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It's a start. We'll never get anywhere without the people behind it. It's also a big shift compared to a month ago.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5177420-supreme-court-blocks-trump-funding/

 

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The Supreme Court in a 5-4 emergency ruling Wednesday refused to halt a judge’s decision ordering the Trump administration to immediately release nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments owed under existing contracts. 

It hands a loss to the administration in the first time that Trump’s efforts to drastically reshape federal spending, agency by agency, have reached the high court. 

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined with the court’s three liberals to side against the administration. 

 

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Four of the court’s conservatives — Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — dissented. 

“Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned,” Alito wrote, joined by the three others. 

 

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This Supreme Court, it always feels like they throw the people a bone, then go back to fucking them. Specifically the conservatives on the bench... I remain pessimistic on future rulings.

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Just now, Michael Knight said:

"Independents."

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There is no such thing.  If an "independent" watched Trump speak, that person is a Trumper who likes to give themselves a label that makes them feel smarter.  But the approval numbers are where the proof is in the pudding.  Self-declared "independents" are Trumpers.  Always.

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Just now, Valmy77 said:

Very disheartening to see that high of an approval rating at this point.

I think we might have a messaging problem. 

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Just now, Red Five said:

I think we might have a messaging problem. 

What? Trump is saying obviously vile things while doing obviously vile things and they approve. I don't think some kind of sophisticated messaging is going to turn people who like evil into people who like good. Unless people are just sheep who blindly follow whatever is dangled in front of them.

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Duh.  Have you not been reading my newsletter?

Well it is just different to see it laid out like that.

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4 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

 

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Entertaining is a top quality that I want from my president. 

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1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

What? Trump is saying obviously vile things while doing obviously vile things and they approve. I don't think some kind of sophisticated messaging is going to turn people who like evil into people who like good. Unless people are just sheep who blindly follow whatever is dangled in front of them.

most people aren't paying attention or they simply don't care

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2 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

What? Trump is saying obviously vile things while doing obviously vile things and they approve. I don't think some kind of sophisticated messaging is going to turn people who like evil into people who like good. Unless people are just sheep who blindly follow whatever is dangled in front of them.

Go stop the average person on the street and ask them what they think about the dismantling of our government, or what they think about Russia having ownership of our president. They'll look at you like you have five heads. 

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6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Go stop the average person on the street and ask them what they think about the dismantling of our government, or what they think about Russia having ownership of our president. They'll look at you like you have five heads. 

Letting public education languish is paying massive dividends for the Republicans.

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54 minutes ago, hornmpa96 said:

Now, Alito cares about jurisdiction- that’s extremely rich from that asshole.

He cares about it very much when it suits him.

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51 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Unless people are just sheep who blindly follow whatever is dangled in front of them.

“Unless.” Lol. 

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On 3/3/2025 at 6:23 PM, Fastbreak said:


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All the Tech Bro Billionaires were very happy.

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And of course even the rich swamp rats.

This is a pretty decent read on how the tech bro takeover has unfolded.
 

 

On 3/3/2025 at 6:36 PM, bolverk said:

Don't know if Icono/Macklemore is into the tech part of this shit, but it sounds akin to the New Right monarchy he's obsessed with.

In a nutshell, Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment political worldview is that the REAL power in the U.S. resides in an informal collaboration of universities and the mainstream media (that he calls "the Cathedral") which collude to sway public opinion. He admires the former Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping for his "pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism," believes America's commitment to equality and justice "erodes social order," and advocates for an American "monarch" to dissolve elite academic institutions and media outlets asap.

A regular speaker at various Libertarian and techno-fascist conferences, Yarvin's position is that democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign corporations whose "shareholders" elect an executive with total power over the country/corporation. As Yarvin explains it, "Unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, the executive could rule like a CEO-Monarch."

And just in case it still isn't abundantly clear what Curtis Yarvin thinks is the solution to what ails America, here it is in his most straightforward phrasing: "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."

 

On 3/3/2025 at 6:43 PM, Woland said:


Sounds like Communism.

Behind the Bastards had a good couple of shows about this

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16 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor

Strong.

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7 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

The French are going to call us cowards for generations.  

Fat Nixon will be known as the guy who made the French strong again.  

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1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

That nickname gives him way too much credit. 

It's hard to give him less.  You really have to work at it.  

I'll stick with "that fucking guy."  Even that seems too grand.  

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Losing hope as I drift into my fifties isnt so bad. I fully expect my retirement funds to be seized. Thats when I'll put my body on the line and take the bullets.

Can't imagine what people in their 20s and 30s are going through. Those with any awareness anyway.

This will be normal for children. Hope they find a leader because we don't have one now.

Who will be their John Connor?

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54 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Putin's Puppet is going to unite Europe against russia and the us ....

French Senator : "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine. (...) We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor" - Claude Malhuret. WOW ! 👊

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Duh.  Have you not been reading my newsletter?

You have a newsletter?  How come I only keep getting dick pics and cat facts?

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25 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

You have a newsletter?  How come I only keep getting dick pics and cat facts?

I mean....you gotta give the people what they want.

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JoJo from Jersey video. No, not a porn video. She’s leaning into punditry. I think she is effective. (Buck, I have to recopy a link from text in order to embed a video 🤷🏻‍♂️)

 

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57 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Losing hope as I drift into my fifties isnt so bad. I fully expect my retirement funds to be seized. Thats when I'll put my body on the line and take the bullets.

Can't imagine what people in their 20s and 30s are going through. Those with any awareness anyway.

This will be normal for children. Hope they find a leader because we don't have one now.

Who will be their John Connor?

As one of those 30-something's, I'm thinking you goddamn boomers timed it just about perfectly. Some of you got to see the moon landing, missed out on participating in Vietnam, maybe had to hide under your desk a little bit during the Cold War, but got to witness some cool music and counter-culture, the environmental movement bringing things like wolves, grizzlies, whooping cranes, bald eagles and Peregrine falcons back from the brink and cleaning up air/water, generally improving racial, gender and sexual equity in the US and improvements toward health and poverty around the globe. You could actually afford to buy houses and shit and places like Austin weren't crowded as fuck.

And as you approach your end, you get to witness The End, without concerning yourself too much about crawling out from the rubble. Lucky sons of bitches...

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And here's Trae Crowder saying what we're all thinking as usual, trying to make some sense of it all ...

 

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My 18 year old son a few days ago.  "But does any of the Trump stuff effect your life directly."

His whole peer group is completely ignorant to anything political.

 

My brother today.  "Biden had no impact on your life and neither will Trump. "

Talk about white male privilege. Holy fuck. And typical conservative dumbfuck both sides notion and spewing some folksy platitude  that you forever accept as truth despite all evidence to the contrary.

We are going to have to all suffer until the fuckers learn, if they ever learn, and I'm not sure they will. My son will, but my brother is a lost cause. He can support my mom when her SS is gone, and retirement is shit.  I hope he was dumb enough to not touch his 401k  because "it matters little to the markets which man is in office."

 

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43 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Does this not only apply to payments for contracts already fulfilled?

What would investors think about the "full faith and credit of the United States government" when faced with a regime that just decides not to pay what is owed?  

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17 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I'm no boomer, you fuck!

Gen X. And yes we are prepared to watch the world burn.

Same. I hope there are snacks.

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