Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:Perhaps Trump will see that Ted Kaczynski is an intellectual Trumptard and pardon him, posthumously:
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The MAGA cinematic universe has gone into full meltdown after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest deportation push — targeting a group of Venezuelan men in Texas — to allow an ongoing ACLU lawsuit against the deportations to play out.
“Generations of lawyers and judges, on both sides of the aisle, have been infected with a parasitical ideology that denies reason and common sense,” the Trump-appointed Department of Homeland Security liaison Paul Ingrassia wrote.
That the justices Trump appointed — Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett — appeared to side against him is an especially bitter pill for the MAGA faithful.
That's not what happened here.
We're creating lasting precedent that you dumb mongoloids aren't going to be able to reverse with a simple executive order the next time you get power, if you ever get power again.
There's a method to this. We can't just throw a court case on their laps if it hasn't gone up through the proper channels.
Thankfully, you dumb assholes have no idea what you're doing and in your panic you're fast-tracking cases you should have left for when you were in power, and the media is goading them into doing it everyday with articles just like this.
This will officially be before the Supreme Court soon enough and you're going to lose everything on this issue. Forever.
We can wait a month or two for that.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed your cheap hit of dopamine from the headline.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Question: Kaczynski writes that “There is good reason to believe that primitive man suffered from less stress and frustration and was better satisfied with his way of life than modern man is.” I think a lot of people could find some truth in that statement. What was he trying to get across with this manifesto?
In the passage, you’ve just quoted, what he’s arguing is basically that human beings are biologically maladapted to the modern world. This is a big claim from evolutionary psychology. The argument is that, biologically speaking, we’re still Stone Age hunter-gatherers. We evolved hunting large animals on the savannah and in the span of just 10,000 years — the blink of an eye in evolutionary terms — we’ve constructed this world of concrete, steel, and screens. So Kaczynski argues that because of this, we suffer from depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, and so many other psychological pathologies that so-called primitive human beings do not.
Q: And what’s his solution?
His solution is to destroy all modern technology and return ourselves to a more primitive condition, to crash out of the modern world. What he envisions is a group of anti-tech revolutionaries sabotaging the electric grid, blowing up the gas pipelines, and attacking the nervous system, so to speak, of modern society. He wanted to plunge us back into, if not the Stone Age, then something like small-scale agriculture and a shepherd society.
Q: How was this manifesto received in the ’90s when it was published by the Washington Post and delivered to front porches around the country? And how has his reputation changed over time?
Well, there was a lot of debate about it. Many journalists treated Kaczynski as a serious intellectual, and many members of the public, in letters to the editor and on talk radio shows, hailed him as a folk hero. He was often described as a modern-day Thoreau.
Q: Who are the types of people who are glomming on to this manifesto?
During the Unabomber mania of the mid-1990s, Kaczynski gained a following on the radical left, especially among green anarchists. But he’s returned to cultural prominence with the
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The MAGA cinematic universe has gone into full meltdown after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest deportation push — targeting a group of Venezuelan men in Texas — to allow an ongoing ACLU lawsuit against the deportations to play out.
“Generations of lawyers and judges, on both sides of the aisle, have been infected with a parasitical ideology that denies reason and common sense,” the Trump-appointed Department of Homeland Security liaison Paul Ingrassia wrote.
That the justices Trump appointed — Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett — appeared to side against him is an especially bitter pill for the MAGA faithful.
That's not what happened here.
We're creating lasting precedent that you dumb mongoloids aren't going to be able to reverse with a simple executive order the next time you get power, if you ever get power again.
There's a method to this. We can't just throw a court case on their laps if it hasn't gone up through the proper channels.
Thankfully, you dumb assholes have no idea what you're doing and in your panic you're fast-tracking cases you should have left for when you were in power, and the media is goading them into doing it everyday with articles just like this.
This will officially be before the Supreme Court soon enough and you're going to lose everything on this issue. Forever.
We can wait a month or two for that.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed your cheap hit of dopamine from the headline.
Tick Tock
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Do not reply to anything I post with a trash Vox article.
Ted Kaczynski has nothing to do with the fact that Democrats are going to lose this issue in the supreme court, and swiftly. And they could have prevented setting this precedent forever, if they weren't in full-blown panic mode and desperate for a win anywhere.
SPOILER ALERT: They're not going to get it here.
Tick Tock
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:“It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences.” — Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do not reply to anything I post with a trash Vox article.
Ted Kaczynski has nothing to do with the fact that Democrats are going to lose this issue in the supreme court, and swiftly. And they could have prevented setting this precedent forever, if they weren't in full-blown panic mode and desperate for a win anywhere.
SPOILER ALERT: They're not going to get it here.
Tick Tock
Trump has said the same, but in far more words.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Why not cancel SmartPay's contract and give the contract to a startup with no reputation, but you own the startup and can keep the profits for yourself?
Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program
A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards,” one expert said.
By Christopher Bing and Avi Asher-Schapiro | April 17, 2025, 10:30 a.m. EDT
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-peter-thiel-ramp-gsa-smartpay
-expense-payment-system
Four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, financial technology startup Ramp published a pitch for how to tackle wasteful government spending. In a 4,000-word blog post titled “The Efficiency Formula,” Ramp’s CEO and one of its investors echoed ideas similar to those promoted by Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk: Federal programs were overrun by fraud, and commonsense business techniques could provide a quick fix.
It didn’t take long for Ramp to find a willing audience. Within Trump’s first three months in office, its executives scored at least four private meetings with the president’s appointees at the General Services Administration, which oversees major federal contracting. Some of the meetings were organized by the nation’s top procurement officer, Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service.
The special attention Gruenbaum paid to Ramp raised flags inside and outside the agency. “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards that are set up to prevent contracts from being awarded based on who you know,” said Scott Amey, the general counsel with the bipartisan Project on Government Oversight. He said career civil servants should lead the process to pick the best choice for taxpayers.
The high level attention Ramp received was unusual, especially before a bid had been made public. “You don’t want to give this impression that leadership has already decided the winner somehow.”
Ramp’s meetings with Gruenbaum — who comes from private equity firm KKR and has no prior government experience — came at an opportune moment. GSA will decide by year’s end whether to extend the SmartPay contract, and preparations are afoot for the next generation of the program. SmartPay has been worth hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for the financial institutions that currently operate it, U.S. Bank and Citibank.
Gruenbaum and acting GSA administrator Stephen Ehikian entered the agency with a strong belief that SmartPay and other government payment programs were rife with fraud or waste, causing huge losses, sources within GSA say — an idea echoed in Ramp’s January memo.
Yet both GOP and Democratic budget experts, as well as former GSA officials, describe that view as ill-informed. SmartPay, which provides Visa and Mastercard charge cards to government employees, enables the federal workforce to purchase office supplies and equipment, book travel and pay for gas.
The cards typically are used to fund travel and purchases up to $10,000.
“SmartPay is the lifeblood of the government,” said former GSA commissioner Sonny Hashmi, who oversaw the program. “It’s a well-run program that solves real world problems … with exceptional levels of oversight and fraud prevention already baked in.”
Jessica Riedl, a GOP budget expert at the conservative Manhattan Institute think tank, said the notion that there was significant fraud in the charge card technology was far-fetched. She had criticized waste in government credit card programs before the latest SmartPay system was implemented in 2018.
“This was a huge problem about 20-25 years ago,” she said. “In the past 15 years, there have been new controls put into government credit card purchases.”
A 2017 audit of the program by the Government Accountability Office concluded there was “little evidence of potential fraud” in SmartPay small purchases.
GSA’s ne
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What If China Wins the Trade War?
The United States could still prevail if it does everything right. The problem is that the Trump administration is doing everything wrong.
By Rogé Karma | April 20, 2025, 7:30 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/china-trump-trade-
war/682524/
If Donald Trump were trying to lose his trade war with China, it’s hard to see what he would be doing differently. The president’s gambit is likely to strengthen China’s geopolitical position, embolden Beijing militarily, and diminish both the United States’ global standing and its economy.
Earlier this month, Trump increased tariffs on all goods from China to 145 percent. China, in turn, responded with 125 percent tariffs on American goods, plus more targeted measures. This is a classic trade war: two countries engaged in a tit-for-tat escalation of trade barriers, each with the goal of forcing the other country to back down and, at least in theory, agree to certain concessions.
The Trump administration believes that it has the upper hand in this fight. “We export one-fifth to them of what they export to us,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently remarked, “so that is a losing hand for them.” That view has things backwards. The fact that the American economy is hooked on Chinese goods is a massive weakness for the U.S., not an advantage. For many categories of goods, China is not only America’s top supplier but also the world’s dominant supplier, meaning that the U.S. can’t simply get them from other countries. According to data gathered by Jason Miller, a professor at Michigan State University who specializes in supply-chain management, China produces more than 70 percent of the world’s lithium-ion batteries, air conditioners, and cookware; more than 80 percent of the world’s smartphones, kitchen appliances, and toys; and about 90 percent of the world’s solar panels and processed rare earth minerals, the latter of which are crucial inputs to cars, phones, and several key military technologies.
Pivoting to producing these goods at home would take years, if not decades: It would involve forming new companies, building new factories, creating supply chains from scratch, and training fleets of workers. For it to happen at all, companies would have to be confident that the tariffs would be in place for the long term. China, meanwhile, is only heavily dependent on the U.S. for a small fraction of its imports, and most of those items, such as soybeans and sorghum, can be imported from elsewhere.
Chinese businesses will be hurt by losing access to the American market, but that is an easier problem to solve. China can redirect some of its exports to countries in Europe and East Asia, whose citizens also need phones, toys, and toasters. Beijing could also give money to its own citizens to create more demand for its products at home and provide subsidies to its businesses to help them remain solvent. This asymmetry gives China what the economist Adam Posen calls “escalation dominance”: the ability to inflict disproportionate harm on its economic enemy.
China’s advantage has been bolstered by years of meticulous preparation. Multiple China watchers told me that Trump’s 2018 trade war—in which, at its height, the U.S. imposed an average tariff of about 20 percent on Chinese goods—convinced Beijing that it had to be ready to engage in economic combat at a moment’s notice. Since then, China has invested heavily in such industries as energy, agriculture, and semiconductor production to reduce its dependence on American imports, while pursuing a concerted strategy to consume more goods at home and find new non-U.S. export markets. The goal of these efforts, in the words of Chinese President Xi Jinping, is to “ensure the normal operation of the national economy under extreme circumstances.”
Beijing has also built an arsenal of offensive economic weapons. Already, China has responded to Trump’s tra
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FDA Removing Pharmaceutical Representatives From Advisory Panels
MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fda-removing-pharmaceutical-represen
tatives-advisory-panels
Woohoo!
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Announces Actions to Lower Prescription Drug Prices
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It delivers lower drug prices for Medicare and the seniors who rely on it by:
Improving the Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiation Program in order to eclipse the 22% in savings achieved in the program’s first year.
Aligning Medicare payment for certain prescription drugs with the cost by which hospitals actually acquire them, which can be 35% lower than what the government currently pays.
Standardizing Medicare payments for prescription drugs, such as cancer treatments, regardless of where the patient receives care, which can lower prices by as much as 60%.
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The Order helps states reduce drug prices by:
Facilitating importation programs that could save states millions in prescription drug costs. [but doesn't that run headlong into tariffs?]
MORE AT https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-do
nald-j-trump-announces-actions-to-lower-prescription-drug-prices/
More yay!
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HHS Stops Funding For Next-Generation COVID-19 Vaccine
An official with HHS told The Epoch Times in an email, “The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago when there are other emerging public health threats that we can better prioritize resources for.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hhs-stops-funding-next-generation-
covid-19-vaccine
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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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Originally posted by second:Quote:“It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences.” — Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do not reply to anything I post with a trash Vox article.
Ted Kaczynski has nothing to do with the fact that Democrats are going to lose this issue in the supreme court, and swiftly. And they could have prevented setting this precedent forever, if they weren't in full-blown panic mode and desperate for a win anywhere.
SPOILER ALERT: They're not going to get it here.
Tick Tock
Trump has said the same, but in far more words.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Shut the fuck up. Stupid.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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“It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences.” — Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future
Trump has said the same, but in far more words.
Only SECOND would try to conflate Trump ... who's trying to reindustrialize America... with Kaczynski, who wanted to destroy industry.
Next thing you know, SECOND will conflate Trump with Hitler! Or Putin! Ot slave owning Confederates!
Oh, wait...
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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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US Housing Market May Finally See Relief As Foreign Buyers, Illegals And Airbnbs Disappear
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-housing-market-may-finally-see-re
lief-foreign-buyers-illegals-and-airbnbs-disappear
Homes for living in, not as investments?
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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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Quote:It is common for Trumptards to deny they are racists, but Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears. Paranoid about losing their majority status and the power it confers, white Americans keep backing Trump’s racist anti-immigrant policies.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
“It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences.” — Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future
Trump has said the same, but in far more words.
Only SECOND would try to conflate Trump ... who's trying to reindustrialize America... with Kaczynski, who wanted to destroy industry.
Next thing you know, SECOND will conflate Trump with Hitler! Or Putin! Ot slave owning Confederates!
Oh, wait...
James Risen | April 20 2025, 7:00 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/20/trump-racism-white-demographic-fea
rs-immigration/
GETTYSBURG — This is the most American of towns. It is where Robert E. Lee tried to destroy the nation, where Abraham Lincoln tried to heal it, and where William Faulkner revealed a century later that the country was still irretrievably racist and broken.
Even though much of its bloody Civil War past is hidden behind McDonald’s and Burger King and Dairy Queen and Walmart, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, today is still the symbolic capital of the endless American fight over the nation’s history.
Inevitably, that fight always comes down to race.
And so that means that this is the town that best explains Donald Trump.
Once you understand that Trump’s rise is all about white fears and white power — the same motivations that triggered the Civil War — the Trump agenda begins to make sense.
Gettysburg is where the Confederates invaded the North to make their ultimate bid to protect slavery and white supremacy. Pickett’s Charge, on July 3, 1863, the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg, lives on in Southern mythology as the so-called “high tide of the Confederacy,” the closest that Southerners believe they came to winning the Civil War.
But it really wasn’t that close. Pickett’s Charge was a disaster for the Confederates, a bloody massacre of thousands of rebel troops. After Gettysburg, it was just a matter of time before the Confederacy’s ultimate defeat.
Lincoln recognized Gettysburg’s real significance as the beginning of the end and so came here to give his most iconic speech to explain what the war was about. When he said in his Gettysburg Address that “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” Americans at the time understood what he meant: an oligarchic slavocracy could not be allowed to run the nation.
But after Lee surrendered at Appomattox and the war ended in 1865, there were still millions of white people in the South who refused to accept the death of the slavocracy, while many more of their descendants have never accepted that white people and Black people can truly live as equals.
In his Yoknapatawpha County masterpiece, “Intruder in the Dust,” Faulkner revealed in 1948 what Southern white people really thought about race and American history. If only they could try Pickett’s Charge again:
“For every Southern boy fourteen years old … there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods … it’s all in the balance … we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think this time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory.”
What even Faulkner couldn’t imagine was that white people all across the nation would eventually come to sympathize with and perhaps even share that Confederate fantasy.
It is white hysteria, the same phenomenon that gripped the ant
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