Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Originally posted by second: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
Trump is literally tearing down the White House. No Russian or European leader ever, ever, were sick enough to tear down any Historic building like this. Instead, they did everything in their power to protect those buildings.
We have protected Historic properties all across this nation for this very reason. Trump is sickening.
For years in these threads comrade signym had a signature that said America is ruled by oligarchs. She intended it as an insult against this country. Now with Trump that was never truer.
Where is signyms outrage? It turns out she's all in when it comes to oligarchs ruling the country. Not running the country, ruling the country. Isn't that right comrade.
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Shut up, faggot. Go to BlueSky and cry with your endangered species.
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“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
https://coming42.livejournal.com/479179.html
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?’ If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”
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:
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
I'm sure it's for the same reason that some Americans hate Trump.
They're wackjob Liberal shitheels with no life, just like you.
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Quote:The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”
I'm sure it's for the same reason that some Americans hate Trump.
They're wackjob Liberal shitheels with no life, just like you.
The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.
By Jonathan Blitzer | October 21, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-real-target-of-trumps-war-
on-drug-boats
Late this summer, James Story, who served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela for three years of Donald Trump’s first term and for two of Joe Biden’s, felt that anything was possible in the relationship between Washington and Caracas. It had been six years since the U.S. closed its Embassy in Venezuela, to protest the rule of the Socialist authoritarian Nicolás Maduro. The issue of how to dislodge Maduro’s regime has been an American political conundrum for at least a decade. Trump had wanted to overthrow it but couldn’t figure out how; Biden tried to find compromise, in large part because of a steady exodus of Venezuelan migrants coming to the U.S. But Maduro remained in power, despite appearing to have lost elections handily last year. “If you had asked me two months ago,” Story said, “I would have said it’s equally likely that we reopen the Embassy and restore some kind of relation as it is that we would bomb them.”
Since September 2nd, the Trump Administration has attacked seven boats off the coast of Venezuela, killing at least thirty-two people, on the grounds that they were drug traffickers transporting contraband to the U.S. The President has justified the strikes as a matter of national self-defense, claiming, without evidence, that drugs from the region are responsible for three hundred thousand deaths in the U.S. last year. “To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you out of existence,” Trump said at the United Nations last month. “Each boat that we sink carries drugs that would kill more than twenty-five thousand Americans.” There were about eighty thousand drug-overdose deaths in the U.S. last year. Fentanyl, which was responsible for the overwhelming majority of them, doesn’t come from Venezuela, and the Coast Guard has no record of seizing it in the Caribbean.
In late September, the White House sent a notification to Congress declaring that the U.S. was in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels, which the government has designated as “terrorist organizations.” Those it killed in international waters were deemed “unlawful combatants.” In an escalation of hostilities against Venezuela, the Department of Defense has recently moved some ten thousand troops into the region, mostly to former military bases in Puerto Rico. Eight American warships and a submarine are now in the Caribbean, and, according to the Times, the Trump Administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert actions inside Venezuela. Last week, Alvin Holsey, the admiral in charge of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees all military operations in Central and South America, abruptly resigned; the job is typically held for three years, but he had served for less than one.
Legal scholars and experts in the history of executive power have expressed alarm that Trump is acting well beyond the limits of national and international law. But, earlier this month, when Senate Democrats introduced a resolution to curb Trump’s ability to strike narco-traffickers without congressional approval, it failed on largely partisan lines. “This is basically U.S. propaganda through force,” a former senior national-security official who served in the first Trump White House told me. “This is not a counter-narcotics mission. It’s using a ten-ton truck to kill an ant.”
Venezuela’s Socialist govern
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Over the last decade, the government spent $4 trillion on interest, and Peterson calculated that it will balloon to $14 trillion over the next 10 years.
If it seems like we are adding debt faster than ever, that’s because we are. The debt was $37 trillion just two months ago; now it is $38 trillion, and the pace we’re on is twice as fast as the rate of debt growth since 2000.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/as-national-debt-accelerates-to-3
8-trillion-watchdog-warns-it-s-no-way-for-a-great-nation-like-america-to-run-its-finances/ar-AA1OZxAp
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 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, faggot. Go to BlueSky and cry with your endangered species.
Hey Gilligan, you're just a pussy who is hiding who and what you really are because you are a coward; simple. Others have to take the lead because you're all talk. You're afraid to even admit who you are. Afraid to even admit what you really believe.
Hey Jack, point to the pussy. Yup...
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You can bitch about that all you want and nobody from either side is going to do anything about it. You'll see posts from me back in 2006 about this issue.
Things that rise exponentially in the long-term seldom benefit anyone.
One of two things is going to happen in our lifetime.
1. Things will continue on as they always have, and my generation's grandchildren will be in shock and awe to see the first time American debt reaches $1 Quadrillion.
2. Somebody is going to call in that debt and we're all going to officially be somebody's slave.
Looks like the national debt was only $27 Billion when my grandfather was born. We'd already added another $800 Billion to that number when I was born, and only a few years later before I was in preschool we had hit $1 Trillion. I feel like an old man now when I say I remember the days when the national debt was only $27 Trillion.
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Quote:Are you really unaware that the National Debt has kept increasing because Republicans, and a few fucked up Senators like John Fetterman (who wears shorts and a hoodie in the Capitol building), have kept lowering the tax collected year after year? It was only this summer that all the Republicans voted to once again lower the tax collected by another $4 trillion, with most of those trillions going to me and my kind.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You can bitch about that all you want and nobody from either side is going to do anything about it. You'll see posts from me back in 2006 about this issue.
Things that rise exponentially in the long-term seldom benefit anyone.
One of two things is going to happen in our lifetime.
1. Things will continue on as they always have, and my generation's grandchildren will be in shock and awe to see the first time American debt reaches $1 Quadrillion.
2. Somebody is going to call in that debt and we're all going to officially be somebody's slave.
Looks like the national debt was only $27 Billion when my grandfather was born. We'd already added another $800 Billion to that number when I was born, and only a few years later before I was in preschool we had hit $1 Trillion. I feel like an old man now when I say I remember the days when the national debt was only $27 Trillion.
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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.
Do you remember George Bush? He gave out checks in 2001 because Bill Clinton stopped the endless deficit spending. The government had a budget surplus, which Bush immediately destroyed, arguing that the surplus resulted from "over-taxation". By the end of Bush's Presidency, he had started a couple of $ multi-trillion-dollar wars and increased the National Debt by cutting taxes.
When George W. Bush took office in 2001, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had projected a cumulative budget surplus of $5.6 trillion over the following decade. It didn't take long for Bush to destroy that surplus!
End of presidency: By the time Bush left office in 2009, the national debt had nearly doubled, from $5.768 trillion to $10.626 trillion, and the CBO was projecting a deficit of over $1 trillion for 2009.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Argentina and Rural America’s Awakening
Suddenly, Trump’s contempt for his base is showing
By Paul Krugman | Oct 23, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/argentina-and-rural-americas-awaken
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. . . the reality of this contempt is starting to show through — not, at least so far, via the One Big Beautiful Bill’s savage cuts to health care, which will be especially devastating to rural areas, but via the Trump administration’s bizarre fixation on aiding President Javier Milei of Argentina.
The truth is that rural America is even more dependent than urban America on the programs now on the chopping block. The nonpartisan Economic Innovation Group has mapped out where in America people depend for a large share of their income on government transfers: the counties where a lot of income comes from government programs, indicated in yellow, are overwhelmingly in rural areas, while the places where such aid plays a relatively small role (light blue) mainly correspond to major metropolitan areas:
https://eig.org/great-transfermation/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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