Fu*%face Von Clownstick
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That is very well written, and shows he thought out what he had to say before posting it. If only the majority would do that, there would be far less violence and far more progress in discussion and compromise!Log into Facebook
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Richard Mumford wrote up a comment that is worth reading too
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Any chance of the governor actually deploying the NG to patrol to keep the people of the state safe? Or was that just posturing?
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We the American tax payers are now shelling out $1 trillion annually just to pay the interest on our national debt, and it will rise to $1.5 trillion in 2032, and $1.8 trillion by 2035. Trump's defense budget for 2026 is $1 trillion, and he is already calling for a $1.5 trillion defense budget in 2027. Meanwhile he is attempting to pay for all this by ushering in a new era of massive austerity for We the People. You name it, its on the chopping block.
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Trillion-Dollar Interest Payments Are the New Norm | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
2025-12-16-As the national debt continues to climb toward record levels – totaling 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 – interest on the national debt has also risen signi
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All the signs of societal collapse are unfolding quickly. Jingoism and foreign wars. Fear of others, scapegoating immigrants and minorities for the failures of the state, erosion or destruction of institutions and social programs. People have studied this shit and written books about it for ages; we are hitting all the marks.
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You forgot Portland
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Someone should inform it’s a warning not a fucken manual
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While China has a trade surplus of 1.3T this past year…We the American tax payers are now shelling out $1 trillion annually just to pay the interest on our national debt, and it will rise to $1.5 trillion in 2032, and $1.8 trillion by 2035. Trump's defense budget for 2026 is $1 trillion, and he is already calling for a $1.5 trillion defense budget in 2027. Meanwhile he is attempting to pay for all this by ushering in a new era of massive austerity for We the People. You name it, its on the chopping block.
Trillion-Dollar Interest Payments Are the New Norm | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
2025-12-16-As the national debt continues to climb toward record levels – totaling 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 – interest on the national debt has also risen signi
Glad to hear so many folks here getting riled up about what’s going on. ICE in MN is hitting a new level of fascist government overreach and we all need to be looking out for our neighbors. In watching the videos I notice they usually stand down when it’s a tall white guy yelling at them. So if that’s any of yall…
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Seems like we will be dropping bombs on Iran any minute now while we are tear gassing our own people in MN.
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And yet everyone still loves to point to them and say that Communism can't work...
And they let Cuba sit there 90 miles away for decades. And now Trump goes back on his word (for the millionth time):
U.S. allows Mexico to provide oil to Cuba despite Trump's vow to cut off supply
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I've got some friends who travel back and forth between China, they like it there.
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I have no idea what it would be like for me personally, but it seems like they have improved the average quality of life for their people quite a bit in the last 80 years.
I don't approve of authoritarian dictatorships, and don't approve of various other strategies they have utilized, and I would argue that they could have done things differently, but I don't see any way to argue that they have made one of the biggest transformations from impoverished backwater, declining in global importance and power, to an economic superpower, holding a substantial amount of the global wealth. If they hadn't kept the one child policy in place for so long, they might be on course to ever greater heights, but I think their population dynamics will tank them before they can recover from that.
In Europe, the democracies that have implemented increasingly socialist policies seem to be doing really well, and I think a gradual shift in that direction is a reasonable goal to work towards. I get that there is a lot more, if not basically total, homogeneity in those populations, and that is doubtlessly a significant factor working against us in our notoriously tumultuous country. While maybe you could argue that we aren't doing much better than 75 years ago, I don't think you could say that things aren't better than they were 200 years ago, and the rate of progress seems to be increasing.
I don't think it's unreasonable to look at what China has done to become so economically powerful, take notes, and try to figure out how to take the things that work and leave out the parts that most people don't want, no?
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I just took a MIND TRIP back ten years, to the start of this Fu*%face Von Clownstick thread: https://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/fu-face-von-clownstick.34337/
I promise, no matter how you see yourself today, or envision your future, reading those early posts will enhance your thoughts and feelings.
On Page 1, I spotted treegongfu's post: https://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/fu-face-von-clownstick.34337/post-501980
Begging editorial permission, I have quoted here what the seemingly hopeful(?) satisfied(?) treegongfu wrote after the 2016 election:
"I'm glad he is on the record saying he doesn't want continue the aggression against Russia.
But you need to look at who he appoints to key positions to know what his policies will be."
This decade has changed us all in ways no one imagined.
It turns out that--while we humans have soldiered on--we have not escaped unscathed the influences, and counter-influences, of the last ten years. We might not recognize how various traits, fears, and changes have evolved within ourselves. And, if that's true, how are we likely to recognize ourselves in others--and walk in their shoes?
I promise, no matter how you see yourself today, or envision your future, reading those early posts will enhance your thoughts and feelings.
On Page 1, I spotted treegongfu's post: https://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/fu-face-von-clownstick.34337/post-501980
Begging editorial permission, I have quoted here what the seemingly hopeful(?) satisfied(?) treegongfu wrote after the 2016 election:
"I'm glad he is on the record saying he doesn't want continue the aggression against Russia.
But you need to look at who he appoints to key positions to know what his policies will be."
This decade has changed us all in ways no one imagined.
It turns out that--while we humans have soldiered on--we have not escaped unscathed the influences, and counter-influences, of the last ten years. We might not recognize how various traits, fears, and changes have evolved within ourselves. And, if that's true, how are we likely to recognize ourselves in others--and walk in their shoes?
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