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Thursday, February 19, 2026 12:16 AM

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Nobody gives a shit, cunt.

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Trump is practically daring Libtards to wake to how evil he is. He doesn't pay income tax, and the Libtards shrug as if it is nothing for the guy ultimately in charge of balancing the budget to sign laws that allow him to cheat even more. The Libtards shrug when Trump's net worth increases by $billions. When Trump rapes children, more talk, nothing but running their mouths about it. When Trump actually killed children with The Rescissions Act of 2025 formally retracted $billions in funding to USAID, more talk and no action from the Libtards. What does Trump have to do before Libtards end him? Does he have to throw babies off the roof of the White House? When babies splatter on concrete next to the White House, maybe that would move the Libtards from talking to doing? But I have my doubts. They will wait until 25 Trumptard Senators agree that Trump is evil. But there aren't more than 7 GOP Senators who would vote to convict Trump, just like the last time he was impeached.

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

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Thursday, February 19, 2026 2:32 AM

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Thursday, February 19, 2026 8:09 AM

Bad News: Donald Trump’s Most Vile Spokesperson Is Gone

President Donald Trump has praised her tactics, but McLaughlin consistently undermined the administration’s legal arguments, sabotaging lawyers’ efforts to cover up unlawful conduct by boasting about it on social media. Judges then cited these posts to refute the administration’s claims and rule against it. She has done more to kneecap her own agency in court than even Trump. McLaughlin’s X account has, in fact, routinely corroborated plaintiffs’ claims that DHS is violating the Constitution.

McLaughlin’s departure may therefore be bittersweet news to the many lawyers now litigating against DHS. Sure, she vilified immigrants, smeared protesters, and attacked judges. She also told the truth, in ways that were inadvertently beneficial to the targets of her ire. If she is replaced by a more disciplined spokesperson, the courts may have a more difficult time smoking out the real, lawless policies driving Trump’s mass deportation machine. McLaughlin’s comments were reliably abhorrent. But they were, with remarkable frequency, also a smoking gun.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/democrats-donald-trump-tri
cia-mclaughlin-fail.html


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

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Thursday, February 19, 2026 8:32 AM

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Bad News: Donald Trump’s Most Vile Spokesperson Is Gone

President Donald Trump has praised her tactics, but McLaughlin consistently undermined the administration’s legal arguments, sabotaging lawyers’ efforts to cover up unlawful conduct by boasting about it on social media. Judges then cited these posts to refute the administration’s claims and rule against it. She has done more to kneecap her own agency in court than even Trump. McLaughlin’s X account has, in fact, routinely corroborated plaintiffs’ claims that DHS is violating the Constitution.

McLaughlin’s departure may therefore be bittersweet news to the many lawyers now litigating against DHS. Sure, she vilified immigrants, smeared protesters, and attacked judges. She also told the truth, in ways that were inadvertently beneficial to the targets of her ire. If she is replaced by a more disciplined spokesperson, the courts may have a more difficult time smoking out the real, lawless policies driving Trump’s mass deportation machine. McLaughlin’s comments were reliably abhorrent. But they were, with remarkable frequency, also a smoking gun.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/democrats-donald-trump-tri
cia-mclaughlin-fail.html


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




Complete non-issue.

All illegals will be removed by 2028, including the kids.

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Thursday, February 19, 2026 4:28 PM

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Complete non-issue.

All illegals will be removed by 2028, including the kids.

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You are a complete idiot. Did you know that the former South Korean president was found guilty today? If he does not receive the death penalty, the minimum sentence is life in prison. His political allies are facing prison. Korea knows how to keep fascists from taking control. Too bad the USA doesn’t execute Trump and his high-level followers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol
-insurrection-verdict-martial-law-rcna259493


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/germany-parade-floats-trump/



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

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Thursday, February 19, 2026 4:32 PM

Trump’s Sons Say Their Open Corruption Is Our Fault

Instead of denying the corruption accusations, Donald Jr. and Eric tried to shift the blame.

By Edith Olmsted / February 18, 2026 / 3:08 p.m. ET

https://newrepublic.com/post/206737/donald-trump-sons-corruption-crypt
ocurrency


President Donald Trump’s sons are so far past trying to dispel accusations of corruption that they’re actually blaming everyone else for making them so crooked.

Speaking to CNBC Wednesday from a gilded ballroom at their father’s Mar-a-Lago resort, Don Jr. and Eric Trump, co-founders of World Liberty Financial, didn’t bother to push back on claims that the rich and powerful had swarmed their family business in order to “curry favor” with the president.

“The great irony here is they didn’t give us much of a choice,” Eric said.

“They created this monster,” Don Jr. interjected.

Skipping past ethics concerns, Eric claimed that the brothers had been forced to turn to decentralized finance after they were “canceled” by every major bank in the world, simply by virtue of wearing their “Make America Great Again” hats.

Members of the Trump family were denied some financial services after the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021. Both Deutsche Bank and Signature Bank reportedly refused to continue working with the Trump Organization, while Capital One and JPMorgan shuttered many of his personal and business accounts.

“They were pulling these accounts from us like we were absolute dogs,” Eric said. So, essentially, their blatant corruption was a kind of revenge on those who’d wronged them.

CNBC also asked the Trump brothers to explain what was likely the most blatant instance of corruption since their father reentered office: the president’s sudden reversal to permit the United Arab Emirates to import 500,000 of Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips every year, after World Liberty Financial pocketed $2 billion from an investment firm with ties to an Emirati family member.

The duo acted like everything was business as usual.

“(a) My father has nothing to do with, (b) It has nothing to do with AI chips, and (c) We met in the Middle East the first time,” Don Jr. claimed. “There’s not a person in that room, there’s not a banker, there’s not a fund manager that doesn’t go to the Middle East.

“We’ve been dealing with the conflict of interest stuff for years,” he continued. “They tried all this nonsense the first time around, frankly it’s gotten old. They were the ones who put us in the position by creating legislation to try to put us out of business. We just fought back.”

Eric claimed that it was simply the “law of unintended consequences.” When the big banks had canceled them, that forced the Trump family to embrace decentralized finance. As consumers worldwide adopted cryptocurrency, those very executives were forced to come crawling back to the Trump family, he said.

The Trump brothers’ answers conveniently ignored the simple truth that those executives had come calling not only because daddy had been reinstalled in the White House, but because he’d already shown that he’d be more than willing to pull favors for anyone who wrote him a check.

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

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Thursday, February 19, 2026 4:33 PM

Top Trump advisor furious about true cost of tariffs being revealed, vows to punish New York Fed for 'worst paper' ever in history

Trump's economic adviser says authors of tariff study should be "disciplined"

Feb 18, 2026

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/18/hassett-trump-tariffs-ny-fed

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said the authors of a New York Fed study that found that Americans pay for tariffs should be disciplined, in an interview with CNBC Wednesday morning.

Why it matters: The findings of the paper run counter to what President Trump has claimed about his tariffs, and the attention the research has received has created a political problem for the White House.

• Trump wrote in the WSJ that the burden of tariffs "has fallen overwhelmingly on foreign producers and middlemen, including large corporations that are not from the U.S."

Zoom in: That is not what the NY Fed study, out last week, concluded.
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-is-paying-fo
r-the-2025-u-s-tariffs
/

• Using government data, the authors found that U.S. importers of foreign goods paid 90% of the higher tariffs last year.

• They did this by looking at whether exporters lowered the prices of their goods, eating the costs of the tariffs, or if importers were paying more.

Zoom out: "I mean, the paper is an embarrassment," Hassett said on CNBC. "It's, I think, the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Federal Reserve system."

• "The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined."

• Hassett argued that prices have gone down, wages are up, and "consumers were made better off by the tariffs."

• The most recent CPI report found that inflation slowed in January, but prices did rise 2.4% from last year.

Reality check: "I think the findings of the paper are consistent with what standard economic analysis would suggest," Michael Strain, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, tells Axios.

• "The findings of the paper are also consistent with the empirical estimates of related papers," he says. The problem is its conclusions run counter to the White House narrative.

• "When things of the world happen that President Trump doesn’t like, or when things in the world happen that run counter to his political interest, or to a narrative he's trying to push, he attacks them," Strain says.

Between the lines: It's not clear what Hassett meant by "disciplined."

• The New York Fed is not under the control of the White House, and its economists often pursue research that's independent of the Federal Reserve.

• Like the other regional Fed banks, the New York Fed has its own board of directors that appoints its president, subject to the Fed board of governors' approval.

• And there's a disclaimer on the paper that reads: 'The views expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the New York Fed or the Federal Reserve System."

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

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Thursday, February 19, 2026 4:36 PM

February 18, 2026

Of all the ways President Trump has pushed the boundaries of executive power, one stands out to lawyers and watchdogs.

The president wants the government he leads to pay him billions of dollars.

Trump has filed multiple claims arguing he's been hurt by Justice Department investigations and the leak of his tax returns years ago. Now it's up to his own political appointees to determine whether to settle with their boss — and for how much taxpayer money.

"There is a glaring conflict of interest with Trump being on both sides of the claim," said Edward Whelan, a former lawyer at the Justice Department and a political conservative who once clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia. "It is outrageous that he and those answering to him would be deciding how the government responds to these extravagant claims."

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/18/nx-s1-5702503/trump-government-lawsuits
-pay-himself-billions


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

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Thursday, February 19, 2026 6:11 PM

South Korea’s former president jailed for life for leading insurrection

Ex-leader sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour over failed martial law declaration in 2024.

The charges stem from events on the night of 3 December 2024, when prosecutors said Yoon attempted to use military force to paralyse the legislature, arrest political opponents and seize control of the national election commission. Yoon claimed he was rooting out “anti-state forces” and alleged election fraud without providing evidence.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/yoon-suk-yeol-sentenced-
to-life-in-prison-for-leading-insurrection-in-south-korea


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

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Thursday, February 19, 2026 7:42 PM

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Complete non-issue.

All illegals will be removed by 2028, including the kids.

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Be Evil. Be a dick.

You are a complete idiot. Did you know that the former South Korean president was found guilty today? If he does not receive the death penalty, the minimum sentence is life in prison. His political allies are facing prison. Korea knows how to keep fascists from taking control. Too bad the USA doesn’t execute Trump and his high-level followers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/south-korea-president-yoon-suk-yeol
-insurrection-verdict-martial-law-rcna259493


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/germany-parade-floats-trump/



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



Pathetic. Loserspeak. You are a loser.

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