Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Originally posted by second: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.
Yeah. I was once young and dumb. Thought that I was the bright shiny center of the universe. Thought that I was invincible. Just like everybody else.
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If Trump killed hundreds of thousands of children, why did you ever vote for him, 6ix?
He didn't.
So shut the fuck up.
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Quote:I know you will keep lying forever, 6ixStringJoker. It shows you are a goddamn Nazi. The Holocaust deniers protect the reputation of Hitler and his Nazis, and those who deny that Trump killed hundreds of thousands of children are protecting Trump's and his Trumptards' reputation.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second: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.
Yeah. I was once young and dumb. Thought that I was the bright shiny center of the universe. Thought that I was invincible. Just like everybody else.Quote:
If Trump killed hundreds of thousands of children, why did you ever vote for him, 6ix?
He didn't.
So shut the fuck up.
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
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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MAGA leaders warn Trump the base is checking out. Will he listen?
Story by Natalie Allison, Kadia Goba, Hannah Knowles
Dec 15, 2025
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maga-leaders-warn-trump-the-ba
se-is-checking-out-will-he-listen/ar-AA1SmUR4
As Donald Trump ate his crab cake lunch inside the White House last month, conservative pollster Mark Mitchell tried to explain that there was a disconnect between what the administration seemed to be focused on, and what Trump’s passionate base of supporters want to see.
“Sir, you got shot at the Butler rally,” Mitchell said, invoking the “really strong optics” of Trump raising his fist in defiance after the attempted assassination in July 2024.
“You said, ‘Fight, fight, fight.’ But nobody ever clarified what that means,” Mitchell continued. “And right now, you’re fight-fight-fighting Marjorie Taylor Greene, and not actually fight-fight-fighting for Americans.”
The head pollster at Rasmussen Reports warned Trump that many of his supporters believe he hasn’t “drained the swamp” in Washington, and suggested the president refocus with a plan to embrace “pragmatic economic populism.”
“To the extent to which we were talking about the economic populism message, he wasn’t as interested as I would have hoped,” Mitchell said, adding that it was a “long-ranging conversation.”
Mitchell’s critique echoes a growing chorus of faithful MAGA supporters who have begun raising concerns over what they see as Trump’s second-term shortcomings. In recent weeks, pockets of the president’s base — well-known for its unwavering dedication to Trump and his MAGA agenda — have accused the president of focusing too much on foreign affairs, failing to address the cost of living issues he pledged to fix, aligning himself too closely with billionaires and tech moguls, and resisting the release of more investigative files on the deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
Across the conservative spectrum, a steady drumbeat of commentators have warned that Trump’s coalition is weakened, and the party is headed for defeat in November’s midterms elections. There are concerns that the base won’t show up over frustrations that Trump hasn’t pursued the MAGA agenda aggressively enough. And others worry economic concerns could threaten his standing with the independent voters key in next year’s midterms.
Trump’s top advisers have taken note of the criticism from within MAGA, and see it as part of the “cyclical” feedback the administration will receive throughout his term, as one senior White House official put it. Trump’s staff have planned for him to begin holding near-weekly rallies to tout his accomplishments after spending little time on the stump this year, two officials told The Washington Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity to detail internal conversations. But on his first stop of that effort, at a casino in Pennsylvania last week, Trump again mocked the word “affordability” and downplayed concerns about rising costs and inflation before acknowledging, “I can’t say affordability is a hoax because I agree the prices were too high.”
His advisers anticipate complaints from Trump’s base could even become “louder” as the midterms approach, but will subside as more of his policies take effect. Eventually, an adviser quipped, the cycle will restart with a new set of criticisms.
Chief among the recent critics has been Greene (R-Georgia), whose complaints led to Trump disavowing her last month and her subsequent decision to resign from Congress.
“I’m an early indicator — I’m like a bellwether,” said Greene, who stood by Trump during his political exile after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and has prided herself on being closely attuned to Trump’s base. “I say it, and then within four to six months, everybody’s saying the same thing.”
In an interview with The Washington Post, Greene said most of Trump’s longtime supporters still want to see him succeed, but “the base is jaded.” They know what they elected him to do, Greene said, and “they’re aware he’s n
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Originally posted by second:
MAGA leaders warn Trump the base is checking out. Will he listen?
December 15, 2025:
Trump: 43.8% Favorable / 52.8% Unfavorable (Split: -9.0)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
December 15, 2021:
Biden: 42.9% Favorable / 52.2% Unfavorable (Split: -9.3)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/joe-biden
December 16, 2013:
Obama: 42.9% Favorable / 53.0% Unfavorable (Split: -10.1)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/barack-obama/approval-
rating
December 17, 2005:
GWB: 43.5% Favorable / 52.7% Unfavorable (Split: -9.2)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/george-w-bush/approval
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Shut up, Second.
Ain't nobody ever voting a Democrat for President again, so it's moot anyhow.
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Quote:6ixStringJoker, if Trumptards weren't nearly crazier than Trump, they would notice that Trump is batshit crazy. His wacko daily behavior seems sane to the insane:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
MAGA leaders warn Trump the base is checking out. Will he listen?
December 15, 2025:
Trump: 43.8% Favorable / 52.8% Unfavorable (Split: -9.0)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
December 15, 2021:
Biden: 42.9% Favorable / 52.2% Unfavorable (Split: -9.3)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/joe-biden
December 16, 2013:
Obama: 42.9% Favorable / 53.0% Unfavorable (Split: -10.1)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/barack-obama/approval-
rating
December 17, 2005:
GWB: 43.5% Favorable / 52.7% Unfavorable (Split: -9.2)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/george-w-bush/approval
-rating
Shut up, Second.
Ain't nobody ever voting a Democrat for President again, so it's moot anyhow.
Trump Seizes on Rob Reiner’s Death to Attack the Hollywood Director
The president attributed the killing of Rob Reiner and his wife to “Trump derangement syndrome.” There was no indication that the couple’s political beliefs were linked to their deaths.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/trump-rob-reiner.html
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Police arrest Rob Reiner’s son after director and wife found dead
President Trump criticised for remarks blaming Hollywood figure’s death on his ‘Trump derangement syndrome’.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/15/police-take-hollywood-direct
or-actor-rob-reiners-son-into-custody
Trump’s post on his Truth Social platform states that Reiner’s death was “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME”.
The Republican president added that Reiner was “known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness”.
Those comments prompted angry condemnations and were deemed insensitive even by Trump’s standards of harsh attacks on his political rivals.
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Nick Reiner once ‘destroyed’ parents Rob and Michele’s home during drug-fueled rage
Nick recalled a time when he became violent while he was high “on meth.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/12/15/celebrity-news/nick-reiner-once-destroy
ed-parents-rob-and-micheles-home-during-drug-fueled-rage/
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Trump Hits New Low With Twisted Reaction to Stabbing of Rob Reiner
Donald Trump claims Reiner was responsible for his own death.
Trump has a history of undignified responses to the deaths of people who have criticized him, most notably Senator John McCain.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204420/trump-reaction-rob-reiner-stabbing
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Year in Trump Cashing In
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money.
By John Cassidy | December 15, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-year-in-trump-ca
shing-in
Since many of the Trump or Trump-affiliated ventures are privately owned, we don’t have a complete account of their finances. But in tracking company announcements, official filings, and the assiduous reporting of a number of media outlets, a clear picture emerges: enrichment of the First Family on a scale that is unprecedented in American history. Other Presidential relations, including Donald Nixon, Billy Carter, and Hunter Biden, have engaged in questionable business deals. But in terms of the money involved, the geographic reach, and the explicit ties to Presidential actions—particularly Trump’s efforts to turn the United States into the “crypto capital of the world”—there has never been anything like the second term of Trump, Inc.
The Setup
The time line begins in September, 2024, a couple of months before the Presidential election. It was then that Trump announced that his family was partnering with the family of a longtime friend of his, the real-estate developer Steve Witkoff, and two little-known online entrepreneurs, Zachary Folkman and Chase Herro, to create a new crypto company, World Liberty Financial, which his three sons, Eric, Donald, Jr., and Barron, would all be involved with. In a message on social media, Trump said, “Crypto is one of those things we have to do. Whether we like it or not, I have to do it.” By the following month, he had apparently quashed any doubts he may have harbored about marketing digital assets of dubious value to his supporters. In a post advertising a sale of crypto tokens that World Liberty was organizing, he declared, “This is YOUR chance to help shape the future of finance.”
According to Reuters, the Trumps are entitled to receiving seventy cents for every dollar raised from World Liberty’s token sales. Reports in the crypto media said that the initial demand for them was weak. But they did attract one significant buyer: Justin Sun, a Chinese-born billionaire who founded the Tron crypto platform, invested thirty million dollars. At the time, the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) was suing Sun and his companies for fraud and other violations, which he denied. In a tweet announcing his purchase, Sun wrote, “TRON is committed to making America great again and leading innovation. Let’s go!”
After Trump won the election, he repeated the pattern of his first term, refusing to divest his businesses and instead placing them in a revocable trust. Although this trust is managed by his eldest sons—Eric and Donald, Jr.—Trump remains the owner of the Trump Organization. The potential conflict of interest was obvious: if the reelected President adopted policies or took any other actions that his businesses benefited from, he and his family stood to gain financially.
In another post-election development, Donald, Jr., expanded his business ambitions by joining 1789, a venture-capital fund founded by Omeed Malik and Charles Buskirk, two conservative financiers, and Rebekah Mercer, a conservative hedge-fund heiress. According to the New York Post, 1789 has raised large sums of money from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds. Some of the firm’s early investments were in conservative-media ventures, including Tucker Carlson’s company, but by the time Donald, Jr., joined it was also branching out into other industries, including consumer goods, defense, and technology.
On January 17, 2025, three days before Trump’s second Inauguration, he took another leap into the crypto world, releasing a new meme coin: $TRUMP. The day before the ceremony, his wife, Melania, launched her own coin, $MELANIA. Unlike the World Liberty tokens, which gave their holders certain governance rights associated with the company, these assets were simply memes. The $TRUMP one featured a picture of the President with his fis
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Trump cannot arrest these "criminals" because they are in international waters.
Instead, Trump kills them:
Tuesday December 16, 2025
The US has carried out strikes on three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing eight people, after President Trump signed an executive order declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.
https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/eight-killed-in-us-stri
kes-on-drug-trafficking-boats-in-pacific-nm3bbrvlz
Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to halt drug trafficking and asserted the US is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.
Trump backed this up with an executive order signed Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.
Unprecedented for a narcotic, the designation puts the synthetic opioid on a par with chemical weapons, allowing intelligence agencies to deploy against drug traffickers the tools normally reserved for countering weapons proliferation.
The legality of the Trump administration’s strikes against boats in the Pacific Ocean has been called into question, with little or no proof made public that the boats are carrying drugs.
The latest boat strikes come on the eve of briefings on Capitol Hill for all members of Congress as questions mount over the military campaign.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
By Anne Applebaum | December 16, 2025, 6 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/national-security-strategy-d
emocracy/685270/
Last year, a team of American diplomats from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center traveled to two dozen countries and signed a series of memoranda. Along with their counterparts in places as varied as Italy, Australia, and Ivory Coast, they agreed to jointly expose malicious and deceptive online campaigns originating in Russia, China, or Iran.
This past September, the Trump administration terminated these agreements. The center’s former head, James Rubin, called this decision “a unilateral act of disarmament,” and no wonder: In effect, the United States was declaring that it would no longer oppose Russian influence campaigns, Chinese manipulation of local politics, or Iranian extremist recruitment drives. Nor would the American government use any resources to help anyone else do so either.
The recent publication of the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy showed that this decision was no accident. Unilateral disarmament is now official policy. Because—despite its name—this National Security Strategy is not really a strategy document. It is a suicide note. If the ideas within it are really used to shape policy, then U.S. influence in the world will rapidly disappear, and America’s ability to defend itself and its allies will diminish. The consequences will be economic as well as political, and they will be felt by all Americans.
Before explaining, I should acknowledge the curious features of this document, which seems, like the Bible, to have several different authors. Some of them use boastful, aggressive language—America must remain “the world’s strongest, richest, most powerful country for decades to come”—and some of them prefer euphemism and allusion. Sometimes these different authors contradict one another, proposing to work with allies on one page and to undermine allies on the next. The views expressed in the document do not represent those of the entire U.S. government, the entire Republican Party, or even the entire Trump administration. The most noteworthy elements seem to come from a particular ideological faction, one that now dominates foreign-policy thinking in this administration and may well dominate others in the future.
The one genuinely new, truly radical element in this faction’s thinking is its absolute refusal to acknowledge the existence of enemies or to name any countries that might wish America ill. This is a major departure from the first Trump administration. The 2017 National Security Strategy spoke of creating an alliance against North Korea; noted that Russia is “using subversive measures to weaken the credibility of America’s commitment to Europe, undermine transatlantic unity, and weaken European institutions and governments”; and observed that China is “using economic inducements and penalties, influence operations, and implied military threats” to bully others. The 2017 Trump policy team also observed a “geopolitical competition between free and repressive visions of world order.”
The second Trump administration can no longer identify any specific countries that might wish harm to the United States, or any specific actions they might be taking to do harm. A decade’s worth of Russian cyberwarfare, political intervention, and information war inside the United States goes unmentioned. Russian acts of sabotage across Europe, Russian support for brutal regimes across the Sahel region of Africa, and, of course, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine aren’t important either. None of these Russian acts of aggression gets a mention except for the war in Ukraine, which is described solely as a concern for Europeans.
Phillips Payson O’Brien: A wider war has already started in Europe
Even more strangely, China appears not as a geopolitical competi
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Trump is failing and it’s his own fault.
by Zack Beauchamp | Dec 16, 2025, 5:00 AM CST
https://www.vox.com/politics/472346/trump-democracy-2025-haphazard-aut
horitarian
If you want to understand how the US government works today, you should study President Donald Trump’s attempt to pardon a woman named Tina Peters last week.
Peters is a former Colorado election clerk and a die-hard believer in the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. In 2021, Peters committed a series of crimes in an attempt to “prove” election fraud occurred — including, most seriously, allowing a fellow 2020 truther to make copies of the actual hard drives of Mesa County voting machines. A Colorado jury convicted her of seven crimes last year, and a judge sentenced her to nine years in prison.
Last Thursday, Trump intervened on Peters’s behalf, declaring he was “granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election.” On its face, this is menacingly authoritarian: the president abusing his powers to protect a woman who literally compromised the integrity of America’s vote-counting on his behalf.
Yet, Trump’s order is also something else: impotent.
The Constitution explicitly states that the presidential pardon power only applies to crimes committed “against the United States,” meaning federal rather than state crimes. Peters was convicted in a Colorado court under state law and, thus, cannot be pardoned by the president. The state’s governor, attorney general, and secretary of state have all rejected the legality of Trump’s order; Peters remains incarcerated.
Trump’s actions were reported, in the New York Times and elsewhere, as a “symbolic” pardon. But that framing gives Trump too much credit. If you read his full post on Truth Social, there’s no indication that this is anything but a genuine attempt to do something clearly illegal. He genuinely seems to think that he can pardon her for state crimes, even though he very obviously cannot.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115703610330402175
The Peters case represents an especially clear example of what I’ve come to see as the defining style of the second Trump administration: an incompetent form of authoritarianism that can best be described as “haphazardism.”
Key takeaways:
• Trump’s first year has revealed that he’s pursuing an authoritarian agenda in an incoherent and incompetent manner.
• This style of politics, which I’ve termed “haphazardism,” emerges from Trump’s own character — both his insistence on wielding untrammeled power and his inability to approach acquiring it in a strategic or detailed fashion.
• The emergence of haphazardism should make us optimistic about American democracy’s survival, even if the short-term outlook is still quite troubling.
Haphazardism is authoritarianism without vision, a governing style defined by a series of individual attacks on democracy without any kind of overarching logic, strategic structure, or clear end state in mind. These attacks can do (and indeed have done) real damage to the American political system, but they are often poorly executed and even self-undermining — preventing Trump from ruling in the truly unconstrained manner he seems to desire.
“Is he succeeding at breaking democracy? Yes,” said Steve Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and author of How Democracies Die. “Is he succeeding at consolidating autocratic power? No.”
Haphazardism, as a concept, helps us understand Trump’s dangers to democracy in a more nuanced and precise way. And it can also help us see, after almost a year of Trump’s second presidency, where things might stand when he leaves power for good.
What haphazardism is
Donald Trump, like many of history’s villains, has extraordinary political talents. His authoritarian menace stems from these talents being married to a deep, primal lust for power — a desire to wield full authority over others without constraint or restriction. In his first term, these i
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Originally posted by second:
Trump is failing and it’s his own fault.
December 16, 2025:
Trump: 43.8% Favorable / 52.8% Unfavorable (Split: -9.0)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump
December 17, 2021:
Biden: 42.9% Favorable / 52.2% Unfavorable (Split: -9.3)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/joe-biden
December 15, 2013:
Obama: 42.5% Favorable / 53.4% Unfavorable (Split: -10.9)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/barack-obama/approval-
rating
December 16, 2005:
GWB: 43.2% Favorable / 53.6% Unfavorable (Split: -10.4)
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/george-w-bush/approval
-rating
Shut up, Idiot.
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