Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too? by 6ixStringJack

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

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:01 PM

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Thank you, Tulsi!
And thank you, Pam Bondi!
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DOJ To Present Russiagate Hoax To A Grand Jury For Criminal Charges

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-present-russiagate-hoax-grand-
jury-criminal-charges

THGR: MAGA is full of pedophiles comrade and you are without morels.

ROFLMAO!!!

THGR, I try not to be spelling Nazi for the dyslexic, but this .literally. made me laugh so hard hubby wanted to know what was so funny.

You wanted to say 'morals' but what you typed was 'morel’. A morel is a mushroom. You're saying I have no mushrooms.

You're right, I have no morels!

Oh, and Rubio destroying Gabbard and Bondi? Also funny!

BTW, there are a helluvalotta Dems on Epstein’s list. If there's evidence of crimes, the suspects should be tried and, if found guilty, punished. Rip it all open. That includes Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak, who supposedly were blackmailed by Mossad (thanks to Epstein) into torpedoing a deal with Arafat.

Gabbard referred numerous documents to the Department of Justice as she’s accused Obama and others of being behind a “treasonous conspiracy” intended to keep Trump out of office.

Probes into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election were based on “manufactured” evidence, according to Gabbard. She claims Obama and intelligence officials simply “made up” the conclusion that Russia preferred the outcome of Trump winning the election.

Both a House and Senate investigation concluded that Russia did interfere in the election.

“Director, you said there was irrefutable evidence that Obama was the mastermind of this intelligence manipulation and the perpetuation of the Russia hoax. What is that irrefutable evidence for our viewers tonight?” Ingraham asked Gabbard on Wednesday.

Gabbard then launched into a rant against the Obama administration, claiming part of her evidence is in how Obama posed a question in a meeting with his intelligence officials.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-s-tulsi-gabbard-s-irrefut
able-evidence-that-obama-masterminded-trump-russia-hoax/ar-AA1K1jBh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=d713fafa1b3d4698a719eef55d01b506&ei=59

It’s kinda sad how you and Jack point out spelling errors that occur once every couple of hundred words or so. It shows you have frail egos. I guess it’s hard being shown to be a moron by others who point out what you post is propaganda, bullshit and stupid.

So, as with Gilligan, I’ll give you a pat on the head for each one you find while refraining from pointing out your many grammatical errors like this of yours "but this .literally. made me laugh" can be found above. Instead, I’ll stick with pointing out you’re a Russian troll and moron.

I’m still waiting for the defamation lawsuits you and 1kiki said you were going to proceed with against me and others.

too funny...

T

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:19 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

THGR, you are definitely defaming me. But it's a question whether your character assassination is lawsuit- worthy since I'm anonymous here, so I incur no reputational harm IRL. In my mind, civil lawsuits follow the "no harm, no foul" rule. KIKI spoke to a lawyer who seemed to think otherwise. If KIKI had pursued that and found an avenue for a lawsuit, I might have tagged along, but I'm too busy to pursue that myself since it seems like a dry well.

But to reiterate: your posts are defamation. If anything should change, you're putting yourself potentially at risk. Look up 'the limits of free speech" bc you're way beyond those limits.

BTW you seem to think that the MAGA movement is full of perverts.

I have two words for you: Hunter Biden

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:49 PM

THG

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

THGR, you are definitely defaming me. But it's a question whether your character assassination is lawsuit- worthy since I'm anonymous here, so I incur no reputational harm IRL. In my mind, civil lawsuits follow the "no harm, no foul" rule. KIKI spoke to a lawyer who seemed to think otherwise. If KIKI had pursued that and found an avenue for a lawsuit, I might have tagged along, but I'm too busy to pursue that myself since it seems like a dry well.

But to reiterate: your posts are defamation. If anything should change, you're putting yourself potentially at risk. Look up 'the limits of free speech" bc you're way beyond those limits.

BTW you seem to think that the MAGA movement is full of perverts.

I have two words for you: Hunter Biden

You still don’t get it. Here comrade, here, you do not exist; period. Signym exists here. And Signym is a nonexistent fictional character, an imaginary person. How is it you don’t know this?

And MAGA is millions where Hunter Biden is one. Try thinking things through before putting pen to paper. And were talking pedophiles here. Do you have evidence Hunter is one? Because that's news to me.

Remember comrade, if you find a misspelled word you get a pat on the head. Don't let Gilligan beat you to it.

T

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 2:41 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by THG:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

THGR, you are definitely defaming me. But it's a question whether your character assassination is lawsuit- worthy since I'm anonymous here, so I incur no reputational harm IRL. In my mind, civil lawsuits follow the "no harm, no foul" rule. KIKI spoke to a lawyer who seemed to think otherwise. If KIKI had pursued that and found an avenue for a lawsuit, I might have tagged along, but I'm too busy to pursue that myself since it seems like a dry well.

But to reiterate: your posts are defamation. If anything should change, you're putting yourself potentially at risk. Look up 'the limits of free speech" bc you're way beyond those limits.

BTW you seem to think that the MAGA movement is full of perverts.

I have two words for you: Hunter Biden

You still don’t get it. Here comrade, here, you do not exist; period. Signym exists here. And Signym is a nonexistent fictional character, an imaginary person. How is it you don’t know this?

No, YOU don't get it. Must be bc your reading comprehension sucks worse than your spelling.
I made that very point, didn't I? I highlighted it for you to help your struggling brain.

But if something changes ... for example, in the unlikely event that I get doxxed, or I bump into a lawyer that says I have a case ... well, your words are here and will remain here unless you choose to scrub them out.

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And MAGA is millions where Hunter Biden is one.

Oh, so now you're defaming MILLIONS ... people you don't know, haven't met, know nothing about?
OF COURSE! That's your MO!
You stupid.

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Try thinking things through before putting pen to paper. And were [sic] talking pedophiles here. Do you have evidence Hunter is one? Because that's news to me.

Hunter Biden is alleged to have been diddling his 14 year old niece.
Is that news to you?
Maybe bc you were too busy claiming that the laptop was Russian disinfo?

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Remember comrade, if you find a misspelled word you get a pat on the head. Don't let Gilligan beat you to it.

Aw, c'mon, man. Don't be such a priss!
Look up the word morel.
Ya gotta admit, THAT was funny! And you're absolutely right: I have no morels. In fact, I'm gonna make that part of my signature, and I'm gonna keep it there until I stop chuckling over it.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

THGR claims I have no morels, and he's absolutely right.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 3:44 PM

THG

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Ya gotta admit, THAT was funny! And you're absolutely right: I have no morels. In fact, I'm gonna make that part of my signature, and I'm gonna keep it there until I stop chuckling over it.

THGR claims I have no morels, and he's absolutely right.

Go back to the very post where you point out I misspelled a word. Your grammatical fuckup is much worse than my misspelling a word using an e instead of an a. I'll point that out when I see your signature, too funny.

And it's funny beyond belief you are correcting me. Go ahead, go back and take a look comrade.

This is you in that very post. "but this .literally. made me laugh"

And I'd love to visit the garden thread and point this out whenever I see your signature.

T

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 4:18 PM

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

MAGA’s war on the American economy
The jobs report was okay. Trump’s reaction is disastrous.

By Matthew Yglesias | Aug 06, 2025

https://www.slowboring.com/p/magas-war-on-the-american-economy

Last week was a real roller coaster of economic news. It started with MAGA taking an undeserved victory lap over second quarter economic data and ended with the president intemperately firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over some bad jobs numbers.

The irony of it, to the extent that one can find amusement in the torching of American institutions, is that just as the gross domestic product numbers weren’t particularly good, the jobs numbers weren’t particularly bad. By the same token, while the various trade “deals” the administration has been trumpeting aren’t nearly as good as they’re saying, it is true that they have successfully averted the worst-case scenarios that seemed possible in the immediate wake of Liberation Day.

The upshot of all of this is that Trump is obsessed with superficial indicators of success.

He’s avoided stock market backlash to his trade policies by ensuring that whatever else gets trampled amidst the tariff wars, the AI investment boom is still on track. He’s spinning economic numbers where he can and moving to suppress data where he can’t.

And in addition to political meddling, he’s continuing a pattern of funding cuts that make it hard for statistical agencies to function. The tariffs aren’t going to blow up America’s biggest and most successful companies, but they will exert an ongoing drag on all kinds of businesses that don’t have the clout to successfully beg for exemptions. America’s tax system and social safety net have become much less favorable for the poor. And termites are eating away at the long-term sources of American economic strength.

The economy is slowing down

MAGA world reacted with great excitement to the news that GDP rose at a 3 percent annual rate in the second quarter of 2025. But this good second quarter just offsets a terrible first quarter. Now, if you were alive in the United States of America back in March, you probably don’t remember any visible signs of a recession. People weren’t losing jobs in droves. There was a lot of freaking out about tariffs, but no actual economic calamity.

And that freaking out is exactly what you see in the data. In the first quarter, a lot of companies were importing stuff they didn’t actually use or sell in order to get ahead of the tariffs, and this showed up as GDP shrinking. Then in the second quarter, we got a bounce-back. But across the entire first half of the year, the economy grew at a slower pace than in 2024 — and at a slower pace than was predicted before Trump took office.

Last week’s bad jobs report, which showed anemic employment growth over the past several months, confirms this same trend: the economy is slowing.

I would note that there’s no big mystery about what’s happening here. If you ignore economic data and look at immigration data (which, unfortunately, is not measured as precisely or as frequently), the White House is happy to brag that it has transformed immigration from a major source of labor force growth to a slight drag. MAGA fans get defensive when you point this out. But slow growth in aggregate employment and a negative hit to GDP growth are obvious results of this policy choice.

If you think this tradeoff is worthwhile because you believe having fewer immigrants creates benefits elsewhere on the ledger, then fine. But it’s genuinely absurd to get mad at the Bureau of Labor Statistics for pointing out that immigration cuts and mass deportation show up in the jobs numbers.

One way of looking at this is that the robust job growth during the Biden years didn’t have the political benefits you might expect because a large share of those jobs went to non-citizens who couldn’t vote. And the anemic job growth of Trump’s second term hasn’t collapsed his political standing because, again, this is mostly a question of people who can’t vote no longer getting hired.

But flipping this around raises the question of why the Trump administration is so convinced that the Fed should lower interest rates.

Inflation is still running above the Fed’s 2 percent target level and has, in fact, gone up recently. Even if you think monetary policy should ignore the impact of tariffs, it’s hard to see the case for a cut.

It’s true that job growth is slowing down sharply, but that’s not because of weak demand; it’s because the administration is strangling labor force growth. It’s never been clear to me what Trump’s team thought would happen if they pulled off their immigration policies. Grandma’s going to come out of retirement to pick up day labor gigs? Residents of depressed former manufacturing towns are going to move to coastal metro areas and work as nannies?

From my baseline of pessimism toward their policies, I’d say that things are working out okay. But a slowing economy with upward pressure on prices and interest rates is what “okay” looks like.

Trump’s tariff deals are bad

During the 2024 campaign, Trump’s platform included a 10 percent tax on all imports. This was a dumb idea, a massively regressive tax that would have a negative impact on American exporters, and it was widely criticized at the time. The Trump administration’s business community supporters would often claim that it was just a negotiating tactic — Trump was going to “escalate to de-escalate” and win big market access concessions for American companies.

Once in office, he began imposing tariffs that were actually more draconian than the 10 percent campaign pledge. But he did say that he was going to try to negotiate deals.

Now, as the text of some of those deals is coming out, we’re seeing a few things. One is that Trump is securing some market access wins for American companies. But another is that he is not interested in negotiating “zero for zero” deals where trade ends up freer than it was before. Typically, Trump is reaching asymmetrical agreements where the United States will, for example, impose higher tariffs on EU exports than the EU imposes on us and the EU agrees not to retaliate. This is pretty impressive as a feat of negotiating, and I do think it serves as a reminder that it’s dangerous to underestimate Trump. He is credibly willing to engage in tit-for-tat escalations that are bad for everyone, and this gets other countries to make settlements with him that are in some sense “unfair” or “lopsided.”

But this success just raises the question of why the United States would find the arrangement desirable.

I think the answer, from Trump’s perspective, is that tariffs concentrate a lot of power in his hands personally. Trump is able to grant exemptions to politically connected companies, and this is good for his personal quest for power and enrichment. But it’s still a bad dynamic for America.

Take this guy from the Montana Knife Company, who initially reacted with enthusiasm to tariffs because they would boost his made-in-America products … only to discover that his costs are rising due to tariffs because he relies on imported equipment and supplies. And Montana Knife Company is almost certainly not in a position to lobby for exemptions.

The initial freakout over Liberation Day tariffs represented a concern about a total breakdown of global trade. What Trump has secured with his deals is a guarantee that big successful American companies such as NVIDIA, Meta, Alphabet, and Netflix won’t be torn apart by retaliatory measures. This is the dominant consideration for the stock market, which is mostly driven by the prices of the biggest and most successful companies. But I do have to note the irony that the endgame of this entire “populist” arc is to skew the American economic model even more sharply toward companies offering intangible services in tech and finance and away from manufacturers, whose competitiveness will be hurt by disrupted supply chains.

Tariff policy as tax policy

One concern I’ve heard lately is that even if tariffs are bad trade policy, the sheer revenue impact will make them difficult for future administrations to repeal. I think it’s way too soon to make a forecast like that — the politics of the next few years are too hard to predict.

But I do think it’s worth talking through the merits. Tariff revenue is now a non-trivial piece of the economic pie. It is also, per this Yale Budget Lab analysis, incredibly bad for poor people.
https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-july-28-2025

If Democrats want to make economic policies that are good for poor people, I think this makes tariff repeal a compelling agenda item. On the revenue point, it’s true that offsetting tariff repeal with some new tax will be politically challenging, but raising taxes is always hard. And this one seems like an easier political win than fighting poverty with new spending.

Political speculations aside, though, I think we need to understand clearly what it is Trump’s doing here.

There’s no great boom in American manufacturing jobs or championing of the working class. Trump passed a regressive tax cut and offset part of the cost by cutting Medicaid and nutritional assistance. Now, he’s offsetting another part of that cost by raising taxes on the poor. After the initial tariff rollout was panned by financial markets, he put a lot of time and energy into negotiating deals that have safeguarded the interests of big technology and financial services companies, while continuing to harm lower-income consumers, small businesses, and manufacturing. And it only gets worse from here.

Eating America’s seed corn

Firing the BLS commissioner over a couple of unfavorable downward revisions would be bad enough, but of course, Trump can’t help but also smear the work of the commissioner and the agency as he does it.

The whole idea that releasing timely information and then revising it as more data becomes available represents “incompetence” is absurd. If Trump has ideas about how to make the estimates more precise, I’m sure they’d be welcome.

But he doesn’t.

Back in June, the Trump administration proposed huge cuts to the budgets of BLS and other statistical agencies. These are distinct issues, but in both cases we see an administration that fundamentally has no appreciation for the value of credible and timely economic statistics.

I know a lot of people questioned whether Trump would cook the books during his first term, and the answer from knowledgeable sources was always that the statistical procedures were hard to meddle with politically and that you’d see clear evidence of meddling if it happened. Today, I’m worried this is what the start of that meddling looks like. I don’t think we can say that next month’s numbers are going to be cooked, but how about three or four months from now?

And this is the pattern across the board. Decisions about everything from tariff policy to merger approval to the targeting of immigration enforcement to who runs federal statistical agencies are being made on a nakedly partisan basis.

There’s an old Adam Smith line about how “there is a great deal of ruin in a nation,” and a prosperous country like the United States can survive a lot of bad policies. I don’t think Trump’s approach to trade and immigration is good, but I am optimistic that it won’t cause long-term damage to the country. Hopefully, a future administration will establish an immigration regime that is more humane and growth-friendly than Trump’s, but also more orderly and secure than Biden’s. It’s normal for policies to ping-pong a little as we try to reach sensible outcomes.

What’s not fine is if the president reacts to the news that shrinking the labor force slows job growth by wrecking the integrity of the jobs report. Or if foreign countries decide to re-evaluate the view that the United States of America is a friendly hegemon relative to the People’s Republic of China. In the short term, demand for data center construction can keep powering the economy forward one way or another, but investment booms always come to an end, and the wreckage Trump is making is going to be very hard to fix.

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

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 4:43 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

No Ted. You are an idiot.

You have always been an idiot, and you have a 3rd level handle on the English language.

English either isn't your first language and you're not American, or you are 40 IQ at best.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 5:14 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No Ted. You are an idiot.

You have always been an idiot, and you have a 3rd level handle on the English language.

English either isn't your first language and you're not American, or you are 40 IQ at best.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

THGR says his family has been here for 5 generations, or something. If his whole family really has been here that long, they must be inbred as all hell.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

THGR claims I have no morels, and he's absolutely right.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 6:01 PM

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

Teen Disillusionment

By Eli Thompson | August 6, 2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/08/06/trump-jeffrey
-epstein-gen-z-republican-voters/85513159007/

Going to an all-boys high school, where I graduated this spring, I understand why many young men voted for President Donald Trump.

My peers are not your rich country club conservatives. They are scrappy guys who liked Trump because he wasn’t polished or predictable. To them, he was a rebel outsider who would fight “the swamp” with all he had. I remember heated lunchroom debates where they’d argue about whether or not he could truly upend our system and its backers.

Even if he couldn’t remake Washington, they said, Trump would at least cause the unseen power brokers to sweat by releasing the Epstein files and making public the names of the disgraced financier’s clients.

Fast-forward to now, and that looks like a fever dream.

My friends who supported Trump and were holding on to the promise that he’d stay true to his word of fighting the elites are now scratching their heads.

Trump declined to release the Epstein files because he said it would falsely incriminate innocent people. But that has left them wondering: Is Trump just the swamp?

Young male conservatives, like my friends, are starting to wonder if their anti-establishment hero has joined the swamp he swore to fight.

They’re wondering if he is giving harbor to the people he promised to expose. Or worse, was he one of the elites who committed crimes with Epstein?

This whole turnabout is a personal one for my friends. They didn’t like Trump because he was a Republican; they liked him because he would be a “disrupter in chief.”

Now they've got someone they think might just be another “swamp creature.”

They wonder: Is Trump just a showman who lied to us and deceived us this whole time?

I hear many of them saying that their president has now cozied up to the establishment and abandoned people like them in the process.

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

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 6:22 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I think Trump is either suffering from PTSD/ paranoia, or someone's got his balls in a vise.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

THGR claims I have no morels, and he's absolutely right.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025 6:27 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Ya gotta admit, THAT was funny! And you're absolutely right: I have no morels. In fact, I'm gonna make that part of my signature, and I'm gonna keep it there until I stop chuckling over it.

THGR claims I have no morels, and he's absolutely right.

Go back to the very post where you point out I misspelled a word. Your grammatical fuckup is much worse than my misspelling a word using an e instead of an a. I'll point that out when I see your signature, too funny.

And it's funny beyond belief you are correcting me. Go ahead, go back and take a look comrade.

This is you in that very post. "but this .literally. made me laugh"

It wasn't a fuckup, it was on purpose. For emphasis. I could have done

*literally*
or LITERALLY
or literally
or literally
or - literally -
or ... literally ...
or ,literally,

but I chose .literally. bc it was easiest.

Stop being so literal.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

THGR claims I have no morels, and he's absolutely right.

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Thursday, August 7, 2025 4:22 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Listened to another interview of Alex Krainer, and he's still a firm believer that Trump is adhering to his agenda.

What he's saying is that if you stop paying attention to what Trump SAYS, and ignore the zigzags, and only look at the results...

Trump is still, in fact, disengaging from Ukraine, from NATO, and from the EU. The flow of weapons at this moment depends on EU nations paying for them, and has basically stopped.

Trump doesn't want war with Iran, and he doesn't want Israel to war with Iran either. Since Iran's nuclear program was the excuse for war with Iran, and Trump said their nuclear program was "obliterated" ... POOF! There goes the excuse for a war.

Tariffs are in place, despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

According to Krainer, Trump doesn't have the full support of the GOP and DEFINITELY not the support of the deep state. According to Krainer, Trump is having to do a lot of broken field running just to get 10 yards.

Now, Trump IS acting as if the Senate is able to pressure him into doing things like sending arms to Ukraine and levy secondary tariffs. It appears that some Senators have significant leverage on him, and perhaps by coincidence that leverage looks like Epstein.

But maybe this is all just a big circus to distract the deeper state while Gabbard comes up on them from behind?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

THGR claims I have no morels, and he's absolutely right.

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Thursday, August 7, 2025 4:30 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Listened to another interview of Alex Krainer, and he's still a firm believer that Trump is adhering to his agenda.

What he's saying is that if you stop paying attention to what Trump SAYS, and ignore the zigzags, and only look at the results...

Trump is still, in fact, disengaging from Ukraine, from NATO, and from the EU. The flow of weapons at this moment depends on EU nations paying for them, and has basically stopped.

Trump doesn't want war with Iran, and he doesn't want Israel to war with Iran either. Since Iran's nuclear program was the excuse for war with Iran, and Trump said their nuclear program was "obliterated" ... POOF! There goes the excuse for a war.

Tariffs are in place, despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

According to Krainer, Trump doesn't have the full support of the GOP and DEFINITELY not the support of the deep state. According to Krainer, Trump is having to do a lot of broken field running just to get 10 yards.

Now, Trump IS acting as if the Senate is able to pressure him into doing things like sending arms to Ukraine and levy secondary tariffs. It appears that some Senators have significant leverage on him, and perhaps by coincidence that leverage looks like Epstein.

But maybe this is all just a big circus to distract the deeper state while Gabbard comes up on them from behind?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

THGR claims I have no morels, and he's absolutely right.

There we go. Now you're starting to think like a General.

I said a couple of weeks ago something along the lines of conventionality needing to be thrown out the window of this presidency, and I don't think you understood what I was saying when I said it. This post makes me think you get it now.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Thursday, August 7, 2025 8:10 AM

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

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Listened to another interview of Alex Krainer, and he's still a firm believer that Trump is adhering to his agenda.

This is also Trump's agenda: RFK Jr. defunds a medical miracle

mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives. RFK Jr. is attacking them anyway.

By Cameron Peters | Aug 6, 2025, 4:05 PM CDT

https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/422666/rfk-jr-mrna-vac
cines-defund-pandemic-bird-flu

In a blow to US pandemic preparedness, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Tuesday evening that he was slashing $500 million in federal mRNA vaccine contracts.

What is HHS cutting? Twenty-two mRNA vaccine projects, intended to combat respiratory viruses like bird flu, are set to be wound down following the announcement.

What is mRNA? mRNA, or messenger RNA, is the reason the US had safe, effective Covid-19 vaccines available as early as it did. A promising but still unproven technology prior to the pandemic, mRNA allowed pharmaceutical companies to develop effective vaccines far more rapidly and more adaptably than was once possible.

Beyond respiratory viruses like Covid, researchers hope mRNA could even be effective in treating cancers.

What’s the context? Kennedy has long made false claims about mRNA vaccines, including describing the Covid-19 vaccine as “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” On Tuesday, he falsely stated that mRNA vaccines “don’t perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract,” such as Covid. In fact, by one estimate, the Covid vaccines saved some 2.5 million lives.

What are the implications of the cuts? Tuesday’s announcement is bad news for two distinct reasons.

As far as Kennedy is concerned, this is just the latest reminder that he is who he always appeared to be, and only partially covered up while seeking to be confirmed as the secretary for the US Department of Health and Human Services: not a fair “skeptic” but an anti-vaccine advocate who will use his power to impose unscientific beliefs on US public health infrastructure.

For the country, vaccine experts say Tuesday’s news is a real blow to efforts to prepare for the next pandemic, the arrival of which is a question of when and not if. mRNA vaccines have proved to be one of our best tools for saving lives, and the US will now be further behind in developing new vaccines than it otherwise would be. The consequence is likely to be measured in human lives.

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

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