Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
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And really, at the end of the day, the entire stock market is what really needs to go.
That's what sucked all of the wealth out of the working man.
If you want to know why half the country can't find 40hr per week jobs with health insurance, it's because the money they should be getting paid is getting paid out to investors who aren't doing fuck all instead.
And they give all of you juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust enough of a taste where you all have a vested interest in seeing those numbers grow as your wallet grows threadbare. All for promises of a future that very well might not work out the way the "experts" have predicted your retirement would go if you did the right thing.
Hyperbolic? Perhaps. But it's not as if seniors haven't been worried about their retirement funds in retirement for going on 20 years now. Yeah... We've had some good times and things have more or less worked out so far for anybody who didn't panic sell in the bad times and screw themselves, but with $38 Trillion in debt and things getting worse economically every presidential cycle that passes, why should anybody in their mid-40's believe that all the money they put in a 401k is going to be worth anything in 20 years?
In my mind, the 401k is just another tool they use to instill fear and manipulate behavior on a mass scale.
To the young who could afford it but would have to make a choice, buy the house. Don't put off buying a house so you can fund your 401k. If some international travesty occurs in the future where the USD gets undermined by a foreign currency or a digital currency, the house and the land under it are going to be worth something tangible when those old US notes you're banking online might not buy you toilet paper.
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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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Why didn't Trump do this mass pardon in January? What next? Pardons for Ghislaine Maxwell when the time is right? Pardons for Prince Andrew and pedophiles in general? Pardons for all wealthy tax cheaters? Charles Kushner, the father of Ivanka Trump's husband Jared Kushner, was pardoned by Donald Trump in December 2020. He had pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Kushner is now the ambassador to France because why not make a criminal an ambassador?
GRANTING PARDONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATED TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION
This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation.
Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election.
This includes, but is not limited to:
• Mark Amick
• Kathy Berden
• Christina Bobb
• Tyler Bowyer
• Joseph Brannan
• Carol Brunner
• Mary Buestrin
• Darryl Carlson
• James "Ken" Carroll
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• John Eastman
• Jenna Ellis
• Boris Epshteyn
• Amy Facchinello
• Bill Feehan
• Carolyn Fisher
• Harrison Floyd
• Clifford Frost
• Kay Godwin
• Edward Scott Grabins
• Stanley Grot
• Rudolph Giuliani
• John Haggard
• Scott Hall
• Misty Hampton
• David G. Hanna
• Mark Hennessy
• Mari-Ann Henry
• Durward James Hindle III
• Andrew Hitt
• Jake Hoffman
• Burt Jones
• Anthony T. Kern
• Kathy Kiernen
• Timothy King
• Trevian Kutti
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• Cathleen Latham
• Jesse Law
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• Michele Lundgren
• Meshawn Maddock
• Michael McDonald
• Mark Meadows
• Shawn Meehan
• Robert Montgomery
• Daryl Moody
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• Sidney Powell
• James Renner
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• Mayra Rodriguez
• Mike Roman
• Rose Rook
• Kelly Ruh
• Greg Safsten
• David Shafer
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• Ray Stallings Smith III
• Robert F. Spindell Jr.
• Shawn Still
• Ken Thompson
• Pam Travis
• James Troupis
• Kent Vanderwood
• Kelli Ward
• Michael Ward
• C.B. Yadav
This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
The Attorney General, acting through the Pardon Attorney, shall administer and effectuate the issuance of certificates of pardon to eligible applicants.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
9:54 PM · Nov 9, 2025
https://x.com/EagleEdMartin/status/1987730498374828252
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Trumptards find the concept of setting things right with insurance after doing wrong (in a car accident for example) as anathema. Trumptards also don't understand the concept of unacceptable risk. Building wooden houses in a forest doesn't seem like a fire risk to them. Building on a steep slope in an earthquake zone doesn't seem like a building collapse risk to Trumptard, but insurance companies see that those unacknowledged risks will bankrupt the insurance company.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's exactly what happened when car insurance was mandated, and especially after technology got to the point that the government could easily deny you the sale of your yearly car registration if you couldn't prove you had insurance. Prices went through the roof and have continued to balloon out of control. You know all about that being in the first state where many of the homeowners insurance companies closed shop because it's just simply too expensive to insure people in California anymore.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:It never crosses the mind of Russians or people like Signym and Trump that they are completely fucked up in the head. When Russian soldiers get shot by Ukrainians, for example, the Russian population blames Ukrainians for being easily offended rather than Russians realizing the soldiers deserved to be killed for what they are doing, saying, acting, and being. It is like in the movie Noah, where none of the evil people were even slightly aware that they were fucked up in the head and God would drown them without asking permission from the evil people for killing them. The evil people had used up all of God's infinite patience and understanding, leaving nothing but the Wrath of God, which the evil people in the movie found completely incomprehensible. The attitude of evil people is: "What? Me do something wrong? It's not me, it's God did something wrong to me." Evil people never understand why they deserve to die, whether in Noah's Flood or in America or Russia. That inability to see what a crazy asshole Trump is explains why Trumptards act the way they do and suffer for it the way Trump never will because he is rich.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...
That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.
Personally, I think he's drinking now.
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:Quote:It never crosses the mind of Russians or people like Signym and Trump that they are completely fucked up in the head.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...
That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.
Personally, I think he's drinking now.
Don't forget me!
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Yanno... the most offensive part of your stupidity, Second, is how you take every single person you've ever had a disagreement with and threw them all in a trash bin called "Trumptard". Every one of them are all the same to you.
I know that Democrat voters vote Democrat for an extremely wide variety of reasons. They're all buying one lie or another.
It's not any of those at the bottom that I begrudge. Those that believe they're better off voting the way they do when their back is always against the wall and they can't save a nickle. They vote Democrat out of desperation, ignorance of the issues, and a high propensity to buy somebody's bullshit because of how bad they've got it.
It's you rich and rich wannabe liberal white people I've got a problem with. The ones running the shit. The cult recruiters and the cult leaders that are always getting the desperate to vote against their own long-term self-interests for short-term gains.
Ya'all can go fuck yourselves.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:It never crosses the mind of Russians or people like Signym and Trump that they are completely fucked up in the head. When Russian soldiers get shot by Ukrainians, for example, the Russian population blames Ukrainians for being easily offended rather than Russians realizing the soldiers deserved to be killed for what they are doing, saying, acting, and being. It is like in the movie Noah, where none of the evil people were even slightly aware that they were fucked up in the head and God would drown them without asking permission from the evil people for killing them. The evil people had used up all of God's infinite patience and understanding, leaving nothing but the Wrath of God, which the evil people in the movie found completely incomprehensible. The attitude of evil people is: "What? Me do something wrong? It's not me, it's God did something wrong to me." Evil people never understand why they deserve to die, whether in Noah's Flood or in America or Russia. That inability to see what a crazy asshole Trump is explains why Trumptards act the way they do and suffer for it the way Trump never will because he is rich.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...
That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.
Personally, I think he's drinking now.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
SECOND, you're making even less sense than usual.
You posted something about using up God's infinite patience.
BUT If patience was infinite, it couldn't be used up, could it?
Something has seriously gone wrong in your world.
Did you get bad news from your doctor?
That WOULD put kink in your plan to live forever, wouldn't it?
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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:My "values" don't closely match the Democratic party. For example, I am for guns and for the death penalty, but those are not widely held valuable beliefs among the Democrats, and yet I have never in my life felt, known, detected, seen anything that strikes me as crazy, sick, mentally defective, evil, or poisonous about any Democrat. There are some silly Democrats, but nothing about them is seriously objectionable. I never get the feeling that a Democrat even needs to be yelled at or punched in the face, and certainly never that America is being harmed by a Democrat who doesn't share my so-called "values".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yanno... the most offensive part of your stupidity, Second, is how you take every single person you've ever had a disagreement with and threw them all in a trash bin called "Trumptard". Every one of them are all the same to you.
I know that Democrat voters vote Democrat for an extremely wide variety of reasons. They're all buying one lie or another.
It's not any of those at the bottom that I begrudge. Those that believe they're better off voting the way they do when their back is always against the wall and they can't save a nickle. They vote Democrat out of desperation, ignorance of the issues, and a high propensity to buy somebody's bullshit because of how bad they've got it.
It's you rich and rich wannabe liberal white people I've got a problem with. The ones running the shit. The cult recruiters and the cult leaders that are always getting the desperate to vote against their own long-term self-interests for short-term gains.
Ya'all can go fuck yourselves.
On the other hand, every fucking Trumptard I have gotten downwind from smells like they are not human. The stink of decay and evil surrounds all the Trumptards that I have gotten close enough to catch their rotten scent. My opinion about Trumptards is not shared by any Democrats I know. Democrats still think, despite all evidence accumulated over decades, that evil people can be persuaded with words to behave better. I don't think Trumptards get better; they only get rottener with time, like unrefrigerated meat.
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Quote:Signym, you support Russia. Your signature means the opposite of what Kissinger meant because you clipped out words. There is nothing I hate more than a goddamn lying sack of shit like you who makes fake facts, and can't or won't understand their own lies. Signym, you have never understood what is wrong with your signature. Never, because you are completely fucked up in the head, from the very first time I read anything you wrote. You ooze fuckedup-ness.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you're making even less sense than usual.
You posted something about using up God's infinite patience.
BUT If patience was infinite, it couldn't be used up, could it?
Something has seriously gone wrong in your world.
Did you get bad news from your doctor?
That WOULD put kink in your plan to live forever, wouldn't it?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger did use a version of the phrase, but it was a specific internal warning taken out of context, not a general public statement of his own opinion. The full quote, from a private phone call to William F. Buckley Jr. in November 1968, before Nixon's inauguration, was:
"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if [South Vietnamese President] Thieu meets the same fate as [his predecessor] Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
Context and Meaning:
Kissinger was warning against abandoning allies, not stating his belief that being a U.S. friend was inherently a bad idea.
He argued that the U.S. needed to protect its allies (specifically Thieu) to maintain its international credibility and prevent the perception that aligning with America led to ruin.
The widely circulated, truncated version of the quote "To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal" reverses his original intent.
So, while he said the words, they were part of a conditional statement about the perception of U.S. reliability, and not the definitive, cynical epigram it is often portrayed as.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump is pushing us toward a financial crash. It could be 1929 all over again
By William A. Birdthistle | November 9, 2025
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/11/09/trump-is-pushing-us-toward
-a-financial-crash-it-could-be-1929-all-over-again/
President Trump’s Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, set to the theme of “The Great Gatsby,” re-enacted the decadence of that story’s licentious era: befeathered flappers shimmying in the crowd; gilded and onyx décor; scantily clad women posing in an enormous champagne coupe. The revelatory moment says so much about where we stand today — and what we could be lurching into next.
Published a century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” captured the culture of an overheated economy on the brink of demise. Just as Jay Gatsby fell from the height of fortune to an ignominious death, the 1920s roared with financial overindulgence until the markets drowned in the Wall Street crash of 1929. The Great Depression followed, and the consequences for the global economy proved calamitous.
Today we find ourselves again dancing toward new highs in the stock market. Speculative money is once more pouring into risky investment schemes, with staggering sums of money being thrown at artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies. But rather than heed a century of hard-won lessons, the Trump administration’s financial regulators are embracing dissolute policies to keep the punch flowing.
The financial excesses of 100 years ago teach us how high the costs of negligent oversight of our markets can be. When sentinels sleep, fraudsters flourish; their frenzied celebration of unreal profits pumps froth into the market; ultimately, with panic and pain, bubbles will burst. As stages of that cycle are recurring, we must decide whether to intervene now — or to mop up the mess later.
The parallels between the 1920s and the 2020s are numerous — and ominous. The 1920s economy boomed while America recovered from a deadly pandemic, the flu of 1918. Americans used installment plans — the precursor to today’s ubiquitous “buy now, pay later” plans at online checkouts — to spend liberally on consumer products, and they poured money into speculative new investments. Automobile and telephone stocks were the high-flying tech investments of their day; Tesla and Apple are two of ours.
The prevailing interest rate was around 5 percent, as it is today. And as with today, masses of Americans took advantage of easy credit and ubiquitous stock brokerages to speculate in finance. In 1929, a New York Times editor quoted a major newspaper’s financial expert who said that the “huge army that daily gambles in the stock market” had come to include, in the editor’s words, “the woman nonprofessional speculator,” whose share of market trading grew by one estimate from less than 2 percent to 35 percent. That influx of buying from 1919 to 1929 drove the stock market up more than sixfold over the decade — a growth rate our market has actually surpassed over the past three years.
Nick Carraway, the narrator of “The Great Gatsby,” was a bond salesman. Today he might work for a crypto exchange or Robinhood, the popular app that allows neophytes to bet on financial options like a game on their smartphones. Robinhood makes a good deal of money from the interest its users pay to borrow money to buy yet more investments. Investing on margin, as this practice is known, was a major source of the surge that drove markets to perilous heights in the 1920s. And when stocks began to fall, margin calls — the demands for loans to be repaid by selling the stocks, if necessary — were a major accelerant of the crash.
In the ’20s, America did not have any federal securities regulators, offering irresistible temptations to charlatans.
It was the era of Charles Ponzi, whose last name became synonymous with the classic pyramid scheme in which outlandish returns are delivered only by pilfering the funds of new investors. Today’s analogous innovation is
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