Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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SECOND is reduced to insulting people he's never met?
I guess that's what happens when his marching orders don't come thru.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND is reduced to insulting people he's never met?
You must be new here. Welcome to Firefly Fans dot net. Hopefully our boy JSF comes around later tonight because he's a lot better at the introductions than I am.
Pleased to meet you. We have virtual milk and cookies, so please help yourself. Freshly baked!
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I guess that's what happens when his marching orders don't come thru.
My problem now is that it comes to a point where I start feeling bad for people and I'm not enjoying any of this half as much as I thought I would.
They fucked up a whole lot of people, our government and the Media.
We've watched it play out every day in here for years now. I've watched it going on for 8 years of sobriety now. I was never joking when I talked about the perpetual state of cognative dissonance that they've got to be walking around with to justify so many contradictory beliefs. That has to be exhausting to keep up 24/7/365, even if it is being done involuntarily now by the subconscious. How could you really do it on that level unless you've been able to compartmentalize aspects of your personality and hide them from each other? Maybe even kill parts of them off over time... the parts that are the most problematic when putting any real thought into what you believe.
Second is mentally ill. We know this.
And that media keeps mindfucking them every single day and making it worse.
This used to be fun when I felt like the weight of the world and all the money and corporations were behind the walls of sanity collapsing on us all, but none of that exists right now. There's nothing but a vacuum where it all used to be, and maybe a few feint voices of 6 months ago desperatly trying to scream loud enough that anyone will hear them... but starting to realize that it's too late and nobody is even listening anymore.
This just really isn't fun anymore.
Genuinely, the only thing that Second has left is personal insults now.
He was never shy about constantly doling them out everyday when things were different, sure, but that was part of what made all of this fun, and why I really thought I would enjoy it so much more when the insanity started to finally start ebbing...
But they left people like Ted and Second out in the cold.
The few voices who are still making noise just look like lunatics, and their DNC has now been 100% coopted by the furthest Left fringes of the party.
I know the dipshit is going to come right back in here and say something that makes me have fun destroying him again in the moment, but at some point you just start feeling like you're kicking a cripple who's wheelchair just turned over.
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Quote:I'm new here *laugh nervously* Thanks for the cookies!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND is reduced to insulting people he's never met?
SIX: You must be new here. Welcome to Firefly Fans dot net. Hopefully our boy JSF comes around later tonight because he's a lot better at the introductions than I am.
Pleased to meet you. We have virtual milk and cookies, so please help yourself. Freshly baked!
Quote:Yes, he is. I'm sure that part of him wants to feel good about himself. That's why he has to keep virtue signalling 24/7/365. I think we're beginning to see the real SECOND come out. So much anger....
SIGNY: I guess that's what happens when his marching orders don't come thru.
SIX: My problem now is that it comes to a point where I start feeling bad for people and I'm not enjoying any of this half as much as I thought I would.
They fucked up a whole lot of people, our government and the Media.
We've watched it play out every day in here for years now. I've watched it going on for 8 years of sobriety now. I was never joking when I talked about the perpetual state of cognative dissonance that they've got to be walking around with to justify so many contradictory beliefs. That has to be exhausting to keep up 24/7/365, even if it is being done involuntarily now by the subconscious. How could you really do it on that level unless you've been able to compartmentalize aspects of your personality and hide them from each other? Maybe even kill parts of them off over time... the parts that are the most problematic when putting any real thought into what you believe.
Second is mentally ill. We know this.
Quote:Not following you...
SIX: And that media keeps mindfucking them every single day and making it worse.
This used to be fun when I felt like the weight of the world and all the money and corporations were behind the walls of sanity [INSANITY?] collapsing on us all, but none of that exists right now. There's nothing but a vacuum where it all used to be, and maybe a few feint voices of 6 months ago desperatly trying to scream loud enough that anyone will hear them... but starting to realize that it's too late and nobody is even listening anymore.
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SIX: This just really isn't fun anymore.
Genuinely, the only thing that Second has left is personal insults now.
He was never shy about constantly doling them out everyday when things were different, sure, but that was part of what made all of this fun, and why I really thought I would enjoy it so much more when the insanity started to finally start ebbing...
But they left people like Ted and Second out in the cold.
The few voices who are still making noise just look like lunatics, and their DNC has now been 100% coopted by the furthest Left fringes of the party.
I know the dipshit is going to come right back in here and say something that makes me have fun destroying him again in the moment, but at some point you just start feeling like you're kicking a cripple who's wheelchair just turned over.
Well, TBH I think you have a defiant, oppositional streak in you. Now that there's no Goliath to slay, what's gonna get your motor revving?
Yeah, I can see how it used to be fun.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I guess I never really did.
But I gotta say ... so many of your replies were so pointed and funny I had to read them to hubby.
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Quote:Even Andrew Tobias, meekest nicest fellow in America, is insinuating that this ends with Trump and Co-President Musk as bloody corpses full of bullet holes. That's the Spirit, Andrew!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares. Go tell your mom.
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How Three Geniuses See The Current Situation
February 7, 2025
Garry Kasparov’s Take
This will be dismissed as “hysteria” like many of my warnings about Trump and Musk that are coming true. But this doesn’t end with fights over top-secret documents, budget cuts, and unaccountable agents taking over. It ends with who has the guns when they won’t listen to the judges.
There are many steps between here and there, of course. But eventually they remove enough judges, refuse any access or challenges, and simply ignore the law and court orders the way they’re ignoring Congress now. What then?
More about Musk's Nazi past at https://andrewtobias.com/how-three-geniuses-see-the-current-situation/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Musk’s Treasury incursion puts the entire financial system at risk, former officials warn
February 6, 2025
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/musks-treasu
ry-incursion-puts-entire-financial-system-at-risk
Graham Steele and Emily DiVito write:
Elon Musk’s unprecedented access to the US Treasury’s payment system deserves the public outcry that it has received. As former Treasury officials, we fear the situation is even more dire than it might appear.
Musk’s recent actions, days after the Office of Management and Budget’s government funding pause that a federal judge quickly blocked, suggest a big and broad vision for a dramatically consolidated and politicized Treasury. This could have widespread effects on our nation’s financial stability, jeopardize the livelihoods of millions of Americans, and undermine the public’s confidence in our entire financial system.
Our financial system operates on a foundation of trust. Over the past century and a half, rules and protections have been in place to ensure people can trust that their money will be there when they need it. Few people appreciate, or are even aware of, that the Treasury payment system—and the Bureau of Fiscal Service that oversees it—send billions of payments totaling nearly $6 trillion each year.
And that’s not a bad thing. That most people don’t have to spend time worrying if their money is safe is a testament to how well this system has served us and how often things run according to plan. When people lose that sense of trust, panic, bank runs, and financial crises can happen. That trust has been undermined in recent days with the news that Elon Musk and his allies have accessed the Treasury’s payment system.
It’s important to understand that the US Treasury stands behind our entire banking and financial system. It manages and provides financing for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s program that backstops most customers’ deposits and intervenes in times of crisis to stabilize the banking system. The deposit insurance program stepped up in 2023 when Silicon Valley Bank and others precipitously collapsed.
This administration reportedly is considering eliminating the FDIC, a New Deal-era agency, and consolidating it within Treasury. Like many other financial system tools, the FDIC is most effective when the public trusts that it can and will keep the financial system stable and quickly handle crises should they occur.
If we had another Silicon Valley Bank-style collapse today, there would be deep uncertainty about the Treasury’s role in that process and if people would have access to their money.
The Treasury doesn’t just backstop the banking system. It also provides a foundation for financial markets by issuing US Treasuries. As the world’s safest and most liquid financial asset, Treasuries serve as collateral for financial transactions and a source of stable investment for people and financial institutions alike.
Musk has suggested that he has control over the payments system to deny payments in an attempt to cut what he deems to be wasteful spending. Let’s be clear: The Silicon Valley ethos of “move fast and break things” is a reckless and dangerous approach to the world’s safest financial asset.
The government’s failing to make payments doesn’t amount to cutting spending; it’s a default on our obligations. It would have ripple effects for our nation’s credit rating, borrowing costs, and the Treasury markets. Ultimately, it would destabilize the global financial system.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Law Professor Flags Trump 'Doomsday Scenario' That'll Cause 'Real Constitutional Crisis'
"A lot of lawyers are worried about" it, warned New York University's Ryan Goodman.
By Lee Moran | Feb 7, 2025, 03:49 AM EST
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/law-professor-donald-trump-doomsday-sce
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What happens if Donald Trump decides he will not abide by a court ruling?
Simmons suggested “we’re in a real jam” if Trump simply tells the Justice Department to ignore any court orders that prohibit him from carrying out his agenda.
Goodman agreed.
“That’s right. I think that is the doomsday scenario,” he reiterated.
Goodman pointed out that it “hasn’t happened yet” that the Trump administration has refused to abide by a court order, despite it possibly appearing to some people that they are.
“But what happens come the day that they do lose at the Supreme Court?” he asked. “Because I think some of these cases are just losers. And if they really want to push it, we’re in a real constitutional crisis.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Bad News About Some of Those DOGE Staffers
A Researcher Found More Links Between DOGE Staffers and Far-Right Content
By Ben Mathis-Lilley | Feb 07, 2025 1:56 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-social-medi
a-donald-trump.html
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, is running rampant through Washington at the moment. The group, created by executive order, has been trying to close down the U.S. Agency for International Development, a humanitarian agency, and has reportedly gained direct access to the Treasury Department system that distributes federal payments. (Whether either of these acts—or numerous others it’s taken—are legal is very much TBD.)
For all the headlines it’s generated, though, little is known about how many people are working for DOGE, or where they were drawn from. But reporting by Wired and others has identified six staffers, all evidently in their late teens or early 20s, who have backgrounds in computer science and ties to Musk’s private companies.
Using this information, extremism researcher Travis Brown has found a number of apparent connections between three DOGE staffers and the online far-right community that Musk has allowed to run amok on the social media service X, formerly known as Twitter. (Brown has been in the news previously for suing Musk in 2023 after his X account was suspended, but told me that the suit has been dropped. Neither the White House press office nor a spokesperson for DOGE responded to requests for comment on this article.)
An email ordering USAID employees to stay home, for instance, was written by an individual named Gavin Kliger. Per Wired, Kliger works in artificial intelligence and was a college student at the University of California, Berkeley, as recently as 2020. Brown used the Wayback Machine archive to retrieve the activity of a now-private X account which identified itself as belonging to a Gavin Kliger and listed its location as Berkeley. (Note: Some of the archived pages are saved only in the form of XML code.)
The Kliger account, Brown found, recently retweeted a Twitter/X post by Nick Fuentes, a far-right streamer who has said that he pursues the cause of “Aryan victory” and that Jews, who have “bastardized” the United States, do not belong in “Western civilization.” Here’s the Fuentes tweet, and what it was responding to:
Much more about the Nazis working for Co-President Musk at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-social-medi
a-donald-trump.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Signym, I am sure that you and 6ix have wasted your lives. But you try and try to convince yourselves you haven't by supporting Russia. Or by following Trump.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Yes, he is. I'm sure that part of him wants to feel good about himself. That's why he has to keep virtue signalling 24/7/365. I think we're beginning to see the real SECOND come out. So much anger....
SIX: Second is mentally ill. We know this.
What should we do with these lives that we have? These existences? Borne out of nothingness, hurtling towards annihilation…. How can we make sense of these fragile, fleeting moments of existence that we have been given? More precisely, how can we do justice to the being that has been bestowed upon us? This incomprehensible, awesome gift that is so easy to lose sight of: buried beneath the detritus of everyday mundanity.
The Human Condition: Struggles of Cosmic Insignificance
https://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/human-condition-ze0z1310zjhar/
Throughout human history, people have repeatedly swung between extremes. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1986) noted these swings in his classic book The Cycles of American History. In this book, Schlesinger articulated the continuous political swings in U.S. history, particularly those between conservatism and liberalism, rigidity and permissiveness. However, there are many other forms of such swings in many other times and places.
The usual explanations for the swings of history, as well as individuals, are cultural, political, and biological. The founders of the United States swung away from the British motherland because of political and religious oppression. Certain nineteenth century abolitionists resorted to armed struggle because of unrelenting federal support of slavery. Post World War I Germany amassed a titanic arsenal, in part to avenge the humiliation it perceived at the Treaty of Versailles. McCarthyite anti-communists swelled in number following the advent of Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe. And so on. Schlesinger provides a cogent summation of these various dynamics:
“The roots of…cyclical self-sufficiency doubtless lie deep in the natural life of humanity. There is a cyclical pattern in organic nature — in the tides, in the seasons, in the night and day, in the systole and diastole of the human heart….People can never be fulfilled for long either in the public or in the private sector. We try one, then the other, and frustration compels a change in course. Moreover, however effective a particular course may be in meeting one set of troubles, it generally falters and fails when new troubles arise.”
From The Polarized Mind: Why It’s Killing Us and What We Can Do About It by Kirk J. Schneider, PhD and published by University Professor’s Press, 2013.
Download The Cycles of American History from https://libgen.is//search.php?req=The+Cycles+of+American+History
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Trump appoints Attorney General Pam Bondi to head a task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias”:
“The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI ... and other agencies. In addition, the task force will work to fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and Earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide. You never had that before, but this is a very powerful document I’m signing.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/06/trump-task-for
ce-christian-religious/78286967007/
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What the Edwardians Could Teach Trump About Trade
Canada yesterday, Japan today: Another bogus trade complaint from Trump
By Paul Krugman | Feb 08, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-the-edwardians-could-teach-tru
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Trump’s latest trade spat: Telling Prime Minister Shigeru Ishida that Japan must eliminate its trade surplus with the United States.
I guess the campaign to alienate all of our allies continues. Beyond that, however, I think we can do a useful compare-and-contrast between Trump’s new complaint about Japan and his complaints about Canada, which brought us to the brink of a destructive trade war four days ago.
As a number of people finally caught on, Trump’s complaint that Canada’s trade surplus with the United States was somehow evidence that Canada was exploiting us fell apart as soon as you realized that this surplus was entirely explained by exports of oil from the Athabasca tar sands to the Midwest — a benefit to America, not a cost.
The story of Japan’s surplus is different. But like Canada, Japan is entirely innocent of wrongdoing.
Unlike Canada, Japan has been running significant surpluses on its current account — a broad definition of the trade balance that includes services and investment income:
Source: International Monetary Fund
But that’s OK, because Japan is exactly the kind of country that should be running current account surpluses.
Remember the basic accounting identity:
Current account + Net inflows of capital = 0
A nation that has net outflows of capital — that invests some of its savings abroad — must, as a matter of sheer arithmetic, be running a surplus on current account.
So when should a nation be investing a lot abroad? Well, we want and expect capital to flow from places where it earns a low return to places where it earns a higher return. The classic example is Britain in the decades before World War I. Britain was a mature, already industrialized economy that had already accumulated a lot of capital. It made sense for some of that capital to flow abroad to places that needed it.
To a large extent this involved sending capital to places where Europeans were moving in: Canada, Australia, Argentina, southern Brazil and, yes, the United States. The economic logic was clear: These places needed capital for their economic expansion, especially but not only to build railroads.
And so Britain ran very large current account surpluses for decades before World War I:
Source: Bank of England
How does modern Japan fit into this paradigm? Like late Victorian/Edwardian Britain, it’s a mature economy with limited opportunities for domestic investment, above all because of demography: Low fertility and limited immigration have meant a startling decline in Japan’s working age (15-64) population:
Source: OECD
So as I said, Japan is exactly the kind of country that should be running current account surpluses. Claiming that it is doing something wrong, or that America is somehow a victim here, is malicious nonsense.
And pointing this out will, of course, have no impact at all on Trump’s thinking.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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