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bolverk

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  1. Technically, Greenland is one of three countries that make up the Kingdom of Denmark (kinda like Scotland is a country within the UK). The Faroe Islands are the third. As such, the nation of Denmark doesn't have the authority to even sell it, but instead, that decision would require a referendum of the people of Greenland. And according to a poll from last January, 85% of Greenlanders are opposed to annexation by the US.
  2. bolverk replied to RPM's topic in Cloak Room
    Yeah, I'm of a similar mind and really like the guy. What also frustrates me is when Kelly or others like them throw out lines about retaking the House, Senate, or whatever, and taking this regime to task, but then Stewart doesn't question the possibility that the next election won't be fucking rigged with all the shit going on with gerrymandering, voter suppression, or Trump's buddy buying up voting machines. I want to hear a really candid conversation with someone who is much more in tune with what's going on, has much more power/access, and knowledge about what the fuck any of them are going to do about it, if in case the next election is a shitshow of "voting irregularities."
  3. I moved back out to my hometown in West Texas a couple of years ago and have reconnected with old friends who are great people (if you’re white), so, yeah, I get it. Everything they think they know is from conservative teevee news programming and idiot podcasts.
  4. Buncha brainwashed buffoons.
  5. I've had this guy on ignore for a few years now, but he's the only one on "their entire" side still posting in the political forum, which I honestly appreciate. So, I took the opportunity to reveal (or whatever the fuck it's called) what the shit he's talking about. Took a look at it and was all, like, WTF is your deal, man? With all the shit that's going on, you choose to fight a battle about a single stupid branch of a tree when the whole fucking forest is on fire? Yeah, don't worry about it. I'm not going to engage that fucker again. He's a complete waste. His life has no meaning. His grandchildren will remember him with scorn and pity. He's a complete drain on society, and the world would've been better if he'd never been born. Edit: In case I get put in timeout for that last comment because of "shit posting" ot "death wishes" by one of the mods, let me just say this website has a long fucking history of folks like this piece of shit promoting genocide, saying similar shit about common thieves in some stupid crime thread, reciting racist tropes about minorities misbehaving, and saying shit about turning the desert into glass without facing any consequences.
  6. bolverk replied to Zavala's topic in Daily Texan
    More like DeSoto or Burleson.
  7. Are you going to choose to live the rest of your life as such a broken-brained bitch that small potato shit like NYC housing policy, proposed by a scary Mooslim, allows you to turn a blind eye to the greatest threat to American democracy in our lifetimes? Have you no sense of the fundamentals? Like right versus wrong? Good versus evil? Oh, no! These minorities want to raise taxes on rich white people. Hell, I don't know if any of the race or religion shit bugs you, but what the ever-loving fuck? We have an aspiring dictator right now, tearing at the fabric, the very soul of this country, STEALING billions from our treasury. We have a lifelong conman and convicted felon who's spent every fucking second of his 79 years on this planet fucking people over. And now he wants to fucking steal other countries. And you want to bitch about subsidized housing or something? What in the ever fucking fuck is wrong with you? What the hell happened to you? Did someone hurt you as a child, or have you always been a complete shell of a man? For the sake of your eternal soul, reflect on what your fear, hatred, or whatever it is that's poisoning your mind and allowing you to think that he is the answer to your pain. Good lord, man. Fucking repent and renounce this demon that's been unleashed into this world.
  8. Yeah, I noticed that, too. Jamaica, Haiti, the Bahamas. I wonder what they have in common.
  9. Dammit, guys. I'm really sorry, but I just had to try it. Presenting Emperor Ignatius J. Palpatine. It's awful. Don't open the spoiler. Go ahead and neg me. I deserve it.
  10. So, I know most of us with half a brain already knew this shit, but just wanted to put this quote out there for any brain-addled lemmings and lurkers perusing this thread: DO YOU FUCKING IDIOTS NOT GET IT? This is « l'état, c'est moi » bullshit. It doesn't matter what I said yesterday; this is what I want today. Oh, I told you to believe that a while back, but I've changed my mind, so now you have to change your mind to suit my interests. @Incredulity Are you still incredulous about his intentions? You voted in a capricious tyrant who wants to be an absolute monarch. But some of you, like that weird cocksucker, @Macklemore, actually want to have a gotdam king. It's fucking Orwellian, but somehow fucking dumber, like Ignatius J. Reilly playing Palpatine or some shit.
  11. bolverk replied to Zavala's topic in Daily Texan
    US military is 'always an option' for Trump to acquire Greenland, White House official says The military is among a "range of options" being considering, Leavitt said. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-military-option-acquiring-greenland-white-house-official/story?id=128960041 The White House said Tuesday President Donald Trump and his advisers are discussing a range of options to acquire Greenland — adding "utilizing the U.S. military is always an option." "President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States, and it’s vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. "The President and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. Military is always an option at the Commander in Chief’s disposal." This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
  12. Edit: This probably should've gone in the Greenland thread instead, but it's still relevant here, I guess. Click through for a thread on this one from December 2024, recalling that Jack Posobiec runs the End Wokeness account:
  13. Oh, I agree. Both Noriega and Maduro were asshole dictators, but at least the US tried to put up some pretense of a legal basis for Panama. It was still the US swinging it's big dick around. csb: I was a teenage exchange student living with a family in France when the Panamanian invasion took place. One evening, I came downstairs, and my host parents were watching news coverage of it. They turned around when I walked into the room and asked me why America invaded. Everyone in Europe at the time was basically paying zero attention to whatever was going on in Latin America, seeing as the Berlin Wall had just crumbled only a month before. The news had been all about the Iron Curtain falling, so I was hard-pressed to come up with an answer because I’d only vaguely remembered hearing bad stuff about him before heading off to Europe. So I just stared at them dumbly for a moment and said, "We don't like him." Of course, looking back at that moment, I must've sounded like the most arrogant American asshole of all time and am still ashamed of it, but within a week, I'd grabbed a copy of Time down at the newstand and tried to get caught up so we could have some semblance of a discussion, though I still couldn't adequately explain it or defend it. /csb Anyway, this has a good discussion about some of the legal differences between the captures of Noriega and Maduro as food for thought. https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/comparison-of-us-capture-of-nicolas
  14. That's about 20% of the average salary in Texas--essentially a new 10% tax on your earnings if you were self-employed, just lost your subsidies, and saw it double. As of Dec 25, the average annual salary in Texas is $52,885. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately 25.43 an hour. This is equivalent of 1,017.02 a week or 4,407.08 a month. Most salaries in Texas range between 36,856.00 (25th percentile) to 67,074.00 (75th percentile) annually. https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/--in-Texas
  15. It's been three years now, but I think her policy was some ridiculously low amount like that, too.
  16. That was a saving grace when my mom got terminal cancer and paid for her hospice care.
  17. I'm amazed to see how many dick-riding clowns with their anti-police agenda we have on this site. Otherwise, they'd be chiming in with outrage over the refusal to install a plaque honoring the Capitol police who fought off the traitorous mob that attacked our democracy five years ago today. I mean, they must really fucking hate cops if they'll put up with dishonoring the five dead cops, not to the 140+ other peace officers who were injured (some gravely), as a result of that day's violent insurrection. Right, @PvilleStang?
  18. I didn't realize the regime had deleted its database of January 6 cases after pardoning the traitors. This, along with refusing to post a plaque in the Capitol, is an attempt to memoryhole the whole fucking thing. Fortunately, NPR, with the assistance of other media, created an archive to preserve evidence for the historical record. https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/ https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/database.html Screenshot of what it looks like, highlighting certain Texas traitors.
  19. Reminder: some people made a profit from the attack on our nation's Capitol. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/january-6-money-fancelli-wren/
  20. Pretty sure you could also color in Mexico with orange, given previous statements about going in to fight cartels, though the threat hasn't been explicitly directed at the Mexican government as far as I know. Maybe a fifth color should've been chosen for that type of invasion.
  21. Yup. How the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Reinforces Xi’s Vision of Power in Asia The U.S. assault on Venezuela points to a world where big powers seek to call the shots in their regions, an idea Beijing knows well. Just hours before American commandos seized President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in a daring raid, a senior Chinese official had met the Venezuelan leader at the presidential palace, a show of support for one of Beijing’s closest partners in the Western Hemisphere. The speed with which U.S. forces acted afterward to capture Mr. Maduro sent a blunt message to Beijing about the limits of its influence in a region that Washington treats as its own. China now risks losing ground in Venezuela after Saturday’s assault in Caracas, despite decades of investment and billions of dollars in loans. But the assault also reinforces a broader logic that ultimately favors President Xi Jinping’s vision of China and its status in Asia: when powerful countries impose their will close to home, others tend to step back. The White House has framed the Maduro operation as part of an updated Monroe Doctrine, or as President Trump describes it, the “Donroe Doctrine.” A globe carved into spheres of influence — with the United States dominating the Western Hemisphere and China asserting primacy across the Asia-Pacific — and where might makes right, regardless of shared rules, could benefit Beijing in a number of ways. Stephen Miller, a top aide to Mr. Trump, articulated this doctrine in an interview with the CNN host Jake Tapper on Monday. “We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” It could keep the United States and the brunt of its military forces away from Asia. And it could undercut Washington’s criticism of Beijing when Chinese forces elbow their way across contested waters of the South China Sea and menace Taiwan, the island democracy China claims as its own. The assault on Caracas “does further erode the norms against great power use of force that have steadily weakened in the last two decades, which works just fine for Beijing,” said Rush Doshi, a China expert at Georgetown University and the Council on Foreign Relations. “More important, if it distracts the United States by tying us up in Venezuela, all the better for Beijing too.” Beijing has long railed against what it calls America’s strategy of containing China, which includes stationing troops in Japan and South Korea, and deploying U.S. naval ships in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. And it has criticized Washington’s moves to deepen security ties with India and help Australia develop nuclear-powered submarines. Mr. Xi has depicted China as a reliable and powerful pillar in the region, in contrast to the United States, as he sought to court neighbors to his side in a trade war with President Trump. In a speech at a high-level Communist Party conference on regional diplomacy, Mr. Xi called for the region to be governed by “Asian values,” Asian supply chains and an Asian security model where countries shared “weal and woe.” On Monday, Mr. Xi once again appeared to underscore the contrast between the Trump administration’s assault and China’s “neighborhood diplomacy” in a meeting with President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea in Beijing. Mr. Xi, casting China as a benevolent major power, said Beijing and Seoul were able to achieve “harmony without uniformity” by “resolving differences through dialogue and consultation.” In fact, China has not hesitated to use its massive economic power for coercion and its ample modern military to intimidate its neighbors. Just last week, China fired more than two dozen long-range rockets into waters around Taiwan and surrounded the island with bombers, fighter jets and warships in a two-day show of force aimed at intimidating the island’s leadership. China has also punished Japan economically for showing support for Taiwan. None of this means Beijing is calibrating its approach to Taiwan based on events in Venezuela. Chinese leaders have long treated the island as a domestic issue to be resolved on their own terms, independent of U.S. actions elsewhere. China has sometimes been explicit about how it sees its power in its own neighborhood. At a meeting with Southeast Asian officials in 2010 over the South China Sea, China’s then-foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, said: “China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that’s just a fact.” That blunt view of power helps explain both China’s confidence in Asia and its vulnerability farther afield, as Venezuela has made clear. China will not easily give up on Latin America, a region where Beijing has been expanding its economic and political influence for years, buying soybeans and minerals and investing in ports, telecommunications networks and space infrastructure. It has aligned itself with Brazil, Colombia and, of course, Venezuela, in being willing to stand up to Washington’s bullying. Led by socialist strongmen who dared to defy the United States, Venezuela shared an ideological kinship with China’s communist leaders. The South American nation has been the region’s largest recipient of Chinese loans and the largest buyer of Chinese military equipment. In 2023, Beijing elevated bilateral relations with Caracas to one of its highest tiers, known as an “all-weather strategic partnership.” China’s stake in the country, which includes around $10 billion in outstanding loans, could now be at the mercy of the Trump administration, which indicated on Sunday that it would assert leverage on Venezuela’s leadership by imposing a military “quarantine” on the country’s oil exports. For Beijing, the timing of Saturday’s strike only compounded the blow. China’s special envoy for Latin American affairs, Qiu Xiaoqi, had met with Mr. Maduro in Caracas at Miraflores, the presidential palace, earlier in the day on Friday, their meeting shown on local broadcasts. “The United States took such action at a time when China’s delegation was visiting Venezuela. For China, it is very embarrassing,” said Wu Xinbo, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. He said that the attack would affect relations between Washington and Beijing. That it took place during the Chinese delegation’s visit also pointed to a potential failure of China’s intelligence services and its diplomats, said Ja Ian Chong, an associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. Beijing has condemned the U.S. strike and said that it was “deeply shocked” by the “blatant use of force.” In what appeared to be his first remarks on the matter, Mr. Xi on Monday criticized what he called “unilateral bullying actions” that he said were “severely undermining the international order.” It is unclear how much contact Beijing has had with Caracas since Mr. Maduro was deposed. Even as the two administrations remained close, China had grown frustrated by corruption and the mismanagement of the country’s resources by the Maduro government, which came to power in 2013, analysts say. As billions of dollars in unpaid loans racked up, China effectively stopped lending to Caracas more than eight years ago. “Venezuela is a headache now for China, but it’s a headache worth having,” said Ryan C. Berg, director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Beijing saw Maduro as a complete clown, but in many ways, he was their clown as long as he remained in power.”
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