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Shut up fag. You lost the election 9 months ago, BIGLY. Stop crying about it and move the fuck on.
If you want a Civil War, your endangered species dies overnight and the war is over almost as soon as it began.
Go for it. I dare you.
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Quote:President Trump Wants You to Buy His New $599 Watch So Bad He’s Appearing in the Ads Himself
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up fag. You lost the election 9 months ago, BIGLY. Stop crying about it and move the fuck on.
If you want a Civil War, your endangered species dies overnight and the war is over almost as soon as it began.
Go for it. I dare you.
A Trump-starring commercial for the new “Fight Fight Fight” chronograph is airing regularly on Newsmax.
By Oren Hartov | October 13, 2025
https://www.gq.com/story/trump-watches-newsmax-commercials
It’s been roughly a year since President Trump launched his own line of watches, which includes a $100,000 “Victory Tourbillon” made of solid gold as well as a “Fight Fight Fight” dive watch cased in stainless steel for $500. (A Wired article alleges that the tourbillon contains, ironically, Chinese components.) Now, despite some viral quality-control issues with the pink-dial “Inauguration First Lady” watch, the president is pushing his horological venture forward by appearing in new commercials airing on cable news.
“Check out this new red beauty, it’s one of my favorites,” Trump says in the spot, referring to Trump Watches’ new “Fight Fight Fight Chronograph Red.” “Wear it proudly on your wrist, and everyone will know exactly what it’s for, who it’s for, who it represents. It’s really gonna be something special—it’s from your favorite president.”
Last week, California governor Gavin Newsom took to X to retweet journalist Aaron Rupar’s post about Trump Watch commercials popping up regularly on Newsmax: “NO HEALTH CARE FOR YOU BUT YOU MUST BUY MY WATCH!!” Newsom wrote alongside the video.
The $599 “Fight Fight Fight Chronograph Red” comes individually numbered and uses a Miyota 6S20 quartz movement. According to the Trump Watches website, it’s “a major league timepiece worthy of a seat in The Oval Office” and “A future family heirloom, ready to pass down for generations.” The MAGA red dial too loud for you? You’re in luck: There’s also a two-tone version in steel and gold-hued steel.
The brand is also promoting a new 18-karat gold-plated “Fight Fight Fight Onyx” GMT with a Jubilee-style bracelet and a Miyota NH35 automatic movement. (At least, that’s what the Trump Watches website says, though the NH34 is the Miyota NH-series automatic GMT movement, whereas the NH35 is the three-hander.) While it’s seemingly a Rolex GMT-Master dupe, the watch costs $799 and boasts a real onyx stone dial. (Purchase is limited to three units per household, begging the question: What household is trying to buy more than three of these?)
Some fine print at the bottom of the ad states that “Trump watches are not designed, owned, managed, or controlled by Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization, CIC Digital LLC, or any of their respective principals or affiliates.” Nice to have that reassurance that there’s absolutely zero conflicts of interest happening here—no matter how many times a day the President of the United States himself appears on your television screen enticing you to buy a watch.
https://gettrumpwatches.com/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:President Trump Wants You to Buy His New $599 Watch So Bad He’s Appearing in the Ads Himself
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up fag. You lost the election 9 months ago, BIGLY. Stop crying about it and move the fuck on.
If you want a Civil War, your endangered species dies overnight and the war is over almost as soon as it began.
Go for it. I dare you.
This has nothing to do with the Civil War you're stupidly praying for, moron.
If some dumb asshole wants to spend $30k more on a watch than I paid for my house, more power to them. They ain't my daddy.
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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:Clarence Thomas’s Legal Clerk Issues Dire Warning About Supreme Court’s Agenda
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
This has nothing to do with the Civil War you're stupidly praying for, moron.
If some dumb asshole wants to spend $30k more on a watch than I paid for my house, more power to them. They ain't my daddy.
‘BOMBSHELL’
Legal scholar Caleb Nelson is worried about the “pro-president” direction the Supreme Court seems to be moving toward.
By Wiktoria Gucia | Oct. 14 2025 2:16AM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-thomas-clerk-issues-dire-warnin
g-about-supreme-courts-agenda/
A former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas has warned that the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution “appears to be moving toward a sweepingly pro-president position.”
In an essay for the NYU Law Democracy Project, originalist legal scholar and University of Virginia School of Law professor Caleb Nelson argued that the Constitution’s text and historical context give Congress wide latitude to organize the executive branch and to impose limits on the president’s power to remove officials. https://democracyproject.org/posts/must-administrative-officers-serve-
at-the-presidents-pleasure
It’s an issue that is already front and center on the court’s docket, and one that Nelson warns “can do lasting damage to our norms and institutions” in the case of “a President bent on vengeful, destructive and lawless behavior.”
In September, the Supreme Court issued a 6–3 emergency order allowing President Donald Trump to remove Federal Trade Commission leader Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from her position. Slaughter, who was appointed to the FTC in 2018 during Trump’s first administration, argued that she was “illegally” fired in a move that violated “clear Supreme Court precedent.”
The Court will hear arguments in the case in December, when it will consider whether to overturn the 1935 precedent that limits the president’s ability to remove independent agency regulators over policy disagreements.
“It is true that Article II vests the executive power in the President,” Nelson, who clerked for Thomas from 1994 to 1995, wrote in his article. “But Congress is in charge of creating offices within the executive branch, and the Constitution does not give the President unilateral power to dictate who will fill those offices or what their authorities and duties will be.”
While the current Supreme Court has repeatedly sided with the Trump administration since the president returned to office in January, Nelson hopes “the Justices will not act as if their hands are tied and they cannot consider any consequences of the interpretations that they choose” when deciding cases like Slaughter’s.
However, The New York Times’ Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak believes “There is little question that the court will side with the president. Its conservative majority has repeatedly signaled that it plans to adopt the ‘unitary executive theory,’ which says the original understanding of the Constitution demands letting the president remove executive branch officials as he sees fit.”
Still, Nelson’s article has elicited a massive response from the legal community.
“Bombshell!” was constitutional law scholar and professor William Baude’s immediate reaction to Nelson’s commentary. “Caleb Nelson, one of the most respected originalist scholars in the country, comes out against the unitary executive interpretation of Article II,” he wrote.
https://bsky.app/profile/williambaude.bsky.social/post/3lzyvlfbz4s2w
Nelson’s originalist understanding of the Constitution has led to his opinions previously being cited in more than a dozen Supreme Court decisions. Thomas himself referenced his former clerk’s work six times in a 2023 concurring opinion, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh named Nelson among a small group of “respected scholars” in a concurring opinion last year.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-86_l5gm.pdf
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-915_8o6b.pdf
Article II of t
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How Crypto Became a Trump Trade
It’s primarily a vehicle for crony capitalism now
By Paul Krugman | Oct 14, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-crypto-became-a-trump-trade
By now it’s obvious that Donald Trump suffers from CBS — Cowardly Bully Syndrome.
On Friday, Trump blasted China’s new export controls on rare earths, declaring them a “moral disgrace” which were “obviously a plan devised by them years ago.” And he threatened to impose 100 percent tariffs on China, on top of the already high existing tariffs.
Less than a day later he was groveling:
Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 12:43 PM EST 10/12/25
Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A, wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT
12:45 PM • Oct 12, 2025 788.4K Views
So it only took a few hours to go from “a plan devised by them years ago” to they “just had a bad moment,” from “moral disgrace” to “highly respected President Xi.” The Chinese must be having a good laugh: They took Trump’s measure and he came out looking very, very small.
But what caused this quick, abject retreat? I’d like to believe that economic experts within the administration took a sober look at the situation and concluded that China would have the upper hand in a trade war. But there are no economic experts in this administration, and anyway, who would dare to tell Trump anything he doesn’t want to hear?
No, Trump was almost certainly reacting to the markets. Stocks fell sharply Friday, but the really striking action came in crypto, where Bitcoin fell 20 percent and smaller, less liquid tokens fell even more. Here, to take an arbitrary example, is what happened to the value of the official Trump coin:
Also, it just so happens that Trump himself holds an estimated $870 million worth of Bitcoin, so he suffered large personal financial losses from the crypto crash.
This was the largest one-day crash crypto has experienced so far. My question, however, is why the prospect of an intensified trade war caused a crypto crash.
Oddly, I’ve seen almost no reporting about this issue. There has been a lot about the way the crypto crash was magnified by forced sales: Many crypto investors are highly leveraged, and there were many forced liquidations — with widespread speculation that one or more “whales,” that is, major players, may have imploded. But why did a threatened trade war cause crypto to fall in the first place?
The answer, I believe, has little to do with economics and everything to do with politics. These days crypto derives its value largely from the support of politicians and government officials — in particular, officials who can be bribed. As a result, at this point crypto is largely a Trump trade. And crypto fell because the backlash against the potential trade war threatened to weaken Trump politically.
A brief history of crypto: When Bitcoin, the original crypto asset, was introduced, enthusiasts predicted that it would displace conventional fiat money, that is, currency issued by governments. The blockchain, they claimed, would make transactions using cryptocurrency easier and cheaper than transactions using dollars. And cryptocurrencies would be safe from the ravages of the printing press: governments couldn’t debase your money through inflation.
That was more than 15 years ago, and crypto has completely failed to deliver on those promises. Almost nobody uses cryptocurrency as a means of payment. A recent research paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City notes that
The share of U.S. consumers who report using cryptocurrency for payments—purchases, money transfers, or both—has been very small and has declined
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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over
President Trump’s allies are suddenly raging over the October 18th “No Kings” protests. MAGA Mike Johnson and MAGA-fied Representative Steve Scalise are angrily sliming expected attendees as America-haters, antifa, Marxists, and terrorists. MAGA influencers and other GOP figures have done the same, with one hinting that the National Guard should crack down on them. This unanimity of messaging about “terrorists” means it’s all almost certainly being coordinated by Stephen Miller. Yet it’s backfiring: Democrats and rally organizers are using it to galvanize attendance, which will likely succeed. Robert De Niro amplified the call to turn out, inspiring more anger on Fox News. Indeed, the GOP demonization of legitimate protests itself ratifies the “No Kings” message. We talked to Jill Lawrence, who writes well for The Bulwark on Trump’s hatred of blue America. We discuss why large legitimate protests infuriate Trump-MAGA, why the correct response to their smears is to turn out in force, and why that’s likely to happen. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201672/maga-rage-no-kings-boils-over-a
nd-quickly-backfires-trump
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Can America recover from Trump? Here’s what new data says.
New political science research suggests democracy can survive leaders like Trump. But there’s a catch.
By Zack Beauchamp | Oct 14, 2025
https://www.vox.com/politics/464459/trump-american-democracy-u-turns
The president of the United States is deploying masked troops to the streets of blue cities, working to put friendly billionaires in charge of the media environment, and attempting to jail his personal enemies.
Can any democracy come back from this?
Earlier this year, two teams of researchers published papers trying to answer this exact question — and came to seemingly opposite conclusions.
Both papers focused on what they call “democratic U-turns:” where a country starts out as a democracy, moves toward authoritarianism, and then quickly recovers. The first team’s conclusions were optimistic: they identified 102 U-turn cases since 1900 and found that, in 90 percent of them, the result was “restored or even improved levels of democracy.” The second team focused on 21 recent cases and inverted the findings — concluding that “nearly 90 percent” of alleged U-turns were short-lived mirages.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2024.2448742
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-myth-of-democratic-res
ilience/
So who’s right? To find out, I reexamined the basic data and spoke to researchers from each of the two teams. It turns out that the seemingly opposed findings are actually more consistent than they seem — with implications for the United States that are at once hopeful and disturbing.
What researchers learned about “democratic U-turns”
The scholarly research on U-turns draws from a database called V-Dem, widely considered the gold standard for quantitative research on global democracy. V-Dem works by getting a broad group of experts on individual countries to give numerical assessments of different aspects of that country’s democracy (e.g., how free the press is, or whether elections are administered impartially). These judgements are turned into composite scores that assess how democratic a country is as a whole.
The first team of researchers, the more optimistic ones, are based at the institute that compiles and publishes the V-Dem database. Looking over their own data, authors Marina Nord, Fabio Angiolillo, Martin Lundstedt, Felix Wiebrecht, and Staffan I. Lindberg found that U-turns — defined as a country’s democracy score starting to increase after a recent decline — are very common. Over half of all countries that experience a slide toward autocracy also end up experiencing a U-turn. And those U-turns are typically very successful, hence the topline finding that 90 percent of U-turns saw a country returning to its previous level of democracy or even improving on it.
To understand what a U-turn looks like more concretely, it’s helpful to look at the recent history of Poland. Once considered one of the strongest post-communist democracies, the right-wing PiS government elected in 2015 turned the country’s public broadcaster into propaganda and packed the judicial system with its own cronies. But in 2023, a coalition of opposition parties defeated PiS in national parliamentary elections and began trying to undo the damage. You can see, in Poland’s V-Dem score, the characteristic U-shaped curve — a decline under PiS and an increase after its defeat.
Yet this is all very new, and Poland has not returned to its pre-PiS democracy. Moreover, there’s a real question of whether its progress in the right direction can be sustained. The new coalition has had a lot of trouble fixing what PiS broke, and just this year narrowly lost the presidential election to the PiS candidate.
The second paper argues that such a failure to make sustained gains would be more common than not.
Its authors — Nic Cheeseman, Jennifer Cyr, and Mattías Bianchi — also use V-Dem data and focus their analysis on post-1994 cases of democratic U-turn. Twenty-one cases (out of the initial 102) fit these parameters. The
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Russian state TV mocks Trump as ‘simple infant’ outwitted by Putin
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-state-tv-mocks-trump-as-s
imple-infant-outwitted-by-putin/ss-AA1OqAMl
For Moscow, Trump’s unpredictable statements and shifting positions have become regular fodder for state television.
The latest broadcast painted him as a vain and unreliable figure, while elevating Putin as a master manipulator of world leaders.
Mocking Donald Trump
Russian state television has ridiculed Donald Trump, calling him “as simple as pocket change” and claiming Vladimir Putin has outsmarted him over Ukraine peace negotiations.
The mockery came during a broadcast where political commentators celebrated what they described as Moscow’s upper hand in global diplomacy.
‘Putin gets better of Trump’
Political scientist Andrei Sidorchik told viewers that Putin’s strategy was working, contrasting it with Trump’s supposed naivety.
“He is saying the eternal peace will now start in the Middle East,” Sidorchik said, mocking Trump’s optimism.
He suggested the former US president lacked a sense of “responsibility and perception,” implying Putin was using Trump’s ego to his advantage.
Mocking Trump’s ego after Nobel snub
The discussion followed Trump’s disappointment over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sidorchik remarked that Trump’s pride had been “wounded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee” and that the Kremlin understood how to exploit his need for praise.
“Once again, to save the world from an apocalypse, we have to stroke the ego of a man who is behaving like a cowboy from a saloon or an infant,” he said.
Russian commentators celebrate Putin’s influence
The exchange on NTV highlighted how Russia’s state-controlled media portrays Putin as the dominant player on the global stage.
Host Roman Babayan noted Trump had publicly thanked Putin for his “warm words” about peace.
The segment framed Putin as a calm strategist, while Trump was painted as a volatile and emotional figure who could be manipulated.
Trump’s intellect mocked on live TV
During the broadcast, Sidorchik delivered one of the harshest lines of the night:
“His intellect is not up to par. He is as simple as pocket change. He thinks that, in the end, Russia can be cowed. His entourage thinks so too, which is sad.”
The insult drew laughter from the studio audience, reflecting the Kremlin’s growing confidence in its narrative against the West.
Predictions of European capitulation
Adding to the smug tone, Professor Andrey Koshkin predicted that Europe would soon “repay Russia its seized assets, with interest.”
He claimed such a development was inevitable, suggesting that Western sanctions were beginning to backfire.
“All of it will happen,” Koshkin said confidently, reinforcing Moscow’s message that patience would bring victory.
Manipulating Trump through ‘psychological tricks’
Journalist Evgenia Volgina told viewers that Trump’s engagement with Putin reflected a classic psychological play.
“There is an often-used psychological trick of telling your counterpart what he wants to hear,” she explained, implying Putin was using flattery to manage Trump.
“Most likely, he is doing that,” she added, noting that only Russia was “talking about peacemaking” while the US and Europe “don’t need peacemaking.”
Trump threatens to send Tomahawks to Ukraine
The broadcast coincided with Trump’s comments aboard Air Force One, where he told reporters he “might have to speak to Russia” about sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.
The weapons would allow Ukrainian forces to strike deep into Russian territory, including Moscow.
Trump warned, “Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don’t think so.”
Warning of ‘a new step of aggression’
The US president said he had raised the issue with Volodymyr Zelensky, calling the missiles “a new step of aggression.”
He added, “If the war is not settled, we may very well, we may not, but we may do it. I think it’s appropriate to bring
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'We Suffered For 25 Years': Trump Invents His Own History, Claims Banning Tariffs In 1913 Was What Caused The Great Depression
During a recent bilateral meeting in the Oval Office with Polish President Karol Nawrocki, Donald Trump invented his own version of U.S. history as he claimed the Great Depression happened because the country banned tariffs in 1913. Tariffs were never banned in 1913, and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 is often blamed for making the Great Depression worse.
Starts at 2 minutes into the video.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-did-that-work-out-trump-tr
ies-to-rewrite-history-claims-the-great-depression-happened-because-tariffs-were-banned-in-1913/vi-AA1MEmzY
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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