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 152 of 479
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The entire atmosphere surrounding all of this is completely different than it was in 2016 and 2020.
Things just kind of feel normal again.
It's like all the loudest voices either screamed themselves out or they aren't being platformed anymore and/or we just finally, collectively tuned them out for a change.
It's kind of nice, innit?
Happy Inauguration Day!
Donald Trump warned the 'winds are moving' after EU makes huge China decision
Europe appears to be shifting its gaze eastward, seeking assistance from China rather than the US as leaders pursue trade agreements with the Asian giant instead of American President Donald Trump, whose stance towards the Chinese was roasted by US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
Euronews reveals that following President Trump's infamous "reciprocal tariffs" speech at the White House earlier this month, the first call made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was to China, which has promised to "fight until the end" against Trump tariffs, as the superpower levied their own tariffs in response.
The European Commission - who recently issued Trump a stark warning over his economic policies - issued an official statement saying: "In response to the widespread disruption caused by the US tariffs, President von der Leyen stressed the responsibility of Europe and China, as two of the world's largest markets, to support a strong reformed trading system, free, fair and founded on a level playing field. The news comes as Trump's real height was revealed in his medical assessment, after doubts had previously been cast.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trump-warned-the-winds-are
-moving-after-eu-makes-huge-china-decision/ar-AA1CRGVq?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=31e50bdb4e8643a3aca41410d8d20601&ei=50
Yes stupid, the winds have shifted. The world is turning away from America and looking towards China going forward into the future. You stupid fucking MAGA moron.
T
The ASSessment of the situation from the retard on these boards who doesn't understand any of these concepts is duly noted.
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The entire atmosphere surrounding all of this is completely different than it was in 2016 and 2020.
Things just kind of feel normal again.
It's like all the loudest voices either screamed themselves out or they aren't being platformed anymore and/or we just finally, collectively tuned them out for a change.
It's kind of nice, innit?
Happy Inauguration Day!
Donald Trump warned the 'winds are moving' after EU makes huge China decision
Europe appears to be shifting its gaze eastward, seeking assistance from China rather than the US as leaders pursue trade agreements with the Asian giant instead of American President Donald Trump, whose stance towards the Chinese was roasted by US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
Euronews reveals that following President Trump's infamous "reciprocal tariffs" speech at the White House earlier this month, the first call made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was to China, which has promised to "fight until the end" against Trump tariffs, as the superpower levied their own tariffs in response.
The European Commission - who recently issued Trump a stark warning over his economic policies - issued an official statement saying: "In response to the widespread disruption caused by the US tariffs, President von der Leyen stressed the responsibility of Europe and China, as two of the world's largest markets, to support a strong reformed trading system, free, fair and founded on a level playing field. The news comes as Trump's real height was revealed in his medical assessment, after doubts had previously been cast.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trump-warned-the-winds-are
-moving-after-eu-makes-huge-china-decision/ar-AA1CRGVq?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=31e50bdb4e8643a3aca41410d8d20601&ei=50
Yes stupid, the winds have shifted. The world is turning away from America and looking towards China going forward into the future. You stupid fucking MAGA moron.
T
The ASSessment of the situation from the retard on these boards who doesn't understand any of these concepts is duly noted.
Another bit of news for you Jack. And Trust me, they don't like guys like you.
T
Two-thirds of US wealth is held by women | Melinda French Gates
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The entire atmosphere surrounding all of this is completely different than it was in 2016 and 2020.
Things just kind of feel normal again.
It's like all the loudest voices either screamed themselves out or they aren't being platformed anymore and/or we just finally, collectively tuned them out for a change.
It's kind of nice, innit?
Happy Inauguration Day!
Donald Trump warned the 'winds are moving' after EU makes huge China decision
Europe appears to be shifting its gaze eastward, seeking assistance from China rather than the US as leaders pursue trade agreements with the Asian giant instead of American President Donald Trump, whose stance towards the Chinese was roasted by US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
Euronews reveals that following President Trump's infamous "reciprocal tariffs" speech at the White House earlier this month, the first call made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was to China, which has promised to "fight until the end" against Trump tariffs, as the superpower levied their own tariffs in response.
The European Commission - who recently issued Trump a stark warning over his economic policies - issued an official statement saying: "In response to the widespread disruption caused by the US tariffs, President von der Leyen stressed the responsibility of Europe and China, as two of the world's largest markets, to support a strong reformed trading system, free, fair and founded on a level playing field. The news comes as Trump's real height was revealed in his medical assessment, after doubts had previously been cast.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trump-warned-the-winds-are
-moving-after-eu-makes-huge-china-decision/ar-AA1CRGVq?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=31e50bdb4e8643a3aca41410d8d20601&ei=50
Yes stupid, the winds have shifted. The world is turning away from America and looking towards China going forward into the future. You stupid fucking MAGA moron.
T
The ASSessment of the situation from the retard on these boards who doesn't understand any of these concepts is duly noted.
Another bit of news for you Jack. And Trust me, they don't like guys like you.
T
Two-thirds of US wealth is held by women | Melinda French Gates
Wow. Show me a picture of a wrinkly old ass woman and tell me she doesn't want me.
Oh no. My heart is broken dude.
I don't need money, and after 30 years old a woman has nothing to offer me.
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
The Kleptocracy Presidency
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
By Anne Applebaum | April 14, 2025, 6 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-au
tocracy-inc/682281/
As the stock markets crashed on Friday, April 4, Donald Trump left Washington, D.C. He did not go to New York to consult with Wall Street. He did not go to Dover, Delaware, to receive the bodies of four American servicemen, killed in an accident while serving in Lithuania. Instead, he went to Florida, where he visited his Doral golf resort, which was hosting the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament, and stayed at his Mar-a-Lago club, where many tournament fans and sponsors were staying too. His private businesses took precedence over the business of the nation.
Many of his guests were also interested in boosting Trump’s personal interests, as well as gaining the American president’s favor. One of them was Yasir al-Rumayyan, who runs the $925 billion Saudi sovereign-wealth fund and is also the chair of the LIV tournament. Other sponsors of the tournament included Riyadh Air, a Saudi airline; Aramco, the Saudi state oil company; and, startlingly, TikTok, the Chinese-owned social-media platform whose fate Trump will personally be deciding, even as he profits from its sponsorship and support.
Once upon a time (and not even that long ago), blatant conflicts of interest, especially involving foreign entities, were something presidents sought to avoid. No previous inhabitant of the White House would have wanted to be seen doing personal business with companies from countries that seek to influence American foreign policy. Such dealings risk violating the Constitution, which prohibits government officials from accepting “gifts, titles or emoluments from foreign governments.” But during Trump’s first term, the court system largely blew off his commercial entanglements. Now he not only does business with foreign as well as domestic companies that have a direct interest in his policies, he advertises and celebrates them. We know the identities of the golf-tournament sponsors not because investigative journalists burrowed deep into secret contracts, but because they appear on official websites and were displayed on a billboard, observed by The New York Times, at his golf course.
Both the website and the billboard would have been scandals in any previous administration. If they are hardly remarked upon now, that’s because Trump’s behavior is a symptom of something much larger. We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world. For the past decade, American government and business alike have slowly begun to adopt the kleptocratic model pioneered by countries such as Russia and China, where the rulers’ conflicts of interest are simply part of the fabric of the system.
The change began during Trump’s first term—Vice President Mike Pence once made a 180-mile-plus detour on a trip to Ireland, in order to stay at a Trump hotel—but Trump was constrained by his advisers and perhaps by what was then still his fear of legal consequences. This time around, he knows he got away with a series of crimes, including an attempt to overthrow an election. His advisers are supine; he feels no more constraints. New standards were already set in December, when the Trump Organization announced the construction of a Trump Tower in Saudi Arabia, an investment that posed a clear conflict of interest for the president-elect.
Trump’s family also created a cryptocurrency business, World Liberty Financial, that could, in practice, serve as a vehicle for anyone to pay him indirect bribes. Nobody around him objected. After Trump’s return to office, his administration, unbothered by appearances of impropriety, did indeed quickly suspend a civil investigation into Justin Sun, a Chinese entrepreneur and an adviser to World Liberty Financial, who had also inve
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Who the fuck wants to read neocon extraordinaire Anne Applebaum's criticisms after she and her gang drained the USA of money and weapons?
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissingerjh
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Everything is unwinding, according to this guy ...
Quote:
"Things Are Breaking 'Out There'..."
Monday, Apr 14, 2025 - 01:20 PM
Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
Systemic Considerations
“Every western society is confronted by an internal cultural conflict between those who wish to distance society from its civilizational legacy and those who wish to renew it.”
- Frank Furedi on Substack
Whatever else you think is happening in our world, contraction is the reality-based order-of-the-day, and everything else is downstream of that. The world has to get by with less. Nothing is going to fix this for everybody, though any number of schemes for redistributing what’s left will preoccupy the political mojo.
Right now, it’s tariffs, which are an attempt to restore industry ceded to the formerly left-behind people elsewhere in the world — taking back what we used to do. You are correct to wonder if this is even possible. The wish is surely understandable, if a bit fuzzy and over-simplified: to be again a nation of people occupied purposefully in the service of a bright future. Redemption stories are deeply appealing.
Many of us are aware that the hour for this is late. We’ve already lived through our decades of pumping cheap oil out of American ground, extracting the ores, fashioning the metal into I-beams and rails, raising the skyscrapers, laying the asphalt ribbons of highway, and strewing the landscape with split-level houses and strip-malls. Let’s not try a re-run of that.
What have we got to work with?
An overly-complex matrix of systems and subsidiary systems operating on the verge of failure at excessive scale. For example, our cities and their asteroid belts of suburbs. The rot is already well-advanced in many of them from their centers outward, and we can see the process underway of strip-mining the remaining assets on-the-ground. Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore. . . all occupy important geographically strategic sites. All are populated by dwindling societies of the cope-less, floundering their way out of existence. The geographies will abide without them. Others will come along and make something of these places’ virtues.
Agri-business is a method for strip-mining the value from what remains of our fruited plains. Everything about it is on an arc of failure, mortgaged to a futureless giantism. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and now that time has passed. The remaining soil itself can probably be rescued with heroic ant-like peasant labor over generations, which is to say a long and rather desperate project with no quick resolution. Even if Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., hadn’t come along to read America the riot act on food, anyone can see that the age of Froot Loops is drawing to a close.
Town and country, what human society at its best was composed of, has got to be rearranged. This is something that MAGA is not talking about. MAGA looks like it is seeking a reenactment of the years 1950 to 1964. That isn’t going to happen. What then? The tech broz propose something that looks like an A-I printed robotic future. They are drunk on their own Stanford University brand Kool-Aid, hallucinating a future that is little more than math dressed in spandex.
It is nearly impossible to grok the size of their vast fortunes, their billions. Thousands upon thousands of millions. From what? From marshaling squadrons of lawyers to draw up ownership documents for this and that venture enabling idiots with nose-rings to lecture each other about sexual etiquette on cell-phone screens? Warning: don’t become infatuated with singularities, journeys beyond biology and the ecology of planet earth. That’s a story for saps, cargo-cultists, the mentally ill.
Speaking of all that money, one thing you can surely depend on is a violent unwinding of global finance. The vast bottom of humanity already has plenty of nothing, and their abundance will abide. The hedge fund broz and related broz in the shared hallucinations of capital can make somNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Who the fuck wants to read neocon extraordinaire Anne Applebaum's criticisms after she and her gang drained the USA of money and weapons?
-----------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissingerjh
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
The same people that side with NeoCons, race hustlers, foreign terrorist, etc., etc., etc....
Yanno... Democrats.
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:America would be made great again if all Trumptards were dead. Trumptards are killing themselves, but not fast enough.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:And this is where you turn into SECOND and want to see a whole bunch of people wiped out.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Iran.
Fuck Muhammad and Allah.
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul SimonQuote:http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64887&mid=12165
6ixStringJack wrote:
And with my athletic-leaning-toward-muscular build, I used to break the BMI chart and they called me overweight before the Diabetes hit. And back in my power lifting days when I was built like a brick shithouse I was considered morbidly obese.
40#1216540
6ixStringJack has forgotten the illegal drugs he took for muscle growth harmed him in ways he has not yet learned. The price of Trumptard Freedom to be a jackass is ill health as they get older. I see illness in all old Trumptards caused by Trumptard drinking, smoking, libertine sex lives, drug taking, gluttony, etc. If all Trumptards would follow Rush Limbaugh's example and kill themselves quickly, America would be great this year.
I didn't take anything illegal. Although, I DID take stuff from GNC. Very possible that some Amino Acid or Creatine pills, or the copious amounts of shit tasting protein shakes on top of the 6,000 calories per day I ate for 2 years had some negative effect.
Let's just say that with all the stuff the FDA has approved that's made us the least healthy 1st world nation, even the FDA won't approve 90% of the stuff in a GNC once you leave the vitamin counter.
Although it might just be that nobody at GNC had powerful lobbyists.
It's actually shocking in retrospect to think there was anything the FDA didn't approve.
Speak of the devil... this was just up on RCP today...
This Is Your Brain on Creatine
Most commonly linked to muscle building, the supplement can actually encourage short-term memory and clear thinking, too
https://www.insidehook.com/longevity/creatine-supplement-brain-benefit
s
Maybe that's just one of the many, many, many reasons why I'm so much smarter than you and superior to you in every way, Second.
--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Signym, you have written Fuck Ukraine about a hundred times. You would hate Anne Applebaum because she wrote The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Who the fuck wants to read neocon extraordinaire Anne Applebaum's criticisms after she and her gang drained the USA of money and weapons?
Applebaum also wrote Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Applebaum also wrote Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization--in effect a second Russian revolution--which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them. Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: after a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. The state sealed the republic's borders and seized all available food. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases, they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. Applebaum's compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first.
Download Anne Applebaum's books for free from the mirrors at https://libgen.rs/search.php?&req=Anne+Applebaum
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:The strange link between Trump’s tariffs and incel ideology
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wow. Show me a picture of a wrinkly old ass woman and tell me she doesn't want me.
Oh no. My heart is broken dude.
I don't need money, and after 30 years old a woman has nothing to offer me.
Meet the lonely men who think the tariffs will get them girlfriends.
By Constance Grady | Apr 14, 2025, 11:00 AM CDT
https://www.vox.com/culture/408578/trum-tariffs-incels-misogyny-email-
jobs
The “this” in question was a TikTok video from last summer in which the all-women executive team of an Australian skin care company playfully sang and danced around their office. Faced with the option of a woman joking about being a “Gen Z boss” and probable economic ruin: “Tariffs,” the X user concluded.
The apparent link between a group of Australian women having fun at their office and the historic economic fallout of Trump’s tariffs in the US may be obscure to a lot of people. But for a vocal contingent of incel-adjacent men on X, the link is self-evident.
“A lot of men (specifically, single and frustrated ones on the right who have a negative view of women) have a perplexingly reverse-SJW attitude toward women in the workplace,” explained Substack writer Cartoons Hate Her in March in the midst of the DOGE shutdowns. “They believe women are part of an oppressor class, who has for some reason been granted unfair degrees of privilege in the form of being hired for fun, pretend jobs.” In this reading, the Australian skin care executives are callously celebrating their oppressive privilege by filming themselves dancing.
In this worldview, the fun, pretend jobs include federally funded government jobs. These men further believe that because DEI initiatives mandate that women get these fun, pretend jobs — usually described as “email jobs” — women have achieved unnatural degrees of self-sufficiency. No longer do they have to rely on marrying a good provider for economic stability. With that impetus gone, women’s standards for romantic partners have skyrocketed, leaving these hapless men unable to get a girlfriend.
Cartoons Hate Her quotes an X user who berated her for arguing that single women can be happy living by themselves. “Your ‘happy life alone’ only exists because the state funnels taxpayer money into your independence LARP,” he wrote. “I call it ‘negative prostitution’ because it takes men’s money away to ensure women don’t have sex with them.”
These men read Trump’s economic policy as a project of redistributing money and jobs away from women and back to men, ultimately for men’s sexual gain. DOGE slashed away the email jobs in the government, they argue, while tariffs will force a recession that will ultimately kill the email jobs of the private sector. Meanwhile, tariffs will bring manufacturing jobs, which are understood to be the rightful domain of men, back to the US. By the time the process ends, they believe, men will be gainfully employed and now-destitute women incentivized to sleep with them, and the world will be restored to its proper order.
To be clear, this worldview is deeply deluded. Even if you agree it’s bad that women have the ability to make their own money and thus don’t need to settle for subpar romantic partners (personally, I take the radical position that this is good), the economics don’t work. While it’s true that women make up the majority of office workers, it’s not true that they only work pretend email jobs. They also make up the majority of workers in the leisure and hospitality industry (selling on the floor of a retail store, waiting tables, etc.) and in education and health services (home health aids, nurses, teachers, etc.).
Finally, perhaps most crucially, even if a tariff-led recession may mean layoffs from office jobs, the tariffs are highly unlikely to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. They are far more likely to raise prices and make everyone’s quality of life worse.
What’s
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME