Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Most of what Trump says or posts is cringeworthy and some of it is downright grotesque.
It seems to me that Trump can't wrap his brain around the idea that being President of the USA does NOT make him Master of the Universe. It looks like he keeps trying for leverage on China and Russia, and can't figure out that while he can bully and/or bribe Qatar or Israel or France or Venezuela, it's not going to work on the other big powers.
THGR:
It seems to me you can’t either. First, he could end Russian aggression in a week.
If Trump could, then so could Biden*.
So why didn't Biden*?
I bet you never answer that question!
Check.
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For the record, I'm against ANY of our regime changes/ foreign interference abroad, whether by Trump or any Republican, or Biden* or any Democrat.
Don't tell us that you forgot "Fuck the EU" Nuland picking out Ukraine's new regime after we toppled the old one?
So, that's one regime change.
You were all for that.
Then we armed our new regime and set it against Russia to "decolonize" it and take its resources.
ANOTHER regime change you were all for.
Checkmate.
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Trump threw maps, cursed at Zelenskyy while demanding Ukraine cede Donbas to Russia
Trump’s repetition of Putin’s rhetoric during the meeting dampened hopes that he could be persuaded to support Kyiv.
US President Donald Trump reportedly pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russian demands for territorial concessions during a “volatile” meeting at the White House on Friday, warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin could “destroy” Ukraine if no agreement is reached, according to the Financial Times.
Ukraine has repeatedly rejected Russian demands to cede territory, including Donbas, warning that any concessions would be temporary since Russia has consistently said it wants to control all of Ukraine. The White House meeting underscored the gap between Trump’s willingness to entertain Moscow’s proposals and Kyiv’s focus on defending sovereignty and maintaining territorial integrity.
People familiar with the meeting told the Financial Times that the encounter repeatedly escalated into shouting.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/19/trump-urged-zelenskyy-to-accept
-russian-terms-in-tense-white-house-meeting/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Oct 20, 2025 5:45 AM
Although the 7th Circuit gave “substantial deference” to the commander in chief’s views, it found no credible evidence to support his claim that Chicago is in rebellion.
The appellate panel wouldn’t accept that acts of protest and civil disobedience happening on the streets are a “rebellion” just because the president keeps yelling “rebellion.”
The panel ruled that there’s no rebellion, insurrection, or mass chaos on the ground. Thus, there is no legal justification for Trump to send the National Guard into the streets of Chicago.
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We emphasize that the critical analysis of a “rebellion” centers on the nature of the resistance to governmental authority. Political opposition is not rebellion. A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms as the law currently allows. Nor does a protest become a rebellion merely because of sporadic and isolated incidents of unlawful activity or even violence committed by rogue participants in the protest. Such conduct exceeds the scope of the First Amendment, of course, and law enforcement has apprehended the perpetrators accordingly. But because rebellions at least use deliberate, organized violence to resist governmental authority, the problematic incidents in this record clearly fall within the considerable daylight between protected speech and rebellion.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/supreme-court-arrogance-pr
oblem-for-trump.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Q: What do you have to say to farmers who feel that the deal is benefiting Argentina more than it is them?
TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying.
QUICK TO ANGER Trump Lashes Out Over Question About Bailing Out His Buddy
The U.S. is pumping billions into Argentina as China shifts its focus to South America for food.
By Ewan Palmer | Oct. 20 2025 6:22AM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-lashes-out-over-question-ab
out-bailing-out-his-buddy-javier-milei/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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MAGA’s spin on No Kings Day 2 was both insane and revealing
Donald Trump has not yet consolidated anything like absolute political power. But parts of our society — the Republican Party and supposedly independent institutions like CBS — are in effect living inside a bubble in which they operate as if he has. Within that bubble, a cult of personality around Trump has been built, a cult of personality worthy of Kim Jong Un. And to show their fealty to Dear Leader, Republicans must engage in bizarre rhetoric.
What are we to make of the completely unhinged things Republicans were saying in advance of the protests?
CNN has a good rundown of the craziness coming from leading Republicans in advance of No Kings Day 2. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the house, called them “hate America rallies” consisting entirely of the “pro-Hamas wing” and antifa. Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary — remember when people thought he was the adult in the room? — said that the demonstrations would involve “the most unhinged in the Democratic Party.” And Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, attacked the whole Democratic base: “The Democrat Party’s main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.”
These claims were all self-evidently absurd. So why make them? CNN says that it was a “weird strategy”: Calling grandmothers Hamas terrorists won’t convince anyone who isn’t already deep in the MAGA tank and will backfire as those not in the tank see the disconnect between this rhetoric and the reality of the protests.
But it all makes sense once you realize that what we have been seeing in operation isn’t the Trump administration’s strategy for dealing with its critics. It is, instead, the strategies of individual MAGA apparatchiks for dealing with He Who Must Be Obeyed.
Political scientist Xavier Marquez noted that autocracies that cultivate a cult of personality around their leader are prone to “flattery inflation.” Marquez’s examples go all the way back to the Emperor Caligula, but the logic has remained the same over the centuries.
Here’s how it works. The ruler’s lackeys and courtiers believe that they must praise him to the skies, proving their loyalty by offering paeans to his wisdom, character, and golf game. And they must continually up the ante.
How do you show your loyalty? By paying the costs of humiliation. The more grotesquely over the top your praise, the more credible it is as a signal of support for Dear Leader. Apparatchiks’ willingness to degrade themselves will hurt their reputation with other people. But for exactly that reason, it serves as proof of loyalty to the one man who counts, Donald Trump. The more appalling the self-abasement, the more effectively it will serve this purpose.
A similar process of self-reinforcement applies to telling lies that serve the autocrat’s ego. Call it “mendacity inflation.” Trump insists that he’s overwhelmingly popular and that only a lunatic fringe disapproves of his presidency. Well, to show loyalty his hangers-on must go further, declaring that grandmothers and parents pushing prams down 7th Avenue are illegal aliens and violent criminals. The humiliating absurdity is a feature, not a bug. Simply lying about demonstrators isn’t enough; to prove their MAGA mettle, people in Trump’s orbit must tell lies that are grotesque and ridiculous.
Again, what’s historically odd about this is that while Trump’s personal depravity may match that of historical autocrats, his power doesn’t. Call him Caligula, if you like, but he can’t order Senators — even Republican Senators — to commit suicide. (Dear historians: yes, I know that many of the stories told about Caligula were probably exaggerated.) He’s only able to act as if he has absolute power within a limited enclave, a bubble created by greed and fear.
Does it matter whether people are out there marching and carrying signs, even if they number in the millions? Well, there is a solid body of research by political scientists like Erica Chenoweth about the effects of
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Epstein connection disqualifies Prince Andrew from royal titles, but qualifies him for the US Presidency
Prince Andrew's six-year downfall over Jeffrey Epstein ties comes to a dramatic conclusion
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/prince-andrew-six-year-do
wnfall-jeffrey-epstein-ties-rcna238322
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Risks of Trump's Capture of the Economy
By Evan Hughes | October 20, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/10/the-risks-of-trumps-capture-
of-the-economy/684610/
In his new book about the stock-market crash of 1929, the journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin recounts a scene from a summer day that year in Manhattan. The dining room of the Plaza Hotel came to attention, he writes, when top figures from Wall Street and the business world trickled in for Saturday lunch. The presence of such a crowd might not have created a stir at another historical moment, but these were not typical times. The nation was infatuated with the market, which was showering wealth on investors big and small.
Several of these boldface names, including the esteemed leaders of big banks, had a history of joining forces in market-manipulation schemes that were not a well-kept secret. Together, major players would form a pool and bid up a stock through “wash trades” with one another, creating the appearance of high demand, before they all sold, cratering the price and devastating the dupes who had followed their lead.
One might think that some of these men would have faced consequences, or at least lived in fear of exposure, even though their conduct was technically legal at the time. But they were well connected. One of them, John J. Raskob, was the chair of the Democratic National Committee and a prominent political donor; his biggest beneficiary, the former New York governor and presidential candidate Al Smith, was dining with him that day. Another, William Durant, had secretly met with President Herbert Hoover earlier in the year, to lean on him to stop the Federal Reserve Board from curbing Wall Street’s excesses.
In his book 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—And How It Shattered a Nation, Sorkin refers to “remarkable parallels” between the run-up to that crisis and today’s political and economic climate, but he doesn’t elaborate on the notion; his account is essentially a straight history, written in a journalistic register. Yet some revealing parallels do emerge from beneath the surface, and they don’t reflect well on our current path. In addition to the greed and “this time is different” hubris that precedes every stock-market tumble, the 1929 collapse was powered, it seems to me, by a more insidious and pervasive force that is in fact everywhere in evidence today.
The 1920s were, as Sorkin shows, an era in which Wall Street largely got its way and Washington kept its hands off, a precursor to President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks. More interesting to examine, in light of the present day, is how the environment became so perilously friendly to Wall Street in the ’20s—and how it stayed that way even as red flags began to appear. The key element, I would argue, was the phenomenon known in regulatory circles as “capture”: Wall Street and Big Business managed to co-opt the other centers of power in society. Those with clout in various spheres coalesced into one clubby circle, and fell prey to a groupthink that foresaw riches for everyone, without consequences. The regulatory bodies, the political and judicial apparatus, the press—nearly all of the mechanisms of correction in our system were either enfeebled or so aligned with the bullish and wealthy that it didn’t occur to them to use what muscle they still had.
Some critics did raise alarms, most notably Senator Carter Glass, but the banking elite and their well-placed friends could safely ignore the skeptics, who would get swept away by the prevailing current. (Only after everything fell apart was the senator able to rein in banks with the Glass-Steagall Act.)
Financiers organized press offensives and enlisted top reporters as allies, offering lucrative jobs or outright bribes. Private-sector titans took on quasi-governmental roles—for instance, advising the president and negotiating deals with other nations—or they became actual federal officials. The investor and industrialist Andrew Mellon enjoyed a lengthy tenure as Tr
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Federal Appeals Court Allows Trump's National Guard Deployment in Oregon
Monday, Oct 20, 2025 - 01:40 PM
A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump can send National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon while a lawsuit against the action works its way through lower courts.
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit voted 2-1 to stay an Oct. 4 order by US District Judge Karin J. Immergut of Oregon - who blocked Trump's move to deploy members of the Oregon National Guard to the city.
"Defendants [Trump] are likely to succeed on the merits of their appeal, and ... other stay factors weigh in their favor. We grant Defendants’ motion for a stay pending appeal," wrote the panel - which consists of Circuit Judges Ryan Nelson, Bridget Bade, and Susan Graber, who heard oral arguments in San Francisco on Oct. 9.
Because if you have Federal officers enforcing Federal laws being attacked, and local PD refuses to stand on the side of the law ...
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"Defendants [Trump] are likely to succeed on the merits of their appeal,
This is the end result of ALL of the court cases against Trump.
It's what I keep telling Ted.
His party is run by a bunch of fucking idiots and their time is up.
Forever.
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