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Saturday, April 12, 2025 6:52 AM

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If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.

Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.

Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6ix, you are out of your fucking little mind with your talk of Democrats Destroying America.



No. I am not.

Democrats hate America. Democrats hate Americans. Democrats are evil.

Democrats are dead.

Your party is dead.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

And, one day, SECOND will be dead. And when that happens the world will be a better place.


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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Saturday, April 12, 2025 5:20 PM

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If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.

Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.

Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6ix, you are out of your fucking little mind with your talk of Democrats Destroying America.



No. I am not.

Democrats hate America. Democrats hate Americans. Democrats are evil.

Democrats are dead.

Your party is dead.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

And, one day, SECOND will be dead. And when that happens the world will be a better place.


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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


Signym and 6ix, at the end of the Civil War, the slave-owners refused to acknowledge that they were evil. They never understood that their former way of life, which depended on slaves suffering, was evil. After Reconstruction ended, the former Confederates had an economic system that was almost unchanged, except now the former slave-owners no longer had any legal obligations to treat their laborers with respect and decency. In defeat, they were even worse people than before the War! What I am saying is that evil, selfish, lazy people like Signym and 6ix and Confederates don't see themselves as evil, selfish and lazy. Instead, they complain about virtue-signalling because they absolutely hate anyone who is not evil, selfish and lazy like themselves, characteristics they deny having but which they have in abundance. These rotten people have difficult lives full of tribulations which the rotten people refuse to admit they caused for themselves and they can stop being rotten at anytime, but they won't.

P.S. for those who don't know Signym and 6ix: These two have repeatedly shown how evil they both are by writing many, many times the two word sentence Fuck Ukraine.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, April 12, 2025 5:23 PM

Tariffs
https://xkcd.com/3073


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, April 12, 2025 9:08 PM

The One Thing That Brought Trump Close to Reality This Week April 12, 2025 5:45 AM

If there’s anything that can get through to Trump …

Last week, Donald Trump set in place a tariff plan that, if carried through, would at least cause a recession and at most put an end to our American-led economic and international order. He then played golf four days in a row. (Respect.) He and his team didn’t necessarily mind the stock market going down 10 or 15 percent—supposedly that would be the temporary pain. The more worrisome sign came when the bond market began to careen off the edge. One particular red alert was how the yield on 10-year Treasurys was shooting directly up, when typically, they should be a safe haven for investors in bear markets. That’s one of those existential signs that the rest of the world is thinking about moving on from you. Trump’s advisers publicly denied that the bond market had anything to do with the Wednesday decision to issue a 90-day “pause” on reciprocal tariffs. Privately, though, they said that was exactly the reason for the climb-down, and Trump himself conceded that markets were getting a little too “yippy” for his taste. Unfortunately, we’re afraid Trump needs to take another look at the bond market. Despite a one-day stock market rally after Trump’s “pause”—which still left tariffs at their highest levels in 100 years—everything resumed crashing by Thursday, with stocks and the dollar down and Treasury yields skyrocketing back up. This is the financial equivalent of someone (in this case, all other countries) breaking up with you via text. We know what we did.

Scott Bessent and other Trumptard dorks claim that everything is going according to plan. What really happened here is that Trump, who thinks that tariffs are a direct tax that the U.S. puts on other countries, did something impossibly reckless, because he could, and then had to begin walking it back. But his deputies have been tasked with conveying these actions as if he had just played the world. “No one creates leverage for himself like POTUS,” Bessent posted. Commerce Secretary Howard “Good Times” Lutnick, sharing a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post announcing the pause, wrote about how he and Bessent sat beside Trump as he drafted “one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of his Presidency.” White House policy chief Stephen Miller wrote that “you have been watching the greatest economic master strategy from an American President in history.” The only thing more head-spinning than some of these lines is that there’s an audience that will believe it.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-tariffs-pause-market
s-still-bad.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, April 12, 2025 9:32 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.

Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.

Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6ix, you are out of your fucking little mind with your talk of Democrats Destroying America.



No. I am not.

Democrats hate America. Democrats hate Americans. Democrats are evil.

Democrats are dead.

Your party is dead.

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

And, one day, SECOND will be dead. And when that happens the world will be a better place.


-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


Signym and 6ix, at the end



Nobody cares about your opinions.

Meanwhile... in reality.

CNN: "Shocking" Data Shows Americans Believe Republicans Care More About People, Democrats
Are The Party Of The People No More

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/11/enten_shocking_data
_shows_americans_believe_republicans_care_more_about_people_democrats_are_the_party_of_the_people_no_more.html


Your party sucks. You're party is fucking dead.

You suck...



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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Saturday, April 12, 2025 9:38 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Tariffs
https://xkcd.com/3073


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



Yeah. That just about sums up your average BluSky user's understanding of anything.

It's the same group of college "educated" white kids who think that electricity that comes
out of their wall is magic from Hogwarts.

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Sunday, April 13, 2025 3:02 AM

Steve Witkoff, ambassador at large. Out of all of Trump's appointees (Rubio, Waltz, Kellogg) he seems to be the only one with his head screwed on straight...

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Trump Envoy In First 'Direct, Constructive' Contact With Iran After Laying Down Red Line
Saturday, Apr 12, 2025 - 12:45 PM

Not very much happened at the much-anticipated 'indirect' meeting between Iranian and US delegations in Oman on Saturday. While Tehran has been emphasizing the indirect nature of the dialogue, President Trump and his top officials have been calling these 'direct' talks.

The main 'positive' is that the two sides didn't yell each other out the room, or make new accusations - instead they agreed to keep the diplomatic engagement going.

"Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, Iranian state television reported Saturday at the end of the first round of talks between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House," The Associated Press reports as the meeting wrapped up.

As for whether they were 'direct' or not, Iranian state did say that Trump regional onvoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi "briefly spoke in the presence of the Omani foreign minister" at the end of the talks.

Since Iran, the USA, and Russia all say they want the same thing [no nuclear weapons in Iran] this should be an easy fix. What Iran probably wants in return is an easing of sanctions.

Last time [JCPOA, Obama] Iran stuck to its side of the deal but the USA ... as usual... failed to ease sanctions as promised.

This time, Iran won't make that same mistake by trusting the USA. There will be credible consequences if the USA fails to live up to its side of the bargain.

Right now, Iran has a credible stockpile of 60% enriched uranium. Nuclear power plants only need 3%, and it's just a short hop from 60% to 90% (they say).

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Sunday, April 13, 2025 4:06 AM

Those dogs shouldn't have access to anything radioactive.

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Sunday, April 13, 2025 4:27 AM

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Last time [JCPOA, Obama] Iran stuck to its side of the deal but the USA ... as usual... failed to ease sanctions as promised.

"the USA ... as usual ... failed" is incorrect. It was Trump who failed. The USA kept its promise to lift sanctions, but on May 8, 2018, Trump ordered sanctions re-imposed:

"The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into." - President Donald J. Trump

PROTECTING AMERICA FROM A BAD DEAL: President Donald J. Trump is re-imposing sanctions lifted under the deal.

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-do
nald-j-trump-ending-united-states-participation-unacceptable-iran-deal
/

May 11, 2020
A worthless withdrawal: Two years since President Trump abandoned the JCPOA
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Two years ago, President Trump withdrew from the JCPOA promising that he could create a better deal and a safer world. He has nothing to show for it now, other than increased U.S. isolation on the global stage and an Iranian government that is closer to a nuclear capability. His maniacal need to follow through on a campaign promise has not only proven to be a worthless gesture, it is now clear that it was a reckless act that has made this country less safe.

https://armscontrolcenter.org/a-worthless-withdrawal-two-years-since-p
resident-trump-abandoned-the-jcpoa
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, April 13, 2025 4:44 AM

Fuck Iran.

Fuck Muhammad and Allah.

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