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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

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THG
Friday, September 26, 2025 3:51 AM

It would be funny if it weren't true. Batshit crazy is right!

T

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Friday, September 26, 2025 6:01 AM

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Originally posted by THG:
It would be funny if it weren't true. Batshit crazy is right!

T


I don't know every Trumptard, but the ones I know can't tell the difference between sane and batshit crazy speeches. For an example of batshit from Trump:

'That's No Longer Free Speech': Trump Outright Ignores The Constitution, Says It's 'Illegal' To Criticize Him In Oval Office Meltdown

During his remarks at an executive order signing in the Oval Office several days ago, Donald Trump lashed out at the press, saying that it should be "illegal" for them to constantly make him look bad. "That's no longer free speech," Trump stated, whining about the negative publicity.

Start at 3:50 into the video:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/that-s-no-longer-free-speech-t
rump-outright-ignores-the-constitution-says-it-s-illegal-to-criticize-him-in-oval-office-meltdown/vi-AA1NhH8t


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, September 26, 2025 6:43 AM

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Nobody is ever going to read your walls of meaningless text.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

That is why you flunked out of college, Mister I-Don't-Need-An-Education-To-Earn-A-Living. If you could read as fast as you claim to type, you could finish in two seconds.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two




Actually, for at least half of my adult life I've been "Mister I-Don't-Need-To-Earn-A-Living".



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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Friday, September 26, 2025 7:58 AM

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Actually, for at least half of my adult life I've been "Mister I-Don't-Need-To-Earn-A-Living".



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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

You remind me of the elderly at Abe Simpson's nursing home, Springfield Retirement Castle, and are just as opinionated: "I used to be with 'it'. But then they changed what 'it' was."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, September 26, 2025 7:59 AM

From 2016 until last week, as the Trump movement dismantled one after another of the obvious bipartisan norms of the United States that I’d taken for granted since my childhood — e.g., the loser conceding an election and attending the winner’s inauguration, America being proudly a nation of immigrants, science being good, vaccines being good, Russia invading its neighbors being bad, corruption (when it occurred) not openly boasted about — I often consoled myself that at least the First Amendment, the motor of our whole system since 1791, was still in effect. At least you could still call Trump a thug and a conman without fear. Yes, Trump constantly railed against hostile journalists and comedians and protesters, threatened them at his rallies, filed frivolous lawsuits against them, but none of it seemed to lead to any serious program to shut them down. Oceans of anti-Trump content remained a click away.

I even wondered whether this was Trump’s central innovation in the annals of authoritarianism: proving that, in the age of streaming and podcasts and social media, you no longer needed to bother with censorship in order to build a regime of lies. You could simply ensure that the truth remained one narrative among others, that it never penetrated the epistemic bubble of your core supporters, who’d continue to be algorithmically fed whatever most flattered their prejudices.

Last week, that all changed. Another pillar of the previous world fell. According to the new norm, if you’re a late-night comedian who says anything Trump doesn’t like, he’ll have the FCC threaten your station’s affiliates’ broadcast licenses, and they’ll cave, and you’ll be off the air, and he’ll gloat about it. We ought to be clear that, even conditioned on everything else, this is a huge further step toward how things work in Erdogan’s Turkey or Orban’s Hungary, and how they were never supposed to work in America.

At risk of stating the obvious: more at https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9152

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, September 26, 2025 8:34 AM

James Comey was charged Thursday in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump urged his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI director and other perceived political enemies.

Mr. Comey has long been a top target for Trump supporters seeking retribution. Mr. Comey was singled out by name in a Saturday social media post in which Mr. Trump complained directly to Ms. Bondi that she had not yet brought charges against him.

The indictment makes Mr. Comey the first former senior government official to face prosecution in connection with one of Mr. Trump’s chief grievances: the long-concluded investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump and his supporters have long derided that investigation as a “hoax” and a “witch hunt” despite multiple government reviews showing Moscow interfered on behalf of the Republican’s campaign.

The Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Trump loyalist, is being weaponized in pursuit of investigations and now prosecutions of public figures the president regards as his political enemies.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0925/james-comey-indicted-
trump


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, September 26, 2025 9:19 AM

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James Comey was charged Thursday in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump urged his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI director and other perceived political enemies.



CORRECTION: Other enemies of the American People.

You're welcome.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Friday, September 26, 2025 9:58 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
James Comey was charged Thursday in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump urged his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI director and other perceived political enemies.



CORRECTION: Other enemies of the American People.

You're welcome.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

I think you did not understand the Springfield Retirement Castle reference. Those Simpson characters, and Trumptards in reality, don't have much going on, but their minds are overloaded with opinions that are out of touch with reality.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Actually, for at least half of my adult life I've been "Mister I-Don't-Need-To-Earn-A-Living".

You remind me of the elderly at Abe Simpson's nursing home, Springfield Retirement Castle, and are just as opinionated: "I used to be with 'it'. But then they changed what 'it' was."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, September 26, 2025 1:04 PM

Oh yeah? You don't remind me of anyone. Never met anyone quite like you before.

You are a special kind of retard.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Friday, September 26, 2025 6:05 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh yeah? You don't remind me of anyone. Never met anyone quite like you before.

You are a special kind of retard.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

Let me be more clear than references to Simpson characters: the Trumptards I know are old fools, even the youngest ones, reminiscing about the good old days before the 19th Amendment (women's rights), Civil Rights acts, and Obama Presidency.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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