Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:The Pentagon can't protect anybody because Trumptards are Fat, Weak and Stupid
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup.
Now let's see how long everyone's free healthcare worldwide lasts once they wake up and realize they all have their own military to fund and they've let in the first and second wave of combatants while clothing and feeding them until it was time.
(Which is Why Trumptard Civilians Don’t Prosper in America)
By Dexter Filkins | February 3, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/the-us-militarys-recruit
ing-crisis
At Fort Jackson, in South Carolina, the U.S. Army comes face to face with America’s youth. One recent morning, at the Future Soldiers training course, hundreds of overweight young men and women hoping to join the service lined up to run and perform calisthenics before a cordon of drill sergeants. Some were participating in organized workouts for the first time. Many heaved for breath when asked to run a half mile; others gave up and walked. A number hobbled around on crutches. At a weekly weigh-in, dozens of young men stood shirtless, revealing just how far they had to go.
When prospective recruits were asked to drop and do five pushups, many groaned and struggled, unable to complete the task. Some, their faces crimson, could barely hold themselves up.
“You thought you’d join the Army without being able to do a single pushup?” Staff Sergeant Kennedy Robinson barked at a recruit whose arms were twitching in agony.
“Yes, ma’am!” he said. To an extent that would have been hard to imagine a few years ago, he may have been right.
The Future Soldiers program was created, in 2022, to help marginal but willing recruits find their way into the military. Its efforts include not just prodding kids to slim down but also helping them pass the armed forces’ aptitude test—even if that means lowering long-established standards. The course is part of a series of extraordinary adaptations that America’s military is making amid one of its greatest recruiting shortfalls since the draft was abolished, more than fifty years ago.
In 2022 and 2023, the Army missed its recruitment goal by nearly twenty-five per cent—about fifteen thousand troops a year. It hit the mark last year, but only by reducing the target by more than ten thousand. The Navy has also fared badly: it failed to reach its goals in 2023, then met them in 2024 by filling out the ranks with recruits of a lower standard; nearly half measured below average on an aptitude exam. The Army Reserve hasn’t met its benchmark since 2016, and the ranks are so depleted that active-duty officers have been put in charge of reserve units. Some experts worry that, if the country went to war, many reserve units might be unable to deploy. A U.S. official who works on these issues put it simply: “We can’t get enough people.”
At the end of the Second World War, the American military had twelve million active-duty members. It now has 1.3 million — even though the population has more than doubled, and women are now eligible for armed service.
According to a Pentagon study, more than three-quarters of Americans between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four are ineligible because they are overweight, unable to pass the aptitude test, afflicted by physical or mental-health issues. In other words, Trumptards and their children are sad losers. That explains why they struggle to prosper in America.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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This happened to Trumptards because they are fat, weak and stupid:
In 2020 RAND released a study which found that if economic growth from 1975-2018 been distributed as equitably among the US population as it had been from the Second World War to 1974, that “the aggregate income for the population below the 90th percentile would have been $2.5 trillion (67%) higher in 2018” and that the difference in aggregate income across 1975-2018 would have been $47 trillion dollars. These numbers so large as to be abstract. Instead, take a look at the income distribution for Full-Year Full-Time Prime-Aged Workers in 2018 versus their estimates under this counterfactual, in 2018 inflation adjusted dollars.
Adapted from Price, Carter C. and Kathryn A. Edwards, Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2020, Table 2.b
Under this counterfactual, over 95% of the population would have benefited and the median worker would be making nearly twice as much today as they actually are. This upward redistribution of wealth is what inequality is actually about, not the size of Jeff Bezos’ yacht.
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/02/what-was-so-great-about-
america-again.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump the “Peacemaker” Ramps Up America’s Forever War in Somalia
By Nick Turse | Feb 4, 2025
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/04/trump-airstrike-somalia/
President Donald Trump took office last month touting his commitment to ending wars. “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker,” he announced in his recent inaugural address. For years, in fact, Trump has touted his antiwar credentials and boasted about ending “endless wars.”
On Saturday, Trump ramped up America’s longest-running war, carrying out a strike in Somalia that killed an unspecified number of people. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies,” Trump posted on social media. “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.”
Trump asserted that the airstrike killed a “Senior ISIS Attack Planner” that the Biden administration failed to strike, despite a yearslong military targeting effort. “The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that ‘WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!’” Trump announced.
U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, noted that the strike was conducted “in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia” but a Somali government official, speaking to The Intercept on background because he was not authorized to talk with the press, said very little advance notice was given.
AFRICOM did not confirm Trump’s assertions that the attack involved a cave complex, that the “Senior ISIS Attack Planner” had been targeted for years, or that there was any indication that those struck were planning to harm Americans. “We do not have any additional information to provide,” AFRICOM spokesperson Kelly Cahalan told The Intercept.
The Trump administration also refused to provide any additional clarification or comment. “We have nothing for you beyond POTUS’ truth & the DOD press release,” a White House spokesperson told The Intercept by email.
AFRICOM echoed Trump, stating that “no civilians were harmed” in the Saturday strike.
A 2023 investigation by The Intercept determined that an April 2018 drone attack in Somalia killed at least three, and possibly five, civilians, including 22-year-old Luul Dahir Mohamed and her 4-year-old daughter Mariam Shilow Muse. At the time, AFRICOM announced it had killed “five terrorists” and that “no civilians were killed in this airstrike.”
The Intercept’s investigation revealed that the strike was conducted under loosened rules of engagement sought by the Pentagon and approved by the Trump White House, and that no one was ever held accountable for the civilian deaths. For more than six years, Luul and Mariam’s family has tried to contact the U.S. government, including through an online civilian casualty reporting portal run by AFRICOM, but did not receive a response.
The United States has been conducting attacks in Somalia since at least 2007, with airstrikes skyrocketing during Trump’s first term. From 2007 to 2017, under the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the U.S. military carried out 43 declared airstrikes in Somalia. Under Trump, AFRICOM conducted more than 200 air attacks against members of al-Shabab and the Islamic State group. The Biden administration conducted 39 declared strikes over four years.
ISIS–Somalia is a tiny organization that operates primarily in the Golis Mountains of the Bari region in Somalia’s semiautonomous Puntland state. There is no evidence the group has the capability to target the United States.
On Wednesday, Trump tweeted out video footage of Saturday’s airstrike. The footage, from an aircraft high above the target area, shows crosshairs fixed on what appears to be a hilly patch of land. Within seconds, the blinding flash of a bomb is followed by a billowing cloud.
Despite his propensity for airstrikes there, Trump has previously expressed deep skepticism about the U.S. forever war in Somalia. At the end of his first term in office, Trump ordered a withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Horn-of-Af
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Originally posted by second:
According to a Pentagon study, more than three-quarters of Americans between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four are ineligible because they are overweight, unable to pass the aptitude test, afflicted by physical or mental-health issues. In other words, Trumptards and their children are sad losers. That explains why they struggle to prosper in America.
No Child Left Behind was Democrat FUBU.
I know you hate black people and never had an actual discussion with one in your life and you don't know what FUBU means, so Google it.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:6ix, do yourself and America a favor and make room for your replacement by somebody not so diabetic and lazy, perhaps a healthy hardworking immigrant saved by USAID:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No Child Left Behind was Democrat FUBU.
I know you hate black people and never had an actual discussion with one in your life and you don't know what FUBU means, so Google it.
Tens of thousands of people will die if Trump’s war on USAID continues.
By Dylan Matthews | Feb 4, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
About two and a half months ago, I wrote a piece about what foreign aid might look like in the second Trump term.
At the end I included this nugget:
If Trump fully usurps the power of the purse from Congress, then any hope for foreign aid premised on the bipartisan congressional coalition behind foreign aid spending becomes hollow. Trump could simply overrule the Lindsey Grahams and Mario Diaz-Balarts of the world. Then we’d be in an incredibly dark reality indeed.
We are now in that incredibly dark reality. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) became one of the first targets of the Trump administration, starting with an Inauguration Day executive order freezing aid programs for 90 days. This was impoundment in action, the usurpation of the power of the purse from Congress. Pushback from Congressional champions of foreign aid like Graham and Diaz-Balart became formally irrelevant.
Now, Elon Musk and his DOGE team appear to be preparing for the agency to dissolve entirely. “USAID is a criminal organization,” Musk told followers on X, adding on a late-night X Spaces discussion that he and Trump agreed it had to go.
To be clear, the president cannot legally refuse to spend money that Congress has directed the government to spend. USAID has been authorized by Congressional statutes that the president is obliged to uphold. He cannot legally dissolve it.
But as lawbreaking goes, it may be a canny example. Foreign aid has never been popular, and while some of that is perhaps due to misunderstandings of what “foreign aid” means, most Americans just generally don’t like helping people in other countries. (It doesn’t help that past surveys have shown that the average American thinks the US spends a quarter or more of its total budget on foreign aid — the real figure is less than 1 percent.)
A poll last year found that by a 51 to 33 percent margin, Americans thought the US should provide less economic aid to countries abroad. If Musk and Trump wanted to move fast and break stuff without a lot of opposition, they picked the right set of stuff to break first.
More at https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/397992/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-pepf
ar-musk-doge
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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So far it's been glorious watching your devolution into insanity.
Week 3 has hardly even started.
It must really suck to be you right now. 
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Quote:6ix, you only know a few Trumptards because you don't get out much or move around far from home. I know thousands of Trumptards and have experienced their inane way of life for decades, some from childhood to their death. Nothing bad can be a Trumptard's fault because it is all the fault of Democrats. (I know for a fact that Trumptards are the cause of their misery, but they can't understand where the real source of their trouble comes from, which is inside their head.)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So far it's been glorious watching your devolution into insanity.
Week 3 has hardly even started.
It must really suck to be you right now.
Trump's Theory of Tariffs Makes No Sense
We can tax our way to prosperity, Trump claims, but we'll just…not do that, I guess?
Eric Boehm | 2.3.2025 3:00 PM
https://reason.com/2025/02/03/trumps-theory-of-tariffs-makes-no-sense/
For weeks, President Donald Trump has been telling Americans that his plan to impose high tariffs on the country's top trading partners would usher in an era of prosperity not seen in well over 100 years.
"The tariffs are going to make us very rich and very strong," Trump said Friday. "They don't cause inflation. They cause success." The president has been using variations on this same argument for months (for years, actually). They are "going to make us rich," he said in December. "In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs," he said last year on the campaign trail.
This is bullshit, by the way. The high tariffs that America imposed during the late 19th century did not make America rich and did not make American manufacturing strong. It's also absurd to claim that the country was at its wealthiest in an era when most people did not have access to indoor plumbing, electricity, or modern medical care—and when the average person was, objectively, much poorer.
But leave all that aside for a moment. Let's assume that Trump sincerely holds this belief: that tariffs are a wealth-generating tool, and that their implementation will return the country to its proper place as the wealthiest, most successful, most respected nation on the planet.
If all that's true, then how to explain what Trump did this morning?
"President Donald Trump held off Monday on his tariff threats against Mexico for one month of further negotiations after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country's national guard to the border to address drug trafficking," the Associated Press reported.
Wait, what happened to endless prosperity and success? If tariffs are as great as Trump says they are, he should be implementing them no matter what the leaders of any other silly little countries say or do. We can tax our way to prosperity, Trump claims, but we'll just…not do that, I guess?
That's the problem with Trump's theory about tariffs. Either tariffs are an inherently good and prosperity-generating policy that enriches America, or they are a threat to get other countries to do as Trump says. Both things can't be true.
If the former, then why would Trump forgo all those billions of dollars that could be collected off Mexican imports simply because Mexico agreed to make a few small changes to how it polices the border? We were going to offset the income tax with tariffs, Trump promised. But now? Nah, Mexico's president said she would make a few border guards work overtime, so we'll just forget about that idea.
If the latter, then tariffs are something to be feared—a stick with which to compel the behavior of other, smaller countries—that comes with some pain for Americans, as Trump admitted in a post on Truth Social over the weekend. But if that's what they are, and they can be removed as soon as those other countries comply with Trump's wishes, then it seems like the tariffs were never intended to
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Feel the winds of change. Blowhard Trump has a stupid plan for Gaza.
This Trump Plan for Gaza Is One of the Craziest Things I’ve Ever Heard
By Fred Kaplan | Feb 04, 2025, 9:00 PM
At a news conference Tuesday night, President Trump unleashed the craziest remarks about the Middle East that any American president has uttered in history.
He proposed not only that the roughly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza leave their homeland—because, he said, it’s “a hellhole” and always will be—but that the United States take it over, “own it” (he dropped that phrase a few times), and develop it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
Yes, he really said that.
Will the Palestinian people, who Trump wants to have evicted from the old Gaza, be allowed to come back and live in this new wonderland he envisions? Well, Trump replied, it will be “an international city,” with people from “all over the world” coming to live there. Maybe some Palestinians, too—but in the meantime, while Americans rebuild the “demolition site” of Gaza, those people will be taken in by Jordan and Egypt.
Yes, he acknowledged, the leaders of Jordan and Egypt insist they want no part of this forced displacement—they certainly don’t want the instability of bringing almost two million Palestinian refugees into their own crowded cities. But Trump said he is confident they will “open their hearts” and make warm peaceful places for them to live out their lives away from the violence that Hamas had forced on them.
Or, Trump mused, maybe the Palestinians can be resettled in “one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, 12 sites, or one big site”—it doesn’t matter, as long as they “live in comfort and peace. … We’ll make sure something really spectacular can be done.”
These were not careless, spontaneous remarks. Trump repeated the lines several times. He said he’d been thinking about it for a while. He said he’d proposed the idea to leaders in the region who thought it was a “wonderful idea.” (He didn’t identify the people who pulled his chain, if indeed anyone said this at all.)
He made these statements during a news conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the two held private talks for more than an hour. A reporter asked Netanyahu what he thought about Trump’s idea. He seemed as surprised by it as everyone else, though he tried to be polite.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-gaza-strip-us-take-o
ver-israel.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you only know a few Trumptards because you don't get out much or move around far from home. I know thousands of Trumptards and have experienced their inane way of life for decades
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So far it's been glorious watching your devolution into insanity.
Week 3 has hardly even started.
It must really suck to be you right now.
As you have proven countless times before today, you are a terrible judge of character.
Nobody cares about your opinions or your judgements. Go cry to your mom about it.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:It is not judgment. Rather it is an estimation exactly the same as a person's weight. Funny how easily normal weight people can spot fat, but fat people don't see themselves as morbidly obese.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
As you have proven countless times before today, you are a terrible judge of character.
Nobody cares about your opinions or your judgements.
https://www.cdc.gov/bmi/adult-calculator/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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