I'm starting to think this is more than just winds of change blowing... I think something siesmic is about to happen worldwide... (And I think it's a good thing)
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UPDATED: Sunday, February 8, 2026 15:08
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I ain't going to beat myself up over it. What alternative have Democrats left anybody with?
They spent their day today giving some of the most pathetic speeches for J6 that I've ever seen in my life, while they were all holding dollar store LED candles, some of them at times not even bothering to hold them up straight to even attempt to make the illusion look real.
Chuck Schumer couldn't get a damn sentence out of his mouth without fucking up at least one word. Hakeem Jeffries lied his head off and made up events that never even happened that day. If Dollar Store Obama had an ounce of Charisma behind his retarded way of talking, he might be able to convince somebody that at least some of that were true.
Then they all started half-hardheartedly and cringe-inducingly singing something like "This Land Was Made for You and Me" and their feed cut off before they even finished the song.
They, along with the Legacy Media completely ruined themselves and any credibility they had outside of their captive 25% or so of the voting population cultists that vote Blue, no matter who and spend all their days posting Trump articles.
Maybe things get better. Maybe things get worse.
I ain't going to worry about it until there's something to worry about.
I wanted change. Been voting for it my entire adult life.
I'm finally getting it.
Why don't you stop freaking out about TODAY'S EVENTS and just give it a week or two to see what happens?
There is zero sense in getting all nutty with this or you'll end up just like Ted and Second and start freaking out about a million and one things that never actually end up happening.
Besides. It's not like you could do anything about any of this anyhow, right?
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Lindsey Graham Is Having the Time of His Life—and He Owes It All to Trump
Rand Paul, however, is not.
By Jim Newell | Jan 07, 2026 5:40 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/lindsey-graham-trump-venez
uela-maduro.html
Lindsey Graham, flanked by Donald Trump and Howard Lutnick, speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has a hard-earned skip in his step. After nearly a decade of obsequious, showy servility to the president he once warned would be the death knell of the Republican Party, Graham is getting what he wants: an interventionist Republican president merrily drawing up a list of baddies to take down, starting with captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Graham was one of the first to recognize, long ago, that Donald Trump’s policy views are determined mostly by the flattery of the last person to speak with him before a decision. For both of Trump’s presidencies, Graham has worked to flatter Trump at every turn, and to be the final person to do so. While Graham has his hands in a lot of policy jars, his passion is an interventionist foreign policy. That’s led to an ever-running proxy battle for Trump’s sympathies between himself and an ascendant noninterventionist “America First” foreign policy wing, as best represented in the Senate by Kentucky’s Rand Paul.
Graham couldn’t contain his glee on Sunday aboard Air Force One as he stood inches from Trump, shortly after the Venezuela operation.
The president was rattling through a list of countries in the Americas that would go down next. Mexico? “You have to do something with Mexico.” What about a mission in Colombia? “It sounds good to me.” And as for the big, bad hemispheric archnemesis of 70 years Cuba: “Looks like it’s ready for fall.”
“Yes!” Graham said, beaming with the glow of someone whose life had been leading to this very moment.
Aboard Air Force One, in his own remarks—which the president frequently interrupted with stray thoughts about how, for example, he would’ve taken out bin Laden before 9/11—Graham laid it on extra thick.
“We had Venezuela, we have Cuba, we have Colombia in our backyard. And these three countries have been condemned ever since I’ve been in politics,” Graham said. “Joe Biden put a $25 million bounty on Maduro’s head.” And “this commander in chief,” he added, “he did something people talked about doing.”
Graham isn’t just thinking about the “backyard” (a whole hemisphere), though. Also on Sunday—the senator was everywhere on Sunday—he appeared on Fox News with a message for another, more distant regime that he has long believed in changing. And he brought a prop.
“I pray and hope that 2026 will be”—here he paused to put on a baseball cap bearing the slogan he would then utter—“the year that we make Iran great again.”
Graham has been waiting for a moment like this for a while, ever since the failures of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars soured the public on the wisdom of nation-building. For a long time, Graham hitched his wagon to the celebrity of his friend and fellow hawk John McCain. Since McCain’s death, and with the rise of an isolationist element in the MAGA movement, Graham has been trying to work Trump in his direction. The kidnapping of one hostile foreign leader is, for Graham, a good start.
But not all is joyous in the Senate Republican conference. Just as much as Graham might sound as if he’s won the long fight for Trump’s foreign-policy orientation, Rand Paul is sounding as if he’s lost.
Paul reflected on Trump’s tenure Monday, speaking with reporters.
“Whenever I had misgivings about something else, I’d always come back and say, ‘Well, he’s the best we’ve ever had,’ much better than the Bushes, who were war-mad and wanted to be involved in all these crazy wars overseas and were going to make the world safe for democracy—I never liked any of that,” he said. “And I thought Trump was different. And so it disappoints me that he’s under the thrall of Lindsey Graham.
“There should be a law,” Paul continued, “that Lindsey Graham
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The Emperor’s New Oil Wealth
The truth behind Trump’s black, sticky fantasy
By Paul Krugman | Jan 07, 2026
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-oil-wealth
When George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003, he claimed that the goal was to establish a democratic regime. Some members of his administration may even have believed that. But many leftist critics insisted that it was all about seizing Iraq’s oil.
Although I was an outspoken opponent of that war, and deeply cynical about the Bush administration’s motives, I never believed the “war for oil” story. The principal motivation for the war, I still believe, was to wag the dog — to use a showy military victory to secure Bush’s reelection. According to some political scientists, that was a mission the war did, in fact, accomplish.
Donald Trump’s Venezuela venture is a very different story. During his triumphalist press conference after the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, Trump never used the word “democracy.” He did, however, say “oil” 27 times, declaring, “We’re going to take back the oil that, frankly, we should have taken back a long time ago.”
Even so, whatever it is we’re doing in Venezuela isn’t really a war for oil. It is, instead, a war for oil fantasies. The vast wealth Trump imagines is waiting there to be taken doesn’t exist.
You may have heard that Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves — 300 billion barrels. You probably don’t know that Venezuela’s reported oil reserves tripled while Hugo Chavez was president. This increase, from roughly 100 billion to 300 billion barrels, didn’t reflect major new discoveries or exploration. Instead, it reflected the Chavez government’s decision to reclassify the country’s Orinoco Belt heavy oil as “proved” — oil that can be recovered with reasonable certainty under existing economic and operating conditions:
Source: Torsten Slok
As Torsten Slok of Apollo, who recently made this point, notes, “Much of the oil is extra-heavy, which has low recovery and a high cost to produce.” This suggests that Venezuela’s claims to have immense usable oil reserves were politically motivated hype.
This view is supported by the fact that the huge increase in Venezuela’s reported oil reserves wasn’t followed by a surge in production. On the contrary, Venezuelan oil production soon plunged:
Source: Torsten Slok
Plunging production was associated with a steady degradation of Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, which would take years and many billions of dollars in investment to restore. Given these costs as well as political instability, major oil companies clearly aren’t enthusiastic about the idea of sinking money into Venezuela.
On Monday Trump suggested that he might reimburse oil companies for investment in the nation he claims — with no basis in reality — to control, reimbursing them for their outlays there. That is, we’ve gone in a matter of days from big talk about huge money-making opportunities to a proposal to, in effect, subsidize oil-industry investments in Venezuela at U.S. taxpayers’ expense.
Which is not to say that nobody has profited from the abduction of Maduro. A few months ago Trumpist billionaire Paul Singer bought Citgo, the former U.S.-based arm of Venezuela’s state-run oil company. Citgo owns three Gulf Coast refineries custom-built to process Venezuelan crude, refineries that have suffered from the U.S. embargo on imports of that crude. If Trump lifts that embargo, Singer will receive a huge windfall. But this windfall will have nothing to do with reviving Venezuelan production.
Singer has made huge politi
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The U.S. Is Leaving Boat Strike Survivors to Drown
The Coast Guard called off its search for people who jumped into the sea after watching the U.S. military destroy another ship.
By Nick Turse | January 7 2026, 7:00 a.m.
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/07/boat-strikes-survivors/
The United States left the survivors of a recent boat strike to die at sea, formally abandoning search efforts Friday.
Their presumed deaths are the result of attacks by U.S. forces on three boats in the Pacific Ocean on December 30. After striking one vessel and killing three civilians, crew members of the other boats, according to U.S. Southern Command, “abandoned the other two vessels, jumping overboard and distancing themselves before follow-on engagements sank their respective vessels.”
The unspecified number of survivors who leapt into the Pacific faced nine-foot seas and 40-knot winds, Kenneth Wiese, a spokesperson for the Coast Guard Southwest District, told The Intercept.
The Coast Guard called off the search for those people on Friday citing a “declining probability of survival.” A U.S. government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, said the men are now presumed dead.
The United States has been attacking boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific since September, killing at least 117 civilians in 35 attacks — including at least five people on December 30. The total death toll is now unknown, with U.S. Southern Command’s latest tally of attacks and fatalities omitting known strikes and casualties.
Experts in the laws of war and members of Congress, from both parties, have said the strikes are illegal extrajudicial killings. At least five civilians are known to have survived previous attacks: two on September 2, two on October 16, and one on October 27. The Intercept was the first outlet to report that the U.S. military killed two survivors of the initial boat attack on September 2 in a follow-up strike.
William Baumgartner, a retired U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral and former chief counsel of that service branch, said that while there were legal and moral distinctions between attacking the survivors of the September 2 strike and U.S. actions following the December 30 attack, the latter was still tantamount to a death sentence.
“Once the people jump in the water and you blow up the only thing that could possibly save their lives, that’s essentially killing them. The expected result is essentially the same as putting a gun to their head,” Baumgartner told The Intercept.
U.S. Southern Command did not answer questions about the number of people killed in the December 30 strike. Steven McLoud, a SOUTHCOM spokesperson, stated that “since September, the Dept. of War has conducted 33 strikes on narco-terrorist vessels, resulting in 34 vessels destroyed and 115 narco-terrorist deaths.” That attack count conflicts with the total of 35 strikes tallied by The Intercept and separately compiled by the boat strike trackers of the New York Times, Military Times, and Airwars, a civilian harm watchdog group.
The death toll proffered by McLoud — 115 people killed — is also incorrect. U.S. Southern Command’s announcement of the December 30 strike noted: “Three narco-terrorists aboard the first vessel were killed in the first engagement. The remaining narco-terrorists abandoned the other two vessels…” Considering the multiple people who jumped into the sea and are now presumed dead, the number of civilians killed must be at least 117.
McLoud did not reply to multiple requests for clarification.
The SOUTHCOM casualty conundrum comes as a new national poll shows that an overwhelming majority of U.S. voters, including 97 percent of Democrats, 82 percent of independents, and 70 percent of Republicans, agree that Americans should have more information on the boat strikes. The survey found 63 percent of respondents support t
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What is next on MAGA?
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
A massive Armada is heading to Iran. It is moving quickly, with great power, enthusiasm, and purpose. It is a larger fleet, headed by the great Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln, than that sent to Venezuela. Like with Venezuela, it is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary. Hopefully Iran will quickly “Come to the Table” and negotiate a fair and equitable deal - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS - one that is good for all parties. Time is running out, it is truly of the essence! As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn’t, and there was “Operation Midnight Hammer,” a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don’t make that happen again. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Jan 28, 2026, 6:12 AM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115972658725010644
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump wrote:
Quote:Qualifications? Warsh married into great wealth. Specifically, he married the daughter of Ronald Lauder, the cosmetics billionaire — who, bizarrely, is a key figure behind Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland.
I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Kevin Warsh to be the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. . . . On top of everything else, he is "central casting," and he will never let you down. Congratulations Kevin! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
Jan 30, 2026, 7:48 AM
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir-day-at-the-fed
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump wants war with Cuba, but without declaring war. Instead, he issues an executive order:
ADDRESSING THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby determine and order a National Emergency. . . .
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 29, 2026.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-thr
eats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/
Why not declare War? Because that requires Congress to agree that a war against Cuba is desirable. Specifically, who wants war? Ex-Senator Marco Rubio wants revenge against Cuba because Marco Rubio's grandfather was ordered deported to Cuba in 1962, but refused to go, staying in the US illegally.
https://www.wpbf.com/article/marco-rubio-s-grandfather-ordered-deporte
d-to-cuba-in-1962/1312780
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump reveals his pick to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics — says it was run by 'stupid people' for years
Several months after he fired the previous head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Donald Trump has finally named a successor. The new head of the BLS will be Brett Matsumoto. Matsumoto is an economist in the White House, a position that he had worked in during the President's first term as well. (What is Matsumoto's qualification? Friend of Trump who will make the statistical numbers match Trump's intuition.)
Back in August, the President had abruptly fired the then-head of the BLS, Erika McEntarfer. The firing came after the department released a report that proved that hiring in the country had slowed in the months prior.
At the time, Trump claimed that McEntarfer had released a rigged report to make political gains. That claim still lacks evidence after so many months.
In a recent Truth Social post, the President claimed that Matsumoto had what it took to restore greatness to the bureau, which he believed had been run by “weak and stupid people.”
“For many years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, under WEAK and STUPID people, has been FAILING American Businesses, Policymakers, and Families by releasing VERY inaccurate numbers,” he wrote in the post. “I am confident that Brett has the expertise to QUICKLY fix the long history of issues at the BLS on behalf of the American People. Brett Matsumoto is a Brilliant, Reputable, and Trusted Economist who will restore GREATNESS to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Congratulations, Brett!”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-reveals-his-pick-to-lead
-bureau-of-labor-statistics-says-it-was-run-by-stupid-people-for-years/ar-AA1VnEva
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Oh Boy! All that pent-up TDS and you can finally puke it all out on the boards again!
Must be the best day of your life, retard. 
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Quote:Last January, Michael J. Fox received a presidential medal of freedom in recognition of his Parkinson’s advocacy work from outgoing president Joe Biden. In USA Today, he wrote about how the incoming Trump administration could help find a cure for the disease he was diagnosed with in 1991 at age 29. They’d be wise to take the actor turned advocate seriously: His Michael J. Fox Foundation has funded more than $2.5 billion in Parkinson’s research over the last 25 years, raising more than $100 million in research annually. “Our foundation directs more money towards Parkinson’s research than the federal government,” Fox tells Vanity Fair. When asked for an update on working with President Donald Trump a year later, Fox retorts, “He’s busy with Greenland. More pressing concerns, I guess.”
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh Boy! All that pent-up TDS and you can finally puke it all out on the boards again!
Must be the best day of your life, retard.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/harrison-ford-michael-j-fox
-shrinking-parkinsons-interview
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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