Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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President Trump said today that if Hamas doesn’t stop killing people in the Gaza Strip, then the United States would have no other choice but to “go in and kill them.” Trump is always talking about killing people, and apparently likes ordering Americans to kill for him. Is any boat in the Atlantic safe?
Why Does Trump Always Talk about Killing People?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/why-does-trump-always-talk-about-
killing-people/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Whatever bullshit you were crying about today you're not even going to remember tomorrow.
*yawn*
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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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Originally posted by second:Quote:In two sentences, 6ix explained why his life fails. Denial of truth has messed up the lives of many Trumptards: "My wife will never know." "I can drink and drive." "I can afford this." "That is not skin cancer." "The boss won't discover my embezzlement because I'm clever."
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. It's not.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
What truth?
The 1,000 times I told you that Trump would be fine and would also be your next President?
The Truth that trump was going to win every swing state and the popular vote by over 1 Million votes?
The Truth that Hollywood was going to fuck itself right out of business and that America hates all of them?
I've been right about everything all along, my dude.
You're the one in denial.
Check yourself.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Whatever bullshit you were crying about today you're not even going to remember tomorrow.
*yawn*
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yup.
My mom was just shy of Piper Laurie (minus the religion) on Carrie (which incidentally was one of her favorite movies).
She actually had the nerve to ask me about a year before I got kicked out why I never had any friends around anymore. I straight up told her that she was an embarrassment. My friends don't like being screamed at for stupid shit like forgetting to take their hat off when they come in the house and other dumb rules she and the step dad had. When one of my girlfriends girl friend came by before we went to see a movie mom told her that we don't allow hats in the house and when she kind of laughed because she thought it was a joke (seriously, who in the 90's even did that anymore) my mom started yelling at her and it was the first (and last) time they ever met.
Then there was the time that my mom started just reaching back to the sky and slapping me in the face for some dumb shit reason or another and I just kept looking her dead in the eye and yelling "THANK YOU SIR! MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!"
That went on for about 5 or so minutes while she was breaking down in tears and just kept doing it until I assume her hand hurt too much to do it anymore and she slunk off to her bedroom. Both my brothers remember that one since they were upstairs and peeking down to watch it happen.
I honestly felt a lot of guilt leaving both of them, but it was time for me to move on. I shouldered the brunt of her illness for at least 10 years and spared them most of it. After I left, my middle brother couldn't take it very long and enlisted in the military less than a year later. Then my youngest brother was there alone, turned to booze which made a horrible situation even worse for everyone, and finally was out on his ass after my stepdad beat the shit out of him.
But the happy ending was that my old man didn't have a problem finally ending the child support payments for my 28 year old brother that seemed like they were never going to end since mom had a great lawyer and they they milked the shit that disabled card as long as they could (while never once making a legitimate attempt to get him on SSDI where he belonged, because it was much easier to just steal money from my Dad instead).
Who'd have guessed that Judges don't look too fondly on parents beating the shit out of their disabled children? The more you know.
And years and many horrible financial decisions later (and minus my dad's child support), they don't have much to their name, when they should probably have a couple of million saved up with all those years in the 401k and 20 years running a successful business. But they're basically retarded when it comes to money and they pissed it all away.
I've already let it be known to my brother that he and my pharmacist sister in law can foot her expenses when the time comes to put her in a home. I'm not paying a dime, and I'm sure as hell not giving her a place to live either.
Seriously. Why would anybody ever want to get married?
My parents did me a huge favor.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Telling you that I don't believe a single person died of Covid wasn't honest enough for you?Quote:
But fwiw I see a lot of the emotional trauma that your mommy dearest put you through. I imagine she made you feel guilty if your brother was having a rough time neurologically. And maybe she even beat you over the care you were giving him. And now, you see it everywhere, even where it doesn't exist.
My mom smoked through all three of her pregnancies and couldn'
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Quote:Does anyone still remember the Cheney energy report? Early in the George W. Bush administration a task force led by Vice President Dick Cheney released a big report offering recommendations for energy policy.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What truth?
The 1,000 times I told you that Trump would be fine and would also be your next President?
The Truth that trump was going to win every swing state and the popular vote by over 1 Million votes?
The Truth that Hollywood was going to fuck itself right out of business and that America hates all of them?
I've been right about everything all along, my dude.
You're the one in denial.
Check yourself.
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml0428/ml042800056.pdf
There was a lot of controversy at the time — you might even call it a scandal — over Cheney’s secretiveness, his refusal to reveal how much role corporate interests played in writing the report, whose conclusions might be summarized as “drill, baby, drill.”
Those were innocent days. These days we have much bigger scandals multiple times a week.
But politics aside, what’s notable about that 2001 report, put together by men who regarded themselves as hard-headed realists, is that it envisaged an energy future reliant almost entirely on fossil fuels plus a bit of nuclear energy. The report grudgingly admitted that technological progress had reduced the costs of renewable energy, but still saw solar and wind as trivial for our energy future:
By 2020, non-hydropower renewable energy is expected to account for 2.8 percent of total electricity generation.
Here’s what actually happened:
https://ourworldindata.org/renewable-energy
Today’s primer will be devoted to the rise of renewable energy. This is, of course, a deeply politicized subject: Donald Trump and his officials hate, just hate wind and solar power, and there are many people who still refuse to believe that renewables can be practical even as renewables keep growing around the world, in fact accounting for the bulk of growth in electricity generation. But I’ll leave detailed discussion of where those attitudes come from for the next primer.
For today I want, instead, to focus on the economics of renewable energy. How did energy sources that a generation ago were widely dismissed as hippie fantasies become a major source of electricity? What are these sources’ future prospects, and how will their growth be affected by policy?
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-renewable-energy
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Quote:'You'll go down as a wimp:' Pence's never-before-published notes key evidence in case against Trump
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What truth?
By Peter Charalambous | October 26, 2025, 6:11 AM
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/youll-wimp-pences-published-notes-key-
evidence-case/story?id=126837443
Donald Trump berated Mike Pence, calling his then-vice president a "wimp" during their final phone call on Jan. 6, 2021, hours before Congress certified the 2020 election of Joe Biden.
According to court filings, had his case against Trump gone to trial, special counsel Jack Smith planned to use the handwritten notes as evidence to document the hours before Trump directed a violent mob to storm the Capitol.
In his final report to Attorney General Merrick Garland made public this past January, Smith said the evidence his team gathered would have proved that Trump "used lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States' democratic process."
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Quote:Trump Grants Clemency to One of the World’s Richest Men
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What truth?
The recent pardon is an overture to an industry that has made the president millions.
By Will Gottsegen | October 24, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/10/trump-crypto-p
ardon-changpeng-zhao/684699/
In “Federalist No. 74,” Alexander Hamilton envisioned the presidential pardon as a “benign prerogative,” an act of mercy important enough to supersede all other laws. But clemency hasn’t always been used that way; sometimes, presidents like to get something out of it too (Bill Clinton, for example, was widely criticized for pardoning a fugitive whose ex-wife had donated to the Clinton Presidential Center). During both of his terms, President Donald Trump has marshaled that power for extreme ends, reserving pardons mostly for those in his political orbit, and rewarding loyalty and personal remuneration on an unprecedented scale.
This week’s pardon of Changpeng Zhao, perhaps the single richest person in the cryptocurrency industry, marks an escalation of that strategy. In 2023, Zhao pled guilty to violating anti-money-laundering laws during his tenure as CEO of Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world. In a settlement with the Treasury Department, Binance agreed to completely exit the U.S. market. The company was also slapped with a $4.3 billion penalty, and Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison. Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen described Binance’s oversights as “willful failures” that allowed transactions involving cybercriminals, child abusers, and terrorist groups (among them al-Qaeda and the Islamic State) on the platform. Although Zhao has been out of prison for more than a year, he has been restricted from running the company.
Zhao’s newfound freedom is likely more than a happy coincidence. Binance reportedly helped create the code behind the stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial, the crypto start-up that counts Trump’s three sons as co-founders. And in May, an Emirati-backed firm invested $2 billion into Binance using that stablecoin—a deal that exponentially increased the coin’s value. Although the White House has described the transaction as “totally unrelated to any government business,” the new relationship between Binance and World Liberty Financial could generate tens of millions of dollars a year for the Trump family and their business partners.
Zhao was not shy about his wish for clemency. This year, he embarked on a monthslong effort to lobby the White House for a pardon, working hard to ingratiate himself with Trump’s circle. In February, he hired Teresa Goody Guillén, a lawyer at BakerHostetler, who also represents World Liberty Financial and its CEO, Zach Witkoff. The New York Times reported that BakerHostetler works with a firm owned by the lobbyist Ches McDowell, a hunting buddy of Donald Trump Jr.’s; McDowell also reportedly lobbied for Zhao’s pardon. Cultivating the right friends seems to have paid off, even if the president seemed unable to recall Zhao’s name in a press briefing yesterday. (Trump called him “the crypto person,” and added that he was “recommended by a lot of people.”)
Zhao’s path to clemency is yet another instance of Trump reshaping the function of the pardon. Lee Kovarsky, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law, told me that Trump’s recent pardons tend to fall into one of two buckets. The first one encompasses overtures to Trump-affiliated groups, including political factions or particular industries that the president wants to keep happy. Trump’s pardon of Ross Ulbricht, who founded the Silk Road and was serving life in prison for overseeing a criminal enterprise, was the fulfillment of a promise he’d made to the crypto community before his second election. The second bucket, Kovarsky explained, is based on “venality”—the willingness “to pardon people that make large financial donations either to him directly or to aligned entities
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Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build, including Silicon Valley tech giants, crypto bros and the Lutnicks
By Nino Paoli | October 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM EDT
https://fortune.com/2025/10/26/37-white-house-ballroom-donors-funding-
300-million-build-tech-ceos-trump/
Their private, tax-deductible donations will be made to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall.
Every donation is a bribe because every donor can receive federal money directed by Trump.
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It must suck crying this much every single day. 
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Quote:Ronald Reagan wasn’t a free-trade purist, but he was nothing like Trump.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It must suck crying this much every single day.
Trump had a hysterical reaction to an ad run by the Canadian province of Ontario that featured audio of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs and extolling free trade.
The ad especially enraged Trump because it featured Reagan, still the Republican lodestar, making a serious, reasoned case for why tariffs are generally bad for the country. In the ad, Reagan sounded presidential and trustworthy, a sure reminder of how far the Republican party has sunk while in the grip of a grandiose, snarling, whining toddler.
So Trump claimed that the ad was “FAKE” and that Reagan “LOVED tariffs.” Actually, the ad accurately conveyed the sense of Reagan’s remarks — and no, Reagan didn’t love tariffs.
It’s straightforward to go through the historical record to discover Reagan’s actual position on trade. As the Financial Times puts it, Reagan “was a devout champion of open trade who used tariffs sparingly and reluctantly.”
Reagan, in fact, repeatedly emphasized the virtues of free trade. Like all modern presidents, he nonetheless imposed some tariffs for political reasons. But Reagan always stayed within the boundaries of the law, using his right to impose discretionary tariffs as pressure release valves rather than abusing his authority to make tariff policy an instrument of his personal whims.
Reagan and his people — totally unlike Trump — took their promises to other countries seriously. If a proposed policy was in clear violation of our international agreements, it was simply out of bounds.
By contrast, everything Trump has done regarding tariffs involves breaking solemn, supposedly binding past pledges to other nations and expecting those countries to meekly comply.
Reagan's tariff policy was nothing like the lawless chaos under Trump.
https://www.ft.com/content/1e4afc0d-ab7e-4a2c-a02c-fe895c842b4e
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