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Quote:The Borowitz Report
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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops
Trump Explodes with Rage after Gavin Newsom Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 7, 2025
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-explodes-with-rage-after-gavin
OSLO (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump reportedly "exploded with rage" on Tuesday after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to California Governor Gavin Newsom.
In its official statement, the Nobel committee praised Newsom for "demonstrating his dedication to the principle of peace by preventing an armed conflict between California and Oregon."
Though the committee did not bestow its prize on Trump, it did recognize him with a laser printed "certificate of participation."
"Deciding who will win the Peace Prize is an exhausting and stressful process," the committee stated. "Donald Trump's entry gave us many hours of welcome laughter."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Trump and Stephen Miller See Insurrection Everywhere
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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops
By Ed Kilgore | Oct 7, 2025 4:35 PM
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-and-stephen-miller-see-i
nsurrection-everywhere.html
Nine months into the second Donald Trump administration, the legal and political issues underlying nearly all the conflicts between Trump and his critics boil down to his claims of extraordinary executive powers, which are allegedly required to deal with an extraordinary set of horrifying conditions in the country. This president, of course, arrogates to himself the exclusive right to determine whether and when such circumstances exist and then treats resistance to his edicts as another emergency requiring even more executive power. We are seeing this pattern repeated in the Trump administration’s battle with a federal judge who has banned the president’s deployment of National Guard units to Portland, Oregon on the grounds that the president’s claim that Portland is a “burning hellhole” besieged by violent anarchists is “untethered to facts.”
Judge Karin Immergut’s temerity in second-guessing Trump’s description of the city where she lives has driven the White House into a frenzy of rage. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it was apparent to everyone that protests in a one-block area of Portland surrounding an ICE facility represented a “radical left reign of terror.” Trump’s top domestic-policy advisor Stephen Miller was beside himself. “Today’s judicial ruling is one of the most egregious and thunderous violations of constitutional order we have ever seen — and is yet the latest example of unceasing efforts to nullify the 2024 election by fiat,” he said.
This last Miller comment reflects the novel MAGA theory that because Trump told the country he would undertake mass deportations of illegal immigrants during the 2024 campaign, he is not restrained by laws or the Constitution in how he goes about it. But Miller doesn’t simply condemn Immergut’s ruling; he calls it a “legal insurrection” aimed at facilitating an “organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers.”
As absurd as the administration’s rhetoric has become, there’s a deadly serious issue beneath it. A saying often attributed to the late U.S. senator and social scientist Daniel Patrick Moynihan holds, “You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts.” It is precisely the contention of the Trump administration that the president is entitled to his own facts, which preempt anyone else’s facts. As Georgetown law professor Stephen Vladeck explains, this is a scary and unprecedented power grab:
Typically, our constitutional system resolves these kinds of factual disputes through litigation. Neutral judges and juries hear legal arguments and factual testimony and decide for themselves what has, and what has not been, established …
The Supreme Court will no doubt have the last word. And the question is going to be whether the president can use a contrived crisis as a justification for sending troops into our cities. In other words, the issue is going to come down to who decides the facts when it comes to domestic use of the military. That question meant one thing when we had presidents who, for whatever reason, were constrained to acknowledge reality. It means something else altogether in an administration for which, to borrow from George Orwell, 2 + 2 = 5.
Trump and Miller, to be clear, share a dangerous take on the facts about opposition to their policies and conduct. The 47th president spent much of the 2024 campaign accusing Democrats of consciously seeking to destroy America by “opening the borders” to “the worst of the worst,” who raped and killed their way across the country, pausing only to cast illegal votes. He now routinely refers to Democrats as “the radical left” and just last
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The Borowitz Report
Originally posted by second:
GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops
Trump Explodes with Rage after Gavin Newsom Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 7, 2025
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-explodes-with-rage-after-gavin
OSLO (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump reportedly "exploded with rage" on Tuesday after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to California Governor Gavin Newsom.
In its official statement, the Nobel committee praised Newsom for "demonstrating his dedication to the principle of peace by preventing an armed conflict between California and Oregon."
Though the committee did not bestow its prize on Trump, it did recognize him with a laser printed "certificate of participation."
"Deciding who will win the Peace Prize is an exhausting and stressful process," the committee stated. "Donald Trump's entry gave us many hours of welcome laughter."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
What did Gavin get the prize for? Gender neutral toy aisles in any Fortune 500 company?
What a joke.
Don't worry. We're going to smash Portland soon.
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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.
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Quote:Trump smashed the federal government with 4 shutdowns in 5 years.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Don't worry. We're going to smash Portland soon.
“If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He’s the one who has to get people together.” Donald J. Trump
Donald Trump made this statement during an interview with NBC in April 2011. Trump criticized the potential budget impasse and placed blame for a shutdown on the sitting president.
How Many Government Shutdowns per President?
Bush 0 in 8 years
Obama 1 in 8 years
Biden 0 in 4 years
Trump 4 in 5 years. I think we have the winner! Give him a Nobel prize!
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:The price of gold is currently $4,037 per troy ounce, a record-setting price as it has skyrocketed in the past two months. It has risen over 54% since mid-November 2024:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What a joke.
Don't worry. We're going to smash Portland soon.
So what’s happening? The most likely story, which seems consistent with what Griffin is saying, is that a growing number of investors — including, in particular, foreign central banks — are moving into gold because they no longer consider U.S. debt a safe asset.
Now it’s hard to pin down exactly what investors fear, perhaps because they aren’t sure themselves. But many previously inconceivable possibilities are now quite conceivable given the Trump administration’s radicalism. Runaway inflation hidden by rigged official statistics? Expropriation of the reserves of governments Trump doesn’t like? Forced conversion of foreign assets into 100-year bonds? Given the administration’s record so far, how confident are you that none of these things could possibly happen?
As I said at the top of this piece, I normally pay don’t pay much attention to gold, which doesn’t play an important role in the modern economy. But I believe that the recent runup in gold prices is telling us something — namely, that the world is losing faith in America.
And perhaps Ken Griffin’s warnings are also telling us that even ultra-rich hedge fund titans are starting to worry about the monster they helped create.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ingots-we-trust
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 War on Drugs
Journalist Radley Balko examines how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror.
October 8 2025, 6:00 a.m.
From Afghanistan to Iraq, the United States has long used drone strikes to take out people it alleges are terrorists or insurgents. It’s a legacy that started under President George W. Bush and greatly expanded under President Barack Obama. President Donald Trump has taken this tactic to new extremes, boasting about lethal strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and declaring the U.S. is in a “non-international armed conflict” with narcotics traffickers.
Trump appears to be merging the war on terror with the war on drugs. This comes as he’s simultaneously ramping up the use of troops to police inside American cities. It’s a chilling escalation. But it’s not the first time we’ve seen a president stoke public fear and deploy overwhelming force in the name of law and order.
In the modern war on drugs — which dates back more than 50 years to President Richard Nixon’s administration — the United States has produced laws and policies ensuring that collateral damage isn’t just tolerated, it’s inevitable.
Much more at https://theintercept.com/2025/10/08/collateral-damage-podcast-trump-wa
r-drugs/
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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.
By Tom Nichols | October 7, 2025, 6:46 PM ET
Professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/10/civil-military
-crisis-trump-hegseth/684486/
Despite the firing of several top officers—and Trump’s threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the commander in chief. But for how long?
Trump and his valet at the Defense Department, Secretary of Physical Training Pete Hegseth, are now making a dedicated run at turning the men and women of the armed forces into Trump’s personal and partisan army. In his first term, Trump regularly violated the sacred American tradition of the military’s political neutrality, but people around him—including retired and active-duty generals such as James Mattis, John Kelly, and Mark Milley—restrained some of his worst impulses. Now no one is left to stop him: The president learned from his first-term struggles and this time has surrounded himself with a Cabinet of sycophants and ideologues rather than advisers, especially those at the Pentagon. He has declared war on Chicago; called Portland, Oregon, a “war zone”; and referred to his political opponents as “the enemy from within.” Trump clearly wants to use military power to exert more control over the American people, and soon, top U.S.-military commanders may have to decide whether they will refuse such orders from the commander in chief. The greatest crisis of American civil-military relations in modern history is now under way.
I write these words with great trepidation. When I was a professor at the Naval War College, I gave lectures to American military officers about the sturdiness of civil-military relations in the United States, a remarkable historical achievement that has allowed the most powerful military in the world to serve democracy without being a threat to it. I so revered this system that I went to Moscow just before the fall of the U.S.S.R. and told an audience of Soviet military officers that they should look to the American military as a model for how to disentangle themselves from the Communist Party and Kremlin politics. I regularly reminded both my military students and civilian audiences that they had good reason to have faith in American institutions and the constitutional loyalty of U.S. civilian and military leaders.
This new and dangerous moment has arrived for many reasons, including Trump’s antics in front of young soldiers and sailors, through which he has succeeded in pulling many of them into displays of partisan behavior that are both an insult to American civil-military traditions and a violation of military regulations. Senior military leaders should have stepped in to prevent Trump from turning addresses at Fort Bragg and Naval Station Norfolk into political rallies; the silence of the Army and Navy secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some top generals and admirals is appalling. To their credit, those same officers listened impassively as Trump and Hegseth subjected them to political rants during a meeting at Quantico last week. But young enlisted people and their immediate superiors take their cues from the top, and one day of decorum from the high command cannot reverse Trump’s influence on the rank and file.
Trump’s rhetoric in his speeches to the military has been awful—he has ridiculed former commanders in chief, castigated sitting elected officials, and told the members of America’s armed forces that other Americans are their enemies. But his actions are worse. In deploying troops to American cities, he has set up a confrontation in which military commanders may soon have to choose between obeying the president and obeying the law. “This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law,” Judge Karin Immergut—a conservative Trump appointee—wrote last week when she blocked Trump’s attempt to send troops to Portlan
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The most unprecedented presidency in 250 years
By Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen | Sept 23, 2025
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/trump-unprecedented-presidency-behind
-the-curtain
Not since America's founding 250 years ago has a U.S. president expanded power — and punished critics — in more unprecedented ways than Donald J. Trump.
1. Executive power: Trump has declared nine national emergencies in his first eight months in office, stretching the definition of "emergency" in creative and aggressive ways.
• Historical analogy: Since 1980, presidents have declared an average of seven in a four-year term. Trump's 200+ executive orders fall far short of the thousands issued by FDR (a wartime president elected to four terms), but Trump's pace—142 in his first 100 days—is the highest on record.
• New precedent: Future presidents can use loosely defined "emergencies" as a routine tool to bypass Congress and unlock extraordinary powers governing trade, immigration, mineral extraction and foreign disputes.
2. Free-press crackdown: Trump has waged the most aggressive government campaign against mainstream media in modern U.S. history —stripping funding from public outlets, pushing the FCC to revoke broadcast licenses over negative coverage, and personally suing CBS/ Paramount, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times while in office.
• Historical analogy: No modern president has deployed such a mix of lawsuits and regulatory muscle. Even Richard Nixon, who targeted the Washington Post and CBS through the IRS and FCC, never sued multiple networks directly.
• New precedent: Future presidents can use lawsuits, regulatory threats, and funding pressure to bring independent media to heel.
3. Seizing congressional purse strings: Trump has tried to freeze or redirect billions in congressionally appropriated funds, from public health to foreign aid to university research.
• Historical analogy: The closest precedent is Nixon, who tried to "impound" funds in the early 1970s. Congress responded by passing the Impoundment Control Act of 1974—which the Trump White House claims is unconstitutional—to stop presidents from unilaterally withholding money. No president since has attempted impoundments at this scale, or with such open defiance of Congress and the courts.
• New precedent: Future presidents can treat Congress's "power of the purse" as optional, withholding or redirecting funds to pressure states, institutions or foreign governments.
4. Tariffs: Trump has effectively seized the authority over tariffs that the Constitution gives to Congress, wielding tariffs to reshape global trade and punish countries for political or economic disputes.
• Historical analogy: The last sweeping tariff shock was Smoot–Hawley, which President Hoover signed in 1930 and wound up worsening the Great Depression. Since then, presidents have used delegated powers narrowly — including President Reagan's selective tariffs on Japanese motorcycles and semiconductors in the 1980s to try to protect American manufacturing. Trump is the first to use emergency authorities to impose broad tariffs without new congressional legislation.
• New precedent: Future presidents can bypass Congress to unilaterally set tariff policy, erasing one of the legislature's core constitutional powers.
5. Overriding the Constitution: Trump issued an executive order seeking to eliminate birthright citizenship — a right guaranteed in the 14th Amendment — for the children of unauthorized immigrants.
• Historical analogy: Past constitutional showdowns have come during war or insurrection: Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in the Civil War. FDR interned Japanese Americans during World War II. In each case, presidents acted under extraordinary wartime claims of necessity. No president has ever tried to nullify a core constitutional guarantee by executive order in peacetime — not even Nixon at his most imperial.
• New precedent: Future presidents can attempt to nullify co
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The most unprecedented presidency in 250 years
By Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen | Sept 23, 2025
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/trump-unprecedented-presidency-behind
-the-curtain
Not since America's founding 250 years ago has a U.S. president expanded power — and punished critics — in more unprecedented ways than Donald J. Trump.
I see. I guess the last 4 years didn't happen.
Shut the fuck up.
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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.
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Quote:I guess you think Trump didn't rape those children who accused him of rape. But Epstein files say Trump did rape them. Also, Trump owes E. Jean Carroll $83 million for raping her and lying about it.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I see. I guess the last 4 years didn't happen.
Shut the fuck up.
Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
The judges rejected President Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision extending presidential immunity should shield him.
Sept. 8, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/nyregion/trump-e-jean-carroll-defam
ation.html
6ixStringJack, the story is only one month old, but you've already forgotten.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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