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Quote:Let me put it another way: the Obama administration continued with the War on Terrorism, except methodically with far more care to prevent collateral damage than George Bush had shown, while Trump was whimsically killing, trying to impress his guest, Chinese President Xi Jinping:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay. Let me put it another way.
Nobody gives a fuck.
Nobody gave a fuck back then. Nobody gives a fuck now.
Shut the fuck up.
Donald Trump ordered 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike a Syrian air base in April 2017 and informed Chinese President Xi Jinping about it during dessert at his Mar-a-Lago estate. In a later interview with Fox Business, Trump famously recounted telling Xi about the military action over "the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen".
In 2017, killing people was a piece of cake for Trump. Trump has gotten worse since then.
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:Let me put it another way
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay. Let me put it another way.
Nobody gives a fuck.
Nobody gave a fuck back then. Nobody gives a fuck now.
Shut the fuck up.
Don't bother.
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Quote:Trump murdered millions of children.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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https://www.google.com/search?q=death+caused+by+end+of+USAID+program
The end of specific USAID programs has reportedly caused hundreds of thousands of deaths already, with studies projecting millions more in the coming years due to a lack of healthcare, nutrition, and humanitarian aid.
A study published in The Lancet estimated that USAID programs prevented over 91 million deaths globally between 2001 and 2021. Projections based on the severe funding cuts and the dismantling of the agency indicate that by 2030:
More than 14 million additional, preventable deaths could occur.
Over 4.5 million of these deaths would be among children under the age of five.
Reports and firsthand accounts from various countries have documented the immediate consequences:
Malnutrition: The World Food Programme (WFP) has reduced food aid in places like a refugee camp in Kenya, where an aid worker's child died after the program that provided therapeutic food was terminated. Globally, 50% of the therapeutic foods for treating malnutrition in children were funded by USAID.
Disease: Funding cuts have halted the delivery of malaria tests and drugs in Myanmar, where cases have increased tenfold, and have caused shortages of HIV medication and the closure of clinics in Lesotho.
Health Systems: Cuts in Kenya resulted in the termination of nearly 2,000 doctors and over 1,200 nurses. In Afghanistan, rural clinics closed due to a lack of U.S. funding.
These outcomes are described by some as "public man-made death," a result of conscious policy choices to abruptly halt funding without warning or transition plans for the partner countries that relied on the support. The Trump administration officials overseeing the cuts, including then-Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have denied that anyone has died as a result.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump murdered millions of children.
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No. He didn't.
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Quote:While you are in denial mode, why not deny that smoking causes cancer?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. He didn't.
Why NOT deny that Trump halting medicine and food kills children?
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MERITOCRACY, AGAIN
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It's Official: Ditching The SATs Was A Big Mistake
Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 - 07:10 PM
Authored by Jonathan Miltimore via The Washington Examiner,
In early 2020, the University of California set the tone for the rest of the country when its regents voted to drop SAT and ACT admissions requirements through 2024. That decision, initially framed as a pandemic necessity, quickly reshaped admissions nationwide. By late 2022, roughly 1,750 schools, or about 80 percent of U.S. universities, had adopted test-optional policies, according to Forbes.
“It’s a sea change in terms of how admissions decisions are being made,” Robert Schaeffer, of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, told NBC News.
“The pandemic created a natural experiment.”
Five years later, the results of this “natural experiment” are in. A report released by UC San Diego in November tells the story.
“Over the past five years, UC San Diego has experienced a steep decline in the academic preparation of its entering first-year students—particularly in mathematics, but also in writing and language skills,” a new university report reads.
“This trend poses serious challenges both to student success and to the university’s instructional mission.”
Those words might sound ominous, but they don’t do justice to just how bad the slide has been.
Roughly 1 in 8 UCSD freshmen are working with math skills that don’t clear the high school bar - a 30-fold jump since 2020.
It gets worse, however.
The report concluded that 70 percent of those students [roughly 9% of total first year students] fall below middle school levels.
To give you an idea of what we’re talking about, a full quarter of students failed to solve the following equation: 7 + 2 = [ ] + 6.
. . .
So, why did universities engage in this “natural experiment”?
There is no single answer, but politics, ideology, and crass incentives all played a role.
Let’s start with politics.
As David Leonhardt pointed out in the New York Times, universities are run by progressives, and “standardized tests have become especially unpopular among political progressives.”
Some progressives say standardized tests cause too much stress.
Others say they’re biased to explain why men score higher, on average, than women and why some racial groups perform better than others.
Ideology, a kissing cousin of politics, also plays a role. The fact that universities ditched standardized testing during the peak of the DEI craze is not a coincidence. As Leonhardt noted in the New York Times, the hostility to standardized tests is based largely “on the theory that they hurt diversity.”
MORE AT https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elit
ism/3907689/ditching-standardized-testing-colleges-big-mistake/
SAT scores by tace, gender, language etc
https://archive.ph/TUkPR
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Originally posted by second:Quote:While you are in denial mode, why not deny that smoking causes cancer?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. He didn't.
Smoking does cause cancer. Trump hasn't murdered anybody.
Your pathetic attempts at emotional blackmail through hyperbole are as paper thin as your personality.
I know you think you're special, but you don't sound any different than anybody else saying all the things you say every day. Outside of anger and insults, you don't even have the capability to think for yourself anymore. None of your thoughts remain your own.
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Regenerative Farming Just Went Mainstream; Here's Why It Matters
Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 - 06:00 PM
Authored by Mollie Englehart via The Epoch Times,
My phone started dinging almost all at once.
Text messages, links, alerts—people were telling me that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was about to make a major announcement on Dec. 10 related to regenerative agriculture. A YouTube link was circulating. The livestream was about to begin. There was a sense of anticipation in the air.
When the video came on, Rollins stood alongside Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others. What stood out immediately was not the funding amount, but the language: soil health, human health, nutrient density, the microbiome, and microbiology. The living systems beneath our feet and within our bodies were finally being discussed as part of one connected reality.
That language matters.
Then the announcement itself came: $700 million allocated toward regenerative agriculture.
On paper, that sounds significant. In reality, when spread across acreage that is already regenerative, it comes out to roughly $16 per acre. My phone began lighting up again—this time with frustration and disappointment. Farmers were doing the math. Many compared it to the $12 billion recently allocated to soybean farmers to ease losses from China no longer buying at previous levels. The imbalance felt familiar.
I felt that disappointment myself. But I stopped.
Because the truth is, the government is not going to save us. It never was.
. . .
Incremental wins are still wins. And the direction of the wind has finally changed.
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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:If smoking causes cancer, why did you ever smoke, 6ix? Because you never believed that it could happen to you.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Smoking does cause cancer. Trump hasn't murdered anybody.
Your pathetic attempts at emotional blackmail through hyperbole are as paper thin as your personality.
I know you think you're special, but you don't sound any different than anybody else saying all the things you say every day. Outside of anger and insults, you don't even have the capability to think for yourself anymore. None of your thoughts remain your own.
If Trump killed hundreds of thousands of children, why did you ever vote for him, 6ix? Because you never believed it could happen to your choice for President.
How many children died because Trump shut down USAID?
The Trump administration's decision to freeze and cut most U.S. foreign aid programs has been estimated by public health experts and modeling studies to be in the hundreds of thousands so far, with projections reaching into the millions over the coming years if cuts continue.
https://www.google.com/search?q=How+many+children+died+because+Trump+s
hut+down+USAID
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How many Trumptards believe Trump won the 2020 election? Most of this crowd did not believe Trump:
“Professionals at cheating”: Trump claims “truckloads” of evidence that Dems rigged elections
The president said overwhelming evidence would appear in coming weeks
By Alex Galbraith | December 14, 2025 4:23PM (EST)
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/14/professionals-at-cheating-trump-claim
s-truckloads-of-evidence-that-dems-rigged-elections/
President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that he has “truckloads” of evidence that Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020.
During a Christmas reception at the White House, Trump said that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 election and made attempts to do the same in 2024.
“They’re good at cheating in elections. Very good at cheating, they’re professionals at cheating,” he said. “We won in 2016 by a lot. The election was rigged in 2020. We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you’ll see it come out. It’s coming out in truckloads.”
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Six big lies that won the election: How Donald Trump gaslit America
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/09/six-big-lies-that-won-the-election-ho
w-donald-gaslit-america/
Trump also suggested that he would win California if it weren’t for Democrats’ interference. Citing other states where he performed well with Hispanic voters (including in notoriously Republican-heavy Miami),
“If the vote in California was legitimate, it was not… we would win California by a lot,” he said. “California, more than any other place, is so rigged.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom shared a clip of Trump’s claims on social media, responding, “Hahahahahahahahaha ok.”
Elsewhere in the long-winded ceremony, the president was distracted by a woman in the crowd who he believed looked like Ivanka Trump, asking her to turn around for the cameras. He also told a story about a man who was bit by a venomous snake in Peru and marveled at the crowd’s lack of interest.
“Look how quiet everybody is,” he said, “You know, when you talk about snakes and things like that people find it interesting.”
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