Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 16:05
VIEWED: 185382
PAGE 111 of 479
Quote:The plan will work great if Trump conquers Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, South Korea and China.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:Trump has a specific plan to kill Globalism.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I read a lot of your lefty bullshit. In fact, I read far more lefty shit than anything else.
I'm sure Tooze is another grifter loser if you're a fan.
In the meantime, I'm enjoying watching Globalism die and watching your overpaid shills lose their shit about it.
Excellent.
It will work out great without any of those things happening.
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Why It’s So Outrageous That Trump Is Invoking This Obscure 200-Year-Old Wartime Law
By Shirin Ali | March 20, 2025 11:49 AM
Shut the fuck up, Ali.
What's your green card status? How many of your family members are here illegally.
Let's find out, shall we?
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:What the world needs is more diversity of ideas. Nazis have many ideas to share on Twitter and at the White House with the world:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Why It’s So Outrageous That Trump Is Invoking This Obscure 200-Year-Old Wartime Law
By Shirin Ali | March 20, 2025 11:49 AM
Shut the fuck up, Ali.
What's your green card status? How many of your family members are here illegally.
Let's find out, shall we?
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Elon Musk, once a tacit backer of DEI, now focuses on anti-White bias
Musk, who was raised during South African apartheid, used to steer clear of debate about race. Now, he frequently advocates for White people.
By Beth Reinhard, Faiz Siddiqui and Clara Ence Morse | March 20, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/20/elon-musk-race-dei-
doge/
In the spring of 2017, two months after a Black employee sued Tesla and alleged that co-workers frequently called him the n-word with impunity, chief executive Elon Musk sent out a companywide email with the subject line “Doing the right thing.”
The note marked one of the first times that the billionaire tech icon, born and raised in privilege during South African apartheid, engaged in a public conversation about race. Avoid making offensive comments, Musk said — but don’t be overly sensitive.
“Part of not being a huge jerk is considering how someone might feel who is part of an historically less represented group,” Musk wrote to thousands of employees, in a message later included in court filings in another lawsuit. But Musk added: “In fairness, if someone is a jerk to you, but sincerely apologizes, it is important to be thick-skinned and accept that apology.”
Over the next eight years, as he became the richest man in the world, Musk shifted from a Democratic-leaning critic of Donald Trump to a Republican-friendly Trump acolyte. He emerged as a hero on the far right who frequently comments on racial issues — and who wields extraordinary power overseeing the president’s cost-cutting operation, known as the U.S. DOGE Service. Musk’s operatives at DOGE — which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, though it is not a Cabinet-level agency — have taken root in offices across the federal bureaucracy, sweeping up reams of potentially sensitive data and demanding drastic cuts to programs and personnel.
An early target was the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion programs at all federal agencies. While opposition to DEI programs has become a mainstream Republican position, Musk has articulated more radical views on race in interviews and posts on X, his social media platform.
He has warned that lower birth rates and immigration are diluting American culture and the cultures of other majority-White and Asian countries. “We should be very cautious about having some sort of global mixing pot,” he said earlier this year. He has called unchecked illegal immigration “civilizational suicide” and “an invasion,” though he himself was working illegally, in violation of his visa, after he deferred his enrollment in a Stanford University graduate program to launch his career in the United States in the 1990s. He also warns that declining birth rates are leading to “population collapse,” and, having fathered over a dozen children, stresses the importance of “smart people” having more kids.
Now, civil rights activists and government watchdogs are concerned that Musk is bringing these views on race and immigration to bear as he and his DOGE staffers scrutinize all corners of the government and execute major public policy changes. Having dispatched with DEI programs, Musk’s team is starting to purge those tasked with protecting employees’ civil rights and investigating discrimination claims.
Earlier this year, Trump seized on Musk’s long-standing claim that DEI efforts have made air travel less safe. H
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:I posted that the judge was out of bounds but didn't bother to explain why. Apparently, he demanded the details of deportation flights, which are secret. That sounds like misconduct to me.
Originally posted by second:Quote:“This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Tuesday.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Judge is out of bounds.
16.Judge warns of "consequences" as Trump administration resists disclosing deportation flight details, while AG Bondi attacks court's authority.
Chief Justice John Roberts pushed back against President Donald Trump and his allies’ calls to impeach judges who’ve ruled against the administration.
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” Roberts said Tuesday in a rare and brief statement issued just hours after Trump publicly joined demands by his supporters to remove judges he called “crooked.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/18/john-roberts-donald-trump-imp
each-federal-judges-00235742
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Rogue Soros-Funded NGO Plots Multi-City Assault On Tesla As Domestic Terrorism Escalates
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rogue-soros-funded-ngo-plots-multi
-city-assault-tesla-domestic-terrorism-escalates
Unhinged globalists out themselves as the terrorists that they are, while their "extinction event" climate crisis is thrown out the window.
Fortunately under Trump II, ANTIFA/ BLM/ TDS violence won't be tolerated.
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:What the world needs is more diversity of ideas.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Why It’s So Outrageous That Trump Is Invoking This Obscure 200-Year-Old Wartime Law
By Shirin Ali | March 20, 2025 11:49 AM
Shut the fuck up, Ali.
What's your green card status? How many of your family members are here illegally.
Let's find out, shall we?
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Yes. I agree.
That's another reason why the Democratic Party is dying. They don't agree.
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:A strong dollar definitely gets in the way of re-industrializing America. A strong dollar makes imports cheap, and American exports expensive. It's not the ONLY cause of our trade deficit; Bill Cl
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump has a specific plan to kill Globalism. The Mar-a-Lago Accord is, on its face, a far-fetched policy proposal and it is easy to pick holes in it.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I read a lot of your lefty bullshit. In fact, I read far more lefty shit than anything else.
I'm sure Tooze is another grifter loser if you're a fan.
In the meantime, I'm enjoying watching Globalism die and watching your overpaid shills lose their shit about it.
By Adam Tooze | Mar 19, 2025
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-363-stockholm-syndrome
What is the Mar-a-Lago Accord?
The US gives the rest of the world:
1. Security
2. Access to US markets/US consumers
The US gets from the rest of the world:
1. A weaker dollar
2. A bigger manufacturing sector
3. Existing US Treasury debt swapped to new Treasury century bonds (100 year maturity. The longest maturity for U.S. Treasury bonds currently available to investors is 30 years.)
Two tools to achieve such an outcome:
1. Tariffs to exert pressure on countries to sign the Mar-a-Lago Accord and to grow the US manufacturing sector
2. A US sovereign wealth fund that can be used to buy foreign currencies to depreciate the dollar
Q1: Why is a Mar-a-Lago Accord in the news?
President Trump aims to restructure global trade by addressing the overvalued dollar, seen as the root cause of U.S. trade deficits. Inspired by an essay by Stephen Miran (Trump’s economic advisor), the Accord proposes weakening the dollar, similar to the 1985 Plaza Accord.
Q2: Key observations of the essay?
The U.S. trade deficit stems from dollar overvaluation driven by inelastic demand for U.S. Treasuries and Foreign Exchange interventions by trading partners. No viable alternative reserve currencies (e.g., eurozone fragmentation, China’s capital controls) exacerbate the issue.
Q3: Key recommendations?
Two paths: 1) Multilateral “Mar-a-Lago Accord” with allies to weaken the dollar via coordinated policies.
2) Unilateral measures (tariffs, security threats) if partners resist
Q4: How would the Accord work?
Key nations (eurozone, China, Japan) would sell dollars/Treasuries from reserves. Incentives include lower tariffs; challenges include reluctance from China/eurozone and market instability from reserve managers selling Treasuries.
Q5: Unilateral approach?
1) Impose a “user fee” on foreign Treasury holdings to drive out reserve managers. 2) Expand the U.S. Exchange Stabilization Fund or sell gold reserves. Risks include inflation and market dislocation.
Q6: Impact on Treasuries?
Forced swaps to century bonds could trigger defaults and rating downgrades. Voluntary swaps avoid default but face market skepticism. Treasury yields could rise, losing benchmark status to corporate debt
Q7: Sequencing of the blueprint?
Tariffs and security threats first to create leverage. Reciprocal tariffs in April 2025 signal intent Fed cooperation (post-2026 leadership change) may mitigate bond market fallout
Q8: Implications for the dollar?
Short-term dollar strength (to offset tariff-driven inflation), followed by long-term decline post-Accord. JPY (Japanese yen) could surge 20-25% due to undervaluation and safe-haven demand.
Q9: Opportunities for Europe?
Euro could gain reserve status if the dollar weakens. Requires eurozone joint debt issuance and Capital Markets Union to address fragmentation.
Q10: Other takeaways?
Higher financial volatility, reassessment of sovereign risk premia, and shifts to non-U.S. assets. Risks include destabilizing Treasury markets and counterproductive dollar strength.
More at https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-363-stockholm-syndrome
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
The case for conservatism
By Ian Millhiser | Mar 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/405324/case-for-conservatism-trump-el
on-musk
The conservative philosopher GK Chesterton is known for a parable about two lawmakers who encounter a fence. One, brash and overeager, announces that he can’t see the point of the fence so it should be removed. The other, who Chesterton labels the “more intelligent type of reformer,” scolds his companion, warning him that they should only remove the fence once they know why it was put there.
The point is that, before anything is changed, decision-makers should at least know why the thing that they are changing exists, lest they discover its true purpose after its removal ends in disaster.
Never has Chesterton’s wisdom been so apparent than the first months of Donald Trump’s second term, which, among other things, have seen a broadly worded freeze on domestic spending, a similar pause on foreign aid, and an indiscriminate effort to push as many federal workers out of their jobs as possible. All of these initiatives have had unintended consequences, from defunding a prison full of ISIS fighters to leaving the agency meant to safeguard nuclear material in dire straits.
Some of these decisions were rapidly reversed, but not all of them. And even a temporary error by the government can have catastrophic effects, because the government — unlike the business world — does the kind of work that must be done right every single time.
Every Social Security recipient must receive their check on time, lest they be unable to make their rent or buy food. Every hospital must be reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid, lest they shut down and leave entire swaths of the country without care. The country still reels from a single terrorist attack that our intelligence and national security communities failed to stop a quarter century ago.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that change is happening so rapidly right now, because there is no meaningful political movement in the United States advocating for a more methodical, conservative approach.
We need leaders who believe that change should come only after careful deliberation, and that major changes call for even greater deliberation and planning.
The Republican Party, long the home of American conservatism, is now entirely under the sway of impatient reactionaries. The GOP isn’t just the party of Trump; it’s the party that made a notorious booster of quack medical theories health secretary, and that chose a Fox News host accused of substance abuse and sexual assault to lead the Pentagon — both with near-total support from Republican senators.
Democrats, meanwhile, often feel trapped into a role as the sole remaining defenders of institutions, and they chafe against that role. As Neera Tanden, recently President Joe Biden’s domestic policy adviser and now the leader of the Center for American Progress, told Politico, “it’s incumbent on us not to be defenders of the status quo.”
It’s not surprising that neither major party wants to be the voice of this status quo. Americans are discontent — according to Gallup, the last time a majority of the country were satisfied with “the way things are going in the US,” George W. Bush was still in his first term. And I am not making the case for stagnation. We don’t need to settle for broken systems; we just need to make sure we don’t make them worse in the name of “fixing” them.
But as we observe the chaos of Trump’s second presidency, where US trade policy can shift wildly over the course of any given day, it’s clear that something is out of balance. There is no one — or, at least, no one in a position of power — pushing for thoughtful consideration before half-baked ideas are implemented.
America needs conservative voices. Not the politicians who align themselves with the so-called conservative movement, but policymakers who are conservative in a more traditional sense. That means we need leaders who believe that change should come only after careful deliberation, and that m
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Europe is a superpower, if it wants to be
By Paul Krugman | Mar 21, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-the-sleeping-giant-awakening
A quick note from Brussels: Everyone I talked to was horrified and terrified by what’s happening in America — but not cowed. If anything the mood was that Europe has to grow up and stand up.
I doubt many people in the U.S. realize what a geopolitical earthquake just happened in Germany. They didn’t pass legislation; they changed the constitution (or will have, assuming the upper house goes along) to lift the “debt brake” on a trillion euros of defense and infrastructure spending. Combine that with tough talk from France and strong indications that on security matters, at least, Britain will consider itself part of Europe, and suddenly it seems as if a continent that was always a superpower, but refused to act like one, may be waking up.
The truth is that there are three economic superpowers in the world — and by one measure, at least, purchasing power of GDP, the United States is the smallest of the three:
Source: World Bank
Yes, European productivity has lagged for the past couple of decades, and none of the world’s giant technology firms is European. Yet this is still a rich, highly capable society, with immense capacity to defend its values on the world stage.
Until now, however, Europe has lived in a state of learned helplessness, relying on America for its security. That’s now over. It’s not just the tariffs and Trump’s obvious support for Putin. I don’t know if Americans realize how big a shock it has been that European citizens are being arrested and detained by ICE. Suddenly it’s clear that America is not an ally, may not even be a democracy, and Europe must look after itself.
The question, which I can’t answer, is how quickly Europe can stand up. There’s clearly going to be a shift away from U.S. weapons, and Europe clearly has the technological capacity to do that. Will it be able to do so soon enough to turn the tide in Ukraine? I have no idea.
Nor can we rule out the possibility that Europe will return to form and disappoint everyone.
But big stuff is happening, and team Trump, which seems to believe that nobody can stand up to his whims, may get a rude shock from old Europe.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, after a lengthy 15-year accession process. Is there other explanations than China for why the National Debt has increased at an ever accelerating rate? Yes, there are:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Once China was accepted into the WTO, American business flooded China with investments, hoping to tap into their giant market.
Every President since then screwed the pooch by running huge deficits, so now we have a $35 trillion debt.
Unforgivable.
Trump looks like a President frantic to save the USA from bankruptcy:
Cutting costs.
Weakening the dollar deliberately instead of having it collapse catastrophically
Scavenging war zones for any economic opportunity he can bully people into.
He still wants/ needs the dollar to be THE reserve currency, but on more sustainable terms.
BTW, GDP is supposed to reflect AMERICAN production of goods and services. In no way are "imports" part of that. Liberals have done a lot to jigger the figures (for example, counting home ownership as part of GDP, by adding in what the homeowners MIGHT have spent on rent as a "service")... but counting imports?
A bridge too far.
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
1. Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio
Without the Bush and Trump tax cuts, debt as a percentage of the economy would be declining permanently.
Taken together, the Bush tax cuts, their bipartisan extensions, and the Trump tax cuts, have cost $10 trillion since their creation and are responsible for 57 percent of the increase in the debt ratio since then. They are responsible for more than 90 percent of the increase in the debt ratio if you exclude the one-time costs for responding to COVID-19 and the Great Recession. While these one-time costs increased the level of debt, they did nothing to affect the trajectory of the debt ratio. With or without them, the United States would currently have stable debt, albeit potentially at a higher level, despite rising spending.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primarily-respon
sible-for-the-increasing-debt-ratio/
2. The Wealthy and Corporations Have Received Massive Tax Cuts in Recent Decades
U.S. policymakers have substantially reduced taxes for wealthy households in recent decades. The 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts[2] reduced individual income tax rates, taxes on capital gains and dividends, and the tax on estates, all of which provided the largest benefits to the highest-income taxpayers. Though policymakers let many of the Bush tax cuts for high-income households expire in 2013, the 2017 Trump tax cuts again lowered individual income tax rates (including the top rate) and weakened the estate tax, so that it applied only to the wealthiest estates: those worth more than $11 million per person or $22 million per couple, indexed for inflation. The 2017 law also created a large new tax deduction on “pass-through” business income (business income from partnerships, S corporations, and sole proprietorships) and enacted large and permanent tax cuts for corporations.
Taken together, these tax cuts disproportionately flowed to households at the top and cost significant federal revenues, adding trillions to the national debt since their enactment.[3] By shrinking revenues, these tax cuts limit policymakers’ ability and willingness to make public investments that pay off in tangible and important ways for individuals, families, communities, and the country as a whole.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/after-decades-of-costly-regr
essive-and-ineffective-tax-cuts-a-new-course-is
3. Trump and Musk do not pay income taxes. Really. They don’t. That is the reason Trump and Musk do not publicize their IRS form 1040.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+and+Musk+do+not+pay+income
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME