Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:Donald Trump has been treated very, very badly. At least that’s what he says all the time, and there’s no reason to doubt that it’s how he feels. Hardly a day goes by without an outburst like this:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up. Stupid.
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing — But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!!
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Above all, he clearly feels rage toward people who, he imagines, think they’re smarter or better than him.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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its changing, stocks are crazy, promised Epstein files never released, the country has those hotheads everywhere, still divided but maybe even more
and now they deport Vets people who served in the Army get shipped off to some foreign prison?
but let's kick those Eskimos out of Greenland and claim those Ores and real estate Treasures on the ice cube!
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Quote:Warren Buffett’s Response to President Trump’s Tariffs Is a Lesson For Every Leader
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up. Stupid.
Buffett knows what every leader should learn: saying nothing says a lot.
April 21, 2025
President Trump shared a video on his Truth Social account that said Warren Buffett called Trump’s economic moves “the best he’d seen in 50 years.” That would certainly be quite the endorsement from the world’s most famous investor.
Berkshire Hathaway issued a statement in response. “There are reports currently circulating on social media (including Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok) regarding comments allegedly made by Warren E. Buffett. All such reports are false,” the statement said.
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/warren-buffetts-response-to-president-t
rumps-tariffs-is-a-lesson-for-every-leader/91178877
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The United States is turning itself into an emerging market. There are set patterns that we associate with mature democracies. There are set patterns that we associate with developing countries, for which some people would use the term “banana republic.”
In mature democracies, it’s institutions that dominate; in banana republics, it’s personalities that dominate.
In mature democracies, it’s the rule of law that governs interactions between businesses and between business and government; in emerging markets, it’s personalities, personal connections, and loyalty.
In mature democracies, the central bank and finance sites are independent relative to politics; in emerging markets, that is much more in question.
In mature democracies, the goal is interaction, openness, and prosperity along with the world; in immature democracies, in emerging markets, it is nationalist economic policies tied to particular interests.
Trump is transforming the United States into Juan Perón’s Argentina.
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/04/larry-summers-on-harvard
s-showdown-with-trump.html
There is a huge amount of confusion inside Argentina about how its economy crashed, but it is very simple from outside Argentina. The vast majority of the poorest voters have been deluding themselves all of their lives. They went completely Trumptard but for Perón, not Trump. They even called themselves Perónists.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68126858
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Trump’s Cultural Revolution
The first thing we do is we kill intellectual inquiry
He clearly feels rage toward people who, he imagines, think they’re smarter or better than him.
And he and the movement he leads, composed of people possessed by similar rage, are seeking retribution. Retribution against whom? Yes, they hate wokeness. But three months in, it’s obvious that the MAGA types want revenge not just on their political opponents but on everyone they consider elites — a group that, as they see it, doesn’t include billionaires, but does include college professors, scientists and experts of any kind.
It took no time at all for the Trumpists to move from trying to purge government agencies of DEI to trying to control the content of medical journals.
Don’t try to sanewash what’s happening. It’s evil, but it isn’t calculated evil. That is, it’s not a considered political strategy, with a clear end goal. It’s a visceral response from people who, as Thomas Edsall puts it, are addicted to revenge.
If you want a model for what’s happening to America, think of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
But wait, wasn’t Mao hard left while America has been taken over by the hard right? Well, why do you think there’s a big difference between the two? I’m a believer in horseshoe theory, which says that the extreme left and the extreme right are more like each other than either is like the political center. For example, among Britain’s unions there is a hard-left faction that has no counterpart in the United States. Some of its positions, notably making apologies for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, look a lot like MAGA.
And in America some leftist commentators have effectively become spokesmen for the tech-bro right.
Once you’ve seen the parallel between what MAGA is trying to do and China’s Cultural Revolution, the similarities are everywhere. Maoists sent schoolteachers to do farm labor; Trumpists are talking about putting civil servants to work in factories.
The Cultural Revolution was, of course, a huge disaster for China. It inflicted vast suffering on its targets and also devastated the economy. But the Maoists didn’t care. Revenge was their priority, never mind the effects on GDP.
The Trumpists are surely the same. Their rampage will, if unchecked, have dire economic consequences. Right now we’re all focused on tariff madness, but undermining higher education and crippling scientific research will eventually have even bigger costs. But don’t expect them to care, or even to acknowledge what’s happening. Trump has already declared that the inflation everyone can see with their own eyes is fake news.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-cultural-revolution
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Krugman citing Mao.
I've seen everything now.
Don't Democrats have any mirrors in their houses?
Bet you wish you didn't lie all the time before now, huh Paul?
Ain't nobody listening to you anymore. 
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Quote:Parallels between now and then:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Krugman citing Mao.
I've seen everything now.
Don't Democrats have any mirrors in their houses?
Bet you wish you didn't lie all the time before now, huh Paul?
Ain't nobody listening to you anymore.
Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs
By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.
By Timothy W. Ryback | April 20, 2025, 8 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/nazi-germany-tariffs
-trade/682521/
From almost the moment Adolf Hitler took office as chancellor of Germany, tariffs were at the top of his government’s economic agenda. The agricultural sector’s demands for higher tariffs “must be met,” Hitler’s economic minister, Alfred Hugenberg, declared on Wednesday, February 1, 1933, just over 48 hours into Hitler’s chancellorship, “while at the same time preventing harm to industry.” Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath was concerned about lumber imports from Austria and a 200-million-reichsmark trade deal with Russia. With several trade agreements about to expire, Hitler’s finance minister, Count Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, insisted that “immediate decisions” needed to be made. Hitler told his cabinet he had only one priority—to avoid “unacceptable unrest” in advance of the March 5 Reichstag elections, which he saw as key to his hold on power.
Hitler had what one might call a diffident, occasionally felonious disregard for financial matters. He owed 400,000 reichsmarks in back taxes. His understanding of economics was primitive. “You have inflation only if you want it,” Hitler once said. “Inflation is a lack of discipline. I will see to it that prices remain stable. I have my S.A. for that.” (The S.A., or Brownshirts, were the original paramilitary organization associated with the Nazi Party.) Hitler held Jews responsible for most of Germany’s financial woes.
Hitler relied on Gottfried Feder, the National Socialist Party’s long-serving chief economist, to develop the specifics of an economic program. Feder had helped concoct the strange brew of socialism and fanatical nationalism in the original 25-point program of this putative “workers’ party.” In May 1932, Feder outlined what would become the first Nazi economic plan, in a 32-page position paper designed for ready implementation were Hitler to suddenly find himself in power. High on Feder’s agenda for a Hitler economy were tariffs.
“National Socialism demands that the needs of German workers no longer be supplied by Soviet slaves, Chinese coolies, and Negroes,” Feder wrote. Germany needed German workers and farmers producing German goods for German consumers. Feder saw “import restrictions” as key to returning the German economy to the Germans. “National Socialism opposes the liberal world economy, as well as the Marxist world economy,” Feder wrote. Our fellow Germans must “be protected from foreign competition.”
Even though Hitler’s own foreign minister, Konstantin von Neurath, was concerned that the strategy would spark a trade war, and could drive up the price of imported eggs by 600 percent, Feder’s tariffs fit into Hitler’s larger vision for “liberating” the German people from the shackles of a globalized world order.
The crash of 1929 had plunged Germany, along with much of the rest of the world, into an abyss. Markets collapsed. Factories were idled. Unemployment soared. In the early 1930s, one out of three German workers was unemployed. But Hitler had inherited a recovering economy: In December 1932, the German Institute for Economic Research reported that the crisis had been “significantly overcome”; by the time Hitler was appointed chancellor, in January 1933, the economy was on the mend.
Thus Hitler’s main economic task as chancellor was not to mess things up. The German stock market had rallied on news of his coming to power. “The Boerse recovered today from its weakness when it learned of Adolf Hitl
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Lech Walesa Letter to President Trump
Angry Bear | April 21, 2025 5:08 pm
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/lech-walesa-letter-to-president-trum
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. . . We urge the USA to stand by the promises made in 1994 with the Budapest Memorandum. At that time, the USA and the United Kingdom guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for the country giving up its nuclear weapons. Those promises were unconditional – nowhere does it say that this support should be considered a financial deal.
Sincerely,
Lech Walesa, former political prisoner and president of Poland
Original at
https://www.facebook.com/lechwalesa/posts/1205977244231523?ref=embed_p
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Originally posted by second:
Lech Walesa Letter to President Trump
Angry Bear | April 21, 2025 5:08 pm
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/lech-walesa-letter-to-president-trum
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. . . We urge the USA to stand by the promises made in 1994 with the Budapest Memorandum. At that time, the USA and the United Kingdom guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for the country giving up its nuclear weapons. Those promises were unconditional – nowhere does it say that this support should be considered a financial deal.
Sincerely,
Lech Walesa, former political prisoner and president of Poland
Original at
https://www.facebook.com/lechwalesa/posts/1205977244231523?ref=embed_p
ost
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Go get some fucking nukes. See how that works out for you.
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Quote:Wow! It was only one short paragraph, but you completely misunderstood it, 6ix. Once again, I see why Trumptards struggle in America. How can they understand more complicated ideas if they can't get the simplest idea, such as that Trump should not steal money from Ukraine? Here is another idea Trumptards don't understand: Do as promised (in this case, keep the promise of guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity).
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Lech Walesa Letter to President Trump
Angry Bear | April 21, 2025 5:08 pm
https://angrybearblog.com/2025/04/lech-walesa-letter-to-president-trum
p
. . . We urge the USA to stand by the promises made in 1994 with the Budapest Memorandum. At that time, the USA and the United Kingdom guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for the country giving up its nuclear weapons. Those promises were unconditional – nowhere does it say that this support should be considered a financial deal.
Sincerely,
Lech Walesa, former political prisoner and president of Poland
Original at
https://www.facebook.com/lechwalesa/posts/1205977244231523?ref=embed_p
ost
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Go get some fucking nukes. See how that works out for you.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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