Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Originally posted by SECOND:Quote:The only people who would mourn Trump's death
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Say hi to Kevin Drum for me.
Americans are only concerned with those who would celebrate it.
In the end, you are going to be the Last Democrat Standing.
R.I.P. Democrats.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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THUGR:
No, you think everything, and everyone is corrupt. Except Russia of course. I believe...
SIGNY:
Well, just like I've been saying: That's your problem, right there.
THGR
I realize government works for the people
SIGNY:
The government is indeed full of people, and MOST of them are honest. Unfortunately many at the top ARE NOT.
I worked in government, remember? People up thru about the manager level were honest, well educated, motivated to do their jobs. If there was anything screwed up, it was the inability to fire people who REALLY needed to be fired. That would have lit a fire under some asses that really needed to move more. But there were truly honorable, impressive, people who worked there. Some were personal heroes of mine, people I held in very high regard.
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[But] America is an oligarchy. Why don't we have Medicare for all, if most people wanted it? Why do we wind up in so many wars, even if most people vote against it? Why did we offshore so many industries, even tho 19% voted against "that giant sucking sound" that we were warned about with NAFTA?
Here's the Cambridge paper, published in 2014, that demonstrates it.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/artic
le/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
Corruption is the deathknell of nations and empires. There is no institution so large that can survive once it's been infected beyond a certain point. If we really want our government to work for the people, we [you] have to stop being in denial about the corruption that runs thru Congress and the WH, the all-pervasive need for campaign contributions, the revolving door, secrecy, and insider trading.[ And pork barrel legislation] It's a clusterfuck, and it's not just Trump or Republicans.
As I posted elsewhere, the only thing that Dems and Repubs differ in whose payroll they're on. With Dems it was finance and transnationals (think Bill Clinton, "free trade" and killing Glass Steagal) and more recently big pharma, "clean energy", George Soris, and big tech. And of course Israel and the MIC.
With Repubs it's oil and gas (think Dick Cheney). And Israel and the MIC.
Elizabeth Warren, (Fauxchahontas) on big pharma's payroll:
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'You've Taken $855,000 From Pharmaceutical Companies": Kennedy Spars With Senators During Wild Testimony
Update (1520ET): Well that was actually pretty interesting. As Democrat Senators read prepared zingers to try and corner RFK Jr. over vaccines and other malarkey, Kennedy hit back with several very specific haymakers during the three-hour session - calling the Democratic lawmakers 'liars' - and even pointing out that Elizabeth Warren has taken nearly a million dollars from pharmaceutical companies.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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This methodology appears to have misled users. Both Sanders and Warren ran for president in 2020, and raised millions of dollars from supporters across the country. Many of them were rank-and-file employees at drug companies, whose voting preferences may not always align with their companies’ interests.
“Some of the people making these claims know full well that they’re being misleading,” said Daniel Weiner, the director of elections and government at the Brennan Center for Justice. “There is a distinction between a random donation from someone who happens to work in a particular industry, versus a donation from a corporate PAC.”
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/big-pharma-pac-contributions-berni
e-sanders-elizabeth-warren-open-secrets-data/
The problem with your longwinded posts comrade signym is that you aggregate facts with bullshit. Glass-Steagall was a wrongheaded decision by Clinton. But Warren did not take shit from the brass at pharma. Kennedy said the same shit about Sanders which was also not true.
Another fact you got wrong is that kennedy got his ass handed to him. And as for Warren claiming to be of Indian descent, it's what she was told as a child. And you have some set talking about others while ignoring all Trumps bullshit. He's using the presidency to make money and pay to play. The fact that he is not your main focus says it all.
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The problem with Ted's super-short posts, aside from the fact that he can't read or write a lick of English, is that they're all 100% pure bullshit without even an attempt at sprinkling in any semblance of reality or Truth to disguise it.
What Ted? No Billionaire George Soros funded Dark Money clickbait for us today? Have you finally learned your lesson on that one?
Rosie O'Donnell was at least man enough to apologize when she made a TDS fueled mistake. Guess she's got bigger balls than you do.
But that's no surprise because everyone already knew that about you, didn't they?
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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery
Also, "Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador" and Trump had a "ten out of ten" meeting in Alaska
Anne Applebaum
Aug 20, 2025
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery
Forgive me for using an Orwellian cliche in this headline (The full quote is “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” It’s from the novel 1984, if you don’t recognize it, and it is an example of doublethink, the Party’s propaganda). But unfortunately we are entering that territory. I wound up writing on that theme in two different ways this past week.
Let me first note that in the days before and during Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska, I contracted a mystery virus. Because it initially seemed like it could be something worse, I spent a few days in a hospital. From that more distant perspective the absurdity of the meeting, the Kabuki theater element, was perhaps clearer. Everyone was playing their roles for the camera. Putin was there so that he could show his audience at home that he is the leader of a great superpower. Trump was there to fulfill the demands of his own ego, to prove that Putin really is his friend. American soldiers literally kneeled and rolled out a red carpet for a war criminal. The American president stood on the carpet clapping like a seal as the war criminal arrived.
Trump also looked weak because he is. In a burst of antibiotic-inspired energy, I did write something for the Atlantic on Saturday: Trump Has No Cards. I started by listing all of the ways in which Trump has already dismantled all forms of American pressure on Russia:
President Donald Trump berated President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. He allowed the Pentagon twice to halt prearranged military shipments to Ukraine. He promised that when the current tranche of armaments runs out, there will be no more. He has cut or threatened to cut the U.S. funds that previously supported independent Russian-language media and opposition. His administration is slowly, quietly easing sanctions on Russia, ending “basic sanctions and export control actions that had maintained and increased U.S. pressure,” according to a Senate-minority report.
Given all of that, it’s hardly surprising that Putin now thinks he can win the war. Instead of agreeing to a ceasefire, he can enter prolonged “negotiations.” Instead of feeling pressure to stop fighting, he is convinced that the US, at least, will do nothing to stop him. The Anchorage meeting encouraged that perspective.
Certainly the Europeans, who are now providing Ukraine with more money and weapons than the United States, understood the PR catastrophe of Alaska very well. They flew to Washington, on short notice, because they wanted to prevent the Alaska disaster from morphing into something worse. But quite a lot of damage has already been done:
The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish. From the Treasury Department to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, from the State Department to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, agency after agency is being undermined, deliberately or accidentally, by political appointees who are unqualified, craven, or hostile to their own mission.
Many of these changes have gone almost unremarked on in the United States. But they are widely known in Russia. The administration’s attacks on Zelensky, Europeans, and Voice of America have been celebrated on Russian television. Of course Vladimir Putin knows about the slow lifting of sanctions. As a result, the Russian president has clearly made a calculation: Trump, to use the language he once hurled at Zelensky, has no cards.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Why Does the Right Reject Progress?
The perverse push to make America miserable again
Paul Krugman
Sep 05, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-the-right-reject-progress
Earlier this week I interviewed Peter Hotez and Michael Mann, authors of a new book, coming out next week, titled “Science under siege.” I’ll be posting that interview Saturday.
Both men are eminent scientists who have played key roles in public policy debates — Hotez over vaccines, Mann over climate change. They wrote their book to fight back against the tide of reaction against science. And this tide of reaction is especially tragic because there is, or should be, a lot of good news right now. In both their fields, reactionaries are trying to strangle technologies that have the potential to make the world a much better place.
As Hotez points out, vaccines in general have done incredible good, and the new mRNA vaccines are a scientific and medical miracle — yet RFK Jr. and his allies are trying to kill both vaccines and thousands, maybe millions of people. Mann, famous for his “hockey stick” chart showing the recent spike in global temperatures, has documented the danger from climate change. Advances in renewable energy, however, have made tackling global emissions far easier than anyone imagined — yet Trump and co. are actively suppressing the adoption of this technological breakthrough.
What I realized after our conversation is that the problem they discuss, of reactionaries who both refuse to accept progress and try to block it, goes well beyond their specific fields, and even science in general. America is now ruled by people who hate progress of all kinds, economic and social as well as scientific. They refuse to acknowledge the progress we’ve made on multiple fronts and are doing their best to reverse it.
Why? I don’t have a full theory, only some scattered thoughts, which I’ll get to at the end.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-the-right-reject-progress
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Governors in Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, Missouri and other red states are dispatching their own National Guard troops to support Trump's “crackdown on crime” outside their own borders, despite these states governing cities with murder rates twice as high as DC’s. Given that they govern the worst per capita violent crime rates in the country, these self-proclaimed ‘states rights’ champions obviously don’t give a damn about that as they prepare to invade their sovereign neighbors.
Trump, Vance and Stephen Miller are now explicitly threatening domestic political opponents — Democrat run states and cities — with military occupation. That is the real reason behind the big beautiful bill that funded the world’s largest police state. That is the real purpose behind $45 billion to build new concentration camps, and a 265% increase in ICE’s detention budget. Stephen Miller just admitted as much on Fox News, saying, “The Democrat Party … is an entity devoted exclusively to the defense of hardened criminals, gangbangers and illegal alien killers and terrorists. The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.”
So there we have it. Democrats have been Trump’s true ‘enemy within’ all along. Democrats are the intended beneficiaries of illegal occupying forces, concentration camps, and tank-mounted rifles in the streets. If this doesn’t sound like a red declaration of civil war against half the nation, nothing does.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-new-kind-of-civil-war-is-her
e-and-this-is-the-only-way-to-fight-back-opinion/ar-AA1LW97e
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Why Does the Right Reject Progress?
The perverse push to make America miserable again
Paul Krugman
Funny, coming out of you after the last 4 years.
We're going to make Democrats miserable.
America will be doing great though.
Globalism is dead. The Democratic Party is dead. Your ideology is dead.
You killed it all. Pat yourself on the back.
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Don't take it from me...
Rahm Emanuel: Democrats have lost touch with Roosevelt, Johnson, and Truman
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3791978/rahm-ema
nuel-democrats-lost-touch-roosevelt-johnson-truman/
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In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the national party is that its platform didn’t appeal to them. I was not surprised to see that same sentiment captured in a poll by the Wall Street Journal around the same time. It found Democrats’ popularity cratering with a staggering 63% of voters holding an unfavorable view of the party.
One month later, another survey by the Wall Street Journal showed that people are losing faith that they will achieve the American dream in their lifetime — and worse, they fear it will even be further out of reach for their children and grandchildren. This sentiment should concern leaders in both parties, but in particular the Democrats, who have bottomed out with appealing to the middle-class voter.
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Quote:Globalism is only dead in the US. Not so in the rest of the world, which is NOT increasing tariffs.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND:
Why Does the Right Reject Progress?
The perverse push to make America miserable again
Paul Krugman
Funny, coming out of you after the last 4 years.
We're going to make Democrats miserable.
America will be doing great though.
Globalism is dead. The Democratic Party is dead. Your ideology is dead.
You killed it all. Pat yourself on the back.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Trump couldn't make $billions if he weren't President:
Trump Family Amasses $5 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-family-amasses-6-billion-
fortune-after-crypto-launch-567faec5
Updated Sept. 1, 2025 4:24 pm ET
The Trump family notched as much as $5 billion in paper wealth on Monday after its flagship crypto venture opened trading of a new digital currency.
The launch is akin to an initial public offering, in which the cryptocurrency, called WLFI, can now be bought and sold on the open market like a listed company’s shares. Beforehand, people who had privately bought WLFI from the Trump venture, World Liberty Financial, hadn’t been able to exchange their tokens.
The trading debut was most likely the biggest financial success for the president’s family since the inauguration. The Trump family, including President Trump himself, holds just under a quarter of all WLFI tokens in existence. Trump’s three sons are co-founders of World Liberty, while it names the president a “Co-Founder Emeritus.”
World Liberty says founders and team members’ tokens remain “locked,” meaning they still can’t sell them. But the trading launch now puts a real-world valuation on their holdings, which previously were valued based on private sales.
WLFI is likely now the Trumps’ most valuable asset, exceeding their decades-old property portfolio. While the president’s family has continued to pursue property deals around the world since taking office, the fast-moving crypto business has had the biggest early impact.
President Trump helped launch World Liberty a year ago, while campaigning, saying it would help make “America Great Again, this time with crypto.”
World Liberty’s rise this year came as the president drove the growth of the crypto industry from the White House, reining in regulation and touting the potential of private, digital currencies to invigorate the U.S. economy.
In advance of the WLFI trading debut, World Liberty this summer took over a publicly listed firm and raised $750 million in cash from investors to buy the cryptocurrency.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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