Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Trump argued when he unveiled his global tariffs that a trade imbalance was harmful to US national security, and was therefore a national emergency.
What happens next after Trump tariffs ruled illegal?
By Johanna Chisholm | August 30, 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy983g8jr5do
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security
The White House | April 2, 2025
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-do
nald-j-trump-declares-national-emergency-to-increase-our-competitive-edge-protect-our-sovereignty-and-strengthen-our-national-and-economic-security/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Where did Trump get his ideas about tariffs? The Times of India has been reading White House advisor Peter Navarros' books to learn why tariffs are 50% on India. Navarros also blames India for the Russia-Ukraine War.
More at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/123596249.cms
Navarros has a new book coming called I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land. The book is scheduled for release on September 16, 2025.
When senior Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro refused to kneel before the Democrats’ rigged J6 witch hunt, they came for him with guns and handcuffs. Ambushed by five armed FBI agents at Reagan airport, shackled in leg irons, and strip-searched, Navarro became the first ever top presidential aide in US history to be put in federal prison for defending the Constitution.
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:Do you have any decency, 6ix? Your answer has always been "No!"
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh... and in the business, that's what we call a "Half Measure".
"It's illegal!", but we're not going to stop it...
"It's illegal!", but not a single one of us has the balls to put our signature on it.
All your dying party has left under its sleeves is Half Measures...
Because the Democratic Party has been de-fanged and now it's in the process of being systematically destroyed.
And every single time one of you idiot activists try to do anything about it, all you're doing is helping destroy it just a little bit quicker. Because now ALL of the normies are paying attention. And they don't like anything they see coming from the Left. And those who were too scared to stand up and say anything about it for the last 20 years are all crawling out of the woodwork to finally speak their peace, because there are finally enough people like me who never stood by and shut up out of fear.
All you are now is defeated losers, kneeling in the dirt with shit in your pants.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Ah.... Bargaining.
Looks like you've made it to the 3rd stage of grief.
Not going to work, I'm afraid.
Let me tell you, stage 4 is a bitch.
Good luck making it to Acceptance.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:You pasted a video from Breaking Bad. Both those characters die stupid and disgusting deaths because of the way they lived. That is Trump's future and yours.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Ah.... Bargaining.
Looks like you've made it to the 3rd stage of grief.
Not going to work, I'm afraid.
Let me tell you, stage 4 is a bitch.
Good luck making it to Acceptance.
These two factors — and no others — will lead to Trump's defeat
By Jason Miciak | August 30, 2025
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-age-2673924798/
Despite the inarguably awful actions this administration has taken during its first eight months in office, Donald Trump remains largely impervious in the polls — low to be sure but hardly politically threatening, right in his zone. This despite taking some of the most unpopular and undemocratic actions in generations.
Yes, for a brief period, during his first week or two in office, he peaked above a 50 percent approval rating. But since then he has gracefully found the glideslope to his comfort zone, anywhere from 42-46 percent aggregate approval, 50-53 percent disapproval.
Even given the number of unpopular decisions that he has made — DOGE cuts to essential services, masked mauraders kidnapping the innocent, hiding the Epstein files, tariffs, health care cuts — the dynamic remains the same. There is almost nothing the man can do to fall into dangerous, sub-38 percent approval.
But there is are two elements on the horizon, one that likely shouldn't play a huge role but does, another that always does.
First: there are exploding questions about his health.
Is there any there "there?" Seems so. Looks matter, especially within cults of personality. Trump's age — 79 now — matters in the polls.
Much of Trump's mystique among MAGA revolves around his seeming indestructibility, whether concerning his wealth, litigation against him (meagre attempts at criminal accountability, throwing out the award in a major New York civil case), or just his simple, unpleasant aggression.
The dynamic can even seep over to political independents, who see Trump as at least "doing something" and doing it well for himself. It must be working, some think. This is his real superpower.
So indications that Trump's health may be teetering pose a major threat to the perception of invincibility. It's important. If he ever loses the "cape," it is all but impossible to get it back.
Both hands now show severe bruising. Fattened ankles have led — finally — to the admission that he does have some cardiovascular disease, whether just venous insufficiency or something more. There is the swinging gait that comes and goes. And there does seem to be a greater propensity to simply meander from topic to topic, on an ever-looser tether to linear thought.
He also just looks old: see pictures from the Oval Office meeting last Friday. Trump may never have looked worse.
The thing about cults is that the leader is absolutely invulnerable, the hold on people impermeable, right up until they are not. Once a leak springs, it is impossible to hold water back.
Yes, it is utterly infuriating that there has been so little pushback against troops in cities, threats to former allies, cutting Medicaid, the racism, the "cruelty as the point," and even the Epstein files, which will now never amount to anything, a "Democratic hoax," unless several victims come forward with direct knowledge of Trump's actions, and they don't seem to be in a hurry.
But it doesn't appear that any of the above can puncture Trump. Anyone in doubt needs to revisit the polls that refuse to move or simply spend a half-hour on X. Nothing has changed, except Trump's acceleration in his push to fascism.
In a post-truth America, where Trump can claim 70 percent approval rating with a straight face, dismiss a mediocre jobs report with a termination and declaration the numbers are fixed, make baseless clai
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Originally posted by SECOND:Quote:You pasted a video from Breaking Bad. Both those characters die stupid and disgusting deaths because of the way they lived. That is Trump's future and yours.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Ah.... Bargaining.
Looks like you've made it to the 3rd stage of grief.
Not going to work, I'm afraid.
Let me tell you, stage 4 is a bitch.
Good luck making it to Acceptance.
Another childish response from our resident bully.
I'm not kidding about Stage 4 though. That one is a real bitch.
Hope you've got good healthcare, because I already know that you don't possess either the mental nor the spiritual fortitude to get through it on your own and make it to Stage 5.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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And don't bother even reading any articles talking about Trump's approval rating.
Not when Joe Biden*'s looked like this for 4 years.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/joe-biden/approval-rat
ing
On August 30th, 2021, Joe Biden fell to -1.9 and never saw a positive approval rating again. This was a precipitous fall from the alleged 19.5+ approval rating he started off with on inauguration day. Light years beyond the 6.2+ approval rating that Trump started off his Inauguration Day with.
For those not keeping score or who don't understand how graphs or basic math works
(i.e.: Democrats), here's the breakdown on that:
Trump started with 6.2+ and is now at -5.0 in the aggregate. That's an 11.2 point drop. 4 years ago, Joe Biden* fell from 19.5+ to -1.9, which is a -21.4 point drop... nearly twice the drop that Trump has seen in the same time-frame.
By October 11th, 2021, Joe Biden fell to -9.5.
December 14th-17th, 2021 was the last time that Joe Biden was doing better than -7 for the rest of his Presidency.
Joe Biden*'s average approval spread for 2022 was -12.9. For 2023 it was -11.7. And for 2024 it was -15.7.
And then, of course, you lost every single swing state, you lost the Popular Vote by over 2.5 Million votes and you got to see Donald Trump become President again, just like I told you for years was going to happen.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Trumpism and the Exhilaration of Incoherence
Posted on Monday, Sep 7, 2020 1:55AM by Varun Gauri
by Varun Gauri
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/09/trumpism-and-the-exhilar
ation-of-incoherence.html
“The line of ‘Make America great again,’ the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody’s using it, they are all loving it. I don’t know, I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.”
The style and rhetoric of the Trump era appears to be historically unique, the result of the narrow and unexpected electoral victory of a man who honed his skills performing as a reality TV idiot savant. But I believe that the rhetorical style of Trumpism — nonsense, incoherence, giving truth the middle finger — will outlast Trump.
When people say that Trumpism will outlive Trump, they usually refer to the political economy. Typically, they mean that trade shocks and the integration of China into the World Trade Organization caused unemployment and anger in the American heartland that has not yet been adequately addressed, that rising levels of immigration and the coming emergence of America as a majority-minority nation evoke nostalgia and a politics of resentment, or that the political alliance between plutocrats and populists has proven durable. All that may be true. But I think that it is not only the structural forces that are likely to endure, but also the trappings of Trumpism, what we think of as its ephemera — the circus atmosphere, the sensation that up is down, the experience of having fallen through the looking glass.
To understand the appeal of rhetorical Trumpism, first consider a few stylized facts. First, as Ezra Klein has argued, Trump’s poll numbers are amazingly stable. Despite the loss of more than 180,000 Americans to Covid-19, an unemployment rate over 8%, and rising racial tensions, Trump’s approval rating hardly moved, from 41% in late to 2019 to 42% today. His support is only loosely tied to facts on the ground. In retrospect, Trump exhibited a preternatural understanding of his followers when he said that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose one voter.
Second, nor is Trump’s appeal about his policy goals. It’s not as as if the administration has set out a series of appealing policy initiatives, only to be frustrated by checks and balances or federalism. There are barely any policy goals to speak of. Almost nothing to address the major challenges such as climate change, domestic income and wealth inequality, racial justice, and the rise of China as a global power. Apart from appointing conservative Supreme Court Justices skeptical of abortion rights, there are hardly any policies even on the agenda that carried Trump in 2016, including comprehensive immigration reform, the opioid crisis, and urban violence. Instead, what we see is theater for xenophobes — a feckless wall at the southern border, smatterings of federal law enforcement that sometimes show up at largely peaceful demonstrations in cities.
Third, Republican partisans appear to support an idealized version of the man. Despite Trump’s notorious cable TV watching habits and frequent golf trips, 66% of Republicans believe him to be a “harder worker” than any president in history. Despite the barrage of lies and millions in federal tax dollars directed to his own business interests, 72% believe him to be “honest and trustworthy.” Despite not appearing to know how World War 1 ended or who Frederick Douglass was, and advocating bleach and other quack cures for covid, 77% believe he understands “complex issues.”
It’s as if support for Trump is the coat of arms for his coalition. Republican partisans support each other supporting Trump, whatever they think of Trump himself. They recognize each other and constitute a group through their Trump support. They support the idea of Trump. He’s the flag around which they rally.
How does this work? Larry Bartel’s recent survey of Republican partisans is revealing. It finds that anti-democratic attitudes a
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Last year, the IRS launched Direct File, a popular government tool that would let Americans file their taxes for free. IRS data from the 2025 filing season found that “94% of taxpayers rated their experience with the tool as ‘excellent’ or ‘above average.’ ”
NOW, Trump’s IRS has announced that it’s ending this efficient and popular program.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-save-taxpayers-billion
s-codify-direct-file
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Shut up, faggot.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:From the TAGLOG on the front page http://fireflyfans.net/main.aspx?i=0
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, faggot.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
6ixStringJack: I suppose that is how it would look to a simple mind who only thinks in political cartoons and headlines.
6ixStringJack: Remind me how much your party loves Jews again, by the way. Don't bring Jews into this argument Ted. That's a huge loser for your party right now.
6ixStringJack: Yes. You do. Look at any college campus and how much they hate Jews. They're all yours.
6ixStringJack: And at the end of the day, we only have one minority still here in the RWED today, and she knows that you're a piece of shit, especially after you attacked her not once, but twice for not abiding your ultimatum. How dare she not take the side of the mindless, virtue signalling, pathetic white boy who has no personality of his own and nothing interesting to talk about?
6ixStringJack: What you don't understand is that she has at least 20 IQ points on you, if not 50 or more. You're a drone on autopilot, and your brain has atrophied for so long it's useless.
6ixStringJack: And stop pretending to be Independent. You are far too stupid to be Independent and everyone knows it. You are the person who goes into the voting booth and hits the button for Straight Democrat without even knowing who you're voting for on any level under President. I bet you've never voted in a Primary in your life too. It's also extremely unlikely you've ever voted even in a Midterm General election.
6ixStringJack is a distillation of everything wrong with Trumptards, but put into words. I can see why he is angry at the country. It is because of the way his mind works.
My next door neighbor, a Trumptard, needed to replace his Cadillac Escalade Fuel Pump Control Module but he didn't understand how to trouble shoot problems. Wasting weeks of his time, he replaced everything (battery, fuses, the pump in fuel tank) EXCEPT the module, and yet the engine still won't run. And he won't listen. I bought the module, plugged it into the wiring harness, the engine starts. He then expected me to remove the 3 bolts holding the old module and insert the new module. He got mad that I left part of the job for him. Trumptards struggle in America because their minds are defective. He was absolutely convinced that all the other parts he replaced were also defective. That if he hadn't replaced those parts, the engine won't have started. Trumptards' minds are unsound. The Trumptard had further reason to be angry because I bought the part on line, paying one seventh of the Cadillac dealer price. The Trumptard wanted all new parts on his Cadillac, which makes me the villain for not going to the dealership. Trumptards are such pains in the ass.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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