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

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How many people from the first Trump administration are working in the second?

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+from+the+first+Trump+a
dministration+are+working+in+the+second

Summarizing the AI results: only the nuttiest fruitcakes came back for a second Trump administration. Only loyalty to Trump is necessary. Competence is disqualifying.

Trump was careful to be sure that he didn't have a V.P. like Mike Pence, who knew what the words indecent, insane, and unconstitutional mean.

He nominated or appointed 23 former Fox News employees to his administration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_cabinet_of_Donald_Trump

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 6:38 AM

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Redstopgringo:
“Are Pinky and the Brain still trying to take over the world? Because at this point, I'm willing to hear the Brain's platform.”

the-other-sandy:
“At this point, I'm willing to hear Pinky's platform.”

DownvotesStarWars:
“A sentient turkey sandwich would make better decisions than Trump.”

https://imgur.com/gallery/sentient-turkey-sandwich-would-make-better-d
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Saturday, November 8, 2025 6:49 AM

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Most Unpopular President in History is Losing His Coalition

Morris: I wrote a couple of data driven takeaways—well not a couple, seven of them—on the Substack which I can reference. Then I’ll also mention a couple things from the new data analysis. For the readers, we’re recording this on Thursday. So there’s been about a day to catch up on sleep and digest the findings.

The big thing is unsurprising, but it really bears repeating. This is an electoral repudiation of Donald Trump and an electoral verdict on his unpopularity. I have appeared on your interview show a couple of times now to say essentially that the polls show he’s the most unpopular president ever, save himself in his first term. Trump’s policy agenda is also one of the most unpopular policy agendas in American presidential history, at least since we have surveys, since 1936. In that context, it’s rather unsurprising that Democrats did so well in Tuesday’s elections. They swept all of the statewide races in Virginia, all of the New Jersey races, they picked up two utility offices in Georgia, a red state—or a purple state if you’re very optimistic there as a Democrat—which is surprising. In Pennsylvania, they hold like three partisan justices and they win a lower court race as well as statewide.

In that context, it’s rather unsurprising, but it does affirm what we’ve been seeing in other data, which as good Bayesians, is always important to us. It also gives hard data to members of Congress that might want to fight Trump on things like his tariffs, or immigration, which is very unpopular, either from the right or from the left. It gives them something to point to that’s not just survey data, which is increasingly poo-pooed in Congress, as we might say.

So that’s my big takeaway. There are some smaller things which I’ll mention now. The first is it’s not just that Trump lost, it’s that he lost with voters that he supposedly had a realignment with in 2024. This is Latinos and Generation Z voters in particular. He loses with voters who say the economy is very important to them, which is the single constituency that likely propelled him to victory in 2024 in the first place. So in my article I’m putting out on Friday, I’m going to characterize this as: Trump’s losing his winning coalition; because I think that’s really what’s going on here.

The voters that put him in the White House because they wanted lower prices have said, “he’s not holding up his end of the bargain.” He’s not lowering prices. The supposed Republican ideological gains among Latinos in Generation Z who have tended to lean to the left and who, by the way, still voted for Kamala Harris despite lower margins than they did previously has evidently, evaporated. That’s really worth digesting as well.

Krugman: At one level of dispute we’ve had Trump himself insisting week after week that the polls are fake and that he’s extremely popular. And it’s basically you can argue until you’re blue in the face that “polling, it’s not a perfect science, but it’s meaningful.”

But there’s nothing quite like actual elections to settle that dispute. This sort of says that the polling saying that he’s unpopular and his policies are unpopular is right.

More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/after-the-dem-sweep-talking-with

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 7:41 AM

He's not even close to the most unpopular President in history.

If you're going to continue saying stupid shit like that, then nobody is going to take you seriously.

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He's not even close to the most unpopular President in history.

If you're going to continue saying stupid shit like that, then nobody is going to take you seriously.

Trump is very popular with people who are fucked up in the head, but not so much with Americans who have a useful purpose in life and are functioning normally.

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DOJ Had Its First Big Hearing in a “Trump Enemy’’ Prosecution. The Judge Was Not Pleased.

Let’s recall why Comey made it to the top of Trump’s enemies list.

By Austin Sarat | Nov 08, 2025 10:00 AM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/doj-comey-hearing-trump-en
emies-list-judge.html

In the world of sports, there is an old maxim that captures the essence of competitive athletics: “Play the ball, not the person.” Play the ball, focus on the competition itself, honor the game, and don’t try to humiliate or hate your opponent.

This is one of the many lessons that our current president appears never to have learned or accepted. President Trump is the classic “play the person” kind of leader. He seems to take pleasure in making everything personal.

His approach does great damage to our culture and politics. It is also deeply destructive of our legal system.

The president doesn’t hide his everything-is-personal approach. In fact, he wants the American public to know who his enemies are and to understand his embrace of an “all’s fair in love and war” political ethos.

That’s why he has been clear about his desire to see people like John Bolton, Letitia James, and James Comey prosecuted. It will now be up to judges handling those cases to push back against the president’s weaponization of the Justice Department.

On Wednesday, Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick, who is handling the preliminary phases of the Comey case, was the first up, and he gave a master class in judicial pushback. As the New York Times reports, he “repeatedly expressed his frustration—and at times his barely restrained annoyance—with [the federal prosecutor] during an otherwise procedural hearing in which he ordered the Justice Department to produce records from its investigation.”

Before saying more about Fitzpatrick’s pushback, let’s recall why Comey made it to the top of Trump’s enemies list.

Nine years ago, during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, no one would have predicted Trump’s vendetta against the former FBI director. In fact, but for Comey, Trump might not have ever been elected. ABC News notes: Comey announced in October 2016—less than two weeks before the presidential election—that the FBI was going to investigate Clinton’s private email server, months after federal investigators said it would not recommend charges. Trump praised the decision.

At the time, Trump said, “I have respect that the FBI has given it a second chance.”

The tone changed two days before the election, when Comey announced that he was not going to bring charges against Clinton. Never one to be bothered with evidence or the lack of it, Trump insisted, “Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it, the FBI knows it, the people know it.”

Things really went south in early 2017 when the president made it clear that he wanted the FBI director to pledge his loyalty, and when Comey demurred.

In March 2017, Comey got in more hot water when he went public with the fact that the FBI had been investigating suspected Russian interference during the 2016 election. Two months later, Trump claimed that “FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!”

In early May of that year, Trump took the unusual step of firing the FBI director. It turned out that this was after an aggressive campaign by Trump to push Comey into dropping an investigation of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. Flynn would eventually be convicted and then pardoned for lying to federal investigators as part of that investigation into Russia’s election interference.

Almost a year later, Comey got a measure of revenge when he told an interviewer that the president was “morally unfit to be president.” He cited in particular his response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville,” Comey explained, “who talks about and treats women like they’re pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it; that person’s not fit to be president of the United States, on moral grounds.”

In September, Comey was “indicted on charges of making a false statement and obstruction related to his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020.” It followed a social media post in which the president demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi bring charges against Comey and others.

To accomplish that goal, the president removed the federal prosecutor with jurisdiction over the Comey matter, but didn’t think there was enough to indict. The administration replaced him with a former Trump defense attorney, Lindsey Halligan, someone who the president said was willing “to get things moving.”

Getting things moving does not require playing by the rules. And Halligan has not been.

She has been dragging her feet when it comes to turning over evidence to the defense as is required under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Comey’s defense needs that information, especially emails between Comey and a close friend, Daniel Richman, who will be a key prosecution witness.

That failure constitutes prosecutorial misconduct. It is called a Brady violation, after the Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland, which requires prosecutors to disclose any evidence that is favorable to the defendant or could undermine the prosecution’s case.

And if that were not bad enough, the prosecution had revealed text exchanges between Comey and Richman without giving the defense a chance to review them and challenge their release.

Fitzgerald took the unusual step of ordering Halligan to turn over to the court grand jury materials that involved Comey and Richman. The New York Times was right to characterize this as “a significant development.”

It will permit Comey’s lawyer, the Times adds, “to scrutinize exactly how Ms. Halligan characterized the evidence against Mr. Comey when she showed up for what was her first-ever appearance in front of a grand jury.”

But even more significant was Fitzpatrick’s characterization of the case against Comey as an example of an “indict first, investigate second” kind of prosecution.

Right from the start, Comey has labeled the decision to indict him as a “vindictive prosecution,” a prosecution brought in retaliation for someone’s exercise of a constitutionally protected right. The prohibition of such behavior, SCOTUSBlog’s Rory Little explains, “is founded in constitutional due process. So too is the idea that a person may not be selected for prosecution purely as a matter of revenge—vindictive prosecution. In this sense, vindictive prosecution is simply a subset of improper selective prosecution.”

As Comey’s lawyers put it in a filing seeking dismissal of the indictment, the prosecution “arises from multiple glaring constitutional violations and an egregious abuse of power by the federal government … President Trump ordered the Department of Justice to prosecute Mr. Comey because of personal spite and because Mr. Comey has frequently criticized the President for his conduct in office.”

“Indict first, investigate second” is virtually a synonym for vindictive and selective prosecution. That is why what Judge Fitzpatrick said is so significant in the Comey case.

But it is more than that. Fitzpatrick is telling the president and the world that he will not let the administration use Comey to stage a “show trial,” the kind familiar in authoritarian regimes where guilt is predetermined and the prosecution is staged for propaganda purposes and to intimidate political opponents.

That is good news, not just for Comey, but for all of us who still cling to the idea that we can criticize the president and the government he leads without being afraid that we will become a target of the president’s personal pique.

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 4:31 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He's not even close to the most unpopular President in history.

If you're going to continue saying stupid shit like that, then nobody is going to take you seriously.
Trump is very popular with people who are fucked up in the head, but not so much with Americans who have a useful purpose in life and are functioning normally.

Throw out all the insults you want, it doesn't change the fact that your article is lying to you.

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 6:38 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Throw out all the insults you want, it doesn't change the fact that your article is lying to you.

Who are you kidding? Only yourself. You believe Trump isn't unpopular because Trump is validating your life as purposeful rather than wasted.

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Saturday, November 8, 2025 6:48 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Throw out all the insults you want, it doesn't change the fact that your article is lying to you.
Who are you kidding? Only yourself. You believe Trump isn't unpopular because Trump is validating your life as purposeful rather than wasted.

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We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.

Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.

You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.

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Sunday, November 9, 2025 10:27 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.

Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.

You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.

6ix and Trumptards in general need a bullet in the back of their heads to fix what is wrong with them: On constitutional matters of war powers and tariffs, Republican lawmakers have abandoned the field to Trump.

By Rachel Oswald | November 7, 2025, 5:42 PM

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/congress-war-powers-tariffs-trump
-republicans-venezuela-boat-strikes/

As U.S. President Donald Trump pushes the boundaries of executive power in the matters of trade and military action further and further, Congress’s conspicuous absence in pushing back against the president’s bold usurpation of authorities that the U.S. Constitution explicitly delegates to the legislative branch has become all the more glaring.

Recent votes in the Senate have highlighted just how far afield the Republican Party has traveled from its own previous long-standing stances in support of free trade. On other key votes in recent days on the permissibility of the Trump administration’s expanding regional maritime strikes on alleged drug-running vessels and the legality of any military action against the Venezuelan government, Republican lawmakers have overwhelmingly accepted the administration’s assertions that it is targeting “narco-terrorists” and have declined to preemptively put limitations on a potential effort to overthrow the Nicolás Maduro regime.

The Senate held votes last week on three separate measures to end a series of tariffs that Trump imposed this year, including his sweeping global tariffs; tariffs on Canada that the White House controversially justified by claiming a national fentanyl emergency existed on the northern border; and tariffs on Brazil that the president said were a response to the Brazilian Supreme Court’s criminal case against Trump ally and former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of attempting a coup after his 2022 election loss.

Though each of the resolutions narrowly passed the Senate after a couple of Republicans crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats, the measures face steep procedural hurdles in the House, where Republican leaders have more tools to preemptively block them from being voted on.

“I think we’ve seen probably for the last half-century an ebbing of congressional authority to the executive,” said Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff, a lead sponsor of two recently rejected war powers resolutions related to the military’s maritime attacks on alleged drug smugglers and the growing U.S. naval buildup near Venezuela.

“You could probably add up the sum total of that accretion of executive power in the last several decades, and it will be less than what’s happened in the last several months. Congress needs to reinsert itself, its control over the power of the purse and certainly its war power,” Schiff added.

With Congress under full Republican control and largely absenting itself from imposing any meaningful check on Trump, it will be likely the Supreme Court that acts first on the tariffs question. During oral arguments in a case before the high court this week, a majority of justices sounded skeptical about the administration’s contention that it has essentially unfettered powers to interfere with the U.S. economy through the mercurial imposition of tariffs.

“The legal basis for Trump’s use of tariffs is extremely weak,” said Jordan Tama, a professor at American University who specializes in congressional oversight of U.S. foreign policy. “The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which the Trump administration has cited as the basis for the tariffs, authorizes the use of sanctions in the event of a national emergency that [constitutes] an unusual and extraordinary threat.”

Tama argued that long-running trade deficits could hardly be viewed as unusual under the definition of the law and that the prosecution of a politician in a foreign country such as Brazil didn’t represent an “extraordinary” emergency to the American people. A group of leading economists made a similar argument in an amicus brief filed on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case.

“Every member of Congress should recognize that Trump’s use of tariffs is inconsistent with laws that have been passed by Congress, and therefore all members of Congress should be opposing Trump on that,” Tama continued. “It is sad and distressing to see the vast majority of Republicans voting against these bills. I would say, though, that the bills are not necessarily insignificant even if they are not going to become enacted into law.”

On war powers, just two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul, voted with Democrats this week to forbid the administration from conducting military operations inside Venezuela or against the Maduro regime without explicit congressional authorization. The Nov. 6 procedural motion on the joint resolution failed, 49-51, amid strong opposition from the White House.

The outcome of this week’s failed vote to ban unauthorized military action against Venezuela was virtually identical to a vote on a similar resolution on Oct. 8 that attempted to order an end to Trump’s unauthorized military strikes in the Caribbean. That measure was rejected, 48-51, with Democrat John Fetterman joining Republicans in the vote and Murkowski and Paul voting with Democrats.

Republican Jim Risch, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke in opposition to the legislative effort to block unauthorized military strikes against the Venezuelan government. But his floor remarks focused on the attacks against the alleged drug smugglers, and he did not touch on the growing question of whether Trump aims to overthrow Maduro.

“President Trump has taken decisive action to protect thousands of Americans from lethal narcotics. He’s kept drugs off the streets, kept children alive, and eliminated narco-terrorists, who have been profiting off of the deaths of members of our communities,” Risch said on Thursday. “These people have been transmitting drugs into the United States via a lot of different ways. One of them was by shipping vessels in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific Ocean.”

In the weeks between the two war powers votes, as the number of those killed in the boat strikes steadily ticked upward (now estimated at 70 people), concerns have only grown about the legality of Trump’s actions.

Even though the administration and its Republican backers insist the military is attacking narco-terrorists, when there have been survivors of the strikes, they haven’t been treated the way that other captured terrorists are generally treated by the United States: with imprisonment and prosecution. Rather, survivors have been returned to their home countries—and in at least one of those cases, one of the alleged drug smugglers was released by the Ecuadorian government, which said it did not have legal grounds to detain him.

Behind the scenes, there are signs that more Republicans are not wholly convinced of the administration’s assertions of sweeping legal authority to carry out its military attacks in the Caribbean and nearby Pacific. Democrat Mark Kelly, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was invited to just one classified briefing on the strikes.

“We got one brief, but to be honest, they [the Trump administration] didn’t share all of the information,” Kelly said. “It was fair to say there was bipartisan frustration on the amount of information they would provide us. They would tell us, ‘We’re not going to give you that,’ and in trying to explain to us the legal rationale for doing this, it was rather hard to follow, confusing. They were tying themselves in knots trying to explain this, and they had a lot of questions that they either couldn’t answer or refused to answer.”

For his part, Risch indicated that he was satisfied with the legal justifications that the administration had provided.

“Myself and many of my colleagues have sat recently through hours of briefings and legal analysis by government legal departments and attorneys who have studied this issue,” Risch said in his floor remarks. “Unanimously, they have concluded that the action taken by President Trump is absolutely lawful.”

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Sunday, November 9, 2025 11:26 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

The Trump admin is so much better with internal policy!

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Brennan, Page, & Strzok Hit Today With Russiagate Grand Jury Subpoenas, Up To 30 More Pending

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brennan-page-strzok-hit-today-russ
iagate-grand-jury-subpoenas-30-more-pending

So well deserved!

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The Trump admin is so much better with internal policy!

Fuck you to death, Signym:

"A death sentence"

November 9, 2025 9:22 AM EST

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/promising-clinical-trials-in-alzheimers-p
revention/

Jake Heinrichs is an electrician who carries one of the early-onset genes. The disease claimed his grandmother, uncle, father and brother, all within the same age range. "Symptoms in the 40s and, and dying in 50s," he said.

For Heinrichs growing up, the word Alzheimer's was "a death sentence."

He started getting treatment in Bateman's study in 2013. Though he's definitely getting an antibody called lecanemab now, for the first seven years, he did not know if he was receiving an antibody or placebo. "I was at an age where I should have been showing signs," Heinrichs said, "and I am now at an age that I should probably not even be alive."

His wife, Rachel Chavkin, says over the past three years, he will occasionally repeat a question, but otherwise has shown no cognitive decline since she fell in love with him twenty years ago. "Jake is now 51, which is the age that his father was when he died," she said.

The Trump administration's budget cuts have stopped or delayed millions of dollars in Alzheimer's research. The situation has already had an impact on Bateman's trials. "It's a precarious time," he said. "Research is not like building a building or painting a wall where you can start and then stop for a few years and then go back and resume what you were doing. It's much more like feeding a baby … if you stop doing that for a few weeks, it's irrecoverable."

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Sunday, November 9, 2025 2:43 PM

Fuck off, Second.

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Sunday, November 9, 2025 3:08 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

The first clinical trials were funded by the two pharmas, Eisai and Biogen, that first produced lecanemab, a monoclonal antibody. (Any treatment ending in "mab" is a Monoclonal AntiBody.)

FDA approved lecanemab in 2023.

Heinrichs is no longer in a clinical trial, he's being treated with an FDA-approved medicine.

Don't you like the way CBS news twisted their reporting?

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We started getting treatment in Bateman's study in 2013. Though he's definitely getting an antibody called lecanemab now, for the first seven years, he did not know if he was receiving an antibody or placebo. "I was at an age where I should have been showing signs," Heinrichs said, "and I am now at an age that I should probably not even be alive."

His wife is Broadway director Rachel Chavkin. She says over the past three years, he will occasionally repeat a question, but otherwise has shown no cognitive decline since she fell in love with him twenty years ago. "Jake is now 51, which is the age that his father was when he died," she said.

The Trump administration's budget cuts have stopped or delayed millions of dollars in Alzheimer's research. The situation has already had an impact on Bateman's trials.

But not on Heinrich's treatment

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"It's a precarious time," he said. "Research is not like building a building or painting a wall where you can start and then stop for a few years and then go back and resume what you were doing. It's much more like feeding a baby … if you stop doing that for a few weeks, it's irrecoverable."

The NIH IS funding research on leqanemab, but it's on people in different stages and with garden-variety Alzheimer's.

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Sunday, November 9, 2025 4:31 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.

Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.

You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.
6ix and Trumptards in general need a bullet in the back of their heads to fix what is wrong with them:

Any other platform in the world and Second would have been gone a long time ago.

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Sunday, November 9, 2025 6:29 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.

Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.

You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.
6ix and Trumptards in general need a bullet in the back of their heads to fix what is wrong with them:

Any other platform in the world and Second would have been gone a long time ago.

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No kidding.
He must be feeling extra butt-hurt today. Did you see his response to me?
Maybe he's been slipping cogs lately and is desperate for Alzheimer's research.
Maybe he's upset by Ukraine's defeat in Pokrovsk.
Maybe he lost $$$ on a bad investment.

Hey SECOND, I have an idea: If you're that concerned about Alzheimer's research, why don't you take that fabulous wealth of yours and kick some in? Yanno, follow Gates' example?

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Sunday, November 9, 2025 7:14 PM

Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...

That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.

Personally, I think he's drinking now.

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Sunday, November 9, 2025 11:36 PM

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Trump Urges GOP To Redirect "Democrat-Supported Insurance" Funds Directly To The American People

On Friday, the president posted on X that the insurance-industrial complex, aligned with the Democrats, has seen stock gains soar between 400% and nearly 1,200% since Obamacare was introduced. Meanwhile, the promise of lower healthcare costs under the ACA turned out to be an illusion, as Democrats pushed toward socialized healthcare while serving corporate interests first, not working-class families.

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Sunday, November 9, 2025 11:53 PM

It's exactly what happened when car insurance was mandated, and especially after technology got to the point that the government could easily deny you the sale of your yearly car registration if you couldn't prove you had insurance. Prices went through the roof and have continued to balloon out of control. You know all about that being in the first state where many of the homeowners insurance companies closed shop because it's just simply too expensive to insure people in California anymore.

I've said it 100 times before. Prices for healthcare would never have gotten anywhere near as high as they have if insurance was never a factor. You can simply look to how "relatively" cheap it is to go get glasses or have your teeth worked on compared to anything that takes place in a hospital and/or doctor's office. In most cases, Dentists and Optometrists have to charge what people can afford.

Government and Insurance cannot co-exist.

If the Government is going to ever fix healthcare, the only way for it to do that is to make major sweeping laws banning insurance and forcing hospitals and drug companies to charge reasonable rates for their goods and services. Short of that, the only way they're going to do it is if Government completely absorbs and takes over healthcare. But I sure as shit don't trust them to do it any better than it's being done now.

I hate to sound like a fucking communist, but when it comes to healthcare there shouldn't be trillionaire companies and billionaire CEOs. There shouldn't be any fucking profit in it except for money going back into R&D, and a reasonable salary being paid to the people doing the actual work.

And don't give me any of that bullshit about nobody would do that work without a profit motive. Of course the researchers and developers would be getting paid a reasonable wage for their work. But on top of that, they LOVE doing this work. A lot of them hung around college a lot longer than they needed to so they could continue to do this kind of work with the college grant backing while still eating Ramen noodles on their stipend.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 12:03 AM

And really, at the end of the day, the entire stock market is what really needs to go.

That's what sucked all of the wealth out of the working man.

If you want to know why half the country can't find 40hr per week jobs with health insurance, it's because the money they should be getting paid is getting paid out to investors who aren't doing fuck all instead.

And they give all of you juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust enough of a taste where you all have a vested interest in seeing those numbers grow as your wallet grows threadbare. All for promises of a future that very well might not work out the way the "experts" have predicted your retirement would go if you did the right thing.

Hyperbolic? Perhaps. But it's not as if seniors haven't been worried about their retirement funds in retirement for going on 20 years now. Yeah... We've had some good times and things have more or less worked out so far for anybody who didn't panic sell in the bad times and screw themselves, but with $38 Trillion in debt and things getting worse economically every presidential cycle that passes, why should anybody in their mid-40's believe that all the money they put in a 401k is going to be worth anything in 20 years?

In my mind, the 401k is just another tool they use to instill fear and manipulate behavior on a mass scale.

To the young who could afford it but would have to make a choice, buy the house. Don't put off buying a house so you can fund your 401k. If some international travesty occurs in the future where the USD gets undermined by a foreign currency or a digital currency, the house and the land under it are going to be worth something tangible when those old US notes you're banking online might not buy you toilet paper.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 7:53 AM

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Why didn't Trump do this mass pardon in January? What next? Pardons for Ghislaine Maxwell when the time is right? Pardons for Prince Andrew and pedophiles in general? Pardons for all wealthy tax cheaters? Charles Kushner, the father of Ivanka Trump's husband Jared Kushner, was pardoned by Donald Trump in December 2020. He had pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. Kushner is now the ambassador to France because why not make a criminal an ambassador?

GRANTING PARDONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATED TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION

This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation.

Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Mark Amick
• Kathy Berden
• Christina Bobb
• Tyler Bowyer
• Joseph Brannan
• Carol Brunner
• Mary Buestrin
• Darryl Carlson
• James "Ken" Carroll
• Brad Carver
• Robert Cheeley
• Kenneth Chesebro
• Hank Choate
• Jeffrey Clark
• Vikki Consiglio
• Nancy Cottle
• James DeGraffenreid
• John Downey
• John Eastman
• Jenna Ellis
• Boris Epshteyn
• Amy Facchinello
• Bill Feehan
• Carolyn Fisher
• Harrison Floyd
• Clifford Frost
• Kay Godwin
• Edward Scott Grabins
• Stanley Grot
• Rudolph Giuliani
• John Haggard
• Scott Hall
• Misty Hampton
• David G. Hanna
• Mark Hennessy
• Mari-Ann Henry
• Durward James Hindle III
• Andrew Hitt
• Jake Hoffman
• Burt Jones
• Anthony T. Kern
• Kathy Kiernen
• Timothy King
• Trevian Kutti
• James Lamon
• Cathleen Latham
• Jesse Law
• Stephen Lee
• Michele Lundgren
• Meshawn Maddock
• Michael McDonald
• Mark Meadows
• Shawn Meehan
• Robert Montgomery
• Daryl Moody
• Samuel I. Moorhead
• Loraine Pellegrino
• Sidney Powell
• James Renner
• Eileen Rice
• Mayra Rodriguez
• Mike Roman
• Rose Rook
• Kelly Ruh
• Greg Safsten
• David Shafer
• Marian Sheridan
• Ray Stallings Smith III
• Robert F. Spindell Jr.
• Shawn Still
• Ken Thompson
• Pam Travis
• James Troupis
• Kent Vanderwood
• Kelli Ward
• Michael Ward
• C.B. Yadav

This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
The Attorney General, acting through the Pardon Attorney, shall administer and effectuate the issuance of certificates of pardon to eligible applicants.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 8:09 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's exactly what happened when car insurance was mandated, and especially after technology got to the point that the government could easily deny you the sale of your yearly car registration if you couldn't prove you had insurance. Prices went through the roof and have continued to balloon out of control. You know all about that being in the first state where many of the homeowners insurance companies closed shop because it's just simply too expensive to insure people in California anymore.

Trumptards find the concept of setting things right with insurance after doing wrong (in a car accident for example) as anathema. Trumptards also don't understand the concept of unacceptable risk. Building wooden houses in a forest doesn't seem like a fire risk to them. Building on a steep slope in an earthquake zone doesn't seem like a building collapse risk to Trumptard, but insurance companies see that those unacknowledged risks will bankrupt the insurance company.

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

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Monday, November 10, 2025 8:43 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...

That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.

Personally, I think he's drinking now.

It never crosses the mind of Russians or people like Signym and Trump that they are completely fucked up in the head. When Russian soldiers get shot by Ukrainians, for example, the Russian population blames Ukrainians for being easily offended rather than Russians realizing the soldiers deserved to be killed for what they are doing, saying, acting, and being. It is like in the movie Noah, where none of the evil people were even slightly aware that they were fucked up in the head and God would drown them without asking permission from the evil people for killing them. The evil people had used up all of God's infinite patience and understanding, leaving nothing but the Wrath of God, which the evil people in the movie found completely incomprehensible. The attitude of evil people is: "What? Me do something wrong? It's not me, it's God did something wrong to me." Evil people never understand why they deserve to die, whether in Noah's Flood or in America or Russia. That inability to see what a crazy asshole Trump is explains why Trumptards act the way they do and suffer for it the way Trump never will because he is rich.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 8:46 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...

That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.

Personally, I think he's drinking now.
It never crosses the mind of Russians or people like Signym and Trump that they are completely fucked up in the head.

Don't forget me!

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Monday, November 10, 2025 8:53 AM

Yanno... the most offensive part of your stupidity, Second, is how you take every single person you've ever had a disagreement with and threw them all in a trash bin called "Trumptard". Every one of them are all the same to you.

I know that Democrat voters vote Democrat for an extremely wide variety of reasons. They're all buying one lie or another.

It's not any of those at the bottom that I begrudge. Those that believe they're better off voting the way they do when their back is always against the wall and they can't save a nickle. They vote Democrat out of desperation, ignorance of the issues, and a high propensity to buy somebody's bullshit because of how bad they've got it.

It's you rich and rich wannabe liberal white people I've got a problem with. The ones running the shit. The cult recruiters and the cult leaders that are always getting the desperate to vote against their own long-term self-interests for short-term gains.

Ya'all can go fuck yourselves.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 9:32 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...

That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.

Personally, I think he's drinking now.
It never crosses the mind of Russians or people like Signym and Trump that they are completely fucked up in the head. When Russian soldiers get shot by Ukrainians, for example, the Russian population blames Ukrainians for being easily offended rather than Russians realizing the soldiers deserved to be killed for what they are doing, saying, acting, and being. It is like in the movie Noah, where none of the evil people were even slightly aware that they were fucked up in the head and God would drown them without asking permission from the evil people for killing them. The evil people had used up all of God's infinite patience and understanding, leaving nothing but the Wrath of God, which the evil people in the movie found completely incomprehensible. The attitude of evil people is: "What? Me do something wrong? It's not me, it's God did something wrong to me." Evil people never understand why they deserve to die, whether in Noah's Flood or in America or Russia. That inability to see what a crazy asshole Trump is explains why Trumptards act the way they do and suffer for it the way Trump never will because he is rich.

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

SECOND, you're making even less sense than usual.
You posted something about using up God's infinite patience.
BUT If patience was infinite, it couldn't be used up, could it?

Something has seriously gone wrong in your world.
Did you get bad news from your doctor?
That WOULD put kink in your plan to live forever, wouldn't it?

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

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Monday, November 10, 2025 4:40 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yanno... the most offensive part of your stupidity, Second, is how you take every single person you've ever had a disagreement with and threw them all in a trash bin called "Trumptard". Every one of them are all the same to you.

I know that Democrat voters vote Democrat for an extremely wide variety of reasons. They're all buying one lie or another.

It's not any of those at the bottom that I begrudge. Those that believe they're better off voting the way they do when their back is always against the wall and they can't save a nickle. They vote Democrat out of desperation, ignorance of the issues, and a high propensity to buy somebody's bullshit because of how bad they've got it.

It's you rich and rich wannabe liberal white people I've got a problem with. The ones running the shit. The cult recruiters and the cult leaders that are always getting the desperate to vote against their own long-term self-interests for short-term gains.

Ya'all can go fuck yourselves.

My "values" don't closely match the Democratic party. For example, I am for guns and for the death penalty, but those are not widely held valuable beliefs among the Democrats, and yet I have never in my life felt, known, detected, seen anything that strikes me as crazy, sick, mentally defective, evil, or poisonous about any Democrat. There are some silly Democrats, but nothing about them is seriously objectionable. I never get the feeling that a Democrat even needs to be yelled at or punched in the face, and certainly never that America is being harmed by a Democrat who doesn't share my so-called "values".

On the other hand, every fucking Trumptard I have gotten downwind from smells like they are not human. The stink of decay and evil surrounds all the Trumptards that I have gotten close enough to catch their rotten scent. My opinion about Trumptards is not shared by any Democrats I know. Democrats still think, despite all evidence accumulated over decades, that evil people can be persuaded with words to behave better. I don't think Trumptards get better; they only get rottener with time, like unrefrigerated meat.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 4:51 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

SECOND, you're making even less sense than usual.
You posted something about using up God's infinite patience.
BUT If patience was infinite, it couldn't be used up, could it?

Something has seriously gone wrong in your world.
Did you get bad news from your doctor?
That WOULD put kink in your plan to live forever, wouldn't it?

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

Signym, you support Russia. Your signature means the opposite of what Kissinger meant because you clipped out words. There is nothing I hate more than a goddamn lying sack of shit like you who makes fake facts, and can't or won't understand their own lies. Signym, you have never understood what is wrong with your signature. Never, because you are completely fucked up in the head, from the very first time I read anything you wrote. You ooze fuckedup-ness.

Henry Kissinger did use a version of the phrase, but it was a specific internal warning taken out of context, not a general public statement of his own opinion. The full quote, from a private phone call to William F. Buckley Jr. in November 1968, before Nixon's inauguration, was:
"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if [South Vietnamese President] Thieu meets the same fate as [his predecessor] Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."

Context and Meaning:

Kissinger was warning against abandoning allies, not stating his belief that being a U.S. friend was inherently a bad idea.

He argued that the U.S. needed to protect its allies (specifically Thieu) to maintain its international credibility and prevent the perception that aligning with America led to ruin.

The widely circulated, truncated version of the quote "To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal" reverses his original intent.

So, while he said the words, they were part of a conditional statement about the perception of U.S. reliability, and not the definitive, cynical epigram it is often portrayed as.

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