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Should be a wild four years.

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Happy Anti-Communism Week!

ANTI-COMMUNISM WEEK, 2025​

Proclamations
November 7, 2025

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destructive ideologies. Across continents and generations, communism has wrought devastation upon nations and souls. More than 100 million lives have been taken by regimes that sought to erase faith, suppress freedom, and destroy prosperity earned through hard work, violating the God-given rights and dignity of those they oppressed. As we honor their memory, we renew our national promise to stand firm against communism, to uphold the cause of liberty and human worth, and to affirm once more that no system of government can ever replace the will and conscience of a free people.

For more than a century, communism has brought nothing but ruin. Wherever it spreads, it silences dissent, punishes beliefs, and demands that generations kneel before the power of the state instead of standing for freedom. Its story is written in blood and sorrow, a grim reminder that communism is nothing more than another word for servitude.

In the 34 years since the end of the Cold War, the world has witnessed both the triumph of democracy and the persistence of tyranny in new forms. New voices now repeat old lies, cloaking them in the language of “social justice” and “democratic socialism,” yet their message remains the same: give up your freedom, place your trust in the power of the government, and trade the promise of prosperity for the empty comfort of control. America rejects this evil doctrine. We remain a Nation founded on the eternal truth that liberty and opportunity are the birthrights of every person, and that no ideology, whether foreign or domestic, can extinguish them.

As we mark Anti-Communism Week, we stand united in defense of the values that define us as a free people. We honor the victims of oppression by keeping their cause alive and by ensuring that communism and every system that denies the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will find their place, once and for all, on the ash heap of history.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week of November 2 through November 8, 2025, as Anti-Communism Week.

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

DONALD J. TRUMP
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mandatorylurk said:
That first boat getting yeeted, are they using bigger missiles now just to make sure there's no survivors? It looked so much better and satisfying, or the boats are getting smaller.
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I have no idea how two out of the four guys on that semi submersible that we whacked a few weeks ago survived. I'm a good swimmer and I am unsure of how well I'd survive getting explosively tossed into the ocean from slightly below the surface.
 
I have to admit, I am amazed that they caved after how good election day was for them. I guess my life will have to continue the exact same way it did during the shutdown.
 
mlanguishi said:
Pretty much a vast majority of Americans now are of the adage 'having no weed is worse than having no money' or having lots of money and no weed sucks worse. All the EBT and ACA benies go to THC consumption now, and that's just how it is.
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KTA said:
once the planes were in the air, the decision was shoot them down and prevent a bigger disaster, or let it happen - with the latter be chosen as an opportunistic justification of the consequent 24 years ff shitshow.
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My understanding is that no one expected them to fly the planes into targets, but rather expected them to hold the planes hostage which was much more common. There are still questions about whether the plane that went down in Pennsylvania was flown into the ground or shot down.
KTA said:
"Terrorists" are just useful idiots, to be weaponized by whoever needs them for whatever. In that regard Iraq was not a threat, but a resource. But threatening the Sauds quasi-monopoly and its leverage over the USA thanks to Bush sen. (in his function as ambassador to the UN), Nixon and Ford, who from the perspective back then did the "right" thing to make sure the US is going to win the cold war, that's a reason for a war and a regime change; no matter the costs.
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I don't think it had anything to do with the "petrodollar." It was that Saddam sponsored tons of terrorists and was kooky enough to invade Kuwait, which no one thought he would do back in 1991.
KTA said:
Yes, there were power struggles among the Sauds, some wanted the deal top end to orient toward China and Russia, others, among them the old King wanted to keep the connection with the USA. The new King, the gambling addict whoring bin Salami is a complicated case, never really got over the Clinton-Bush fast and furious CIA Niggers trying to use their "terrorists" to liquidate him in Vegas; but it doesn't matter anymore, the Sauds leverage massively diminished, they play ball or they go back to be camel traders.
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The King at the time was literally infirm from a stroke. He wasn't doing a goddamn thing and it's why the Saudi government was so schizophrenic at the time. In any case, the rest of this is conjecture.
ThisIsGonnaBeGood said:
It's so weird looking back at movies produced around that time and seeing how uber-patriotic Hollywood became for two seconds.
The "You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!" scene in Spider-Man 1, where a bunch of New Yorkers throw a bunch of shit at the Green Goblin, is forever burned into my mind as a scene that could only have existed in the scant few months post-9/11.
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The patriotism immediately following 9/11 was wild and no one would believe you if they didn't see it for themselves. Even the frothing college socialist types wanted blood after 9/11 happened.
 
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They're actually doing the idubbz/QTCinderalla "shun the family if they aren't pure enough for the freaks" struggle sessions for their own political families now.
 
The Ugly One said:
Something my dad (who's a Boomer) said that really stuck with me is that your view of what the world is crystallizes in your 40s. Things that happened when you were a young adult will always feel recent (for my dad, that's the late 70s and early 80s). Your peer group will always be a +/- 10 year age bracket around you, and you will quickly lose touch with what's going on with young adults. Your mental picture of what school is like will always be what school was like for you and your peers.

This is a major part of why I think you should be ineligible to run for federal office past the age of 70. It's not that people in their 70s are all stupid or selfish or whatever. It's that they completely do not comprehend what life is like for anyone under 50. Trump's no different. He can look at economic statistics and demographic statistics, but on a "gut feeling" level, he's intuiting what life is like based on his experiences from 1975-1995 or so. There are big pieces missing from his picture that he can't fill in because he's almost 80.

Now, fortunately, we have Millennials like Stephen Miller and JD Vance filling in the gaps. It's clearly helping. But Trump himself is too old, and I'd like to see the end of the gerontocracy in my lifetime.
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This is true, and having a bunch of Soviet style 80-90 year old leaders sucks, but this is kind of what conservatism is. The point is the old, set in their ways fuddy duddys act as a brake to the reactionary liberal youth. It's why humans have always had tribal elders and (in most societies) took care of them even after they were too old to hunt and gather for themselves instead of chucking them outside of the cave.


On the subject of the $2000 stimmies, my disappointment is immense, and my day is ruined. It goes to show NOBODY in either party is serious about paying down the National Debt. I would rather try and save the economy in the long term instead. If I get paid, I'm going to do the same thing I did with Trump's COVID gibs and buy gold as a hedge to the coming Dollar collapse.

That said, it's p funny how many leftists and journoscum are suddenly finding out we have a national deficit and debt and are clutching their pearls about how $2000 checks are actshuallly NOT A Good Thing because they now somehow finally understand inflation and currency failure. None of them had a problem with Governor Karen in NY just handing out $200 checks to all in order to buy votes for next year's election.
 
obsdj said:
In light of this, Justice Kwantanamo Jackson at SCOTUS is on top of things and wants quick action from the parties if they intend to continue to appeal these matters:
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Update on SNAP (things are happening quickly today), the appeal is indeed proceeding at SCOTUS today, however if the shutdown ends, the appeal ends.
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The Last Stand said:
It would’ve been nice to reassess the EBT budget because it’s obviously being abused, while people that COULD use the assistance are shafted out due to household size, income, whatever excuse they come up with. This proves that our government and elected officials doesn’t like to fix flaws within the system. Just kick the can further and prolong the inevitable with more money printing.
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My initial hope with RFK jr was he would fix the problems with it. The way it works now is just a big subsidy for big ag, and big HFCS. it should not be able to be used for soda, chips, ultra processed food or candy. I think you should be able to use it at farmers markets, and if you get say 100 dollars, it should be doubled at these fresh produce stands. If you could somehow regulate those to make sure some asshole isn't scamming it by selling stuff other than fresh produce, it could truly help people who can't afford food and help small farms too. Seems to me like that would be somethign better for the department of agriculture. Folks might find it easier to support food stamps if it's helping farms, and actually getting people fresh produce. That is how it works in some places, but you won't see some tiktok nigger doing haul videos at the produce stand.
 
Hey Johnny Bravo said:
I don't think it had anything to do with the "petrodollar." It was that Saddam sponsored tons of terrorists and was kooky enough to invade Kuwait, which no one thought he would do back in 1991.
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Don't be naive, the last 50 years of US wars and all half-covered ops down in South America, SEA and Africa, as the Russians (soviets) versions of it in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the middle East, and todays Chinese half baked versions of it through "soft power" and espionage was all about energy and with whose debt notes to trade it, giving that debt any value to begin with. Humanity didn't change much for the past 25,000 years; it just went from grains and fertile land to coal, dinosaur blood-farts and glowing rocks.

And on the invasion of Kuwait by Sadam, same game - Sadam wanted more control over more dinosaur blood sources, diametrically opposed to the interest of the US-Saudi axis in line with Russian interests. Something many forget is that the USSR and Sadam were pretty much buddy buddy after the Iran-Iraq war, those connections and networks didnt just disappear after the Russian rebranded. btw, yes the shitshow in Syria and the "arab spring", all about that black gold, without which the entire pyramid scheme would crash harder than the structural demographic deflation is crashing it over time.
 
Looseleaf Paper said:
I have to admit, I am amazed that they caved after how good election day was for them. I guess my life will have to continue the exact same way it did during the shutdown.
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People on both sides are extremely overstating how successful the last elections were.

Dems won like 3-4 elections in extreme deep blue areas that Republicans might win about every 40 years or so.

The DNC could have run literal empty suits and won.
 
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