Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you already told us about your fantasy of murdering your bipolar mother, as Arthur Fleck did to his mother in Joker (2019), your favorite movie.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Everything is going my way if you count increased wealth and an easier business environment with no fear the Federal government will enforce any rules on the natural gas industry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That line of thinking is one of the major reasons you got your ass handed to you in November and you still can't figure it out.
Awesome. Great to hear it.
You're just one of them "angry all the time at everyone and everything no matter how things are going" types then.
But we already know that, don't we?
Try some new material. The same rehashed opinions you shit out every day were outdated even in the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago that no longer exists.
It turns out that the more time passes the more right I've been about everything and the more wrong you've been about everything.
You lost. You are a loser. You will always be a loser. There is nothing that you can ever do to change the fact that you are a loser, because the core problem is simply an intrinsic part of who you are. It is the greatest part of your identity.
To ever truly remove the problem, the you that you think of as you would need to simply cease to exist.
That's never happened.
There really is no bottom to the depths of just how pathetic you will behave, is there?
It's the one way that you've always managed to impress me over the years.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The American economy is doing well with exceptions: the economic parts Trumptards control
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Election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia
If only we could be as successful in reviving our economy!
And those exceptions are ... ? NYC, Chicago, San Fran, LA, Seattle, Baltimore, DC, Detroit? Last I heard, these hotbeds of libtardism are fucked up, thanks to libtard policies.
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Crime-Battered NYC McDonald's Starts Carding People At The Door
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/crime-battered-nyc-mcdonalds-start
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The Russians aren't doing well, either. The Russian economy is smaller than Italy's.
Then you immediately contradict yourself...
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Russia’s GDP, when measured in PPP ($3.74 trillion in 2013, $4.81 trillion in 2021), is closer to Germany’s
But they're both wrong. According to the IMF, Russia is fourth in terms of PPP, after China, USA, and India, ahead of Japan, Germany, Indonesia and Brazil.
Quote:...its wrong. Russia is not a nation of paupers, any more than Japan or Germany are nations of paupers.
Whichever comparison is used, Germany or Italy,
The USA has a wealth inequality similar to Haiti, Djibouti, Papua New Guinea, and Bolivia. YAY US!
Russia is better, China is better. Even India is better for chrissake!
Try to keep up.
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Trump Executive Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals
by Abrahm Lustgarten | Feb. 21, 2025
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-climate-change-social-cost-of
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The change would effectively transfer financial responsibility from oil drillers, auto manufacturers and others and leave Americans to face greater direct costs as warming continues.
One of President Donald Trump’s most damaging strikes at the foundation of U.S. climate policy is buried deep in a sweeping Inauguration Day executive order focused on “Unleashing American Energy.” Half way through the lengthy document is a directive that would obliterate an obscure but critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change is imposing on the U.S. economy.
Getting rid of the measure, called the “social cost of carbon,” would upend energy and environmental regulations meant to address climate change and could have the long-term effect of shifting costs from polluting industries directly onto Americans as the expenses of climate change rise.
The measure essentially establishes a price for each ton of carbon emitted, based on the long-term damages it is expected to cause in the future. It has become the government’s primary tool to weigh the economic costs of climate change — such as disaster cleanup or health impacts from warming — against the burden of regulations.
The executive order disbanded the working group, which included the treasury secretary, energy secretary and director of national economic policy, that set the social cost of carbon and advised how it should be implemented. It revoked that group’s previous decisions. And it directed the Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates the figure and bases regulatory proposals on it, to reconsider using the social cost of carbon altogether with the goal of eradicating “abuse” that stands in the way of affordable energy production.
The order stems directly from language in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 policy playbook and is based on work by the conservative think tank, which has consistently opposed climate policy and worked to defend the businesses of fossil fuel industries.
As climate change takes hold — the earth has already warmed more than half the total amount scientists project will cause catastrophic destabilization — the size and frequency of billion-dollar disasters has exploded, and the bills for climate damages have begun to affect people’s lives. Economists warn that it could be the steep financial price of adapting to this rapid shift, as much as environmental change itself, that will prove the most challenging and destabilizing.
If carried out, the shift away from using the social cost of carbon measure would not only make it exceedingly difficult to enact new rules slowing climate change and its growing costs in the future, but it would send the signal that the Trump administration doesn’t believe that climate change carries economic consequences.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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5 signs that a U.S.-Europe split is widening (and Trump is cuddling/snuggling with Russia)
By Scott Neuman | February 25, 2025 5:00 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307012/europe-nato-us-ukraine-ru
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1. Vice President Vance scolds EU leaders - German Defense Minister responds: "This democracy was called into question by the U.S. vice president earlier, not just in Germany but in Europe as a whole. If I understood him correctly, he compares conditions in parts of Europe to those under authoritarian regimes. That is not acceptable."
2. Zelenskyy calls for "an armed forces of Europe" - In response to Vance's speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the creation of an "armed forces of Europe," saying that without Ukraine's army, European forces alone would not be sufficient to counter Russian aggression.
3. U.S. holds separate talks with Russia over Ukraine - Following a European Union meeting of foreign ministers in Paris earlier this month, seven European countries said in a statement that "Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations."
4. German leader questions U.S. commitment to Europe's defense - "We must prepare for the possibility that Donald Trump will no longer uphold NATO's mutual defense commitment unconditionally," Merz told a German broadcaster on Friday. "That is why, in my view, it is crucial that Europeans make the greatest possible efforts to ensure that we are at least capable of defending the European continent on our own."
5. At the U.N., the U.S. refuses to condemn Russia for Ukraine invasion - At the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, the U.S. voted against condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:All the Trumptards I interact with are impressive, too, by which I mean they are completely crazy. For examples from the Trumptards next door:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you already told us about your fantasy of murdering your bipolar mother, as Arthur Fleck did to his mother in Joker (2019), your favorite movie.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Everything is going my way if you count increased wealth and an easier business environment with no fear the Federal government will enforce any rules on the natural gas industry.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That line of thinking is one of the major reasons you got your ass handed to you in November and you still can't figure it out.
Awesome. Great to hear it.
You're just one of them "angry all the time at everyone and everything no matter how things are going" types then.
But we already know that, don't we?
Try some new material. The same rehashed opinions you shit out every day were outdated even in the world you thought you were living in 6 months ago that no longer exists.
It turns out that the more time passes the more right I've been about everything and the more wrong you've been about everything.
You lost. You are a loser. You will always be a loser. There is nothing that you can ever do to change the fact that you are a loser, because the core problem is simply an intrinsic part of who you are. It is the greatest part of your identity.
To ever truly remove the problem, the you that you think of as you would need to simply cease to exist.
That's never happened.
There really is no bottom to the depths of just how pathetic you will behave, is there?
It's the one way that you've always managed to impress me over the years.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
1. Levi was jailed for a year in Galveston for attempted car theft. (He couldn't even succeed at that despite, according to his father Larry, being a 40 y.o. genius with computers.)
2. Son Lance was jailed for 10 years on negligent vehicular homicide charge.
3. Mother Linda was murdered by drinking ethylene glycol. Probably Levi was trying to receive an early inheritance. Father Larry did not die.
4. Larry died of stroke, a delayed result of a one-car crash.
I have many more one and two line horror stories about Trumptards. Funny thing is that the Trumptards don't see their suffering as being directly caused by their actions and beliefs. Instead, the Trumptards say it is Democrats causing their hardships, disappointments and shortened lifespans. Trumptards are deluded about themselves, Trump and Democrats.
The more details I learn about how particular Trumptards conduct their lives the more I learn about illness and insanity. I can see why Trump is appealing to Trumptards. By comparison, Trump is highly functional despite being completely crazy.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Matthew Yglesias | Feb 25, 2025
https://www.slowboring.com/p/how-were-thinking-about-covering
There’s been intense attention to the vibe shift associated with Trump, most of which ignores the fact that the central planks of the shift — the collapsing self-confidence of the left, the rightward trajectory of young men, the disalignment of Silicon Valley CEOs and venture capitalists from their former affiliation with progressive politics — would all be true and significant even if Kamala Harris had won narrowly rather than lost narrowly.
Elections are weird tipping point phenomena. All the broad trends in American culture and society would be exactly the same if Harris had gotten 49.7% of the vote and Trump 48.2% rather than the other way around. But the fate of capital regulation for large banks at the Federal Reserve would be completely different. Right now, there is a high chance that we’ll see significant cuts to Medicaid and an even higher chance that we’ll see significant cuts to SNAP. I’ve seen remarkably little coverage of the fact that the odds are overwhelmingly high that the ACA enhanced premium subsidies will be allowed to expire, which almost certainly would not have happened if Harris had won.
Most strikingly, the basic foundations of American democracy are now swaying in the wind.
Washington, DC, where I live, is not a state and doesn’t have normal state criminal courts. We have a local court system and local criminal laws, but constitutionally speaking, these are federal courts. As a result, local felonies are prosecuted by a United States Attorney. I had kind of hoped that Trump would give us a tough-on- crime prosecutor who would help keep illegally carried handguns off the street. Instead, we have Ed Martin, a lifelong conservative activist with no prosecutorial experience, who participated in Stop The Steal rallies and raised funds for the 1/6 rioters and is now abusing his power by threatening to prosecute opposition party members of Congress. This has attracted less attention than the more spectacular abuses of power in the Eric Adams case, but it’s bad. The “vibes” are in favor of free speech, but the actual practice is in the opposite direction.
Be the change
I’ve seen lots of people get pulled into debates about whether Trump is an actual fascist and whether Elon Musk is an actual Nazi, and one question I always have is what difference does it make to your conduct?
If, to you, Trump being a “real” fascist means you’re determined to support a big tent movement that maximizes our odds of defeating him, then I am on your side. If it means you think we should stage anti-Trump riots, then I don’t think we’re on the same page. But if it means you think we should encourage people to organize disciplined acts of non-violent, non-destructive civil disobedience, I might agree with you again. Not because ordinary electoral politics and non-violent civil disobedience are the only ways to fight fascism — my grandfather fought fascism by flying ship-based bomber missions in the Mediterranean. It’s just that right now, there are anti-Trump things we can do that will be constructive, and there are anti-Trump things that are likely to backfire and cause harm, and I think discussions about which actions fall into which category are important and worth engaging in.
Worrying about exactly how bad Trump is doesn’t really accomplish anything, while worrying about what kinds of opposition activity are likely to be useful is important.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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“Elon Musk is asking us to trust him to wield enormous power on our behalf. He is undoubtedly brilliant and accomplished, but every day he fails to display the normal human virtues — honesty, loyalty, humility, concern for the welfare of others — that would earn that trust.”
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1892705898994208773
The tweet included screenshots of Musk getting fact-checked for some false claims about the International Space Station and of Grimes pleading with him to get in touch with her about a medical crisis impacting one of their kids. Various left-wing people challenged the claim that Musk is brilliant and accomplished. I really do think the evidence suggests that Musk is quite brilliant — and also dishonest and evil.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The devastating consequences of Trump's Postal Service privatization plan
There’s many reasons USPS must remain independent from politics, just ask the Constitution.
Feb. 25, 2025, 5:00 AM CST
By Ray Brescia, professor of law, Albany Law School
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-post-office-postal-s
ervice-usps-rcna193554
In one of many sweeping changes to the functioning of the federal government, reports suggest that President Trump plans to take control over yet another independent agency, the U.S. Postal Service. Not content to have his handpicked postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, a holdover from the first Trump presidency, in place, Trump has signaled a desire to fundamentally alter the agency by bringing the service under direct executive branch control within the Commerce Department.
The purported goal of such a takeover is to make it operate with greater efficiency. But any Trump-controlled version will just bring us closer toward post office privatization, or serve as a means by which the administration could control a critical channel of communication among Americans that has largely protected our privacy for centuries.
The postal system has been a political flashpoint at different moments in our nation’s history. Andrew Jackson threatened to censor abolitionist tracts sent over the mails into slave states, claiming such information would result in a slave revolt.
Bringing the Post Office under direct control of the executive branch would make crippling it even easier, lead to the destruction of the civil service and union protections of its hundreds of thousands of workers, and open the door for companies, like Amazon — that both deals in e-commerce for itself and other e-commerce companies, and whose CEO has been cozying up to and palling around with the president of late — to have a field day. They could raise rates and fill in the void created by a severely weakened postal system.
Such a system would also serve, like the colonial postal system, as a source of surveillance and monitoring of the president’s critics.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:But the fact that SECOND would post so tells us something about his mental state.
SIX: You lost. You are a loser. You will always be a loser. There is nothing that you can ever do to change the fact that you are a loser, because the core problem is simply an intrinsic part of who you are. It is the greatest part of your identity.
To ever truly remove the problem, the you that you think of as you would need to simply cease to exist.
SECOND: 6ix, you already told us about your fantasy of murdering your bipolar mother, as Arthur Fleck did to his mother in Joker (2019), your favorite movie.
SIX: That's never happened.
Quote:Nope! There isn't!
SIX: There really is no bottom to the depths of just how pathetic you will behave, is there?
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SIX: It's the one way that you've always managed to impress me over the years.
SECOND: All the Trumptards I interact with are impressive, too...
Levi .... Lance ... Linda .... Larry ...
And now we got to read more made-up shit from SECOND'S roster of delusions.
SECOND, you should live in LA and meet some of the Dem voters I've known. Drug addicted, dysfunctional, crazy. They'll beat your fantasy neighbors any day.
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Elon Musk is a genius and he's the richest man in the world, but he's also a disrupter. He was SO disruptive to PayPal (which he co-founded), the other officers bought him out. So he took his $$$ and made a ton more. He's manic, and his ideas are usually brilliant but... sometimes ... crazy. Let's hope he's taking his meds.
Trump is also a disrupter, but of a different kind. He's a political disrupter, from outside the established web of mutual backscratching and cozy deal-making. Willing to upset the apple cart.
As I posted before, I believe this is a time of destruction. The "blob" has gotten so big, so self serving, so corrupt, it's metastasized throughout DC, the media, the world, and needs to be rooted out. Not a believer in things like "The Fourth Turning" but what is happening is the result of the "blob" having censored, screwed, grifted, and gaslit us Americans for so long that most of us finally woke up.
This is destruction with a bulldozer, not a scalpel. Mistakes will be made. The end result might not even benefit us. We may wind up simply exchanging globalist oligarchs for American ones.
But this is what you wrought, SECOND. By plastering yourself slavishly to a rotten corpse, and failing to provide a reasonable alternative.
Burn, baby, burn.
Burn it down to the Constitution.
Remove that rotten stuff that's been built up over time: the spook state snooping on us everywhere, the grift, the malicious prosecution, the government-tech-media censorship-propaganda complex, the imperialism and hubris and plain stupidity, the MICC, the globalist agenda ....
Then we can rebuild.
And, finally: WHAT ARE AMERICANS' INTERESTS? WHAT IS THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE?
THAT, you never have an answer for. THAT is what betrays you. 
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