Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 21:58
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So I think it's safe to say that neither of you have decided on trying to fix your mental health issues in 2026, huh?
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Quote:Is Trump sane for attempting to dictate NYNY traffic rules? Or is he a doofus who doesn't understand the cause of traffic jams and the fees to prevent them from happening?
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On January 5, 2025, New York finally did what economists and urban planners have been urging for many years and imposed a fee on vehicles entering lower Manhattan.
Contrary to what many people seem to believe, congestion fees aren’t a left-wing idea or an attack on The American Way of Life. They’re straight Econ 101.
The logic runs as follows: Someone who chooses to drive into a congested area makes traffic worse and thereby imposes a cost on everyone else driving in that area. Yet potential drivers have no incentive to take these costs imposed on other people into account. Charging a fee helps align private and public interests, inducing people who have good alternatives to driving to use those alternatives, while making traffic faster for those who must drive.
In fact, New York’s $9 fee is very low compared with estimates of the social costs imposed by driving into lower Manhattan, which can run to $100 or more.
Despite this clear logic, the prospect that New York would actually implement textbook economics inspired hysterical opposition, with claims that it would create huge hardships and destroy the city’s economy. The Trump administration has repeatedly attempted to kill the program, and is still trying, even though it’s really hard to see why New York’s traffic policy should be a matter of federal concern. But as Curbed put it, “one thing [Trump] loves is the opportunity to stick it to anyone who’s earnest about activist good government.”
Indeed, back in October Trump announced that he had “terminated” the long-delayed project to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River, although this assertion — while it helped Democrat Mikie Sherrill win the New Jersey governor’s race — may have been empty showboating.
It will be hard to kill the congestion fee now, however, because it has been a striking success. Traffic speeds have increased. Pollution is down. The fee is generating a large amount of revenue for the city’s transit system. And predictions that it would be bad for business have proved completely wrong. Foot traffic in lower Manhattan is up, and so is overall spending in the city:
Source: Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/nyc-congestion-pric
ing-is-the-controversial-program-working
So New York’s congestion fee has been a big win for the city and also a win for policy driven by economic analysis over policy driven by knee-jerk opposition to government.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/notes-on-new-york
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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"ATTENTION POOR PEOPLE AND NON-IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF NYC. YOU CAN NO LONGER DRIVE YOUR OWN CARS. IN ORDER TO GO TO WORK YOU NEED TO TRIP OVER ALL THE DRUG ADDICTS AND BUMS LIVING IN THE SUBWAY AND HOPEFULLY YOU DON'T GET STABBED TO DEATH OR LIT ON FIRE ON YOUR WAY TO WORK.
DRIVING CARS IS ONLY FOR RICH WHITE LIBERALS WITH IMPORTANT SOUNDING TITLES FROM NOW ON.
WE'RE NOT CLEANING ANYTHING EITHER, SO DO MIND THE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF SHIT, PISS AND HYPODERMIC NEEDLES EVERYWHERE, AND BE SURE TO LOOK DOWN BEFORE TAKING YOUR SEAT.
THANK YOU."
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So I think it's safe to say that neither of you have decided on trying to fix your mental health issues in 2026, huh?
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Just relax and stay calm. Are you still thing about killing yourself?
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You are a real garbage human being.
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Quote:Attention! 6ixStringJoker has highly detailed fantasies about things that didn't happen to justify why he fears travel to Chicago, NYNY, or all the other places he tells lies about, the same lies Trump tells.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
"ATTENTION POOR PEOPLE AND NON-IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF NYC. YOU CAN NO LONGER DRIVE YOUR OWN CARS. IN ORDER TO GO TO WORK YOU NEED TO TRIP OVER ALL THE DRUG ADDICTS AND BUMS LIVING IN THE SUBWAY AND HOPEFULLY YOU DON'T GET STABBED TO DEATH OR LIT ON FIRE ON YOUR WAY TO WORK.
DRIVING CARS IS ONLY FOR RICH WHITE LIBERALS WITH IMPORTANT SOUNDING TITLES FROM NOW ON.
WE'RE NOT CLEANING ANYTHING EITHER, SO DO MIND THE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF SHIT, PISS AND HYPODERMIC NEEDLES EVERYWHERE, AND BE SURE TO LOOK DOWN BEFORE TAKING YOUR SEAT.
THANK YOU."
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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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‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center
Sheldon Whitehouse, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, remains undeterred and determined to press on with his investigation
By David Smith in Washington | Thu 1 Jan 2026 11.00 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/01/trump-kennedy-center-c
anceled-programs
“That’s the tactic they use,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island senator, pondering whether Donald Trump might attach his name to the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. “You float stuff and you float stuff and you float stuff until people get inured to what a stupid or outrageous thing it is that has been floated, and then you pull the trigger.”
Whitehouse was sitting in his Senate office and speaking to the Guardian at 11am on Thursday 18 December. Two hours later, his words proved prophetic. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, announced on X that the Kennedy Center board had “voted unanimously” to rename it the Trump Kennedy Center.
By Friday, workmen on scissor lifts were adding metal lettering to the building’s facade, before dropping a blue tarpaulin to reveal a sign saying “The Donald J Trump and the John F Kennedy Memorial Center For the Performing Arts”. Family members of Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963, condemned the move as “beyond wild” and pointed out that an act of Congress is needed to alter its name.
The takeover of the national cultural centre began in February when, in what many critics regard as a case study in institutional capture, Trump ousted members of the Kennedy Center board appointed by former president Joe Biden, took over as chair and installed Ric Grenell, a longtime ally and former ambassador to Germany, as its president.
In November Whitehouse, the top Democrat on the Senate environment and public works (EPW) committee, launched a formal investigation into allegations of widespread cronyism, financial mismanagement and corruption at what he describes as a “secular temple to the arts”.
Democrats on the committee said they obtained documents that suggest the national cultural centre is being operated as a “slush fund and private club for Trump’s friends and political allies”, resulting in millions of dollars in losses and a significant deviation from its statutory mission.
Whitehouse sent a letter to Grenell demanding detailed documents and records. Grenell issued a fiery response accusing the senator of “partisan attacks and false accusations”. He claimed that neglect by the centre’s previous leadership left it in “financial chaos” and was “quite literally making the building fall apart”.
Whitehouse, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, remains undeterred and determined to press on with his investigation. Speaking in his office on Capitol Hill, he explained: “We began to get information about mischief taking place at the Kennedy Center and we got strong enough signals that we mounted an effort to dig into it and see what seemed actually to be going on.
“It was out of that effort that the report and letter came, which basically suggested that, when the brigands took the ship, their first instinct was to loot it for their own benefit and hire their friends and put people up in fancy rooms at the Watergate [hotel] and let favoured organisations get free access and it was all part of a Maga party atmosphere.”
A central charge of the investigation is that the Kennedy Center is providing preferential access and financial benefits to organisations connected to the Trump administration and its allies. According to a contract, Grenell granted world football’s governing body, Fifa, free and exclusive use of the entire Kennedy Center campus from 24 November to 12 December for the World Cup draw.
Estimates provided by Whitehouse show this will cost the Center $5,038,444 in losses from direct rental fees, programming rescheduling, labour, food and beverage and other services. Multiple even
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Attention! 6ixStringJoker has highly detailed fantasies about things that didn't happen to justify why he fears travel to Chicago, NYNY, or all the other places he tells lies about, the same lies Trump tells.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
"ATTENTION POOR PEOPLE AND NON-IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF NYC. YOU CAN NO LONGER DRIVE YOUR OWN CARS. IN ORDER TO GO TO WORK YOU NEED TO TRIP OVER ALL THE DRUG ADDICTS AND BUMS LIVING IN THE SUBWAY AND HOPEFULLY YOU DON'T GET STABBED TO DEATH OR LIT ON FIRE ON YOUR WAY TO WORK.
DRIVING CARS IS ONLY FOR RICH WHITE LIBERALS WITH IMPORTANT SOUNDING TITLES FROM NOW ON.
WE'RE NOT CLEANING ANYTHING EITHER, SO DO MIND THE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF SHIT, PISS AND HYPODERMIC NEEDLES EVERYWHERE, AND BE SURE TO LOOK DOWN BEFORE TAKING YOUR SEAT.
THANK YOU."
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
ABC 7: Woman stabbed to death after fight in Brooklyn subway station
CBS New York: 19-year-old woman randomly stabbed at Manhattan subway station
ABC 7 NY: 1 woman slashed, another stabbed in separate subway attacks
Girl, 14, stabbed on subway in Manhattan: NYPD
Woman stabbed in purse attack on Brooklyn subway: NYPD
NBC NEWS: Man suspected of setting a woman on fire on NYC subway was in U.S. illegally
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Quote:If the Nazis had YouTube, they would have videos of every crime by a Jew to justify the Holocaust.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Uh huh.
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The Nazis would have videos justifying invading Poland. Or Venezuela.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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