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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Sunday, April 13, 2025 11:24 PM
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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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Sunday, April 13, 2025 11:29 PM
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.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Sunday, April 13, 2025 11:32 PM
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.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Sunday, April 13, 2025 11:38 PM
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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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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Sunday, April 13, 2025 11:39 PM
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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Sunday, April 13, 2025 11:43 PM
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Sunday, April 13, 2025 11:44 PM
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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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Sunday, April 13, 2025 11:52 PM
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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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Monday, April 14, 2025 12:17 AM
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.)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Monday, April 14, 2025 12:35 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by second: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.)
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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