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Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:15 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Trump just overtook Biden* in Pennsylvania in the polling aggregate, which up until today was the only one of seven swing states where he was trailing Biden*.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/pennsylv
ania/trump-vs-biden


And that still includes the chronic outlier polling firm Susquehanna, which has Biden* up 8 points at the end of January and showed Biden* up by 7 points last February, when no other polling firm had ever shown Biden* up by more than 4 points, no other polling firm has shown Biden* up by more than 3 points this year, and currently only one polling firm shows Biden* up by a single point in the mid-march aggregate.

Tick Tock



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Thursday, March 14, 2024 10:15 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Proof for some of the worst claims about Trump

Opinion by




I'll give you my 71 years of experience with Trumptards:



You don't get to add up all your multiple personalities and multiply them by 13.

That's not how this works, boy.


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Thursday, March 14, 2024 3:54 PM

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Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:49 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Texas court gives father power over daughter’s birth control use

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-court-gives-father-power-over-
daughter-s-birth-control-use/ar-BB1jTA12?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=77478c8336eb4362bbd7417ee414c90b&ei=37




Ah, yup...

T





Yeah.

Fucking teenagers shouldn't be able to put lab created poison in their bodies without parental consent.

You Democrats are fucking nuts.

Worry about your own kids. Or don't. The rest of us don't give a shit how you raise yours. Stop getting in everyone else's business.

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Friday, March 15, 2024 10:30 AM

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"I’m here talking about an ex-president’s penis" - The Stormy Daniels Story

A new documentary shows just how much she—and the country—have changed since 2018.

Trump’s criminal trial over his cover-up of hush-money payments to her was scheduled for March but Trump wants a delay until next year because he is "innocent". In reality, trying to delay means Trump is guilty.

Are Trumptards threatening Stormy? They are: “Back in 2018, it was stuff like ‘liar,’ ‘slut,’ ‘gold digger,’ ” she says. “This time around it’s very different. It is direct threats, it’s, ‘I’m going to come to your house and slit your throat.’ ‘Your daughter should be euthanized.’ They’re not even using bot accounts; they’re using real accounts.”

There’s a scene in the new documentary about Stormy Daniels from April 2023, when Daniels, buried in her plush hotel duvet in a room overlooking Tower Bridge in London, learns her 11-year-old daughter had just ended her school year with straight-As. Daniels had been flown to the U.K. to appear on Piers Morgan’s talk show, as well as on Good Morning Britain. But instead of looking energized by her star treatment, she appears quite simply exhausted. When she explains the text from her daughter to the documentary filmmakers crowding her room, she fights back tears.

“Instead of being there with her, I’m here talking about an ex-president’s penis,” she says.

In the documentary, Stormy—which comes out Monday on Peacock—there are many moments when Daniels seems to confront, bleakly, the absurdity of her situation. There is no playbook for an adult film actress who finds herself at the center of a political scandal involving the president of the United States, and Daniels, the documentary makes clear, hasn’t been reveling in her explosive fame and new jet-setting lifestyle since she became a public figure in 2018. Daniels, you’ll recall, first entered the public eye in January 2018 when the Wall Street Journal reported on a $130,000 hush money payment from Trump over a sexual encounter with her from 2006.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/stormy-daniels-documentary
-trump-case-hush-money-peacock.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Friday, March 15, 2024 5:48 PM

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Former Vice President Mike Pence will not endorse Trump in 2024

Published Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 4:08 PM EDT

Trump “is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years,” Pence said on Fox News.

Pence added Friday that he would “never vote” for Democratic President Joe Biden, who also secured his party’s nomination in March 12 primary contests.

“I’m going to keep my vote to myself,” said Pence.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/former-vice-president-mike-pence-will-
not-endorse-trump-for-president.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Friday, March 15, 2024 7:17 PM

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Texas court gives father power over daughter’s birth control use

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-court-gives-father-power-over-
daughter-s-birth-control-use/ar-BB1jTA12?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=77478c8336eb4362bbd7417ee414c90b&ei=37




Ah, yup...

T





Yeah.

Fucking teenagers shouldn't be able to put lab created poison in their bodies without parental consent.

You Democrats are fucking nuts.

Worry about your own kids. Or don't. The rest of us don't give a shit how you raise yours. Stop getting in everyone else's business.







Says the drunk who can't get off his ass and get a job.

too funny...

T


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Friday, March 15, 2024 7:20 PM

THG


Trump warned his 'hostile takeover' of the RNC will blow up in his face

Setting aside for the moment his contempt for Donald Trump, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele claimed the former president will come to regret his "hostile takeover" of the RNC because it will lead to his loss in the 2024 presidential election.

In a column for MSNBC, the co-host of the network's "The Weekend" suggested sticking the RNC with loyalists will lead to a bevy of yes-men giving a thumbs up to anything he wants whether it makes sense or not.

Noting that Trump put in place daughter-in-law Lara Trump to lead the way as co-chairman, he wrote, "An army of Trump-installed loyalists are replacing senior staffers to run the Republican National Committee. With the general election just eight months away, don’t expect this to look anything like a typical operation focused on getting out the vote, reaching out to undecided voters, standardizing messaging across campaigns, and doing other normal tasks. Instead, this will be a group solely devoted to the glorification of Trump. "

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-warned-his-hostile-takeo
ver-of-the-rnc-will-blow-up-in-his-face/ar-BB1jXaIu?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=eb4bd5d8b2704410bba511063c3ccc6d&ei=39




Agreed...

T


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Friday, March 15, 2024 7:34 PM

THG


Former Vice President Mike Pence says he's not endorsing Trump



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Friday, March 15, 2024 8:31 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You Democrats are fucking nuts.

I'm pretty sure that Trump is nuts:

Donald Trump wants China to sell Facebook (China does NOT own Facebook. Why does Trump not know?)

Donald Trump offers up a critique of Chinese control over social media:

If you are going to do it to TikTok, do it to Facebook. And what you can do is let them sell TikTok. Let them sell it in the market.... Take it away from China control. But I think China controls Facebook, also. Because they have tremendous power in that company. (There is a video of Trump being looney-tunes. )
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1768761869836153167

Set aside Trump's screw-loose maundering about China controlling Facebook. The more fascinating question is: Do what to Facebook? What precisely does Donald have in mind?

And also: Do interviewers even bother with followup questions any longer when they talk to Trump? Or is the pretense that he makes any sense not worth the trouble anymore?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Friday, March 15, 2024 8:36 PM

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


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You Democrats are fucking nuts.

I'm pretty sure Trump is nuts:

It's sort of remarkable how many of Donald Trump's former aides now oppose his reelection. Here's a list. These are only principal officers, not the dozens of deputies and assistants who have also turned on him, and all of them were initially appointed by Trump himself:

1. Vice President Mike Pence

2, 3. Chiefs of Staff John Kelley, Mick Mulvaney

4, 5. Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo

6, 7. Secretaries of Defense Mike Esper, Jim Mattis

8. Attorney General Bill Barr

9. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

10. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao

11. HHS Secretary Alex Azar

12, 13. National Security Advisors John Bolton, H.R. McMaster

14. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley

15. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats

16, 17, 18. Directors of Communications Stephanie Grisham, Anthony Scaramucci, Alyssa Farah Griffin

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Friday, March 15, 2024 8:50 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


You two are pathetic and are losing your minds.

That's exactly what I said was going to happen to you if you didn't stop believing everything that MSNBC told you.

Tick Tock

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Sunday, March 17, 2024 7:14 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You two are pathetic and are losing your minds.

That's exactly what I said was going to happen to you if you didn't stop believing everything that MSNBC told you.

Tick Tock

Do you believe what Trump is saying? After reading Trump, I'm voting for him because the alternative is for him to bathe America in blood. He's got to win so I'm going with the winner:

From the Liveblog of Sunday, March 17, 2024

Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses November US election

Donald Trump tells a rally in Ohio that November’s presidential election will be the “most important date” in US history, painting his campaign for the White House as a turning point for the country.

Days after securing his position as the presumptive Republican nominee, the former president also warns of a “bloodbath” if he is not elected — though it was not clear what he was referring to, with the remark coming in the middle of comments about threats to the US auto industry.

“The date — remember this, November 5 — I believe it’s going to be the most important date in the history of our country,” the 77-year-old tells rally-goers in Vandalia, Ohio, repeating well-worn criticisms that his rival, US President Joe Biden, is the “worst” president.

Criticizing what he said were Chinese plans to build cars in Mexico and sell them to Americans, he states: “They’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected.

“Now if I don’t get elected it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole, that’s going to be the least of it, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars.”

As Trump’s comment gained traction on social media, Biden’s campaign releases a statement calling the Republican a “loser” at the ballot box in 2020 who then “doubles down on his threats of political violence.”

“He wants another January 6 but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge,” the campaign says, referring to the deadly attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters in 2021.

All around the world, they paid attention to Trump's 'bloodbath' statement. They know a winner we they see one:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-says-there-will-be-
a-bloodbath-if-he-loses-november-us-election
/

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240317-trump-warns-of-bloodbath
-if-he-loses-presidential-election


https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/bloodbath-for-whole-count
ry-trump-warns-if-he-loses-us-presidential-elections/articleshow/108556649.cms


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Sunday, March 17, 2024 10:45 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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“... the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge,”



All polling would suggest otherwise.

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Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:44 AM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You two are pathetic and are losing your minds.

That's exactly what I said was going to happen to you if you didn't stop believing everything that MSNBC told you.

Tick Tock

Do you believe what Trump is saying? After reading Trump, I'm voting for him because the alternative is for him to bathe America in blood. He's got to win so I'm going with the winner:

From the Liveblog of Sunday, March 17, 2024

Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses November US election

...

Days after securing his position as the presumptive Republican nominee, the former president also warns of a “bloodbath” if he is not elected — though it was not clear what he was referring to, with the remark coming in the middle of comments about threats to the US auto industry.



It's very clear, when it's in context.

You people on the left are one of two groups. The idiots that will believe everything they're told on face value, and the ones in power that know just how stupid the rest of you are and use that to exploit you.

On this very topic, here's another example of the latter...


Pelosi: Trump Is "Predicting A Bloodbath" If He Loses, "What Does That Mean?"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/17/pelosi_trump_is_pre
dicting_a_bloodbath_if_he_loses_what_does_that_mean.html


We know exactly what it means. But now your idiot viewership that does nothing but read headlines is going to think it means something very different because they are very easily manipulated and you love to exploit them, Nance.

Shame on you, and shame on CNN.

Don't forget all the shit like this that you've done over the decades when Journalism dies in America because nobody trusts any of you anymore. You've earned that. You've earned the 20,000+ media layoffs in 2023. You've earned the media layoffs that are still coming.

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Sunday, March 17, 2024 7:01 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


WHAT TRUMP SAID:

Quote:

On Saturday evening, X account EndWokeness posted a video of Trump at a campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio. In it, Trump tells the audience that the American automobile industry will be a bloodbath if he's not re-elected because the Biden administration will allow Chinese cars to flood the market.


Well, we all know what the lying politicians and media said.

Fuck them, and fuck anyone who believes them.

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

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM



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Sunday, March 17, 2024 8:29 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

WHAT TRUMP SAID:

Quote:

On Saturday evening, X account EndWokeness posted a video of Trump at a campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio. In it, Trump tells the audience that the American automobile industry will be a bloodbath if he's not re-elected because the Biden administration will allow Chinese cars to flood the market.


Well, we all know what the lying politicians and media said.

Fuck them, and fuck anyone who believes them.

SIGNYM






tick tock

T


Let's talk about Trump underperforming....



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Sunday, March 17, 2024 8:41 PM

THG


Yup...

T


Why The Math Just Doesn't Work For Trump


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Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:51 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Look at the polling aggregate, son.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

The math isn't working for Joe Biden*.

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Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:53 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You two are pathetic and are losing your minds.

That's exactly what I said was going to happen to you if you didn't stop believing everything that MSNBC told you.

Tick Tock

Do you believe what Trump is saying? After reading Trump, I'm voting for him because the alternative is for him to bathe America in blood. He's got to win so I'm going with the winner:

From the Liveblog of Sunday, March 17, 2024

Trump says there will be a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses November US election

...

Days after securing his position as the presumptive Republican nominee, the former president also warns of a “bloodbath” if he is not elected — though it was not clear what he was referring to, with the remark coming in the middle of comments about threats to the US auto industry.



It's very clear, when it's in context.

You people on the left are one of two groups. The idiots that will believe everything they're told on face value, and the ones in power that know just how stupid the rest of you are and use that to exploit you.

On this very topic, here's another example of the latter...


Pelosi: Trump Is "Predicting A Bloodbath" If He Loses, "What Does That Mean?"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/17/pelosi_trump_is_pre
dicting_a_bloodbath_if_he_loses_what_does_that_mean.html


We know exactly what it means. But now your idiot viewership that does nothing but read headlines is going to think it means something very different because they are very easily manipulated and you love to exploit them, Nance.

Shame on you, and shame on CNN.

Don't forget all the shit like this that you've done over the decades when Journalism dies in America because nobody trusts any of you anymore. You've earned that. You've earned the 20,000+ media layoffs in 2023. You've earned the media layoffs that are still coming.





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Monday, March 18, 2024 7:37 AM

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Trump wants to be a Dictator:

1) Donald Trump Wants His Top Republican Critic Jailed
Updated Mar 17, 2024 at 3:40 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-wants-his-top-republican-critic-
liz-cheney-jailed-1880093


2) Trump keeps praising dictators like Hitler and Kim Jong Un. Will Republicans ever care? Trump's affinity for autocrats makes it clear that he has his own ambitions for total control of the United States.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/03/17/trump-hitl
er-north-korea-dictator-hungray-prime-minister/72975742007
/

3) Voters Are Unaware of Trump “Dictator” Threats
A small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump’s most overt authoritarian outbursts. That’s frightening. But it’s also an opportunity.
https://newrepublic.com/article/179548/poll-voters-trump-dictator-thre
ats


The Strongman Fantasy And Dictatorship in Real Life

By Timothy Snyder | Mar 17, 2024

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy

Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done?

I lived in eastern Europe when memories of communism were fresh. I have visited regions in Ukraine where Russia imposed its occupation regime. I have spent decades reading testimonies of people who lived under Nazi or Stalinist rule. I have seen death pits, some old, some freshly dug. And I have friends who have lived under authoritarian regimes, including political prisoners and survivors of torture. Some of the people I trusted most have been assassinated.

So I think that there is an answer to this question.

Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it.

Another pleasant illusion is that the strongman will unite the nation. But an aspiring dictator will always claim that some belong and others don't. He will define one group after another as the enemy. This might feel good, so long as you feel that you are on the right side of the line. But now fear is the essence of life. The politics of us-and-them, once begun, never ends.

We dream that a strongman will let us focus on America. But dictatorship opens our country to the worst the world has to offer. An American strongman will measure himself by the wealth and power of other dictators. He will befriend them and compete with them. From them he will learn new ways to oppress and to exploit his own people.

At least, the fantasy goes, the strongman will get things done. But dictatorial power today is not about achieving anything positive. It is about preventing anyone else from achieving anything. The strongman is really the weak man: his secret is that he makes everyone else weaker.

Unaccountable to the law and to voters, the dictator has no reason to consider anything beyond his own personal interests. In the twenty-first century, those are simple: dying in bed as a billionaire. To enrich himself and to stay out of prison, the strongman dismantles the justice system and replaces civil servants with loyalists.

The new bureaucrats will have no sense of accountability. Basic government functions will break down. Citizens who want access will learn to pay bribes. Bureaucrats in office thanks to patronage will be corrupt, and citizens will be desperate. Quickly the corruption becomes normal, even unquestioned.

As the fantasy of strongman rule fades into everyday dictatorship, people realize that they need things like water or schools or Social Security checks. Insofar as such goods are available under a dictatorship, they come with a moral as well as a financial price. When you go to a government office, you will be expected to declare your personal loyalty to the strongman.

If you have a complaint about these practices, too bad. Americans are litigious people, and many of us assume that we can go to the police or sue. But when you vote a strong man in, you vote out the rule of law. In court, only loyalism and wealth will matter. Americans who do not fear the police will learn to do so. Those who wear the uniform must either resign or become the enforcers of the whims of one man.

Everybody (except the dictator and his family and friends) gets poorer. The market system depends upon competition. Under a strongman, there will be no such thing. The strongman's clan will be favored by government. Our wealth inequality, bad enough already, will get worse. Anyone hoping for prosperity will have to seek the patronage of the official oligarchs. Running a small business will become impossible. As soon as you achieve any sort of success, someone who wants your business denounces you.

In the fantasy of the strongman, politics vanishes and all is clear and bright. In fact, a dreary politics penetrates everything. You can't run a business without the threat of denunciation. You can't get basic services without humiliation. You feel bad about yourself. You think about what you say, since it can be used against you later. What you do on the internet is recorded forever, and can land you in prison.

Public space closes down around you. You cannot escape to the bar or the bowling alley, since everything you say is monitored. The person on the next stool or in the next lane might not turn you in, but you have to assume they will. If you have a t-shirt or a bumper sticker with a message, someone will report you. Even if you just repeat the dictator's words, someone can lie about you and denounce you. And then, if you voted for the strongman, you will be confused. But you should not be. This is what you voted for.

Denunciation becomes normal behavior. Without law and voting, denouncing others helps people to feel safe. Under strongman rule, you cannot trust your colleagues or your friends or even your family. Political fear not only takes away all public space; it also corrupts all private relationships. And soon it consumes your thoughts. If you cannot say what you think, you lose track of what you believe. You cease to be yourself.

If you have a heart attack and go to the hospital, you have to worry that your name is on a list. Care of elderly parents is suddenly in jeopardy. That hospital bed or place in a retirement home is no longer assured. If you draw attention to yourself, aged relatives will be dumped in the street. This is not how America works now, but it is how authoritarian regimes always work.

In the strongman fantasy, no one thinks about children. But fear around children is the essence of dictatorial power. Even courageous people restrain themselves to protect their children. Parents know that children can be singled out and beaten up. If parents step out of line, children lose any chance of going to university, or lose their jobs.

Schools collapse anyway, since a dictator only wants myths that justify his power. Children learn in school to denounce one another. Each coming generation must be more tame and ignorant than the prior one. Time with young children stresses parents. Either your children repeat propaganda and tell you things you know are wrong, or you worry that they will find out what is right and get in trouble.

In a dictatorship, parents no longer say what they think to their children, because they fear that their children will repeat it in public. And once parents no longer speak their minds at home, they can no longer create a trusting family. Even parents who give up on honesty have to fear that their children will one day learn the truth, take action, and get imprisoned.

Once this process begins, it is hard to stop. At the present stage of the strongman fantasy, people imagine an exciting experiment. If they don't like strongman rule, they think, they can just elect someone else the next time. This misses the point. If you help a strongman come to power, you are eliminating democracy. You burn that bridge behind you. The strongman fantasy dissolves, and real dictatorship remains.

Most likely you won’t be killed or be required to kill. But amid the dreariness of life under dictatorship is dark responsibility for others’ death. By the time the killing starts, you will know that it is not about unity, or the nation, or getting things done. The best Americans, betrayed by you when you cast your vote, will be murdered at the whim and for the wealth of a dictator. Your tragedy will be living long enough to understand this.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Examining Trump’s Alternate Reality Pitch

The war in Ukraine. Hamas’s attack on Israel. Inflation. The former president has insisted that none would have occurred if he had remained in office after 2020.

By Angelo Fichera | March 16, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/politics/trumps-counterfactuals-
alternate-reality.html


Aside from falsely insisting that he did not lose the 2020 election, former President Donald J. Trump has peddled a related set of theories centered on one question: What would the world have looked like had he stayed in office?

Mr. Trump, in rallies and interviews, has repeatedly asserted — more than a dozen times since December, by one rough count — that three distinct events, both in the United States and abroad, are a product of the 2020 election.

“There wouldn’t have been an attack on Israel. There wouldn’t have been an attack on Ukraine. And we wouldn’t have had any inflation,” he declared during a rally in January in Las Vegas. The next month in South Carolina, he baselessly claimed that Democrats had admitted as much.

Politicians routinely entertain what-ifs, which are impossible to prove or rebut with certainty. But Mr. Trump’s suppositions underscore the ways in which he often airs questionable claims without explanation and which might not be supported by the broader context.

And unlike simply attacking an opponent’s record or making a campaign promise, such alternative realities enjoy the benefit of being untestable.

“People already grapple with how to hold elected officials accountable,” said Tabitha Bonilla, an associate professor of political science at Northwestern University who has researched campaign promises and accountability. “And what is super interesting here is that there’s no way to hold someone accountable at all, because there’s no way to measure any of this.”

Here’s a closer look at his assertions.

WHAT WAS SAID

“I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled before I even take office. Got to be settled. It never would have happened. And even the Democrats admit that if Trump were president, that would have — Putin would have listened to me 100 percent.”
— during a January rally in New Hampshire

Mr. Trump’s speculative notion that he could have simply dissuaded President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia from invading Ukraine is not necessarily borne out by history.

The conditions precipitating the decision by Mr. Putin to invade Ukraine in February 2022 date back many years. Mr. Putin has maintained that Ukraine is fundamentally part of Russia, ignoring evidence to the contrary — including the views of most Ukrainians. And he has long taken issue with the expansion of NATO, including the addition of former Soviet republics, as well as the prospect of Ukraine one day joining.

Asked to elaborate on Mr. Trump’s argument, his campaign simply referred to a 2022 poll in which 62 percent of respondents answered “no” when asked whether they believed that Mr. Putin would move against Ukraine if Mr. Trump were president.

Still, experts do not see a realistic scenario in which Mr. Trump would have stopped Mr. Putin from advancing on Ukraine.

“There was no appreciable shift in Russian policy because Trump was making nice to Putin,” said Charles A. Kupchan, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Kupchan said he could envision a situation in which Mr. Trump would have encouraged Ukraine to capitulate to Mr. Putin — and reverse its drift toward Western influence — as a means of de-escalation. But he noted that lawmakers and allies would have almost certainly resisted such a position.

Juliet Kaarbo, a foreign policy professor at the University of Edinburgh, expressed similar skepticism. “Trump’s claim does not rest on solid assumptions,” she said. “He (or others) have not provided a reasonable causal chain that links him being in the presidency to an alternative outcome.”

In a recent journal article, Ms. Kaarbo and colleagues in part dismiss the theory, concluding that “it is reasonable to assert that Trump’s re-election would not have prevented Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Instead, they argue why Mr. Trump’s remaining in power would have probably made the West’s united response to the invasion “implausible” and could have possibly contributed to an early Russian victory. They cite his cynical attitude toward NATO and his request that Ukraine’s president help investigate Joseph R. Biden Jr., his political rival, before the 2020 election.

“Although Trump’s record on Russia and Putin was mixed (his administration did, after all, continue some sanctions against Russia and send some military weaponry to Ukraine), Trump himself opposed some of these policies at times and was very positive toward Putin and very negative toward Ukraine,” Ms. Kaarbo said in an email.

A former national security adviser to Mr. Trump, John R. Bolton, offered a similar view in a 2022 interview after the invasion.

“We did impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs and several others because of their sales of S400 antiaircraft systems to other countries,” said Mr. Bolton, who has become a critic of his former boss. “But in almost every case, the sanctions were imposed with Trump complaining about it and saying we were being too hard. The fact is that he barely knew where Ukraine was.”

He added, “It’s just not accurate that Trump’s behavior somehow deterred the Russians.”

WHAT WAS SAID

“The horrifying attack on Israel would never have happened. They wouldn’t even have thought of doing such a thing if President Trump was behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.”
— during a rally this month in Virginia

There is no clear Trump-era policy that would have prevented Hamas from carrying out its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, experts say. His campaign did not elaborate on his theory, and apart from his effort to blame his successor, he has said very little about the conflict.

At best, Mr. Trump can contend that there was a sense of calm in the Middle East during his presidency, though that argument has its flaws.

“What we can say that might support Trump’s claim is that we did not see significant conflict between Israel and Hamas during his time in office,” said Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an organization that has been critical of Hamas. He added that the unpredictability of Mr. Trump’s foreign policy could have theoretically worked to deter adversaries in the Middle East from stoking conflict.

But, Mr. Schanzer said, that calm was deceiving: Hamas was building up its military infrastructure during that time.

Others are more adamant that Mr. Trump’s argument lacks merit.

“In the case of the Hamas attack, there is nothing that his administration could or would have done differently from the Biden administration,” said Natan Sachs, the director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

He noted that the Trump administration facilitated the Abraham Accords, under which Israel normalized relations with several Arab countries. “But the downside of the Abraham Accords was also the marginalization of the Palestinian issue,” Mr. Sachs said.

Mr. Trump sometimes makes his assertion while maintaining that Iran, which has supported Hamas over the years, had less access to money as a result of sanctions put in place during his administration. But that is not proof that Hamas could not, or would not, have carried out the attack as a result.

While the Trump-era sanctions did leave Iran with fewer resources, “that does not mean that they stopped funding Hamas,” said Mr. Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the Treasury Department.

Iran’s support “certainly is relevant to Hamas from the ability to carry out this attack,” Mr. Sachs said. But he said the attack was not an expensive operation that necessarily required real-time funding by Iran.

“There is nothing that Trump or Biden or anyone else could have done to deter Hamas specifically from carrying out the attack,” he said.

WHAT WAS SAID

“When you think of it, inflation wouldn’t have happened.”
— during a rally in Georgia this month

Mr. Trump’s claim ignores the reality that the coronavirus pandemic undoubtedly helped drive up prices — meaning inflation was all but inevitable regardless of who won the 2020 election — and he has not explained in detail how he would have averted inflation. The surge began in early 2021 and peaked in mid-2022.

“The pandemic of 2020-2022 caused massive disruption to supply chains around the world and made it harder to produce and ship goods for an extended period of time,” said Tarek Hassan, an economics professor at Boston University. “This led to what we call cost-push inflation in all major economies, with the prices of goods jumping up as a result. Neither the outgoing President Trump in 2020 nor President Biden had much influence on this outcome.”

But analysts have attributed many factors to the uptick, including government policies. Research indicates that pandemic relief packages signed by both Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden played a role by driving up consumption.

Three notable developments before January 2021 helped drive inflation, said Campbell R. Harvey, a professor of finance at Duke University.

In 2020, as the pandemic took root, the Federal Reserve began buying mortgage bonds and government debt in large quantities — or what is known as quantitative easing. Its balance sheet that year jumped to more than $7 trillion in assets from $4 trillion. At the same time, lawmakers and Mr. Trump were spending trillions to respond to Covid and its economic effects, causing the federal deficit to spike. And housing costs and rents began to rise. (The median price of homes sold nationally jumped 14.6 percent from the second quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021.)

“You put that together and it is challenging to make the case that there would be no inflation,” Mr. Harvey said. “But again, we just don’t know the counterfactual.”

Mr. Trump has suggested that, if elected this year, he would lower inflation, though economists say some of his proposals — including tariffs on imported goods and his calls for enormous deportations — could potentially have the opposite effect.

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Republicans Turn Against Donald Trump Over Immunity Claims

A majority of Americans do not believe Donald Trump's claims that U.S. presidents are immune from prosecution for alleged crimes committed while in office, including nearly half of Republicans, according to a poll.

A Politico/Ipsos survey of 1,032 people conducted from March 8-10 found that 70 percent say they don't believe U.S. presidents should be immune from criminal prosecution, a figure that includes 48 percent of GOP voters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-turn-against-donal
d-trump-over-immunity-claims/ar-BB1k6deK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=be5d5fef73db48d087cf9fd4ea173d3e&ei=24




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"Politico says"

Meanwhile, in reality...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

Trump remains above Joe Biden* in polling since the middle of September. He also now leads Biden* in all 7 swing states, most of them well beyond the margin of error.

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A new poll has suggested President Joe Biden will beat Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election, the third poll to make the prediction in the last week.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-beats-donald-trump-i
n-three-polls-in-one-week/ar-BB1k6dWz?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=d1645384d47e4538823c6b87fe12141c&ei=21




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Former Vice President Mike Pence calls Trump's Jan. 6 hostage rhetoric "unacceptable"






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A new poll has suggested President Joe Biden will beat Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election, the third poll to make the prediction in the last week.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-beats-donald-trump-i
n-three-polls-in-one-week/ar-BB1k6dWz?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=d1645384d47e4538823c6b87fe12141c&ei=21




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Wow...

Democratic super PAC Progress Action fund - Biden* 46 / Trump 45
Reuters/Ipsos - Biden* 39 / 38
Civiqs/Daily Kos - Biden* 45 / Trump 44

3 Democrat friendly polls have Biden* up by 1 point with a margin of error of +/-3.5 points. *yawn*

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden


And if Reuters/Ipsos did just give Biden a 1 point advantage, that's going to make Trump's lead higher since their polling from earlier this month gave Biden* a 2 point lead.

You are a fucking idiot "headline reader".



Biden’s no good, terrible news

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/03/bidens-no-good-terrible-news.html

Quote:

President Joe Biden is in a bad spot in his upcoming rematch against former President Donald Trump.

In short: The incumbent’s job approval ratings are that of one-term presidents.

“Joe Biden’s 38% approval rating at this stage in the calendar is lower than that of the last three presidents who went on to lose re-election: 1. Donald Trump (48%) 2. George H.W. Bush (39%) 3. Jimmy Carter (43%),” long-time GOP pollster Frank Luntz pointed out on X, formerly Twitter.

Just as concerning for Team Biden, if the rematch for the White House were held today, Trump would defeat the incumbent in a landslide.

That’s according to the latest polling average, which shows Trump dominating in a half-dozen critical swing states that — just like in 2020 — will likely decide the outcome of the 2024 race.

According to the current polling average by RealClearPolitics, Trump has an 86-point advantage over Biden in the electoral college count. With 270 electoral votes needed to win, Trump outpaces Biden by 42 electoral votes.

Key critical swing states include Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In 2020, Biden flipped Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.



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In the latest sign of his fascination with using nuclear weapons, former U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd in January that one of the reasons he needed immunity was so that he couldn’t be indicted for using nuclear weapons on a city, like former President Harry Truman did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-discussed-using-nu
clear-weapon-north-korea-2017-blaming-someone-rcna65120


Trump: Presidents Should Be Above the Law So They Can Drop Nukes
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m5mw/trump-nuclear-president-crime

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley was worried that “an unstable president” would use nuclear weapons. Milley reportedly gathered senior officers to remind them not to act on Trump's orders unless he was involved, telling them, “no matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/woodward-book-trump-nuclear/in
dex.html


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Quote:

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In the latest sign of his fascination with using nuclear weapons, former U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd in January that one of the reasons he needed immunity was so that he couldn’t be indicted for using nuclear weapons on a city, like former President Harry Truman did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-discussed-using-nu
clear-weapon-north-korea-2017-blaming-someone-rcna65120


Trump: Presidents Should Be Above the Law So They Can Drop Nukes
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m5mw/trump-nuclear-president-crime

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Quote:

"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," according to the new section of the book.


Oh! Clutch your pearls, faggot.

Your President* actually starts wars all over the world and fucks everything up and you give him a pass, but now you're going to blow John Kelly for writing words in a book.


You dumb motherfuckers are too stupid to vote and should have that right revoked unless you can prove you have a 100 IQ.

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Quote:

"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," according to the new section of the book.


Oh! Clutch your pearls, faggot.

Your President* actually starts wars all over the world and fucks everything up and you give him a pass, but now you're going to blow John Kelly for writing words in a book.


You dumb motherfuckers are too stupid to vote and should have that right revoked unless you can prove you have a 100 IQ.

I see that 6ixStringJack missed the point. The point that high-functioning people are making (a group that excludes all Trumptards) is that Trump is fucking nuts and Generals will testify under oath that Trump is fucking nuts. Responsible people won't obey Trump because he a boisterous lunatic, but 6ixStringJack won't understand because Trumptards are deeply irresponsible people. 6ix's long history of drunkenness, unemployment, and generalized mental illnesses speak to his irresponsibility. Only a Trumptard would put a Retard such as Trump in charge of America's nukes.

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Monday, March 18, 2024 7:04 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Quote:

"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," according to the new section of the book.


Oh! Clutch your pearls, faggot.

Your President* actually starts wars all over the world and fucks everything up and you give him a pass, but now you're going to blow John Kelly for writing words in a book.


You dumb motherfuckers are too stupid to vote and should have that right revoked unless you can prove you have a 100 IQ.

I see that 6ixStringJack missed the point. The point that high-functioning people are making (a group that excludes all Trumptards) is that Trump is fucking nuts and Generals will testify under oath that Trump is fucking nuts. Responsible people won't obey Trump because he a boisterous lunatic, but 6ixStringJack won't understand because Trumptards are deeply irresponsible people. 6ix's long history of drunkenness, unemployment, and generalized mental illnesses speak to his irresponsibility. Only a Trumptard would put a Retard such as Trump in charge of America's nukes.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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I didn't miss your point. Your perspective is that of a preschooler's.

You're an idiot and your opinions aren't worth the 1's and 0's your cable company provides for you to express them.

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Quote:

"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," according to the new section of the book.


Oh! Clutch your pearls, faggot.

Your President* actually starts wars all over the world and fucks everything up and you give him a pass, but now you're going to blow John Kelly for writing words in a book.


You dumb motherfuckers are too stupid to vote and should have that right revoked unless you can prove you have a 100 IQ.

I see that 6ixStringJack missed the point. The point that high-functioning people are making (a group that excludes all Trumptards) is that Trump is fucking nuts and Generals will testify under oath that Trump is fucking nuts. Responsible people won't obey Trump because he a boisterous lunatic, but 6ixStringJack won't understand because Trumptards are deeply irresponsible people. 6ix's long history of drunkenness, unemployment, and generalized mental illnesses speak to his irresponsibility. Only a Trumptard would put a Retard such as Trump in charge of America's nukes.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly





When Trump loses Jack will eat a bullet and we'll be done with him. Quick Jack, send him money!

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The Telling Way Republicans Keep Endorsing Donald Trump

Senators and congressmen keep trying to have it both ways.

By Jim Newell | March 19, 2024, 5:50 AM

Plenty of Republicans in Congress endorse Donald Trump because they truly believe he’s the cat’s pajamas. But most Republicans in office endorse him because their staff puts together an endorsement statement and then tells the member that they’re just going to send it out, if that’s OK. It’s a box checked in a morning meeting. The member, or senator, can then proceed with their normal daily business of ensuring that a proposed rule barring local industry from contaminating waterways doesn’t go into effect. As California Rep. Doug LaMalfa told Politico, the calculation is simple enough: “At the end of the day, what is smart in order to keep you around?” Masterfully put. Tape it above the door in the House cloakrooms.

If you think Trump is a dangerous idiot—really, the last person you’d want to be president—as many Republicans in the House and, especially, the Senate do, what is there to say? A rare few have the ability to refuse to endorse him. Indiana Sen. Todd Young has said that he will not support Trump. (Fortunately for him, he’s not up for reelection until 2028.) Former Trump Vice President Mike Pence, whose thinking is likely influenced by the time members of a Trump-supporting mob sought to kill him, also has said he won’t endorse Trump. (Fortunately for Pence, he’s not up for election ever again.)

Many of the GOP politicians have landed on a dispassionate mode of endorsement that sounds almost like a lawyer walking through a contract, or a mathematical proof. It goes something like this:

1. I am a Republican.

2. As a Republican, I will support the Republican presidential nominee.

3. Given the nominating contests that have happened thus far, the status of the delegate count, and several other proprietary numerators and denominators that I have studied, the Republican nominee will be Donald Trump, who served as president from 2017 to 2021.

4. In compliance with point No. 2, my support in the presidential contest goes to the candidate named in point No. 3.

5. There is nothing I can do about this.

This is the template for an endorsement that can be marketed as “reluctant” to one crowd and “endorsement” to another.

The champion of this school is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who believes more than most that Trump is a dangerous idiot. But McConnell is still a party man trying to pick up Senate seats.

South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds is a normal person who likewise does not think highly of Donald Trump. The South Dakota electorate, however, thinks a great deal of Donald Trump. “I’m endorsing the Republican nominee for the presidency,” Rounds said. “And if that’s Mr. Trump, then that’s the best choice of the two choices that we have got.”

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/trump-campaign-endorsement
s-republican-senate-house-nominee.html


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When Trump loses Jack will eat a bullet and we'll be done with him. Quick Jack, send him money!

T


6ix does not have much money to send to Trump because 6ix is a prime example of the unsuccessful Trumptard trying to convince themselves they would be huge successes if only Democrats were defeated. All the dead Trumptards I know die stupidly. So will 6ix. 6ix is diabetic, smokes, and is toothless from neglect and alcohol. Smoking has killed millions of Trumptards and they, like that giant Nazi gasbag Rush Limbaugh, deny smoking causes death. Trumptards also die because they fear being turned into “Mudbloods” from vaccinations. 6ix expressed his fear of being contaminated by vax. I cannot repeat this often enough, because it amazes me, but the Texas Trumptards I know were exemplary failures a long time before Trump came along. They weren’t prospering and could not imagine that their sad life was solely their fault. Trump made it obvious what was wrong with his people and why they die early, but it is not obvious to them the strong connection between living foolishly and an early death.

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What's up with Trump and Chubb? Insurance giant balks at underwriting fraud-case bond days after blowback from E. Jean Carroll bond

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/what-s-up-with-trump-and-chubb
-insurance-giant-balks-at-underwriting-fraud-case-bond-days-after-blowback-from-e-jean-carroll-bond/ar-BB1k7rh0


Short version: Chubb does not trust Trump to repay them if he loses his appeal. I'm guessing that Chubb's lawyers looked at the trial transcript and decided that Trump is a crook and will lose the appeal.

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When Trump loses Jack will eat a bullet and we'll be done with him. Quick Jack, send him money!

T


6ix does not have much money to send to Trump because 6ix is a prime example of the unsuccessful Trumptard trying to convince themselves they would be huge successes if only Democrats were defeated. All the dead Trumptards I know die stupidly. So will 6ix. 6ix is diabetic, smokes, and is toothless from neglect and alcohol. Smoking has killed millions of Trumptards and they, like that giant Nazi gasbag Rush Limbaugh, deny smoking causes death. Trumptards also die because they fear being turned into “Mudbloods” from vaccinations. 6ix expressed his fear of being contaminated by vax. I cannot repeat this often enough, because it amazes me, but the Texas Trumptards I know were exemplary failures a long time before Trump came along. They weren’t prospering and could not imagine that their sad life was solely their fault. Trump made it obvious what was wrong with his people and why they die early, but it is not obvious to them the strong connection between living foolishly and an early death.






Here is a clue for him on whether or not he did better with Trump.

T




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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 10:17 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:

When Trump loses Jack will eat a bullet and we'll be done with him. Quick Jack, send him money!

T


6ix does not have much money to send to Trump because 6ix is a prime example of the unsuccessful Trumptard trying to convince themselves they would be huge successes if only Democrats were defeated. All the dead Trumptards I know die stupidly. So will 6ix. 6ix is diabetic, smokes, and is toothless from neglect and alcohol. Smoking has killed millions of Trumptards and they, like that giant Nazi gasbag Rush Limbaugh, deny smoking causes death. Trumptards also die because they fear being turned into “Mudbloods” from vaccinations. 6ix expressed his fear of being contaminated by vax. I cannot repeat this often enough, because it amazes me, but the Texas Trumptards I know were exemplary failures a long time before Trump came along. They weren’t prospering and could not imagine that their sad life was solely their fault. Trump made it obvious what was wrong with his people and why they die early, but it is not obvious to them the strong connection between living foolishly and an early death.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



I was doing fine when Trump was President. I am doing fine now that Biden* is President*.

Have fun at work today honey.



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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 10:19 AM

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The Atlantic: Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sonia-sotomayor-should-retire-now
/ar-BB1k5iOC


The Atlantic knows what way the wind is blowing.

They're not wrong. Sotomayor should retire now so you can put a young liberal on the court while you still have a chance.

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 10:39 AM

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tick tock

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:

When Trump loses Jack will eat a bullet and we'll be done with him. Quick Jack, send him money!

T


6ix does not have much money to send to Trump because 6ix is a prime example of the unsuccessful Trumptard trying to convince themselves they would be huge successes if only Democrats were defeated. All the dead Trumptards I know die stupidly. So will 6ix. 6ix is diabetic, smokes, and is toothless from neglect and alcohol. Smoking has killed millions of Trumptards and they, like that giant Nazi gasbag Rush Limbaugh, deny smoking causes death. Trumptards also die because they fear being turned into “Mudbloods” from vaccinations. 6ix expressed his fear of being contaminated by vax. I cannot repeat this often enough, because it amazes me, but the Texas Trumptards I know were exemplary failures a long time before Trump came along. They weren’t prospering and could not imagine that their sad life was solely their fault. Trump made it obvious what was wrong with his people and why they die early, but it is not obvious to them the strong connection between living foolishly and an early death.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



I was doing fine when Trump was President. I am doing fine now that Biden* is President*.

Have fun at work today honey.








Ya gotta love Jack. Trumps getting pummeled in the legal system and he says Trump will be fine. All the while, Jack rages against everyone and everything. He is too stupid to realize his posts expose his anger.

Trump won't be fine and neither is, or will be Jack.

T





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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 10:48 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:

When Trump loses Jack will eat a bullet and we'll be done with him. Quick Jack, send him money!

T


6ix does not have much money to send to Trump because 6ix is a prime example of the unsuccessful Trumptard trying to convince themselves they would be huge successes if only Democrats were defeated. All the dead Trumptards I know die stupidly. So will 6ix. 6ix is diabetic, smokes, and is toothless from neglect and alcohol. Smoking has killed millions of Trumptards and they, like that giant Nazi gasbag Rush Limbaugh, deny smoking causes death. Trumptards also die because they fear being turned into “Mudbloods” from vaccinations. 6ix expressed his fear of being contaminated by vax. I cannot repeat this often enough, because it amazes me, but the Texas Trumptards I know were exemplary failures a long time before Trump came along. They weren’t prospering and could not imagine that their sad life was solely their fault. Trump made it obvious what was wrong with his people and why they die early, but it is not obvious to them the strong connection between living foolishly and an early death.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



I was doing fine when Trump was President. I am doing fine now that Biden* is President*.

Have fun at work today honey.








Ya gotta love Jack. Trumps getting killed in the legal system and he says Trump will be fine. All the while Jack rages against everyone and everything. He is even too stupid to realize his posts expose his anger.

Trump won't be fine and neither is or will be Jack.

T





I'm fine right now. Fine for 4 years under Trump. Fine for 4 years under Biden*.

No matter what happens the next 4 years, I'll be just fine then too.


You'd probably better start hoping that Trump wins in November yourself. 4 more years of Joe Biden* will destroy the Democratic Party for generations. You guys need a serious course correction, and nobody installed right now has the desire or the willpower to do it.




You two must be feeling super desperate this morning with the news this week, both of you coming out and tag teaming me with personal insults.

Looks like somebody is on tilt.



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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 10:49 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
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"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," according to the new section of the book.


Oh! Clutch your pearls, faggot.

Your President* actually starts wars all over the world and fucks everything up and you give him a pass, but now you're going to blow John Kelly for writing words in a book.


You dumb motherfuckers are too stupid to vote and should have that right revoked unless you can prove you have a 100 IQ.

I see that 6ixStringJack missed the point. The point that high-functioning people are making (a group that excludes all Trumptards) is that Trump is fucking nuts and Generals will testify under oath that Trump is fucking nuts. Responsible people won't obey Trump because he a boisterous lunatic, but 6ixStringJack won't understand because Trumptards are deeply irresponsible people. 6ix's long history of drunkenness, unemployment, and generalized mental illnesses speak to his irresponsibility. Only a Trumptard would put a Retard such as Trump in charge of America's nukes.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly





When Trump loses Jack will eat a bullet and we'll be done with him. Quick Jack, send him money!

T





Oh. Also archived.

https://archive.ph/DHgZD



Now why don't you go ahead and tell me just how I should do it Ted, and then we can get Haken to ban you just like he banned Reaverfan and we'll finally be done with you.



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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 10:55 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Quote:

"What scared Kelly even more than the tweets was the fact that behind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war. He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility," according to the new section of the book.


Oh! Clutch your pearls, faggot.

Your President* actually starts wars all over the world and fucks everything up and you give him a pass, but now you're going to blow John Kelly for writing words in a book.


You dumb motherfuckers are too stupid to vote and should have that right revoked unless you can prove you have a 100 IQ.

I see that 6ixStringJack missed the point. The point that high-functioning people are making (a group that excludes all Trumptards) is that Trump is fucking nuts and Generals will testify under oath that Trump is fucking nuts. Responsible people won't obey Trump because he a boisterous lunatic, but 6ixStringJack won't understand because Trumptards are deeply irresponsible people. 6ix's long history of drunkenness, unemployment, and generalized mental illnesses speak to his irresponsibility. Only a Trumptard would put a Retard such as Trump in charge of America's nukes.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly





When Trump loses Jack will eat a bullet and we'll be done with him. Quick Jack, send him money!

T





Oh. Also archived.



Now why don't you go ahead and tell me just how I should do it Ted, and then we can get Haken to ban you just like he banned Reaverfan and we'll finally be done with you.


.




Just like Trump, a whiny pussy. That describes all you tender MAGA shits. I don't care what you archive you dumb fuck. First of all I was posting to SECOND. Secondly, my statement was based on your personality and the fact that you're a loser who sits in his daddys' basement all day everyday.

T


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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 10:59 AM

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Just like Trump, a whiny pussy. That describes all you tender MAGA shits. I don't care what you archive you dumb fuck.



You're a real tough guy, Theodore. A real keyboard warrior sitting your fat worthless ass down behind that computer screen with a soy latte in hand.

I got more muscle in one pinky finger than you do in both of your thighs combined.


Don't puss out now, boy. Tell me how to kill myself when Trump loses. Get creative with it. Be graphic.

That's how we finally got Second's alternate profile Reaverfan banned from here. Go ahead and show us how much you really don't care.



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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:03 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Just like Trump, a whiny pussy. That describes all you tender MAGA shits. I don't care what you archive you dumb fuck.



You're a real tough guy, Theodore. A real keyboard warrior sitting your fat worthless ass down behind that computer screen with a soy latte in hand.

I got more muscle in one pinky finger than you do in both of your thighs combined.


Don't puss out now, boy. Tell me how to kill myself when Trump loses. Get creative with it. Be graphic.

That's how we finally got Second's alternate profile Reaverfan banned from here. Go ahead and show us how much you really don't care.








And there's the anger. Right below the surface. It's always there. You aren't doing good at all clown.

Hey, if he did ban reverfan for those type posts, he was probably concerned you might actually do it. So, it would make more sense to ban you so his site isn't in jeopardy if you did harm yourself.

Are you Jack, are you going to harm yourself? If so, you should seek some help.

T


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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 12:02 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Just like Trump, a whiny pussy. That describes all you tender MAGA shits. I don't care what you archive you dumb fuck.



You're a real tough guy, Theodore. A real keyboard warrior sitting your fat worthless ass down behind that computer screen with a soy latte in hand.

I got more muscle in one pinky finger than you do in both of your thighs combined.


Don't puss out now, boy. Tell me how to kill myself when Trump loses. Get creative with it. Be graphic.

That's how we finally got Second's alternate profile Reaverfan banned from here. Go ahead and show us how much you really don't care.








And there's the anger. Right below the surface. It's always there. You aren't doing good at all clown.

Hey, if he did ban reverfan for those type posts, he was probably concerned you might actually do it. So, it would make more sense to ban you so his site isn't in jeopardy if you did harm yourself.

Are you Jack, are you going to harm yourself? If so, you should seek some help.

T




There's no anger here. Just allergies to chronic stupidity is all.

I'm doing great. I have no obligations to anybody or debt. I'm going to do whatever I want to do today, pretty much like I do everyday.

Haken banned Reaverfan because Haken is put in legal jeopardy if people are issuing death threats and telling them to kill themselves on his forum. You wouldn't get away with that on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube, and you're certainly not going to get away with it here either.

Don't worry your empty little head about me. I'm going to be the last person standing at fff.net.



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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 12:04 PM

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CNN: Biden Is Behind In Arizona, Nevada, Georgia & Michigan; "If That Map Holds, Ballgame Over"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/18/cnns_harry_enten_bi
den_is_behind_in_arizona_nevada_georgia__michigan_if_that_map_holds_ballgame_over.html


Don't look now, CNN, but he's also behind in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.



Wisconsin 46.4 45.4 Trump +1.0
Arizona 47.8 42.6 Trump +5.2
Georgia 49.4 43.7 Trump +5.7
Michigan 46.5 43.0 Trump +3.5
Pennsylvania 46.2 45.6 Trump +0.6
North Carolina 49.3 43.8 Trump +5.5
Nevada 46.3 40.7 Trump +5.6

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 12:53 PM

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


Quote:

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The Atlantic: Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sonia-sotomayor-should-retire-now
/ar-BB1k5iOC


The Atlantic knows what way the wind is blowing.

They're not wrong. Sotomayor should retire now so you can put a young liberal on the court while you still have a chance.

Did you miss the part about diabetes killing Sotomayor early? 6ix, you have a worse case of diabetes. You should be much more worried than Sotomayor about dying young, which is a thing Trumptards tend to do. We are all thankful when another smug worthless asshole Trumptard who can't hold a job dies.

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Is a Diabetes Inspiration
https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/justice-sonia-sotomayor-diabet
es#1


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Tuesday, March 19, 2024 1:20 PM

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Quote:

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The Atlantic: Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sonia-sotomayor-should-retire-now
/ar-BB1k5iOC


The Atlantic knows what way the wind is blowing.

They're not wrong. Sotomayor should retire now so you can put a young liberal on the court while you still have a chance.

Did you miss the part about diabetes killing Sotomayor early? 6ix, you have a worse case of diabetes. You should be much more worried than Sotomayor about dying young, which is a thing Trumptards tend to do. We are all thankful when another smug worthless asshole Trumptard who can't hold a job dies.



My A1C is 5.6% to 5.8% and probably better than yours.

Don't worry about my diabetes. I'm managing it just fine, and I'm healthier than 90% of Americans even with it.




Once again, this thread is about the 2024 Elections. Not about your obsession with my personal life.




If you two goons had anything legitimately positive to say about the last 3 years the country as a whole has endured under its current "leadership", this election wouldn't be about Trump or people who vote for him, and it certainly wouldn't be about me personally.

Get a fuckin' life and deal with the fact Democrats are about to lose. Bigly.

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