Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You did it again, 6ix. You totally missed the point. I can see why you flunked out of college four times. Professors notice when students miss the Big Picture. Those students won't be graduating.
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You're talking about algae in a fucking pool?
Why don't we talk about how Democrats in California have been handling the fires?
Fuck you. Nobody wants to hear a fucking word out of you.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
No. I got your simpleton point, faggot.
I just reject anything you have to say on any topic because you're an idiot, a cultist and nothing you have ever predicted has ever come true.
Not once.
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Welcome to the Postmodern Presidency
Before there was Trump, there was the theory of Postmodernism.
Damon Linker
Jun 03, 2026
https://www.persuasion.community/p/welcome-to-the-postmodern-presidenc
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If it was anything, postmodernism was an expression of skepticism about the capacity of reason to forge genuine consensus, let alone for it to achieve objective truth or knowledge. What other thinkers call “objective truth” and “objective knowledge” are merely expressions of the interest of one person or group, according to the theory of Postmodernism. There is no such thing as disinterested reason, just various forms of self-interested rationalization. The claim that one possesses truth or knowledge is nothing but a power move.
There is no better distillation of this view than Donald Trump. All the way back to The Art of the Deal, he has spoken of truth as a tool for manipulation. Rather than determining what is true and then deciding what to do on that basis, Trump takes the reverse approach, first determining what he wants to do, and then adjusting what he claims to be true in order to help him accomplish it. This is why he is the first truly postmodern president.
There are a multitude of examples of this from the first and second Trump administrations, but none is more powerful than the way the Iran War has been conducted.
How to Wage a Postmodern War
When Trump ran for the presidency in 2024, he promised to end America’s “forever wars” and vowed not to start new ones. Yet he has kept the military quite active since returning to the White House, and nowhere more so than against Iran. When he opted to leap to the side of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in seeking to topple the Iranian government and eliminate its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Trump offered no coherent explanation. He made no effort to build support in public opinion or Congress. He merely acted, as if reasoning about going to war was irrelevant and persuasion both futile and unnecessary.
He then articulated no clear or consistent goals after it became apparent that the country hadn’t undergone regime change, and the constantly shifting rationales he trotted out on his Truth Social account, together with those expressed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, made it impossible to judge the progress, success, or failure of the operation. That sense of arbitrariness and chaos has only deepened as it’s become clearer that Trump is eager to bring the war to any kind of conclusion (it doesn’t matter what) and to move on while declaring victory.
Just after the conclusion in 1991 of the Persian Gulf War, the postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard famously published a short book that was provocatively titled The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. I’ve always considered his argument transparently ridiculous. Of course the war took place, just as the Iran War is taking place right now, despite a fragile ceasefire.
Yet what Baudrillard was pointing to back in 1991—the transformation of war into a media event broadcast to the world in eye-catching snippets that turn it into a carefully curated spectacle—really was something new at the time. But now it no longer is. We have entered the age of fully postmodern propaganda in which the powers that be don’t even bother to construct a coherent narrative to generate support for what they do. They merely act and then bombard us with shards of multiple competing and contradictory rationales, assuming we’ll be so entertained by explosions and infliction of pain that we’ll be indifferent to what’s actually transpiring—and, above all, to the fact that the White House has embraced a mode of governance that’s completely indistinguishable from tribalistic partisan spin.
I don’t know about you, but I’d be hard-pressed to come up with a more perfect example of postmodern politics than that.
Much more at https://www.persuasion.community/p/welcome-to-the-postmodern-presidenc
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity
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All the way back to The Art of the Deal, he has spoken of truth as a tool for manipulation.
Says the obese balding soyboy writing for PERSUASION.
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America’s Military Decline is Worse Than You Think
The wars in Ukraine and Iran are reshaping the way the world views America's global power (military and otherwise). The reasons are obvious...to those living outside of the United States. But among Americans, most aren't even aware that this conversation is going on. In this video I bring together a wide swathe of data and topics, from Ukraine to Iran, to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Vietnam, and more, talking about how America has begun to reveal its greatest weakness more and more with each passing year. It means that while America controls objectively powerful military force, there's a genuine question mark as to America's willingness to actually use that force to achieve its objectives. From Bush, to Obama, to Donald Trump, this is an issue that spans more than just one presidency - it's a systemic problem that America needs to recognize before it's too late.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Wow.
Now you're writing stuff that I've already said.
Turn Mecca to glass. Right now.
Nobody will fucking do shit for 50 years after we do that.
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Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought
Tom Zoellner on Trump-Era Censorship
June 3, 2026
https://lithub.com/the-side-that-won-the-civil-war-is-now-banning-book
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In May of 2025, a few months into Donald Trump’s second term, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued Order 3431 entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It directed the superintendents of national parks and monuments to “review property for inappropriate content” and scrub their facilities of “any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans.”
The order to whitewash America’s historic sites of anything less than rosy about the nation’s past has led to some predictable embarrassments. Visitors to Independence Hall in Philadelphia won’t learn much about the enslaved people owned by the founding fathers. The internment camp at Manzanar won’t have anything “negative” about the detention of 120,000 Japanese Americans in World War II. Fort Moultrie National Monument no longer has information related to rising sea levels that threaten Charleston Harbor. The order extends to books and materials on sale at the gift stores. Books related to Malcolm X and other Black leaders have been reportedly removed.
My own book details the consequential events at a place called Fort Monroe in Virginia that led directly to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the end of American slavery. Yet it is not for sale in the bookstore of the Fort Monroe National Monument. Because the book tells a hopeful story about how enslaved people ran toward the American flag during the Civil War, sought their own freedom and helped tip the military balance against the Confederacy, I would have thought it would have been in alignment with even the narrowest conservative definition of patriotic content. But the cover depicts seven members of the U.S. Colored Troops standing at attention. The jacket copy makes it clear that it is about slavery. It is not hard to imagine it setting off minor alarms on the part of the National Park Service or Eastern National, the concessionaire with the exclusive contract to supply the bookstore.
I asked the National Park Service whether this book had been censored. “Neither the Department of the Interior nor the National Park Service leadership gave direction to remove or prohibit your book, and no such directive has been issued under Secretary’s Order 3431,” they told me in a written statement. Eastern National did not return multiple calls seeking comment.
A strong clue to what happened might be found in a letter that went out to regional Park Service directors on November 25, 2025 asking for a review of “all retail items available for purchase in outlets operated by park cooperating associations and concessioners” to make sure they were in accord with the administration’s ideological goals. “Items identified as non-compliant with this order must be removed from sale immediately,” said the memo, signed by comptroller Jessica Bowron.
More at https://lithub.com/the-side-that-won-the-civil-war-is-now-banning-book
s-about-why-the-civil-war-was-fought/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Fact-checking Trump’s interview with NBC News’ ‘Meet the Press’
Digging into some of the president’s claims on the Iran war, the Jan. 6 riots, California’s primary elections and more.
June 7, 2026, 8:00 AM CDT
By Jane C. Timm
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-checking-trump-inte
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President Donald Trump sat for an interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker on Friday, discussing topics including the war with Iran, gas prices and the “anti-weaponization” fund.
Throughout the interview, which aired Sunday, Trump made a series of false, misleading or exaggerated comments.
NBC News reporters dug into some of the president’s remarks. Here are the facts behind the claims.
Iran war
Trump defended his first-term decision to terminate the Iran nuclear deal President Barack Obama had negotiated and his second-term decision to initially strike Iran in June 2025.
“They were very close to having a nuclear weapon. I terminated the deal. Then I sent the B-2 bombers in about nine, 10 months ago. And they obliterated, totally obliterated, the site. And I saved it,” Trump said. “We had a choice. We could let them have a nuclear weapon, or we could go along and have some beautiful days. But they would have, you know, it’s a judgment. They would’ve used a nuclear weapon.”
Later in the interview, Trump reiterated: “If I didn’t go in there with the B-2 bombers, they would right now have a nuclear weapon, and it could be that half of the world would be eradicated already.”
Trump’s statements are not in line with what then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told lawmakers in March 2025, months before the initial U.S. strikes on Iran. At the time, Gabbard testified that U.S. spy agencies had assessed that Iran had not decided whether to build nuclear weapons, but that the country had stockpiles of enriched uranium beyond what is required for civilian purposes. NBC News reported in June 2025 that the U.S. assessment of Iran’s nuclear program had not changed since March. Additionally, while Trump claimed that the U.S. “totally obliterated” an Iranian nuclear site in the strikes, the reality is more nuanced. NBC News reported in July 2025 that one nuclear enrichment site was mostly destroyed, but two others were not as badly damaged.
Currently, Iran likely retains nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%, a short step from weapons grade, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Even if Iran had enough uranium enriched to weapons grade, it would need months or possibly more than a year to build a nuclear warhead that could fit on the tip of a missile, according to experts and former officials.
Before Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal in his first term, Iran had no stockpiles of uranium enriched beyond a low level and was subject to regular United Nations inspections.
Welker noted that Trump had promised he would negotiate a better deal, asking him if he wished he would have done so in his first term. Trump responded that it was better to negotiate now, saying “Israel wouldn’t have been ready” during his first stint in the Oval Office.
Much more at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-checking-trump-inte
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This federal judge ruled against Trump. Then the death threats rolled in | 60 Minutes
Federal judges say criticism from President Trump can put their safety at risk.
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Okay.
How many Republicans have been attacked by you lunatics since 2016, including Supreme Court Justices at their homes with their families? Ten times as many? 100 times?
How many times did somebody take a shot at Biden*? Zero.
Every single school and church shooting in the last 10 years was done by you freaks. Most of them were transsexual lunatics. Stunning and Brave, the entire diseased lot of you.
Go fuck yourself, Second.
EVERY problem in this country right now is directly because of YOU and the people you vote for.
And isn't it amazing that the people who always Vote Blue, No Matter Who are supporting the party that wants to take everyone's guns away, but they always manage to find guns for shooting up schools or to take with them during their "peaceful" protest of ICE agents.
What's up with that?
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Why Republicans Aren’t Condemning Trump’s Meet the Press Walkout
Denying the legitimacy of vote-counting has become party doctrine.
By Jonathan Chait | June 8, 2026, 4:27 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/los-angeles-election-lies/68
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The most important outcome of the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral primary may be that the Republican Party no longer accepts the legitimacy of election defeats. This reflex has spread up and down the party, to everyone including the trailing candidate, Spencer Pratt, and the president of the United States, who grew so enraged when the Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker challenged his election denial that he left the set mid-interview.
The refusal to accept the prospect of a Republican defeat in L.A. is bizarre and revealing. The race has not been called, but over the weekend, as more ballots were counted, Pratt fell into third place. Republicans had believed that L.A.’s struggles with public order would create an opening for their candidate. The right-of-center Free Press published seven hopeful stories with headlines such as “Inside Spencer Pratt’s Viral Video Machine” and “Heidi Montag Is Already LA’s First Lady.”
The trouble is that the city’s electorate is overwhelmingly Democratic, and the Republican candidate is a reality-television star with a fondness for pseudoscientific conspiracy theories and nothing resembling qualification for office. Pratt tried to elide the GOP’s reputation in L.A., but Donald Trump blew up that plan by describing him as “a big MAGA person.”
The first batch of votes counted showed Pratt in second place, a position that would qualify him for a runoff in November against the leading candidate, currently the incumbent, Karen Bass. But as more votes have trickled in, Pratt has dropped behind City Councilmember Nithya Raman; there are more votes to count, and the final result remains uncertain. This is a predictable dynamic for the state’s voting system; late-arriving mail-in ballots consistently skew Democratic.
You might suppose that “Republicans tend to vote more promptly than Democrats” and “Government agencies in California operate slowly” are hypotheses that conservatives, of all people, would have an easy time believing. Instead, they have decided that the election was rigged.
Conservative accounts on X exploded over the weekend with confident assertions that Pratt had fallen behind because of vote-rigging. The claims were not confined to radicals, attention-seekers, or obscure figures; they also came from producers for major radio shows, Fox News columnists, right-leaning celebrities, and sports pundits.
Tellingly, Meghan McCain, who has at times sided with the party’s mainstream faction over its MAGA wing, wrote, “For whatever it’s worth, people in my life who have never ever spoken about stolen elections in any capacity are now saying this about California.”
“This” refers to Trump’s interview with Welker, which aired yesterday. Trump slowly worked himself into a lather. He began by answering questions about his proposed government fund for supposed victims of government “weaponization.” Trump’s deputies have said that the fund is dead, but Welker wanted to nail down the president’s own position on the matter.
Trump used the question to repeatedly insist that he and his supporters were innocent victims of government retribution, which he described as “violent” and carried out by “thugs” and “dirty cops.”
Welker permitted these wild lies to go unchallenged for nearly two minutes before she noted that he had no evidence for these claims, and that many of the criminals pardoned by Trump had pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers during the Capitol riot. The brief interjection of reality into Trump’s fantastical diatribe appears to have angered him. He began shouting that FBI agents on January 6 had ushered people into the Capitol. Welker gently noted that he had no evidence for that claim either.
Trump began hurling insults at Welker and the media—“people like you; the fake, dirty press; the cr
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