Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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Losers. 
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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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Losers.
Show us the loser Gilligan. Correct...
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Post my beautiful picture at least 10 times per day on average for the next 3.5 years, screen bitch.
Good girl.
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Thanks to Trump, the U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China
By Phillips Payson O’Brien | October 28, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/us-lose-war-china-dr
one-warfare/684717/
In his address to generals and admirals late last month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth vividly described his vision of how wars are won. Soldiers and sailors are prepared to ship out “in the dead of night, in fair weather or foul, to go to dangerous places to find those who would do our nation harm, and deliver justice on behalf of the American people in close and brutal combat if necessary,” Hegseth said. “In this profession,” he went on, “you feel comfortable inside the violence so that our citizens can live peacefully. Lethality is our calling card, and victory our only acceptable end state.”
This stress on bravery and lethality in hand-to-hand fighting evoked Spartan and Roman warriors who stared their enemies in the eye and killed them with spears or swords. But the U.S. military is not going to confront the Athenians or Carthaginians in its next war, and the results of that war will not be determined by individual valor. Indeed, if the United States goes to war with China, its closest competitor and greatest geopolitical challenger, the bravery of soldiers on both sides will be largely irrelevant. Since the beginning of the 20th century, industrial-scale wars have been won through superiority in production capacity, logistics, and technological mastery.
If Hegseth and other U.S. military planners think they are going to defeat China through ferocity in close combat, they are fooling themselves. The course of Russia’s war on Ukraine—which looks more and more like the prototype for wars of the near future—is being determined not by the valor or lethality of the average infantryman, but by the ability of Ukraine and its allies to inflict pain on the Russian economy, and to waste Russian battlefield and home-front resources through the manufacture of millions of drones, artillery shells, and long-range weapons systems. Such equipment is now being used to attack oil refineries, power plants, and other targets hundreds or thousands of miles behind the front lines.
As I argue in my new book, War and Power: Who Wins Wars—And Why, generations of military leaders in powerful nations have long made fundamental errors in thinking about what prepares a state to win a war. Many of those mistakes reflect what we might call a “battle-centric” understanding of conflict—an assumption that outcomes are determined by what happens when troops meet in the field. In this line of thinking, a war may turn on a decisive battle, often in the war’s early stages, in which one side suddenly renders the other’s position untenable.
In modern warfare, though, most battles are not contests for control of areas of immense strategic importance, and they almost never destroy equipment in quantities that determine the outcome of wars. Rather than deciding wars, individual battles reveal a war’s course by showing how different militaries are generating forces and adapting to changing conditions. Today’s wars are decided less by the military capabilities that each side has at the start than by the participants’ ability to generate new forces, adapt to new technologies, and work in coordination with allies.
At the start of World War I, many major European powers presumed that they could quickly end the conflict by overwhelming their enemy in early battles. Most famously, Germany’s Schlieffen Plan was based on the premise that the German army could swiftly defeat the French army and seize Paris, driving France out of the war and allowing the Germans to turn the mass of their army on imperial Russia. Events did not work out that way. Instead of ending before Christmas 1914, as parties on both sides of the hostilities had predicted, a war of attrition went on for more than four years, drew in soldiers from around the globe, and killed many millions of people.
In World War II, individual battles, even those remembered as the most i
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And unless the government shutdown ends this week, federal support for SNAP will be cut off this Saturday.
This is a political decision, a Republican decision.
Despite the government shutdown, the SNAP program isn’t out of money. In fact, it has $5 billion in contingency funds, intended as a reserve to be tapped in emergencies. And if the imminent cutoff of crucial food aid for 40 million people isn’t an emergency, what is? The Department of Agriculture, which runs the program, also has the ability to maintain funding for a while by shifting other funds around. But Donald Trump has — quite illegally — told the department not to tap those funds.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/snap-food-aid-shutdown-usda-0
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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/27/congress/johnson-back
s-trumps-plans-not-to-tap-contingency-dollars-for-food-aid-ahead-of-funding-cliff-00623672
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Post my beautiful picture at least 10 times per day on average for the next 3.5 years, screen bitch.
Good girl.
Hey boy, point to the loser I bitch slap every day. That's right...This isn't about your liking what I am doing with your picture. This is about me using your picture to bitch slap you and there isn't a fucking thing you can do about it.
I own your picture. I've taken it from you bitch.
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Post my beautiful picture at least 10 times per day on average for the next 3.5 years, screen bitch.
Good girl.
That's funny. You say that as if you could say anything else. I own your likeness here. I took it from you, boy. Your master says show yourself Gilligan. Every tine, you kiss my ass every time.
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Trump's popularity dips as Americans sweat cost of living, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump's presidential approval rating fell in recent days, tying the lowest level of his term, as more Americans frowned on his handling of the cost of living, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The three-day poll, which concluded on Sunday, showed 40% of Americans approve of the Republican leader's job performance, compared to 42% in an October 15-20 Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Trump's popularity has been within a percentage point or two of its current level in every Reuters/Ipsos poll since mid-May. The share of people who say they disapprove of his performance has grown, from 52% in a May 16-18 poll to 57% in the latest survey.
The president won last year's election on promises to tackle the surge in inflation that damaged his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden. But Americans give Trump exceptionally low marks on how he has managed the costs weighing on U.S. households, and twice as many Americans disapprove of his handling of the cost of living as approve of it.
The pace of inflation has edged higher since Trump took office in January, even as the job market has weakened, leading the country's central bank to lower interest rates.
PUBLIC REACTION TO SHUTDOWN REMAINS MUTED
The survey results suggest many Americans have only modest concerns about the ongoing government shutdown, the second-longest in U.S. history, which has furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers. Some 29% said they either didn't care or were glad about the shutdown, while 20% said they were angry. Some 50% said they were frustrated. Most respondents said the shutdown had little or no impact on their lives.
While Trump's Republicans hold majorities in both chambers of Congress, Democrats have blocked spending bills in the U.S. Senate, pledging to hold their ground until Republicans agree to extend health insurance subsidies due to expire at the end of the year.
In principle, the Democratic Party's position appears to have significant backing. Some 73% of Americans polled want the insurance subsidies to continue despite arguments that they will increase the federal budget deficit, little changed from the results of a poll conducted earlier in the month.
The poll, which was conducted online, surveyed 1,018 U.S. adults nationwide and its findings on the views of all Americans had a margin of error of 3 percentage points. It had a 6-point margin of error for the views of Republicans and Democrats.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; editing by Scott Malone and Deepa Babington)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-popularity-dips-as-amer
icans-sweat-cost-of-living-reutersipsos-poll-finds/ar-AA1PmEny?ocid=BingNewsBrowse
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