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Monday, December 22, 2025 2:19 AM
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Trump is a constant source of embarrassment to himself.
Don't misquote me, cocksucker.
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Monday, December 22, 2025 4:18 AM
I can't stand Candice Owens or Ben Shapiro, but watching Candice rip him a new asshole was funny as hell.
“Fuck you Ben Shapiro and the midget horse you rode in on.” 
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Monday, December 22, 2025 4:39 AM
Quote:The Pitiful Childishness of Donald Trump
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Don't misquote me, cocksucker.
The president’s appetite for plastering his name on every available surface appears insatiable.
By Eliot A. Cohen | December 21, 2025, 3:18 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/donald-trump-renaming/685376/
The Board of Trustees—or, if one prefers, the Board of Toadies—at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has renamed it the Trump-Kennedy Center. The 47th president of the United States approves. Donald Trump’s appetite for flattery appears as insatiable as the supply of bootlickers among his followers appears inexhaustible. He also blessed engraving his name on the U.S. Institute of Peace building and delivered a cartographic decree that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be called the Gulf of America.
Meanwhile, his secretary of defense, in between haranguing generals about physical fitness and ordering the U.S. Navy to engage in the killing of criminals without trial, has renamed the Department of Defense “the Department of War” (illegally, as it happens). Pete Hegseth has also gone about renaming bases that were once named after Confederate generals (traitors, the lot of them, and for the most part incompetent military leaders) but, last year, renamed after real heroes. The Hegsethian names are the same as the originals (Bragg, Hood, Lee) but supposedly refer to different people.
It is all offensive and in some cases skirts the will, such as it is, of a feeble and craven Congress. It is also puerile. The names will come back. In 10 years’ time, the maps will say “the Gulf of Mexico,” and the odds are good that a Democratic administration will yet again rename the Department of Defense and the forts. Trump’s name will be chiseled out of the walls, as will his embarrassing japes at his predecessors in his “President’s Walk of Fame” at the White House. So why do Trump and his minions do things that are childish in and of themselves, and that anyone with political judgment knows will be undone when their opponents eventually return to power?
“Names are powerful,” the exceptional magician Eugene Burger used to say, which is why some mentalists begin their acts by memorizing the names of everyone in the audience. The Confederate names on forts built during the early 20th century were designed to consolidate the myth of the Lost Cause, conferring nobility on what was, in fact, a sordid struggle for chattel slavery—the worst cause for which men ever fought, as Ulysses S. Grant later noted. And in some measure they succeeded.
Names can be tributes too, sometimes of a paradoxical kind. Native Americans were cheated, occasionally massacred, displaced, and defeated by Americans moving West. But in 1973 Jeep named its premier vehicle the Cherokee, hoping to capture ruggedness and pride in the name, even giving the first truck to the then-head of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The U.S. Army’s most lethal helicopter is the Apache, the Navy’s primary long-range missile is the Tomahawk, and a century ago William Tecumseh Sherman, one of the most formidable of Civil War generals, bore as his middle name that of one of the greatest Indian warriors Americans ever encountered.
One may debate whether such namings are appropriate—in 2021 the leaders of the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation, a different federally recognized tribe, formally objected to having the name on a hulking car—but it is clear that they are intended to serve as a tribute. The renamings carried out by Trump and Hegseth are different. They are akin to the newly positive use of the word swagger and to the photo-shoot cosplay of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem or FBI Director Kash Patel in full tactical combat gear. They are childish.
Much of the leadership of the Trump administration, emphatically beginning at the top, exhibits the behavioral patterns of children—broken children, in many cases, who will never really become fully adult and do not understand what adul
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Monday, December 22, 2025 6:04 AM
Grow up, idiot.
Seriously. Can't you even put a thought together anymore that doesn't involve Trump?
You are a disgusting human being.
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Monday, December 22, 2025 5:04 PM
Quote:What is your manly plan between now and New Year's Day? Smoke many cigarettes and watch porn? Trumptards don't prosper in America because that is how they waste their lives.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Grow up, idiot.
Seriously. Can't you even put a thought together anymore that doesn't involve Trump?
You are a disgusting human being.
MAGA’s Manly Manufacturing Misfire
Understanding Trump’s other big failure
By Paul Krugman | Dec 22, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-manly-manufacturing-misfire
According to Navigator Research, a significant number of Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 now regret their choice. As the word cloud above suggests, this regret is largely driven by Trump’s utter failure to deliver on his economic promises.
What did he promise? Most media attention has focused on his claim that he would bring the cost of living way down, starting on “day one.” This claim never made any sense, especially because Trump’s policy agenda — centered on tariffs and mass deportation — was clearly inflationary, not deflationary. And Trump isn’t improving his standing with his reality denial “affordability” tour, which will clearly take the form of multiple speeches in which he demands that Americans reject the evidence of their own eyes and admit that prices are falling, not rising.
But while Trump’s gaslighting on prices is a natural and appropriate target for critics, we shouldn’t forget that the main goal of his policy agenda wasn’t lower prices, it was job creation. Specifically, Trump and his economic advisers claimed — and may even have believed — that they would create lots of manly jobs for manly men. They would revive American manufacturing, they claimed, by unilaterally imposing huge tariffs and thereby breaking all our international agreements (and, whatever the Supreme Court may say, U.S. law). They would create mining and construction jobs, they claimed, by killing renewable energy and gutting environmental protection in order to promote fossil fuels. They would deport millions of undocumented workers which would result, they claimed, in a job boom for native-born workers.
My snark about “manly” jobs isn’t gratuitous. Mike Konczal has an excellent review of the way the MAGA labor market story has failed, in which he emphasizes how regressively gendered Trump’s vision was and is:
I wish I could tell you that the reason people in their twenties can’t find jobs and the reason many of us are likely to be poorer over the next few years was more sophisticated than “we’re going to turn all the girlbosses into tradwives once they see all the manly men at the USA iPhone-screwing factory.” But I don’t think it is.
Let me acknowledge, by the way, that U.S. men are having real problems. But nothing Trump is doing will help.
And even on its own absurd terms, the MAGA jobs strategy has been an abject failure — as abject as Trump’s failure to bring down prices. Here are the current official employment numbers for manufacturing, construction and employment:
Contrary to Trumpist claims that the Biden expansion didn’t create “real” jobs, the economy added a substantial number of jobs in “manly” sectors from 2021 to 2024. Part of this expansion was driven by Biden’s green energy policies, which boosted both construction and manufacturing employment.
Trump has scrapped Biden’s green energy policies in favor of tariffs and fossil fuels. But it isn’t working. Instead, employment in “manly” sectors has fallen since Trump took office. And as Dean Baker points out, there are strong reasons to believe that even these job numbers are overstated, and will eventually be revised down further.
I’ll talk about the failure of Trump’s dirty energy strategy to create jobs on another occasion. For now, let’s
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Monday, December 22, 2025 5:07 PM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What is your manly plan between now and New Year's Day? Smoke many cigarettes and watch porn? Trumptards don't prosper in America because that is how they waste their lives.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Grow up, idiot.
Seriously. Can't you even put a thought together anymore that doesn't involve Trump?
You are a disgusting human being.
If you're waiting for a cum back, you'll have to scrape mine off your mom's teeth.
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Monday, December 22, 2025 8:03 PM
Quote:6ixStringJoker, your insults are proof of depravity, which is why proof that Trump is evil can't faze you or your ilk:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If you're waiting for a cum back, you'll have to scrape mine off your mom's teeth.
A $6 billion nuclear deal has Trump’s name all over it. It’s raising serious ethics concerns
By Matt Egan | Dec 22, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/22/business/trump-stock-fusion
The Trump business empire’s expansion into nuclear fusion is alarming ethics experts, who warn it poses glaring conflicts of interest and risks the federal government playing favorites in what could be the holy grail of clean energy.
Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) shocked Wall Street last week by arranging a $6 billion marriage with TAE Technologies, a Google-backed company at the leading edge of fusion energy.
The merger means that soon, President Donald Trump will simultaneously have a major financial interest in a company whose fortunes will be influenced by the actions of a government that Trump himself presides over.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Monday, December 22, 2025 8:46 PM
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJoker, your insults are proof of depravity
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If you're waiting for a cum back, you'll have to scrape mine off your mom's teeth.
Why don't you tell us who you want to kill and who needs to die today, loser.
Go fuck yourself, you self-righteous prick.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025 5:42 PM
Quote:Anxious? Having a problem concentrating, 6ixStringJoker? Read the soothing words from Paul Krugman:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Why don't you tell us who you want to kill and who needs to die today, loser.
Go fuck yourself, you self-righteous prick.
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A New K in America
The gap between haves and have-nots fell under Biden, but is rising under Trump
By Paul Krugman | Dec 23, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-new-k-in-america
According to current economic commentary, it’s all about “K”. Talk of a “K-shaped economy,” in which incomes and wealth are rising only for those at the top, has become ubiquitous. And rightly so. For high-income Americans who own a lot of stock, the past year has treated them pretty well. But for those who don’t, not so much.
However, too much of the commentary is marred by a sort of lazy cynicism. Too many of these commentaries rely on the casual assumption that it has always been thus. Or at least, that it was as true during the Biden years as it is now. But that’s not true. David Autor, Arindrajit Dube and Annie McGrew have documented that the Biden era post-pandemic economic recovery was the opposite of what we are experiencing now.
https://blueprintlabs.mit.edu/research/the-unexpected-compression-comp
etition-at-work-in-the-low-wage-labor-market/
In fact, during the Biden recovery wage gains for low-paid workers were much larger than for those further up the income scale. In fact, the pro-low-income worker tilt of wage gains during the Biden recovery was something we haven’t seen since the “Great Compression” of the 1940s. And that narrowing of wage gaps was due to special factors, including wartime wage policy and a rapid expansion of unions.
The chart below provides data to back up the observation that in going from the Biden Administration to the Trump Administration, we have traded an economy that disproportionately benefited low-income workers to won that disproportionately benefits the well-off (particularly those who own a lot of stocks). The graph plots the Atlanta Fed’s estimates for the rate of wage growth for two groups: workers in the bottom 25 percent of the wage distribution (blue line) and workers in the top 25 percent (red line).
Source https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker
During the Biden years of 2021 to 2023, low-paid workers saw consistently faster wage growth than high-paid workers. For example, in September of 2022, the wages of high-paid workers grew at an annual rate of 4%, but around 7.75% for low-paid workers as low-paid workers benefited from a tight labor market. The spread narrowed during the mid-2023 to mid-2024, as the economy slowly cooled in response to Fed interest rate hikes. By 2023 and into 2024, it was clear that the economy had achieved the desired “soft landing”: inflation was falling while employment stayed relatively strong.
In late 2024, however, the wage gains of high-paid workers began to outpace those of low-paid workers, which are barely outpacing inflation.
So the K-shaped economy is a real but relatively recent development. Why is it happening?
The proximate cause of the K-shaped economy is a weak job market. As I’ve written repeatedly, the U.S. economy has not (yet) experienced mass layoffs. Employers have, however, become very reluctant to hire new workers. Gallup asks whether now is “a good time or a bad time to find a quality job”:
Gallup’s result, consistent with other surveys like the Conference Board, sho
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025 6:27 PM
Quote:President Trump says US needs Greenland for 'national security'
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Why don't you tell us who you want to kill and who needs to die today, loser.
Go fuck yourself, you self-righteous prick.
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President Donald Trump told reporters on Dec. 22 that the special envoy he appointed would "lead the charge."
By Michael Loria | Dec. 22, 2025, 7:57 p.m. ET
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/22/donald-trump-g
reenland-united-states-national-security/87889073007/
"We need Greenland for national security," Trump told reporters on Dec. 22, during an announcement that the U.S. would build a "new "Golden Fleet" of "Trump-class" battleships. "You look up and down the coast, you have Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need it for national security. We have to have it."
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told TV2, "Out of nowhere, there is now a special U.S. presidential representative, who, according to himself, is tasked with taking over Greenland. This is, of course, completely unacceptable."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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