainty is paralyzing for businesses, who are realizing that any kind of long-term commitment can turn out to have been a disastrous mistake. Build a plant that depends on imported parts, and Trump may cut you off at the knees with new tariffs. Build a plant that’s only profitable if tariffs stay in place, and Trump may cut you off at the knees by backing down.
Again, the point is that there really isn’t a MAGA economic phi
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Tariff Flip-Flop – Outrage grows over Trump's chaotic about-face
We could end up with the worst of all outcomes — a series of unfavorable special interest deals, all the economic damage caused by tariff uncertainty, no trade re-balancing, no increase in U.S. manufacturing capacity, and no new job opportunities.
https://www.alternet.org/tariff-flip-flop/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Tariffgate: How Trump’s trade war blew up in his face
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Beijing's 'Nope' Trumps Bessent's Hope
The president's calls to buy stocks after the market slumped and his subsequent climbdown over tariffs have led to accusations of insider trading. Together with scandalous economic incompetence, this could be his Watergate
By Simon Walters | Thursday 10 April 2025 13:15 BST
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tariffgate-trump-trade-war-b27307
92.html
Markets duly surged – as did social media, with accusations that the president’s “art of the deal” was, in fact, a reverse “pump and dump” whereby stock prices were hammered down and then bought before they rose. The Democrats, led by California Senator Adam Schiff, are calling for an investigation into insider trading. Even Trump himself seemed muddled over when he decided to make this change, telling reporters in the same sentence that it was “over the last few days” and “fairly early this morning.”
There are two possible explanations for Trump’s Tariffgate: it was reckless incompetence on a scale never seen before in global economics. Or, as Adam Schiff has claimed, it was market manipulation. Maybe it was a combination of both. Anything is possible in Trump’s mad and disturbing world. Either way, it is a scandal that deserves to rank with Watergate.
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:Tariffgate: How Trump’s trade war blew up in his face
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Beijing's 'Nope' Trumps Bessent's Hope
The president's calls to buy stocks after the market slumped and his subsequent climbdown over tariffs have led to accusations of insider trading. Together with scandalous economic incompetence, this could be his Watergate
By Simon Walters | Thursday 10 April 2025 13:15 BST
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tariffgate-trump-trade-war-b27307
92.html
Markets duly surged – as did social media, with accusations that the president’s “art of the deal” was, in fact, a reverse “pump and dump” whereby stock prices were hammered down and then bought before they rose. The Democrats, led by California Senator Adam Schiff, are calling for an investigation into insider trading. Even Trump himself seemed muddled over when he decided to make this change, telling reporters in the same sentence that it was “over the last few days” and “fairly early this morning.”
There are two possible explanations for Trump’s Tariffgate: it was reckless incompetence on a scale never seen before in global economics. Or, as Adam Schiff has claimed, it was market manipulation. Maybe it was a combination of both. Anything is possible in Trump’s mad and disturbing world. Either way, it is a scandal that deserves to rank with Watergate.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Are we going to have to listen to you fucking goons freak out about the fucking market on a daily basis now?
Is he "stupid, erratic and weak" on economic policy like Paul Krugman said, or he is Nancy Pelosi like The Atlantic says?
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:For a century, American newspapers wrote editorials about the evils of slavery. Did people act against slavery? No. Well, there was the Underground Railroad, but that didn't stop slavery. Did slave-owners act? No. Well, there was George Washington who freed his slaves, but only after his death. So, how did slavery end?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:I am absolutely certain
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I think he's just 10 times as smart as you, and you dummies are playing checkers.
He's outsmarted all of the dipshits that you voted for, time and time and time again. And he's made them all, along with the entire legacy media, eat crow for dinner for almost a decade now.
You keep cheerleading and praying for the downfall of America.
Because at this point, outside of finally shutting the fuck up, that's all your failed and dead Party has left for you to do.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
You've been certain about a lot of things. None of them have ever panned out the way you thought they would, or more accurately, none of them have ever panned out the way the Legacy Media programmed you to believe that they would.
And they all lead you to right here, right now. An outcome that would have happened whether or not you or I even existed to post here every day.
Nobody cares about your borrowed "opinion" on any issue.
I read at least half a dozen disingenuously well-written newspaper headlines every day that are more insightful than you.
And half of those are probably written by A.I. in 2025.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
The slave-owners got convinced that slavery was positively good and that people saying it was evil were the true evil. At that point, the editorial writers became aware that words were insufficient. The writers kept writing and changing nothing in America but some of the readers decided it was time to kill the evil slave-owners. And the killing was not limited to the most famous examples of slave-owners.
The United States is headed in that same direction, today. The Trumptards are convinced that Trumpism is positively good and that people saying it is evil are the true evil.
Is that what you think you're doing here, for the benefit of 5 people who still post here, Mr. Billionaire? You're fighting evil? You're Bruce Wayne in your own little made up world?
You're so fucked dude.
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I used to think that Vietnam warped SECOND.
After his unusually honest post where he admitted that he never intended to be "good" I now realize that shooting people from a helicopter, risk free, liberated the evil in him. And he believes that his mission in life is a continuation of that: To punish, hopefully kill, "evil" people, as long as there's no personal risk to himself.
Even tho he's a would-be killer, he separates himself from "evil" people bc
1) He's a Democrat
2) He lives a healthy lifestyle
3) He pays his taxes (!!!)
4) He's rich, and only good/smart people prosper
So he can continue his "war" (He believes he's fighting a holy war; he said so. And all is fair in war...) without having to acknowledge that he's a sniveling, lying sociopath.
I also now think that the reason why he hates Republicans began with Nixon. Not bc Nixon convinced him to leave Jehovah's Witness and kill in war, but bc Nixon negotiated a withdrawal from Vietnam and ended the war against "evil".
Right, SECOND?
So, yes: SECOND thinks he's Batman.
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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House Passes Bill Requiring Proof Of Citizenship To Vote
Yay!
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Trump Admin Will Fine Illegals Almost $1000 Per Day If They Don't Self-Deport
Thursday, Apr 10, 2025 - 08:45 AM
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
The Trump administration has announced it will issue fines of $998 per day to illegal immigrants who do not voluntarily deport themselves.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News, “Illegal aliens should use the CBP Home app to self-deport and leave the country now.”
“If they don’t, they will face the consequences. This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order,” McLaughlin added.
Reuters further notes that a Trump official confirmed the administration intends to use a 1996 law to apply retroactive penalties on illegal aliens dating back up to five years, meaning fines could rack up to over $1 million.
The report also states that government emails suggest the administration could seize property owned by illegals who refuse to pay the fines.
A DHS flyer aimed at illegals has also been highlighted by Fox News, touting the “benefits” and “consequences” of self-deporting, and includes mention of the huge fines.
“Self-deportation is safe. Leave on your own terms by picking your departure flight,” the flyer states.
The flyer further notes that those who make the decision to leave will be allowed to keep the money they earned in America, and still be eligible for legal immigration, in the future as well as subsidized flights if they cannot afford them.
It further adds that those who do not leave immediately will be “apprehended by DHS with no opportunity to get your affairs in order beforehand,” and could face additional fines of $1,000 to $5,000 for failing to self deport after “claiming that you will.”
More yay!
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Wonderful.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, you act the same as every Trumptard. Weaklings that cannot calmly, bravely, and intelligently face adversity. Always on the edge of a mental breakdown. Frequently over the edge.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Are we going to have to listen to you fucking goons freak out about the fucking market on a daily basis now?
Is he "stupid, erratic and weak" on economic policy like Paul Krugman said, or he is Nancy Pelosi like The Atlantic says?
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Has Blinked In the Worst Possible Way
By Phillips P. Obrien | Apr 10, 2025
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/sentiment-can-be-overrated-trus
t
You might want to see this video of Trump speaking to his supporters on Tuesday night.
There is, as always, the damaged and weak ego of a tyrant on display. Everyone is supposedly afraid of him, cowering in his presence and, naturally, lining up to start “kissing” his ass. The crowd cheering this nonsense is sign enough of the terrible state that the USA is in.
However, beyond the childish and cruel sentiments—there was also the boasting. Trump has been saying for days that there would be no pause in his tariffs—that they were beautiful things that would set the USA on a course to greater prosperity, blah, blah, blah.
Then yesterday, without a single ass-kissing deal agreed, he blinked and paused the tariffs for 90 days (at which point they will almost certainly be paused again).
Trump had blinked before when faced with the prospect of tariffs on Canada and Mexico alone—and they would not have created as much chaos as the full package of tariffs he proposed last week. If you don’t remember that earlier climb down—here is a piece on it from early February. Trump’s behavior proceeded in a cycle eerily similar to the last few days. There was the bombast, the threats (51st State!), the attacks on US friends—and then, inevitably the humiliating climb down.
Damaging US Relationships for Nothing
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/damaging-us-relationships-for-n
othing
The truth, as always, is Trump remains a weak, bully—something which is being repetitively highlighted to other states by his cycle of threats and folds with no significant gains.
And who do you think will be most effected by this? Naturally the states that have the most to gain or lose through interacting with the USA—America’s security partners and possible security threats.
The role of Allies is something that Trump simply does not understand. He views relationships from what might best be termed a bilateral, zero-sum position. No state is a friend or a foe (except for Russia under Putin—which is always given the benefit of the doubt), and the success of the US relationship with any other state is measured by what the US gets financially and gives up financially. This is why he obsesses about trade deficits or relative levels of defense spending—because they are childish but easy to read metrics (which tell you almost nothing of the true value of an ally).
This deeply flawed view of international relations and power misses the enormous benefits that the US has accrued from its allies and partners. The entire US position in the western Pacific, which has given the country enormous strategic benefits, is secured by its alliances with places such as Japan and South Korea, and partnership with countries like Taiwan. There importance is such that they could very well be determinative in any war in the Indo Pacific—as was outlined in my recent CSIS piece.
These benefits have only accrued because the United States has been seen—and has acted—like a trustworthy partner who has in the past and will continue in the future to fulfill its obligations.
However, what these and others states have seen since Trump returned to the White House has been the US acting like an economic bully (and failing), while rowing back on security commitments where possible. Yes these states will and have had their feelings hurt—but more importantly, they are coming to no longer believe that the US is their ally—but instead an extractive competitor who would never stand by them in a crisis.
And if allies lose their trust in the USA, that will also be a huge benefit to possible competitors such as China. The Chinese can now present themselves as defenders of free trade, as a reliable business partner and as a state that can be counted on for consistency. In other words, the US cannot be trusted on to be a good friend (or really any kind of friend) but a
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Economists Say America’s Trade Deficits Are a Sign of Dominance Not Weakness
https://time.com/7275957/trump-tariffs-usa-trade-deficits-economic-gro
wth-strength-world-order/
Paul Wiseman in Time:
Trump and his trade advisers insist that the rules governing global commerce put the United States at a distinct disadvantage. But mainstream economists—whose views Trump and his advisers disdain—say the president has a warped idea of world trade, especially a preoccupation with trade deficits, which they say do nothing to impede growth.
The administration accuses other countries of erecting unfair trade barriers to keep out American exports and using underhanded tactics to promote their own. In Trump’s telling, his tariffs are a long-overdue reckoning: The U.S. is the victim of an economic mugging by Europe, China, Mexico, Japan and even Canada.
It’s true that some countries charge higher taxes on imports than the United States does. Some manipulate their currencies lower to ensure that their goods are price-competitive in international markets. Some governments lavish their industries with subsidies to give them an edge.
However, the United States is still the second-largest exporter in the world, after China.
More at https://time.com/7275957/trump-tariffs-usa-trade-deficits-economic-gro
wth-strength-world-order/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Keep crying about everything man. It must be miserable to be you right now, huh?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, you act
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Are we going to have to listen to you fucking goons freak out about the fucking market on a daily basis now?
Is he "stupid, erratic and weak" on economic policy like Paul Krugman said, or he is Nancy Pelosi like The Atlantic says?
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Shut. the. fuck. up.
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Quote:It's too bad for Trumptards that Trump had a mental breakdown. Send get-well-soon cards to the White House.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep crying about everything man. It must be miserable to be you right now, huh?
Shut. the. fuck. up.
Trump blinks on tariffs in the face of GOP resistance — but hasn't given up his cult-leader dreams
"BE COOL": Trump is still projecting "last days of Waco" vibes, despite a 90-day "pause" on tariffs
By Amanda Marcotte | April 10, 2025
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/10/blinks-on-tariffs-in-face-of-resistan
ce--but-he-hasnt-given-up-on-his-leader-dreams/
We're getting a compelling illustration on the national stage of how a cult leader can induce his followers to stick by him, even as he loses his mind and his behavior becomes too erratic and dangerous to defend. Almost every Republican on Capitol Hill knows that Donald Trump's tariff plan is political suicide, but few are willing to admit that Dear Leader fully intends to see this idiocy to the very end.
Calling Trump's move a "victory" among his true believers, it will likely be short-lived because of his underlying problems.
Trump has a messiah complex, which has only grown since that missed assassin's bullet from July was hyped by his followers into 'proof' that he's the Chosen One. Even as he blinks momentarily on his tariff mania, his behavior is getting even more erratic in a way that's got 'last days of Waco' vibes from a president who has already unsubtly compared himself to David Koresh. His Truth Social meltdown when announcing the 'pause' indicates a decline in Trump's already-fragile mental state.
The president tried to explain away his about-face just days after posting on Truth Social he has no intention of backing down from his policies.
With Trump writing, "They are dying to make a deal. 'Please, please sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything sir,'” it was a moment quite reminiscent of how late-stage cult leaders experience a total collapse between reality and their grandiose fantasies before boasting, "Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!"
It all feels like the final stage of a cult, when the leader's frantic efforts to retain control result in escalating dictates and prophecies that become increasingly hard for followers to make sense of.
Republicans would be foolish to treat this 90-day pause as a victory big enough to justify scurrying back to their holes, to hide from the wrath of Dear Leader. He is spiraling and sees these tariffs as the final proving ground of his total conquest of the GOP. He will keep going back to that well — which means economic tumult, more stock market crashes, and more panicked constituents — unless this tariff nonsense is put to bed entirely.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s Tariff Policies Are Perfectly Coherent After Factoring In His Psychology
The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams and hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win, and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.
This simple fact of the president’s psychology does more to explain his antipathy to international trade and enthusiasm for tariffs and other trade barriers than any theorizing about his intentions or overall vision. It certainly is not as if he has a considered view of the global economy. It is not even clear that Trump knows what a tariff is. This isn’t a dig. The president genuinely seems to think of tariffs as fees that foreign countries pay to the United States. “We have massive Financial Deficits with China, the European Union, and many others,” he wrote on his Truth Social website on Sunday. “The only way this problem can be cured is with TARIFFS, which are now bringing Tens of Billions of Dollars into the U.S.A.” Here, you also see his related belief that a trade deficit is an actual absence of funds, akin to a negative balance in a bank account.
“I spoke to a lot of leaders — European, Asian — from all over the world. They’re dying to make a deal, but I said, ‘We’re not gonna have deficits with your country,’ ” the president told reporters on board Air Force One over the weekend. “We’re not gonna do that, because to me a deficit is a loss. We’re gonna have surpluses, or at worst we’re gonna be breaking even.”
Of course, a trade deficit is not a loss any more than it is a loss when you, as a consumer, spend your cash at a grocery store. When American businesses buy raw materials from foreign countries to make their own products — when they buy finished products and sell them on their shelves — they aren’t incurring a loss. They are exchanging currency for something of value, which they will go on to use or sell for a profit. As a statement of economic policy, Trump’s pronouncement makes no sense. But as an expression of his zero-sum instinct, of his desire to dominate, it is perfectly coherent.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/04/09/trumps-drive-to-dominate-c
an-neither-be-satisfied-nor-appeased/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s Orwellian rewrite of 2020
He’s trying to criminalize telling the truth about 2020.
By Patrick Reis | Apr 10, 2025, 4:43 PM CDT
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/408211/trump-2020-elec
tion-denialism-cybersecurity-january-6
Economic chaos from President Donald Trump’s tariffs continues to dominate headlines, but today I want to focus on his continuing effort to rewrite the history of the 2020 election — and his troubling use of government power to push the lie that he won it.
What’s the latest?
• Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate Chris Krebs, his first-term pick to lead a cybersecurity agency. Krebs, while in office, publicly acknowledged that the 2020 election was a fair contest.
• Trump attempted to pull security clearances and kill government contracts for the law firm Susman Godfrey, which represented a voting machine firm that sued Fox News for lying about the 2020 race’s integrity, leading to a $787.5 million settlement. It’s the latest law firm to incur Trump’s wrath for engaging in disfavored political activity.
• Trump’s pick for a top Interior Department position was forced to withdraw amid revelations she’d criticized Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection.
What’s the big picture? Trump has long insisted that Joe Biden’s 2020 victory was fraudulent. That’s a lie. What’s true is that Trump lost the 2020 election but tried to stay in power anyway. But Trump has now accumulated enough power — and is willing enough to abuse that power — to impose consequences for noncompliance with the official narrative. It’s the exact kind of abuse the First Amendment was intended to prevent.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I used to think that Vietnam warped SECOND.
After his unusually honest post where he admitted that he never intended to be "good" I now realize that shooting people from a helicopter, risk free, liberated the evil in him. And he believes that his mission in life is a continuation of that: To punish, hopefully kill, "evil" people, as long as there's no personal risk to himself.
Even tho he's a would-be killer, he separates himself from "evil" people bc
1) He's a Democrat
2) He lives a healthy lifestyle
3) He pays his taxes (!!!)
4) He's rich, and only good/smart people prosper
So he can continue his "war" (He believes he's fighting a holy war; he said so. And all is fair in war...) without having to acknowledge that he's a sniveling, lying sociopath.
I also now think that the reason why he hates Republicans began with Nixon. Not bc Nixon convinced him to leave Jehovah's Witness and kill in war, but bc Nixon negotiated a withdrawal from Vietnam and ended the war against "evil".
Right, SECOND?
So, yes: SECOND thinks he's Batman.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, you act
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Are we going to have to listen to you fucking goons freak out about the fucking market on a daily basis now?
Is he "stupid, erratic and weak" on economic policy like Paul Krugman said, or he is Nancy Pelosi like The Atlantic says?
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Shut. the. fuck. up.
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Well.
Trumpis doing some things right, especially about illegal aliens.
I wish he had the same laser focus on the other things he's trying to accomplish, but he's making hash of his opportunities.
He seems to think he has to ... and can ... solve everything in 100 days. He acts like he has way more leverage than he does. And promising every day that "a deal" is just around the corner .... how stupid does he think we are?
Ukraine.
There's a long bad history of the west screwing with Russia: breaking promises, creating a color revolution, blowing up pipelines, torpedoing negotiations, waging covert war etc. Many reasons for Russia not to trust us. And Trump is in a no-win situation, because NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES, RUSSIA IS GOING TO WIN. So Trump isn't gonna get a cease fire in 1000 days, no matter how much he blusters and bullies. What Trump should do is just stop supporting Ukraine. Right now.
Ending globalization and tariffs.
I think tariffs are an essential part of remaking our economy. But not the ONLY part, and - again- it's not gonna happen in six months, or a year, or even two years. I think Russia did an EXEMPLARY job rebuilding its economy, from being a basket-case kleptocracy in 2000 to being a resilient nearly self-sufficient economy able to withstand everything the west could throw at it - militarily, economically, and financially, in 2022. BUT IT TOOK 22 YEARS TO GET THERE.
China has spent every year since 2008 trying to unhitch itself from the USA market... 15 YEARS. Can it survive an all-out trade war with the USA? I don't know. But CHINA IS A LOT MORE PREPARED THAN WE ARE.
So. Igniting a full-on trade war with China?.
Counterproductive.
Oh BTW... I dont give a fuck what happens to the stock market. Its been one big speculative bubble that the Fed refuses to let pop for over 20 years.
Saving money
The one thing that DOGE uncovered is that nobody really follows any sort of accounting practices. YOU CAN'T SAVE MONEY UNTIL YOU KNOW WHO IS BEING PAID, AND FOR WHAT. So until accounting practices have been followed for at least six months, it's hard to determine what to cut. Also ... a TRILLION DOLLAR DEFENSE BUDGET?
'If Trump breaks the economy he owns it... but if he fixes it, he owns that too' Problem is, NOBODY can fix an economy in two years.
If Trump breaks the economy, he'll lose Congress in two years. Fuck up bad enough, and Vance will lose the WH, and there will go our best chance at a rational national economic strategy. It's not just about Trump.
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This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
By Anne Applebaum | April 10, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/dictatorships-tru
mp-republicans/682387/
He blinked. But we don’t really know why.
Whether it was the stock market cascading downward, investors fleeing from U.S. Treasury bonds, Republican donors jamming the White House phones, or even fears for his own portfolio, President Donald Trump decided yesterday afternoon to lift, temporarily, most of his arbitrary tariffs. This was his personal decision. His “instinct,” as he put it. His whim. And his decision, instinct, or whim could bring the tariffs back again.
The Republicans who lead Congress have refused to use the power of the legislative branch to stop him or moderate him, in this or almost any other matter. The Cabinet is composed of sycophants and loyalists who are willing to defend contradictory policies, even if doing so makes them look like fools. The courts haven’t decisively intervened yet either. No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning.
This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it. In that famously hot, stuffy room in Philadelphia, windows closed for the sake of secrecy, they sweated and argued about how to limit the powers of the American executive. They arrived at the idea of dividing power between different branches of government. As James Madison wrote in “Federalist No. 47”: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
More than two centuries later, the system created by that first Constitutional Congress has comprehensively failed. The people and institutions that are supposed to check executive power are refusing to restrain this president. We now have a de facto tyrant who thinks he can bend reality to his will without taking any facts or any evidence into consideration, and without listening to any contrary views. And although the economic damage he has caused is easier to measure, he has inflicted the same level of harm to scientific research, to civil liberties, to health care, and to the civil service.
From this wasteful and destructive incident, one useful lesson can be drawn. In recent years, many people who live in democracies have become frustrated by their political systems, by the endless wrangling, the difficulty of creating compromise, the slow pace of decisions. Just as in the first half of the 20th century, would-be authoritarians have begun arguing that we would all be better off without these institutions. “The truth is that men are tired of liberty,” said Mussolini. Lenin spoke with scorn about the failings of so-called bourgeois democracy. In the United States, a brand-new school of techno-authoritarian thinkers find our political system inefficient and want to replace it with a “national CEO,” a dictator by a different name.
But in the past 48 hours, Donald Trump has just given us a pitch-perfect demonstration of why legislatures are necessary, why checks and balances are useful, and why most one-man dictatorships become poor and corrupt. If the Republican Party does not return Congress to the role it is meant to play and the courts don’t constrain the president, this cycle of destruction will continue and everyone on the planet will pay the price.
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Why Trump Paused the Tariffs
A stock-market swoon, or even a recession, might not frighten him, but the prospect of a 2008-style meltdown apparently still does.
By Jonathan Chait | April 9, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/why-trump-paused-
trade-war/682376/
Only yesterday, President Donald Trump was mocking Republicans nervous about his global trade war as “Panicans.” In a defiant speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee, he insisted, “This time I’m doing what I want to do with respect to the tariffs,” and that only he had the courage to defy “the globalists.”
But the globalists turn out to have had enough power to bring Trump to heel after all. This afternoon, the president announced a 90-day pause on what he has called his “reciprocal tariffs” against every country other than China.
According to Charlie Gasparino of Fox News, Trump retreated in the face of troubling developments in the bond market. Asked by reporters, Trump didn’t deny this, noting that, even with a “beautiful” bond market, “I saw last night where people were getting a little queasy.” This was a completely new layer of danger that appeared overnight. Before yesterday evening, the interest rate on Treasury bonds had fallen slightly, a sign of increased demand as nervous investors retreated to the historically safe strategy of lending their savings to the U.S. government. Then, suddenly, investors began pulling money out, sensing that the U.S. government was no longer safe, a prospect that created the risk of everything from higher interest payments on the debt to a full-scale financial crisis.
All of this is to suggest that if a stock-market swoon, or even a recession, does not frighten Trump, the prospect of a 2008-style meltdown apparently still does. And so the gargantuan trade war is back off, for now.
Where does this leave the economy? The new 10 percent tariff on almost every good imported from every country not controlled by Vladimir Putin remains in place. This global flat tax on imports, it must be said, is much closer to the policy he campaigned on in 2024 than the confusing sampler platter of tariffs unveiled on Liberation Day.
That policy is, to be clear, quite harmful. Despite Trump’s rhetoric about reindustrialization, the universal tariff applies indiscriminately to almost every country and product. Some of those products, like coffee and bananas, cannot be practically grown in the United States, and will just get more expensive. Others, like metals and other industrial inputs, will make American manufacturing less competitive, not more.
The stock market surged after Trump’s “pause” announcement, but once the relief wears off, reality is likely to dull investors’ enthusiasm. Goldman Sachs, absorbing the news, has returned to its previous economic forecast, which calls for meager 0.5 percent economic growth this year and a 45 percent chance of recession. That is not the blinking-light disaster that the economy was facing before the pause, but it is still terrible, and much worse than the situation Trump inherited when he took office.
That’s one view, anyway. Within the MAGAverse, Trump’s latest pivot has been hailed as a masterstroke of economic statecraft. Treasury Secretary “Scott Bessent and I sat with the President while he wrote one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of his Presidency,” gushed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on X. (This is plausible, to be fair; “one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of his Presidency” is not exactly the highest bar.) The financier Bill Ackman, who had spent much of the past few days posting (and occasionally deleting) careful critiques of Trump’s tariffs, posted, “This was brilliantly executed by @realDonaldTrump. Textbook, Art of the Deal.”
What deal? Nobody has made a new trade agreement with Trump. To the contrary, other countries have found the administration unable to even articulate its goals or objectives, because Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs are the product of
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Trump’s Dumbest Order Is Hiding His Most Dangerous Rule Change Yet
Donald Trump snuck an insidious change into an executive order on showerheads.
By Edith Olmsted | April 10, 2025/10:42 a.m. ET
https://newrepublic.com/post/193852/donald-trump-dangerous-rule-change
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Buried within Donald Trump’s executive order “undoing the left’s war on water pressure” was a shady phrase to help the president fast-track his deregulatory crusade.
In a section of the order signed Wednesday repealing a 13,000-word regulation defining “showerhead,” Trump noted that notice and comment on the recission would not be accepted.
“Notice and comment is unnecessary because I am ordering the repeal,” the order stated.
Notice-and-comment rulemaking, as outlined by the Administrative Procedure Act, or APA, requires federal agencies to give the public time to comment after presenting a new rule. The agency must then consider all relevant, timely submitted comments before publishing the final rule.
But in his order, Trump implies that because he was the one rewriting the rule, the public would not be given the opportunity to comment, essentially fast-tracking any deregulation effort he pitches in the future.
Legal experts were quick to challenge Trump’s rulemaking rule change.
“This is so illegal. Just utterly, utterly unlawful,” wrote Aaron Reichlin-Melchick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, in an X post Wednesday. “The President cannot overturn the commands of the APA by just declaring ‘because I said so.’”
“If President Biden could have written executive orders requiring rules just be written without comment, we’d have a whole helluva lot of new regulations on the books protecting consumers, workers, and the environment,” Todd Phillips, an assistant law professor at Robinson College of Business, wrote on X.
In a separate post, Phillips warned that rescissions would be challenged “so, so, so quickly. And in the D.C. Circuit.”
In a separate executive order signed Wednesday, Trump ordered U.S. agencies to get moving on rescinding “unlawful” regulations under several Supreme Court decisions, including Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, by once again skipping the process of notice and comment—this time claiming a “good cause” exception.
“In effectuating repeals of facially unlawful regulations, agency heads shall finalize rules without notice and comment, where doing so is consistent with the ‘good cause’ exception in the Administrative Procedure Act,” the order stated. “That exception allows agencies to dispense with notice-and-comment rulemaking when that process would be ‘impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.’”
In February, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a statement revoking its long-standing policy of using notice-and-comment rulemaking, which could potentially allow for expedited reforms to Medicaid programs.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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How to destroy 80 years of monetary credibility in less than 3 months
By Paul Krugman | Apr 11, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-third-worlding-of-america
Oops, they’re doing it again. Major news media organizations sanewashed Donald Trump all through the 2024 campaign, cleaning up his incoherence and downplaying his extreme policy positions. Aaron Rupar reminds us of this:
Quote:It’s hard to know how much that contributed to his victory, but it must have been a factor.
Harris and Trump Embrace Tariffs, Though Their Approaches Differ
Both Democrats and Republicans are expressing support for tariffs to protect American industry, reversing decades of trade thinking in Washington.
But the desire to see Trump as reasonable is a more widely shared syndrome which isn’t confined to the media. It was abetted by the business world, which was gripped by “euphoria” after he won, despite clear signs that he would implement destructive economic policies.
Remarkably, the sanewashing continues despite the unprecedented craziness of the past 10 days. Many observers assert that Trump has backed down on tariffs and will speedily make a bunch of trade deals. The first assertion is just false, while the second is very unlikely.
In fact, savvy traders have realized that there’s no coherent economic strategy. There’s an old line about military analysis: “Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals talk about logistics.” Well, when it comes to taking the pulse of financial markets, amateurs talk about stocks, but professionals talk about bond and currency markets. That’s because bond and currency markets are generally less driven by emotion. There’s no “meme gambling investing” in bond and currency markets. And these markets are both signaling major loss of faith in America.
First, about tariffs: It’s true that for the time being Trump has scaled back some of the tariffs displayed on his big piece of cardboard last week. For example, unless we have another policy swerve, the European Union will now face a 10 percent tariff over the next three months rather than a 20 percent tariff. But the tariff on China, our third-biggest trading partner after Canada and Mexico, has gone from 34 percent to more than 130 percent. And we still have high tariffs on steel, aluminum and so on. In effect, observers who claim that tariffs have gone down are missing the biggest part of the story.
Economists who have actually run the numbers, like those at the Yale Budget Lab, estimate that the April 9 tariff regime will raise consumer prices more than the April 2 regime because of the extraordinarily high tariff rate on Chinese imports. Specifically, the budget lab estimates that the latest version of Trump’s trade war will raise consumer prices by 2.9 percent. This is roughly ten times the probable impact of the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930.
It’s hard to overstate the craziness of announcing a radical tariff plan, then announcing a quite different but equally radical plan just a week later. Furthermore, the claim that the wild zigzags in policy were always part of Trump’s plan just adds to the destruction of the administration’s credibility.
But are these tariffs just an opening gambit for trade negotiations? I doubt it. Bear in mind that Trump and Peter Navarro, his tariff guru, start from the premise that other countries are cheating, that they’re taking advantage of America and treating us unfairly. In fact, however, most of them aren’t. Take the case of the European Union. The EU imposes an average tariff on U.S. goods of just 1.7%, and there aren’t any significant hidden barriers.
So what are we supposed to be negotiating about? Nations can’t promise to lower their trade barriers when there aren’t any barriers. Navarro has been claiming that value-added taxes are de facto tariffs, but they aren’t, and EU nations literally can’t afford to give them up.
I guess other countries might make fake concessions that Trump can claim as fake victories
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In posts published - and later deleted - on X and Instagram on Thursday, ICE declared that it would stop any "ideas" that tried to enter the U.S. "illegally." What idea is de-facto illegal in the United States? None, but that hasn't stopped the Trump administration from increasingly targeting individuals for detention and removal based on their ideology and political beliefs.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ice-pledges-stop-i
llegal-ideas-1235314913/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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In posts published - and later deleted - on X and Instagram on Thursday, ICE declared that it would stop any "ideas" that tried to enter the U.S. "illegally." What idea is de-facto illegal in the United States? None, but that hasn't stopped the Trump administration from increasingly targeting individuals for detention and removal based on their ideology and political beliefs.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ice-pledges-stop-i
llegal-ideas-1235314913/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You're explaining the Joe Biden* administration here.
Or possibly Trudeau when they were locking up Canadian citizens.
Or any numerous European countries who have thrown people in prison for expressing online their problems with their countries being overrun by Muslims.
YOU are the bad guy here.
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How to destroy 80 years of monetary credibility in less than 3 months
By Paul Krugman | Apr 11, 2025
Unless this is about how Joe Biden* added 1/4 of the $37 Trillion dollar debt in a single term, nobody wants to hear a fucking thing out of you, Paul.
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Trump’s Dumbest Order Is Hiding His Most Dangerous Rule Change Yet
Donald Trump snuck an insidious change into an executive order on showerheads.
By Edith Olmsted | April 10, 2025/10:42 a.m. ET
https://newrepublic.com/post/193852/donald-trump-dangerous-rule-change
-executive-order
Buried within Donald Trump’s executive order “undoing the left’s war on water pressure” was a shady phrase to help the president fast-track his deregulatory crusade.
Excellent.
California has yet to begin rebuilding a single house that burned down.
YOUR party is responsible for this.
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Trump needs to stop running around like a man with his hair in fire, and start making intermediate and long term plans. And that includes doing well enuf to get Vance in the WH. Bc, TBH, I think Vance is more logical and systematic. Plus, he needs to get better advisors.
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Well.
Trumpis doing some things right, especially about illegal aliens.
I wish he had the same laser focus on the other things he's trying to accomplish, but he's making hash of his opportunities.
He seems to think he has to ... and can ... solve everything in 100 days. He acts like he has way more leverage than he does. And promising every day that "a deal" is just around the corner .... how stupid does he think we are?
Ukraine.
There's a long bad history of the west screwing with Russia: breaking promises, creating a color revolution, blowing up pipelines, torpedoing negotiations, waging covert war etc. Many reasons for Russia not to trust us. And Trump is in a no-win situation, because NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES, RUSSIA IS GOING TO WIN. So Trump isn't gonna get a cease fire in 1000 days, no matter how much he blusters and bullies. What Trump should do is just stop supporting Ukraine. Right now.
Ending globalization and tariffs.
I think tariffs are an essential part of remaking our economy. But not the ONLY part, and - again- it's not gonna happen in six months, or a year, or even two years. I think Russia did an EXEMPLARY job rebuilding its economy, from being a basket-case kleptocracy in 2000 to being a resilient nearly self-sufficient economy able to withstand everything the west could throw at it - militarily, economically, and financially, in 2022. BUT IT TOOK 22 YEARS TO GET THERE.
China has spent every year since 2008 trying to unhitch itself from the USA market... 15 YEARS. Can it survive an all-out trade war with the USA? I don't know. But CHINA IS A LOT MORE PREPARED THAN WE ARE.
So. Igniting a full-on trade war with China?.
Counterproductive.
Oh BTW... I dont give a fuck what happens to the stock market. Its been one big speculative bubble that the Fed refuses to let pop for over 20 years.
Saving money
The one thing that DOGE uncovered is that nobody really follows any sort of accounting practices. YOU CAN'T SAVE MONEY UNTIL YOU KNOW WHO IS BEING PAID, AND FOR WHAT. So until accounting practices have been followed for at least six months, it's hard to determine what to cut. Also ... a TRILLION DOLLAR DEFENSE BUDGET?
'If Trump breaks the economy he owns it... but if he fixes it, he owns that too' Problem is, NOBODY can fix an economy in two years.
If Trump breaks the economy, he'll lose Congress in two years. Fuck up bad enough, and Vance will lose the WH, and there will go our best chance at a rational national economic strategy. It's not just about Trump.
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Trump needs to stop running around like a man with his hair in fire, and start making intermediate and long term plans. And that includes doing well enuf to get Vance in the WH. Bc, TBH, I think Vance is more logical and systematic. Plus, he needs to get better advisors.
Keep in mind that it is only April 11th. We're not even 100 days in yet, even though Democrats can't stop talking about the 2026 midterms they're going to lose every day.
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Peevish Trumptards Take Revenge!
Pentagon fires Greenland base commander for refuting JD Vance’s remarks
A Pentagon spokesperson suggested that Col. Susannah Meyers “undermined” Vance when she praised the unity of the base’s multinational staff in an email.
By Clarissa-Jan Lim | April 11, 2025, 11:36 AM CDT
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/greenland-base-commander-fire
d-jd-vance-rcna200820
The Pentagon has fired the commander of its base in Pituffik, Greenland, after she refuted remarks that Vice President JD Vance made during his contentious visit to the semi-autonomous Danish territory last month.
On March 31, three days after Vance’s visit, Col. Susannah Meyers wrote an email to the multinational staff at the Pittufik Space Base in which she struck a far more unified tone than the vice president did in his speech.
“I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base,” Meyers wrote in her email, which was first reported by Military.com.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/10/space-force-commander-g
reenland-sent-out-email-breaking-vance-after-his-visit.html
“I commit that for as long as I am lucky enough to lead this base, all of our flags will fly proudly — together,” she added. (Under a 1951 defense agreement with Denmark, when the installation was known as Thule Air Base, the flags of the United States, Greenland and Denmark are required to be flown on the base.)
During his hourslong trip to the Arctic island, Vance accused Denmark of failing the people of Greenland and said they would be safer under U.S. rule. Vance and second lady Usha Vance had a frosty reception from the territory’s residents, who have largely made it clear that they do not want to be a part of the United States.
On Thursday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell posted a statement on X announcing that Meyers had been let go “for loss of confidence in her ability to lead.” His statement suggested that Meyers had behaved in a partisan manner, despite the fact that her email explicitly dismissed politics.
“Actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert President Trump’s agenda will not be tolerated at the Department of Defense,” Parnell wrote in his post, which linked to the article on Military.com.
Meyers is not the first to be punished for displaying less than total fealty to Team Trump. The White House has also purged the Justice Department of career lawyers and replaced them with loyalists. Just last week, a DOJ prosecutor was suspended from his post — two weeks after his promotion — for telling a federal judge that the government had deported a Maryland man to El Salvador by mistake.
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Peevish Trumptards Take Revenge!
Nobody wants to hear it when you retards are out destroying everyone's cars and having other destructive temper tantrums.
We should just send you all to Cecot.
You love illegal criminals so much I'm sure they'd welcome you with open arms.
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Trump needs to stop running around like a man with his hair in fire, and start making intermediate and long term plans. And that includes doing well enuf to get Vance in the WH. Bc, TBH, I think Vance is more logical and systematic. Plus, he needs to get better advisors.
Keep in mind that it is only April 11th. We're not even 100 days in yet, even though Democrats can't stop talking about the 2026 midterms they're going to lose every day.
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SIX, think before posting.
There are SOME things ... purely political ... that can be solved with a Trump decision or a negotiated settlement. For example, allow Biden's "draw down" weaponry to flow into Ukraine but commit to not providing any more money or ISR, starting right now.
Restore diplomatic relations with Russia, give back the diplomatic property that Obama stole, and start negotiating an intermediate range missile treaty with Russia.
But Iran??
WTF??
Trump, when you're trying to put out fires, STOP SETTING MORE.
"Maximum pressure" tactics won't against Russia, China, OR IRAN.
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Energy Secretary Hints At Military Action Against Iran's Global Oil Exports
Friday, Apr 11, 2025 - 05:45 AM
Amid Trump's anti-Iran 'maximum pressure' and the current climate of the White House telling Tehran to negotiate a new nuclear deal or else bombs could fly, fresh statements from US Energy Secretary Chris Wright just added fuel to the fire.
Jeezus, no shit.
Trump thinks he can push nations around like in New York real estate deals. It doesn't work that way. Iran says it doesn't want a nuclear weapon, and Trump and Putin say the same thing. So.... what's the problem???? The only thing to negotiate is how to verify, which is a technical issue. So, once that's dine, release sanctions on Iran and lower oil and gas prices. Everyone will be happy (except SECOND).
BUT THE ECONOMY IS DIFFERENT.
Fixing an economy is a 15 year (or more) effort.
CHINA is not our problem, our financial globalists are our problem who thought the USA could guve up production and reign as the supreme financial power. Dtarting with NAFTA (giant sucking sound"), accepting China into the WTO, and ALMOST signing the TTP/TTIP. If Trump wants to reverse this he's going to have to go head to head against a very powerful set of oligarchs.
So, what's with the military action?
And then there's Trump going around the world, shaking down every nation or land area he can find (Gaza, Panama, Greenland/Denmark, Canada, Taiwan, and every nation that he can tariff) looking like so much as a man frantically digging thru couch cushions looking for a quarter.
I'm all for what Trump is trying to do, but how about .... improving the economy sector by sector, replacing an entire supply chain to ... make automobiles, for example?
AND OUR BUDGET DEFICIT IS AN INTERMEDIATE-RANGE PROBLEM.
It can start heading in the right direction, but won't be eliminated for at least 5 years. And first, the WH needs to know who is getting $$, and for what. Aside from just stopping money waste, entire programs need to be re-evaluated, and it needs to be considered whether ending a program would ultimately cost more $$ than it would save.
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If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.
Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.
Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.
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Quote:6ix, you are out of your fucking little mind with your talk of Democrats Destroying America. Trumptards have done more harm to America just by their over-eating, smoking, drunkenness, tax-cheating, shirking-of-work, incompetence-at-work, spending-rather-than-saving, and abandoning their families than all Democratic politicians have done by being in office. Trumptards are fucking dirtbags and that harms the nation and themselves.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.
Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.
Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.
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Trump’s favorite trick is blowing up in his face
He thinks chaotic behavior gets him better deals. Instead it’s gravely harming the US economy.
By Andrew Prokop | Apr 11, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
https://www.vox.com/politics/408319/trump-tariffs-madman-theory-bonds-
treasury-yields
For many years, Donald Trump has viewed unpredictability as one of his greatest negotiating assets.
He believes deliberately acting “crazy,” as he reportedly told aides in 2017, is a highly effective way to win concessions in advance of a deal. As I’ve written, this is akin to what President Richard Nixon dubbed the “madman theory” — that if he convinced foreign leaders he was willing to do unthinkable things, they’d back down out of fear.
The problem was that savvy observers like investors and foreign leaders caught on to this game. So during Trump’s first term, conventional wisdom set in: Trump may say scary things, but he’s typically bluffing. In the end, he is rational, knows when to step back from the brink, and does not want a truly destructive outcome. Often, there was seemingly good reason to believe this: The pre-pandemic economy remained strong, Trump avoided major new wars, and he didn’t pull out of NATO.
Now, in his second term, Trump has decided to blow up that assumption by imposing chaotic, impulsive, and bizarre tariffs that shake the global economy. He’s not just threatening anymore: He’s actually implementing his destructive and dangerous ideas. (At least for a little while — he did back off some of them on Wednesday amid market turmoil, though others remain.)
It is entirely possible — likely, in my view — that Trump’s hoped-for endgame for his trade war remains a series of “big, beautiful deals,” with details flexible and to be determined and, that in his own mind, all he’s doing is trying to increase his leverage. That is: He’s still trying to implement madman theory.
Even regarding China, where the trade war is most intense, it could well be that Trump will settle for something far short of the massive disruption that truly decoupling our economy from theirs would entail — that the endgame is a deal.
But even if all this is true and Trump’s end goals are not as unreasonable as his current behavior reflects, he’s still doing grave and potentially long-lasting damage to the United States and its reputation and position in the global economy.
Trump is shredding the US’s economic and business reputation
It turns out that trying the madman schtick, not just with individual foreign leaders but with the entire global economy all at once, is far riskier. And it turns out that by actually following through on his threats and putting giant tariffs into effect, Trump crossed an important line. He exploded investors’ conventional wisdom that he would, in the end, back down. So they’re responding — by ditching US bonds and currency.
Now, Trump’s team did anticipate that the trade war might drive the dollar down — some of them even wanted that because it would help make US exports more competitive. They did not, however, anticipate the ominous spikes in US Treasury bond yields. In fact, Trump advisers had previously said they were trying to drive bond yields lower.
US Treasury bonds are typically viewed as an extremely safe asset — they mature with interest after a set period. The interest rate, or “yield,” fluctuates based on market demand. Basically, when investors become more eager to put their money in US bonds, the interest rate drops. But when investors prefer to put money elsewhere, the interest rate goes up (demand for bonds is lower, so a higher interest rate is necessary to make it “worth it” for investors).
Typically, a crisis drives investors to the safe asset of Treasury bonds. But now a Trump-invented crisis is doing the opposite and driving them away. This is a major problem both because US interest payments on its debt will rise and because it heightens the risk of a financial crisis.
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HE CAN'T GET HIS "ECONOMY" AGENDA DONE IN TWO YEARS, PERIOD.
Steel mills, textile mills, chip fabs, metalworking and fabrication plants, heat treating, CNC machines, pharma production, specialty chemicals... dood, you think those are all going to appear by magic, just bc Trump wants???
EVEN IF other nations saw the error of their ways and starting investing in production facilities TOMORROW, they wouldn't be up and running in two years.
THE FISCAL PROBLEM WILL TAKE A FEW YEARS TO SOLVE. And if he's counting on a revived economy generating more revenues ... well, that'll be a long wait!
And constantly announcing that a "new deal" is just around the corner, or YUGE! waste was suddenly discovered is no substitute for RESULTS.
There are some things he can get done right away: Ukraine, Russia.
Stop setting fires with China and Iran.
Stop sending $ to Israel.
Stop trying to shake down nations for spare change (He wants NATO nations to pay us $350 billion for services rendered. Well, so do I but it's not gonna happen.)
He has to future-proof his program by building on success, not making wild promises and taking radical counterproductive actions.
10% tariffs across the board, OK. Higher tariffs on certain products (eg automobiles) OK. Virtual embargo on China-USA trade? Not OK.
Take a deep breath and focus.
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SECOND, stop whinging about stock markets. It's a bubble that should have been popped years ago. Ditto real estate.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you are out of your fucking little mind with your talk of Democrats Destroying America.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.
Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.
Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.
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No. I am not.
Democrats hate America. Democrats hate Americans. Democrats are evil.
Democrats are dead.
Your party is dead.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
HE CAN'T GET HIS "ECONOMY" AGENDA DONE IN TWO YEARS, PERIOD.
Steel mills, textile mills, chip fabs, metalworking and fabrication plants, heat treating, CNC machines, pharma production, specialty chemicals... dood, you think those are all going to appear by magic, just bc Trump wants???
EVEN IF other nations saw the error of their ways and starting investing in production facilities TOMORROW, they wouldn't be up and running in two years.
THE FISCAL PROBLEM WILL TAKE A FEW YEARS TO SOLVE. And if he's counting on a revived economy generating more revenues ... well, that'll be a long wait!
And constantly announcing that a "new deal" is just around the corner, or YUGE! waste was suddenly discovered is no substitute for RESULTS.
There are some things he can get done right away: Ukraine, Russia.
Stop setting fires with China and Iran.
Stop sending $ to Israel.
Stop trying to shake down nations for spare change (He wants NATO nations to pay us $350 billion for services rendered. Well, so do I but it's not gonna happen.)
He has to future-proof his program by building on success, not making wild promises and taking radical counterproductive actions.
10% tariffs across the board, OK. Higher tariffs on certain products (eg automobiles) OK. Virtual embargo on China-USA trade? Not OK.
Take a deep breath and focus.
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Like I've told Second many times before, not a single thing one of us can do about any of it now.
I'm reserving my judgements for later. We'll see what happens.
Good luck everyone.
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Quote:You can buy ammo and shoot some Trumptards. Too aggressive and scary? Fire some Trumptards. Don't have employees? You can sell bonds. That does something. Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Like I've told Second many times before, not a single thing one of us can do about any of it now.
Normally, investors rush into Treasurys at a whiff of economic chaos but now they are selling them as not even the lure of higher interest payments on the bonds is getting them to buy. The freak development has experts worried that big banks, funds and traders are losing faith in America as a good place to store their money.
“The fear is the U.S. is losing its standing as the safe haven,” said George Cipolloni, a fund manager at Penn Mutual Asset Management. “Our bond market is the biggest and most stable in the world, but when you add instability, bad things can happen.”
That could be bad news for consumers in need of a loan — and for President Donald Trump, who had hoped his tariff pause earlier this week would restore confidence in the markets.
https://apnews.com/article/treasurys-bond-market-yield-tariff-46b48187
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There is ALWAYS something that can be done to MAGA. But if you are Trumptard, nothing positive comes to mind. Instead, get a drink and a smoke. Maybe stuff yourself with fast food and break the speed limits and run stoplights. Throw some trash out your car window. That is Trumptard Freedom.
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“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT”
The S&P 500, which tracks the performance of the nation’s top publicly traded companies, posted its largest single-day gain since 2008 after Trump pumped the brakes on part of his tariff scheme, which had sent global markets into a tailspin in recent days.
Trump announced his decision hours after effectively urging Americans to buy stocks in a morning post on Truth Social — though at the time, there was no public information indicating that any kind of tariff announcement was imminent.
How is this not market manipulation?
When Trump’s pause announcement came hours later, U.S. equities skyrocketed, adding over $5 trillion in value to the market in a matter of hours. Elon Musk, a top Trump lieutenant and the world’s richest man, saw his wealth (largely in Tesla stock) soar by nearly $30 billion on Wednesday, according to Forbes‘ real-time billionaire tracker.
Is nobody, no government department, going to jump on this?
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/this-is-a-great-time-to-buy-djt
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“The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on CBS on Sunday.
Bank of America Securities analyst Wamsi Mohan said in a Thursday note that the iPhone 16 Pro, which is currently priced at $1,199, could increase 25% based on labor costs alone. That would make it a roughly $1,500 device.
Here’s how much a ‘Made in the USA’ iPhone would cost
Published Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/heres-how-much-a-made-in-the-usa-iphon
e-would-cost.html
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Everything He Touches Dies
By Andrew Tobias | April 11, 2025
https://andrewtobias.com/everything-he-touches-dies/
It’s not as though we weren’t warned.
Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever.
That was published in 2018.
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This was published a few days after Trump won:
Is Trump trying to kill us? Authoritarian expert says yes. Here’s how.
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Yesterday, The Economist gave us The Age of Chaos: How Trump’s Incoherent Trade Policy Will Do Lasting Damage.
Just a few months ago, The Economist dubbed our economy “the envy of the world.”
Because — despite its problems — it was.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You can buy ammo and shoot some Trumptards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Like I've told Second many times before, not a single thing one of us can do about any of it now.
Go ahead and do it then, faggot.
Stop telling me about it and just do it.
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Originally posted by second:
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT”
The S&P 500, which tracks the performance of the nation’s top publicly traded companies, posted its largest single-day gain since 2008 after Trump pumped the brakes on part of his tariff scheme, which had sent global markets into a tailspin in recent days.
Trump announced his decision hours after effectively urging Americans to buy stocks in a morning post on Truth Social — though at the time, there was no public information indicating that any kind of tariff announcement was imminent.
How is this not market manipulation?
When Trump’s pause announcement came hours later, U.S. equities skyrocketed, adding over $5 trillion in value to the market in a matter of hours. Elon Musk, a top Trump lieutenant and the world’s richest man, saw his wealth (largely in Tesla stock) soar by nearly $30 billion on Wednesday, according to Forbes‘ real-time billionaire tracker.
Is nobody, no government department, going to jump on this?
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/this-is-a-great-time-to-buy-djt
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Shut the fuck up, bitch.
He told everyone online. It's not anything like how Nancy Pelosi made $250 Million doing insider trading her entire political career while you spent decades ignoring it because it was politically inconvenient for you.
That bitch is going to prison, along with a lot of the rest of your dead political party.
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Just a few months ago, The Economist dubbed our economy “the envy of the world.”
Because — despite its problems — it was.
No, it wasn't. Neither Russians nor Chinese envy our so-called economy.
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Quote:And, one day, SECOND will be dead. And when that happens the world will be a better place.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you are out of your fucking little mind with your talk of Democrats Destroying America.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.
Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.
Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.
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No. I am not.
Democrats hate America. Democrats hate Americans. Democrats are evil.
Democrats are dead.
Your party is dead.
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Quote:Signym and 6ix, at the end of the Civil War, the slave-owners refused to acknowledge that they were evil. They never understood that their former way of life, which depended on slaves suffering, was evil. After Reconstruction ended, the former Confederates had an economic system that was almost unchanged, except now the former slave-owners no longer had any legal obligations to treat their laborers with respect and decency. In defeat, they were even worse people than before the War! What I am saying is that evil, selfish, lazy people like Signym and 6ix and Confederates don't see themselves as evil, selfish and lazy. Instead, they complain about virtue-signalling because they absolutely hate anyone who is not evil, selfish and lazy like themselves, characteristics they deny having but which they have in abundance. These rotten people have difficult lives full of tribulations which the rotten people refuse to admit they caused for themselves and they can stop being rotten at anytime, but they won't.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:And, one day, SECOND will be dead. And when that happens the world will be a better place.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you are out of your fucking little mind with your talk of Democrats Destroying America.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.
Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.
Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.
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No. I am not.
Democrats hate America. Democrats hate Americans. Democrats are evil.
Democrats are dead.
Your party is dead.
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P.S. for those who don't know Signym and 6ix: These two have repeatedly shown how evil they both are by writing many, many times the two word sentence Fuck Ukraine.
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Tariffs
https://xkcd.com/3073
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The One Thing That Brought Trump Close to Reality This Week April 12, 2025 5:45 AM
If there’s anything that can get through to Trump …
Last week, Donald Trump set in place a tariff plan that, if carried through, would at least cause a recession and at most put an end to our American-led economic and international order. He then played golf four days in a row. (Respect.) He and his team didn’t necessarily mind the stock market going down 10 or 15 percent—supposedly that would be the temporary pain. The more worrisome sign came when the bond market began to careen off the edge. One particular red alert was how the yield on 10-year Treasurys was shooting directly up, when typically, they should be a safe haven for investors in bear markets. That’s one of those existential signs that the rest of the world is thinking about moving on from you. Trump’s advisers publicly denied that the bond market had anything to do with the Wednesday decision to issue a 90-day “pause” on reciprocal tariffs. Privately, though, they said that was exactly the reason for the climb-down, and Trump himself conceded that markets were getting a little too “yippy” for his taste. Unfortunately, we’re afraid Trump needs to take another look at the bond market. Despite a one-day stock market rally after Trump’s “pause”—which still left tariffs at their highest levels in 100 years—everything resumed crashing by Thursday, with stocks and the dollar down and Treasury yields skyrocketing back up. This is the financial equivalent of someone (in this case, all other countries) breaking up with you via text. We know what we did.
Scott Bessent and other Trumptard dorks claim that everything is going according to plan. What really happened here is that Trump, who thinks that tariffs are a direct tax that the U.S. puts on other countries, did something impossibly reckless, because he could, and then had to begin walking it back. But his deputies have been tasked with conveying these actions as if he had just played the world. “No one creates leverage for himself like POTUS,” Bessent posted. Commerce Secretary Howard “Good Times” Lutnick, sharing a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post announcing the pause, wrote about how he and Bessent sat beside Trump as he drafted “one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of his Presidency.” White House policy chief Stephen Miller wrote that “you have been watching the greatest economic master strategy from an American President in history.” The only thing more head-spinning than some of these lines is that there’s an audience that will believe it.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-tariffs-pause-market
s-still-bad.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Signym and 6ix, at the end
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:And, one day, SECOND will be dead. And when that happens the world will be a better place.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you are out of your fucking little mind with your talk of Democrats Destroying America.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.
Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.
Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.
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No. I am not.
Democrats hate America. Democrats hate Americans. Democrats are evil.
Democrats are dead.
Your party is dead.
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Nobody cares about your opinions.
Meanwhile... in reality.
CNN: "Shocking" Data Shows Americans Believe Republicans Care More About People, Democrats
Are The Party Of The People No More
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/11/enten_shocking_data
_shows_americans_believe_republicans_care_more_about_people_democrats_are_the_party_of_the_people_no_more.html
Your party sucks. You're party is fucking dead.
You suck...
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Tariffs
https://xkcd.com/3073
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Yeah. That just about sums up your average BluSky user's understanding of anything.
It's the same group of college "educated" white kids who think that electricity that comes
out of their wall is magic from Hogwarts.
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Steve Witkoff, ambassador at large. Out of all of Trump's appointees (Rubio, Waltz, Kellogg) he seems to be the only one with his head screwed on straight...
Quote:Since Iran, the USA, and Russia all say they want the same thing [no nuclear weapons in Iran] this should be an easy fix. What Iran probably wants in return is an easing of sanctions.
Trump Envoy In First 'Direct, Constructive' Contact With Iran After Laying Down Red Line
Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 - 12:45 PM
Not very much happened at the much-anticipated 'indirect' meeting between Iranian and US delegations in Oman on Saturday. While Tehran has been emphasizing the indirect nature of the dialogue, President Trump and his top officials have been calling these 'direct' talks.
The main 'positive' is that the two sides didn't yell each other out the room, or make new accusations - instead they agreed to keep the diplomatic engagement going.
"Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, Iranian state television reported Saturday at the end of the first round of talks between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House," The Associated Press reports as the meeting wrapped up.
As for whether they were 'direct' or not, Iranian state did say that Trump regional onvoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi "briefly spoke in the presence of the Omani foreign minister" at the end of the talks.
Last time [JCPOA, Obama] Iran stuck to its side of the deal but the USA ... as usual... failed to ease sanctions as promised.
This time, Iran won't make that same mistake by trusting the USA. There will be credible consequences if the USA fails to live up to its side of the bargain.
Right now, Iran has a credible stockpile of 60% enriched uranium. Nuclear power plants only need 3%, and it's just a short hop from 60% to 90% (they say).
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Those dogs shouldn't have access to anything radioactive.
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Quote:"the USA ... as usual ... failed" is incorrect. It was Trump who failed. The USA kept its promise to lift sanctions, but on May 8, 2018, Trump ordered sanctions re-imposed:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Last time [JCPOA, Obama] Iran stuck to its side of the deal but the USA ... as usual... failed to ease sanctions as promised.
"The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into." - President Donald J. Trump
PROTECTING AMERICA FROM A BAD DEAL: President Donald J. Trump is re-imposing sanctions lifted under the deal.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-do
nald-j-trump-ending-united-states-participation-unacceptable-iran-deal/
May 11, 2020
A worthless withdrawal: Two years since President Trump abandoned the JCPOA
Quote:https://armscontrolcenter.org/a-worthless-withdrawal-two-years-since-p
Two years ago, President Trump withdrew from the JCPOA promising that he could create a better deal and a safer world. He has nothing to show for it now, other than increased U.S. isolation on the global stage and an Iranian government that is closer to a nuclear capability. His maniacal need to follow through on a campaign promise has not only proven to be a worthless gesture, it is now clear that it was a reckless act that has made this country less safe.
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Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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Quote: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:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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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
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Exactly the same
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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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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Quote:And this is where you turn into SECOND and want to see a whole bunch of people wiped out.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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Quote:America would be made great again if all Trumptards were dead. Trumptards are killing themselves, but not fast enough.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:And this is where you turn into SECOND and want to see a whole bunch of people wiped out.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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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.
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.
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Quote:Does not matter if you care or not. There are consequences for Trumptards being stupid:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Exactly the same
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Fuck you too.
Nobody cares about your opinion about anything.
Ask your family and they'll tell you they agree with me.
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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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
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Originally posted by second:Quote:America would be made great again if all Trumptards were dead. Trumptards are killing themselves, but not fast enough.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:And this is where you turn into SECOND and want to see a whole bunch of people wiped out.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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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.
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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Quote: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.
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.
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.
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Originally posted by second:Quote: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.
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.
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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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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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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Muhammad was a prophet and I would say something akin to Jesus. Allah is just another word for god.
Oh and when Elon was throwing around that people into their hundreds were getting Social Security. In a way he was referring to my aunts because IF they were still alive today. They would both be in their hundreds. My oldest would be 122 and the youngest 112.
I worry more about the US than a lot of people do as you are heading down a slipper slope and that is not good.
The US is more or less my family's home. My grandmother's home, her mother's, her parent's, and so on.
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Quote:6ix, do you comprehend the difference between living to 100 years and death at 60? I'm just asking because you don't comprehend the possibility of you being a total asshole as the cause of your early death. That autopsy was for a Trumptard who was a total asshole at work and home causing death at 59 years old.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yes. We already know that Democrat voters live forever because they always make the right choices and none of them have any vices.
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Quote:Signym, you have no proof of that. You just pulled that Japan falsehood out of your ass because you don't want to admit that Trump is a fucking idiot about how finance works and everyone in the bond market, not just Japan, knows it.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, do you comprehend the difference between living to 100 years and death at 60? I'm just asking because you don't comprehend the possibility of you being a total asshole as the cause of your early death. That autopsy was for a Trumptard who was a total asshole at work and home causing death at 59 years old.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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.
We've already been over this many times before. Nobody cares about your anecdotes or your bullshit.
Kevin Drum died at 66 despite voting Democrat all his life.
Shut the fuck up.
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Quote:You are very correct about the path Trump is setting for the US. Here is a long article about where Trump is ultimately taking the country. Chairman Mao once took China very far along the same path. Millions died for Mao's foolishness. In the US the same could happen because of Trump's funny brain telling him what to do next:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I worry more about the US than a lot of people do as you are heading down a slipper slope and that is not good.
The US is more or less my family's home. My grandmother's home, her mother's, her parent's, and so on.
Trump Has Found His Class Enemy
The president unleashes a Marxist theory of power—but against knowledge workers, not billionaires.
By Franklin Foer | April 13, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-waging-war-pro
fessional-class/682409/
Even the educated mind, or perhaps especially the educated mind, is skilled at deflecting harsh realities. That’s why so many white-shoe lawyers have failed to publicly support their colleagues in firms that President Donald Trump has targeted. It’s why universities have barely fought him in court, even as he has butchered their funding. Law partners and university presidents like to talk their way out of problems, and they apparently believe that they can ultimately evade the fate that befalls those who resist Trump. They assume that he merely craves gestures of submission—and that once obeisance has been paid, he will move on to his next target.
That, however, underestimates the social revolution that the Trump administration is trying to unleash. Its goal isn’t just to shatter a few institutions. It intends to crush the power and authority of whole professions, to severely weaken, if not purge, a social class.
The target of the administration’s campaign is a stratum of society that’s sometimes called the professional managerial class, or the PMC, although there’s not one universal moniker that MAGA applies to the group it is now crushing. That group includes society’s knowledge workers, its cognitive elite, the winners of the tournament that is the American meritocracy. It covers not only lawyers, university administrators, and professors, but also consultants, investment bankers, scientists, journalists, and other white-collar workers who have prospered in the information age. Back in the 1990s, as the group began to emerge in its current form, the liberal economics commentator Robert Reich hailed its members as “symbolic analysts”—people who identify and solve problems by thinking through ideas rather than via physical labor. A decade later, the urbanist Richard Florida put forth an even more triumphalist term: the “creative class.” That is, its members had the academic training to master the complexities of a globalized economy, the intellectual skills to conquer the digital world.
Not so long ago, the upper-middle-class Americans who exemplify the PMC would have filled the ranks of both parties. But beginning in the 1990s, professionals began migrating in large numbers to the Democrats. Many affluent people with a cosmopolitan outlook were repelled by the GOP’s social stances and drawn to the economic moderation of politicians such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
As the group made this partisan turn, the right zeroed in on the PMC as the enemy within. Conservative populists didn’t just disagree with the PMC’s political preferences; they accused an institutional elite of conniving to extend its own power. By inculcating a worldview hatched on university campuses—call it progressive or “woke”—this elite hopes to assert its dominion over the rest of society. It masquerades as the purveyor of science and objectivity, but it really is a hegemonic caste.
Animosity to the PMC is a propulsive force in Trump’s second term. Rather than merely replacing its ideological foes—by installing its own appointees in federal agencies—the administration is bent on destroying their institutional homes, and the basis for their livelihood.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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Muhammad was a prophet and I would say something akin to Jesus. Allah is just another word for god.
Not really. Allah and God are very, very different concepts.
Fuck them both. Fuck God too.
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Oh and when Elon was throwing around that people into their hundreds were getting Social Security. In a way he was referring to my aunts because IF they were still alive today. They would both be in their hundreds. My oldest would be 122 and the youngest 112.
If nobody else in your family was still receiving benefits for them after they died, Elon was not talking about anybody in your family.
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I worry more about the US than a lot of people do as you are heading down a slipper slope and that is not good.
The US is more or less my family's home. My grandmother's home, her mother's, her parent's, and so on.
We've been sliding down that slippery slope for over 50 years. It now costs the US $100,000 per second in debt added to the total just to keep up this illusion.
I'm not worried about America at all right now. We're going to end up a lot better off than we were before.
You're probably going to lose quite a bit of stuff though in Canada when this is all over since we're not going to be paying for it anymore.
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Alex Krainer, investment advisor based in Europe, is often worth a listen. I found this insightful
Neither URL works directly. You may have to copy-paste.
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Alex Krainer, investment advisor based in Europe, is often worth a listen. I found this insightful
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Neither URL works directly. You may have to copy-paste.
Boy... I don't know what happened to your original links. They were both wrong for totally different reasons.
I'm re-posting them now, but the 2nd "live" video may not work here no matter what we do here.
ETA: Yeah. That's what I figured. The Live youtube links work as well on fff.net as the youtube shorts do, which is to say not at all.
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Quote:Lessons Learned From Kevin Drum’s Death
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We've already been over this many times before. Nobody cares about your anecdotes or your bullshit.
Kevin Drum died at 66 despite voting Democrat all his life.
Shut the fuck up.
Long ago, when I worked for other people, I would trace back the causes of the explosions that destroyed their various petrochemical plants. The idea was to engineer a new plant which avoids the long series of stupid design mistakes that caused the ultimate disaster in the old plant.
The same can be done for the stupid mistakes of Trump, but other people have already analyzed what Trump is doing and can prove, before it happens, that Trump will cause an explosion that destroys property.
Conclusion: It took less than a month for incompetent doctors to kill Kevin Drum. It will take longer for Trump to kill the people he is supposed to be serving, but he will get there, eventually. Starting at the end:
My husband Kevin Drum passed away on Friday, March 7, 2025.
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-100/
Kevin Drum Published on March 4, 2025 – 11:43 am
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-99/
Everything is getting worse:
Other counts are getting worse and I feel terrible. Nonetheless they're slow walking the immunoglobulin treatment, which I think is my only chance. These guys are going to kill me before they figure out what's wrong.
Kevin Drum March 1, 2025 – 2:32 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-96/
When I first got to the hospital my inflammation level was sky-high. An IV steroid quickly got that down. But a couple of days ago, in their rush to discharge me, they switched to an oral steroid. Bad idea. The next day they switched back, but it was too late.
Kevin Drum February 27, 2025 – 2:38 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-95/
I walked about 15 feet today. Woo hoo!
The doctors are getting eager to kick me out, but I'm a little reluctant. Nor am I excited about moving to a skilled nursing facility for a week. At this point, I think I'm going to bargain for a Sunday or Monday release, at which point I hope to be able to hobble around for 50 feet or so.
Kevin Drum February 14, 2025 – 2:59 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-91/
Not a good day. Nothing is improving and my breathing is very shallow. Still waiting for the immunoglobulin stimulant to kick in. That might start a recovery. If not, we're running out of options.
Kevin Drum February 13, 2025 – 6:24 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-90/
Pneumonia appears slightly better today. Maybe. Hard to tell for sure.
My oncologist finally showed up this afternoon and finally agreed my immune system was shot. A multiple myeloma specialist tells me this is a common side effect of bispecific therapies like Talvey. Oh.
So we've agreed on a treatment that spurs regrowth of immunoglobulins. It will take a week or three to have an effect. It's too bad we didn't start this three weeks ago when we first knew. (NOT SURPRISING THAT KEVIN DRUM WOULD BE DEAD IN THREE WEEKS. TOO BAD THAT HIS DOCTORS ARE STUPID, LAZY MOTHERFUCKERS, PLAYING GOLF EVERYDAY, WHO CAN’T ANTICIPATE OBVIOUS PROBLEMS. But so is Trump.)
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We've already been over this many times before. Nobody cares about your anecdotes or your bullshit.
Kevin Drum died at 66 despite voting Democrat all his life.
Shut the fuck up.
Long ago, when I worked for other people, I would trace back the causes of the explosions that destroyed their various petrochemical plants. The idea was to engineer a new plant which avoids the long series of stupid design mistakes that caused the ultimate disaster in the old plant.
The same can be done for the stupid mistakes of Trump, but other people have already analyzed what Trump is doing and can prove, before it happens, that Trump will cause an explosion that destroys property.
Conclusion: It took less than a month for incompetent doctors to kill Kevin Drum. It will take longer for Trump to kill the people he is supposed to be serving, but he will get there, eventually. Starting at the end:
My husband Kevin Drum passed away on Friday, March 7, 2025.
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-100/
Kevin Drum Published on March 4, 2025 – 11:43 am
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-99/
Everything is getting worse:
Other counts are getting worse and I feel terrible. Nonetheless they're slow walking the immunoglobulin treatment, which I think is my only chance. These guys are going to kill me before they figure out what's wrong.
Kevin Drum March 1, 2025 – 2:32 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-96/
When I first got to the hospital my inflammation level was sky-high. An IV steroid quickly got that down. But a couple of days ago, in their rush to discharge me, they switched to an oral steroid. Bad idea. The next day they switched back, but it was too late.
Kevin Drum February 27, 2025 – 2:38 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-95/
I walked about 15 feet today. Woo hoo!
The doctors are getting eager to kick me out, but I'm a little reluctant. Nor am I excited about moving to a skilled nursing facility for a week. At this point, I think I'm going to bargain for a Sunday or Monday release, at which point I hope to be able to hobble around for 50 feet or so.
Kevin Drum February 14, 2025 – 2:59 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-91/
Not a good day. Nothing is improving and my breathing is very shallow. Still waiting for the immunoglobulin stimulant to kick in. That might start a recovery. If not, we're running out of options.
Kevin Drum February 13, 2025 – 6:24 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-90/
Pneumonia appears slightly better today. Maybe. Hard to tell for sure.
My oncologist finally showed up this afternoon and finally agreed my immune system was shot. A multiple myeloma specialist tells me this is a common side effect of bispecific therapies like Talvey. Oh.
So we've agreed on a treatment that spurs regrowth of immunoglobulins. It will take a week or three to have an effect. It's too bad we didn't start this three weeks ago when we first knew. (NOT SURPRISING THAT KEVIN DRUM WOULD BE DEAD IN THREE WEEKS. TOO BAD THAT HIS DOCTORS ARE STUPID, LAZY MOTHERFUCKERS, PLAYING GOLF EVERYDAY, WHO CAN’T ANTICIPATE OBVIOUS PROBLEMS. But so is Trump.)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Oh. I see. Kevin Drum's death wasn't his fault. How could it be? He voted Democrat his entire life.
Shut the fuck up.
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