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  1. Steak N Shake is really failing and I see they are trying to save themselves with the chud demographic. I really hate our country right now.
  2. As Biden worked with Europe to get sanctions passed, an issue that came up was European payments for gas and oil (that they hadn’t weaned off of) that Russia insisted on channeling to sanctioned Russian banks. Biden issued a waiver for these payments only to get broader sanctions in place and Europe vowed to work to get off Russian energy. That waiver has expired and hasn’t yet been renewed meaning that Europeans risk triggering secondary sanctions. It’s a small bit of pressure that also guts Europe, it’s not a new tool.
  3. Joe Rogan invited on Hitler apologist and Holocaust revisionist Darryl Cooper, who has described himself as a “non-racist fascist.” Really making the case that more democrats need to go on to the podcast.
  4. Matt Taibbi’s brain has the electrical activity of barbershop floor sweepings.
  5. Just missing some shit about the American people giving him a historic mandate.
  6. Unsurprising because they clearly violated regs with that process. There is some humor here, Project 2025 had smart evil fucks who mostly mapped out the pain points and levers for dismantling the federal government, and then Elon and the League of Extraordinary Incels got to fuck up the implementation. Sadly, we are closer to a SCOTUS decision on the “Donald J. Trump is the living embodiment of law and the Constitution” doctrine.
  7. Let’s pour one out for all the fake leftists and libertarians like Glenn Greenwald who will tie themselves into knots to avoid calling out DJT. “Deported for protesting Biden” LMFAO.
  8. I’m sure this is just fine and there’s no need to be concerned.
  9. Someone should do a study on the constitutional inability of these people to not shout the quiet part out loud with a bullhorn. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5326015/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-arrests-trump
  10. Today in the Oval Office the President of the United States States repeated his stance that the U.S.-Canada border is artificial and then threatened to pull a Crimea operation in Greenland after Greenlanders voted for the “slow-roll independence” party. If any president before Trump did this you’d have bipartisan 25th amendment movement.
  11. We are just hurting the U.S. economy and starting shit. The entire premise of the South Park movie was premised around the stupidity and obnoxiousness of stirring up a conflict with Canada.
  12. To bring the discussion back into the realm of the informational, I thought I’d offer a bit on the process and rights people have with regards to visas and deportation. Visa Applications Overseas: Applicants for most classes of visa overseas, especially non-immigrant visas, have almost no appeal rights. In fact, for most cases, they are assumed to be intending illegal immigrants until they prove otherwise to a consular officer. Under a provision of immigration law, a consular officer can also refuse a visa if it is suspected the person intends to use the visa in a “manner inconsistent with its purpose.” This basically means that a person can be denied because the officer doesn’t like the cut of his jib, and officers are encouraged to deploy this provision when an applicant gives them the ick or bad vibes. This is basically a superpower. Courts have established that consular officer decisions overseas are not subject to appeal or judicial review. Admin law judges are also endowed with this narrow superpower for their decisions. Visa Revocations: If a person is outside the US, a visa can be revoked at any time by the State Department with no review or appeal. However, there almost always needs to be a specific reason, simply “cause you’re sus” won’t work. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that DHS can revoke visas inside the United States for “good and sufficient cause” with no review or appeal. Legal Permanent Residents (Green Card): Now you have significant rights. A green card holder can have his status revoked but only for specific cause. Usually, this is fraud, misrepresentation, or criminal activity. Support for terrorism is also a reason. A revocation must be approved by an immigration judge. It is not a simple discretionary decision. And that’s what the government needs to do here. If this person has supported terrorism then the government needs to go before an immigration law judge and make the case. I suspect if they do, it will be extremely flimsy.
  13. Accepting the “idea” of a ceasefire is like having the “concept” of a plan. Putin has rejected the terms but wants to see if he can get Trump to lean harder on Ukraine and open up a bigger gap within NATO. He will also push very hard in Kursk because he wants to only have Russians in Ukraine and not the other way around if there is a ceasefire.
  14. I will only add to this that Russia will likely try and extract agreements on NATO force posture in the Baltics and Central Europe.
  15. I am pretty much aligned with Tim Snyder on this. I would add that Russia absolutely will try to also extract concessions on NATO force posture in the Baltics and Central Europe.
  16. China is absolutely eating the world’s lunch on electric vehicles. And they’ve done so through state subsidies for their industry and extractive agreements with Western companies looking to build/sell in China. Same pattern with solar energy. This is actually the arena where the U.S. should be looking to impose punishing tariffs along with other advanced countries. Trump’s tariff tantrums absolutely send the world running to China.
  17. I think a discounted possibility is a second Azerbaijan-Armenia war perhaps with a goal of completely collapsing the Armenian state, with Turkish tacit backing and Russia simply bargaining to keep their military infrastructure there. Another place to watch is Belarus and a transition of power because Lukashenka is really sick.
  18. There was a time when this would have been a solidly conservative poem, but it is absolutely on point for Trumpian populism. As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind. We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace, Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place, But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome. With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch, They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch; They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings; So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things. When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.” On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life (Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife) Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.” In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.” Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more. As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
  19. Meemaw can just turn on 2FA or drive to the service center. We at DOGE are normal people who have relationships with elderly members of our family.
  20. Even if he’s not in DC this guy is a real dumbass. Guess what, if you’re in the Michelin star restaurant and artisan bakery business, your clientele and MAGA have little overlap. Anyway, FAFO and I hope he has to go sling MAGA dogs to boomers somewhere.
  21. Looks like per Austin police Jamie White interrupted burglars and got shot. Can you imagine working for someone, getting real-life murdered, and the next day your boss is babbling on Twitter about Ukrainian-NATO-Starmer death squads out to get HIM? I know Alex can’t break kayfabe or it all collapses but he could easily have put off that particular storyline for a while. What a trashcan human. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/infowars-reporter-shot-dead-apartment-after-possibly-interrupting/story?id=119677965
  22. Today Putin put on fatigues and went to Kursk where he promised to do war crimes against Ukrainians there. Let’s tap the brakes a bit on Trump getting an amazing ceasefire.
  23. Is it government efficiency when you fly migrants to GITMO and back on MILAIR for no real reason?
  24. I have a 100 percent trade deficit with my supermarket, and not only that shopping there has cost my family jobs as field hands. If I can shift all food production to my house, all profits, revenues, and jobs will stay in my house.
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