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Greenland
It's not just that this is the play, it's that it's a play that started with a Putin manipulation (a fake letter years ago) intended to achieve this result. And we are being played -- either as useful idiots, or intentional collaborator idiots. But idiots however you cut it.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
It's made sports TV (pre-game talk shows and the like) fucking unwatchable, to me at least. But we are on the fast-track to the lowest common denominator of literally EVERYTHING these days, so sure, why the fuck not? Everything in this country is geared at the amygdala of fucking meatheads, might as well be consistent.
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Mamdani's Mamdate
I do love how anything left of Attila the Hun and mass deportations and death camps is ZOMG COMMUNISTSOCIALISM, all while ignoring multiple high-functioning western democracies that have similar policies in place and are doing just fine, no gulags or giant May Day parades with ICBMs and shit. Meanwhile, the current American regime is literally exercising significant control over "the means of production" in numerous industries (it's no fucking argument, you can't operate freely without the blessing/permission/paying the vig to the current regime). You know, the ACTUAL exercise of socialism, happening right here in River City, to the detriment of all of us. Nope. That's not socialism, or a problem. Instead, the greatest crisis America has faced in its history is a dirty mooslem NYC mayor proposing....policies that are already in place in numerous Western European countries and cities.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Counterpoint: non-consensual sexual exploitation is how you MAGA. Epstein files out front shoulda told ya.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
Oh, don’t worry. He’ll have us there alongside them within 4-6 years.
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Trump’s America
Here's a nice little conundrum. NATO is a treaty, ratified by Congress in 1949. What force does a treaty have under US law? It is literally the supreme law of the land: "Article VI Supreme Law Clause 2 Supremacy ClauseThis Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land" What does the NATO treaty, which is the supreme law of the land provide? Article 5 plainly states that an attack on one member is an attack on all (functionally those exact words), and all members (including the US) are obligated to come to the defense of the country attacked. That is, we are legally obligated to come to the defense of Denmark if someone attacks Denmark. There is no exception if WE are the attacker. But there IS a prohibition on us being the attacker, as stated by the Supreme Law of the Land, the NATO treaty, at Article 8: "Each Party declares that none of the international engagements now in force between it and any other of the Parties or any third State is in conflict with the provisions of this Treaty, and undertakes not to enter into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty." In no uncertain terms, Article 8 -- which is the Supreme Law of the Land pursuant to the Constitution -- PROHIBITS an attack by the US on any member nation of NATO, necessarily including Denmark. Bottom line: if the Trump administration orders an attack on the territory of Denmark, that order will be an illegal order, in violation of the Constitution of the United States. Pursuant to the UCMJ, all service members will be obligated to REFUSE to follow that order. And, if by some way, forces following orders of the Trump administration do attack the territory of Denmark in plain and open violation of the Constitution of the United States, we can and should be in a state of civil war, with all Americans -- especially including American service members -- obligated to protect and defend the Constitution against....well, the mad men in the administration who are openly at war against the United States (recall that the NATO Treaty, which is the Supreme Law of the Land, states that an attack on one is an attack on all). Thus, an attack by the administration on the territory of Denmark is an attack on the United States. By attacking the territory of a NATO member nation, the administration will have attacked the United States, will be levying war against the United States, and well....I'm just reading the Constitution: "Article III Judicial Branch Section 3 TreasonClause 1 Meaning Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court." The punishment for treason is set by federal statute: 18 U.S. Code § 2381 - TreasonWhoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States. Old Brisket kinda wishes someone would put this out there plainly, so that the nation knows that if this administration attacks Greenland, it is committing unambiguous treason against the United States as defined by the Constitution, and all who levy war against the United States should face the death penalty. Want to test "Presidential immunity?" There is not and can be no argument that open treason - levying war against the United States - is within the scope of the Executive's duties. If we attack Greenland, we are well beyond a mere constitutional crisis. We are in an existential crisis, and we will be in a state of civil war. Will you side with the United States, and the Constitution of the United States, or with those who levy war against it?
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academic fuckery at aggy
You live in a timeline where universities are banning the teaching of.....Plato. In a parallel universe, where Idiocracy is real, they are laughing at US for being dumbasses.
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
Silly rabbit. The dead kids are what tells you the Freedom is working.
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Greenland
Understand that this is exactly what the admin wants, because it has been completely manipulated and played by Putin (seriously, the original letter that started this Greenland shit in Trump's brain years ago was a Russian plant). The game plan is to kill NATO, and the admin is on board with that goal. The Regime also wants this outcome. They want all of those troops and assets coming back to the US. Why? So he can use them. Here. Against us. 2,000 US tanks in Europe do the regime no good. 2,000 tanks back here, available to be deployed against the American people, are essential to the regime's goals and long-term planning. None of this is mysterious. They've said so.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
This perspective tells you something very important about DOTUS and how he views business, the world, etc. Those words are NOT the words of someone who views business and investment as a process that invests capital to produce a ROI based on sound modeling and principles of revenues and expenses, based on actual market forces. INSTEAD, they are the words of someone who believes that any profit/earning is something to be skimmed off the top, at the inception of the deal, via grift and rent-seeking mechanisms. It's like an investment banker earning a 10% fee on a deal that will issue $10 billion in bonds to acquire an asset that will never, ever be profitable, and will actually end up in bankruptcy in 3-5 years. NONE OF THAT MATTERS, except the "I got my 10% up-front" part. All you need to know about that deal is that the banker pocketed $1 billion so from his perspective, it's a brilliant deal. Meanwhile, every businessman and actuary looks at the numbers and asks "why did you do a deal for $10 billion for an asset that's worth $3 billion at best based on cash-flow?" And the "why" always comes back to "so daddy could skim $1 billion in cash. That's the entire reason." Note: I raise that scenario because I once successfully killed a deal with those sort of parameters. Pissed of a LOT of investment bankers who were out hundreds of millions. But saved taxpayers billions. Trump expects to take his cut off the top. He has given zero thought, and gives zero shits, about the long-term profitability of American O&G investment in Venezuela. Because he doesn't give a shit about those things in ANY context.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
This. As Colin Powell warned before the Iraq war, "you break it, you buy it." And it really doesn't matter that Venezuela was already broken before we decided that "we run it" (POTUS's exact, unambiguous words). It's like acquiring a corporation via buying all of its stock -- you take on both all assets and liabilities. One of the key liabilities for Venezuela is "we can't feed our people." Cool. We own that now, because again, "we run it." Want to know where the Venezuelan people and the world will point their finger when their bellies are empty? Right at that big old American flag. And they will be correct in doing so. If you take over a country, then you take over its core obligations. The chances of Dipshit DOTARD getting that are 0%.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
These are very important words: "Transitions are not moral moments but exercises in power management. Venezuela’s last successful one survived because it accepted ambiguity and continuity long enough to stabilize the system. Anyone expecting clean breaks, instant legitimacy, or orderly handovers in this country is not being hopeful." Now....realize that they apply to our future....if we are to have one....as well. One does not simply shake off an authoritarian government and its sycophants like a hangover following a single bad decision (look, generic tequila is ALWAYS a bad idea). If we emerge from this current authoritarian shitfest, the transition cannot look like "well, that was nasty. Anyway, back to normal." What must follow is a period of real ambiguity and counter-intuitive actions that may be just as distasteful as the actions that must be undone and corrected.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
This. Full stop. It's this. Trump didn't do this because O&G execs were in his office begging him to do so, concocting sinister plans hand-in-hand with the admin. He THINKS that oil is a good reason, because oil=money and money=God status in Trumpworld, and he wanted to look like a badass. That's it. That's where it ends. Listen to his Salacious Crumb Stephen Miller and his spittle-flinging tirades about how the galaxy will now "WITNESS THE FIREPOWER OF THIS FULLY ARMED AND OPERATIONAL BATTLE STATION!"
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Greenland - Tassa Eller Asu !!!!
And in the end, other than the fact that Denmark needed to say SOMETHING after the latest round of literally fucking insane megalomaniac shit from the admin....this is the play. I can't tell you how many times I've advised a client "I know they're fucking assholes, they're wrong, they're pissing you off, etc.....but trust me, just ignore them, and they'll go lose interest, and you'll end up in a better position or at least no worse." It is infuriating, but it works.
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