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Is it okay for Trump to steal government money because he will give the money to "charity"? Like, charitably make the Trump ballroom attached to the White House bigger because space for only 999 guests is too small? Like, charitably make the Arc de Trump in DC 100 feet taller than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris?
Trump makes a claim: Somebody said, 'You're the third best president behind George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.' And I got extremely angry, hey, they didn't put out eight wars.
President Donald Trump couldn’t help but favorably compare himself to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in a rambling speech in the Rose Garden on Tuesday.
“Hey, they didn’t put out eight wars, nine coming,” he said. “We put out eight wars, and the ninth is coming, believe it or not.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-says-hes-got-abraham-lincol
n-and-george-washington-beat-as-president/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
Is it okay for Trump to steal government money because he will give the money to "charity"?
Absolutely not. All of the above post was in jest.
This lawsuit started before Trump was elected for the 2nd time. He was wronged. I don't care what you have to say about it in 2025, but you and I both know very well that he was wronged.
Now he happens to be President.
It's an interesting situation for sure. I don't know what I would do right now if I were in his position. But I'll bet it's going to be funny, and it's going to be at your emotional expense.
In an alternate timeline you wish you were living in, Harris won and Trump is fighting this court case against the Liberal Dominance that finally died when Harris lost in our timeline. You'd all be laughing at him and calling him pathetic and anybody who said otherwise would just be silenced as they always were up until Election Day.
But now you're laughing at him and calling him pathetic and those words of yours are echoing harder than they ever had before because you've only recently realized how few people there actually are in your echo chamber when the entire Legacy Media isn't in lock-step with them.
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John Brennan Hit With Criminal Referral Over Steele Dossier Lies
Tuesday, Oct 21, 2025 - 02:59 PM
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday referred former CIA director John Brennan to the Justice Department for prosecution, alleging that Brennan made false statements to Congress about how the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian election interference handled material from the so-called Steele dossier.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:In an alternate universe, Trump does not receive $billions in bribes for Presidential favors: Forbes reported a net worth of $7.3 billion for Trump as of its September 2025 update. This marks a $3 billion increase over the past year, primarily fueled by cryptocurrency and real estate licensing ventures.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Is it okay for Trump to steal government money because he will give the money to "charity"?
Absolutely not. All of the above post was in jest.
This lawsuit started before Trump was elected for the 2nd time. He was wronged. I don't care what you have to say about it in 2025, but you and I both know very well that he was wronged.
Now he happens to be President.
It's an interesting situation for sure. I don't know what I would do right now if I were in his position. But I'll bet it's going to be funny, and it's going to be at your emotional expense.
In an alternate timeline you wish you were living in, Harris won and Trump is fighting this court case against the Liberal Dominance that finally died when Harris lost in our timeline. You'd all be laughing at him and calling him pathetic and anybody who said otherwise would just be silenced as they always were up until Election Day.
But now you're laughing at him and calling him pathetic and those words of yours are echoing harder than they ever had before because you've only recently realized how few people there actually are in your echo chamber when the entire Legacy Media isn't in lock-step with them.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/09/presidency-boosts
-trumps-net-worth-by-3-billion-in-a-year/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing the wave of legislation. The effort would strip away protections that have been built over a century.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/anti-science-bills-hit-statehouses
-attacking-longstanding-public-health-protections
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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So are we in what Phil Gramm — remember him? — once called a “mental recession,” a sort of mass delusion that the economy is bad? It’s likely that some of Americans’ sour mood is driven by political unease. Huge and ever-changing tariffs, masked agents grabbing people off the street, assassinations, vindictive prosecutions, rising measles cases, Trump’s false claims that cities are “war zones” as pretext for sending in the National Guard, and more. Increasingly unhinged statements from the administration feed a general sense of destructive instability. Next thing you know they’ll start demolishing the White House itself to make room for some vanity project. Oh, wait.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-us-economy-is-in-worse-shape
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Originally posted by second:Quote:In an alternate universe, Trump does not receive $billions in bribes for Presidential favors: Forbes reported a net worth of $7.3 billion for Trump as of its September 2025 update. This marks a $3 billion increase over the past year, primarily fueled by cryptocurrency and real estate licensing ventures.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Is it okay for Trump to steal government money because he will give the money to "charity"?
Absolutely not. All of the above post was in jest.
This lawsuit started before Trump was elected for the 2nd time. He was wronged. I don't care what you have to say about it in 2025, but you and I both know very well that he was wronged.
Now he happens to be President.
It's an interesting situation for sure. I don't know what I would do right now if I were in his position. But I'll bet it's going to be funny, and it's going to be at your emotional expense.
In an alternate timeline you wish you were living in, Harris won and Trump is fighting this court case against the Liberal Dominance that finally died when Harris lost in our timeline. You'd all be laughing at him and calling him pathetic and anybody who said otherwise would just be silenced as they always were up until Election Day.
But now you're laughing at him and calling him pathetic and those words of yours are echoing harder than they ever had before because you've only recently realized how few people there actually are in your echo chamber when the entire Legacy Media isn't in lock-step with them.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/09/presidency-boosts
-trumps-net-worth-by-3-billion-in-a-year/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Shut up, faggot.
Get a hobby.
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Originally posted by second:
So are we in what Phil Gramm — remember him? — once called a “mental recession,” a sort of mass delusion that the economy is bad? It’s likely that some of Americans’ sour mood is driven by political unease. Huge and ever-changing tariffs, masked agents grabbing people off the street, assassinations, vindictive prosecutions, rising measles cases, Trump’s false claims that cities are “war zones” as pretext for sending in the National Guard, and more. Increasingly unhinged statements from the administration feed a general sense of destructive instability. Next thing you know they’ll start demolishing the White House itself to make room for some vanity project. Oh, wait.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-us-economy-is-in-worse-shape
Paul Krugman is either a bold faced liar, or he has set himself up so well that he has absolutely no idea what reality is anymore.
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Quote:Why are you unemployed, 6ix? Because you are erratic. Trump’s wildly erratic policies are creating huge uncertainty which is deterring many companies – essentially those that are not in the AI sector or a sector catering to the affluent – from making investments. And those forgone investments include hiring new workers. The result is that much of the economy is frozen — companies aren’t hiring or investing. This freeze, in turn, explains both worker anxiety and rising inequality. Without the AI boom/bubble spending, we might very well have fallen into a recession, as some economists like Mark Zandi have claimed. And despite the AI boom, times for many workers are tough.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Paul Krugman is either a bold faced liar, or he has set himself up so well that he has absolutely no idea what reality is anymore.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Orwellian Idea That Prompted a Whole Movie
By Shirley Li | October 21, 2025, 12:50 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/10/george-orwell-1984-documen
tary-raoul-peck/684637/
George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing thousands of words a day only weakened him further. His skin flaked off. Blisters burst across his throat. Feverish and emaciated, he endured painful procedures to support his failing lungs, but the treatments were too late. Eventually, in 1950, Orwell succumbed to the disease.
Close-ups of microscopic tuberculosis bacteria fill the screen in the opening minutes of the documentary Orwell: 2+2=5—images as bold and unnerving as what follows. Directed by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck, the film examines an idea popularized by 1984: that blatant falsehoods can, through propaganda, be accepted as truth. That conceit, along with Orwell’s state of mind during his final months, has been scrutinized for decades—by high-school students, biographers, and other documentarians. But Peck builds out a bigger argument, using material provided by the Orwell estate—including the writer’s letters, essays, and diary entries—to trace the authoritarian tactics that can suppress truth and lay out what he sees as a disturbing pattern: one of wide-scale complacency in the decades after Orwell’s death. Generations of readers have recognized the prescient warnings of 1984. Yet according to Peck’s film, recognizing that reality can resemble Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece has led to numbness, rather than meaningful change.
The tuberculosis-bacteria motif underscores this idea. To compare authoritarianism’s rise to an infection is perhaps obvious. But as the microbes spread across the screen, the visual becomes almost hypnotic—and, as Peck recently told me, akin to how dictators overwhelm people’s abilities to determine fact from fiction. “It’s the same story again and again,” he said, “and we don’t learn.”
Peck grew up under multiple authoritarian regimes. At 8 years old, he and his family fled Haiti after François Duvalier, the dictator known as Papa Doc, began his rule. Around the same time that his family moved to the Republic of the Congo, that country’s first democratically elected prime minister was assassinated; the following coup placed the despot Mobutu Sese Seko in power. To Peck, Papa Doc and Mobutu followed the same playbook: “They attack intelligence, they attack universities, they attack science, they attack the press,” he said. “They attack every institution that can be a bulwark against them.”
Those memories shaped Peck’s approach to Orwell: 2+2=5. A more traditional exploration of Orwell’s fiction might turn to interviews with scholars of his work to unpack his resonance. Peck instead explores the idea cinematically, as he did in I Am Not Your Negro, his 2016 deconstruction of James Baldwin’s work: He creates an impressionistic collage, featuring scenes derived mostly from Orwell’s writings—which are recited by the actor Damian Lewis—or from relevant archival footage.
The documentary, Peck said, is intended to convey his frustration that Orwell’s name has too often been flattened into an adjective, and 1984 into mere speculative fiction. In one scene from Orwell: 2+2=5, Apple’s well-known Super Bowl ad—in which a model hurls a sledgehammer at a Big Brother broadcast—plays on a giant billboard above a busy street as passersby completely ignore it. Perhaps in an effort to unflatten Orwell’s warnings, the film points out what it sees as contemporary parallels to Newspeak, the uncanny English used throughout 1984 to prevent the articulation of abstract concepts. (Rather than say something is “great,” Newspeak uses the word plusgood. A more insidious example would be calling any ideas that go against the ruling party “thoughtcrime.”) Peck argues that some world leaders have seemed to embrace the practice of twisting words: In one sequence, he displays a mo
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