Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Trump Admin Signals It May Not Pay Furloughed Workers After Shutdown Ends
A 2019 statute signed into law by Trump himself requires furloughed workers to be compensated when shutdowns end.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-signals-it-may-not-pay-furlo
ughed-workers-after-shutdown-ends/
But today Trump has a very contradictory understanding of the law he signed because he is a fucking evil dumb ass who cannot read a pretty simple law correctly. But isn’t that typical of all Trumptards? Accuracy about simple ideas is far beyond them, and yet they inevitably pretend to understand what they actually don’t. It is not surprising how much trouble that trait will constantly cause for ordinary Trumptards. Nor is it surprising how stubborn Trumptards are about not correcting their misconceptions:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!! Anyone who doesn't will be substantially "docked." For those Air Traffic Controllers who were GREAT PATRIOTS, and didn't take ANY TIME OFF for the "Democrat Shutdown Hoax," I will be recommending a BONUS of $10,000 per person for distinguished service to our Country. For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn't step up to help the U.S.A, against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK that was only meant to hurt our Country. You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record. If you want to leave service in the near future, please do not hesitate to do so, with NO payment or severance of any kind! You will be quickly replaced by true Patriots, who will do a better job on the Brand New State of the Art Equipment, the best in the World, that we are in the process of ordering. The last "Administration" wasted Billions of Dollars trying to fix antiquated "junk." They had no idea what they were doing! Again, to our great American Patriots, GOD BLESS YOU - I won't be able to send your money fast enough! To all others, REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY. GOD BLESS AMERICA! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Nov 10, 2025, 9:32 AM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115526123205979749
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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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 invisible tottering tower, bigger than the stock markets (altho those are scary enough) is the hedge fund tower, which is AFAIK completely unregulated. Both ends of a hedge are bought on money borrowed from investment banks. As long as both ends of a hedge don't collapse, all is well. But if one does something unexpected, then all of that borrowed money comes due and the speculator has to liquidate catastrophically.
The stock market itself is based on borrowed money. There has been chart after chart showing the parallel between the stock markets and the Fed's various stock market props like quantitative easing. It's a little known fact that, aside from lending money to various nonbank lenders, businesses, institutions, homeowners, and hedge funds, banks buy stocks and lend money to stock market speculators.
Crypto is just IMHO essentially another value-less house of cards.
There is one more potential cause of collapse and that's the huge, and growing, wealth gap. That causes many people to take on too much debt. Any loan... auto, home, credit card, etc. ... based on impoverished people's ability to pay risks another collapse.
But most of these debts sooner or later run thru our banking system one way or another.
Government (public) debt PALES in comparison to the level of FINANCIAL debt, which is mostly unregulated. As long as the government can't, or doesn't, control the amount of debt being piled up to drive hedge funds, stock prices, and crypto to the moon, we will always risk repeated collapses.
The only way I can think of to prevent this is to require much MUCH higher bank reserves, to regulate nonbank lenders, and to once again separate investment from retail banks to limit the contagion of bank failures once they occur.
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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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Originally posted by second: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.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You are a sick individual. Get some help.
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Originally posted by second:
Trump Admin Signals It May Not Pay Furloughed Workers After Shutdown Ends
A 2019 statute signed into law by Trump himself requires furloughed workers to be compensated when shutdowns end.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-signals-it-may-not-pay-furlo
ughed-workers-after-shutdown-ends/
But today Trump has a very contradictory understanding of the law he signed because he is a fucking evil dumb ass who cannot read a pretty simple law correctly. But isn’t that typical of all Trumptards? Accuracy about simple ideas is far beyond them, and yet they inevitably pretend to understand what they actually don’t. It is not surprising how much trouble that trait will constantly cause for ordinary Trumptards. Nor is it surprising how stubborn Trumptards are about not correcting their misconceptions:
You keep saying shit like this, but you're the loser who's losing every day, loser.
Cry some fucking more, you whiny little bitch.
You and your dozen TDS articles for over 7,000 days straight.
Go fuck yourself, idiot.
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Quote:6ix, follow your uncle's example and botch your own suicide attempt. You also told us about your loony mother. You got really excited when the Joker in the movie Joker smothered his own mother with a pillow while she was hospitalized.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are a sick individual. Get some help.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63473&mid=11086
72#1108672 Very apropos entertainment for a little Nazi like yourself with a family where mental illness runs deep. It is your tradition, along with racism, alcoholism, smoking, drug use, sex crimes, tax cheating, and unemployment. You are an exemplary Trumptard. You should be made famous. Meanwhile, and I do mean mean:
Memorial to Black US Soldiers Who Died in WW2 Quietly Removed
Nov 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/memorial-to-black-us-soldiers-who-died-in-ww2
-quietly-removed-11020241
The White House, under President Donald Trump, has removed references to Blacks in the U.S. military.
The panel provided information on the "strict policy of segregation" in the U.S. military during World War II and the journey of many soldiers into postwar civil rights movements. The U.S. military officially desegregated in 1948.
What's next for Trump? Maybe closing the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, informally known as the National Lynching Memorial, a memorial to commemorate the black victims of lynching? What would be Trump’s likely justification? This memorial only includes blacks who were lynched, making it completely unfair to whites. I could imagine Congressional Democrats saying that Trump has a valid criticism rather than telling him that Trump will be lynched if he closes the Memorial and then Trump’s name will be added to those who are memorialized. That is equal opportunity for whites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Memorial_for_Peace_and_Justice
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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November 10, 2025
Over and over, Trump claimed overall prices have fallen since he returned to office in late January.
“Every price is down,” he said Thursday. “Everything is way down,” he said at another Thursday event. “Prices are down under the Trump administration, and they’re down substantially,” he said Friday, adding, “Everybody knows that it’s far less expensive under Trump than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden. And the prices are way down.”
None of that is true.
Specifics at https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/inflation-trump-fact-check
Not that Trumptards care about specifics, but this one is special because I signed a 5-year contract at $0.093/kWh with MP Energy, which begat Shell Energy, which begat Discount Power, which decided to gouge the hell out of new customers because Trump is now President. Lucky me! I missed all that!
Trump claimed Friday: “Energy prices are way down from what they were last year.”
But the Consumer Price Index shows that household energy prices are up substantially over the last year – 6.2% higher in September 2025 than they were in September 2024.
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:6ix, follow your uncle's example and botch your own suicide attempt.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are a sick individual. Get some help.
Gross.
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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".
Which is funny bc I've been a registered Democrat almost as long as I've been voting.
IDK why you blew your stack at me all of a sudden. It was right after I responded to your article about Alzheimer's. Must be personal for you.
Very personal.
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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:Signym and 6ix, you remind me of peeling paint. I got off the road last week and stopped the car near some natural gas processing equipment to get a closer look. One piece was peeling because there was no primer under the top coat of paint. The other was peeling because the paint was sprayed on rusty metal that should have been sandblasted and primed. Then I opened the door to get a closer look. There was lubricating oil dripping from gearboxes. When I walked to the other side, downwind from where I had been, I could smell hydrogen sulfide gas. It is poison. Signym and 6ix, you are poison. What you two write is the peeling paint, but there is far more wrong with you than what you write, your surface appearance. You should be shut down, as should Putin and Trump, the two biggest and most poisonous gas-emitting sources in the world.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
SECOND:
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".
Which is funny bc I've been a registered Democrat almost as long as I've been voting.
IDK why you blew your stack at me all of a sudden. It was right after I responded to your article about Alzheimer's. Must be personal for you.
Very personal.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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How the Supreme Court Exposed the Most Obvious Hidden Truth About Trump’s Tariffs
By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern | Nov 10, 2025 2:44 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/supreme-court-truth-trump-
tariffs-equals-taxes.html
Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs that were put in place to punish foreign countries running a trade deficit against the United States, against China and Mexico for alleged fentanyl smuggling, and against Canada just for being Canada.
The consolidated cases, Learning Resources v. Trump and Trump v. VOS Selections, challenge Trump’s claim that he has the power to issue tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which permits the president to regulate transactions involving any property in which any foreign country or national thereof has any interest, in order to deal with an unusual and extraordinary threat.
On this week’s Amicus podcast, co-hosts Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick spoke with Marc Busch, the Karl F. Landegger Professor of International Business Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He’s an expert on international trade policy and law, and he signed on to an amicus brief on behalf of trade scholars explaining the history and context of the IEEPA. This transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1287/381040/2025102916200
0869_25-250%20Amici%20Brief.pdf
Dahlia Lithwick: These arguments were, in some sense, a very granular and fact-based parsing of statutory language. But they also played out at the highest level of questions about separation of powers and delegation. It doesn’t often happen that you have such a profound split-screen where you are seeing both micro-analysis of the verbs in IEEPA and at the same time profound questions about the limits of presidential power.
Marc Busch: Yes, but there was also no open, honest discussion about how absurd all of this is from an economics perspective. There was no discussion of that, with the exception of Neal Katyal mentioning that the U.S. has been running a trade deficit in goods since the 1970s, and they’re not persistent in a bad sense; they’re persistent in the sense that goods don’t reflect our comparative advantage. The government tried to cut services out of the calculation on Liberation Day when in fact, like all rich countries, we are a services economy. And that’s really hard to square with what is at stake, and leads us back to the macro perspective.
This case is so much bigger than trade. This is a separation of powers case, and it deserves to be taken very seriously precisely because of that. But there are some basics in economics that would have shed more light on what a power grab this is with respect to wanting a means of raising revenue.
As the plaintiffs pointed out, the DOJ’s submission was in fact the worst possible foot forward, inasmuch as we’ve been hearing since Liberation Day that these tariffs are a tax grab. We’ve heard they’re raising some crazy number of billions of dollars. We’ve heard that maybe we should have an external revenue agency. We’ve heard that maybe these can replace income taxes in the United States. Every deal has led to the president boasting about the haul of revenue he’s getting through tax collection. And that landed them in a morass, going out on a limb with respect to “regulatory” versus “revenue-raising” tariffs, and with the micro largely overshadowing the macro in a way that might have surprised many who listened in.
Mark Joseph Stern: It was so interesting, because a lot of economists who weighed in on this case, including you, through amicus brief, all made the same point, which is Econ 101: that a trade deficit is exactly matched by a country’s net capital inflow. So what the government is calling a deficit could also be described as a foreign investment surplus. It is a surplus that has existed for m
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