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

Crossing the line? Are you kidding me?

I've archived so many assassination fantasies, calls for assassination, threats against other members here and suggestions that they kill themselves out of Second that I stopped bothering archiving them. They've become trite at this point, just like all 3 of his regular personal insults he'll hurl out on a daily basis when he's being destroyed by facts.

Neither Ted nor Second have spent a single second of their lives engaging in any form of self-reflection.

They are completely oblivious to how evil they have become.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 12:31 AM

Somebody ask Mamdani this question for me...

Now he's going to tell you the answer is 67, but I assure you this is wrong.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 7:50 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

As I said from day one, that lying slut isn't going to get a dime.

Why are you littering theses boards with assassination plots, telling people that they should kill themselves and your desire to murder everyone you don't agree with everyday?

6ix, if Indiana is anything like the areas in Texas where Trumptards are the dominant faction, I'm guessing your associates are a bunch of fucking liars, rapists, and Nazis. In any Trumptardish society, there will be almost nothing but liars, rapists and Nazis if you don't kill them, or at least threaten them, when they overtly display their habitual depravity. That is because Trumptards are fundamentally NOT honest, hardworking, truthful, smart, brave people. After all, Trump is not, either. Please, please don't claim that Trumptards are "good" since I'm around them all the time and Trumptards are "bad", which is why they complain about virtue signalling. Virtue makes Trumptards feel itchy because they are allergic to it.

War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Grocery Prices Are Way Down.

Lying has worked for Trump in the past. Is this a lie too far?

Paul Krugman | Nov 12, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-gro
cery

Well, whaddya know:

Trump now just as unpopular as Biden during inflation surge
Difference between the share of Americans who approve and disapprove of the way the president is handling "prices and inflation," percentage points.

Donald Trump continues to say that polls showing that Americans are unhappy about the economy are “fake.” But the blowout Democratic victories in last week’s elections may have given him a wakeup call. As the New York Times reported, Trump “has mentioned affordability as much in the last week as he has in the past nine months.”

But the Times went on to engage in some serious false equivalence:

Mr. Trump risks being in a similar position as his predecessor, defending his record by pointing to statistics that don’t capture a troubling reality that many Americans are feeling.

Sorry, but that’s a false comparison. You might even call it fake news — because Trump is not, in fact, pointing to any statistics. He’s just lying.

It is true that Biden officials liked to cite statistics that presented a favorable picture of the economy, but they were genuine statistics and did indeed seem to show an economy in pretty good shape.

Trump, by contrast, is engaged in what CNN calls a “lying spree” about inflation. We all know that many media organizations have long had a habit of “sanewashing” Trump, downplaying the craziness of his remarks. What we’re seeing now is “truthwashing,” pretending that there is some factual justification for bald-faced lies.

Let’s talk for a minute about what happened under Biden, then turn to Trump’s pants-on-fire claims about prices.

Biden officials never denied that there was a surge in inflation during 2021 and 2022. They did, however, claim that the surge was transitory. “Transitory” turned out to be much longer than they (and the Federal Reserve) initially predicted, but the surge was nonetheless temporary: Inflation peaked in mid-2022, then fell rapidly over the next 2 years. And this disinflation, defying the predictions of many economists, took place without a recession.

Biden’s people also never denied that prices were higher than they had been before the pandemic. But they said, correctly, that wages had risen even more, so that most workers’ purchasing power was higher despite the rise in prices. In 2024, Biden declared that “we’re proving that we can bring down inflation while safeguarding hard-won gains in jobs and real wages in American workers.” This was a completely truthful claim.

The chart below shows hourly wages for typical workers and consumer prices, both as indexes with January 2020, the eve of the pandemic, set to 100:

By 2024, prices were about 20 percent higher than pre-pandemic — but wages were 25 percent higher. Real wages were indeed up.

In case you’re wondering, that temporary wage bump in 2020 was a statistical illusion created by pandemic distortions, which is why you want to use pre-pandemic wages to evaluate wages under Biden.

Unfortunately for the Biden team, it’s a well-established observation that when wages and prices both rise, people tend to feel victimized, believing that they earned their wage gains only to have the benefits snatched away by inflation — even if wages rose more than prices. I’ll talk more about that in this weekend’s primer. And when there’s a global inflation shock, as there was in 2021-2023, incumbent governments take much of the blame no matter what they do — which is why, as John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times has noted, 2024 was a “graveyard of incumbents” around the world.

Biden should have been out there much more. He should have said, “I feel your pain,” acknowledging voter distress. But he didn’t. And as G. Elliott Morris notes, in 2024 voters who said that the economy was their most important issue favored Trump by 63 points over Kamala Harris.

This worm has, however, turned with astonishing speed. In last week’s gubernatorial elections, economy-focused voters favored Democrats by almost 30 points — a 90-point swing. Voters appear to have decided that Trump’s campaign promises to bring prices down were fraudulent, and punished his party accordingly.

Trump could respond to voters’ harsh verdict on his economic policies by citing real economic numbers, which aren’t all bad. He could acknowledge that there are problems but promise that prosperity is just around the corner. He could even change course, trying to address real concerns about affordability.

That is, he could do these things if he were a completely different person. What he’s doing instead, being who he is, is trying to gaslight America, claiming that everything is wonderful.

I won’t try to go through the full list of Trump’s economic lies. Daniel Dale has a fairly comprehensive run-through at CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/inflation-trump-fact-check

Let me just take one example, gas prices, which Trump says are at their lowest level in two decades and close to $2 a gallon. That’s not what official data say, but Trump has a habit of insisting that government numbers he doesn’t like are fake and politically motivated — he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a weak jobs report. As it happens, however, several private organizations independently track gasoline prices to help drivers find the best deals. And they show gas above $3 a gallon and nowhere near a record low. Here, for example, is Gasbuddy.com:

https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts

Still, Trump has lied a lot over time, and in general it has worked for him. Will this time be different?

Yes. Voters do sometimes believe lies, but not the kind of lies Trump is telling.

Voters can sometimes be convinced, falsely, that bad things are happening to other people, even when they themselves are doing OK. Many Americans who don’t live in Chicago probably believe administration claims that the city, which just had its safest summer since the 1960s, is a war zone.

But telling people that things are great when their personal experience says otherwise is different. Are violent mobs overrunning Portland? If you watch Fox News, you might believe that. Are groceries “way down,” as Trump keeps insisting? Anyone who does their own food shopping — even Republicans — knows that this isn’t true. Reupping a chart from yesterday’s post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/tablet/2025/10/30/oct-24-28-2025-washin
gton-post-abc-news-ipsos-poll/

So, why have voters turned so negative, so quickly, on Trump’s management of the economy? Objectively, the economy is worse in some important respects than it was last year. We haven’t seen mass layoffs (yet?), but finding jobs has gotten much harder. Here’s the “labor market differential,” the difference between the percentage of people saying jobs are plentiful and those saying they’re hard to get:

Source: Conference Board via Haver Analytics

Furthermore, we’re experiencing “K-shaped” economic growth, with those at the top doing well but those further down losing ground. Many people on both the left and the right claimed that this was happening under Biden, but the truth was the opposite: Under Biden, wages at the bottom consistently rose faster than wages at the top. This year, however, that pattern has been reversed:

Source: Atlanta Fed https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker

As that left-wing rag the Wall Street Journal points out, the only people who seem to be feeling good about the economy right now are those who own a lot of stock.

But I believe that the turn against Trump is also in large part a backlash against his attempts to gaslight the public about the true state of the economy. Once again, these attempts aren’t about putting a positive spin on the data. They’re just flat-out lies.

And Democrats should hammer those lies as proof not just that Trump is utterly dishonest, but that he’s completely out of touch with the reality of American life.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 9:29 AM

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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump promised Americans $2,000 each from the "trillions of dollars" in tariff revenue he said his administration has collected.

"People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!," Trump said in a Nov. 9 Truth Social post. "We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion."

How seriously should people take his pledge?

https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/nov/10/Trump-tariff-dividend-2
000-stimulus/

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 9:52 AM

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Tax breaks in President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” will primarily benefit high-net-worth individuals and those with high incomes. But what is the definition of "wealthy"? Zane Sanchez, a tax manager with the accounting and business advisory firm Snyder Cohn, says it could be considered anyone making more than $200,000 or $250,000 for married couples filing jointly. "That's around the point where a lot of these provisions start to kick in."

Below is a look at six key provisions in the bill that largely favor upper-income individuals and families:

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-5590112/trump-beautiful-bill-taxe
s-republican-rich-wealthy

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 1:29 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Crossing the line? Are you kidding me?

I've archived so many assassination fantasies, calls for assassination, threats against other members here and suggestions that they kill themselves out of Second that I stopped bothering archiving them. They've become trite at this point, just like all 3 of his regular personal insults he'll hurl out on a daily basis when he's being destroyed by facts.

Neither Ted nor Second have spent a single second of their lives engaging in any form of self-reflection.

They are completely oblivious to how evil they have become.

From what I read, Nazis and ordinary Germans who weren't ambitious enough to join the party saw themselves as Heroes, and the Allies as Evil (and Jews, too!). How could the Allies' firebombing of Germany not be evil? How could allowing Jews not be evil? Translating into a Trumptard analogy, how can allowing illegal aliens to live in America not be evil? How can allowing a Communist Muslim mayor of NYNY not be evil? How can allowing speedboats carrying drugs not be evil? That is in reference to Trump ordering boats bombed and their crews killed. Not once has a Democratic President ordered the execution of criminals BEFORE trial, but Trump has many, many times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_military_strikes_on_a
lleged_drug_traffickers

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 1:29 PM

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Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever

Even though he doesn’t want you to think so

By Mark Leibovich | November 12, 2025, 10:16 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-lame-duck-third-ter
m-prospects/684899/

For a president who wants to project vigor and command at all times, Donald Trump made the worst possible spectacle of himself in the Oval Office last Thursday.

It came in the form of two images captured during a press event to announce cheaper weight-loss drugs. The first materialized when a participant fainted and several officials on hand rushed over. Not Trump, however, who, after turning to look at the fallen man, stood a few feet away at the Resolute Desk with his back to the action, wearing an indifferent expression. This was pointedly reflected in news photos that instantly went viral.

The second image, less noticed but possibly more damning, was memorialized just beforehand: As Mehmet Oz, the administration’s head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, delivered remarks, Trump appeared to be nodding off at his desk. The Washington Post, in keeping with its dogged Watergate-era traditions, undertook a thorough “analysis of multiple video feeds” and confirmed that, indeed, the 79-year-old president had “spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open.”

“He put his hand on his temple,” the Post investigation concluded. “He slouched in his chair.”

The White House denied that the president had been asleep, echoing Trump’s past sensitivities toward perceived somnolence. But there was something else going on here. The administration has sought to portray Trump as the main driver of all events at all times—potent, essential, and fully engaged. If there has been one unified message coming out of this White House, it’s been that of a presidency in perpetual motion. Yet Trump has looked much less daunting and invincible in recent days. He has been criticized for appearing checked out and oblivious to the economic hardships facing Americans, a sentiment reinforced by voters last Tuesday. Above all, Trump, who is not eligible to run for reelection in 2028—at least that’s what some people think—is loath to be seen as a lame duck. And yet, he is a lamer duck now than he was just a short while ago.

Last week was rough for Trump in that regard. Republicans suffered election routs in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, as well as in a statewide ballot initiative pushed by California Governor Gavin Newsom. It wasn’t only that Democrats prevailed by massive margins or that the results confirmed that Trump’s second-term act was playing terribly with a critical mass of Americans, including many of those who’d voted for him. The GOP’s losses suddenly made Trump look vulnerable. By my informal estimation (without the benefit of “multiple video feeds”), “lame duck” was applied more often to Trump last week than in any prior stretch of his second term.

“Donald Trump Enters His Lame Duck Era,” declared one post-election headline in Politico. The accompanying article cataloged recent signs of Republican defiance of Trump. It led with a scene in which the president summoned Senate Republicans to the White House and demanded that they eliminate the filibuster. “Upon returning to the Capitol, the senators made it very clear: they planned to blow Trump off,” according to Politico. (Mike Rounds of South Dakota apparently “laughed out loud.”)

No officeholder welcomes being labeled a lame duck. From its earliest adoption, the phrase has never been meant as a term of flattery. Senator Lazarus Powell of Kentucky is credited with the first political usage, in 1863, when he described the U.S. Court of Claims as “a receptacle of ‘lame ducks’ or broken down politicians.” Over time, lame duck evolved into more of a time marker, referring to an elected official completing their final phase in office.

That’s the clinical definition, at least. But lame duck also carries deeper connotations of diminishing cachet, relating to a leader’s lost status and creeping powerlessness. These notions are especially toxic to Trump. Since returning to the White House, he has governed with unchecked abandon, enjoying the total compliance and indulgence of his party. Nowhere has this been more evident than among Republicans in Congress, who have given every impression of living in abject fear of Trump, his loyalty enforcers, and his voters.

It is not difficult to see how being discussed as a weakened short-timer would inflict particular psychic injury upon Trump. Such a status represents an intolerable affront not only to his own grandiosity but also to his political power. Trump and his allies have worked to foster a sense of unquestioned authority and even permanence. Whether or not he is serious about running for a third term, he has been happy to publicly entertain the prospect. “Most any Republican is too intimidated to suggest he might not run again,” Ed Rogers, a longtime GOP lobbyist and former aide to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, told me. Having this unconstitutional gambit in circulation became a strategic taunt after a while, “to keep people glancing at each other, asking, ‘Could he do it?’” Rogers said. “This has caused a pause on the traditional creep of lame-duckedness.”

Trump was more definitive when the third-term prospect came up last month, admitting that he wouldn’t be allowed to run. But Tuesday’s election results struck a blow against his sense of almighty armor. “Trump’s Superman mythology just had 100 pounds of kryptonite shoved down its throat,” Mike Murphy, a vehemently anti-Trump Republican media consultant, told me.

Beyond the undertones of lost influence, being a lame duck can also suggest a president distracted, disengaged, and biding time. Again, these notions would seem anathema to everything Trump wants to convey. Theoretically, at least.

Voters keep identifying the high cost of living as their chief concern. Trump, meanwhile, has displayed a Marie Antoinette–like indifference to the economic struggles that so many Americans keep mentioning. He has recently devoted time to overseeing the construction of a new White House patio and ballroom, hosting a Great Gatsby–themed party at Mar-a-Lago, and reportedly trying to have the future home stadium of the Washington Commanders named after him.

“His gold-leaf excess and ‘Let ’em eat cake’ tone-deafness will likely wear ever thinner,” Mark Updegrove, a presidential historian and the head of the LBJ Foundation, told me. Updegrove, the author of a book titled Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House, predicted that Trump would never “back off his ballroom ambitions,” regardless of how they might be perceived. Trump clearly enjoys the idea that he can build and adorn as he pleases. He will insist on these projects, Updegrove said, “like a toddler unwilling to surrender a lollipop.”

Trump’s Oval Office photo snafu notwithstanding, even casual observers would expect that he will do everything possible to keep himself at center stage for as long as he can. Histrionics are definitely possible. “Like the mob boss with terminal cancer” is Murphy’s comparison, by which he means that Trump will be sure to make himself dangerous to anyone who questions his full authority and treats him as a lame duck.

This almost certainly will extend to the 2028 campaign. Trump almost certainly will insist on full deference from any Republican hoping to succeed him. He almost certainly will devote zero energy to things like “building the Republican bench” or “grooming his successor” or “extending gracious gestures to his worthy Democratic adversaries.”

And the term lame duck will almost certainly remain verboten around the White House until the minute Trump departs the premises for good—assuming that he ever does.

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

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:46 PM

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Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever

Even though he doesn’t want you to think so

Oh yeah?

Then why did the Democrats cave exactly when I told you they would?

They sure aren't playing like they've got a winning hand.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:48 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Crossing the line? Are you kidding me?

I've archived so many assassination fantasies, calls for assassination, threats against other members here and suggestions that they kill themselves out of Second that I stopped bothering archiving them. They've become trite at this point, just like all 3 of his regular personal insults he'll hurl out on a daily basis when he's being destroyed by facts.

Neither Ted nor Second have spent a single second of their lives engaging in any form of self-reflection.

They are completely oblivious to how evil they have become.
From what I read, Nazis and ordinary Germans who weren't ambitious enough to join the party saw themselves as Heroes, and the Allies as Evil (and Jews, too!). How could the Allies' firebombing of Germany not be evil? How could allowing Jews not be evil? Translating into a Trumptard analogy, how can allowing illegal aliens to live in America not be evil? How can allowing a Communist Muslim mayor of NYNY not be evil? How can allowing speedboats carrying drugs not be evil? That is in reference to Trump ordering boats bombed and their crews killed. Not once has a Democratic President ordered the execution of criminals BEFORE trial, but Trump has many, many times.

Wow. Talk about a false equivalency.

You're deranged.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:51 PM

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Well, whaddya know:

Trump now just as unpopular as Biden during inflation surge
Difference between the share of Americans who approve and disapprove of the way the president is handling "prices and inflation," percentage points.

First off, this isn't even truth. Once again, your propagandists are cherry picking polls to get to those "facts" for their idiot readers.

And the second thing is that Joe Biden* wrecked everything when things were going well and made it worse for the next 3 years straight. 95% of the higher prices than we're paying 5 years ago was all under Joe Biden*'s watch.

That's the bitch about inflation. Inflation that you straight-up denied was even happening for 4 years. Nobody wants to hear a fucking word out of Paul Krugman today after all the lies and incorrect predictions.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 3:11 PM

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 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever

Even though he doesn’t want you to think so

Oh yeah?

Then why did the Democrats cave exactly when I told you they would?

They sure aren't playing like they've got a winning hand.

It was NOT the Democratic Party caving; it was the crazies and the assholes who caved. John Fetterman, poster child for mental illness, caved. Dick Durbin, tired, worn-out, and fragile asshole, caved. I can confidently say that almost none of the Senate Democrats nowadays would have the energy to go to war against the German Nazis, no matter what atrocities were occurring in Europe in the 1930s. The modern-day Democrats are so over-civilized that they would be unable to do something vicious, violent and irreversible, like killing historic Nazis or modern Nazis, another group of semi-humans well deserving to die screaming for mercy. Democrats are too polite, passive, decent, and uncertain about the borderline between good/evil to kill their own food, let alone kill their own enemies.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/8-democrats-voted-with-republica
ns-on-a-shutdown-deal-heres-what-theyve-said-about-why

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 3:35 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever

Even though he doesn’t want you to think so

Oh yeah?

Then why did the Democrats cave exactly when I told you they would?

They sure aren't playing like they've got a winning hand.
It was NOT the Democratic Party caving;

Yes. It was.

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it was the crazies and the assholes who caved.

They are all crazies and assholes. These 8 were just crazies and assholes that you happen to disagree with.

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John Fetterman, poster child for mental illness, caved.

What? You guys used to love Fetterman a few years ago.

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Dick Durbin, tired, worn-out, and fragile asshole, caved.

Okay. You've got me there.

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I can confidently say that almost none of the Senate Democrats nowadays would have the energy to go to war against the German Nazis, no matter what atrocities were occurring in Europe in the 1930s. The modern-day Democrats are so over-civilized that they would be unable to do something vicious, violent and irreversible, like killing historic Nazis or modern Nazis, another group of semi-humans well deserving to die screaming for mercy. Democrats are too polite, passive, decent, and uncertain about the borderline between good/evil to kill their own food, let alone kill their own enemies.

I nominate you for the job, loser.

It's not like you have anything else going on in your sad, lonely little retirement.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 3:41 PM

And I've already covered why those 5 were chosen to vote along with the 3 who were already going to support the end of the shutdown 2 days ago in the SNAP thread, where I also made my correct prediction about when Democrats would cave...

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=67191

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

If the fact that Hillary Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine was one of the 5 Democrats that joined Fetterman and the other two Democrats siding with Republicans on the Shutdown didn't make you raise an eyebrow, the fact that Dick Durbin was on the list of Democratic defectors should tell EVERYONE all they need to know about this terrible show the Democrats just put on. Dick Durbin already voted against Republicans 15 times on this shutdown, and if nobody higher up ordered him to do otherwise, he'd just keep right on doing that until the sun implodes. Dick Durbin hates Trump more than JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson.

So... What do all 5 of the Democratic Senators that jumped the fence last night have in common?

They're all old and on their way out.

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois
Age: 81
Retiring from Senate next year...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Durbin

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Age: 77
Retiring from Senate next year...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Shaheen

Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
Age: 67
No plans on retiring yet, but dude is a very old looking 67 and probably wouldn't mind a forced exit out of politics since he probably never would do it of his own volition since the money and perks are just too good.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Kaine

Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
Age: 67
Another person who was eligible for SS benefits a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Hassan

Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada
Age: 68
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacky_Rosen
Ditto...

Sacrificial lambs, the entire lot of them.

Look at MSNBC and all the Lefty shitrags ripping them to shreds over it today.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 4:15 PM

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

Have you ever wondered why people are evil? Evil as in #RootingForPutin? Or voting for Trump?
Here is the least evil act I can find, along with the reasons the people gave for what they did:

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation

By Hannah B. Waldfogel | November 10, 2025

https://behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-
carts-a-somewhat-scientific-investigation/

Why don’t people return their carts?

People had all sorts of reactions to being asked to do the right thing (see Figure 1). There were those who deflected, challenging the question itself rather than answering it. Do you work here? Are you the cart police? Do you represent this company? Who are you? Can I see your ID? Do you have any authority? Who do you work for? Who do you think you are? Why don’t you get a real job?

Some responded with anger and aggression. They yelled, cursed, and mocked. Some threatened to (or did) call law enforcement. Others escalated further, brandishing weapons like guns, tasers, or knives. “I’m gonna slash your face,” warned one man. “Why don’t I kick your ass?” asked another. A third shopper told the Cart Narc, “This is how you get killed.” If only returning the cart stirred as much passion as did refusing to.

Then there were the many, many excuses. In over half of the encounters I watched, shoppers provided at least one justification for their choice to abandon the cart (see Figure 2).

Many invoked entitlement, sometimes mentioning an identity they believed exempted them from common decency. “I worked at Safeway for lots of years and people left their carts all the time,” one man said. Another explained his choice to leave his cart by saying, “After 40 years of working retail grocery, I’ve earned it.” Earned what, exactly? The right to not pick up after yourself?

There were those who cited physical limitations barring them from cart return. “I’m 72 years old. I can’t walk that far,” explained a man after pushing his cart to the furthest edge of the lot. Another shopper clarified her choice to leave the cart in the middle of a handicap parking spot by mentioning, “I’m handicapped myself.” And one woman, upon being confronted about leaving her cart, declared, “I have really bad vertigo,” before getting behind the wheel and driving away. To be clear: Disabilities deserve accommodation. But if you could push the full cart to your car, why couldn’t you return the empty one?

Other people were simply too busy to return their carts. “I’m over an hour late to my own kid’s birthday party,” revealed one hurried shopper. “We have somewhere we need to be,” another alleged, before spending the next eight minutes arguing with the Cart Narc about how he didn’t have time to return his cart. Some mentioned inconvenience. “Them carts don’t even roll,” one shopper complained, after going out of his way to dig the wheels of his cart straight into grass and dirt.

Many justified their behavior by invoking norms and pointing to other cart abandoners. “Everyone else puts them there,” one shopper said, leaving his cart with a gaggle of similarly unreturned ones. “The culture around here is doing it,” insisted another, as if not returning one’s cart were a local tradition. This reasoning—everyone else does it—pairs best with a juice box and a timeout. If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?

Another type of excuse invoked other people by shifting responsibility (or blame) to others. Many shoppers pointed to their choice to leave the cart as a form of job stability or creation. “They pay someone to collect them all” explained one man. Another insisted that returning the cart is selfish because, “You’re putting someone out of a job.” It’s true that many stores do employ people to gather carts, but the job is to collect them from designated return areas—not to chase them down across the lot like loose cattle.

In some interactions I watched, people feigned ignorance. Like the woman who was unaware that carts shouldn’t be left on the curb: “I don’t know where we’re supposed to put them. I typically stop at Ralph’s.” As if basic decency is wildly store-specific.

My personal favorite justifications were the ones that invoked habitual good behavior, explaining their choice to not return their cart by saying they always put their cart away. “Ninety-nine percent of the time I put it back,” insisted a shopper after not putting his back.

But, between the shouting and the excuses, there were people who, upon being asked to return their cart, did. Some weren’t happy about it. “There’s too much going on in the world to pay attention to that,” one man grumbled while wheeling his back to the corral. Another threatened to break the Cart Narc’s arm before, incredibly, returning his cart. Others returned theirs silently. A few even owned up to their mistake. “I just got Cart Narc-ed! I apologize,” said one shopper. (Watch one cart abandoner’s mea culpa below).

What does behavioral science say?

We can also look to existing research in the social and behavioral sciences for insight into why people don’t return their carts.

Much more at https://behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-
carts-a-somewhat-scientific-investigation/

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Have you ever wondered why people are evil? Evil as in #RootingForPutin? Or voting for Trump?
Here is the least evil act I can find, along with the reasons the people gave for what they did:

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation

I always return my shopping carts. I'm not an entitled, self-centered Democrat voting dipshit.

You and I both know that every one of these people in the article voted Democrat.

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Have you ever wondered why people are evil? Evil as in #RootingForPutin? Or voting for Trump?
Here is the least evil act I can find, along with the reasons the people gave for what they did:

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation

I always return my shopping carts. I'm not an entitled, self-centered Democrat voting dipshit.

You and I both know that every one of these people in the article voted Democrat.

I do NOT believe you. What I do believe is that Trumptards are fundamentally (#RootinForPutin) evil, as is Trump. The Trumptards suspect Trump raped those children, because that is what they would do in Trump's position, so they are protecting him from the consequences to protect themselves from the consequences of supporting Evil and being rapists themselves, if given the opportunity with little risk of being caught:

MAGA goes quiet on the "Epstein files"

By Tal Axelrod | November 12, 2025

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/12/maga-epstein-files-trump

Some of the biggest "Epstein files" fire-breathers from recent years were silent Wednesday after Democrats released a trove of new emails that included mentions of President Trump.

Why it matters: What started as a conspiracy-laden search for answers against the deep state has turned (for some) into a defensive posture to protect Trump from two of the right's biggest bogeymen — Democrats, and the media.

What they're saying: Mentions of Epstein were sparse across MAGA social media accounts and podcasts in the hours after the email dump.

Elon Musk, the billionaire X owner and on-again, off-again Trump ally, posted nothing Wednesday morning after lamenting in July over a supposed lack of transparency by the administration over the investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Steve Bannon, the influential "War Room" host, did not discuss Epstein on the morning edition of his podcast after framing the push for Epstein disclosures in July as a core part of the fight against the "deep state."

Zoom out: "As soon as the legacy media suddenly started caring about it, and only about one person in particular, it became sus to MAGA," said The National Pulse's Raheem Kassam.

Attitudes started shifting when The Wall Street Journal reported in July that Trump wrote Epstein a birthday note saying "may every day be another wonderful secret" — inside the outline of a naked woman.
A picture of the note was later published to confirm the report, but MAGA's tide had already turned.
"I'd say MAGA/base looks at Democrats as corrupt and untrustworthy messengers, and anything they do damages credibility of the message," Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle texted Axios. He noted Trump kicked Epstein out of his club before his crimes were known.

Catch up quick: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released emails Wednesday in which Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, wrote that Trump "knew about the girls" and that Trump had "spent hours at my house" with one victim.

Trump has denied any involvement in Epstein's crimes and said he and Epstein had a falling-out over unrelated issues.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that Democrats "selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump."
"The Democrats are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they'll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they've done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects. Only a very bad, or stupid, Republican would fall into that trap," Trump added in a Truth Social post.

Hours after Democrats released their documents, House Republicans released their own.

What's next: The swearing-in of Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday will allow Democrats and a handful of Republicans to force a House vote on mandating the Justice Department release files from its case into Epstein.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) are leading the charge for Republicans, though it is largely fueled by Democrats.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) says the bill is unnecessary given a similar inquiry by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
If it passes a House vote, the measure is not expected to pass the GOP-held Senate.

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Cheap crap passed off as "REAL gold!" by Trump

Donald Trump appeared to deny speculation that the '24 karat gold' decorations in his revamped Oval Office came from Home Depot

Donald Trump showed off the '24-karat gold' decorations in his newly revamped Oval Office during a tour this week - and took the opportunity to swat down online rumors they came from Home Depot.

The president invited Fox News' Laura Ingraham for a walk-through of his redesigned White House while on a break from a sit-down interview.

He proudly pointed out the gilded details - which had been mocked online as resembling $58 trinkets from the hardware store - saying: 'You know one thing with gold? You can't imitate gold. There's no paint that imitates gold.'

The conservative host then directly asked the president: 'So these aren't, like, from Home Depot or something?'

'No, this is not Home Depot stuff. This is not Home Depot,' Trump replied.

Ingraham captioned the video on Facebook: 'In the Oval Office with President Trump and can confirm that it is REAL gold!'

The president has previously bragged about redecorating the Oval Office with '24 karat' gold spectacles, including gold medallions over the fireplace, Rococo mirrors hung over the doors, and golden eagles perched on the office side tables.

Nine months into his second term, the golden trinkets are more noticeable during visits from foreign leaders and press conferences.

Donald Trump appeared to deny speculation that the '24 karat gold' decorations in his revamped Oval Office came from Home Depot

Trump claimed he took care of the bill himself for these decorations without costing the American taxpayer a single cent. (No bill was shown to prove that Trump paid. No cancelled checks from Trump's bank account to prove how much he paid.)

However, recent social media posts suggest the decorations are sold by Home Depot as DIY accessories marketed as 'polyurethane appliqué' for $58.

The Daily Mail could not independently verify the claims in the report.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-bristles-as-laura-ingrah
am-awkwardly-asks-if-gold-adorning-oval-office-is-from-home-depot/ar-AA1QgG0R

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gov.newsom.press.office

Trump: Newsom is a horrible governor. If he ran the country like that, our country would be gone.

NEWSOM: YES. I DON'T RUN CALIFORNIA THE WAY HE RUNS AMERICA. I DON'T BUILD BALLROOMS, BAILOUT ARGENTINA, STARVE AMERICANS, BASE POLICY ON MY TERROR OF WINDMILLS & THE MYSTERY OF MAGNETS, AND I DON'T ATTACK OUR CITIES. I HAVE THE 4TH LARGEST ECONOMY. HE HAS THE 4TH LARGEST CANKLES.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2650312661859103/posts/429217890433912
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So Republican congressman Thomas Massie stands up for Epstein victims, and Trump immediately goes live on the air to say he's an "insurgent" who should be "taken out."
WHAT ON EARTH IS IN THOSE FILES?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-urges-navy-veteran-cha
llenge-gop-rep-thomas-massie-kentucky-seat-rcna238300

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AVERAGE HEALTH CARE COSTS IN THE UNITED STATES:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between $30k and $150k.
And that’s NOT including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.

Cost in Canada for all of these? $0
Cost in the UK? $0
Cost in Australia? $0

And yet Republicans just shut down the government in order to make health care EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE for the average American, just to give their billionaire pals yet ANOTHER giant tax cut.

https://imgur.com/gallery/f-NDsDQar

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The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care

For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations

By Paul Krugman | Nov 13, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-republican-brain-doesnt-want

There are almost 150 million dwelling units in America. Most homes are covered by insurance, and most home insurance covers losses due to fire. Yet in a normal year there are fewer than 400,000 home fires. Even if we allow for the fact that some homeowners don’t have insurance and some policies don’t cover fire damage, the vast majority of homeowners are paying for fire coverage that they will never use.

Clearly, this is a massive waste of money, a huge giveaway to the insurance industry.

OK, presumably almost no one believes that. While it’s unlikely that your house will burn down, losing your house to fire would be a crushing financial blow if you are uninsured. So we all pay premiums to protect ourselves against disaster. All Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans require home insurance.

Health insurance operates on the same principle. Without health insurance, you are at risk of a catastrophic financial blow if you get sick and require hospitalization. Moreover, even if you don’t require hospitalization, you are more likely to avoid getting regular check-ups and preventative care, thereby making it more likely that you will indeed suffer a health crisis and, possibly, death.

Yet the shutdown drama made it clear, once again, that Republicans, from Donald Trump on down, refuse to understand this basic point. Or if they do and say so publicly, like Marjorie Taylor Greene and say so, they become a pariah within the party. But most prefer to behave like the hapless and probably doomed New York Republican Rep. Mark Lawler, and blame Democrats for having forced the issue into the headlines.

But the fact that Republicans have been misrepresenting how health insurance works since Obamacare was first proposed in 2009 is a testament to their cruelty and intentional ignorance. For example, Trump’s opening salvo against the Democrats demand for continuation of the ACA subsidies blasted “money sucking insurance companies”, claiming that the subsidies should be sent directly to taxpayers so that Americans can “PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE” – that is, demanding that they pay doctors and hospitals out of pocket:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!
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As I explained above, this won’t work for the same reason homeowners need fire insurance: There’s a small risk that you may face extremely high costs, and you need protection in case that happens. In addition, lack of insurance is likely to make you sicker, thus more likely to require higher future health expenses and diminished quality of life.

In any given year, most people face low or modest health care costs, but a small number of people face huge bills. Here’s the distribution of health spending in 2022:

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/health-policy-101-health-care-costs-a
nd-affordability/?entry=table-of-contents-how-does-health-care-spending-vary-across-the-population

Half the population spent almost nothing on health care, while 5 percent of the population accounted for half of spending, and 1 percent for more than a fifth. Average spending within the top 5 percent was more than $67,000; within the top one percent it was more than $147,000. Furthermore, people who develop severe health problems often find themselves having to lay out large sums for multiple years.

Only the very wealthy — not even the 1 percent, more like the 0.1 percent — can afford to pay high medical costs out of pocket. So modern health care depends on insurance to pay the really big bills. In addition, having health insurance has also shown to make people healthier in general, because they are less likely to forgo regular care.

And even if you resent “money sucking Insurance Companies,” as Trump pretends to, it’s overwhelmingly bad policy to insist that people pay their medical costs directly, for two reasons. First, a large potion of health care costs are incurred by people who need immediate urgent care and therefore can’t go shopping for medical care. In other words, I can’t research my hospital and procedure options while lying on an ambulance gurney, with an IV stuck in my arm. Two, medicine is a complex and technical subject, beyond the grasp of anyone without medical training. So the idea that medical care should be treated like a commercial product to be consumed by medically sophisticated customers is not only silly – it’s dangerous.

So consumer-driven healthcare, which is what Trump is pushing, is an irresponsibly destructive idea, a zombie policy that the Republicans have been touting for 15 years, without ever acknowledging its flaws. Furthermore, in their zeal to undermine Obamacare, Republicans will resurrect the monster that bedeviled so many Americans before it was adopted: insurance companies’ denial of care to those who need it most and the affordability problem.

Obamacare was designed to address the problem of profit-seeking insurance companies, who have strong incentives to identify people who really need health care and then deny them coverage. Before Obamacare, insurers routinely denied coverage to Americans with preexisting medical conditions or charged them prohibitively high premiums. And this aspect of Obamacare is hugely popular: by large majorities, voters say it is important that insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions.

https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/5-charts-about-public-opinion-
on-the-affordable-care-act/

One way to solve the “denial of care based on pre-existing conditions” problem is to bypass profit-making insurance companies and have the government pay medical bills directly, as Medicare and Medicaid do. But if we want to maintain a system of private health insurance, we must regulate insurers to prevent discrimination based on medical history. Yet that alone is not enough. We also have to ensure that relatively healthy people buy health insurance; because if they don’t, only those who are sick or have pre-existing conditions will get insurance, forcing insurers to charge extremely high premiums to cover their costs.

So what’s needed to make a system of private health insurance work is both regulation of insurers and policies to make premiums affordable for healthy people through incentives such as significant tax credits or premium subsidies.

This is basically what Obamacare does. Yet for 15 years Republicans have been promising that, any moment now, they will come up with something better to replace it. Years ago, I might have conceded that this was due to Republican ignorance. But when even Majorie Taylor Greene gets it, I have to chalk this up to inbred cruelty and willful mis-representation. As Jared Bernstein says, Republicans have lost the ability to think about policies that solve actual problems. Now it’s all a display of fealty to Dear Leader.

My guess is that the burgeoning health insurance crisis will hurt the G.O.P. and Trump politically. And the Democrats, who despite their flaws still understand policy, should be relentless in publicizing how Republicans are hell-bent on destroying the health of Americans.

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. . . on Wednesday, House Democrats released documents revealing that, in the words of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump “knew about the girls” the late convicted sex offender was trafficking, the latest blow to a White House already reeling from a series of setbacks in recent days.

One Trump ally said that the latest Epstein discourse has taken “things that are already complicated for the president and brings them to the surface.”

“It’s like adding salt to a dish — the flavors are already there, it just accentuates all of them,” said the person, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive issue.

The fresh wave of chaos has knocked the administration on its heels. The president lashed out at Republicans on social media, some House Republicans are under pressure to withdraw from the effort to bring the matter to the floor and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed the media.

“This is another distraction campaign by the Democrats and the liberal media, and it’s why I’m being asked questions about Epstein instead of the government reopening because of Republicans and President Trump,” Leavitt said during a Wednesday press briefing.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/13/the-new-epstein-files-are-the
-latest-blow-to-a-white-house-on-its-heels-00649341

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Have you ever wondered why people are evil? Evil as in #RootingForPutin? Or voting for Trump?
Here is the least evil act I can find, along with the reasons the people gave for what they did:

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation

I always return my shopping carts. I'm not an entitled, self-centered Democrat voting dipshit.

You and I both know that every one of these people in the article voted Democrat.
I do NOT believe you.

I do not care.

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. . . on Wednesday, House Democrats released documents revealing that, in the words of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump “knew about the girls” the late convicted sex offender was trafficking, the latest blow to a White House already reeling from a series of setbacks in recent days.

This was already debunked the second your goons tried it, retard.

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OOPS. Another of Ted's clickbait lies debunked...

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Why did Democrats cover up the name when the Estate didn't redact it in the redacted documents provided to the committee?

It's because this victim, Virginia Giuffre, publicly said that she never witnessed wrongdoing by President Trump.

Democrats are trying to create a fake narrative to slander President Trump.

Shame on them.

https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1988612679246794773

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The left is pushing another desperate anti-Trump hoax – a false Epstein smear campaign

https://nypost.com/2025/11/12/opinion/miranda-devine-the-left-is-pushi
ng-another-desperate-anti-trump-hoax-a-false-epstein-smear-campaign/

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California Cancels 17,000 CDLs Following Federal Audit

Thursday, Nov 13, 2025 - 07:25 AM

Authored by John Gallagher via FreightWaves.com,

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has cancelled 17,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses following a federal audit of the state’s CDL program, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

In a press statement on Wednesday, DOT asserted that state officials admitted to illegally issuing the CDLs “to dangerous foreign drivers,” and that DMV sent notices to the license holders that their license no longer meets federal requirements and will expire in 60 days.

“After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses.”

FreightWaves has reached out to California’s DMV for comment.

FMCSA Chief Counsel Jesse Elison notified Newsom and his DMV in a September 26 letter that a sampling of the roughly 62,000 drivers in California holding unexpired, non-domiciled CDLs or commercial learner’s permits issued by the state revealed that 26% – which extrapolates to roughly 16,000 – failed to comply with federal requirements.

MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-cancels-17000-cdls-foll
owing-federal-audit

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The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care

For 15 years we have heard the same lies and misrepresentations

By Paul Krugman | Nov 13, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-republican-brain-doesnt-want

Public option. Make private insurance companies compete against Federally-run programs.

The insurance companies were horrified and lobbied mightily to kill the idea. I can't imagine why! /snark

Obama caved when he threw everyone into the (private) insurer's maw with a sweetener of tax money.

THAT'S the ACA: a tax giveaway to private insurers.

Just as bad as GWB's Part D "no bid" Rx program.

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Of all of Trump’s scandals, his relationship with Epstein — if you ignore the stomach-churning human toll involved — may be the richest source of black comedy. Some of Trump’s most devoted worshippers chose the very issue of Epstein’s misdeeds and supposed cabal of elite backers as the fantasy onto which they projected a valiant role for their hero. Trump was meant to courageously release all of the available evidence for public scrutiny. Instead, this scandal has turned out to implicate him personally. (This is a risk inherent in building a personality cult around one of the worst human beings in the United States — almost any moral violation you pick will, statistically, have a high likelihood of appearing somewhere on his résumé.)

Trump’s defense in the matter has been that the Epstein files are a hoax, concocted to smear him by “Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration.” But he has also decided to let the matter drop because this conspiracy involving the CIA, the FBI, and two presidents to falsely connect him to a criminal millionaire who died suspiciously is simply too boring for anybody to care about. “I don’t understand it, why they would be so interested. He’s dead for a long time,” Trump said of Epstein in July.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-epstein-email/684909/

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Public option. Make private insurance companies compete against Federally-run programs.

The insurance companies were horrified and lobbied mightily to kill the idea. I can't imagine why! /snark

Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, played a crucial role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by using his single vote as leverage against the bill's public option. He threatened to vote against the legislation unless the government-run public option insurance plan was removed, a demand Democrats eventually conceded to in order to secure his vote for the final bill.

In other words, you didn't get anything right, Signym. Your next logical step would be to accuse Joe Lieberman of taking bribes from the health insurance companies. But we will never know because nobody can prove anything.

P.S. None of the Republican Senators needed to be bribed because they naturally do the wrong thing every time.

Why Joe Lieberman is holding Barack Obama to ransom over healthcare

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/joe-lieberman-barack-oba
ma-us-healthcare

Democrats accuse Gore's former running mate of bitterness and vanity after he uses his deciding vote in Congress to water down president's reforms

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"Independent" Joe Lieberman was one of yours, just like "Independent" Bernie Sanders is today.

Shut the fuck up, stooge.

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"Independent" Joe Lieberman was one of yours, just like "Independent" Bernie Sanders is today.

Shut the fuck up, stooge.

Lieberman was a camilleon. One report on Lieberman's involvement was critical of him for failing to disclose in his testimony the extensive legal work his Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman law firm had done for Donald Trump since at least as long ago as 2001. The work included bankrupt casino restructuring and, during the 2016 campaign, threatening The New York Times over publication of a few 1995 Trump tax documents.[171]

On May 17, 2017, Lieberman was interviewed by President Donald Trump for the position of FBI Director, to replace recently fired James Comey.[172] The interview took place against the background of the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate issues connected to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[173] Speaking to reporters while meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Trump said he was "very close" to choosing a new FBI director to replace James Comey, and when asked if Lieberman was his top pick, Trump said yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman#Post-Senate_career

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The Decline and Fall of the Heritage Foundation

Its descent into conspiracy-mongering and blatant bigotry was utterly predictable

Paul Krugman | Nov 14, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-heritag
e

There’s deep turmoil at the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing “think tank” that calls itself “America’s most influential policy organization,” and is responsible for Project 2025.

. . . the truth is that Heritage has always been a fraud. It has always been a propaganda mill cosplaying as a research institution – a scam that worked for a long time. Heritage’s problem now is that its original scam was designed for a different era — a Reaganesque era in which plutocrats could discreetly leverage bigotry and intolerance to elect Republicans, who then delivered deregulation and tax cuts. Heritage was an integral cog within this scheme, giving superficial respectability to policies that were in fact deeply regressive and discriminatory, and overwhelmingly to the benefit of the moneyed class.

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MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.

Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?

Weird.

Trump puts intense pressure on Republicans to block release of Epstein files

Fri 14 Nov 2025 07.17 EST

Donald Trump has cranked up his intense pressure campaign on congressional Republicans to oppose the full release of the justice department’s files related to Jeffrey Epstein, before a crucial and long-awaited House vote on the matter next week.

Trump reached out to Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican caucus in the House who have signed the petition. Mace wrote the president a long explanation of her own personal experience as a survivor of sexual abuse and rape, and why it was impossible for her to change her position on the matter.

The lobbying attempts came as Democrats on the House oversight committee released three damning new emails that Trump knew about Epstein’s conduct, including one in which the convicted paedophile said “of course [Trump] knew about the girls”. Another email described Trump as a “dog that hasn’t barked” and said he had “spent hours” with one victim at Epstein’s house.

More at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/republican-pressure-tr
ump-epstein-files

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Originally posted by second:
MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.

Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?

Weird.

Trump, 79, Melts Down at His Own Party Over Epstein ‘Hoax’
IT'S MY PARTY...

The president ranted about “soft and foolish” Republicans on social media.

Sarah Ewall-Wice | Nov. 14 2025 12:00PM EST

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-melts-down-at-his-own-party-ove
r-epstein-hoax/

President Donald Trump raged against members of his own party on Friday as a growing number of Republicans have indicated they will vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump, 79, has been desperately trying to stop more documents from going public after the House released a series of damaging emails from the Epstein estate on Wednesday in which he was mentioned.

That same day, the bipartisan discharge petition reached enough signatures to force a vote in the House to release the full Epstein files despite the GOP leadership’s wishes.

After months of pushing back, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the vote would take place next week.

But the president took aim at members of both parties on Friday.

Trump accused Democrats of doing everything they can to “push the Epstein Hoax again” and claimed in his Truth Social post that it was to deflect from the “SHUTDOWN EMBARRASSMENT, where their party is in total disarray.”

However, several Republicans signed onto the discharge petition, and a significant number of GOP members are expected to buck Trump and support the release of the full files related to the convicted sex offender when the vote takes place.

“Some Weak Republicans have fallen into their clutches because they are soft and foolish,” Trump wrote in his post. “Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!”

GOP Reps. Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert signed the discharge petition in September and refused to back down despite pressure.

Reps. Don Bacon, Rob Bresnahan, Tim Burchett, Warren Davidson and Eli Crane have all said either publicly or to a publication including CNN and Politico that they would vote for the bill when it comes to the floor.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who introduced it with Massie, said he expects 40 to 50 Republicans to back it.

Trump has ignored questions from reporters about the Epstein files since the latest documents were released on Wednesday despite being in settings where he usually engages with the media.

The president on Friday ranted on Truth Social that “Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, and Larry Summers about Epstein, they know all about him, don’t waste your time with Trump.”

The three, like Trump, are known associates of Epstein. None have been accused of any criminal wrongdoing.

In a separate post, the president then said he was directing the Justice Department and FBI to investigate their relationships.

“I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him,” he wrote.

The documents released on Wednesday showed that Epstein wrote in an email that Trump knew about the girls and had spent hours with one of the victims.

The name was redacted when Democrats released it, but Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said it was Virginia Giuffre and accused Democrats redacting her name to try and create a “fake narrative.”

The committee Republicans released 20,000 pages of documents on Wednesday. Trump was mentioned numerous times in the emails released.

Epstein referred to Trump as “dirty,” “mad,” “f---ing crazy” and “borderline insane” in emails provided by his estate. In a 2018 one he wrote “I am the one able to take him down.”

Trump has never been accused of engaging in criminal activity in connection with Epstein. The White House this week attempted to downplay the released emails.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Democrats in a statement of “selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.”

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Why is Trump doing this? He wanted to be Duterte: Trump regularly praised President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and said he was doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.” Duterte’s government was, in fact, carrying out summary executions of suspected drug dealers. Duterte now faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court for his drug war.

Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People

In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.

By Nick Turse | November 14 2025, 12:28 p.m.

https://theintercept.com/2025/11/14/boat-strikes-immunity-legality-tru
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The Trump administration is promising legal cover for military personnel who carry out lethal attacks on the alleged drug smugglers in the waters surrounding Latin America.

Amid mounting questions from senior military and civilian lawyers about the legality of proposed strikes on civilian boats, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel this summer produced a classified opinion intended to shield service members up and down the chain of command from prosecution, according to three government officials.

The legal theory advanced in the finding, two sources said, differs from some of President Donald Trump’s public statements on the killings. It claims that narcotics on the boats are lawful military targets because their cargo generates revenue for cartels whom the Trump administration claims are in armed conflict with the U.S.

One senior defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, blasted the opinion. “I don’t know what’s more insane – that the ‘President of Peace’ is starting an illegal war or that he’s giving a get out of jail free card to the U.S. military,” said the official, referencing President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed moniker. “Hopefully they realize there’s no immunity for war crimes. Nor is there a statute of limitations.”

The Trump administration continues to keep the OLC memo from the American people but, this week, finally allowed members of Congress and their staffs to read the document. On Wednesday, just 20 copies were made available in a secure room, causing delays among lawmakers and staffers who have been waiting months to understand the legal reasoning underpinning the attacks.

On Thursday evening, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the campaign of attacks is called Operation Southern Spear. Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and Southern Command, “this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people,” he wrote on X. Southern Spear kicked off earlier this year as part of the Navy’s next-generation effort to use small robot interceptor boats and vertical take-off and landing drones to conduct counternarcotics operations.

The military has carried out 20 known attacks, destroying 21 boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since September, killing at least 80 civilians. The most recent attack, on a vessel in the Caribbean on Monday, first reported by CBS on Thursday, reportedly killed four people. Following most of the attacks, Hegseth or Trump have claimed that the victims belonged to an unspecified designated terrorist organization, or DTO.

A list of DTOs, consisting of Latin American cartels and criminal organizations, is attached to the OLC opinion which claims that attacks on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Pacific are lawful and that personnel involved are immune from prosecution.

“The strikes were ordered consistent with the laws of armed conflict, and as such are lawful orders. Military personnel are legally obligated to follow lawful orders and, as such, are not subject to prosecution for following lawful orders,” a Justice Department spokesperson told The Intercept.

Experts in the laws of war and members of Congress say the strikes are illegal extrajudicial killings because the military is not permitted to deliberately target civilians — even suspected criminals — who do not pose an imminent threat of violence. The summary executions are a significant departure from standard practice in the long-running U.S. war on drugs, in which law enforcement arrested suspected drug smugglers.

Senior government attorneys questioned the legality of the strikes long before they began, sources told The Intercept. “I’m not surprised that civilian and military lawyers raised significant concerns with these strikes, given that they are manifestly unlawful even under the most permissive wartime legal frameworks government lawyers have deployed at any point in the past two decades,” Rebecca Ingber, a former State Department lawyer and law-of-war expert told The Intercept.

One current government official speaking anonymously, as well as Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in counterterrorism issues and the laws of war, both drew specific attention to the fact that this summer — at the time the Defense Department officials were expressing reservations about the legality of summary executions of alleged drug smugglers — Trump signed a secret directive ordering the Pentagon to use military force against Latin American drug cartels he has labeled terrorist organizations.

“There was a policy desire for strikes at sea and there was pushback, potentially from Joint Staff and Southern Command, on those requests, both on policy grounds, but also on legal grounds,” said Finucane, now the senior adviser for the U.S. program at the International Crisis Group. “That seems to have generated two documents: this permission slip from OLC, blessing these actions as legal, and the directive from the White House basically telling DOD ‘No! You will develop these options.’”

Several government officials suggested to The Intercept that Rear Adm. Milton “Jamie” Sands III, head of Naval Special Warfare Command, was fired by Hegseth in August due to the admiral’s concerns about impending attacks on civilian vessels by Special Operations forces. Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson denied the officials’ claims, and Sands did not respond to repeated requests by The Intercept for an interview.

Last month, Adm. Alvin Holsey — the chief of Southern Command — announced his retirement years ahead of schedule. “Never before in my over 20 years on the committee can I recall seeing a combatant commander leave their post this early and amid such turmoil,” said Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.

Current and former government officials familiar with the OLC opinion say that it relies on a theory for the strikes that differs from the Trump administration’s public pronouncements. “Every single boat that you see that’s shot down kills 25,000 [Americans] on drugs and destroys families all over our country,” Trump said on “60 Minutes” recently. But the OLC opinion indicates that it is the sale of drugs, what is known as the “revenue generating target theory,” that the U.S. relies on to claim the narcotics aboard the boats are military objectives and, thus, lawful targets under the law of war. Under this theory, the civilians aboard would be considered collateral damage, and their deaths would be excused through a proportionality analysis tied to the military advantage gained by the attack.

Experts say the OLC reasoning is faulty and appears to have been fashioned to suit a political decision already made by the White House. While such theories have been employed before, such as ultimately fruitless strikes on drug labs in Afghanistan, they were in the context of actual armed conflicts against true belligerents, like the Taliban.

The OLC opinion also argues that, in conducting the attacks, the U.S. is coming to the collective self-defense of various Latin American countries, even if strikes are, in some cases, killing their nationals. “The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood — and we will protect it,” Hegseth wrote in his Thursday Southern Spear announcement. Experts also say that such a unilateral decision, without a request from the nations being defended, is also unprecedented.

“It really strikes me that OLC was given an assignment. ‘We need a legal justification to do the following’ and then they just cooked something up. This is legal backfilling. ‘How do you lawyer your way to yes?’” said Finucane. “It’s legal Mad Libs. They’re throwing all these terms and concepts at the wall, but there’s no real content or substance behind them.”

The Intercept reported last month that the Trump administration secretly declared DTOs were in a state of “non-international armed conflict” with the United States during the summer, long before the attacks commenced. Despite concluding that the U.S. is involved in armed conflict, the OLC opinion nonetheless claims the operation is not covered by the War Powers Resolution, a 1973 law that requires presidents to terminate deployments of troops into “hostilities” after 60 days if Congress has not authorized them.

The OLC opinion, which runs nearly 50 pages, argues that these non-international armed conflicts are waged under the president’s Article II constitutional authority as commander in chief of the U.S. military, which is key to the argument that the strikes are permissible under domestic law.

The list of groups supposedly engaged in armed conflict with the United States, as The Intercept previously reported, includes the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua; Ejército de Liberación Nacional, a Colombian guerrilla insurgency; Cártel de los Soles, a Venezuelan criminal group that the U.S. claims is “headed by [Venezuelan President] Nicolas Maduro and other high-ranking Venezuelan individuals”; and several groups affiliated with the Sinaloa Cartel, according to two government sources who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose classified information. The Justice Department, War Department, and White House have repeatedly failed to respond to requests for comment.

“I’ve seen no evidence or even allegations that suggest there has been an armed attack on the United States.”

“For the United States to use military force in ‘self-defense’ against a non-state actor — as the government has asserted to Congress — or a state, the standard is whether we have suffered an ‘armed attack,’ in which case we may use force in self-defense to repel that attack. This is a term of art that has meaning. For example, the attacks of 9/11, the worst attacks on the homeland since Pearl Harbor, constituted the armed attack to which the U.S. responded in the conflict with al Qaeda,” said Ingber, now a law professor at Cardozo Law School in New York. “I’ve seen no evidence or even allegations that suggest there has been an armed attack on the United States. I’ve seen nothing to suggest that any of these alleged drug smugglers are acting as part of an organized armed group, or that they are involved in military-like hostilities with the United States, let alone prolonged hostilities.”

Experts say it’s unlikely that military personnel will face prosecution by a future administration for their roles in the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers that are covered by the OLC finding. “Legal advice, including an OLC opinion, itself does not provide ‘immunity’ per se,” Ingber told The Intercept. “But good faith reliance on it in this case would be a significant hurdle to prosecution.” Still, experts caution that there is no guarantee of absolute immunity.

A secret January 2002 OLC memo claimed that “customary international law cannot bind the executive branch under the Constitution,” empowering the George W. Bush administration, during the early days of the war on terror, to ignore the prohibition of torture under international law. “We conclude that customary international law, whatever its source and content, does not bind the President, or restrict the actions of the United States military,” it reads.

While Bush and top administration officials never faced legal consequences for the torture of detainees, low-level U.S. guards involved in the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were court-martialed and convicted. A 2008 Senate Armed Services Committee report concluded “abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 was not simply the result of a few soldiers acting on their own,” but that:

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s December 2, 2002 authorization of aggressive interrogation techniques and subsequent interrogation policies and plans approved by senior military and civilian officials conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees in U.S. military custody. What followed was an erosion in standards dictating that detainees be treated humanely.

While U.S. civilian leaders and high-ranking U.S. officers routinely escape punishment for atrocities, not all top officials evade justice. During his first term in office, Trump regularly praised President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and said he was doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.” Duterte’s government was, in fact, carrying out summary executions of suspected drug dealers. Duterte now faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court for his drug war.

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Tucker Exposes Trump Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks' Social Media History, The FBI Coverup, And More Strangeness

Friday, Nov 14, 2025 - 08:20 AM

Tucker Carlson has just released a deep dive into Donald Trump's attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks - who both the Biden and the Trump FBI have been very quiet about since the July 13, 2024 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.

In late September, Carlson's team received an anonymous tip from someone who said they had gained access to some of Crooks' online accounts, which he found using 'tools commonly used by private investigators' after obtaining Crooks' phone number and gmail address from public documents. He then traced that to two encrypted foreign email accounts (bcook[at]mailfence.com and americangamer[at]gmx.com). He also had a snapchat account, a Venmo, Zelle and PayPal account among several others.

"It turns out that Crooks was hardly an online ghost," Carlson reports. "And yet, federal investigators lied and told us there was no trace of him online."

The source was able to obtain all materials from Crooks' deactivated YouTube account - which includes his search history, watch history, and 737 public comments.

When Carlson's team asked the FBI why they hadn't shared this information with the public, the agency replied by asking if they could verify the authenticity of the shooter's account.

What did Crooks say?

The comments by Crooks were posted between 2019 and 2020, when he was between 15 and 17-years-old. "They show two things," Carlson explains. "First, that Thomas Crooks was not some secretive lone wolf who never warned anyone that he was planning on violence. Just the opposite. Years before he showed up in Butler, Crooks was leaving a detailed digital trail of violent threats - including calls for assassinations and political violence. Second - they show a man who started out as a radical Trump supporter, whose views on the President transformed - changed completely, during Covid. The FBI lied about that fact, and that Crooks was a right-winger."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-reveals-trump-attempted-ass
assin-thomas-crooks-social-media-history-fbi-coverup

Sounds like someone here, dunnit?

You've left quite a record here, SECOND. You really should be more careful about letting all that righteous hate leak out like that.

Also, the winds of NOT change: The FBI continues to be squirrelly, secretive, and politicized. Kash Patel... WTF???

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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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Friday, November 14, 2025 3:25 PM

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Why is Trump doing this? He wanted to be Duterte: Trump regularly praised President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and said he was doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.” Duterte’s government was, in fact, carrying out summary executions of suspected drug dealers. Duterte now faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court for his drug war.

IMHO there's no justification for striking civilian boats and killing "suspects". This reminds me very much of how GWB tortured (so to speak) the law and pressured his then legal council to OK rendition and torture. Bush did his utmost to make the most use of "enemy combatant" category and find an external American-controlled location (originally they were going to use ships at sea but settled on Gitmo) to avoid American, foreign, and international law.

The only mitigating aspect of Trump's behavior is that it's just a few dozen people killed, not hundreds of thousands, like Hillary/Obama, Bill, and GWB did.

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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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MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.

Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?

No it didn't happen.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

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The only mitigating aspect of Trump's behavior is that it's just a few dozen people killed, not hundreds of thousands, like Hillary/Obama, Bill, and GWB did.

Already hundreds of thousands have died thanks to Trump! It will be millions in the next 3 years: The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Film by Thomas Jennings and Annie Wong
Text by Atul Gawande
November 5, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutd
own-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

. . . An independent, peer-reviewed analysis in The Lancet estimated that U.S.A.I.D. assistance had saved ninety-two million lives over two decades.

Many of the leaders voiced trepidation about what the incoming Administration might bring, but I struck a sanguine note. U.S.A.I.D., I pointed out, had more than sixty years of solid bipartisan backing. Trump had advanced significant parts of the agency’s work in his first term. He had personally pledged to end H.I.V. as a public-health threat by 2030. The incoming Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had been a vocal supporter of the bureau. There would be isolated partisan skirmishes—over diversity initiatives, abortion-related policies, and the like—but more than ninety-five per cent of our bureau’s work had never been under contention.

Clearly, I lacked imagination. Within hours of being sworn in, President Trump signed an executive order for a “pause” to all foreign assistance. Secretary Rubio sent a cable suspending every program outright. No program staff could be paid. No services could be delivered. Medicines and food already on the shelves could not be used. No warning had been given to the governments that relied on them. It was immediately obvious that hundreds of thousands of people would die in the first year alone. But the Administration did not reconsider; it escalated. Elon Musk exulted in swinging his chainsaw. Within weeks and in defiance of legal mandates, he and Rubio purged U.S.A.I.D.’s staff, terminated more than four-fifths of its contracts, impounded its funds, and dismantled the agency. Neither Congress nor the Supreme Court did anything to stop it.

We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed “public man-made death,” which, he observed, has been perhaps the most overlooked cause of mortality in the last century. Brooke Nichols, the Boston University epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, has maintained a respected tracker of current impact.
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=interval_m
inutes&order=asc

The model is conservative, assuming, for example, that the State Department will fully sustain the programs that remain. As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.

The Administration, for its part, has denied causing widespread harm, even as it has made the scale of the damage harder to measure—halting data monitoring and dismissing the inspectors general who might have documented it. This is common in cases of public man-made death. During Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward, from 1958 to 1961, the Chinese government released no accurate mortality data. Observers abroad understood that a hunger crisis was under way when China began importing grain, but the scale of the catastrophe was not known until the mid-nineteen-eighties, when the first reliable census allowed historians to calculate that between twenty-three and thirty million people had died.

A fuller accounting of the fallout from U.S.A.I.D.’s shutdown will probably have to await analysis of the United Nations’ 2025 mortality statistics, which likely won’t appear until 2027. But there are other ways to glimpse the scale of the harm. With a documentary team that includes both American and local journalists, I have been following what has happened in Kenyan communities where U.S.A.I.D. had been active—in an advanced-H.I.V. ward in Nairobi, in primary health-care centers that had sharply reduced malaria, in a refugee camp, and elsewhere.

We chose Kenya because I’d done a lot of work there during my tenure, and because it’s on a familiar path of development. Like India, South Korea, and many Latin American countries that the U.S. assisted to advance from low-income recipients of aid to higher-income trade partners, Kenya had reached the lower rung of middle-income status. The country had made dramatic leaps in health-system capacity and life expectancy with the help of a mixture of projects. U.S.A.I.D. supplied medicine, food, and staffing for some of the most desperate and vulnerable, while providing technical assistance and investment to accelerate the country’s expertise in needs ranging from H.I.V. control to primary care.

I was especially worried about what would happen to the programs for childhood malnutrition, which, during the past two decades, had made extraordinary progress around the world. In place of a system that waited for emaciated children to reach distant hospital wards, often hours away, we had helped countries bring the front line to where they lived. A community health worker, carrying a tape measure and a scale, could detect danger early at home. A packet of peanut-paste therapeutic food could reverse starvation for the vast majority of severely malnourished children. Hospitals became a backstop for complications and for the frailest cases, while communities worked to strengthen local food sources. The method was simple, frequent, and close at hand: measure the upper arm, check for swelling, provide supplemental nutrition, watch for infection or decline, return the next week.

The results were dramatic. Mortality rates for severe malnutrition, once twenty per cent or higher, fell below five per cent. In Kenya, communities we worked with, including refugee camps, saw death rates drop to under one per cent. The United States had played a central role in developing and manufacturing the formula for therapeutic supplements. U.S.A.I.D. then had helped UNICEF, the World Food Programme, local health systems, and other actors scale up the approach worldwide. Globally, under-five child mortality fell by more than half since 2000, in major part owing to the advances in malnutrition treatment, which saved more than a million lives in 2023 alone. Still, most of the world’s malnourished children lack access to these programs. But, instead of trying to close that gap, we are washing our hands of it and reversing the gains.

In Kakuma, a vast refugee camp near the South Sudan border, starting in spring, our documentary team followed clinicians and families inside the stabilization unit at Clinic 7, where the sickest children come. Because of the termination of U.S. support, the World Food Programme’s supplies had been reduced to forty per cent of minimum needs, and cases of acute malnutrition had surged. Two-thirds of the clinic’s community health workers were laid off, hobbling the early-detection system that once saved most children before they needed acute care. Clinic 7 is where we met Rovina Naboi, who had fled South Sudan with her family. In our short film, she reveals what it was like trying to keep her desperately ill daughter, Jane Sunday, alive in a system that has broken down.

There are valid criticisms of U.S.A.I.D. It sometimes fostered dependency. It could be inefficient. Too much of its funding went to international institutions, rather than to local ones. And its history includes episodes in which aid was bent to American military and political aims—in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Yet no other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar. It helped move billions of people out of poverty. And it showed how to deliver results for all of humanity, including Americans, through coöperation, rather than coercion.

The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. does nothing to improve this work. Instead, we have public man-made death. And the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland. We cannot let the people affected—health workers like those of Clinic 7, families like Rovina Naboi’s—go unseen. And we cannot let the consequences go unaccounted for.

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MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.

Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?

No it didn't happen.

Trump's lawyer proves it did happen. The proof is not an admission of guilt. Instead, it's a firehose of falsehoods spoken in court:

The New Epstein Emails Humiliate One Trump Official More Than Most

This is only Deputy Attorney General Blanche’s latest embarrassment by the Epstein scandal.

By Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern | Nov 14, 2025 2:24 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/new-epstein-emails-trump-h
umiliation-todd-blanche.html

House Democrats released a batch of emails on Wednesday that suggest President Donald Trump was aware of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes and did nothing to report them. The messages, sent by Epstein to his associates—including chief accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell—contradict the White House’s claims that Trump had no real relationship with Epstein and was ignorant of his criminal offenses. They also seem to discredit Maxwell’s recent testimony to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who solicited her suspiciously rosy account of Trump’s role this past summer.

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern spoke about Blanche’s latest embarrassment by the Epstein scandal, as well as his dangerous counteroffensive against the legitimacy of the judiciary. A preview of their conversation, below, has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Dahlia Lithwick: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche—who has been signing off willy-nilly on the Justice Department’s fabrications in court—got pantsed by this email dump. There’s no other word for it. On so many levels, this is just devastating for him. Can you lay out the lies and fabrications and cover-ups?

Mark Joseph Stern: So Blanche interviewed Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, in July as part of an effort to exonerate Trump from the Epstein affair. A week later, she was transferred to a minimum-security prison, reportedly with special approval by the Trump administration, where she gets extraordinary privileges like customized meals, playtime with puppies, unlimited toilet paper, special access to guests with computers. It all looked a lot like a quid pro quo. During that interview, Maxwell did what Blanche wanted her to do, which was to claim that Trump and Epstein weren’t close friends at all, and Trump didn’t know anything about Epstein’s sex crimes. The Justice Department then publicly released the interview.

I think the new emails just flatly contradict Maxwell’s account to Blanche. They suggest that Trump knew about Epstein’s abuses but did nothing to expose them. For instance, Epstein wrote: “Trump knew of” the investigation into his crimes “and came to my house many times during that period.” He told the journalist Michael Wolff that “of course” Trump “knew about the girls.” And he told Maxwell that Trump was “the dog that hasn’t barked” because he evidently did not tell investigators about Epstein’s misconduct despite spending “hours” at Epstein’s house with one of his victims.

The upshot here is that Trump knew something; he probably knew a lot. And he could have said what he knew to law enforcement, but he stayed silent instead. That cannot be squared with what Maxwell told Blanche, and Blanche then told to the public. Of course, Blanche is Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, and he’s used to spinning fables to protect Trump. But when you’re deputy attorney general, and your client is supposed to be the American people, you’re expected to adhere to a higher standard. That expectation has clearly gone out the window. And whatever credibility Blanche may have had with the courts—and even just the American people—should be gone after this email dump.

There was another Blanche infraction this week that is, in many ways, equally shocking, even if it’s not getting the kind of press traction that the Maxwell interview did. When the Federalist Society held its annual convention in D.C. this past week, Blanche got up and railed against state bars that are fielding ethics complaints against Trump administration officials. He went on to declare that the administration is “at war” with “rogue activist judges,” by which I think he means any judge who ever ruled against Donald Trump for any reason, including Trump judges and Bush judges.

We’re used to this level of slander now—Trump officials impugning the integrity of liberal judges, impugning attempts by state bars to do ethics enforcement. But there’s another layer here. The deputy attorney general basically suggested that the judiciary is a subagency of the executive branch. And judges’ job is to rubber-stamp Trump’s agenda in every particular, or face impeachment and threats and “a war” on the part of the good members of the Federalist Society who are coming for them.

Blanche’s statement and its implications are just the logical conclusion of the widespread belief in this administration that Trump cannot break the law because he represents the true will of the people. And by extension, anyone who stands in his way has to be punished for what more or less amounts to treason against the state—if Trump is the state, as Blanche and his comrades seem to believe. We’ve known for a while that they do believe all this: You see it between the lines of their court filings, like when they cite the “mandate of the electorate” in lieu of a legal argument to justify what Trump is doing. But until recently, I think that these guys have tried to maintain plausible deniability by showing some measure of respect as officers of the court.

Now that is all out the window. The mask is fully off with this speech. Blanch, the deputy AG, is telling judges who rule against him: We are at war with you. And the question then is: Will the Supreme Court care? Because the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees have arguably done more than anyone to foster this “culture of disdain” toward the judiciary, as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson put it, by capitulating to Trump’s power grabs and throwing their lower court colleagues under the bus.

I guess these justices still think they can draw the line whenever they want, and the administration will respect that. But if the Justice Department’s leaders think they’re at war with the courts, then any judge who rules against them is an enemy combatant. And the rule of law has to take a back seat to the logic of the battlefield, where winning is all that matters and victory justifies everything. I just don’t think that is the mindset of a government that is ever prepared to accept a Supreme Court decision against it.

I want to read a statement in response to Blanche’s remarks by New York State Bar Association president Kathleen Sweet because it’s pretty powerful. Sweet says: “Any lawyer who abandons their oath to the Constitution and who intentionally misrepresents facts or law in court is properly subject to discipline, even if they work for the Department of Justice. The judiciary is a coequal branch of our government. It is not an inferior entity to be treated with disdain as an irksome impediment to the will of the executive branch.”

There’s this construction that when you’re caught in a lie, you double down, you attack, you insult, you deflect, you distract, you threaten judges and bars and bar associations. The audience of one, Donald Trump, loves that kind of talk. But Todd Blanche and the folks at DOJ—who are, it would seem, willfully misrepresenting facts and law in courts—don’t just answer to Donald J. Trump. They also answer to the infrastructure of the law. Reminding them of that by calling them out and pushing back is a really important power that everybody has.

I couldn’t agree more. Go file those ethics complaints. Trump might be able to pardon all of his cronies, but state bars can still disbar them. A pardon doesn’t stand in the way of that. Just keep that in mind, Mr. Deputy Attorney General.

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MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.

Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?

No it didn't happen.

When Maga finally accepts that Trump is a pedophile, they still wouldn't question him. They'd question whether being a pedophile is wrong.

Yesterday, Megyn Kelly proved me right.

“Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile. He was into the barely legal type. He liked 15-year-old girls. I realize this is disgusting. I'm definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I'm just giving you facts: he wasn't into, like, 8-year-olds. He liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were but would look legal to a passerby." —Megyn R. Kelly

https://people.com/megyn-kelly-questions-jeffrey-epstein-pedophile-lab
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GOP = Gross Old Pedophiles

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Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order

An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a “pilot” to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.”

As far back as 2023, Trump has proposed using “large parcels of inexpensive land” to set up “tent cities” or camps for homeless people, coupled with a pledge to use “every tool, lever, and authority” to clear encampments from city streets. On the podcast Invisible People, which focuses on homelessness in America, Eric Tars of the National Homelessness Law Center said Utah’s new facility could be a “pilot program” for that effort around the country.

Much more at https://www.commondreams.org/news/utah-homeless-internment-camp

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Friday, November 14, 2025 5:17 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Dems and the Deep State and complicit media thought they could fire an "Elstein" media bazooka to distract from the Dem's utter failure with the govt shutdown.

Among other things, they dug up Virginia Giuffre emails, but redacted her name to hide the fact they were from Giuffre, who repeatedly testified that she had never seen Trump do anything inappropriate with teenagers.

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One of the claims - now a deleted X post, the Democratic Party's official account stated, "NEW: Documents show Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017. At the time, Trump was already president, and Epstein was already a convicted sex offender."

And like the TRUMP!RUSSIA!COLLUSION! hoax, they overreached with the complete fiction that Trump, as President, spent Thanksgiving with convicted trafficker Epstein... when there are photos that Trump spent that Thanksgiving dishing out dinners to veterans.

Yanno, if there was ACTUAL EVIDENCE that Trump diddled teens, he'd be in court already, especially since various documents were available to Biden's* FIB and DOJ already. And Dems wouldn't have to make shit up.

This is just so much bullshit.

Epstein was VERY political, targeted upper ups like Prince Andrew, had lots of money (Where did it all come from??? Why is nobody following the money?), even tried meeting Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov thru the good graces of the then Danish PM... IMHO Epstein was Mossad, and teens were honeypots.

And he pulled in as many Dems as Repubs.

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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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MAGA would be so upset if an email came out that proved Trump helped Epstein cover up the systematic rape of children.

Oh, that happened this morning and they don’t care?

No it didn't happen.
When Maga finally accepts that Trump is a pedophile, they still wouldn't question him.

If Trump were a pedophile, the Democrats would have already made sure he was in prison for it and Harris would be President right now.

How stupid are you, dude?

If Trump were a pedophile, and there were a single shred of evidence in the Epstien files proving it, they would have put that out last August and we'd be swimming in another 20 Million Illegal immigrants with a wide open boarder now. None of the half-billion real estate or E. Jean Carroll stuff would have been necessary at all. None of the lawfare or negative media spin for ten fucking years straight would have been necessary at all.

You had 4 years to fucking bury Trump once and for all with undeniable proof he is a pedophile if there was anything implicating him in there, but you didn't use that?????

There are only 3 reasons that didn't happen under Biden*'s watch:

1. Trump isn't guilty. (and/or there's nothing in the Epstein documents that implicate him)

2. A lot of fucking Democrats (and I'm sure Republicans as well) are on that list and nobody ever wants it released on either side and both sides will just pretend they care when they're not in power and have no real way of doing anything about it other than attack the other side for covering up the truth.

3. All of the above.

Get fucked dude. You're too fucking stupid to use a computer you dumb, thoroughly-propogandized little monkey.

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If Trump were a pedophile, the Democrats would have already made sure he was in prison for it and Harris would be President right now.

How stupid are you, dude?

The Democrats had 4 years to get a case to trial in Federal court, but the court system moved so slowly that nothing got to trial. Meanwhile, the state courts did convict Trump in those 4 years. The Federal court system does not work because the Republicans in Congress have partial control of who becomes a judge and how much is spent to operate the courts. The Republicans in Congress do NOT want that court system to work, just as they do NOT want the IRS to work, which is the most important reason why $1 trillion in taxes is NOT collected each year. It is also the reason why Trump recently signed a bill to lower the taxes by several $trillion dollars of the fabulously wealthy and why he fired most of the auditors who handle rich people's tax returns. He does NOT want the court and tax systems to work smoothly or swiftly.

Donald Trump indictments, 2023-2025
https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_indictments,_2023-2025
These are things that would have disqualified anybody from becoming president, but a degraded human would see nothing disqualifying about Trump

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